Enzo's ears perked up as he heard the distant sounds of what he concluded were at least a dozen police vehicles. He first looked around at the posh interior of the restaurant he had come to for dinner, then at the faces of the two girls who had flanked him as soon as they had recognised him as the billionaire boy who had singlehandedly established the most successful sneaker empire the world had ever seen. They were pretty, Enzo thought, but not his type. His mind came back to the real world as he heard the sound of sirens getting ever closer.
He smiled a little. 'This is gonna be fun', he thought.
He picked up the whisky glass that contained his usual iced coke and drained it in one gulp. He pushed away from the bar table and faced the girls.
"Sorry ladies, but I gotta go. Urgent business.", he said courteously.
"But we were have so much fun!", they chorused, but Enzo wasn't there to listen to them trying to coax him, lure him into coming back; he was already on his way to the parking lot.
Enzo pressed a small earpiece on his left ear, a voice came to life inside, a slightly robotic one.
"Good evening, sir"
"Yes, Talos, good evening to you too, but there's no time for chitchat, we got a situation here."
"What's up?"
"I have around a dozen police vehicles coming after me in about three and a half minutes."
"Ok, got it, I'll unlock the car and unbar the ECU."
"Thanks",said Enzo, getting into his highly customised and modded JDM car.
As he sat inside, the interior lights lit up, revealing the cream coloured seats and the tablet sized screen inside. Enzo closed the door and put his foot on the accelerator, the car growled loudly in response.
***
"Hey, has anyone seen Enzo?", asked Vaidehi as a delicious smell emanated from her kitchen.
"Nah, he's probably till goofing about.", said Xinyue, looking up from her laptop.
"Hey everyone, seen Enzo?", said Seonghwah cheerily, coming into the kitchen.
"Weird how he just becomes a part of our lives without our knowing." said Xinyue, smiling, "Yeah, he went out after half an hour of waking up"
***
Enzo rapidly steered from right to left to slide into a drift on a bend in the smooth road, seventeen police vehicles, with their sirens blaring and their headlights trained straight at the back of his car were racing towards him, ready to make an arrest for permanently injuring seventy three people.
'It was a serious crime', thought the captain of the force sent to capture Enzo Silva, 'Even though they had guns and a plan to cause a riot on carnival, its still a crime'. His thoughts were disrupted by the sudden sound of screeching tyres as the culprit violently did a 180 degree drift on his car and started driving backwards as he tried to talk to the captain.
"Yo Cap! What's the catch here?!", Enzo said.
"You are under arrest for assault on seventy three people!", the captain said into the mic that was attached to his loudspeaker.
"They were gonna cause a riot in Rio!"
"But they didn't!"
"Because I stopped them!"
"Stop the car right now and we will see to it that you get a voice in the court!"
Right at that moment all the cars moved onto a half made bridge and Enzo hit the brakes of his car as it was right on the verge of falling off the bridge.
"You are cornered, Enzo Silva! Come out of the car and put your hands up!"
Enzo quietly climbed out of the car from the passenger's door, took a deep breath and jumped into the water below. Life was like driftwood, he thought, it always floated when he needed it the most.