Salty Licorice

Chapter 19

Spencer's POV

I'll have to be the first to admit I didn't think Avery had it in her to just drive straight through the grass to get to the main road first. It definitely gave her a head start but nothing my sweet baby Eileen can't handle, and Liz. Just damn she's got a heavy foot. We catch up to Avery fast and before I know it we're right next to them and Liz rolls down my window and giggles, sticking her tongue out at Avery who just smiles and rolls her eyes at her. Liz then speeds back up and passes them completely gaining the lead ahead of everyone.

We keep speed for a while till we see blue lights flash and pull out behind us. I feel my pulse accelerate, she was speeding in my car without a license while behind the wheel. Avery's gonna have my head for this for sure. There's no way we're getting out of this ticket, racing and speeding without a license, she could get arrested.

Liz pulls over easily after slowing down to a stop with the cop pulling up behind her. We sit for what feels like forever. I'm sweating and feel like I could probably be sick if anything bad happens.

"Maybe we should swap seats before he gets up here?" I suggest.

"Please, he'll arrest you if you're the one who was driving. I've got this," she smiles at me while adjusting the top of her dress. "Besides, he's right here."

She turns to the window rolling it down and smiling up at the cop who just flash's his flashlight beam in my face temporarily blinding me.

"Good even, ma'am do you know why I pulled you over this evening?" He says with an oddly forced deep voice but as he looks more at Liz he pauses. "Ma'am our you okay?"

"I'm sorry officer," as I hear Liz's voice I finally notice she's balling her eyes out which is making her voice come out almost as a whimper and crackle. "It's just that my mother just got rushed to the hospital and I was trying to get there to see what's going on, I know speeding is wrong but sir I just don't know what came over me I'm just so panicked about my mother."

"How come you're dressed like this?" He asks, seeming distressed slightly.

"We were at homecoming when I got the call that my mother was going to the hospital."

"Oh," he pauses for a moment, looking at the road, seeming lost in thought and trying to make a choice. "Okay ma'am I'm gonna let you go on a warning, because of your situation, but watch your speed and I pray your mother is going to be alright."

He smiles down at her and walks back to his car and pulls away from the side of the road. I just sit and stare at her with my mouth a gap and eyes wide. I notice her bring her left hand up and put the interior car light on and that's when I see her pinky's dislocated. She grabs it in her other hand and I hear a knuckle crack before I hear her whimper and shake her hand slightly moving all her fingers.

"Did you just?!" I ask, fearing for my life. If Avery ever found out I let her do that my head would be on a stake in her front yard.

"I had to make the crying believable," she shrugs and wipes the tears from her eyes, seemingly acting so nonchalant about the whole ordeal.

I'm just baffled and can't figure out what to do or to say, so I just sit facing forward and keep my mouth shut as she pulls back onto the road.

"Where's this party?" Liz asks her voice back to normal now.

I can't seem to wrap my head around anything that just happened and make sense that it was real but I have to choose to just move past it and not make a big deal out of it. So I told her the directions as we drove and before we knew it we were pulling into a beach house that has a bunch of people walking in and out the front with beer or cups probably with cheap liquor in them. You can hear music bleeding through the throngs of people flowing in and out of the door.