homerun
part #133
*sorry i've beeen SUPER busy with school and stufff ! butcommments are lovely !

 

we finished warming up and marwood brought us in and announced the starting lineup.  he put a junior in my position.  she didn't look too surprised here, so he must've told her to not get her hopes up.  i just sat on the bench and cheered on the team.  we easily scored 2 goals in the first half, and there wasn't much to say at halftime, but he still wasn't putting me in.  i kept looking over to the sidelines to see if pat was there to watch.  even if i wasn't going to play i'd still want to see him.  practice was usually over for him by the first half, but he wasn't there.  i wondered if he just listened to me for once and left to go home.  but that wasn't usually like him.  i wasn't interested in the game, so my mind started drifting.  i was in the middle of going through my anatomy homework when something caught my eye.  i saw erin at the entrance of the field, looking around.  she looked at our field and started jogging over to it, not taking her eyes off the game.  oh that's nice, maybe she came over to watch.  i turned and looked at the corner kick that was being taken, and i ran down the bench shouting to every player "corner!" because corner's were my favorite thing to do.  blake capitalized it into a goal, and we all cheered.  i turned my head and looked at the corner of our defensive end, i saw erin running towards us.  she had tears streaming down her face, and immediately i knew something was wrong.  i sprinted over to her, and she met me halfway, and was out of breath.
"erin, erin!" i said, getting her attention.
"erin what's wrong?" i said, grabbing her shoulders and shaking them.
"pat." she said, and wiped her tears.
"what's wrong with pat?" i said in hysterics.
"he collapsed. he's in the hospital." she said.  my legs went numb, my ears were buzzing.
"right now?  but how?"
"danny's in the car, he told me to come get you." i turned around, and we'd attracted a lot of attention. both benches were watching, and marwood was walking towards me.
"white what's wrong?" he asked, i had tears brimming in my eyes.
"marwood, it's pat.  he's in the hospital, and i don't know." i said, looking back between erin and marwood.
"white, white." he said, trying to get my attention. he put his hand on my shoulder, and took off his glasses.
"do what you need to do." i looked at him, and back at erin.  she just wanted to leave.
"thanks marwood." i said, and gave him a quick hug.  i ran over to the bench, got my bag, and started running to erin.
"white." marwood shouted.
"what?" i asked and turned around.
"keep me updated please." he said.
"of course." i said, and started sprinting with erin to danny's car.  we finally got there, and i jumped in the back, and erin got in the front.
"devon." danny sighed with relief.
"danny, what's going on?" i demanded.
"pat collapsed at practice.  they don't know what it was, so they took him to the hospital.  my parents are with him now and they think he might be rejecting his kidney.  they don't know, but he's still out.
"what? how? " so many questions i had as tears were streaming down my face.  i decided just to wait until we got to the hospital to ask any questions.