“Turn around, go back,” Benjamin said.

“First, tell me what’s going on.”

“It’s that guy, Diesel Parker, the one you asked me about last time. He was the one who hurt Emma.”

“Diesel Parker!” Emmeline and Abel exclaimed in unison.

“Yes, he’s right by the roadside.”

“I’ve finally caught him!” Abel clenched his teeth and turned the car around.

“Abel, what are you doing? Why do you care about him? It’s been so long.” Emmeline worried, but Abel had. already turned the car around.

Sure enough, there was a burly man by the roadside, shirtless with his clothes draped over his shoulder, humming a tune. It really was Diesel.

“You’re wearing your uniform,” Abel reminded Benjamin.

That’s an easy fix,” Benjamin replied, unbuttoning his shirt and baring his arms.

Abel quickly parked the car without killing the engine and said to Emmeline, “Stay in the car.”

Then, he and Benjamin stormed toward Diesel, grabbed the shirt on his shoulders, wrapped it around his head, and unleashed a furious barrage of punches..

Diesel howled in pain and fell to the ground, soon becoming motionless. In just a minute, the fight was over.

Abel and Benjamin quickly got back into the car and raced away, covering a hundred yards in an instant, turning a corner in the darkness.

of shock and anxiety. “You two, that was

handled that way.” Benjamin smiled. “If

he? He lay motionless in the end,” Emmeline expressed

through fights,” Benjamin reassured her. “We know

of it,” Emmeline added. “I saw Diesel in the community garden

there?” Abel said. “Are you sure you didn’t mistake someone else for him?”

it was him. He was acting suspiciously under the magnolia tree

ago,” Benjamin mentioned. “It was an unregistered large truck, supposedly for hauling soil for

our school? Emmeline asked. “We’re undergoing

do this kind of work every day,” Benjamin

the auto repair shop, Abel drove Emmeline back to

to

wrong?” Emmeline asked. “Has

much at all, and I still have to drive,” Abel replied. “Come

that, Emmeline moved to the front

of them remained silent, simply enjoying each other’s

the night were beautiful.

into his

gaze, there was a melancholy that she

Steel, he dropped Emmeline off at the community gate,

on the other side of

car, smoked it in silence, and then started the car.

trouble, he didn’t

into the drive, Emmeline’s phone call came in, and

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