An/ Okays! My first fic. I know, I know, I probably have a million spelling mistakes and got a few things wrong but whatever okay, I need a beta reader anyways. -grins and put's up "Help Wanted" sign- So... If anyone's intrested contact me through e-mail which is on my bio and we'll talk, I just need you to be good in spelling and grammar, that's all. -Ahem- Back to the story, this is about the 6teen gang and how they met and why they are as they are (also after that will be plots, plots, plots and more plots!). I'm starting off with Jen and Jude simply because I took snowboarding and my instructor told me the same thing. That is how I practise over the summer so that my skillz don't get rusty. So snowboarding/skateboarding... Two kids alone, divorce thingy.. It starts a plot. The other's will be introduced and everyone will get their fair share don't worry. As for pairings, yes I do like Jen/Jude but that doesn't mean it has to be that way. Star will be in this of course and as will Serenity. Nikki and Jonesey are a must for me. Caitlin will have her fair share of boyfriends before settling down with "the one" Keep on reading to find out and I promise I will update as much as I can!

Divorced kids always got it bad. When your parent's split up you go through phases of angst, anger, self pity and false hope. Every kid goes through it differently so the fact Jen was hating this more than Jonsey is not a shock or wonder. When Jen's family split up all she could do was think about how they would get back together. For years she held onto that false hope and when her mom started dating again she was crushed. So as a kid she always strived to be strong and independent and that helped a lot with her leadership skills and academics. Be the best, be the best... Was always driven in her mind. If she wanted something she was going to get it! Her competitive nature got her into sports at an early age and at eight she wanted to be a professional snowboarder. To do that, she had to learn skateboarding because her instructor said some weird quote about how snowboarding was skateboarding but without wheels... Anyway she had a tough time and let me tell you, sweet Jen turns into a rascal when she can't do something right.

"Dumb skateboard! Ugh! I hate it hate it hate it!" she squealed in a typical eight year old voice as she trudged through the mall defeated, mini skateboard in hand. Her mom had left her at the arcade to go off with her dumb boyfriend with his dumb haircut off somewhere to a dumb place. Jen had brought her skateboard with her because she thought the nice shiny floors in the mall would be easy to practice on. She had stepped outside and put a tiny sneaker to her mini board and took off. She had quickly learned a small fact about shiny floors...

Shiny floors equal fast!

So she fell down and got embarrassed as a few teenaged punks laughed at her, commenting something about little girls and wannabe skaters. This had brought her close to tears and with a pout she hastily took her skateboard and stormed off in a random direction. Now children have a tendency to get lost when they are angry, and the mall looked huge compared to her so the feeling of abandonment escalated. She hurried off, running fast trying to find a trusted adult. All she could see were busy people who all looked like evil strangers. Jen sniffed and held back a sob, quickly running out of breathe. She couldn't do it! She couldn't find anyone!

"Oh! Why did I have to leave the arcade?" she asked herself with a pout as she sat down on a bench, dropping the now hated skateboard on the ground. She tried to get her mind off the fact she was alone in a mall she barely knew, starving to death and probably going to be abducted by a stranger... And she still wouldn't be able to learn how to ride the skateboard! Her eyes wandered over to the pretty fountain and she sighed in content, listening to the water crash and watching in amazement at how the water spurred upward endlessly.

"Hey..." came a voice that startled Jen out of her trance and her head shot to the noise. Sitting on the bench opposite to her was a boy her age lightly kicking his feet. He had blonde hair that stuck out in cropped strands and bangs that just barely covered his eyes. He was wearing a red T-shirt with normal dark blue jeans with his white sneakers peaking out from beneath them. He seemed to be alone and Jen looked left and right to see if he was talking to her. Apparently he was.

"Hey..." she replied back uncertainly, arching her brown eyebrow at him. She didn't know what to say really as she stared at the boy's features. He didn't look hyper like the other boys in her school, you know the one's that had cooties...

"Why did you throw your toy on the ground?" he asked tilting his head at her and his shaggy hair fell over his eyes with the action. He was kicking his feet again in boredom.

"Toy? What-Oh! You mean my skateboard... Well let me tell you, it is a very hard sports activity that I am trying to master." she said with an air of importance as she kindly explained to him what it was. "I didn't throw it, I placed it on the ground because I have concluded that no one but big kids can ride these things." she said with a humph as she stared down at the offending object.

The boy got up and walked over picking up the skateboard and looking it over. Jen blinked up at him as his tongue stuck out of the corner of his mouth in thought. She thought it looked funny so she giggled slightly.

"Can I try?" he asked smiling, his blue eyes shining with the thought of trying something new. He heard about skateboarders and how they would go up ramps and jump all around. This had excited him but his mom had forbidden it, saying it was too hard for a little boy like him.

"Ugh.. Didn't you hear me? If I can't do it than it is impossible that you can." she said flipping her hair over her shoulder importantly like little girls did when they explained the obvious. She then folded her arms in an amused way and pretended to casually say, "But if you want to try than go ahead.." it came out sounding a bit more conceited than anything else. The reason for Jen's tone was that in school no boy could beat her in gym and she was always told, "Girls can't play sports!" or "Guys are better than girls." so she felt a need to prove herself in every single way. The girls in her class didn't like to play sports, and this made Jen sad because the girls would always tease her about how she was a boy and didn't act like a girl.

The boy seemed oblivious to her doubtfulness and nodded excitedly. He set the kid sized board down and put a steady foot on the center. With a small shove of his left leg he slowly moved forward. Jen watched silently, waiting to see when he too would mess up and give up like she did. Instead, he tried a few times more with that same pace, gently putting his left leg behind his right as he picked up the pace. Jen stared disbelievingly, he was actually doing it! The boy then remembered how the older guys would jump onto the rims of things and he wanted to try it too. Testing out his luck he jumped up, thinking that by some force the skateboard would go right with him.

It did all right, but that didn't mean he did it properly. He had jumped onto the rim of the fountain but because it was his first time it tipped over, causing him to fall in.

"Ah!" the little boy had yelled out in a fairly high pitch as he lost balance and got soaked. Jen hurried over and lent him a hand.

"Are you okay, are you okay!" she asked worriedly as she held out a hand. He sputtered some water out and ran an irritated hand through his hair that was dripping wet and it fell flat on his head. He then took her hand and slowly got up, not before sneaking a penny into his jean pocket.

"Thanks.." he started, his eyes wide from shock. Jen had a pink sweater on (almost like the one she has when she's sixteen) and took it off to put it over the wet boy's shoulders. He shook his hair causing little droplets to fall all over her light green T-shirt. She didn't care as she went into 'Jen Mode' where she was worrying over him and checking for signs of injuries.

"That was... That was... SO COOL!" the boy shouted starling poor Jen, causing her to fall down on the floor with a thump. The boy started shaking with glee as he started to jump in that one spot. "I wanna do that again, I wanna do that again!" he squeal boyishly as he took out the board from the water.

Jen blinked in surprised, she was expecting him to whine and cry... Yet here he was jumping up and down after taking a plunge in some very cold water. Uh... Where was the calm kid from five minutes ago? "Errm, glad to see you are okay..." she said as she got up, dusting the behind of her blue faded jeans with the pretty sparkles and pink bunny belt. Hey, she was into sports but that didn't mean she couldn't look nice herself.

"Yups yups!" he said with an equal excitement as before, but soon he stopped and looked over at Jen. With a smile he gave her a thumbs up. "That was cool, thanks. My name is Jude, what's your name?" he asked her. She smiled back and with a nod she extended her hand out to him in a formal greeting.

"My name is Jen Masterson." she said proudly and he nodded back, taking her hand and shaking it.

"Cool..." he said again and his stomach rumbled. He sighed and rolled his eyes before looking around him. "I'm hungry... When is Wyatt gunna be here?" he asked himself as he whined, his stomach answering back with another low rumble.

"The food court is right over there silly, we can get something to eat right now!" Jen said happily as she pointed behind her. Jude sniffed as the tantalizing aroma's hit his nose. He gave a happy smile and went back into hyper mode.

"Got's any money?" he asked with hopeful eyes, piercing into her like a rabid wolf as the hunger drove him to the brink of insanity. Jen sheepishly dug a hand through her pockets trying to find some change. She fished out a loonie and a sole penny. Jude did the same and grabbed the stolen wet penny, a few dimes, a nickel here and there, and a lonely quarter. "Ugh..." Jude began, reliesing that two dollars couldn't do much. He sobbed lightly, trying to hold back his disappointment.

Jen blushed, remembering that she had spent the ten dollars she had at the arcade and felt bad. "Uh... What do we do now?" she asked him. Jude scratched the back of his neck and once again his tongue cutely poked out of the corner of his mouth as his brows furrowed together in thought. He shrugged and sat down on the bench, his wet jeans making a flopping sound.

"I guess we wait for my friend Wyatt, his mom is coming with him and she'll buy us lunch." he said with hope and looked up at the big clock ahead. His eyes narrowed as he analyzed the clock. For a second his eyes screwed over in confusion but then giving up, he looked a Jen. "Can you tell the time?" he asked her. Jen blinked again, a trait she had when she just couldn't believe something.

"You can't tell time?" she asked with a disbelieving tone of voice. She looked up at the clock and she too scrunched up her eyes to focus in on the hands and numbers. "It says... 1.. No, 12...05. 12:05" she said with a certain nod. "What grade are you in anyway? You look older but are you in grade one or something?" she asked with a raised eyebrow, her blue eyes darting over him to check if that was possible. Jude pouted.

"No way! I'm in third grade... I just don't know how to tell time that's all..." Jude said casually, not wanting to continue. Truth was, the teacher wanted to put him in a special class and he wasn't about to tell that to a girl who thought she knew everything, she would laugh at him! Or worse, think he was retarded like all the other kids did and go away from him. Oh he had friends all right, it's just that some kids picked on him because he didn't know how to answer the teacher's questions. But Wyatt was his friend ever since kindergarten and he always made him feel better.

Jen shrugged. "Okay.. Well your friend better hurry, it's already lunchtime and I'm starving!" she said dramatically and put a hand to her forehead for emphasis. Jude sighed and replied with a simple 'I hope so'

An/ Okays! That was the first Chapter! Please Read and Review! Also, I take constructive critisism, I always want to improve my work and how can I fix my story if you are only telling me like "Oh it sucks!' or "Jude was SOOO out of character!" Tell me how he was out of character and WHY the story sucks so I can fix it. Anyways, with that said... Hope you stay for another chapter!