To Race A Hasting

Chapter 12

“What are you doing here?” I ask him.

“My mother is sick and had to be brought in” I nod my head.

“I’m sorry” He just shakes his head.

“No, it’s fine, so why are you here?” He asks me. I take a deep breath.

“Christian’s car got targeted and blown up, I don’t know whether he is gonna live or not” I say and before I know it, my tears begin to mix in with the rain drops that fall upon my face.

“Who targeted his car?” Pete asks me.

“Someone from a new crew, but I know one 2 guys names from the crew”

“Who are they?”

“Tate Cardon and Ryan Jackers”

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I walk back inside the hospital. After talking to Pete for a while I decided it was best to go back inside so Chelsea, Ofe, Josh and Grant didn’t see me. They came with Pete to see his mother.

I honestly didn’t know that they were his kids. Should have guessed really.

When I step back inside Max sees how wet I am so he decides to get me some of his spare clothes from his car.

He gives me a grey top which is huge on me and some black joggers. I decide to take off my makeup as well. Naomi comes to the bathroom with me to help get me cleaned up.

“Silver Bullets” I tell Naomi as I take off my makeup.

“Yeah, they’re new in town but most of them besides Tate and Ryan have no idea who you or Max are” She tells me as she puts my wet clothes in a bag.

“Where did they come from, I know Tate and Ryan came from Tokyo together. I raced Tate once and Ryan a few times” I say as I put the tissue in the bin and turn to the mirror and look at my wavy blonde and wet hair.

“Some came from England and most of the others are from all around the world” I sigh. What if I did decide to race Ryan? I could be in the same position as Christian right now. Lying on that hospital bed, having doctors examine my body.

I shake the thought out my head. ‘This is my entire fault’ is the only thing I allow to pass through my mind. If I had just accepted that stupid race Christian would be here right now.

Naomi decides to take off her makeup as well. She so beautiful without makeup on it is unreal.

We head back into the waiting room and sit down.

“Any news?” I ask everyone. They shake their head.

“Could be up to another 2 hours until we find out anything” Emily says in her Australian accent. I nod my head.

“I called mom and said that Christian is in hospital and that we won’t be home till late” I totally forgot about mom. What a great daughter I am.

My phone starts ringing and I look at the caller ID. Mom.

“Hey mom” I say, answering the phone.

“Hey sweetie, how’s Christian?” Mom doesn’t know about the races but she knows about the crew. She doesn’t know we are a racing crew, she just thinks that we are all really good friends. Due to the fact Naomi goes to my school and is in my year makes it more believable. We don’t talk in school though because she hangs with the popular crowd and I didn’t want to hang around with them. We do smile when we see each other though but never talk.

It would ruin her reputation and I didn’t want to do that to her since she worked so hard to get in with the popular crowd.

“We still don’t know anything” I tell her truthfully.

“Well call me if you know anything sweetie, if you don’t want to go to school tomorrow it’s fine” She says sweetly.

“I will see how he is and then decide” I say.

“Okay sweetie, well call me later, I have to get back to work now, I love you”

“Love you to”

“Not possible” She tells me.

“Yes possible” I argue with her but in a nice way. She hangs up the phone and the doctor comes out.

“Family and friends of Christian Acres?” He says.