Chapter Four
Life on the edge
The long, open road was beckoning him to drive faster. To claw his way to the horizon. Even with his sunglasses on, the orange glear that swept across the plain was still visible.
He turned the radio on loud, making sure that the voices in his head telling him to turn back were blocked out. He started swurving along the road, in time with the beat of the heavy metal that pumped through his ears. It didn't matter though- there were no cars out there anyway.
As the song ended, he stopped the car on the side of the road and stepped out onto the dusty gravle. He leant against the bonet of his car, put his hands behind his head and tried to soak up the remainders of the sun. It wasn't long before the traffic picked up on the road. Mainly old, dirty trucks; obviously used to seeing loners on the side of the road.
Landon didn't bother to look up as the beams of light from each car landed upon him and then moved on. In the beginning, as it started to fall dark, he had been paranoid that one of the cars was his mum's. Sometimes, he secretly hoped that the passing car or truck was his mum, hopelessly looking for her son. But as it turned to complete darkness, and Landon decided he was too cold to stay on the bonet any longer, he realized his mum wasn't coming to look for him. Noone was.
He was past grief as he turned the car on. Anger now filled his every sense. Landon drove as fast as he could, skidding around the corners that came more frequently as he climbed cornered his way into the hills. He laughed a high, cackle. He turned a right corner, going over the centre lain. Big birght lights lblinded his vision, and, in between a mouthful of swearing and a screeching of brakes, everything went black.
The on coming car skidded and got the full force of Landon's car on it's left side. The driver didn't bother to think about the steep drop at which his car was pushing Landon's. At the very last minute, he turned the other way and crashed into the side of a cliff. Landon was already balcked out to know that his car was hanging over the edge of a murderess drop.