encore, encore

encore, encore

fiction
edward w pritchard

My neighbor is a good Father. Everyday his son who mostly stays with his Mother, and his Dad, my neighbor throw the ball. The Father is teaching the boy who is  five or six how to pitch and the Father plays catcher. The boy often  has on his uniform for he is on a team here in the neighborhood. The boy and his Dad don't say much when they practice but they throw the ball back and forth maybe two hundred times or more at a stretch. 

I am not sure if the boys younger brother will be taught to throw and pitch. The Mother and Father are getting divorced and the Mother is very busy with work. The younger boy mostly sits on the porch while the older brother and Father silently pitch the ball back and forth. As soon as the Father comes over after his work the little boy runs to the Father for a second and then heads straight to his place on the porch, for the older brother always runs and gets both mitts when he sees his Dad coming by and then he grabs the  new baseball they use. After the game of catch is done the younger brother runs over and the Father carries him into the house to say goodbye to his ex-wife.

What happens to these families after the split up?