Chapter 1: A Family's Ride

The trees stuck and gripped the rocks amongst them. Unmoving, peaceful, bountiful. Well off neighborhood, Maxwell thought to himself. Spinning the feeling of the door lock at the tip of his finger. Before Thalia slapped it away cautioning danger.

"Watch it Max"

"But mom!"

"You don't want to break your head opening the door do you?"

Thalia patted his head, urging Max to imagine what would happen to his head if he were to open the door. Falling off head first, great chance a tree trunk breaks his neck after slapping his temple, rolling a few meters and grazing the skin off his right cheek, shoulder, hands and thighs.

"My love don't scare little Max, he's probably a scaredy-cat but I'm sure he'll know when to be safe you know?"Polly, his dad roared smiling. Carefully threading the clutch pad, pushing it gently in resetting the stick shift to the middle for neutral then pushing it upwards for the 3rd gear.

The little boy always seems fascinated with the car controls, it amazes him that with...