Tommy Pickles, 18, stood above the huge drop. He took a deep breath and clentched his board tightly. He jumped and placed the board under his feet and dropped into the half pipe. As he picked up speed all the stresses and strains of the day were left behind. All he was concentrating on was skating. As he took his first air he reached down and pulled off a perfect indy. Much to the enjoyment of the crowd. His landing was perfect and when he was on the flat he quickly reverted, just to show off. He took off on his second air in the same style, but he pulled off a varial sal flip. This time his landing wasn't clean and he lost his footing on the flat. He slid halfway up the vert on his knee pads before sliding back down. He got up and gave a thumbs up to his friend who was there with him. She smiled and clapped as she took her board and placed it on the coping. She droped in and picked up speed quickly as she took her air she performed a perfect varial sal flip and landed it just as well. She turned her board 180 degrees so she would come to a stop. When she had next to a now embarased Tommy. She popped the tail of her board and picked it up.
"Now that's how you're supost to do it" said Kimi Finster, 17, with an evil grin.
"Well I don't like vert, I prefer flat ground or street you know that"
"I could still beat you at that to" she said smirking
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah"
"Ok then...darkslide the stair rail and heelflip out of it"
"Aww come on no-one can darkslide around here"
Tommy grinned
"No way. Have you learned it?"
He nodded with glee
"Ok then prove yourself"
He popped the tail of his board and picked it up
"I will then."
The two walked over to the stair rail and Tommy pulled his camcorder out of his back pack
"Get this on tape will you"
"Sure thing, it's worth a few hundred dollars on Americas funniest videos"
"Ha ha. You laugh now but just you watch."
She giggled as she ran down the steps and set up near the rail
"Ok I'm rolling"
Tommy walked backwards towards a wall, tapped his heels against it and began to run. He instinctivly got the board under his feet and was soon olling toward the rail. He did a half Kickflip and landed the board on the rail upside down. He slid down the whole length of the rail before doing half a heelflip out and landing it back on its wheels. He punched the air as he did a big circle and came back to where Kimi was set up.
"Tell me you got that"
"I got it. That was amazing. Totally Rodney Mullen"
He hugged her
"Thanks man, now it's your turn"
"I'll grind the rail, but I can't darkslide it!" she almost shouted
"So am I the better skater?"
"Only at grinding, I'm a better all rounder"
He sat down on his board and reached into his backpack and pulled out 2 drinks. He threw one at Kimi who caught it. She smiled at him and sat on the edge of the rail.
"Only 3 days til the big 1-8 then?"
"Yeah can't wait. Only wish we were still in Europe so we could drink alcohol"
"That never stopped you before"
"I mean legally. Hey stop that you make me sound like an alchy"
Tommy laughed at his friend
"Come on let's get something to eat"
"Okay!" she jumped up in her usual cheerful way and jumped onto her board and started kicking her way toward Tommys car
He sighed and stood up from his board and followed her. He pulled out his keys from his deep pockets and unlocked the car. Kimi jumped straight in and threw her board onto the back seat. Tommy climbed in and did the same before starting the engine and driving toward their favourite sandwich shop. They spent their time in the car talking about stuff at school, their friends and the latest cKy video. On arival at the sandwich shop they both jumped out and ordered the 'usual'. It wasn't long until their meatball, tomato and motzarella sandwiches were given to them. They walked out and sat on Tommys car, quickly unwrapped them and devoured the contents.
"These are so good" said Kimi throwing the paper into the bin
"You can say that again" said Tommy throwing his away to
"But they must be really fattening"
"That means nothing to you. You never put on weight no matter what you eat"
She smiled sweetly
"Your such a flirt Tommy"
"Only to the cute girls" he smiled at her.
She blushed and laughed
"Ok that's enough Tommy. I'll never say your a better skater than me so don't even try to seduce me into saying it"
"Oh well it was worth a try. You fancy going over Fastrax before we go home?"
"Yeah sure, those new Birdhouse decks should be in"
"Hey yeah, totally forgot about that. Come on lets go."
He quickly jumped off his car, ran round and got in. He unlocked the passenger door and Kimi jumped in. He started the engine and drove towards Fastrax. Kimi sat back into the seat and started to hum 'letters to you' by Finch.
"Hey that reminds me" said Tommy pushing a button on his radio.
It wasn't long until 'new beginnings' by finch started to play
"Oh my god you got it! This is the best album ever written!"
"I know it's really good"
"I just wish we could see them live. It's so annoying that my parents are taking me out when they are playing here"
Tommy smiled "Yeah that does suck"
"So will you be going?"
"Hey I couldn't go without my concert buddy now could I?"
She laughed "Now I feel worse, your going to miss them to"
"Well it's not like they wont tour again is it?"
"S'pose. Hey there's Fastrax"
"Hey yeah. I do know were I am going" he said
She laughed as he parked and they both got out. They ran into the shop in their normal manner and suprised Mr. McQueen
"Hey Mr. McQueen!" shouted Kimi jumping onto the counter
He sighed "Hi Kimi, Tommy"
"Hey did you get those new decks in?"
"Sure did." He got up "And don't drink my soda" he looked accusingly at Kimi, who just smiled back sweetly.
He left and went into the back room and sure enough Kimi took a drink of his soda. He came back with 4 decks and handed them to the 2.
"These are really sweet" said Kimi as she swapped with Tommy
"Yeah, how much you got them down for?"
"At least $60"
"Even for us?" asked Kimi sweetly
"Even for you" said McQueen
"Well we gotta get going see ya later Mr. McQueen" said Tommy
"Yeah bye"
"Goodbye, oh and happy birthday Kimi"
"Thanks. Oh and next time don't get get Sprite" she said rushing out the door
"HEY!"
They jumped into Tommys car and drove away
"You realise we will have to pay full price for our stuff now"
"He loves me really, besides I work there. I get 10% discount" she exclaimed pulling out a discount card
"Yeah why won't you ever let me use that"
"Because...." she tried to think of an excuse
"Because your a bitch?" Tommy interupted
"Yeah pretty much" she smiled sweetly
"You wanna watch extreme when we get back?"
"Yeah sounds cool"
And with that they were home. Tommy hoped out of his car and locked the doors while Kimi went in and slumped onto the nearest sofa
"Hey guys" said Dil who was watching the TV
"Hey Dil, Mom and Dad called yet?" asked Tommy
Tommy remembered the day they left, nearly 2 months ago. They emigrated to Australlia for Stus work. They sold the house but were letting the kids stay there until they leave for college. Dil was going to live with Drew and Charolette for a year. And because of that Kimi, Chuckie, Phil and Lil had all moved in.
"Yeah they called about an hour ago. Mom was pretty pissed you wern't here"
"No doubt I'll hear about that next week"
Dil laughed as he got up and headed for the kitchen. Tommy jumped into the seat his brother was in and turned over to extreme
"Yeah Concrete wave" said Kimi as her favourite show came on
"Who do you think the guest skater will be?"
"I dunno I ain't psychic am I?"
"Well I don't know you may be."
"Well I'm not, so just watch the damn TV"
"Hey sorry mistress" he said with a smirk
"Yeah I'm the better skater and the stronger one so just watch the TV!"
"Your not stronger than me"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah"
And with that Kimi dove from her seat and on top of Tommy. He was suprised as this women dove on him. He twisted her over onto her back and held her arms down
"What was that about being the stronger one?"
She struggled and manage to pull her knees up and push Tommy off her. He fell on his back and Kimi jumped on him again
"I said I was the stronger one"
This went on for a while before Chuckie came through the door with groceries
"Okay you 2 either go have sex or stop pissing about"
"CHUCKIE!" shouted Kimi
"What?"
"It ain't like that, we were just playing"
"Of course you were" he said sarcastically "I managed to get everything on your list Tommy"
"Err thanks man" Kimi was still on top of Tommy who was getting red
Chuckie walked off shaking his head
"Do you think everyone thinks were going out?" asked Tommy
"Well I don't think so. Well it doesn't matter as long as we know were not"
She got up and held her hand out to help Tommy up she pulled him up and kissed his cheek before winking and running into the kitchen
"What was that about?" he mumbled as he followed into the kitchen.
He was suprised to see Phil and Lil there to.
"TOMMY!" the twins shouted in unison
"Hey guys. Why you all hanging in the kitchen, there ain't a TV"
"Dude Chuckie has brought the food in" said Phil looking at Tommy as if he were stupid
Tommy laughed and pulled a bottle of soda out the bag and lay back against the wall. He took a quick swig and caught Kimi's gaze. He took the bottle away and smiled at her. She blushed and looked away. Kimi was shocked with herself, she was never like that, especially with Tommy. They always flirted innocently together so what was different now? Tommy was just as confused, but ignored it.
"So did you guys get some footage today?" asked Lil
"Did we ever" said Tommy
"Yeah I pulled off a sal flip and revert, which by the way Tommy couldn't do"
"Maybe but I managed to do a darkslide and Kimi wouldn't even try it!"
The other 4 looked at each other confused
"There skate tricks" said Kimi
They were still just as confused
"Ugh come here" said Tommy heading back into the living room.
The others followed and took their seat as Tommy pulled out his camcorder and took out the video. He put it in the VCR and the others watched. They were obviously not interested in the little tricks they were doing. Dil even nearly fell asleep, but then the footage from earlier that day came on, all the big airs and Tommys darkslide grind. They were really impresed and Chuckie and Phil jumped on Tommy
"That was gnarly dude" they said mockingly
They wrestled him to the ground
"Oww get off" he strugled to say
"So what's the pro gonna do now?" asked Chuckie helping his friend to his feet
"I ain't no pro, I'm not even an Am yet"
"Besides I'd get a contract first" added Kimi who was laughing
"Oh really?" said Chuckie as he and Phil turned and headed over to her.
"Hey, hey fuck off" she said scrambling over the top of the chair "Tommy help me"
"Hey your on your own, your better than me remember" he said mockingly before laughing
"You can borrow my discount card" she said dodging her brother and friend
She managed to throw her purse at him. He quickly took the card out and threw it back
"For how long?" he asked while putting the card in his wallet
"As long as you NEED!" she screamed the last part as Chuckie caught her.
Tommy laughed and jumped out the chair.
"Ok guys she's given me the card so let go"
"Ok" they both got up and sat back down
"WHAT? Was this some plan to get my discount card?"
"Yeah clever wasn't it" he said smiling at her
"You better give that back!" she began to chase him
"No chance you said I could borrow it"
"That was then this is now"
He laughed as he jumped over the sofa and out of Kimis way. He stook his tongue out before waving the card in front of her face
"Looks like this is mine then"
"You'll be in trouble Tommy you gotta sleep sometime"
Tommy was actual worried now, he was never sure what Kimi was capable of.
"Ok ok here" he handed the card back
"Aww man Tommy your such a pussy when it comes to Kimi" said Dil as he watched the fight. Kimi and Tommy blushed slightly
"No I'm a pussy when people threaten to do stuff to me while I sleep"
The others simply laughed as Kimi put the card back in her purse
"So what's to eat then?" asked Kimi
"You just had a huge meatball sandwich!" pointed out Tommy
"Yeah and that was like 30 minutes ago"
"Do you have hollow bones or something?" asked Lil "Whenever I even look at a salad I but on weight"
"I'm just lucky I guess. So what's for eats?"
The others laughed as they headed back into the kitchen
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And so begins story 4. This story was originally planned as an introduction to my favourite sport le parkour. For those who don't know le parkour (or free running) is a relatively modern sport, think running, gymnastics and skating mixed nicely. It's very dangerous as most free running is done on top of buildings well above street level, I recently did a jump over a 30 foot (think 5 average height guys standing on each other and u get the idea) but anyway I'm not sure if I'll change it into a Kimi and Tommy going pro story or a le parkour story, so I'll leave it up to you if you review that is. Hope your enjoying please R/R
"Now that's how you're supost to do it" said Kimi Finster, 17, with an evil grin.
"Well I don't like vert, I prefer flat ground or street you know that"
"I could still beat you at that to" she said smirking
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah"
"Ok then...darkslide the stair rail and heelflip out of it"
"Aww come on no-one can darkslide around here"
Tommy grinned
"No way. Have you learned it?"
He nodded with glee
"Ok then prove yourself"
He popped the tail of his board and picked it up
"I will then."
The two walked over to the stair rail and Tommy pulled his camcorder out of his back pack
"Get this on tape will you"
"Sure thing, it's worth a few hundred dollars on Americas funniest videos"
"Ha ha. You laugh now but just you watch."
She giggled as she ran down the steps and set up near the rail
"Ok I'm rolling"
Tommy walked backwards towards a wall, tapped his heels against it and began to run. He instinctivly got the board under his feet and was soon olling toward the rail. He did a half Kickflip and landed the board on the rail upside down. He slid down the whole length of the rail before doing half a heelflip out and landing it back on its wheels. He punched the air as he did a big circle and came back to where Kimi was set up.
"Tell me you got that"
"I got it. That was amazing. Totally Rodney Mullen"
He hugged her
"Thanks man, now it's your turn"
"I'll grind the rail, but I can't darkslide it!" she almost shouted
"So am I the better skater?"
"Only at grinding, I'm a better all rounder"
He sat down on his board and reached into his backpack and pulled out 2 drinks. He threw one at Kimi who caught it. She smiled at him and sat on the edge of the rail.
"Only 3 days til the big 1-8 then?"
"Yeah can't wait. Only wish we were still in Europe so we could drink alcohol"
"That never stopped you before"
"I mean legally. Hey stop that you make me sound like an alchy"
Tommy laughed at his friend
"Come on let's get something to eat"
"Okay!" she jumped up in her usual cheerful way and jumped onto her board and started kicking her way toward Tommys car
He sighed and stood up from his board and followed her. He pulled out his keys from his deep pockets and unlocked the car. Kimi jumped straight in and threw her board onto the back seat. Tommy climbed in and did the same before starting the engine and driving toward their favourite sandwich shop. They spent their time in the car talking about stuff at school, their friends and the latest cKy video. On arival at the sandwich shop they both jumped out and ordered the 'usual'. It wasn't long until their meatball, tomato and motzarella sandwiches were given to them. They walked out and sat on Tommys car, quickly unwrapped them and devoured the contents.
"These are so good" said Kimi throwing the paper into the bin
"You can say that again" said Tommy throwing his away to
"But they must be really fattening"
"That means nothing to you. You never put on weight no matter what you eat"
She smiled sweetly
"Your such a flirt Tommy"
"Only to the cute girls" he smiled at her.
She blushed and laughed
"Ok that's enough Tommy. I'll never say your a better skater than me so don't even try to seduce me into saying it"
"Oh well it was worth a try. You fancy going over Fastrax before we go home?"
"Yeah sure, those new Birdhouse decks should be in"
"Hey yeah, totally forgot about that. Come on lets go."
He quickly jumped off his car, ran round and got in. He unlocked the passenger door and Kimi jumped in. He started the engine and drove towards Fastrax. Kimi sat back into the seat and started to hum 'letters to you' by Finch.
"Hey that reminds me" said Tommy pushing a button on his radio.
It wasn't long until 'new beginnings' by finch started to play
"Oh my god you got it! This is the best album ever written!"
"I know it's really good"
"I just wish we could see them live. It's so annoying that my parents are taking me out when they are playing here"
Tommy smiled "Yeah that does suck"
"So will you be going?"
"Hey I couldn't go without my concert buddy now could I?"
She laughed "Now I feel worse, your going to miss them to"
"Well it's not like they wont tour again is it?"
"S'pose. Hey there's Fastrax"
"Hey yeah. I do know were I am going" he said
She laughed as he parked and they both got out. They ran into the shop in their normal manner and suprised Mr. McQueen
"Hey Mr. McQueen!" shouted Kimi jumping onto the counter
He sighed "Hi Kimi, Tommy"
"Hey did you get those new decks in?"
"Sure did." He got up "And don't drink my soda" he looked accusingly at Kimi, who just smiled back sweetly.
He left and went into the back room and sure enough Kimi took a drink of his soda. He came back with 4 decks and handed them to the 2.
"These are really sweet" said Kimi as she swapped with Tommy
"Yeah, how much you got them down for?"
"At least $60"
"Even for us?" asked Kimi sweetly
"Even for you" said McQueen
"Well we gotta get going see ya later Mr. McQueen" said Tommy
"Yeah bye"
"Goodbye, oh and happy birthday Kimi"
"Thanks. Oh and next time don't get get Sprite" she said rushing out the door
"HEY!"
They jumped into Tommys car and drove away
"You realise we will have to pay full price for our stuff now"
"He loves me really, besides I work there. I get 10% discount" she exclaimed pulling out a discount card
"Yeah why won't you ever let me use that"
"Because...." she tried to think of an excuse
"Because your a bitch?" Tommy interupted
"Yeah pretty much" she smiled sweetly
"You wanna watch extreme when we get back?"
"Yeah sounds cool"
And with that they were home. Tommy hoped out of his car and locked the doors while Kimi went in and slumped onto the nearest sofa
"Hey guys" said Dil who was watching the TV
"Hey Dil, Mom and Dad called yet?" asked Tommy
Tommy remembered the day they left, nearly 2 months ago. They emigrated to Australlia for Stus work. They sold the house but were letting the kids stay there until they leave for college. Dil was going to live with Drew and Charolette for a year. And because of that Kimi, Chuckie, Phil and Lil had all moved in.
"Yeah they called about an hour ago. Mom was pretty pissed you wern't here"
"No doubt I'll hear about that next week"
Dil laughed as he got up and headed for the kitchen. Tommy jumped into the seat his brother was in and turned over to extreme
"Yeah Concrete wave" said Kimi as her favourite show came on
"Who do you think the guest skater will be?"
"I dunno I ain't psychic am I?"
"Well I don't know you may be."
"Well I'm not, so just watch the damn TV"
"Hey sorry mistress" he said with a smirk
"Yeah I'm the better skater and the stronger one so just watch the TV!"
"Your not stronger than me"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah"
And with that Kimi dove from her seat and on top of Tommy. He was suprised as this women dove on him. He twisted her over onto her back and held her arms down
"What was that about being the stronger one?"
She struggled and manage to pull her knees up and push Tommy off her. He fell on his back and Kimi jumped on him again
"I said I was the stronger one"
This went on for a while before Chuckie came through the door with groceries
"Okay you 2 either go have sex or stop pissing about"
"CHUCKIE!" shouted Kimi
"What?"
"It ain't like that, we were just playing"
"Of course you were" he said sarcastically "I managed to get everything on your list Tommy"
"Err thanks man" Kimi was still on top of Tommy who was getting red
Chuckie walked off shaking his head
"Do you think everyone thinks were going out?" asked Tommy
"Well I don't think so. Well it doesn't matter as long as we know were not"
She got up and held her hand out to help Tommy up she pulled him up and kissed his cheek before winking and running into the kitchen
"What was that about?" he mumbled as he followed into the kitchen.
He was suprised to see Phil and Lil there to.
"TOMMY!" the twins shouted in unison
"Hey guys. Why you all hanging in the kitchen, there ain't a TV"
"Dude Chuckie has brought the food in" said Phil looking at Tommy as if he were stupid
Tommy laughed and pulled a bottle of soda out the bag and lay back against the wall. He took a quick swig and caught Kimi's gaze. He took the bottle away and smiled at her. She blushed and looked away. Kimi was shocked with herself, she was never like that, especially with Tommy. They always flirted innocently together so what was different now? Tommy was just as confused, but ignored it.
"So did you guys get some footage today?" asked Lil
"Did we ever" said Tommy
"Yeah I pulled off a sal flip and revert, which by the way Tommy couldn't do"
"Maybe but I managed to do a darkslide and Kimi wouldn't even try it!"
The other 4 looked at each other confused
"There skate tricks" said Kimi
They were still just as confused
"Ugh come here" said Tommy heading back into the living room.
The others followed and took their seat as Tommy pulled out his camcorder and took out the video. He put it in the VCR and the others watched. They were obviously not interested in the little tricks they were doing. Dil even nearly fell asleep, but then the footage from earlier that day came on, all the big airs and Tommys darkslide grind. They were really impresed and Chuckie and Phil jumped on Tommy
"That was gnarly dude" they said mockingly
They wrestled him to the ground
"Oww get off" he strugled to say
"So what's the pro gonna do now?" asked Chuckie helping his friend to his feet
"I ain't no pro, I'm not even an Am yet"
"Besides I'd get a contract first" added Kimi who was laughing
"Oh really?" said Chuckie as he and Phil turned and headed over to her.
"Hey, hey fuck off" she said scrambling over the top of the chair "Tommy help me"
"Hey your on your own, your better than me remember" he said mockingly before laughing
"You can borrow my discount card" she said dodging her brother and friend
She managed to throw her purse at him. He quickly took the card out and threw it back
"For how long?" he asked while putting the card in his wallet
"As long as you NEED!" she screamed the last part as Chuckie caught her.
Tommy laughed and jumped out the chair.
"Ok guys she's given me the card so let go"
"Ok" they both got up and sat back down
"WHAT? Was this some plan to get my discount card?"
"Yeah clever wasn't it" he said smiling at her
"You better give that back!" she began to chase him
"No chance you said I could borrow it"
"That was then this is now"
He laughed as he jumped over the sofa and out of Kimis way. He stook his tongue out before waving the card in front of her face
"Looks like this is mine then"
"You'll be in trouble Tommy you gotta sleep sometime"
Tommy was actual worried now, he was never sure what Kimi was capable of.
"Ok ok here" he handed the card back
"Aww man Tommy your such a pussy when it comes to Kimi" said Dil as he watched the fight. Kimi and Tommy blushed slightly
"No I'm a pussy when people threaten to do stuff to me while I sleep"
The others simply laughed as Kimi put the card back in her purse
"So what's to eat then?" asked Kimi
"You just had a huge meatball sandwich!" pointed out Tommy
"Yeah and that was like 30 minutes ago"
"Do you have hollow bones or something?" asked Lil "Whenever I even look at a salad I but on weight"
"I'm just lucky I guess. So what's for eats?"
The others laughed as they headed back into the kitchen
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And so begins story 4. This story was originally planned as an introduction to my favourite sport le parkour. For those who don't know le parkour (or free running) is a relatively modern sport, think running, gymnastics and skating mixed nicely. It's very dangerous as most free running is done on top of buildings well above street level, I recently did a jump over a 30 foot (think 5 average height guys standing on each other and u get the idea) but anyway I'm not sure if I'll change it into a Kimi and Tommy going pro story or a le parkour story, so I'll leave it up to you if you review that is. Hope your enjoying please R/R