Chapter 9:
A week went by of the same stuff. Harley worked at the garage daily and at the bar Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Right now she was at the garage dealing with some stupid customer because he didn't know what he was talking about. "So you want a direct nitrous…"
"No, no…" The guy who had to be in his twenties said shaking his head. "I don't know."
Bobbie was fed up. "Dom!" She called into the garage.
"Yeah." He came out.
"Deal." She said pointing to the customer and walking over. Dom smirked to himself and helped out the customer.
"What was that about?" Letty asked when Bobbie came in tossing the wrench she had been holding and trying not to beat the guy over the head with into the drawer of the tool box.
"Men." She muttered. "Picky, picky…" She said disgustedly to herself.
"What are you bitching about?" Bobbie turned and smirked at her boyfriend.
"Men. You're all entirely to picky." She said teasingly.
Han laughed shaking his head. "What can I say?"
"Nothing she's said the same thing since she was sixteen about her first boyfriend and hasn't changed her mind since." Bobbie looked away from Han at the open garage door.
"What are you doing here?" She asked with no emotion what so ever.
The girl kicked at the dirt with her perfectly pedicure foot accentuated by her strapless three inch spike heals. "You never called back."
"Did you ever think I was still processing what…oh hell this you we are talking about Kaci. You don't think you act first. You've always done it why should this be a surprise to me?" Bobbie said bitterly.
Kaci sighed as she brought all her hair around to rest on one shoulder easily long enough to flow over and cover her right breast. She wore Bobbie's classic mustang shirt and that made the girl even angrier. "Would you please just talk civilly with me?" Kaci asked.
"Want me to beat he stuffing out of her?" Letty asked.
Bobbie snorted with a soft laughed and shook her head. "Nah if anyone's going to beat the stuffing out of her it's going to be me." She said.
"No one's beating anyone." Kaci said firmly. "I just came to talk."
Han gave Bobbie a gentle shove towards the garage door. "Go." He instructed softly.
Bobbie glanced over her shoulder and scowled. "I don't want too."
"Yes you do. Now go." Han ordered her with a playful smile.
Giving in Bobbie walked out of the garage and gestured for Kaci to follow her. When they reached the end of the drive Bobbie whirled around and Kaci stopped dead in her tracks as she finally had caught up in her heels. "New boyfriend?" Kaci asked.
"Why you going to screw him too so I'll see what kind of a guy he really is and break up with him?" Bobbie bit out aggressively.
"I'll admit I went about things the wrong way, but it still had the effect I was looking for an I wont apologize for that." Kaci said quickly.
"You could've had someone follow him and take pictures, you could've hired someone to fuck him, but no you got a thought in that blonde head of yours and you decided to put your plan into action."
"Bobbie I'm sorry alright! Jesus why can't you just believe me when I say I did it for you? I didn't mean to hurt you and it kills me that it did. I thought that you'd give me time to explain."
"Oh yeah cause explanations are really what I wanted to hear after I found my boyfriend and my best friend fucking on my kitchen table…IN MY GOD DAMN HOUSE!" Bobbie yelled. "Had it been any other girl it wouldn't have mattered. Throw them out, throw them both out and pack his shit, but it was you!"
"You're right! It wasn't my finest hour or my brightest plan! But I am your sister can't you at least look passed this one stupid shitty thing I've done and see what I did I did for you?" Kaci asked. Bobbie could see the tears welling up in her eyes and she felt like giving in. But on the other hand she didn't want to, she had been hurt and she intended on throwing it back at her.
"Adopted sister Kaci! Adopted! You are not my blood."
Hurt flashed in Kaci's eyes and Bobbie instantly regretted what she said but didn't let it show. "You're right." She said tears spilling silently down her cheeks. "I'm not your blood, but I have treated you like such since we were eleven years old! I have been there for you every minute of every day! I was there when you woke up screaming in the middle of the night! I was there when you fell off the swing set and broke your arm and again when you cried your eyes out cause you didn't want to see the doctor! I was there! I've always been there!"
"Yeah well…"
"I'm not finished." Kaci interrupted her keeping her voice even as the tears continued to rain onto her cheeks. "I was there for you when you wrecked your car, cause you decided to drive drunk! And I have been there every morning you had a hang over because you decided to find your peace at the bottom of a bottle, I was there when you were at your worst. I sat with you and held your hair back while you puked up major organs! So for once in your life put yourself in someone else's shoes. Would've you have done the same thing if you were me?"
Bobbie thought about what she said long and hard. Kaci had been there for the last thirteen years, every nightmare, every bad day, every party she had gotten massively smashed at after the first time she was so stupid, Kaci had been there and had lied for her several times about her drinking with their parents.
Bobbie used her fingers to brush the hair back over her head while the wind decided to whip it around. "Maybe." She said softly. "I don't know."
"I just couldn't let you keep seeing him when I knew he was cheating on you. I tried telling you so many times, but you ignored me. I don't know why?"
"I felt safe. Our relationship sucked after a year but I felt safe with Kyle oddly enough and I didn't want to see that he was sneaking around on me." Bobbie said softly.
Kaci sighed. "Bobbie…"
"It's Bo. You know that." Bobbie said giving her a small hint of a smile.
Kaci smiled back. "Bo I couldn't let you end up with him. I'm truly sorry for how I handle things, but I'm not sorry for the outcome. Can we be sisters again?"
Bobbie looked at her and Kaci held out a silver locket to her. "You found it?" Bobbie grinned.
"Tej helped me after I talked to him. He wasn't too happy with me either." Kaci said laughing lightly.
Bobbie smirked. "Tej is my boy."
"I know. He towed the car out and the necklace was on the rearview mirror. In truth the necklace is all that mattered to me. I understand why you did what you did and I can't blame you. I'm sorry though for making you that upset." Kaci said sincerely.
Bobbie grabbed the necklace from Kaci and held the small white gold locket in the palm of her greasy hand. "Sorry for destroying your car." Bobbie said softly.
Kaci giggled. "Your car. You did the work, you put in the time it should've been yours."
"Yeah but I gave it to you. So I'm sorry." Bobbie said.
"Thanks but it's ok. Tej is actually fixing it as we speak." Kaci said casually.
Bobbie nodded. "Right." She said.
Kaci stood awkwardly before Bobbie and lifted her sunglasses to rest on her head. "So…"
"So." Bobbie said.
"Are we ok?" Kaci asked.
Bobbie bit at her lip for a moment and then looking up at Kaci squinting slightly as the sun hit her eyes. "Yeah. I guess." Bobbie said. Kaci walked up and gave Bobbie a hug. Bobbie not really understanding why was hesitant at first but then put her arms around Kaci and hugged back. "I didn't mean what I said about only being your adopted sister."
"It's ok." Kaci said as she pulled away. "No matter what either of us says out of our emotional states we're always going to be sisters. You and me babe." Kaci said smirking at her.
Bobbie looked her over. "I see you paired a jean skirt with my mustang shirt." She said teasingly.
Kaci glanced down at herself. "Oh right. Sorry."
"It's ok, but I want it back. I shelled out thirty bucks for that shirt." Bobbie joked.
Kaci crossed her arms and grabbed the hem of the shirt. "Now or later."
Bobbie laughed. Kaci was much like Bobbie about modesty. Neither of them actually had any. "Later. Please."
"Fine. So what's the skinny with LA?" Kaci asked.
Bobbie smirked at her. "How long you in town for?"
"As long as I want. I bought a one way ticket hoping you'd give me another chance." Kaci said. "And maybe invite me to stay." She said grinning sheepishly.
"Typical Kaci." Bobbie laughed softly. "Would you like to stay with me? I can't guarantee you any kind of sleep, or anything but you can come stay with me."
"Uhh…" Kaci looked at her funny. "I'm not going to hear um…"
Bobbie cracked up laughing. "No, no…I meant…I meant." Bobbie gasped trying to catch her breath. When she finally calmed herself she looked at Kaci and grinned. "I meant I work late nights, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and Thursdays are race nights, and most other nights Han's over and we just chill out together in the living room till we're tired, but we are both night people so…"
"Oh…so his name is Han?" Kaci asked.
Bobbie nodded. "Yeah. Come on." Kaci followed her back up the drive to the garage and inside.
"Unscathed. Surprise, surprise." Letty remarked with a barely their smirk leaning back against the car she was fixing up.
"Let chill." Bobbie said. Letty nodded and went back to work.
"Why don't you quit dicking around and get back to work." Vince growled at Bobbie.
"Go blow yourself." Bobbie retorted.
Vince snorted. "Eat me." He said.
"Let me get my chopping block and a knife. All though you couldn't satisfy one person let alone seven." Bobbie threw back at him.
"Bo do you always have to pick on Vince?" Bobbie smiled at Han as he walked in from the back junk area with Dom.
Bobbie shrugged and looked over at a scowling Vince. "Only when he picks on me first." She said sticking her bottom lip out in a pout at Han.
Han smirked and leaned down giving her a kiss after stepping up to her. "Vince would you quit picking on my girl." Han remarked looking over at his friend.
Vince scoffed. "No."
"You're an asshole." Kaci remarked.
"Oh god another one." Vince grumbled.
Bobbie grinned. "She comes from my territory. Guys this is my sister Kaci. Kaci this is Letty, Dom, Leon, Vince, you remember Jesse and this is Han." Bobbie said pointing to each of the people as she spoke.
"Hi." Kaci said giving a short wave.
"And Mia is at the café today, probably waiting on us for lunch." Bobbie said.
"Wait sister?" Letty asked. "I thought you said you guys were best friends like sisters?" She added.
Bobbie nodded. "We were best friends before her mom and dad adopted me when I was eleven."
"Why were you adopted?" Leon asked curiously.
Bobbie smiled sadly. "Ok guys let's go to lunch." Han said. He turned Bobbie around and put his arm around her shoulder and they walked out of the garage together.
Kaci followed on Bobbie's other side. "They don't know." Kaci said quietly.
"No." Bobbie replied in a hushed tone. "But Han does." She added.
Kaci nodded slightly. "He treating you right?"
"He is right here. Ask him." Han stated.
"Men lie." Kaci retorted.
"Not this one." Bobbie stepped in. "Han treats me wonderfully." She said smiling up at him. "Um baby?"
"Yeah?" Han asked.
"Why don't you go to lunch with everyone and I'll take Kaci to my place and get her set up." Bobbie said smiling at him sweetly.
Han looked down at her and frowned. "So you are going to make me deal with a grouchy Vince?" He joked.
Bobbie giggled and nodded. "Mmmhmm…" She hummed softly.
Han nodded. "Fine. Be back sooner rather than later." He said reaching down and giving her an affectionate kiss.
"We will be. Promise." She tiptoed up gave him another kiss and than grabbed Kaci's hand and headed off to her car. "Get in." She said pointing to the passenger door and got in herself.
"All right this whole thing is freaking me out!" Kaci exclaimed reaching to the console and turning the air conditioning on as Bobbie put the car in drive and pulled onto the street. She gave a quick wave to everyone and then sped off.
"What is freaking you out?" Bobbie asked.
"You! I haven't ever seen you like this." Kaci said. "You kissed him in public."
Bobbie laughed softly. "I've kissed him on the beach, in the store, at my place, his place, the garage…"
"That's what I mean. What the hell have you done with my sister?" Kaci asked smirking at her excitedly.
Biting on her lower lip Bobbie glanced over at her. "Han's different. He saved my twice from Kyle."
"I heard about that from Tej. I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I brought it on by taking the one thing he cherished more than his own life. But Han saved me from him and we had this funny flirting thing going. Like a couple nights after I came looking for Jesse he was prying as to why we had different last names, one thing led to another I went home a got Shitfaced on a bottle of Jack and he showed up."
"Oh god do I want to know how this ends?" Kaci giggled.
Bobbie laughed lightly. "I ended up sleeping next to him in my underwear."
"Bo!" Kaci exclaimed.
"What can I say I was drunk? I'm sorry, but anyway nothing happened. And the next morning he started pushing again and I got pissed and told him the truth."
Kaci chuckled very faintly to herself. "How'd he handle it?"
"He felt bad for being nosy, but oddly enough it was sort of ok him knowing ya know it just felt like it was nice having someone to talk to. I didn't have to hide it from him."
"You really like this guy?" Kaci asked.
"Where are you stayin?" Bobbie asked.
"Ramada inn." Kaci said. "Spill."
Bobbie drove towards the inner workings of town and thought to herself with a smile. "I actually wanted to have sex with him Kac."
"Holy shit!" Kaci exclaimed exuberantly. "You are fucking kidding right." She asked in disbelief. Bobbie pursed her lips shut to keep from grinning and she looked over at Kaci and her grin just graced her features anyway. Kaci's mouth fell open in shock and she was practically hopping in her seat. "How was it?" She asked.
Bobbie groaned. "We're getting into girl talk here."
"I don't give a shit. Spill it right now." Kaci said smirking at her incredulously.
"Fucking fantastic!" Bobbie exclaimed.
Kaci looked at her in disbelief once more. "I don't believe it. Did you, ya know?" She asked. Bobbie blushed. "Holy shit you just blushed. He's got you blushing! Ok seriously some weird alien took over your body. You are not my Bo." She said still in shock.
"Well you think that's odd we've had sex multiple times, multiple nights the last week." Bobbie said grinning at her sister.
Kaci's eyes bugged out of her skull in astonishment. She jokingly reached over and put a hand on Bobbie's forehead. "You must have a fever." She said laughing.
Bobbie swatted her hand away. "No I'm perfectly healthy." She said giggling.
"I just can't believe this. I don't know what this guy has done to you, but I like it." Kaci said smiling.
"I'm happy Kac. Happier than I ever was with Kyle. He actually took me on a real date. Not dinner at the house or making-out in the backseat. I am talking a decent restaurant and a walk on the beach." Bobbie said looking over at her and smiling.
"How long have you two been a couple?" Kaci asked.
"Officially a week, but unofficially a month or so." Bobbie told her.
"Unofficially what does that mean?" Kaci asked.
Bobbie shrugged as she turned into the Ramada Inn parking lot. "We sort of did this friends with benefits thing for a few weeks before really making it an official relationship."
Kaci sighed in relief for her sister. "He makes you happy?"
"He does. He can make me smile even if I am having the worst moment ever. And I haven't gotten shit face drunk in a while either with him around. A few coronas sometimes, but besides working at the bar no hard alcohol outside of work." Bobbie explained.
Kaci looked over and smiled at the brightness just radiating off Bobbie. "I'm glad."
"I have a shift tonight at the bar." Bobbie said. "You're more than welcome to come."
Kaci smiled. "Wouldn't miss it."
"It's nothing to get all worked up about." Bobbie laughed getting out of the car. Kaci got out as well and they locked the doors and headed in to the hotel so Kaci could get her bags and check out.
"Hell yeah it is! I plan to shake my ass on that bar." Kaci laughed.
Bobbie chuckled softly. "So let's get your shit and get out of here." Kaci agreed and they got inside and went up to the thirteenth floor in the elevator laughing about nothing at all.
"So what's with that Vince guy, he's kind of rough and sexy as hell?" Kaci said smirking as they stepped off the elevator and she walked down the long hall towards her room.
Bobbie giggled. "We have this sarcastic relationship. He can't handle what I dish and he's always trying to one up me but it never works. I think he might just need to get some. Or at least that's what Han says."
Kaci smirked at her. "Think he'd be interested?"
"He isn't the dating type."
"I don't care. Do I look like the dating type to you?" Kaci retorted sarcastically.
Bobbie laughed. "No. You are and always will be the Miami bitch Barbie and I feel bad for any guy lucky enough to land you as his arm candy." She joked.
Kaci laughed softly and opened the door into her room and let Bobbie in. "Thanks." Kaci said sarcastically. "Love you too."
"Oh you know it's true you coined the termed Miami bitch Barbie remember?" Bobbie kidded.
Kaci nodded. "Senior year in high school. God I miss that." She laughed.
Bobbie looked around the room and saw that things were strewn around. "How long have you been here?" She asked.
"Since yesterday. I was trying to work up the courage to come see you." Kaci said.
Bobbie nodded. "Well get your shit and let's go."
"Ok hold your boxers on." Kaci joked.
"They aren't my boxers." Bobbie grinned.
Kaci looked up from where she was shoving stuff in her suitcase and her jaw fell open in a big grin. "Incredible. You're wearing his boxers?"
"They were in my dryer this morning so I put them on." She said.
"And what did he say to this?" Kaci asked.
Bobbie shrugged. "Nothing. Doesn't know I have them on."
"The elastic is visible how could he not?" Kaci grinned.
Bobbie smirked. "He looks a little higher up than my waistline."
"Oh…he's a keeper." Kaci joked.
"He looks up higher than my rack too."
"A real keeper this one." Kaci said mockingly.
Bobbie smiled. "He looks me in the eye. I love that. No other guy could do that."
Kaci smiled and walked over pulling one suitcase on wheels and carrying the other duffle bag. "Good for you."
"Come on let's get you settled I have to get back to work." Bobbie smiled and they headed off to check out and get to her place.