Playing the Field by Janette Rallison

Author:Janette Rallison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: friendship, funny, teen, sports, baseball, ya, rated g for general audience, junior high, clean read, friendship vs love, teen sitcom
Publisher: Janette Rallison

Chapter 8

Over the next week Tony and Rachel were constantly together. He was at her locker in the morning. She was at his locker before math. I even saw them hold hands outside of Mrs. Swenson’s room. Tony gave Rachel a bracelet and she not only wore it all the time, she was constantly fiddling with its blue beads. At baseball practice Tony gave me Rachel updates. He always did this in a superior sort of way, like I was supposed to be impressed at what an adult he was.

I still taped the math class and brought it to Serena every day. She helped me with my homework and we talked about school. It was absolutely the first time in my life I had ever liked algebra. I was getting so good at it, I could actually tell what x was on a regular basis. It may have been my imagination, but it seemed even Mrs. Swenson had a newfound respect for me. Every once in a while, when I passed her on the way to my desk, I’d say, “Go ahead and ask me, just ask me when those trains will meet.”

She always told me to sit down, but her smile didn’t seem quite as dour as she said it.

But the best thing of all was that I felt like Serena and I were becoming friends, and it was a nice comfortable feeling.

Brian, however, was still in the picture. I knew he was either calling or coming over to see Serena because she kept saying things like, “Brian said the pep assembly yesterday was really lame.” I could never figure out why she mentioned him to me, or what it meant. Did she consider Brian, or me, or both of us as just friends? Did she like one of us as more than a friend? If so, which one? I never tried to find out. To find out meant I had to do something about it, and it was easier to be ignorant and pretend she liked me and was just putting up with Brian.

After a few more days, Serena’s knee healed enough that she came back to school, at first on crutches and then without them. We said hi to each other when we passed in the halls, and sometimes I walked her to math class. It was nice to have someone to walk with, since Tony was always goofing off with Rachel outside of the door. Once or twice I saw Brian while I was with Serena. He always glared at me.

I tried not to let it bother me. After all, glaring was not on the list of qualifications for being Mr. Right.

Sometimes Serena and I went over our algebra homework in the library before school, and if I had a problem with anything she’d help me out. Life had become, for a short moment, a happy peaceful place. Baseball was especially good. We won our last game, which put us in first place in our league. We were ready to take on the other winning teams in our district, and my batting was on fire.

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