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Chapter 3: Crazy Car Ride
Once Silvy had dragged Juarez out of Base Q, they stand for a second outside. Juarez looks at Silvy. "So...where are we going to get our snow-cones, señorita? It would not be a muy bueno idea to get them here in Lithuania." he says.
Silvy looks at Juarez and shrugs. "I don't know, Juarez..." She then smiles widely. "I just LOVE snow-cones!" Her voice went down to a small whisper, her eyes focused on the ground. "Maybe, just maybe, we could share one?"
He adjusts his knife holster to a more comfortable position. "Erm..." he gives Silvy a slightly strange look and decides to ignore her last comment."There are snow-cones in...In Central Park, no?"
Silvy stares at Juarez's holster. "And I thought we just agreed on not killing those guards..." Then she thinks for a moment. "You can get snow-cones from anywhere, anytime! But if you want to get snow-cones in Central Park, then why not?" Silvy says, wondering why he didn't think of getting snow-cones at a less distant place.
Juarez looks down at his knife holster. "Sí, we did say that...I was just making sure that she was still there. This is not my usual sheath and she tends to like to fall from this one...anyway, we can go wherever you'd like to, chica, for the snow-cones...Just as long as it is not in South America, Cuba, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, or Lithuania."
She shakes her head. "No. You wanted to go to Central Park, so we go to Central Park." She takes his flipper a bit shyly and then adds: "Even if it's the last thing I do!"
Juarez nods, not even noticing that Silvy had his flipper. "Alright, then let's go before the guards find us first."
Silvy drags him towards a car which is standing on the parking lot of Base Q, and gets in. "I guess we better drive towards the aerodrome, then we hijack a plane and then we make our way to New York." She looks at Juarez. "Are you coming too?"
Juarez looks at how Silvy is getting into the driver's seat. He ponders whether or not this would be a good idea or not, then he shrugs and gets into the passenger seat. "Alright, chica. Let's go."
She nods and hits immediately the gas. With a dazzling speed, they ride out of the parking lot, going through a barrier and then she turns on to the highway. "This way... I think..."
"Holy snow-cone! Do you even have a driver's-license?!" Juarez exclaims gripping the arm rests in surprise. This was most definitely not how he had expected to die... He had thought maybe a guard would one day do him in... Not get killed in a car driven by a crazy penguin woman.
"Do I must have one to drive a car?" Silvy says, serpentining down the road, nearly evading walking people and other cars. She then sees that they are getting on a straight part of the way and touches down the gas even more. "Yihaaa!" She yells when the car goes faster and faster.
"SÍ! And I take it that you don't have one?!" Juarez exclaims.
Silvy gives him a funny look. "No... I did have one." She says, laughing. "But they took it away a year ago." She then thinks for a moment, completely forgetting about the road in front of her, but luckily, she didn't hit anything or anyone. "I still don't have the faintest idea why."
Juarez just looks at her and then shakes his head. He looks out the window and pulls out a pair of sunglasses and puts them on. "So, about how much farther is it to the airplanes?"
She makes sure that she evades a large truck and then looks at the road. "I guess that we'll be there in ten minutes." She then angrily pushes the claxon. "But only if those fools would mind to speed up a little!" She gets past them using the wrong the side of the road and yells to them out of the open car window. "Can't you possibly get yourself to holding at the minimum speed?"
"Señorita, I don't know if you truly know about speed-limits or not, but they're going a normal speed...you on the other flipper...well, I wouldn't be surprised if we ran out of gas before we even get to the areopurto." he replies calmly.
"Don't be silly!" Silvy says looking at the level of the gas measurer. "It's halfway up and look, there is the airport." She points towards a small airport with two planes. "See?!"
Juarez looks at the windshield and sees the planes. He looks them over from where he was sitting and points to the one more on the right side. "Go to that one." he says.
Silvy doesn't slow down, but gives some extra gas before pulling the hand-brake and slipping the car in a swift curl. Only, she didn't stop in time and the car hits the one of the airport buildings. "Whoops..." Silvy says and she steps out of the car. "He is not going to be happy when he finds this car." She mumbles softly and then turns towards the plane. "That's a nice one."
Juarez nods. "Sí, that is because it is a jet, so it will also be fast." he says getting out of the car and sliding over to the jet.
Silvy slides behind him and stands still in front of the plane. "Can I fly? I have learned to fly a plane." She says, pulling out a manual from out of nowhere with a big smile.
Juarez looks at her, surprised. "You can fly a plane?!" He thinks for a second. If she flew a plane as well as she drove a car, he would have been better off with the guards back at Base Q. This worried him. He did not want to be killed in a plane by a crazy penguin woman pilot, either.
"Yup! Of course I can!" Silvy says getting into the pilot seat. Then she turns some switches with a very serious look on her face, and the motors of the jet start to make their normal noises.
Juarez slowly sits down into the copilot seat. He is still nervous about Silvy's flying skills. "You are positive you can, chica?"
Silvy nods and gets out the manual again, when the plane takes off the ground. She starts hitting everything around the plane like a maniac. "WE'RE FLYING! I must be the best pilot out here. LOOK! WE ARE FLYING!"
"Holy snow-cones! What the heck are you doing?! You'll get us killed doing that!" Juarez says leaping up and seizing the manual before it could hit anything else.
With an angry glare, she looks at Juarez before hitting things with her flipper. "Don't be such a coward! I fly this plane just fine." Some of the bulbs start flickering and the plane starts the make rattling noises.
"Stop just hitting stuff! You'll break something!" Juarez says. He then stands in front of her and starts switching things and pushing buttons quickly. "Okay, how about you take the copilot seat and I'll fly the plane?"
"Fine..." Silvy says rolling her eyes. "It's him all over again." She stares out of the window, with a sad expression on her face.
Juarez flies the plane for a few minutes before switching it on to auto-pilot. He then leans back in his seat and watches the clouds. He loved being in planes and flying in them. It was always peaceful to him...except when it was being flown incorrectly, of course. "Say, señorita, who's this 'him' that you keep whispering about?" He asks turning his head and look at Silvy.
She looks out the window and evades his look. "Just a boyfriend who either lost my number, or dumped me on the hardest way ever imagined." She sniffs and gets her handkerchief out of nowhere. Thinking about that time made her always very sad, mostly because he appeared to be the best, most caring boyfriend she had ever had. On the contrary of the penguin she had laid her eyes on this time. He seemed a bit harsh and uncaring to her, as if he didn't even liked her.
"Oh." says Juarez. "Sí, penguins like that are horrible..." He looks out the window thinking of all the girls he had given numbers to, who had never called him back...or had thrown it away right in front of him.
"Do... Did... Did you have someone special?" She asks with a shivering voice while the tears still stream down her face.
Juarez shakes his head. "No..." he glances towards Silvy. "I was never that lucky."
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