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y friend Amber Henley started yelling at the bartender and her

fresh air after being in a congested

lurted out as I tried

is fine." She said as she glanced back at her boyfriend, "Okay,

ny from my father, and I couldn't say that I didn't know about Amber'

ve fun,"

her hand around me, "now we get to

o drive home. We should g

was a decade older than her. "Dave will drive us home, right

mind as long as you let me crash at y

uld have stuck to m

don't mind paying for an Uber to ge

on't trust me." Dave

o look at me and say, "You don'

wanted to say but

him, but of making sure we get ho

us there safely?" She asked, "Tha

d to yell back a

nd I think we should ge

are going to be fine; besides, it's almost two in the morning, it's going to take ages to get an uber he

but I handed

r than to tell her to leave him. It would have been a huge deal, so I just stopped asking. I did try to ask Amber to get a job since she couldn't leave

u must be loaded then, huh?" He asked as if h

ven bother

r's seat as Amber stepped into the passenger

how to drive

ince he was a child," Ambe

to rest, but it was too late for me to ch

seatbelt an

you could slow dow

s Royce, and now I get to brag to my friends." He paused, "besides, I wa

ching despite Amber's loud cheering. It was late at night

streets I could recognize, and that's when it hit me:

you going

a street race with, so that's where

d, confused, "

already here anyway

, but I don't think you understand that un

this one race, then we're going

s and go home, but the sympathetic side of me took over and said, "Fine. Just one

I heard a car r

ou ready to get your ass kicked?" He asked the driver

ike, but he didn't speak, and the

do this?" I asked Amber,

the fuck up?!" D

I was glad that I decided to put on my seat belt because he was driving like a cr

ing, "Eat my dust,

ght light was. It was a car that was driving toward us, and the other driver was right b

I said as I grabbed th

he adjusted his stance and his gri

to where?

concentrate with all the no

aised my finger and said, "It

s swerved to the side and skidded to the side as it hit a pole and the pol

you okay?" I asked the woman whose h

head up, an

ar, I said. "She is still ali

nd Dave said

the police bust him for this, he will spend

eople to jail?" I asked, "Murd

t, leaving out the fact about the rac

ambulance, now let'

leave her here

Dave said as he strolled b

aving with my

'll make sure he brings back your car."

childhood

pp on my phone that allows me to control the ca

off." I heard it

, and when they couldn't, Dave stepped out of the ca

looked

wn, he called Amber out of the car, and th

ng me just how much I had to lose. I couldn't afford this kind of scandal. Wyatt Industries, the company I inherited from

't think straight. I was expecting the police to show up at my door any minute, though there wasn'

ll ringing. I sighed, accepting my fate. This was going to happen, and t

cting the police, but

e a package for a Mi

oat and said, "T

." He poin

even thanking him. I sighed in relief that it wasn't the police, but I c

turned on the TV; the first thing

hether or not the mother and child will make it, and on the other hand, the police have no clues as to what happened, but the

d be safe for now. I felt bad for not telling the truth, b