"I don't know how Carla and I got our wires crossed. I don't wanna leave you alone tonight. It's the Fourth of July. You know, I'll see if someone can cover for me..."Mrs. Ortiz complained while putting away more clean laundry into Letty draws.
"You know, I'll be fine." Letty reassured her mother.
"-You sure?" Mrs. Ortiz asked, worriedly.
"-Yeah, I'll be okay." Letty said with a smile.
"What are you gonna do?" Mrs. Ortiz asked.
"I guess just read a book or something." Letty answered with a sigh.
"Bro! So how long has she been sick?" Vince asked, curiously while working on a car transmission.
"Her whole life..." Dom said, softly though the tone of his voice was filled with sadness.
"Wow! That rough...are you sure that you want to continue to be so involve..."Vince asked, curiously.
"I know where you getting at..."Dom said, softly.
"Nah! I don't think you do. This girl is clearly ain't like the ones you've mess with in the past. I'm saying this because I care, but don't start something you can't finish and if you do start. The only direction you should be looking is only in her's..."Vince told him.
Dom didn't take offense of Vince words because he knew he meant well. Vince mother was always in and out of the hospital, until recently her health had improve. So, Vince had become more sensitive to the fact and, although he had never met Letty. He felt like it was his responsibility to look out for her.
"Lemme guess this is your way of saying I can't be trusted?" Dom questioned.
"Well, Pretty much...Bro! I'm just being real. But, I won't lie since you been talking to her. You've been only looking at her. So maybe there is hope for you after all..."Vince said with a chuckle.
Dom laughed out loud, but he knew in his heart this girl is 'IT', he wouldn't or couldn't ever bring himself to hurt her. She may not have realize it yet, but Dom had already made Letty his girl.
Dom finally arrived at her house they were now in the sun room. They had a perfect view of the fire works bursting through the night. They spent more time talking about random things about their selves and stuff they like to do. Until things went silent...
"This is an ellipsis..."Letty pointed out, softly while sitting at the opposite end of the couch.
"Does that mean that we're having an awkward silence or that you're thinking?" Dom asked, curiously.
"Both." She answered, back.
"What are you thinking about?" He questioned, curiously as moved a bit closer to her on the couch.
"I'm thinking that we should probably agree to just be friends." Letty said, softly while looking into his eyes.
"I don't think you have that kind of restraint." Dom said with a grin and light chuckle.
"Well, my life is an exercise in restraint, so..."Letty pointed out with flirty smirk.
"Does this mean I can't look at your lips anymore?" Dom asked as he unintentionally licked his lips.
"No." She replied back with faint smile.
"Your dimple?" He asked.
"I don't have dimples!" She said with giggles.
"Your hair?" He asked.
"Friends!" She replied back.
"Ellipsis." He said softly with a smile.
"You make me wanna stay in Los Angeles." He said, softly, while gently reaching over for her hand and gently lacing his fingers with hers, then leaning very close to her lips.
"Why would you go?"..."What are you doing?" She questioned him in a delicate whisper as she gets lost in his warm eyes.
"I'm moving closer to you. Is that okay?" He asked as he gently tuck one of her loose strands of hair behind her ear.
"Yes, it's okay." She whispers back to him.
'Okay. I should tell you we shouldn't push our luck, but I can't. I don't want to.' She quietly thought to herself.
"Are you sure?" He asked once more because he was feeling very unsure. This was actually his first time feeling nervous. Dom had his fair share of making out with other girls in the past, but Letty was different she held a special place in his heart.
"Yes." She told him with a faint smile.
Dom moves his head closer to Letty. She sits frozen, from both fear and excitement. She leans in, so her foreheads rests against his. They close their eyes. Both their breaths are shaking. "Thank you," she says in barely more than a whisper.
"For what?" He replies, his voice low and husky.
"For being you." Her voice wavers, exhilarated from the tension between them.
Dom gently leans in and kisses Letty's warms lips.
They pull apart and take shaky, shallow breaths. Unable to contain themselves anymore, Dom holds Letty's head in his hands and pulls her into a fiery and passionate kiss. Her hands work their way around his body, feeling each crevasse, each line along his perfect physique. They pull apart and open their eyes. They stare at each other, deep into each other's eyes. Dom's full of wonder and love, Letty's full of curiosity and passion.
"Is it always like that?" She asked, curiously.
"It's never like that." He replies back with a sweet smile.
After sharing that passionate kiss and watching more the fireworks. Dom made his way back home, but made sure to give Letty a call. Letty was in her room lying in bed with her phone against her ear and talking with her possible first love.
"Are you sure you're not sick? You feel fine?" Dom asked, worriedly.
Letty faintly giggles,"Yeah, I feel fine. Better than fine, actually. I feel pretty perfect."She said, softly while snuggling up against her pillow.
"Even though we touched?" He asked.
"We did. Shared the same breath." She said with a smile.
"Yeah, we did. Kissed." He said with a smile, while reliving the experince in his head.
"Like I said, perfect." She said, happily.
"Hey, goodnight." He spoke softly, while peaking out his window.
"Goodnight." She told him, while turning over in bed and looking at her window.
'I read once that we change the upper layers of our skin every two weeks. But some of our cells don't renew. They age, and age us. In two weeks, my lips will have no memory of kissing Dom. But my brain will remember.'
The next day Letty heard Dom voice outside his tone of sounded distress and extremely anger. She quickly ran to the window of her living room and saw Dom arguing with a friend. She knew that was Dom friend because he often came over to the house, and at times came over when Dom wasn't around.
"Yeah, that's right, -walk away, Brian." Dom shouted.
"-Leave it alone, Dom. Walk away! It's not your problem, okay?" Brian shouted out.
"It's not my problem It's not my problem. You really just say that to me right now?" Dom shouted, angrily.
"Stay out of it!" Brian fire back.
"-Stay out of it?" Dom repeated back with a questionable tone of voice.
"-Yeah. Stay out of it." Brian shouted back, angrily.
Dom was so heated and upset that he threw a punch into his best friend Brian face. Brian stumble backward but held his footing enough to punch Dom back in the face.
"How's that? How's that for staying out of it?" Dom shouted, out angrily.
" -Really? -Enough!" Brian yelled, angrily just before jumping into his car and speeding off down the road.
Letty quickly ran down the stairs. She place the code into the keypad and unlocked the front door. Without hesitation she ran outside, and quickly went over to Dom. Her mother her the keypad being unlocked and saw her daughter running out of the house hysterically. Mrs. Ortiz wasted no time and went after her daughter.
"Letty!?"
"Dom!"
"-Letty? Letty, what are you doing?"
" -Are you okay?" She asked, worriedly.
"Letty?"
"Are you hurt? Are you okay?" She asked, worriedly while scanning her eyes to look for any visible injuries on his body.
"I'm okay. What are you doing? Go back inside! Go!" Dom raised his voice back at her. He never thought he could raise his voice at her but he knew the history of her health and it was obviously something he couldn't take lightly.
"Leticia! Leticia!"
"What are you doing? I don't understand. Why would you do that?" Mrs. Ortiz asked, curiously as she followed her daughter back into their house.
"I'm sorry. I had to make sure that he was okay." Letty explained, while going through the entrance of her door to the irradiators to sterilize her clothes from the outside.
"-Did you touch anything?" Mrs. Ortiz asked with a concern tone of voice.
"-No." Letty replied back.
"Did you touch anything?" Her mother asked once more.
"No, no. For the forth time. No! It was less than a minute." Letty shouted out at her mother with frustration.
"A second is all it takes." Her mother warned her.
"I know, and again, I'm sorry." Letty apologized.
"Why would you risk your life for a total stranger?" Her mother questioned her with great curiosity in her voice.
Dominic Toretto was no stranger to Letty and that was something her mother fail to realize. He went from being the boy next door to someone she had fallen head over heels for...
***Unfortunately, I'm still having problems with posting on FF! I temporarily found a solution but I doubt it'll last long. I haven't post any new chapters because I've been sick with the flu and fighting a fever. Plus, working crazy holiday hours at my job. When I did find the time to post a new chapter. I realize FF, is having a problem with there Doc. Manager, anyways, I will find a way to post the latest chapter. Enjoy! (^▽^) ***
