As the week continued, Kim was feeling more and more distant from Jack. He had been spending all his time with Danny. Yes, she gets it that he hadn't seen his childhood friend for a long time and they had a lot of catching up to do but was it not possible to still share some of that time? There had been a couple of occasion when Jack invited Kim to come along with him and Danny but when she did she had a hard time keeping up with their inside jokes and stories. Danny was always bringing stuff up about when they were kids and the things they used to do.
Like the time when the three of them were hanging out at Falafel Phil's. They were talking about the last Bobby Wasabi movies they had each seen.
Kim: The last Bobby Wasabi I watched was the one I saw with Jack a couple of nights ago, One Samurai and Fifty Ninjas wasn't it?
Jack: Yeah! One of my favourites! I think that was the last one I saw too.
Danny: Jack made me watch that one all the time too, when we were kids!
Kim: Haha did he know all the lines then too?
Danny: I'd say he knew about 50% of them
Kim: Well you're lucky then, he knows all the lines now and recites them all along with the movie. I still don't understand why we have to watch that one all the time when he knows it by heart.
Jack: Because you still jump every time when the ninja leaps out of the dark. Gives me a reason to comfort you and put my arm around you.
Kim: I still don't understand why that scene always gets me…And since when do you need a reason to put your arm around me.
Jack smirks
Danny: Hey Jack remember when we were kids we would dress up like the characters in Bobby Wasabi movies and role-play.
Jack: Haha Yeah! How can I forget that. If anyone knew the movies better than me it was Danny. You knew the characters freakishly accurately.
Danny does Bobby Wasabi impersonation.
Jack responds with his own Bobby Wasabi impersonation
It must have been from one of Bobby Wasabi's lesser known, more rare films because Kim couldn't recognize which movie they were quoting from.
What Kim also experienced from hanging out with Danny and Jack was that Danny didn't really like her. On the occasional times when she and Jack would have a 'moment' in front of Danny she could have sworn she saw Danny giving her a hostel look, but it was there for such a brief moment Kim tried to convince herself she didn't really see it. But what really hurt her happened today after school. As she walking around the school to find Jack she overheard him and Danny talking.
Danny: Hey Jack, ready to hit the skate park?
Jack: Yeah one sec, I'm just going to text Kim to meet up with us.
Danny: Does she have to come?
Jack: huh?
Danny: It's just that, lately I feel like it's been kind of awkward hanging out with her. She doesn't laugh at the same stuff we do and doesn't understand a lot of what we're talking about. And we're going to the skate park. No offence to Kim or anything, but she's not exactly at the same level we're at. You're always trying her to teach her new stuff and giving her skateboarding tips. It doesn't really give us a chance to hang out when you're always trying to help her. I'm not going to be here for much longer, Jack. I just want to hang out with you while I still can before I have to leave.
Jack: I guess I don't have to invite her…if that's how you feel
Danny: It's not like I don't like Kim or anything! Actually…I feel like it's me she doesn't like…
Jack: What? that's crazy Dan, you're great! And Kim has never said anything about not liking you, even when it's just the two of us.
Danny: That's because I'm your childhood friend, she doesn't want to say anything that would upset you. But I can read her, it's like this code girls can tell about other girls.
Jack: what exactly are you "reading" from her?
Danny: Well like how she crosses her arms when I'm around. I can also tell that when you ask her to come along with us she's trying to think of a way to get out of it. And there's the way she looks at me. I can see it in her eyes that she doesn't like me!
Jack: are you sure?
Danny: Jack I'm a girl. I can sense these things. Trust me, lets just save her the discomfort and hang out just the two of us.
Kim watched Jack and Danny leave without noticing that she was hidden nearby. She couldn't believe what Danny just said about her. Danny made her seem like a hateful, possessive girlfriend. Instead of catching up with them to hang out with them, Kim decided she would secretively follow them, to see if Danny had anything else to say about her behind her back.
She followed them to the skatepark and watched them do they're impressive skateboard tricks. Kim almost ran out of hiding to rush to Jack's side when it looked like he had a nasty fall from an attempt at a skateboarding trick he'd been working on recently. But of course Danny got there first, she helped him up and sat him on a nearby bench. She examined his arm and leg.
Danny: nothing looks like it's broken or sprained. There's no swelling or anything. But there's a lot of blood coming from that scape on your leg. Wait here one sec.
Danny searched in her bag and pulled out a light scarf. She started to wrap it around Jack's bleeding leg.
Jack: Dan! you're going to ruin your scarf!
Danny: Whatever, it's just a scarf.
Danny finished wrapping Jack's leg and he leaned back against the bench.
Jack: I don't get it Dan, why would Kim not like you? You're funny, outgoing and really nice to others.
Danny: Um…you really want to know why I think she doesn't like me?
Jack: Yeah
Danny: I think Kim sees me as a threat.
Jack: Haha, a threat? what kind of threat?
Danny: Threatening in a way that involves me having the potential to steal her boyfriend from her….
At that moment Kim was ready come out and strangle Danny for making stuff up about her.
Jack: WHAT?
Danny: not that I would EVER do anything like that! but I think that's what she thinks I'd do! She's more possessive than you think. Like the other day in the Dojo, she wouldn't stop watching us, it was really creepy!
Jack sat silently thinking things over, trying to convince himself that what Danny was saying wasn't true, but why would Danny make up stuff about Kim?
A bee started to buzz around Kim's head. She tried to lightly shoo it away but it refused to leave her alone. As Kim got more annoyed with the bug Kim got up and started to run away from it, bringing herself out in the open and seen by Danny and Jack.
Jack: KIM? what are you doing here?
