>>5780360She <span class="mu-i">does</span> seem pretty cool, you remark as you struggle to imagine what this mythic ‘<span class="mu-i">Linda</span>’ looked like, so…
Raj’s face grows grave. “You wanna know where she is… don’t ya?”
Well… yea, you nod, realizing you might have touched on a sore subject, sorry, Raj, you-
“Nah, man, I’m the one that brought it up.” He counters with a reassuring smile! “Truth is, well… I dunno where she went. Word is she moved to another town, but… I dunno, seems weird that she’d just up an’ bail, y’know?”
You respond with a shrug. You never know what people are going through, do you, though? Raj nods in assent.
“Yea… she was always asking about everyone else’s lives and problems… never really brought up her own stuff… I dunno, man…” His face scrunching up in indecision, the skater turns to look you in the eyes. “I probably searched for her for a whole year, man… never got a lead. So I named my board after her to like… commemorate her legacy, or something.”
But… but it got crushed into <span class="mu-i">splinters</span>, you counter! B-by a <span class="mu-s">GIANT CARTOON CAT WITH MALLET!</span> How is he not flipping out?
“Ehhh, the real Linda wouldn’t have given a crap.” The skater shrugs with a renewed grin on his face. “Every time she ate shit, lost a wheel, got mud on her pants… she’d just shrug it off an’ laugh, y’know?” A few laughs escape Raj’s mouth as a funny memory graces his face. “There… heheh… there was this one time, right? She was gonna ride this one rail all the way… and… and there was this bottle… an-HAHAHAH!”
Realizing he’s losing you, your buddy shakes off the laughter and lets out a long breath! “A-anyways… she split her pants, like, the whole way, dude… so I offered her mine and… <span class="mu-i">shiiit</span>, we were laughing all the way home…”
>CONTD. 