AN: AH! THE HATE MAIL! ALL OF THE HATE MAIL! Wow, I didn't think you all loved this story so much. I am sorry for the recent leave of absence, but you all need to understand I am a senior in high school, and I am putting my school working above everything, including this fanfic. So, if I am not updating for awhile, it more or less means I have an assignment I need to be working on.

Soo...onward!

Chapter 4: The Truth

"Chat? About what?" Drum whispered, dropping his bag and looking down at Zoe.

Zoe put her finger to her lips.

"Not here. Your room. 15 minutes." Zoe popped her shades back on and hobbled back into the lobby.

"...Could you be anymore vague?" Drum picked up his back, walking through the now open door to the lobby.

"YO! D-MAN!" Mac yelled out, running up to Drum and slapping his hand." We knew you would be back."

Drum looked down at Mac, and gave a weak smile. "Well, I have unfinished business here."

Kaori gave Drum a little hug.

"So glad to see you are staying!" Kaori squealed in her trademark happy voice.

Drum looked around at the lobby, the other riders avoided his glance, most of them tried to look preoccupied.

Viggo stood up and walked over to the three.

"I don't think they trust you much, but don't worry. I don't think you did anything." Viggo patted Drum's shoulder.

"Yeah, I figured most of them would be quick to think I did something wrong. Where is Atomika?" Drum asked, noting a distinct lack of purple in the area.

Kaori snickered. "Atomika and Elise are on a date."

Drum nodded...then did a double-take.

"A date?" Drum began to walk, the free following him.

"Yeah, they had some bet on Griff and Moby's SG Challenge." Viggo spoke up, tossing his board into his room as they passed.

"Let me guess" Drum winced, "Moby won."

"Yep, Griff tried, but dat fool messed up big time!" Mac made an explosion sound with his mouth.

"He tried to go up for da guillotine and beefed it, yo."

All four of them stopped, Drum turned around.

"...The Guillitine? As in...you know...Psymon's move?" Drum asked.

All three of them nodded.

"Well, who all is attending his funeral?"

All four of them raised their hands.

Drum got to he and Mac's room, and noticed that the door was already unlocked.

"...Um, can I have a bit of privacy? At the Council they give you a lot of free punch...and you know...I gotta do something." Drum looked at the three.

"Oh, no problem. I need to go talk Eddie out of jumping off of the roof anyway." Viggo shrugged, walking away.

Mac and Kaori hung around a bit, Drum gave the two of them a look, but they weren't moving.

"Well?" Drum asked politely.

"...Um, it's my room, too. I sorta wanna do something in there, too." Mac winked, Kaori playfully hit him on the back of the head.

"Not until we get married! Mackie!"

Mac sighed, and opened the door. Only to see Zoe looking through Drum's CD collection.

Drum slapped his hand to his face, and Mac and Kaori stood there in silence.

"...Uhh..." Mac just stood there, then closed the door before Zoe could look up.

Mac whispered in a harsh tone, "What the hell is she doing in there?"

Drum shrugged, "Hell if I know, she told me she wanted to talk to me."

Kaori looked around, "What if she wants to ask you about what happened? What will you do?"

Drum thought about it, "I don't know...tell her the truth? I didn't do anything, after all."

Mac and Kaori looked each other.

"Dude, she might not see it the same way." Mac nodded, Kaori sneaking closer to the door.

"She looks like lion padding around a cage..." Kaori whispered.

Drum thought about it, "Well, since I am going to be here for awhile, it does no good avoiding her. So, I am going in." Drum opened the door.

Mac and Kaori looked at each other again; "Yo, I gotta Super pipe to gear up for...so...um...seeya" Mac and Kaori took off, not wanting to pry.

Drum closed the door behind himself, hard enough to get Zoe to look up. Zoe tossed his CD case onto his bed.

"Took you long enough." Zoe grumbled, using her crutch to balance herself.

"Look, you know we were going to have to have this talk sooner or later. I prefer to get shit out of the way as soon as possible."

Drum shrugged, "Fine by me. I didn't do it." Drum tossed his bag onto his bed.

Zoe snapped back, "I know you didn't do it! I want to know who did!"

"If I knew that, do you really think I would have been on trial there?" Drum snapped as well.

"Oh come on! You have had to known SOMETHING." Zoe hobbled up to him.

"All I know is that someone must have paid Pete off or something, because it turns out his story was bogus." Drum sat on his bed.

Zoe sat across from him on Mac's bed.

"Well, now I know who I need to kill" Zoe gritted her teeth.

"Shut up. The last thing either of us need is more trouble. I already have half of the circuit hating me, and the other half thinks we had sex." Drum ran his fingers through his dreads.

"Maybe we should just tell them that we didn't? I mean, I was all ready but " Zoe started before Drum cut her off.

"I don't even want to acknowledge the fact that we were going to." Drum looked away from her, unzipping his bag.

"Well, thanks for the boost to MY ego." Zoe said, sounding a little hurt.

"No! Not that I didn't want to...but...come on, you gotta admit. What happened was a little bit embarrassing." Drum didn't even want to mention what happened, all Zoe did was nod, and stand up.

"Well, I am happy we had this little...talk." Zoe thought about something, then bended over, meeting Drum face to face.

"...Something you want?" Drum looked back at her, a puzzled expression on his face.

"..." Zoe said nothing; she grabbed Drum by his chin, and planted a deep kiss on his lips.

"I remember what I said that night, and I meant it." Zoe popped her shades back on, and hobbled out of his room.

Drum had a dear-in-the-headlights look to his eyes; he just flopped back onto his bed and stared at the ceiling.

"...Welcome back, Jordan." he said to himself.

Yuri was outside of the lodge, shivering and rubbing her hands together to keep herself warm. She was waiting for Griff's trolley to pull up. The challenge had been over for almost 20 minutes now, Moby was already back, gloating, but Griff was nowhere to be found.

Yuri popped open her M-Comm.

"Griff! Come in, Griff!" she yelled into it, she finally got an answer back.

"What?" Griff was out of breath, the wind whipping around him told that he was boarding.

"Where in the hell are you?" Yuri yelled back

"I am coming down Peak 1 right now; I should be there in 2 or 3 minutes." Griff replied, pausing for a second to take a jump.

"I can see you"

Yuri looked; she could see him, too.

"Why didn't you just take the trolley back down?" Yuri asked him, Griff hung up on her. Griff coasted up to her, and popped off his board.

"The slower it takes me to get back to The Lodge, the better it will be." Griff looked paler than usual; fear does that to a man.

"Well, I would be kind of pissed, too." Yuri started, but quickly stopped.

Griff shot her a glare, "Pissed about what?"

Yuri finished, "I would be pissed too if someone tried to steal my move, then botched it."

Griff shuddered, "Great, so he is pissed?"

"He is furious." Yuri nodded, walking back to The Lodge with him.

"I just needed the points, I had already pulled out my own trick...I just did the first one that came to mind." Griff explained.

"Yeah, but it had to be one of the most challenging ones in the circuit? You were better off trying the Lockstep." Yuri spoke calmly, not trying to nag.

"For a split second I was thinking about using that one, too." Griff shrugged. "Screw it, if Psymon wants to murder me. I will let him."

Griff opened the door, everyone stared at him.

Before anyone could get a chance, they all yelled in unison.

"DUCK!"

Griff was quick on his reflexes, and ducked just before a snowboard went sailing over his head.

"Holy shit!" Griff looked to see Psymon, in full war-paint. Standing on the coffee table.

"...Bye" Griff began to take off through the house, but Psymon was faster, and took him down.

"DUDE! ALRIGHT, I AM SORRY I STOLE YOUR TRICK!" Griff yelled, Psymon flipped him over onto his back.

Psymon stood up, picked Griff up...and shook his hand.

"I don't like you. In fact, I probably hate you now..." Psymon started.

"But to go up there and steal my trick, and fuck it up. It took balls, Mini-Me."

Everyone's jaw hit the floor.

"Now, get out of my sight before I break your neck." Psymon started, before he could even finish the sentence, Griff and Yuri was already gone.

Psymon looked at the two run, and mumbles to himself.

"Posers."

Elise and Atomika looked really out of place, sitting in some restaurant down in Metro city, covered in snow.

"So...got any brothers and sisters?" Elise tried to stir up a conversation; they WERE on a date, after wall.

"Only child." Atomika was purposely trying to act apathetic.

Elise was falling for it hooks line and sinker...

Atomika looked up, "Any ex-boyfriends?"

Elise looked somewhat offended at the question, but answered anyway

"Yeah, a couple, you don't know any of them...I think."

Atomika blinked, "I thought you...and Eddie..."

Elise let out a big laugh, "Me and Eddie? Look, he is nice and all, but he is like a brother to me...it would be too weird." Elise slipped her boot off, and began trailing it up Atomika's leg.

"Besides...I am looking in a different direction." Elise put on her innocent face, as if she had no idea what she was doing.

All of Atomika's confidence melted away in a giant blush, then all of his attention turned away to the door, J.P and Allegra had just walked in.

"Hey...ignore them, I am over here." Elise slid her foot farther up his thigh" Elise smiled, knowing full well this was getting to him.

"Yeah, but...Viggo is coming...there might be a fight..." Atomika tried to hide his red cheeks.

"So? You are a normal boarder now...if they want to scuffle, let them..." Elise smiled, as Viggo walked in.

Allegra had her eyes on the door as Viggo walked in, not even paying attention to what J.P was saying to her.

"Allegra?...Allegra? Did you hear me?" J.P asked, he had just finished whispering sweet nothing into her ear...as usual.

Allegra nodded, absent mindedly.

J.P raised his eyebrow.

"I am secretly having sex with Elise behind your back." J.P lied, waiting to see Allegra's reaction.

Allegra just nodded, "That's fine, babe..."

J.P looked to see what she was starring at, only to see Viggo.

"...That is IT!" J.P slammed his fist down on the table, stood up, and pushed Viggo hard on the back; this caused Allegra to snap out of it.

"What are you doing?" Allegra stood up, causing a scene as Viggo turned around and pushed J.P back.

"What the fuck is your problem?" Viggo looked at him

"YOU are my problem, snooping around all of ze time!" J.P yelled, swinging at Viggo, who ducked under it.

"Snooping around?" Viggo said, backing up.

"Face it; you lost her fair and square!" J.P laughed, swinging again.

"...Lost me?" Allegra looked confused.

"You just can't take that I was ze one to get her first! I told you it was all part of ze plan! ALL PART OF ZE PLAN!" J.P swung, and caught Viggo right in the jaw. J.P would of punched Viggo again...if a fist didn't collide with his jaw, sending him down as well.

Allegra stood over J.P, her first fist red from punching J.P.

"What plan?"

Elise gave a low whistle, and looked at Atomika.

"Who would of thought we were going to get dinner AND a show?"

AN:

THERE! ITS DONE!

Now…everyone can wait two or three weeks for another update!

SPRING BREEEAK WHOO!

..Oh, yeah.

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Will J.P tell Allegra about "Ze Plan"?

What does Zoe have up her sleeve?

Why didn't Psymon rip Griff's head off?

Will Elise EVER get some?

Find out…POSSIBLY next chapter!

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