RUSH

The Race

Johnny pushed his hoodie over his face. He jumped off the window making sure Zack didn't see him. It would do him no good if his bossy brother were to know where he was headed right now. The light in the dining hall was on he crouched low making sure zack didn't notice. Once out of the range of view he started jogging briskly. Stopping at his black buggati that he had parked far away he jumped excitedly inside. Afterall it wasn't on your normal day to day basis that you get the chance to sneak out and go illegal racing in one of the major racing hubs of the world. That too right under the nose of an over controlling snobby police officer that Johnny unfortunately had as a brother.
The place Johnny drove to didn't actually look like it was a major race square. It was a dirty small street more like an alley, the end had a flimsy metal gate and beside it sat a curious old man. The man looked way too punk for his age, grey hairs scarcely covered with platinum blonde dye, tattooes running up both his arms, a belly almost bulging out of the leather jacket he had on and numerous piercings. As Johnny drove right up to him he walked over with a cocky smile "you here for the race kid!" He asked gruffly "yup" Johnny replied popping the p in between the man chuckled hoarsely "this beauty yours?!" Johnny nodded the man opened the gate then yelled after him in a peculiar grunt as he passed by "remember that beauty aint stayin yours for long now!!!" Johnny ignored those last words as he drove into a world of total 'no no's' as Zack would have called it :- an eden of cars, technology and skimpily dressed chicks! This was life according to Johnny! He parked his car near a cabin which looked like the main office. He barged in the man inside gave him a glare "who let the water boy inside?!" He asked annoyed to the max. Johnny shrugged "nice to meet you too I am black fury by the way!" The mans face dropped into a frown then a hasty smile. "Pleasure meeting you black!! I can't deny I did indeed hear a lot about ya but I never expected you to be this young, what are you 18 , 19..." "None of your damn business, I am here to race and I am going to just do that. Fix me up in your highlight race would you." He replied nonchalantly. The mans face dropped into a frown again "are you sure?!" Johnny grinned "do you doubt my abilities old man." The guy shook his head "call me Gail. And no I don't doubt you but the thing is today we have a really tough racer in the highlights."
Johnny smiled "then what are you waiting for old Gail, put me up against him" Gail scowled "its not a 'him' its a 'her' and mind you linsey has been unbeaten for the past 5 years" Johnny raised his eyebrows getting up "do you really think I would back down that too against a girl!" He sniggered reaching for the door he continued "oh
And about that unbeaten tag of your linsey girl, its gonna be broken today you better have popcorn ready!!!" And with that he left not really knowing that his opponent was actually Lia in her usual disguise.
Lia sighed another set of boring old hags who thought that they were better then her. Life in the race track was getting boring, but she had no other choice if she had to keep her mind off Craig's horrible death she had got to have something up her sleeves. She sighed again as the announcer started blaring into the mike "and today folks its gonna be the biggest one of em all!!! Get ready for the race of the millenniummmmm.
.. Our champion linsey vs the black fuurrryyy!!!! " lia cocked an eyebrow, where had she heard the name before?! It hit her, this was the one race wonder the whole race fraternity had been buzzing about! His debut race had gone viral even lia was impressed but he had not surfaced ever since, she wonderd why. A smile crept up her face, maybe this day wasnt going to be that bad. She watched as a young blonde head drove up to the starting line.
Her smile turned into a frown when he had aligned his car next to her smirking at her through his unnecessarily big aviators.
That face... She had seen it somewhere... She gasped realization dawning on her, it was Zack's brother!!! Or at least that's who she guessed he was even though they didn't look similar but Zack cared just as much to be his brother, maybe they were stepbrothers or adopted who knows?! Oh hell no, what was he even doing here? Did Zack know? Well of course he didn't he was a police officer, and if he did this place would have been filled with those buggers by now. What the hell was going on. Was this some kind of a trick? Some kind of a surprise attack, but how would they know it was her, no they didnt, nobody even knew how she looked... They couldnt, could they? Lia smacked her head, why was she freaking out, maybe because she didnt want to get caught especially not by Zack, she did actually want to remain the innocent commoner for him. But why did she even care...