Chapter 4

The day of the skate demo

Bam sat in his spot at the booth with the other Element skaters. A large crowd of fans were gathered around the booth, cheering, chanting, and shouting in a clamor, as they awaited their autographs from their favorite skaters. Bam kept "hidden" behind a pair of dark sunglasses as he smiled and signed his name to random photos, t-shirts, skate memorabilia, body parts etc. Some fans requested slaps across the face and other inflicted pain, and Bam gladly administered it for them. It was yet another typical signing. After sitting down after slapping a giddy fan in the face, he looked up to see the next girl in waiting. He removed his sunglasses and smiled nervously at her in surprise.

"Hey."

"What you don't recognize me, Bam?" She said, while obnoxiously batting her eye lashes.
"Oh… uh… yeah." He glanced over to where Jenn was standing "Um…"
"Crystal."

"I know that. Er… what are you doing here? You're pretty far from Burbank, don't you think?" He signaled to Jenn to come up to him
"Yeah I suppose… It was such a nice day so I decided to stop by and see what you were up to."

"And you came all the way from California to do it? Couldn't you have just called?"

"I could have… but I heard that you were doing this demo, so I decided to come see you in person."

"Hey what's up?" Asked Jenn as she reached the booth
"Oh Jenn I'd like you to meet someone. This is Crystal, you know the girl I told you about who thought she could challenge me to a skating contest."

"Oh that was you? You must have some balls missy." She held her hand out "I'm Jenn"

"Nice to finally meet you."

"Yeah same here."

"Well, Bam, I guess you're busy so I'll leave you alone now. Come talk to me later 'k?"

"Yeah sure."

Crystal walked away, leaving Bam and Jenn at the booth. Bam continued to sign some more autographs as the two of them talked.

"So is your hand cramping yet?"

"Nah… Besides my writing's sloppy enough I can always switch to my left hand if I had to."

"Oh my God! Bam Margera! I love you so much! You are SO HOT!" A teeny bopper who was next in line squealed as she spewed forth her undying love for the "skater God" before her. Bam robotically signed her autograph, posed for a picture with her, and gave her a hug.

"Hey Bam are ya hungry? I know you don't get a break to eat for a while."

"Um…" He glanced to where Crystal stood, then back at Jenn "Yeah cold you get me something?"

"What would you like?"

"I don't care… anything. I'm starving."

"Ok I'll be right back."

She patted him on the back before walking away. When she returned, she handed him a sandwich wrapped in plastic wrap.
"Oh thank you."

Just then Bam was told to hurry up and eat, because he had to get ready for the demo in five minutes. He took two big bites of his sandwich and walked away from the booth. He walked behind the ramp that he was soon to be performing on, and he had a great view of Jenn and Crystal. The two girls were talking to each other, and they seemed to be hitting it off. He looked at Crystal and saw that she was laughing, and then he went to take another bite of his sandwich. He looked at Jenn and then down at his stomach. He had worked way too hard losing that weight for him to just throw it all away now. He looked good, but he knew that he could look better. Just because he had lost the weight for the demo, didn't mean he had to keep himself from staying in shape. He found the nearest trash can and tossed the rest of his sandwich into it, and then prepared himself for the demo.