Smoke billowed out of the exhaust as she gleefully called out, “I’ve driven a car! A scooter should be easy-peasy.”
The wind blew in fragments of her friend’s voice, “One… Way… Wrong… Watch…”
The tire screeched as the entire body wobbled — rider and all meeting the pavement.
Her friend, sweating as though she’d aced the 100-meter dash, appeared and silently thanked her stars for not having a stake in the events. “Really?”
The photo prompt has been given by Lisa Fox at the Friday Fictioneers hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields and the word prompt (Stake) has been given for the Six Sentence Stories hosted by Denise Farley.
Bernadette Braganza 
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