Ya, well I don't own SSX Tricky or any other things in here. * Cries *

It was a beautiful day in Europe; the SSX league had flown from Snowdream to the Elysium Alps through the night. It was about 5 P.M. and all the boarders were unpacking their luggage in their hotel rooms. They still had to share rooms, but fortunately JP's apartment was close enough for him to drive, meaning Psymon got a room to himself. *Phew * Good thing too, since it was Mac's turn to room with him. Ya, well, anyway.

"Hurry up Marisol!" Seeiah shouted angrily as she pounded on the bathroom door. "I am starving and we're gonna miss dinner!" Seeiah heard the toilet flush and heard Marisol's blow drier turn on. Seeiah just sighed in frustration.

"Beauty can't take any shortcuts girl! You should know that by now!"

"Fine, miss the fancy French food, I don't care! But everyone's there already and I'm starving. So adios amigo!" Seeiah just blinked as she heard the crack of the blow drier hitting the ground. Marisol quickly opened the door with a desperate look on her face.

"French?! I LOVE FRENCH FOOD! JP and I used to. I mean, uh, I hate French food. My booty tastes and looks better." Marisol turned to head back to the bathroom but Seeiah stopped her.

"Oh hunny, you're still not over him? He was so Garibaldi! Move on, if he can't see your amazing personality then it's his loss, okay?" She gave her friend a smile.

Marisol looked at her feet. "It's hard, he didn't even tell me why. I mean in like 2 weeks we were just."

"Over" Seeiah finished her sentence for her. "I know you've told me a million times. I'm sorry I'm not really supportive right now but I get angry when hunger and PMS mix, ok? So could we PLEASE go eat!"

Marisol laughed and put her hand on her hip. "Ok, let's go eat some snails already!"



"What the hell is this?" snapped Luther as he poked his food in disgust. The only 2 people who were eating the food were Moby and JP.

"It's called Pâté," answered JP rather disturbingly.

Mac had the same look on his face. "Whatever, all I wanna know is whose butt did this crawl out of?" Kaori shot him the quit-being-so-American look, and he sulked in his chair. Moby laughed softly to himself. 'I don't need Moby's stupid humor right now.' Mac thought to himself. 'In fact, if he can choke this "food" down, then it should be no prob-lay-mo for Smack- Mac now can it?' He searched his plate for something, anything, that looked familiar. 'Aha! Lettuce, I can do lettuce.' He popped the green leaf in his mouth.

"Mac?" JP said, trying to get his attention.

"Look JP! I'm making an effort to try your home cooking." He said with a perky edge to it, making sure it was loud enough so Kaori could hear him.

"That's nice" JP sighed. "But your not supposed to eat the parsley."

"Oh" Mac said still chewing on his food. "So this isn't lettuce?"

"No"

Mac turned a light shade of pink as he gulped the leaf down. Eddie started cracking up, Kaori started giggling, and soon everyone was laughing. Mac sulked in his chair. 'Smooth move buddy, Kaori probably thinks I'm such a loser right now.' Kaori turned to him and flashed Mac a quick smile. It was the perfect moment in his life until he noticed Luther practically hanging over his shoulder.

"You gonna eat that, grommet?" Luther asked staring at Mac's food. He obviously took a liking to French food since he finished his plate. Mac pushed his plate towards Luther, and he practically inhaled it.

"Ya, well if anyone needs me I'll be in my hotel sulking and being all depressed."

"I'll be coming to the room in a few minutes Mac" Eddie (his roomie for the alps) said. With that Mac turned and left for his room.

Seeiah was practically dragging Marisol to the dining hall. Marisol was trying to take her time, while finger-combing her hair. Seeiah was sooo starving! She spotted the group's table, left Marisol, and ran to the table. She flung herself down to an empty seat in between Zoe and Brodi. Marisol finally caught up.

"Thanks a lot Seeiah for saving me a seat." She said enthusiastically as she looked around for another seat. Eddie saw the open seat first, yes the open seat right next to JP.

"Hey Marisol!" Eddie called to her. "I think there's a seat right here. Right between me and JP!"

This caught everyone's attention and soon everyone had an evil smirk on his or her face. JP didn't look up but reached in his pocket and turned on his cell phone. He was playing with it for a while, and Marisol slowly made her way over and sat down. Either one made eye contact or any contact at all. Everyone's eyes were on them and nobody talked, but Marisol and JP pretended not to notice. Moby turned to JP. "What are you doing?" he whispered while raising an eyebrow.

"Um. playing?"

"Not in my time your not." Moby grabbed the cell phone and threw it across the table to Elise.

"Alright very funny." JP said in an accent even heavier than his usual. This usually meant he was nervous. "Give it to me Elise."

"You guys should check this thing out." Elise said enjoying herself. "This is like a $700 phone here." She pushed a bunch of buttons.

"Elise, be careful."

"I'm not going to break your preppy phone, lay off. Now, how am I suppose to read the screen when it's in French?" She smirked as she pressed a big red button next to the screen, then a bunch of freaky sounds came from it, and then it shut off.

"JP, was that suppose to happen?"

"No, you just disabled my phone."

Elise chuckled and slipped it in her pocket. "Oh well, I'll fix it then give it back to you."

JP sighed slightly and ran his fingers through his blonde hair. Marisol stared at him. 'God, he's gorgeous' she thought. Eddie had a bunch of evil plans in his head. He carefully separated them into categories. He decided to pick the best one from the humiliation category.

"What's wrong Marisol?" Eddie said very loudly. "You seem uncomfortable. You need a handsome guy to catch you when you're feeling blue." He shoved Marisol off her chair and right into JP's lap. Her hand just happened to fall onto a rather familiar spot to her. Everyone roared in a huge laugh. Both turned a shade of red as JP panicked to get her hand off his 'space.' He quickly stood up and she fell to the ground with a yelp of surprise. Marisol quickly got up with tears of embarressment running freely down her face. She slapped Eddie very hard.

"I HATE YOU EDDIE! I hate you all!!" she ran out of the room into the bathroom. JP gave Eddie a sharp glare that could have sliced him right in half.

"What? We all know you liked it." JP cursed him in French and gave him the finger. JP turned and walked out of the dining room in a storming rage.

"Was that a threat?"

"Eddie I don't think you should have done that." Kaori said.

"Oh well. They might as well get back together if Marisol keeps on loathing all over him." A little light bulb clicked on in Moby's head.

"You're right, Eddie." Moby smirked. "How about whoever get's those two back together, win's the Quarter and Semi-Final races?"

"You mean like, everyone let's you win no matter what?"

"Correct." Said Moby.

"Yeah, why not?" Luther said in amusement. Everyone agreed on the idea. Well, almost everyone. Brodi and Kaori thought it was a bad idea but agreed anyway.

Eddie rubbed his hands together. "Ladies and Gentlemen, let the tournament begin!"

I hope you liked Chapter 1! I know it was kind of strange, but we need a little strangeness every now and then don't we? Ok, I'll get Chapter 2 up soon, I hope!