POWERTHRIST!! POWER-SKATING!! PREPOSTERONE!! AHHHH!! (Kam)

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Now that Junpei had been here at Hammel for more than just a few weeks, actually a few months by this point, he was far more familiar with the town Pilot Ridge than he had been before. This was good, because it meant that he could actually find his way around, somewhat....ok, he still used his GPS chronically, but at least he was less likely of becoming lost. That and he had also memorized the way to a number of places which caught his interest: the tea shop, the hamburger place, the skate shop, the mall and most importantly, the skate-park.

Junpei rolled down the hill on his board, keeping to the right side of the street and, as courtesy would expect, kicking it up whenever the sidewalk and street became too crowded with cars and pedestrians. After all, he wouldn't want to hit any of them...or get hit by any of them...

Once he got to the park, Junpei once again kicked up his board and pushed the chain-link gate open to enter the small park. It wasn't very big, but compared to the indoor "parks" they had back at home, it was a luxury, especially since it was outside and properly constructed rather than being made out of random pieces of construction equipment and hidden out in abandoned warehouses that could quickly be shut down at a moment's notice. Yes, this was yet another reason to like America.

Junpei set his bag down next to the bench about a dozen or so feet from the lip of the bowl and pulled out one of the several energy drinks he had in the front pocket. He snapped it open and downed it all at once then tossed it into a nearby trashcan. Then the boy proceeded to arm himself with his skating equipment: elbow and knee pads, wrist pads, and of course, his helmet. It might have looked a little dorky, but after all, safety always came first. Plus he had name brand equipment, so it was ok and they were all just jealous.

He waited for a break in the traffic before pitching himself off the edge of the bowl and down into the pool, weaving his board from side to side down the tunnel as he built up momentum for his warm-ups.

And he could feel the energy drink kicking in already.

[Kamillia Engel]

Kamillia walked out of her house, well her gramps house, with her skateboard in one hand, and a monster drink in the other. If there was one drink she loved beyond anything else it was monster drinks, that and sobe life water. Yeah, both drinks were kind of skater drinks, she was being stereotypical, but she couldn’t help it. Drinking a monster was just like drinking a red bull her really wasn’t much difference, other than taste and manufacture.

There was only one place she wanted to go to at the moment, and that was the skating park. She jumped onto her skateboard, and made her way into town. It would be much easier if she had a car… But her and her gramps were working on it. She hadn’t been skating for a few days, and she missed it, and the people. Mostly she missed the skating, but she had a few friends who go to the skate park as much as she did, so they were a plus.

Once in town, she headed straight to the skate park, because why would she go elsewhere? Getting to the park put a huge smile on Kam’s face, she lit up, she was ecstatic to be here finally. She figured skating here from her house wasn’t enough for warm ups, and no she wasn’t wearing any protective gear. She dropped into the pool, where she started doing her usual tricks, before she got to the fancier stuff that would get her to fall on her ass.

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Junpei siddled up and down the sides of the bowl, not daring to do anything too complicated until he had gotten himself adjusted to this playground more and the traffic of those around him. He was a courteous skater. He didn't like being in the way of other people nor did he want to risk accidentally slamming into someone because he was too impulsive.

Because Junpei was definitely impulsive.

And tended to leap before he jumped.

Did I mention impulsive?

Junpei knelt down as he curved around a semi-circular niche in the pool, touching his hand down to his board's surface, and concentrating slightly, pulsing just a little bit of his power into the object, and causing it to pick up speed as he rode it to the other side.

Faster…

Faaaster….

Whoop, too fast! Too fast!!

Junpei accidentally put a little too much momentum into his board, to the point where he couldn't quite control it. He barely managed to swivel under the edge of the pool and back down into it before he collided with someone, knocking her off her board, and sending them both tumbling to the center of the bowl.

[Kamillia Engel]

Kamillia was pretty much minding her own business, listening to music while she did her tricks. Which really wasn’t the brightest idea on her part, if she fell, her ipod was sure to break; which was the reason why she had one of those really old ones that are really cheap on ebay instead of the itouch.

However, it didn’t take long for her to be bumped into. Well more like collided with, for it was much more than a bump and it was half her fault for not paying much attention. She just didn’t think it would be a problem considering there weren’t that many people, not to mention her ADD did not help her focus at all.

She felt herself hit the ground, and she hit it hard on her side. Thankfully, not the side where her ipod was stored in her pocket, so that was safe. “Fuck” She let out after she hit the ground. Pain shot through her, but nothing as bad as she had felt before. She moved to lay on her back, trying to catch her breath after it had been knocked out of her. “Fucking… Asshole..” She muttered as she sat up. “shit…” She groaned as she felt pain in her wrist when she moved it. She moved to feel her wrist, making sure she didn’t break anything, she had broken enough bones to know what it felt like. Thankfully nothing felt broken, which meant it was just sprained, still, “Damn it.” It hurt. Pain was not a friend of Kam’s, she could take it, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t going to cuss while doing so. She turned her ipod off than shoved it and her earphones in her pocket. She looked around for the jerk that knocked her off her skateboard.

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Junpei hit the ground with an "oof" and rolled with his arms held in to protect his face as much as possible. He was used to falling, as surprising as it may be, considering he was often times such a klutz and actually lack a good degree of balance, despite his experience and like for skating.

He was not however, slow in getting back up to try, try again…and to make sure the other skater was alright, because it certainly was his fault that they both ended up on the ground. Junpei looked around for the other skater….a girl apparently who looked like she was in pain.

"Are you ok?" He asked fervently. "I am sorry, Is there think I can to for help?" Even before she answered he was already offering a hand to assist her to her feet.

The wheels on Junpei's skateboard will still turning as it lay upside-down in the bowl.

[Kamillia Engel]

Kamillia had a thing where at this point in her skating life she didn’t care if she got hurt, or how much she got hurt. She had come to terms with the fact that she was most likely going to die young, and possibly from skating. There wasn’t much for her to live for anyways, and she was sure she wouldn’t make a difference in the world, so dying young wouldn’t matter. It was a sad fact that Kam came up with, but one she had, and one she had came to terms with.

She groaned again, she was sort of not in the mood to deal with people… Then again she rarely was, animals were her best friends, all kinds, she rather spend her whole life with them instead of her peers. She ran her good hand through her hair, “I’m fine, thank you though.” Well now she couldn’t be mean to him.. Especially since it seemed like he was a nice guy, and that he didn’t speak English very well. “Nah, I’ll be fine. It’s just a sprain. I’ll live.” She grabbed his hand with her good one and stood up. “Thanks.” She said with a smile, half of the guys here would have just gotten up, chuckled or tried to hit on her than left. And half of that half were also her friends, or at least people she would call her friends. “Are you okay?” She looked him over, he seemed better off than her, considering he was decked out in protective gear.

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Junpei too didn't care too much about being hurt in skating. It was something that was expected for such a dangerous kind of sport, especially one that he wasn't all that good at. But that was also why he made it a point to wear the proper gear like a dork(not that he thought he looked stupid or anything). After all, all the professionals wore their full gear before doing the most dangerous kinds of tricks, so why would that make him a dork?

"That is good," Junpei breathed with a sigh of relief. But then she mentioned the sprain and he got himself worked up all over again. "Sprain is problem! I am sorry, can I help?" In a perfect world, she would let him take her to the hospital or, if she was also a Hammel student, he would take her back to the campus and to the infirmary. "I am fine, nothing hurt." Then he turned the conversation back to her. "Do you need doctor?"

Of course, they were still having this exchange in the middle of the skating bowl, completely in the way of the other skaters. Some people from the sidelines were starting to yell, but Junpei was too ignorant to realize they were talking to him and the girl.

[Kamillia Engel]

Kam blinked, she couldn’t remember how many times she had to go to the hospital to check something. “Oh no, no! I’m fine. Thank you though. But I am fine. I have a wrist brace I can put on it when I go home. It’s totally not a big deal. It’s not like it’s my ankle or anything.” Truthfully, she had sprained her wrist before and kept skating, she was a daredevil looking to kill herself, but not really. She just wasn’t the smartest or careful person in the world. She just didn’t care, it was only a little pain. She also did not want to go to the doctor purely for the fact that it was just going to cost a lot for them to tell her what she already knew.

“I’m glad you aren’t hurt.” She looked at him, he looked familiar, but couldn’t actually place it. However, the jerks standing off to the side wanting them to get out of the way interrupted her thoughts. She looked at them and flipped them off with her good hand/wrist. “I should get out of here… Before those guys start doing something stupid. I would love to see what your made of though! I don’t think I’ve ever seen you around here before.”

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Her wrist was hurt but she was fine? Junpei didn't understand. Usually when something hurt your were supposed to go straight to the doctor to get it checked out because they say an injury can always be worse than it feels. But then again, Junpei was no doctor….but then again, neither was she….or was she? Maybe she was well versed in medicine enough to know? ………probably not. But if she said she was alright, then Junpei would just have to respect her assessment.

"Sankyu," he replied with his thick accent. But then she made…..a gesture…that he was certain he'd seen before but couldn't quite remember what it meant. Actually, he'd seen a lot of japanese people use it casually, so he wondered why……

"Hai!" he started, but then corrected himself to, "yes, I will move too." He started following her, nabbing up his toppled skateboard as they climbed out of the bowl. "No, I am new." He'd only managed to come to the skatepark a few times, maybe only once a week? Junpei simply dove into his next question, however. "What is thing you do before? With your hand?" He wondered if she would know what he was talking about.

[Kamillia Engel]

Kamillia knew her body better than anyone else did, and she didn’t need to have a doctor tell her what she already knew. If the swollenness didn’t die down in a few days, than she most likely tore a ligament and she already had a wrist brace at home. No need to spend hundreds of dollars on going to the doctor. She got an A in biology, how much more did she need to know?

The gesture wasn’t a very good one, and that was actually the point… She hadn’t excepted to have to have explained the gesture to anyone other than maybe so maybe future children. But hand gestures meant different things for different countries… One hand gesture in America could mean something completely different in Asia.

“Oh okay.” She actually hadn’t expected the boy to move either. But it was his choice; she wasn’t going to stop him. However, she did think that maybe she wasn’t the best person to have a conversation with, just because she kind of sucked at being social, at least she thought she did. “Ah! It’s nice to see a new face then.” Then again, there were a lot of new faces considering new people came to Pilot Ridge a lot thanks to Hammel. Sometimes it was frustrating… “Oh.. You don’t know what it is?” That’s weird, “You weren’t raised in America were you?” It was obvious he wasn’t American by race.. But now it was obvious that he wasn’t born or raised in America.. “Do you know what ‘fuck you’ means? It’s pretty much saying that with your finger..” She wasn’t going to sugar coat it, just because he was around her age and should know this. She wasn’t talking to a child, where she would have said ‘it’s a very mean gesture that should not be made.’

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While Junpei wasn't going to push it for the moment, he was going to keep a close eye on the girl. He respected her opinion, yes, but he didn't believe for a second that it was alright. At least not until it had been looked at by someone who knew medicine. That was what he was always taught, that doctors knew best and even doctors weren't' allowed to treat themselves and if it wasn't cleared by one then it could end up healing wrong…?

Junpei really should let this go……yeah, he'd just watch her.

"Yes, it is good to be meeting you!" Junpei said as he followed behind her. "I am Junpei!" he huffed. "What is your name?"

Junpei shook his head. "No, I am from Japan," he confirmed her suspicion. Gee, did his heavy accent give him away? Or was it his obvious naivete about American customs and culture? "Hai. I know that word. It is word for being rude." Of course, it had a much stronger meaning in America, when said in it's native language, than it did in Japanese. He would hear others say it in school for fun and laugh about how they knew English swear words. The word meant about as much to Junpei as it did to a child merely repeating what adults said.

As such, he started innocently twisting his fingers into that gesture and held it up to her like he was flashing a peace sign, bright smile and everything.

[Kamillia Engel]

Kamillia really wasn’t a smart person, at least when it came to her body, she did go skating and not wear any protective gear, not even a helmet. That alone should tell Junpie that she wasn’t very bright, at least when it came to her personal health. Though in this case, she was too prideful to go to the doctors, because she knew whatever her gramp’s insurance couldn’t pay for, her parents were going to have to, and she was tired of having to rely on their money… And at this moment with her crappy job, and having six/eight pets to look after, she didn’t have enough money to look after herself too.


“Oh! Right, how rude of me. I’m Kamillia, you can call me Kam if that’s easier.” He was Asian, and Camellias were Japanese flowers, maybe he wouldn’t actually have trouble saying her name… Would it be offensive to ask if he was Japanese or not? But that question was answered moments later.

“Oh! That’s cool. I know I’m named after a Japanese flower, but I’ve never been there.. My parents just liked the name. I’m from Germany.” She didn’t have a heavy accent, then again German’s never really had heavy accents to begin with. She smirked, “It’s not a word for being rude. It’s a rude word in itself.. There are a lot of meanings for fuck, and the generalized sayings that use the word. But almost none of them are good. Some people say it as an outlet for anger, if they are made the will swear. Most of the time it means sex, or having sex… It just a matter of how you say it, and the context of it. Really is a vulgar word, and that’s really all there is to it. It can mean a lot of things.” A lot of teenagers now a day’s only said the word to sound ‘cool’.


Kam smiled at Jun as he did the gesture to her. “You are very cute, but I wouldn’t do that to anyone, not unless you want to get disgusted looks, or beat up. Especially around here.” She only got away with it because one: she had made friends with most of the guys here so they wouldn’t touch her, and two she was a girl… And a lot of the guys here wouldn’t harm her just because she had boobs.

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"Ah! Kamillia. You have very pretty name." Junpei, ever the polite boy, couldn't help but compliment the girl. Though it was true though, and Junpei did like Camellias….or at least flowers in general. Maybe not. But at least he knew about them via an Ikebana class he was required to take once. It didn't last more than 6 months because Junpei didn't "progress fast enough", as his aunt Mio said.

As Junpei listened, he started thinking that maybe he should be taking notes. English colloquialisms were actually one of the hardest parts Junpei had in learning English, so it would definitely help him in the future when simple things like this were explained. So as she spoke, Junpei pulled out his smart phone and started taking quick shorthand notes at an amazing speed…which was halted when Kamillia said the word "sex". He shot up his head with a slight flush on his face.

"Faaku…mean "sekusu"?" he asked with wide eyes. Somehow he had missed that, but now he could understand clearly why it was considered a vulgar word. "Sou'tsuu ka?"

Junpei's eyebrows went up and he put down his hand with a nod. No, he didn't want to risk getting beat up, so he was going to have to be careful about that in the future. "People here will beat up easy?" If so, maybe it was a bad idea for him to come out to the skatepark so often?

[Kamillia Engel]

Kamillia blushed, “ah thank you.” She was grateful when people complimented her in a genuine, sincere way. Meaning when they weren’t trying to hit on her because they wanted to get into her pants. She didn’t think Junpie was like that, at least that’s what she thought from this first encounter.

The English language was hard to understand, and she could sympathize with the boy. English wasn’t her first language, and by no means did she pick it up any faster than he seemed to. “I have to say, that I really do sympathize with you. English is not my first language either, obviously.” Maybe that’s why she felt she was inclined to help him. “If the first word is fuck in Japanese, and the second word is sex, then yeah.” She didn’t know what he said after that, she merely blinked at him. “I do have to say that saying fuck, is way less offense than giving someone the finger.” Mostly because when a person just said ‘fuck’ it was out of frustration, and it’s not toward anyone else.

Kamillia thought about it, how many kids actually did get beat up? Maybe it was just the guys she tended to make friends with, weird. “Now that I think about, no, they don’t. Everyone is pretty chilled here. Not to mention some of the people that hang out here are too stoned to even care.” She mumbled the last sentence. It wasn’t really something she intended for Jun to hear, or even get.

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The blush did not go unnoticed and Junpei couldn't help but think that she was adorable that way. Well, Junpei thought that all girls were cute when they blushed (especially Yue-chan) but Kamilia was especially cute, with her red hair and exotic features. And what Junpei thought of as exotic was actually just "not japanese".

Junpei would never admit, however, how much he liked american girls. They were all very…generous. So much he had to look away sometimes.

And so far he liked Kamilia. She was straightforward and friendly and explained things so that Junpei could understand them. "English is not the first language you know? What language do you know first?" He wanted to know because it sounded like Kamilia was very fluent in English. She didn't sound like a foreigner to America…but then again, Junpei also wasn't an expert on English accents, so he probably just couldn't tell.

Ok, that was a relief. Junpei was scared that he might get beaten up if he came to the park too often or offended the wrong person. He had heard scary stories about the people in America, but he was glad that he hadn't come across anyone yet described in those stories. "That is good. I do not want to get beat up. I do not want Kamilia to get beat up too." Now he didn't have to worry so much.