"Lisa, this is a bad idea and you know it!"

"Chill out, Mandy" Lisa told her 21 year old friend. "I'll be fine."

"Lisa, you're only 15," Mandy said. "And this is an all out drag race."

"I know," Lisa said, pulling some money from her pocket. "And the people I'm up against are fast, you don't have to tell me twice."

Mandy watched as her friend got into her car and drove to the starting line.

Lisa's car was medium blue with yellow and red lightning racing stickers. Under the car was a red fluorescent light.

"Hey, kid."

Lisa turned to look at the racer in the car beside her, he had blondish brown hair with a green car with racing stickers. "What?"

"How old are you?"

"15," Lisa replied. "And I'm a decent racer."

"Decent ain't gonna' get you nowhere," Another guy on her other side said, he was bald with a red car and racing stickers.

Lisa looked at them both with a smile. "You'll see."

Lisa looked at all the cars on the sidelines and the many people that were watching the race, she knew that one guy was listening to a radio that was stolen from the police, ready to warn everybody if the cops were coming.

Lisa turned around to the backseat and opened the noss bottles, ready to use them in her race, the other racers were doing similar things. She liked being the only girl in the race, even though she was under-aged.

A woman stood in the middle of the road with her hands up.

All four racers got their cars into gear and revved them up.

The woman threw her hands down and the cars took off at full speed.

Lisa was coming third, her foot pushing the accelerator pedal all the way to the floor. She was catching up.

She reached second as she changed gears, she was waiting until the other racers used noss so she could use it last minute.

The guy coming fourth used his noss, he was in a red convertible with crappy racing stickers. He came first and the guy in the green car used his noss to beat him.

Lisa smiled, the other guy would come next.

In seconds she saw the red race car speed ahead, coming first like he did at the beginning.

The race cars were neck-and-neck as the finish line approached.

Lisa finally pushed the noss button on the steering wheel and sped in front of the three other racers. She was pushed into her seat as the car was forced to go faster by the noss and she crossed the finish line first.

She slowly put the brakes on and stopped before getting out of her car, watching everyone with a smile.

People came running and cheering and congratulating Lisa for winning. The other racers got out of their cars and came over to her.

"Nice driving," the green racer said. "My name's Brian."

"Thanks," Lisa said. "I'm Lisa, and I told you I was a decent driver, didn't I?"

The bald guy laughed. "Do you even have a license?"

Lisa shook her head, "But my parents bought me the car."

"Your parents let you race?!" Brian exclaimed.

"No," Lisa laughed. "They bought me the car, I made it the way it is now. They don't want me racing but that doesn't stop me from doing what I love."

The bald guy shrugged. "I'm Dominic." She nodded to him in greeting.

"What's under the hood?" Brian asked Lisa.

"I'll show you," Lisa smiled and lead them to her car, lifting the bonnet.

One of Dominic's friends had a look. "Noss, hydrolics, nitrous injection, this thing's loaded."

"Thanks, Jessie," Dominic said and the guy stepped back.

Lisa looked at them as they laughed. "What?"

"You're crazy, you know that?" Brian said. "You're only 15 and you drive a ten-second car as if you've been racing since you were 8."

"She's only 15?!" Jessie exclaimed. "Holy crap!"

Brian, Dominic and the other racer that didn't introduce himself, gave Lisa the money she won for coming first in the race.

Suddenly, a walkie-talkie came on in one person's car saying. "Shit, cops! Let's move, the cops are onto us!"

Everyone raced to their cars and started them up.

Lisa got into her car and heard police sirens in the distance. "Shit!" She said to herself and started driving off at full speed. "My parents are going to kill me!"

Everyone started racing away in their cars with cop cars chasing them.

Lisa had a cop on her tail and she triggered the noss, speeding away and dodging cars in her way.

Her car slowed down as the noss stopped and she looked in the review mirror, the cop was lost.

She drove to her friend Mandy's house where she kept her car. If her parents saw it coming up the driveway they would kill her.

Lisa put the car in the garage and put her jacket on before walking down the street to her house, which was blocks away.

A cop drove past her and she begged that they wouldn't pull over.

To her horror, the cop car skidded and turned around. They had recognized her.

Lisa turned and bolted up the street with the cop car in pursuit. Lisa turned into an alley and ran down it, she was toast. Her parents would find out she had raced again and she'd go back to juvenile prison, for the third time!

She looked over her shoulder, the cops were coming down the alley in their car.

I'm surprised it fits, she thought and kept running.

Suddenly, a green race car pulled up beside her and Brian opened the door to the passenger seat. "Get in!" he said.

Lisa didn't have time to think, she jumped in and closed the door putting her seat belt on.

Brian sped away down the alley and back onto the road with more cops after them.

"Thanks man," Lisa said.

"Don't thank me yet," Brian said, dodging a few cars. "We've still got to lose the cops. Hold on!"

Lisa held her seat as Brian pushed the noss button and she was forced back against her seat as the car raced down the street. In time, the cops disappeared.

"I think they're gone," Brian said.

Lisa was breathing heavily, "Can I thank you now?"

Brian laughed. "Forget about it."

"I seriously didn't expect anyone to get me out of that," Lisa breathed. "And you were the last person I would have expected."

"Where's your house?" Brian said. "I'll take you home."

"Thanks," Lisa looked concerned. "But could you drop me off a block away? My parents will kill me if they see your car."

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah, sure."

Lisa sighed, she was so glad the cops didn't catch her. She was so glad that Brian actually risked coming to get her when he could have gotten caught as well.

She heard the sound of motorbikes and saw six of them, three on each side of the car.

"Shit!" Brian breathed.

"What?" Lisa asked him.

"It's gonna be a long ass night, that's what," Brian growled.

"Follow us," One guy on a motorbike said and Brian had no choice but to follow.

"Why don't you just drive off?" Lisa murmured to him.

"They're on motorbikes," Brian looked at her. He looked like he was worried. "And they've got guns."

Lisa's eyes widened, now she was scared.

They had driven at least twenty miles before Brian drove up the driveway of a Chinese temple and down to the end of a carpark.

The people got off of their motorbikes and Lisa and Brian got out of the car.

"Look, we don't want trouble," Brian said, casting a glance at Lisa.

"You owe us money," a Chinese guy said, holding a gun to Brian. "Where is it?"

"How much do you owe?" Lisa asked him as a gun was held up to her.

"Five grand," Brian sighed.

Lisa shook her head, five grand was the amount he paid in the race.

"This your car?" the first guy asked Brian, he nodded.

A girl walked over to it and inspected it. "We could take this as payment."

Brian looked at the girl. "Not the car."

"If you don't give us the money now, we'll take your car or kill you," another guy smiled.

Lisa looked at him. "I have the money," she blurted out.

"Lisa, no." Brian said.

One Chinese guy walked over to Lisa, casting a glance at Brian and making her a bit more worried than she was. "Hand over the money then."

"Only if you don't kill us," Lisa said. "And you don't take Brian's car."

"Deal," the woman said.

Lisa pulled a roll of money out of her pocket and handed it to the Chinese guy standing in front of her.

"Race money?" he said. "Surely you're too young to race, let alone drive?"

"I'm 17," Lisa said quickly.

"C'mon, let's go," one guy said and they went to their motorbikes.

Lisa sighed with relief and looked at Brian, he still looked half-worried.

Two guys pulled out their guns and started shooting the car.

Lisa and Brian ducked for cover and watched the car being trashed. Bullets went into the sides and windows smashed, soon it caught on fire and the Chinese people rode off.

Brian took one look at the flaming car. "Holy shit! The noss!"

Lisa and Brian ran a short distance from the car before it blew up in bluish flames.

Lisa fell to the ground and looked at the car, it wasn't drive-able now.

Brian went over to her and helped her up. "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Lisa replied. "What the hell was that about?"

"Long story," Brian said and they started walking away from the temple.

"Well we've got a twenty mile hike, humor me," Lisa said.

"Okay, where do I start," Brian sighed.

"From the beginning might be a good way to go."

Brian looked at her and laughed. "Alright. I borrowed money from them a few months ago for a drag race that I was forced to enter. They said I had one month to repay them but I couldn't get the money. I asked them for more time and they agreed. Now my time was up and they were prepared to kill me for not having the money-"

"But you did have money," Lisa interrupted. "You spent it at the race though."

"Yeah, I wasn't expecting them to catch up with me."

Lisa sighed. "Sorry about your car."

"Nah, it's alright. I'll get a new one eventually."

"Eventually. You can't race until you get one and all the parts for it to get on the track."

"I know."

"You could borrow my car," Lisa said without thinking, but she didn't regret saying it.

"No, I couldn't," Brian smiled. "Thanks anyway."

Suddenly, Lisa's pocket vibrated and she pulled out her mobile. "Shit, it's my mum."

She answered it. "Yeah, mum. What's up?"

Brian watched Lisa's face turn from nervous to extremely nervous.

"Where are you?!" Lisa's mother said. "The police are here waiting for you saying that you were racing again!"

"Crap!" Lisa whispered to herself. "Mum, no I was hanging out with a friend."

"The police say they saw a blue race car and they were in pursuit of a girl your age who was running on foot!" her mother growled. "You cannot tell me that wasn't you. Only a girl stupid enough to run from the cops would be you!"

Brian had heard that. "Gee, she's mad alright."

"Look!" Lisa growled into the phone. "Okay, I was racing. But it's what I do. I love to race, I don't care that I'm under-age and that street racing is against the law! It's what I do best!"

"But, Lisa, you've been to juvenile prison twice already!" Lisa heard her dad yell.

"Yeah, and if I come home I bet I'll go to juvie for the third time!" Lisa said.

Brian's eyes widened. Third time?!?!?!?!

"You had better come home!" Lisa's mother shouted.

"Don't get your hopes up," Lisa sighed and hung up the phone.

"You're not going home?" Brian asked her.

"No, if I do I'll go to juvie again," Lisa replied. "I'm not going back to juvie."

"You got somewhere to stay?"

"Mandy is the only person I know that would allow it but she's got enough to worry about," Lisa looked at the ground as they walked.

"Stay at my place if you want to," Brian suggested.

"No, I couldn't."

"Where else can you go then?"

"I would be too much trouble."

"No you wouldn't."

"You sure?"

"Yeah. The cops will never find you at my place."

Lisa nodded. "Okay then. Thank you, Brian. You've done more for me than I could ever have asked for."

They eventually came to Brian's house, there was a party going on inside.

Lisa followed Brian inside and saw many people from the race with beers and other drinks.

She spotted Dominic, Jessie and a few other people having a laugh about something. She followed Brian over to them.

"Brian!" Dominic exclaimed. "So you did get away from the cops!"

"I would have gotten here quicker but I had a bit of delays," Brian said, looking at Lisa.

Dominic looked at them both. "What do you mean?"

"Lisa was on the run from the cops so I picked her up," Brian said. "Then we had to lose them. But after that..." he trailed off.

"What happened?" Jessie asked.

"We ran into the Chinese group," Brian replied. "Lisa gave them the money I paid her when she won the race and they were about to take off but they totally destroyed my car."

"Man, that's too bad," one of the other guys said.

"They blew up the car to be specific," Lisa sighed and sat down.

"They blew it up?!" Dominic exclaimed. "Shit, man."

"Why did you give them the money?" one of the other guys asked Lisa.

"Well it was that or let them kill Brian or take his car," Lisa answered. "It was only fair seeing as he got me out of trouble with the cops."

"But now she's staying here," Brian said. "The cops went to her house and her parents called her. They were mad."

"Well, wouldn't you be if you didn't want your 15 year old daughter street racing and she went behind your back?" Dominic laughed.

"I don't have a daughter," Brian said. "And I would probably let her."

Dominic shook his head. "Idiot."

"So why is she staying here?" one of the other guys asked.

"If I go home I go back to juvie," Lisa told him. "I've already been twice."

"Twice for what?!" the guy exclaimed.

"One was last year for breaking into a plaza with some mates and stealing stuff and then running from the cops when the alarm eventually went off, I was in juvie for three months. About a week or two after that I went back to juvie for stealing a car and racing with it, after doing it up of course."

"Damn girl!" Jessie said. "That's some serious shit."

"Well hey, the car looked good when it was done up," Lisa grinned. "But I was in juvie from September until March."

"So you've only been out for four months," Brian said. "And if you get caught you're probably going to be in there for a year."

"Oh well," Lisa sighed.

The guys laughed.

"You want a drink?" Brian asked her.

"Yeah sure," Lisa said and watched Brian disappear into the group of people.

"So why you staying at Brian's house?" one of the guys asked. "And I'm Danny by the way."

"I've got nowhere else to stay and Brian offered," Lisa replied.

The guys shrugged.

The other guy put out his hand and shook with Lisa. "I'm Micheal. I've only just turned 18."

"HA!" Lisa laughed. "So I'm not the only racer under 20."

Lisa shivered as a hand went around her shoulder. "Hey cutie."

Lisa took the hand away and stood up. "Back off man!" she growled.

The guy moved closer to her. "Oh come on."

Lisa clenched her fists and punched him in the face.

He fell to the ground and she heard gasps from Dominic and the other three.

The guy got up and was about to speak again when Brian showed up and told him to back off. The guy left a few moments after.

Brian sighed and turned to her, handing her a small bottle.

"Vodka Cruiser?!" Lisa exclaimed. "This is a joke, right?"

"You might get away with under-age racing but you're not drinking like an adult," Brian laughed.

"I never said I would," Lisa mumbled, but a Cruiser was good enough so she drank it.

A while passed and a woman came over and dragged Brian off, leaving Lisa with the four drunk guys.

Danny handed Lisa a bottle of beer. "Here, take it."

Lisa hesitated. "I don't think I should."

"Come on," Micheal laughed. "It's only one."

Lisa shrugged and drank a little.

When she had finished it, Danny offered her another. She refused.

"Come on, Lisa," Danny smiled. "It's only one more."

"Yeah, and then you'll give me another and then another and so on," Lisa shook her head. "No."

Danny sighed. "Take it. It won't do any harm."

"I said no," Lisa growled.

"Watch it Danny," Micheal said. "She knows how to hit."

"But I'm offering her a beer," Danny said.

"I'm only 15!" Lisa said. "One is enough for me. I shouldn't have even had one."

"Why don't the two of us go upstairs," Danny said to her.

"Ugh! No way!" Lisa growled.

"Not scared are you?"

"I'm way too under-age for what you're thinking about!"

"That doesn't stop you from racing."

Danny grabbed her arm and lifted her up. "Come on."

Lisa pulled her arm away. "No way in hell!"

Danny grabbed her arm again and began dragging her through the crowd, Lisa trying to pull her arm free again. "Danny let me go!" she yelled at him and punched him in the shoulder. Still he held her arm.

She was pulled past Brian and he saw her trying to get away from Danny.