CHAPTER 11

❤️ Jennifer' POV❤️

"Who is Eric Gray?"I ask them to get confused about whom they are talking about and why they all are scared of him. They all look at me with a shock like I've asked which I shouldn't...

"Yaa.... you really don't know who is he or are you just pretending that you don't?" the guy with blonde hair asks me with a cocky smile.

"She's not pretending, she really doesn't know him because she's always busy with her studies so she's doesn't have time to know about him... Anyway, there's nothing special about him to be known about, okay....". Edward pushes him back to make some space between me and Blake.

"What the shit are you talking Eddie, that there's nothing special about him.....dude he's the star baseball player of our school, have you forgotten??" Blake asks him in amusement but Edward rolls his eyes and gives him a smirk, "Yeah... like as if I care."  

Blake shakes his head at his behavior and turn to look at me," Jennifer, Eric Gray is the best baseball player in our school and you have to interview him if you want to join our club...." he stops and looks at Edward, " And about him, These two do not get along, so they don't like each other." 

"Ahh... I see, so what I have to do, and where can I find him?" I ask Blake and him handover me a notebook that includes some questions which I need to ask Eric. "Here is the questionnaire and you can find him on the school playground, probably he's doing practice, now go but be careful, he's short-tempered okay." I nod and smile and walk towards the playground to find Eric.

I try to find him in the playground, and I find someone who's similar to his personality as Blake told me. I stare at him well he is probably the most perfectly proportioned because of his tall frame and his long legs. He’s got that athletic body for sure. Slim, healthy, not too muscular.

He's wearing the baseball team uniform, which is tightly fit on his body, showing his strong legs, he's wearing a blue color cap which is hiding his eyes. On his one hand, he's wearing a baseball glove and on other hand, he's holding the ball... 

He looks so concrete, he swings one of his long legs in the air as he's getting ready to throw the ball.

The girls are cheering for him holding his name's banner in their hands," ERIC, ERIC, ERIC... LET'S GO YOU CAN DO IT..." As he throws his first ball but misses it. 

The only tall guy who's standing in front of him at some distance, takes out his helmet and asks him getting irritated, "Eric do you need some rest, what's wrong with your pitch today?"

"No, I'm fine, let's do it again." Eric says and walks back to his spot to throw the ball again before he throws it he stops and yells, "Hey you!! Get out!!" I look here and there to see whom he's yelling at but again he yells, " Are you dumb? Get out of here."

Before I could understand the one who's catching his ball come up to me almost running and fuming in anger," Hey you! He's talking about you, get out here, what are you doing in front of him?" My eyes go wide in shock knowing I'm in front of him blocking his way and I don't even when I come here, what I remember is I was looking at him continuously and I end up here. I feel embarrassing, I hurriedly bow down to say sorry and walk out the ground to sit on a chair to wait for him.

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❤️ Jennifer POV❤️

"I hurriedly bow down to apologize and walk out the ground to shit on a chair to wait for him....."✨

I start reading the questions which I need to ask him, after a few minutes I sense someone's presence beside me, I turn my face to the side to see who is it and I see a tall man sitting beside me. It was from Eric. He is looking tired, he's massaging his right shoulder which might be aching with his other hand and his eyes are closed.

"Umm.... excuse me, do you have any time?" I ask him expectedly, not sure if I should ask him or not because earlier Blake told me that he's short-tempered so I'm a little bit scared of him.

"Hope. I don't have any." He answered still closing his eyes and resting his head on the backside of the chair. I can tell he's tired but I still go on to try my luck to make him agree to do an interview," I'm in the same class, and I really want to join the broadcasting club so they assigned me to do an interview with you, do you....do you want to do an interview?" I ask him with so many expectations.

"Same class?" he finally opens his eyes and looks at me," umm... yeah, probably you don't know me, actually I didn't know till now either that we're from the same class," I answered him honestly and it's true that I didn't know he's my classmate 'cause I've never seen him in the class before.

"Yeah. I don't get time to attend classes because of my tight schedules and we need to go to the tournaments," he replied and I'm a little bit relive that he's not like that as Blake and others think of him, he's easy going. well at least now. "Ohkay so can I ask questions," I hurriedly try to ask him questions, I don't want to lose this chance. " The first question is......." I stop myself looking at his tired state and he's hissing with pain sometimes while holding his shoulder," You must have been really tired, right?" I ask him with concern,"

"Is that the first question?" he looks at me and asks back and chuckles lightly.

"This won't do, sorry for interrupting you." I close the notebook of the questionary and turn back to leave and to let him rest.

"Hey. Come here" I hear his voice from behind and I stop my step, I turn around to look at him. 

"I want to do this interview." he stands up from his chair and comes towards me. 

"Really?" I smile in excitement and walk towards him actually almost running. I open my notebook to ask him questions and to write down his answers.

"Hey it's dangerous!" someone yells and I look in the direction of the voice and see that a baseball is in the air and it's coming towards me, I hurriedly closed my eyes in fear and cover my face with the notebook to not get hit.

But before the ball could hit me, Eric caught it with his right hand right in front of my face!!!!;

I look at his face in shock and noticed his expression changing into the painful one and he growls out in pain, my eyes become wide and I cover my mouth with my hand in fright. How can he just catch that ball with his bare hand without wearing a glove?

"Hey, are you okay!!" his team members rushes towards him in panic, "Hey hurry up!" they help him to take him to the team's locker room. I'm still surprised by what just happened and I follow them to their locker room and I hear the announcement of the radio station," FLS's breaking news! Star pitcher, Eric, suffered an injury on his right hand. The cause of this was because of a student that was roaming on the field, this is Jennifer Hudson." My feet freeze on the spot hearing the news, now everyone in the school will bully me and again I'll be the center of everyone's attention.