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However, I highly doubted the half-pipe that rested at the bottom of the iconic steps in the courtyard before us was part of Gaudi’s plan Or theup to it

Most of the camera creas locally hired for this one; there were too many places they needed to catch shots, and I watched the the first riders--these ones on BMX bikes--round

"Are you ready for an adventure?" Brooke asked, laying on her best Paxton ihed

"There’s Penna!" she said, leaning farther to see her sister pull a 360 off one of the rails It was hard to believe that the girl with the superuys

"I can’t believe they let the another wave of riders, this one with Paxton in the lead and Landon on his heels

"They had to agree to extreme protective measures of the art, hire locally, and you know Paxton’s father throwing ht? Are they all like that? The Originals?"

She shook her head "No Paxton and Landon co , that’s for sure, but Nick--" She rubbed her forehead and forced a fake smile "Sorry"

"No, don’t be," I said "I shouldn’t have asked"

The park was quiet for athe course for the real shots now that the riders had navigated it once

"You have asas you’re a part of this now"

I scoffed "Falling off a half-pipe does not a Renegadethe ca Paxton does Where he goes, they follow What he does, they emulate If he fails, they all do, and you’re more a part of that than you know"

"Why do you follow?" Holy shit, foot in mouth much? "Crap, that wasn’t how I et into all of this"--I gestured to the scra their bikes back up to the top of the park--"ould you spend your life around it?"

"You haven’t researched their little Renegade troop much, have you?" she asked with a wry smile

I shook my head "No Once I kneho he hat he did, I decided it was best to let hi him based off what everyone else assuuy for the next nine ood for hi to him," I replied "Just his tutor"