The Street Racer

THE STREET RACER

Today is Chad's first day of college and he wants to become a mechanic. He also hopes to eventually become an owner of a shop. He has always enjoyed working on cars including his own. He likes the look of street racing cars and has always wanted to go see a race or be in one but has never had the chance. For the last few years he had been working hard and saving money and adding performance parts to his car. His mom has been very sick lately but nothing has been too serious so he isn't too worried but he still

thinks about her a lot. He is a very average student sometimes having problems when his mom gets sick but now that he's in college he wants to do well and succeed. Later in the year he gets a phone call.

"Hello."

"Good evening is this Chad?"

"Yes who is this?"

"This is Dr. Jones I am your mother's doctor."

"Is there something wrong?"

"I'm very sorry I have to tell you this but your mom is very sick and we are not sure if she's going to make much longer."

"Oh my god is there anything that I can do?"

"The only thing that you can do right now is to come visit her and try to make her fell better and distract her from some of the pain."

Chad stays silent he doesn't know what to say.

"Are you still there?"

"Yes I need to go."

"I am sorry sir good bye."

"Bye"

He doesn't know what to do he wants to good in school so bad and get a good job, but he needs to go see his mom.

The next day in school he dose nothing when he's in class he cannot

pay attention to anything the teacher is saying all he can think about is his mom.

"Yo Chad." Says his good friend Jeff.

"Chad."

"Chad!"

"Oh sorry didn't hear you what's up."

"What's wrong with you man you've been acting really strange today?"

"Nothing."

"Tell me I know something is wrong"

"No! I don't want to talk about this right now."

"Alright whatever I got to go to class ill talk to you later."

"Hey Chad I'm going to class now!"

"Sorry see you later."

The two of them walk away and Chad goes back to his dorm room to think about what he's going do. He decides no matter how important school is to him his mom is much more important. He drives for hours to get to the hospital hi mom is at. When he

gets there he runs to her room but when he gets there she's is sleeping so he just sits down and eventually falls asleep. He wakes up early so he waits for her to wake up.

"Good morning mom"

"Hey Chad thank you so much for coming to visit me but you should have stayed at school I don't need you here ill be fine on my own."

"They told me you might not make it I had to come back and be with you I couldn't even pay attention in class I was so worried about you."

"Well thank you for coming I already feel better now that I see you I have missed you a lot."

"I missed you too mom, do you want me to go get us something to eat so you don't have to eat this hospital food?"

"No that's ok you can just go and get yourself something and don't worry about me while your out."

"Okay, I'll see you in a little bit. Goodbye, I love you."

"I love you too."

Chad leaves to get some food and realizes that he does not have much money and really needs to get a job or something. He does not really want a full time job because then he would not be spending any time with his mom. While he is eating he over hears two guys talking about how much money they won last night. He started to listen closer.

"Man, I won like $3,000.00."

"Yeah, me too."

"My race was close man, but right at the end I pulled ahead."

"Are we going again tonight?"

"Yeah, meet me at the corner of first and Maryland."

"All right, I'll see you around 10:00."

"See ya."

He just sits there thinking. He has always wanted to do this, but he knows it is dangerous and he only has $200.00. He does not want to lose that and be completely broke. He drove back to the hospital, but he does not mention racing to hi mom who would disapprove. At about 8:00, he realizes that he needs to make a decision.

"Mom, how are you doing?"

"I'm fine."

"I think I'm going to get some dinner and find somewhere with a bed that I can sleep. You going to be okay for the night?"

"Yeah, don't worry about me. I'll see you in the morning. I love you."

"Goodnight, love ya too."

On his way there, he keeps seeing more and more cars that would be in a street race, so he knew he was going the right way. He got to the corner where they said they were meeting and there were about 10 cars. He parks a ways away waiting for them to leave for where the race was going to be. Ten