Max Swings for the Fences by Anne Ursu

Author:Anne Ursu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Max went home and planned on spending the weekend in quiet contemplation. There was a chance that it was over—that Molly, out of the goodness of her heart, would tell everyone to stop talking about it so Max would not have to feel bad about the dad he never knew. It was the sort of thing she would do. Eventually, it would all die down—and if not, he’d just stay under his bed until college.

He was allowed to entertain this delusion for about twelve hours.

The next morning, he awoke to his mother knocking on his door. “Max,” she called. “Wake up. You have a visitor!”

A few minutes later, Max was downstairs to find Molly sitting in his living room, wearing a baseball cap and looking impatient.

“Come on,” she said. “You’re going to be late for practice!”

Max shook his head. “Molly, I told you, I don’t—”

Her eyes got big. She seemed to be trying to tell him something, and Max wished desperately he spoke girl. “Yes,” she said, voice full of portent. “You do.”

He nodded. Like he could ever say no to Molly.

Max’s mom smiled. “Honey, are you playing baseball?”

“That’s right!” Molly said. “He tried to get out of it, but we thought he might have natural gifts.”

Max stopped. Had Molly hit those last words a little too hard? His mom seemed to be looking at her a little strangely, but just then turned and gave Max a smile. A few minutes later he was wearing sweats and sitting in the backseat of the Kinsman family’s SUV, Molly next to him.

“Molly, what—”

“Shhhh,” she whispered, pointing to her father, who was driving. “We’re not going to practice. Look!”

She held out a flyer. Max looked at it. And everything inside of him turned to goo. There were a lot of words, but only three stood out to him:

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