'Finally.' Cato mumbled when I sat down on the seat next to him.
I crossed my arms and looked out of the window. 'I'm not going to talk a word to you, just drive me home.' I muttered.
He drove pretty fast over the road, which was kind of scary. I still stared out of the window, and recognized the forest and the lake.
'Uh, Cato. My house is the other direction.' I said.
'I know.' He smiled.
'Then turn around and drive the correct direction.'
'Nah.' He answered. 'I like this way better.'
'I'm warning you, turn around or I will do it.' I told him.
'Go ahead.'
'Fine.' I muttered and grabbed the steering wheel. The car moved in all directions, except the one I should go, I would get the car crashed this way, but Cato just let me doing this, and loose his grip on the steering wheel.
'You know we are going to crash this way.' He said as calm as possible.
'I know! Goddamn I can't drive a fucking car okay.' I almost yelled. I was starting to get a little nervous.
'Clove you are not going to crash my car, okay?'
'Then fucking help me.' I sounded more terrified than I was, but still I could feel my heartbeat in my throat. Even my heart wanted to escape out of this fucking car.
'Nah.' He shrugged. 'You said you'd turn the car around, so go ahead.'
'I CAN'T.' I yelled, and tried to attack him. It was pretty useless what I was doing, after a while he pushed me away, back to my seat.
'What the fuck are you doing?' He grinned.
I rubbed my head which just bumped against the car door. 'I don't know.' 'Are you okay?' He looked at my head.
Then I noticed that no one was holding the steering wheel. I got up from my seat and sat half on his seat to get to the steering wheel. The car was still shaking, and we still could crash.
'Cato don't just sit there, for fucks sake help me.' I told him, still sounding terrified.
He didn't answer, he didn't grab the steering wheel, nope he didn't do anything.
I realised that I was going to drive on a highway, and the car was shaking like hell. If I didn't crash this car, others would get into the crash too.
'Cato grab the fucking steering wheel.' I said. My heart was beating way faster than it should.
'' Focus Clove. Just focus!' I tried to calm myself down and keep the car on one road, not more than one.
Then I saw that Cato's foot was still on the accelerator, so I kicked the brake and drove the car into a bank of sand next to the road.
It stood still, finally. Though we crashed into sand, but we weren't dead! I still held the steering wheel with both hands, which were shaking like hell.
'Smart..' He said.
'Is that sarcasm?' I frowned, and realised that I was breathing pretty heavily.
'Nope.'
...
'Why the fuck didn't you help me?' I asked him. 'We could have died! And you just sat there doing nothing!' I almost wanted to attack him again.
'You still don't get it?'
'No of course I don't get that!'
'Maybe I thought that you were smarter than you actually are.' He smiled.
'Maybe I thought that you were a disappointment, and I was fucking right.'
I wanted to slap him, but he grabbed my arm. 'Calm down.' He said.
'I can't calm down! We just could ha-'
'Clove I did this for a reason.' He interrupted me. 'The problem was that you had no idea what you were doing.'
'Do you mean that you expected that I could drive a car?'
'No, but you said that you would turn the car around.'
'That doesn't mean that I can do that?'
'Exactly. You don't know what you're doing till you do it.' He answered, while he still held both of my arms in case I'd attack him again. 'This is the same thing with school, and these points. You have no idea what you were doing there, suddenly you could have crashed, and died. The only way to survive is just to stop.'
'What do you mean?'
'That you need to stop gaining these points.'
'You aren't going to tell me what to do.' I frowned.
'Clove, what you just did with this car was similar to the problem with school. You said you could do it, but didn't know what you did, then you started to panic because you would die. Then you tried to attack me, but there isn't anything I can do to help you. You have to stop it on your own, and if you don't you will die.'
'Oh..' I looked down. 'Sorry.'
'It's okay.' He told me.
'No, seriously. I am sorry.' I saw that I was still sitting on the half of his seat, while mine was completely empty, but I didn't feel like going to mine now.
'By the way, you shouldn't worry about that 773 points. He's just trying to make you afraid.'
'That is almost 600 points higher than the highest score, I guess that that is something to be afraid of.'
'The first three days are the worst. I had 43 points during the first three days, you only 17 now. Just stop acting like that in classes, so you don't make the same mistake as I did.'
He pulled his arm around me, which for the first time wasn't slapped away by me. We sat there for minutes, awkwardly sitting in a fucking car which just crashed into sand. My heart was still beating really fast, but I didn't care about that.
'Thanks for the advice, but I still hate you.' I mumbled, which made him laugh.
'Is your head okay?' He asked me.
'It hurts a bit, but it's okay I guess.'
'I pushed you harder than I wanted to, sorry.'
'No, it's okay.'
'Let's get you towards your home, shall we?'
'Okay.' I answered quietly and moved back to my seat, which was cold now.
...
'FUCK!' I suddenly said, and checked my phone.
'What's wrong?' Cato looked up at me.
'I should have gone shopping with Jackie. Goddamn I totally forgot.'
'Go call her?'
I nodded, opened the door, and stood outside next to the highway.
I called Jackie. After 3 times ringing she picked up.
'Jackie I'm so sorry! I totally forgot. ' I told her.
'Where the fuck are you?'
'Next to a highway, sorry for the noise.'
'Why at a highway?'
'I , uh we crashed.'
'Oh my god are you okay?'
'Yeah I'm fine.'
'Who is 'we'?' Her voice changed a bit.
'Me and Cato.'
'Damn it Clove, you see? You always get in trouble with him. He could have killed you in that car?'
'Don't get me wrong, I crashed the car.'
'Yeah, and who is the owner of that car? Who got you in that car? Who made you drive? Exactly.' In some points Jackie was right.
'I'm glad that you are okay, I'll pick you up at eight, for the party okay?'
'Okay. Thanks Jackie!' I smiled, still a bit shocked of her reaction.
'Bye.'
'Bye..' I hang up the phone and glared back at the position of the car, which was even weirder than I thought, plus it was pretty stuck in the sand.
I hopped back on the seat inside the car.
'Was she mad?' Cato asked me immediately.
'Yeah, kind of.' I answered. Actually Jackie was more shocked about the fact that I was in a car with him than about the fact that we crashed, but okay..
Cato got the car riding backwards out of the sand, back on the normal road. Then he moved it forward, and just drove down the highway, in the good direction towards home.
'It looks so easy when you do it.' I mumbled while I looked at the steering wheel. 'When the car is driving, I mean. We both know that I can park this thing way better than you.'
'You what?'
'Did you ever parked a car in a bank of sand? Exactly.' I grinned.
After that we didn't really talk anymore, so I did. Not because I wanted to talk to him, I still hated him and stuff, but to avoid the awkward silence.
'By the way, tell Glimmer that if she says a word wrong to Annie during that survival thing, I'd kill her.'
When I realised that he was her boyfriend, I almost slapped myself. I really had to think before I spoke.
But all he said was 'Okay.'
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