Pour Your Heart Out by Zoe Lee

Author:Zoe Lee [Lee, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Foolish Endeavors LLC
Published: 2016-09-14T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Aden

Aden surveyed Hughes Field with bone-deep satisfaction. The parade had ended an hour ago, and now everyone was here, where the exhibition baseball game between current varsity players and alumni would start soon. It was one of his favorite things. The bleachers were full and there was a sea of chairs past the outfield, and the spectators were buying hot dogs, ice cream and drinks from concessions while the players warmed up. The local radio station’s sports announcer and the local paper’s sports columnist bantered over the loudspeakers while the Mayor and the Sheriff walked over to Aden.

“Mayor, Sheriff,” Aden said as he nodded and shook their hands in turn.

“Coach,” the Mayor said as he dug a quarter out of his pocket.

As he tossed it into the air, the Sheriff chose, “Tails.”

“Tails it is,” the Mayor said, holding up the quarter.

“I think you should coach this year, Aden,” the Sheriff decided.

Aden grunted and the two men strolled off as he shoved a stick of gum in his mouth.

He’d never admit it, but he loved the annual coin toss to see if he’d coach the varsity kids or play against them on the alumni team. The game was always a contest of youth and agility versus experience and wiles, and he loved participating on either side, whether he coached or played. It was just that he loved it more when he got to coach.

“Looks like Coach Riveau is on the kids’ team this year,” the announcer declared.

“Yup. Third year in a row now,” the columnist pointed out. “I sure do miss watching the coach on the field, but the kids look thrilled he’s going to be on their side.”

Aden bit back a smirk as the kids took their spots on the field and an alum he'd coached during his first year stepped up to the plate. Low and inside, he wanted to tell his pitcher, but he wasn’t allowed to use inside information, as it were.

The cheerleaders screamed for the varsity boys out there while the varsity softball girls who were playing too glared. Now that he was well and truly single, the sight made him wince. Almost half his life ago, he’d been the junior varsity shortstop and Ginger had been the cheerleader who got tossed into the air. They hadn’t run in the same circles; her parents belonged to La Fontaine, the unofficial country club, while his had poured their profit right back into Wild Harts. But she’d let him feel her up at Homecoming, so they’d started dating. They’d always fought, the breakups and make-ups just part of their routine.

At least, until Leda had told Ginger that she was looking fat and she’d screamed that she was pregnant. In the past, he’d always taken Ginger back because nothing in his life really changed, so why should he change girlfriends? But when she’d admitted that the guy she had been seeing had gotten her pregnant and didn’t care, he’d finally given her an absolute no. If he wanted kids, he wouldn’t have had any problem with raising another man’s biological child.

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