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Chapter 1 Beasts and Tattoos

They'd had new neighbors for little over a week now and no one had caught more than a few glimpses. All they really knew was it's was an older lady and a younger woman of about 20 according to Mias' estimate. A van had come today and the girl had barreled out of the house, but Mia was distracted by Jesse yelling for her so she never got to see what happened.

Vince had run to Racers' Edge for a couple fuses for Jesse and was now heading down his street almost home, when what appeared to be a small horse bolted across the street followed by a slight girl. He slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting them and angrily threw the car into park to get out and yell at her for running across the road without looking when the horse jumped for him.

"Sinner, HEEL." She yelled and Vince realized she was yelling at a dog, a huge dog.

"Jesus what do you feed him?" He asked staring down at the massive beast.

"Sorry he escaped. He's a Great Dane, they're huge dogs." She explained clipping a leash onto his collar.

"I can see that." Vince continued to look at the dog who was sizing Vince up like a hunk of meat.

"He's not even fully grown yet so just wait." She laughed a tinkling sound that Vince liked a lot. "I'm really sorry." She repeated.

"Its ok, I'm just glad I didn't hit you. I'm Vince aren't you my new neighbor?" He introduced himself finally looking at her. She was a tiny girl; he had to be over a foot taller then her. She was pretty to with her long black hair floating around her face, looking into her eyes which were a queer shade of light grey.

Tanzie

"Yup that's me, the new neighbor. I'm Tanzie." I replied smiling up at him. I judged him to be about 28 possibly 29. He was extremely scruffy but in a good way. I was instantly attracted to him with his light blue eyes and unruly hair but I really liked his tattoos though. "Nice ink. Can I see?" I asked reaching out towards his arm. He moved closer and extended his arm. "Nice clean strong lines. Great vibrant color where'd ya get it?" I asked brushing my fingers over it, not being able to notice how muscular his arms were.

Vince

"Uh…a friend of mine did it." I replied after clearing the cobwebs out of my head at her touch. Fool, she's just a kid. I still couldn't help but feel slightly affected by her soft hands; it'd been awhile since he'd been touched by someone other than skanks from the races.

"Yeah? Does he work for the public? Or just friends? I've really wanted to add some ink." She said moving away from me and looked up at me with hopeful eyes.

"No it's more of a hobby; I could talk to him for you. He'd probably give you a really good deal though." I answered.. Man a chick who wants ink? That's awesome even Letty was a chicken shit about it…… Remember Mia you want Mia! A voice inside me from somewhere in the back of my brain screamed but at the moment I could care less.

"Would you? Seriously? I'd be forever grateful." She grinned up at me again

"Sure, it's no problem. I keep telling him he should open his own shop, that he'd make great money. I'll call him tonight." I continued to talk to her till a car honked and I realized my car was still in the middle of the road. "Well I'll let you walk that beast I should get back." I gestured towards the angry driver who inched his way around my car before roaring down the street.

No One's POV
"Ok bye Vince." She nodded and started walking in the opposite direction. He watched her retreating form before getting in his car and drove home. "So I met the new neighbor." Vince announced walking into the house and throwing the fuses to Jesse who eagerly caught them before running outside to his car.

"Yeah? What's she like?" Mia excitedly asked.

"Why don't you go meet her once she gets back from walking her horse?" Vince replied sitting on the couch and picking up the other PS2 paddle to play against Leon.

"Her horse?" Leon looked over at him in confusion.

"Yeah she has a Great Dane and man is he huge!" Vince explained before he got into the game and tuned everything else out.