17 Chapter 25 Come With Me

((( Rhio POV's )))

"Are you going home?" I asked to stir the conversation.

"Why?"

"Just answer me?"

"Depends..."

"If you're planning to idle here alone then just come with me," I suggested.

She fidgeted the strap of her bag and feigned the sudden need to go home. "Right…I have to go. It's late already."

I shrugged and resumed walking, "Alright."

"Where are you really going?"

"Never mind. Just go home."

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. Niel'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.