Tovah was awoken the next morning by the sound of an incessant car horn blaring from outside, she slowly opened her eyes and took in the full force of the morning sun on her sensitive eyes. She looked down at her clothing to find out that she was still in the same thing she had worn to Tony's yesterday. "Who's fucking car horn is that, it's Saturday for Christ sake," Tovah thought. Saturday, Del Mar was on Saturday.

"Oh shit!" She yelled

Tovah swung her legs out of bed, and picked up the first pair of jeans she saw on the ground, slipped them haphazardly over her legs and rushed outside.

"Tovah you aren't wearing shoes you dipshit!" She heard Biniak scream as he shoved his head out the car window

She swiftly turned around, rushed back inside and slid a pair of flip-flops on her feet. Once she made her way outside again she got into the already overcrowded car that belonged to Skip Engblom. That's when full hangover oblivion reached her body, the loud music blasting through the car, the tone-deaf singing voices of her friends, and the overcrowded vehicle.

"Oh fuck no Tovah! No no no no!" Tony had realized that the girl was literally about to blow "Skip pull over now or you are gonna be cleaning puke out of your car"

The car skidded over to the side of the road and Tony practically pushed Tovah out of the vehicle. All the boys in the car cringed when they saw the girls back heave, and they cringed again when they saw her turn around and coyly wipe her mouth.

"You're lucky you didn't puke in here girl, because you would have been cleaning this car until it shined"

Tovah bit her cheek in order to keep any snide comments to herself because she knew anything she would say at now would just be rebuttaled with the fact that she just puked. Right then she silently vowed to herself that she would never take shots again, ever.

"So Tovah I heard about you and Paul," Wentzle said to her with a smug smile on his face

She stayed silent, this was Wentzle little game with her, he tried his hardest to get her pissed off so she would snap at him. He thought it was hilarious, she thought it was the most annoying thing in the world.

"I heard you were being a total a total prude with him," Wentzle jabbed again

All the guys treated her a little roughly, mostly because she was one of two girls that they associated with in a friend-type manner. Wentzle hadn't always treated her like this, it all really started at one of Tony's parties.

It was two years earlier, the party has been normal, everyone was drunk, and getting high, it was one of many good times in the Alva home. Tovah was listening to Stacy talk animatedly about Lynyrd Skynyrd's new song Free Bird.

"Seriously Tovah, it the perfect song! I don't understand what you don't get about it?" Stacey had a seriously love for southern rock

"You know I'm not into shit like that but, if you wanna talk music let's talk about Floyd's new song Money! I swear Dark Side of The Moon is there best album yet," Tovah smiled because she knew Stacy couldn't say anything bad about Pink Floyd

"Whatever," he mumbled taking a small sip of this drink

Just then Led Zeppelin's Over the Hill and Far Away started playing, Tovah quickly searched the room for Peggy, this was the two girls favorite song. She couldn't find her inside so she had to be outside smoking, or upstairs doing something else. Tovah was about to go search for the girl until someone tapped on her shoulder.

"Hey Tovah," It was Wentzle

"Yo dude, what's up?"

"Uh nothin', I got some quality chronic upstairs in Tony's room that's just waiting to be smoked if you're up for it,"

Seeing nothing weird about Wentzle's offer she said yes and headed upstairs with him, once you got upstairs in the Alva home all the music became muffled. They both headed into Tony's room, well it was actually Tony and Kathy's room. Tovah sat down on Tony's bed surprised that the room was even empty; usually people were always in here doing things. Wentzle walked over to the record player and touched the needle down onto a record, the crackling sounds filled the empty room and then the music began to play.

I've been really tryin', baby, Tryin' to hold back this feeling for so long. And if you feel like I feel, baby, then, c'mon, oh, c'mon. Let's get it on.

"Oh fuck no" Tovah thought. She immediately began to think of ways to get out of the room as quickly as possible. "Why is this happening? Wentzle has never shown any interest in me, and this is not the way to tell a girl you like her." Tovah's inner-monologue went on until Wentzle sat down next to her on the bed.

"Wentzle I don't like you like this I'm sorry!" Tovah said all in one breath

She got off the bed, shut the door behind her, and ran downstairs. That was the most awkward experience of her life, she didn't tell anyone about what happened, and she could only hope Wentzle wouldn't either out of sheer embarrassment.

Tovah grit her teeth and looked at her feet, she wasn't going to say anything to him, she tried her hardest not to give him the satisfaction of making her mad, but this might be one of those few times where she slipped.

Wentzle had just opened his mouth to make another smart comment until Skip cut him off "If you say one more dumb thing Wentzle I will throw your skinny ass out of this car and make you walk to Del Mar," With that Wentzle shut up "You little maggots need to focus on skating, not your stupid bullshit. Tovah can't skate so I don't give a shit what she does, but the rest of you better fucking rip this competition a new asshole,"

They finally pulled into a parking lot and everyone piled out of the car, Tovah hung back while everyone rushed to the front of the line, her mood just hadn't been right since yesterday, since she had her fight with Stacey. Tovah began to bite her nails as she walked to the front of the line meeting up with the Zephyr crew, they looked sort of professional, in their blue Vans, Levi's, and blue Zephyr T-shirts, they really did look like a legitimate team, honestly they looked more like a gang.

"You ready for today Tovah!" Jay yelled as he ran up behind her wrapping his arm around her shoulder

"Are you ready?" Tovah asked him seriously

"What?" That threw him off "Of course I'm ready Toe, these guys ain't got nothin' on me,"

Tovah nodded her head saying nothing

"Ignore Wentzle, he's a fuckin' douche, he's probably still pissed about you ditching him that one night,"

"So he did tell people, of course he did," Tovah thought

The team made there way over to the course, it was flat, no bumps, ridges, anything, just a flat tabletop. The entire team groaned and began to complain about the terrain, they didn't know what to do on it, it wasn't what they were used to at all.

"This is so beat!" Tony yelled, "Look at these faggots, doing handstands and shit!" Tony threw his board on the ground and sat down on the benches surrounding the course.

"Whatever man, we can work with it, we got this," Shogo said as he looked out at the guy currently riding

"Alright you little grommets, Jay is skating first, scare them. Do some shit they've never seen before, tear up this course like you would a wave and we got this shit in the bag," Skip said as he pushed Jay out onto the course

The entire Zephyr team watched intently as Jay shredded the course, he was skating harder then any of them had ever seen, he even did a couple tricks the team had never seen him do. At the end of his run he got a pretty high score, and he left the crowd, and skaters from other teams stunned. After a couple of the guys runs Tovah had wandered off, there were tons of people here it was ridiculous, she had never even realized so many people were into the skating scene around here, but apparently they were.

"Tovah get back over here you won't fucking believe this!" Peggy had found her and bad begun dragging her back over to the course

Tovah didn't believe it, Stacy was there on the course riding independently, skating better than she had ever seen him skate. He was doing really well and everyone seemed to love the longhaired independent skater with the stripped polo on.

"I can't believe that little fucker!" Jay said with a smile on his face "Who the hell knew he could skate like that?" Jay was watching him intensely you could tell it wasn't all happiness that was washing over his features, there was a little jealously there too.

"Shit, he scored higher than Tony," Someone on the Zephyr team mumbled

Stacy walked over to the Zephyr team after his run, there was a huge smiled planted on his face as his friends congratulated him, Skip even mumbled a "nice run" under his breath. It was weird not talking to him Tovah didn't even make eye contact with him, they were treating each other like strangers and it was so forced. Tovah would have loved to run over to Stacey the moment he was done his run to congratulate him, make him laugh, but they just weren't in that place right now.

"Stacy you were incredible!" Kathy had come over and wrapped her arms around Stacey "And you looked so hot out there," She said with a smirk

Blanca, Gina, and Ivana had tagged along with Kathy too, all Dogtowners that would tear your tongue out in a second if you tried to talk to their guys. The thing is though, they didn't have boyfriends, a few girls from Dogtown had staked there claim on certain Dogtowners, and although they had never hooked up with these certain men if anyone even breathed too close to them they would set them straight. Blanca was fierce about "her man" she had been obsessed with Tony since she was twelve, she even tried to learn to skateboard to impress him, she ended that hobby the moment she fell off her board and knocked one of her teeth out. Blanca and Tovah hadn't gotten along since the moment Blanca found that Tovah and Tony had sex, and what made Blanca even more furious is that they were both sober when it happened.

"Hey Tovah," Blanca said to Tovah with a sour look on her face

"What's up Blanca?" Tovah sighed, "I didn't know you were coming today,"

"Of course. Why would I miss Tony's first competition?"

Watching the two girls talk to one another was like waiting for a bomb to explode, it was all calm until it exploded. All that needed to happen was one girl needed to say something that would really tick the other one off.

"So Tovah," Blanca smirked she was about to say something that she knew would get to Tovah "I heard you and Paul were getting friendly last night,"

Tovah said nothing

"But you wouldn't even do anything with him because you only fuck other girl's guys, right?"

Tovah cracked the knuckle in her right thumb and swung her fist towards Blanca's face knocking the girl to the ground.

"I am so fucking sick of hearing about this!" Tovah screamed at Blanca "I am so sick of you! Sorry that Tony and me had sex one time and you just can't seem to get over it!" Tovah kicked Blanca in her side "You need to fucking get over yourself!"

Tovah felt herself being pulled away from everyone, she looked up to see that it was Skip pulling her away from everyone. Tovah realized that a crowd had started to form around the two and Blanca was still on the ground crying, of course she was crying, she had to create some type of show.

"You know you can't just punch that girl every time she says something you don't like," Skip said

"Well, maybe if she didn't say stupid shit all the time I wouldn't have to punch her," Tovah didn't want to talk to anyone and she especially didn't want to talk to Skip

"You can't let these little punks get to you, especially that girl, what's her name? Bianca, or whatever,"

Tovah couldn't wrap her head around why Skip would even be talking to her about this. Skip didn't get himself involved in stuff that didn't matter to him, or wouldn't affect him in a direct manner.

"Her name is Blanca. She's a bitch, and I don't let anyone get to me, I don't care what they say about me,"

"Anyway, I was talking to some guy and there's a surfing competition in Huntington Beach, all girls competition, cash prize and shit," This was Skip's motive she knew that there had to be one "You're going to enter this shit and win. Your going to use one of my boards and kids are gonna be lining up around the block to buy a Zephyr board,"

"What if I don't want to?" Tovah questioned

"Funny girly, but you're gonna enter, and you're gonna win," Skip patted her on the back awkwardly and walked away

She knew from the moment Skip said "surfing competition" that she was going to enter, she had done a couple competitions before and done pretty well, and she was hoping she could get a free board out of it from Skip. Tovah walked to the parking lot and sat on the hood of Skip's car, she didn't feel like being around anyone right now because she didn't want to talk about Blanca, Paul, or Stacey.

"You like my trophy Tove?" Jay had walked to the parking lot by himself, gold trophy in hand

"Oh yeah, it's huge," Tovah said rolling her eyes at Jay

"Yeah well whatever, my mom will be excited about it, I've never won a trophy before,"

Tovah frowned "I didn't mean it like that, it's cool that you won, you skated fucking good today,"

"You know you loosened one of Blanca's teeth, she'll probably have to get it pulled out. So now she'll have two missing teeth,"

Tovah chuckled a little bit at the thought of Blanca losing another tooth "Yeah well what can I say I have a mean right hook,"

Jay grabbed Tovah's chin with he pointer finger and thumb forcing her to look directly into his eyes, she averted her gaze down not wanting to look at him right now, she didn't feel like playing any of Jay's little games right now.

Jay flicked her on the forehead with his freehand "Look at me,"

Tovah locked eyes with him once again, she opened her mouth to say sometime to him and Jay took this opportunity to put his lips onto hers. Tovah gave in immediately; she was in a weird enough mood today not to care about Jay's kisses. Jay removed his hand from Tovah's chin and placed it on the back of her neck pulling her closer to him. Feeling the contact of his cold palm against her neck pulled her out of their kiss.

"Why do you always fucking do that?"

"What, make you horny?" Jay said as he brought his lips down to her neck

Tovah pushed his head away from her "No, you always randomly kiss me! Why do you do that all the time?"

"Because I want to, because I think you're sexy,"

"Well stop! It's confusing, and I don't want to fuck you so stop!"

Tovah started to get up from the hood of the car until Jay grabbed her by her wrist and pulled her back "I don't want to fuck you either!" Jay yelled at her

"Find someone your own age to play these little games with JB,"

"No," Jay said simply

Once again Jay's lips connected with hers, and that was the exact moment that everyone decided it was time to go, that exact moment when everyone decided "Hey! Lets go to the parking lot". Tovah pushed Jay away from her quickly hoping that by some force up above that no one saw that, but of course they did. Of course the entire Zephyr team saw them kissing, of course Stacey saw it, and Kathy, and of course Blanca. Now not only did she have Blanca, Kathy, and Stacey to deal with, she had her entire friend base to deal with. Tovah got off the hood of the car and sat in the front seat of Skip's car, she didn't have anything to say to anyone, but god did they have stuff to say to her