Here is the second part to Skater Girl, it picks up after Jay has graduated high school, towards the end of summer. Let me know what you think.


Ebony stood frozen in the front door to her house. She wasn't sure if it was the summer heat, or the paint, but she was sure she was seeing things. She knew she had to be seeing things, or it had to be a dream. But she could still smell the fumes of the paint coming from the nursery, and the heat of the summer air instantly warming her cheeks.

"Hi." He gave her the half sided smile he used when he was hesitant of her mood, unsure of how mad she was.

Ebony couldn't say anything, she didn't know what to say. She just stood there, staring at him, trying to process what she was seeing.

"I'm back." He said looking down at the shoe box in his hands.

"Back?" Ebony said looking at him stunned, he wasn't due back for another three weeks, that was the only thing she was sure of. "You're back."

"Here." He said holding the box out for her, taking the lid off.

She looked down at the shoe box, making no moves to take it from him. There were stacks of envelopes, and an envelope crumpled into a ball on the top of all of them. She looked back up at him.

"They are for you." He said, not moving his hands, still extending the box for her. He knew coming here was going to turn into a standoff, but he was determined to win.

"I don't understand." Ebony said backing into the doorway farther, wondering if she was still asleep, it didn't makes sense, she had to be dreaming.

"You can't be mad at me, I wrote you every day." He sighed, still offering her the shoe box.

"Can't be mad?" Ebony laughed, mad wasn't an emotion she was feeling at the moment. She just kept looking at him, waiting for something else to happen. She was starting to second guess herself, maybe this really was a dream, because in reality he wouldn't show up, not after leaving her without a word. He would be dumb to think that she would want to see him.

"I wanted to tell you, but I wanted to surprise you as well." Jay smiled at her. "Maybe a surprise wasn't the best of ideas."

"Where were you?" she suddenly asked. When he had left a month ago, he hadn't told her where he was going, just when he would be back, and even that seemed like something he didn't want to share with her. She couldn't help but wonder if he would have even told her if she hadn't seen all the luggage.

"Africa." He told her.

"Africa?" she laughed. "I'd as soon believe you were shacked up with blonde."

"It was a graduation gift, and a family vacation. My father is very interested in tribal life styles, it was some research thing." He explained. "Ram, Mega, and some of my class mates came with us."

"Some?" she asked. "You mean Amber."

"She was there." He told her softly, knowing it wasn't what she wanted to hear. "And I asked her to give you a letter when she got back."

"You've got to be kidding me, Jay." Ebony rolled her eyes.

"Ram went on to Greece, he just got back a few days ago. I couldn't send word with him."

"Africa, what a boyfriend." Ebony crossed her arms in front of her.

"Boyfriend?" he asked, smiling at the way she said it. He was almost certain it was going to take much longer than a few minutes on her door step.

Ebony pressed her lips together and glared at him for a second before she gave in and smiled.

Jay smiled at her, and stepped inside the door way, letting the box fall to the ground so he could wrap both his arms around the angry looking girl. He pulled her tight to him for a second, kissing the top of her head, before lifting her off the ground and spinning her around, he was so happy just to be able to see her again.

When Ebony was back on the ground her leaned back, and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling herself up to kiss him. She was finally able to feel excited that he was back, "If you ever, and I mean anywhere close, do something like this again, I'm going to hurt you."

"You missed me that much?" he whispered before kissing her.