A street racer and a cafe

Ch.2 Neko's, cars, and new friends

Ox lead me to the garage, which to my surprise was much larger than I had thought. In the garage sat three cars, a 1997 Mazda RX-7, 2002 R34 Nissan Skyline, and a 2005 BMW M3 GTR.

"Wow, so who's car is who's?" I ask.

"Maple drives the M3, Azuki dives the RX-7, and Chocola dives the R34." Ox replied.

"Nice, I noticed other, cat girls in the cafe, not everyone races?"

"They all want to race, but they don't have cars."

"Really, so what do the others want for cars?" I ask

"Well, Vanilla, chocolas twin sister, likes the old school jdm Honda hatches, Coconut wants an old 65 Mustang, and cinnamon......well, here car preference is.....expensive lets say."

"Let me guess, 2012 Lamborghini Aventador, Orange in color, twin turbo'd V12 screaming down the open highway, 250 MPH piercing the night."

"How did you know that?" Ox asked

"I know car preferences by what I'm told about someone or how someone looks."I replied.

"That's amazing, hey its almost closing time for the cafe if you wanna go in and meet everyone."

"Sounds like a plan."

I followed Ox out of the garage and back towards the bakery, What We saw was truly heart breaking, or well at least to us it was.

"See nuts, this is why you don't have a car, you can barely bake a cake let alone know how to work a manual, you'd destroy your first car the same day you bought it."

"Who's that?" I asked Ox

"That is Azuki, her and coconut argue a lot, and I mean A LOT." He replied

"You don't know anything about my driving, just because I don't own a car doesn't mean I don't know how to drive."

I turned the corner and saw Azuki arguing with another car girl much taller than her.

"Who's the blond cat girl?" I asked.

"That's Coconut."

"I'm heading up to the mountains where real racers run the show, who knows, maybe I'll get to run with risky Devil." Azuki said

"What ever, drifting is for slow cars anywa-

*slap*

My eye's widened, Azuki just slapped Coconut, I didn't even know these girls and yet I felt an overwhelming rage towards Azuki, tears started to well up in Coconuts eye's before she ran out the door and into the night.

"Hey Oxy clean, tell Kashou I'm headed up to the mountains and I'll be back late."

Ox chuckled at the cleaver nick name.
"Alright, be safe." He replied.

"Don't you care about what you just did?" I asked Azuki

"Not really, coconut thinks she knows everything about cars and she doesn't even own one, she'll come back in about 30 minutes, don't worry about her." Azuki said as she walked out the door.

"I'm gonna go look for her Ox, tell Kashou I'll need a place to stay." I said

"Alright."

I walked out the door and got in my Supra and pulled out of the parking lot. I felt my heart ache as I replayed the events leading up to this point in my head, how can you treat someone like that, completely crush their spirits and walk away like it never happened. I drove down the street slowly, checking ally ways and eventually I found her, knees drawn to her chest crying. I parked my Supra and stepped out and walked over to her crouching next to her.

"Hey, are you ok?" I asked her

She shook her head. "Azuki always treats me like this when it comes to racing or cars, she acts like she's the best out of all of us."

"Azuki's a mountain drifter, the best at drifting maybe, the best racer out of you guys, no, from what Ox tells me he and Azuki seem to be the only drifters out of you all, while the rest sound like speed and drag racers." I say

"I-I suppose your right about that, but what Azuki says isn't true, I actually
Know a lot about cars."

"Ok, prove it, whats a better engine for my supra a gallo 12 or a gallo 24? (RIP paul Walker)

Coconut giggled at my joke, "1994 Toyota Supra TRD, standard with a 2JZ strait six engine putting out around 500 Horse Power off the show room floor."

"She shoots and she scores, my names Royal by the way." I extended my hand to help her up which she gladly accepted.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Coconut." She said with a smile.

We walked back to my Supra and I realized we both still had a grip on each others hand.

"Sorry!" I said letting go quickly.

"Its okay, i-it felt rather comforting. She said.

We got in my car and and peeled away from the curb. It wasn't long before we started talking again.

"I really want to race Azuki, just to prove her wrong." Coconut said

I stopped at a red light and looked Coconut in they eye's with a smile. "You will one day, and she'll be a dot in your rear view."

We stared into each others eye's, slowly inching our way towards one another, we were mer inches apart when a loud honk from the driver behind us made us jump, we looked through the rear window to see an RX-7 with a less than pleased Azuki behind the wheel.

"Its Azuki." I say.

"Oh great, typical road rage with her." Coconut replied.

"Watch this." I say.

I held down the break and gas pedals causing a large cloud of smoke to form behind the supra and engulf Azuki's RX-7. I sped off with a laughing Coconut next to me and returned to the cafe.