Letty's POV

I went to my dresser to find something to wear, I wanted to wear a pair of shorts and a T-shirt because of the weather but with all my bruises I knew I couldn't. I pulled out a pair of jeans and slipped them on than I took out a long sleeve turtle neck and put it one. I bent over and touched my toes, twisted carefully side to side, and then I put my arms in the air and jumped. I did this to see if any of my skin showed when I move and of course it did. I went to my closet and pulled out one of my brothers old sweatshirts that my brother gave me because he out grew it. I put it on, and as expected it was really big, it hung off my body past my butt and over my hands. I put on the pair of sneakers that I always wore to the garage and then I went to the bathroom to try and cover up the bruise on my face with some of my mom's makeup.

It was almost a little past noon when I finally got to the garage. When I arrived everyone one gave me a weird look and I was guessing it was because of my outfit.

"Hey Let, we would of gotten you lunch but we weren't sure when you were coming over." Tony said shoving his sandwich in his mouth.

"It's okay Mr. T, I ate before I came."

"Why are you wearing that?" Mia said as she put down her sandwich and walked over to me.

"What do you mean?" I questioned, knowing exactly what she meant.

She gave me a weird look and then Dom answered for her.

"She means why are you dressed for winter when it's almost ninety degrees outside and you're going to be working in a garage that has no air conditioning in all day."

"I don't even think I'd wear that much clothing during the winter time." Vince added

"Well I can wear what I want, whenever I want and it's none of your business why!" I said giving them an attitude, which cause both Tony and Mia to give me a weird look.

"Okay whatever." Dom said turning his attention back to his sandwich.

After they finished eating we all went to work, most of the time Tony was teaching us how to fix things properly and occasionally he'd have us change a tire, or the breaks on someone's car, you know the little things that anyone could do.

At about four p.m. we were all sweating and exhausted from the heat.

"I could really go for some ice cream right now." Dom announced, looking at his dad.

"Oh could you?" Tony smiled putting his hand on Dom's shoulder.

"Yeah, I think we all could" Dom smiled

"Okay then let's go back to the house and can get cleaned up then we'll all go get some ice cream. You guys deserve it for working all day."

"But daddy, we can't have Ice cream before dinner." Mia said in all seriousness.

"Come on Mia live a little." Tony said smiling down at his daughter.

We all laughed and started to walk back to the Toretto's house. I stopped in front of my house and was about to turn into my driveway when Mia grabbed my arm. I flinched in pain and let out a small yelp.

"What's wrong?" Mia asked worried as she let go of my arm.

"Nothing it's just you have a harder grip then you'd think" I said letting a small smile form on my face to make my explanation believable.

"Are you sure?" Tony questioned.

"Yeah, what else would be wrong?"

"I don't know but you'd tell me if something was wrong wouldn't you?"

I went quite for a minute and then I looked at him and shook my head yes.

I felt bad lying to him but I was embarrassed and I didn't want to tell him in front of everyone else.

"Well I just wanted to tell you that you can borrow some of my clothes if you want, so you have something cooler to wear. I mean you must have been roasting all day long." She said the last part dramatically.

"Its fine Mia, but thanks for the offer." I paused for a minute and then continued "I actually think that I'm going to skip out on the ice cream. I'll see you guys later."

"Why?" They all asked

"I'm just tired. I'll see you guys tomorrow." I said as continued to walk towards my house. I felt everyone's eyes still on me as I got to my porch.

"Hey, Letty!" Tony yelled.

I turned around and face him. "Yeah?"

"Is your mom still at work?"

I looked toward my driveway and saw that her car still wasn't back. I shook my head at him and yelled "Yeah."

"Dinners at seven why don't you come over and we can talk."

"Okay" I answered a little confused.

I went inside and look a long, relaxing bath, when I got out I went to my room and put on a pair of jeans and another turtle neck. I decided against the oversize sweatshirt because it was just dinner, not the garage where I moved around a lot.

I walk down the street to their house and knocked on the door. I waited for a moment outside and listen to them argue inside about who was going to answer the door.

Dom came to the door and let me inside. I guess he lost the argument.

"Letty, by now you should know that you can just come in, no need for knocking" Tony yelled form in the kitchen.

"Okay" I smiled "I'll remember for next time."

"Dinner will be ready in a few minutes, why don't you have a seat and make yourself comfortable."

I went over and sat by the guys who were playing some video game.

"What game are you playing?"

"None of your business." Vince said

"And no you cannot play." Dom added in his serious tone.

"I didn't even ask to play." I said defensively.

"But you were going to."

"No I wasn't" I snapped "I was just about to go find Mia." I looked around the room for a minute before I realized that Mia hadn't even greeted me yet and she usually was the first one to say anything to me when I came over. "Where is Mia?" I asked to no one directly.

"Upstairs." Dom said quietly.

I got off the couch and made my way to Mia's room upstairs. I knocked on the door and waited for her to answer.

"Who is it?" She yelled from in her room.

"It's me, Letty."

"Come in."

I entered her room and I saw her sitting on her bed brushing one of her dolls hair. She looked upset so I went over and sat next to her.

"What's wrong Mia?"

"Nothing" She said lowering her head.

"Then why do you seem so sad?"

She continued to brush her dolls hair, ignoring my question.

"Mia" I whined "What's wrong?"

"We'll after we left you at your house, we went to get ice cream." She said pausing after the sentenced escaped from her mouth.

"Yeah, I know but that doesn't tell me why you're sad."

"We'll after we left you daddy got really weird, he started to ask us what we knew about you and if you ever talked about your mom or your home life."

"What did you say?"

"I said that I knew that you're eight years old, your birthdays June eleventh. That you moved here from Detroit when you were younger, you do gymnastics and that your very sportive, I also told him that your kind of a trouble maker in school, but don't worry I don't think he it bothered him too much."

"Is that it?"

"Well just some small things, like your favorite color and food, oh and that you don't like playing with dolls. You know stuff like that and the truth is Letty that all I could tell him because that's all I know about you. You never talk about anything private, like I do. I told you about my parents and how my mom died, I talk to you about my feelings and how annoying by brother and Vince are, and you don't tell me anything."

"I didn't think you'd care."

"Of course I'd care Letty. You've become one of my best friends and I know we've only known each other for like five months but I feel like we've gotten really close."

"Me too Mia and I'm sorry that I don't talk to about my parents and stuff but it's hard for me to open up."

She shook her head understand and we sat in silence for a few minutes.

"Letty?"

"Yeah."

"What happened to your arm?"

"I told you."

"You were lying."

"Mia, it's nothing."

"Come on Letty, just tell me!"

"Fine. I fell the other day at gymnastics practice and hurt my arm." It made me feel really bad lying to her but I didn't know how to tell her the truth.

"Is that how you hurt your lip?"

"What do you mean, I didn't hurt my lip?"

"You have a cut on your lip Letty." She said pointing at my mouth.

I put my hand to my lip and felt a smell cut on my bottom lip, how could I forget that it was there.

"Oh yeah, I forgot." I shook my head at her. "Yeah I hurt my lip too."

She looked at my suspiciously and was about to say something but Dom barged into her room.

"Dom!" She yelled. "Don't you know how to knock?"

He disregarded her statement and continued with his reason for entering her room.

"Dad wanted me to tell you dinners done."

"Okay we'll be down in a minute."

We went down stairs and sat around the table. Vince reached for the food fist so Tony made him say the prayer. One of Mr. T's rules were if you reach for the food first you had to say the prayer. I had made that mistake my first time eating here and he made me say it and it was one of the most nerve wrecking things I've ever had to do.

For most of dinner we talked about the barbeque that they were having tomorrow for Memorial Day. I sat there in silence before Tony started to ask about summer plans and he wanted to know if I'd be around to work at the garage with them.

"Umm, well as soon as schools out I'm going to spend some time with my grandparents in Puerto Rico, then I'll probably stay with my dad in Detroit for the rest of the summer."

"You're going to be gone the whole summer?" Mia whined.

"Well that's what I usually do but I'm not sure I'll have to talk to my dad."

"So your dad lives in Detroit?" Tony asked verifying what I just said.

"Yup."

"So I take it your parent are divorced."

"Yeah, Twice actually." I said trying to give them information about myself that they obviously wanted.

"Both of them have been married and divorced to another person besides each other?" Dom asked a little confused.

"No, they've been married and divorced to each other twice." I said clearing it up for him.

"That must have been hard on you?"

"Yeah I guess" I said shrugging my shoulders.

"You guess!?" Vince asked.

"I don't know, it was a long time ago." I said defensively. "What about you Vince? You must come over here all the time for a reason."

"My parents are divorced too, that's why I was a little confused on how you weren't sure if it was hard on you or not."

"Well, I'm guessing it was hard on you."

"Yeah, just a little." Vince said a little annoyed

"So what about your brother? Does he live with your dad in Detroit?" Tony said changing the subject.

"No he moved out here to California with us when I was four, and we have different dads, he was only my half-brother."

"Oh, where in California does he live now?"

"I'm not sure any more. I haven't talked to him in a while."

"Why not?"

"I don't know we just don't talk in more!" I yelled. I didn't mean to say it that loud and with so much anger in my voice but I didn't want to talk about my brother.

They all looked at me for a moment wondering why I raised my voice but I just ignored them and got up from the table and went to the living room to out my shoes on so I could go home.

Tony had followed me into the living room and was standing in the door way.

"Where are you going Letty?"

"Home" I said with a hint of attitude.

"So your brother's a sensitive subject I take it"

"No, I'm just annoyed with the 20 questions."

"Well if you're going to be hanging around my kids all the time I would like to know something's about you."

I didn't say anything back I just walked toward the door and Tony stepped in front of me.

"Listen to me little lady" Tony said kneeling down to my height. "I just want to make sure that you're okay, and if you ever need anyone to talk to I'm here for you."

Tony was so nice and I so badly just wanted to show him my bruises right then and there but I would be leaving for my grandparents soon and I wouldn't have to worry about it, at least for the summer. I didn't see the need to tell Tony and start a bunch of drama with my mom when I was only going to be out of there in a few weeks.

"Thanks Tony, but I'm fine... Really I'm fine." I said smiling then I turned and walk out the door back to my house.