Woke up to Mia jumping on my bed and screaming. I looked up at her and said "your not from here are you?" she ignored my comment and said "its July 12th, you know what that means right!" I laid back down as I got a my first phone call, it was Dom. Mia some how knew I guess judging by my facial expression or earlier discussions with her brother as I went to pick it up she pressed her head next to the other side of the phone and listened. "Hello" I said, "hey Letty its Dom, hope I didn't wake you" "oh no don't worry about it your sister beat you to the punch" I said as turned and gave her a quick look. He continued and said "well I hope you have a happy birthday I don't know maybe I'll see you later" "maybe" I tried my best to hold my emotions then we got of the phone and I could bare it any more, Mia looked at me and said "well.." then I screamed, she screamed..it was a never endless scream. Wasn't really a good start of to the morning my dad had violated his probation and has been in jail for a couple of weeks while my mother Maria was supposedly in Japan. Abuela Ava didn't disappoint making every breakfast meal possible but I had no appetite I just wanted to accidentally bump into Dom and since we were in summer I had no school thus no problems! I made my way to the Toretto garage were I was surrounded by everyone wishing me a happy birthday, Vince trying to give me birthday punches but no sign of Dom. Tony called me into his office " well Leticia I know how much you've been wanting real position here and although the guys might disagree with me I think you ready and old even to be my new mechanic, so what do you think? you want the job?" I had to pinch myself because I was in disbelief "yes of coarse I do" then I hugged him and he said "k well you can start tomorrow, Im opening a mini grocery store a couple blocks down and if you still need to make more cash you could work part time there with Mia" "sure that would be great I really appreciate this, maybe I could save up enough money for a car" I said "that's the plan" as I walked out he said one last thing "happy birthday Letty!" I smiled and was accompanied by Mia as we left and I spilled the good news. A week later I got my licensed and the moment they handed it over to me I rushed Lompac were my father Pedro was in jail. He said he was so proud of me and wished he was around more then he told me to meet someone name Paco as soon as possible. After I had said my goodbyes I went to the address Pedro had given me to meet up with Paco. Taking numerous buses and walking by hundreds gang members I finally reached my destination and knocked on the door.