It's a bright, sunny Thursday afternoon at the Shell Shack. Anna is sitting alone, eating a cheeseburger and staring out into the ocean. She continues to stare into the ocean in a daydream. After a few minutes, a sound snaps Anna out of her trance. It's a skateboard. She looks over to see Harmony skating down the hill to the shack. Even though Harmony was still a little shaky, she had gotten to the point where she could hold her balance fairly well, even downhill. She got off her skateboard and sat down next to Anna swiftly.

"Hey Anna!"

"Hey Harm. What's up?"

Harmony wore a bright smile as she spoke.

"Finally getting this skateboarding thing down. You left school pretty quick. We were all looking for you."

Anna took a look at the sky again before answering.

"Sorry. Just had to get some air. And a burger...I guess."

Anna took a bite of her burger again. Harmony watched her take a bite before responding.

"I can see that."

Harmony laughs and Anna slightly chuckles as she continued to chew her food.

"After you finish eating that, wanna join Otto and the gang at the park?"

Anna finished chewing her food before answering Harmony.

"Sure. Sounds good."

Anna takes her time eating her food as Harmony waits patiently. Harmony looks at Anna, trying to dissect why she has become so quiet. As Anna finishes her food, she gets out of her chair, taking the time to throw out the scraps and cleaning up the table. As she starts to wipe the table down with a napkin, a voice near surprises her.

"Oh you don't have to worry about that lil' cuz. I'll take care of it."

Tito, who called all of the gang "lil' cuz", was behind her with washcloth in hand. Anna catches her breathe before speaking.

"Okay. Thanks Tito."

Tito nods back as Anna and Harmony walk out towards the park. It seems neither is in much of a hurry as they enjoy the scenery. After a few minutes of walking, Harmony speaks up.

"Apparently Rick is going to try some ridiculous trick on the ramp. Twister's gonna tape it. Suppose to be really rad."

Anna smiles.

"Should be awesome. I'm sure he can pull it off."

Harmony nods in agreement as they reach the park. They can see Jorge, Sam and Reggie down near the ramp. Harmony runs over to the three, while Anna takes her time slowly walking over. Harmony's positive attitude shows in her face as she speaks.

"We ready for this?"

As she looks up to the ramp, however, she doesn't see Rick.

"Wait. Where's Rick?"

Sam points to the houses overlooking the ramp as he speaks.

"Rick and Otto went with Twister to his house to get the camera."

As everyone turns their heads over to look, Anna, whose eyes were already glanced towards that direction, poses a question in a quick, curious tone.

"Should we go over to get them?"

Harmony gives a surprised look at Anna's change of attitude as Jorge answers.

"Nah. They'll only be gone a few more minutes. Might as well just wait here."

As the group looks back onto the ramp, Reggie goes up to do some tricks of her own on the ramp. Sam, Harmony and Jorge look on in awe as Anna's eyes continue to wander. After a few tricks, Reggie takes a minor fall. Sam quickly heads over to check on her.

"You okay?"

"Yeah. Thanks Sam. The ramp seems a little off today. You really think Rick can pull the ollie 180 on this?"

Just as Reggie gets up, they see Rick riding his skateboard towards the ramp. He's clearly been going faster than he's used to, as he finally reaches the ramp sweating and breathing hard in exhaustion. Jorge sarcastically speaks to Rick.

"About time. We've been waiting."

Rick tries to catch his breathe as he responds.

"I know I know. Twister's making sure the camera's working before he leaves his house. Otto said he'd ride next to him. I gotta get some practice in beforehand."

Rick heads on up to the ramp and starts getting in practice runs as everyone else watches. Anna continuously watches up to Twister's house. After a minute, she sees a figure walk out of the house, yet she can't tell who it is. Assuming it's Twister and Otto on their way back, she focuses back on chatting with the group as they watch Rick and Reggie alternate runs on the ramp...

Otto and Twister are seen frantically rummaging around Twister's room. Twister tosses a shirt off his dresser drawer.

"Come on Otto man, we gotta find that camera!"

After a few more seconds of looking, Twister stops looking. Otto looks confused at him.

"Did you find it Twist?"

Twister then starts to smile as he comes to a realization.

"That's right! I put it in the garage!"

Twister quickly runs out of the room downstairs. Otto goes to quickly follow, yet looks back to realize his glasses are missing. He looks around the room cautiously, trying his best to manage to view the room with his poor vision. He finally notices them under the blanket on Twister's bed. As he peels off the blanket to get them, he notices something underneath Twister's pillow.

"What the..."

Otto lifts up the pillow and notices a green journal. He picks it up and looks at it. On the front is written "Twister's Rad Thoughts", along with a picture of him skateboarding. Otto briefly flashes back to a few years back, where their teacher had assigned each student one of the journals to keep their thoughts in, and then share them with the class. Otto had thrown out his right after that school year.

"Can't believe Twist kept this."

As Otto looks around, curiosity gets the better of him, and he opens it to look inside. He noticed the pages they were assigned to do in school were written very briefly, and poorly. As he continued to look through, he noticed only three entries that weren't from school were there. As he looked at the dates, they were all in the past week. He stared puzzled as to why he would take the time to write in this again. Otto quickly puts the journal down and looks downstairs to see Twister still looking around the garage for the camera. He thinks for a second. As he goes to put the journal back under the pillow, he hesitates, and looks back into it.

"I shouldn't. But I'll read just one."

As he opens the journal to the latest entry, he begins to read.

Monday, July 14th

Yo Journal Buddy.

"Journal Buddy?"

Otto begins to laugh as he continues to read on.

"I've been busy latley. All the gang hung out on Saturday at Ottos place. It was rad. Me and Anna are chill again. She's cool, just not in that way. It's weird. She's a cool person, just not the person I want to be with. I don't know..."

Otto continued to read about Twister's writing, from him working on his skating moves to boring classes and teachers. As Otto wondered if he should even keep reading, he came across a part that pricked his attention back.

"I saw him again today too. I mean I see him all the time, but every time is amazing. We walked by in the lunch room. He was chilling with the other gang members. He smiled and waved and so did me. I always get really nervus when I see him, but in a good way. I've never felt like that, you know? He's just...really cool. I know I said this before but...I think I like him. I still have no clue how to tell him. In time I guess..."

Otto stop reading and just continued to stare at the book, wondering what he just read. As he continued to think, he heard a loud noise from downstairs.

"I found it! You ready, Otto man?"

He quickly snaps out of his trans and puts the journal back under his pillow the way he found it, trying to make it seem like he never touched it.

"Give me a second and I'll be down."

After scrambling to fix the room, he quickly runs downstairs to meet Twister, as they head towards the park. The ride is quiet as they were both more focused to get there in a fast pace to catch up with everyone. As they finish the ride in, the group walks over to greet them, some in relief they made it and others frustrated. Reggie is the first to speak up.

"About time you two got here. No need to make him wait any longer."

Twister catches his breathe as he positions his camera at the bottom of the ramp. As he gets ready, he speaks up to Rick atop the ramp.

"I'm super sorry I got here so late."

Rick smiles back at Twister in his nervous state.

"You good. No worries."

Everyone soon gets themselves in position to watch, along with some spectators who noticed the group. Sam, Anna and Reggie all sit near the ramp in anxious wait. Jorge and Harmony stand farther back, while Otto stands far away, watching Rick while still thinking through what just happened at Twister's house. Rick looks down at Twister for a few seconds as he gives a thumbs up to inform him he's ready. Twister gives him a thumbs up back as he hits record.

"Alright dude. You got this."

Rick takes one more deep breathe as he prepares himself. Finally, he heads down the ramp and begins his run. Other than the time before, Rick takes a few trips up and down the ramp to get himself prepared for "The Disaster" again. As Rick takes one more easy trip up the ramp, he focuses himself and starts his descent down the ramp. As he hits the ollie 180 that screwed him up before, everyone begins to gasp in nervous watch, however Rick's practice pays off as he lands it with precision he wasn't even expecting. A cheer is heard from the gang as they meet him at the bottom of the ramp. Rick takes his helmet off in a sigh of relief.

"About time I nailed that one."

Reggie gives him a high five as the group congratulates him.

"Under pressure too. Sick move."

As they all calm themselves down, Anna speaks up.

"Let's go tell Raymundo and celebrate!"

The group starts to head out in excitement. As Rick takes his time walking behind the group, he notices Otto still at the ramp, seemingly lost in thought. Rick walks back towards him.

"You coming Otto?"

He once again snaps out of his thought and looks at Rick.

"Oh yeah. Sorry about that."

As everyone heads over to the Shack, many of them had different thoughts on their mind. Most focused on celebrating the success of one of their friends, while others had pressing matters on their mind. They all ate a ton of food in excitement and continue to chat about the various of things they usually did throughout the normal day. They had gotten use to the company of a big group and enjoyed it immensely. Sure, life was much trickier for all of them since they had met up that first day, yet things were all in all better around each other, no matter what was going through their minds. Even with the new issues each person faced, life for all of them was still very good...