1958
Santana watches the sunset as she takes a long drag from her cigarette.
"San lets go!" yells puck.
"its ShowTime boys" Santana says crushing the cigarette under her boot, and making her way to the car. Santana, Puck, Finn, and Sam all squeeze into Santana's Chevy.
"Hey spaz! You're cruising for a bruising" yelled Puck as Sam accidently elbowed him in the gut.
"cool it Puck" said Finn "lets just get to the race in one piece alright".
Santana was silent. If she was nervous about the race she did nothing to show it.
"so San I hear Lucy is gonna be at the race" Puck says slyly.
"What's it to me?" asked Santana.
"Don't act like you're not sweet on her San" laughed Sam.
Santana fell in love with Lucy the first time she saw her, but the guys didn't need to know that. She had an image to maintain after all.
"Yea well the only thing I'm sweet on is getting screwed blued and tattooed with the debs after I beat Ricky tonight"
"Hell yeah!" yelled the guys.
Finn reached over and turned on the radio. They all laugh at Pucks seated Elvis Presley impersonation as Jailhouse Rock played in the background. They laughed and sang along to the radio all the way to thunder road. Waking up everyone in the quiet little neighborhood in the process.
When they arrive at thunder road Azimio, the second in command of the scorpions is the only one there.
"There's been a change of plans fellas" He said as he approached them
"Pardon me?" asks Santana.
"You heard me, the Fuzz is sitting on Thunder Road tonight waiting for the races to start".
"Or maybe your leader is too chicken shit to show up!" interrupts Puck.
Azimio chuckles and says "speaking of chicken, we're going up to dead mans canyon, if YOUR leader isn't too much of a wuss"
"What are we waiting for then?" says Santana ignoring the jab.
"everyone's up there already, we were afraid you wouldn't show" laughed Azimio.
"Scram wise guy!" says Finn as Azimio hurries back to his car.
"You sure about this San?" ask Sam?
"I hear dead mans canyon is…"
"will you quit you're crying and get in the car!" yells Puck.
"She's fine for Pete's sake"
Santana said nothing as she climbed behind the wheel. Her heart was racing at a mile a minute, but she couldn't back out now. Not when her girl was on the line. Santana the leader of the Scarlet Angels, and Ricky the leader of the scorpions made a bet that whoever would win the race could ask Lucy to the spring fling first. It was either the race or a rumble and neither of the leaders would be able to explain to their crews why they had to rumble over a girl. It was much easier to lie about why they raced.
As they arrived at dead mans canyon, they immediately spotted the other members of their crew. Skip, Buddy, and Cowboy run up to Santana and start to playfully wrestle with her.
"Say uncle!" Santana says as she gets Cowboy in a headlock.
"Alright alright you win boss" shouts cowboy.
"Lucy is such a doll" said Skip.
"I think tonight is the night I make my move boys"
"You Idiot" Puck murmurs as he smacks him in the back of the head. Santana didn't say a word. She was too dumbstruck by the sight of Lucy that she completely missed what skip had said. As Santana was staring, Lucy turned her head and caught Santana's gaze. She smiled sweetly at her and waved. Santana goofily waved back at Lucy only to be snapped back into reality by a slap against the back of her head, and all the guys falling over with laughter.
"San close your mouth; you're drooling" laughed Finn.
"Oh hush Frankenstein I was just saying hello is all" blushed Santana.
"Yeah and I'm James Dean" replied Puck. The grouped hooted at pucks non sense joke, but Santana ignored the banter and walked over to her car lifting the hood up. Once she was satisfied by what she saw, she closed the hood of the car only to turn around and come face to face with Lucy.
"I saw you staring at me earlier" said Lucy looking at her shoes shyly.
"Actually I was just…."
" I hope you win" said Lucy.
"Gee thanks" replied Santana shyly.
"Here" said Lucy handing San her scarf from around her neck.
"What's this for?" asked san.
"Good Luck" replied Lucy.
"Alright greasers let's get ready to get in your rides, and get this show on the road" someone yelled.
"well I guess that's my cue" said Santana.
"I really do hope you win" said Lucy, and Santana wondered if there was any way she would know about the bet. just as Lucy turned to leave Santana gently spun her around and pecked her on the lips.
"I sure hope I win too" Lucy grabbed the back of Santana's neck and went back in for a second kiss. Ricky and Azimio watched from afar, and Ricky became so enraged his vision started to blur.
" I say screw this race, and lets bop right here right now!" screamed Ricky.
"NO! I have a better plan" said Azimio smiling coyly.
Kitty, The head of the scarlet debs, also witnessed the kiss. As Lucy walked away kitty approached Santana.
"San I hope you know what your getting yourself into here" said Kitty.
"Kitty you worry too much" said San.
"She looks too pure to be scarlet" replied kitty.
"Oh get bent Kitty" laughed Santana.
"Hey San, could you come here for a minute?" shouted Ricky.
"sure" said Santana as she pecked kitty's cheek and jogged over to him.
"I just wanted to say let the best greaser win" said Ricky as they shook hands. Santana nodded her head and started to walk to her car.
"oh and San" said Ricky.
"We're going for pinks".
"You sure you want to give up that beauty of yours?" said a smirking Santana.
"you Sure you wanna give up that beauty of yours?" said Ricky as he nodded his head toward Lucy. Santana felt a chill run down her spine, and she started to say "She's not my…." But Ricky was over by his car by the time she turned around. Santana got in her rod and tied Lucy's scarf around the rearview mirror. She then turned the keys and revved the engine. An attractive girl stood in-between the two cars. She raised her scarf and smiled seductively at both drivers. Ricky turned to look at Santana and winked. Santana raised her middle finger in return, and took off as the scarf was lowered. Rickey and Santana were neck to neck driving at a rapid speed. They both stole quick glances at each other to see if the other would bail first. As the canyon became closer Ricky started to get nervous. He turned to look at Santana but her eyes were straight ahead like she had no intentions of stopping. Ricky opened his car door and bailed out of the car. Santana turned to look at Ricky's rolling form.
"I win hot shot!" Santana shouted at the top of her lungs.
Santana went to open her door so that she could bail when she realized that it was jammed. She tried to stomp down on the breaks but that did nothing" As the edge got closer she tried the door over and over again to no avail.
"Oh shit"
was the last thing Santana said before her car plummeted into the canyon below.