Hyunjin was dreading for practice today. She didn’t want her dad to get mad at her for getting into a fight.
But it wasn’t a fight and it wasn’t even her fault so he shouldn’t get mad at her right?
The bell had just rang signaling the end of school. The seniors were already waiting for the girls at their cars.
Vivi leans against Sooyoung’s car and gestures for Haseul to do the same. She only called for her just so she can lean a on Haseul.
The gesture made her blush and looked up to her fellow seniors. They were smirking at the sight of their friend blushing and teased her.
Haseul glares at them ready to jump them but a voice stops her.
“Bro you cheated fair and square! There was no way you can beat me in time!”
“What are you talking about? I beat you before you even crossed the finish line!”
“Exactly! Which means you cheated!”
“Can you guys shut up?! Please!”
Hyunjin yelled at Hyejoo and Yeojin to stop arguing over a game. They played mario kart in class before leaving and Hyejoo beat Yeojin.
They shut up immediately and clinged to Yerim. She just laughed at them as they arrived where the seniors were.
“Hey guys ready to go?”
“Yea” “No”
They turned and looked at Hyunjin who said no. She just stared at them and sighs.
“Fine let’s go” She didn’t want to go and get scolded by her father.
“You’ll be fine Aeongie, your dad will know it wasn’t your fault” Chaewon reassured her friend and patted her back.
“Yea you’re right I’m worried about nothing” Hyunjin agreed and they start piling into the vehicles.
Heejin sits beside Hyunjin and loops her arm with hers. The taller looks at her and smiles, she smiles back with red cheeks. They turn to look at Haseul who starts talking and pulls out of the school.
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Let’s just say Hunjoon and the coaches weren’t too happy hearing what happened.
They were more pissed off at the fact that Jinhyuk didn’t like it when someone stood up against him. Especially women.
Hunjoon made sure Hyunjin understand that he wasn’t mad at her or the girls. After explaining the story and understanding each other, they started practicing.
Jung wanted them to get more comfortable hitting so he set them up at home plate. They weared their batting helmet, gloves, elbow guard and shin guard to bat.
The gloves were so they don’t lose grip on the bat when swinging. And the helmet and guards were to protect their head, elbow and shin if the pitch hits them.
The girls also had a choice to have a chin guard attached to the flap of their helmet to protect their face when they went to the store.
Some of them didn’t want one but Sooyoung, Jinsoul, Hyunjin, and Hyejoo decided to get ’em. The helmets they use are like the MLB ones. (u can search it up)
Son had moved his area to the side of the field where the bullpen was to keep teaching Jiwoo and Heejin.
The bullpen is where pitchers go to warm up during a game and get tips. They let Jung help the girls bat and got out of their way.
“Okay so, I’m going to throw you girls some pitches that a pitcher would normally throw. Now I’m not Son so these pitches might not be exact alright? Hyunjin you’re up lets go” He motioned for her to step into the batter’s box.
She put on her helmet and elbow guard as she stepped up. She tighten her gloves and does a practice swing.
Jung sets up on the mound as Hyunjin does too. He winds up and throws a fastball right down the middle and she gives a big swing. The ball soars through the air and lands in the outfield by the fence.
The girls stare in awe as they watched the ball fly towards the fence. Chaewon stares at her friend with a big smile feeling proud that she’s playing the one sport she sweared to never play again.
“Woah!”
“Touchdown!”
“Yo what the fuck Yeojin? We’re playing baseball not football and it wasn’t even a home run”
They laughed and looked at Yeojin who facepalmed when was corrected by Hyejoo.
Hyunjin kept hitting all five pitches thrown at her with ease and Jung was happy to see that she’s still the best player.
After her it was Chaewon’s turn, she was a little shy and nervous because people were watching her.
Hyunjin noticed her friend fidgeting in her spot “Hey you got this Wonie, don’t think about us watching just focus on the ball and swing your bat” She gives her a little pat on the shoulder and smiles.
Chaewon nods and turns to look at Hyejoo, the wolf-like girl gives her a smile easing her nerves. She smiles back and steps into the batter’s box. Putting on her gloves, she gets ready and waits for her pitch.
The girls watch as the sophmore swings and ball bounces beween second and third base.
“Eyy lets get it Chawonie”
“Good job Wonie”
Chaewon recieves compliments and gives a small ‘assa’ after seeing where the ball went. Hyejoo watches the older jump in her spot after hitting and smiles at her being cute. She blushes thinking about how the shorter can make her go soft.
Everyone had to six pitches when it was their turn. If they missed one, then they kept going till hitting the six pitches Jung gives them.
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As they were batting, Hunjoon was over on the side talking to Lee and Choi about what happened the past two days.
“I really hate what’s going on with the girls. Its like Jinhyuk wants to make sure that Hyunjin doesn’t beat him again and humiliate in front of eveybody. He needs to be stopped” He sighs as the other two nod.
“Yea you’re right but if we talk to the principal wouldn’t the game be off?” Lee asks.
They thought about it and frowned. If they were to talk to the school about this, then the girls wouldn’t get to play. The girls want to play so bad and they want to see them win.
Hunjoon sighs “Well what can we do to stop Jinhyuk from hurting the girls again? I mean we can try to talk to his parents but I doubt they’ll actually talk to him” They think about it and Choi lights up with an idea.
“What if we kidnap Jinhyuk and threaten him to never hurt the girls? We can say we’re part of the mafia and that Hyunjin is the daughter of the boss so we have permission to kill him if he does it again”
Choi finishes and looks at his buddies waiting for their reply. Lee and Hunjoon blankly stare at him then they make eye contact with each other before sighing.
Lee makes Choi look at him “You do understand that we’ll go to jail for kidnapping and we’re not the mafia?”
He takes in his words before sheepishly smiling “Oh yea you’re right sorry” They sigh and brainstorm some ideas to fix this issue.
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“Good job girls. Now I think you’re both ready to pitch a game, don’t you girls think so?” Son hi fives Heejin and Jiwoo and questions them if they’re ready to play ball.
Heejin looks a little concerned about her pitching skills. She just learned how to pitch a few days ago and it supposedly takes a while for someone’s pitching skills to develop.
Of course she’s been working hard but she doesn’t want to embarrass herself in front of everybody.
Jiwoo on the other hand looks confident in her pitching. Sure she’s still a little sloppy but she knows that her skills will improve overtime before the game.
And she can’t wait to show Sooyoung her pitching skills as well as her bestie Jungeun. Though she just wants to impress the senior and hopefully catch a date with her.
” I can’t wait to pitch the game! Although we still need a little bit more of practice before the game” the junior answers Son. He nods and looks at Heejin for her to say something.
“I don’t know if I’m ready yet. I’m not really confident with my pitching right now” Son frowns at her statement and Jiwoo furrows her eyebrows at the bunny.
She hates when her friends don’t have confidence in themselves.
She grabs her arms “What do you mean you’re not confident Heekie? We may have just started learning but you got down the techniques of pitching down easily. Your skills are still fresh but they are going to improve before the game, we still time to practice. And with a great patient coach like Son, we’ll be ready in no time. So chin up and have confidence in yourself beacause you’ll be fine”
Jiwoo finishes and smiles brightly at Heejin.
She stares at her before engulfing her in a hug “Thank you Jiwoo unnie for cheering me up. I’ll make sure to have confidence in myself as we continue practicing” She smiles after letting go of the hug.
Son watches their interaction and fondly smile at them. These girls are just too pure for the world, he already takes care of Hyunjin like she’s his daughter and now he has eleven more daughters to take care of.
He looks at them with a smile “So do you girls wanna continue practicing or do you wanna go watch the other girls?” They look at each other and then turn to look at Son.
“Watch the other girls”
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The girls finished batting practice well. There are some perks they have to fix but otherwise, they are good in hitting.
Jung finds them doing well hitting but sometimes they would hit more flyballs then ground balls. He’ll be able to help them fix that later on before the game.
Now, he’s going to teach them baserunning.
They come closer to listen “Okay so now I’m going to teach you girls how to base run. Its simple but you have to know how to run well enough to get safe. I’ll also help with stealing bases after this” Everyone nodded and they followed him to first base.
Heejin and Jiwoo were seated in the dugout watching them practice while Son went to talk to the other guys.
“Know that you have to be touching the base when the ball isn’t in play otherwise you can be tagged out if they see you. So when the pitcher’s about to pitch, you have to be right here ready to run” He showed where to stand at “When the ball is hit, you run till either you can see the ball is too close or the third base coach signals you to stop. The first and third base coach will help you when you’re on base”
They nodded and listened very well to everything he said. He made it simple for them to understand and they got it down easily.
Jung made them try to run from home to first, home to second, and home to third. He also told them to run from base to base so they know how it feels like when the ball is in play.
“Yeojin come and stand here” He shows where she should stand “Now you’re going to run from here to third and stop hard like the ball was thrown to the pitcher okay?”
Yeojin nods and gets into position which his her facing forward a few feet away from first.
Jung steps back as well as the other girls to watch the youngest run “Boom! Hyejoo just hit a double, run!”
Yeojin runs as soon as he finishes talking, she runs and touches second before stopping at third with force. She stands still with one foot touching the base and looks towards Jung “Was that okay?”
Jung gives her a thumbs up “That was great, now come on back” He motions for her over and she jogs to the group.
After everyone has done some baserunning, he teaches them how to slide. Sliding to base makes it easier for the player to reach base and be safe.
He shows them different slides and how to produce them. They were going to get dirty and some of them didn’t like it.
Jung called up Jinsoul to do a head first slide, which means she dives head first towards base with her arm extended.
She’s going to go from first to second as if she was stealing base. He got ready “The pitcher winds up go!”
Jinsoul starts running and as she gets close, she throws her body onto the ground in a diving position. Her arm is extended as it touches the base and she closes her eyes so no dirt gets in.
She kneels on the base after sliding and looks at the group with squinting eyes.
Jung nods at her “Good job, that was a really good slide. Did you get some dirt in your eyes?” He hi fives her as she walks over rubbing her eyes to get some dirt out.
Her navy sleeveless shirt had a big brown stain on the front as well as her jogging pants. She wipes her right hand on her shirt to get some of the dirt off and also wipes some sweat off her forehead.
“Yea but I’m okay” She stood beside Jungeun who looks at her with slight red cheeks, she thought that Jinsoul looked hot while doing a basic slide.
The senior didn’t notice how the blonde was having a mental breakdown on her just wearing a sleeveless shirt showcasing her muscles. The gay panic was real and some of them noticed her blushing while looking at Jinsoul, so they decided to tease her without the blue haired knowing.
Even Jiwoo saw her bestie gay panicking over the senior and decided to tease her later.
Everyone finished doing some base sliding and the sun had started to go down.
Hunjoon walked over to the pitchers mound to talk to everybody after they finished picking up their equipment.
They gathered around him “So practice went very well today and I am proud. Tomorrow we’ll work on some defensive plays and then maybe we’ll do a scrimmiage at the end” Yerim raised her to speak and he gestures for her to talk.
“What’s a scrimmiage?”
“A scrimmiage is a small game that is played between the players of one team. So technically ya’ll will play against each other and see how well your skills have developed in a short time. It’ll be easy trust me and also make sure you girls are resting well, especially now that some of you are hurt. Please take care of your wounds and rest up we don’t like seeing you girls in pain” They nodded and Hunjoon dissmised them to leave.
They walked to their respective rides and bid goodbye before going home.
They girls were excited for tomorrow because they can show off their skills they’ve learned and impress their crushes.
But they also hoped that Jinhyuk won’t try to do something and hurt them at school tomorrow, they didn’t want to see each other hurt anymore.
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A/N: hope u guys like this update and thank u guys for the votes i appreciate it
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