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Chapter 13
And now begins the change
"So, today will be the last day we can visit?" Peggy asked from beside me, her hands resting under her head to support it
"Yea, Keiths making me go under pain of…. Well pain really"
"It sucks you have to go back to school!"
"Yea no shit there Peg" I answered, causing Stacey, who was laid out behind me to laugh.
"You guys want to take some food with you or what? I brought enough today to feed an army!" Keith yelled from the house, the kitchen backed out onto the garden.
"Keith there is only you and me in the house, why buy so much?" I asked
"Because you eat like a pig!" Peggy laughed, facing me and pushing up her nose and snorting like a pig
"Nice Peg, real nice"
"What?! Its true!"
"Matt do you want any food?!" Keith yelled again. I looked at Stacey who shrugged and nodded at the same time 'Clear definite answer, thanks Stace'
"Just something for the drive down if that ok?!" I yelled back, getting no reply I turned back to my friends assuming Keith was in compliance with my request.
Peggy, Stacey and I where sat on the decking that littered Keiths backyard, since the move a few weeks ago they had been the only ones to visit, apart from Sid who I had seen twice. Today the three of us where wasting time sunbathing before Staceys skate competition and talking about their decisions to leave the Zephyr Skate team. "So how'd you tell him?" I asked Stace as I removed my sunglasses.
"I just went into the shop and got my stuff out of my locker, and he was there drawing up plans for a new board. He tried to get me to stay but I told him id signed all ready" Staceys eyes where locked on the ground "Kathy… she's not happy about me signing to a different team" He told us "She wants to stay in Dogtown"
"Huh" was all I could muster in mention of Kathy, my normally chatty mouth remained closed. I hadn't spoke to her in about a month "Hey have any of you guys seen Jay?" I asked "He's been awol since I moved up here, I mean I called him the night I got here but since then I've tried calling and got nothing, I think the house phone must be disconnected or something" I looked at Stacy who shook his head then to Peggy for an answer.
"Erm" the dark haired girl bit her lip "The phone, kinda isn't disconnected" she told me "As far as I know anyway, I haven't seen Jay much either" I shot her a sardonic look, I could tell the girl was lying, her lip biting was a sure sign of that. Peggy sighed before continuing "Remember when Jay said the only thing he wants is to be able to look after his mom?" I nodded, as did Stacey "Well the money he's pulling in meant he could afford to buy them a new house, he got some weird commercial deal too Shogo mentioned something called a slinky?"
'Huh, well then' "Right" I said out loud, drawing each syllable out in length "So Jays moved house?" Peggy nodded 'Right'
"Sid told me, I saw him a few days ago, coming out of the liquor store. The day after you left they found the house and the day after that they moved" 'Awkward silence or nonchalant shrug?'
"Im sure he's just busy" Stace consoled from beside me
"Seems your all a lil busy recently doesn't it Mr 'I got a part on Charlies Angels'?" I smiled bumping my shoulder into Staceys. The blonde boy sent us a shy smile which caused Peggy and I to laugh.
"Yo what time is it?" Peggy asked as she sobered up.
I yelled back to Keith, who I could see inside the kitchen asking what time it was to which he replied "Almost eleven!"
"We best get moving" I said, pushing myself up off the floor, the other two following suit "You sure your not coming Peg?" I asked my friend
"Naaa im fine thanks, Ive been exposed to too much of the Alva 'greatness' to last a while" she smiled "But if you do get a chance to talk to his holiness tell him I say hi" Stacey and I nodded and started towards the house as Peggy skated out of the side gate
"Keith, Stace and I are heading out now" I informed him as we entered the kitchen
"Right, good luck kid" Keith said to Stacey, who just smiled in thanks "I'll see you when you get back" he turned to me and embraced me in a hug
"See ya later Keith" I replied as I stepped back from his hug. "I'll call you when we get there!" I told him as Stacey and I moved our way through the house and out of the front of it. "So are you meeting up with the rest of the team when you get there?" I asked Stacey
"Ah yea, yea I am then I go right onto my competition"
"Cool, so I just follow you and ill be in the right place?" Stacey just smiled and nodded as we reached his car "Right, so you ready to be exposed to the Alva awesomeness?"
Stacey laughed as he slid into the drivers seat "When am I ever?" he mumbled as I climbed into the passenger seat "I wonder if his ego rubs off on all the other members of his team, I mean it so big it has to be leaking out right?"
"Stace?"
"Yea?"
"Did you just ask if Tony Alva is leaking stuff?" Stacey leant down a little so he could start the car "Because that gives off very weird images, funny images really. Of Tony leaking ego and the head of people around him swelling because they've been exposed"
The blonde let out a not so dignified snort of laughter as he stared up the car and pulled away from the curb "Pretty much Mattie yea" I smiled and turned to wind the window down. As my hand reached the windy thing (as I so intelligently called it) a memory flashed through my mind.
Dude stop leaning on me jackass!" I yelled at Jay who arm was squished against mine. The idiot had decided half way through or surprise journey to climb into the passenger seat next to me causing a rather uncomfortable sitting position
"You didn't wanna sit on my knee" he yelled back
"And I wonder why?!" I glared, noticing but not paying attention to the smirks the other three Z-Boys held. I tried to move left, closer to Stacy but the material of the seat caused it to squeak bringing all attention to me.
"Watch what ya doin there Mattie" said Stacey "New car"
"Damn Stace" I said "You've let Jay in so there's gonna be nothing left by the time he gets out." Jay shot a smile at me and started playing with the weird window thing.
"No faith?" he questioned, entertained by making the window open and close.
"Dude shhhh" Tony said from the back as the house in front of us was exited by a family.
"Hey isn't that the girl from Del Mar?" Stacy asked
"Yea man" We all remained quiet, wondering what Tony had planned, but I broke it by laughing as I heard a snap from beside me. Stacey looked over to see that Jay had broken the handle off.
"Damn it Jay!" he yelled, taking all our attention off the house "You know how much this is gonna cost me?!"
"Down! Get down!" Tony yelled, crouching in the back.
I couldn't help but smile at the memory as I rolled the window all the way down. How things had changed since then, since we had carelessly broke into so many homes just to skate empty pools, since none of us cared about what to do next - eat, sleep, skate or surf. How things had changed.
"Get ready!" The starter announced
I was stood, surrounded by screaming people (mostly girls) at the top of the skate hill, my arms crossed nervously in front of my chest. Stacey and Tony where directly in front of me, bent over and feet on their boards ready to push off, neither distracted by the crowd.
On arrival to the competition Stacey and I greeted a few old faces, Shogo and Red Dog held happy conversations with us until we had to part ways, each (except myself ) taking part in a different area of the competition. As we reached the skate hill, chatting about how bright Staceys uniform was we passed a very surprised looking Tony Alva, who merely glared at me and the boy beside me before turning back to the fans that where surrounding him.
"LETS GO!"
"Go Stacey!!"
The sound of the gun brought my attention to the two skaters pushing off . Tony had the lead as they started, keeping low and driving forward but Stacey managed the bend more easily than Tony and pushed ahead, skating first over the finish line.
I ran down, flagged by a few of Staceys team mates to greet him. "Yea Stacey!" We surrounded the winner, clapping him on the back and hugging him.
It was now time for placements to be given out, and as Stacey went up for first the crowd and I went wild. I barely noticed the moping Hispanic at the side until he took his trophy and snapped it in half. Only a half hour later the second competition started, much like the first but this time the boys had starting help to gain speed "Ready!" and the gun fired, Stacey failing to this time overtake Tony. After five minuets of waiting around it was placement time again, Tony this time looking pleased with his first placement sauntered past us looking as smug as usual. At least that hadn't changed.
I breathed in the fresh scent my shower gel had left behind as I stepped out of the bathtub, I know shower gel in a bath? But it was all I could reach. Today was the beginning of something huge; but then a realization dawned on me: I was starting my very first day back at school. To tell the truth, I'd kind of been dreading this day. I wrapped a towel around myself, using another to dry my blonde hair.
As I was towelling off I contemplated over what to wear, a decision I had never usually had much trouble over. I had felt comfortable at my old school, the one I was in before my mom died. Now I would be starting in a place where I knew nothing that would be expected of me.
I still knew one piece of high school philosophy; first impressions were pretty much everything. I decided to be real as I got dressed in the regular jeans, just a little tighter than usual seeming as they where new and a bright yellow 'Jethro Tull' shirt, a pair of black flip-flops donned my feet for a change.
I groaned as I picked up bulky backpack, filled to the edge with new binders and notebooks that Stacey had helped me pick out yesterday after the skate competition.
Downstairs I waved a quick goodbye to Keith, yelling something about being late before darting out of the house and to the school bus stop at the bottom of the street. As I reached the stop there where a few kids there already, all girls all 'dressed to the nines' as my mom would have put it. Each shot me a confused and mildly intrigued look before returning to their little group conversation. 'And now begins the biggest change of all'