diff --git a/databases/.example.env b/databases/.example.env
index 4b3e345b2..d5415d5ad 100644
--- a/databases/.example.env
+++ b/databases/.example.env
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 
 SQLITE_URL='file:dev.db'
 POSTGRESQL_URL='REPLACE_ME'
-MYSQL_URL = 'mysql://prismabot@localhost:3306/prisma_py'
+MYSQL_URL='mysql://prismabot@localhost:3306/prisma_py'
 MARIADB_URL='mysql://root:prisma@localhost:3308/prisma?connect_timeout=20&socket_timeout=60'
diff --git a/databases/tests/test_parallel.py b/databases/tests/test_parallel.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..93f7903af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/databases/tests/test_parallel.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import pytest
+import asyncio
+
+from prisma import Prisma
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_count(client: Prisma) -> None:
+    """Basic usage with a result"""
+    await client.post.create({'title': 'post 1', 'published': False})
+    promises = [client.post.count() for _ in range(1000)]
+    results = await asyncio.gather(*promises)
+    assert all(result == 1 for result in results)
diff --git a/src/prisma/_async_http.py b/src/prisma/_async_http.py
index 615b01bf8..0a8f92545 100644
--- a/src/prisma/_async_http.py
+++ b/src/prisma/_async_http.py
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ async def download(self, url: str, dest: str) -> None:
 
     @override
     async def request(self, method: Method, url: str, **kwargs: Any) -> 'Response':
-        return Response(await self.session.request(method, url, **kwargs))
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(**self.session_kwargs) as session:
+            return Response(await session.request(method, url, **kwargs))
 
     @override
     def open(self) -> None: