The rest of the morning went by in pretty much the same manner. For lunch Leon, Letty, and Brian went home, Mia had sandwiches ready when they walked through the door, she was greeted with a small kiss on the lips from Brian.
Letty grabbed her sandwich and a soda from the fridge, linked her arm in Mia's and pulled along saying they needed to talk.
"There's this girl at work, who Leon thinks may take Vince's mind off you," Letty told her once they were up in her and Dom's room.
Mia's eyes lit up, "Really?"
Letty nodded and swallowed the food in her mouth.
"Great- but, will she go for him?"
Letty shrugged, "I dunno- could you send him up to the store?" Letty snapped her fingers; a light bulb had just turned on in her head. "Ok… got it. We usually take our last break around 2:30. Send him up to the store with some water, we'll see how they react then."
By the time the last break came around, they were waiting on the last truck to arrive.
Standing in the parking lot, one of the other girls had the stereo of her truck on, playing some country music. Mazzy started making fun of it, linking her arm in Letty's and dancing, singing, "Chicken in the bread pan pickin' out dough" in an overly exaggerated southern accent.
The girl who had the music blaring joined them. During the course of the song they managed to do the Hustle, running man, and wash board.
Vince had pulled up and was standing next to Leon when the song changed on the mix C.D. to something my Snoop Dogg. Vince watched as Mazzy had dropped to a squat on the ground, then straightened her legs straight up, sticking her shapely ass in the air, slowly moving her upper body up, she slapped her hip. Leon watched Vince as he stared at Mazzy's ass and grinned, winking at Letty.
Mazzy turned around and caught Vince staring; she started laughing and turned ten shades of red.
"Hey V, where's the drink's?" Letty asked.
Vince was still eyeing Mazzy up, his upper lip twitched and Letty smacked his shoulder playfully.
"Huh?"
"Drinks?"
He turned to Letty and jerked his thumb to his car, "In the cooler."
Letty stopped by Mazzy; "You want something cold to drink?"
"Yeah, that'd be great," Mazzy answered as she paid Vince's body the same attention as he had to hers, good looking guy, rough around the edges, dark brown hair, full beard, dark blue eyes, and tall. She watched his ass as he walked to his car. Good gods was all she could think.
This did not escape Letty's radar, and she watched Mazzy with a smile as they followed Vince to his car. Vince popped the trunk and opened the cooler. "V. This is Mazzy, Mazzy, this is Vince-V. " Letty introduced as she handed Mazzy a bottle of ice cold water.
When Mazzy shook Vince's hand, she noticed scars on his forearm and tried not to stare, instead, she looked him in the eyes, "Nice to meet you Vince."
The fact that Mazzy had noticed the scars was not overlooked by Vince, and he cut the handshake short, "Nice to meet you too. "
Mazzy took a long drink of the water and looked at Vince again, "Thanks for the water, man- it's never tasted so good."
Vince shrugged, "Mia sent me."
Mazzy tried not to look disappointed as she said, "Well, you'll have to thank her for me," before walking away.
Leon saw the look Mazzy had tried so hard to hide with a smile. Letty saw it too.
Brian had been standing nearby and rolled his eyes. He knew Vince was still holding out hope that some day Mia would "see the light" as he'd put it to him once.
Vince watched the fair skinned girl walk away, that's when he saw she had some kind of tattoo poking out of the top of her tank top.
"One of them for me?" Brian asked.
Vince looked at him, "Yeah."
As Brian grabbed a bottle out of the cooler, Vince was back to staring at Mazzy, she'd just lit a cigarette and was sitting against the building in the shade.
"Cute, ain't she?" Brian prodded.
Vince huffed, "Well, she's no Mia." To him, Mia was quite possibly the most beautiful woman he'd ever laid eyes on. Mazzy was cute, had a very nice ass, but still not Mia.
Brian shrugged, "And that, Vince, is why you're going to be a lonely, bitter, old man one day."
Vince turned toward Brian, his stance becoming that of a fighter, "Well why the hell do you care? You got Mia."
Brian took a step back, not wanting anything started at this new job. "And maybe you should move on."
Letty sensed the tension and poked Vince in the ribs, "Dawg, I think she's diggin' on ya."
Vince forgot about Brian for a minute and covered his side. "Stop Let, that tickles," he said with a grin. "You think so?" He asked, returning his gaze to Mazzy, Leon had taken a seat next to her in the shade.
"Dude, I saw the way she checked ya out."
"Friend of yours?" Mazzy inquired looking at Leon as he sat next to her.
"Yeah, known him for years." He watched her take a drag from her cigarette, "I didn't know you smoked."
"Once in awhile, I've been trying to quit- as you can see, it's going well."
Leon gave her a lopsided grin, "Mia's Brian's girlfriend."
"Who?"
"Mia- who sent V with the water. She's also Dom's sister."
"Dom?"
"Letty's boyfriend. We're all living in the same house right now… just like old times, 'cept now there's Brian too."
"Like one big, happy family." Mazzy stated, rather than asked.
"I dunno about happy, but big family- yes." He looked out at Vince and Letty playing around like brother and sister. "He's a good guy, has some issues, but he's a good guy."
"And this pertains to me how?" She asked as the truck they'd been waiting on pulled in.
Leon looked up at her when she stood, shit, he thought. Had he looked too much into her checking Vince out?
Mazzy finished her water, "Think he's got anymore?"
Leon shrugged, "I dunno."
Vince stopped horse playing with Letty as soon as he saw Mazzy walking in his direction.
Letty stifled a grin and her and Brian walked back towards Leon and the store to watch.
Mazzy walked up to him, bold move on her part, she usually watched new people before conversing with them.
"Vince?" She asked quietly.
"Yeah?"
"I was, erm, wondering if you had anymore, uh, water?" Fuck, why? Why are you nervous NOW? She asked herself.
Vince just looked at her for a minute, as if trying to comprehend what he had just been asked. He blinked a couple times, "I, um, I don't know." He answered, sticking his hand into the ice, feeling for a bottle; he found one, pulled it up and handed it to her.
Mazzy looked at it, her brow furled, "I, uh, don't think I can drink that at work."
Vince glanced at the bottle of Corona he was holding, feeling stupid, "Shit, sorry." He stuck his other hand in and found another bottle, this time a bottle of water, and handed it to her.
Mazzy smiled, "Thanks. I should go-."
"Yeah, see ya 'round," Vince said, closing the trunk, he watched as she jogged up to the door Leon had been holding open for her, once she was inside, he got into his car and pulled away.
