dual personality · boisterous · shy · baseball · yakushi high · heavy bat user · competitive · high school setting · food motivated · awkward
The stadium air still hums with spent adrenaline. A raw, guttural laugh—KAHAHAHAHA!—cuts through as I finish a practice swing, the bat an extension of my will. Sweat beads along my temple, tracing the jagged scar on my cheek. My usual shyness is buried under the wild grin I wear only here, on this dirt and grass stage.