The flight had finally landed in Montana. Mia and her grandma got off and started walking to the luggage carousel. Her aunt Marie was waiting for their arrival. "Hi sweaty," they hugged, "How are you? How was your flight?" Mia gave a small sad smile, "I'm ok. The flight was good." Marie nodded, "Mom how are you?" "I am good. Just a bit tiered from the flight. We should get going we still got a long drive ahead of us." Marie nodded and led them to the parking lot of the airport.
They drove for hours, Mia remained silent she was not in the mood to talk. She just sat in the back of the car and listened to her aunt and grandma talk. She looked out the window, the state was different, ranches were everywhere. Small towns with populations of 1,000 or more or less people. She sighted heavily, knowing that in five years she would be able to go back home. She missed her brother terribly, not to mention her best friend and Vince who was now more like her best friend as well.
When they arrived to her grandmas ranch it was passed midnight. Marie led Mia to her new room. "Well Mia I hope you sleep well tonight. If you need anything I am just across the hall, ok?" Mia nodded shyly. "Goodnight aunt Marie." "Goodnight Mia." Her aunt left and Mia took a look around the room. The room contained a burrow and a full size bed with a quilt on top. She looked out the window and saw nothing, it was to dark.
"Ugh…What am I suppose to do here? I don't even know my family that well. Tomorrow I am going to have to meet my cousins and uncle. At least I get to see my grandpa, the only one I know. I don't even know my grandma." Mia whispered to herself. She got ready for bed and tried hard to fall asleep.
Echo Park
Vince sat in his room wondering were his mom was at. He was busy playing his guitar and watching television. His mom had changed in the last month. She was now quitting drugs and drinking. She had found herself a new boyfriend, who had changed her in many ways. Even though Vince was happy that she was changing, he didn't like her new boyfriend. He was a cop, a cop that wanted nothing more then to get rid of him. Officer. Thompson didn't like Vince at all and kept telling his mom that she should send Vince to military school so that he can learn some manners.
"Vince I am home! I got some great news!" his mom ran into her sons room. "Guess what?" she asked him, Vince looked at her putting the guitar back in its place, "What?" she had a big smile on her face, she extended her hand out showing a gold band with a small diamond in the middle. "He asked me to marry him!" she shriek. Vince's eyes shot wide open, he could not believe that he would ask her to marry him with out his permission. "Aren't you happy for me? I finally found my true love." Vince gave her a fake smile and congratulated her. "Yeah mom, I am very happy for you."
The phone rang and Vince answered it before anyone else could. "Hello?" "Hey Vince, it's me Hector. I was wondering if you wanted to come with me to the races tonight." Vince thought about it for a few moments, they had always drag raced but after school. He had never been to a race that was held at night. He had heard that they where very good and that there were cars like you had never seen them before. "Yeah ok I'll go. Can you come pick me up? You know where I live right?" "Yeah ese I know were's you live. I'll see you in a couple of minutes." The phone went dead on the other end, Vince hung up and grabbed his jacket. "Hey mom I am going out." His mom was to busy with her boyfriend to realize that he had left.
Hector arrived in a grey Honda Civic, the car needed a paint job. Vince got in and they drove of to the Valley. "Hey waz up man?" Hector asked, "Nothing much going on, ya know. So where is this being held at?" Hector turned onto the freeway and then looked at Vince, "It's over in the Valley. My cousin called me the other day told me that there was some races going on. He told me to come over and I thought I would invite you." Vince nodded, "So what's it like? I mean you know the cars?" "Ah that's the best part. The cars are all fixed up, they have neon lights, different colors, graphics, and the car parts are the best. You have to see it for yourself." Vince laughed, "I guess it's better then the drag races after school?" "Yeah homie, it's way better."
Vince got out of the car and was amazed at all the different performance cars, the engine revving, all the different ethnicities. There was all kinds of people there and best of all hot girls. He could not help but grin from ear to ear. "Whoa! This is so cool, we got to do this more often." Hector let out a small laugh, "Come on ese, lets go find my cousin." Hector and Vince made their way through the crowds occasionally taking a look at the engines of other cars.
"Hey Hector, how's it going? Who's this?" the young man pointed to Vince. "This is Vince, Vince this is my cuz Victor. He runs the races over here in the Valley." They shook hands, "Hey nice to meet you, this your first time to one of this races?" Vince nodded, "Yeah first time." "Cool, Where you live, ese?" Vince was checking out the engine on Victor's Civic, "I live in Echo Park." "Yeah yeah I know where that's at. Well lets get ready." Victor walked off and went over to the people that would be racing tonight. "Ok, we headed to the racing spot. Follow me Hector." Vince and Hector got in the car and followed Victor to the racing spot. There was a guy to the side that had a police scanner, all the other cars blocked the street closing off anyone who tried to drive through there.
Four cars would be racing tonight, a Civic, Mustang, Eclipse, and a Accord. The four cars lined up revving their engines. Vince and Hector looked on, neither one routing for one particular job. The clear was given and the guy in front put his hands up and then down, signaling that it was time to go. The cars took off, in the end the Accord won. Soon, a young man could be heard over the speaker phone yelling, "The po,po!" Hector and Vince along with all of the people there where running to there cars. Hector followed Victor to the party for the night.
"What did you think?" Victor asked handing a Corona to Vince. "It was good, we should do the same thing where we live." Hector looked at Vince, "You got a great idea going there man." Victor changed the subject, "So how's Dominic?" Vince looked at him a little surprised that he knew Dominic, "You know him?" "Yeah man, he and I had math together." "Oh, his doing good. I talked to him about two weeks ago." Hector and Victor nodded. The night went on, Vince met a young blond girl just the way he likes them. Around 3 in the morning, they went back to their homes. "Hey didn't you use to live next to Dom?" "Yeah but when my grandma left, my mom came back from Vegas and we went to live in some apartments." Vince said. Hector dropped off Vince at his home. Vince walked in, he could hear the snoring of Officer. Thompson.
Leon and Jesse
"Wake up guys." Morgan was shaking Leon, "Stop yelling." Leon said holding on to his head. Morgan started laughing, "That's what you get for drinking to much. Are you ok Jess?" Jesse was trying to get up, but all of a sudden he felt dizzy and fell back onto the floor making Morgan laugh harder. "I am glad that I can make you laugh this morning." Jesse pouted. "Aw Jess, it's just that you two should see yourselves." "Hey! Why don't you have a hangover?" Leon accused, " 'Cause unlike you," she pointed a finger at Leon, "I can hold my liquor." she said proudly.
The night before they had decided that they would go check out the L.A. scene. They arrived at a club. Morgan used her looks to her advantage and got pass the bouncers with Leon and Jesse. The bouncers did not ask them for ids. They paid a guy to buy them beer and liquor at the bar. Only at some point Leon got so drunk that he went up to the stage. He was trying to get up on the stereo to dance, but ended up tripping and pushing the stereo which fell to the side, making Leon laugh. The bouncers ended up kicking them out of the club. They tried to get into another club, but weren't able to get in.
At some point they where driving down a street of neighborhoods, there was a party at one of the houses. They decided to crash it, it ended up being a wedding. They lied their way in saying that they where friends of the braid, of course that did not last long. Jesse decided that he needed to make a speech. They where kicked out and finally returned to the motel.
"So you guys hungry?" Morgan teased. "Eww, don't talk about food, I might just vomit." Jesse said. "Well I am hungry and I don't want to go to McDonalds by myself." Leon looked at her with a face of disgust, "You like McDonalds?" Morgan turned to look at him, "Yes I do. Why? You don't?" Jesse was making vomiting noises. "No, the food tasted nasty and the hamburgers are so small that I need to eat 20 to get full, only to end up with a stomach ache afterwards." Morgan rolled her eyes, "Ok Einstein, what do you suggest we eat." "Um…I don't know." Jesse turned the TV on, the news came on. "On a special bulletin. There is a girl by the name of Morgan Johnson that is missing. Here is her picture." The anchor gave her status and information, along with a $10,000 dollar reward for her. Jesse and Leon both turn to look at her, "Guess my dad is looking for me."
Letty
The drive back home was long, but finally they arrived. As her father drove by the Toretto house she took a look at it. The house looked empty somehow, something was different. They got out of the car and made their way inside the house. Kate could be heard crying upstairs, people that Letty had never met where out in the living room most of them wearing black. She walked up the stairs with her stuff and into her room.
Letty closed the door and took off her sweater. She looked at herself in the mirror looking at the little lump that was now on her stomach. She had not taken a pregnancy test or anything, but she figured that she was pregnant when she did not get her period for the third month and she began to put on weight. She ran her hand lightly over the little knot that was there smiling at the thought that she was carrying Dominic's and her baby.
There was a knock on the door, Letty put her shirt back down and went to answer. When she opened the door her step-sister Coney was standing there. "Can I please come in?" she asked quietly. Letty nodded and moved to let her in closing the door behind her. "What's up?" Letty asked. "Nothing much. I…are you sad that she died?" Letty sat down on the bed and looked at Coney, "Well, yeah I mean she was just so young you know. Um…how did she die?" Coney shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know. I asked but they have not told me. As a matter of fact they have not wanted to talk to me. Did you know that she was not my moms daughter?" Letty looked up at her, "Yeah I just found out." "My mom obviously loved her as her own." Letty decided to change the subject, "Have you seen Dom?" Coney wrinkled her nose, "Don't you know?" "Know what?" Coney sat down on the bed facing Letty. "Dominic went to jail." Letty shot up right away, "Your lying." she accused. "No. I guess you don't know the whole story either." "No. what happened?" Coney eyed her for a moment. "You better sit down."
"I think it was a month ago, but am not sure. Dominic's father died in a racing accident. Mr. Toretto went to Palmdale to race and apparently a guy named Kenny Linder clipped his bumper putting him to the wall at 120 mph, the car burned up and Mr. Toretto died instantly. Um…about two weeks later Dominic saw Kenny Linder at a grocery store and beat him up with a wrench, sending him to the hospital. He was arrested at his house and they sentenced him to Lompoc for five years." Letty looked at her, not wanting to believe she began to accuse Coney of lying, "Your lying!" Coney shook her head, "No! go ask dad. He knows!" Letty couldn't believe that her dad had not told her anything. Her anger grew and she stormed out of her room, running down the stairs and into the kitchen where her dad stood talking to one of Kates family members. Coney ran downstairs after Letty, she wanted to know what would happen now.
"You didn't tell me that Anthony had died! Or that Dom was in jail! You don't know how much I hate you!" Letty was yelling at her father. Everyone who had been in the living room was now in the doorway trying to hear the conversation and looking at the young girl. Humberto was taken aback by Lettys outburst. "Who told you?" he asked softly putting both of his hands on her arms. Letty quickly stepped back pushing her fathers hands away with a look of disgust. "That does not matter! What matters is that you never called to tell me that Anthony had died!" Letty looked around at all the people that where there, next to her Coney stood, she glared at everyone then she grabbed Coneys arm and ran out the door pulling Coney with her.
"Where…are…we….going? Can you…stop running?!" Coney asked breathlessly. Letty stopped running at the stop sign down the street. "Take me to were they buried Anthony?" Coney looked at Letty and nodded, she knew not to mess with Letty when she was mad. "Okay." They started to walk to the cemetery, Letty suddenly turned to look at Coney, "How did you know about Dom and Anthony?" she asked softly, "It was on the newspaper and on television. Didn't you watch TV or read the paper at school?" "No. We didn't have Television and me read, are you crazy?" she pointed at herself, Coney let out a small giggle.
They finally arrived at the cemetery, they walked down a path of stones that led to a small courtyard. Coney stopped and Letty looked back at her "It's right over there." she pointed at two tombstones, "I'll wait back up at the entrance." Letty nodded and turned to look at the entrance to the courtyard, she took a deep breath and made her way there slowly. Tears started to slowly run down her caramel skin, she had not noticed them until one fell on her lips. She wiped away at them with her palm. Letty walked to the final resting place of Mr. Toretto, she sat down in front of the stone and traced the letters with her fingertips. Next to that stone sat another, it read; Isabella Toretto Loving wife and mother. Letty turned to look at the stone in front of her, it read: Anthony Dominic Toretto Loving Husband and father.
The tears began to flow freely again and even tho, she had promised herself that she would never cry for anyone, she could not help it. Anthony had been more of a father to her then her own. "Hi Mr. Toretto. I am so sorry that I was not able to be here for your funeral or for your family. It just hurts so much to know that you're gone, but I know that you're happy because you're with your wife again. Say hi to her for me. I love your son more than anything and I promise you that I will take care of him. I have something to tell you. You're going to be a grandfather, I am going to have a baby, Dom's baby. Well I better go, but I'll try to come back later. I love you, bye." Letty slowly got up and wiped at the tears, she walked back up to the entrance. Coney was waiting there patiently, when she saw Letty she gave her a small smile. The two girls walked back to their house in silence.
Lompoc
"Get up!" the correctional officers went cell to cell with the bar hitting the cell bars to wake the prisoners up. Dom slowly got up and rubbed his eyes, he looked out the small window and looked up at the sky. It was blue with no clouds and sunny. He jumped off of the top bunk grabbing his shirt. "Another day in hell," Chris said smiling, Dom nodded. "Yup." They walked to the showers.
Later that day they walked outside for break. Dominic started to make his way to the weight lifting area. Robert saw Dominic walking toward them, he quickly got up and went to meet Dominic half way. "Look who it is Dominic. What are you doing here? Coming back to get your ass kicked?" he laughed. Dominic stared at him seriously, "No Robert, I just want to lift weights." Robert nodded, "Ok, I guess I can let you in." From across the yard a tall, bulky, Latino shouted, "Robert!" Dominic and Robert turned to look at the guy. "I am here to get my revenge." The Latino put his hand into his pocket taking out a gun, he moved it and pulled the trigger hitting several prisoners and one guard in the process.
"Bring a doctor! This prisoner is losing to much blood!" Dominic heard as he looked around at the chaos around him.