...And we're back with the Dotty. I'm glad you enjoyed the last one so much!
Thanks to Serene Calamity for betaing for me and I hope you all enjoy it. :)
I ain't got time for you, baby
Either you're mine or you're not
Make up your mind sweet baby,
Right here, right now's all we got
A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got) – Fergie feat. Q-Tip and GoonRock
Letty slammed her locker door shut and walked down the corridor. It was a typical school day, a waste of her time when she could have been spending the hours working on her new car or relaxing at home. She gave a glare of girls who were huddled outside a classroom and spared no prisoners as she shoved past them, almost sending one of them out of the window. They scoffed at her and she flipped them off. They were the 'cheerleader squad' as Letty had dubbed them and they lived up to their name, squealing and giggling as they threw their arms in the air.
"Dumb bitches," Letty muttered, turning around the corner to see Dom leaning against a locker with another girl running a finger sensually down his face. "You have got to be kidding me."
"Hey, Letty, baby," Dom said, pulling himself away from the locker and kissing her. "You ready to go to lunch?"
"Stop the game, Dom. Let's go."
Dom left the girl standing there and followed Letty, always one step behind as the crowds prevented him from walking by her side. He reached down and grabbed her hand, only for her to yank it away and cross her arms so he could not try again. They walked in silence to the canteen and Letty quickly sat down, giving Dom no choice but to sit at the other end of the table where there were chairs. Vince looked sheepishly between the two and turned back to his lunch. It did not take a genius to work out that shit was about to go down.
"Hey, Dom," Hector said, engaging in a bro hug before taking a seat. "Got word of the races, ten pm tonight at the usual spot. You down?"
"Count me in," Dom confirmed, nodding as Vince also established his presence that evening.
"How about you, mami? You totally wiped them out last time."
"Maybe. I might, I might not."
"Always keeping us on our toes, eh? It'll be good to see you do your stuff."
"I'll think about it. I need to have a look over my girl and see if she's got it in her first."
"Alright. I'll catch you later, Gonzalez got me and if she catches me now I'll be in shit."
Hector left the table and the atmosphere changed to a frosty one. Mia was at a student council meeting and it was just the three of them. Vince stood and muttered something about getting another burger, leaving Dom and Letty to talk it out. There was no way he was going to be in the middle of that one. He had been there before and it was not an experience he wanted to repeat.
Dom stormed into the kitchen and threw himself down into a chair. Tony, Vince and Mia looked up in surprise and tried to hide smiles as Letty followed him, looking equally pissed. They had been on a date night during the second week of their relationship. Dom had arranged to take Letty down to the visiting fair after Mia had confirmed it was one of Letty's great loves. Clearly it had not gone as well as expected.
"You can't be serious right now, Dominic."
"Well I am, Leticia." At Letty's disgusted look at the use of her full name, Dom continued, "that's right; I can do the full name thing too."
"You are ridiculous," Letty reiterated.
"No I'm not."
"You are."
"Are not."
"Are to."
"Are not."
"Okay, if we can mature a little bit from the grade three talk maybe we can sort this out. You're obviously not going to be able to do this in the same room so Mia if you'll take Letty into the living room and talk to her, Vince and I will talk to Dom," Tony intervened.
Dom huffed and Mia led Letty into the living room. While apart, they calmed down and both Tony and Mia managed to get a comprehendible story. Back in the kitchen, Mia offered to start.
"From what I gather, Dom and Letty ran into a boy from Letty's grade and they exchanged some words."
"I think that's putting it a bit lightly, don't you think, Mi?" Letty huffed, annoyed at the way she had played down the situation. "All Adrian was doing was saying hi. It was an innocent talk and Dom went all ape shit."
"Of cours you would think it was innocent, he was running his fingers through your hair," Dom shouted from the end of the table.
"Yeah, he was. Not me. I had nothing to do with it and I stepped away as soon as he did it. Do not make me out to be the bad guy because I am anything but."
"It didn't look like that to me. It looked like you were damn well enjoying it. Maybe I should take you back so you can find him again?"
"Don't be stupid. You know I don't want that. You're blowing this whole thing out of proportion."
"Am I?" Dom said, standing from the table. Letty matched his stance and stood at her end, putting Mia, Tony and Vince in the middle of them.
"Yes. You need to pull yourself together. I am not invisible, I actually have guy friends and you need to realise that sooner rather than later."
At this point Tony stopped them, realising that they were going round in circles. He told Mia to take upstairs and he dragged Dom outside to the garage to work on the Charger. He knew exactly what was going on in Dom's head – he had gone through the same thing with his mother. Together they worked in silence, letting the car do the talking as father and son worked out her kinks and tinkered with her in the journey to making her purr.
"She's right you know."
"I know," Dom agreed. "But when have you ever known me to back down from something?"
Dom and Letty had reconciled later, talking out their differences. Although it was more like them exchanging light chatter before Dom apologised. It gave them a taste of what was to come, their possessiveness over each other and the lengths they would go to to make sure that everyone knew they belonged to each other and no one else. It also gave everyone else a view of what would come if it ever occurred again. Again, it was more of a case of 'when' rather than 'if'.
"What's bit your ass?" Dom asked casually, as if he didn't already know, taking a moment to glance at Letty and turning away just in time to miss her piercing glare.
"What's bit my ass? I know what's bit yours," she replied. Dom sighed, he knew now that he would need to confront the situation head on.
"Letty, you need to stop getting like this."
"I do? I'm sorry but if my boyfriend wasn't a complete man whore then maybe I wouldn't be like it in the first place."
"I thought we'd been over this when we first started dating, when we went to the fair."
"Oh, so now you're bringing that up. Brilliant."
Letty huffed and turned away from Dom, sliding her lunch around so she could eat in peace. Dom stood from his seat, throwing his wrappers away and moved to sit in front of her. She glared at him and tried to turn back away, only for Dom to clamp his arms around her to stop her.
"Stop moving when I'm trying to talk to you," he commanded in his low voice. His words vibrated through her chest and she inwardly smiled at the affection with which he spoke. He was gentle when he spoke, not harsh or fierce.
"If you want someone to talk to you can talk to the slut squad," Letty suggested spitefully, ignoring Dom's unimpressed look.
"I don't want to talk to them, I want to talk to you."
"But I don't want to talk to you."
"Lett, why are you making this so difficult?" Dom asked before noticing the small collection of glances they were getting from the surrounding crowd. When Dom and Letty had started dating, it had been unexpected. Dom was one of the school's biggest playboys and Letty was supposedly just the 'sister's best friend' and occasional friend of the boys. "Come with me? We're grabbing attention."
Letty stood from her seat and shrugged Dom's arms off her. She turned on her heel and led Dom into an empty classroom, turning on the light and shutting the door behind him.
"Go on then," Letty started," Grovel."
"No. I am completely innocent in this and I'm not going to apologise for something I haven't done."
"Boy, you are playing a dangerous game."
"I ain't no boy, Lett. But I can't control what they do. I can't slap her hand away, you what that'll look like; how dad will take it."
"Doesn't mean you can't walk away, take a step back for a change."
"This needs to stop," Dom asserted again. He walked towards the door. "And when you've thought about it, maybe we can speak."
"You're either theirs or you're mine. There is no in between. Make up your mind."
"Like I said, when you've thought about it we'll speak."
Letty watched as he walked out and she sighed with a slight anger. She hated the way he spoke to her as a child that was being disciplined. It made her feel small, and weak, but she knew deep down that she was blowing everything slightly out of proportion.
He had done nothing wrong, technically anyway. He was right when he said that he did nothing apart from not move out of the way and the hallway was busy in the run up to lunch. But she didn't want to make excuses for him.
Letty had spent the rest of lunch in the classroom and with their timetable not permitting it; she did not see Dom for the rest of the day. As per usual, she drove herself out of school but headed towards the store. Mia had taken up running club twice a week and Letty had been elected to take over her duties after school. She didn't mind it too much though, it gave her time to do her homework and catch up on some extra studying and she was especially pleased to have it now, she didn't know if she could cope with being in a room with Dom after that afternoon.
Letty went home for dinner and reappeared at the Toretto house afterwards. She said hello to Mia and Tony before heading up to Dom's room. She prepared herself with a deep breath, rapping on the door and heading inside.
"Hey," she whispered quietly.
Dom sat up properly and opened his arms, welcoming her into his embrace as she cuddled up against his chest. He kissed the top of her head and she snuggled deeper, breathing his is powerful scent.
"I'm sorry about earlier," Dom offered. He had realised once he got to the garage the way Letty had taken the situation and accepted that he owed her an apology.
"It's fine. I'm sorry too, maybe I did overreact a little."
"Maybe, just a little," he said, holding apart his fingers an inch apart in demonstration.
"But I was being serious. I'm fed up of everyone walking around and thinking we're not together anymore. I don't like it and I don't feel comfortable with it. You're either with me or you're not."
"I'm with you all the way. I know that it looked bad and I'm going to try my best to tone it down."
"That's all I ask. Thank you."
Dom lifted Letty's head and kissed her softly, running his hands down her arms and round the curve of her ass, pulling her closer into him. He ran his fingers through her hair and tilted her head further into his mouth, enjoying the moment they were in.
"You're so beautiful," he complimented.
"So are you."
"I'm not beautiful, that's too feminine."
"Maybe I'll call you my BB, beautiful boyfriend."
"No, not that. You're ruining the moment."
"Me?" Letty asked against Dom's lips. "I'd never ruin a moment like this."
"Shh."
"You shh."
"Don't start."
"Alright my BB."
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