SCARS

CHAPTER 10
BATHROOM TALK

Vince knocked on the bathroom door. "Nikaury, baby. Come on let me in."

Mia called Vince once Brian had explained why she would have done that and how they knew each other.

"No not yet. I need a few more minutes." Her voice was shaky and Vince wasn't buying the story that Brian fed them.

After getting the call from Mia telling him that Nikaury was locked in the bathroom he ran back to the house. The search for Dominic wasn't going anywhere plus Leon and Jesse were still out looking for him since they finally found Letty at her parents place.

Running into the house what he saw stopped him in his tracks. His worry for Nikaury turned into anger for the bleeding blond.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" Vince puffed up with air after seeing Brian.

"V, dont, okay?" Said Mia coming from the kitchen with a bag of frozen peas. "Tilt your head back." She told Brian changing the bag of ice on his nose with the bag of peas wrapped in a towel.

"What the hell happened? And where is Nikki?" Vince's anger was now reaching its tilt. Only something serious would hve made Nikaury hit Brian so hard that she could have broken his nose and probably one of her fingers.

"She was telling me what happed with Letty and Dom when she saw Brian. Once she finished telling me about you guys going to find them, they argued, she hit him and ran into the bathroom. I could hear that she was crying so I called you." Mia looked over in the direction of the bathroom with genuine look of concern, that touched Vince.

"Why would she feel the need to hit you?" Vince asked Brian crossing his arms.

"We had a falling out some years back." Brian said from under the frozen peas. He removed them and Vince saw his bloody nose and how the inside of his eyes were getting as purple as his nose. He tried to move his nose and grimaced. "Dam I think she broke my nose!" he said.

"Serves you right." He began walking to the downstairs bathroom where Mia said she was and looked back. "I want the whole story when I get back."

"Nik come on what's up?" Vince tapped on the door after a few more minutes.

He heard her unlock the door and when she didn't open it, he went in. Nikaury was sitting on the toilet with a rag in her hand it had some blood on it. He figured it was from her fist. He sat on the edge of the tub and took her hand to examine it. After kissing her bruised knuckles he kissed her forehead.

"Ready to tell me why you hit the buster?" He lifted her chin to look in her eyes. "I think you broke his nose. And though I'm proud," she smiled a little, "I still would like an explanation. How do you know him?"

She sniffed and whipped her tears. "He," she started, "he is the reason I spent most of my junior year in high school in the hospital." Vince got up to rush out of the room but Nikaury grabbed him. "No wait, listen."

Vince sat hesitantly, and waited for her to start. Nikaury took a deep breath and began.

"I know Bullit or Brian, from when I was in high school we both grew up in Barstow. My dad was in the navyl, he was always away and since it was just us two I stayed with my aunt most of the time. I told you about that. Remember we went to visit her last Christmas." Vince nodded so she continued. "He and my cousin were best friends and always getting into trouble. Then we all started boosting cars for this guy who owned a chop-shop. We were young and stupid. Especially Bullit. Then the idiot when to the police academy." She shook her head remembering. "That was when it happened."

"Yo what the fuck is wrong with you Bullit?" Nikaury – then known as Aury – smacked Brian upside his head.

"What are you talking about woman? Yo Ro get this chick off my back." His friend was coming out of the kitchen with a hot-pocket in one hand and plate with two more plus two cans of soda one in each pocket. "Thanks man." Brian said reaching for one of the hot-pockets.

"Get your own white boy, these is mine." He said making sure to sit as far away from him as possible. "Now what are ya'll arguing about now? How I'ma beat your as at Gran Theft Auto again?" He said laughing and picking up one of the game controls.

"No," Nikaury said sitting with a huff grabbing the other game remote from Brian. "Your idiot friend here just joined the Police Academy today." Roman stopped the game.

"Yo, she lying right? Please tell me she's lying." Brian stood up scratching his head game and food completly forgotten.

"Na bra, you know I'm not going to narc on you guys or anything. Its just my dad and my sisters they've been buging me to join you know its like a family thing."

"Roman get this busta out of my crib I don't want to be around him when shit hits the fan." Nikaury said.

"Yo Aury, chill. Brian what we do aint all that legal?" Roman said. Nikaury left because she didnt want to be around their long time friend at that moment.

Nikaury ran back into the room. "Shit, guys here comes Tyrek." She said sitting down playing with her nails as if nothing was going on. Tyrek came into the 'fort' looking furious.

"What are you doing here?" He asked Brian. Nikaury saw the shape of the gun he had tucked into the back of his jeans.

"Nothing man I was just leaving." Brian said getting up and leaving the room.

"Tyrek really didn't like that Brian was now going to be a cop and after working for him he saw Bullit as a threat." Nikaury paused and whipped her tears. "He made us go on a spree of boosting cars one was a cop car. I dint know and I was coming in with it when I noticed some police officers following me."

"Yo Ro, I got a problem." Nikaury said into the two way radio.

"What's going on chica? Where are you? I thought you was behind me?" Roman was standing by the garage door looking for any sign of Nikaury.

"Like I said I gots a situation. There has been a Taurus following me for like ten minutes so I turned to try and loose him but he's still on my ass." Nikaury was nervous but she didn't let it show, not in her voice or in her driving.

"Fuck!" Roman said getting into his car. "Aight baby girl I got you, where are you? I'm coming to get him off you. You just come straight here."

"Aight hurry." She hung up and drove around to the street she told Rome she'll be at. And just like that he came speeding down showing off like always. The Taurus immediately went after him and Nikaury hightailed out of the area making sure she wasn't followed before heading to the drop point.

"What took you so long?" Tyrek said startling Nikaury as she got out of the car in the garage.

"Sorry I had a Taurus on my ass." The reference to the car told Tyrek that there was law enforcements involved.

"Did they see you come here." He said going towards the gate, he looked around before he closed it.

"Na, Ro went out to take care of him. I'm gonna meet him at the fort in a few. You coming?" She was putting her jacket on and heading towards the door when Tyrek reached for her.

"Why you going so quick? Chill for a minute I got some friends coming over and they got some good weed." He licked his lips and was rubbing his hands together.

Nikaury sighed and Vince was scared as to what she was going to tell him. This had been the one thing she was never be able to talk to him about. He knew it a little bit of but knew that it was bad and it was really hard for her to talk about it.

"The 'T' on my back he made them that day. He wouldnt let me leave that garage till sometime after midnight. By then Roman was calling Brian to help him look for me. They had not talked for awhile at that point and he was already a cop. But I went straight home and into the shower then to bed." Vince pulled her to sit with him on the floor of the bathroom. She looked like she needed to be held. "Tyrek came looking for me the next few days and I kept telling Rome and my aunt to tell him that I wasn't there. One day my aunt was at work and Rome went to the store and Tyrek came in through the back door."

"Yo why the fuck are you avoiding me?" Tyrek grabbed Nikaury by the arm off the couch.

"Tyrek please let me go." Nikaury tried to make her self sound irritated insted of scared. He released her and went to kiss her, she let him peck her on her cheek then backed away.

"What's wrong baby I thought you like this? You didn't complain the other night at the garage." He licked his lips and she cringed. Nikaury felt so stupid for falling into the sweet talk he fed her and sleeping with him. While it started out ok till he turned around and began getting really rough with her to the point of cutting her.

"Tyrek not right now. I'm just not felling well, okay? How about I call you tomorrow?" Nikaury walked him to the door.

"Na, girl it don't work that way. You see ya'll fucked up. You and your cousin done fucked it up for all of us taking Pitrelli's whip. While I'm paying the price by having Pitrelli and his goonies on my ass causing me to loose fucking business until the smoke clears. You and your pretty ass will be paying me for the inconvenience." He reached out for her again and when she backed up he got upset. "Girl you better get your ass over here."

"Tyrek please don't," Nikaury kept backing up until she hit the wall. This gave him the opportunity to grab her and get her down to the floor. He had her pants off and was working on getting himself free when Rome came into the room.

"He got on top of us and got him off of me. I was crawling backwards trying to get away when Tyrek pulled out his gun and when Rome went for it he just fired and I was hit. That was all I remembered when I woke up in the hospital. Roman were in jail for killing Tyrek." Nikaury sighed after getting that out. She had not been able to tell anyone what had happened, not even Vince when he began telling her about his past. Having kept that from Vince for so long was taking a toll on her.

"Wait," Nikaury said looking up at Vince after she had calmed down a bit. "Is that Spilner?"