611 V2 ch83 (1/2)

After denying Mitchell the chance to catch for the twins tomorrow, he contacted his dad to arrange a pick up. We gave him some water to hydrate and hung out a little longer until his dad showed up in the driveway. We waved and watched him go.

”You know...” Dave looked at Noah, a little suspicious. ”If we don't play with Mitch tomorrow, he won't be able to catch for us again for another week and a half?”

Noah shrugged. ”So? You're here most of August.” He nonchalantly headed for the stairs. ”I've got to go change into my softball shirt. Jake, come on.”

I obediently followed.

”Hold it.” Dave's demand made me stop. Noah too. ”Shouldn't you be explaining this pool party to me? I just passed out on pitching to a great workout partner.”

Noah shrugged. ”Alisha invited the team for a pool party on Friday. Zeke still has to focus on his online class so I thought it would be nice of us to get out of the house. Julian and Andy might go too.”

”Oh, okay...” Dave nodded.

”Wait! Not okay.” Kyle said, frowning. ”Doesn't that mean Kaylee and KJ would go?”

”Yea, of course.” Noah nodded. ”It'd be weird if Alisha was the only girl.”

Kyle shook his head. ”Kaylee might be mad at me because of the thing with Marie. You should just have Dave take you guys.”

”I'm not going.” I spoke up. The twins were surprised. ”I have a doctor appointment in Santa Cruz. Dad is going to take me. We won't be home for lunch.”

”Just come to the pool with us.” Noah told Kyle. ”I promise Kaylee won't be mean to you. I can't believe you're so scared of her.”

I looked at Noah. This liar. Kaylee is very scary. And...he may have promised that Kaylee won't be mean, but he's omitting the fact that Marie will be invited too. He's playing with fire.

Kyle hesitated. ”Well, maybe then.”

Noah motioned for me to follow him. We jogged up the stairs and went to the safety of our room. Noah started to change shirts and I did the same.

”Kyle is going to be so mad at you tomorrow.” I mumbled, tugging the bright blue shirt over my head.

”Or he'll be excited to reconnect. You never know.” Noah grinned. ”Kyle seems to be in a better place, mentally. Maybe he'll want to start dating Marie again after seeing her.”

”Or she and Kaylee gang up on him and kill him.” I shivered. ”I can't believe you said Kaylee wasn't mean.”

”I didn't say that.” Noah chuckled. ”I said I can't believe he's scared of her. Especially when the one he should be scared of is Marie. And I'll talk to her tonight about being nice to Kyle. It'll work out.”

”If you think so...”

We finished getting ready and met up with Zeke downstairs. He was already dressed and typing away on his phone.

”Who are you texting?” Noah tried to peek.

Noah split away to go grab some bottles from the kitchen while we headed for the car. We put the baseball bags in the trunk, but right before getting in the car, Zeke held me back.

”W-What is it?” I asked, kind of nervous.

Zeke gave a small smile. ”Nothing to be worry about. I just wanted to know more about your thoughts on the Stanford came at the end of July.”

”What about it?” I asked, confused.