Chapter 2
Groaning in her sleep, Bella reached over to her night stand, knocking over every other thing as she searched for her phone with her eyes shut. There was NO logical reason that someone needed to talk to her this early in the morning.
It was Saturday for hell's sake!
"What do you want?" She grumbled, her eyes still closed as she lifted the phone to her ear, the yawn stuck in her throat.
"Hey, baby sister." Dom's gritty voice resounded through the phone, causing her to smile just as she opened her eyes. "Hey, Dommie." She chuckled at his nickname as her eyes glanced over the clock at her left.
"Dommie, you better be calling me from jail because it is six in the god damn morning. On. A. Saturday." Bella growled good-naturedly. She knew that it wasn't easy for him to accept her choosing to move in with their uncle Charlie after their latest… escapade in Miami. But she was only 19 years old, it wasn't very smart for her to have that much knowledge of the authorities, even if her boyf-…ex-boyfrien-…her Brian was one.
"Not my Brian" She muttered under her breath, forgetting that she was on the phone with her brother.
"I swear to god, Bells, if you're honestly thinking about Brian when I call you, we have some talking we need to do." He dead-panned, ignoring Letty as she downed the rest of his beer.
"Shut it, bro." Curling up on her side, she bunched the covers around her as she rested her cheek on the pillow, her phone caught between her skin and the cotton. "What's up? How's everyone?" She knew how everyone was, she still kept in contact with Letty every now and then, but she Letty never talked about Brian other than to say he was fine. She wanted to actually know what was going on with him, other than him just being fine. After all, if Bella was a pissed off mess, he deserved to be worse than fine.
Well, now she was just being dramatic but…still.
"Rome pissed off the Chen crew-" Dom started only to be cut off by Bella's groan, "Fucking Roman. Why does he always do before he thinks?" "-and we're all going to lose our cars if we don't find someone that can beat Chen himself. And you know me, Bells, I can do it without a damn doubt, but Rome bet that the famous Swan could do it." He continued without stopping, already used to her interruptions.
"…Why did he…why did you let him…Why am I even involved in this bet…" She muttered, thought after thought spewing through her mouth, knowing that she didn't actually want an answer, just that she needed to vocalize what she was thinking.
"Bells, it's a one on one race. It's all of our cars on the line." Dom knew he was coming dangerously close to pleading, but how could he not? He worked for fucking years on his babies.
Huffing, she closed her eyes as she groaned even louder in annoyance.
"Fine! But it's going down on my terms. Tell Rome to tell Chen that everyone's asses need to be up here. The damn race isn't going to cut into my finals. I'm this damn close to actually graduating, Dom. I'm not traveling and fucking it up." Bella said softly, smiling slightly as the knowledge hit her. She would be the first Torretto to actually graduate. And they all damn knew it too.
"How about this? You race, we help you study, you graduate then we take that damn trip you've been wanting to take?" Dom compromised, already agreeing to her terms. He was so damn proud of her as it was.
"You mean it? We'll actually ALL go cross country?" She lingered on the word "All" because she knew they had already been there, done that, but she never was with them. That or they were never actually together the entire time.
"Yeah, baby sis." Dom smiled slightly, hooking his arm around Letty as she said hi to Bella over his shoulder.
"Hi, Letty!" Bella called, the grin on her face unmistakable, she'd finally be seeing her family again.
"Bring it on, big bro."
