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Dream, your local skateboarder. Nothing particularly cool about him, he went to an average school, he wasn’t that popular and had normal skateboarding friends.
Dream, having no reason to think otherwise, thought that today was going to be a normal day as well. But this would be a pretty lame story if that were the case.
Dream had gone through science and P.E and English and it was finally time for lunch. Dream sat down at his table, and as always, Bad was there before him.
“Hey there, Dream!” Bad said excitedly. “Hey Bad. Why are you all excited?” Dream asked, looking at Bad who was practically jumping on his seat.
“Skeppy said that he had something fun planned for us today. I’m just waiting for him to get here and say it.” Bad said. Dream got excited too, if Skeppy had thought about something to do, it was going to be exciting. One by one everyone came to sit down at the table.
Sapnap, then Karl and Quackity, then came in the man they’d all been waiting for. He walked up to the table, seemingly as slow as he possibly could.
“Skeppy get the hell over here!” Quackity said as he got impatient.
“HEY LANGUAGE!” Bad replied.
“Oh shut the fuck up Bad I have a recording of you saying ‘hell.’” Quackity said, pulling out his phone. “It’s only a bad word when it’s said inappropriately. I said it appropriate-“
Bad was cut off by the sound of his own voice playing through Quackity’s phone speaker. “You know what, I have. This is hell.”
“QUACKITY DELETE THAT!” Bad shouted and they started to have a full blown argument about whether or not hell was a bad word. Skeppy sat down at the table.
“I was using it as-“ Quackity shushed him and Bad noticed that Skeppy had made it to the table. “Hello boys. I have an idea.” Skeppy said. Everyone just stared at him in silence.
“You know how the skate park is always full after school?” Skeppy asked. “Yeah, there are always those kids on the scooters snaking around us too.” Sapnap said.
“Well, most people wouldn’t go to the skatepark after nine, would they?” Skeppy said. Everyone knew what he was implying and they became a bit more interested in his words.
“Well yeah, Skeppy. That’s when the gate gets locked. No one can get in after nine.” Bad said with a smile. Skeppy looked at him and smirked. Bad’s smile fell at the realization.
“Skeppy, no. We are not going to the skatepark after nine.” Bad said sternly. “Oh come on. We won’t get into trouble if we have a lookout.” Dream said and Bad smiled.
“Oh yeah, and who’s going to be a ‘lookout’ for you guys?” Bad asked. “Bad, will you look out for us?” Skeppy asked in a whiney tone. “No, I’m not going to be a look out for you guys. It’s illegal.” Bad said as he crossed his arms.
“Wow Bad. I didn’t know that you wanted us to get in trouble.” Karl said. “Yeah bad. What a great friend you are.” Sapnap added. They knew exactly how to get under his skin.
Bad gasped, “I’m a great friend. I’ll go be your lookout.” Bad said and Skeppy laughed.
“Wow, you’re really easy.” Skeppy said.
“HEY. I’m not easy. I’m only going so that you guys won’t get in trouble.” Bad explained but everyone knew that Bad was lying.
“So, everyone, skatepark at ten?” Skeppy asked and they all agreed to go. “I already told Wilbur so he’ll tell everyone else in second lunch.” Skeppy added and they all headed to their fourth hour classes.
Dream did his robotics and his math and social studies and he was at home finishing his homework. He knew that his parents wouldn’t let him go so he didn’t ask.
He thought about the risks of getting kidnapped and his parents not knowing where he was, but he honestly didn’t care about it all that much. There was a fence around where they were going to skate so he doubted that he could get kidnapped anyways.
In the middle of his thinking he heard his parents’ door close. He looked at the time. It was 9:18, his dad slept from then to 7:00am when he had to go to work. His mom also worked from five pm to around two in the morning.
Thinking about that, he would be able to skate for at least three hours. He should have slept for a few hours before but there was no changing his actions now. The adrenaline would keep him up all night anyways.
Dream arrived at the kids park. They decided to meet there so that people wouldn’t be suspicious of them hanging out by the locked gate with skateboards.
“We’re doing crimes, late at night. Good thing I have my knife on me.”
“Tommy, you can’t just say things like that. We’re going to actually get mugged.”
“Not if I take out my six inch knife.”
“You don’t have a six inch knife!”
“Quiet Tubbo, we don’t want people to hear us.”
Dream turned around to face the two boys that were approaching him. “You are the least stealthiest person I know.” Tommy said. Dream sighed, if they were going to get in trouble it would be because of Tommy.
Dream looked behind him to see Wilbur running after them. “Oh hey, we forgot about Wilbur.” Tubbo said. Wilbur was right behind them now, carrying three skateboards.
“We didn’t forget about him, we ran off so that we didn’t have to get the boards.” Tommy said arrogantly. Wilbur dropped the skateboards on the ground, putting his now free hands on Tommy’s shoulders. Tommy jumped and turned his head around.
“OH HEY WILBUR, MY FRIEND! MY FRIEND!” Tommy started yelling as he turned around to face him. “Tommy.” Wilbur said the word in a quiet but stern voice. His stare was merciless, no expression on his face.
“I’ll go get our skateboards.” Tommy said as he walked to go pick them up off the floor. Wilbur smiled when his eyes met Dream’s. “Hello Dream! Sorry about those two.” Wilbur said. “It’s fine. Have you seen anyone else?” Dream asked, looking behind Wilbur.
“Well, it looks like Sapnap is walking over here.” Wilbur said, pointing behind Dream. Dream turned around and Sapnap was indeed walking towards them. Karl followed behind with Quackity.
“ME GUSTA BIG Q!” Tommy yelled when he spotted him. Everyone who said they could go was there except for the person who had invited them and the lookout. It was already 10:23 and the only thing that kept them waiting was a single text from Skeppy that said ‘Ima late.’
“SKEPPY LOOK, THEY’RE ALREADY WAITING FOR US!”
“I’M SORRY SOMEONE DECIDED TO STOP WHENEVER THERE WAS A YELLOW LIGHT!”
“THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO SKEPPY!”
“YOU COULD HAVE MADE IT IF YOU WOULD HAVE SPED UP!”
“BUT I COULD HAVE RAN A RED LIGHT, SKEPPY!”
“You know what fine. It’s fine, we’re already here.”
“Relationship problems, am I right?” Tommy said with a snicker. “Are they actually dating?” Tubbo asked seriously. No one answered him.
“Okay, now that everyone’s here, let’s go jump that fence.” Skeppy said and Bad sighed. They all grabbed their skateboards and headed over to the fence. “How are you wearing shorts, Sapnap? It’s cold and what if you fall?” Karl asked. “I’m just build different I guess- wait. Do you guys hear that?”
Everyone stopped and they heard the sound of wheels rolling inside the skating area. “Looks like someone else had the same idea as us.” As they approached the gate more they heard the sound of two people, not just one. And their suspicions were confirmed by the sight of two people skating, one funnily enough, on the ground.
Ever since George learned how to skate, he skated whenever he could. He didn’t have a car nor did he know how to drive a car, so he skated from place to place. And no one had really had a problem with it where he used to live. The case was so much more different now that he moved. Whenever he skated to the store, he always got weird looks, he wasn’t really used to it.
Roller skating isn’t that uncommon here, right?
He pondered skating to school since it was his first day there. He didn’t want people to already start bullying him on the first day. But then again, he had no other way to get there, a bus was not the place for a scrawny boy like him. His legs wouldn’t be able to stop people from pushing him around.
So, he skated to school. He made sure to get there earlier so that there would be less people to see him. When he got there, he took off his skates and put them in his bag. He was staring at his class schedule when he ran into someone who was putting their stuff in their locker.
“Oh my god I am so sorry I wasn’t paying attention I-“ George stopped when he saw the roller blades that had fallen out of the locker. “You skate?” He asked. The man just stared at him. He had glasses and pink hair that was wrapped into a braid that hung over his shoulder.
“Uh, don’t worry about it.” The man said as he quickly picked up the blades off the floor and stuffed them into the locker. “Cool. I skate too, look.” George said as he pulled his skates out of his bag. The man stopped to look at the skates and then at George who had a welcoming smile on his face. This is how you make friends, right?
“I’m George. What’s your name?” George asked as he extended his hand. The other man hesitated before grabbing George’s hand. “I’m Techno. Nice to make your acquaintance. Are you new?” Techno asked.
“Uh, yeah. I was staring at my schedule when I ran into you. I don’t know how any of these numbers and letters work.” George said as he handed the paper to Techno. Techno looked at it. He didn’t smile much, did he?
“We don’t have the same classes but if you would like, I could lead you to your classes.” Techno said and George happily took the help. “What does lunch 1 mean?” George asked.
“It means you have the same lunch as me. I’ll bring you to lunch then. If you would like me to.” Techno said the words carefully. It was like he wanted to be friends with George but he didn’t want to bother him by being too clingy.
“You will! Great, thank you, Technoblade.” George said. Techno looked at him with confusion, “Technoblade?” He asked. “Yeah, you’re name is Techno and you roller blade, Technoblade.” George said. He was terrible at names so the nickname was purely for remembering his name.
Techno smiled a bit but it was wiped off his face as soon as it came. “Okay, George, shall we head to your first class?” Techno asked. “We shall. Onwards!” George was sure to catch the smile on Techno’s face before he stepped in front of him to lead the way.
George made it through Science and math and social studies before being led by Techno to the cafeteria. They got their food and then Techno lead them outside to one of the picnic tables away from everyone else. “So, you skate, but can you rollerblade?” Techno asked, starting the conversation.
“Well, before I moved here, I used to ice skate so I don’t think that rollerblading would be a problem.” George said. He would miss the feeling of being able to ice skate, the weather didn’t drop that far down here. “Oh, well, do you happen to have some roller blades?” Techno asked and George shook his head.
“Uh, if you want, there’s a skate park close to here. And I have some extra blades. And most of the people are gone by nightime. Plus I know someone there that could let us in after it closes too.” Techno didn’t get to the point but George knew what he was asking and didn’t want to make Techno even more shaky then he was.
“Yeah, if you could get me those extra blades then I’ll go roller blade with you.” George said. Techno perked up but only subtly, “really?”
George hadn’t spotted the man with black hair and a blue hood walking to the cafeteria, close enough to be in earshot.
“Yeah, we can go at night so there aren’t that many people to annoy us.” George said. “Okay, so meet up there at what time?” Techno said. George could tell that he was excited to meet someone who also skated. George was pretty excited too. “At eight thirty?” George asked. “Sounds good to me.” Techno replied.
The black haired man walked out of earshot. They went throughout the rest of the day, robotics, P.E and English.
They had been at the park for around two hours now. George had gotten used to the way that the blades felt beneath his feet and he was currently trying to do a trick he did on his skates. He was going to go up the ramp and when he goes to turn around, he’ll jump. “Okay, first try.” George said as he started to gain some momentum.
“George, George, he’s our man. If he can’t do it someone else probably can, but still.” Techno said. George laughed at the monotone sound of encouragement.
He finally stoked himself up enough and when he reached the top of the ramp, turning the top half of his body before lifting up his feet, and turning the bottom half of his body. The right foot had landed first back on the ramp but his left foot failed him as the front wheel got stuck on the lip of the ramp. His body turned even more so that when he fell, he fell straight on his back.
Techno cringed before skating over to him. George put his arms over his face. His face burned and he was sure it was bright red from the embarrassment of falling right in front of his new friend. “Hey, are you okay?” Techno asked. George removed his rems from his face and sat up.
“Yeah, I’ve fallen before. Fuck, that hurt.” George said as he rubbed his back. “I can tell.” Techno said. George heard something and he looked behind Techno. His alertness making techno look behind himself as well. A group of boys with skateboards stood outside the fence.
“‘ELLO BITCHES!” A boy with blonde hair yelled.