Life's Highway Chapter 28- Steven.
Sally sat with Lightning all through the night. And all the next day and night.
Doc and Alice tried to get her to go home and get some sleep, but she wouldn't leave.
She only ate a few bites of food, and she almost never left his side.
Finally, on the third day, she went home, or rather, too Lightning's house to rest a little, but she was only persuaded to leave because Doc and Alice promised they would call her if there was any change.
After a few hours of a nap that ended in sleep marks pressed into her cheek, she decided to try to help Lily with the paper work at the Cone office.
That afternoon, Sally sat at her desk in the lobby at the cozy cone. After she had contacted the press with an update on Lightning, she had decided to get working. Paperwork was in heaps, covering her desk. She looked through that days mail. Bills, bills, bills, and...more bills. Why? She thought. She began to go through them, when an unfamiliar car engine was heard, right outside the office. Sally shrugged. Probably a tourist. The lobby door opened a minute later, and a man walked in. Sally realized with a start that it was Steven. She was going to KILL him.
He walked up to the desk."Hello again, Sal." He said pleasantly. She just glared.
"What do you want?" She asked angrily.
He shook his head."That's no way to address an old friend." He scolded. Sally felt like she was going to explode. She tried to control herself, though.
" I am not your FRIEND." She said standing up, causing a few papers to fall off her lap and into the floor. "I am the farthest thing from such, and you'd better be thinking I'm your enemy, ESPECIALLY after what you did to Lightning."
Steven shrugged. "All part of the game, sweetheart." He said. " I needed to get the prize."
Sally was bewildered.
"What prize?" She asked. "You didn't win."
he walked over to her and placed his arms around her. She jerked away, but that didn't stop him.
"Not the trophy." He said. "You."
Sally was fuming now. "Get out of my hotel!" She said, shaking him off, and walking to the door.
"But Sal, I need a room." He said, not thrown off at all.
She stormed over to the desk and handed him a key. "Room 7. Now GET OUT!" She spewed. He grinned.
" Thank you." He said, then, to her disgust, kissed her cheek, before leaving. Sally rubbed her cheek, then grabbed the hand sanitizer and did it again. That Jerk!
Steven walked out of the building, glaring up at the hospital where Lightning was.
If it hadn't been for Lightning stealing her, Sally would still belong to him.
He walked to his car, a bugati, and unlocked it. After he parked it closer to Cone 7, he climbed out and slammed the door. He stormed into the cone, throwing his suitcase onto the bed. He sighed as he sat down. Why did every good thing in his miserable life have to be ripped away?
He hadn't had a good childhood. His parents had been verbally and physically abusive. They said that he had been 'a mistake'. His parents were teenagers, and his mother had only been sixteen when she gave birth to him. They never wanted a child, but their parents (his grandparents) wouldn't let them give up or abort him.
When he was sixteen, his parents basically abandoned him, and he started hanging out with 'the bad crowd'. He smoked and became drunk a few times. His aunt and uncle took him in, her feeling pity for her brother's neglected child.
When he was eighteen, he became interested in racing, like his cousin, Chick. His aunt and uncle were supportive, and his rookie career began. He trained with his cousin, and learned from him. However, the 'tricks' that his cousin showed him, most of them were actually 'cheating'.
He turned nineteen, and was having an interview after the race, when he looked over and saw someone waiting in line to get an autograph.
She had silky black hair, piercing green eyes, and her smile was breathtaking. She stood by herself, and looked to be about sixteen.
After he gave her an autograph, he asked what her name was.
"Sally." She replied, fluttering her long eyelashes.
Steven liked her the minute she said that.
"Wait for me, after I get done here." He whispered, and her eyes lit up.
After autographing, he went to go find her. She stood talking with his crew chief about racing technique. She was actually quite smart.
"Hey, Sal." He said, walking up to her and completely ignoring his crew chief. "Want to go get dinner with me?"
Sally looked surprised. "Do you mean it?"
"Of course." He replied, lacing his arm through hers. "That is, if your parents will let you."
Sally looked down. "They don't know that I'm here. I...I ran away."
He looked down at her. "Why?" He asked, not understanding.
She sighed and scuffed the dirt with her shoes. "I started hanging with the bad crowd, and aren't happy with me. So, I figured that I'd let them 'have a break from me, since they hate me so much, and I'd find a way to start over."
"Well, your secret is safe with me." Steven told her. "I won't call them."
He took her on a dinner date, and she found herself beginning to fall for him. He felt the same way, and after a mental debate with himself, decided to invite her to tag along with him and his crew.
That's how he got to where he was today.
He still wanted Sally. And he hated Lightning with a vengeance.
But, it didn't matter now. He had a plan.
Evil plan, possibly hurtful to Sally, but of it got that rookie hot shot out of the picture, then, hurt or not, she would be his for the taking.
