LUCAS

chapter seven: poison ivy

Olivia's POV

Work was hectic Carlos ordered me to go home at seven pm he told me he would find a replacement for Cindy and that I should go home in all honesty I couldn’t be happier just two shifts in with two more to go, my feet were killing me luckily the diner closed at ten today so I took my time getting home.

The bus ride home was long, I find a stack of mail on my doorstep I pick them up unlocking the door closing it behind me "bills, bills, bills" I shuffle through my mail almost everything was long overdue bills, okay maybe my diner salary isn’t cutting it anymore I need money and fast, time to call Brian. I pick up my phone and dial his number he picks up after the third ring "hey it’s Brian" he says bored "hey B it’s me" I say and smile at the familiar voice.” hey girl where have you been we miss you, so are you coming tonight?" he ask happily "depends on if you have space for a rookie like me?" I ask hearing him chuckle "you and I both know you ain’t no rookie and we always have space for you" he answers.

"so are you coming?" he asks seriously "yeah see you later" I exclaim throwing the bills on the kitchen counter "great I’ll let the gang know" he says and I end the call smiling, I run upstairs peeling off my clothes hopping into the shower.

Stepping out of the shower I wrap a towel around my body and braid my hair puling on my ruby red lingerie and lace bra with a black tank top, a skinny jean with black combat boots and a leather jacket. Pulling on my red-maroonish wig hiding my braids and apply some makeup I grab my keys and hail a cab to the old shipping yard near the docks. The guard at the gate lets me in and I walk to the office to find Brian luckily I’m right on time 10 pm as always Brain bought this old shipping yard and now uses it for his business.

Brian is tall, Caucasian and a little muscular with dirty blond hair that has a brown like glow and blue eyes he use to be a cop, but he got mixed up in the race world and had his share of grand theft auto so he traded in his uniform for jeans , v-neck shirts and a life of racing the cars he loves. He is the best racer to ever race these streets but now he just rolls in money and cars his racing days are over ever since he had a child "hey girl" he says smiling "hey B how’s the family?” I sit down on my chair, he always had a chair just for me since he taught me to race. When I moved here I spent most of my afternoons between work and school here and when I was ready I came here every Friday and Sunday night "you know I love them to death you should come visit, my little girl misses you" he says while staring at the photo of them on his desk "I'll call and come visit sometime, now you have your baby B so where’s mine? Could you fix her up?" I say seriously "yeah relax she’s in the back" he exclaims standing up walking out of his office everyone gathered around as he shows me my car "she’s right here, we gave her a little TLC and a paint job and just because everyone here has a special place for you in our hearts we added some Cuban noss" he says running his hand over the hood of the car and the crew all nod in agreement my heart melts at the comment "I never knew you guys felt that way about me but all of you are like family to me" I say tears threatening to escape my eyes but I fight them back "alright, alright everyone back to work" B smiled at them and everyone went back to working on a car.

I kiss the hood of my car leaving a red lipstick kiss behind on my McLaren Senna "nice job B I love it, now I need a favour" l lean against the hood of my ride he looks at me urging me to go on “I need 20 grand and ill pay it back at the end of the night with interest" i ask, he nods "Smiles go to the back and grab me 20 grand" he tells one of the guys "thanks B" I say when Smiles comes back and hands me the money that is held together by a elastic band. I throw it on the passenger seat as I climb in my car and drive out of the garage making my way to the racing point.

It was dark but as I neared the point you could hear music playing, everywhere there where supercars and street racing cars with their hoods up to show what they have, some girls looked like skanks and others looked casual, there were people dancing and some watching a race. When I pulled up my car for the next race everyone went crazy surrounding my car I stop and climb out closing the door leaning on the hood as everyone asked where have I been? how many races have I won? most of them I couldn’t hear. One of the usual racers approaches me "okay everyone back up" Sam said and everyone backed off "sup girl, what do you have under that hood" he asks I smirk raising my eyebrow "maybe if you race me you’ll find out" I tease "nope, I already lost to you twice and I’m not planning on it again, but we cool" he says giving me a hug and went back to his car, after a while the crowd went back to dancing or working on cars and I hanged with the crew "so girly why did you stay away so long" Keke asks she’s one of my crew members she helps fix up my baby when needed, Keke is curvy in all the right places with black hair that fits her Asian tan but the girl can race she came close to winning me once.

"I had some stuff to take care of but I’m back now" I say and she smiles to be honest I don’t know why I have been staying away I love racing. Keke's concentration drew away from the conversation to someone behind me, I turn around and notice who she’s looking at, he was pushing through the crows to get to us "you like him don’t you" she blushes and I hear the familiar voice calling me I turn around "hey Zack" I greet him with a fist bump "hey I want you to meet my friends their just over there" he calls them to come to is "hey Zackie I want to introduce you to Keke" I push him towards her and she blushes but soon enough they start to talk "hi, excuse me um were huge fans would you mind signing our car" one of the boys asks who I assume is the guys Zack was talking about I smile and scanned the group of guys but only one made me almost choke on air "L..Lu.. Lucas?" I stutter his eyes moved to mine "yeah how do you know my name and who are you?" he asks suspiciously, f**k he doesn’t recognize me.

okay maybe this is a good thing I just need to play it cool, play it cool Olivia he doesn’t need to know... well not yet anyways.

"sorry its just Zack talks about you a lot and I’m very good friends with Olivia, I’m Ivy nice to meet you" I say his eyes spark up as I mention Olivia which is me but he clearly doesn’t know that "how do you know her exactly?" he asks, s**t what do I say "we use to dance together when we were in the same orphanage" I blurted out but as soon as I did I regretted it, how could I let that slip out so easily "I’m sorry that just slipped out its a touché subject.." before I could continue I got interrupted by Brian speaking through a microphone “ladies and gentlemen tonight we have our girls back the one, the only Poison Ivy" he announced and everyone cheered "and if you want to race the undefeated champion go make a deal with her, that is if you got the balls and watch out she’s poisonous" he sais pointing at me, five people approach me and want to race against me the crowd dies down listing to the deal "how about fifty grand each, if one of you win I pay each of you fifty grand and you get to leave with what got put on the table. if I win each of you pay me fifty grand, deal?" they all agree and say its a deal I nod towards B letting him know the deal is made. they moved to their cars I turn back to Lucas "looks like duty calls" I say and get in my car.

"racers I want a clean race" B says and we all start our engines, Keke stood in front between my car and one of the others "ready!" she looked at one of the drivers "litos !" (set) she looked at me moving her arms above her head "fuera!" (go) she yelled letting her arms fall and I step on the gas hearing the gears shift, two of the five are in front of me I was third I step on the gas going faster when its close to the corner I pull the handbrake up drifting the corners losing one of the cars on one of the corners taking second place.

When we reach the dead end I drift around the barrel but I still need to catch up, changing gears I step on the gas as much as I can until I’m next to the guy in first place I smile and wave at him whilst trying to keep my eyes on the road, the guys panics and goes for his noss speeding away from "too soon on the noss there buddy" we near the end and I flip the switch on my steering wheel injecting the noss and I speed past him taking first place, going past the other cars that are still trying to catch up and straight over the finish line I drift into the crow and stop "and Poison Ivy wins!" B yells and everyone rushes to my car I step out of my car everyone cheering me on and when the other cars came I grabbed a specialized spray paint can and my lipstick, "great race guys" I say pointing to the five I raced against "and you" I say pointing to the guy I passed on the end of the race that came in second "you are a great driver" I say smiling.

Applying my red lipstick before leaving a kiss on the hood of each of their cars writing 'poison ivy victim' spraying over it with the spray can making it impossible to remove my mark. the one girl tried to wipe it off but failed "nicee" she said leaning against the hood of her car.

I collect my money leaving me with 250 grand plus the 20 grand b gave me adds up to 270 "anyone else?" B asked as I threw all the money on the back seats closing my door and sat on the hood of my car everyone backed away at Brian’s request making me laugh. I stay a few more minute chatting to the racers I went up against.

"I’ve got to go, baye guys and girls" I say standing up from my hood opening my car door "mind if I join because Zack is kind of in a love daze with your friend" Lucas asks, I can’t just leave him here stranded he noticed hesitation "I just want to talk about Liv, please" maybe I could use this as a way to tell him some parts of my life seeing his reaction now would prepare me in some way I guess.

"get in" he does as told and I pull away from the race point and head for the storage unit "what do you want to know?" I ask my eyes locked on the road "why was she in a orphanage?" wow he couldn’t just start with the easy stuff he had to go straight to the hard stuff this is going to be tougher than I thought.

"her parents were shitty and horrible people the type of people that should never have children, if you want details your going to have to ask her. She only lived in the orphanage for a few years, after Alice died she was a wreck she got depressed and then when the orphanage's abusive behaviour got too much she ran away and not even a week later so did I, we kept in touch and that’s how she told me about you." I answer my throat dry because of the memories that flooded back "thanks" he says.

At the storage unit I grab a 100 grand "wanna look around and meet the crew while I take care of business?" I ask him. He climbs out and went straight for the cars that got imported last week Brian sent me a message when they arrived sending photos to ask if I wanted one but I declined. I lock my baby and walk to b's office "hey B here is your 20 grand plus interest as promised" I hand him 50 grand “that’s more than i expected keep some of the money I know you need it"

"no you deserve it its the least I could do, and here is another 50 grand its the last payment on my baby so I can keep her" I say throwing him the money "Liv you know you could keep her you never needed to pay for her" he says "you know me B so just take it please, ow and could you send me two more canisters of Cuban noss please" I beg getting up to leave after saying goodbye.

I walk to Smiles's spot where he’s working on a car "hey I need the keys to my other baby please" I pout, he smiles and walks away I notice Lucas close by "hey are you done yet?" I ask Lucas as he gawks at the cars "yeah thanks but um Zack and I have to go to work" I check the time on my phone "at 3 am?" I furrow my brows.

"yeah our boss has us pulling all nighters to scope out our rival business" he explains running a hand through his hair and shoving his hands in his pockets, I say my goodbyes to everyone as Smiles walks up to me holding out keys "one wine red Chevrolet Camaro for the lovely Liv" he says and I take the keys thanking him, I quickly move my money to the other car before sliding in the car and driving away. At home I hide my Chevrolet in the garage took out the money and locked the garage and went inside, inside the house I leave the money on the kitchen counter. Peeling off my clothes and take a shower slipping on one of Lucas’s shirts that’s in the bag he left here I bury my nose in his shirt taking in his scent, I pull on some panties and take 30 grand and pay all my bills taking another 30 grand and stashing it all over the house leaving me with 90 grand left, I hide it in the metal case I have in my closet under the floor boards. I climb into bed knowing I’m going to fall asleep tomorrow in class.

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