Chapter 1- The Move

Alex POV (Alexandra)

“Alex, I had been calling your name for a long time!” my mom shouted as she pulled my book away from me, I tried to reach for it like a child trying to reach for her candy.

I pouted glaring at my mother for taking away such a good book, “Beautiful Creatures” by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Yes I know it has a movie but I like reading it rather than watching it I’m a nerd that way.

“You had been reading since we got here you had not unpacked any of your things yet.” My mom said sternly.

“Now I’m taking your book with me you can get it later, if you finished unpacking your belongings.” She said more like commanded before going out my room taking my little paradise away. I grumbled and sighed as I looked around me my eyes are about to pop at how messy my room is I can’t blame my mom now that I get time to look at my surroundings. I have boxes lying everywhere! I started unboxing my things and started organizing them. After a couple of hours I was able to unbox everything and my room looks like a room rather than a storage box.

I picked up one of my travelling bag that I didn’t bother removing its content and laid it on my bed. I opened it and inside was my gloves, cleats, 3 balls and 2 bats, I stared at them for I don’t know how long until I heard someone call for me.

“Alexandra?! Are you not done yet? Dinner is ready!” I hear my mom shout.

I quickly zipped it up and put it under my bed. I inhaled as much air as I can before breathing out. I went down to see my brother and my parents sitting down waiting for me.

“How nice of you to join us. At last” my brother grumbled and I glared at him.

“Now, now don’t start. Alex come on sit down let’s start” Mom said.

I sat down and we ate in silence except for my brothers constant complains about his oh so harsh life, I don’t want to bore you with details so let’s skip ahead. After dinner I washed the dishes bid my parents good night got my book from my mom and went back to my room.

I started to read again but unfortunately my brain is tired to work on its imagination so I just put it down turned off my lights and laid in bed.

Well here is a little summary about me.

My name is Alexandra Lee but I prefer to be called Alex, and if you are wondering yes Lee as in I’m a part Asian. My grandfather migrated in New Jersey had a small business there met my grandmother had a daughter who married my father. So yeah I’m like ¼ Korean, I’m 5’8, with a jet black hair that is wavy I get annoyed by it so I always have it in a bun or a pony tail. I have black eyes and thick eye brows and lashes that gives of the idea that I wear mascara but in reality I don’t do make up. It gives me rashes so I avoid it at all cost though I don’t think I need them because I have rosy cheeks. Also I have this genetic illness I don’t even know what it’s called but my mother has to inject a black liquid every month. She had been doing it since I was young and my mom doesn’t really explain what illness I have but I just don’t ask as well. Mothers knows best right?

So my father just got a promotion in his company the problem was it required us to move here. Well we thought about staying there back at home because my mother has her job there and my brother doesn’t want to leave his friends. I on the other hand according to my parents needs to get away from that place and start a new life they didn’t even ask me if I wanted to move obviously not I would rather stay there and live up to my punishment but I got dragged here.

The plan was me and my father would come here and my brother and mom would be left behind until, they gave it some more thought and they realized how absurd it is to have a family in different places. My mother found out from the company she is working for that they have a lab located here so she asked to be transferred and they agreed, as long as she will fly out there every once in a while since she is one of the head doctors in the company and she is needed in the main office as often as possible.

My mother is Microbiologist and she works for a private pharmaceutical company while my father used to be the manager in ZNC a brand of a car, anyway the company just had to branch out here and they offered my father the position of being the head. He will act as the CEO but all his actions should go to the company’s CEO which is also one of my father’s best friends.

I am now 17 years old and I am a senior I go to a private school Knight Academy and my brother goes to a University. The house we live in is like 20 minutes away from my school and 3 hours away from his school so he decided to just live in an apartment like a normal college student.

I love sports specially baseball! I live for it well until I stopped playing not too long ago, my father said I learned to throw before learning how to walk. He taught me how to play catch after that I saw these kids playing in the park and I decided to join their little league and not long after that I was one of the best.

I played baseball my entire life until two years ago when the accident happened and I had to stop playing. A lot of people are asking why I stopped in fact I already have offers from universities but it was put on hold since I stopped playing. See my life is ordinary I don’t even know why you took an interest on it anyway if you are still curious and want to continue well then here is a flashback of what happened.

We just won the championship game in the national tournament and I was one of the youngest players in our team well actually I was also the only girl in the team. I throw some wicked curve balls so I was the pitcher in our team anyway my teammates and I were walking when we got to the park where some college students are playing.

We were watching when the ball went to our place and Jason one of my teammates caught it at ease and threw it back at them.

They saw us and started walking towards our direction they looked at us smirking and laughing.

“Dude, are you not those students who just won the tournament?” one of the guys asked

“Yes that’s us.” Jason replied.

“How big of a pussy are you guys to let a girl pitch for your team?”

“Hey don’t talk like that, Alex is a great pitcher” Max said.

My teammates all said “Yeah”

“If not for her we won’t be able to win. I bet none of you could bat any of her pitches!” Jason boasted.

“What did you say?! You really think you kids can beat us?!”

Our team was just looking at them and the tension is really getting thick so I decided to but in.

“Come on guys there is no need to pick a fight now, let’s go” I said trying to pull them away from the older guys because they smell trouble.

“That is right listen to her. Be a pussy and go! “The older guy said making his teammates laugh and chuckle except the guy in the catcher’s gear who was shaking his head disapprovingly but they don’t seem to notice him, of course their last remark made Max angry he is not known for being patient he's well known for being hot headed so almost all of our schoolmates who are not close to him always walk on eggshell when talking to him.

“Alex come on. We always walk away are you not tired of this people treating you like shit? I mean yes you are a girl and I know you don’t need to prove yourself to worthless shit like them but let us at least defend yours and our pride” He said

“Max you know that if coach hears about this we will be in so much trouble.” I said disapprovingly.

“What will coach do? Remove us in the team? He doesn’t need to know besides the tournament was just finished. It’s impossible if he won’t let us play next year.” Max argued.

“Max is right. At least let us defend our pride” Jason said.

I looked at the other teams and saw that they are really eager to play.

“Alright but we keep this game to ourselves. Don’t let coach hear about this or else he will make our training worse than hell.” I said

We looked at them and walked towards the middle of the field.

“What are the terms?’’ I asked

“So your letting the princess speak for you” Said one of the guys mockingly.

“3 innings, the team who losses has to do what the winning team dares.” He said

“What if the loser team decides not to do the dare? How do we make sure that they do it?” I asked skeptically.

“Well for one we are not going to lose. Besides we do not turn our back to our words.” He said proudly.

We all huddled in a circle with me and Gareth (according to his teammates) in the middle about to do a flip coin.

“Heads” I said and he tossed the coin. The coin dropped and with heads facing us.

“Field’ I said confidently. We went to the other waiting shed because they were occupying the other and got our things.

“How do we do this? Same position as the other games or do you want to shuffle?” I asked

“Same as the other games” Max said.

We went to the field and started to do a little warm up. We threw balls did a little stretch and did some drills. After 30 minutes we heard Gareth shout.

“Hey that is enough nonsense! Are we going to play or what?!” He said demandingly I signaled the others to get ready and go to their respective positions.

This is it. I thought to myself as I face the first batter smirking at me proudly to say I’m pissed at them is an understatement.