Rike shrugs. "Not common, no, but not hard. You are not stupid, it should be easy!"
She looks a little apprehensive, though, because they're not her ATVs. She does not want to owe Brandon an ATV. There is no way in hell she has that much money.
"Perhaps we could take one, and take turns driving."
Meka nodded. "Yeah that's a good idea," she said. "I can watch you first." The last thing she wanted to do was damage someone else's ATV. "Pick up some pointers on the way," she added with a smirk.
It couldn't be harder than go-karts though, right?
Meka hopped on behind Rike. Her dad would kill her if he knew what she was about to do. "Alright! Let's go!" she said enthusiastically, clinging for her life.
Rike cheered and gunned it, sending them speeding off down the road in the direction of the creek bed. She made sure to shout a few instructions back at Meka as they drove, so the other girl wouldn't be totally clueless when Rike passed the reins to her.
The countryside, while not quite whipping by, was moving at a fair pace. The interesting part came when Rike turned the ATV and took them off-road, trundling through a forest and down an incline to the messy, muddy, completely clothes-ruining slop that surrounded the creek bed.
Meka felt an adrenaline rush as they took off down the road. It was probably the most exciting thing she was going to do all vacation. It was a little bumpy but totally fun. Meka listened as best she could to the directions Rike was shouting back to her. It didn't sound to complicated. She was sure she could handle it, especially with Rike sitting on the back. She would let her friend do the maneuvering for now.
When the creek bed came into view Meka's grin widened. There was something about jumping into a puddle of mud that made every kid grin but driving through it... they had to be better. "Wooo!" she cheered from the back. "I could get used to this!"
Rike whooped and hollered as she sped through the mud puddles, sending waves of water and muck over the ATV, the girls, and everything else inside the blast zone.
She pulled them to a spin and a stop, sending up another huge spray of mud. She stopped laughing long enough to catch her breath and to look behind her at Meka.
Meka was laughing wildly, surprised by how much fun it was to speed through a mud puddle and have it sprayed all over them. "Ok!" she agreed brightly.
She switched spots with Rike quickly and got herself familiar with the ATV before speeding off toward the puddle sending up waves of mud, she took a huge splash of mud to the face, laughing hysterical the whole time.
She pulled to a stop once they were clear of the mud and turned to her friend. "How did I do?" she asked, attempting to wipe the mud from her face.
Meka could have gone mudding for hours, she didn't even know what time it was by the time they had finally called it quits. All she was sure of was that they were covered in mud and both surprisingly happy about it.
"I don't know if I'm ever going to get clean," Meka laughed, completely care free for once in her life.