Grind by Eric Walters

Author:Eric Walters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

I tapped my foot against the board. I stopped myself. I was trying hard not to look as nervous as I actually felt. It was a quarter past five—fifteen minutes later than we’d agreed to meet. I was here on time. Wally was early. Nevin, equipped with a fancy, expensive, digital video camera and another digital still camera, had arrived right on the dot. He’d excitedly tried to explain all the features of the cameras, but I couldn’t follow his techno-geek speak and just nodded as if I understood.

“She should be here by now,” I said.

“She’s not usually on time for things. Did you think that cheating on her would make her start arriving on time?” Wally asked.

“I didn’t cheat on her!” I protested.

Wally looked shocked. “What would you call taking another girl to a movie and making out with her?”

“First off, I didn’t take her to the movie. We just sort of met there.”

“I believe that about as much as Lisa did,” Wally said.

I ignored him. “And second, we didn’t make out. We kissed a couple of times. And really, it was more like she kissed me.”

“You poor baby. Did that mean old girl overpower you and get you in a liplock?”

I fought the urge to say that at least I could get a girl to kiss me. I was learning when it was smart to keep my mouth shut—a painful lesson that had taken a lot of years to figure out.

“Are we going to get started?” Wally asked.

“Soon, she’ll be here soon.”

“We can do this without Lisa. You and I are both better skaters than she is,” Wally said.

“We’re better skaters, but she’s a better girl skater,” I said. “Having a girl on the site might get us more hits from girls who are skaters and from guys who like seeing girl skaters.”

“I guess that makes sense,” Wally said. “I just thought that you might want her involved for another reason.”

“What other reason?” I asked, trying to sound innocent.

“Like maybe if you could get her to spend some time with you, she might forget what happened,” Wally said.

“How about if we just skate and stop talking?” I suggested.

“We can do that.” Wally turned around. “Hey, Nevin, you ready?”

“Yeah…sure…I guess.”

Nevin had worked to cram himself in the gap between the rail and the wall. He had his head and one hand—holding the digital camera — sticking up above the railing. The plan was for us to grind the railing and he’d duck down just before we got there. If he timed it right, he’d get some great shots. If he timed it wrong, he’d take a great shot—to the side of his head.

“You want to go first?” I asked.

“How about if Lisa goes first instead?”

He gestured behind me and I turned around. Lisa had just rolled around the corner and was skating toward us.

“You want to do something smart?” Wally said.

“What do you mean?”

“Just say hello and don’t ask her why she’s late.”

“I wasn’t going to do that,” I said.

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