I woke up early the next morning, because I was meeting Iggy, Fang, Nudge, and Kent to go snowboarding. I got into my board stuff, and drove to the lodge. We I went in and went up to the bell tower, I heard the piano, and I heard…an electric guitar? I snuck around in the shadows until I could see who it was.

Iggy was playing the piano, of course, and Fang was playing the guitar. I stepped out of the shadows.

"Well well. I didn't know you played guitar Fangy." I said. Iggy jumped, and Fang just stopped playing. He looked over and rolled his eyes, then he looked at his watch.

"Are Nudge and Kent here yet?" he asked. I shrugged.

"Let's go see." I said. Iggy got up and headed for the stairs, but stopped at the edge.

"They're talking about you, Max." Iggy said. How did he know?

"Well, what are they saying?" I asked. He cupped his hand around his ear.

"1) you're ugly. 2) you're stupid. 3)-" I noticed that as he was saying these, he was counting on his fingers. I shoved him and he grinned.

"Okay, so maybe you're not that stupid…" he said, and I rolled my eyes at him. Fang was laughing silently to himself, and I gave him a stern look. He stopped laughing, and started down the stairs. I smiled, proud of myself, and started down after him. When we got down to the lobby, I looked around and saw Kent and Nudge talking on a couch. They looked up and saw us, and hurried over.

"Hey guys! Ready to go boarding? I can't wait! I have a new trick I'm going to do! I call it 'The Nudge Flip'. It's so cool! It's like and inverted 360 with a tweaked out method thrown in there!" Nudge said, barely taking a breath. It amazed me when she did this. It also slightly annoyed me. Go figure.

"Okay guys. We better get going. First session starts in five minutes, and we're breaking for lunch after third session." I said. Fang and Iggy nodded, Nudge smiled, and Kent saluted me. We all grabbed our boards from the bell tower, and started toward the ski-lift. I sat with Fang on the ride up, and we talked about anything there was to talk about.

When we came to the drop-off point, I set my iPod to More than a Feeling, and knuckle-touched Fang. He went off to the bigger jumps first, and I went to the rhythm section to warm up. I did a couple 360 variations before I headed to the big jumps. I saw Fang do a cork 720 off the big jump, and he landed it flawlessly. I did a 1260, and landed with a bit of a hand drag. It wasn't the cleanest, but it was one of my better one's. I then headed for the big jump, and set up for a signature trick; Spins to the Max. Get it? You don't? Never mind then.

Anyway, it was basically a double backflip 1080, and I landed it perfectly. At the end of my run, Fang was clapping, and Nudge and Kent were staring wide-eyed.

"And I thought my trick looked cool…" said Nudge. I grinned and turned to Fang who was talking to a guy that looked like a businessy snowboarder. Is that possible?

Fang finished talking to the guy, shook his hand, and came over to us.

"Who was that guy?" I asked.

"That was an athlete scout for the Winter X Games, and they invited you and I to participate in men and women's slope style." Fang said calmly, and then he grinned the biggest grin I had ever seen him grin. I gasped and put my hand over my mouth, as did Nudge.

"W-w-WHAT?!?!" I asked/shouted. He grinned even bigger and Kent looked like he was about to faint.

"Yep, it's true. You and I are going to the X Games." Fang said, and he held out his arms. I gave him a really big hug, and I wasn't sure that I didn't crush one of his lungs. I looked at Nudge, Iggy, and Kent. They gave me a group hug as well.

"That's great, Max! Can we come watch?" Nudge asked. I turned to Fang.

"Can they?" I asked hopefully. He got a sad look.

"Nope…THEY GET TO BE SPECIAL GUEST JUDGES ON THE SLOPESTYLE EVENTS!!" Fang said, filled to the brim with excitement.

That's when Nudge and Kent passed out, and Iggy's jaw dropped.

"Don't play with me man. Are you serious?" Iggy asked in disbelief.

"Yeah. I wouldn't kid about something like that." Fang said.

That was when Iggy fainted. Took him long enough. We woke them up by stuffing snow down their shirts and jackets. Nudge woke up first, then Iggy, then Kent.

They were gasping from the cold, and they went inside to warm up.

"Dang. I can't believe it! That's awesome!!!" squealed Nudge. The best thing about going to the X Games, was the fact that we got to miss school for three whole weeks! One was for arrival and registration, one was for practice, and the last was for the real thing.

"So when is it?" I asked Fang. He looked at the card the guy had given him.

"Registration: December 24- December 31. Practice: January 1- January 8. Competition: January 10- January 17." he said. I still couldn't believe it. This was my lifelong dream, and now I had a chance to fulfill it! Alright!