Too Different?

5

 "Justin." The thought continued to trail inside my mind.

"What's up?" He asked me.

"What grade school did you go to?" I asked him, John's singing made the atmosphere less tense.

"Oceanville Elementary. Why?" Justin answered, that was my grade school.

"Do you... remember me?" I found myself asking. I hope my suspicion was right.

"Obviously! I mean who else called you Luze Lu?" He started laughing at me. It started to bring back some memories with him.

"Huh, so you really went on and became a football player?" I couldn't help but to smile.

"Duh. What, you didn't remember me?" He asked, I was hesitant to answer.

"There it is!" John's finger came in between us. "I haven't been roller skating in forever! It's gonna be so fun!" He bounced about in the back seat.

"That makes two of us." I grinned. I really hope I don't fall a bunch of time and hurt myself.

 The three of us walked into the roller rink. The lights were flashing about and you could see Hunter jamming in the dj's booth. I didn't see too many Pops here either.

"Ticket please," A lady asked me. Summer walked up to us and showed the lady Hunter's coupon. "Stamp please." The lady held out a stamper. One by one we each got a stamp with Hunter's initials on them.

"Ooh. Impressive." I giggled at the sight.

"Let's get our skates. Come on hurry up!" Summer rushed the three of us.

"I'm still tying my skates. Go on ahead. By the time I finish you'll be back around." I told Summer, the boys had already attempted to skate.

"Fine, but if you finally finish before that I'll skate super sonic so that I'll get to you." Summer skated away.

 With a smile, I continued to tie my skate's shoe laces. I wasn't sure if my balance on the skates was good or not but hopefully I'd still manage to have fun. After I finished tying, I slowly skid over the wall and hopped onto the rink.

"Oookay," I was nervous and began skating around in the circle slowly. "I got this." I slipped on the skates and fell backwards. I didn't hit the ground though, it was something else. More like, someone else.

"You okay?" Justin asked me.

"I'm fine, just not used to these skates." I nodded my head, he began laughing again.

"Your real funny," He continued to laugh. "Hold my hand so you don't fall." He said after he calmed down a little.

"Okay." I grabbed onto his hand, it was warm. His hand was also bigger than mine, I've never noticed these kinds of differences. For a while we skated hand in hand until I lost balance and fell again.

"Are you for real okay? That was a loud thud." Justin held his hand out to me. I took it.

"My back hurts." I complained, Summer and John skated up to me.

"We seen you fall." John began. "Are you alright?" Summer ended, those two were oddly close.

"Yeah, I want to sit down for a minute though. My back feels like its broken." I rubbed my back, it was aching with pain. It felt like it was burning, but it wasn't as bad. Justin grabbed the both of my hands and helped me skate off the rink.

"I didn't expect you to be so bad at this." He chuckled.

"I just gotta get used to it, that's all." I sat down at a table.

"Want me to sit too?" He asked.

"No go ahead and skate. I'll be out there skating just fine in a few minutes." I told him, it didn't feel right to make him sit too. Especially when I wouldn't know what to say to him.

"Heey you." Hunter skated over to us. His roller skates were different, they were white with the letters "DJ" spray-painted onto them.

"Hi Hunter." Justin skated away. A girl came from behind Hunter and sat across from me.

"You enjoying yourself? You sat down after like, fifteen minutes!" He looked shocked but sounded as if he wanted to laugh.

"If I fell again and didn't sit, I'd probably have broken bones." I joked.

"Dang, well be careful. I gotta play a different song. And on the queue is a couples skate song. Gross." He stuck out his tongue very childishly before skating back to the Dj's booth.

"Was that tall guy your boyfriend?" The girl asked, she looked and sounded oddly familiar.

"Who? Justin?" I asked, Hunter is tall but I'm sure Justin is taller.

"Yeah, is he?" She asked again.

"No way." I replied to her. Why do people keep asking this?

"Huh, okay then. Cause I was gonna say what you're doing isn't too good." The girl said, it was confusing.

"What do you mean?" I was curious to find out.

"That boy, he's dating Ginger, you know? I'm sure she'd be mad if she found out you are acting like a couple with him." She told me, who exactly was she?

"Well, I don't like him. Ginger doesn't have to worry." I said, those were the first words that popped into my head.

"Good." She walked away with a menacing smile. I'm sure it was a Pop smile though. It made me think, why does Ginger have to worry about me and Justin?

"It's not like I like him or anything." I thought and sighed. I'm sure that's exactly how I feel.