Disclaimer: Nope. I still don't own anything associated with the Disney Channel Original movie "Rip Girls". I only own my imagination.

Chapter 9

Soon after the awkwardness when Drew came over, a waitress skated over on her roller skates too take their orders. They all decided too chip in and order a cheese pizza with extra cheese.

Sydney was making sure not too look in neither Drew, nor Kona's direction. She didn't want to hurt either one of them.

Nicole, being as bubbly as ever decided to break the silence. "So, Kona, Sydney tells me you skateboard. Drew, here skateboards, too." She said with a smile.

Kona nodded, trying to sound pleased, though in reality he wanted to slug Drew.

"Oh really?" He just replied.

Drew nodded, his brown shaggy hair moving. "Yep, you should come by the park. We have a skateboard half pipe there you should definitely check out."

Kona perked up a bit. "Really? Could we maybe check it out later?" He asked.

Drew nodded. "Definitely," he said, glancing at Sydney who was looking at the two of them, sort of stunned. Kona turned to her as well and smiled. It was while he was skateboarding when he first laid eyes of Sydney. He smiled more just thinking about it, making Sydney blush a bit.

Though Drew saw this, not at all happy.

After about fifteen minutes, their pizza came, so the silence was filled with just everyone enjoying their slices.

Once they were finished eating, they split the bill among themselves and left the café. On the sidewalk outside, Drew said, "Well, lets get going to the park. I need to see what this Hawaiian kid can do." He said, taking his skateboard out of his backpack and skated in the direction of the park.

Kona nodded, glancing too Sydney. "Shall we?" He asked.

Sydney smiled, with a nod. Then Kona put his board down on the pavement and skated after Drew, leaving the two girls watching them and walking behind.

"So, this is rather interesting, huh, Syd?" Nicole asked her best friend.

"It sure is, but why did you ask Drew if he wanted too join us? It was unbelievably awkward with Kona there!" She stated.

Nicole shrugged, not looking directly at Sydney's eyes. "Well, Drew is our friend."

Sydney just sighed as they quickened their walk toward the park.

When they arrived at the park about ten minutes later, the sky was still cloudy, and not many people were out and about at the park. Sydney and Nicole walked on the bike path between tall trees and past park benches toward the direction of the back of the park where the new skateboard half pipe was. Soon enough, they came to it, though it wasn't huge, or anything. Just big enough. Kona stood watching as Drew did a couple of stunts on the half pipe, somewhat impressed. Of course, Drew had put on his helmet, which happened too be in his backpack he carried with him.

"So, does it look better than Makai's?" Sydney asked Kona quietly, walking beside him as Nicole sat down at a bench a bit closer, watching Drew.

Kona smiled, looking down at her. "Well, I'll let you know when I get my turn," He said with a grin. He glanced back at Drew. "So, your friend isn't all that bad."

Sydney nodded, hoping he wasn't going to mention anything else. Then Kona turned back to her. "He is just your friend...right?" Making Sydney turn quickly too Kona.

"Of course, Kona. Drew has been my friend since we were in grammar school," she said with a small smile.

"Hey! Hawaii!" Drew yelled, now finished with his stunts, "Your turn!" His face was a little different when he saw Kona and Sydney talking- it was almost jealous like.

Kona looked up at Drew. "Great!" He replied, excited, strapping a helmet on and smiling at Sydney, "Time to show him how it's done in Hawaii." He grinned, skated over, and doing some awesome stunts.

After he was finished, everyone seemed pretty impressed as Kona skated back over to them.

"Wow, that was pretty wicked," Drew stated. Sydney smiled at Kona,"You were great!" She told him. Drew looked at her with jealously in his eyes.

Sensing something was wrong, Nicole piped up, "Drew, you were great, too."

Though Drew ignored that,"Hey, Hawaii. If you are still around tomorrow, a couple of friends and I are having a bit of a tournament. Sort of the mini X games, except with just friends. You should compete."

Kona just shrugged. "I don't know… "

"Oh, come on. Kona, you should give it a shot," Sydney told him, sort of hoping now that he could stick around now.

Kona glanced at Sydney. He could stay… 'It'll give me a chance too keep an eye on things..' he thought.

"Sure, sounds fun. " Kona said with a grin.

Drew nodded then. "That's it then. Should be a great." He said.

The rest of that time, Drew and Kona seemed to be getting along well as they skateboarded some more together. Nicole and Sydney sat down on the bench watching, though she couldn't help, but wondering if Nicole was hiding something from her.

Later on that day, Drew had to get going because he had a dentist appointment, so he skated off toward his house around 4 pm. Kona, Sydney and Nicole walked down the street side-by-side, Sydney in the middle.

"So, Kona, do you know how long you'll stay?" Nicole asked.

Kona shrugged."I'm not sure. I mean, I only brought a few days worth of clothes." He said, not wanting to mention the real reason why he came.

Nicole nodded. "Well, we'll have to have a going away party when you do leave. Not that I'm looking foreword to it, or anything. I'm not! Sydney had been talking about you a lot before." She replied, to which Kona gave a side-glance toward Sydney with a smile on his face.

"Oh really?" He asked.

Sydney just blushed a deep red. Soon they came upon Nicole's house.

"Well, I better get going, see you around Syd, nice meeting you Kona," Nicole said, walking up the path to her house.

"Bye, call you later," Sydney called after.

"Bye," Kona said as well.

On the walk back toward Sydney's house, Kona and Sydney walked side-by-side, quietly, each just enjoying each other's company.

"So, does the others know you're here?" Sydney asked.

"Actually, just Gia. She had wanted too come, but… she had to stay and help her mother with something." Kona said, as though hiding something.

Sydney nodded, missing Gia as well. "What? Is something wrong?" She asked.

"Oh, uh, no. Its nothing, don't worry," Kona replied, moving his skateboard to his other hand.

Sydney stayed silent, hoping he was right. Kona looked down at her, putting his free hand on her hand,"Don't worry. Everything's fine." He said with a comforting smile, the kind that Sydney melted with.

Soon, they came to Sydney's house and they walked up the path hand in hand until Sydney opened the door. Kona walked in after her, realizing then that Sydney's father was not home when he first came. Sure enough, there he was. Sitting in the living room, awaiting their arrival.

"Hi, dad," Sydney said, leading Kona into the living room.

Ben jumped up, as well as Elizabeth who was sitting in the chair with the back to them.

Ben's eyes landed on Kona. "Hello, what brings you here?" He asked.

"Oh, well, I came to see Sydney," Kona said, simply.

Ben nodded. "How long will you be staying?" He asked, making Sydney roll her eyes.

"Dad, enough with the questions," She told him.

"Sydney, I'm just trying to be the parent." He said, looking back at Kona, awaiting his answer.

"Well, I'm not sure. A couple of days maybe," he said.

Ben nodded. "Have you thought about where you would stay?" He kept drilling.

"Well, no sir," Kona replied.

"Dad—" Sydney started too say.

"Sydney, I said to stay out of this," He said. He turned back too Kona. "Maybe you should have thought more about that before coming up here."

"Ben, he could use our guest room," Elizabeth chimed in. Ben turned to her, somewhat surprised by her answer.

Sydney smiled, "Yes! He can!" She turned to Kona,"You can!"

Kona smiled at Sydney before looking back at her father.

Ben was silent for a bit before saying slowly."Okay, you can stay in the guest room, but you will be following our rules while you are here."

Kona nodded,"Yes sir," he said.

"Well then, Sydney, go and get him settled." Ben said, slowly.

Sydney smiled, taking Kona's hand and leading him toward the stairs and out of sight.

Ben sat back down on the couch, letting out a sigh. "I don't know about him staying here.." He said honestly.

Elizabeth sat down beside her husband. "Ben, it's the right thing to do. Sydney's happy! Anyway, we can't exactly kick out a teenage boy."

"What if this teenage boy is going out with our little girl…" Ben said quietly.

A/N:
Sorry about the wait. I've been sort of busy. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I know exactly where I am going with this story now. I hope.