AN: Thank you guys sooo much for the reviews on the last chapter. They really mean a lot and thank you to Melbelle94 for still believing in the story and coming up with the ideas in the story. Heres another one for you guys! I had written this chapter yesterday but my sister was being induced today so I didn't post it. But the little baby decided not to come today, so I will go ahead and give it to you guys. Hope you like it!
"Its nice of you guys to finally join us." Vince stated as he walked pasted the two girls and into the office.
"I sure hope you aren't wearing that while you are working."
"What do you expect us to wear?" Mia asked putting her hands on her hips. "We just got out of school."
"Whatever." Vince told her walking past her. He threw a towel over his shoulder. "Come with me, we can get started."
"You don't really expect us to work do you?" Mia asked.
"Yes we do." Dom walked next to her. "This is your punishment for skipping school…"
"Dom, I am girl."
"I see that. Lets go." Dom began walking towards one of the cars. "Let, you can work with me on this one, Mia go with Vince he will show you what to do."
"Yo! Dom you have a phone call." Leon yelled from the office.
"You know how to use one of these right?" Dom asked holding up a wrench.
"To shove up your ass?" Letty retorted with a smirk.
"Ha! You're funny." Dom pointed his finger at her. "Just don't break anything while I am gone."
"Whatever Dom, just go." Letty rolled her eyes. She looked towards the office and watched him walk in. She sighed as she pulled the rubber band from her wrist and pulled her hair up. She unbuttoned her shirt and took it off wrapping it around her waist. This was going to be interesting. She knew nothing about cars, not a thing. She just liked the way some of them looked. She loved driving that Camaro that night though. Something about the speed and the adrenaline just made her itch to get behind the wheel again.
"Sorry, it was a client asking about his car." Dom appeared beside her. He stopped in his tracks and stared at her.
"What?" Letty asked. "Why are you staring at me?"
"You changed?" Dom noticed.
"Yeah so what?" Letty brought the attitude out. "Can we do this?"
"Sure." Dom chuckled. "So we start by lifting the car up so we can get underneath it…."
It was finally break time and Mia couldn't have been happier. She hated working in the garage. She looked over at Letty who looked like she was actually enjoying herself. She was covered in grease, but still had a smile on her face. Mia shook her head as she walked over to them. "Let, lets go get something to eat."
"Where you want to go?" Letty asked lifting her head towards her friend. She used her forearm to wipe off the sweat from her brow.
"The diner is just down the street. You want to go down there?" Mia asked.
Letty looked up at Dom who had the towel in his hand wiping his head. "You want anything?" Letty asked.
"No I am good. You have an hour, you better be back in an hour. Don't make me come looking for you…"
Letty rolled her eyes as she walked over to her friend. "He was actually decent this whole time, then the asshole just had to show itself." Letty mumbled.
"I heard that." Dom yelled.
"Are you actually having fun doing all of this?" Mia asked as they walked outside. Letty tried to put the weight on her left leg to ease the slight discomfort in the broken one.
"What you aren't?" Letty smiled. "It interests me. I don't know, its really interesting to see how a car works. I like working on them."
"I've never been so dirty in my life. I just got these shoes too." Mia whined.
"Then take them off Mi, look if we have to come here every day for the rest of our lives, then we might as well make the most of it."
"I think you are just having fun because its my brother."
Letty began to laugh. "And what about Vince huh? I see the way you look at him some times."
"Uhhh, he is like my brother Let. Don't even go there."
"What he's cute."
Mia shook her head. "He is like one of my bestfriends. I have known him my whole life."
"So what, that's a good thing."
"Have you talked to Jesse?" Mia asked changing the subject.
"No, he wont talk to me. He thinks we ratted him out about the whole skipping school thing." Letty stared ahead. With the rate they were walking, they wouldn't make it to the diner in time to eat.
"It was me actually, I thought that's how they found out. He is so mad at me right, he wont even look at me."
"Well supposedly Dom and Vince ripped him a new one. He's pretty pissed off."
"This is just great, not only do I have Dom and Vince mad at me, now we can add Jesse to the mix."
"It will blow over Mi, just give it time." Letty shifted her weight again. "I don't think we are going to make it at this rate."
Mia laughed. "You want to turn back around?"
"No, I am so tired of wearing this thing. Its very annoying."
"Have you talked to Trevor?" Mia asked changing the subject.
"I saw him at school today. He actually said two words to me this time."
"I don't see why he is so mad at you. He's the one who wanted you to race the car. He gave you the keys, it wasn't like you forced him to do anything."
"He wants me to pay him back."
"How are you supposed to pay him back for a thirty thousand dollar car?"
Letty stopped in her tracks and stared at her friend. "What is it Letty?"
"He wants me to sleep with him." Letty replied.
"What?" Mia yelled. "Let, are you seriously thinking about doing this?"
"I don't know." Letty covered her hands with her face. "What did I get myself into?"
"You need to think about this before you decide on anything. Trevor is cute but do you seriously want to have sex with him?"
"Mia, come on. Its not like its happening tomorrow. Can we just go eat and relax before we have to be back at the garage?"
"Do we have to go back?" Mia whined. "Lets just run away."
"Come on!" Letty wrapped her arm around her friends shoulder as the continued to walk towards the diner.
Letty walked up to Dom and just stared at him as he worked on the car in front of them. He was still wearing the white tank top and jeans from earlier, but something seemed so different about him. She didn't know why but she found him so attractive. She gently kicked his foot causing him to scoot out from under the car.
"You back for some more?" He asked with a smile.
"Do I have a choice?"
"No, you don't." He stood up grabbing the towel from the tool box. He rubbed his face before turning to her. "Want to learn something new?"
"Sure."
"This right here is the engine. It basically is what runs the car. You lose the engine you lose the car…"
"Can I ask you something?" Letty asked walking over to him.
"Sure."
"What got you into racing that night?"
Dom sighed as he walked over to the toolbox and grabbed the water. "I met a guy in prison who was talking about street racing. He use to be the king of the street in Mexico City, he talked of the money he made. I don't know, its just something I feel like I am good at. I watched my dad do it over and over again, it never struck my interest. I guess it freaked me out because he died in a car…"
"Can I tell you something?"
"Go ahead."
"Don't get mad, but when we were racing the other night. I don't know it was just something about being behind the wheel of the car. Feeling the speed and knowing you could possibly win. I don't know it was amazing." Letty let out a laugh. "I really felt in control."
"Until you hit a wall?" Dom looked over at her.
"I really am sorry about that. I know it doesn't mean anything but we didn't mean to scare you."
"You want to know what I thought when you two hit that wall? I saw my fathers death play over and over again in my head. When I found out it was you two in the car, my heart stopped. It made me question what I was doing, if it was the right thing."
Letty nodded her head. "They call you king of the streets here, did you know that?"
Dom began to laugh. "Really? Who is they?"
"People at school. They talk about how you race like it is nothing. They say that you just glide across the finish line like its like riding a bike or something."
"You liked racing?"
"I did."
Dom shook his head walking away from her. "Back to the engine."
"Dom…" Letty walked over to him and leaned over the car. "Will you teach me?"
"I'm teaching you about engines."
"Stop." Letty gave a small smile. "Will you teach me to race?"
"You have a broken leg Let, why the hell do you think I would want to do something like that?"
"I was just a question Dom."
"I'm not discussing this with you anymore. You two will never race again if I have anything to do with it." Dom threw the wrench down and walked away. The noise caused everyone to stop what they were doing and look at them. She looked behind her and saw Mia staring at them.
"What?" Letty yelled throwing the towel down and walking away.
Mia turned the corner of the garage. She was so happy to be done with the day, but that meant the next day would be there before she knew it.
"Yeah, I'll come and get it tomorrow." Jesse was on the phone in front of her. He looked up at her then turned away.
"Jesse…" Mia called after him. He held his hand in the air and continued on the phone. She walked up to him and stood there with her hands on her hip.
"Yeah call me tomorrow and I will figure this shit out…okay talk to you then….bye." He hung up the phone and stared at Mia. "What?"
"Will you please just talk to me?"
"What is there to talk about Mia?"
"I didn't know you weren't the one who told Dom that we skipped school. I didn't even know the principle knew. I thought you had mentioned it to them that day that you caught us."
"Do we have to talk about this right now?"
"Yes." Mia spoke through her teeth. "I am so sorry that I got you in trouble, but please don't be mad at me. I have everyone else hating me right now and I cant have you hating me too."
"I don't hate you Mia."
"Then why aren't you talking to me?"
"I was shoved up against a wall and interrogated for an hour the other night. I'm not really a happy person right now."
"I am so sorry that they did that to you."
"I cant keep protecting you Mia. You and Letty are going to get me killed."
Mia couldn't help but laugh. "They like you too much Jess to kill you."
"Just don't do anything stupid like street racing again. And lets stop skipping school."
"Trust me I have to live in this damn garage for I don't know how long. I wont be doing anything stupid for a long time."
"You look good covered in grease."
"Don't make me slap you Jesse Parker. I would rather die."
"Its not that bad Mia, lets not be dramatic."
"Mia lets go!" Letty yelled from the street.
"I guess its time to go home." Mia patted his arm. He grabbed her arm and pulled her into a hug. "I love you."
"I love you too just not when you try and get me killed."
Mia laughed as they began walking down the driveway of the garage towards the car. Letty was fixing to climb in the back seat of the Honda when Dom grabbed the door.
"You want to learn how to race?" Dom asked. Mia stopped in her tracks.
"Yes." Letty replied.
"You meet me Saturday afternoon right here and I will teach you how to race."
"Excuse me?" Letty asked climbing out of the car. "Whats the catch?"
"There's no catch. But I promise you this, I wont have a problem killing you both if you go behind my back like that again. You want to know I will teach you, no one else. You take it or leave it?"
"Does it get us out of coming to the garage?"
"Don't even think about it. That's the deal Letty, take it or leave it."
"I'll take it." Letty smiled. Before he could say something else, she wrapped her arms around his neck, hugging him. Mia's eyes widened.
"Thank you." Letty whispered in his ear.
"Don't make me regret this." Dom pulled her away from him. "Lets go!"
Letty looked over at Mia with so much excitement in her eyes. "Wow…" Mia replied walking to the car. "This should be interesting."
"Letty, did you hear me?" Mia asked walking into the living room. Letty was sitting on the couch in a daze. "Let, are you okay?"
Letty looked up and smiled. "I think I am going to be."
AN: There you go! Hope you guys liked this chapter! REVIEW!