Author's Note
This chapter is mainly just a filler chapter, the next chapter has a lot of my own twists to it and I can't wait to post it for you all to read.
Chapter 3 is already written so if you review the faster the next chapter will come out.
Chapter Two- NOS and Racing
Brian walked into Harry's with a disgruntled look on his face as he made his way back behind the counter and into the back of the store and saw his boss Harry rubbing his temples with one hand while the other was holding the phone.
"Hey Dominic, I appreciate what you did in a big way. Dominic, I owe you." Harry said into the phone and hung it up and looked at Brian. "Brian, you are messing with my business. When Dominic drives he's golden. Kids pour in here, they want everything he has, every performance part, and the pay cash!" Harry said to him following Brian into a small room that had a sink, a closet, and a full sized bed in it. Brian washed his face at the sink then used his t-shirt to dry it off and then put on a new one.
"What did Dominic say?" Brian asked Harry.
"You don't want to know." Harry said as if it was something so bad it could end the world.
"What did Dominic say?" Brian asked not thinking it'd be that bad.
"He wants you outta here." Was all Harry said and Brian knew that Harry had in fact been overdramatic.
"He wants me outta here?"
"Yes!"
"And what did you say to Dom?" he asked.
"What do you think I said? I told him, good help is hard to find." Harry said while sighing.
"Hey Harry. Relax. We wouldn't want you to end up with a high blood pressure would we?" Brian said jokingly, then stopped and thought for a moment and then snapped his fingers as if a light blub that was above his head had just been lit, then walked out of back and into the shop looking around.
"I need NOS. I need NOS." He mumbled and Harry followed him.
"No." Was all Harry said.
"My car topped out at 140 mph this morning." Brian said as if that would explain everything.
"Amateurs don't use nitrous oxide. I've seen the way you drive. You've got a heavy foot. You'll blow yourself to pieces period." Harry said to him trying to reason and it was true, Brian did indeed have a so-called 'heavy foot', although he'd never admit it.
Brian ignored Harry and walked up to a display in the shop and tapped on the glass lightly. "I need one of these." He said then looked around and pointed towards the other side of the shop. "One of the big one's. Actually, no. Let's make it two. And, Harry, I need it by tonight." Brian continued the walked out of the shop not giving Harry a chance to say anything else.
It was a couple hours past sunset and cars of all kinds lined up a long street with people crowed all around. Brian drove up in his neon green Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX he parked it and stood by it, waiting for Dominic.
A Hispanic guy who was sitting across the street from Brian saw him and looked around to his group of buddies and in a friendly tone said, "Hey, hold up, hold up. Look at this snowman right here, man. Sweet ride." He walked towards Brian and looked at the car. "What you runnin' under there man?" he asked and Brian just stared at him. "You gonna make me find out the hard way?" the guy asked with a grin
Brian's stiff face became friendly and with a smirk on his face said, "Hell, yeah man."
"You brave, you brave." He said pointing at Brian and walked up to him. Brian was taller by about 5 inches. "They call me Hector. I got a last too, but I can't pronounce it, so…" Hector said leaning against the car lightly, to Brian who chuckled a little.
"Brian Spilner."
"Ah, typical white boy name. Know what i'm sayin'? See that over there? That's mine. It's my baby. But I ain't cuttin' her loose tonight." Hector said good naturedly.
"Why not?" Brian asked curiously.
"It's 'cause I'm goin' legit. Tryin' to get on the NIRA circuit. You heard about that?" Hector said and Brian looked surprised for a moment.
"Oh, Hell yeah."
"Yeah, yeah. So what's up with you, man?" Hector asked him
"Me? I'm just waiting for Toretto."
"Shit. Better get in line. This yours?" A guy asked while walking up to him and Hector.
"Yeah. I'm standing next to it." Brian said. 'I'm standing next to it. I seriously need to be cooler.' He thought to himself.
The guy laughed, "That's funny. You know, Edwin happens to know a few things." The guy said speaking about himself in third person. "And one of the things Edwin knows is, it's not how you stand by your car. It's how you race your car. You better learn that." He finished.
"Oh, shit. Here they come. It's on." Hector said as he saw a group of cars coming towards them.
The four cars from earlier that had been outside the shop came up behind a red Mazda RX-7 FD3S. It was Dominic and his crew. They all got out of their cars and started getting down to business greeting everyone they knew.
"Dom!" Some random guy yelled and Dom smiled at him and yellsed "Marvin!"
Dom is leaned against the hood of someone's car as two girls came up to him and sat by him.
"Hey Dom, how you doing?" One asked him.
"Hey Camille. You been doin' Yoga?" he asked making conversation and continued to talk with other people.
"Oh you did? Of course you did." Dom said with a smirk on his face to the someone. "Monica!" he yells out to someone else and continues to chat with the people surrounding him.
Letty walked up to Dom and the two chicks with Lily and Mia behind her. Letty made a sound like a cat growling. "Meow...I smell...." she said and pretended to take a big whiff. "Skanks. Why don't you girls just pack it up before I leave tread marks on your face?" Letty said intimately. Lily just smirked slightly at Letty's comment.
"Ok" Camille said without a fight and got up to leave. "Later Dom."
Dom looked at Letty slightly annoyed but not showing it. "Letty, I was just talking." Dom said to her as she sat herself on his lap.
"Yeah, whatever" Letty said not believing him.
Dom ignored her and looked at Hector who was greeting Lily and Mia.
"Hey Hector what's up?" Lily asked him
"Eh nothing much my little chicka. How you be doin'?" Hector said standing close to Lily.
"Fine." Lily replied crossing her arms over her chest while leaning against a car.
"Ok, Hector back it up." Dom said and Hector stepped away from Lily with his hands up and put them back down and walked towards Dom.
"Just saying hey is all. So what's up with you man?" Hector asked. Edwin ended up walking towards both Dom and Hector. "Yo, what's up? "
"Edwin." Dom said in recondition.
"How we doing' this tonight?" Edwin asked.
"One race, two-G-buy-in. Winner takes all. Hector, you're gonna hold the cash." Dominic said.
"Why Hector?" another racer asked.
"Cause he's to slow to make away with the money, man." Edwin said joking,
"Okay, good luck, guys." Dom said and did the manly hand shake thing. When Brian stepped up out of the crowd.
"Hey, wait. Hold up. I don't have any cash, but I do have the pink slip to my car." Brian announced.
Jesse who was by Lily and Mia said, "Hey, you just can't climb in the ring with Ali because you think you box."
Lily scoffed. "I think we learned he could box earlier today." She mumbled to Jesse who then shrugged his shoulder as if to agree.
Brain heard her and smiled a little at her and gave her a nod she returned it. He pointed to Vince. "He know's I can box. So check it out. It's like this. I lose, the winner takes my car, clean and clear. But if I win, I take the cash, and I take the respect." Brian said.
Mia and Jesse laughed, Lily who had her arms crossed brought one up and lightly slapped hit against her forehead. "Idiot!" she said while shaking her head, hearing the laughing around her she chuckled as well lightly. She looked at Brian and gave him a, 'Not the brightest thing to say' look with a small smile that followed.
"Respect." Dominic said incredulously. While everyone around gave another round of laughter.
"To some people, that's more important." Brian stated simply and a few other racers nodded their head in understanding.
"That your car?" Dom asked and pointed to it. Brian nodded and Dom pointed to Jesse who went over to the car and popped the hood and looked at the engine. As the hood was opened the people near by awed at what they saw.
"I see a cool-air intake. It's got a NOS-fogger system and a T-four turbo, Dominic. I see an A.I.C. controller. It has direct port nitrous injection." Jesse said informing Dom of what was under the hood.
"Yeah, and a stand alone fuel management system. Not a bad way to spend
$10,000." Dominic said after walking over to the car and standing by Jesse.
"You see that shit? He's got enough NOS in there to blow himself up, period"
Edwin said looking at the amount of NOS Brian had. A few looked up shocked at
that.
"Yeah." Was all Dom said.
"So, what do you say? Am I worthy?" Brian asked
"We don't know yet. But you're in. Let's go." Dom said with a smirk. Brian handed Hector his pink slip and everybody got into their cars and started to line up down the long road some blocking the entrances to the road and a select few had walkie talkies to communicate.
Dom's crew all were at the finish line Leon and Lily were sitting in his car was keeping tabs on the police scanner.
When a pizza driver pulled up, "What the hell's going' on around here!" the pizza driver yelled while stepping out of his car.
"Street's closed, Pizza boy. Find another way home!" Leon yelled and Lily
smiled and waved bye to the pizza guy while laughing a bit.
"G**damn street racers!" the pizza guy yelled as he drove off.
Leon and Lily listened to the scanner and they heard, "Log on 22, code three.
Tension is high. They've blocked the street."
Meanwhile Brian was sitting in his car nervous about what he had just gotten himself into. This was going to be his first real race. "You're gonna win. I'm gonna win." He said to himself giving himself a pep talk. While the other 3 racers did their own thing to prepare themselves for the race.
"...in a public place. We had a reported homicide, 187, at Barabian Liquors." The
scanner continued and Leon looked at Lily then nodded.
"I got a 187 in Glendale. Cops are all over it, man. We're good to roll. I repeat,
good to roll!" Leon said over a walkie talkie while Lily yelled. "We're clear!"
while getting out of the passenger side of Leon's car and leaning against it.
"All right!" Hectors response from over the walkie talks. He was down at the starting line.
"Let's race!" Leon said loudly.
"Alright get ready… GO!" Hector yelled and raised his hands and threw them down as he yelled go and all four cars launched forward and
down the street.
One of the other racers besides Dom, Brian, and Edwin saw Dom pass him and
said, "Damn, that guy's fast."
"Let's go! 'Menage a'!" Edwin said to the car while speeding down the road with a smile until Brian who had been in the back pressed the 1st NOS button and Brian went ahead of Edwin's car. "NOOO!!!" Edwin yelled.
Brian smirked as he passed 2 of the cars and he was closely gaining on Dom when the computer system he had started beeping he got nervous and yelled at the machine to shut up he then slammed the computer closed and he pressed his 2nd NOS button and smiled figuring he had the race in the bag when bolts and nuts started to fly in the car as a metal plate came loose and it started to drag on the street it finally came loose and flew out from underneath the car.
While Dom was racing in his car he saw Brian speed again and he shook his head. "To soon…" he muttered then pressed his own NOS button and zoomed ahead of Brian and made it across the line first by about 4 yards, everyone burst out cheering and clapping. While others where collecting their money from the bets they made. Brian's car stalled out and he sat there for a moment he then began heading towards where everyone else was.
"Here's what you want, right here. There you go. You were racing' a bunch of skateboards, know what I mean?" Hector said with a light laugh and handed Dominic the money.
"My sister holds the money. Count it. " He said and handed Mia the money he then picked up Letty. "And you're my trophy." He said.
Brian pulled up his car making funny noises he stopped cut the engine which had smoke coming out of it and climbed out with a goofy grin on his face as all the racers reached the end.
"Was that fun?" Jesse asked him slightly annoyed and lifted the hood off the car, tons of smoke coming up in a big cloud and many people chuckled and went oooh at it.
Dom walked towards the car and saw Brian standing next to it with the goofy grin still in place. "What are you smilin' about?" he asked him.
"Dude, I almost had you." Brian said with a grin and pointed at Dom. Lily sighed and shook her head again while the group around them all laughed at Brian again.
"You almost had me? You never had me. " He asked with amusement evident in his tone along with a smirk and he pointed to himself and then to Brian as he talked. " Hell you never had your car." He said and walked around the car to the front while talking. "Granny shiftin', not double-clutchin' like you should. Your lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake." He said. "Almost had me?" he said to the crowd and chuckled lightly while the crowd let out chuckles as well.
"You tell him Dominic." A random person yelled out.
"Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip apart the block, and replace the piston rings you fried." Dom informed Brian as he surveyed the damage to the car's engine.
Dom closed the cover of the engine and looked at Brian. "Ask any racer, any real racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning." Dominic finished.
Meanwhile Leon sat in his car watching and listening to what Dominic was saying all relaxed until he heard on the police scanner/switchboard that was in his car say, "All available units, we have reported street racing along Hawthorne."
Leon's eyes widened and then he got out of his car and yelled, "Oh, shit! We got cops, cops, cops! Go!" and then he got back into his car. While everyone else scrambled to get to their own cars.
Author's Note- Hope you all liked this please review I'd love to know what you think. Remember you review the 3rd chapter comes out faster since it's already written. - rnl1993