Disclaimer- I don't own anyone in this story besides Dana or anyone else that I state. Not everything is accurate, so if you see something that should be changed feel free to let me know!
I picked up my skateboard and we walked into the shop. There was some music blasting throughout the place that I had never heard before. An older looking guy with sunglasses stepped in front of us.
"Are you two going to buy something?" he slurred, his breath had a hint of alcohol on it and I stepped back.
"We're just looking" I said
"Looking costs ten bucks" he said with a drunken smirk
"I guess we'll just get your surfboard somewhere else Sid" I turned around to face him
"Alright fine, but only for a few minutes" the guy said. Sid walked over to one of the racks of surfboards while I walked over to some skateboards.
"Sweet" I said picking up a white one with a black logo for Zephyr on the back
"Dana, come look at this surfboard" Sid said and showed me an electric blue surfboard.
"Are you going to buy something or not?" the man behind the counter asked.
Sid brought the board up to the counter "How much for this one?" he asked
"You look like you're new here, so I'll cut you a deal" he leaned closer to Sid "Forty dollars" I didn't trust him and went back to the rack where he had gotten the board from.
"Hey! Your most expensive board is thirty dollars" I said and the man tried to look innocent. He opened his mouth to say something when three teenage boys walked in talking to each other.
"Hey Skip, we just made some gnarly waves" the boy with dark skin and curly hair brown hair that had blonde over it probably from the sun said. He noticed Sid and then looked back at me "Dude don't tell me you were ripping off some more kids"
"Uh I have to go make a phone call" Skip said and slipped into the back room
"Hey girl do you skate?" the boy with short blonde hair asked me
"No I just like to carry around a skateboard for the hell of it" I had a problem with being sarcastic. The boy with long blonde hair put his arm around the boy with short blonde hair's shoulder.
"See Jay no girls seem to like you"
The guy with curly brown hair got behind the counter "Hey bro, the board's twenty bucks"
Sid stopped paying attention to what Jay and the other guy were saying and gave the guy behind the counter twenty dollars for the board. "Do you surf bro?" Jay asked standing right behind Sid. Sid covered his ears in pain.
"Hey guys don't talk too loud he has an inner ear problem" I said and they all turned to look at me
"And the girl speaks" the boy with long blonde hair said
"The girl has a name" I said walking over to them "I'm Dana, that's my big bro Sid. We just moved here from Florida"
"I'm Stacy" he said "That's Jay, and that's Tony"
I just noticed that they were all wearing wet suits "Sid you should ask them to help you surf"
"You've never surfed before?" Stacy asked and Sid shook his head "Well, let me just tell you to stay away from Pacific Ocean Park, the beach over here bro"
"Why?" Sid asked
"It's not safe, and only locals are allowed" Tony said
"Well we are locals, I mean we live in Venice Beach just like you guys" I said
"If you want to try and be a local you don't call it Venice Beach, everyone calls it Dogtown" Jay said hopping up onto the counter. Some other guys came into the room carrying skateboards.
"Hey bros" one of the guys said
"Dave, Ryan this is Sid" (A/N: I made up Dave and Ryan, so for any reason if you want to use them please ask me) Jay pointed to Sid "And that's Dana" he said raising his eyebrows and pointing to me
"It's nice to meet you" Dave said to me with an odd smile on his face
"Same here" I said trying to be polite but at the same time I had the sudden urge to slap him, he seemed like the type of guy who thought he could get any girl that came his way.
"So are we going to skate or what?" Ryan asked
"Yea, we just need to get out of our suits" Stacy said and they went into the back. They came back out in jeans and t-shirts. They all left the shop, Sid and I exchanged raised eyebrows.
Tony came back in "Are you guys coming or not?"
"Ok" I looked back at Sid
"I don't have a skateboard" Sid said and Tony picked up a skateboard and tossed it to him
"Now you do, come on let's go" Tony left first and then Sid stopped me
"Dana, you better help me so I don't fall. I don't want them to make fun of me" Sid was starting to show his real colors. All he wanted to do was fit in.
I smiled "Don't worry big bro I'll help you" when we got outside I dropped my skateboard down on the floor "Look we're going down a hill, just glide. You don't have to try any special tricks and I bet they wouldn't even notice"
"O-ok" he said stepping onto his skateboard. I looked at them and noticed them trying to show off. Sid saw the smirk on my face "Dana, don't even think about it. You'll fall"
"Oh come on, it's just too easy!"
"Fine, but when mom
asks where you got cuts and scrapes from I'm telling her"
"Ok"
I stood on my skateboard "See you down there" I kicked the ground
as hard as I could and went down the hill. Time to put my plan into
action; I started to pretend that I was losing control of the
skateboard "Watch out!" I screamed trying not to laugh as
everyone looked back at me. I braced myself for what I was about to
do and forced myself a little off the skateboard flying over
everyone. When I landed I stayed as still as I could.
"Oh crap, oh crap" Stacy said
"Someone go see if she's dead" Jay said
"I'm not doing it" Ryan said
"Fine I'll go" Tony said and came over to me "Dana?" he asked slowly. I didn't answer "Come on this isn't funny" still no answer. He looked at the guys who also had a little bit of worried looks on their faces. He kneeled down in front of me and grabbed my hand to see if I had a pulse "Guys she still has a pulse" he sighed.
"Did you guys actually think I would die?" I asked making everyone jump and Dave screamed like a little kid.
"That totally wasn't funny" Tony said standing up
"Yes it was" I started cracking up
"You could have really hurt yourself, that was really stupid" Tony looked at my arms and the side of my face "Look you even have cuts on your face"
"If a guy bailed you would think it was no big deal. I don't need a lecture here"
"That was pretty sick" Jay spoke up. Sid finally made it down the hill about to fall.
"Where do you guys skate for fun?" I asked hoping to distract them. They all looked at each other with a smirk.
"Anywhere and everywhere we want" they all said together
"Awesome" I said with a smile.
Well one person has this story on alert so I thought I'd update for them. :Waits for reviews:
