[@Luna Amore]

[i][color=a187be]Dadgum...!  I [b]swear[/b] this girl's a guardian angel or somethin'![/color][/i]

Harley blinked for a moment, astounded beyond all measure.  She thought she'd have to slap herself silly just to get out of the trance she was in.  It was amazing, almost too amazing to believe how much this girl Natalia had stepped up to help her, and this was only her first day here.

Maybe...

[i][color=a187be]No...not yet.  Maybe after the trip to the park.  I still need to call mama tonight and see how Jack's doin'.[/color][/i]

However...she wouldn't be expecting any good news.  Firing up her laptop, she flipped open her textbook and turned it to the page Nat wrote on the whiteboard.  All the while, she smiled at the blonde, but she had forgotten something.

When her laptop kicked on, she quickly noticed she forgot to change her background and hurriedly slammed it shut with a sharp gasp.

[color=a187be]"Ah...um...sorry, Nat!  It was a spider!"[/color]  A nervous grin she isssued, her face white as a ghost.

Spider, sure, that was a good excuse.  She didn't want Natalia to see it, her background.

...the picture of her and her brother, the one her mama took before Jack was shipped out to Afghanistan.

[img]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/84/e7/69/84e769a9ebdac603ddc111e974c80cf8--outdoor-family-pictures-brother-sister.jpg[/img]

Carefully, Harley peeled back the screen of her laptop.  She hoped that stupid move didn't just fry it.  Thankfully no.  She quickly clicked on her notepad, so as not to see that picture, and pretended to brush away the supposed dead spider.

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There were a few kids hanging around, a bunch of posers from the looks of their Thrasher shirts and their cheap ass Walmart boards.  One of the kids even brought a fucking Ripstick to the park.  It took all Helena had to choke back a gut laugh.  She doubted half those little punks have ever broken teeth or bones on those boards.  God knows she has.

Eventually those posers left, but not before Helena shot them a glare that said, [i]Beat it, you pussies![/i]  At last, she was alone.

She looked around.  Jason hadn't shown up yet.  Honestly, she doubted he would...

[color=f7941d][i]Not when he has that succubus to suck his dick all day...[/i][/color]

With a sigh, she slipped in her earbuds and put on some music, and then, she just let her board go wherever.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tnoumPb3kEY

Here, she had no care at all.  No dad, no Darren, nothing.  It was just her and the pavement.  She went up a ramp, popping her board into a stalefish then came down going towards a rail.  Her board popped up again doing an ollie onto the rail, which she 50/50'd in one fluid motion.  More or less just showing off even though virtually nobody was around.  But skating, if you asked her, it was a high better than what drugs could give.  To feel the wind hitting your face, the sound of the trucks grinding a rail or the wheels rolling across concrete, it was damn right euphoric to Helena, and it just erased all her worries, all her demons.