street and around the corner At first it felt like regular scooting We passed by people walking on the sidewalk Since they were walking and we were scooting it was normal for us to move faster than they were But then I noticed that we were passing people on bikes and rollerblades too And pretty soon we were also passing moving cars They were just shapes that we whooshed past WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH Everything all around us was
a blur the people the cars the street signs the buildings That’s how fast we were going I stopped kicking on my side of the scooter but we just kept going faster and faster Hey Claire I shouted The wind was so loud in my ears that I could hardly hear myself You don’t have to kick so fast I’m not kicking at all Claire shouted back I thought YOU were doing all the kicking No I said I stopped kicking a while ago Then how I looked at Cosmo and saw
