Losing the Race

Have you ever been wrong about something but you were so convinced you were right so now you have to prove you were right in some way even if it takes all that you have in you. That’s what happens sometimes. So as a warning be careful what you say is right so you don’t get yourself in a bad or crazy situation. That’s how I got here, into this dare. It started out as a little friendly conversation… 

“Who do you think would win if we drag raced?” Lizzy asked speculatively.

“Depends on what we’re racing.” Fitz replied.

“Ok well what if I raced a Dodge and you raced how about we say a Lamborgini?” 

“Well then I’d win.” Fitz said. 

“You sure about that?” Lizzy was being a little cocky but that didn’t bother Fitz. She could be like that sometimes especially about competitive things. 

“Of course I’m sure. I know my cars.” Fitz said confidently. This is too easy. I thought how does she think she’s going to win in a Dodge? Little had I known that she had actually been doing her homework on this one. She knows I’m always up for a challenge and she also knew how to start a good challenge, which now I was second guessing if I could win this one. The pit crew was around me showing me how to buckle in and drag race the car. I never thought Lizzy could be this serious. But back to where it had started. Lizzy came running down the street at me the next morning like she always did every morning, but this time she had a little glint in her eye. I knew right away that something was up.

“What do you have for me today? I can tell you are going to spring something on me.”

“So remember yesterday when you said you would win in a drag race?”

“Yeah, why?” Fitz said slightly puzzled as too why it was being brought up again.

“Well I’m still convinced I would win.” There it was Lizzy needing too have the last word and be right.

“No, there’s no way that could happen.” Fitz laughed because he thought it was just going to be the same conversation they had yesterday, but boy was he wrong.

“Ok then prove it… I dare you to drag race against me in a Lamborgini so I can prove to you that a Dodge would win.” Lizzy was being very stubborn, she was also very convinced she would win. It startled me a little bit  but it still didn’t seem plausible so I went along with it. 

“Ok, fine I accept.” I shouldn’t have accepted the challenge. I should’ve known better than to accept a challenge when Lizzy says “prove it”. I just never expected that she would actually find a way to make it happen. But by the end of the day she had drag racing lessons set up for us already for the following week. They weren’t anything major just teaching us the general basics so we knew what we were doing, we had to drive with an instructor and then they said that we were good to go pretty much! I don’t know how she did it that quickly but it was crazy how she was very prepared for it. I thought thoough that there was no way she would be able to get a Lamborgini, maybe a Dodge but definitely not a Lamborgini. I was wrong again because I am now sitting in the driver's seat of a Lamborgini Huracan, something I never thought I would ever do in my life. Lizzy pulled up next to me in a Dodge Demon, I never knew she knew so much about cars but now I was actually scared I might lose. 

My heart was racing as we pulled up to the line. My hands started getting clammy and sweaty, I was very anxious. We pull up to the spot where you start and I can see the lights and am getting prepared. The amber lights light up and I see them start too count down. One, two, and three, green! And off we go! I could feel the adrenaline pumping through my viens as my hands gripped the wheel tighter and we took off. I was doing so good or so I thought! I had started out ahead of Lizzy but realized she whipped right past me in less than a second later. I knew this dare didn’t look good for me. We hit the end of the track and she was definitely ahead of me, I lost the dare I was so sure and confident I would win. We brought the cars back around and when Lizzy got out of the Dodge Demon, you could see her face beaming with a smile that spread from ear to ear and she was glowing with happiness as she took her helmet off. She ran up too me so fast too rub it in my face that she had won, but I realized it didn’t really bother me because I had so much fun racing anyway.

“I did it!” Lizzy was practically screaming with all of her excitement.

“I know I saw!”

“That was so much fun, we should do it again!”

“Yeah we should! But before we do that again, how do you know so much about cars and drag racing?”

“The track where we got lessons.”

“What do you mean?”

“My uncle owns that place and I have been hanging out there with my cousins since I was little. When you’ve been there long enough you start to pick stuff up!”

“Wow I never knew that. That’s very interesting!”

“Yeah thank you!”

“Of course. Well now I know never to make a bet with you about cars again or I’ll just keep losing.” This was just all so crazy to me but I’m glad it worked out the way it did in the end because even if I didn’t win the dare I had so much fun with my best friend anyway.