Chapter 13

(Steven's POV)

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I hadn't have time to go to that place for so long. I had been planning for a long while to go to that place.. personally.

But each time I wanted to go, something for sure would pop out and would be placed on my already full plate.

Actually, it has been years since I last stepped on that very place, personally. Even though, I would often stare at the place from my computer screen, it never gave that satisfaction to me.

And now's that chance. But before that....

I wanna enjoy my this new freedom at first. So at first....

At first, after entering the remote mountain area, I started to drive violently. That time, I couldn't control my temper and my emotions anymore.

I just wanted to be free.

Even though I was confused of what emotion I was currently feeling.

Was it the sadness and grief for losing, my dear crush, Elina, to someone else?

Or was it my happiness and excitement for meeting with Elina again?

Or both?

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It took me a good while to calm down.

Like almost two hours or more...

Only then, did I turn my car to that place. A place that was well popular among the teens and young adults, yet a secret base camp for many young adults like us.

Normally, that place appears just a racing arena. But, this was the place where maximum flow of money comes from.

Rich young people would often flaunt their money there to bet on their favourite racer and the racing arena would take 30% of the betting money from the winner.

Everyone knows that this place was created by an unknown figure approximately five years ago and everything from the start to bottom was managed by him. And he's also the one and only sponsor of this arena, even though no one knows his actual gender.

He only did things under the name Magma.

But who would have ever thought that this place was solely founded by me, a guy who's twenty-one year old this year. And this place was founded by me, not five years ago but seven years ago, when I was 14 year old.

It was only because of our (Mine and Elina's) common interest and that was our love for motorbikes and cars. I would often hear from Elina when she was in the same school with me that how much she wanted to learn driving the cars and play with them all the time. For her, it was d*mn cool to race with motorbikes and surprisingly she knew all the car and motorbikes' names and types, even when she was just seven.

And this place was the best place for that dream of ours to build. And so I did.

Luckily, the only benefit I had gotten from my parents' work was that all time flowing of money and their lack of time to control me.

So, I had spent a good amount of money on this place and build a cool racing arena. And the two people whom I had hired to manage the place was also well selected.

Actually, there were five people at the beginning, but as the saying goes nothing is perfect, so it took me a while to find out their true motives and lack of attendance.

And since I was still young, it took me a while to remove them (completely from that place) and making sure their shadows won't even cross that path. And hence, only two were left. But both of them were diligent and good planners.

So even though, I was the true boss behind the scene, both of these managers of mine also worked behind the scenes to make the place more mysterious to the outsiders, as the saying goes "Mystery attracts curiosity and curiosity attracts money."

(A/N: There is no such saying. I just made it up according to my experiences)

But this time, I wanted to start showing myself in front of the people there. I was already twenty-one and I could handle many things now. So, I wanted to be in my arena, but as a worker, not as a boss, so that I won't attract unnecessary trouble for me or for my parents.

After interacting with all, I found out that all the members of the arena were perfect. The actual perfect. Well, some of them had some bad habits of smoking, or drinking a bit, but all of them were self-conscious when it came to racing.

Moreover, there was a strong bonding between them which was hardly found in this corrupted world. And it made me really happy to have such teammates.

But, all seemed okay, yet not okay.

I wanted to meet that only girl in the team who had won so many audiences heart with her racing skills and brought so much profit in my arena.

I had specially ordered John and Luke (my managers) to take better care of that cash cow and make sure to satisfy her with everything possible.

But bad luck!

I just found out from the people there, that she had stopped coming to the arena for a long time.

"So, you're the one?"

My thoughts break the moment, I heard a hoarse yet warm male voice behind me. I turned and met a guy standing there with a board in his hands and looking at me.

"Brother Dew?" I asked the guy in front of me, even though I was sure it was Dewder from the documents given to me by John.

He nodded his head as he continued, "Well, I was informed by the superiors that you have joined the arena for work since the starting of this month, but you will officially take after the work from today onwards. The head manager John said that you were a little nervous before and ws shy to join. But it's absolutely okay! I've seen your plans and it was really awesome. All the racers liked and wanted to follow it. Even I wanted to. All of the racers are eager to see you in person, not to your photo anymore. And let me tell you this-"

Oh John! You actually said that I was nervous and shy!?

Still I smiled a little to this chatter-box as he began to speak about many things, until we sat on the place where we could fully see the racers racing in arena and mark their points.

All was going well, until the next half of the match when suddenly the audiences went crazy and started to shout like lunatics.

For a moment, I thought there was a sudden attack here, in the arena, until I clearly heard what was all the ruckus was about.