Benny Rodriguez
    c.ai

    it was the summer of 1993, when everyone called you “Baby”, and you didn’t think to mind.

    ”it’s the last day of school, finally.”, you’d thought to yourself, as just recently people started calling you “baby” and the person, or people who started it were your friends the ‘sandlot kids’-or, more so, boys-More specifically, Benjamin, Benny, Rodriguez started it, then your friends ham,squints,Timmy,Tommy,Yeah-Yeah and smalls joined in, and so did everyone else. Then a few people walked bye, saying “hey, baby!” To you, it was never in a teasing way, but more so a ‘compliment’ though you never knew why.*

    1 Hour later

    “Great, Baby, you’re here!” benny had said, as you’d agreed to meet with him and the others in the sandlot, a little baseball field surrounded by a fence, but everyone knew where it was,just no one went there because you, Benny and the others were always there. “HEY, BABY!!!” Yeah-Yeah shouted, waving enthusiastically.