Chapter 2

Katy firmly gripped her leathery stirring wheel with anxiety. The rain poured down heavier and heavier to the point she could not even see five feet in front the hood of her car. All the racers lined up in three rows of four cars each. She could feel the smooth humming of her car; the heartbeat of an extension of herself. The other racers began to rev their engines; a petty attempt to intimidate each other.

"Kat…."

"KAT!"

"Huh?, Oh ya sorry, Reno…"

"Hey now, relax. Take a breather, alright? You have sixty more second till start. You will do great okay?" This time it was not Reno on the headset. It was her father.

"Dad, I…I love you okay? No matter wha-"

"Hey, do not talk like that okay? Look I got to go. I will see you in the victory circle." A moment of static sounded then silence…Complete and utter silence.

BANG!

Katy quickly came over her daze and began to quickly began to shift her car into second, then third, and so on. Geez, these roads suck! I can't even see! Kat thought to herself. The gloomy feeling quickly escalated to nausea. A loud screech deafened the air as she swiftly dodged a car that already collided with a guard rail. The sounds of rain were all she could hear. The deafening pouring sound was unreal. Katy could barely even feel her car because the force of the rain was that immense.

"KAT!...Hey, man, are you all right?" Reno sounded actually worrisome.

"Ya…sorry. I dozed a second-"

"Look, I hate to be the one crackin' the whip on ya', but you don't have any time for screw ups! Keep your eyes peeled. In .05 miles a left turn is needed. It's a low curve turn."

Reno was not actually mad; just worried. Reno is like Katy's bigger brother. Ever since she was little he would protect her, annoy her, and pick on her. Katy was actually surprised if he hasn't ripped his hair out yet. She soon reached her turn and quickly realized the damage that has already been done. Already four cars were completely totaled just by looking at them. The hoods were just utterly unrecognizable. Katy knew the drivers were dead. Within the first couple of minutes, lives were seamless ripped away just like that. Even if she slowly took the turn she knew she would skid. So why not drift? Kat tapped the E-brake and made the left turn smooth and precise. Her tires whined only slightly against the oil and water mixed pavement.

"Nice drift! Okay. This road is straight four two miles then you will have to take another left turn. It's a hairpin turn so be cautious."

"Got it." Katy looked at her GPS and saw she has gone already three miles in a matter of a couple short minutes. Kat looked then at her speedometer and saw she is reaching speeds of about 210 mph. The hairpin turn was coming up quick. Shit, I need to slow down. She began to tap the brake just a little to test the grip of the ground. Kat immediately began to skid a few feet before she brought herself back in line.

Katy knew she was not in first place, but all that mattered at the moment was the hairpin turn. Her tires began to screech loudly against the pavement as she tapped her E-brake to drift the hairpin…She made it.

"Katy?! What was that? Your tires are toast! All of your treads and grip…GONE!" Reno yelled across the headset.

"Well? What did you…want me to do? Go… off the cliff?" She was having a hard time talking and trying to drive and fight her nausea at the same time.

"Ugh. Whatever, you need to slow it down. Up ahead there is a forest. No guard rails…no sandbags…water barrels…nothing. Take it easy, got it?" Katy knew Reno was getting mad this time. She knew she was driving recklessly.

"Ya okay." Kat mumbled through the microphone.

The feeling…this time it was different. Her vision began to blur and her mind began to race. The forest was coming up quick. What's...What's wrong with…me? Before she had time to react her car slammed into a wall at 245 mph. Wait, a wall? How?...what? She knew she should have been deader than a door nail. Her car on the other hand was. The hood looked like a crumpled up piece of paper. The windows were complety shattered and her engine was in flames and crushed. Her tanks of nitrous leaked on the ground and were dangerously close to the fire. The seats were ripped off the hinges and laid about the car like trash.

Her eyes wondered towards her body. She saw a white stick, or what looks like a stick, and lots of blood come out of her body. That is definitely not a stick!

"Aaaaagggghhhhhhh! Someone help! Please!?" She screamed at the top of her lungs. Her femur was sticking out and she knew she had to of broken at least all of her ribs. Her head felt like it just got hit by a truck…then ran over by a bulldozer. It pulse and she could barely think and see straight.

"Please! Anybody! I can't get out!" Tears began to roll down her face has the pain of her broken body reached her comprehension. Katy tried to get out, but she knows she needs to focus on breathing. The blurring vision came back and took her whole mind. Blackness consumed what little light she could see.

"Hey, kid? Uh, you all right? Kid!" A low voice echoed through the night sky.

"In hefnmm…" Incoherent words were spilling out of her mouth as she tried to blindly move herself. Her brain began to bleed and she was internally bleeding also.

"Don't move, kid! Hang on." The voice echoed again by an unknown man. The voice wasn't hectic or scared, but calm and confident. The slicing of metal and the ripping of doors was the last thing she could hear before the darkness consumed her whole body.