"Umm. . .did I miss something?" Yoyo looked back and forth in between me and Beat

"I also didn't expect you to accept in a little kid into the GGs."

"I'm not little yo!" Yoyo glared at Beat

"Oh really? Let's have a race then" Beat smirked "If you win, you're not a little kid, and I join the GGs. If I win. . ." he turned to me "You have to say you hate Gum in her face"

I sighed. Beat was still an ass, like olden days. I turned to Yoyo, who was looking up at me, and nodded. He turned back to Beat and glared at him again

"Fine"

"Good. Follow me to where we start" Beat skated away. We both followed him. As we skated, I kept looking, hoping Gum wasn't around. I still didn't want Gum to see him yet. Was I being selfish? Looking back, I wasn't sure. . .

We made it back to the bottom of the hill, and Beat stopped and looked over at Yoyo from behind his blue tinted goggles "Ready when you are, shrimp"

I could tell Yoyo glared at Beat again from behind his shades. I leaned on the rail behind me and listened to DJ Professor K start the countdown for the race. Then, they raced off, both going as fast as they could. I watched until I couldn't see them, then just waited. Gum soon found me and skated up to me

"What are you waiting for? Where's Yoyo?" She stopped in front of me and looked around

"Just sit down, you'll see" I patted the space next to me on the rail. She sat down, and a couple minutes later, Yoyo appeared and crossed the invisible finish line. A couple seconds later, Beat came behind him

"Damnit. . ." he murmured, then noticed Gum, who was staring at him with wide eyes

"Beat?" Gum asked, and Beat sighed. Gum got up, skated in front of him, then leaned her face in so it was close to his "What the hell Beat! What the hell! Do you know how worried we were for you? It's been almost 4 years. 4 YEARS! And you suddenly just decide to show up and expect us to be all happy and let you be our leader again? I hate you! I FUCKING HATE YOU!" She pushed him and skated back off to the garage.

"I totally missed something yo" Yoyo sighed

"She still hasn't forgiven me" Beat rolled his eyes

"She isn't the only one" It was my turn to glare "You may be a GG again, but you aren't our leader anymore, and you never will be" I skated away, not caring if either of them followed or not. I only could think of Gum now. And I finally came to the realization.

Shit, I actually liked her. I loved her. I went through my memories, trying to remember when it started, and thinking how stupid I was not to notice before. I was so fucking stupid. I always was, and I always would be. When I reached the garage, I found Gum there again, sitting down, her back leaning against one of the pillars, just like last time. But, this time, I wasn't going to make that mistake again. I grabbed Potts, and skated up to her again, this time holding Potts in front of her face, who started licking her happily

"Someone wanted to cheer you up" I smiled at her as she looked up and took Potts from my arms and holding him against her chest

"Thanks Corn" Gum was able to give a small smile "I thought I would be able to get over Beat, but I still haven't"

"It's okay Gum" I hugged her, but made sure not to squish Potts, who was now in between us "I missed him too, hell I'm actually kind of happy he came back, but he has nothing in his defense for leaving for 4 years"

"Thanks again Corn" Gum smiled a little bigger as I broke the hug and wiped away one of her tears

"It's no problem. Come on; let's go to Shibuya Terminal for a bit" I stood up and held out my hand to help her up

"I guess" Gum set Potts grabbed my hand. I helped her up, and we skated off to Shibuya Terminal. But. . .something had happened to all those tags that we had taken so much time to put there

"Poison Jam" was the only word to escape my lips. They had all of their tags with their weird graffiti

"Come on, this might keep us busy for a bit" Gum started skating towards the closest tag while taking out a can of spray paint. I sighed and followed, brandishing two cans of spray paint from my baggy pants. We were there for a couple hours, just covering up all of Poison Jam's graffiti. But, when we were done, someone approached us

He was tall, had a pretty good build, very dark skin, and carried a large boom box.

"Did you spray all that shit on my territory?" He question us

"Does it look like we're Poison Jam?" I raised an eyebrow

"And since when was this your territory? We've had this spot for 4 years" Gum crossed her arms

"Now it's my spot. Though, you can have it back if you can copy me perfectly" He skated away and started grinding on a rail. After a while of jumping and grinding, he got off and yelled "Can ya do that?"

"Perfectly" Gum spat and jumped onto the rail, grinding and jumped exactly like him. She jumped off right next to him and looked up at him "Happy?"

Before the man could reply, 3 Poison Jam skated right past them towards Rokkaku-Dai Heights. Gum growled at them and the man sighed

"Sorry for doubting you, guess it was them who did it" The man turned towards me as I skated up to the two "Can I join your guy's gang"

"Sure" I nodded

"Thanks. The name's Combo by the way." The man nodded back at me. Then, sirens rung out on the air as Police Cars started surrounding us.

"Surrender or you will be shot" one of the officers yelled, and they all started approaching us

"We'd be shot even if we did surrender" Gum rolled her eyes, then punched the nearest officer, knocking down him and a couple officers behind him. Combo and I ran into the rest, knocking them down and spraying all of their backs.

"That was way to easy" Gum sighed as she brushed the invisible dust off of her arms

"Yeah. . ." I sighed with her, then noticed something from the corner of my eye "Shit! Gum!" I skated over to her as fast as I could and tackled her, bullets barely missing both of us. I turned to get a better look at the attacker, and glared

Hayashi

I had learned his face all to well from my days on the street. He was an insane bastard that was the head of the Rokkaku Police, the bastards that enforced the law of no expression, and the same thing us Rudies try to bring down. I had once heard a rumor that he trashed a police car just because someone had gotten him mint flavored candy instead of his favorite coffee flavored

"Why is it so hard for you to just capture a couple punks" He yelled at the Rokkaku Police guys standing behind him "Just arrest them already!"

"Yes Sir!" They yelled and started running towards the three

"I don't know about you two, but I'm getting out of here" Combo turned around and skated off

"Thanks. . ." I sighed and got up as fast as I could, helping Gum up. We skated away as well, leaving the Rokkaku Police and Hayashi in the dust. One thing I learned, do not even try to mess with Hayashi unless you really had to, because that was one insane dude, and his gun was loaded with real bullets.

We were able to make it back to the Garage in one piece, where Beat and Yoyo were waiting, and boy did they look like shit

"What the hell happened to you two?" I asked, and they both sighed

"We had two run ins with the Police" Yoyo groaned

"One time they had tanks" Beat added

"That sucks" Combo commented. Tanks were always the worst, next to Helicopters. But only because they were always to damn hard to reach more than the threat they posed.

"Who's he?" Yoyo pointed to Combo

"Combo, he's our newest member" Gum nodded "After we spent hours covering up Poison Jam graffiti over in Shibuya Terminal"

"Shibuya Terminal too?" Beat sighed again

"What do you mean 'too'?" I looked over at Beat

"We were over in Chuo Street covering up Poison Jam graffiti" Yoyo rolled his eyes "Than they challenged us to a race, and we totally kicked their asses"

"So that's why we saw them in Shibuya Terminal" Gum looked like she was thinking hard

"You know what, I have an idea" I smiled, and they all turned towards me

"What?"

"We should go infiltrate their territory. It'd teach them not to mess with us ever again"

"Awesome! We get to kick some more Poison Jam ass!" Yoyo grinned, but Beat yawned

"I'm pooped, I'm going to bed before I fall asleep here" Beat stretched and skated off. I found myself tired as well, so I plopped down onto the couch and propped my feet on the armrest

"I'm hitting the hay too" I raised a hand and closed my eyes. I think I fell asleep, I'm not sure, but I got waken by Gum

"Hey Corn?" she asked softly

"Yes?" I opened one eye groggily

"Can I sleep with you on the couch tonight?" I could tell from the dim light that she had a hint of sadness on her face

"Why?"

"Thinking of fighting Poison Jam gives me the creeps"

"Sure" I scooted over as far as I could against the back of the couch, and she laid down next to me, her face in mine. I could feel her warm breath on my face each time she exhaled, and her hands between our bodies. For once, I felt a little happy. When I knew she was asleep, I kissed her on the forehead and closed my eyes, falling asleep as well

My name is Corn, I'm sleeping with the one person I'd never thought I'd sleep with. This is my story