'Uhh, what's digging in my back.'

My hand reached under my back and pulled out the traitor. A lipstick.

'Huh, I don't need this shade.'

'Am I moving?'

I opened my eyes a little to find myself sprawled on the back seat of a car.

The windows were open and the wind was turning my hair into a nest.
I sat up and groaned.

"Ughh." god I had a wicked headache.

'Where am I??'

I sat up and threw the lipstick out of the window.

"Noooooo" and the car jerked to a stop.

"You threw away my only Revlon." Violet's voice shrieked at me from the driver's seat.

"Uh Violet calm down and drive," Diya seemed to be holding Vi back.

"Oww!!" I clutched my head as wicked pain took its hold on my head.

"Awesome that's your punishment, first you get drunk then you land yourself in Ash's car then YOU THROW AWAY MY LIMITED EDITION REVLON MATT RED LIPSTICK BEFORE I EVEN HAD THE CHANCE TO USE IT," Violet shouts at the top of her voice.

I suddenly opened the door and doubled over vomiting as my knees hit the concrete of the highway for some support. Man, this hurts.

'Told ya not to drink that much'

I didn't even have enough strength to tell my subconscious to shut up.

Violet exited the car with a bottle of water and aspirin and patted my back.

I rinsed my mouth and gulped some water down in order to rehydrate myself while she patted my back.

"I am sorry about the lipstick," I said handing her the bottle back.

"Oh don't worry about that you are buying me a new one just after we find out where you live." and she walked back in the car and honked for my shocked ass to get in.

Diya was laughing and enjoying the drama as usual.

She briefed me on everything and that's when I realized that my so well kept cover was blown.

We arrived at the brew the little cute coffee shop where I had thrown water on Ash's face, I giggled. Diya looked at me as if I had crossed over to the crazy side.

The aspirin had helped a lot with my headache but I could still feel it lingering in the back of my head.

We went inside the brew and found Mason, Nate, and Sofia sitting on a corner table and joined them.

***

We were at my house. Diya and Violet were gaping all around. And Nate looked hell more annoyed about this than he was when I once pushed him off the slide too hard and he had face-butted in the mud.

He took my arm and dragged me towards the stairs leaving others in the living room.

"Rose! I have to leave and I am not leaving these four alone here with you!" he hissed looking sideways at my friends.

I crossed my arms and stared at him, "What the fuck are you talking about? It's not like they are going to turn into FBI agents."

"Oh come on! Ask them to leave already, that Violet girl asks a lot of questions, I don't like it."

I looked at his outfit for the first time.

"Where are you going, Nate?" I asked narrowing my eyes and folding my arms, completely ignoring his words.

Okay, something was up. He was in complete black. Black leather jacket, black t-shirt, black jeans. That's not something he wears unless he was up to something dangerous.

I narrowed my eyes at him again.

"Where are you going?" I asked again.

"Um nowhere, now I don't care what you do with your friends just don't let them stay overnight I am leaving, bye."

He sidestepped me and started towards the door I turned around and followed him to the living room. Super suspicious.

And that's when I noticed the helmet sitting in the corner of the room. Nate was headed in its direction.

"Oh you just can't resist can you?" I shouted and he halted in his tracks.

"I wanna come with you," I still had a headache and I did not want to stay home alone right now.

"What's going on?" Sofia asked all four of them were looking at me and Nate.

"Oh hell no! the crowd isn't right for you." Nate said cocking his head to the side.

"'The crowd isn't right for you' shut up and you are either taking me with you or I am going alone," I said mimicking his tone.

"So you are going to follow my car," he scoffed.

"Huh I don't need to, I know where those tracks are," I smirked and looked up at him.

"Tracks as in Illegal racing tracks just outside the city!" Violet exclaimed.

"Oh yeah," I said amused, this girl is the local Wikipedia ask her anything and she knows it.

"Well, I am joining you!" Diya said suddenly excited at the prospect of anything remotely dangerous.

"Uhh I don't think that's the best idea," Sofia said looking nervous.

"Oh come on, I have never been there," Violet said.

"Oh no none of you are coming," Nate said horrified, well that's something I agreed with.

"Yeah none of you are coming with us," I said standing beside my brother.

"Never said I am taking you," he said.

"Never said I need you to," I retorted back.

"Well we don't need you two Violet knows the way, don't you Vi?" Diya questioned her unsure about the last part.

"sure," Violet answered.

"Oh no it's not safe for you guys there," I said.

"Ohh and what will you do? stand on the top of the nearest building with binoculars and observe from a distance." Violet said in a sarcastic tone.

***

"I hate you for doing this, dad will kill me if something happened to you," Nate grumbled while driving.

"When are you and dad going to accept the fact that I can take care of myself," I said rolling my eyes.

"I mean mom is fine with basically everything I do," I continued.

"That's because she loves me more," he laughed throwing his head back.

"Shut up!" the best reply of the year.

I was sitting with him in his car and Mason, Diya, Violet, and Sofia were following behind in Violet's car.

We reached the tracks and I got out.

And stretched, I was stiff from sitting in the same position for the last forty minutes.

The sky had started to turn dark and was getting darker by every passing minute.

All four of my friends joined us and looked expectantly at Nate.

"What?" he asked annoyed seeing everyone look at him.

I was surprised that Diya and Vi had still not figured out the relationship between me and Nate, they still thought that I was just over-friendly with this unknown boy.

And I knew for a fact that Violet had been itching to ask me every single detail about this mysterious new guy who just seemed to know me.

"Just go to the stands," Nate said looking at Diya, Sofia, and Violet.

Then he turned to Mase. "Don't let them out of your sight man."

"Heyy we can take care of ourselves," Diya said offended by the fact that someone just underestimated her.

"Sureee," Nate's tone more sarcastic than the brightness of the sun. I rolled my eyes.

Nate turned around and started towards the race cars which I am sure included one of Nate's car.

"Seriously stay out of trouble I will tell you both everything once we get back," I said as they both narrowed their eyes at me and I hurried after my brother and caught up with him.

"You are really annoying sometimes you know," he said looking straight ahead.

"Sure and you are always annoying," I said looking at him and he laughed.

We were near the cars when Nate was taken in a hug by a guy I knew only too well.

"Hey Rose, I didn't expect to see you here." Beck laughed as he hugged me too.

This was one of my brother's best friend from New York. I should have known that I would find him here.

"Is Lizzie here too?" I asked looking at him hopefully.

"Yup back at her car, she is doing final checks for the race," he said smirking.

I headed towards the car to find my favorite blondie in the whole world. Lizzie was right there, her head stuck under her flame-red car.

She got up and grinned at me.

"I knew you would come," she grinned.

"Now my brother owes me 20 bucks, I bet Beck that you would definitely find your way to the tracks," she said hugging me.

And when I pulled back I froze.

There he was standing near a black race car.

And suddenly the memories of me and Ash behind the school today flashed in front of my eyes.

Seeing him churned powerful emotions in me. I had decided before going on my drinking rampage that I would tell Ash the truth no matter how dangerous that was for me. And I was determined to do it.

"Hello Earth to Rose," Lizzie snapped her fingers in front of me.

I had apparently zoned out.

"Hey, can you do me a favor?" I asked Lizzie.

Ooo what does Rose have in mind? Is she really going to tell Ash the truth about her identity? And how will Ash react?
Find out in the next chapter of 'A rose in the wild' (;

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Next update - 8 December 2019