Who's ready for two explosive chapters? Enjoy part one!
Hint- Dom and Vince go head to head
Dom's POV
One more day. One more day until the results would be back in. It had been a rough couple of days, everyone wanted to know why Letty wasn't allowed to work in the garage and was stuck doing paperwork in the office. To be truthful we hadn't even discussed what we were going to tell everyone, so when Vince had asked we'd been put on the spot. My hesitation before I answered had given me away, he knew I was lying. Then the hounding began. Leon cornered Letty the next day and tried to get a confession out of her, he'd walked away with bruised jaw. In the end it had been me that had snapped and told them to mind their own business and quit asking. They realised at that moment that I wasn't playing around and let it go but the questioning looks still stayed.
"Hi can I help you?" I heard Letty ask someone making me look up. A young girl, no older then nineteen was standing in front of Letty looking out of place as she glance nervously around the garage.
"Um, I'm actually looking for someone who works here." I heard her say quietly. I looked the girl over quickly, she wasn't someone I recognised.
"Okay who is it you're looking for?" Letty asked her.
"Vince, Vince Martin?" She said quietly as my eyes darted over to Vince before darting back to the girl. She wasn't Vince's usual type, in fact she was the polar opposite. Why the hell was a girl like her looking for Vince?
Letty's POV
"Emily?" Vince asked confused as he suddenly took notice of the girl in front of me.
"Vince, hi." The newly named Emily said.
Emily was a slender girl, pretty looking and with long brown hair. She wore no make up and judging by her jeans and tee she wasn't your typical chaser.
"What are you doing here?" He asked as he picked up a rag and wiped his hands quickly before tossing it down as he walked over to us. I looked between them and frowned. I was clearly out of the loop on something because there was clearly something going on between these two.
"I'm sorry for barging in with no warning but I was hoping to talk with you. Privately." She added when she realised she suddenly had an audience.
"No its fine. Dom can I..." Vince trailed off as he turned to look at Dom. I didn't turn around and look but I assumed by Vince's relieved face that Dom had said he could take a break. Hugging the clipboard to my chest I frowned as I watched the two of them leave the garage.
"You know who she is?" Dom asked me quietly. I jumped slightly as I hadn't heard him sneak up. I shook my head and looked up at him, he had a frown on his face. Clearly he was just as confused about who she was as the rest of us.
"You?" I asked wanting to double check.
"Never seen her before. Not someone I would ever see Vince with." He said quietly as he looked down at me. I made a noise of agreement before I turned back to the clip board. I was taking inventory, a month early but it would keep me busy for a little while and my mind off my results.
"You okay? Feel okay?" He asked me and I nodded, looking back up at him with a small smile.
"Fine. You?" I asked.
"Anxious." He said quietly and I nodded.
"Yeah… yeah me too."
"One day." he mumbled just enough for me to hear as Leon headed our way.
"What's up?" Dom asked him and I zoned them out. I shook my head and headed for the far corner of the room. I'd start over here and work my way back to the office.
I don't know how much time had passed but it must have been a little while because I had finished half of the garage before Vince came back. I looked up and frowned when I noted his pale face.
"You all good man?" I asked worried.
"Fine." He snapped before throwing himself into his work. I frowned but left it alone. A angry Vince was not a nice one.
A while passed before he finally swore loudly and threw a spanner at the floor. Everything in the garage seemed to stop. Clearly something was wrong.
"Fuck." He swore as he leaned heavily against the car he'd been working on. Dom and Leon exchanged glances and Jesse was watching Vince like me.
"V? What's up, who was the chick?" Leon asked.
"Her name's Emily." He supplied.
"And who is she?" Dom asked as he stopped close beside me.
"I don't… it's hard to explain." He winced, rubbing the back of his neck nervously as he looked at Dom.
"Try us." Vince sighed heavily and hung his head for a second before lifting it again to speak.
"I met her a month or so ago at a race. She was there with a friend."
"She doesn't look the type to hang at the races." Leon said quietly.
"Nah she doesn't. It was her first night there, her friend had wandered off with a racer and left her alone. I saw her looking lost so I went up to her. We just got to talking, so I invited her to a party at Hector's. She agreed to come and one thing led to another and..." He trailed off and I rolled my eyes. Typical.
"Right." Dom spoke up confused making Vince sigh yet again.
"I never expected to see her again but I found myself going to see her for lunch while she was at Uni or inviting her out for a movie. There was just something about her, you know? It wasn't like we were seeing each other properly or anything." Vince started to ramble.
"So whats wrong?" Leon asked.
"She wanna be serious or something? She don't look like the type of girl to not do commitment." Jesse added.
"Uh… nah. We um...shit." He growled as he paused.
"You what V?" Dom asked quietly.
"We weren't always careful." He said quietly and I suddenly understood the problem. Vince was about to become a father.
"She's pregnant?" Dom askd him quietly.
"She's waiting for the official results to come back but she's had a positive test. Bloods got done today."
"How do you know it's yours? It could be anyones." Leon accused.
"Trust me it's mine." He growled at him.
"Vince Leon's right, you don't know for sure-" Jesse started before Vince cut him off.
"She was a virgin the night I first slept with her. She hasn't been with anyone but me." The garage went silent as we each replayed over everything he'd just said.
"How old is she?" Jesse asked quietly.
"Nineteen."
"Shit." Leon groaned.
"How long does the results take to come back?" Jesse asked.
"Three days." The garage went silent very quickly and it was only then did I realise that not only had Vince answered but so had Dom and I. Suddenly the attention was on us, and I froze while Dom had gone rigid next to me.
"How do you two know that?" Leon asked suspiciously.
"Common knowledge." Dom brushed off but Vince's eyes narrowed at Dom and I saw him swallow nervously.
"No it isn't." om said nothing in return which made Vince narrow his eyes further.
"You've been acting weird for weeks, what's going on Dom? You got something to tell us too?" Vince accused.
"Vince…" Dom growled in warning as they stared each other down.
"And you Letty, how would you know that?" Vince turned on me with an angry glare.
"I'm smart." I muttered trying to also brush him off but his eyes narrowed at me.
"Bullshit. What did you do?" He demanded angrily and I actually shrunk back at his tone.
"Nothing." I muttered.
"Who? Was it Carlos?" Leon demanded from me looking murderous and I shook my head slowly trying to form a sentence to talk myself out of this.
"No one." I lied, raising my voice as I glared back at Leon.
"You really expect us to believe that? Come on Letty." He scoffed as he angrily threw a wrench down onto the bench.
"For fuck sake Letty, what the hell were you thinking? You're sixteen for fucks sake, we gave you permission to date not sleep around." Vince yelled at me as he ran a hand over his face.
"Hey, don't speak to her that way." Dom warned angrily as he stepped in front of me, blocking me from their view. Usually I wouldn't like someone stepping in and fighting my battles for me but right now I didn't care. It gave me a chance to regain my composure. This had gone south fast.
Dom's POV
I put myself in front of Letty as Vince, Leon and I all glared at one another. They could yell and accuse me all they liked but I wasn't going to stand here and allow them to tear Letty apart.
"How the fuck are you calm right now? She's sixteen and she's fucking pregnant." Vince exploded at me.
"Vince back off." I growled in warning.
"You knew. That's why you've had her working the office for the last two days haven't you?" Leon swore as he put the two together. I said nothing and Vince swore angrily.
"It was him wasn't it? That fucker Carlos." He seethed.
"Let it go Vince. You need to think about your own situation right now, let me deal with this." I warned.
"Fuck my situation, right now I'm more concerned with the fact that some irresponsible dick got Letty pregnant."
"You're one to talk." I muttered angrily making his eyes narrow at me. Jesse backed away and was watching Vince and I go at each other. I spared Leon a glance and saw he was angrily pacing, mumbling under his breath as he threw glares at me and Letty. Letty was still behind me, closely pressed against my back as she hid from the angry glares being directed at her. I could feel her body trembling, whether in anger or fear I didn't know, but I wasn't going to let them continue to yell at her. It was my fault not hers.
"Low blow. Emily's not sixteen, she's fucking three years older then Letty and I'm a twenty one year old who is willing to step up and be responsible. Which is more then I can say for the sorry fuck who got Letty pregnant." Vince yelled.
"Sorry fuck? How fucking dare you? I am more then willing to take responsibility for my actions thank you very much." I exploded on him as I saw red at his words. My chest heaved as I tried to calm down. It wasn't until the blood pounding in my ears had quietened that I realised the entire garage had gone deathly silent. I could have punched myself when I realised what I'd done.
"Dom." Letty whispered from behind me, just enough so that only I could hear it. I said nothing but I did reach back and find her hand. She took mine and gripped it tightly as I let out a small sigh. I knew what was coming when I finally met Vince's eyes. His face had been red before but after my bombshell confession the colour had drained from his face.
"What did you just say?" He whispered as we stared at each other down.
Fuck, this was gunna get messy.
