by Doris Miller
It is the following month. There is a youth baseball game at a local city park. There are thousands of people on the stands cheering. There are signs and banners all over the place reading THE DIAZ-DAVIDSON YOUTH BASEBALL GAMES as a baseball game with two teams of white and Hispanic pre-teen boys takes place with around 15 boys on each team. The Diaz-Davidson Youth Baseball Team is out on the field against another team. One boy from the opposite team is on home base. The ball is thrown to him. He takes a swing at the ball and makes a run for the bases. The Diaz-Davidson Youth team catches the ball and the other team is out. The other team goes out on the field as the Diaz-Davidson Youth team goes to bat. One of the twins, Mike, is at the bat, wearing a baseball uniform and a white cap. A middle aged Hispanic male announcer speaks into the microphone and says, “Okay we now have Mike at the bat!” The crowd screams and cheers!
Mike takes position, ready to swing at the ball as the crowd shouts, “Go Mike, go Mike!” Mike stares at the baseball as the crowd continues to shout, “Go Mike, go Mike!” The opposing team throws the ball towards Mike. Mike takes a swing at the ball! He swings it way out into the field, throws the bat aside and makes a run for the bases. Mike makes it to 2nd base before he gets caught! Next, the other twin, Mitch, comes to the bat, wearing a baseball uniform and a blue cap. The announcer speaks into the microphone and says, “Okay everybody, we now have Mike’s twin Mitch at the bat.” The crowd screams and cheers! Mitch takes position ready to swing at the ball as the crowd shouts, “Go Mitch, go Mitch!“ Mitch stares at the baseball as the crowd continues to shout, “Go Mitch, go Mitch!” The opposing team throws the ball towards Mitch. Mitch takes a swing at the ball. He swings it way out into the field, throws the bat aside and makes a run for the bases. Mitch makes it all the way to home base, making a homerun as the crowd screams and cheers, “Yay Mitch! Yay Mitch!” The Diaz-Davidson Youth team starts to cheer as the crowd cheers holding up signs reading: DIAZ-DAVIDSON YOUTH BASEBALL TEAM! The Diaz-Davidson Youth team continues to cheer with each other.
There is a large crowd of people at the baseball field entrance. Mike is about to walk past the crowd of people, wearing a baseball glove in one hand, holding the baseball in the other hand, smacking the baseball against the glove. A man passes by him and says to him, “Hey Mike!” The man and Mike smack each other’s hand, giving each other a hi-five, then keep going their way. Another man on the side shouts, “Hey Mike!“ Mike waves to the man and continues to go on his way. Mike is about to pass a group of around seven pre-teen white, Hispanic and black girls that are on the side. The girls see Mike about to their direction. They become excited. They turn to each other as one of them starts to whisper, “Oh oh, here comes one of the twins Mike and Mitch!”
“I know,” says the 2nd girl. “Which twin is that?”
“Yeah which twin is that?” a 3rd girl says.
“I think that’s Mike coming this way, because he’s wearing a white cap,” a 4th girl says. “The other twin Mitch is wearing a blue cap, so this one coming is Mike.”
“Okay,” says the 1st girl. “Wow he is cute.”
“He sure is,” says the 5th girl. The girls become nervous and start to giggle as Mike is about to walk pass them. Mike looks straight ahead as he walks right past the girls not looking their way. Mike continues to walk pass the girls. As Mike walks away, the girls nervously turn and look at him. They nervously call out to him, “Hiii Miiike.”
Mike slows down and turns his head around towards the girls.
The girls nervously turn their heads away from Mike and start to giggle with each other.
Mike annoying looks away from the girls and continues to walk away, going about his business.
The girls turn their heads back around and look towards Mike. They see Mike continuing to walk away going about his business. The girls stare at Mike. The 4th girl suddenly says, “I’m going to marry him one day.”
“Oh yeah?” the 1st girl says as she angrily folds her arms. “And how are you going to do that? He doesn’t even seem to know that we’re alive!”
“Yeah I know.”
“And I don’t think his twin brother Mitch is any different.” The girls sadly stare at Mike as they see Mike walking away, continuing going about his business then disappear out of sight.
Some of the Diaz-Davidson Baseball Team including Mitch are in the parking lot crowding around Diane D’s dad Barry, who is their coach and Nicolas. Some of the boys crowd around a white male coach of the other team. Mike walks towards them all as he calls out, “Hey Mr. Barry!” Mike approaches Barry. He looks up at Nicolas then steps right in front of Nicolas, standing between Nicolas and Barry as he starts to talk to Barry.
One of the boys, Andy, starts to complain to Barry and shouts, “But they cheated!”
“We didn’t cheat man!” Mitch shouts. “We won fair and square, you saw it yourself!”
“That’s right we don’t need to cheat man!” Mike shouts.
“Alright knock it off guys!” the other coach shouts. “The Diaz-Davidson Team won!”
“Ah they still cheated!” Andy shouts.
“Why are you accusing our team of cheating?” Nathanial shouts.
“That’s right they didn’t cheat!” Barry shouts. “We all witnessed it!” He then turns to the Diaz-Davidson Youth Team and shouts, “Come on guys let’s get out of here!” Barry and Nicolas turn around and walk away. Mike, Mitch and the rest of the Davidson Youth boys stand there facing the other team.
Barry and Nicolas turn their heads around. “Let’s go guys!” Nicolas shouts. Barry and Nicolas turn their heads back around and continue to walk away.
Mike, Mitch and the rest of the Davidson Youth boys continue to stand there facing the other team, fussing with the other team as Mike shouts, “I swear if you say that one more time….”
“Yeah I said it,” Ray a taller white boy shouts as he angrily walks right up to Mike and Mitch. He gets right in their faces as he throws his arms in the air shouting, “That’s right I said it! Y’all gonna do something about it?! I’ll say it again, what the fuck you gonna do, what the fuck you gonna do?!”
Without saying a single word, Mike knees Ray in the groin as Mitch grabs Ray by the throat and shoves Ray way across the parking lot! People start to scream as Ray falls back hard and hit his head against a hard object then lays there motionless. The other coach and Ray’s team run to Ray as several security guards and one of the coaches run to Mike and Mitch and grab them shouting, “Mike, Mitch what the hell are you two doing?” Mike and Mitch angrily try to break away from the security as Mitch shouts, “Get the fuck off me man! Get the fuck off me!”
“Get the hell off me!” Mike shouts.
Barry and Nicolas hysterically hurry back to Mike and Mitch as Barry shouts, “What the hell is going on!” A crowd hysterically gathers around as Mike angrily kicks one of the security guards right in the knee! The security guard yells out in pain as Mitch angrily kicks another security guard in the knee! That security guard yells out in pain as more security guards come and grab Mike and Mitch! They try to subdue both Mike and Mitch. Security and the crowd hysterically gather around Ray as Ray continues to lay motionless on the ground. A little blood starts to come out his head. The crowd gets more hysterical!
Police cars and ambulance race down the street.
Ray continues to lay motionless on the ground as a large crowd hysterically surrounds him.
Inside the Diaz-Davidson Organization Office, Mary is sitting behind a large desk doing paper work while she talks on the phone saying, “Well we’re going to do the Diaz-Davidson fashion show next month, so tell all the models to get ready …. Okay. Bye.” Mary hangs up the phone.
Stephanie, a black female staff member, hysterically bursts into the room and shouts, “Mary we have an emergency!”
Mary anxiously looks at Stephanie and says, “An emergency? What emergency Stephanie? What’s wrong?!
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“It’s Mike and Mitch! Barry and Nicolas just called your Mom and said both Mike and Mitch got arrested!”
“What! What do they mean Mike and Mitch got arrested?! What did Mike and Mitch do?!”
“They knocked one of the kids from the other team unconscious!”
“What! They knocked one of the kids from the other team unconscious?! How the hell did that happen?!”
“Well Barry and Nicolas found out that the other kid Ray came right up in Mike and Mitch’s faces! That’s when Mike kneed Ray hard in the groin area then Mitch grabbed Ray by the throat and threw him across the ground! Barry and Nicolas found out that Ray fell all the way back hard and hit his head against a hard object then laid there motionless! Several security guards and one of the coaches ran to Mike and Mitch and grabbed them as the other coach and Ray’s team ran to Ray! That’s when Barry and Nicolas ran back to Mike and Mitch and found out what had happened!”
“Oh my god, how the hell was Mitch able to grab somebody’s throat and throw that person across the ground?!”
“Barry and Nicolas said the security guard told them that Mitch got so angry that he appeared to have superhuman strength! Barry and Nicolas said more security came and grabbed Mike and Mitch! They said Mike angrily kicked one of the security guards right in the knee! Then Mitch angrily kicked another security guard in the knee! They said other security guards tried to subdue both Mike and Mitch! They said that kid Ray is lying on the ground motionless and blood is coming out his head!”
“Blood is coming out his head?! My god!”
“The city police and the ambulance are there! Barry and Nicolas said they tried to call you too, but didn’t get through to you because your line was on hold!”
“Yeah I was on the phone! Oh my goodness!” Mary hysterically gets up out of the chair. She grabs her belongings and hurries towards the doorway as Stephanie hysterically follows after her!
Mary and Stephanie hurry out into the hallway. Margarita, Marilyn and some staff members hysterically hurry to Mary and Stephanie as Margarita shouts, “Mary! Has oido lo que Mike y Mitch solo hicieron?! Estos dos chicos estan en problemas otra vez!”
“Si, Stephanie acaba de decirme!” Mary shouts.
“Te dije todo, Mike y Mitch necesitan un buen castigo!” Marilyn shouts. “Ellos necesitan ser castigado por un rato!”
“Si sabemos que Marilyn!” Margarita shouts. “Nos tenemos que apresurar y ponernos a ellos!” Margarita, Marilyn and Mary turn and hurry off towards the exit doors as the staff members hurry behind them!
The paramedics have arrived at the baseball parking lot. They have Ray in a stretcher. They put him into the ambulance. They close the ambulance doors and get into the ambulance. The ambulance then speeds off!
At the police station, Mary, Marilyn, Margarita, Barry, Tomas and Nicolas come out from the back room and approach the Diaz-Davidson staff members.
“So what’s happening with the twins?” Alex asks.
“Well they’re claiming self-defense,” Barry says.
“Self-defense?” asks Stephanie.
“Yeah that‘s what they’re claiming,” Margarita says. “They claim that Ray came up in their faces and they felt threatened by him.”
“They felt threatened by him? That’s the oldest trick in the book! That’s the same line they always tell the police or security whenever they get into trouble!”
“So what’s going to happen to them now?” Harvey, a black male staff member around his mid 40’s asks.
“Well the police are going to release them back into the custody of their parents and grandparents,” Mary says.
“What? Back into the custody of their parents and grandparents?”
“Yeah,” Margarita says. “Their parents, grandparents and the rest of their family and relatives are all back there with them now.”
“They are?” Alex asks.
“Yeah,” says Mary. “Their parents and grandparents are planning to have them stay in Puerto Rico for a while.”
“In Puerto Rico? Didn’t Mike and Mitch go to stay in Puerto Rico for a while a couple of years ago, right after they got into trouble for kicking a security guard?”
“Yeah.”
“And now they’re going to Puerto Rico again?”
“Yep.”
“Why do they always go there?” Jack another staff member asks.
“Well their mom Maria is from Puerto Rico,” Margarita says. “Maria has a lot of family and relatives here in New York and in Puerto Rico. Whenever she or her husband feels the children need to get away, sometimes they’ll take all eight of their children to Puerto Rico to stay with Maria’s relatives for a while and other times they take all their children to Germany to stay with her husband’s relatives.”
“Really?” Crystal says. “So every time the twins get into some type of trouble, they get rewarded by going away?”
“It sure seems that way,” Barry says.
“How do they afford that?” Jack asks.
“Well their dad’s side of the family have a lot of money,” says Margarita.
“They do?” asks Stephanie.
“Yeah,” Tomas says. “They always give Mike, Mitch and their siblings anything they want.”
“Oh really?”
“Yeah.”
“Listen,” Mary says. “We have to go to the hospital to check on Ray.”
“Okay Mary,” Barry says. Mary and Margarita turn and head towards the exit door as everyone else follows them.
A half hour later, Mary, Marilyn, Margarita, Barry, Tomas and Nicolas are walking anxiously through the hospital hallway. Mary looks in the distance and calls out, “Diane!”
Diane D, Michael, Mickey and Tonio stand several yards away as they turn towards Mary and the rest of the family with Diane D holding papers and a clipboard in her hand.
Mary and the rest of the family approach Diane D, Michael, Mickey and Tonio as Margarita asks, “So how is Ray doing Diane?”
“He just came to Grandma,” Diane D says.
“He did?” Barry asks.
“You mean he’s not unconscious anymore?” asks Mary.
“No not anymore Mom,” Diane D says. “He opened his eyes and looked at his family, but he isn’t able to speak to them at this point.”
“Wow, we’re so glad to hear that he came to,” Tomas says.
“Come on, I’ll take y’all to him.” Diane D and Michael turn around and lead the family away.
Chapter 6
The Organization Meeting
