The Ride Of My Life: Chicago

Chapter 17

The next day I went back to shop as plan to know what gong on in the mission that we're doing tonight. I got here early.

When I walk into the shop I see Mateo working on his bike. He look over his shoulder before stopping on working his bike and turn to me.

"Can't believe you're actually here." Mateo said, cleaning his hands on a dirty towel.

"Yeah, me either." I said. But I promise myself I would help them and I even volunteer to do it because of the situation they're in right now.

Before I can say anything else, Saul's came out of his office limping on crutch.

"The others should be here soon and once they do we get started." Saul said, stopping in front of us.

A few minutes later the crew show up and we're all standing around the table, well except for Kaden and Rylee who are doing a different job than the one we're about to do. Saul put a photo on the wall, next to a map of Chicago.

"This is what the Night Skull wanted." Saul said, pointing at the photo. The photo is a super car.

"All right, right on time." Saul says, walk with a cane to his car. "Lets get to it." he nodded to the car. I went to the passenger side and got in.

"All right, I'm going to go through the basic and maybe show you show trick when it's come to doing 'the job'." Saul said.

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We're heading toward I-94 west east before I-80 west toll road. As we're driving to I-94 west I got wonder how we going to intercept the hauler, but then I decide to ask to what the plan gonna be.
"So where are we going to try to intercept the hauler?" I ask, looking between the front passenger and drive seat then looking in the corner of eyes between Tyler and Mateo.

"We're going to be waiting for them and follow them in a far safe distance. And then at the right moment we'll ambush them quietly and make our getaway with the cars." Tyler said.

"So, we're tailgating them, until we steal the cars and make our getaway." Mateo said, sounding annoyed about this plan and probably thinking of a better one than Tyler. But Tyler just ignore him and just look out to the side.

After driving for five minutes or so and we park in the parking lot in front of the factory by the entrance to make it easy to follow them, but also act like we work here. Lucky no one doesn't notice that we pull in the parking lot, it's dark out expect for some lamp post but we're kind far from them and lucky Tristan put the top on his Bronco before the mission and there hardly any cars driving in the night. We left for half an hour before they leave the factory to their delivery to Kansas City.

We all just sit here and wait, well Tristan put some music for background. And occasionally go on our phone to pass the time and while looking out for the hauler to come.

I look that the time what felt like forever, which fourth time I pick up my phone to see what time it is. It's 10:30 p.m. and the hauler should of left thirty minutes ago. Right when I put my phone away see headlight coming out of the parking down from us, with the cars and might I say the way they look, they are nice from little light we have to see them.
Tristan waited a few seconds to make sure it safe to follow the hauler with the cars down the street of S Torrence Ave and then onto S Brainard Ave for a while before getting onto E 130th St to continue drive before going over the bridge and continue driving. Until we finally onto I-94 and now we wait until to the right moment to steal the cars from the hauler without getting caught. I'm surprise that the hauler isn't that big to go under bridge. Lucky there not a lot of traffic or cars coming to where they're going, so it might be easy to take the cars with being caught by the driver and other cars on the highway.
We have been driving for almost thirty minutes, I realized something how we're going to get the cars off the hauler. Clearly we can't steal them at a rest stop or gas station because there be security camera and people around to see what going. I was bout to ask how we're going to steal the cars off the hauler, when Tyler get the duffle bag and pull out four black ski mask, but kept one for himself and pass the other to Mateo, Nyla and me.
"Wait, are we going to steal the cars off while the hauler is still moving?" I ask, a little afraid what the answer might be. I hope that's not the case. I look over to Tyler to see if he'll tell me or even a hint on his face that the plan along. Instead of answer the question Nyla did for him.
"That's the plan. But it's going to be little bit of a challenge to get them off, but just know that stay out of plain sight where the driver don't see you and just hope there not going to be any car passing by when we do this." Nyla said, looking the and side mirror to see if there any cars behind.
After fifteen minutes of driving Tyler spoke up and telling everyone to get ready for the mission.
"Jordan, everything good to go." Tyler talk into the ear piece. We all waited for a few seconds before hearing Jordan in all our ear piece.
"Give me a second and then you're all good to go." Jordan said through the ear piece. We can all hear. Jordan is working on disable the camera for a few minutes or more to get every car off the hauler. "Okay, you, guys are ready to go. Be careful out there."
"Will do." Tyler said, assuring her, before talking to Mateo, Nyla and me. "All right, let get a move on it." we all put on our ski mask getting ready to steal four very very expensive car from a hauler to help out a friend to get out of a deal he made with the Night Skull leader.
Tristan started to get close as he can to the hauler for Nyla can jump on the back of the hauler and then Tyler hands her the duffle bag before joining her on the hauler. Then I let Mateo go ahead of me to get to work. Taking a deep breath before climbing out the window and got a good grip on the top of the Bronco to pull myself up on the top of it. The wind is a little crazy up here because of how fast we're going to try and keep up with the hauler, lucky the ski mask is holding my hair under this or else it be distraction. I see that Nyla and Mateo are getting ready to unstrap the chain from car after getting the tools out of the duffle bag, Tyler is standing at the end of the hauler waiting for me.
I could feel my heart beating rapidly in my chest out of fear and I think I can feel my nerve shaking through my whole body. I'm trying not to psych myself out from backing out. Without thinking or stalling from jumping off the Bronco SUV and onto the hauler, I just went for it.
Before taking the jump I took a deep breath once again and then taking the big leap. When I landed on the back of the hauler with one of my foot of the edge, I starting to loss my balance and for a second I thought I was going to tumble to my death until I feel Tyler hand got a hold of my arm pull me toward him. But then hauler switch lane and causing us to lose our balance and almost fell off the hauler if Tyler hadn't have good reflex and got a hold of the tire rims and hurried to grab my arm, which I'm surprise that my arm didn't pop out of it's socket, but I I felt a strain from it. And my feet were about a few inches off the road.
"You, guys alright there?" I hear Nyla yelled from the high wind.
"Yeah. We're fine." Tyler said, pulling me up to onto the hauler. I don't know if you can't call it fine, if you see your life flash before your eyes or the fact that I think my heart stop for a second and hold back the sickness that I'm feeling in the pit of my stomach after almost fall to your death, but yeah, I think I'll be fine after taking a breather, but not until after the mission is all over and hope that we don't ever have to do this again, after what just happen.
After gathering myself for a second Tyler help me stand up and making sure if I was all right, before going through the plan on how to get the straps off the car and getting off quietly and maybe unnoticed.
"Okay, I'm gonna get the others car unlock, while you get Nyla some light." he said, handing me a flashlight, since the post light is hardly giving any good lighting. "Be careful where point it at. Don't want the driver or any other car seeing what we're up too."
I nodded, "Okay." I look over to where the driver is and see that he is focusing on the road ahead of him and didn't notice that four people with ski mask are about to hijack four very expensive car in the next few minutes.
I hurried to Nyla, but also being careful as to not fall or lose my balance and be unnoticed. Nyla is laying on her back halfway under the car opening the panel exposing the wires. I kneeling down next to the car and shine the flashlight to give her little more light for she can get to work.
"Can bring it in little closer?" she asked.
"Is this good?" I asked, bring it little closer to her.
"Yeah." is all she say, and working on the wires for a second before talking into the ear piece. "Okay. Jordan, we're in."
I saw a small deice that Nyla has connected to the steering column that lighted up with data.
"I see it. They lock the signal on it. Duplicating and done." Jordan said, through the ear piece.
Nyla ejected a tiny transmitter from the device and put it in a cupholder.
"Is that going to start the car?" I asked, mused by the ting deice that could start up a car without the key.
"Yup. Just copied the key fob. However we can't make any sounds until all four are ready to go." Nyla said, looking at the other three cars.
Nyla and I go to the next one, it didn't long like the first one did and soon after we finish getting the second one done Mateo and Tyler is already done with their. So all that's left to do is getting all four off the hauler and getting away from it until it's to get off the next exist and heading back home.
After getting their ready we heard Mateo yelled out warning us about the drive and the next thing I know Nyla pulled me into the car and closing it behind me. Nyla craw to the passenger side without being seen, I moved down little move to be out of sight to be on the safe. We waited for a few minutes before Nyla peek out to see if the driver looking out through the mirror or on the side mirrors.
When its safe to get out of the car Tyler come over to us, seeing if we're ready to go. I see that Mateo is already getting into the car, before Tyler tug gently on my arm for me to follow him.
"This last one is your, Estelle. We're gonna reverse off the hauler one after another, fast." Tyler said, explaining what we are doing. "We'll be off it before the driver can react to what going on. Just watch what we do, and follow our lead, got it?"
I nodded, "got it."
I got in the driver seat. Tyler take one last look at me before closing the door for me. "See you on the other side." he smirk, after closing the door quietly. I watch him through the mirror as him and Nyla getting into their since Mateo is already in his.
Closing my eyes and taking a deep breathe and counting down from ten to help ease up the nervousness that I'm feeling in pit of stomach, when I open my eyes again, I hear Mateo talk through the ear piece.
"Is everybody set." everyone say, 'yes'. "Alright, let's get off this rig, then."
"Engine starts in three... two... one." Tyler said. Once he counted down to one, we all turn on the engine at the exact same time, which it alerted the driver.
The look on the driver face was shock to see what going on behind him. Not waiting any second, Mateo is already reversing onto the highway followed by Tyler and then Nyla revers and that only left me to go after her, not wasting any time I pressed down on the gas expertly zooming backward and landed onto to the highway with the rest of group.
"Hell yeah! Nice driving there." Tyler said, through the ear piece. I'm so glade that he couldn't see me right now, because I could feel the bush on my face and goofy grin on my face too, from his compliment. But it didn't last long until Mateo says something.
"She's still alive! Glade I didn't take that bet with you, Nyla." Mateo said. Wait a minute when did they made bet? And the hell would they make one on me in the first place, jerks. Sure I might not be the best driver when it come to these thing since its my first time doing them, but at least I try since I'm helping them out. Also it would be nice if they didn't make the bet and be little kind to me for doing this for them, since their Saul couldn't do it nor Kaden and Rylee.
"Wait, what bet?" I asked, curious even though I just kind of complain about it. But hey, I have the right to know if its about me and they better tell me or I'll make them or maybe have Tyler since they might listen to him. Wait, does Tyler know about the bet too, and if he does will he tell me about it if they won't, only one way to find out.
Before I can even get them to tell Jordan came through. I guess I'll ask them later after hearing what she has to say hope nothing bad.
"Guys, we're got bad news." Jordan said, and seconds ago I hoping we didn't. "We're tracking three patrol cars and they'll be right behind you, guys in about three minutes."
"You still go time to get away." Saul said.
"We've gotta get passed this truck!" Tyler said, angry because the truck is swerving back forth in the lane and making hard for us to get by.
"The only way to pass this asshole is, if we time it right." Mateo said, getting irritated by the driver.
"Let's find out then." Nyla said. Going for it, she punch the gas, making it past the shoulder of the hauler, right before the driver slam it against the concrete barricade, I'm surprise it didn't damage it the way it look like when it hit the concrete, but there might be some scratches and some dents.
"Your up, Estelle. Go! You'll make it" Tyler say.
"Okay." is all I said.
I step on the gas little harder, and the supercar accelerates toward the hauler. The driver sees me in his mirror. I have to fake him out by making him think I go on the left or right side of him. I drift toward the left of the edge, but then he swerves to try and ram me, so I yank the steering wheel to right and putting more pressure on the gas and zooming past the hauler.
Tyler and Mateo easily dodge the hauler as well, and we all drove further away from it.
"Alright, here the plan, Mateo and Nyla get off the next exit. And Estelle and I take the next one, to be on the safe side if we run into any trouble. If we all stick together." Tyler said into the ear piece.
"Sound good."Nyla said. And soon we're getting closer to the exit where Mateo and Nyla will be getting off at exit 70A on West Dolton Ave. Just over the bridge on Bishop Ford Fwy, funny that the name have ford in it and we just stole cars that happen to be from ford, but then got back on I-94.
When their exit came they got off the highway while Tyler and I have one mile get get on to exit.
We reach to the next exist and got off the highway onto 71A on Sibley Blvd. Until Tyler decided pull into Shell gas station. I park next him, as he got out of the car and came over to me and open the door.
"Do want something before we get back on the highway?" he asked, looking at the gas station. "Better yet, why don't you come on in and pick whatever you want. Its on me."
"No, I'm good. But, thanks anyway." I said. I don't want him to spend anymore money on me then he have, I don't even let my friends buy me something, but they do it anyway even if I go against it. I feel bad that he'll pay something for me, even though he could save his money for something instead of spending it on me.
"Estelle, come on, I know you want something even if you say don't want it." he being really patient with me for not wasting time to get back home. I was about to say that I'm good and I don't want anything until talk again. "I think of as I'm sorry for being an asshole to you lately. I was hoping that you'll see the kind of people we were by now and go home to forget everything that has happen up until now. I thought I knew whats best for you. But after tonight I realized that once you put your mind into something, you're not gonna let anyone stop you.
So, I get it now, I can either stand beside you or get outta the way. You're a force of nature, Estelle. So, come on and get something or else I'm gonna pick something for you."
"Fine. But you kind of ruin the moment by adding the last part." I said, getting out of the car. It was nice hearing him says those thing about me and admitting things that he didn't want to in the first place, like he was trying to hold onto it or don't want to believe it, but then came around. "And it took long to figure that out. I been trying to tell that, but you don't seem to get it no matter what I have to says."
"I do, too listen what you have to says." he says, sounding defend. I give him a look that says otherwise. "Fine, maybe I haven't. But, I was only doing it because I thought I know what best for you, clearly I haven't because look what happen tonight. You proven your herself by something that is risky."
"I know." I say, walking toward the gas station door with him following right behind me.
It didn't take long get snacks and a drink on road home. Tyler got a bog of BBQ chip and Reese cup and 12 oz cola drink. And I got BBQ pringles and Kit-Kat candy bar and 12 oz Pepsi drink. After Tyler pays for the stuff we're back on the road on the same highway where we just came off of, but on the opposite side heading back to Chicago. Lucky we didn't run into trouble or see the hauler on our way back, everything looks to be good, when we get back to the garage.