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.
