Jade's POV
Geez, you wouldn't believe the day I had. A week ago at my job we put up a contest on our website. Anyone anywhere could win, all you had to do was enter your name and email. 50 people would be chosen to come skate with us at our private skate park for a few hours then we would have a contest that 5 people could win. That was held today. We had 50 people plus the people that work here in our private skate park. It all lasted from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. We skated until about 6 then we started the contest, it lasted a couple hours. For the 5 people that won the contest, we gave them a deck, grip, stickers, and a shirt of their chose. The other 45 people that came we had them gather in a crowd and we threw 3 decks, 2 shoe boxes, 2 shirts, and gave everyone some stickers. It was really cool to see them so hyped and everyone got something. No one left empty handed.
Since we had that going all day we didn't get to organize our shipment that came in at the warehouse. It was about 11 when we got the skate park cleaned up, it didn't take an hour to only clean though. We said it ends at 10 so everyone was getting in there last tricks and packing up, a few stayed to help up clean up. After everyone was gone me and Mike went to the skate warehouse to put all the gear where it should be. It was just us because the rest of the guys were getting ready for there skate trip tomorrow. Mike is going too but he knew I'd need the help, he was going to stay longer so he could help me fill the walls and shelf's, but I told him that I needed time to myself and sent him home.
I finished up around 4 and start to pack my things and lock up. The straps on my skate bag broke so I'm carrying my skateboard and a deck in my hands while riding on my cruiser back home. I guess a few months ago when I bought a skate bag I got use to having my hands free while riding. Usually I don't have my skateboard with me, but I need to set up a new deck and I didn't have time to do it at the shop so I just brought it home. I have two complete skateboards, use to have 3 when I had a car. I have one at the shop and one here at home, so I don't have to carry one back and forth. When I go to a skate park I usually don't take my cruiser, I'll just skate there on my regular board or just walk.
I get home around 4:20 and I go straight for the shower. I'm really lucky to have a place like this. I live in the Vega's house, in their basement bedroom thingy. They we're going to make it a bedroom, so they got a bed and put in a bathroom and closet and all that stuff, but then they decided they wanted a basement so they left everything where it was and just put junk down here. It's not crowded at all since we talked about me staying here. Holly made David come down here and move all the junk to one side while the bedroom would be on the other side. I told her I would do it but she insisted he did it.
I told them all the details of why I needed a place to stay and they didn't mind me being there at all. I asked them to keep it in between us 3 and that's it, they agreed and I was happy that they kept their word. I got the job a couple months before I moved in with them, I offered to pay rent but Holly wouldn't even let me get the words out my mouth before she denied it. I really felt bad living in their house and eating their food without giving them anything. So even though I don't pay rent, I do go and do some shopping for the house. I usually will get things like chips or bread or small stuff like that, snack stuff.
After I stayed there for about a week they gave me a key and their cell numbers. We exchanged quite a bit of information. Little things though, I make sure to text them if I come home early or later then usual. They know my work schedule and I know theirs. Holly will text me if I need to get my own food before I get home which doesn't happen a lot. It only happens when David gets greedy, when he does he'll text me sorry. I think it's quite funny because he always gets in trouble after. He will also text me if he goes to a sports game and ask me if I want to come with. I normally turn it down, but every once in a while I'll go with him. They tell me the schedule of Trina and Vega so I don't bump into them late night or early morning.
I always go to school late now, not really late but it's right before the bell rings. Sometimes when Holly has to go to work early or if she has the day off and she sleeps in I'm late for school because I stop to get coffee. She always makes coffee for me before she leaves for work, she lets me know ahead of time when she does have a day off so I know I'll be late basically. Sometimes I leave early and go sit down and drink coffee, usually because I have an assignment that I didn't finish and I'll work on it while I'm there.
When Vega and Trina stay after school or go somewhere for a few hours, I get to sit down with Holly and David and talk. I don't talk a lot to Holly, but that's ok because I have a text from Holly every day. I'm really grateful for them.
I get out the shower and go to heat up and eat the dinner Holly made, I didn't get a text from David saying sorry, so his midnight snack wasn't my dinner. I normally get home a few minutes before his snack time so I get to eat my dinner and talk to him for a while. The conversation stays the same basically every night. He tells me about his cop stuff and I tell him about my skateboard stuff. He tells me skateboarding is really dangerous and I turn it back on him about being a cop. Sometimes he solved an interesting case and I'll listen to him, and sometimes I learn a trick I've been trying for a while and he'll listen to me. He is a much better dad then mine ever was or ever will be.
I think about our usually nightly conversations while I'm eating and checking the slap and fastgram. (haha see what I did there) I look at the time and see it's 5:00 I don't think I have time to go to sleep and get to school before it starts. I don't know if I should go ahead and go to sleep or just stay up. I remember that I do have a few questions to answer in history, I probably could knock that out in 30 minutes. I could set up my board too, that'll take 30 minutes. I'm really tired though, maybe I should just go to school late tomorrow I mean it wouldn't hurt anything, but I do have to work tomorrow. Not only do I have to work, but I'll be by myself. I mean John's cousin will be there, but he doesn't actually work there. He's just going to be there because he needs some extra money and they'll be gone for a week.
John's cousin is pretty cool. He's not a poser or a douche bag. He's actually cool with scooters too. I hate scooters, I mean their ok when they are scooter kids but a grown man on a scooter, it just doesn't look right. Some of them can do tricks and grinds which is cool, I guess I'm cool with scooters as long as they stay out my way. Every one at the 2 parks I go to know me well so they tell the scooter people not to get in my way and usually I don't have a problem with them. One guy that was like in his 20's got in my way and I tore him to shreds with my words. I never saw him again.
I was just about to get up to clean up my plate but then I heard
T-Jade?
(A.N. Alright so tell me what you thought with a review, good and bad now. BTW I'm a skater and I really wanted to put skating in this story so I did. Jade's going to be a skater girl, an underground skater girl. I say underground because no one really knows she skates and she doesn't push it either. Now that you've got a little background on the current Jade next chapter we cane start with... questions from Tori probably. Oh and my other story Big Break I'm trying to get ideas on what to do but I'm kinda stuck on it atm but I'm not giving up on it.)
