STRIKEOUT

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mateo Martinez is many things. The starting pitcher of the New York Monarchs a devoted single father and most recently my new boss. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When the opportunity to finally move out of my parent's cramped apartment and into his swanky home to nanny for his daughter arose I simply couldn't pass it up. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until I made the silly suggestion for him to keep me on a three strikes system and I'm racking them up at lightning speed. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I should know better than to fantasize about silly things like love but curiosity is getting the best of me and our stolen touches don't feel so innocent anymore. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When the three strikes are up I wonder... will I step up to the plate or conform to living life on the sidelines?</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Isabella Morales is toying with my self control. She's my daughter's nanny a fact I often have to remind myself of when I'm around her. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Because the second she stepped into my world it's been mayhem in my heart. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I've never had any interest in dating ever since my little girl came into my world. Never not once. That is until Isabella came along and set my world on fire.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Because try as I might I can't ignore her lingering stares or the way she taunts me when she defies me at every turn.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Little does she know that we're playing the same game by different rules. Because once I call three strikes I'm claiming her as mine.</span></p>