5 The Kid That Can Drive (2/2)

”Sugar? Honey?”

I sighed deeply and sat back in the cushy little couch.

”Load me up with sugar”

Johnny nodded.

”Same please”

Adal dropped a few cubes of sugar into both our cups and stured for us. It tasted damn good despite me having a bias for cold tea rather than hot. Adal reached over personally and handed me my cup with a sly little wink. A little shiver ran through my body at the implication, but I refused to spit on hospitality.

”So, you two want to talk specifics?”

Adal looked between us and sipped his own tea.

”The specifics are this. Right now, we have two gangs I guess you could say for lack of a better term. You have myself and my more sophisticated operation, and you have Ricky with his bloodthirsty thugs. The truth simply is that I run this town. Ricky has some contacts on the southside, but I have far more connections and far more money.”

Adal paused to sip his tea once more. Johnny stayed quiet the whole time sipping on his drink leaving this conversation on me.

”Ok so what does this have to do with me driving?”

”I'm glad you asked my little Fox. We have some very powerful clients who wish to use our humble little town as a go between so to speak. The idea is to run the product for them through this town as fast as possible. We have already secured the rout but we need a driver.”

”What makes you think I'm the guy for the job?”

Adal gave a sly little smile and covered his mouth to muffle a giggle.

”Oh don't play coy Fox. You have a reputation, and you know the rout we are taking better than anyone”

”What do you mean by that?”

”It's the old bootlegger's trails that run the outskirts of the town. You and I both know those are the roads you use to take people up and down for fun. You made a pretty penny at the start of senior year doing it”

I frowned looking down at my tea for a moment.

”You sure do know a lot about me...”

”It's part of my job to know about everything in this town. You, having such a big reputation as a great driver, are not hard to keep track of.”

Adal stood up quickly sipping down the last of his tea and sweeping his arms out grandly which seemed to be a habit of his.

”Don't worry about the details my Fox. Just hear me out. You do one run for me. You will easily out run any of Ricky's people. If you put down a better time then I will secure the contracts for these very important dealers and Ricky will be stuck slinging weed on the side walk. That's all I ask. After that you have all the protection you need.”

”You promise?”

”I do. Your Hound, Your parents, Your Hound's parents, Your girl, and you of course my little Fox. All of you will be safe.”

I took a deep breath and against all my better judgement I stood up extending my hand for a handshake. Adal gave me a wide fanged smile and clasped our hands.

”Fair warning Adal. I haven't been down those trails in a long while. I'm rusty”

”No worries my Fox. Ricky has already done his trial run. You have a day to brush up on your skills.”

Adal broke from the hand shake crossing his arms.

”The Fox and the Hound working under the Royal Wolf. How beautiful!”

Johnny and I left on the way to my house. We took my road back but kept going straight past my house.

”Where exactly are we going Jack?”

”Well we generally are going to where the trails start in the North, but I'm also going to show you a place that's pretty important to me.”

”What exactly is it?”

”My local mechanic. He has a shop up here where the trails start”