A/N: This chapter is from Gabby's POV.

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3:00 PM

Yes! We're free! ....At least until tomorrow. It's still sunny and warm, meaning there's only one thing for the four of us to do. Once we're outside the school, we park ourselves on the nearest bench, change into our skates, lace up, and head out to the pit. Jordy complains a little about the distance, but we just ignore him like always. We get to the pit with almost perfect timing; Val and his crew are just coming up the boardwalk.

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3:15 PM

"Look out below!" Brink yells, doing a Japan air over my head. He can be so immature.

"Why don't you watch out?" I ask.

"Sorry, Gab," he chuckles, skating in circles around me.

Rose, the girl we sat with at lunch, suddenly passes by. She's holding her head up and sashaying a little. She's changed her clothes. Now she's wearing a sky-blue halter top patterned with Hawaiian flowers and a pair of even-paler-blue boardshorts. A surfboard is tucked under her arm.

"Hi, Rose," Jordy says a little too loudly.

He and Peter are both staring at her flat abs, muscular arms, and long legs. They're gonna start drooling any second, I just know it. I roll my eyes

"Hey, Jordy," she replies smoothly.

She winks at him once, tosses her hair, and walks toward the beach. Peter stares after her, his jaw dropped. He looks like a fish out of water.

"Aw man, that chick is so hot," Jordy says after a minute.

"Especially in a bathing suit," Peter adds.

I smack him on the back of the head. "Peter, when you woke up this morning, did you say to yourself 'Today I'm gonna stare at girls' or 'Today I'm gonna skate?'" I ask.

"I hate it when you're right," he grumbles, sliding down the quarter pipe.

Brink laughs. He loves it when we use his phrase.

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4:30 PM

Peter's step-dad is having his boss over for dinner again, so he has to leave early to make sure he can get cleaned up. A really good idea, in my opinion; poor Petey really stinks. Brink has to babysit his little sister pretty soon. (I don't envy him). Jordy's worn out and I have more fun skating with the guys than by myself, so we all start to skate out of the pit.

We're a few feet down the pier when I notice Peter's eyes have bugged out. I quickly see why: the return of Rose. Now she's dripping wet with a tube top thrown over her bathing suit.

"Hey, Rose," Jordy greets, a little calmer this time.

"What's up?" she asks.

"We were just about to head down to the strand," Jordy says.

"We were?" Peter looks confused.

Jordy ignores him. "And I thought you might wanna go with us...y'know, for a pizza or something."

Leave it to Jordy to suggest that. All the guy ever thinks about is his stomach.

Rose bites her lip. "Sorry. I have to be at work in a little while. How about tomorrow?"

Jordy shrugs. "Sure."

"Okay, cool. I'll see you guys at school tomorrow," she says as she brushes past us.

I do have to admit she's pretty. Her personality....I'll have to see. I hope she's nice 'cause it looks like she wants to start hanging with us.