Remy invited her back to Hector's club to celebrate her victory, but she decided to go back home. When she got there she found Zan sprawled out in her bed. She got in the shower then joined her son in slumber. She spent the next few nights just as before at the races. She won most of her races creating a name for herself. Hector showed up a couple of times for old times sake.

Letty sat on her car talking to Doogie after a race. She had taken to the the boy because he reminded her a lot of Jesse. Young and excitable when it came to cars. He offered to help to make some modifications to the Roadrunner. They were both under the hood when Remy approached her. He waived Doogie away and the kid complied.

"What's up?"

"People been talking."

"Yeah." with a raised eyebrow she replied.

Remy pointed to a black man standing in the distance. "Don't be a stranger." He threw her a black box.

She looked confused. "What is this?"

"Your diploma."

"Leticia Ortiz." Letty wiped her hands on her gown and walked to the front to get her diploma. It was a long four years and she was glad it was over. She heard the whoop and hollers from both her families. Her Abuelita and her crazy cousins, then the Torettos and Vince making fools of themselves. Letty gave a big thumbs up to everyone when she got her slip of paper. They continued to cheer long after she got off stage.

"Keep 'em closed." Vince ordered covering Letty's eyes with his massive hands.

"I hoped you washed your hands." Letty joked.

Vince took one of his hands and sniffed it. "They're clean."

Mia quickly covered Letty's eyes with her own delicate hands. "Vince!" She scorned.

He shrugged. The other Toretto's were busy pulling a tarp over Letty's graduation present.

Mia and Vince managed to get Letty to sit on a stool in the garage.

"Ok Vince you can take your hands off." The elder Toretto order.

Letty mocked surprised. "You guys got me a lump!" She pointed the the giant lump in the middle of the garage floor.

Mia hit her on the shoulder. "Go check it out."

Letty rolled her eyes and sighed. She slid off the stool and removed the tarp. "You guys got me a hunk of metal!" She squealed.

"Do you always have to be a smart ass." Dom noted.

Letty nodded. "Yep. That's why you love me."

"Well?" Mr. Toretto asked. "Do you like it?"

Letty walked around her metal. She could tell by the make that her lump was a Nissan. She had mention it in passing that she was saving up for a new car. She couldn't share a car with her cousins forever. But she wanted to play it cool. "It's ok."

Dom stepped closer to her. "Say it." He whispered in her ear. Letty shook her head. "Say it." He said a little more deeper.

Letty felt a chill go up her spine. Ever since she had gotten back from Hawaii last summer Dom had been a little more attentive to her. Always finding a way to be near her, touch her, and now he was killing her.

Dom put his hand on the small of her back and started rubbing her gently. "Say it." He whispered again.

"Fuck." She said exacerbated. "Fine. It's a sweet ride." She couldn't hold her excitement any longer. "How'd you guys know?"

Mr. Toretto laughed. "Letty you've been dropping hints every time you get a chance. Man I can't wait until I get some money I'm gonna buy me a Nissan 240 and sup it up." He mocked in a high pitched girl's voice.

Mia piped in. "I can't stand sharing a car with Stacy and Allison. When I get my Nissan those bitches are gonna have to drive themselves." She mocked.

Vince was about to put his two cents in when Letty pointed a finger at him. "Shut up."

He gave her a innocent church boy grin. "I didn't say anything."

She ran her fingers gently around the the jagged edges of the car. "What happened to it?" It was in a sad state.

"Some kid hit at pole doing 80 racing." Mr. Toretto said. He wasn't a fan of street racing and always made it clear to Dom, Vince, and Letty that under no circumstances were they supposed to engaged in the illegal activity. "Don't think I don't know what you kids are up to." He said turning the trio.

"Pop no offense, Letty couldn't race this thing even if she wanted." Dom laughed. "She could maybe tow it. It's gonna some major wrench work and money to get it driving down the street let alone race it."

Letty laughed. "What! First off Dominic. Who said I don't have the cash? I got hella lot of money form my Quinceañera saved and I'm raking it in from graduation. And don't worry about the wrench work cause I don't get distracted by every little thing in a mini skirt that walks by."

"Yeah." Dom said challenging.

Letty crossed her arms. "I could have my Nissan up and running in a couple of weeks."

Both of them were staring each other down. Mia leaned into Vince. "Those two need to get a room."

"Letty, I got this for you cause I want you to have something to drive home on weekends." The elder Toretto piped in.

Everyone got quiet. Letty hadn't told anyone but Mr. Toretto and Abuelita about getting accepted to college. Her guidance consoler had made her fill out a bunch of applications. Letty didn't think that she would get accepted anywhere let alone pay for college. But, her guidance counselor and apparently Mr. Toretto had gave her glowing recommendations. She got the accepted to Santa Cruz Polytechnic University in the mechanical engineering program.

Mia was the first to speak. "You got into college?"

Letty looked at her shoes. "Yeah. I was gonna tell you guys tonight."

"That's great Letty!" Mia hugged her. "Where?"

"Santa Cruz Polytechnic University."

Dom looked at her. "Santa Cruz?." He asked solemnly.

The next morning Letty meet Brian at Harry's. "Seems people been talking." She handed him the black box Remy gave her.

"Is this what I think it is?"

"Apparently, I've graduated." She said with a devilish grin.

Brian examined the box. "It's a GPS unit." He crinkled his head in thought. "I guess this is how they contact you about the races."

"So what I sit by the GPS and wait ?"

He tossed it back to her. "Yep."

Letty's phone rang. "Hey Kiddo... Shit I forgot.... Ok you'll get your 5 bucks when I see you. You know you're driving me to the poor house. Back at you." When she hung up the phone she noticed Brian's million dollar smile. "What?"

"You're someone's mom."

She punched him in the arm. "Shut up."

Brian opened her jeep door. "It suits you, Letty. Motherhood."

Letty ran into Zan's school caring his costume that Mia had made. He was standing waiting for her with Dom's impatient expression he got when ever she forgot something.

"Mom you're late."

She put her hands up in the air. "Sorry, lost track of time." She kissed him on the forehead.

He wiped it off. "Mom." He took his costume. "Are you going stay?"

Letty looked into the auditorium. "Is scary cat lady here?"

Zan laughed and took Letty inside. "There you are Zan. I see you have your costume. Go let Coach Cortiz help you with the costume." A tall slinger woman said.

He nodded and ran to the front of the auditorium. "You must be Zan's mother. I'm Ms. Perry his teacher."

The two women shook hands. "He talks about all the time." Letty said putting her hands in her pocket. She was never was found of teachers.

"He's a great kid. One of my brightest students." She gestured for Letty to sit down. "But he has been falling asleep in class..."

Letty sighed. "He's been having trouble sleeping." She ruffled her hair in frustration. "Things haven't been easy for him. The move was a big adjustment for him."

"He tells me that you guys have moved around a lot and he seems pretty angry that his father left."

Her eyebrows raised. She wondered how much her son has told his teacher about their lives. She never had a conversation with him about her and Dom's past about why they had to move around so much. She wanted to protect him from that part of their lives. Letty nervously ran her hands through her hair. "He took it pretty hard when his Dad left. That's why I decided to come back to L.A. I have family here and I thought it would better for him to have the stability of family."

Ms. Perry put a comforting hand on Letty's lap. "You don't have to explain to me. As a parent you do what you think is best for your child. Like I said Zan's a great kid. Everyone just adores him."

"Hey Mom what you think?" Zan turned around in his tin man costume.

Letty couldn't help but smile her man looked good. "You look great Kiddo."

Ms. Perry smiled also. "Zan's the tallest kid in the third grade we figured that he would make the best tin man." She told Letty.

Zan was beaming. "My scene coming up you wanna watch me?"

"Por supuesto. Hay ninguin donde esté algo."

Letty sat and watched the rest of Zan's class rehearsal of the Wizard of Oz.

She decided after rehearsal that she would take Zan out for dinner. "So I had a chat with you teacher."

Zan put down his cheeseburger. He knew what they had talked about. "Are you mad?"

"No. I wished that you would have told me how you were feeling. You always told me everything, Kiddo."

He looked down fiddling with the fries on his plate. "I didn't want to make you sad."

"Hey look at me." Zan looked up with tears in his eyes. "There is nothing in this world that you can do to make me sad." Letty went to his side of the booth. She wiped his tears with her sleeve. "How bout we skip school and work and we hit the waves tomorrow morning."

Zan perked up. "Really? Just you and me?"

"Just you an me. But, you can't tell your Aunt Mia because she'll kick our ass if she knew we ditched."

He laughed and stuck his hand out. "You cuss. Five bucks and you still owe me my five from earlier."

Mia found Letty the next morning at the table eating a bowl of cereal. "Zan's up early." She noted sitting down her breakfast plate.

"Is he?" Letty smirked.

Mia nodded. "Yeah and he went to bed the first time you told him to last night."

"He's a good boy."

Mia laughed and took a bite of her eggs. Letty snatched a piece of bacon from Mia's plate. She tried to grab it from her but Letty was too quick chumping down on it. "I got a letter from Leon." Mia told her.

"Yeah?"

Mia nodded. "He's getting married."

Letty choked on cereal. "What?"

Mia smiled. She got up to get the letter so that Letty could read it. "He even sent a picture."

Letty looked at the picture. Leon was clean shaven and had put on some pounds since the last time she saw him. The girl on his arm was beautiful. She had jet black hair and dark eyes. "Wow, some one has tamed our boy."

"He's coming back. He wants to introduce her to his mom and step father, and go see Jesse."

"Jess birthday is Friday." Letty read the letter. Leon was coming back to LA and he would be here in three days.

Translations

por supuesto. hay ningún donde esté algo- of course there is no where I rather be

A/N

Whew! I got this one out. Crazy week work and school are kicking my butt. Thanks for the reading & reviewing. Tonya