Banging Gears (Book 1)

Chapter 4: Banging Doors (Part 3)

Baby, I'm not always there when you call

But I'm always on time

I sing Ja Rules lyrics out loud while looking at the time, winning the bet I made with myself about being on time.

Something that rarely happens,

But still.

Looking at Gen's front door, I catch a glimpse of someone sneaking out her bedroom window that's on the ground floor with her window facing her back garden.

I look around at the my passenger to see if anyone else noticed, when I see that no one has any idea, I decide on keeping it for myself for now.

I'll have to investigate soon

Since my baby is a 2 door, Nat gets out the passenger seat and pulls it down, getting in the back with Isaac and leaving the seat upfront for Gen.

Gen, the oblivious b***h that she is, opens the door more causing the end of it to slightly scrape the surface of the sidewalk, making me curse whichever f*****g God stole her ability to comprehend simple orders.

"Are you serious? " I ask annoyed, trying not to let it get to me.

Gen apparently lost the ability to hear too, cause next thing I know she gets in and slams the door hard enough to make the whole car shake.

"I'll f**k you up right now if you don't get your s**t together" I warn her and suddenly she can hear again and starts apologising.

This did not start well.

Parking right outside the entrance of the lake, we are surrounded by cars, people, booze and loud music, making me shiver with anticipation for the upcoming events of the night.

Gen walks directly to the booze with Isaac hot on her trail, while me and Nat slowly follow behind them.

"So my uncle came over for dinner with me and mum today, told me something about a new guy at work?" Nat starts the conversation.

"New guy? I don't know anything bout that." I say. Mr. C would've told me if he was bringing in another guy. We only have four lifts and Kyle, Dante and himself have the other three. That leaves the last one to me.

He wouldn't let me go like that,

Would he?

" Yeah, Kyle said that he's the bosses son or nephew or something, he said that he planned on having him work there by Monday" Nat further explained.

"Oh" oh.

"Oh?"

"Yeah, I know now. His name was Aaston or Aaron, something like that" I said. So Monday would be a fun day.

"You look like you hate the guy already Kass, why's that?" Nat asks, lightly laughing.

"That's cause I do, he's a d**k, makes sexist comments and has no idea how to work on a car" I explained and she frowned.

"Damn, uncle Kyle said something along those lines too. Something about how he heard your boss giving him a lecture about respecting you" Nat said, her hand going through her purse to dig her pack of cigarettes.

"I didn't know that, either way I don't like him so I don't care. I'm only working there part time so I won't even see him that much" I exclaim, slightly annoyed about that incident.

Reaching the bar and taking each a cup, Nat smells mine to assure herself that it's only redbull and we make our way up the small hill to reach my car.

There was an unusually large number of cars there, probably trying to get a taste of the life of a Heavens Angel.

Exciting!

Not.

As we turn up the hill and reach my car, you can hear whispers coming from all over.

"Is that Kassidy?"

"Why is she here?"

"We haven't seen her since her last win."

"I bet she lost from someone and didn't want to embarrass herself."

"Can't believe that's the Heaven's Angel everyone was talking about."

"She's a chick, where's the racer?"

This, this is why I stopped coming.

Sitting on the hood of my car, I notice Nat and Isaac having a heating conversation, Nat looking quite pissed from the way she's talking and folding her hands often, a tic she took on after her father's accident.

If you see Nat trying to summon a demon with her palms, you go the other way.

And that's a rule.

Deciding to avert my eyes from them, I turn my attention to a certain black BMW parked right across from me.

The drivers door opens and out gets a certain bulky body I've come to recognise from afar.

Who knew I was so observing?

Dante stands there leaning on his car, looking around until his eyes spot mine and I smirk.

Yes, yes I did.

And now I'm reconsidering my decisions.

I stand my ground tho, as I see him excuse himself from his group of overly touchy friends - not that I really care - and walks over to me.

Don't be stupid -

Don't be stupid -

Don't be stupid -

"Howdy stranger"

Oh my god.

Why-wait that wasn't me?

"I'm Gen" Gen introduces herself to a perplexed Dante that didn't even see where Gen sprouted from.

Neither did I buddy.

"Dante, nice to meet you" He says and gives her hand a quick shake.

"So to what do we owe the pleasure today?" she asks and I instantly face palm, making Dante laugh.

"I'm here for Kassidy actually, we work together" Dante explains, entertaining Gens curiosity.

"Oh, Do you also work with her in-"

"Gen, please go away" I cut her off, standing if front of Dante in an attempt to cut off any communication.

On God, I bet my life that she was going to ask if he works with me in other fields.

And it wouldn't be the first time she asked that.

Gen hufs, smacks my ass making it jiggle right in front of Dante and skips away.

And I'm the child.

"I saw that ass jiggle"

"I bet you did"

"So you wanted me to see?"

"Everyone sees it"

"You jiggle your ass in front of everyone?"

"My ass is naturally jiggly, I eat a lot"

"It has a nice jiggle to it"

"Why are we talking about my ass?" I ask him, a bit embarrassed.

My butt do be jiggly tho

Nevermimd.

"So are you free tonight?" Dante asks, changing the subject.

"As you can see, I'm hanging out with friends" I say.

"I don't see any of your friends now" he counters, taking a step closer.

1

"They're... Around" I say, actually trying to locate them with no success.

"I thought you weren't free on Sundays" Dante wonders , raising a brow.

2

"I never said that" I say, crossing my arms to keep some of the distance between us.

"So if I were to ask you earlier today about coming here with me, you'd say yes?" He asks, abandoning the steps and instead rests his toned arm on top of my car.

"No" I answer curtly

"Why not?" He seems a bit taken aback by my response, though he quickly masks it with a smirk.

"Cause we work together Dante, I don't mix work and fun" I try to shortly explain.

"So I'm fun?" Dante asks, his smirk only seeming to get bigger.

I wonder what else of him I can make bigger...

NO! BAD ME.

"You can be whatever you want to be bud"

"Let us make a bet"

At the sound of a bet, my ears involuntarily perked up.

"What kind of bet?" I ask.

"I'll race you tonight, and if I win, You'll go out with me. No funny business, just hanging" He suggests.

"And if I win?" I ask, intrigued.

"I'll do whatever you me to do for a whole day, on my next day off" Dante says and I start to think about it.

I can only think of the wrong stuff when it comes to things I can make him do.

Should I accept? I'm pretty confused.

I know his car well, but he also knows mine.

"Whatever I tell you to, for the whole day?" I ask, making sure.

"Whatever you ask me to do, you'll have an assistant by your side for the whole day" He assures me.

"Deal"

"See you in an hour right here Kass" And with one last wink, Dante leaves and gets back to his now curious crew, all looking back at me.

While I keep on staring at them, I hear 2 doors slamming almost simultaneously.

Looking back at my car that I've seen to have moved away from without noticing, I see my friends all looking at me with huge smiles on their faces.

But I don't acknowledge their excitement.

Cause once again-

"WHO THE f**k DO I HAVE TO f*****g PUNCH FOR YOU TO NOT BANG MY f*****g DOORS" I yell at them as I storm over.

Nat and Isaac mumble a quick apology and scurry off behind my car, while Gen, in all her stupidity, opens the passenger door to quickly snatch her purse and run, banging the door in the process, making me curse every single entity I might know of.

Everyone hurries to get out of my way as I storm to my so called friends, while the try to repeatedly apologise and hide Gen behind their backs in hopes I don't kick the living s**t out of her.

Reaching to grab Gen arm from behind Isaac, I hear my door slam once again but not as hard as before.

Turning around I see Dante there, with a huge stupid smile on his face.

"Well made doors, and here I was thinking old japanese cars are trash" He said slowly backing away but not before slightly slapping the roof.

"That's it! I'm not waiting an hour, you're getting f****d now!" I yell at him as I ran to my drivers side.

Don't bang my f*****g doors.