My Super Secret Life…Diamond-9.

Chapter 9

*Previously…………

It’s midnight and passed when we’re finally out from the game and it was kind of awesome to just let stuff go and play and be with friends well I was sort of too shy to really get to know them that well before but tonight it was cool it was different.

I never played a one shot RPG game before either.

I see Alex walking and I pull up. “Hey you want a lift home?’

“Sure.”

He gets in the passenger side and he’s smiling at me and he’s so cute…and wow…I’m sitting really close to him too.

My car suddenly feels really small.

*And Now…………

Oh…

Oh wow, I mean it’s kind of one of those things that kind of freaky and in the reverse way happening to me all of a sudden. I’m in a car with a guy and he’s cute, really cute and it’s sort of on that whole thing with the teen boy with the hot girl suddenly in his car that he shouldn’t be even near socially.

“Terri?’

I blink. “Sorry I just got lost thinking.”

“About what?”

“Uhm…”

“Me?”

“Uhm…”

He smiles but he ducks his head and he blushes a little. Okay I didn’t know that cool kids blushed.

I look at him and I try a smile. “I was just thinking how reversed this is.”

“Reversed?”

“I’m still this strange geeky person in my head and now everything I am’s kind of changed and stuff and I’m finding myself in a car which I’d never have had before this and sitting here with a school hottie.”

“Me?”

“Uhm yeah…”

“A hottie?”

“Uhm yeah….dur…”

He laughs at the dur and he looks at me. “So…you like boys now?”

“Yeah…I’m still sort of flipping that over and over in my head because of what I am my biological preference is the same way sort of like straight…It’s very weird knowing who I was in my head and stuff and seeing some very pretty girls and women in some very revealing stuff and it does nothing…but guys are kind of…oh…wait…yay?”

“Cool.”

“Cool?”

“Yeah, since learning what I’ve learned about you tonight it’s pretty cool that a girl that I like is really pretty and has her own car and a job and she’s into gaming and comics and stuff that I like.”

“Wait…wait what? I’m a girl that you like?”

“Uhm…dur that’s what I said.”

He’s smiling at me and wow…oh I like his eyes and he’s got these dimples and I feel all yay and fluttery in my stomach but in this breathless better than a roller coaster kind of thing.

“Wow…just my luck I meet a guy like you and I’m going to Halo academy.”

“Ark City’s only a fourteen hour drive.”

“Okay…?”

“Terri.”

“Yes?”

“Go out with me tonight?”

“But it’s late…”

“You have a curfew?”

“No…not really.”

“Me neither, I like you and you like me so I want to ask you out on a date.”

“Isn’t this kind of fast?”

“It’s a date not sex and you’re going away I don’t want to waste time.”

“Oh…okay…so where to?”

“Rainbow Park?”

“Where?”

“North Jackson shipyards.”

“I don’t know where that is either Alex.” I’m biting my lip. “Sorry it’s a big city and I’ve never really gone outside of here much until I got into the prep school and The Tower.”

“Hey it’s cool not a lot of people outside the crews.”

“The crews? Like gangs?”

“No well sorta like motorcycle clubs but more like air-boarders.”

“Don’t you mean hover boarding?”

“Nope. Okay head towards The Tower the best way to explain it is to show you.”

“Okay…”

I’m a bit nervous but I drive and follow his directions and we hit the main high ways and after we get close I think I know where they’re going. Jackson Valley industrial park. Way back it used to be one of those places where they made stuff here in Paradise City. Oh they still do sort of but this was when we made space ships and shuttles and cargo containers and stuff until The Federation made their bid for occupation here. The Shipyards were bombed out and stuff and the company that owned it moved what they could salvage elsewhere because it was too expensive to rebuild here.

With Alex showing me the way it seems like I’m right and we pull into this parking garage with people sort of there as look outs at the entrance and people have their cars parked here and their bikes but there’s a lot of street wheels here too.

It’s packed with close to several hundred teens here and the parking garage goes out all the way to over look these dry dock cradles that were for the ships being built here and they’re…well it’s nuts but they’re pretty much all those half-pipes but they’re a couple of hundred yards long and they’re at least forty feet to the bottom on the average but it’s all colored with graffiti and these tags and art and it’s a riot of color.

Like a rainbow…sort of…

There’s so much here too as we walk kids with skate stuff and there’s short boards and long ones and wheels and hover boards and in lines and every thing in between but there’s kids here and adults too but those on the fringe of society types or gangers or ex-ganger types mixed with barrio types and hippies it’s a massive kind of total free mall here and I get what he means but crews. Like teams more than gangs but they’re still sort of gang like too and there’s as many different crews here as you can think of.

I’m kind of blown away.

“I didn’t even know that this place existed?’

“It doesn’t not officially.”

“No kidding this has to be super illegal.”

He looks at me. “Alex I’m going to be a cop.”

“Yeah just don’t say that stuff too loud we could get into serious trouble.”

“Okay…dangerous here?”

“No, and yes. I mean you step seriously out of line yeah and most beefs are handled one on one or between crews and usually in duels like races or stunt offs but there are armed crews here and gangers and this is home to The UTR crew.”

“UTR crew?’

“It’s the meta underground here for Paradise City. It’s an off set group from the Underground Railroad itself and UTR stands for Under the Rainbow.”

“Whoa…” Okay I’ve never heard of this place or these people and Freaktown in Ark City’s kind of famous and they have Anthrosapiens up there living and working in public while we don’t. You don’t see the whole mutant morlocky underground sort of thing here in Paradise City. More Aliens sure this is Vishanti central for the planet and the P’hari are here too down along the bigger urbanized parts of the waterfront but this.

And as we’re getting in deeper to the place that’s when I’m seeing the Anthros here too. I look at Alex. “I’ll keep my mouth closed for sure.”

“Good.”

“So food or dancing?”

“Well given the whole chickensode I’m going to ask if we can just watch? I have no idea how to dance.”

“Perfect time to learn.”

Alex leads me to concrete stairs leading down to one of the broken up ship cradles and it’s only too bomb busted to not be skateable and there’s huge chunks of rubble in here that have been urbanized with paint and art and stuff and we get though that stuff into the center of the cradle and there’s a crowd of people dancing and there’s this huge chunk of concrete in the middle being used as a stage and there’s some heavy beat street hip-hop singing going on and it’s…

It’s enthralling and thumping and I can feel the music and the beat and Alex moves beside me with the beats and soon we’re dancing like the other kids in the crowd.

Yeah I might stick out but no more than the panther looking guy in the leatherboi biker sex worker looking clothes or the pale girl with vines and little leaves for her hair that looked like dreadlocks.

Okay…okay yeah…