Chapter 28 - Chapter 27

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((( ZHIO )))

I was starting the engine when she came by the window.

"Hey, I'm going with you. But take me home after. Whole," she said.

Whole? Did she really thought I'd be doing something sinister? I opened one door to let her in.

"What made you change your mind?" I smirked.  

"Are you happy now?" she recoiled.  

I noticed she was so tensed when I leaned closer to her seat. Did she really think I'm going to…?  

I extended my arm and reached for her seatbelt to buckle it up. She sighed in relief and although wordless, I could totally read her mind.  

Very well, let me do something sinister. I drove off at full speed and it took her screaming on the top of her lungs.

"Slow down! Are we car racing or what? Do you want to kill yourself?"

"Why not?"

I drove a little faster and watched satisfied as her eyes widened in dread.

"I said 'slow down'!"  

This was a traffic-free highway and driving here at such speed could do no harm unless one is drunk or inexperienced. I was neither.

"Zhion!"

I still wasn't used to that made up name but I didn't show. I continued on ignoring her pleas and drove consistently fast.  

"Don't say I didn't warn you. I might puke inside your car," she hollered as she placed one hand over her mouth.

That made me instantly hit the brakes. The car swerved out of control before it went to a stop and luckily the tires were caught in a small muddy pit or else we'd hit the electric post by the sideway.

We almost flew out if it weren't for the seatbelts. If I had been that careless to forget, both of us would either be dead or badly injured.  

I glanced at her who turned to a tinge of purplish red in an awful mixture of fear, breathlessness, and nausea. Eriez's lecture came to mind and I remembered high amount of gravitational forces from increased acceleration or sudden deceleration could cause some serious fluid imbalances and cerebral asphyxiation that in consequence would lead to fainting or worse, heart attack and death.  

And she wasn't used to this type of reckless driving.  

"Are you okay?" I asked in panic.

"Hey…" she slurred as she was about to retch.

I turned my head away when the gooey liquid filled the car floor in front of her. I, too, felt like puking at the fetor of her vomit.

"You aren't even pregnant!" I mindlessly remarked as I went out the car.

"Hey mister I told you to 'slow down' and you didn't listen!" she glanced at me in annoyance and wiped off the stains of it from her dress.  

"Go clean the car," I ordered.

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