You Don't Know Me

Chapter 3| Skate Park

Note: The picture is of Alexandra's skateboard

"I'm bored!" I whine throwing some Fuzzy Peaches in my mouth. I'm sprawled across the couch. One leg dangles off the other end as my other is falling off the couch. A big bag of Fuzzy Peaches are held in my right hand as my other hand falls of the back of the couch. 

The guys are playing some GTA (Grand Theft Auto). They all yell profanities as they take turns actually controlling the character. Will looks at me as if I'm a stranger whom he has never seen before.

"Bored?" he asks me. I reply with a nod and tossing another Fuzzy Peach onto my tongue. The tangy sensation fills my mouth with delight. 

"What's wrong? You're only bored when somethings up" Will says. This takes the attention of Jake and Josh. Anybody else think of Drake and Josh whenever you hear their names together. I've known them for years and I'm still not used to it. 

They pause their game and turn to me. Their eyes interrogate my face.

I give them a blank look, hopeful they won't know my blank look isn't so blank. But alas my friends are quite bad at having a female friend, because they get afraid of me when it's a certain time. 

I will not go into detail with that. 

"Just snap your fingers if it's girl problems because nobody wants to hear it, but we know when you're lying. Something's up" Jake says looking worried that it is a female thing. 

Which it technically is, but not the type of female problem they are thinking of. Of course I can (half) lie and tell them it is a girl thing.

But they would know.

"Not the type of girl thing you're thinking of" I sigh. By the look they are all sending each other. 

They are deciding whether or not to play with my so called girl problems. Before they can think of the worst I decide to tell them before they get scared. 

"People are always saying I can't do certain thing just because I'm a girl" I huff.

They look at me not knowing how to help me feel better. Their looks are not foreign anymore. I can read any guys looks. 

It's a thing I've learned living with three guys and having three other guys as my best friends. Being friends for years you'd think they would know how to talk to a girl when they're upset. But they don't.

They always use send looks to each other until they have an idea. I have learned to live with this flaw about having guy friends. 

Being the only girl in my circle of friends does have it's pros and cons but sometimes I wish I had a girl I could call my friend. But this friends would have to meet my standards.

Of course being a complete tomboy, being with a girly girl just irritates me. 

Caking their faces until they're unrecognizable, wearing outfits most of the time to please others, and acting all dumb for guys. 

Well the last one is somewhat of a stereotype but in my school you would me surprised at how many girls act dumb for guys or popularity.

So my friend would probably have to be a tomboy. Of course if I met a girl who just liked to wear makeup and girly outfits and only liked them for HERSELF. 

Then I would consider being her friend. But I still prefer a tomboy friend. And I know a few of those un-girly girls but they don't want to be my friend. I've tried to be nice but they're just mean to me.

Anyway, I realize that may be a rant/babble but I do that a lot. So I'm not surprised.

"Who?" Josh asks curiously. "Well, do you know that guy, Brent Fenderson?" I begin. 

They all reply with nods and I continue. "We have gym together and it was girls against guys and he thought I couldn't beat them because I'm a girl" I say waiting for a reaction. 

I have no idea what reaction I'm about to get.

They all just look at each other, I couldn't see their faces, but I had the feeling of suspicion. Then back at me. Before I can ask them  about what I should do, Jake interrupts what I was going to say.

"Let's go to the skate park" Jake says. Okay? Somethings up. I look at them with my confused look hopefully for an explanation for why they just changed the subject like that. 

"Yeah let's go" Josh says while everyone else but me stands up and grabs their boards. Josh types something into his phone and picks up his board after Jake and Will. 

I am still confused but knowing them it's better to wait and see then to ask questions.

I nod my head and stand up. 

I grab my floral skateboard and we exit my house and we skate towards the skate park. Yes I have a floral skateboard. 

By the way I dress I don't exactly look like a tomboy. I don't have anything against skirts or dresses unlike some stereotypical tomboys. I just prefer shorts or skinny jeans. 

Today I'm wearing some black skinny jeans with rips at the knees and my white crop top. I'm not the type to wear crop tops often. But when I do they only show my belly button and that's it. I'm wearing a unzipped light grey hoodie and some black ankle Uggs. Not the actual Uggs just some cheap knock off. Let's just say that my dad doesn't trust me with expensive shoes anymore.

I love the feeling I get when I skate. 

When I go fast enough my straight blondish-brown hair flows. I don't know how to explain the feeling. It just feels great. The guys know this. When I skate I just feel better. There's just something about it.

When we arrive, I realize their plan immediately. None other than Brent Fenderson shows up at the park. Josh heads over to him and they talk and Will and Jake tell me to do some tricks for a bit. 

They probably think I don't know what they're doing. Because knowing these guys too well, they brought Brent here unknowing about me then I would do some tricks get him impressed and he won't underestimate me again. 

Believe it or not this is not the first time they have done this.

I follow along while Josh brings Brent closer and closer to the bowl. If you don't know what a bowl is it's one of those ramps that looks like an empty in ground pool. I sink down into the bowl and I do my tricks. If I said that this wasn't blowing my anger off I would be lying.