Playing the Field by Christina Benjamin

Author:Christina Benjamin [Benjamin, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crown Atlantic Publishing
Published: 2019-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

Alex

I’d yet to stop grinning since my gym class stunt a few days ago. It had worked out so much better than I’d planned.

How was I supposed to know Grant wore his jockstrap during Phys-Ed?

The best I’d hoped for was to see him uncomfortably dancing around at baseball practice, but instead he’d announced his crotch crisis to half the junior class during dodgeball before hot-stepping it to the locker room to cool off.

I admit the potion had been much more potent than I’d intended since Grant had unwittingly used it much sooner than I’d anticipated, but I refused to let myself feel bad.

Grant King had done nothing but make my life more difficult since I joined the Trojans. This was my little way of helping him warm up to the fact that I wasn’t going anywhere.

I smirked at my wicked sense of humor, still picturing Grant’s face when he’d realized he didn’t have an STD. It was the perfect prank and I’d had almost as much fun reliving the story for the Tomboy Trio and Casey as I’d actually had watching Grant sprint to the locker room to cool down his nuclear nether-lands.

I knew I’d most likely opened myself up to an all-out prank war, but it was worth it.

So far, Grant hadn’t struck back. The only time he’d spoken to me after dodgeball was in chemistry. I had a feeling he was definitely plotting something. But after today it wouldn’t really matter.

Coach was posting the official roster that would announce our permanent positions. So technically my truce with Grant to let the best player win would be over.

I had every confidence that I would win the starting position over Grant if Coach was basing his decision purely on performance, but that didn’t stop me from being a ball of nerves most of the day.

Though I’d given my all at practice the last few weeks and I felt I’d earned a starting spot, I wasn’t foolish enough to think everyone was keen to have a girl on the boys’ team. It was true that students weren’t tagging my locker anymore or trashing me on the Tattler as much. It seemed I was no longer a threat once everyone saw I wasn’t here to destroy the Trojans’ precious baseball reputation.

Plus, all anyone seemed to be talking about on the Tattler these days was the upcoming Carnival. I’d yet to find a date to, though no thanks to Tyler’s efforts. I spent more time than I cared to admit finding ways to avoid his advances and brush off his futile flirting. It didn’t seem to matter how many times I told him I had a strict no dating teammates policy—the boy was determined.

I hoped things would change once the season officially kicked off. With any luck, Tyler would be too busy to flirt with me. Plus, Casey assured me the Tattler would thrust the baseball team into the spotlight even more and girls would start fawning over Tyler, giving me a reprieve from his attention.

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