You groaned once again as you stepped out of your shower, you were going to an amusement park with the guys today and you were dreading the experience. It's not that you didn't like amusement parks, quite the opposite in fact, it was just that you knew Zacky was going to be there. And you knew that somehow the two of you would try and kill one another, and the day would be ruined, for everyone. You hated how it always seemed to ruin everyone else's day, you hated it with a passion. You just couldn't control your mouth or quick start anger when you were around him. You just wished that one of you would disappear for forever and let everyone else go about life in peace. And you were hoping that one would be Zacky, because you quite loved your life thank you very much.

Ponderings and musings over you finished towel drying off before slipping on an orange bra and matching underwear. You wiped the foggy mirror down with your now unneeded towel and stared at your reflection.

"I look like a drowned rat," you mused, puffing a piece of bedraggled bang off your face, or attempted to at least as it came back down to rest on your face once again in the same exact spot.

You threw your now damp overly large towel into the hamper at the doorway and walked off into your now noticeably much cooler feeling room. Shivering a bit you grabbed an oversized t-shirt of Jimmy's and slipped it on. You realized that you looked absolutely foolish in it, but didn't care, you were chilly. You threw open your closets and your drawers and dug through them for something that was appropriate for being at an amusement park all day and riding rides.

You picked out a pair of dark brown Dickies that had been cut off like four inches below your knees and were massively frayed at the edges, they hung loose on you since they were boys and you loved them. You threw them on your bed along with your favorite studded belt and a pair of black suspenders, and a pair of plaid boxers since the pants fell off you constantly. Next you threw out a pair of dark blue chucks that hadnt been tied properly in all the years you had worn them, and that was many as they were in a large state of disrepair.

You grabbed a clean white beater, and a pair of almost knee high white socks with two dark blue stripes up at the top and called yourself just about done. You grabbed your long chains, a black bandana for your wrist, an orange one for your neck, your large black leather cuff watch, and your army cap. Figuring that that was perfect you went to go work with your hair, though not much since you were throwing a hat on your head.

You brushed your hair out and pulled it into two sections on either side of your face. You bunched it loosely together and braided the last six inches of it or so and tied it off, calling it done. You threw on heavy black eyeliner and some pale gray eye shadow and nothing else, you were in a mood to look like your old skater self for the day. You ran and grabbed your army cap and tugged it onto your head slightly off to the side, you fixed your odd bangs and sprayed your hair down with hairspray so it wouldnt come undone while on a roller coaster.

Back in your room you rolled the orange bandana a bit, leaving only a little lip dangling before tying it loosely around your neck, you were definitely in a dark blue, black, dark brown, white and rich orange color mood. And you had no idea why. You attached your chains, and wrapped your wrist in the black bandana and added your cuff watch to your other wrist.

You sat down and glanced at the clock. It was only like quarter of nine, which surprised you. So since you had time to kill you decided to paint your nails black for the day while you grabbed some coffee in the kitchen, and possibly some toast.
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Fifteen minutes later, and with nails that were ninety percent dry you heard your intercom buzz and knew it was Jimmy.

"I'll be right there," you said quickly into the intercom.

You grabbed your cell phone and green canvas wallet and threw it into one of your back pockets, that was the best part about these pants. Back pockets that could hold stuff since they were slightly big on you. Oh the genius behind who ever invented guys pants. Next you grabbed your open pack of a cigarettes, a new one from the freezer, and your lighter before dashing out of your door, keys following everything else and going into a back pocket.

You raced out of the elevator once it hit the lobby floor and booked it towards Jimmy's waiting car. You had received this amazingly good mood while you were painting your nails and waiting for your ride. You didn't really know why. You thought that maybe it had something to do with going to an amusement park for the day, or maybe even a little to do with your outfit for the day. It had been a long time since you had dressed 'down' like this, like back when you were in high school, back in the good old days. You figured that had something to do with it.

You felt sixteen again for the moment, the rush of adrenaline, the excitement for hanging with your brother and your buds, reeking havoc, being miscreants. It was something. And you could tell Jimmy felt it too when you saw him grinning at you as you dashed at full speed to his car. You even jumped and slid across his hood, landing perfectly on the other side and opening the passenger door and getting in.

"Wow," was all Jimmy said when you hopped in and buckled your belt, a lazy smile lingering on his face.

"What?" you asked, a smiling plastering your face as you lit a cigarette and stuck your extra pack and lighter up on the dashboard.

"For one you look like you're sixteen again," he said, kicking his car into gear.

"It's weird, I feel like I am sixteen again. Don't know what it is," you said, rolling the window down and blowing smoke out it.

"Maybe it's the outfit. I haven't seen you dressed down like this since back in high school when you were never seen anywhere with out your skateboard, a smoke behind your ear, some form of metal in your face and a carefree grin plastered on your face. You use to own the world back then," Jimmy said fondly.

"And I don't now?" you asked teasingly, flicking the ash out the window as you sped out the parking lot.

"No you do now, more so then ever. But back then I don't know, you were less weighed down by the knowledge of life, of growing up, you didn't give a shit what anybody thought and told them so directly to their face. You still do that now, as Zacky finds out everyday, but it's different. It's refreshing to have that back for the day. But I don't know what it is, but I've felt it all morning," Jimmy said as he sped around a corner, barely making it through a light as it changed.

You grinned and let the gushing wind blast your bangs around, you cigarette free hand out the window, bobbing through the wind. Riding it like a dolphin rides the waves. Jimmy was right. Something about today felt different. And you liked it. You brought your hand inside from out the window for just a second, just long enough so you could switch hands holding your cigarette and toss it out the window.

Mini littering done, you went back to riding the breeze with your hand, grinning like a fool. You beamed your smile over at Jimmy when he grasped your hand on your lap with his own. He chuckled at you when you turned your goofy grin at him. It was definitely going to be a day to remember.

You held hands with Jimmy the entire ride to the amusement park, your giant grin never leaving your face. You knew some people who didn't know you, or Jimmy, might take the hand holding the wrong way, but you didn't care. You loved Jimmy, just as much as you loved your brother, if not more so in some aspects. You would do anything for him, including take a bullet or die. You remembered that when you were little you were pretty sure that the moon rose and set by his command, and were pretty sure that it still did. It hurt so much to have him gone for so long, and while it wasn't like you needed him or them home to go on with life it certainly was better when they were home.

You thanked Zarin for this day as you pulled into the amusement park parking lot that was filled with hundreds upon hundreds of mini vans that had come bearing screaming kids. You absent mindedly stuck a cigarette behind one ear as Jimmy detached your hands and turned his car off as he had pulled into a parking space. He got out first as you gathered your few remnants off the dashboard and then stepped out, pulling your pants up over the boxers that were showing since they liked to fall off your butt a lot.

After you closed the door you pulled your black sunglasses off the brim of your hat, put them on and ran and jumped at Jimmy. Landing on his back, legs sticking out goofily on either side of his waist you shouted into the air as his arms curled around your legs to keep you from falling off.

"High ho silver away!" you shouted, throwing your arm up into the air violently.

Jimmy just started to laugh loudly as he paraded with you on his back to the front gates where you both were suppose to meet the rest of the guys. As you got nearer you saw them all standing around, some of them with cigarettes out, filling the air around them with smoke. And as you got closer still you saw their semi shocked faces at the mish moshed monster that was you and Jimmy approaching.

"Did someone find a worm hole in time and jump back a bunch of years?" Johnny said as the two of you approached him and the guys.

"I'm thinking so," you said as Jimmy dropped you to the ground and you once again hoisted your pants up.

"By golly she even has a cigarette tucked behind her ear. Wait, quick, where is she hiding that damn skateboard that never left her side?" Matt asked as he dramatically dodged side to side, looking behind people and random inadament objects for the ghost skateboard.

You felt yourself cracking up at your brothers antics, and you even caught Zacky smiling at him as well, and you didn't feel the need to snap at him. Well, not yet.

"Has anyone ever told you that you look incredibly a lot like a boy dressed like that. Minus the little braids, booty and bust that is. But still massively masculine," Syn said as he snapped one of your suspenders on your shoulders.

"Awww I remember when you use to date girls who looked like this," you teased as you smacked his fingers away.

"Caught me there," Syn said as he fought off your smacking hands.

"Let's go make an ass of ourselves for the day shall we," Jimmy said as he stuck his arm out for you to link with.

"Lets," you said linking arms with him and sticking yours out for your brother.

Matt linked his with yours and the six of you proceeded to parade to the amusement park gates.

You paid and received your tickets without breaking your little three man link, but then when you tried to go through the turnstile like that you ran into difficulties. Syn and Johnny were laughing uproariously at the three of you attempting to get through as one, and even Zacky was laughing, in good fun for once.

Finally Matt managed to find a way to turn his overly jacked gorilla body, as you liked to call it, so he could push through the turnstile and drag the two of you after him. After you finally managed to make it in and through you yourself were laughing hard at the sight the three of you must look like, utterly ridiculous. It really did feel like you were sixteen again, all of you, it was odd yet comforting.

You were in such a good mood that as you were berating, jokingly, the other three guys for making fun of you you even managed to playfully kick Zacky in the shins as a reprimand. And it was all in good fun, no malice. He even played along, hopping up and down on one foot, miming dramatically that he was in pain, and then since he was not looking where he was hopping falling over a little bench onto the ground as well. It made the five of you burst out laughing even more, especially when he scowled up from the ground at you all.

"So what first?" Matt asked as he picked up the still scowling Zacky from the ground.

"How about, oh fuck," you started to say then changed as your cell phone started to play "I Touch Myself" loudly and vibrate in your back pocket.

Quickly you pulled it out and flipped it open and put it to your ear.

"Hello," you said in a cheery knowing mood, since you knew who it was on the other end.

"We're right by the entrance, like right in front of the turnstiles. Where we caused a big scene. Where are you?" you asked.

"Okay. See you in a sec," you said closing your phone and putting it into your back pocket again before looking up at five now very crest fallen looking faces.

"Who did you invite to hang with us today Kales?" Johnny asked, glancing down at where your phone was.

"I," you began but were interrupted.

"Who else. Jeph," Zacky said coldly.

You turned to face him a bit, a scowl taking up residence on your face.

Notes

Okay odd place to cut it I know, but it is what it is.
But yay they made it to the amusement park finally!!!

If I remember correctly the amusement park takes up four chapters I think. . .