The Penny Drops (Sea the Depths Book 1) by Karmon Kuhn

Author:Karmon Kuhn [Kuhn, Karmon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KuhnWorks Publishing
Published: 2021-03-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

W

e loaded our things into her car, and when she unlocked the door and got in, she hesitated to unlock mine. I pulled at the handle to gently remind her, and she just stared at me for a moment. Then, I heard a metal clink and the door pulled away from the body of the car when I tugged the handle.

She locked the doors from the inside and took a small orange bottle with a white label from her bag. It read Clonazepam and her name along with instructions and other random information. I’d read the label when I gathered it from the bathroom. She pulled two round pills from the bottle and took them dry, swallowing hard and then looked around the car. Her hands were visibly shaking, and she hesitated to start the vehicle.

“What are you doing?” I asked her.

“These will just help me calm down. They’re prescription and everything.”

“You are in no condition to operate a vehicle.”

“Can you even drive a car?” she answered in a screechy whisper.

“Penny. I cannot allow you to drive . . . I’ve driven juz̈uṣùs̈s before,” I offered.Though, this vehicle with its short ceiling, navigation wheel, and mysterious panel of buttons was much different than my juz̈uṣùs̈s.

She closed her eyes and let her shoulders slumped. Just when I thought she was going to agree, she hit the wheel in front of her hard with both hands several times and bellowed. I squeezed my body against the door, suddenly worried that I might be in more danger than she was.

After her fit, she opened the door, slid out of her seat, and walked over to mine. I held my hand out to receive the keys as I stood up, but she held on to them until I was in the driver’s seat.

“Please, don’t crash my car.”

She inserted a key below the wheel she’d bludgeoned and turned it. The car roared, and I jumped a little. Her incredulous expression proved that she was unimpressed by my handling already.

Near my feet were two levers and up top was a large wheel and another lever. I pressed each of the levers on the floor as a test. One did nothing and the other produced a jolt and a screeching sound.

“You have to take it out of park before you press the gas!” Penny yelled and covered her face with her hands.

“What?!”

She took a few deep breaths and then leaned toward me. Pointing, she said, “The left pedal is the brake. You have to press that to stop the car. The right pedal is the gas. You press that to make the car go. But, you can’t press it unless you shift the car into drive from park using this.”

She mimicked pulling down the lever by the wheel when she mentioned switching gears. I reached my hand out and then she said, “Wait!”

“What!” I jumped.

“Put your foot on the brake before you switch to drive.”

I pressed my foot down on the left pedal and then pulled down the lever as instructed.

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