Chapter 39: Real Friends (Part One)

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"So, if Haley likes your little brother, what does that have to do with you?" Skills asked, as he sat next to Luke on the bleachers.

"He's using her Skills, to get back at me."

"Is it working dawg?"

"Have you been listening?"

"Look dawg, I tuned out when you said you had a heated argument with Haley."

"If you have something to say Skills, say it."

"Alright dawg. I think you like playing the victim."

"What? My best friend is being used by my little brother to get back at me. How am I playing the victim?"

"Clearly dawg, it's about you, which brings me to point number two. You're afraid of change."

"Go on, Doctor Phil."

"Luke you're my dawg. I sympathize with your situation with your dad, but dawg if you don't face yourself, you'll end up closing those of us who love you out of your

life. We care about you dawg."

"What do you know?"

"I know you spend time out here trying to find yourself. I know you resent Nathan because he has what you would appreciate in his place. I know you come here

because change scares you. I'm not saying this to put you down, but to light a flame under your behind."

"To do what exactly, Skills?"

"Let your best friend, your other best friend, breathe. And don't think about using me as a replacement.

I'm still Samuel L. "Skills" Jackson aka Mace Windu, Luke 'my dawg' Skywalker."

Luke laughed. Skills gave him a playful nudge.

"Give him a chance, dawg. Give him a chance to mess up before you pull out the lightsaber."

"I did. How many chances does he get, Yoda?"

"The Word says…um seventy times seven, dawg."

Luke rolled his eyes.

"Don't be rolling your eyes at God's Word, dawg. They might stay up there."

Luke shook his head.

"Thanks Skills. I really don't like you right now, but thanks."

"It's okay, dawg. Once it hits what that equals, I'm done." Skills joked, and Luke was the one who gave him a playful nudge this time.