by Doris Miller
There are thousands of people on the stands cheering at a baseball game. 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. Mitch is at the bat, wearing a baseball uniform and a blue cap. The announcer speaks into the microphone. “Okay we now have Mitch at the bat!” The crowd screams and cheers! They start to shout Mitch’s name as Mitch takes position, ready to swing at the ball. Mitch seriously stares at the baseball as the crowd continues to shout his name, “Go Mike, 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 and makes a run for the bases. Mike makes it to 2nd base before he gets caught. Mitch comes to the bat, wearing a baseball uniform and a blue cap. The announcer speaks into the microphone. “Okay everybody, we now have Mike at the bat!” The crowd screams and cheers! They start to shout Mike’s name as Mike takes position, ready to swing at the ball. “Go Mike, go Mike!” Mike seriously stares at the baseball as the crowd continues to shout his name. “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 and makes a run for the bases. Mike makes it all the way to home base, making a homerun as the crowd screams and cheers. The Diaz-Davidson Youth team start to cheer with each other as the crowd cheers holding up signs reading DIAZ-DAVIDSON YOUTH BASEBALL TEAM. The Diaz-Davidson Youth team continue to cheer with each other as the crowd cheers holding up signs reading DIAZ-DAVIDSON YOUTH BASEBALL TEAM.
Outside the gate, several boys are fussing at Mike and Mitch’s younger brothers Troy, Samuel and Tommy at the baseball field entrance as a tall boy name Patrick shouts, “Yo, I don‘t like what your brothers Mike and Mitch did to my cousin Ray, knocking him unconscious and putting him in the hospital!”
“Well your cousin Ray shouldn’t have come up in our brothers’ faces!” Troy shouts.
“They still didn’t have to knock him unconscious!” William shouts. “We should knock you unconscious and see how your brothers would like that!”
“Oh yeah?!” Troy shouts. “Try it motherfucka, try it!” Patrick, William, a third kid Julian angrily grab Troy! They throw Troy right into Samuel and Tommy, knocking Troy, Samuel and Tommy down on the ground! A couple of security guards hurry to the commotion! Patrick, William, Julian and a fourth kid Vince see the security guards coming and run off! Troy gets up off the ground and helps Samuel and Tommy off the ground as the security guards approach them! Troy, Samuel and Tommy are about to go after the four guys but security grab them. Troy, Samuel and Tommy try to break away from the security and shout, “Get the hell off me! Get the hell off me!” A couple of adults come to break up the commotion.
Twenty minutes later, Troy, Samuel and Tommy are in the coach’s office complaining to Mitch as the security guards surround them. Mitch listens to his brothers then angrily looks to the side.
Ten minutes later, Patrick, William, Julian and Vince are around the corner sitting on some benches fussing with each other. Vince looks to the side. “Oh oh,” he says. “There goes one of the twins, Mike and Mitch!” Patrick, William, Julian turn their heads and look to the side. They see Mitch standing in the distance angrily staring at them with a large knife in his hand.
“And he’s got a knife!” William shouts. Mitch continues to angrily stare at Patrick, William, Julian and Vince. Patrick, William, Julian and Vince stare at Mitch.
Suddenly, Mitch runs straight towards Patrick, William, Julian and Vince!
Patrick, William, Julian and Vince see Mitch charging towards them with the knife in his hand! They get up off the bench and run off!
Mitch angrily chases after Patrick, William, Julian and Vince.
Patrick, William, Julian and Vince continue to run! They run straight towards a street corner!
As Patrick, William, Julian and Vince reach the street corner, Mike jumps out of no where and swings a baseball bat right into Patrick, William, Julian and Vince! Patrick, William, Julian and Vince fall to the ground in agony as Mike continues to swing the bat at them! Several security guards run to Mike and grab him! They try to grab the bat from him! Mitch hurries to Patrick and raises the knife high in the air! He is about to plunge the knife right into Patrick’s back, but three other security guards quickly grab his arm and hold it back! Mitch and the three security guards fall backward on the ground as a hysterical crowd runs to them and surround them! More security guards run to Mitch and grab his arm! The first security guards desperately try to hold on to Mike and grab the baseball bat from him! The other security guards desperately try to hold on to Mitch and grab the knife from him! Other security guards hold on to Troy, Samuel and Tommy! Patrick lays on the ground and screams, “Aaaaahh my knee caps! I think he busted my knee caps!”
“I think my ribs are broken!” Julian shouts. “Aaaaahhh!”
Mike and Mitch try to break away from the security guards as Mike shouts, “Get the fuck off me man! Get the fuck off me!” Mike angrily kicks one of the security guards right in the knee! “Aaaaaaaahh!” the security guard shouts.
Mitch angrily kicks another security guard in the knee! “Aaaaaaaahh!” the security guard shouts. Other security guards try to subdue Mike and Mitch! Different security guards take Troy, Samuel and Tommy away! Security and the crowd hysterically gather around Patrick, William, Julian and Vince as Patrick, William, Julian and Vince lay on the ground in agony. The crowd gets more hysterical!
Police cars and ambulance race down the street.
Patrick, William, Julian and Vince continue to lay on the ground as a large crowd hysterically surrounds them.
Mary, Margarita and Marilyn are sitting down in the organization office talking with a black female designer as Margarita tells her, “We might need you to just take the hems in a little bit.”
“Okay,” the female designer says.
Barry hysterically bursts into the room. Mary, Margarita, Marilyn and the designer anxiously look at Barry as he shouts, “Ladies, we have an emergency!”
“Emergency?” Marilyn asks. “Another emergency?!”
“It’s Mike and Mitch again isn‘t it?!” Mary shouts.
“Barry what’s going on?!” Margarita asks.
“Dad and Nicolas just called here and said both Mike and Mitch got arrested!” Barry says.
“Both Mike and Mitch got arrested?” Mary says. “What else is new?!”
“What did Mike and Mitch do this time?” Marilyn says. “Did they knock one of the kids from the other team unconscious again!”
“No, not this time,” Barry says. “They busted some kid’s kneecap!”
“What?!” Mary, Margarita and Marilyn shout.
“They busted some kid’s kneecap?!” Marilyn shouts.
“Yeah!” Barry shouts. “With a baseball bat!”
“With a baseball bat?!” Mary, Margarita and Marilyn shout.
“Yeah! And they busted another kid’s ribs!”
“What?!” Mary, Margarita and Marilyn shout.
“Yeah! Dad and Nicolas said Mitch chased after four guys with a knife!”
“What?!” Mary, Margarita, Marilyn shout again.
“Mitch chased after four guys with a knife?!” Margarita say.
“Yeah!” Barry says. “They said Mitch chased after four guys who were bothering his younger brothers Troy, Samuel and Tommy! They said that Mitch chased them right to a street corner where Mike was hiding and waiting to ambush them with a baseball bat!”
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“Oh my God!” Margarita and Marilyn say.
“Security came and grabbed Mike and Mitch! Security 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! Security said those four boys are laying on the ground with broken bones!”
“Broken bones?!” Mary shouts.
“Yeah!”
“Oh my God!” Margarita shouts. “We gotta call up Devin and Maria!”
“I already called them! They’re on their way to the police station! We gotta meet them there!”
“Oh Dios mio! Tenemos que llegar a la estacion de policia!”
“Si, vamos,” Mary says as she, Margarita and Marilyn hysterically get up out of their chairs and hurry towards the door!
Margarita, Mary and Marilyn hysterically hurry out in the hallway as some staff members hysterically hurry behind and follow them! Mary turns to Margarita and says, “Sabes Mama, estoy tan cansado de esto.”
“Soy cansado de esto tambien Mary,” Margarita says. “Soy cansado de esto tambien.” Margarita, Mary and Marilyn hurry out the exit door.
The paramedics has Patrick, William, Julian and Vince on stretchers. The paramedics put Patrick, William, Julian and Vince into several different ambulances. The paramedics close the ambulance doors and get into the ambulances. The ambulances then drives off.
Two hours later, Mary, Marilyn, Margarita, Barry and Tomas come out from the back room of the police station. They approach the Diaz-Davidson staff members. “So what’s happening with them?” Alex asks.
“They’re claiming self defense,” Barry says.
“They’re claiming self defense again?!” Evette says.
“Yeah,” Marilyn says. “They claim that their younger brothers felt threatened by Patrick, William, Julian and Vince.”
“Their younger brothers felt threatened by them?!” Evette asks. “They said that?!”
“Yeah they said that,” Mary says. “The same thing they always tell the police or security whenever they get into trouble.”
“What’s going to happen to them?” Alex asks.
“The police are going to release them back into the custody of their parents and grandparents,” Margarita says.
“What?” Stephanie says. “The police are going to release them back into the custody of their parents and grandparents?”
“Yeah,” Barry says. “Their parents and grandparents are all back there with them now.”
“And their parents and grandparents are planning to have them stay with some relatives in Puerto Rico again!” Mary says.
“Again?!” asks Evette.
“That‘s what their parents and grandparents said.”
“But Mitch was about to plunge a knife right into one of those boys! That‘s attempted murder!”
“He, Mike and the rest of their brothers are still claiming self defense Evette.”
“My God, this is crazy.”
“It is.”
Tomas turns to Mary, Margarita, Marilyn and Barry and says, “Come on. We have to go to the hospital and see how those injured boys are doing.” Tomas, Mary, Margarita, Marilyn and Barry turn and head towards the exit of the police station.
A half hour later, Mary, Marilyn, Margarita, Barry, and Tomas are anxiously walking in the hospital hallway. They approach Tonio and Nicolas as Nicolas says, “Well here we go again.”
“Yep, here we go again,” Mary says.
“How are those boys doing?” Tomas asks.
“Their condition doesn’t look too good Grandpa,” Nicolas says. “One of them have a busted knee cap and another one has a busted rib and a few other broken bones from Mike’s blows with the baseball bat. And the security guards said Mitch would have definitely used that knife and stabbed Patrick if they hadn’t caught and grabbed his arm in time and stopped him.”
“My goodness,” Margarita says. “Are the victims’ families with them?”
“Yeah the victims’ families are with them now,” Tonio says.
“Are their families planning to press charges?” Mary asks.
“Of course they are.”
“Damn,” Barry says. “Doesn’t every kid know by now, that if they mess with Mike, Mitch or one of their brothers and sisters, that they have to deal with Mike and Mitch too?! Where are Diane and Mickey at Nicolas?”
“Mickey is on his way,” Nicolas says. “I couldn‘t reach Diane. When I tried to call her, her phone just went straight to voice mail. I left a message for her to call me back.”
“Okay. Come on. Take us to see the boys and their families.”
“Okay Dad.” Nicolas turns around and leads the family away.
A few days later, around 15 pre-teen and teenage boys enter into the large organization meeting room as other Diaz-Davidson Organization performers and staff members are eating snacks and drinking coffee. The pre-teen and teenage boys crowd around each other talking as one of them says, “You know Mike and Mitch are back in Puerto Rico again?”
“Yeah we know,” the second boy says. “Their family took them away after Mike busted that kid‘s knee cap and busted another kid‘s rib and Mitch was about to stab them.”
“Wow,” a third boy says. “You don’t mess with Mike and Mitch.”
“No you sure don’t man,” a fourth boy says. The pre-teen and teenage boys continue to talk amongst each other as Diane D, Marilyn, Charlotte, Nicolas, Mickey and Michael go to the front of the room.
Diane D, Marilyn, Charlotte, Nicolas, Mickey and Michael go to the side as everyone else start to sit down and face the front of the room.
Mary, Margarita, Barry and Tomas go to the front of the room. Mary and Margarita go and stand behind the long table as Barry and Tomas stand beside them. Mary starts to shout to everyone, “Okay now listen up everybody! A few of you are gonna do a small performance in New Jersey next week!”
“Yeah, we’re going to do a small performance to raise more money,” Margarita says as everyone cheers and shouts.
Chapter 17
Diane D Disappears Again