Max Swings for the Fences, Page 3

  “No, I—”

  She tossed her red hair, and it looked like fire. “You’re just like everyone else. All you care about is being cool. Nobody cares what a person’s really like.”

  “No, no, that’s not—”

  “And besides”—Molly took a step closer. She stared him down. Max could not move—“now you’ll never ever say you throw like a girl again.” Her eyes narrowed. She leaned in and hissed, “You wish you threw like a girl.”

  Max stared. His mouth hung open. Molly seemed six feet tall all of a sudden, and her eyes took your secrets from you. And Max felt what it was like to step into the batter’s box and see her staring at you, to look into those eyes as she probed you for your weaknesses. And he knew without a doubt that he, like every sixth grader in the city who would face her that season, had just struck out.

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