nineties•brance

chapter 2

AUGUST 16TH

bruce had a day off of work since Millie decided to make it up to him since she left him in the dust yesterday.

he walked to the skate park since he knew how to skate a little, but he mainly listened to the rap the actual skaters would blare.

once he got to the skate park, he was met with hey's and hi's, high fives and dabs and nods.
he of course returned all of them, why wouldn't he? he's not "too good" for the skater kids, he actually feels like himself around them, since they don't judge.

"Hey raven." a kid hit bruce's back and put his arm around bruce's shoulders, bruce immediately knew who it was.
"Hey paperboy." bruce put his hand around billy's  waist and they talked about random stuff until they eventually got to their seat.

No one else sat at this table, they knew it's theirs.
They had spray painted it and painted stuff on it, even carved their friend group's name on it.
Everyone called their group the "onion squad" because they all took a bite out of an onion for one dollar each.

"Where's griffin and robin?" bruce asked and billy pointed over to robin who was talking with some blonde girl with a grey Bennie, an oversized plain white tee, baggy pants and some black long sleeve under the white shirt. She also had some high tops on.

"That girl's tall as fuck. I bet she's good at skating." Billy laughed and agreed. Bruce and billy kept talking about movies until robin walked over with the girl, Bruce soon noticed it wasn't a girl.

"Guys, this is Vance. You probably already know him, but he's chill. Can we sit?" Robin asked, billy agreed and Bruce nodded, wich was enough agreement for robin.

They all talked and got to know Vance More, bruce caught Vance staring at him a few times, and by a few i mean 15-30 times, but Bruce thought Vance was plotting his revenge.

Bruce got up off the bench and billy and robin stopped arguing about what faygo flavor is the best and looked at him.

"Imma go to the bathroom." Bruce ran off and they shrugged, Vance ran after him a minute later.

"Yo Yamada." Vance spoke clearly as he opened the bathroom door, seeing Bruce just stand by the sink.

"Look i don't want to fight, just beat me up and leave it be." Bruce sighed as he washed his hands, Vance gave him a confused look.

"If i beat you I'll get killed by Thoes gym rats that you call your brothers. I'm here to apologize." Bruce was taken aback, Vance hopper apologizing?

"Oh, well don't worry, it's all good. Sorry for my brother's." Bruce dried his hands and looked at Vance through the mirror.

"No problem man, No hard feelings?" Vance asked and when Bruce nodded he half smiled and shot finger guns at Bruce, making "Ch Ch" sounds with his teeth.

Bruce laughed and Vance left. Bruce looked in the mirror and brought his hands up to his face.
He looked at his now pink cheeks, he was probably getting a sunburn.

But they weren't pink when he first got there, he looked into the silver of the door from building next door and there was nothing on his face. maybe he burns faster then he thought.

He got out a small tube of sunscreen and out some on, washing his hands and leaving the bathroom.

Once he got back to the table he sat down next to Vance, his ears got hot. It's not even that warm outside today. like it's a cold day for August.

"Dude you're red!" Billy jumped off the table and walked over to Bruce, checking his temperature.
"Thanks mom, I'm fine. It's probably just sunburn. I'll buy some aloe on the way back." He shoved Billy's hand away and billy just mumbled something under his breath.