Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid by Walter Dean Myers

Author:Walter Dean Myers [Myers, Walter Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-53823-9
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 1988-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

e played the Lions Thursday afternoon. Mike was supposed to pitch, but he hurt his thumb so Moondance pitched. Mop caught and we beat the Lions easy. Everybody was talking about how good Moondance pitched. Everybody except Evans, who always says you stink no matter what you do.

I didn't get any hits but I didn't make any errors either. Not what you would call real errors. A girl on the Lions tried to steal third base and Mop threw me the ball. I didn't catch it, but I knocked it down and Jim said it was a good play.

I didn't get any hits because I was nervous on account of Rocky. He was hanging around watching the game. I was standing near the fence talking to Mop when he came up on the other side of the fence.

“Your brother tell you I knocked him down?”

“He told him and you'd better not be around after the game,” Mop said.

‘Oh, yeah?” Rocky spit between his teeth right through the fence and on my sneaker. “What's going to happen if I'm around after the game?”

“T.J.’s going to wipe your face in the dirt which you probably won't even mind since you're a maggot anyway!”

“I'll be around after the game,” Rocky said. “And I'm going to hit you so hard I'm going to knock one of your initials right off your name, punk.”

“Where you gonna be, Monkey Breath?” Mop banged her bat against the fence in front of Rocky. “Under the stands swallowing some more of your ugly pills?”

I had to get up. I struck out on three pitches and I could hear Rocky laughing. That's okay, we still won.

After the game everybody left except me, Moondance, Mop, Evans, and Rocky. Mop told Evans that Rocky had hit Moondance and that I was going to punch Rocky's lights out and Evans went and got Rocky and brought him over.

“He said he gonna punch your lights out!” Evans said in his real high voice. “That's what happens when you be messing with people's brothers.”

You notice all this time I didn't say anything? You wonder why I didn't say anything? Because I was scared, that's why.

“Go on, knock him out!” Mop said.

I put my hands up and Rocky punched me in the face. In the nose. It felt like my whole face was on fire. It hurt something terrible¡

“Now he really mad!” I heard Evans say.

Wham¡ Rocky punched me again, this time on the arm.

“Hit him back!” Mop was yelling.

Wham¡ Rocky jumped on top of me and I went down. He sat on me and put his knees on my arms so I couldn't move.

“Say ‘I'm a stupid dog’ or I'll knock your teeth out!” Rocky looked like a giant.

I tried to twist away from him but he hit me in the face again. Then he got up and told me to get up if I wanted some more.

I didn't want any more so I didn't get up. Rocky laughed and spit on the ground right near me.

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