Okay I've kinda had writer's block and that's why I haven't been updating and I feel terrible for that! So I really really hope that you all like this chapter because I don't think it's the best of all of them, but I tried my best! I also want to thank all of you that have alerted, reviewed, and favorited my story! So without further ado, enjoy!

The next morning, Jack woke up to a loud beeping sound filling his ears. Still half asleep, he hit the top of his alarm clock, hoping that he would by chance hit the power button. After what felt like an eternity to his tired arm, Jack got fed up with finding the power button and simply knocked his alarm clock to the ground and the beeping immediately stopped. He then proceeded to turn over and just when he was drifting off to sleep, he heard a loud yell.

"Jack!" a voice shouted. He instantly recognized it as his mother's, and she was also shaking his shoulder. Jack slapped her hand away and mumbled some incoherent words and settled down comfortably again. His mom then went to her last resort and yanked all of the blankets off of his bed and sending him to the floor, hitting is head on the bedside table in the process.

Jack got up groaning and rubbing his head while wincing. "What was that for?"

"Sorry honey, we both know that if I hadn't done that, you would've never woken up," his mother replied. Jack sighed. "Anyway I have pancakes cooking downstairs so come down when you're ready, don't be late!" She then put the blankets back on his bed and walked out of the room.

Jack sighed. One of the only things he absolutely hated about school was that he had to wake up early. He picked up his alarm clock from the floor. It was completely broken and he knew he'd have to get a new one. He smiled. He could be really unpredictable when he was tired.

About a half hour later, Jack was brushing his teeth, dressed in jeans and a green t-shirt for the day, his hair still damp from the shower. When he was done brushing his teeth, he grabbed his backpack off the floor and headed downstairs, where his mom was setting a plate of pancakes and syrup on the table.

"Morning, mom," he said. "Sorry about earlier."

"Jack, I've lived with you your entire life. I'm used to it," she replied while pushing a glass of milk over to him. "Eat, you're going to be late."

Jack complied, not realizing how hungry he really was until he took the first bite. He ate the rest of the food as fast as he could and soon his plate was empty and his glass drained. He then got up and grabbed his backpack. He looked at the clock and saw that it seven thirty and he only had a half hour to get to school and be in his first class.

"Bye mom!" he said hurriedly and kissed her cheek. He then grabbed his skateboard and ran outside and started skating towards the school. On the way he came across Kim, who was running frantically trying to get to school on time. He chuckled.

"Hey, Kim!" he called. She turned and smiled in relief when she saw him. Wow her smile—oh Jack shut up!

"Hey Jack," she said waving. Jack stopped his skateboard next to her.

"Do you need a lift?" he asked.

"Yeah, sure that'd be great!" she said smiling widely and she got on the skateboard behind him and put her arms around him so she wouldn't fall off when he started to skate.

He knew that part of him only offered to take her to school so he could feel her arms around him, but he kept reminding himself that it was only to get her to school. But that didn't mean that he didn't enjoy it.

He started to skate and looked at his watch. Seven forty five. He had to hurry if he wanted to make it in time. He was just happy that there were no super busy streets on the route that they had to take so that he would be able to skate faster and not have to worry about getting hit by a car or something disastrous like that. And, with him being one of the best skaters in the neighborhood, they were at the school in record time. It was only when he and Kim had gotten off, that he realized that she looked extremely shaken.

"Hey are you okay?" he asked, concerned.

"Uh, yeah," Kim replied, trying to sound confident but the quiver in her voice gave her away. "I have no idea how I'll ever learn to ride one of those. I was scared that I was going to fall off even when I wasn't alone!"

Jack smiled and patted her on the shoulder reassuringly.

"You'll be fine," he said. "It's really fun once you get the hang of it, I promise."

"Okay…" she said but she still seemed skeptical.

"Jack, Kim!" A familiar voice shouted. They turned to see Milton, Jerry, and Eddie running over to them waving a magazine in the air. They were running so fast that they were practically tripping over each other to get over to them.

Jack laughed, "Okay what is it that has you nearly braking your necks to get over here?"

"You've got to see this picture! It's hilarious!" Jerry exclaimed shoving the magazine into Jack's hands.

Jack took one look at the magazine and immediately started to laugh and Kim snatched the magazine out of his hands and promptly joined them in the hilarity.

"Okay," Jack said. "That is probably the funniest picture of Ricky Weaver I've ever seen, and that's saying something since I've seen him covered in guacamole."

"Yeah," Eddie said. "I heard that when he went to the next school, that girl beat him up too because she saw the article in the last magazine."

"Serves him right!" Kim said. "Now I hope he's learned his lesson by now."

"Nah probably not," Milton piped up. "He's another repeat of Arthur I'm sure of it."

There were several murmurs of agreement from the others and just then, the bell rang.

"Aw man!" Jerry complained. "Now we're gonna be late!"

And with that, they rushed off to class.

"Ugh!" Jack exclaimed as they all walked out of math class at the end of the day. "That has got to be the hardest math test ever!"

"Jack, it wasn't that hard! Did you even study?" Kim asked.

Jack immediately looked down, embarrassed.

"See? That's why you failed." Kim said, highly amused.

"Oh, shut up," he returned, smiling.

"Oh my gosh, guys!" Milton exclaimed just as Jacks phone buzzed in his pocket. "You have to read this part of this article, it's hilarious!"

"Hey you guys go on," Jack said holding up his phone and gesturing towards it. "I gotta take this."

Walking away from the others he pressed the green button on his phone and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Jack!" A familiar voice said through the phone.

"Kyle?" Jack exclaimed. "I thought I'd never talk to you again!"

"Are you kidding? Why would you think I'd never call my best friend who'd just moved away?"

"Good point. So what's up?"

"Well I'm just calling to tell you that… I'm moving!"

"What?" Jack exclaimed, surprised. "Where?"

"Literally right down the street from where you are! It turns out that my dad got a job offer down there and now we're moving!"

"That's great! When are you moving?"

"Tomorrow! Wait hang on… oh that's dad calling, I gotta pack. I'll see you tomorrow!"

"Okay!" Jack said, excited that he's be able to see his old friend again. "See you."

After he hung up he walked back over to his friends.

"Who was that?" Kim asked when he reached them.

"Oh it was just my old friend from where I used to live, it turns out they're moving here!" Jack replied.

"Awesome!" Milton said. "It'll be really cool to add someone to our little circle of buddies!"

Kim laughed. "Okay then, well c'mon guys or we'll be late to practice!"

They were halfway through practice when Kim caught Jacks eye and gave him a meaningful look. He sighed. He knew that he had to tell everyone about his grandpa, but he was scared about what they're reactions would be. As it sensing his thoughts, Kim gave him a sympathetic and encouraging look, and he spoke up.

"Hey, uh, guys?" He said. "I have something to tell you."

"What is it, Jack?" Rudy asked.

"Well, I know I should've told you this sooner but, my grandpa died two months ago." He said.

Everyone's mouth dropped open and they all gaped at him.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Rudy asked, speaking for all of them.

"I don't know, I guess I just didn't want you guys to feel sorry for me or anything," Jack said sighing and sitting down in the bench in the middle of the room. "I don't need anyone's sympathy."

"Well I can kind of understand that I guess," Rudy said, putting a hand on Jack's shoulder, but you really should've told us sooner anyway."

Jack nodded. "Yeah I know, I'm sorry."

"Eh, it's fine," Jerry said. "If you don't want us to say anything, we won't. Of course, we'll still feel sorry for you, but we won't openly express it if you don't want us to."

For a second, everyone gaped at him until he shifted uncomfortably.

"What?" he asked, indignant. "I can say something intelligent once and a while! I'm not a complete idiot!"

After another minute of everyone just staring at him, he backed up looking extremely uncomfortable.

"Well," he said. "What're you waiting for? We have to finish practice!" and with that, he started to attack one of the dummies again.

Everyone shook their heads, breaking out of their stupor, and walked over and continued practice.

After practice was over, Jack caught up to Kim as she was walking out of the locker room and grabbing her backpack. Jack already had his backpack slung over his shoulder and was carrying his skateboard under one arm and holding his helmet in the other.

"Hey, it's time for your skating lesson," he said grinning.

Kim smiled nervously, "Okay." She sounded uncertain.

"You'll be fine! I won't let you fall off, I promise!" Jack reassured her. She looked slightly less nervous, which was good, but she still looked scared out of her mind.

"Hey, if it makes you feel any better, we'll just walk to my house instead of riding, okay?"

Kim nodded gratefully and they made their way to Jack's house in silence. The walk was mostly quiet because Kim was obviously still nervous, and didn't seem in the mood to talk.

When they arrived at Jack's house, he entered the password into the keypad on the side of his garage and it slowly opened. When he turned to Kim, her mouth had dropped open, and she looked completely and utterly shocked.

"What?" Jack said, nervously. "Is everything okay?"

"Jack," Kim said. "Your house is freaking huge!"

Jack laughed. "My grandpa bought it. With him being Bobby Wasabi's sensei and all, I think he had way more money than he could handle."

"It's still huge. It's like a monster in house form."

Jack chuckled as he led Kim into his spacious garage, and the walls were filled floor to ceiling in tons of skateboards.

"Holy crap!" Kim said. "How many skateboards do you have?"

Jack laughed, "Only around forty or fifty actually, it just looks like a lot more because I probably spread them out too much."

Kim could only stand and stare, dumbfounded. Jack smiled and got a skateboard off of the wall nearest to him and grabbed a helmet off of the floor. Turning back to Kim, he was glad to see that she had composed herself somewhat, and no longer looked as if her eyes were going to pop out of her head.

"You ready to start?" he asked as he handed her the skateboard and helmet.

"They're both my mom's. She doesn't like skateboarding all that much, but since I like it and she wanted to spend more time with me, she tried to get into it."

Kim only nodded uncertainly. Jack walked over to her, put his hands on both of her shoulders and willed her to look at him. When she did, he spoke.

"You'll be fine. I did promise that I wouldn't let you fall didn't I?"

Kim visibly relaxed, and Jack took his hands away reluctantly.

"Yeah," she said as she put the helmet on. "I'm ready."

"Okay let's go into the driveway so there's less cracks or anything that could make you fall off at first."

Kim nodded, understanding, and they walked out onto the driveway and she put one foot on the skateboard.

"Okay," Jack said. "It's actually a pretty simple concept, but it's a lot harder to actually do. So once you've got your foot on, make sure that you have a good balance so that you have less of a risk of falling off. And once you've done that, lightly push off with your back foot and then put both feet on the board. It takes a lot of balance to ride a skateboard, and everyone falls off in the beginning, so don't expect to be good when you first start. Good?"

"Yeah," Kim said. "Let's do this."

Jack chuckled slightly at the determined look on her face. He couldn't help it, it looked absolutely adorable on her. Not that he would ever tell her that of course, as she would either suspect that he liked her, or hit him. Or both. Yeah, best to keep silent.

Kim carefully pushed off with her back foot but before she could get anywhere, the board slipped out from under her foot and she fell. As she got up, rubbing her back, Jack jogged over to her.

"You okay?" Jack asked.

"Yeah, that stupid thing isn't cooperating." Kim said glaring at the skateboard which was currently laying in the grass.

"Kim, you do realize that it's an inanimate object, right?" Jack joked. She shot him a glare.

"Don't start with me!" she said as he backed up, raising his hands in mock surrender. "I'm going to get the hang of this if it takes all day!"

They proceeded to practice for another hour when a car pulled into the driveway. Jack immediately recognized it as his mom's and when she got up to them, she rolled down her window.

"Hi, Jack," she said. Then she looked at Kim. "And you must be his friend Kim. Jack's told me a lot about you." Then she took in the skateboards and rolled her eyes. "Oh don't tell me, Jack somehow roped you into learning how to skateboard, didn't he?"

Kim laughed, "Yeah, but it's actually kind of fun."

"Yeah, I could never get the hang of it." Jacks mom said as she got out of the car and got some grocery bags out of the trunk. Then she turned to Jack. "I just went grocery shopping, can you help me bring them in?"

"Sure mom," Jack said before turning to Kim. "You can keep practicing."

She nodded and Jack headed inside with his mom after grabbing the rest of the bags and closing the trunk.

That's when it happened. Jack was inside with his mom, helping her put the groceries away when he heard the scream. Immediately knowing it was Kim, he ran as fast as he could outside and into the driveway.

"Kim?" he shouted.

End of the chapter! Okay I really didn't know where to end this so I decided that this was a pretty good place. Again, thank you all for your feedback, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter of Kickin It: A Love Story! Please, please review! Reviews are love :D