Chapter 29: Just A Little Innocent Fun

"Where's Joss?" Mia asked Letty as she walked into the kitchen the next morning.

"Oh, she was staying at a hotel. Besides there's no room here and all her clothes are there." Letty responded.

"Are you happy that she's back?"

"I think so." Mia left it alone. She didn't want Letty to have to come to terms with anything that she wasn't ready for.

As far as Mia was concerned, Letty was still a little unsure, just as the rest of the team was.

"Dom wants to go on a vacation." Letty said.

"Where to?"

"I dunno. He said he wants to get away. Just me, him and Ana."

"Well, what are you waiting for? You need to be packing your bags right now." Mia joked.

"I wish, Mia. I think we all need a vacation." Letty said. She and Mia sat down at the kitchen table. They looked at the few envelopes on the table.

"What are these?"

"Bills. I just have to send a check for the electric and water bills."

"Are these past due bills, Mia? Are we behind?"

"No. No. We're doing better than okay. You know Dom. He'd never let us go broke." Mia said.

"Good."

Mia and Letty had their early morning small talk over coffee until Dom came down with Ana in one of his huge arms.

"Hi, pretty girl!" Mia squealed. She put her arms out and Ana seemed to want to jump into Mia's arms. She bounced in Dom's arms for him to let her go.

"Hey, beautiful." Dom said. He leaned over and kissed Letty's lips.

"Hey." Letty replied.

"Would you do me the honor of being my date tonight?" asked Dom. He leaned behind her chair and kissed on her neck. Letty leaned back into the back of the chair.

"I'd love to." Letty smiled at her husband.

"Okay, one niece is enough. Could you guys not try to make another baby at the breakfast table?"

"No, Ana!" Letty told Ana as she watched Ana try to grab Mia's coffee mug.

"Watch what she does." Letty said. As they all looked at Ana, her big gray eyes began to water up and her nose got red.

"Aww! Poor baby! Mommy's being mean to the pretty girl." Mia said as she stood up and rocked Ana.

"No, she's spoiled, Mia. Whenever someone tells her no, she cries." Letty replied.

Ana's little sniffles and cries made Letty feel bad. She knew she had to teach Ana right from wrong but she felt bad telling her no. Letty held her arms out for Ana to reach to her and surprisingly, she did.

"That's why she's so damned spoiled. You're the one spoiling her, Letty." Dom said.

"So?" Letty said.

"So, do you guys need a babysitter?" Mia asked.

"No, because I'm taking my fiancée out on a date tonight as well." Brian said walking into the kitchen, shirtless.

"I'm the only one who can walk around this house shirtless, bro." Dom said.

"Oh, yeah?" Brian replied.

"Yeah." Dom said.

He tried to grab Brian into a headlock but Brian ducked. He, in turn, grabbed Dom into a headlock. Brian blew his breath on Dom's bald head and rubbed it with his forearm. Mia and Letty laughed and Ana looked at the two of them in confusion.

Somehow the two men lost their footing and ended up on the floor of the kitchen roughing around.

"All right. All right, boys. Enough," demanded Mia. She was not about to have her kitchen in rambles because of their horseplay.

Ana giggled and clapped her hands as she watched her dad and Uncle Brian horse around.

Dom got up first and helped Brian up. "Still a buster."

"Yeah, whatever." Brian told him.

"So, where are we going tonight?" Mia asked.

"That's for us to know and you to be blindfolded."

"What?" Mia and Letty asked in unison.

"We figured you guys would say something along those lines." Dom said, crossing his arms.

"We decided to play a game with you two," added Brian. Mia and Letty looked at each other with quizzical expressions.

"What kind of game?" Letty asked.

"A treasure hunt." Brian told her.

"Sounds fun." Mia smiled.

"It will be. We will leave two clues around the house that will be sort of easy to find." Dom said.

"One for each of you." Brian added.

"It'll take you somewhere in California." Dom finished.

"There, you'll find a second clue that will lead you somewhere else." Brian said.

"Now, be warned, not all of the clues will be close to each other."

"Right. One or two clues may be in two completely different locations."

"Meaning?" Letty said.

"Meaning one of your clues could lead you to our old high school at the same time that one of Mia's clues leads her to like a playground or something." Dom explained.

"And how many clues will it take us to get to you?" inquired Letty.

"Four total," stated Dom.

"So, we figure because of rush hour, we'll place the first clues around the house about six or six-thirty," interjected Brian.

"Happy hunting ladies." Dom finished and the two men walked out of the kitchen.