Dominic pulled the phone away from his ear as he heard a loud smashing noise, as if the phone was run over. "Damn it!" he growled.

"What exactly did you do to her, Brian?" Vince asked, a small smile on his face.

"Forget about it!" Brian growled and started walking to the front door.

Dominic stood up and grabbed his arm. "Brian! What did you do to her?"

"Look," Brian said. "I got a little drunk and lost most of my self-control. I didn't mean anything."

"So what did you do?" Micheal asked.

"I....." Brian didn't want to sum up the words.

Suddenly, he was turned around, grabbed by the shirt, held in the air and pushed against a wall by Dominic. "If you've hurt her, I'll snap your neck!" Dominic growled.

"I had no control!" Brian breathed, trying to get free. "I didn't mean it!"

Dominic lifted a fist. "And how could you lose your self-control after one beer?"

"Someone spiked it!" Brian said. "I swear I didn't mean anything that I did!"

"And what did you do to her?" Micheal asked.

Brian gulped, they'd smash him if he told them. What could he say?

"Brian, what did you do to her?" Dominic growled, bringing his face an inch from Brian's.

Brian knew how protective everyone was of Lisa, he felt a sweat drop coming down from his forehead.

"If you don't tell us, we're going to assume the worst," Jessie said. "You didn't try to sleep with her did you?"

"No, of course not!" Brian replied, disgusted. "She's 15 for fuck sake!"

"Then why is she so pissed off that she had to steal a car and leave town?" Dominic challenged. "Because you must have done something really bad to get her to do that."

"I carried her to an empty room," Brian started and felt Dominic's hand tightening. "I pushed her against a wall and I...."

"You what, Brian?" Dominic said in a scary voice. "You what?"

"I kissed her-"

Brian was pulled forward and slammed into the wall, he gritted his teeth and tried not to yell out.

"Keep going," Dominic murmured.

"Then I covered her mouth with my hand to stop her from shouting and she bit me. She didn't let go so I threw her against the wall-"

Brian felt Dominic's hand move from his shirt, to his neck in a crushing grip. He couldn't breathe now.

"That's when I came to and deeply regretted what I did!" Brian choked out. "I tried apologizing but she wouldn't listen."

"I wonder why," Vince smiled in a sarcastic tone.

"Shut up, Vince!" Brian growled. "I know what you did to Lisa. And it was far worse."

The grip on Brian's neck loosened as the attention was turned to Vince.

"And what did you do to Lisa?" Jessie asked.

"Nothing!" Vince growled. "That loser is making it up!"

"Oh really?" Brian smiled. "Then why did Lisa get scared when I mentioned you were here earlier? And why did she show me a bullet dent in her stomach which she said was from you?"

Vince shifted a little. "That's bullshit!"

"You know it's true," Brian said. "Last year, you met up with her and tried to sleep with her. She refused and so you shot her before taking off."

Dominic fully let go of Brian's neck and walked over to Vince. Even Jessie, Micheal, Sara and Mia looked as mad as Dominic.

They towered over Vince and he looked quite nervous.

"Is that true, Vince?" Dominic asked calmly, which sent shivers down Vince's spine.

Brian was trying to stop himself from laughing, but he did when Dominic growled. "Don't think you're off the hook."

Vince looked at the ground and rubbed the back of his neck. "Yeah, that sounds about right-"

Vince was punched in the face and went flying against the wall behind him, putting a great big dent in it.

"I'm going to kill you," Dominic growled. "Both of you."

"Instead of killing them, Dom," Sara growled, casting a regretful glance at Vince. She hated him. "We should be out trying to find Lisa before she gets hurt or does something stupid!"

Dominic sighed but nodded. "You're right."

"Wait a second," Micheal said. "If she's racing tomorrow, she needs money. She's got nothing. How would she-"

"She's gonna rob some place," Jessie said. "We have to stop her."

"She said she would be just out of town until tomorrow," Sara added. "There's only one way out of this town and that's by the highway."

"She's gonna hit the hardware store," Brian said. "We gotta go."

Dominic glared at him, then he nodded. "Let's move.

Lisa sighed. When her friends found out she stole one of their cars they would get pissed at her. It was only then that she realized she needed money to enter the race the next night, or throw in the pink slip for the car. She had neither.

She drove passed a shopping center and stopped in the carpark, it was open still.

She got out of her car and walked to the front doors and went in. It was a hardware store, selling outdoor tools and furniture.

Lisa walked around, she needed to find a person to target so she could rob the place when it closed down. She found one guy, he looked new to the place, but he had a card to open the tills. She walked over to him and stopped. "Hi, umm, I need help with something," she said with a smile.

He looked at her. "Help with what?"

"I'm trying to find something but I'm not sure where to find it," Lisa sighed.

"What are you trying to find?"

"40cm wrench."

"Uh, we don't have any on the shelves at the moment," the guy said. "You can come around the back, we have more. But there's different styles of 40cm wrenches."

Lisa nodded and followed the boy around to the back of the shopping center. She looked around, it was only her and the guy, no one else, considering the store was close to closing.

"They're just round here," the guy said and showed Lisa a row of wrenches.

Lisa picked one up and lifted it up and down onto her hand.

"There's a whole range of 40cm wrenches," the guy said and was about to explain but Lisa cut in.

"This one will do fine," she said, smiling and lifted the wrench.

Before the guy knew what hit him, Lisa smacked him in the head with the 40cm wrench and knocked him out. She found some rope and duck tape and tied him up, placing duck tape over his mouth and took the card key to the tills and hid it under her shirt.

She walked out of the room and hid underneath a big couch, ready to wait until the store closed. She had to keep telling herself she had no other choice. She needed the money to race. She would never have done this without being in a desperate situation like the one she was in.

In time, everyone in the store left and the workers locked up.

Lisa waited a few more minutes before crawling out from under the couch and making her way to the tills. One by one, she opened the tills and took the money, every time struck her. She hated doing it, but she had to. She had opened every till and taken every money note, leaving the coins. They would be no use to her.

She put the money in a roll and put it in her pocket and headed for the front doors.

She looked at the glass door and stared at her reflection. "You're a criminal," she said to herself. "You're a street racer. You shouldn't have done this. You're going to end up back in juvie for a year or two."

She looked at her face in the reflection. "I'm a criminal."

She raised a fist, preparing to race to her car and take off. She threw her fist at the glass door and it smashed to the ground. Instantly, the alarm came on really loud and Lisa raced out and got to her car. She opened the door but nearly yelled out of frustration as she saw five race cars coming down the street, coming her way.

She jumped in the car and put the key in the ignition, turning it on and revving it up.

When smoke was coming out from the tires, she put the car into gear and sped down the street, now having to lose Dominic and his friends.

Lisa growled as she heard her walkie-talkie turn on. "Lisa, are you crazy?!" Dominic growled. "You stole that car?! That's not a safe car!"

"Shut up!" Lisa growled into the walkie-talkie.

"Lisa, that car has enough noss to blow itself up when you use it!" Micheal said. "It's dangerous!"

"Why did you guys come out here?" Lisa asked, dodging a few cars.

"You robbed that store didn't you?" Dominic asked, ignoring her question.

"I needed the money."

"Lisa!" Dominic growled. "You're going to go to juvie at the rate you're running!"

"See if I care!" Lisa practically yelled into the walkie-talkie. "I'm sick of you all trying to protect me and keep me completely safe from everything! Why can't you just leave me the fucking hell ALONE!?!?!?!"

"Lisa, you don't know what you're doing!" Jessie said.

"And you do!?" Lisa spat back. "You don't know!"

"Lisa, we understand what you're going through-"

"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND A FUCKING THING!" Lisa screamed into the walkie-talkie. She had lost it, and nearly lost control of the steering wheel, coming close to hitting a car head on. "HOW CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH MY WHOLE LIFE! YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND! SO JUST BACK OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Lisa threw her walkie-talkie to the floor of the passenger side and sped up, slamming her foot on the acceleration pedal, going 140km p/h.

"Lisa, Brian told us what he did to you," Dominic said calmly. "But just stop the car and we can talk this through."

Lisa shook her head and just kept driving, tears forming in her eyes.

"Lisa, please!" Mia said. "Stop the car. We can sort it all out!"

Lisa turned a corner and drove down it, she hated it. She hated everything at that moment.

"Lisa, stop before you do something stupid!" Brian growled.

Lisa wanted to spit a reply to him, but they would realize she was crying.

"Lisa, please," Dominic said. "We don't want you to get hurt."

Lisa tightened one hand on the steering wheel and picked up the walkie-talkie. "I'm sorry guys," she said, her voice practically choking out the words as she cried. "I have to do this. I want to get away from everything at the moment. Please just leave me alone."

She put the walkie-talkie down and kept driving, her vision all fuzzy because of her tears piling up. She ran one hand through her hair, pulling it back out of her face and she just wanted to run straight into a tree, or an electricity post. She just wanted to end it all, there and then.

"Okay, Lisa," Dominic said. "But please be careful. We hope you know what you're doing."

Lisa looked into the review mirror and saw the five cars slow down and turn around. She sighed and continued driving. It was going to be a long night.

"I hope she's okay," Sara sighed.

"Well she didn't sound okay, did she?!" Dominic growled.

"You don't have to snap at us," Micheal said.

"Well is it wasn't for these two" -- Dominic pointed to Brian and Vince -- "She would still be here and not out there committing crimes and driving a car that could blow up at any time!"

"Well I'm sorry that my drink got spiked!" Brian growled.

"And there's really no point dragging me into the problem," Vince said. "What I did was last year-"

"But you still did it!" Dominic spat, grabbing Vince by the shirt. "If Lisa gets hurt, it'll get put on the both of you!"

"Would she really do something stupid?" Mia asked.

"Well by the way she sounded," Micheal sighed. "She might be thinking of it."

"Let's just hope she turns up at the races tomorrow," Brian sighed.

"Let's hope she doesn't do anything stupid," Dominic added with a growl. "You can never tell with her."

Lisa looked at the sky, it was starting to grow dark, soon she would have to be at the races. Throughout the whole day, she had not been caught by one cop. She was relieved

When the sky darkened a little more, Lisa got into her car and started to drive towards her hometown. She hoped that when she raced and hit the noss, the car wouldn't blow up.

She took her time, driving by the speed limit. She didn't want to run into Dominic and the other's until she signed up to race.

In time, the sky was really dark and she had to hurry or she wouldn't get the chance to race, so she sped up and took a deep breath.

She got to the race and stopped, looking around and found no sign of her friends. She jumped as someone stopped at her car, it was her old friend Mandy. "Hey, Lisa! Where have you been? I haven't seen you since that race you won."

"I've been.... busy," Lisa said. "Is there room for me to race?"

"Yeah, there' one more spot, better take it," Mandy said and Lisa drove off, stopping next to a white race car with blue racing stickers. There was two other cars there as well, a red one and a yellow one. Both with different racing stickers. The red and yellow car were on the other side of her.

Lisa shivered, it had been ages since she had raced. But she had to win, she had to.

"You think you're going to beat us?" the guy in the car next to her said. "You don't even look old enough to race."

"Think what you want!" Lisa growled and revved up the car.

"Lisa!"

Lisa turned her head to see Dominic and the others next to the car.

"Lisa, don't race in this car!" Dominic growled. "It's not safe!"

"Why isn't it safe?" she asked, showing no intention of turning the car off.

"Because noss isn't fully connected up!" Micheal said. "If you hit the noss button, the car will either stop or..."

Dominic took a deep breath. "Lisa, get out of the car, now."

"You're not my father!" Lisa spat and revved it up more.

"Lisa, you're not thinking straight!" Jessie said. "You shouldn't race!"

"I'm fine," Lisa murmured.

"Lisa, we know what Brian did to you!" Dominic said, holding in a growl. "And we also know what Vince did to you-"

"Brian told you then, I suppose," Lisa spat, her hands tightening on the steering wheel. "He said he wouldn't. I should have known not to trust him!"

"Lisa, what else was I gonna do?" Brian said.

"Back off, Brian!" Lisa snarled, slamming her foot on the accelerator and sending smoke up from the wheels, making Dominic and the others back off.

"Lisa, just think for a moment," Dominic said. "Just think it through. You-"

"I'm done with thinking it through!" Lisa murmured, her voice tight with distress. "You don't know how scared I was yesterday. Brian was like an older brother to me, and he did what he did. And seeing Vince again isn't a pleasure either. If I win this race I can get out of here."

"Racers get ready!" a woman said, standing in between the road.

"Lisa, don't do this," Dominic said. "This doesn't feel right. It's dangerous."

Lisa ignored him.

"Lisa, forget what Brian and Vince did!" Sara said. "Just think straight!"

Lisa growled.

Brian stood next to the car. "Lisa, I'm really sorry."

"I know you are," Lisa growled. "But you betrayed my trust."

"I had to tell them about Vince-"

"Just shut up, Brian!" Lisa snapped.

"Go!" the woman yelled and the four race cars sped forward, Lisa amongst them. Brian and the others were stressing out, worried about what would happen.

Lisa changed gears again and again, placing her finger over the noss button, unsure of whether or not to use it. But she had to win.

The three race cars were ahead of her, and she was climbing to 140km p/h. Not fast enough. She shook her head, she wasn't concentrating because she was pissed off at Brian.

Maybe her friends were right, maybe she should just forget it. In seconds she had made up her mind, she would do her best to forget it. She would apologize to all of her friends. But first, she had to win the race.

She looked at the noss button and she felt a sweat drop coming down her face, she was scared to use it. She didn't want to use it. She wouldn't use it.

Lisa wasn't going to finish the race, she was going to stop and turn back, return the money to the hardware store and apologize to all of her friends.

She smiled and slammed her foot on the brakes, preparing to turn around, but her finger was still over the noss button.

Brian watched as Lisa put on the brakes in the middle of the drag race and her car started turning around. But his heart pounded against his chest as the blue race car went up in blueish orange flames and exploded, throwing the parts of the car everywhere. The four tires went different ways and the rims came off, blue flames were still burning the road and people started yelling and screaming.

"Oh fucking shit, Lisa!" Brian and Dominic yelled and they bolted down the road with their friends behind them.

They reached the car and the flames were starting to go down.

"Lisa! Lisa!" Dominic yelled.

Brian lifted up the roof, trying not to let go of it until he had moved it away even though it was burning.

Dominic and Brian fell to their knees when they saw Lisa lying there, with her eyes closed and her body terrifyingly still. "Lisa!" Brian said.

Blood was all around her, she had a giant graze on her leg and a cut on her arm, both spilling out blood. But the injuries that scared Brian the most were the cuts on her cheek, neck and stomach. She had a deep cut on her left cheek, a burn on her neck and her stomach had a giant cut with a bit of glass till embedded in it.

Brian was frozen with fear. Lisa didn't move an inch, and everyone was close to tears. Including Dominic and Brian.

Brian punched the ground. "How could we let her drive that car?" he growled, it sounded as if he was putting the blame on himself. "How could I have done that to my little sister?" Tears were falling from his eyes and he punched the ground over and over again.

"She didn't make it," Sara sighed, her voice nearly drowned by her shock and fear.

"Why didn't she listen to us?" Micheal said quietly.

"Even I didn't want this to happen to her," Vince said.

"Maybe if we had of gotten to her sooner," Jessie sighed, his voice choked.

"We should have stopped her!" Dominic growled to himself, his voice tight with grief, tears threatening to form and overwhelm him.

"We shouldn't have built that car!" Brian said, lifting her and hugging her. "We shouldn't have let her leave the house last night."