Dark Nights and City Lights *Simon Minter*

Chapter 24

Simon's POV

We got a taxi halfway across London, on the outskirts of Stratford, the drive was quiet for the first 5 minutes before Jorja spoke, "So you've forgiven her then? Your back together?" she questioned smiling at me. "Yeah, I'm just glad she took me back." I smiled looking down at my feet, the thought of her made me blush. Jorja laughed at my red cheeks poking at one of them, I joined in with her laughing before settling down again.

Jorja was a nice girl, I was comfortable around her like I was with Elise, Jorja could read me like a best friend could. "Look after her Simon, I don't wanna see her hurt by you." She looked up, her eyes were a mix between stern and soft, I nodded my head as the taxi pulled over onto the side of the road, I paid being the gentleman I am and we hopped out.

"It's around here somewhere." Jorja muttered to herself looking at the street names, "Here!" she began running down a street hopping over a fence, I followed her keeping my head low. We pulled up our hoods covering out faces keeping in the shadows, Jorja snuck up to a white box outside of a large house. She broke the lock on the box and began moving wires, her fingertips clasped onto a wire in the back of the box. "Pass me a knife." she whispered not taking her eyes away from the wires while I pulled the switchblade from my pocket, she cut the wire causing the security cameras to stop scanning the area and locked doors became unlocked.

"Fucking idiot." Jorja laughed looking around the cars, the keys were still in the ignition, "Oh how Elise would love this." she smiled looking down at the cars, "Get the doors." She spoke as she hopped into the car.

We drove out of the garage coming closer to the motorway when blue and red lights filled my rear view mirror, fuck. "Jorja..." I spoke into my phone trying to look for an escape, "Hang on." she spoke calmly as if she knew this was going to happen, I heard a few bleeps through the phone and another voice came to life. "Alright guys, come off at the next junction and split up." Elise talked calmly while I heard her typing away at the computer humming to herself.

"I hacked the police cars so they can't contact each other or use the navigation systems to track you." I laughed taking the second exit off the roundabout "I love when you talk dirty to me." she giggled at my comment."Can you not chat Elise up while I'm the same call please." Jorja blurted out laughing, "Simon take a left up here and turn off your headlights under the bridge. Jorja keep driving straight on this road until the next left, then keep going until you get to the lavender fields, head under the bridge just after it, you should see Simon."

The call ended and I pulled out my phone sending a text to Elise,

To Elise;
I meant what I said ;)

From Elise;
Shut up you Nimrod

I smiled locking my phone as the headlights from Jorja's car lit up my face before returning to darkness, she pulled up beside me getting out and leaning against her car like I'd done with mine. We began having small talk to pass the time.

"Elise says it's safe to drive, she's wiped the records of the cars going missing." she mumbled reading the text off her phone. "Race you." I laughed jumping into the car, the engine roared to life as I sped off back to their house Jorja following behind.

Elise's POV

The white lights illuminated the night sky as the garage door slowly opened, I leaned back against the work bench behind me as Simon and Jorja came into view.

They pulled into the garage braking abruptly, the smell of hot rubber filled the air as the two climbed out and began arguing, "I won that for definite." Jorja slammed the car door, "Did you fuck." Simon scoffed laughing at Jorja. I ignored them while they argued over who was the better driver and inspected the wheels shinning a torch through the alloys, checking for any damage. "Simon what have you done to these breaks?" I laughed interrupting the two causing their attention to turn to me. "I was just having a bit of fun drifting round corners." he smiled innocently, shrugging his shoulders not knowing the damage he'd done. "Yeah your a little rough on the breaks, you gotta ride it out." I smiled then looking at Jorja who was giggling to herself, "His back end is all over the place and not in a good way." she giggled joining my side to look at the damage. Jorja wasn't a grease monkey but she did know a few things that I'd taught her for the odd races we used to do. "Stop bullying me! I don't do this often!" He joked pulling a sad face, I walked over to the car Jorja had driven, inspecting the breaks, "Bad, but not as bad as I would've thought." I laughed nudging Jorja's arm. "Fuck you." he grumbled causing us both to laugh louder.

Jorja's phone started ringing as she left the room, probably Jide, leaving me and Simon in the garage. "Simon it's late, you must be tired, go get some sleep." I pushed him lightly by his shoulder, he looked down at my hand "What about you? You need sleep too." he stepped closer to me causing me to walk away over to the tool box.

"I need to work, then I'll sleep." I mumbled searching through the bright red box, I turned around to be trapped in between Simon and the tool box. His arms were either side of me leaning against the box, he moved one hand brushing my bottom lip with his thumb, he smiled letting out a low tired laugh

"If I'm going to bed. You're coming with me."