Girls Seem To Change Everything

All I want is to dream like they do to live like they do, to feel like they do, but all I seem to feel is distant.
"Yahiko?" Yahiko looked up from the counter he had fallen asleep at. "Have a nice time with Sagara?" It was Kenshin. Smiley as ever.
"Yeah, it was...inlightening."
"Don't go using big words now. Might hurt yourself."
"Oh, you are so funny..hard to contain myself."
"Heh, well kid I'm off to do some errands and I'll be back later." Yahiko soon figured out his "Arrands" were a little trip to his friend Denny down the street. He'd smoke pot for a couple hours and hang with him till the shop closed, or later. He couldn't figure how he kept the store up before he got there.
"Have fun."
"Always."

The skate shop was pretty boring. A few customers would come in, greatfully, Kenshin tought him the ropes before he hired him on again. Today was diffrent though. In an ordinary day type way. How you feel the day seems ordinary but that's when you meet someone extraordinary. Funny how life works.
"Excuse me... do you have any Plan B boards?" The voice was feminine. Yahiko looked up from his daze.
"What?"
"Plan B?"
"Uh..." She was a girl. Pretty in her own right. Her features were smooth. She had brod hips and lovely cheeks. She looked as if she wouldn't take shit from anybody. She had dark hair and lovely knowing eyes.
"Uh?"
"You new or something?"
"What?."
" I want a deck. Do you have Plan B?"
"Maybe let me check." Yahiko looked in the back. Kenshin said he had all the good boards in the back. He had no idea why Kenshin would keep stuff out of reach. He figured people steel everything. Like a guy would come in with a shot gun and demand Element and DC shoes or something. But that's Kenshin. He found three new decks in the back.
"Nah I had these any of the new ones?"
"No, sorry."
"Tell Kenshin he should get his lazy ass to buy more boards. There are other skate shops I could go to."
"You know Kenshin?"
"Who doesn't?"
"I just moved up here."
"Oh your the new kid." She hopped up on the counter and turned to look at him. She was marvellous.
"I was wondering when you'd get here. All I ever heard when I can to get new grip tape and shit was 'Yahiko blah blah'"
"You know my name?"
"Yeah. I know your name I'm psychic..." She then proceeded to make scarry hand jesters at him. He felt stupid. He wasn't impressing anyone.
"Anyways I came here for Plan B. I leave with nothing. As usual." She hopped of the counter in the delicate way she got on.
"See you around kid."
"Wait you know my name what's yours?" Sighing she picked up her bag. He didn't even notice one on her. Guess he was focussed on other things.
"Kairi" Then she left him. He stared at her. She wasn't like the girls back home. She was diffrent lively and beautiful.

"No and no."
"Kenshin just give it to me."
"I'm not giving up her phone number."
"You have it right?"
"Yes.."
"Help a guy out?"
"No, you ask for a ladies numbers and they give you a fake ones. It's a right of passage that all men have to go through. You aren't gonna cheat."
"How can I see her again?"
"You sound pathetic. You'll see her again. You mark my words though. Don't and I say don't let her get close to you. I mean it. You'll never be with her. She a diffrent kinda girl. She's hard to get and not easy to please. Her needs you can't give her...not yet anyway."
"What needs? I could give her stuff..."
"Boy, you never been with a girl right?"
"Yeah, but what does that have to do with anything."
"A lot. You're in California now. You aren't in the country and I'm going to leave it at that."
"I don't understand."
"That's why you aren't ready for her yet. Be her friend. That's all you can give right now." Yahiko was displeased. He knew Kenshin was right. He just didn't want to admit it.
Kenshin walked away and shook his head. "Girls seem to change everything for a boy. They make them want to be men." He walked outside and lit a cigarette. He pulled out the only lighter he'd ever need to buy. The flames of the lighter ignighted the end as it burned bright and faded with every puff. He thought long about Yahiko. He saw a raw boy. He new he'd be turned into a man here. He wasn't sure if he liked that. He almost forgot what it was like to be young and niave. Shooting for the moon only to hit the trees. He sat back and tried to remember himslef being that way. In a certain way he never was. Sometimes life never gives you a childhood. You have to grow up fast or you die. "Why would anyone wnat to grow up." He threw the cigarette on the ground. With his shoe he made sure no fires would start today. Walking back inside he looked at Yahiko.
He has talent.
He has heart.
He is young and full of naivety.
He wanted him to stay that way.
Kenshin grew somber. From experiences he knew. No one stays that way forever.