DATE: AUGUST 4, 1999
TIME: AROUND 1:30 PM
Max had just finished filling up a customer's car. Meanwhile, Drew was daydreaming. Then Kenji honked his horn at him.
He said "HEY DREW! DREW!" Drew then said "Oh. Hello Kenji."
Kenji said "Were you daydreaming, Drew?"
Max then said "He's been like this for a while. I wonder if he has been hanging out with May too much."
Drew then muttered until he saw Dawn. When he saw Dawn, he said "Dawn, did you get the day off today?" Then Drew said Dawn's name
Dawn said "I am so sorry for bothering you at work." and Drew "That's okay. It's no big deal."
Then Dawn asked "What time do you get off work today? I'm free for the rest of the day, so I want to see you after you get off work. I will wait somewhere until you're done with work."
Then Drew said "Wait a bit. Two minutes. No, one minute will do it. Stay here."
Drew then ran into the store and told Yuichi he was leaving for personal reasons. He quickly changed and when he came back out, May wanted to know where Drew was going and Drew said "Sorry, May. I will leave the rest for you."
Then Drew pulled up a little and told Dawn to get in his GC8. Dawn said "Is it okay?" and Drew said "It's okay so hurry."
Yuichi then came out and said "I guess I will give him a break just this once."
Kenji then asked Max "Who is that girl? His new girlfriend?" and Max said "Something like that." and Kenji said "What? He was dumped recently, and he has a new girlfriend?"
While riding with Drew, Dawn asked if it was okay for Drew to leave work and Drew said "It's okay. It's no big deal."
But then Drew said in his head "Yuichi is going to yell at me tomorrow, but I don't care. I've been thinking about you all day. I wanted to see you so much. And you came to see me and I was so happy, I couldn't stay there so skipping work is no big deal."
The two went to Lake Haruna and sat near the water eating corn on the cob. While eating, Dawn said "I have always been with my girlfriend Zoey since I was little."
Drew said "Seems like you two get along well." and Dawn said "Even after she got involved with cars, I rode with her whenever she went driving. There was a time when I using most of my salary to maintain her Porsche."
Drew then said "Really?" & Dawn said "There was nothing I wanted to do. It was easy to follow car-crazed Zoey. But that's no fun. That's when I decided to get my driver's license. My sister Kyoko Iwase got me that Eight-Six the day after I got my license. She too is a car fanatic and drives an FD3S." & Drew said "Your sister drives a current generation RX-7? Nice."
At her home, May looked at her R34 and said "The power is sealed on purpose, but for what reason? A racing engine? I don't know what's going on!" May then closed the hood of her car and said "Fine. I'm lacking an essential element."
Meanwhile at Lake Haruna, Dawn and Drew were going to Drew's GC8.
Drew said to Dawn "It's dark already. Let's get something to eat, and I will take you back to the hotel."
Dawn then said "I don't want to go back." Drew was shocked to hear Dawn say she didn't want to go back to the inn and he wanted to know why.
Dawn said "Something happened at work today."
Drew said "What happened?"
Dawn said "I have this mean co-worker who blames me for her mistakes and lies to our supervisor about me. It's unbearable."
Drew said "All right! I will stay with you until you feel better! For as long as it takes!"
Drew then took Dawn out for a drive in his GC8.
Dawn was teaching some stuff to Max so he can improve and be as good as her sister.
Dawn said "There! Steer while braking lightly." & Drew said "Okay, Dawn."
Drew then drifted at a corner and kept his car about 3 centimeters from the guardrail.
Dawn the said "You're so good at this!
Drew then said "Yeah, it feels good!" Drew then drifted at the next corner and said "You're a better teacher than May.
Dawn said "Zoey taught me things while I sat next to him. They just stay in my head."
Drew said "You have a license, so you should be good at this."
Dawn said "I probably will. My Eight-Six can be tough to drive. It has so much power it can hard to control it at times. I have not raced a mountain pass myself."
Drew then said "You don't have to. That's just one of the many pleasures a car brings. If you like Shomaru Pass so much, you don't have to race at another pass.
Meanwhile, May was laying on her bed thinking about what Zoey said about what she was missing.
May then said "I guess I have to accept her challenge."
Meanwhile Dawn and Drew were sleeping in Drew's GC8.
Dawn said "Are you asleep, Drew?"
Drew said "No, I'm not."
Dawn said to Drew "I was thinking about quitting my job and go back to Saitama. But I will give it another try. Quitting is easy, but I'd just be back where I started." Then she went to sleep
The next day, May was watching TV in the living room the place she lived in with Ash. Drew then came in and said "Hey, May!" and May said "Drew."
Drew said "If anyone asks, I was hanging out with you from last night until this morning, okay?"
May said "What? You just got back this morning? Were you with Dawn?"
Drew said "Why are you blushing? Don't get the wrong idea! We just went to the pass is all! We slept in my car"
May then said "But isn't that improper? Dawn is a girl."
Drew said "She said she didn't want to back. It's a man's job to stay with his girl."
May then said "Is that so? I don't really know."
Drew then said "I was so happy yesterday. We talked about lots of things. It made us closer. It was like a dream! How about you, May? I'm sure you and Ash are doing well. How are things with you two?"
May said "Things are fine. Me and Ash are getting along well. We have been since I moved in with him."
Drew said "That's good to hear."
Later that Day, May was home when the phone rang. She said "Ash, are you home? The phone is ringing. I guess he went out."
When May picked up the phone, she said "Hello, May Chan speaking. HUH?"
It was Zoey calling her and she said "You are wondering how I got your phone number. Well, I remember you gave me a piece of paper with your phone number on it. I will be coming to Gunma to bring Dawn back home. I heard she took off from work yesterday and didn't come back until this morning. So irresponsible! I can't stand irresponsible people, even when it's one of my friends.
May then said in her head "UH, OH! DREW IS IN TROUBLE!"
Zoey then said "But that's my problem. Let's talk business. I want to race you. Leave tomorrow night open. Make sure your engine is fully operational by then, or it will be pointless. I trust you. I will be in touch."
May then hung up the phone and said "I saw it coming. She wanted to race me. I better talk with Max."
May then left and came to Yuichi's gas station where Max just finished closing up and was about to leave.
When May came, Max said "Sis, what's up?"
May said "Hello, brother. I have a favor to ask. I may be racing Zoey's Porsche 911 Turbo, so I want to make this engine usable by then. I need your help installing a tachometer."
Max said "A tachometer?"
May said "You know a lot about cars, bro. I have no clue, so I need help. Please show me how!"
Max said "Okay."
May said "Thank you, bro."
Max then looked at May's engine and said "I don't know the specifics, but I can tell that this engine isn't just another engine. You got nice fuel injectors and a wild twisted header. I think it's highly tuned based on the turbochargers. It's really tuned-up. It sure is hard to believe that this engine has less power than the old one."
May said "This Zoey girl said that I would get more power at a higher RPM. I want to believe what she said."
Max said "Unlocking a sealed high-rev zone. If that's true, it's exciting. It's not that hard to install a tachometer, but there's one thing I'm not so sure about. Are you sure you want to change the current setup without asking Ash first?"
May closed her hood and said "Well Ash wasn't home tonight. And he wouldn't say yes if I asked him face to face. So I've decided to do it myself. I want to be able to use the engine to its full potential by tomorrow night.
Max said "Okay. In that case, I will help you. I will buy a tachometer first thing in the morning. Come in the afternoon."
May then said "Thank you so much, bro! You're a huge help."
Max then said "It's the least I could do. You are my little sister and I have always looked out for you."
The next day, Max called a motor sports shop for a tachometer.
He then said "What? It's going to be a week? I need it today."
Max then came into the store and said to Yuichi "This is bad! No one has it in stock. I guess very few cars use 10,000 RPM tachometers. What am I going to tell May?"
Yuichi then said "I guess no one carries it."
Max then said "Boss, do you know anyone who has a racing tachometer?"
Yuichi then said "I may know somebody who could have one."
Yuichi then called Masashi and when Masashi picked up the phone, he said "Hello? Oh, Yuichi. Yes I have one."
Yuichi went "WHAT? Are you sure you have one, Masashi?"
Masashi said "Ash told me to get one for May's R34. A racing tachometer, water temperature, and oil pressure gauges."
Yuichi then said "Hold on a second. This is a surprise, Max! I've got goose bumps! This is what Ash meant by "sealing it." Hey, Masashi! Bring those gauges over here right now!"
May then ran to her home and Drew wanted to know why she was in a hurry.
He said "HEY, MAY! What's your hurry?"
Then May met up with Solidad. Solidad said "Hi, May."
May said "Sorry, but I'm busy right now."
Solidad then said "But, May!"
May went back home and got her R34. While driving she said to herself "Solidad."
While installing the parts, Kenji told May "Okay. Now you just have to screw it down."
Max said "That's it. Now it's done. Okay, that will do it. Don't you think it was easier than you thought, right?"
May said "Thanks to you guys. I wouldn't have known how to do it alone."
Max said "Installing the tachometer isn't the end of it. Just because it's a high-revving engine doesn't mean that it will rev infinitely. Without knowing its top RPM, you can't have a full-blast race. I'm sure Ash knows. If you don't know its limit, you may end up damaging this engine."
Then Zoey came to the gas station. Max looked at the car and found out it was Zoey's Porsche 911.
Zoey got out of her Porsche to talk with May. She said "It looks like you're ready. We will race like planned. I will let you pick the course for our race."
Kenji then said to Max "Haven't we seen that Porsche 911 Turbo before?"
Max said "Yeah. She's the girlfriend of Drew's girlfriend."
Kenji then said "What? That sounds very complicated."
Zoey then said "Okay, that's fine. I will see you there. See you later." Zoey then left in her Porsche.
Kenji and Max ran up to May. Max said "Where are you two racing, sis?" & Kenji said "We will come root for you."
At the hotel where Dawn was working at, Zoey slapped her across the face. Dawn said "ZOEY!"
Zoey then said "This is serious. I told you not to make your aunt look bad. You made your mom and sister worry. Get your stuff together tonight. I'm taking you home."
Dawn then said "That's my decision to make! I know it was wrong to stay out until morning without letting anyone know. But I did nothing I should be ashamed of, so I shouldn't have to go home!"
Zoey said "Why don't you explain that to your mom and sister instead of me? If you like it here, you can tell them so and come back. I can tell you've changed a little, and I have to admit that you have even matured a little. But they don't know that, so they worry. They will feel better if they hear it from you."
Dawn then said "Okay, I will go."
Meanwhile May went to the gas station to talk with Drew. Drew said "What's up with you?" & May said "I am racing tonight."
Drew said "WHAT? With who? Not with Dawn's girlfriend and that Porsche."
May said "Yeah, and I have a favor to ask. I'm a little scared, so can you come with me?"
Drew said "Of course."
May said "Thanks. I will pick you up later."
May then drove back home to talk with Ash. May then got out of the car.
Ash said "What is it?"
May said "I am racing this Porsche tonight. It has a new tachometer. Please tell me what the top RPM is. Please tell me.
Ash went to go inside and said "Make sure to rev up to 13,000 RPM. Don't lose."
May then said "Thank you, Ash."
May then picked up Drew and left to race Zoey. While driving, Drew said "May, why are we talking the highway?"
May said "She told me to pick any course I wanted."
Drew said "So, where did you pick?"
May said "Shomaru Pass."
Drew said "WHAT? That's her turf!"
May then sped off for Shomaru Pass.
