Later that night Evie walked to the skate park and found her friends sitting together at one end of the bleachers. She sat next to Amber just as Aaron started his round up. "Has he done this before?" Evie asked.

"Yeah, he's gotten silver medal and bronze medal the past four years. Two and two." Michelle answered her. "My boy is going to kill it though."

"Who's that?"

"Rox. That's him with the frosted tipped hair over there," She pointed across the park. "He's won ten times in a row. He's the king of all of this."

"Rox is going to lose to Pete this year. Pete's up after Aaron though." Danny said. The friends looked back to Aaron and saw him flip three times in the air—then crash landed before he got back on his skateboard. "LOSER!" Danny echoed with his hands.

"I hope he's okay." Evie muttered.

"Next up is Pete Desmond!" The announcer announced.

Pete stood on the corner edge with his board and waited a few seconds, then he rolled down and began his flips and twists and turns. Halfway through his timing Pete did his new trick. He stepped on the back of his board, stepping on a button, just as he was about to hit mid air. A second later, flames emerged from the board. The crowed cheered and 'oooooh!' at his trick.

Pete flipped three times and did two full circles and hit the ramp just seconds later, skating back and forth a few more times and landed back at the beginning. The crowed went wild.

"Pete Desmond did an amazing and totally rad job! Unfortunately, special effects are not allowed from the event and the judges have disqualified Pete."

"Whatever. I wanted to go out with a bang before retiring." Pete rolled his eyes.

After a couple of more contestants did their things, the competition took a break to get snacks, drinks, bathroom breaks, ect. Evie waited next to the food stand while her friends all went off to use the bathrooms. She checked her makeup and touched up on her mascara a bit when she felt someone tap behind her. It was Danny with Josh and that Pete guy behind Josh.

"Hi boys," Evie smiled.

"Evie super pretty," Josh smiled as he smoked a cigarette. "Pete, this is the girl I told you 'bout."

"Hi," Pete said. He held a brown paper bag in his hand and lifted it up, drinking whatever was inside the bag. "Want some vodka mixed with fruit punch?"

"No thanks."

"Told you she wasn't brave enough!" Danny laughed, blowing a puff of a cigarette. "Wanna puff?" He held his out to Evie.

"No, smoking is gross."

"Everyone does it in the group. Even Michelle and Amber smoke."

"It smells revolting."

"Ya get use to it." Josh added in. "Look, just take one blow of it and you're good. You get addicted to it when you smoke one whole cigarette. I swear, I saw it on a documentary once."

Evie looked at the thing. She studied it closely before taking it from his hand. "How do I smoke this?"

"Just inhale your breathe, hold it in your mouth for a few minutes and then you exhale it out as your exhale your breathe out." Josh explained it to her.

Evie shrugged. If one puff won't kill her or make her addicted to it, than she can just try one. Right?

Evie put the cigarette in her mouth after inhaling and held it there for a couple of seconds before exhaling both the cigarette smoke and her own oxygen out. She handed it back to Danny. "That was disgusting! I've eaten better food on the isle than that!"

"Hey, you live once, so why not try it all?" Danny said, smoking it. "Least you can say you tried it."

"Of course." Evie rolled her eyes.

Close to midnight the gang sneaked back onto school campus and walked back to the girls dormitory first to drop off a drunk Michelle. As Amber and Michelle's roommate stripped Michelle and settled her into her bed and encouraged her to throw up before sleeping, Evie waited outside with the boys. Danny pulled out a new cigarette and started it.

Evie glared at the thing and felt something in her. She had no idea what it was. "Danny? Can I have another smoke?"

"Sure." He said, giving her the first smoke.

Five minutes later, Josh started a new cigarette.

"Can I can I puff?" Evie asked.

"Sure." He said.

Three minutes later, Aaron started one.

"Can I take a puff?" Evie asked. "It's just one more."

"Take one," He handed a cigarette to Evie.

She took it. "Maybe I'll just smoke this one full one and that'll be it."

Josh laughed and rolled his eyes. "Sure. Just one."

Evie smirked at him as Josh opened his lighter and lit the end for Evie. "It's just one." She puffed. "How terrible can just one be?"

Uh oh.