Skater's Paradise (Mid90s)

Sofia

"yo, where the hell were you niggas at yesterday?" fuckshit asked as we walked towards the guys. they wanted us to meet them at some kind of "abandoned" building/skate area.

"we hung out with each other yesterday" ryan answered.

"y'all missed this dope ass party yesterday" ray said. "yeah, this girl named estee threw it"

"this is off topic but why did you want us to meet you here?" i asked.
"we just wanted to chill for today and this nigga got his car taken for two weeks" ray said. we all started laughing with the exception of fuckshit. "it's not even that funny, shut the hell up" he said.

ray stopped laughing and began to walk away from the group. "where you going?" fuckshit asked. "i'm about to go skate this gap. try hard, be corny, right?" ray said which made me confused. what were they talking about?
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"your turn, mariah" ray said. i looked at the gap. i was kind of scared, the gap was somewhat big. "you got this" ruben and stevie said. i then began to skate towards the gap. surprisingly, i made it over. tia and ryan began to cheer.

"fuck, shit. that was dope" fuckshit said while giving me a hug. the feeling of landing the gap gave me serotonin. after ryan and tia went. it was ruben's turn. i gave him a warm smile and he began to skate. he then stopped when he reached the bottom.

"oh come on, what kind of pussy shit was that?" ray said. ruben walked back to the top of the roof. "you got this man!" said stevie. "shut the fuck up, faggot."

why was ruben always being so rude to stevie. he was always so sweet. it was finally stevie's turn. he skated down slowly which made everyone panic.

"woah! hey! you're not going fast enough" ray said. "stevie, stop!" i said.
everyone was yelling at stevie to stop but it was too late, he fell off the roof.

"oh my fucking god" fourthgrade said. everyone ran over to the edge of the roof. "fuck, shit. this nigga dead!"

"is he fucking dead yo?!"

we all went down to check on stevie. "sunburn!" fuckshit said. "nigga, don't poke him!"

"sunburn, you ok? sunburn you good? stevie?" fuckshit began to shake stevie lightly which made him regain consciousness. "you ok?" ray asked.

i noticed stevie's head was bleeding. "he's fucking bleeding" i told them. "woah shit" fuckshit said. "take your shirt off, you're bleeding."

they put a shirt over the scar. seeing him injured made me worry, what would his parents do if they found out what happened?

i focused back on the group. "oh shit, you bleeding through that one. take your shirt off" ray said while hitting ruben on the chest. ruben had this upset expression on his face. "fuck no, this my favorite shirt" he said in an angry tone.

"nigga take the fucking shirt off"

he took it off and handed it to ray so he could stop sunburn from bleeding. "sunburn!" fuckshit said and everyone began to laugh except ruben. i wondered why he was so upset.
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i asked ryan if she could drop me off at ruben's house after we left the spot. as soon as i got there, i saw him walking away from home. "ruben! hey!" i shouted. "what's up, mariah" he replied.

"just wanted to check on you. are you ok?"

"yeah, i'm fine. you should go home. i'll see you tomorrow" he said and kissed me on the cheek. i just stood there with a confused expression on my face while he walked away.
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it was the next day and we were all chilling at the shop. i sat next to ruben and took some of his chips. he looked at me and i just smiled. stevie later then walked in and if i'm being honest, i'm glad he was ok. "fuck, shit. look at this crazy ass nigga right here" fuckshit said while laughing. "how's your head psycho?"

"it's fine"

"no sunburn, it's definitely not fine. there's some real fucked up shit going on up there" ray said jokingly. i looked over at ryan who was standing near the clothes then we looked at ruben. "what's wrong with him?" she mouthed. i shrugged my shoulders. i turned over to see ray grabbing a board from the wall.

"think you should probably ride one of these" ray said to sunburn. "oh, i don't have any money" stevie said. both fuckshit and ray laughed. "no, you don't understand like this is yours."

"no one will be missing it" fuckshit added. "are you fucking serious?!" sunburn said excitedly. "are you fucking serious?" ruben said angrily while getting up and walking out. "aye, come back with some skittles" ray said.

i looked at both tia and ryan who gestured me to go after him. i grabbed my board and left. "ruben, what the fuck is going on with you" i yelled while running up to him. "can you just leave me the fuck alone mariah?! you obviously wouldn't fucking get it!" he yelled at me. i was getting angry at this point.

"obviously i wouldn't fucking get it because you keep pushing me the hell away everytime i try to check on you!"

he turned around and grabbed my hand. he pulled me into an alley way and began to calm down a little. "it's stevie. ever since he came into the picture my life has gotten worse. my friends clearly fucking don't care about me anymore and you're literally all i have left" he said while sobbing. i pulled him in for a hug.

"i didn't know how bad it was for you. i'm always here for you ruben, please never push me away."

"thank you, mariah" he said and then kissed me. we later then went to get food and go to my house to relax and get some rest.
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a/n: hey guys! hopefully you enjoyed this chapter. i'm going to continue to write in this book simply because it makes me happy. anyways, let me know what you think mwah♡