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Previously:"Alright." Jack turned his head then started paying attention to where he was going. I looked around. I looked out the front window shield up at the big blue sky. But when my eyes pasted the rear view mirror, they back tracked. What the..?
I turned around in my seat and saw two blonde teenagers in the backseat. They started to stare at me, and no doubt I was staring at them, too shocked to care if I was being rude. How did they get in here?
When I didn't turn back around it caught Jack's attention. Jack looked in the rear view mirror and slammed on his brakes causing the mini van behind us to do the same. Jack turned around and looked from the girl to the boy teenagers in the backseat of our taxi. This caused them to stop staring at me and start staring at him.
"W-Wh-Where'd you come from?" Jack asked.
"Ou-Outside." The boy stuttered. Hey he's kinda cute. I shook that thought from my head, that wasn't important at the moment.
"Yeah, I figured that part out on my own. I meant how'd you get in the car." Jack responded.
"Through that portal." The girl said, causing both teenagers to point to the boy's door. Oh great, more freaks. Jack looked unamused.
"I'm Seth, this is my sister Sara. We require your transportation services immediately." So his name is Seth…Oh god, I need to stop. That's not important right now brain, shut up. Why is it that teenage girls' hormones flare when they really don't want to be?
Jack's voice snapped me back to reality, and from the corner of my eye I saw Sara looking at me.
"Really? Well I require--"
Sara cut him off by saying, "Currency transaction."
Seth took out a big wad of cash which pretty much made my eyes pop out.
"Will this amount suffice?" Seth asked.
"What'd you do? Rob a bank? I asked. No way is that what normal teenagers carried around.
"Is this acceptable Jack Bruno?" Sara asked, still looking at Jack.
"How'd you know my name?" It caused me to laugh a little when both Sara and Seth pointed to Jack's taxicab ID in the front. Jack looked at me from the corner of his eye and I shut right up.
"If we have a deal with your services, we must move forward rapidly." Seth said, leaning forward in his seat. "It's urgent we'll get to our destination without delay." He finished.
During this whole discussion car horns have been beeping at us to move.
"Alright! Alright!" Jack yelled. "I'm going." He started driving again. Jack looked a little freak out so I asked, "Where to?"
They didn't reply so I looked back to see Seth was using some kind of device which I couldn't recognize.
"I need an address." Jack said getting aggravated.
"We must travel in that direction." Sara said, pointing her finger straight a head but a little off to the right. Jack looked back at her like she was crazy.
"I'm gonna need something more specific than just that direction." Jack said waving of his hands.
Seth looked back down at the device in his hands and started saying, "We must locate latitude 40.54 cross intersecting longitude--" Jack put his hand up cutting Seth off, "We're just going to stick with that direction." He said pointing to where Sara was previously.
We ended up driving through a patch of desert I looked at the cost estimator thing and it read $397.40.
"Are your parents gonna be okay with you spending all this money?" I asked. Jack would kill me if I pulled this off.
"We have previously agreed on our financial deal. If you're concerned that this is regarding your con--" Seth retorted, I had to defend myself to him.
"My concern is the fact that we have two teenagers in the back of my uncle's cab, with a big wad of cash, with a drop off location pretty much in the middle of no where. Now in my book, that's a little chapter called 'Running away'." I snapped. I never liked cocky people who thought they were above all others, and even if they were they had no right to talk to others that way.
I looked back at Seth. He was glaring at me, which made me repeat his action. But then he did this really cute head thing. Oh my God. What am I saying? I don't like Seth! He just made me mad and everything! How the…Ugh! Stupid hormones.
My thoughts were cut off by Jack's radio. His boss was talking to us, again. Does he have anything else to do besides bug us? And well, eat? Can't he do only one at a time? Does he know how to do anything without eating at the same time?
"Jack, you better be getting desert miles on that thing." Munch, munch. "And they better be able to pay." Munch, munch.
"Funny, sounds like he's eating something. What a shock." I mumble. I heard Sara giggle, and when I looked at Jack he cracked me a smile. His boss is ALWAYS eating something. Yet he's still average weight…?
"And you better get me an E.T.A." He finished rudely. If I was Jack I would have quit on this guy a long time ago.
"I'm losing reception Dominic." Jack said before hanging up on his boss.
"Go Jack!" I smiled a small smile. Jack just chuckled at my childness.
"Jack, Jac--" The line went dead. Serves him right.
I looked forward and leaned back in my seat.
"Jack Bruno the vehicles behind us are indicating a pattern of pursuit. "Sara said worriedly.
"There's no vehicles following us--" Jack stopped talking when he looked in the rear view mirror. I looked back. Sure enough, there were three big black SUVs behind us.
Seth was the next one to talk, "At your current rate of speed versus theirs, they will over take our vehicle in less than one minute."
"Relax kid." Jack put up his hand. "I'm just gonna let them pass." Jack rolled down his window and yelled, "Open road people! It's all yours." Jack slowed the car down.
The SUVs speed up, but only one passed us. I turned to watch it as it drove around us and I caught Seth and Sara watch it go by as well. But Seth glared and Sara looked, worried almost? I looked at the SUV again and noticed its windows were tinted. Maybe that's why? Jack looked over at the SUV for a second till it finally went in front of us.
"See what I told you?" Jack put his arm on the back of my chair and I saw Seth's eyes glare at it but I don't think Jack noticed. "Nobody's following us. I'm the king of these roads--" Jack was cut of by Sara yelling and pointing in front of us.
"Jack Bruno!"
The vehicle in front of us slammed on its brakes and turned sharply so it was blocking our blocking our whole side of the road. Jack took a quick turn to the left side of the road and speed passed them. Unfortunately for us, so did the other SUVs.
The other SUVs sped up and one hit the back left of the cab. As soon as the two SUVs behind us passed the one that stopped in front of us it joined back in and righted itself on the road.
So, at the moment, Jack's cab is flying down this desert road while 3 huge SUVs are chasing us. Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
"I thought you said you were out?" I yelled at Jack.
"I did, and I meant it!" Jack retorted back.
"Who's Mr. Wolf Jack Bruno?" Sara asked, with a bit of anxiety in her voice. I looked back at her.
"How do you know that--"I started but one of the SUVs behind us slammed into us causing my head to snap forward. Ow, crap, now my neck kills.
"Get down NOW!" Jack yelled.
"You couldn't have said that five seconds prior." I mumbled to myself, he never really did have good timing. I don't know if Jack heard me because he didn't acknowledge that I said anything but it won't make a difference if he head me or not so I didn't really care.
Seth, Sara, and I all ducked, holding our hands. I glanced up and noticed that two of the SUVs were on either side of the taxi while he other one wasn't in my range of sight considering that my head was right above my lap. Jack kept into one SUV then into the other, trying to knock them off the road. Well, until they both turned in towards us, caging us in. Jack kept trying to knock them out and it gave us space to drive in, but didn't knock them off.
They caged us in again, but this time we were hit from behind as well. Guess we found the third SUV. Jack decided he had enough.
"Hold on." He told us, and then sped up, knocking the SUV on our left side in front of us and across, then off the road.
Thinking we had a little break, I sat back up to find Sara and Seth did also. I looked through the back window shield and they followed my gaze. After they saw what I saw their heads shot back so they were looking at Jack.
"Jack Bruno it appears we have not alluded them." Sara said.
Jack looked in the rear view and mumbled, "I'm so over this." to himself.
"Stay down! Stay down!" Jack barked.
I put y head back down causing my neck to hurt again. Damn, I need an aspirin or something. I looked back at the two blonde hair, blue eyed siblings to see that they were having so kind of conversation. I strained my hearing and caught the end of it.
"Seth no, it's not a good idea."
"I have to try."
"It's too dangerous."
One minute I see Seth sitting there, concentrating on something, I blink, and he's gone. I blinked again and saw him kneeling on the pavement on the road behind us, growing farther and farther away as each second passed.
He stood up and turned around to face the upcoming SUV which wasn't stopping. He puffed out his chest and just stood there waiting for the car to hit him. I was shocked. I looked at Sara who was also watching her brother. My eyes crawled back to see that Seth wasn't even five feet from the SUV about to hit him straight on. Not three feet from Seth did the car finally slam on its brakes.
Not believing that this was actually happening or at least hoping it wasn't, I turned my head so I was facing forward. Jack was still driving away, unaware what was happing behind him.
What is he doing? Why is hitting willing to get hit by that car? The door didn't even open, how'd he get out….? Nothing that I just saw made sense to me. I was trying to forget it and pretend that it was just my mind playing tricks on me, but then a huge "CRASH" from behind us ruined that plan. All of a sudden Jack slammed on his brakes and drove at top speed in reverse without even looking back.
"Jack! What are you doing!?!?!" Everybody is in the car. Everybody is in the car.
"It's not me!" He said. "Now what?" he said to the car. Oh yeah like it's gonna respond to you. Now is not the time to blame the car.
"If it's not you then how come we're going backwards?"
"I don't know!" Jack looked in the rear view mirror as we sped backwards.
"Jack!" I yelled, right when we were about to hit the SUV that crashed into Seth. How did he make that big of a dent? Wait, where is he? I turned to look at Jack when he started talking again.
Breathing hard he said, "You two okay?" meaning the two people that were supposed to be in the backseat.
"We are--" Sara started but was cut off by Seth. Wait, Seth is back?
"Fine." Seth finished out of breath. "We should, just, keep, moving."
Jack took off his seat belt and looked at me. "You alright Taylor?"
Am I alright? I just like killed my neck. I just saw Seth disappear then land on the road. Saw him right before he got hit by that car. Then see my life flash before my eyes, again. And now Seth reappears healthy and out of breath. Am I alright? NO.
"Yeah. I'm fine." I leaned my head back as Jack got out of the car with a bar in hand. Where'd that come from? Wait, never mind. Jack started yelling at the people in the SUV. There looked to be about four of them.
I wanted to hear this so I rolled down my window, surprised it wasn't shattered.
"What? You didn't get the message? I told Frank and Marty I was out!" He walked to the driver's window which was open so I could hear.
"You tell Mr. Wolf for me that he's gonna pay for my repairs."
The guy on the passenger's side responded with a, "You are in way over you head here."
That caused Jack to whack the driver's door with the bar.
I rubbed my neck, the pain was subsiding but it still hurt. I heard Sara start talking to Seth.
"Are you sure your--"
"Sara I'm fine. We just have to find it before it's too late." Seth replied just over a whisper.
I was staring out through the front window when Jack started walking back to the taxi.
"What about you? Taylor, was it?" Sara asked. I turned around in my seat to find both Sara and Seth staring at me. Sara's eyes concerned and caring, while Seth was glaring.
I looked back to Sara and nodded. "Yeah, I'll be okay, and yes my name is Taylor." From the corner of my eye I saw Seth do that cute head thing again. Sara smiled.
"I hope we become good friends." Seth looked at his sister like she was crazy.
"That'd be cool." I smiled back. Sara looked at Seth and mouthed 'say something'.
Seth looked at her for a second more then said, "Yeah, cool." Sounding unenthusiastic in our conversation.
Just then, Jack came back into the taxi. We drove off down the road in complete silence. Jack broke the silence after a few minutes.
"How are you two holding up back there?"
"We're fine." Sara replied.
"I'm sorry I dragged you three into all this." Jack said looking at me. The passengers in the back didn't need to know that it had a double meaning to me, at least not yet.
"There's no need for you to apologize Jack Bruno." Sara paused. "You're not always the one to blame." What does she mean? It fell silent for a couple of seconds.
"But the urgency of our trip has not decreased." Seth but-in.
"Look don't worry, I'll get you to where you need to go." Jack responded.
I looked back at our passengers. "You've earned it." I finished for Jack.
We drove in silence for a while, and I was growing restless. I wasn't one that could handle silence for too long, especially when I had the opportunity to talk. I figured it was time to talk to the passengers; Jack needed to concentrate on the road. I didn't care that Jack doesn't approve of me talking to passengers, I was dying of boredom, he was going to have to deal with it. Before I could say anything Sara started talking.
"So, Taylor."
"Yes?" I turned around in my seat so my back was against the door.
"How old are you?"
I looked at Jack, he was making a face but he wasn't telling me not to tell Sara so I responded. "15. What about you?"
"I'm 15 also, my brother is 16."
"Cool. So can you drive yet?" I turned my attention to Seth who was still glaring at me.
"What?" Seth replied.
"I asked you if you can drive yet. You know, like a car."
"Oh, um, yes. I have operated an automobile prior to this moment." He responded, looking at his sister almost timidly.
"Um, alright..?" I turned my attention back to Sara. He was staring right at me, well glaring why didn't he know what I was talking about? Wasn't he paying attention?
"So how are you doing?" I asked Sara.
"I'm good. And you?"
"Good, I'm doing fine."
Seth looked out his window seeming somewhat abstracted and Sara beamed brightly at me. I gave her a small smile back and turned back so I was facing front. It was getting little awkward, I ended up diverting my eyes out my window.
After another several minutes of silence Sara's voice filled the air.
"We're here Jack Bruno." Haha I love how she calls Jack by his first and last name while she only calls me by my first. Haha. Yes,I know I'm such a child.
"Here?" Jack questioned, sounding kind of baffled. "There's nothing here."
I poked his shoulder then pointed to an old, run down log cabin. Jack parked in front it and said, "Someone's expecting you two right? It doesn't look like anyone's home."
"Don't worry Jack Bruno; we'll soon be reunited with relatives." Sara answered. Jack sighed and changed the subject.
"Okay, $720.50, but after everything that went down today, how about I knock off 25% and I also--"
"Here." Seth cut him off by shoving the money in Jack's hand then following his sister out of the cab and towards the house.
"Okay then."
"Goodbye!" I yelled as they got to the front porch.
"Goodbye!" Sara repeated, followed with a quick wave from her brother, and then they took off into the house.
"Goodbye to you too." Jack said, knowing they couldn't hear him. Nope, never did have good timing.
"They seem nice." I said with a small smile.
"Yeah." Jack said flipping through the money Seth handed him but looking at the house suspiciously while doing so.
I looked down at the money Jack was flipping, -but still not looking at- and questioned, "500% tip?"
Jack looked down at the money in his hand, flipped it again to see if I was correct, then he said, "Reasonable."
"Jack!" I hit his arm.
"Alright! Fine! I wasn't planning on taking it anyway." Jack said then got out of the car.
"You know, sometimes your more like a child than an adult."
"You too!"
"I'm only 15!" I laughed which caused Jack to laugh as well.
"Hey! You over paid!" Jack yelled. "By a lot!"
When nobody answered, Jack closed his door took a step towards the house, but the side of the cab caught his eye.
"Unbelievable."
"How bad is it?" I asked.
"It's---" Jack was cut off by the sound of shattering glass.
Jack walked around the cab and put the money in his pocket.
"Everything okay in there?" Jack asked.
No response.
I undid my seatbelt, opened my door and got out of the cab as Jack approached the house.
"Stay in the cab!" Jack yelled once he heard the cab door close.
"Not a chance!" I said back.