Losing His Fix

10

Kit's POV

Work was a pain in my ass but at least it paid well.

I stared down at the check in my hand with a smile. I had earned every penny of this and it felt nice to know that I had done something good for once.

I was proud of myself for the hard work I had put in and now I had the money to prove it to myself even more so.

"What's got you so happy over there," Nathan teased with a smirk. "Lover boy send you a letter back or something?" I frowned at the reminder.

"No, this is just my check. I haven't heard from Roland since Call Day." The first few days I had just assumed it hadn't gotten to him yet but after the third day, I called Mary to see if he had picked them up yet and he had but I never got anything back in return.

"Damn," Anthony said with a frown. "He's not ghosting you already is he?"

"He better not be," I scoffed. "I'll walk to that damn camp and jump the fence if I have to."

"Yeah," Cody said with a sideways glance. "Because that's not stalker-ish at all."

"He probably just got busy," Nathan soothed. "You know, making friends and enjoying summer and such. You'll talk to him in a few days anyway." That didn't make me feel better. Roland wasn't one to make friends and 'such'.

"Just don't smother him," Anthony said. "No one likes a cling bitch."

"I do," Cody said with a shrug.

"That's because you have abandonment issues," Anthony waved off and Cody frowned, mumbling something about Anthony just being a bitch in general.

"It's probably nothing," I said mostly to myself. "He just got caught up with the car of the week or something."

"Exactly," Nathan said with a smile I would never get tired of seeing. "Try not to stress about it too much. You can always check in on Call Day and make sure nothing is going on but worrying about it now will just get you down and we're supposed to be happy now. No take-backs on that."

I smiled at him but I could tell it didn't reach my eyes. He sighed and stood up.

"Come on, get up. We're going somewhere or this place will just start getting depressing."

"Where are we going to go," Anthony asked. "In case you haven't noticed it's literally two in the morning."

"Skatepark," Nathan asked me with a knowing smirk.

"Skatepark," I asked as I stood up.

"I'm going to sit this one out," Anthony said with a yawn. "I have work in the morning and there's no telling when you'll be ready to head back."

"Cody?"

"I'm staying too. I don't want to keep getting laughed at every time I fall," he said with a glare.

"Suit yourself," Nathan said with a shrug before picking up his board and heading to the door. I followed after him like a lost puppy and before long we were riding down the empty sidewalk.

The ride to the park alone had been enough to get those thoughts out of my head and my shoulders relaxed as I saw the familiar ramps coming into view. I was going to have to remember to thank Mary and Andrew again for the board the next time I got a chance to talk to them.

"So what are you thinking," Nathan asked as he stopped at the entrance to the park. "Halfpipe or pool?"

"Halfpipe," I said before heading in that direction.

I could feel my heart beating out of my chest as I approached the wall. It felt freeing to be this high in the air with nothing but the board below you to hang onto. My hair whipped around me as I fell and a laugh tore out of me as I landed and began skating up the other side, grabbing the ledge and hanging there for a second before letting go and setting my sights on the other side of the pipe. This is what life was meant to be. This kind of freedom was breathtaking and I hated that one too many stupid decisions kept me away from it for as long as it did.