That One Ride

Prologue

They say people are like one-half of a star. On their own, they shine brightly. But only when they find their other half can they show the world their true glow. Now, our story begins when one day, a certain young woman was making her way back home. Let's just say she was going way over the speed limit with her bike.

She zoomed by and pass cars, laughing when they would curse and honk their cars after her. She would intentionally wait until there was the littlest bit of space left between two cars until changing lanes. Now she did have a destination, but at the moment, she couldn't remember. Of course, she did, when she almost missed the turn.

As she made the wide 180-degree turn, she leaned hard on her right, her knee touching the ground. The roar of her engine was the only thing she heard. As she kept going, she passed by a sign, which had a name written on it. Berk.

As much as she loved the feeling of freedom, Berk would always be home. And she loved her home. And apparently, she loved her bathroom too. Soon, she passed by a big storage house that hasn't been used as one in years.

The more she rode, the more she started to see her town. There were the first houses. She saw her old high school as well. Then came the super market, the police station and the shop where she fixes her bike too. Yep, still the same Berk. As if it could change in a few hours.

She turned right into the familiar street where her home is. She waited till the last second to brake, just for the fun of it. She turned off the engine and took off her helmet. She fixed her hair a bit with one hand while putting the helmet on one of the handle bars with the other.

"How many times do I have to tell you to park your own bike in the garage." She turned her head around and found her brother standing there with his arms crossed over his chest. "I'm kind of sick of doing it for you."

She smiled and got off the bike and kicked the side stand to let her bike stand on its own.

"Looks like you're going to be sick today too, since I'm not putting it back into the garage."

"I was afraid you were going to say that." He replied.

She unzipped her jacket as she made her way to her brother and embraced him in a tight hug.

"How did it go?" Aaron.

"I won, like always." He rolled his eyes, but couldn't help hide the smile that was on his face. Of course she won. She always did. He pulled away and watched her with worry in his eyes.

"You should have been home an hour ago. I covered and told them that you called and said you got held back. But it's an understatement when I say mom is pissed." She gave him the gloves that were in her hands and walked pass him and into the house.

"Since when are you the older sibling?" She asked over her shoulder and heard his humorless laugh before closing the door behind her.

She took off her jacket and put it one of the racks and made her way into the kitchen. There she found her parents sipping coffee, quietly.

"Hey." She called out as she went to the fridge to take some juice. She didn't bother with taking a glass and chugged it down right from the cardboard.

"How many times do I have to tell you kids to take a glass?" Her mother asked as she put it back into the fridge. She wasn't thirsty anymore anyway.

"Apparently, until either you die, or we do." She was about to go upstairs when her father called out.

"Where were you?" She stopped in her tracks and turned around to face her parents.

"I told you. I was with Renée. We hung out." She said and hoped that her parents believed her. But it looked like she wasn't watching that movie anytime soon.

"We know you were with Renée. But it's not with whom you were with that concerns me." He stood up and walked over to her and crossed his arms over his chest. Her mother followed. "You were at Ravens Point, weren't you?" She rolled her eyes and turned to leave. She didn't need another lecture.

"You're wasting your life." Her mother grabbed her by the arm and yanked her back to look at them. "And you're making a mistake. Is it worth it? Is the adrenaline worth your life? Is it worth that much, that every time you step out, I fear that the next time I see you, you'll be in a body bag?" She pulled her arm back and stood in front of her parents, glaring at them.

"I sit behind a desk for more than twelve hours, five days a week. I finish my responsibilities and help
you guys out as much as I can. I handle my own problems by myself and try to relieve you guys as much as possible... But don't ever say that I'm wasting my life. I never wanted to go to that college. I never did. But I only went there out of respect to you guys. I worked and studied my ass of for four years and here I am, doing exactly what I told you I would be doing if I went with your plan. But I kept my mouth shut. I'm not wasting my life when I'm riding. I'm living it. Because I'm not like you guys. I never liked being inside four walls, cocooned like some bug ready to be eaten by a spider.

"I want to have a good job, and a nice house, and have a family of my own... But I also want to live my life a little before that. I want to breathe. You're asking yourselves why I'm not in the house during the weekend, but every time I walk in I feel like I'm suffocating, and I need to breathe. And I can only do that when there is a bike under me and an open road in front of me. And it's not like I'm hearing you complaining when I bring in the money from won races."

With that she turned around and walked upstairs, not even caring when she slammed the door behind her.

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Hello, my fellow readers!!! Welcome to my second book. Now, I can't tell you how excited I am about this book. Believe me when I say it will be better than MOTL. Now I have been dying to write a fan fiction that involved cars or bikes or SOMETHING that included speed. Yeah I wrote a couple of one shots after motl but I have been dying to do this. I will get to the sequel of motl, those who read it, don't worry. However, I'm planing on doing it after this one. As you have probably read it in the character part, they are all probably around their early 20s except for Ethan (Eret) and Dean (Dagur). And the parents of course. There will be other characters but those that are on the list are the majority. Some of you may have noticed that I put Tom Fox on the list, who was a character in MOTL as well. Well I really liked Tom in MOTL and he didn't get that much love from me as his writer, so I'm planing on expanding on him a bit here as well as in the sequel of motl. Now there is going to be a ton of angst in this book between our two favorite lovebirds so if you can handle getting mad at them, feel free to take a comfortable seat and grab a nice hold on your phone, since you will be wanting to throw it a few times. Or your tablet. Or your laptop. Or your comp- I think you get the point. So, shall I say it for the first time in this book?

*crickets chirping in the background*

Jeez, tough crowd. But I'm still going to say it.

Till next time, a Hiccstrid Mega FAN, izzyhoffersonhaddock.

*crickets still chirping in the background*

Stupid crickets.