Noah and his friends always hung out at the skatepark on Saturdays and Bex spotted him quickly. Bex walked up to the group of boys leaning on a halfpipe and asked to borrow Noah's skateboard. All of his friends started joking about Noah, asking who the chick was and if she had any sisters. They told Bex she couldn't possibly think she was at their level of skill with a skateboard. Bex responded by scoffing and telling them "I'm his cousin and if you want my sister you can find her at dance class with the rest of the six year old girls in town." and then proceeding to flip them all off. She held her hand out for the skateboard and waited for Noah to begrudgingly hand it over. Bex set down the board, taking off her hoodie and wrapping it around her waist to reveal a black tank top and her mechanical arm. Whispers and stares erupted as Bex made her way to the tallest halfpipe in the park and climbed up, ignoring the stairs on the other side. She cracked her neck and dropped off, speeding down the half pipe and up the other side just to turn around and go back the way she came until she got to the bottom and left the pipe. Bex stopped right in front of Noah and jumped off his skateboard. "Thanks, it's been a while since I rode a skateboard. I just wanted to see if I could still do it." She told him before walking over to the park bench.
"Wait!" He said.
"What is it, Noah?" She asked, turning to face him.
"You've never taken your hoodie off before. Why now?"
"Because I'm done following Oliver's stupid rules and unlike him, I don't see scars as shameful. I don't see them as painful memories of what happened. I see scars as trophies. The bigger the scars, the harder the battle, the greater the win." She said it as though reciting a speech.
"Right, so your arm was a big battle?"
"No. In a battle, both people fight. This was cheating. But don't worry, I intend to make it even." With that, Bex turned and walked away, ignoring the rest of the questions that were shouted at her.
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The Queen Of Spades
ActionWhat do you get when you mix an orphaned teenage spy fighting Nazi assassins with the melodramatic high school life of Ellsworth, Maine? A bloody mess (literally). But what happens when civilians get caught in the cross hairs? And what will it take...
