[ Anna ]
I had never been to a car race. I had only ever imagined it after reading about it in books or looking at it in movies, and this place was everything I had thought of and more.
The Hope Race Course was an hour or so away from Brooklyn. Zach took a car I had never seen him drive before. An open roofed sports car, and I didn't question why he still had it. I had a good idea why. Despite leaving soon after we received the message from Cole, we couldn't reach the place until it was almost sundown and the others had already reached.
The car drive was mostly silent, and I didn't know what to expect from this place.
The race track ran in circles and was complex. It was lined with red and white bricks on both sides with yellow lights that illuminated the place after evening. As I got
