Racing Is A Drug: Re-Unite The Family [COMPLETE]

Chapter Eight

The familiar smell of exhaust fumes fills my nose as I take in the scent of the races.

Me, Jake and Dom got our cars for the job now its was only Hailie and Luke to get theres. I was deep in thought when Hailie popped up in front of me.

"And gaze upon it" she gestures over to her car and the Honda s2000 sat next to it. I smile at it and her. I hug her and she hugs me back. "You never told me had such a fit next door neighbour" she gushs. I laugh with her

"You and him seem to be hitting it off pretty well" I tell her. She nods

"I had a couple rebounds after Tyrone, so maybe he's the one" she beams at me. I can tell she wants to sqeual like an over excited teenager but she contains it. "Hey, Luke's racing" she directs our attention onto him. I love watching him race.

They speed off and Luke immediately takes the lead. Looks like he's racing for an Mitsubishi Eclipse and he's gonna get it. He crosses the line 3 or 4 car lengths in front of the other guy and they exchange slips back at the start. Tyrone drives the Eclipse back to us while Luke carries on in his prized Skyline.

He goes straight to Kaylee and hugs her. They better stay together for a long time.

"Well done, bro" I tell Luke as he gets to me. I wrap my arms round his neck and he chuckles in response. He moves back to Kaylee and kisses her.

I get a chance to look round at the people I'm surrounded with. Katie, Tyler and Jake are stood talking with each other, Fez, Tyrone, Dom and Jayden are laughing with each other and Hailie and Aaron are smiling contently. This could all be over within the next few days and I hate to think about that but I can't help it. We could all be dead or in jail, and I got them into it.

"Els, talk to me" I hear Dom. I refocus myself and realize he's stood in front of me.

"What if this all goes wrong? I couldn't live with myself knowing that I was the one that... Got them killed or put in prison" I explain to him. He grabs my shoulders and makes me look at him

"Look. Look at what you've done. You've brought all these people together. You've created relationships. Luke and Kaylee, Dean and Alicia, hell, even you and Jayden, none of this would've happened if you didn't start it all off" he explains to me. He's right, I know he's right but there's a little part of me that still wants to be scared.

-

A couple days later, still nothing. I'm getting fed up of waiting. We're all sat around the room just talking with each other.

"Anyone wanna beer?" I ask. Everyone chrous' yes and I head for the door

"I'll give you a hand" I hear Jake from behind me. We head down and into the 'cooler' which is basically a huge refrigerator full of alcohol. I grab as many as I can before turning round to see Jake pressed up against me. I jump back startled.

"Sorry, I just.. I need to talk to you" he says. I nod slowly as I put the beers down and turn back to him. He takes a deep breath and slowly breaths it out

"I, er, maybe I should just show you" he mumbles and pulls me closer to him. I know I should object but I don't. He holds the back of my head and strokes my cheek with his thumb. Come on, Elena, object! He slowly leans towards me and I find myself leaning towards him too. What am I doing?!

"Hey, what the fuck do you think you're playing at!" I hear Jayden shout and pull him off me. Thank fuck. They're both shouting over each other but I can't hear what they're saying.

I was gonna kiss him, I was gonna un-do everything that me and Jayden worked so hard to get back. I wasn't paying attention to the brawl happening in front of me.

"Els? Come on" I hear Fez call me. I let him guide me out the cooler. "You wanna go for a drive?" He asks.

"I'll go on my own" I tell him and head out to the Camero. I start it up and wheelspin as I pull away.

140 down the freeway probably wasn't the brightest idea as blue and red light flash in my rear view mirror. Do I run or pull over?

Run.

I speed even faster boardering on the 170 mark. Eventually, they give up on chasing me so I head home. It feels like home again.

When I pull up I hear shouting again. It's Tyler and Jake. I creep up to the door and eavsdrop.

"You are on very thin ice, my friend, what are you doing!" Tyler shoves him.

"She's the only reason none of this has been lifted yet! She's is the only one that's stopping me from doing my god damn duty!" He matches his shout. I hear Ty sigh.

"Couldn't you have fallen for someone  whose not involved with Jayden, anyone but Jayden" Ty breaths out the last part "You have no idea how tight they are" he adds then heads upstairs and leaves Jake standing there, debating what he just said to him.

He thought he had a chance with me so he didn't hand us over. Shit. Jayden was right, he was here undercover all along. Eventually, he heads upstairs and it's clear for me to come in. I head to the cooler and grab a bottle. I never did get my beer.

I can't let him take them in. He won't. My phone buzzed;

1900
-Kyle

Fuck. That's in 20 minutes. I run out the cooler and upstairs to the others

"Guys, this is it!"