Chapter 3: Memory Road .1

Tobie's house wasn't too far but it gave me some time to think. What happened to my board, did it go missing with me? Come on, THINK. The last thing I remember is... going to Snakes Head to bomb the hill. That must be where my board is. It really is crazy to think I was in a coma, that’s about as close to death as you can get.

“Well it doesn’t matter, I’m free now… As free as I can be in this cage.” I look out in the distance at the giant walls that surrounded the community.

Getting to Tobie's house made me realize that, even though it doesn't feel like five months to me, to him it has been a long time. When I got close enough to start knocking on the door and I could already hear the yelling. It didn't stop when I knocked.

"John, get the damn door!"

"Tami, you get the damn door, you’re standing by it!"

"Jesus Christ John, can you do anything?"

"I got it, I got it!"

"OH thank you, sweetie. LOOK JOHN, your son is a better man than you are!"

The door opens to Tobie standing there looking at me, flabbergasted. "HOLY FUCKING SHIT YOU’RE--"

"Tobias don't you curse in the fucking house like that."

"Where do you think he gets that mouth from Tami?"

Tobie steps outside without answering them and shuts the door, "What the fuck Tom! You're awake? When... are you ok? What happened to you?"

"Oh, I woke up a couple of hours ago. I don't really remember what happened to me and yeah I'm fine. Just a bit weak from the nap."

Putting his hands on his head Tobie takes a second to get the words out of his mouth, "You woke up a couple of hours ago and you thought you would just come over to my house? Without calling me or even shooting me a text, you know, to let me know you're AWAKE!"

“Oh well, I guess I didn’t think about that, but in my defense, I don’t really know where my phone is at the moment.”

“How do you not…. Whatever I’m glad to know you're among the living. Wait, if you have only been awake for a few hours, what are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be with your mother?”

“Nah, I’m sure she’s fine.” Thinking back to her face once again I had a jolt of fear run through me. Will I be fine? I turned to Snakes Head Mountain trying to banish the haunting image from my mind with minimal success. “Besides, I need to figure out what happened to me.”

“You really don’t remember anything?”

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“Huh, oh no I remember pretty much everything.” Tobie's eyes widen with shock, “No Tobie, I don’t remember shit.”

“Oh….”

“We’re going to Snakes Head.”

“Why? Are you sure that’s a good idea?”

“It’s not for that reason, it’s the last thing I remember.”

Walking into his garage I grab an old beat-up skateboard.

“Wow, you’re taking out training wheels. You forget to bring your board, or just feeling nostalgic?”

“I would never forget my board... I just don’t happen to know where it is currently and stop calling it training wheels.”

“Hey, you’re the one who used to ride the trucks so tight you could barely push the skateboard in a straight line. Ha-ha, you would start pushing and it would just keep going right.”

While I grabbed a wrench to begrudgingly loosen up the trucks. I retaliated. “Tighter trucks are better for speed; I would have thought you know that.”

“Speed!? Back then? Ha-ha, we both know the only reason you had them so tight is that you could barely keep your balance.”

“AND I was also planning for the future.” After setting the wrench down and standing up I looked at Tobie. Don’t give me that face. Laughter seeped out from his crooked grin. “What’s SO funny, huh?”

“Oh, nothing, just the idea of you planning ahead. You couldn’t even think to text me before coming over.”

He’s not going to let that go. Walking toward Snakes Head I yell back at him, “Just get your ass moving.”

“You don’t have enough money for that.”

Always need to have the last word, asshole.

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