Best Kept Private
Chapter Twelve- Very Serious
Brian had to run from the library to the cafeteria in time to meet Mia. He pecked her cheek and sat down next to her.
"Sorry I was studying." He omitted the Monica part. Not to hurt Mia he just knew that telling her would complicate things. Monica had actually been a great friend.
"It's cool, my next class isn't until this evening."
"I left you waiting by yourself."
"You didn't. Letty was here she just left."
"How is she?" Brian didn't realize when he had got to care so much for Dom and Letty but he did. He had somehow become part of their circle without realizing it.
"I'm not sure. She won't talk about it. She talks about everything else except how she's really doing and I've barely seen these past few days. But I get it, the track meet is Friday. She's training hard.
"Do you think they'll be okay?"
"I think so. I mean they have to be. I don't want to live in a world where Dom doesn't have Letty."
"Don't ask me not to protect you okay. I was there that night and all he wanted to do was protect her." Brian reached for her hand.
Mia was shocked at the intense sincerity in his eyes. When had they gotten so serious?
"She'll see that. In time. The mess with her scholarship is just scary and she can't see passed it right now. The only person who can get through to her is the person she's avoiding. I hope they work it out before winter break. She's supposed to come back to L.A with us. My dad is dying to meet her."
"That sounds like fun …compared to going home. I'm always bored; my parents are never at home. I was mostly left with nannies and tutors or trainers.
"Here's a crazy idea, why don't you join us for winter break?"
"Just like that?" Brian said cheering up at the very idea.
"I'll have to run it by my mom first but it shouldn't be an issue. She's letting Letty stay. Well my dad more insisted it on Dom's behalf but I'm sure it'll be no problem."
"Hell Yeah. I would love that."
She leaned over and kissed him briefly keeping in mind they could be on camera.
"Careful Miss Toretto I'm beginning to think you really like me." Brian teased his hand had found itself on the small of her back.
"Maybe just a little bit." Mia smiled.
Dom and the football team were working out with drills when he caught Letty and Gisele jogging around the track in his peripheral vision. He wanted to end practice right there. They guys were already slacking off. There wasn't much to do; they didn't have another game for the semester. Coach Braga just insisted they continue practice and Dom knew he had to lead by example for his team.
He had been respecting her wish to focus on her training. The track meet was coming up at the end of the week and he was just as nervous as she was.
They had exchanged text here and there. She had taken up her seat next to him in chemistry but he still felt like she wasn't all there with him. He had no idea what was going on with her because she wouldn't talk to him. Really talk to him and while she seemed to be doing fine he wasn't coping very well.
"You're all pitiful. Get off my field!" He heard Braga guys cheered. Some of them ran off the field immediately others sat down on the field to cool off before hitting the showers.
He sat beside Brian, Vince and Leon were a few feet off wrestling. Roman was acting as their unofficial referee.
"I'm just giving you a heads up Mia's is gonna ask your mom if I can come to L.A for winter break."
Dom's eyebrows rose. "Didn't realize you two were so serious." He wasn't upset either. He liked Brian. Apparently Mia liked him more.
"Very serious." Brian said. "You have any protest?"
Dom shook his head. "I don't." He looked towards Vince . "But you should know he lives close by. It's very likely he'll be over a lot. I could talk to him-"
"Dom he's your friend it's fine. If it comes down to it I'll talk to him myself. She's my girlfriend."
Dom looked impressed nodding his head. "You do what you have to."
"Speaking of girlfriends…"
Dom sighed. "We're good, I guess. She's talking to me and everything but I don't have all of her, not like I did."
"Don't let her push you away." Brian said simply before getting up and heading for the locker rooms.
Dom looked back to where Letty and Gisele were and had to agree with Brian.
Letty and Mia were in the girl's locker room changing. Mia was stuffing her pompoms into her locker grumbling under he breath.
"I can't wait to quit. I'm telling Elena at the end of the semester. Thank God it's two weeks away. I just have to get through finals and boom winter freaking break."
Letty laughed but remained quiet otherwise. She had a lot mulling over in her head, mostly about the track meet. She was never nervous before big competitions but this was different, she needed to win.
When she turned around to button up her school shirt Mia was already dressed leaning against her locker boring holes into her head with her stare.
"Would you spill it already?"
"When are you going to talk to Dom?"
"I spoke to him last night. We're fine."
"I mean really talk to him."
"After the track meet. Everything after the track meet. I just need to get through the end of the week."
"Brian saw the whole thing…the way I see it Dom was only doing what he's always done...prove to you how much he really cares."
"I can't be distracted right now Mia. I just need-"
"I know. So get through the week. I'll see you in the dorm I'm going to meet Brian."
She touched Letty's arm on her way out. Letty finished dressing doing up her blazer. She felt like people were assuming that she didn't want to fix things with Dom. She just had more pressing problems. Ironically the only person who was respecting that was Dom.
She missed him so much, she hadn't let him touch her since she had told him she wanted to focus on her training.
He was sitting on the bleachers when she left the locker room. She was always happy to see him.
"Waiting for me?"
"Nope, my other girlfriend. Short tempered, feisty-mean streak."
"Shut up before you have no girlfriend to tease." She walked passed him and he easily scooped her up in his big arms so she was sitting next to him with her legs swung over his.
"I haven't been seeing enough of you lately."
"I've been training. I don't want to get into it Dom."
"Hey," He gently touched her cheek. "I'm not here for that either." He held out a jar of muscle relaxant cream. "I come in peace."
She smiled softly and let him take off her shoes. He applied a generous amount and proceeded to massage it into her feet all the way to her shins and calves. His considerate act threw her off. He wasn't prodding and probing her to talk to him. She felt her muscles react to his hands kneading into them. She moaned and groaned as the tension left her muscles.
Soon she was relaxed and moaning for another reason. Once she realized how Dom had reacted she just wanted to tease him and moaned harder.
"Oh fuck." She moaned breathily and felt Dom's hand stiffen.
"I swear if you don't stop all that moaning we're going to have a problem."
When she opened her eyes he was inches from her face and his hand was on her upper thigh. His heady scent drew her in as she caressed his jaw. Their lips met hard and fast. Letty moaned into his mouth as his tongue found hers almost immediately. He dug his fingers into her thigh and she felt her skin burning where he touched. Needing to touch him too she reached for the button on his pants but his hands snatched hers.
She pulled away from his lips. "What's wrong?"
"We'll have to stop eventually and it'll hurt more later on." Dom took deep breaths. "Do you know how hard it is for me to stop?"
Letty laughed straddling him. "We can hold out for two more weeks right?" She asked kissing his neck.
"If you keep torturing me probably not."
Letty grunted and slipped off his legs settling next to him on the bleachers.
"You know I want to as much as you do right?"
"I know."
She pecked his lips. "Good."
"How's training going?"
"Good. I almost beat my own record yesterday."
"You're going to kill it Friday."
Letty expected her chest to tighten at the mention of Friday but she was fine. Being around was making all the difference.
"I don't want to leave this school. Or you." She whispered and Dom reached for her hand.
Dom wanted so badly to blurt out that if she left Hobbs prep so would he. He didn't want to freak her out. More so he knew she would call him crazy. Tell him that she's won't let him do it.
If it did come down to that it wouldn't be easy to pull off anyway, his mother wasn't Letty's biggest fan. But his mother didn't like any girl he dated really. He was hoping that winter break would change all that. If she got to know Letty there was no way she would still think Letty was a gold digger. He had tried to reason with his mother, told her that Letty's fortune was probably double his own. She told him that maybe they should date when Letty turned twenty-one if that was the case.
Dom squeezed her hand a little tighter. This school, or his mother or anything else would never keep them apart. He just wasn't sure how tell her that without freaking her out.
"Would you carry me to my dorm." Letty said quietly breaking the silence.
He got up and she got on his back. He would do anything she wanted.
A/N: Brace yourself for next chapter MsShashaD ;)
