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Interstate 50, 11:06 pm.

With Deangelo....

"So you want to race huh?" I said looking in the side mirror, "Well I'm not going to deny your request."

I turn my hazard lights on to give the racer a reply after that I put the car in third gear and accelerated down the freeway, the red RSX was right behind me.

The RSX tried to pass me from the inside but I accelerated even more, "Don't underestimate me!!" I said putting the Charger in fourth gear.

We were speeding down the freeway at a mind blowing 195mph and above the RSX was trying to pass me but I was doing real good at blocking, I put the car into fifth gear as we sped through the downtown area.

I started to slow down when I saw the sharp hairpin turn coming up ahead this was the RSX's chance to make a move and pass me, I yanked on the handbrake a turn the steering wheel all the way to the right as I drifted around the difficult turn.

Within a few minutes the RSX made its move and went by me from the inside taking the lead, I was in shock but at the same time I wasn't really surprised.

My 69' Charger was really customized for drag racing and not drifting I knew eventually I was going to get overtaken especially on that hairpin turn, as we continued speeding down the road I saw flames coming out of the tailpipes of the RSX as the driver unleashed the nitrous oxide.

"Shit I need to catch up!!" I said pressing down on the accelerator; the RSX was way out in front speeding down the freeway at god knows how fast.

Just when I was about to press the nitrous oxide button suddenly I heard a loud grinding noise coming from underneath the hood of my car, suddenly there was a small explosion and smoke was billowing out of the car, I was starting to lose speed and the smoke was blinding me.

I ended up spinning out and crashed into a ditch luckily I wasn't hurt or anything unfortunately my car was a different story, I took off my seatbelt and got out of the car to check on the damage.

The front grill was damaged and the hood was bent in pretty good, I just shook my head and sighed in frustration, "I better call Uncle Mike and tell him to bring a tow truck." I said taking out my cell phone.

One week later...

Monday January 5th, 2009

Deangelo's apartment, 7:00 am.

"Good morning Birmingham, Alabama the sun will be shining today and it won't be as cold like it's been the last past few days, today's high will be in the sixties with clear blue skies. For tomorrow it will be another bright and sunny day but it will be a little cool during the morning hours, right now lets get the morning started off with Ice Cube 'Today was a good day' here on 95.7 Jamz."

I hit the snooze button as I sluggishly got out of the bed to get ready for school, I let out a small groan I really didn't want to get ready for school I wanted to stay at the house and chill out.

I had to get ready so I can take my sister to her school; I think it was a wise idea for Kurumu's mom to transfer her to a private school.

I'm very glad because when Kurumu was up at Carver I had to watch my sister like a hawk and beat up any dude that dared laid eyes on her, because of that it almost cost me my chances of graduating high school, I almost ended up getting thrown in jail for beating up a teacher that tried to make a move on my sister as well.

Kurumu's apartment, Downtown district. 7:25 am.

"Kurumu come on!" I said pounding on the door, "You're gonna make the both of us late, how long does it take to fix on hair!?"

"Will you wait Deangelo, I'm almost done!" she replied back.

After a few minutes Kurumu opened the door and came out, she was wearing the private schools uniform which was a long-sleeve white blouse with a red bow tie, yellow pleated checkered skirt, and some soild white Chuck Taylor shoes.

She had red lipstick on as well looking all dolled up like she was going out to a club or something, "So how do I look?" she asked me.

"You look great," I said, I took a glance at the skirt, "Does that skirt got to be that short though?"

"Deangelo, relax okay?" she replied.

I couldn't relax though I could already tell that she was going to make trouble already, I wish I could get transferred as well but since it's my last year in high school I decided to stay at Carver.

As we got into the car and headed off to the southside Kurumu was telling me about a dude that she met during the christmas holidays, "Oh here we go," I said rolling my eyes, "So who is this loser that you met?"

"Don't say that Deangelo, this guy is very brave, very honest, and very smart. This time I think I have found my destined one." She said sighing blissfully.

"Well before I leave I think I'll take a look at the guy myself, I'm sure you wouldn't mind."

"Deangelo please don't embarrass me, I beg of you."

Miles Private Academy, South side of Birmingham. 7:40 am.

"Wow I've never really been on this side of Birmingham before." I said driving into the parking lot of the private school, the neighborhood was very sophisticated.

The school was avery big school it was twice as big than Carver High School, there was a lot of students standing out in front of the main entrance their uniforms were different from those who go to a public school, as we got out of the car some of the students that were in the parking lot were whispering about both me and my sister.

As we were about to walk into the build a group of boys stared at Kurumu talking about her beauty, whispering thing to each other about me and the car that I was driving (Which was a 2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom).

"Hey baby, over here sweetheart!!" one of the boys said as he gave a whistle.

I was about to say something but Kurumu managed to grab me by my wrist and drag me into the building before I could cause a scene, "You better be lucky you caught me Kurumu, I was about to raise all kinds of hell." I muttered.

"Yeah I know." She replied.

Down the hallway there was a sign above the door that had the words "Newspaper Club," it was pretty much a club that printed out newspapers talking about recent activintes going on around in the school, it sounded pretty boring if you ask me.

Suddenly I saw a short brown haired student walking out of the classroom, he was wearing the usual school uniform.

"Somehow I think I know this kid." I said in my mind.

"Heeeeey Tsukune!!" Kurumu cheerfully said as she ran up and huged him, his hands flailing around as his face was buried between Kurumu's breast.

Luckily she managed to let go of him once I said she was about to kill him, Tsukune fell to the floor trying to catch his breath once he did he looked at me with both shock and surprise written on his face, "It's been a while Tsukune," I said smiling as I got him up and shook his hand, "Last time we saw each other we were little kids."

Tsukune and I have known each other since we were in the third grade, he was always very quiet and very polite which made him extremely popular with the girls. There was a huge burden that was lifted off of my shoulders once I found out that Kurumu's "Destined One" is Tsukune, well hopefully Kurumu will settle down.

"It's good to see you again Deangelo, looks like you've been hitting the weights I see," Tsukune replied, "You were a pretty chubby kid back in the day."

"We should talk about our childhood memories later," I said looking at my watch, "But before I go, can you do one huge favor for me?"

"What's that?"

"Can you look after my sister for me, make sure she doesn't get into too much trouble?" I looked at my sister who was scratching the back of her head laughing nervously.

"Uhh, yeah I think I can do that." Tsukune replied.

After that we parted our ways I could here my sister saying goodbye to me as I walked back outside to the parking lot, as I headed towards my car I looked and saw a familiar vehicle that was parked a few inches from my car.

"It's the red Acura RSX from last week," I muttered, "The driver must go to this school, I wish I had enough time to find out who drives this dream machine."

Carver High School, North side of Birmingham. 8:00 am.

I manage to make it in time for breakfast I could see Sai Saici and a few members of the Unbeatable Street Racers sitting at a table carrying on a conversation, last weekend was extremly busy at Patten park from what I've been hearing there was a Midnight Club Tournament coming up this week, Sai Saici (Who is the Unbeatable Street Racers lieutenant) has really been anticipating on racing against the American Royalty car club.

"Hey bro, you kick some serious ass last night!!" Sai Saici said as I sat down with my breakfast, "That race on the freeway is extremely fun, but sadly it's not as straight like the freeway in Tokyo."

"You talking about the Wangan right?" I replied, "I heard that it's the longest and straightest roadway in Tokyo, a friend of mine on Myspace sent me a few videos."

"Deangelo you need to come to Tokyo with us next time, I think you'll absolutely love racing on the Wangan." My brother said.

Truth be told I'm not a person that's into freeway racing I'm more of a drag racing, touge and sprint person, anything can happen when you're on the freeway plus the police has been beefing up the highway partols these past few months, the last thing I want is to get thrown in jail and my car get thrown into the crusher.

"So Sai Saici, is ya'll leader going to be participating in the tournament?" I asked, "Or do you guys even have a leader?"

"Yeah we got a leader," my brother answered, "It's just that she's at another school, and plus shes been busy dealing with her car."

"Well all I can say is good luck, ya'll gonna need it."

I took a glance to see which classes I had this final semester, I had Algebra 2 in first period (Goddammit I hate math!!!), Intro to draft arts in second period, PE in third period, and finally English 12.

"Great I'm in that crazy lady's class in forth block." I groaned.

"You got her too!?" Sai Saici said looking at the scheduel, "Damn looks like were in the same class, well lucky us."

Lunch time….

With Deangelo and Sai Saici.

After third block I was completely tired already the teachers gave us homework to do, and on our first day of all things I tell you it was almost unfair.

I was doing most of my homework at the lunch table while my brother went and got my plate for me, I got to go to work later on after school and the last thing I really need is a shit load of homework hindering me from fixing cars.

Where the lunch room was located and positioned everyone could look outside the window and see the cars speeding down the freeway, "Woah am I seeing shit?" I said as I noticed a huge group of Toyota Supras (Mark IV 1993-2002) speeding on the freeway, each vehicle was customized a certain way some of them were heavily modified while others looked stock but I bet under the hood they were maxed out in performance.

"Wow…….I wonder where they came from?" I said to myself, "I hope they're going to 205 Customs."

After School…….

205 Customs, 4:01 pm.

With Deangelo….

"What the hell is going on out here?" I said getting out of my car, there were people and employees of 205 Customs standing outside yelling, complaining and cursing as a man was climbing up a ladder posting a sign up.

"Uncle Mike what's up, what's going on?!" I asked him.

"I hate to break the bad news to you," Mike said shaking his head and sighing, "205 Customs is closing down bro."

"Closing down, you mean closing down for good!?" I asked him, "But I don't get it we were doing okay the last few weeks, what happened!?"

"Same thing that's always been happening, not enough money is coming our way and we havent had a lot of good customers coming this way since they build that new mod shop in the south side, we just can't keep this place open any longer."

I couldn't believe this I was out of a job yet again, and to make matters worse 205 Customs was the only closest place I could go to get my cars customized with some of the latest and newest parts.

Norwood, Deangelo's mother's house. 4:19 pm.

With Deangelo…

My dad was just about to leave until I pulled up into the driveway and got out of the car, I was pretty upset and deep down inside there was a side of me saying that dad had something to do with 205 Customs closing down, that this was a way to get me into the Midnight Club.

But in truth I know my dad wouldn't do something like that, it was his suggestion he said that I would have a lot of fun in the Midnight Club, that I would make a lot of money and also win vehicles that only the celebrities could get their hands on.

I walked up to dad and sighed, "Hey dude, I heard about 205 Customs closing down." My dad said lowering the driver side window of his 08' Mustang.

I didn't say anything at first that's when I sighed and up and came out with it, "Dad listen, I was wondering if….."

"Wondering if you what?"

"I was wondering if I could become a member of the Midnight Club."

Next chapter coming up.