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on her face and she drew me into a hug. She squeezed me, before pulling me back to look at my face. “It’s Mark, sweetheart. You can call us both by our first names. And, of course, Jamie, you have our permission to ask Camryn to Homecoming. I’m sure she would be thrilled to have you as her date. You know, she wasn’t going to go with everything that happened with Todd. Morgan and Lindsey told her to go by herself. But you know Camryn, she refused. I’m not sure if she didn’t want to go because she may see Todd there with someone or she just felt uncomfortable going by herself.”
    “I’m gonna ask her tomorrow at her game. It has to be something big though. I want it to be special for her. Do you think you can run me to the store to grab a few things that I need?”
    “Okay. Let me finish getting dinner ready, then we’ll head out.”
    When Gwen finished, she walked toward the garage door and grabbed her car keys. “Come on. We need to get going if we’re going to make it to the store and back before she gets home from practice.”
    I jumped off of the stool and quickly followed after her. After we got what I needed at the store, Mrs. Townsend helped me with my project.
    I didn’t sleep a wink that night after we had everything ready for the game. I played it over and over in my head, how I was going to pop the big question. It had to be perfect, Camryn deserved nothing less than perfection.
    After the National Anthem, Camryn took her place on the pitcher’s mound, looking relaxed as she always did. Christian helped me out by having the announcers let me have the mic for a few seconds. Standing by the announcer’s booth, mic in hand, I said a silent prayer that I didn’t make an ass out of myself in front of all these people. “Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. I have something special I would like to ask Camryn Townsend.”
    Camryn’s eyes lit up as she looked around the ball field. She frantically searched the bleachers for me until her eyes met mine by the announcer’s booth. I was standing there holding my sign over my head. On the poster board it read, You STRIKE me as the girl I want to take to Homecoming. What do you say? Did I STRIKE out, or did I hit a HOMERUN?
    Her eyes widened and a smile appeared instantly. The look on her face was priceless. She immediately nodded her head up and down. I saw her mouth moving, but everyone in the bleachers was cheering, so I couldn’t hear what she was saying.
    That night, my Cami pitched her first no-hitter . . . I’d like to think that I had a little something to do with that.
    After the game, Camryn came out of the locker room freshly showered and threw her arms around me. “I can’t believe you did that.” With her eyebrows cocked, “You know, if you wanted me to go to Homecoming with you, all you had to do was ask.”
    “I did ask.” I smirked.
    “I mean you didn’t have to go to all that trouble just for me.” She peeked up at me through her long lashes.
    Laughing, I pulled her away so I could see her whole face, leave it to Camryn to feel unworthy of that attention. “Well, I wasn’t going to allow you to miss out on a Jamie Banks Special. I couldn’t think of any other girl to go to all that trouble for.”
     
    Christian nudges me, bringing me out of my daydream. “You got plans tonight?”
    “Nah, I figured once we finished up with dinner, maybe we could all head to Aces. I can text Lincoln to see if he’ll be around tonight. Cami can text the girls and have them meet us there if she’s coming back to the City with us.”
    Christian nods his head in agreement. “Sounds like a plan. I’ll see if Cami wants to pack a bag and stay with one of us in the City tonight. This way, we can just hang out tomorrow rather than coming back here to grab her.”
    I pull the stool out that’s next to Camryn and sit down. Her mom finally hangs up with mine after laughing at God knows what. She announces that my parents are going to join us for