Aelinae's POV

I let out a breath and push forward. One foot in front of the other; knees bent. I feel the air pushing forward, hitting my face, sweeping my hair away from my neck as my hoodie chases after my skin.

This part always left tingles around my body. The fact that I could just crash easily always had my minds in chains. But then, you have that feeling of letting go, like your in control- that part always overpowered the fear.

Though landing was always my roughest.

After feeling free, you then remember you have to stop and your mind goes back to reality. I push my foot down flat and get a rough landing on the ramp as I take off again to where everyone was.

Kc was with Luka's board on the stair sets with her headphones on, in her own world while Luka was on the ground, half of his face covered with the bucket hat he had on as he tampered with Kc's board. He looked like he was doing alright with the board. Next to him was Jordan who sat on his board moving sideways as he bounced his basketball simultaneously with his hands.

"You need to work on your landing Ellie" Jordan says still bouncing the ball. I shrug knowing his right and head behind him to sit. I had a whackass teacher. I see Luka glance at me briefly before going back to what he was doing.

I glance at the triplets who where showing tobias tricks on the banked ramps while he trys to copy it cause that was how tobias learnt things. Simply by copying it.

The triplet were really good in skateboarding- probably the best among us. They all wore matching striped shirts with differents pants.

The triplets where identical but looked so different at the same time. Daelan was a bit leaner than his brothers and always had his hair in a messy bun. He was the middle one so he always was the easy one that settled things between his brothers. He gives a lot of advice but can never keep a girl.

Daevon was very playful and cunning. The first to initiate the trouble and first to flee making himself look like the good one. He's also a big lover, he's the commited one- basically, he's a husband.

Last is Daemon, he's the one prone to trouble, accidents, injuries, you name it. He's also the funniest, he's a talker too, overly friendly. He's the easiest to put the blame on too.

"Where's she?" Jordan askes as he stops bouncing the ball, looking around the park. They were a lot of teens that came here.

"Well she has a name" I say simply while he glares at me, rolling his eyes.

"Ellie" he warns making me laugh.

"Ok Mr. Grumpy, she's in the hospital, one of her brothers broke their leg."Juanita's brothers are always breaking their body parts.

"Those boys should be dead by now, always breaking something" I heard Luka mutter still concentrated on the skateboard making Jordan laugh slightly while I force myself not to laugh at his joke.

Jordan leaves to join the guys tossing his basketball to me. And, leaving me with Luka.

Great.

I play with the basketball not wanting to start a conversation with him until he rudely takes the balls and passes Kc's skateboard to me. I look at the board, anaylsising it. He had done most parts just the last wheel that needed help.

"How did this even happen?" I ask as he passes the screwdriver to me while I fix the last wheel.

"She was trying to skate on the railings in school and well..." he says not finishing the rest making me roll my eyes at his answer.

"That girls always trying to kill herself" I snort concentrating on the board while he laughs. He stops bouncing the ball and looks at me weirdly. His mouth bent in an off angle as he smiled. He looked so goofy- it made me laugh.

How do people like him,

of all people.

He stops smiling while looking at me. Not stare but look. Like really look at me. The sun shining bright on part of his eyes, the rest forming a shadow. Those green orbs swirling, drawing me in.

I want to go to the beach.

Where did that even come from.

"Why don't you like me?" he asks amused like it was the weirdest thing.

Well... they are a lot of reasons but we don't have all day for that now do we?

"Why should I like you?" I say looking mockingly at him. Maybe if I had more time and patient, I would explain each reason to him.

I watch as he sucks his lips in forming a straight line.

"Of course, you'd give me an answer like that" he says looking down smiling. I shrug passing the fixed board to him.

We sit down in silence just watching our friends. Kc had joins the guys so they were all doing tricks now. I wanted to leave and join them but at the same time I didn't.

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"What do you call a bucket that is red?" he askes looking at me briefly.

what do you call a bucket that is red.

what kind of question is that.

who askes a question like that?

"um.. a red bucket" I say looking at him to make sure he was sane.

" Yh you're probably right" he says looking away but I caught the smirk he was wearing. Before I could ask what the hell he was doing I hear Kc call,

"Hey shitbags, over here!" she shouts motioning us to come to banked ramps. I roll my eyes at what she called us. Well what she called me.

Luka stands up first before stretching his hand out for me. I look at the hand stretched out- it had a lot of rings on it.

I think I can stand up on my own.

You know since I have legs.

.

So I stand up ignoring the hand as I bent to pick up the forgotten ball knowing Jordan would kill me if I lost it and got on my board.

Before I go, I make sure to look back at him with an innocent look as I blink at him before turning to head to the guys hearing his laugh fade away as I reach the them. I head to Kc,

"What do you call a bucket that's red?" I whispered to her. The question hadn't left my head since.

Was it like a trick question or something.

Maybe a riddle?

"What the hell is that?" she says laughing making me glare at her. Of course she wouldn't know the answer.

What was I even thinking.

Dimwit.

I make sure I give her my best irritated look as she laughs at me again before grabbing my shoulder as we skate with the guys.

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It was dark by this time and we where heading out of the skate park. Most people had left by this time but you'd still see some guys grouped.

We got to the gate of the park to see Pierce and some guys in some corner.

Pierce?

Why Pierce?

I see him turn to meet my glaze. It was so awkward cause I remembered that this was the same guy that tried to ask me out.

Well at least that's what Juanita said.

I see him motion his friend to go as he comes to us .

"Hey" he says when he reaches me making the guys stop to look at him too like he was talking to all of us and not just me.

"um hi?" I say, This was weird. It was different from seeing him in school. He had a head band one, wearing a graphic shirt and shorts with sneakers. He dresses somehow like Kc but he seems to make it work.

Maybe I'm just used to Kc.

He looked good though.

I see him look weirdly at the rest of my friends as they stare right back at him like he was the one intruding. I notice how he looks at Kc with recognition is his eyes.

"Wait you're Kc, we've met before" he says still putting pieces together as I turn to see Kc look up removing her headphones as he looks at Peirce.

I also see her face drop as she looks at him. Her jaws clenched, her hands fisting.

They do know each other.

From where?

And why's she angry.

If looks could kill, Pierce would be gone with the irritated look Kc had. I see someone's sly hand slightly shove her, making her put her headphones back on.

"No. we haven't" she says before leaving putting her hands in her baggy cargo pants. The guys go shortly after, looking confused.

"I guess I'll see you later then" Pierce says scratching behind his eyes slightly scared, but mostly confused.

poor guy.

I give him a smile nodding before I go the guys. When I get there Kc's back to normal, smiling at what Luka was saying.

What just happened.

"Cute boy" Daemon says making everyone smack him.

"What the fuck man" Tobias said cringing making me laugh while Daemon grumbles,

"I didn't know it was bad to complement a guy"

we all continue walking back to our rides.

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"what was that about?" I ask Kc when I reach her side. Her headphones were wrapped around her neck.

"Don't worry about it" she says quickly smiling at me.

okay?

"but you've seen him before...  remember, in school." I push forward.

"nah, I don't think I saw his face... don't worry about it. For real." she says calmly.

Before I could obviously ponder on it, my phone rings and I see Juanita's face pop up. Picking the phone,

"Hi!"

I hear her say bubbly. I see Jordan snap his head at my direction obviously knowing the voice. I laugh at his reaction as I look at him. I see the faint blush on his cheeks before he looks away.

Awww

"How's your brother?" I ask, I think I've lost track on her brothers. They just keep popping from everywhere.

"Oh! Its not that serious. Luckily, its just a broken arm this time" she says happily.

This time?

Just a broken arm.

That's a normal thing?

"okay?"

" I see you guys are leaving the park, I wish I came" she says as Kc snatches my phone talking to her.

"there's always next time Juani hopefully your brothers don't break a body part again" she says,

While everyone huddles over her as we listen to Juanita tell us the story of her family in the hospital and how the doctor kept complaining about them coming there. That doctor has tried for them to be honest.

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Don't get where Pierce keeps coming from but okay....

Sometimes it's so hard not to use some slangs because I know some of you may not understand it and plus I have to be in my characters shoes.😂

What exactly do you call a bucket that's red though.

I hope you enjoyed this chapters
(My favourite character is coming soon. I'm actually very excited for he/she to come.)

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