Tim Green's Baseball Collection by Tim Green

Author:Tim Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

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The pile of science notes and the textbook weighed down his desk. Mr. Kratz had given them a “study sheet,” twelve pages of single-spaced notes. Mr. Kratz assured them that all they had to do was know everything on it and they could ace his test. Mr. Kratz said it wouldn’t be easy, but that it could be done. Joey looked at his phone. He had nearly a dozen new text messages, mostly from Zach, but two from Leah. He looked from his phone to the pile of work and back again.

Joey shut down his phone without opening a single text, knowing that reading his messages would unleash a series of dramatic texting and phone calls likely to last the night. He sat down, instead, to the pile of biology and began again.

The strange thing was that the longer he studied, the more he lost himself in the biology of cells, anatomy of frogs, and the causes of global warming. When his mother rapped her knuckles on his bedroom door, he looked up and blinked, meeting her eyes as she entered, but lost in the fog of science.

“Studying hard?” she asked.

“Yeah.” The mist cleared and her hard face softened.

She put a hand on his head, looking over his shoulder. “You’re a good boy, Joey. I’m proud of you.”

“Thanks, Mom.”

She kissed him on the head, then considered him for a moment. “Do you think Zach’s dad would do something like that?”

His stomach clenched. “Like what?”

“Drug a dog. Vandalize a truck, just so Zach could play in that game? I know how crazy his dad is about Zach being a baseball player, but he could have killed that animal.”

Joey stared at the science in front of him. “I don’t know, Mom.”

He kept his eyes down until he heard her feet shuffle away. As she closed the door, she said, “Not much longer. You need your sleep, too. That’s just as important as studying, sleep.”

“Okay, Mom.”

She peeked back in through the doorway. “If he did it, I’m not going to let him get away with it.”

Joey looked at her hard and determined face. A voice inside him screamed to tell her the truth, right then and there, that it would be the best thing to do. Stop the nonsense, the suspense, the brutal anxiety.

He opened his mouth to speak.

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