Blacktop obsession chapter 12
"Man, I hope Dom isn't yelling at her about too much." Brian said, sitting on the hood of Hector's Maxima, taking a drink of his caffeinated beverage.
"Man, Brian, you hope it's not the other way around. She can handle Dom better than Dom can handle Dom." Hector laughed, making Brian laugh.
"That's funny."Brian laughed, feeling uncomfortable at Hector staring at him.
"You like her, don't ya Essay?" He asked, his eyes narrowing to focus on Brian. Brian turned a few shades of red.
"No." Brian lied, knowing he wasn't believable.
"Yeah, man, you do. Just own up to it." Hector grabbed Brian around the neck and playfully pretended to punch him. "Come on, if you don't tell me the truth, I can't help you hook it up wit my homegirl." Hector let him go and pretended not to care anymore.
"Yeah, I heard you been friends a long time. Ok, so what if I do?" He asked, turning serious.
"Then maybe I can hook a brotha up with some need to know info." He whispered, making Brian laugh at how funny and secretive he was acting.
"All right, let me have it." Brian said.
"Oh, I don't know if you can handle it, young son." Hector drew his hands to him as though he was praying and now had his legs folded, looking like a monk meditating and using an accent.
"You're wastin time, Hector." Brian whispered, hearing the door open and Dominic come out. There was still a good distance between Hector and Brian but he didn't want to chance anyone overhearing them.
"Fine, you're no fun." Hector laughed, then turned serious. "You'll never get to her unless you get her sister to like you for starters." Hector said, watching Kaidyn draw some more on the dry erase board, jamming with his Ipod she had forgotten to ask to borrow.
"She can't be all that hard to get past." Brian shrugged, making Hector burst into big laughter.
"You have no idea. She's nice to everyone she meets but Shay won't go out with someone unless her sister likes them. And Kaidyn is VERY protective of her sister, she can sabotage your standing in oh, let's say less than the time you can win a race." Hector warned.
"She really that bad? She can't be that bad." Brian frowned, just not picturing the picture of the blonde that Hector was painting.
"Really? I should know. I've known the two of them longer than Dom has and I've seen many try to get past her barrier. They have bought Kaidyn diamond rings, jewelry, pets, you name it to get on her good side." Hector shook his head. "She's a piece of work. You haven't seen nothin. YET." He warned.
"Damn. Sounds pretty challenging." Brian's eyes twinkled with mischief. He was deep in thought. "I don't think she's that bad." Brian said, still not buying the description of Kaidyn.
"Hey Brian, can you two come over
here?" Dominic asked, motioning for them to come closer. "You too
Blondie." He said.
"One second, I gotta finish this." Kaidyn
called back, chewing on her lip as she finished her drawing. The
board was covered with a complex looking Komodo dragon, scales and
all. There had to have been at least 100 scales and there wasn't
any more room on the board to make another mark, Brian noted,
wondering why she wasn't coming over.
"Detailed is she?" Tej looked at Shayde who nodded in agreement. When she focused, she could really, really focus. Kaidyn signed her name to the board in a flowery type of writing and drew a heart over her 'I' to dot it while Dominic sighed.
"See what I mean? Even Dom knows how she is. He wouldn't wait on any of us like that." Hector leaned over and whispered to Brian, who had also noticed that Dominic was being very patient. He nodded.
"Okay, Missy, can I get started now or are you going to go back over there and color it too?" Dominic asked as Kaidyn came to sit down on the floor in front of the group.
"Nope, you can start. I've got it colored how I wanted it." She answered with a shrug.
"Thank you." Dominic said dryly, not expecting her to reply.
"You're very welcome." She nodded sincerely, her big eyes on him. Shayde couldn't help but laugh at Dominic, who had taken a deep breath. She gave him a look and wondered if he was still really up to the challenge of taking her sister on.
"All right, guys. So the girls are going to stay at our …." Dominic stopped, distracted by Kaidyn jamming and dancing to a song on Hector's Ipod. She was lost in the music, not caring if they saw her moving to the music. He took another breath. He reached down and took the music out of her ear. She gave him a grimace and then sat there. "Corona or Ipod, you pick." He held them both up. She picked the corona, as he had figured she would. "You ready to listen now?" He asked. She nodded, working on opening it. Hector reached over to open it for her.
"You know what would be really good with this?" She burst out just as Dominic had opened his mouth to talk. This was too much for most of the crew and they bust up laughing.
"Let me guess. Some lime." Dominic said flatly, about ready to send her on a mission in the office. In fact, he thought, that sounded like a good idea. "Hey Kaidyn, can you do me a big favor?" He asked, getting her attention easily.
"Sure, what's up?" She asked, getting up off the floor.
"Can you go in my office and find me one key on a small paperclip? I think it's in my desk." Dominic asked, smiling at her.
"Sure, no problem." She took off, happy to help.
"Okay, good. Now, as I was about to say, we're going to keep the girls at my house, and to get there, we're going to have to…" Dominic was interrupted yet again.
"Here ya go." She threw the key to him, about to sit back down again.
"Oh, darn, that wasn't what I needed, I'm sorry, babe. I don't know why I have keys on my brain. What I meant to ask you to grab was …this piece of paper that has a phone number and address on it. It has gold edging on it and blue silvery writing on it. It's somewhere in my file cabinet in the folder of invoices." He said, giving her just enough description to keep her looking for something.
"Okay." She trotted off again, Dominic confident that this chore would take her a bit longer.
"Okay, now that we got that settled again, we need to split up again in different pairs just in case someone did follow us. And again, we need to head different routes. I want the girls brought in the back door and only once it's dark. Once we're all gone from here, they'll move the cars in." Dominic said, wearily watching the door for Kaidyn to come out at any moment.
"I'll ride with Kaidyn." Brian piped up, volunteering. Hector looked at him like he'd lost his mind.
"No offence, blue eyes, but you can't handle my sister. There's no way." Shayde shook her head.
"I can handle her." Brian said confidently.
"Brian, think about this. You're hanging your own self." Hector said under his voice. He knew why Brian was doing it but Hector knew it wasn't going to turn out in his favor.
"She won't ride with you." Shayde shook her head.
"We'll see." Brian grinned, his eyes twinkling.
"Here you go, Dom." Kaidyn came back out, holding the paper outstretched in her hand. Hector put his hands over his eyes, this could only get worse.
"Hey Kaidyn, want to ride with me to Dom's house?" Brian asked, waiting for her answer. The way he saw it, if Kaidyn was going to ride with him, Shayde would surely have to ride along. There was no way she was going to let Kaidyn ride without her.
"Umm, sure. Why not." Kaidyn shrugged, looking at her sister. "You coming Shayde?" She asked, not sure if she should head to Brian's car or not. Brian looked at Shayde, waiting for her reaction.
"Nope, you go ahead and ride with Brian. It's better if we split up. I'll ride with Dom." Shayde got up and headed towards Dominic's car he was uncovering, wiping that smile of Brian's right off of his face.
