From Nerd to Badass

chap 13

"Yo you ready for your race?" Scar says walking up to me. I look at her with a 'Nar Duh' look and and roll my eyes. Does she not know me? I have won every race I have ever done. Yes including the ones with James.

" Of course I am. When have I not been Scar?" I tell her. She gives me look that clearly states that it was a retorchical question that didn't need to answered. I slightly look down at my shoes and said nothing for the next few seconds; wishing that my friend would stop laughing so hard.

The announcer suddenly called for the people who are racing the 2:00 race. James and I said goodbye to our friends and headed to the starting line. I look at James to only see a determined face. I slightly smirk at that and hop into my car.

I look to my right and see the beautiful crystal green car and instantly wanted it. I called the boy by the pronoun 'it' to see if I could get his attention. To my astonishment, it worked and he looked over.

"Hey wanna make a bet? If I win you have to give me you car and if you win, I will give you my car and 100,000 dollars cash. " I say to the guy which I still don't know the name to.

" Ok I will take your bet. By the way, my name is Ethan. I hope you are ready to lose. I have not lost a race ever." He says trying to be a man. I refrained from saying that I haven't either. I decided that it would be better for me to surprise him with my skills. I smirk at him and look forwarded getting ready to receive a new badass car.

The flag person walks tword the middle of the track and raised the flags. Quickly she drops them and watched as we speed off tword the first turn. I look behind me and see James on my tail and the new kid Ethan slighty ahead than James. Can you believe it, our leader is slower than this newcomer.

Anyway there is the turn that is really sharp. I instantly had a plan to pull ahead. I quickly spread up and just as quickly slowed down. I know this sounds  confusing but when you slow down, I actually go faster. Because of this James and I pulled ahead by meaters. For the last few laps James and I were neck and neck with me pulling ahead just at the right time. This is also one of my skills because it gives your opponent hope that they  can win unintentionally slowing them down.

I crossed the finish line first with a meter between James and 5 meters between Ethan. Once Ethan came across the finish line, he throws me the keys to his car.

" Thanks and good race. You will get better if you keep  practicing." I tell him while subconsciously taking the money James owes me. Ethan sees this exchange and ask about it. I just told him that we betted on who would win.

"Hey what school do you go to?" I shout at him before he turns away completely.

" Webster High. A freshman." He says. I look at him and smile. He is cool enough to hang with us so I told him just that. I walk towards my friends with the keys and money in hand. Jésus looked at my hands  weirdly probably curious about the car keys.

" A bet with a cool guy named Ethan." I say walking away. That was enough information to cure all the curiosity.  We ended up going home after that since we had school in the morning.