My coach said he got in some trouble with his mom and we shouldn’t be hanging around him, he wouldn’t tell me the story though but my teammate Gage knew all the details. Gage told us that he got in a fight with his stepdad the day before and that he knocked his stepdad out trying to defend his sister. It turned out that was the truth, Begley got put in a lose-lose situation trying to defend his little sister that he loved and his mom called the police on him. I was completely shocked that his own mother would do such a thing to him, to take away baseball from him; she took his whole world out from under him. I tried reaching out to him but it would be days before I seen my good friend again, and finally when I see him in class he was just not the same. Begley had nothing to live for; he was sad and had forgotten about baseball and most importantly he forgot about his good friends. Trying to talk to him he basically ignored me and show no desire to be friends and that is when I knew he was headed in the wrong …show more content…
He wasn’t even living at home most nights and not coming to school, my friends and I had lost almost all our connection until he came over one Saturday night with some assholes. They rolled up to my house like they owned the place flashing off their new clothing, expensive shoes, and accessories. Begley claimed that he had just went on a $2,000 shopping spree after making a lot of money from selling dope. The chiseler looked like himself again with that cocky smile and know it all attitude, he was a bad-ass again and everyone loved it. He tossed me a pair of expensive Evoshield socks that he said wouldn’t fit him and I must say they’re still the nicest socks I’ve ever owned. Then he asked to put some of the stuff he bought in my car so when we went to his house later I could just drop it off. The night went on and we had a lot of fun, it felt like the good ole days having Bullshit Begley