So, this would be the next chapter. I will try my hardest to update often but as I'm sure you know life can get in the way sometimes. If that does happen please stick with me. I hope you enjoy this chapter. -Danielle p.s. I couldn't figure out if it ever mentions the ages of the characters so I am just going to make it up. Don't hate me if I'm wrong.

Chapter Two:

The usual crowd was at Dom's house when we arrived, Letty, Leon, Vince. Leon and Vince sat playing some video game, Letty and Dom were upstairs in his room, and Mia sat at the dining room table trying to read a book. She looked up when we came through the door and smiled. "Hey!" She greeted. Leon and Vince looked up then continued to play there game as if the silent busboy from the diner always showed up at the front door with garbage bags and a pillow. "You're room is upstairs." She gets up and leads the way. She gives me a quick tour. "My room," her door is open her room is a pretty green color with simple photos covering the walls. It was organized and tidy much like my old room. "Dom's room." She points to a closed door. "He doesn't like anybody going in there. Bathroom." She opens a small closet behind the door. "Top shelf is Dom's, next is mine, then Jesse's, this bottom one if yours for towels and whatever else." We leave the bathroom. She takes me to the last door on the floor. "Your room. It was our parents, hasn't been used in years." She opens the door. The room is a nice size, bigger then my other one. The walls were a light yellow, the carpet was sand colored. There was a single bed pushed up against the wall in the corner and a tall dresser on the opposite wall. "That used to be Dom's bed but after our parents moved out he switched the beds. She walked away and a second later came back with a sheet for the bed. I helped her pull it over the mattress. Jesse stood in the doorway. "There's no rules or anything. No rent fees but chippin in for groceries is nice. I usually do all the laundry but if you helped me I would appreciate it. So, welcome." She opens her arms to me, awkwardly we hug.

A door opens and someone runs down the stairs laughing. Dom walks to the door of my new room and pulls a shirt over his head. "Hey there." He greets me. "Jesse, Mia, we're heading out. Lanna would ya like to join us?" He looks at me. Dom was an intimidating guy, and I knew he would never hurt me but I still kinda feared him.

"I don't think that'd be a good idea." Jesse cuts in.

"Sure." I answer. Mia claps happily, Dom does a half smile.

"Perfect. Mia help her find something to wear." Dom leaves dragging Jesse with him.

We grab my garbage bag of clothes and dump it on the bed. Mia quickly looks through it. "None of this works." She pulls me to her room and starts going through her drawers. She tosses a black shirt at me. "Hold it up to yourself." She looks at me as I do. "You're so tiny." She shakes her head. She continues to search her drawers. "Here." She presents me with a pair of dark washes skinny jeans, and a black loose halter top. "The dress code for girls is slutty but I kept it classy." She goes to her closet and pulls out something for herself. "I keep it classy trampy too." She winks at me.

I thank her and return to my room. I strip my clothing leaving only my green bra and purple boy shorts. "Hey!" Leon barges into my room without knocking. "Oh." He looks me up and down in my underwear. I grab my pillow which is closest to me and cover myself. He continues to gawk. "We're leaving. You riding with Jesse?" I nod. He nods back at me dumbfounded and smirks. "K." He walks away. I know I'm blushing from head to toe. No one has ever seen me that exposed, ever. I quickly pull the clothing on that Mia gave me. The top is loose in the chest area but it drapes nicely and the jeans are long but i scrunch them up in the ankle area making them appear that they were suppose to look like that. I pull my hair out of my ponytail and shake it out. It gets the messy, sexy look that I wasn't going for. Mia knocks on my door. She is dressed in a camisole top and jeans.

"Ready?" I nod. She holds my hand as we walk down stairs and out the front door. The cars all line the street. Dom in front, Letty and Vince behind him, Jesse and Leon behind them. Mia lets go of my hand and gets in Dom's car, He revs his engine. I quickly slide into Jesse's car. He doesn't say anything. We speed away from the house. I sit back and listen to the hum of the engines. I knew Jesse didn't want me anywhere near street racing but what did he except when I was going to be living with him. That I was going to sit at the house alone, oblivious to why they were gone all night. I didn't think so. Besides, it wasn't like I was doing the racing, I was just going to be a harmless spectator among hundreds. We were entering a vacant parking lot. Up ahead there were two tall behinds and in between them was what looks like a party. You could see lights flashing, hear music playing and cars revving. We pulled up, people broke apart creating a path for us. The group exited their cars. Everyone rushing to greet Dom. It didn't surprise me that he'd be a celebrity among this world. To my right I saw Tuna boy. I poked Jesse and pointed in his direction.

"Shit." He mutters and walks away. He talks to Dom, Dom looks at Brian. I leaned against Jesse's car ready to watch the events unfold.

"Well, I must say, I much preferred what you were wearing earlier but this is still pretty sexy." Leon purred as he looked me up and down again. I rolled my eyes. "Oh come on. I'm just poking fun." He leaned on Jesse's car beside me. I was no longer paying attention to Dom and Tuna Boy. "So, pretty neat huh?" He says trying to make conversation.

"It's neat." I answer.

"You knew about it didn't you." I shrug. "You can't always be silent. Come on, say something." He playfully nudges me.

"Of course I knew." I add.

"Ah. She speaks a full sentence." He cheers. I smile a little bit. The crowd around us starts laughing. I look over and see what appears to be Tuna Boy saying something stupid and Dom laughing his ass off at him. "Wanna hang with me during the race?" Leon asks.

"Sure." I answer. Everyone looks like something is about to happen.

"Time to go." He leads me to his car. I wave to Jesse who looks confused and concerned but doesn't stop me.

I get into Leon's car, which is a Euro car, and quickly do my belt up. He is already driving before I have the chance to close my door. He fumbles with the dials on what looks like a police radio. He stops when he hears a women talking. I then realize that it is in fact a police radio.

We create a road block with a few other cars. A pizza delivery car pulls up. "Roads closed buddy." Leon shouts out the window. The driver gets in his car muttering about 'damn street racers'.

Leon says something into a walkie talkie to quickly for me to hear. I give him a concerned look.

"Don't worry. We get a great view of the race from here." He smiles at me. Someone is talking over the walkie talkie. I try to listen but I can't make out words. Leon must understand though because he is smiling. I hear 'go' and the sounds of cars going. Leon looks down the street and points. "They'll come from that way." He says.

We sit patiently in silence. Leon starts smiling.

"What?" I ask him. Then I hear it. The sound of engines purring and tires squealing. They were close. I look down the street in time to see them drive right past us. I almost missed it completely. "Wow." I comment.

"Wow is right. That Spilner kid sure is giving Dom a run for his money."

"Will he win?" I ask.

"The kid?" I nod. "Not likely. He may be right on Dom's tail but there's no way he can beat him." There's cheering over the walkie talkie. "Dom won." He gives me a knowing smile. The chatter one the police radio draws his attention. I hear something about street racing and realize we've been busted. Leon grabs his talkie. "Oh shit! We got cops, cops, cops, cops!" The group we are with quickly peels out. Leon shifts and does and turn driving us in the other direction. He makes a beeline for the freeway.

"Leon!" Someone yells over the talkie.

"Yeah." He answers.

"Lanna with you still?" It's Jesse.

"Course."

"Keep her safe. Anything happens you're a dead man." Jesse tries to threaten but coming from him it sounds comical.

"Meet you at Dom's in forty." They say good bye. "He's not very intimidating."

"Never has been." I add.

"I didn't even know he was your brother until a month ago when he asked Dom if you could live with them." He says truthfully. I shrug. "You're not a talker are you?"

"Never have been." I say.

"Jesse's the opposite. Sometimes you can't get him to shut up." I smile, he's always been that way. "Fuck." He swears. I turn and look behind us to see flashing cop lights. Leon speeds up and exits the freeway. The cop follows us. I grip my seat tightly, from fear and excitement. I only ever had a run in with a cop once and it wasn't even my fault. My mom and dad were having a very loud argument and a neighbor called the cops. The cop came and tried to talk some sense into my parents but after he left they just started fighting again. The cop asked Jesse and I some questions but I stayed silent the whole time. I was terrified.

Leon did sharp turns everywhere and then finally pulled into some warehouse. The cop didn't come in after us so I guess Leon lost him. We were both breathing heavily from the adrenaline rush. Leon shut the car off. We were silent, waiting until it was safe to leave. After five minutes he spoke. "That was fun wasn't it?" He laughs. I smile. "Couple more minutes then we'll head to Dom's. But we'll stay off the freeway this time."

After ten more minutes we slowly pull out of the building and into the alley. It's vacant except for some ugly cat that stared at us as we left. We take alley's and suburban streets back to Dom's house. Vehicles line the street, the house appears to be having party. Leon and I get out of the car and walk to the house. It's crowded inside. LEon drags me into the kitchen and grabs two beers. He offers me one. "I don't drink." I refuse.

"How old are you?" He asks.

"21." I answer. He gets a big grin on his face.

"Legal." He says and walks past me. I don't understand what he means by that. I stand alone in the kitchen before I decide to go to my room. Jesse hasn't arrived yet which concerns me but I remember that he has probably done this many times before and is fine. I pass Mia's room and see the door closed. I knock quietly.

"Come in." She calls. I peak my head inside. "Oh hey." She smiles at me.

"I just wanted to see if you made it home." I answer.

"Aw thanks. So did you enjoy the race?" She asks.

"Yes." I answer.

She laughs. "I'm glad."

"I was just heading to bed." I say.

"Good night." She says.

"Good night." I say back. I close the door behind me and see the front door open. I stand at the top of the stairs and see Jesse comes in. He looks around the living room. "Jesse!" I call to get his attention. He looks concerned then relieved when he sees me. We wave and then he goes into the living room. I make my way to my bedroom and close the door behind me.

I contemplate having a shower but think otherwise, with the party going on the chances of someone walking in on me are great. I fold my clothes and put them away. I make my bed, and change into my pajamas which are some blue shorts and a black tank top. I quickly brush my hair and then crawl into bed. I toss and turn, too hyped up from tonight's events to fall asleep.

I grab one of my books and attempt to read it. It's a book I found in the basement when I was six, one that had belonged to my mom when she was a teenager. I didn't read it until I seven though. It was called 'Night'. A book about something, that at the time of me reading it I had never heard of. But I liked it anyways. Even though it made me want to cry it still became my favorite book. Now though I flipped through it aimlessly without really reading it. (A/N: The book I am referring to it Night by Elie Wiesel. It was the only one I could think of that was a best seller and that I had read, and wasn't fairly new.)

I set it beside my pillow and close my eyes. I smile to myself, happy, something I hadn't been in forever, and fall asleep.

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