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It took them about ten minutes to get to town they were walking along in the town on the sidewalk and and right down the sidewalk they saw Vincent's Drug Store sign hanging out. Suddenly their path was blocked as out of the alleyway on the side of the building right in front of them as a group of taller and older boys came out on huge bikes and stopped right in front of them and everything went dead silent as the two groups of boys were staring each other down. These boys were wearing blue baseball jerseys with the word 'Tigers' across the chest of each of them and they wore grey baseball pants and all of them had on black baseball cleats. Benny knew right away who these guys were they were the high school baseball team and right in the middle of the group sitting on his bike looking right at him was none other than Jack Phillips the older brother of the Phillips he won against last summer. Jack gave Benny that cocky grin that his little brother gave him at the the sandlot last summer. "Well boys look what we have here it's the group of retards and the Jet." Jack said, Benny could tell that he was as bad as his brother. "Zip your lips Phillips." Benny came back with, Ham's face was red as a tomato now. "What did you say Frankenstein!" , "I said you can't even make it to first base sumo boy!" Jack spat at Ham, "With the exception of the jet here, all of you midgets are a disgrace to our game." He said strictly at them, "Oh really, we'll face you anytime anywhere!" Ham said, the other boys started yelling back agreeing, Jack chuckled a bit, "We face real players Hambone, you clowns ain't even good enough to score one run off of us." Jack shot at him, "shut it bitch!" Ham shot back at him, "Shut up reject!", "Oh tough talk for a guy who plays ball like a girl!!" Ham said and the guys were silent as they knew Ham got Jack good with that one. "Good one Hamburger, but hey at least I don't play ball like a LITTLE girl!" Jack said, Ham's face was furious, Phillips got him and there was nothing he could do, Ham wanted to knock his lights out so badly. "But I guess we'll just have to show you the hard way, tomorrow eleven at the high school field!" Jack said with his agitating smirk the Ham wanted to erase form his face as he rode off with the others but them they heard a screech of one of their bikes and it was a very tall player and muscular as well he looked about the rest of the other players ages but looked angry. "Oh I forgot which one of you losers is Palladores?" He asked cracking his knuckles, the rest of the guys looked at squints like he was a dead man and Squints face was pale white. "I-I'm, S-S-Squints!" He said stuttering frightfully, the big guy grabbed his shirt by the collar and pulled him close squints felt stiff already. "The names Scallion, Frank Scallion, and I know what you did to my girlfriend but since you didn't know that she was mine this is a warning, if you ever come near her again or I hear you did what happened last summer your gonna wish you were dead!" Frank angrily warned Squints as he felt scared straight out of his shoes, "I-I-I don't know your girlfriend man !" Squints argued faintly, he felt the grip on his shirt tighten, "Oh I think you do kid, does the name Wendy Peffercorn sound familiar!" He said, Squints felt his heart stop and shatter into tiny pieces, Wendy has a boyfriend, he felt heartbroken beyond belief. All hope of ever having a chance with Wendy just went out the door and is gone. Squints completely forgot that he was in the clutches of a giant gorilla as his face turned sad and with that he just plainly nodded as he was looking at the ground in shame of himself as he was set back down and Frank got back on his bike and peddled off with his other friends. The boys were both agitated and sad agitated at the other players and Jack Phillips, but were sad because their friend just found out that the only girl he's ever loved has a boyfriend. Benny walked up to Squints and put his hand on his shoulder "Hey sorry about Wendy, Squints but look at it this way it was gonna happen eventually she's like eighteen years old and your only like fourteen years old man so she got about a pretty good four year lead on you bud!" Squints just kept his head down and was silent. Ham came up to Benny and had steam coming out of his ears. "Why do we gotta take crap from that son of a bitch!" Ham argued, "Because they're bullies Ham it's what they do, Jack's a real pain in the ass though now I know where little Phillips gets his crap from." Benny told him, as they all turned around and continued walking towards the drug store. Squints behind everyone else but he was keeping up with them though. But he just couldn't help but think that if he ever came around Wendy again her boyfriend was gonna end him badly. He just wished he could get the chance to apologize for what he did to her last summer. But it wouldn't matter because he remembered he's never even talked her before the only time she ever spoke to him at all when she was in her worst mood at him when she called him a little pervert, but other than that the chances of him talking to her now are worse than anything ever before. But eventually he raised his head and he jogged up to the other and just needed to take his mind off of her for now. For Benny and the others thought that tomorrow is gonna be the same lesson that they taught to little Phillips last year only this time it's gonna be even harder.