The Crew.  Chapter 6
And, as it happened, it was only about a week later that the boy in the bright red old Mustang did make another appearance in Spike’s life. Though it was in just about the last way he’d have expected. Like most old folks - well, they’re in their 40s anyway - Spike’s mom and dad thought that their son just wasted all his spare time.
Spike may have been the best skateboarder in the world to us members of the Crew. But to his folks he was just a timewaster. “Hey there, Orren Michael”, his dad would say. (To his folks Spike was always “Orren” - except when they were mad at him. Then it was the full “Orren Michael”, no less.) “Ain’t it about time you helped out your mom and me and got yourself some part-time work instead of foolin’ around all the time like some stupid kid, huh?...  Continue...