Sorry that I haven't updated sooner! I'm trying to keep my grades up and manage volleyball games at night, so it's been a crazy few weeks. I promise, I'm not one of those people that abandon their stories. I will finish every single one that I write! Love you guys? enjoy chapter 12!
Brian's POV
I wasn't gonna call Jaelene today, cause I figure that she's still mad at me, so I went straight to Dom's garage to finish working on the car with Letty, Dom, Leon, and Jesse.
It was around 12:45 pm when we finished tuning the car and putting oil and gas in it, so Dom and I decided to take it for a test drive. I was racing down the streets of L.A. until I came to a red light and stopped next to a Ferrari.
"Nice car. What's the retail on one of those?" I ask the driver and he shoots back, "More than you can afford pal. Ferrari." The driver then starts to rev his engine, so Dom looked at me and said, "Smoke him."
I then started to rev my engine, waiting for the light to turn green, and once it did, we both took off, racing down the freeway. I won the race and then pulled up to this place called Neptunes Net.
"So, what's wrong Brian?" Dom asks as they sat across from each other in the dinner eating shrimp.
"Nothin, man. I'm fine." I say while not making eye contact as if I would give myself away. As usual, Dom doesn't believe me, so he says, "Come on. Obviously, something's off."
"Look, I have my good days and I have my bad days. Just like anybody else." I say while playing with my food like a little kid. "Brian, don't lose that cool of yours. That's your meal ticket." Dom says jokingly, but I didn't take it that way as I say sarcastically, "My meal ticket? What? I-I can't pay for my own shrimp?"
"I got the shrimp." Dom assures me, but I start to ramble so he would leave me alone, "No, see, that's one thing about me, Dom, you don't understand. I don't need handouts. I don't take handouts. I earn my way, every step. Just gotta make a little something extra on the side, like you."
"What do you mean, like me? What's that supposed to mean?" Dom ask confused.
I then take a bite of my shrimp as I said, "That's what I mean."
"What does that mean, "Like me?"" Dom asks again and I start to become frustrated as I say loudly, "Don't try- I'm not stupid, all right? I know that there no way in hell that you paid for all that shit that you got under the hood-" but I then get interrupted as Dom held out a hand to get me to lower my voice since we were in a public area, so I continue to say calmly, "There's no way in hell that you paid for all that shit under the hood of those cars by doing tune-ups and selling groceries. Now, whatever it is you're in in, I want in on it too."
Dom and I then stare at each other for a moment, until Dom reaches into his pocket and pulls out a piece of paper and slid it across the table to me. I picked up the paper and asked, "Well, what is this?"
"Read it." Dom says. I just look at the paper and ask, "What is this for?"
"It's directions. To Race Wars. We'll see how you do. Then we'll talk." Dom states.
Nobody's POV
The next day, everyone went to Race Wars. Letty was about to race, but her opponent wanted to speak to her before they started.
"Baby. Hey, baby. You should be watching from the side. Wouldn't want to get any exhaust on that pretty face." The guy says, but Letty shoots back, "How 'bout you put your money where your mouth is?"
"Well how 'bout I race you for that sweet little ass?" The guy says as the pull up slowly to the starting line.
Letty looks over to the guy and says sternly, "You want ass, why don't you hit Hollywood Boulevard? You want an adrenaline rush, it'll be two large. Right her. Right now. What's it gonna be?"
They both then show their money to each other and the guy says, "You got it."
When they reached the starting line, they both revved their engines. The guy was making kissy faces towards Letty, so she just rolled her eyes and pushed her sun glasses to her face. Once they were signaled to race, they took off.
"Uh, uh, uh. Another one bites the dust! Come on. What do you got? What you got?" The guy says mimicking Letty, so she smiles and says, "See Ya!" as she presses her NOS button and wins the race.
Brian then drives his car to Jesse's trailer. "Woah! Hey Bri. What up?" Jesse asks.
"Hey what's up Jesse? What do you have in your hand?" Brian asks as he tries to catch up with Jesses speed walking.
"Throwing down the pink slip, just like you." Jesse exclaims. Brian then gets worried and asks, "The pink slip to what? The Jetta?"
"Yeah." Jesse says, but Brian tries to reason with Jesse and say, "You can't beg your dads car."
Jesse smirks and says calmly, "It's alright. I ain't losing. This fool is running a Honda two thousand. I'll win. That way me and my dad can roll together when he gets out of prison. It's all good."
"Well, they're gonna throw him right back in prison after he kills you." Brian insists, but gets interrupted by Jesse as he says, "Oh shit, I'm up." and takes off running.
Leon then pulls Jesse's car up to the starting line and gets out as he sees Jesse running up to the car.
"You visualize the win." Leon says as he and Jesse have a bro hug, but when Jesse gets in the drivers seat, Leon says, "Hey, visualize the win, Jesse. I'm serious. You got to listen to me, man." Leon says.
Brian then walks up and asks, "Who are you racing?"
The unknown racer then rolls down his window to reveal Jonny Tran.
"Jesse don't do it. I bet you he's got more than a hundred grand under the hood of that car." Brian says trying to stop Jesse, but all Jesse said was, "Uh-hu!" as he looked at his mirrors.
When they were signaled to race, they took off, but Jesse used his Nitrous oxide to early.
"Too soon, Junior." Jonny states as he presses his NOS button which make him go 2x as faster than what Jesse was going. "No!" Jesse yelled as he watched Jonny pass him.
Jesse then cursed at himself as Jonny stopped the car, but Jesse kept driving to clear his head.
"Yo! Heads up, bro. We got problems!" Leon states, running up to Dom.
"What?" Dom asks and Leon replies, "Jesse."
Dom and Leon then look in the distance to see Jesse driving around.
"Where's Jesse going?" Dom asks with Vince and Leon standing behind him.
"He just raced Tran for slips." Leon states and Dom says, "Oh, shit."
There was a revving engine in the distance, coming closer and closer by the second. Jonny then stopped the car I front of the Toretto team and asked, "Where's he going?"
"He went to the car wash." Dom says sticking up for Jesse.
Jonny then makes a smart remark and says, "Whatever. Go fetch my car."
"Go fetch your car? We're not on your block anymore. You better watch who you talk to like that." Dom says while pointing at Jonny and then starts to walk away, but turned around as Jonny yelled, "Toretto! TORETTO! S.W.A.T. came into my house, disrespected my whole family because somebody narc'd me out. And you know what? It was you!"
Dom then lost it as he punched Jonny in the face repeatedly. The security tried to pull him off of Jonny, but they weren't strong enough, and they didn't know what Dom was capable of, but Letty, Leon, and Vince knew. Leon and Vince worked on trying to pull Dom off of Jonny and Letty stood back watching, until Jonny's cousin came out of nowhere and tried to help Jonny, but Letty punched him in the face before he could even get past her.
The crowd was going wild, pushing people out of the way. Brian tried to cut through the crowd, but stayed back since he saw how mad Dom was.
"Hey, yo! I never narc'd on nobody!" Dom yelled.
"Hey Dom! Chill out, man. Chill out!" Leon and Vince yelled. "I never narc'd on nobody!" Dom yelled again, so before he could brake free, Vince and Leon pulled Dom away while saying, "Dom! Let's go! Chill man!"
Mia's POV
Dom told me to stay in the trailer after his fight with Jonny, but I didn't listen. Dom didn't even know that I came until I tried to calm him down with the rest of the guys after the fight. Dom was now telling me that he had a job to do, so he was leaving.
"And I'm asking you not to go." I say on the brink of tears. "Mia, I'm doing this for both of us." Dom starts to reason with me, but I cut him off as I take a step back and say, "No, don't give me that crap. You're doing this for you! Why are you insisting on doing this? Dom, please, just don't."
But my brother completely ignored my wishes and took off in his car with Leon, Vince, and Letty.
I ran my hand through my hair and walked back to the trailer with tears in my eyes, not wanting to be bothered by anyone. But just my luck, as Brian walks up to me and asks, "Mia, what's going on?"
"What?" I ask like I'm clueless, but I'm guessing that Brian saw what happened and said, "You know what I'm talking about."
I sigh and say frustrated, "No, I don't, Brian."
"Oh, so what? You always have tears in your eyes when Dom drives away?" Brian asks coldly. I don't know why Brian was so concerned and it was annoying the hell out of me, but the way that he was acting right now was pissing me off too, so I ask, "What is the matter with you?"
Brian just flat out ignores me and kept badgering me with all these questions about Dom like he was some sort of detective on a case.
"Come on. What's your brother racing off in the middle of the night for? I'm talking about the trucks. You know about the trucks?" Brian asks, so I shoot back, "No, Brian! What trucks?! Jesus Christ!"
I was beyond pissed at this point as I kept walking, but Brian stopped following me as he grabs my arm tightly and turns me around to stop walking and face him, so I yelled, "What?!"
"Listen to me." Brian says calmly while looking into my eyes like he was gonna tell me his deepest darkest secret. "Mia I'm a cop." Brian states calmly.
I was pissed off and confused now so I shake my head and ask, "What are you talking about, Brian? What is this?"
"Ever since the first time I met you, I've been undercover. I'm a cop." Brian says sternly, but quietly.
I look into his eyes to see if this was all a joke, but his eyes spoke the truth and Brian really was a cop.
When I finally let myself realize that what Brian said was true, I said, "Oh, you bastard. You bastard."
I then shook my head with new tears ready to fall, disappointed at Brian, but then realizing that he was just using me, and that I must've been nothing but a toy to him.
I start to walk away a quickly as possible, but Brian ran after me and said, "Mia!" and tried to grab my arms again, but I turned around quickly and yelled, "Get off of me, Brian!"
"Mia! Listen to me!" Brian yells as he holds me in a tight grip in front of him. "Everything I ever said I felt about you was real. I swear to God. You have to believe me, Mia. But right now this isn't about you and me. Your brother's out there. He's about to pull a job, and we're running out of time. Those truckers, they're not laying down anymore. You know what, maybe they'll make it through tonight, but every single law enforcement agency in California's coming down on 'em."
I shook my head not wanting to believe Brian, but I then became upset as I realize that Brian was being completely honest with me, so I just stare at him with an upset look on my face as he continues speaking. "If you don't want anything to happen to your brother, to Letty, to Leon, to Vince... You have to just get in that car with me right now. You have to help me."
I try to register everything that Brian was telling me for my family's sake, but Brian still tries to reason with me as he tells me, "Mia, you are the only person that can help me right now. Please, Mia. Please help me."
I didn't really have a choice, and I wasn't gonna let my family get hurt so I agreed to go with Brian to help my brother and the team.
We were driving for about 30 minutes now, and Brian had me looking at a map to try and figure out where my brother was headed.
"Civics are stashed somewhere outside of Thermal." I say to Brian.
Brian then starts thinking and says, "And they wouldn't double back. And Highway 10's just way too well patrolled. So, what is that leave us with then?"
I look back down at the map and reply as calmly as possible, "That leaves us with all this."
I look at Brian, trying to read his face, but I can't tell what he's feeling at the moment because I feel like I don't know him anymore. Brian then takes out his phone and dials a number and starts speaking into the phone.
"Yeah, this is Officer Brian O'Connor. Serial number 34762." Brian says as he looks at me and back to the road quickly.
'Unbelievable.' I think. He even lied about his last name! Ugh, I thought that I could trust him! I guess that everything was just a lie though.
"I need a cell phone trace." Brian says and waited for a moment as someone was telling him something, but then looks at me and asks, "Mia, what's the cell phones number?"
I just stay quiet as I look out the windshield with more tears in my eyes.
"Come on Mia. She needs Dom's cell phone number now." Brian say while handing me the phone. I then snatch the phone out of his hand and bring it up to my ear and speak while looking at Brian with hatred and tears in my eyes, "(323) 555-6439."
I shove the phone back into Brian's hand as he looks at me and says, "Thank you."
"Yeah, you get that?" Brian asks into the phone.
Nobody's POV
Dom and the others pull up to there secret location, where they hind there "hijacking cars".
"All right, were one man short. Letty, I need you on the left side." Dom explains to everyone as they get their equipment ready, and into their cars.
As Leon walks up to his car, he says aloud, "Your sisters right about this one. This don't feel good."
"Don't do that." Dom says quietly, but Letty sighs and says, "Something's wrong."
"Stop!" Dom says as he tries to calm his team down, but Letty exclaims, "We shouldn't be doing this without Jesse."
Dom thinks for a second and then says, "Look, this is the mother lode. We've been on this for three months. After this, it's a long vacation for everyone. Let's go."
"I hope so." Leon says to himself as he gets in his car. Vince gets his gear on next to the car, as Dom walks over to the side with Letty and tells her, "Listen, the other night I had a dream...that you and I were on the beach in Mexico."
"Really?" Letty asks not believing him, but Dom assures her, "Really."
Dom then leans down and kisses Letty and says, "Come on. Let's make this happen."
"Leon, keep eyes on those scanners." Dom explains as he walks towards the car.
"Copy that." Leon replies.
"Alright. Let's go." Dom says as they all start their cars and take off.
