Faster than a Heartbeat

*wind blows It's 4am in the morning and I was already out and about. I just really wanted to see the sunrise for today. With my windows down and some chill tunes, everything was perfect. To my dismay, I heard loud engines and 3 sports cars passed me. I was on the outer lane so I was basically just cruising and I was already singing my favorite song when another engine beamed past me and as the car made the turn I looked over my side mirror and saw that the car was too close so I tried to maneuver my way out of the mess I thought would happen but it was too late. My side mirror got swept away and the driver did not even bother to stop. "What the!!?? No, no, no, not today." I said to myself while trying to conoose myself. I quickly stepped on the gas and I zoomed through the road trying to catch that jerk who did not even bother to stop. It's impossible for the car that hit me to go unscathed. I was already at 160kph and I was tailing the car while honking and guess what? the car zoomed faster. " So that's how you want to play huh!?" I was so pissed that I really had to do this but I need an assurance first. My father will scold me if I don't have a valid reason as to why the side mirror was gone by the time I go home. Good thing I know the road better than anyone else, this city is my backyard and I know a faster way to cut that driver off. So I stepped on it and went the other way. Jerk of a driver's POV "Shoot!" I did not know someone would be on the road this early, I thought to myself. 'Should I stop? But I'll lose if I stop I've got to catch up to the guys or else I really have to treat them.' I looked over my side mirror and saw that the car I just hit was following me. I was already at 160kph and the car was still following me without fail. "Come on! Is the driver a street racer as well?" I was actually worried. I dialed my other friend's number and told them of the situation. They told me to just shake the car off and said to them that I have been trying to but I guess the driver is a racer as well. "Oh crap!" I shouted and stepped on the brakes and pulled the emergency brakes. "Hey, what's happening?" My friend asked me through the phone. "I got caught." Man I'm in trouble. "Where are you bro?" "I'm at the corner of Asros street" I said and was shocked when the driver of the car went down. "We'll be there. Wait for us and at all cost never get out of your car! Heck, that dude might kill you" one of my friends had the time to kid around but I was in a state of complete trance. " It's not a dude." "What do you mean? Of course it's a dude! Who will be out around this hour and to top it off, that 'it's not a dude' was able to catch up to you? " my friends continued to tease me. "Just don't go down the car no matter what,we're almost there." "DUDE IT IS NOT A DUDE, IT'S A GIRL!" I shouted to them. OC's POV I got to the point of intersection where that jerk would pass through. I blocked my car at the middle of the road and heard an incoming engine. "Got ya!" I snickered The car stopped about 2 meters away from me. The tires screeched, as the driver stepped on the brakes and it seems like he also pulled the emergency brake. "Hmm.." I looked at the car and thought that the driver must have a lot of guts pulling on the emergency break at a speed of 150kph. "Let's see how we should settle this." I opened my door and got out of my car. Jerk's POV "HAHAHAHAHA!!! Bro are you sure you're okay? Your eyes must be damaged. Nobody goes out during this time, specially a girl! Hahahaha!!!" the guy on the other line laughed out. "Give us 2 minutes. We're almost there." a calm toned guy replied. "Jeez, why did you not even see that there was a car at that curve!? I even spotted it from a mile away." The guy said while scratching his head. "Just wait till you see what I'm seeing. I'm telling you the driver's a frigging GIRL!!" I irritably told them and cut the call short as they continued pestering me. "s**t! How did she even get here?" I looked around and saw a dimly lit road. "Tsk.There was a road there?" I saw the car door open. It was indeed a girl. She was wearing jeans and a casual tee. Her hair was long and wavy. She can absolutely take a guy's breath away. 'Should I go down? She's just a girl right? Why should I be afraid?' I thought to myself. Needless to say, my hand can't seem to open my car door. It's like my body seems to be telling me to wait for the other guys to come first. I suddenly remembered what my friend told me. What if this girl was not alone? There might be someone else in the car. I gulped and held onto the steering wheel tightly wishing that they arrive sooner. 'Knock,knock' I heard a knock on my window and got shocked. I was so deep in thought that I didn't even notice that she had already walked to my window. 'Should I open it? s**t, this is killing me. She might have a gun.' I suddenly heard car engines and realized that my friends were approaching from the other side. OC's POV I walked over to the other car and knocked on the driver's window. 'Why won't the driver open the window?' I thought to myself. "Tsk. Such a rude bastard." I whispered to myself. Then I heard loud engines and saw lights approaching from the other side. 'Three cars.. wait, those three cars were the ones that passed me a while ago. This driver could have called them.' Now this is trouble. I looked at the cars and three guys went out from each of their respective cars. "WHOA!!! The driver really was a GIRL!! Hahaha!!" The guy with a blonde hair blurted out while laughing. "This is crazy. To think that a girl is out this early." The guy that came out of a red matte car said. "..." the guy with jet black hair looked at me quite puzzled as he scanned my posture. I stepped away from the black car and slowly turned my back from the guys that just arrived. 'This is bad..' I can't help but think that this was a dangerous situation now. I was just planning to settle this with the driver and just get on with my drive. I hurriedly walked towards my car when I heard a car door closing along with an agonizing scream. "AHhh!!" Jerk's POV As soon as they arrived, I noticed that the girl took a step back away from my car and was walking back towards her car when she saw them. I quickly opened the door and was about to speak when.. "AHhh!!" I screamed as my brother elbowed my side. "What the hell did you do!?" He shouted " Where was your mind at? Huh!? You have placed another person at danger!" Great! Now I'm having a lecture. "I didn't think that there will be cars around this hour. I mean, we've been racing here for how many times now and not a single car has been using this road at this hour." I quickly replied. I glanced towards the car that was blocking my way and saw the girl had stopped in her tracks. Blonde guy POV "Hey, miss.. what are you doing here at this hour? I'm really curious as to how you've managed to overtake our little junior over there..hmmm" I walked over the girl and took a closer look at her face. "Are you alone? You must be. Seeing as to no one has still arrived here even when several minutes has passed. Are you hurt somewhere? Do you need to go to the hospital? Ah! Your side mirror is ruined!" Red Matte Car Dude's POV Seeing as the blonde guy approached the girl, she stopped in her tracks. "Hey Gary! Don't speak too much! The girl must be terrified of your constant bickering." I walked over to stop the blonde bloke from questioning the girl too much. I didn't get to see her face clearly from afar but seeing as to how this bloke's expression is, the girl must have piqued his interest. I examined the girl and she was calm considering the situation. ' I guess she's no ordinary girl.' I looked at her face and realized what she might have been thinking. "Hey, Gary!! I suggest you stop whatever it is you are doing!" I shouted at him and the next thing I heard was the sound of the girl's side mirror crashing to the ground. I pinched the space between my brows and sighed. *sighs* " To late..." Blonde guy's POV "Don't worry I'll fix this for you, baby." I reassured the girl. I heard Dean shouting at me but I didn't actually care. This girl is intently looking at the side mirror that made me want to fix it for her.. --- crash-- "Ahh.. I--I didn't mean for that to happen." I tried reasoning with her when she pushed me away to pick up the side mirror. Jerk's POV "Great! Now Gary had to make it worse. See that Ronnie? Gary just made it worse so why are you still lecturing me? You should be keeping that dude in check instead." Ronnie's POV "Gary! You --" "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?" I stopped as the girl shouted and was now grabbing Gary by his collar. This girl just gets interesting every second. I snickered. OC's POV This blonde guy is too noisy. I stopped when I heard a scream, my guess was that it came from the driver of that black car and now seeing that my side mirror was still broken, I had to do something about it. He kept pestering me with all these questions when he walked over to the side mirror and his friend warned him. - a crashing sound- I looked at the mirror which was now shattered at the floor and I can't help but feel terrified of my father's reaction when they see that the mirror is gone! I pushed the blonde away and tried to piece the mirror back together. When I realized that it was really broken, my blood boiled and I looked towards the blonde guy named Gary, was it? Grabbed his collar and shouted " WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?" Jerk's POV This girl sure has guts alright. She's now grabbing Gary by his collar while Ronnie and Dean were trying to make her calm down. I walked over and tried to calm her down as well. "Miss, we're truly sorry for breaking your side mirror. We'll have it fixed and compensate you. I was careless to have not seen you driving-" The girl let Gary go and proceeded to walk over to me. I took a step back and she held my hand. "Really?? Thank you very much! Can you have it fixed by tonight? It has to be fixed tonight." I got shocked. For a minute there I thought she was going to punch me. "Ahem, miss you should really work on your cute side. You're making me fall for you." Gary called out to the girl. Dean and Ronnie smacked Gary's head from behind and the girl glared at him. I realized she was still holding my hand so I coughed and she looked at me again anticipating an answer. "Miss, I'm sorry but I think repairs would take at least 2 days if I'm not mistaken." I looked at the girl and doom was written all over her face. OC's POV 'I'm screwed!!! There is no way Dad will let me use any of his cars again. Heck, when Jin gets a whiff about this as well I might as well be shipped out to study in a boarding school.' I thought to myself, oblivious to the snide remarks of that blonde dude. "Ahh so it takes that long for it to be fixed huh?" I let go of his hands and slowly went back to collect pieces of the side mirror. As I was collecting the pieces, a sharp part cut my finger and I saw a guy's hand reaching out to mine and he took out a handkerchief and wrapped it around my finger. Dean's POV 'Why does she need the car to be fixed tonight? I guess she doesn't own the car.' Judging by the cost of this car she's too young to be able to afford such an import. This should belong to either her sibling or father. I glanced over the dejected girl who was trying to collect the shards when she got cut. I quickly knelt over and grabbed her hand. I took out my handkerchief and wrapped it on her hand to stop it from bleeding. "You know you should just leave it. It's not nice for a pretty girl like you to be picking up dangerous stuffs." I told her as I was wrapping the cloth. I glanced at her face and the pain seemed evident as tears were now starting to cloud her eyes. "We'll get your car fixed and you should go to the hospital and get that cut checked out." Ronnie suggested "Harry, go and take her to the hospital. Gary and I will be attending to her car. I know a place that might get her car fixed in time." "Dean, make sure she gets not only her cut checked out but a full examination just to be sure that she doesn't have any other injuries." OC's POV Terrified of the consequences awaiting me I completely blocked out all of my surroundings. There was someone talking but I couldn't make out the words. 'I will be attending to her car. I know a place that might get her car fixed in time.' These were the words that pulled me out of my trance. I looked at the person who said it and he gave me a reassuring smile. I heard that they were to take me to the hospital to do a full examination and to get my cut checked out. "I'm fine, thank you. There is no need for a full examination. As for the cut I think that it's not that deep --." I looked at my hands and saw blood soaking up the cloth wrapped around it. 'I guess it is that deep.' "No. We need to get this cut checked." The guy named Dean grabbed my hand and gently escorted me to the back seat of the black car. "Harry, let's bring her to the hospital now." "No fair. Why should I stay with you Ron? I should be taking her to the hospital instead of cleaning up." The blonde whined. "You..! You need to park our cars somewhere and I'll drive her car to the repair shop. Since you were the one who dealt the finishing blow on her side mirror, you should take care of it. So as soon as you park our cars go to Barcken's." "Harry, just bring her to X Hospital. They'll know how to deal with the matter. I'll contact them beforehand." OC's POV ' huh? The X Hospital? Isn't Hospital Y closer? And what does he mean by they'll know how to deal with the matter?' That sentence gave me a reason to be worried. 'what matter' As we made our way to Hospital X, we drove in a VIP parking space and soon people wearing suits emerged and they opened the doors of the car and doctors came out to greet us. "Good morning sir Harry, sir Dean. We were informed by director Ron of the situation, please follow us." 'Wait, what? Director Ron? Ron, the brother of the guy who drove the black car?' I glanced over his direction and Dean caught a glimpse of me looking at Harry so I quickly turned my head and he smiled. "Don't worry Miss. We'll treat your hand with utmost care and it won't even scar." One of the doctors examined my hand and smiled at me reassuringly then he went out the room and I saw Harry talking on the phone. Maybe it's his brother? "No worries, your car will be in good hands. The person who'll be doing the repairs on the car are the ones who customized our cars so we trust them. " Dean looked over me as I was looking at the guy talking on the phone. "Umm.. who are you people?" I gathered up my courage and asked him. "Sorry for the late introduction. Things got a bit messy there. The person out there is Harry Lukes and you've met his brother, and also the owner of this hospital, Ron Lukes and the blonde guy is Gary Lindd and of course my name is Dean Trudeuer." OC's POV I'm not well versed in the industry but these family names I know all too well. The Lukes, were known for mining and their development of the very first eco-hospital which already exceeded the level of world-class hospitals in just 1 year. Lindd's were known for training the 6-time Champion Formula 1 Racer, for having their own world class sports rehabilitation centers and recreation centers. Lastly, the people you never want to mess with, the kings and queens of the underground business and owner of all the major casinos in America and Europe, the Trudeuer's. Why do I know their names? Let's just say that it's been drilled into my mind to at least meet one of them and foster a good relationship with them in order to make our family business expand. As I was in deep thought, "Miss? Mi-iss?? Are you okay?" Harry asked. I shrugged and said that I was fine. Harry then turned to a doctor and ordered him to do a full examination just to be sure. "There is no need for that Doctor. Thank you very much but I'm fine. I'll just settle for the treatment of my cut and I'll be on my way again." I had to get out of this situation before they ask me my name. "Sir Harry and Sir Dean, would you please kindly leave the room for a while? We need to start the treatment." As soon as they got out of the room, I didn't know if I'd be relieved or should I be worried. "Well then Miss, shall we start?" "Yes doctor." Little did I know that right after this incident I'd be tied to them, fate if you could call it.