P0Turning Lanes Chapter 19

A/n: Shout out to pumpkinhead0402, I promised her an update for her birthday and failed to get creatively moving on this story until today. Girl, I'm sorry, I hope you love this update and happy belated birthday!Cheer

"The skating rink? This is stupid." Daxsyn mumbled, tying her skates as she watched a very hyper Tripp already out on the arena floor. He flew by and gave a cheesy grin and wave.

"Ah come on, let's skate." Roman danced, raring to go. He was ready to put the moves down on the floor.

"You go ahead." Daxsyn waved him on.

"Nope, I'm taking you out there wit me, girl." Roman shook his head. Tej walked over, holding a cup of beer. Daxsyn grabbed his hand and guided the cup and his hand to her mouth. She took a drink and smiled.

"You think you're so sneaky don't you, Babygirl?" Tej asked, his voice smooth as he gave her a grin, sending chills down her spine. She loved his deep voice.

"We'll see how sneaky she is on the flo out there." Roman pulled at Daxsyn's hand.

"Tej, aren't you skating?" Daxsyn asked, getting a shake of the head.

"He thinks he is too cool to skate wit us." Roman said, knocking Tej with his shoulder.

"Maybe he's right, my cousin is a dork." Daxsyn rolled her eyes, annoyed that she had to be here.

"Girl, would you quit all that mutterin and get up already?" Roman asked, pulling harder on her arm. She stood up and stretched, wobbling on her skates.

"Ohhhh…I got you." Roman nodded now, looking smug. "I know your lil secret." He nodded.

"What?" Daxsyn asked, putting her arm through Roman's as if she was being ushered to some fancy event.

"I gotcho number, little girl." Roman laughed his ha-hahaha-ha laugh he was famous for.

"What are you talking about, you nut?" Daxsyn asked, not looking at him, pretending to scan the crowd on the floor.

"You don't know how to skate." Roman looked around too, then looked at her.

"I do to. That's crazy. I know how to skate." Daxsyn shook her head, seeing Tripp skate by with some girl that was now latched onto him.

"Ha-ha, then go on and skate, baby. I ain't stoppin ya." Roman tried to move his arm, still looking very smug.

"I'm going. Just chill. You can get your skate on soon enough." Daxsyn held her head up, not acknowledging his accusation.

"Okay, well….go on then!" Roman moved his arm up and released her with a push.

"You ass." Daxsyn yelled over the music that was vibrating the floor. She fell on her butt, making Roman bust up into laughter.

"Come on, Daxy. You don't know how to skate?" Tripp skated by, pulling her up on her feet and pulling her on the floor at a faster pace than she would have liked. At this point, a turtle leading her would have been too fast.

"No, I can't freakin skate. Are you happy now, making me look like stupid?" Daxsyn asked, irritated.

"You don't look stupid. Lighten up." Tripp smiled, still leading her around.

"Yes, I do look stupid." Daxsyn grumbled.

"Since when have you cared what people thought?" Tripp asked, not even sounding breathless as they skated around on the big floor.

"I don't care." Daxsyn said, pouting she was being forced to skate like this. She may as well have been a dog on a leash the way he was leading her around. "Why roller skating?" She asked, her nose wrinkled as she studied Tripp. The lights were brighter now, making it easy for her to study his chiseled features of his face.

"It's high security." Tripp replied. He looked like your typical all American jock that was the boy next door who everyone looked up to as their hero. Or that was what he reminded her of, despite him being from Paris. 'He's never going to fit in with our crew.' Daxsyn thought to herself with a small smile at the contrast of her comparisons.

"Okay, explain that one to me." Daxsyn said, wishing he would just slow down for just a minute at least. She was looking for the perfect moment where she could make her escape back to Tej and the alcohol.

"Well, anyone looking for you would obviously stand out in this crowd and it's likely they won't be able to keep up with you on the floor so if we have to make a double 007 escape, this is the perfect place to do it." Tripp grinned, sounding more like the computer geek that Stormy had described in previous chats.

"You are such a dork." Daxsyn rolled her eyes.

"Gee, what does that make you since you're related to me?" Tripp asked, his eyes gleaming mischievously.

"Oh shut up. You are just being annoying now." Daxsyn said, making Tripp laugh. She thought it was her he was laughing at. Tripp's eyes were fixed on Roman who was on his way to sneak behind her. Roman shrugged, and Tripp nodded, guessing he was up to something.

"BOO!" Roman yelled, skating off, holding his stomach from laughing so hard. He hadn't seen Daxsyn jump that high since he had known her.

"You're lucky day today, huh?" Tripp asked with a grin as wide as Texas.

"Lucky lucky me." Daxsyn nodded sarcastically. "I'm just a lucky ducky." She said, her face plastered with a big sarcastic smile and tone of voice.

"Okay, I'm going to let you go. You think you got the hang of this yet?" Tripp asked after they skated together silently. She shook her head but he nodded. He skated backwards now, pretending like he was going to let her go but faked her out, each time making her almost panic. The floor was packed and she did not know how to skate. She could just picture going down on the floor face first. She held Tripp's hand even tighter each time he joked.

"I'll tell Stormy and she'll kick your ass if you let me go." Daxsyn threatened, getting an 'I'm scared, I'm shaking' response with Tripp's hands. This made Daxsyn laugh because he looked like he was doing spirit fingers like in the movie Bring it On.

"You ready for some fancy stuff? Let's show that boy you like your moves." Tripp looked mischievous yet again with his million dollar smile as Marilyn Manson's You Spin Me Right Round.

"Oh this can't be good." Daxsyn muttered, Tripp picking up speed for the two of them. Daxsyn was moving her feet now, just starting to get comfortable doing that attached to his arms. As if he were some skating champion, he took her arms and spun her in a large circle from his arms with enough force that they were alternating taking turns spinning. She guessed this had to be a popular move back in his days of growing up, but she wasn't sure. He kept that up until she swore she was positive that she couldn't be any dizzier than what she was now.

On the part where Manson sung I've set my sights on you, he used one hand and pointed to his eyes and then to her. He lip synched the words, the crowd starting to warm up to his theatrics. They were giving him more room to do even more things Daxsyn noticed with dread. On the chorus the second time around, he pushed her out as he skated backwards and they did their spinning in circles.

"You act like you're a figure skater or somthin." Daxsyn yelled, hoping he would take this as a dig. To her disappointment, he nodded his thanks and held up one arm with her hand in it and twirled her as if they were square

dancing now. Then he slid her under his legs and pulled her back up. She laughed, amazed he was able to pull that one off. When the guitar solo came up, he picked her up and skated with her in the air. Daxsyn wouldn't admit it to him, but this was becoming more and more fun. At the end of the song, right on the last beat, he put her back on the floor. The rest of the skaters applauded and Tripp held up her hand to make her bow.

"Bow, Daxy." Tripp said, laughing and poking her jokingly in her side. Stop and Stare came on by One Republic and he skated with her slowly, this time he let her do most of the leading although she was unaware that she was doing it.

"I guess you're an all-right skater." Daxsyn smiled, loving the song. It was nice and slow.

"Just all right, huh? I take offence to that." Tripp pouted. He was quiet for a minute now. He looked over to see Roman talking to Tej. Tej got up and walked away. Roman made his way to the floor by the time they made it back to that part of the rink.

"It's a go, Tripp." Roman nodded, flying by him. Tripp smiled. The timing was perfect he thought. He looked behind him and saw Tej enter the rink. Much to his surprise, Tej was actually a good skater.

"Time for you to go skate on your own. I can't have people thinking we're together. You're cramping my style." Tripp said, letting her go and waving bye-bye just as the music was at the most intense part of the song was about to be blaring over the speakers.

"Augh!" Daxsyn screamed, her feet scampering to hold her balance. She was seething that he had pushed away like that and had made her balance lose its balance.

"Need some help, Baby girl?" Tej asked, grabbing her side and not even slowing down his skating as he led her around. Daxsyn smiled and leaned back into his arms, looking him in the eyes. She felt that familiar weak in the knee feeling and was glad his arm was around her in case they gave out on her completely.

"My hero." She smiled, reminding herself to get Stormy to beat her cousin up later. For now, she leaned into Tej and took in a deep breath of his cologne scent mixed with a hint of tap beer. Daxsyn may have been in danger from the whole mess her and her sister were in but ironically right now she had never felt so safe as she did right now in his arms.

"I thought maybe you wanted some company." He said, his voice low as he kissed the top of her forehead. Daxsyn felt her knees go weak again as the multicolored lights bounced off the roller rink.

"They make a good couple." Roman remarked to Tripp as the two stood off by the tables and watched them skate as they had a beer.

"Yeah, I guess they do. She really likes him." Tripp observed, watching Daxsyn nuzzle her head into Tej and the two of them laugh as they skated with ease and at a lazy speed.

"So, you like a figure skater or some shit?" Roman asked, making Tripp almost spit out his beer.

"What? Me, hell no! What makes you say that?" He asked.

"That shit you did was some circus act stuff." Roman said, laughing and punching Tripp in the arm jokingly.

"Storm, I need an answer. None of this bullshit you've been giving me about what you have to do, I need to know why did you show up with those papers? Did you really want them signed?" He asked, his eyes intently drilling holes through her as they sat opposite of each other at the table. Stormy sniffled and was quiet. "I'm not going to let you go but if you are so damn intent on going, then I'll sign the bitches." Brian said, startling her with his anger.

"I'm just …" Stormy started. Brian got up angrily and paced for a second.

"Just trying to protect Daxsyn and do what's going to keep us safe, yeah, I know, Storm." Brian said, sitting back down now, but straight and uptight in his chair. He grabbed her arm and lifted up her chin. "Please, I'm going to protect you both no matter what, but I have to know for me, do you still love

me or not? Or have you ever loved me?" He asked, searching her eyes for an answer. He hit the table with his fist, grabbed his keys and stormed outside. Stormy fought the urge to want to chase after him.