Queen Of The Mountain

I am slowly but surely gaining a reputation as Queen of the Mountain in my hometown street. All the primary schoolers watch in awe as I carve up some pretty mean lines on my twelve year old brothers Simpson's skateboard.

"How old is she?" one of the 'cool' kids asks my eight year old sister. This question is met with a perplexed expression followed by unsuccessfully counted fingers then silence. "BECCA! How old are you?" "Twenty!" I shout back. They all look on with some kind of curiosity i cannot explain. What they are probably wondering is why I'm hanging out with a bunch of kids, pretending I've got any kind of skating ability. "Who is she trying to impress" I'll hear them whisper one day. Their curiosity will turn into mockery. "Hah! She'll never be like them!" They'll snicker, and off I will skate, wavering from side to side and finally coming to a rolling end upon the gravel ridden road.

But for now I am Queen, in fact I may even be god to some of these kids, I mean, I'm all they have right? Why else do they come to me for love advice, I'm a gay twenty year old, we've hardly got many bases to touch on. Asking if I too attended my Year 6 Farewell. Well of course...no I did not accompany anyone.. This is met with a likened situation, I mutter something incomprehensible back in reply. I never was a social person. I then had to painfully listen to her story of how a boy asked then unasked her to the farewell, what an indian asker I proclaim in my head. The nameless boy is called a jerk, then a chorus chimes in, "but I still think he's cute." At this I sigh...I find girls cute..but they wouldn't understand that.

Straying from my original point of announcing to the world that I am now officially learning to skate after 20 years of believing I had no sense of balance. Turns out I was just plain chicken..but can you blame me? I have a reputation to uphold, well I did..now I'm just the 20 year old girl who skates up and down the hill at sundown. I used to mean something to people. Let's say I'm not exactly moving up in the world, but hey I try, I really really do..