Total pages in book: 127
Estimated words: 122219 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 611(@200wpm)___ 489(@250wpm)___ 407(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 122219 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 611(@200wpm)___ 489(@250wpm)___ 407(@300wpm)
We’d kept our relationship pretty much on the hush-hush, just to make sure we were moving in the right direction.
Now, we were ready to share the news with everyone else.
We headed out to the pitching mound before the game, and I got everyone’s attention.
“Hey, everyone. I just wanted to thank you all for coming out to Honey Farms to celebrate the holiday with us. It’s been a damn good time so far, and I’m really looking forward to smoking Avery’s team during this game. But before we start, I thought it was a good time to announce that Avery and I are dating.”
The space stayed quiet as everyone stared blankly at us.
Avery swallowed hard and gestured back and forth between the two of us. “Each other,” she added. “We are dating each other.”
Someone in the stands shouted, “Well, no shit, Sherlock. We all knew that.”
Everyone agreed, shouting out the same kind of comments, leaving me a bit stunned.
“No, I mean, like, we’re in love,” I explained.
“Yup.” River nodded. “We picked up on that fact.”
“What? You all knew?” I asked.
“Yup, sweetheart,” Mom said, shrugging her shoulders. “Just like we all knew you two had a thing all those years ago.”
Avery’s eyes widened in shock. “What? You all knew about that, too?”
Everyone who knew us back then nodded in agreement. Grant announced, “We weren’t idiots. Now are we gonna play ball or what?”
I turned to Avery. “They knew about us.”
Avery snickered, shaking her head in disbelief. “I thought we were sneaking around.”
“You’re terrible at sneaking,” Matthew added. “But we’re happy for you both.”
“Right, okay, well, all right then.” I placed my hands against my hips. “So does anyone have any questions about the two of us being together or…?”
The guys from the Honey Creek Hornets all shot their hands up.
Avery pointed a stern finger toward them. “Any questions that aren’t inappropriate in any nature, which would lead to you all running extra laps during our summer practices?”
All their hands slowly recoiled.
I smirked. “Well, that was anticlimactic.”
“I kind of like it that way.” Avery leaned into me and kissed me. “This is all amazing, but we still have a game to play, and I’m not going to take it easy on you just because you’re officially my boyfriend now.”
I snickered, shaking my head. “I wouldn’t expect you to take it easy on me, Coach. You never have.”
“And I never will. Now, come on,” she confidently said before smacking my butt. “Let’s play ball.”
As she jogged away, I couldn’t help but smile. I shook my head in disbelief that, somehow, I’d become lucky enough to call her mine once more.
Avery Kingsley was my best friend. My partner. My greatest grand slam.
With her around, my world would never again become too dark.
She was, and always would be, my very favorite sunbeam.
The End.