WARREN’S POV Breathing heavily while trying to control the unnerving feeling inside my chest, I stared at my car parked on one corner of the racetrack as I desperately wiped the beads of sweat trickling down my forehead. I’ve never been this nervous before. This wasn’t exactly the first time that I raced but why do I feel like my chest’s caving in? I could almost hear my heartbeat despite the noise from the people at the back and I was more overwhelmed than excited now that I’m standing out here again. “Hey, are you okay?” my cousin, DK, asked me with a huge smile plastered on his face, greeting me with that usual lopsided grin. I just nodded and smiled back. “I’m probably just a bit cold, is all,” I lied and watched with dismay as he just went with that obviously lame excuse and did

