A/N: Sorry the update took forever, I had finals and such to deal with.
But now its summer! Hooray ect ect.
"Get the fuck out of my way!" Zoe cried out, swinging her arms out at Jp, who fell face first into a snow bank.
"Sarce de bleu!" Jp spat out a chunk of snow, groping around for the expensive designer sunglasses that had flew off of his head.
Hailey zoomed by, swerving dangerously to avoid Jp. "Chill out, Zo!"
"I think you should shut your goddamn mouth," called Zoe over her shoulder, shifting her board to grind a rail that veered off the main course.
Eddie let go of the heelside edge of his board, sticking a landing so that he was riding alongside Hailey. "What crawled up her ass and died?"
"It's Psymon drama, I heard him and Moby duking it out," Elise replied from a couple meters behind.
"Any bloodshed this time?" Eddie asked, eyebrows raised.
"Nope, Rahzel stepped in just in time," interjected Mac as he zoomed by, Kaori hot on his tail.
Kaori hit a small jump, managing to twist herself 360 degrees and land back on the slick snow. "I'm ahead now, Maccie!" she cheered.
Mac replied by playfully spraying snow at her, before tucking to gain more speed as he approached a large gap.
The other three boarders took a low line around the jump park, cruising through a small foresty area.
The vibrations coming from Hailey's pocket startled her. "I'll catch up to you later," she called ahead to the others, who just coasted on. Easing her board into a stopped position, Hailey sat down and began to dig around in the pockets of her baggy pants.
"I'm gonna wait up for Hailey," Eddie said, hitching his thumb 100 yards up the hill where she had stopped. "Catch up with you later?"
"Sure," Elise replied, wiping a thin layer of fog from the in side of her sunglasses. Somebody zoomed by, almost knocking her flat onto the ground.
"Hey, watch it!" she yelled angrily at Moby's descending figure. He didn't even bother to reply, crouching down to gain more and more speed.
Moby launched off a jump, pulling off a tailgrab 900 before sticking a perfect landing. The gap between him and Zoe was closing in.
"Zoe, just stop for a minute!" he called out desperately, leaning forward to pick up as much speed as humanly possible. "I swear, love, we can work this out!"
Zoe seemed to falter, but she shook it off and began to twist her body, quickly approaching the jump.
Watching Zoe fling herself off the ramp and perform a perfect 1080 stalefish, Moby zipped around the side of the jump. Once her board pounded down on the snow, then bounced up again several times before she could gain control, Zoe noticed Moby riding right alongside her.
"Just listen to me!" Moby yelled over the wind whipping by the duo as they continued to pursue their high-speed chase. "What Psymon said, it's not true. I never wanted you that way, you're the best friend I have on this goddamn circuit! We've been in it since the beginning and you've never doubted me until he came along!"
Zoe stopped abruptly, the force bringing her forward to her knees. Moby continued to drift on, watching helplessly up the almost vertical slope as Zoe lifted her face out of the snow, grimaced, and began to rip the board bindings from her ankles.
"Do I really have to share a room with this whore?" Elise spat vehemently, her tall frame towering over Rahzel. "I don't want her customers flowing in and out all night. I need my damn beauty sleep."
Marisol raised her eyebrows. "Well, chica, someone like you could barely get enough of that."
Rahzel's nostrils flared, and he clenched his fists tighter on the sides of his clipboard. "Ladies, I assure that there will be enough room for both of you to peacefully coexist over the next week and a half in a room neither of you will be in with he exception of sleeping," he said through gritted teeth.
It was Elise's turn to raise her eyebrows. "Can't you just stick her with Seeiah? Baldy's about the only one who can put up with her little antics."
"Yeah, and get me out of that room," Zoe piped up.
Mac held up his hand much like a schoolchild. "Since everybody else is bitching, why am I always the one stuck with Moby? Have you ever heard this guy sing in the shower at 4 am?"
"Oi mate, it's not like I much agree with the rooming either!" Moby snarled defensively. "We get bugs from the bloody messes you leave in the room!"
"What, like the ones crawling around in your dreads?" Psymon laughed.
"Okay, okay, enough!" Rahzel threw his hands up into the air, stepping between the smirking Psymon and the enraged Moby. "We have 13 riders and 7 rooms, so sort it out amongst yourselves. And NO coed."
Brodi snagged the clipboard Rahzel tossed up before it hit the ground.
Moby was absolutely fuming, hands already balled into fists and ready to knock Psymon out. But out of the corner of his eye, he saw Zoe shaking her head at him. The blood red warpaint that was usually artistically drawn across her cheekbones was smeared all the way down to her lips, and Zoe's black eyeliner was bleeding down from her eyes.
Psymon rounded on Brodi, grinning victoriously. "Okay Buddha-boy, I better still be the one with the single room, or you'll be wearing your ass as a hat."
"Why are these game shows so darn weird?" Eddie's eyes were locked on the television, and he was dripping small amounts of lo mein down the front of his vibrantly colored, button-up shirt.
Elise continued to drift around her suite, unpacking items out of various suitcases. "Well, they're Japanese. They do dumb things on TV for money," she shrugged, folding a blue t-shirt and stuffing it into the top drawer of her armoire. "Whoa, are they covered in honey?" she did a double-take of the tv.
"That's how they catch the money," Eddie chuckled, excited that Elise had finally caught onto how amusing it was.
There was a loud pounding on the door. "It's open," Elise replied hastily, without tearing her gaze from the game show.
"Oh good, you guys got take-out too," Zoe strode into the room, making a beeline for the small coffee table where the food sat. "I'm on a mission to bum an eggroll off someone, Psymon stuck mine up his nose. And you don't want to know where the others went."
"Go for it, we've got plenty," Eddie replied, gesturing blindly to the table. "We bought too much anyway."
Zoe plucked an eggroll off of its plate, wrapping it up in a napkin before departing.
"She looked like shit," Elise said bluntly.
Eddie nodded in agreement. "Guess she's seen better days."
"Well it sure as hell wasn't last year," Elise commented, beginning to pick at the skin around her nails. "She could barely qualify for a race. I'm surprised as hell they actually took her back."
Eddie nodded, reclining back in his chair and continuing to stuff food down his mouth.
Once the commercials began, Eddie took a long look over at all of the luscious food, from the shrimp egg foo young to the chicken fried rice. "Is all of this gonna fit in the mini fridge?"
Elise shook her head. "You can take the sushi back to your room. I hate raw fish."
"Thanks," Eddie said sarcastically. "Why don't you just pass it along to Brodi? You guys seemed rather chummy lately."
Bingo, thought Eddie. Elise's cheeks flushed a delicate shade of pink.
"He's vegan, for your information," she recovered swiftly, leaping up from the armchair and resuming her unpacking.
Eddie, still smirking, twirled his chopsticks around in the carton of lo mein. She turned around, catching Eddie's eye and grinning.
"You win. So what do you think?"
"About Brodi?" Eddie asked, pausing to scratch his goatee. She nodded. "He's a chill dude. Very... Zen. Maybe he could show you some anger management skills?"
Elise shook her head, laughing. "He said he'd take me to the Buddhist temple on the other side of town tomorrow. It's supposed to be quite exotic. And they meditate there."
Switching his eyes back to the TV, Eddie replied quietly, "I always knew you had a thing for him."
Elise raised her eyebrows. "Oh really?"
"Pshhh yeah, it was so obvious."
Biting down on her lip, she seemed the slightest bit nervous. "Like really obvious?"
Eddie burst out laughing, and upon realizing he wasn't serious, Elise wasted no time in chucking a decorative pillow at his massive orange afro'ed head.
A/N: Mmmkay now review plz :D