“Even you, Clem, know not to ask me that type of question, it comes naturally.” We close the back doors and I push the lock button implanted into Ollie’s key.
“Girls.” Jake nods when we slide down the steep cement wall. Eeko grins and he hugs her tight.
“Jake!” She squeals. I nod to him but he doesn’t see it, within a second their lip locked and I’m left looking around. A few of my classmates from school nod in my direction as if to say hello. I smile and head back up the wall, using the ladder. Jake and some of the employers had put up the tarp over ‘The Escape’ due to the overcast looking weather. Elise, the girl-also my cousin- who collects five dollars from each rider, tips her head to me, “Next week we’ll be expecting payment… Jessi told me to tell you.” She says.
I hold out my key, “If you want you can get the payment now, it’s in my glove box.” Her eyebrows furrow, she’s impatient.
“Whatever, I should have just kept my mouth shut; maybe you would have gotten your membership condemned.” She growls then snatches my keys away and stomps out from under the safety of the tarp. I shrug and drop my skateboard to the edge of the wall, then get into a specific stance. Pushing off I drop in towards a quarter pipe, as I ride up the cement ramp, I grab the board, then at the top of the ramp I jump and pull the board up, and in the middle of the jump I turn the one hundred and eighty degrees I need to then let the board go as I land, mastering a perfect ‘one hundred eighty early grab’. Eeko lands beside me, in a drop in.