A/N: Hey guys, so it all comes down to this! tHE ULTIMATE BIKE RACE OF fern vs Bandon. Whose gonna win? i'm taking bets,,,haha no not really. I was really freaking while writing this chapter, the events from the race were hard to put into words but I think I did it. !442 so yah R*R an let me know what yall think, and the last chapter sohuld be coming soon.

BTW SHOUTOUTS to my great reviewers27milestogo AND FictioinWriter97. Thank u sooooooo much!

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Praying quietly to the only god i could imagine, I grabbed Tonys bike, I was not impressed. THis bike was like way old, like it must be a hand me down from his caveman ancestors or something because it was all rusted and squeaked alot even when i just looked at it and the seat almost fell off. Then i look at Bandon's bike.

I hated admitting i liked anything about the guy but Bandon had a way cooler bike, like it had flaming paint on it and his front tire was offroad so he could grip and the back tire was smooth so he could do sick land tricks. Also he had a box below the water bottle holder and it had a radio so he could listen to rock music too. All and all, it was good. So i needed to be better.

A crowd of people had showed up for the show down, and i was getting really nerves. Bandon revved the handlebars and turned to face me with a grusome smile on his face. I got closer and as soon as i was in reach, he took a small step with his feet and grabbed me by my neck skin and lifted me until i was flying.

I could barely breath but even then i could feel the wind blowing through my hair and i knew in that moment what i had to do that this was not just my destiny but fate itself, in fact it was a sign that my dad was right. I felt like a eagle high in the sky lookng down to earth, and i remembered my dads words clearly; "sometimes to do big things you gotta think big".

And just as suddenly, as i was feeling these thoughts, i felt a rush of memories. I have an eidiotic memory after all so i could recall very much the detailes of every scene with my hyper anatilitical mind. After all, you need something like that if you want to be as good a super sluthe as me and solve the cases no one else could, like the case of the golden cobra (not what it sounds like) or that escape room the dognappers put me in when I got captured. I solved the clues and escpaed the room before they had moved all the dogs and I was able to solve the crime. Biut that's all because of the forth-dimensional mind and way of thinking.

People always see me as a quiet nerd but what they dont know is that my mind is always racing, always vigilance, but now it was time for my body to race to on my bike. That's when I noticed Bandon was talking at my face when a glob of spit hit my cheek telling me the rules.

"You listening pipsqueef? Down the hill down Switzer road; through the market over the bridge, once around the park, back through the neighborhoods on Crestline and back here. No cheating? Kapeesh! First one ack gets Jess."

I wanted to nod and show that i would understand and play by the rules, but I couldn't move my head because he was still holding it. But then, from that direction, a chair suddenly flew and hit Bandon! When he turned to find out who did that I ran to the bike and jumped on. I guess the race is on now? Jess waved the flag and blew me a kiss as i drove by.

Wad that a kiss? Wow.

"HEY COME ON" said Banon and got on his bike, changing to the highest speed and pedalling after me. Unilke that bike, Tony's only had one speed, and it was slow. Too slow.

I used the hill by going down to get fast and pedaled as hard and fast my small feet would push me, but i could feel bandons hot breathe on my neck.

"I've got you in my sights GULLWING" said Bandon. He made me ride crazy like a wild barbarian, and as we rode down the hills and drifted around streets, Bandon rode in the other lane and a car had to swerve out of the way! The other guy shouted at us but I didn't hear. I ried to ride on the sidewalk but there were low hanging trees that would hit me so I had to stay in the street. Besides, since bikes can go up to and above 40 mph in my city, bikes have to stay off the sidewalks. Hopefully I had rite of way.

Bandon was petalling hard and we was right behind me, I think he was trying to draft me like I do in GTA. I looked back and then when I looked ahead there was a guy and his dog right in front of me!

At the last possible millisecond I jumped between the guy and the dog, clearing the leash like a hurdle or a hula hoop, but Bandon jump pushed the dog and guy down. If he was willing to put INNOCENT PEOPLE at risk then he really meant busness.

I gritted my jaw in anger and looked at what was coming up now. But then the road ended and I was on dirt and it was a realy bumpy ride. The seat almost fell off even harder. This was about to get hairy, LITERALLY. A bunch of hairy construction guys were in a construction zone, and there was a construction bulldozer picking up a pipe right in front of me!

"Ey! Watch where ya ridin! I'm walkin 'ere!" said one of the construction formen. I ducked under some 2 by 4s and also some 4 by 4s but didn't have time to get out of the way of the pipe: so i have to ride in.

The bulldozer was picking it up right when i hopped inside. Just then the other end started lifting up and I had to pedal hard to make it through before the wholw thing fell with me inside! I won it though and shot out the other end like a canon onto the building they were making. I was like 3 floors up and was scared out of my wites. I couldn't let it show though.

I could see bandon down below getting further and further behind because this route was faster, and i smiled with my mouth grinning.

Suddenly i wasnt grinning anymore and i looked up and found out why: THE BUILDING WAS ABOUT TO END! There was a thin sheet of plywood that i went right through (i looked back to see if I left a clean hole) and looked down, fearing the worst.

Unfortunatyely me looking down made me start to front flip, but even then those feelings of flying returned to me. I knew that i must defeat bandon, and I knew that i would be fine if i just beleived. I could hear the sounds of the market below, and i opened my eyes just im time to bounce on the cloth top over a fruitstand. People were shouting in surprise, but they were even more surprised when bandon blasted past me THROUGH the fruit stand and sent fruit everywhere and on everyone.

I landed with a pineapple in my hand, but i threw it away and focused on cathcing up with bandon. The market was panicked with people and they all had to dive everywhere with their groceries and others. A chinese man made strange noises..

Then e got out from the market and there was the bridge, I'd almost catched up but Bandon tries to hip check me off the bridge. I held on and had to grind the railing to keep up, which knocked some of the rust off Tony's bike. It was actually pretty sparkeley underneath: this could be a pretty good bike if TOny would just clean it. He should really take better care of his things.

Bandon was getting really far ahead, like he was disappearing into the night sky. Luckily I knew this area like the back of my head and I knew a shortcut I could use to put me in the lead. I rods up to a backyard fence and tried the gate but the gate was locked so i stepped on Tony's bike to climb over the fence. I ran across the yard and around the house and looked around for a new bike, luckily I saw Charlie Cohen's littel brother Steven and his bike. He was a 5th grader so he didn't put up much of a fight.

"Hey!" he said when i hopped on and began pedalling away.

"Uh" i said beacuase I didn't have tine to explain. I wasn't just doing this for me, I was doing this for him too. If I didn't win this, who knows who bandon could bully next? No kid on the block was safe from Bandon's evil wraith.

Just then, i heard Steven get thrown to the ground and the sound of bike tires behind me. Speak of the devil. "I'M COMING FOR YOU NEXT, KID" HE screamed at the kid.

I hated taking steven's bike but i have to admit that he took good care of it. It was fast and smooth. I pedalled really hard downhill and soon I couldnt hear Bandon anymore. I was alone. Maybe I was really far in the lead? It was nice. I have never noticed how nice the houses look in these parts.

I slowed to a stop and looked around. It was unusually quiet, actually. On the wall in front of me, there was suddenly my shadow along with the bright lights of a car's lights. I spun around and looked. It was bandon's mustang convertable, and it was headed right for me!

"OH SHOOSH" a man said from his lawn.

Bandon was leaning on his car door while racing up to me and swinging his baseball bat at me wildly at me. I rushed down the hill and down the street begging for mercy and life in my head but i didn't actually say anything allowed because no one could hear me.

"YOUR NOT SO SMART NOW, ARE YA, FERN? THE GULLS GONNA BE AS DEAD AS THE DODOS!" Bandon was done fuc*ing around now. It was just like that seen in the shining (the jack nickleson movie).

Bandon was smashing mailboxes, fences, and any streetlamps that where in his way to me. I could hear the bat whizzing past my hears and i could hear the roar of the engine around me and i knew that bandon was going to kill me. I wanted to call 911 or the cops but I didn;t have the phone with me, I left it at home in case dad needed to call Someone.

I sto[ped pedalling for a second since i was going downhill. I gripped my handles hard and looked for a chance for bandon to get away from me. Maybe there was a place i could ride where he could?

Suddenly, i heard a loud bang and i looked back. My problem has been solved! Bandon's front wheels and fender wrer caught in a HUGE pothole and now the engine was smoking.

"Our tax dollars at work.." I mustered under my breath.

Bandon was with his head in the airbag, but he quickly jumped out and grabbed his bike from the back seat again. I didn't have time to savior this. I had to move!

I picked up steven's bike back up and got going again. I had to win or Jessica would date bandon and not me. Since he was a senior he had bigger legs, so he caught up really quickly.

Then, he grabbed his ultimate weapon, a garden hose that was in the street. I he rode up to me and swung it a few times before he got right next to me. Then he tried to stick it in the tire of my bike. That made me so mad, because I thought he agreed to not cheat and he would honor and respect that promise. I knew he was bad, but now i new he was also a coward. But it loooked like he had turned his back on all rules and morels…

What is society eithout rules? We're just wild aminals searching for our reason. Dad always says life is too short to spend it on violence. Its everyone's job to put a stop to people like . But right before the hose got caught in my bike, it reached the end and Bandon got flung of! He and it and his bike rolled straight into the ditch he first threw my bike into, back on the first day of school. I rode away down the hill, looking back but not seeing anything. I did think one think though: "heh, karmatic justice…."

At the end of the hill, there was the finish line and everyone waiting for me. They except for nick and mike cheered that I won and when i got there I was lifted onto their shoulders and tossed up into the air in celebratory. I went so high that when I looked at the school again I saw Mr. Armenta in his office on the second floor, giving me a thumbs up. Once again, I was like an eagle looking down on the whole world. I felt massless and free.

They tossed me up and down a few more times but i started to get sick so they stopped. Everyone was patting me on the back and. Then finally I was standing there with Jessica

She look my hand and looked me in my eyes. Her eyes sparkled with colors and tears.I felt my face changing degrees and i wasn't sure what was happening, but then one of the guys patrick knew shouted from the crowd "KISS HIM!" and Jessica's face started to change too, first pinkish, then bright red, then dark red. She laughed and pulled me in, absorbing my face with her.

Light blossomed in my head, power flowing into my body like an eclectic current. My vision snapped into focus, just moments before I was knocked back by a massive surge of static eclectricity. Wow, I guess I'm not a virgin anymore.

We headed back inside the school and voted for prom king and queen, and I won.