Letty's POV
Dominic fucking Toretto. Captain of the varsity football team and the biggest pain in my ass. It's because of him I have to spend my Saturday at school in detention. At least I have my best friend Vince here. Dumbass is always in detention. Getting his ass in unnecessary trouble all the time.
"Sup Letty. Glad you could join me today. Ready to make Principal Vernon cry?"
"V, when are you gonna stop getting in trouble long enough so we can actually do something on the weekends?"
"Ahh come on Let, lighten up. Word on the street is that the God almighty football star is also joining us. Should be an interesting Saturday. Don't you think?" Vince began wiggling his eyebrows at me
"Yeah, man. That asshole is the reason I'm here in the first place."
"No shit?! Baby girl, you two just need to have hot sex and get it over with."
"Shut up! You know we fucking hate each other's guts. There is no way I would ever think about Dominic Toretto in that way."
"Oh yeah sure because the sexual tension has never existed between you two." Vince's sarcasm was starting to get on my nerves.
"Ha. Ha. Ha. You're so funny I forgot to laugh." I gave him my infamous death stare. He was really starting to piss me off.
"Everyone knows if he hadn't turned into an arrogant prick when we started high school you two would probably be together right now."
"Shut up Vince. I'm serious. We're not and never gonna be friends with the Torettos."
"We used to be." He looked down avoiding my gaze. Vince and I never talked about our foregoing friendship with the Torettos so when he brings it up it's because some bullshit has happened at home.
"Yeah well they decided we're not worth their time of day anymore so forget about it. Forget about them. Besides, why the hell would we want to be friends with them again anyway? Like you said, he's an arrogant prick, and Mia…well she became a stuck up bitch. She's the other reason why I have to be here."
"What happened anyway? I never got the full story from Jesse. All I know is that Sporto confronted you in the cafeteria because you did something to the prom queen."
"Forget it. I'm done talking about them. Tell me what happened at home."
"Pft. It'd be easier to tell you what didn't happen." Vince sat back in his chair and put his feet up on the library table. He tried to make it seem like it didn't bother him by crossing his arms in front of him. I know better though. He would never admit how much his screwed up family hurt him.
"That bad again?"
"Yeah, Let. Only this time the old man decided to do it after about 6 shots of liquor and about 12 beers."
"What the fuck, V?! I told you to come live with me. It's not like my parents would even notice you're there. At least then I would have someone around that would actually acknowledge my existence."
"Sorry baby girl. You still miss him?"
"Every damn day. It's not like I can do anything about it though. He's never coming back. It's no wonder my parents don't spare me a second glance. Adrian was the golden child getting a full ride to Cornell and shit."
"Parents suck. We don't need them."
Just then Brian O'Connor walked in through the doors followed by the Torettos. Brian took a seat at the table in the middle and naturally the Torretos sat at the table in the very front. Vince and I being the troublemakers, as Vernon likes to call us, we had chosen to sit in the back. Brian just smiled awkwardly at us debating whether or not he should say anything.
Mia just glared at us and flipped her hair as she turned back around. Dom on the other hand, just stared. Not at both of us though. Just me. I couldn't read his emotions. He wasn't mad or happy or anything. Pretty abnormal considering he always has something undignified to say about me followed by a glare or a cocky smirk. That was normal. Usually the four of us were always squaring off.
"Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer!" Needless, to say I have a big mouth.
"And what? Have you break my camera with your face?"
"Oh that hurt!" I put my hand over my heart feigning how wounded I was at his words. "Gee Toretto! That was so original! I'm sure it took so much brain power to come up with that one!" Vince snickered beside me.
"Shut up, Ortiz. Maybe if you actually dressed like a girl I would take the time to actually give a fuck about talking to you, but wait, I don't." Mia smirked at me. Oh how I wanted to punch the pretty little face of hers.
"Oh you mean like all the sluts in your life including who your sister rolls with! Yeah no thanks. I actually have respect for myself. Besides, I would also need to drop my IQ about a billion to be even remotely close to wanting to talk to you." I smiled sweetly at him. Before he could say anything the principal walked in.
"Alright, enough of that! We all know why you're here today and I want to congratulate you all for being on time. Now-"
"Excuse me sir? I think there's been a mistake. I know we're in detention but I don't think my brother and I belong here."
I heard Vince snort beside me as we both looked at each other. Rolling our eyes we turned back around to face principal Vernon as he continued on completely ignoring her.
"It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about why you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk and you will not move from these seats. And you, Vincent, will not sleep!" He pushed V's feet off the table knocking them to the floor. "Are there any questions?"
"Yeah I got one! Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?" I tried but failed to keep my laugh from escaping.
"Ortiz! You think that's funny? You think this is cute? You think he's "bitchin," is that it?"
"Well actually sir, if I'm being honest, hell yeah! I'm gonna take a wild guess and assume that is what caused me to laugh." Vince and I high-fived.
"Since you two think you're so funny. I'll be happy to entertain you next Saturday as well, and maybe Vincent, you can get your answer." Vernon leaves the library and Vince smirks at me.
"Now that's the spirit baby girl! See? We can hang out on the weekends."
"Oh shut up! You're lucky I backed your ass up, or you'd be here all alone next week."
"Will you two shut up? I'm not getting another detention on account of you idiots!"
"Oh that's rich coming from you since you're the reason I'm here in the first place."
"Don't flatter yourself Ortiz. If you hadn't been messing with my sister in the first place then you definitely wouldn't be here."
"So the princess can't stand up for herself? What are we in the Stone Age? Besides I didn't even do anything to your beloved baby sister. Her bitches for friends messed with me first. I just finished it. What she didn't tell you was that I never touched her."
Dom looked over at Mia who looked like a deer caught in headlights.
"Yeah, her pretty little face is still intact isn't it? As much as you don't want to admit it, I know you know how bad I could hurt someone with a punch."
"Mia? What's going on here?"
"I have no idea what she's talking about Dom."
"Toretto, you got to be pretty fuckin stupid if you're not gonna believe baby girl. When has she ever lied to you?" Vince decided to cut in and we all could tell the gears were turning in Dom's mind.
It was silent for a while until we heard someone speak "Letty never hit Mia."
"Excuse me. What are you babbling about?" Vince turned to O'Connor.
"I was just saying, I saw the fight go down. Letty never hit Mia. Julie Tran and Stacey Reynolds started in on Letty talking about her clothes and hair. A crowd of other girls formed watching the entire thing. They were apart of Trans crew. Then Julie said something that only Mia and Letty heard because both of their eyes went wide. Letty said something to Julie about Dom and then she slapped Letty causing her head to fall to the side. Smiling, Letty just slowly turned her head back to Julie and then she punched her back. Stacey and a few other girls tried to hold Letty back so Julie could get punches in but she took them out and took Julie out. Mia was just standing there the entire time. After Letty took them out she turned to Mia ready to fight another one of Tran's girls but when she realized it was Mia she just took off. Luckily, no teachers were around. It was pretty damn amazing!"
"Then I confronted her in the cafeteria because I was told Letty was talkin shit about Mia and wanted to fight her." Dom looked up at me with an unreadable expression. "What'd Julie say to you?"
"That's none of your business!" I snapped at him. It truly was none of his business. After four years of not being my friend and all of a sudden he wanted to act like he was concerned about me. "What do you care anyway?"
"Pft. I don't. I'm just curious."
"Well stay out of it. You're not part of my life."
"Fine. Whatever!" He turned around and out of the corner of my eye I could see Mia glance at me.
"Damn Let! Three skanks at once? I'm proud to call you my best friend." Vince grabbed me around my shoulder and planted a wet one on my cheek.
"Yeah funny thing is I could have gotten suspended for that shit if they had gone to Vernon, but those idiots went to Dom instead and now I'm in detention."
"So how'd that happen anyway? You two are always at each other's throats and the teachers never care anymore because it happens so often, so how'd you both end up in detention?"
"That's none of your business!" Dom snapped at Vince and he looked like he was ready to kill Dom. If you saw us all now you wouldn't think we were ever friends. It seems like it was all in another life.
"See what happens when you decide to skip lunch to get high with Jesse and Leon in the parking lot?" I smirked at him. He rolled his eyes at me. That's when he saw it. Vernon was leaving his office.
"Hey check this out." Vince got up from his desk and walked over to the door. He looked out both ways then turned to smirk at us. Smartass. He took the screws out of the door then quickly got back to our table.
"That ain't funny! Put the screw back!" Dom and Mia started yelling at Vince
"Fix the Door!"
"Put the damn screw back in!"
"Now Vince!"
"Just shut up!"
All of a sudden we heard Vernon's voice.
"Damn it! What's going on?!" He walked in the library. "Why is that door closed? Who closed it?"
"We were all just sitting here." I said
"I think a screw fell out, sir."
"Really?! How do you suppose that happened Vince? Where is it?"
"I don't have it."
"Enough. Give me the screw."
"I don't have it sir. Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place."
"Excuse me sir. But why would anyone want to steal screw?" We were all surprised to hear Mia defend Vince.
"The door just closed." Our jaws nearly hit the floor when we heard Dom's voice
Vernon decided to put a chair up against the door to hold it open.
"The door is way too heavy sir." As soon as Vince said it, the door shut knocking the chair back into the library. We all snickered.
"Alright fine. Toretto get up here. Front and center!"
"He how come Dom gets to get up?! If he gets up we'll all get up! It'll be anarchy!"
Vernon just ignored V as he had Dom move a magazine rack in front of the door.
"That's very clever but what if there's a fire? I think violating fire codes and endangering the lives of children would be unwise at this juncture in your career."
"Toretto! What are you doing?! Get that thing out of there! Move this out of the way! Then go sit down."
When Dom sat down we all heard him call Vernon an asshole under his breath. Vernon started to turn around and Dom flipped him off.
"You all better not cause any more trouble if I have to come in here again, I'm cracking skulls." He was always saying that dumb line and I have yet to see him do it. He can talk the talk but can't walk the walk. Pussy.
"So O'Connor what happened in the cafeteria?" Vince just couldn't let this shit go.
Brian glanced nervously at Dom and Mia to me. "Uh well….. umm"
"Just spit it out!"
"Well, since Letty was eating lunch by herself yesterday, Dom, Johnny Tran and Andrew Clark went over to her and started asking questions about Mia. Letty didn't want to engage in any conversation with them so Tran shoved her lunch tray off the table as she was about to grab a fry. Johnny then pulled her up by her arm and Letty pushed him off…"
"Hold up! You let that fucker, Johnny Tran, man handle a girl." Vince turned on Dom. I don't know why he's so upset. It's just Johnny.
"I didn't let anybody do anything to her!" Both boys stood up and were ready for a fight.
I got up and walked over to Vince ready to hold him back in case he decided to do something stupid. "V, I'm perfectly fine." Like I said it was just Johnny. I could definitely handle myself against Tran. He should know that.
"She may be a fighter but no man should ever touch a woman like that! Would you let your mom get treated that way, asshole?!" Ding. We have a winner. This was deeper than Johnny.
"Vince!" He looked at me and reluctantly sat back down. I sat next to him but he just got up and walked to the back of the library away from me. He needed to let off some steam.
"So I guess that means he doesn't want to hear the rest of the story?" I just glared at O'Connor. I got up and walked to the back but in the opposite direction V went.
This shit was getting ridiculous. If Dom hadn't tried to confront me yesterday then we wouldn't be here and we could continue living in our own worlds. I wish I could just forget about this, I wish I could forget about him and our stupid past.
