Blacktop Obsession Chapter 1

"I know I get some tees for my crew." Dominic Toretto looked at the Sparco Vendor table. It was race wars and it was the first night at that. The first night was always wagering bets, partying, and finding old friends and foes. The real wars would start around ten am the next morning. It was barely sunset and the girl turned around, shielding her eyes.

"And how is that?" Shayde Sutton asked with a mischievous smile and her honey brown eyes sparkling. She walked out from behind the table to give Dominic a hug. They were old friends from back in the day.

"Because I own you like I own everyone else." Dominic joked, making Shayde shake her head. He gave her a good look over, appreciating what he saw. She was about 5'10 and she had long black hair with electric blue streaks protruding from the bottom layer. She was well tanned and pretty slender. Her mid length shirt showed off her bellybutton with the dangling button ring.

"Funny. I never thought of myself as being able to be owned, boy." She quipped. "How ya been? All that mess with the police settled now?" She asked, turning serious.

"Yeah, it's square. Long story how it all worked out but yeah, it's straight." Dominic said as he looked over the stuff on the table.

"I actually do have some vendor t-shirts if you want them." Shayde pulled her hair up, starting to feel the desert heat.

"I'm cool. I'm just waitin on the rest of the crew to come in and killing time." Dominic shrugged. "How's that sister of yours?" He asked.

"She's good. Still making lots of trouble but you know, I got her under control." Shayde laughed.

"God, don't I know. Her, Mia and Jess were never any good together. Remember that time you and I had to go get them from the station? And all they could do was bust up laughing?" Dominic asked.

"Hell yeah. I won't ever let her live that down. I think that was the start of her career as a rebel began." Shayde laughed. "She's a damn mess. And it has only gotten worse." She warned.

"She here this year?" Dominic asked settling on buying a few glow sticks for his crew, mainly Jesse.

"Yeah, she should be here as soon as she's done with her community service for this week." Shayde nodded.

"Well stop by camp, girl. I'm sure Jesse and the boys would love to see you guys." Dominic said, handing her some money for the glow sticks.

"Will do. I should be done in about an hour when she gets here. Here, take them these." Shayde threw him six t-shirts.



"I only need five. Letty and Mia aren't here." Dominic said, coughing lightly. Shayde stopped what she was doing and looked at him.

"You mean Letty's not racing? Is she okay?" Shayde asked, her eyes focused on Dominic.

"She's fine, at least I think. We split up. You know that whole mess we were in….well, I'll fill you in on all of it tonight when you come over, cool?" Dominic asked.

"Yeah, okay." Shayde nodded, knowing by how uncomfortable Dominic was acting that it was something hard for him to talk about. "See you then." She promised. She waved as he walked off, wondering what possibly would make Letty miss race wars. She was snapped back into reality by a guy came by to look at some stuff. She checked her watch, wondering where her sister was.

"Do you need a ride?" A guy coasted along Kaidyn Sutton as she walked on the side of the highway, her backpack on her back.
"I'm pretty close to where I need to be going but thanks." Kaidyn smiled, shielding her eyes from the sun.

"So you must be going to race wars?" The guy asked.

"Yeah, I am. My car's a few miles back." Kaidyn smiled, for some reason relived that it was a racer.

"Well, I'm headed there too. Hop in. I'll give your feet a break." The guy offered, reaching over to open the passenger door.

"I don't normally take rides from strangers but you seem all right." Kaidyn laughed, getting in. Her feet were killing her and she was tired. Not only that, she was late meeting her sister.

"My name's Brian O'Connor." Brian said, his eyes on the road. "I know how bad it sucks to be stranded and to have to walk." He grinned.

"Kaidyn Sutton. What team you race with?" She asked, eyeing the interior of his car. It was hard to not be jealous of this car. It was the car of all cars.

"Toretto. You race?" Brian asked, turning into the entrance of the desert where race wars was held.

"Once in a while. I may do some racing while I'm out here." Kaidyn said with a nod. She could kick herself for not making sure her car had a spare tire before she left.

"Where do you want me to drop you off at?" Brian asked, pulling in slowly as to not hit the swarm of people that were walking around.

"Over by the Sparco sign if you would please." Kaidyn said.

"Gotta love sparco. I know I do." Brian laughed.



"Yeah, my sister works as a vendor for them." Kaidyn nodded. "Pretty cool cause she gets the hook up." She laughed.

"Here ya go." Brian said, putting his car into park and letting her grab her stuff.

"Thanks for the ride." She smiled at him, getting her stuff together and getting out. Shayde saw her get out and headed over there, concerned to know where her car was.

"You must be her sister, I take it." Brian flashed one of his best smiles to the girl. She leaned down on his window.

"That I am, what kind of bad comments did she make about me?" She laughed, looking into the boy's intense blue eyes.

"None that I heard. She was almost here when I picked her up. She had a flat tire a few miles back. You guys gonna be okay to get that changed or do you need some help with it?" He asked, ready to offer her some help.

"I'm sure we can manage, but thank you." The girl smiled, locking eyes with Brian.

"Well, all right then. Take care. Maybe I'll see you around." He nodded, not really wanting to leave.

"More than likely. Thanks again for helping my sister." She waved while taking her sister's backpack for her. "You forget to put the tire in there again, Blondie?" She teased with a grin.

"Shut up. I was tired." Kaidyn rolled her eyes, plopping down in a metal fold up chair that was behind the booth.

"Well, you better wake up cause we have a long night ahead of us, girly girl." Shayde ruffled her sister's long blonde hair and teased.

"I thought the first night was to get set up and relax." She looked confused.

"Oh, you do relax. By partying. I thought you'd be all over the partying since you're the queen of the nightlife." Shayde raised an eyebrow.

"That's what you get for thinking, dear sister." Kaidyn retorted as she popped open a RockStar energy drink.

"You know those things are bad for you." Her sister shook her head.

"So is sitting in the sun all day, it gives you skin cancer." Kaidyn shot back with an impish grin.

"All right, I'm off. Let's go get that car of yours." Shayde said, locking up the last of the stuff in the portable storage unit and grabbing her keys. The sun was down now and the area where race wars was in looked like a mini Las Vegas at night. She unlocked the blue flamed custom detailed Ferrari Spyder for her sister and they headed out towards the main entrance.



"She's driving good. Are you running her in any races?" Kaidyn asked, her hand on the dashboard as her sister put the top down. The crisp night air smelled of a mix of sweetness from the local flowers and tar, something that could only be appreciated by street racers and the likes of them.

"I don't know. We'll see." Shayde shrugged, not really wanting to talk races with her baby sister. She'd just want to race her car. And while her sister's car was well up to the challenge, it was more of a protective older sister thing that kept her from wanting her sister to race. She had been raising her since she had turned 18 due to her Dad dying. They had lost their mom at an early age and Shayde had always felt like the mother of Kaidyn since they were 9 years apart but when their dad died, she really did take custody of her and became responsible for her sister's life.

"I am planning on banking tomorrow." Kaidyn said rather lightly, knowing it could fuel a fight between them.

"We'll talk about that tomorrow, let's just have fun tonight. Cool?" Shayde asked, her eyes straight ahead on the road. Both girls were glad to have got to the car at that time, it broke the uneasy silence.

"Isn't my baby so beautiful?" Kaidyn asked with a proudness that made Shayde laugh.

"Just astonishing." Shayde laughed. "Maybe you should enter it into beauty pageants like the ones you do." She joked, making Kaidyn laugh.
"There's no pageants for cars, is there?" She asked, sounding like a typical blonde did when they were confused about something.

"Car shows, hello. And to think the DMV gave you a license. That is scary." Shayde got the tire out of the back of her trunk and began to change the color changing RX-7's tire. "There, she's good to go." Shayde got up and dusted her knees off.

"It's not a she, it's a he." Kaidyn said matter of factly.

"Ok, whatever." Shayde rolled her eyes. Her sister was so detail oriented it was a fault of hers. "Don't you call all cars girls?" She asked as Kaidyn rummaged for her keys.

"Yeah, so?" Kaidyn shrugged, holding up her keys triumphantly. Her purse was small but crammed with stuff and it being dark had made it a challenge to find the keys.

"So, why is yours a boy?" Shayde asked, not knowing why she even bothered. It wasn't like cars could be girls or boys and she had often given her sister grief for calling them him or her, she or he.

"Mine's special." Kaidyn laughed.

"Uh yeah. Get in and try to make in the gate this time, would ya?" Shayde asked, not even bothering to go into anymore discussion with her. It would just end up hurting her head. She laughed as she got in her own car. Kaidyn was not your stereotypical blonde. She was actually quite smart but she was silly a lot and wasn't afraid to show her many blonde moments. They roared into the gates and found their way to their trailer.



"So where we going?" Kaidyn asked after unloading her car and changing. She was working on touching up her make-up when Shayde had come out, also changed for the night time scene. Instead of Shayde's t-shirt and some jeans, she now had on a red corset top that laced up in the black and some jeans with flames on the legs. She had pulled up her hair into a loose ponytail.

"You're with me so don't worry about it." Shayde joked, using a line that Kaidyn had hated to hear her use when they were younger. Kaidyn had always been the type of kid to ask so many questions growing up that Shayde had had to find an answer to shut her up and that was on more than one occasion.

"Haha. Those days are over now. You know I'll just keep asking. How does this look?" Kaidyn asked, twirling around. She had on a sleeveless, strapless black and silver baby doll top that ended perfectly at the waist and then some figure fitting jeans complete with stilettos that were mainly silver.

"Ya look like a typical racer chaser to me, kiddo." Shayde turned around so Kaidyn wouldn't see the smile on her face.

"You are such a whore." Kaidyn shook her head. "I think I'll take you to court and sue you for emotional distress and mental anguish." She pouted, her mouth open in shock at her sister's comment.

"You know I'm kidding. You look fabulous." Shayde put her arm around her and led her off to where they were headed. "I got a surprise for you tonight." She smiled excitedly.

"If it's anything like your humor, I'm scared." Kaidyn pretended to shake. She looked around the area, her eyes taking in all the camps and cars and pretty lights. The sounds of the crickets chirping mixed with the roaring of engines was music to any racer's ears. It was just hot enough outside to know it was summer and it seemed to be a perfect night.

"You are a very funny little girl." Shayde teased as they came up to a campsite blaring music and with nice fire going. It was surrounded by five racing cars.

"Whoa. Check these cars out. Very nice." Kaidyn whistled stopping to look at the closest one she came to.

"You like the car, huh?" Dominic stepped out of the shadows, making her jump. He grinned as Shayde laughed.

"Oh my god, Dominic?" Kaidyn asked, her voice a little bit higher than normal.

"The one and only. Come here and give me a hug, girl." He held out his arms and scooped her up. "You know you weren't allowed to grow up but you sure as hell did." He laughed.

"I'm so happy to see you here! Is everyone else here too?" She asked excitedly.

"V, Leon and Jess are all inside that trailer right there. Why don't you go say hi and shock the hell outta 'em?" He asked, putting her back down on the ground.

"I'm on it." She called over her shoulder, already taking off.



"Same old hyper blonde I remember." Dominic laughed, giving Shayde a hug.

"Like I said, it's only gotten worse." She smiled. "How are you really doing?" She asked, worried about him.

"I'm good. All things are straightened out." Dominic nodded.

"Oh my god!" Jesse could be heard yelling from inside the trailer. He ran out of the trailer. "Dom, Dom, did you see who was here?" He asked, shocked.

"Yeah, Jess, I saw. Why don't you offer her a drink or something? Me and Shay'll be in a bit." Dominic nodded.

"So, you gonna tell me where the girls are at and what happened?" Shayde asked, walking with her arm around her old friend's waist. Dominic's body tensed up and he gave a weary sigh.

"Yeah, I knew it wouldn't be too long before you'd ask. Might as well get it out of the way." Dominic said with a grimace. "You heard about the bust right and how that all went down when we were poppin trucks, right?" he asked.

"Yeah. " Shayde nodded, almost not breathing. She was scared what he was going to say. She had been going through her own problems at the time and hadn't been around to hear it directly from the guys and wasn't sure exactly how bad what she was about to hear was.

"Well, Letty left me after it all. It was my idea to do it that night and she had a bad feeling about it. I didn't value her enough, Shay. She got fed up with the cheating, the lying, the not listening. She blamed me for V almost getting killed and I can't blame her there. For Jess getting shot at the wars two years ago, pretty much for everything. She was right on. So after she made sure V and Jess were going to make it, she took off. She only stayed cause I did a stint in jail and they all needed her." Dominic sighed, scratching his bald head.

"Damn." Was all Shayde could say, knowing there was going to be more.

"Yeah, the day I got out, she came and picked me up and she had her bags packed. Which I couldn't blame her, ya know?"Dominic nodded, motioning to a lawn chair for Shayde to sit in. "Want a beer?" He offered, then tossed her one.

"Thanks." She nodded, taking a drink of it, wiping the can's sweat off on her jeans afterwards.

"So then she got back at me. She's clever like that. Mia told me she was going with her and came out with her bags packed. I tried to tell them both I would change but they wouldn't hear nothin of it. So they left. Mia said she'd call when she felt like she could handle talking to me." Dominic took a big long gulp of the beer and finished it, tossing it on the ground.

"Wow." Shayde said, truly speechless. She would have expected Dominic and Letty to break up but she would have never guessed either girl would take off and leave the crew.



"Let's go inside and make sure they're not plotting something that we'll be taking the rap for, shall we?" Dominic asked, getting up to get another beer. "I know the boys will be so happy to see you." He said.

"Yeah, Kaidyn's pretty hyped, no telling what she can drag them boys into." Shayde laughed climbing the stairs to the trailer.

"SHAYDE!" Jesse exclaimed excitedly, getting up to hug her.

"Jesse!' Shayde laughed and hugged him. "Hey V, Leon. How's it going?" She gave them a hug from behind as she made her way to the small round table.

"Good to see ya girl." Leon nodded.

"Brian, this is Shayde and …"Dominic started to introduce the two.

"Kaidyn. I met them earlier." Brian grinned.

"He gave me a ride when my car broke down." Kaidyn nodded with a smile.

"That's Brian, always bein the good Samaritan." Vince commented under his breath.

"Did you guys get the tire changed?" Brian asked with concern and looking at Shayde.

"Yeah, thanks for helping her out earlier." Shayde smiled with a nod.

"So come on, guys, I wanna see those cars of yours!" Kaidyn pulled at Leon's hand.

"Oh, hell, Shay, have you ever thought to check into some ADD meds for this girl?" Leon joked as he got up reluctantly.

"This is Kaidyn we're talking about, they wouldn't help." Shayde joked making them all laugh.

"You racing tomorrow?" Jesse asked Kaidyn as she led the boys back outside.

"I'm planning to. But don't bring it up in front of Shay, she'll give birth to a baby cow." Kaidyn said sarcastically as Vince made a low 'mooing' sound, making Kaidyn slap him. "Shut up. She'll have a fit. She hates me racing." She complained.

"Well, are you a good driver? Does she have reason to want to keep you off the track?" Vince raised an eyebrow skeptically.

"Oh you haven't changed one bit, have you?" Kaidyn asked, rolling her eyes.

"Says the pot to the kettle." Vince remarked back.

"V, how old are you?" Leon hissed as Jesse and Kaidyn were on the other side of Leon's car talking about it.



"Hey, I'm just havin some fun." He grinned innocently. "She grew up. And did you see Shay? Holy Hell." Vince whispered back.

"Yeah, they're smoking all right." Leon nodded in agreement.

"So, you are the famous Brian O'Connor I heard about. I don't know whether to kick your ass for lying to one of my good friends or to kiss you for saving their lives." Shayde held Brian's gaze as Dominic went outside to get the cooler.

"You can do them both as long as you do it that same order." Brian gave her a boyish grin.

"Ha-ha. And you have a sense of humor. Very nice." Shayde nodded with approval. Brian looked down and fiddled with the top of his beer.

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