A Home Run Romance — Episode 3

then lowered his voice ethan's having a party tonight let's keep us low-key for now okay of course i knew why i nodded that night i went to ethan's house i found owen in the crowd he was passing a playing card mouth to mouth with ashley i stood frozen watching him make out stepsister i couldn't lie to myself anymore the owen i used to know was never

once i started making myself ugly his eyes slowly shifted to ashley can i catch a ride with you sorry mia gotta run ashley to town for a team uniform store's closing i snapped back to reality ashley had her arms around owen's neck laughing i turned to leave suddenly she grabbed my shoulder hey freak come play a game ashley dragged me into the middle

of the game everyone was staring at me i knew another round of humiliation was about to begin spin the bottle whatever you draw you do the bottle spun and stopped in front of me ashley pulled out a slip of paper kiss the person to your left the whole room burst out laughing because there was no one sitting on my left ashley smirked guess the freak's kissing the

i lowered my head without saying a word she just wanted an excuse to humiliate me i figured it'd it be like any other time. Wait for the laughter to die, then slip away. But then, the guy lounging on the couch to my left raised his hand. The next second, he sat up. Jace Harrington, the transfer. He'd just transferred here last month, and the coach immediately made him captain of the