All That Glitters by Tracy Krimmer

Author:Tracy Krimmer [Krimmer, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

18

Harris

One of the things that made me happiest in life was being outside a baseball stadium with a tiny grill filled with brats and burgers. John and I drove almost two hours to attend this Brewers game and arrived three hours prior to the first pitch so we could grill, shoot the shit, and play some catch.

This may have been one of my favorite things to do, but I didn’t want to be here. After that kiss with Dory, I only wanted to be with her. I walked her back to her grandmother’s house, and we shared multiple kisses. I imagined this was how it would have been back in high school. I wouldn’t have wanted to leave her side. I’d have held her hand and embraced her every chance I had. John and I bought tickets for this game a few weeks ago, though, and if there was something you didn’t do, it was ditch your boy for a woman, no matter how awesome she was.

“Dude, I bench pressed two-twenty-five last night. Two-twenty-five, bro.” John loved bragging about his weightlifting conquests. As captain of the wrestling team in high school, he lifted on a regular basis and never stopped. I ran. I didn’t have a clue how much I could weight lift. Nor did I really care. John’s topic of choice always revolved around his regimen. I wasn’t certain what he was compensating for, though I had a small idea.

“Impressive.” That’s what you said when someone bragged about something you didn’t really care about, right? “I ran three and a half miles.” If he could brag about something, I could, too. I wasn’t running as much as I liked lately, distracted by work and Dory, though Dory was a very welcome distraction.

“I don’t know how you run.” He wound up and tossed the ball to me, and it smacked right into my glove. “Isn’t it boring?”

“Aren’t lifting weights?” Fitness was relative. I kept an upbeat playlist on my phone and used the pacing of the music for my run. Running allowed me the opportunity to observe life from a distance, speed up when I wanted, and slow down if necessary. I controlled every aspect of it. He may have considered my routine boring, but I wasn’t exactly jumping at the chance to participate in his, either.

“Nah, man. When I lift, I’m challenging myself to the extreme.”

I didn’t doubt that. He didn’t realize I challenged myself as well. Every day I ran I tried to beat my time and pace from the time before. I threw the ball back to him. “Dory came to visit me yesterday.”

He caught the ball and his mouth dropped open. “You saw her again?”

I left my spot and went to check on the burgers. “Yeah. She came to the store after she had a fight with her grandmother. I took her to the park and we hit a few balls.”

He lifted his brow at me.

“No. Nothing like that. Though, we did kiss.”

“Are you sure that was it?”

“Yeah.

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