Last race before day comes

A long day was approaching after a long dark night, the lamps and lights in the houses, which provided the light here for days, were soon supposed to be turned off again for a longer period of time. However, it wasn't central. Lighting was also found here during the day, but it was much more less, well, except for the Underground.

I was glad my next race was still while it was dark around. I thought it just was just better... everything - the vibe, the effect... and the mood. In the light from our star... it just wasn't the same. Or I was just more used to darker surroundings when I didn't live in the sky part of the city. That was quite possible.

"Gonna win again?" Mali asked curiously. I raised my eyebrows in a question at her, while putting my arm around her shoulders:

"Should I plan to lose?"

Mali shook her head with a laugh: "No, it's just... don't you ever wanna give others a chance?"

I shook my head with a chuckle and then looked around. There were a lot of people here, like any other race night. Loud music and the smell of food, drinks and... the race. As always, colored lights reflected on our faces. Yeah, home.

"Where's your boyfriend?" I suddenly asked as I got the thought.

Mali looked at the people around and her eyes landed on one of the food stalls: "He went to get us something to eat."

I nodded in understanding. Arno evaporated, too, saying that he would be back in a moment, and left the two of us standing by the hovercar in which I was soon to participate in the race. So for now I had time to hang out somewhere around here, but I still ended up next to the hovercar I was leaning against at the moment.

"You're still alive?" Jasper asked with a grin on his face.

I raised the hand I had placed around Mali's shoulders and showed him my middle finger, to which the person, whom the quiet message was given, just chuckled and stuffed a mouthful of some food he had just brought into his mouth.

After a while, Arno and Elias also came back, while they were having some kind of conversation in which they seemed to be very busy. It was nice to see us all here together so nicely. When Arno had time, which didn't happen very often. Although he sometimes complained about the races, he still seemed satisfied.

Elias came up to us and I rolled my eyes to which removed my hand from Mali's shoulders while looking away. I didn't need to witness the sugaring of these two lovebirds. Or any others. I would get diabetes from it for sure.

I walked over to Arno and took a slice of some kind of fried thing from him. Maybe it was a potato or some other crisp. Whatever it was, caused Arno to give me an annoyed look to which I responded with a shrug as I shoved his food into my mouth.

"Rayne!"

I scoffed with a roll of my eyes, causing Arno to chuckle, to which I gave him a murderous glare before turning my gaze in Zayd's direction. I then raised my eyebrows at him.

"How do you feel? Before tonight's race?"

"Good?" I shrugged.

At that moment, the annoying nerd, who always commented on everything here, spoke up. With his awkward jokes, he got the attention of the people who were waiting for tonight's much-anticipated race to finally start.

Firstly the voice of that annoying person began to be heard from the speakers, and in that case I decided to go and prepare for the starting line. With a nod to the others, I got into my racing piece, in which I flew the small distance to the start. It was quite nice to see how people were somewhat willing to get out of the way of all the competitors.

Once again, I sat leaning back in my black seat on the starting line as I waited for the blonde girl in front to start the race after the race announcer was done talking. I had my hand on the gear lever and a music cassette in the player.

I looked at the driver of the hovercar next to mine while I still had some time. On the right side, I could already tell by the machine that it was my rival, Anya. On the other side was a slightly older male person than I was. He wasn't here at the race for the first time, so I already remembered his name. Kaito Ogawa.

I preferred to shift my gaze back to the racing track in front of me, where the blonde was already twirling in a green blouse and white shorts with a smile on her face. I had to roll my eyes at her actions. From the looks of it, the girl was not very likeable to me.

However, I didn't have much time to think about her behavior, as she soon started tonight's race while the sound of enthusiastic screams from the fans who were at a safe distance all around could be heard. So, of course, not in front of us on the track.

I put it into gear and flew off into the night that enveloped the surroundings in front of me. Colored lights illuminated the race track from the start to the end, and at that amazing speed they just looked like colored lines. Beautiful.

With a small smile on my face, I turned on the player and music began to play around me in the hovercar, to the rhythm of which I began to tap my fingers on the steering wheel. I was in my element once again.

It didn't take long and I was, as usual, in the front row quite far ahead of most of the racers. Of course Anya's hovercar was near mine. And the previously named Kaito was trying to keep up with us.

I downshifted before the turn so as not to fly out of it like an idiot, and then shifted and accelerated as soon as I was halfway through the said turn. The race was getting closer to the end, and the number of people I could take as potential opponents was getting smaller and smaller.