Life Before The Hastings Broke

Chapter 2

Rivyn Williams on the side:-)

Me and JJ head to music which is our first class of the day. He both head towards the guitars straight away. We start messing around and singing strange songs until our teacher comes in.

"Okay class, today I want you and a partner to sing a song with the instrument you play. It shouldn't be too hard so get to work" Miss Duncan, our music teacher, says.

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Lunch comes around quickly and soon me and JJ are sat on our bench outside. We practically claimed it so no one sits here but us.

"So I heard Pete's back in town" JJ says pulling his phone out.

"Yeah" I say eating my salad with pizza "He's only back for the racing season. He's gonna help get me and Max on a team tomorrow"

"You not racing tonight?" JJ asks. I shake my head.

"My shift is 4-8 at the garage tonight and I'm always exhausted after it so no, I'm not racing tonight" I tell him. He nods. The sun starts the make the back of my neck sweat so I out my naturally brown hair up in a ponytail.

"Hola people" Our other friend Rivyn says as she sits down beside JJ. I smile at her.

"Hey Rivyn" I say. She smiles at me.

"Howdy" She says, pretending to pull down a cowboy hat.

"Rivyn Williams, you never seize to amaze me" JJ says out of the blue.

"What did I do this time JJ Smith?" She asks.

"Guys what is with the surnames?" I ask. They both shrug and start a conversation with each other.

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At the end of the day dad picks me up. I get in his car and we drive home.

"Dad, can I have my own car?" I ask, turning on the radio.

"You already have your own car" He says, referring to my racing car.

"No, like a car that I can drive when we're at home" I say.

"Your mother would kill me I do that" He states' turning into our driveway. I sigh and nod "Now go get ready for your shift baby girl. I'll wait in the car"

I go inside to change but my brother calls me inside the living room.

"What's up?" I ask, leaning on the doorframe.

"Alexia, this is Ryder" He says, pointing to a guy and the opposite couch to him. He stands up to shake my hand.

"Pleasure to meet you Alexia" He says shaking my hand.

"Call me Lexi. Alexia makes me sound like some middle aged, Victorian woman" I say, laughing a little. He laughs too.

"So how old are you?" Ryder asks.

"14"

"When you said she was young......" Ryder starts, turning to Max. Max laughs.

"So what's going on? And make it quick I'm already late for my shift at Marcus'" I say, trying to get them to hurry up.

"Ryder is forming a racing crew and Pete made us meet" Max says. I nod.

"So I need to see you both race" Ryder says. I laugh.

"Race nights tomorrow,Motown square, 10 o'clock. Be there" I say then walk off to get changed for work.

I change into my white sleeveless top, gray jogging bottoms and a plaid open shirt over my top. I then put my beanie on after tying my hair back.

"Max, I'm leaving!" I yell.

"Wait!" He yells as he jogs to the door "Me and Ryder want to come. He wants to see what you can do and I need to finish some paperwork that I forgot to do on my shift" I nod my head.

"Okay, cool" I say and walk out the door.

"We're crashing with you dad!" Max yells to dad. Dad nods and starts the car. I ride in shotgun while Ryder and Max in the back.

"So who's this?" Dad asks Max.

"This is Ryder. He wants to start to start a racing team" Max says.

"Ah, so this is the Ryder, Pete was talking about" Dad says. Max nods.

When we arrive I go straight in and get my name badge. I get my skateboard from the office and skate out into where the cars are.

"Right, I'm gonna do some paperwork and Ryder you can wander around and look at stuff" Max says. Ryder nods and I get down to business. Ryder takes a seat next to me.

"So how long have been working with cars?" He asks.

"I started this job around 5 months ago" I say and start on fixing an engine.

"When did you become aware of racing?

"What is this? 20 questions?" I ask laughing. He laughs a little too "I became aware of the racing world when I was around 5 or 6"

"Okay. So who's car is this?"

"No idea" I say "Can you pass me the wrench please?" He nods and passes me it. The bell on the door goes off and JJ walks in with his 12 year old brother Stefan.

"Hey gay Jay" I say in a breath, wiping the grease off of my hands on a cloth "Hey Stefan, what are you guys doing here?"

"Stefan wants to ask you a question" JJ says. I nod my head and go back to the car

"Okay, shoot" I tell Stefan whilst putting some oil in the car.

"How do you dump your girlfriend?" He asks seriously.

"That's easy. In the 8th grade you just stop talking to her" I say and wipe around the car. Ryder and JJ laugh.

"Well that's helpful" Stefan mutters sarcastically.

"I'm serious! Some guy did that to me in the 8th grade. Granted, I hit him with a wrench" I tell Stefan. He looks at me with horrified and scared look "Not that she'll hit you with a wrench" I say quickly, trying to reassure him. He leaves quickly making JJ laugh.

"I think you just scared the shit out of him" He says laughing.

"Oh, by the way JJ this is Ryder. Ryder this is my friend JJ but you can just call him gay Jay" I say, introducing them. They shake hands and talk a little about racing.