"Let's switch places."
The girl gave me a blank look, "Why? You can change it whenever you want, who are you?"
Before we could argue, my dad's head came through the car door.
"Just because my daughter is a high school senior, she can sit wherever she wants!"
The girl tried to talk back, and the man sitting in the passenger side glared at her before she reluctantly got up and went to the back.
The driver made some more small talk with my dad and got in the car and slammed the door shut with a 'bang'.
He glances at me in the rearview mirror as he buckles his seatbelt.
"A top student in the college entrance exam? The little girl is very capable!"
I didn't say anything until they pulled off the road and I spoke meaningfully.
"Not as good as my mom."
"My mom said it's a rough day on the road, even this plane we're catching today is going to crash."
The driver and the co-pilot man's faces flushed at the same time, and the driver was heard to giggle, "Your mom's a prophet, huh?"
I laugh, "No, my mom says she's born again!"
The car was full of people who laughed, except for the man in the passenger seat who was unperturbed.
The driver laughed for a while and said, "The little girl's got a sense of humor."
I glanced at the dragon and tiger totem on his arm and cast my eyes out the window.
"Boom."
The sky, which had been cloudless a moment ago, was now dark.
The rain was coming down in torrents and we were now the only car left on the entire highway.
The atmosphere in the car grew stagnant, and uneasiness clouded everyone's mind.
I pointed to the mountain road not far away and advised the driver, "Uncle, stop on this stretch of road first, it's raining so hard, beware of landslides."
Instead of listening, the driver switched to one-handed driving with a playful look on his face.
"Little girl don't worry about it, this road uncle has run for I don't know how many times, even if it rains heavily there is no trouble, tamping very much."
As soon as he spoke, the road ahead was paved with some gravel that had obviously fallen from the hillside.
A girl spoke up in fear, "Why don't we? Why don't we go around? This looks really......"
"It's raining hard and bringing some rocks down from the mountains scares you guys like that? See less."
The girl I switched seats with interrupted her unhappily, sweeping a very irritated glance at me in the process.
"Snort~ Winks man."
I pretended not to hear, only to suddenly reach out and grab the driver's shoulder as the car was about to pass a tree and yell, "Stop the car."
The driver was startled and slammed on the brakes.
At the same time, a bolt of lightning struck a nearby tree, which snapped and fell in front of the car.
The driver looked at the man in the passenger seat in shock and was about to ask me something when the girl in the car burst into tears.
"Uncle, I don't want to leave the country, will you call my parents for me and ask them to come pick me up?"
"Uncle, I don't want to go either, change the day, there's still time for school to start, there's no rush today, the fare won't be less for you."
"Shut up."
The frightened driver was no longer in a good mood, and with a roar, the car immediately fell silent, leaving only the sound of sobbing.
He didn't have the heart to ask me again, he winked at the man in the passenger seat, and the two of them got out of the car in the pouring rain to move the tree.
At this point, there were also people who sensed something was wrong and whispered, "Why is this driver so mean?"
No one answered her question, as the driver returned quickly.
Seeing that the atmosphere in the car was even more dreary than before, the driver smiled and took out a couple of drinks from the reserve box and handed them over.
"Okay, okay, just now uncle was in a hurry, don't be afraid, this part of the road will be over soon, it will be fine."
