They all got back into Steph's car but didn't head to the Diner at first, instead heading towards Steph's house. When they pulled up outside, Steph said "I will be a few minutes, come in and make yourself at home Belle." Ric sauntered into the lounge room and plonked himself down on the leather couch, grabbed the TV remote and flicked the TV on to cable. He let Belle pick the station and they sat in contented silence until Steph returned about 10-15mins later. She had an envelope in her hand, which she dutifully handed to Belle, who looked at her quizzically, but opened the envelope anyway.

It contained a letter plus a set of… "CAR KEYS!" Belle screamed in joy. She quickly read the letter, then Steph said "Come with me." Ric blindfolded her and led her to the garage in which all Steph's cars were housed, each with their own security system, cameras, sensors etc. Steph owned in total, 50 cars, but kept only the most expensive and prized ones in her own garage, the rest were kept at a secret location but all were driven regularly. Belle felt Ric stop, so she stopped too. He removed the blindfold and both he and Steph said "Surprise!" as Steph flicked the lights on in the garage and the automatic door slid shut behind them.

The lighting illuminated the 10 most expensive and prized cars that Steph owned, each was locked behind a grill that could not be broken, scratched, bent or flamed by any kind of machinery and the security system for each 'cage' was state of the art. Steph said to Belle quietly "see that gold key? Go and try it in each of the locks and see which one it opens. All the alarms etc are off so there's nothing that will go off unexpectedly or anything. Its all safe. Off you go."

Steph and Ric watched in amusement as Belle ran from one cage to the next, trying the key in each of the locks. Suddenly she stopped and stared at the key. She knew that Steph kept all the badged keyrings with the rest of that set for that particular car so that she would be able to tell what she was going to drive without even having to try each of the locks. Belle noticed that the insignia keyring had been removed, as had any other key that would give away the car that was locked behind the cage that the key she had been given, opened.

Belle then focused her eyes on each of the locks, then heard the quiet laughter of Steph. She turned to see both Steph and Ric grinning madly obviously highly amused at Belle's antics. Belle pretended to be offended but quickly resumed her task. She scanned each car in the garage. Maserati, Koenigsegg CCR, Skyline, Lotus Elise, Holden VZ, Porsche Boxter, Alfa Romeo 155, Ferrari Enzo, Pagani Zonda, Koenigsegg CCX. She looked at the gleaming machines and knew that Steph did all the washing and polishing herself. Ric did the mechanic side of things but the rest was left to Steph.

Belle could not believe that she was to be able to either own or allowed to drive such expensive machines! It made her feel faint. But she squared her shoulders and purposefully marched towards the Maserati. She tried the key. It didn't turn. She moved on to the Alfa, and tried the key in that lock. It didn't turn. She tried

the Holden, Porsche and Lotus. The key didn't even make it into the lock. Well that left only 5 cars, the Ferrari, the CCR, Skyline, CCX and Zonda. She went to the Zonda. Nope not that one, next the CCR. Nope not that one either.

"This is frustrating!" Belle said after 5mins of trying to get the key to fit in the Zonda's lock. She moved on to the Ferrari. Nope not that one either, so she tried the Skyline. Bingo! Belle whooped with joy as the lock slid undone.

She turned to Steph, her eyes shining with joy. "What does this mean Steph?" Belle asked hesitatingly, not wanting to be told it was all a joke. "If you had read the rest of the letter you would have figured it out. But since im here, whatever lock that key unlocks, the car is yours to keep. I have far too many here and even though they are all special to me, some have to go. But im selling the others, just not the Skyline. That's yours. All the papers will be in my name except registration, as that will be in your name but the insurance will be in your name but I will pay it, as I don't know whether the payments would be too eyebrow raising for Irene to even think about. You will of course receive a copy of them, but I will pay them. You will find that the car has been customised to your specifications that you wrote down for me last year. So all you have to do is hop in and off you go. Have fun!" Steph said with a laugh as Belle ran and hugged her and Ric at the same time. Ric laughed at Belle's delight.

After Belle stopped screaming and jumping around, she ran to her new car, but asked Steph to move it for her, and dragged Ric outside to watch it emerge from the garage. Steph complied, calmly driving the Skyline to the turntable where it was spiralled up to street level. Then to Belle's utter delight, she held the clutch, smoked the tyres then suddenly dropped the clutch (it was still a manual, but Steph was going to have it converted into an Auto for Belle, roaring out of the garage at top speed and went into a direct slide stop ending up right in front of Belle and Ric. Ric was shaking his head and grinning at his girlfriend's antics, whereas Belle was dancing and hugging Ric for all she was worth. Steph opened the door and stepped out, leaving the engine running. She told Belle to hop in and that she and Ric would follow her in a while. Belle did as told and happily sped off with the stereo blaring out 'Buttons' by the Pussycat Dolls.

Fly
Open up the part of you that wants to hide away
You can shine,
Forget about the reasons why you can't in life,
And start to try, cause it's your time,
Time to fly.