Fast and Furious: Future (editing and adding to)

Chapter 6: Race Wars

'Uh,finally. You bring us to a decent place.'

Jasmine,however, had something to complain about. 'It's a bit dusty,isn't it?'

'Wellthis is California,' answered Jack from behind them. The twoexcited girls exchanged looks before walking away to join our otherthree friends. 'Hey, you made it.'

'Justabout. Are you planning on racing?'

'Hahaha,of course. I brought the Honda with me, it rides better on thissurface. You brought the Subaru,' he pointed out, sounding a littlesurprised.

'Ofcourse and for the same reason as you. The rally pedigree is betterin a Subaru plus I don't fancy ruining the paintwork on my Ford.'We both chuckled just as André came over.

'Ella,did we just come here to talk or are we racing?'

'Ifyou want to race, go ahead. You don't need me with you.'

'Imeant can we race? Come on, let's go.'

Jackdecided to step in then. 'How about you race me?' he offered.

'Whoare you?' André, at this point, had come over and was now stoodnext to me.

'Jack,and you are?'

Idecided to do some introducing myself, like Jack had done when hetook me to his uncle's. 'Oh, Jack. This is André. The two in theMazda are Carl and Fern and the other two are Alison and Jasmine.'

'Niceto meet you.' Jack offered André his hand but my friend remained abit reluctant. I didn't really know what happened next but I foundmyself walking along with Carl and Fern as André and Jack joined thequeue of cars waiting to drag.

'AHonda?' Carl said. 'André's Eclipse can easily beat that.'

Idecided to raise him up on it. 'I wouldn't say that, Carl.'

'Wannabet?' Fern did not seem very approving of this idea.

'Sure,why not?'

'Agrand?'

'You'reon.' And we shook hands on it too just to make sure. Somehow Ibegan to wonder if André's Eclipse would keep up until the end. Ifelt a little anticipated as the starter signalled for them to lineup. There were no lights set up since it was, after all, an airfield.The rest of the crowd was definitely out the way of the startingline. As the starter shook his fingers in the air, the two ladsrevved up their engines. He sunk to the ground and the cars racedaway along the closed off runway.

Afterthe first few hundred yards, you could see they were neck and neck.Every jolt of each car was a sign of them changing up, most likely onthe rev limiter in Jack's case. It wasn't until the last twohundred yards that one of them began to pull away. My heart seemed toflip as the Honda launched in front and the jolt, even from thisdistance, was enough to know Jack had used his Nos button. The rulesaround here were, at the end, you pulled off to the left and circleback round to join the crowd. That's what they both did and Andréclearly wasn't happy as he roared past Jack a little faster than heshould have been going. Carl, Fern and I ran over to where he pulledup by the shade gazebos.

Iwasn't going to start up about Carl losing his bet to me. He washead deep in André's car by the time I caught him up. Out of thecorner of my eye, I saw Jack roll past to join his family (whose arealooked a bit empty compared to before).

'Hey,Ella. What was that about?'

'Huh?What?'

Andréwas clearly very pissed off. 'Your friend?'

'Whatabout him?'

'What'she running?' He really meant was what did Jack have under his hoodthat meant he could beat the Eclipse (whose makers had a similarrally history to my car).