Life Throws Curve Balls Chpt 3

"Darren! I haven’t seen you in like a week, how have you been?" April screamed to the voice that had made its way behind me.
"Hey, how are you... Who is this?" Darren asked, I could feel his eyes on me.
"It’s a stranger who hates your guts and told me to tell you to fuck off." April stated with a huge smile on her face.
I turned my head around and screamed out,
"I never said that April! Hi Darren, how are you?" Darren was like a walking teddy bear who wore all black except the drawings on his shirt. He was really tall compared to me, well everyone is, but in his rollerblades he was about six feet four.
"I’m good, so what you guys doing here tonight?" he looked at both of us.

"Well we were bored and stephy was hoping to run into josh tonight here." April blurted out. Darren was one of josh’s best friends. He knew all of his stuff and with him around you wouldn’t need to post a missing persons add because he already knew everything.
"Ah, joshy, yeah he won’t be showing up tonight sorry Steph." Darren said as he rubbed my head.
In the background I could hear someone yelling out Darren’s name several times before he turned his head to respond. It was a young looking guy on rollerblades coming over. As he approached I glanced at April noticing the excitement in her face. I began to ask myself why she was getting so excited about some twelve year old.

"Hey! Oh my god I didn’t think I would see you here!" April shouted to the guy.
"hey man" Darren spoke. I stood there trying to figure out who this guy was and why my friends were hanging out with a twelve year old.
"Oh how rude of me!" April shouted.
"Peter this is Stephy, my best friend." She introduced us. I shook his hand and smiled still confused.
"Hi, how are you?" I asked.
"I’m doing ok just hoping to get out of here soon" He looked at Darren.
"Oh I love this song I’m ganna go skate, anyone want to join?" Darren asked.
"Sure I will!" Peter projected.

As they left I turned to April and asked her why she had an ‘I love you’ look on her face when he came over. She told me about how she met Peter at her friend Pascal’s party about a month ago and how they made out and she really liked him.
"Wait a second April! we are sixteen, he’s like twelve, isn’t that a little I don’t know, GROSS!" I said with disgust in my voice. April was laughing hysterically at me.
"What are you laughing about I was being serious." I shouted
"Steph, he is twenty. I know he is only four foot ten and looks like he is twelve but he is such a nice guy and I think I like him." She confessed. Now things began to make sense again. Although I was shocked that he was twenty and that short, but I was no one to judge.

April and I got our shoes off and our blades on and we began to move forth towards the skating area. As we approached I got this strange feel in my body. Yep, I was definitely thirsty . April and I turned to our right hand side and headed for the snack bar section. It wasn’t a big snack bar; it was tiny and decently priced.
"Can I get a blue and red frosty type thingy." I asked the girl standing at the concession stand. She turned around and walked to the slushy machine. I watched her pore the blue and red liquid into the cup as she looked around in boredom.

"Here you go! That will be two dollars." She said to me as she held out the icey as I handed her the money. I turned around with April and walked over to the booths that were located just outside of the rink, where you could look off onto the skating rink.
"Stephanie, April, what are you doing?" I herd someone shout out. I looked around trying to see if I knew who it was. I couldn’t see anyone threw the cowed of people blocking my view. Suddenly I saw that short little guy; Peter come out of the crowed. He was waving his arms in a motion telling us to go to him. I looked over to him and shrugged. He must have saw the movement in my body as he slowly rollerbladed over.
"Guys, seriously come blade with us, we have been waiting for you" Peter looked at the both of us. April and I looked at each other with hope in our eyes that one f us would turn him down. Unfortunately neither of us had the balls to do so, so we had to get up and go with him.

It had been an hour since we started skating and we were all starting to get a bit tired. April and I slowly removed ourselves from the floor towards where we had left our stuff. As April and I began to open our locker to get ready to go home, Peter jumped out from no where and said,
"You guys want to take a trip to Toronto?"
"How? The go-train only runs one more trip. By the time we get there, there we will have to go back home." I stated.
"That’s ok, we wouldn’t be taking the go-train. I drive!" He shouted with a huge smile on his face.

"Oh, well then, sure, if April is ok with..."
"Yes!!!" April shouted before I could finish my sentence.
We walked out of the roller rink and followed peter to his car. He drove a black four door Volkswagen jetta 98; it was a small back car. We stepped slowly into the black lowered car. Darren sat in the front and April sat in the back. Due to Peter’s height, he had to put phone books on top of his seat before sitting so that he was able to see the road. We drove for a good half and our before we arrived at a beautiful park.
"April, Can I talk to you for a few minutes?" Peter asked April.
"Um, sure" After agreeing, April turned me to and asked me to hold her purse. I took it and walked away with Darren to give them some space to have a conversation. We started to engage in a conversation about school and how work was going. I herd some random noises that sounded like April shouting. I turned my head to look behind me and there I saw April walking towards me holding Peters hand.

"So, stephy, I would now like you to meet my new boyfriend peter." April smiled
"Well hello there Peter, I should worn you that if you are to hurt my best friend, it will result in me hurting you." I sad with a mice threading smile on my face
"No worries about that, I have no intentions on hurting her." He stated.
We began to walk around the beautiful park. It was about 3am when I had finally stopped to look at the time.
"April, we best be getting home before my mother shoots us." I said rolling my eyes.
"Ok, let’s go, ill have you home ASAP!" peter smiled. The drive home was silent except for the sound of his loud music playing.

We arrived home at around quarter to four in the morning. We said our goodbyes and walked up the stairs to my house. As I slowly opened the door my dog began to bark.
"Kiwi! Shh!" I loudly whispered. April and I walked quietly passed my dog and down the stairs to my room. We turned on the lights and searched for our p.j’s. After getting ready for bed with not really any words exchanged, we crawled into bed and fell asleep just as our heads hit the pillow.