fandomtownies | Morning before classes, from the schoolgates to the causeway

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Morning before classes, from the schoolgates to the causeway

Cameron put his helmet on and checked to make sure his elbow and knee padding was firmly in place. Yes, he looked dorky, but as he looked down the steep hill of the Apocalypse Avenue it just felt safer like this. He wasn't entirely crazy.

Taking a deep breath, he turned to his roommate. "I feel like we need a battlecry or something."

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Kawalsky checked his own padding. He had long sleeves and long pants on with knee and elbow pads on top. He fixed the strap of a kevlar helmet he'd swiped off Ferretti. You never knew when it was going to come in handy. It was perfect for skateboarding.

He grinned. "We need one. Got anything in mind?"

Apocalypse Ave looked a lot steeper when they were considering going down it on skateboards.

"Kawabunga seems overdone," Cameron frowned and tapped his skateboard against his leg thoughtfully. "Bow chicka bow wow?"

"You say that way too casually and I don't wanna know where you picked that up." He rubbed his chin. "But it works for me. Bow chicka bow wow!"

Cameron smirked. "You're not the only bad influence around here," he said as he put the skateboard underneath this foot and raised an eyebrow at Kawalsky. "Ready to do this, Major K?"

"Hell no I'm not, Camboy, but that's never stopped me before. I used to jump outta planes y'know. This? Piece of cake. But if I break my neck, you can have my stereo." He licked his lips anxiously, but the look in his eye could have told anyone that he was ready to go.

"Awesome. It's got some nice speakers on it," Cameron grinned. He wasn't planning on breaking his neck, so he wasn't going to start up a testament.

"Bow chicka bow wow!" He cried as he put the skateboard on the ground and pushed off on it.

Kawalsky hadn't done this since he'd been a teenager the first time. He was definitely going to fall off. Nevertheless, he remembered it being fun, so he pushed off, trying to speed up after Cam. "Bow chicka bow wow!" He felt so ridiculous saying that, but he didn't care. "Ride like the wind, Tonto!"

"Better hold on to those lovehandles," Cameron shouted as he was building up speed and the first turn was coming up. It was almost 90°. This called for some serious turning action.

"They balance me out just fine!" Kawalsky yelled back and braced himself for a faceplant that never came. He executed the sharp turn with some skidding and grinding of the board against the ground.

You never forgot some things. How to use a skateboard was one of them for him.

"Whooooyah!" Cameron shouted above the wind. Possibly eating some early morning bugs along the way. He sped up some more, the next turn looked even more daring as this time there was only the cliff and then ocean ahead of them.

Kawalsky didn't want to get left behind. Sometimes he had a competitve streak, and that was usually when he was at most risk of breaking his neck. He sped up even more with a few pushes and crouched down lower, trying to lower wind resistance. "Come on, boy wonder, let's see you do this one!"

"I can do this in my sleep," Cameron replied. As Kawalsky was gaining on him, Cameron lowered his stance as well. Which probably was a bad idea as he should be slowing down in a turn but he wasn't about to let Kawalsky think he was a chicken.

It did make the turn all that much harder and there was gravel making the board protest under the sharp, high speed turning. Not to mention that they were getting dangerously close to each other and all the while the water was reflecting the morning sun as if it was calling out to them.

Charlie pulled away from Cam to stop them from colliding, but the move made him curve widely. He nearly went off the side of the road, but out of sheer luck pulled back at the last moment and righted himself. "Close one!"

Cameron already had visions of Kawalsky ending up in the water. He nodded in relief as they cleared the turn. At leaast they had a small breather now before their next turn.

"Dude, I think we had the worst now," he beamed, not letting on that maybe he got a little nervous after just how close that last turn was.

Kawalsky stood up straight again and put his hands in the air, while trying to keep balance. "Weeeeeee are the chaaaampions, my frieeeend!"

Cameron snickered and joined in. "We'll keep on skating until the end! Of the road!"

"I think you just changed songs to Boyz II Men, man, and I'm not going there!"

"I did not!" Cameron protested, frowning at Kawalsky. But the blue telephone booth at the end of the next turn was rapidly coming closer and he started concentrating on the road again.

"Did so!" Kawalsky yelled. "You sappy song singer, you!" He headed around the corner a little faster than was safe.

"Coming from the man with Hanson on his playlist," Cameron pointed, speeding up as Kawalsky was now ahead of him and he couldn't let him get ahead of the conversation. "Maybe we should have gone with Mmmm bop as battlecry."

"I bought it by accident on iTunes!" Kawalsky scowled. "And hey, at least it's better than Mr Touchy-Feely Soul-Lovin' over there!"

Cameron scowled right back. "I'll have you know that I'm a Mean Lean Loving Machine."

"Yeah, keep telling yourself that! While you listen to BOYZ II MEN."

"At least I'm not bopping to Hanson," Cameron argued stubbornly and then realised that they had cleared the most dangerous turns in the route. "Dude, I think we did it."

Kawalsky pumped a fist into the air and nearly fell off, but steadied himself. "That's the way they do it in Fandom! Yeah!"

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