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Pedestrians stopped to watch as our car squealed by

"You thought I killed hiht you had very cleverly stolen my ticket, but once I calmed down I realized you hadn’t meant to do it"

"Ticket?" I was innocent I kneas innocent, but I still felt horrible Guilt gnawed at my stomach and squeezed my chest

"You need to turn You’ve been on this street for too long"

Yanking the wheel, the car slid around the corner and onto an empty road I could still see the other car in my side mirror and had no idea hoas supposed to lose them

"What do we do?" I turned the car down a different road without being told to I had no idea where I was going, except for away

"We need to get on the motorway" My eyes must’ve widened, because he reached out and touched ns that he was panicked or worried about lying "We can switch I’ll keep you safe"

My gaze darted to his "What’s your name?"

There was a moment’s hesitation before he answered "Owen"

"Ava" I looked back at the road and swerved around a car that had stopped to let someone out

"It’s nice todifferent than guilt flutter through my chest "Will you let me drive now?"

"How?" I couldn’t stop Who kneould happen if I stopped Would they just start shooting at us? Would they shoot other people in their atteers squeezeddrivers while on some sort of expressould be easy

"Where is the M1?" So slammed into the back windshield and I ducked They had shot at us In public So et us soet us a fewwas happening and ere just practicing driving around the town

"Pfft No probleotten us this far" Where the hell this bravado was co from, I had no idea But I noticed the smile on his face, and knew that I’d put it there