Wild riders

Sleepy head

         

The sun blinds me as I pull the covers off my face. I sit up and scan the room, Jesse half hanging off my lounge in the corner of my room. I slightly giggle to myself as I throw my now curly hair back into a ponytail. I hear groaning from Jesse and I look over to him. His beanie falls onto the floor as his messily blonde hair has gone everywhere. I smile at how cute he looks. What am I thinking, his my best friend I can't say that.

"Morning sleepy head." I greet, as he throws his blanket onto the floor and rubs his eyes. He stumbles a bit walking towards me, picking his beanie up on the way.

"Not going to brush your hair?" I ask giggling at his messy hair popping his beanie up.

"I'll do it later, I'm too tired." He groans again and sits on my bed, laying on his back.

"I won 12 grande last night." I say sitting next to him on the bed

"Shall we add it to your jar?" He asks sitting up again

"We shall." I smile and walk towards the jar hidden in my cupboard. The money goes towards fixing mums car, but we need to hide it from dad for now.

"Oh Jesse, I wanted to ask you, were you ok last night? You looked upset." I ask him as I remembered him looking upset in the car and at the end of the races.

"Uh- uh nothing. Nothing I was just tired I guess." He says slightly stuttering. I know he's lying but I don't want to put pressure on him.

"Okay, I'm going out to the shed." I say as I turn around I feel jesses warm hand lace around my wrist. Slightly feeling tingles go up my arm, I look to Jesse as he is just stood there staring at me

"Oh uh, maybe we could go for a drive instead." He proposes, hand not leaving my wrist

"Oh yeah sure, that sounds cool." I say, as I just stand there waiting for him to let go of me. Jesse notices and quickly releases his hand from my arm, slightly embarrassed and he laces his own hands together. I turn around and smile to myself. He is so cute when he is embarrassed

We quickly grab something to eat and head outside. I drag my hand along the side of my car before hopping in. My car roars to life as Jesse and I start down the highway. When we do this, we just go anywhere. We just drive to where our hearts desire. We stop at a red light, just us two, side by side. Pressing the button to wind the window down, I look to my right to see Jesse has done the same thing

"I want to race you." Jesse declares and points to me when he said 'you'

Me and Jesse haven't raced for years. We just get caught up with things and never be able to race, especially at such a perfect time like now. I reve my engine in response to him.

"On the green light all the way to the next set of lights" I say as I turn back around and wind my window up. I place my hand at the top of the wheel and hover my foot over the pedal. The light goes green and I slam my foot down onto the gas. I hit the gear into first and me and Jesse are neck in neck. I swerve and merge into the other side of the road as I overtake a bystander car, honking his horn at me which made me grin. My car is only an inch infront of Jesses and I shift into third gear. My foot presses the pedal harder as I inch closer and closer. Jesse hits his nos a bit to earlier as he flys past me, but not for to long. I press my nos not so long after and catch up and win by an inch.

I take a turn into a car park of a cafe and park my car. I get out and grin as Jesse starts babaling at how close he was

"You need to stop hitting the nos to early." I say to Jesse as he leans onto my car.

"Here, 2 grande for you." He says handing me the cash.

"Jesse I'm not taking your money, it wasn't a bet." I say as I push his hand away and reject his offer.

"Avery take it." He says waving it in my face but I push it away again.

"Jesse please no I don't want it." I say as he seems to look annoyed

"Avery please, put it towards your mums car, I want you to have it." He says, placing it into my hand. I give up and shove it into my pocket.

"Thank you " I say as i break the silence that lingered in the air

"Race back?" He suggests, smiling

"You bet." I say as we pile back into our cars again