Summary

"UK wannabe street racer Dean Stone learns that his best friend Leah Starr has a cousin living in the USA, has gone missing. So they set out to the US city of Los Angeles, where she was last seen, to find her. What they confront is the complicated world of street racing, sex, and drugs. Dean must become a most wanted street racer across the entire nation to find Leah's cousin, and Leah must realize the man she loves is putting his life on the line for her. With a little help from friends, knowledge and dodgy dealings, can they find Leah's cousin before it's too late?"

Join Dean, Leah, Junkman and others as they journey across the nation from LA to New York, visiting famous US cities such as Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Miami and D.C.

Prelude

Dean and Leah had grown up around each other for years, they were more or less brother and sister; they protected each other while in school, they bailed each other out of trouble when either one got into it. When Dean first got into cars and started going to car shows with his Uncle when they were 14, Leah started to feel less a part of his world. At nights she would dream of the past when they were inseparable. Soon though she went around to his house one night, and was watching him play Need For Speed Most Wanted, being chased by the police when she looked at the case and liked the car on the front.
"Hey D, what car is that?" she asked, pointing at the cover.
"Er…BMW, M3 GTR, it's a sports car, fastest on the game." He said, momentarily losing concentration on the game. "Oh shit" he breathed as a police car shot in front of him and he drove over the spike strips.
"Its…cool, you should get one."
"Fuck – you think?" he said absentmindedly as he tried to get the car moving again. "Ah shit" he gave up and threw the controller on the floor. The stood up and stopped beside her, looking at the car. She was happy again; she and Dean were back together and planning more mischief. They smiled at each other.

*

Later when she went home she heard her parents arguing in the front room.

"Her cousin!?" her mother cried.

"In L.A., ran away and somehow made it there!" her father retorted.

There was a pause.

"What's this gotta do with us!?" her mother again.

"She needs help, I've sent some and I'm waiting hear back, she doesn't have anyone else," her father said normally.

"Then YOU go! If she matters so much why don't YOU go!?" her mother shouted.

Quickly, Leah ran up the stairs and shut her bedroom door, leaning back against it she thought about this cousin in L.A.

*

I should probably take a minute, or a few, to tell you some things about Leah and Dean.
They've gone to the same schools all their lives; they grew up living only a few houses away from each other. Every time one of them was being bullied the other was there to help and comfort them. They formed a brother/sister relationship for the moment they said "hello".
By now, they're both 14 years old; Dean's 15th birthday is coming up.
Dean is a tough guy, and stands at about 6ft 3" but can show emotion at rare points, he has short spiked up black hair, with piercing blue/green eyes. He has his left ear pierced twice and has already told Leah he wants to become a street racer.
Leah is quite quiet, unless she's drunk or otherwise, she stands about 5ft 6". So there's a height difference between them. She has a long brown fringe, parted to the left from the right hand side, with shorter gold-ish brown hair on the sides and back. She has 2 snakebite piercing's on her lip, which her parents did NOT approve of, but she didn't listen to them as usual.
They hung around together whenever possible and were always talking about something; whether it was about music, school, films, anything.
Slowly, Leah began to see more of Dean playing Need For Speed and became more and more interested in it, once she asked him if she could play, she grabbed the controller and bought a brand new car, and spent a lot of the game money tuning it up and then took it out for a drive; it took her a few minutes to get used to the controls and then she managed to start a car chase, but she kept crashing into cars and eventually got busted.
"Yeah, I'm never gonna drive" she said disappointedly, with a frown on her face. "I'll let you do it, Boy Racer." She joked, grinning at him. He smiled back.
"That's what I was planning." He said, picking up the controller and starting another chase, and expertly maneuvering the car around the police cars.
"You're too good at that game," she said, feigning disgust
"It'll help me one day," he said matter-of-factly, smiling knowingly at her.

She smiled back at him and failed to realize what he meant by that.