Sheesh… school, school, school… the reason I don't upload my stories that much… hopefully during the summer I can fix that… anyways… I hope anyone that's reading this enjoys the second chapter, and if you spot any problems with this, please tell me so I know. Kay, thanks…
Chapter Two

The Youngsters

It was the second day that the boarders came into the fifth SSX Games. Most of the boarders were already in the lounge; eating breakfast, reading either a book or magazine, off doing their own thing, watching the huge TV or just chatting with one another.

"Hey, Psymon!" came the grisly voce of Zoe Payne. Psymon looked up from what he was doing, which was… well, nothing. The punk-ish looking female walked up to him with her ski bag slung lazily over her shoulder and asked, "Wanna practice before the SSX Games begin? We still have a week left."

"Yeah, whatever…" Psymon grunted sort of angrily, getting up from where he was sitting and then following Zoe out of the lounge and to the trolley station that was outside.

Adam Schwartz and Griff Simmons were already with each other at a table, playing against each other with their Nintendo DSes. Jean was sitting at the same table that the two boys were at, though was still hooked on her Transworld Snowboarding magazine to see if her sponsor ad from the Dragon team was up.

The other newbies; Leo Foster, Crystal Nolan and Jenna Andrews were doing their own thing. Kaori was already talking with Crystal; Leo was playing on the foosball table with Viggo Rolig on his team against Mac Fraser and his German cousin Marty. Jenna was sitting down and waxing her uniquely designed board near the fireplace.

Nate was sitting at the bar, drinking a Dos Equis while reading up on a new novel by Stephan King. His brother, Tyson was amusing himself by sitting in a sofa and breaking a pencil into tiny bits.

Elise Riggs sat by herself, sipping an espresso and blinking her eyes almost constantly from the lack of sleep that she had gotten last night, thanks to Marisol. She looked over to the Latino woman, who looked like she had just won some kind of beauty contest against Elise.

Allegra Sauvagess was playing Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on one of the TVs with Moby, who seemed to be getting used to the game the more he played with his created character.

The double doors automatically slid open and Atomika rushed in holding a box marked, EA Sports BIG. He was also pretty excited, you could tell by the wide smile he had on his face and the way he carried himself. Griff looked up and then both Adam and Jean did shortly after they noticed that the blond's attention was no longer on his video game. All three of them looked at the box quizzically from where they were and then instantly got up from their seats, putting down what they had to see what was inside the box.

"Hey, Atomika, what's in the box? Let's see it, let's see it!!" Griff prodded excitedly, edging nearer and nearer to the box. Atomika looked at dirty-blond haired teen and smiled. He took out his pocketknife then slid the blade of it through the tape. By now, Allegra, Moby, Leo, Marty, Viggo, and Mac had also stopped what they were doing and gathered around Atomika and the box that he had. Atomika opened the flaps of the box and revealed the new SSX games for the PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, PSP and the Nintendo Wii. Though all of them had the five newbies to the SSX Games on the cover of the new SSX game. SSX 5: World Tour.

Jean's mouth dropped as she saw a 3D version of herself that looked so life-like. Leo's mouth was formed in a smile and he picked up one of the games, flipping it over and reading the back. Adam was beaming at the new games and also picked one up, amazed that he and the other newbies had made the cover to the new SSX game. Jenna looked up from her waxing to the group of people that were standing around Atomika. It piqued her curiosity as she got up to go over there. Crystal and Kaori also walked over to the returning DJ to see what was going on.

"Ladies and gents, boys and girls… I give you your new present from us to you, the SSX: World Tour game." Atomika happily told the boarders that were slowly gathering around him. The box became exceedingly empty; leaving only a few copies of the game for the boarders that weren't there, the DJs and the some of the founders of the SSX Games.

The boarders were enthralled that the game was there and that it was quickly made too. Most of the boarders figured that EA had this planned way before the actual games began. Whatever, they didn't care, it was a new series in the SSX Games and that was good enough for them… as long as game-play was consistent.

So far, it was only Zoe and Psymon that hadn't known about the present since they both walked out to practice before Atomika arrived with the box for the SSX competitors. Then again… knowing those two, it's not like they'd be interested in it anyways.

Griff dashed over to his Nintendo DS and put the small cartridge into the system and looked over to Jean who was also doing the same with her Sony PSP. Adam was fiddling with it on his DS. The dirty-blond strode over to Jean and said, "Hey, I'll play you, my character versus your character…" The black-haired girl looked back up at him quizzically and stayed silent for a minute, then replied, "actually, I was just going to put this in here then go out to practice… I don't want to get rusty before this week is over…" Griff then looked over to Adam then turned back to Jean.

"I'll go with you! I mean, I don't want that to happen to me as well…" he told her, hoping that she'd say 'okay.' The black-haired boarder just nodded her head and then got up from the couch she was sitting on, "I'll meet up with you at the trolley station…" she then left the lobby and went to her cabin. Griff was trailing behind her, smirking as he did. Jean turned and asked, "Why are you following me?"

"We're cabin mates, remember?" Griff replied playfully, smiling at her. The black-haired boarder replied with, "right… I'm still trying to get used to bunking with a boy…" she continued forward and out the double doors to the cabins. The blond shook his head at what Jean said and continued on, not really worrying about what was going to happen. Both teens arrived to their cabin and walked in, not saying much of anything to each other. Jean got her snowboard and so did Griff, smirking as he did so. He walked over to the black haired girl and asked, "ya ready? Cos I am!" Jean looked over to him and nodded her response, not saying anything to him. Both walked out of the cabin and back out into the icy pathways that led from the cabins to the lobby.

"Hey!" came a familiar voice. The two teen boarders turned to face Adam, who was also ready to practice with them, "care if I join you?" He had his board tucked under his arm and his facial expression was hopeful. Jean giggled at this and replied, "sure, if you want to. I have no problem with it. I think that all of us should get as much practice as we can before the World Tour!" Griff looked over to Jean, a little shocked as to her response to the dark-haired European. He'd never really seen her smile or reply to anyone with a hint of happiness in her voice. He smirked and replied, "then it's decided!! It'll be a three-way race against you, Adam and myself!"

"Whatever you say, mates..." Adam replied, smirking at the two, 'this is weird for me to be thinking... but Jean and Griff actually kinda look good together...' the European thought, not saying another word to the two older boarders. He quickly turned on the trail and walked towards the trolley station with both Jean and Griff following after him, boards also in their grasps. Adam turned back and looked at Jean who was staring right back at him.

"What?" She asked, sort of narrowing her eyes at the dark-haired boarder. Adam immediately turned towards the trolley station and replied quickly, "n-nothing! Just making sure you two were still there!" He was growing nervous, after all this was his first season in the SSX Games and now he's going out to practice with another rookie and a sophomore boarder. Adam, Griff and Jean reached the trolley station and the dirty-blond boy opened the trolley door for both the other boarders he was with.

All three were on their way to the top of a practice track called Frozen Pact. Jean leaned her board on the seats that lined the trolley and then sat down. Adam did the same then looked over to Griff, who was smiling as he set his board down and rushed at one of the two poles that were in the trolley. He leapt at one of the poles and swung around on it once before he let go and sat next to Jean. She looked over to him with a hint of annoyance reflecting in her gaze before she asked, "what do you think you're doing, Griff?"

"I dunno, I think I'm sitting next to you!" He replied playfully, smiling at her. Adam held in his laugh at this and then smiled at the two, 'they really do look great together...' Jean sighed at the blond's response and turned away from him, not wanting to talk to him. Griff furrowed his brow at this and glanced at Adam, not really knowing what to do now. He stood up and walked to the other side of Jean and told her, "oh c'mon! If we're going to do stuff like this, we should at least know each other better! C'mon Jean! Open up a bit...!" The black-haired female looked up at him and replied, "okay, Griff, what exactly do you have in mind?"

'Wow... what a arrogant girl...' Adam thought, smiling sheepishly and raising an eyebrow in embarrassment of the situation that he was witnessing. Griff smirked at what she said and replied, "oh I dunno... just... what friends would talk about!" He lowered his hazel gaze to Jean and she raised her blue one to the blond, her facial expression still with that slight look of annoyance, "just who said that we were friends right now?" she asked, standing up so that she was at eye-level with Griff.

"Hey, c'mon... don't get like that!" Griff quickly said as the female boarder stood up to face him. She stared at him for a moment then sat back down, sighing to calm herself down. Jean didn't wish to talk to anyone till she felt more settled in, that's all... 'I'll have to explain that to Griff when I can...' the female teen thought, inhaling once more and then muttering a simple, "sorry..." to Griff. The blond shrugged it off for the time being. The rest of the ride was uneventful... quiet... and uncomforting to say the least. All three teens were almost happy when the trolley lurched to a stop. Jean was the first of out, her board cradled between both her arm and torso. The blond-haired boarder and the European boarder weren't far behind her.

Their boots crunched in the snow as they made their way up a tall hill. Jean, Adam and Griff stood at the top of an ice ramp that slanted maybe around thirty feet to the bottom and to where the lip came up to launch the riders into the air to pull off some tricks or their signature uber moves.

Jean was smiling to herself; happy to finally be in the SSX Games and Adam was busy talking with Griff. Then, the blond haired teen stepped forward and lost his footing, sliding down. He frantically grabbed onto Jean, who he dragged down with him. The female had also grabbed onto Adam's sleeve in a panic before she fell, taking him with both her and Griff. All three of them were screaming as the lip came closer and closer as they slid down.

Finally, it came, launching all three of the teenagers into the air, Jean grabbed and flailed at the air then felt the reassurance of a tree branch under her palm then the agonizing weight of both Griff and Adam snagging onto her pants and legs and hanging onto her feet.

"Whatever you do… do not let go…" Griff said, keeping a firm grip on Jean's pants and snow boot. Adam nodded in agreement and the black-haired looked down at the both of them then replied testily, "well if someone hadn't fell, WE wouldn't BE in this predicament!"

Then came the cracking of the tree branch. Jean quickly looked up and the only two words that escaped her mouth before the branch truly snapped was, "oh shit…" all three of the teens fell about six feet onto hard ice, AGAIN, and slid down, though not as far as last time, cos all three of them; Jean, Griff and Adam, had plowed straight into a powdery mound. Each of the three teens poked through the snow and looked around with their arms around them, trying to keep in body heat.

"W-w-well... th-th-there's no way w-w-we can really practice now, is there...?" Jean asked, her torso becoming cold and turning her gaze to the mound of ice that all three of the adolescent teens slid down. She looked back over to Griff and Adam, "our boards are up there and there's no way we're going to get them like this..." She had a point... there was no way that either three of the teenagers could climb that mound of solid ice. This run wasn't call Frozen Pact for nothing, either...

"I'm sorry..." Griff replied to Jean, not knowing what else to say. They had that small quarrel in the trolley and he wasn't too sure if Jean even liked him as a person right now. The female teen turned towards him and said, "I'll get them..." Both Adam and Griff turned to her in shock, "what?!" they both shouted, not expecting to hear that from the older dark-haired teen. Jean turned her gaze back up to the hill and repeated, "I'll get our boards... I deserve the punishment..." Griff's face screwed up in confusion as he asked, "why?"

"Simple..." was what Jean started with, "it'd be my way... of apologizing..." she finished, not turning to looked back at the blond-haired male that was in the powder patch behind her. The dark-haired female made her way out of the soft powder and said, "we're lucky that this powder cushioned us..." She continued to walk towards the tall hill of packed ice. There were still some spots of unpacked snow that she saw. She turned her attention to those and began climbing, finding any and or all soft patches of snow that she could find and use to her advantage.

"Damn she's crazy..." Griff said, clenching his fists as both he and Adam made their way out of the cushion of powder that broke their slide. The European rookie had to agree with the Sophomore boarder there, never had he met a girl that would go and do outrageous things just to apologize to someone, even if it just was their own weird way of apologizing...The dark-haired male looked up just in time to see Jean lose her footing on the hill. She slid down about a foot before she found another grasp-hold that she could use to her advantage.

"We can't just let her be the one doing all the work… besides, it wouldn't be right for a decent guy watch the girl do all the work…" Adam said, running over to the base of the hill. Griff sighed and mentally agreed, but his day was gradually getting worse. First, his quarrel with Jean and now their boards getting stuck on the top of Frozen Pact…

"This is just great…" Griff muttered, following after Adam. He looked up at Jean, who was near the halfway point of the hill. He gritted his teeth and asked, "hey Jean, how're you doing up there?" He watched her turn her head and looked down to the both of them.

"Unfortunately, this is worse than regular rock-climbing, but I'll manage!" she responded to Griff, trying to make light of her situation of going to get the boards. Adam frowned and asked a more literal question, "How can we help?" Jean smirked, looked back up and tried to find another grasp on the hill, "just stay down there… I'll get our stuff…"

"She really is arrogant!" the dark-haired boy muttered angrily, clenching his fists and looking over to Griff. The blond looked back over to Adam and shook his head, sighed and then replied, "sometimes the best way to help is not to listen…" the blond looked over to the tree that the three had been able to grab onto before the branch broke and then looked over to Jean, not really sure what to do even though he wanted to help.

"Incoming!" Jean shouted down to the two as her foot accidentally slipped and let loose a few chunks of ice. The blond and dark-haired boys backed-up out of the way of the ice chunks and watched more carefully. Luckily, Jean was already near the top of the mound. Both boys smiled in happiness for their female companion. She made it on top of the hill and looked back down to her two friends, waving down at them to tell them that she's got it under control.

The black-haired boarder binded her feet to her snowboard and then picked up both the red, white and blue board of Adam's and the black and blue board of Griff's. She smiled to herself and then got up from her sitting position and launched herself down the hill, the two boards in her clutches feeling very odd while she was boarding down the ice. As she neared the two boys, she slowed to a halt by slowly adjusting her stance to where the board was curved horizontally to the track.

"You're a crazy person…" was all Griff said when Jean returned with both his and Adam's boards. She smirked and replied, "I know… that's how I got into the SSX Games…" Adam shook his head at this and replied, "well… now that we're all here, the race will begin when all of us have our bindings on and are ready to race to the valley…" The blond nodded his head in agreement and Jean said, "yeah, sure… just hurry up, I'm already ahead of you both!" she laughed and then watched both of the boys hurry to get their bindings on their feet.

After both of the male boarders were ready, they got to their feet, smirked to each other, looked to Jean and motioned to her that they were both ready for what they were going to do.

"Alright then… three…" the black-haired female started, she and the other two boys got ready to push themselves down the hill that they were perched on.

"Two…" continued Adam as he looked down the track to see how much of it he has to race the other two down. Griff looked over to the other two and at the same time, the three of them said, "ONE!" All three teens jumped from the hill and made their first descent out and onto the track. Four different pathways opened themselves up to the teens as they neared towards the top of another hill.

Jean leapt from the hill and grabbed the tail of her board while also twisting and shifting her weight so that she could do a back-flip/ aerial. She neared the ground and let go of her board and then straightened herself out, landing the trick. She waved to the other two, turned her ocean-blue gaze back onto the track she was on and was on the far left track, the one with a lot of icy-looking hills.

Adam was also pulling off one of his tricks as he jumped the hill. He gained enough air so that he could pull one of his feet from it's binding to grab the board and thrust one arm high into the air. This was a signature uber trick that the event organizers of SSX had come up with. As he landed, he stayed on course towards one of the middle caves.

Griff decided to stay close to the ground and not do any tricks at least till he came to a good lip. He smirked to himself; he knew that this was odd for him to be doing, but he wanted to save his best tricks for last… for once… He banked towards his right and took the pathway that had a lot of S-curves in it. He banked hard corners and snow spayed across the stones that lined the track. As he shifted his weight to bank the turns, he was thinking about how the other two were doing… but mainly Jean… he knew that she took the roughest path.

Jean

This was no sweat for me! I've boarded since I could stand, a few rocky hills weren't going to scare me now! Besides… I was already too far into the competition to back down from the two boys I promised this race with anyways.

I came across a few more icy hills and then jumped to ride one of the walls that was lined with nothing but ice. I pushed myself from then wall then landed back on the icy race track. This was too much fun! Riding with two friends across this fun track that I've never been on before… well, maybe that last thing wasn't such a good thing… I've been known to get too cocky for my own good, 'bah, I'll keep it under control!' I thought in a hurry, veering to a sharp right to avoid hitting a tall pillar of rock that jutted from the middle of the track I was on.

"Piece o' cake… piece o' cake…" I muttered to myself, calming myself before I could become overwhelmed with pride. I jumped small crevasses and then hit powder short afterwards. I breathed a sigh of relief, I never did liked sliding and trying to steer around on the ice, but powder and packed snow was alright for me.

I boarded across the snow for a couple of seconds before I hit ice once again, 'great…' I thought, 'just great… just what I need… more ice…' My arms were out and my body was arched against the pull of the way my board wanted to go… this was all for balance, and to center my concentration on what I wanted to have happen.

Adam

I entered a caved track and couldn't see much of anything… the lights that used to light the cave were glowing a dim orangey-amber color across the snow that I raced across. It also took a while for my eyes to adjust to the lighting of the area as well… I only missed hitting a couple of walls by mere centimeters. Then I was blinded by a sudden bust of light as I rushed out of the cave and continued down the track. It was now lined with pine trees and logs.

"Perfect…" I smirked, speeding towards one of the broken logs and jumping onto it to grind my way to the second bend of S-curves that were seated below the one I merely skipped over.

As I was airborne, I grabbed the center of my board and preformed a half-cab melon grab, then landed onto the packed snow beneath me. It took a couple of seconds to get back up to speed, but with the trick I just pulled off in that mere instant I had, it was well worth it.

I didn't know where the other two were, but I was hoping that neither one of them had gotten hurt at all with the tracks that they both took. Right now, my chances of getting into a pretty bad spill here were slim… I was just concerned about Jean and Griff both since they're the only ones I really consider friends here. I rounded another S-curve and was brought upon an icy track that I had to shift my board and weight on just to keep my balance.

Griff

To be honest, I hated this track… I've practiced on Frozen Pact with Nate and his younger brother, Tyson, before. I sighed at the fact that I was back on this track and banked a few curves before I was on a packed snow trail that led straight to then icy run way that allowed all boarders to "meet back up with one another" on the track. I came across another S-curve and then found myself on an icy track. Jean was on the far left and Adam was in the center of myself and Jean. I glanced over at them… I didn't know about Jean or Adam, but I was prepared for the huge drop that came right after the icy track.

I kept my mouth shut so I could concentrate and then braced myself, ready to jump. The lip came up and I could tell that both Jean and Adam both were shocked by their sudden outbursts… Jean's indecent, 'oh shit…' and Adam's exclaim of, 'bloody hell!' I smirked at both of their responses to the lip and glanced over at them again in time to see both of them brace themselves…

"Signature uber time!" I heard Jean shout almost happily. I smiled and looked back ahead, "my thoughts exactly!" I responded before the three of up jumped the lip and awaited the long drop back onto the powdery bottom. I unbounded my feet from my snowboard and then brought my leg to the tail of the board and carefully spun it around my leg so that it wouldn't fly off in another direction… my signature uber… Sugar Rush…

Back to third person view

As Jean sailed into the air with the two other boys to her right, she quickly unbound her board and then jumped off the front-side of her snowboard and shifted her body so that her head was arched towards the ground and so that her body spun vertically to her board. Her signature uber… Death Dive…

Adam's signature uber trick was unique to the other two as he grabbed his board by the tail and then twisted it so it spun parallel to his body, then grabbed the board in the center of the bindings and did somewhat of a double back handspring back into his bindings before all three of them hit the powder… Adam's signature uber… Red Flag…

The three kids were now speeding towards the ending area, eager to win their race that they promised with one another. Jean was out in the lead before Griff jumped onto a rail that sped him towards the finish. Adam rolled his eyes and used a small amount of adrenaline to boost him forward. He was neck to neck with Jean… the blond teen had already made it to the finish line and was waiting for the other two to hurry and reach the finish point.

Both dark-haired teens reached the line, though as Adam turned his stance to stop, his front side of his board caught on Jean's front side and launched her forward into Griff. The blond did break her fall, but she felt really embarrassed… she landed on top of him…

"Don't be so eager to give me a hug… but to tell the truth, I don't mind this either…" Jean heard Griff joke to where she could only hear it. Adam was repeatedly saying, "sorry, I didn't mean to do that, are you okay Jean?!" She pushed herself off of Griff, looked up at Adam and replied, "don't worry about me… I'm not hurt, it's alright. Besides, 'snow for brains' over there broke my fall…" The blond sat up in his spot too, smirked over at Jean and then also looked up at Adam.

The dark-haired European quickly unbound himself from his board and then held his hands out to help both Jean and Griff up. They, too, unbound themselves from their boards and started to walk off of the track and to the trolley station that was a couple of meters away from the finish of the track.

"Dude, Jean! I saw your signature uber when I glanced your way… how long did it take you to learn that?! That trick was pretty sick!" Griff said, looking her way. Jean looked back over to him and replied, "it's a family signature trick… It's only typical that either my mom or dad would teach me it…" The blond looked thoughtful at this for a moment and then asked, "but isn't Kaori part of your family too?"

"She's just my cousin… besides, she came up with Pirouette Grande by herself when she was practicing for the Mt. Fuji slope-style finals…" Jean replied, trying to remember how exactly her cousin came up with her signature uber. Adam looked over at her then asked, "so wait a minute… you and Kaori are cousins? How's that?"

"Well… my mom is sisters with Kaori's dad… my mom got married to an American business man with the last name of Smith… and, well… here I am…" the dark-haired female responded, "if my dad had took on my mom's family name, he'd be Cameron Nishidake," she laughed at the thought of this and then opened the trolley door as they neared it. The three piled in with their boards in hand. The trolley lurched from it's spot and traveled the cable lines back to the lodgings near the peak of the mountain.

"Hey, Adam… what about you… how'd you come up with your signature uber?" Griff asked as he got seated, looking to the European teen that sat across from him. Adam raised his green gaze to Griff and replied, "well… it was sort out of boredom… I was sitting in my room thinking of possible tricks I could pull off on a decent slope-style or half-pipe and I just came up with the one I have now… I'm not too pleased with it nowadays, so hopefully I can modify it so that it looks a little better… cos I've seen footage of it when I watch reruns… I'm not too impressed anymore…"

"How old were you when you came up with it?" Jean asked, the fact that Adam wasn't pleased with his signature uber piquing her interest. He sighed and replied, "ten…" this shocked both Jean and Griff, "how long have you been sponsored?!" they both exclaimed. The dark-haired male looked to the both of them and replied, "since I came up with that uber… why?"

"Well… you're a lucky one… I've only been sponsored since I was twelve…" Griff replied, relaxing back into his seat, Jean nodded and replied, "yeah… me too… the fact that you got sponsored at such a young age is pretty amazing…"

"It's not like you guys didn't get an early start yourselves…" Adam replied, glancing from Jean to Griff, "well… now that I think about it, Jean, Griff… you two are sponsored by about… three of the same brands, right?" Adam asked, trying to change the subject. Jean quickly glanced to her right and then back at Adam, "I think the only ones that we're sponsored by that are the same are Volcom, Burton, Dragon and SoBe…" she replied, not sure of the brands that sponsored Griff.

"Sounds right…" the blond teen replied, looking over to Jean. He smiled and then said, "but it's odd that I've never seen you at she sponsor parties for any of those brands… why is that?" Jean raised her blue eyes to meet with Griff's and replied, "the dreaded school…" Griff's expression quickly screwed up in distaste and he grudgingly replied, "I see…"

The trolley shook to a stop and the three went out, Jean was in the lead. Though, to her displeasure, she was pushed back out of warning and snow sprayed all over her as both Adam and Griff caught her before she hit her head on one of the wooden pillars that they were near.

"Hey, watch where you're going!" came an older voice. Jean glared up into the light blue eyes of Viggo Rolig and tersely responded, "why don't you take your own advice!?" she was infuriated that someone that just pushed her was telling her what to do, "and while you're at it, why don't you actually stay on the track? This is the trolley station… NEAR the lodgings, you lost, unshaven… just go to a fricken' practice track!" Jean shouted at Viggo before she reverted to her indecent use of words. She quickly picked her board up and stormed away from all three of the boarders that were by the trolley station.

Viggo made a rude gesture to her as she had her back turned to him. Griff furrowed his brow at this and both he and Adam ran to catch up with Jean as she was quickly walking away to the cabins.

"Wow… she can get pretty moody at times…" Griff quietly said to Adam, unsure of what was going to happen between Jean and Viggo now in the SSX Games, "yeah, she can…" Adam replied to the blond as they both neared Jean. They dared not to say anything to the female that they hung out with… at least not till she cooled down a bit.

The walk back to the cabins was uneventful… kind of like the first trolley ride down to Frozen Pact. Adam glanced from Jean to Griff and exhaled as he turned to go to his cabin, "hey, I'll catch you two later, I promised my cabin mate, Marty, a game of Soulcalibur before he went with his cousin to go to the snow shop."

"We'll catch you later then," Griff said, waving to the European. Jean stayed silent and then as soon as the blond got started to go back to the cabin she started as well. Griff looked at Jean and told her, "well… you sure told Viggo… you were right though…" Jean glanced at him and replied, "of course, what idiot rides near the cabins and could possibly endanger someone that's up here?"

"Um… well… there's Psymon…" Griff replied, not really thinking at the moment. Besides, that maniac's name would be the first name to come to anyone's mind if a person was asking who would be 'crazy' enough to do anything… The rest of the way to the cabin was silent and the two unlocked their door then walked into their lodging.

Jean went and put her board away then came out into the living room and just went to lay face down on the couch… Griff then came out of his room from putting his board away then saw the female on the couch, "you alright?" he asked, raising an eye brow…

"I've always done this when I've wanted to strangle the crap out of someone but wasn't allowed to do it…" Jean replied, her voice muffled by the cushions of the couch. Griff looked at her quizzically, sat down on the same couch and replied, "you're still thinking about what Viggo did to you, aren't you?" he asked. She propped herself up on the couch and nodded, she then turned to look at Griff and then told him, "I'm sorry…"

"For what?" he asked, looking a little baffled by what he just heard. Jean glanced down then back up at Griff and continued, "about this morning… the way I was acting towards you… I'm sorry about that…" the blond teen was speechless to this… which was rare, he'd usually have some kind of smart-alecky response. He smirked, leaned back and then replied to her, "ah… forget about it… that flying tackle at the end of the Frozen Pact run was good enough for me…" he joked.

A/N NOW this chapter is finished… XP