Race With a Heart
Chapter 65: Two Different Worlds, Two Different Planets

Chapter 65: Two Different Worlds, Two Different Planets

Was it like that? Was Martin naive and life was very easy for him? After all, Martin also had his problems, his difficulties, he suffered a lot too, but at least he had a home where he could return without fear of being beaten.

Sid’s words were harsh, but it was due to his pain. After all, he lived in a world where there was dirt, stench and poverty, and lacked love and hope.

Martin turned to see Dave.

"You know what my dream is?" the boy asked Martin and, without waiting for an answer, continued: "I want to be a prosecutor to put Sid’s father and people like him behind bars. But it’s only a dream because I’m a slave to my origins just like Sid. "

"You think what Sid said about me is true?"

"I don’t think you come from a privileged class, but you had an easier start than we did. Maybe you knew the right people ... "

"You’re right," agreed Martin. "I got an internship at the Fergus Stable for acquaintances. And if you had contacts, would it be easier for you? "

"What?" Dave smirked. "Are you able to get them for us?"

"Maybe," Martin replied mysteriously, as he saw the figure of Kevin Moore. "My friend has a friend who is a very smart man, professor, and helps the police. We can ask him, how can we help Sid? "

"You’re joking right?" Dave smirked. "Why would a professor want to help a boy out of nowhere?"

"Because he is a good person who has the ability to help. I don’t know if he grew up on a rainbow or a shit planet, but I believe he will help us. What do you risk asking? "

"Do you really think we can try?" hope seemed to sprout in Dave’s heart.

"Of course! Except... " Martin suddenly hesitated.

Dave’s face returned to resignation.

"No, no, it’s not that," Marin assured him fervently. "He’s a very wise and good man and he will definitely help Sid, but I don’t have a contact number for him, I don’t know where he lives or where he exactly works ... My only contact with him is through third parties, specifically through one person ..."

That person was Jack Lambert. After one day of rest, Martin knew the drivers had returned to hard work and needed to focus before racing. The boy did not want to disturb him and distract him by asking about some possibility of contact with Kevin Moore, especially since recently Jack had been so jealous of theirs meeting. Martin knew how important it is to stay focused and have the right mindset to succeed in the race. If Lambert is distracted, he may take a far worse place than he deserves.

On the other hand, Martin was dealing with a teenager who was beaten by his own father. The young mechanic could not even imagine how terrible it must be to be afraid of your own parent. Father and mother should be the mainstay and support for the healthy growth and development of the child. It wasn’t some ideological nonsense, it was a natural law - or so Martin heard it on a very interesting TV show - but he totally agreed. He knew there were many homes in the world where children were harmed, but wasn’t that because of the neglect of the adults around that childe?

Martin took out his phone. He called, not expecting Jack to answer, after all the driver was probably on the track now. However, when he returns to the locker room, he will surely see that the young mechanic wanted to contact him and will call him back.

"We’ll have to wait for a call," he explained to Dave.

They went back to work so as not to be idle, although Martin would have liked Sid to be with them now.

"Does his father beat him often? Do you know anything about it? " Martin asked his younger colleague.

"Not so much now. Sid has learned to avoid him. That’s why he hangs out here so often and so long. "

Martin put down the wrench and hung his arms.

"And I took this place from him."

"Don’t worry, he’ll only be angry for a moment," Dave assured him.

"Do you know where he could have gone now?"

"I can guess."

Martin shifted nervously from foot to foot. He was beginning to doubt whether he had done the right thing to make Sid tell him the truth? Being beaten by your own father is not something a person wants to brag about. Everyone wants a beautiful, happy family, so if it isn’t, showing it to others is not the best. It’s like showing others the worst and most embarrassing part of your life. Sid, of course, should have been helped, but maybe Martin could have done it all differently?

"Dave, do you think I should talk to him now? Tell him we want to ask someone for help? "

"Will this person really be able to help him?"

In fact, Martin did not know that. He had no idea about the law. In fact, he didn’t even know much about Kevin himself and his abilities, but he believed that Lambert’s lover must be a good man. Someone like Jack would definitely not get involved with someone bad.

"I know he will do whatever he can."

"Then I will talk to Sid."

"Can you really do that? Can you do it now? I’m worried about him. "

"It’s okay," the younger colleague agreed and put his tools down. He stripped off his work clothes and set off in search of Sid.

At this point, Martin should think first of all about his youngest friend and about solving his problem, but he was thinking about what the boy told him. He clearly implied that Martin came from a completely different world from his. Even from completely different planets. The planets were overkill, but I guess he meant that Martin didn’t really know how other people live.

Unfortunately, he was right.

After his father died, Martin’s mother began to raise children with a double love. It was not easy for her, but there were uncles and aunts and even grandparents.

And so was Allen, the man who advised him, was by his side, cheered on him in his plans, and finally made Martin’s big dream come true.

But Sid had a father who beat him.

Martin’s family was not the richest in the area, but they lived in nice middle-class homes, and although they were not luxurious, they never lacked anything. When his father was alive, his workshop prospered, so he managed to collect a lot of savings, so after his death, his wife and children weren’t left with nothing. The mother was also a strong and resourceful woman who quickly found a job for herself. She did everything so that her children, forced to grow up without a father, would grow up in a stable environment.

Sid’s mother orphaned him when he was little.

Sid, for whom the old auto repair shop was more home than his own home, Dave, who worked two jobs instead of going to school to help a troubled family, were really different worlds from the one Martin was from.

But that doesn’t mean these worlds are completely separate from each other. The fact that someone was born in poverty or raised in a pathological family did not mean that he was forever condemned to such a life. It is enough for such a person to believe that they have a chance to achieve something in life and not to abandon hope.

A call from Jack Lambert made Martin’s heart leap in anxiety. This would be their first conversation since the Kevin incident, and the boy didn’t know what mood Jack was in or whether he blamed him for being involved in this innocent but unpleasant for Lambert joke. Martin, however, had no choice if he wanted to help Sid, which he wanted badly.

"Hi Jack, thank you for calling back."

"You’re welcome! I was glad to see that my favorite mechanic wanted to talk to me. I missed you too! "

Jack was a cheerful man, but today his tone was suspiciously too cheerful. Anyway, what was the meaning of ’I missed you too’?

"Jack, I’m sorry about yesterday ..."

"But no problem!" Lambert laughed. "Thanks to you, I had a particularly pleasant evening. And the night. So don’t bother. "

So that was it! Jack was in a great mood because he had made a hot, very hot reconciliation with his man!

"I’m glad" Martin breathed a sigh of relief. "But I am calling not only with an apology. I also need a favor. "

"Really? What can I do for my favorite mechanic? " Jack asked in an equally light tone as before. He must have been in a really very, very good mood, because usually in such a situation he would have shown anxiety and started questioning him with concern about what had happened.

"But you won’t be angry, are you?" Martin made sure.

"Angry? Why should I be angry? " Lambert’s tone of voice finally changed a bit.

"Neither jealous."

"Jealous?"

"Do you remember Sid? It’s that shy boy from my workshop. "

"I remember."

"Sid has problems in the family and I thought maybe Kevin could help somehow, but I don’t have a number for Kevin ..."

"You’re a really cute idiot, Martin. Why would I be jealous of it? I can expect many cataclysms in the world, but certainly not that you will betray your lover. I will send you the information you request immediately. "

Martin felt butterflies in his stomach. Did he hear what Jack was saying right? Does the driver really believe that Martin will never cheat on his lover?

The boy’s whole heart began to jump with joy. Few things could please him as much as his friend’s faith in his honesty. But isn’t that what friends are for?

Martin was really lucky enough to meet this man and befriend him. It was people like Jack that made this gray world seem so much brighter and full of color. It was such people who gave hope when for some reason it started to be lacking. They were like little suns replacing this one big sun when it hid behind the clouds.

Jack Lambert was simply the best!

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