Freakshow - Team Hot Wheels OCs Insert

CHAPTER ONE: DAILY RACE, NEW ADVENTURE

"Val, get up."

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"Val, I'm warning you."

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"If you don't get up now, I'm throwing away your notebook hoard."

Val is up in an instant.

"Dad!" She reproaches, tripping over herself in her haste to get up, falling off her bed with a screech. Now a lump on the floor, she rises her gaze to meet her dad's, her body tangled with the covers. "You can't just do that!"

Her father just shrugs, stepping out of her room and closing the door behind him.

Groaning, Val kicks the covers off herself, turning her head around to try and catch the hour in her clock.

6:00 am.

Val lets out an indignant scoff, but honestly, who can blame her? Her dad just woke her up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday.

"I am going to throw him off a cliff," she mutters. But still, she stands up and starts getting dressed. Might as well start her day now, since she's awake, even though she's probably going to be back to sleep in like, three hours.

Once in the living room, she sends a nasty glare to her dad, but he just stares back, uninterested and all too used to her crankiness after waking up early. Her sister, laying on the couch, lazily rises a foot in greeting, a fuzzy blanket draped over her as she enjoys the sweet, hazy remnants of sleep. Val yearns to join her, but then her dad sends her a nasty glare and Val legally cannot be still for another moment.

"So," her dad starts, watching closely behind her as Val makes herself some breakfast, "what are you going to do today?"

"Well, since someone woke me up so early," Val says, letting her annoyance seep into her words for a moment before taking a breath to calm down. When she speaks again, her voice is tired but content, "I'm going to hang out with Rook."

"Do you think he'll be awake?"

'If you don't think he's up, then why did you wake me up?!'

Anger flaring again at her dad's words, Val takes another breath before she speaks. She can't have a fight with him this early in the morning, especially not with her sister listening. Plus, she's just groggy. She wouldn't be so angry if he said that after lunch.

"He's insomniac, dad. He probably didn't even sleep."

"Huh."

Val finishes her breakfast. She cleans the dishes, brushes her teeth. Then she packs her bag, calls a goodbye to her sister and goes out the door.

The sun greets her, strong and unforgiving, and Val squints angrily at it. But her angry stare has as much of an effect on the solar entity as it has on her dad.

Sighing, Val turns and heads to Rook's house. There's only one good thing about waking up early on a weekend, apart from getting more time with her friend. So she's taking her chance and making sure she's there to see it.

Now walking up the streets, Val lazily watches her surroundings, her quiet, lovely town: There's a mini golf course with giant obstacles where a few people are already playing. Peeking from above the houses and stores she passes by, she can see the top of a ferris wheel, the main attraction of a small fair situated on one of the city's docks. And beyond that, beyond the greenery and the buildings and the people going to work, Val can see the other side of a canyon, the deep fall sending shivers down her spine even from so far away.