"What? Good night? He must be kidding!" Amelia stood in the lounge in disbelief.
Owen closed the door behind him, smirked and headed toward the exit.
"Hunt, Hunt." Someone called after Owen.
Owen turned and saw Derek running towards him.
"Hey, what are you doing tonight?" Derek asked catching up with Owen.
"I`m not sure, I just wanted to go home and relax, it has been a long day." Owen answered.
"Relax? You`ll have time to relax when you retire. I`m taking the girls, I mean Meredith and Amelia, obviously, to carting as a surprise and an apology for my yesterday`s shenanigans." Derek said with a joy and asked: "Care to join us?"
Before Owen had time to answer Meredith came along, looking at something in her phone and asked: "What is all this fuss about Derek?"
"It is a surprise." Derek said happily.
"Derek what is this?" Amelia came from behind. "Are you inviting us to a "secret place" via message?" Amelia asked.
"Can you trust me on this?" Derek was annoyed by the women.
Meredith and Amelia looked at each other and simultaneously shrugged.
"Good, then let`s get going." Derek said excited.
"Owen are you coming with us?" Meredith asked.
Owen opened his mouth to say something and Amelia was ready to argue that he didn't need to join them, when Derek said quickly: "Yes, he is coming. Let`s go."
They all shrugged and followed Derek to the parking lot.
"Really? Carting? That was all you could come up with?" Meredith asked.
All four of them were standing in front of the carting area. Derek was excited, while the other three were not sure how to react. They didn't know if it was a good idea or a bad one.
"Come on, it is going to be fun." Derek said taking Meredith`s hand and going in.
Amelia and Owen followed them some steps behind.
"Why are you here again?" Amelia asked annoyed.
"Derek asked, no told me to be here before I could say no." Owen answered. "So I didn`t have another choice."
"Yeah, well, I didn`t have another choice." Amelia repeated mocking.
"Will you stop that?" Owen was the annoyed one now.
"Stop what?" Amelia asked childishly.
"Being a 2-year-old." Owen answered with the same childish tone.
"Are you two coming?" Derek called for them.
"Yeah, right here." Owen said.
"Yeah, right here." Amelia repeated mocking Owen.
Owen rolled his eyes and went on.
At the beginning no one, even Derek, was really sure if it was a good idea to come here, but as they chose the carts they wanted to drive in, put on their helmets and were on the start line ready to race the fun began. As you can predict Amelia and Owen were not giving each other an inch, they were more pushing each other to the sideboards than racing. Derek was like a fish in a water, he was driving like a pro and was leading the race, not paying any attention to what was going behind him. Meredith was just having fun, trying not to fall too far behind from the group.
Five laps were done. Derek comfortably came in in the first place, Owen was second, Amelia third with just second behind Owen and in the fourth place came Meredith.
"Well, that was unpredictably too much fun." Amelia said taking off her helmet.
"Yeah, that was great." Meredith agreed.
"Should we go for another spin?" Derek asked excited.
"Let`s do it." Owen answered pumped.
Meredith and Amelia nodded in agreement.
This time they made a bet. The one who`d come in in the last place had to buy them all a drink after the race.
All was agreed and set to start the race.
This time everyone was more concentrated and as the green lights went on the put their foot down into the gas pedal and flew away. No one was messing about, they were all in for the win, or at least not to come in the last place. As the end of the race was getting near everyone was pushing harder. In one of the corners Amelia didn`t turn with the needed speed and bumped into the wheels put in the sides of the track. Owen who was behind her, passed her with a smirk on his face. Even Meredith was able to pass Amelia. With a lap remaining Amelia fell behind. She reversed the cart and continued racing with no hopes that she won`t be the last. The race went on and everyone was pushing as hard as they could. In the last corner before the finish Amelia was surprised to see Owen stuck in the sideline wheels. She was tempted to stop and ask if he was ok, but remembered that he didn't care for her seconds ago and drove past him slowing her pace.
"Looser!" Amelia shouted and pressed on gas.
Owen shook his head and tried to get out of the wheel trap that he was in. Unfortunately his wheels were so stuck that he had to abandon the cart and walk to the finish line.
"Guess we know who the looser is." Derek said happily.
Owen raised his hands in defeat. "Drinks on me."
Everyone laughed and headed towards the nearest bar.