Car Pool Richmond [PROVEN — HANDBOOK]

The new van showed up at 7:16. It smelled of sawdust and pine air freshener. The cousin, a man named Hector with kind eyes and a missing front tooth, nodded once. "Everyone in."

"You eat yet?" she asked, already unwrapping a still-warm pain au chocolat.

She did. He put the Crown Vic in drive.

Darnell broke first. "I can call an Uber," he said quietly. "Share it."

Carl put his hand on the ignition, though the car would never start again. He turned the key one last time, just to hear the click. Then he opened the door. car pool richmond

Marisol looked out the window at the gray morning. "My cousin has a van," she said slowly. "He starts at 8. We could pick him up. He works in Alameda. He's... quiet."

Marisol smiled—a rare, tired thing. "And I'll bring coffee. Real coffee. Not gas station." The new van showed up at 7:16

"Morning," Carl grunted.