His 47 Seconds of Silence Cost Him Everything novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Final Out
On the morning of the district final I bought a pen.
A real one, black ink, from the office supply store on Polaris Parkway.
Pencils break.
"You're going to write in pen," Mike said in the dugout, watching me click it.
"I'm going to write in pen."
"That's a big commitment for a woman who's recorded zero of Callen's big plays."
"Four of them," I said. "I've recorded the scores of four of them. That counts."
"It doesn't."
The ballpark was packed past the bleachers.
People had brought lawn chairs and set them up along both foul lines.
The Hilliard team was in red, and their parents had brought a cowbell, and they were using it.
Cory's mother sat in the third row behind home plate, in her pearls and a Wildcats visor.
The third-base coach's wife sat on one side of her. The nurse sat on the other.
In April, nobody would sit next to her.
Now she had to put her purse on her lap to make room.
Cory sat at the very top, alone, in a plain gray T-shirt.
He'd come to every game since the bleachers.
He clapped for Callen. He didn't come down.
Out past the outfield fence, on the walking path, I saw a white sundress.
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