Ch22

Alanna rubbed her eyes, as she sat on the couch in her living room. It's been about a week since the Skateboard Magazine photo shoot, and life doesn't seem any different. The only sound to be heard was her ragged breathing pattern, the faint sound of the waves crashing on the shore farther down the road, and a beep from the answering machine telling her there was a message.

Alanna walked into her home , by herself as usual, to here a little beep. She looked in the direction it was coming from and squinted her eyes to see a red light blinking under a pillow. She picked up the pillow and looked down at one of those answering machines. She pressed a button, and it started to play.

'You have 1 new message. Message 1 : Alanna, it's me. Umm...it's been about two weeks since I've heard from you. I'm sorry. About everything. That you had to see it. I'm going to tell you that those men were chasing me, and began to beat me over. They might let me go over self defense, but that's if I'm lucky, and I've never had much luck in my life. I trust that you have called your mother, and confided in her more than you can in me obviously. I'll call back soon. Hope you're doing well...I-I ummm...I love you Alanna...bye : there are no more messages'

Breathing a heavy sigh she got up grabbed her board, and walked out the door. Unsure of where she was gonna go. All she knew was that there was a celebration party for the magazine cover at the Zephyr shop tonight, and oh god was she gonna party...

Jay sat on the top of the old ticket booth on P.O.P over looking the beach. He didn't know what he was doing up there but he knew it was the perfect place for him to be at the moment.

Everyone's Changing.

"Jay! Come on let's go!" Jay looked down to see Kathy Alva waving him down with a feather sticking out of her hair. Jay hopped down, and walked up to her throwing an arm around her shoulders and kissing her cheek. She giggled.

"Let's go babe," he said and began walking towards the Zephyr shop...

Stacy sat in his car, with a tape in his hands.

Songs for Kathy.

He hadn't heard from her in forever since the night he left at Tony's house. Nothing. Not a single phone call. At all. He shook his head and tossed the tape in the back seat of his car, and opened the door, getting out with a frown on his face.

He closed the door and turned around, but bumped into someone.

"Oh sor-hey Lanna," Stacy said holding the girl's shoulders. She didn't look so happy.

"Hey Stace," she said limply. Stacy took this into notice, and softened his frown, leaned against the car for a minute.

"What's the matter?" he asked pulling her arm to signal for her to do the same. She leaned against the car next to him.

"My father called. Just a little shook, you know man?" she said looking over to him. He nodded, "Ah, whatever. There's nothing I can do."

"That's true," Stacy said nodding again, "C'mon." Stacy grabbed her arm, and began to drag her into the party.

Stacy and Alanna walked through the door to the shop behind Tony and Jay, and the crown clapped for them. Alanna laughed.

This isn't happening to me.

She smiled at her luck and continued to walk through the party not noticing that Stacy had let her go, and was being swarmed by people, as she was at the moment. She continued to smile, and reached over to the table snapping open a beer, and taking a swig.

To hell with it...

Stacy walked throughout the party, hands in the pockets of his khakis. He looked around occasionally removing one hand out of his pocket to push some of his blonde hair out of his face. He was thinking about her, but couldn't see her.

Kathy where are you? I know you're here.

He still felt bad for leaving her there the other night, but he wasn't gonna make out with her in front of Tony. That'd just be weird.

"Stacy man, you got to look at these wheels! What kinda board do you think these would look good on?" a group of guys crowded around Stacy. He took the wheel looked at it and shrugged.

"I'd have to see the design," he said and walked away towards a table for a drink.

"I don't want you to wear underwear around me again," Stacy heard a familiar voice say seductively.

He looked up to see Kathy and Jay kissing one another like there was no tomorrow. Kathy caught sight of him and stopped. Stopped the kissing, and the rubbing on Jay's bare chest.

"Hey Stacy," were the two words that popped out of Kathy Alva's mouth as she tried to smile a little, and she walked away, as Jay watched.

"What about Alanna man?" Stacy asked not only disappointed by that.

"What about her man?" Jay said, and Stacy felt infuriated.

"You couldn't even tell me? I thought you were my friend," Stacy said giving Jay the death glare. He smiled, and threw a hand on Stacy's shoulder.

" I am, and I love you bro, but... you couldn't handle her," Jay said giving a little laugh and throwing his arm in the direction that Kathy left in.

"And you can?" Stacy retorted.

"Apparently so."

A/N : OoO Suspense. Another chapter uppp. Sorry, the darn document manager hasn't been working on my cpu for the past week, so I've sat here in agony with a new chapter, and no one to read it. Well here it is. Enjoy

Nat