I own nothing, the characters and settings of this story belong to the writers and producers of the Fast and the Furious, just borrowing for fun.
I saw a spider
I didn't scream
Cause I can belch the alphabet
just double-dog dare me
And I chose guitar over ballet
and I'd take these suckers down
cause they just get in my way.
The way you look at me
is kind of like a little sister.
you High Five your Goodbyes
and it leaves me nothing but blisters.
Letty and Mia walked out of the double doors of school, finally it was summer, and they had both been counting down the seconds till freedom.
"Letty you are incredible! I can't believe you just punched out Jake," Mia squealed as she skipped down the steps onto the courtyard "Only you could get a detention for next year before we even start summer vacation!"
"The buster put a spider in my locker" Letty explained shrugging her shoulders. What else did Mia expect her to do? Letty was known to take a guy down for jumping the queue in the cafeteria, and no one talks about what happened to the foreign exchange student who got in her way during drivers Ed.
Mia just rolled her eyes and laughed at her best friend "You aren't even scared of spiders"
"Bastard didn't know that when he put it there" Letty replied with a smirk before defending her actions slightly, she didn't want her mom or Mr Toretto to get too angry with her over it so she had better start damage control "you know in some countries provocation is a defence for murder."
"Leticia if you used your brain for good instead of evil you could be like President or something."
"President of what? The deep muff diving club?" Quipped Vince slinging his arm over Mia's shoulder and speaking into her face.
"Stuff it Vince, even if Letty was a lesbian which she isn't she'd get more girls than you can." Mia growled shoving him and his arm away from her angrily.
"You gonna make me stuff it huh Mia" Vince teased getting into both girls' faces "or maybe Letty will show me some of the moves she used on Jake Paterson."
"Vince reel it in, I don't want to have to make you 'stuff it' for harassing my little sisters." Dom warned, at some point he had arrived and was watching the exchange between his little family with amusement but Vince was getting close to a line and he figured now was a good time to step in and diffuse the situation."So Letty what happened with you and Jake?"
"Nothing he put a spider in my locker so I punched him. stupid idiot hit the water fountain on the way down, not my fault." Letty said indignantly, pulling her sunglasses from her pocket and resting them on the end of her nose rebelliously.
Dom laughed nudging Letty gently with his elbow as they began the short walk from school to the block that all four kids lived on "That's what I love about you Letty, it's never your fault."
"I just don't know why that fool had to start on me, ruining my summer buzz and shit." Letty mumbled in reply desperately trying to hide the blush that was spreading across her face.
"Probably wanted to make you scream" Dom suggested lewdly wiggling his eyebrows and enjoying Letty's discomfort.
"Well he was the one screaming when his nose started pouring blood" Letty gave Dom a playful punch on the arm.
"It's obvious that he likes you Lett," Mia explained as if it were as clear as the sky being blue "He has wanted you ever since Luisa's Quinceaños!"
"You mean the Quince where Letty burped the alphabet over the DJ's mic" Vince laughed
"It was a Double Dog Dare Vinny!" Letty said leaving her place at Dom's side and squaring up to Vince, the two year difference in age equated to about a foot in height but the younger smaller girl made up the difference with confidence and attitude "I guess you are too chicken shit to know what putting your money where your mouth is means!"
"I'm smart enough to know not to put anything of mine near that dirty little mouth of yours." Vince teased smiling down at the fuming girl in front of him.
"I see him looking at you all the time." Mia said dreamily as if she hadn't heard any of the exchange between her best friend and her brother's best friend.
"Looking at what? Sister Maria the Chem. teacher shows more skin than les-ticia does," Vince laughed at his own lame joke and tugged at the navy blue two sizes too big cardigan that Letty had inherited from her cousin Marisol and was still wearing despite it being summer. "You'd think that we lived in Alaska the way that you are always covering up."
"What are you doing looking at Sister Maria Vince?" Mia challenged
"What? I bet she has a smokin bod under that magician's cloak she wears."
"That is her Holy Habit Vince, you are one sick puppy." Letty said disgusted pushing Vince out of the way before continuing to walk home.
"Man checking out Nuns is sick even for you" Dom condemned before following Letty down the road
"Whatever it's not like I was checking out Sister Bernadette" Vince called out after them earning him more than a few looks from the collection of students from their school who were also walking their way home.
"Letty!" Mia shouted out running to catch up with her friend and brother who had walked off after Vince's comments "See what you are leaving me with for 3 months! Please don't go!"
Letty stopped for a second and looked at her best friend "Ummm staying here with these two sweaty losers for 3 months while they take turns braiding each other's hair or going to D.R and sitting on a beach… let me think" she smirked at the look of utter desperation on her best friends face. Truthfully she had sulked for a week when her mom had told her that she would be spending her entire summer looking after her grandmother and working with her cousin Juanita instead of hanging out with Mia and working in Tony's garage.
"You are going to the beach? I hope you packed your burka!" Vince joked as he jogged up behind them and pushed into a space between Letty and Dom.
"Whatever not all women want to walk around wearing next to nothing." Letty slid him a sideward glance before rolling her eyes at him, bastard was laughing at his own joke, what a loser.
"Real women do," he countered before heading to his failsafe of accusing the tom boy of being a lesbian "I'm surprised you haven't noticed Lezzy."
"Vince seriously give her a break, we all know you are just being mean to her cause you think it will make you miss her less." Dom joked afraid that Letty might be warming up for round two; she had already given one guy a black eye.
"I won't miss her big mouth but I might miss her little hands when I'm trying to rebuild an import engine." Vince confessed diffusing the tension that had built up between him and the pint sized Latina.
"That's better."
"Yeah man you are killing me with emotion." Letty drawled sarcastically thankful that they had reached their block and she could get home and start packing. Lately Dom and Vince's constant ribbing was becoming a little too much for her to bear
"Seriously Lett, be good out there and stay out of trouble, I love ya girl but I don't want to have to fly out there and kick some Dominican ass on your behalf." Dom joked walking Letty to her door even thought it was broad daylight he couldn't seem to break a habit of a lifetime.
"I'll try to be good," Letty promised kicking herself for being such a wuss as to let his sentiments affect her. "and you be good as well, look out for my girl Mia and make sure that you hose Vince down every couple of days, man don't be lying with that number of dogs without catching some fleas, speaking of which, your ride is here." The last few words came out as a thinly disguised growl; Michelle Tran had pulled up outside her house. Stupid bitch, in her stupid pink jeep. Letty could barely believe that Dom would let himself be driven around in that monstrosity of a car, though it could be worse, Dom could be riding bitch on the back of a her matching pink crotch rocket.
"shit I forgot, Yo Mich, I'll be there in a minute." he called out to Michelle before turning back to Letty and repeating his eyebrow wiggle. "Damn that girl is insatiable! High five chica." He slapped her unenthusiastic hand before jogging down the path past Mia and Vince.
"Drop by the party later, keep Mia company if you want. Ciao sorellina," he kissed Mia quickly on the head before calling out to Letty who had already closed the door "adios hermanita"