The Trip to Höljes
including the teams Firulais by @Angelustyle, Speedfreaks by @nicxv and Chitco by @MrdjaNikolen and @Elizipeazie
“NO! YOU ARE NOT A GOOD BOY! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?”
“Chanty, what´s up? I know it´s hard to leave Hamlet behind but he is in good hands at your mother.”
“It´s not that… AAAAAARRRRGH! WE HAVE TO TAKE ANOTHER CAR, PLEASE KILL ME!”
"Chanty! I told you to stop saying that, it´s really painful for me!
Meanwhile, Valentin already approached the ferry, and Thomas did the same. He drove the camping trailer with 110 kph at cruise control, so that Jan and Chanty would catch up until the ferry, while he would close up to the slower Valentin.
While Valentin appeared at 4 PM at Höljes, Thomas, who took a wrong route, needed a bit more time, when the SUV with the Trailer raced at 17:15 to the camping site. His first action was walking towards Valentin and asking him how the drive was.
“Oh, not much happened, but the loading of the other car was equally…adventurous…”
Valentin smiled a bit, and Thomas didn´t get that Valentin meant his tall size as the challenge.
“Oh, you still get something from me? Signatures or such?”
“One moment please… eh, here is it. With your signature you confirm the arrival of your vehicle, and there are the copies and the documents that I had to fill in while the drive, and… here are the keys.”
Thomas walked to the Globus, started the car that suddenly turned all heads with the deafening noise, but when he put the car into reverse, the car made a weird jerk and a disgusting grinding noise.
“AAAH CRAP, I forgot to tell you: The reverse gear is gone. Thats why it was so cheap but I was too drunk to read the advert profoundly, so … well. What now?”
Valentin waved to Thomas, visibly annoyed from the noise, to get out and have a talk a bit away from the car to be able to understand each other.
“This would have been important to know before loading it… Hm, I think I need to push then.”
The first meter, due to the lack of space for the 221 cm tall Valentin, was the most difficult, and Thomas had his problems with the mirrors both being damaged, but they finally managed to get the car off the trailer and bring it in a position from which Thomas could shift to D and drive off.
Thomas then came briefly back to say Valentin goodbye.
“Yes, thanks, and eeh… good luck, then”
After parking the car, then putting the large camping trailer off the hook and stabilizing it, Thomas grabbed a beer and wanted to have a rest, but then the first visitors appeared.
“THOMAS?”
“eeeeh, I don´t buy anything!”
“Looking at your race car, I can say that you DO buy any junk! Don´t you remember me?”
“Eh, I do, from Holsia… aren´t you… Pythagoras?”
“Almost.”
Pi pulled up Andreas sleeve a bit, showing the tattoo.
“Ah, Pi, yes. And you were…Andrea, right?”
“Why do you remember her name and not mine? That´s not fair.”
“Is life fair? And does it even have to be?”
“With that attitude, it´s no wonder that your daughter is depressed. Nah, sorry, that was too salty, I guess. But, where is Chanty? I was looking for her already, is she fine?”
“Propably got stuck at McDonalds on the way. But, they will arrive soon, I think. With Jan as navigator and translator this should work.”
“CHANTY, YOU WILL KILL US!”
“Don´t worry, if I go off the road, I will try to hit the trees with the driver side, you can live happy without me, but I can´t live without you.”
“Instead of telling such a shit, could you slow down?”
“BUT WE ARE LATE!”
“Yes, because you need half an hour even for putting on shoes. The ferry staff was damn pissed at you being a sloth.”
“I am still totally stressed, because you dropped and left the keys to my car unattended. You know Hamlet and that he ates everything that lies on the floor. This car is the only one I found the keys for AND that wasn´t repaired by my father so that I can trust it, but is not only slow, it also handles like…”
“SHIT!”
A deer jumped in front of the car, Chanty panicked and braked hard, the brakes locked and with immense body roll, the old Primus spun.
“Are… you ok? Chanty?”
“Did… I hit it?”
“I don´t think so?”
“GO AND CHECK! IF I WAS A MURDERER, I CAN´T FORGIVE MYSELF!”
Jan looked at the front of the car, but thankfully no signs of a collision were visible.
“Nope, everything alright… we can continue.”
Almost two hours later, Jan and Chanty arrived at the track, and spotted a quite sad young guy.
“Jan, can I cheer him up?”
“Why are you asking?”
“I… don´t want to make you feel jealous or such, and…therefore I ask if I am allowed…”
"Chanty, I am not such an asshole, you can look after him, and I will unload the car with Thomas. I don´t want you to do that anyway because of your back pain anyway.
Said that, she left the car, and Jan took over, continuing the last meters to Thomas´camping trailer with noticeable diesel clatter, which made the other guy turn his head what kind of vehicle just arrived, when Chanty already sat down next to him
“Hey, what´s up?”
“Sorry? What language is that?”
Chanty immediately realized that the language barrier is a thing now, and made her famous “ORRRR!” and in anger about herself, hit herself in the face.
“What the fuck are you doing there?”
“I am dumb. Wenigstens des kannsch uff Englisch. [at least that I can say in English.]”
Jani recognized from the plate of the car that slowly drove off that his conversation partner must be german, although with a very weird dialect that sounded quite funny. He put out his phone, using a translator app, and with that it worked not perfect but good enough to have a basic communication.
“Nice that you care for me, Chantal, but… that´s a personal matter, but, your hug felt really good. It´s funny, you are the second cool blue haired girl I met in a row.”
“Really? Another copy of me?”
“Oh, you do share a bit, but Alex is far from a copy.”
“I guess she is more beautiful than me… not such a fat pig.”
“Hey, you remember that you came here to cheer ME up? And now it´s you who is crying. I think something went wrong then. Let´s talk about…something else.”
“Cars then?”
“Oh, you are a car girl?”
“I AM AT A FUCKING RALLY RACE TRACK! No, I hate cars, but I like horses and barbie!”
“Oh, sorry…”
“Now that I think of it, actually I do like horses, because I love animals, and Barbie… nah, they are cute.”
“How many horses does your car have then? By the way… it sounds very very unique. Is that a turbodiesel?”
“five cylinder Diesel without turbo…”
“In that large car? Oh, now I know why you arrive this late!”
Chanty rolled her eyes to act annoyed, but actually, she thought Jani was a little bit funny.
“Anyway, you want to come with me then? It´s better than sitting here alone. Or do you want to show me your team?”
As Chanty was included in the Y.E.A.R group chat as one of Angels closest friends, he also knew that Chanty didn´t use her small blue car, called “Sonic”, but some old behemoth from her father, and he spotted the old Primus Imperator slowly trying to squeeze itself through the parking lot to Thomas camping trailer.
“Hello Rhinos!”
Thomas, already a bit drunk, just waved with his beer bottle, but doing that he spilled the remaining beer onto himself.
“Ah, SHIT!”
“When I said you need a shower, I didn´t mean that.”
“Jan, YELLOW CARD!”
“Where is Chanty? Is she ok?”
“Sure, just got stuck with some guy, but I guess she´s totally fine and soon here. Should I call her?”
“No, Jan, we can wait… I just wanted to introduce her to my new team… and they are also curious to meet her.”
Thomas opened himself another beer and lighted a cigarette.
“When she`s back, I will tell her you wanted to chat with her. Her driving starts tomorrow at 6 PM, she doesn´t need to go to sleep early…we start with Jan, because he is the most careful driver and best at staying out of trouble. I want the car to not be bashed early, since with the whole field still competing in the early phase, there is too much traffic for me to use up all the engine power of our car.”
“So, Thomas, you have made some very thought-out tactics then, like a team manager?”
“Yep. I am here for fun, and I dont care if I win or not, but since this is a competition, of course I aim for a result as good as possible.”
After Angel was gone, Jan turned towards Thomas.
“Well, we seriously do something wrong.”
“How that?”
“Everyone asks for Chanty, but nobody for us.”
“Just look at the people. I am way too old for them, and you are not relaxed enough. At least your issue can be fixed. Here, get a beer.”
