Chapter 16
Jesse's POV
I was sleeping peacefully when Allie came bouncing in the my room and jumped up on the bed beside me.
"Wake up, Jesse."
Most people would ask, my Allie just tells.
"Wake up!"
I opened my eyes and she was leaning over me, smiling.
"Good morning."
I looked for my watch. "What time is it?"
"I don't know, like 6 or something." She laid down beside me.
Okay, this was freaky, she's never happy at six in the morning. "I take it you made up with Dominic."
"Yeah, and guess what?"
"What?" I yawned.
"He let me drive the Charger."
"Whoa." Dom never even drives his Charger himself. He must have felt really bad.
"And he says I can go out with Payton," she replied.
Shit. Just what I wanted. Dom's right. Pate just wants to get in her pants. She don't believe that, but I know him better than she does. Wait a minute. Dom's right and he knows it. He wouldn't just say okay to this. There has to be more than she's saying.
"If?"
"If, what?" She asked.
"Dom will let you go if?" I've live here for 6 years, nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
"If? Um.., well, you're gonna love this. We have to double, but I'll hook you up with one of my friends." She said, quickly.
She was wrong. I didn't love it.
"What do you say, Jess? Will ya' do it for me?" She asked.
"No."
"Jessseeee, pleaseeee, it's the only way he's gonna agree an' I really want to go." She pretended to pout.
Big brown puppy dog eyes are a bitch, when they are being used against you.
"Oh, all right." I can't believe I just agreed to that, but maybe if I'm along, Pate won't be trying shit.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!" She was so excited, she kissed me.
I thought I showed her last night that I didn't want anybody else.
She kissed me again before bouncing up. "I got to get ready for school." She announced, heading for the door.
She nearly ran over Leon, in the hall, he stopped in my doorway. "What's up with her?"
"Dom's letting her go out."
"Oh. If?"
See what I mean?
"If I go with them, like on a double date." I answered.
"And you agreed?"
"Yeah."
"Man, are you crazy?" He exclaimed. 'Do you really want to go out with them and watch Pate mack on the girl YOU love?"
Yeah, Leon knows. "No, but, look how happy she is."
He shook his head. "Boy, you really do got it bad." He laughed and I threw a pillow at him.
When I went downstairs, allie was getting her books together for school. she had on Mickey Mouse overalls and her hair was in pigtails. She looked seven years old. I smiled, but she caught me.
"Laugh, and die, Herndon." She glared at me.
"I wasn't laughing."
"You wanted too." Then she softened. "Hey, Dom, Jesse says he'll go."
Dom looked at me, surprised. I got the feeling he was counting on me to say no. Though why, I don't know. If he can't tell her no, I don't know why he expects anyone else to be able to.
"You did?" He asked.
"Yeah." I shrugged.
He nodded. "Then, I guess you can go, Allie-cat. Now, ain't it time for you to get to school? Unless you decided to stay home and fix those Chevy's."
"No thanks," she laughed. "I'll see ya'll after school. Jesse, I'm gonna see if Selena'll go with us tomarrow, is that okay?"
"Fine." Whatever. She could ask whoever she wanted. I didn't care. Like I told Leon, I was just going to make her happy.
She kissed Dom, then was out the door.
I knew the next night was going to be an interesting one if nothing else.
Chapter 17
Allie's POV
Well, Saturday night finally came. I wasn't nearly as excited as I thought I would be. In fact, after spending most of the day at the shop, helping V fix the transmission a Nissan Maxima, I would have been perfectly happy to stay home and watch a movie with everyone else.
BUT, I had already told Payton I could go, and he was going to pick me up at six, and I had dragged Jesse and Selena Martinez into it, so I had to go.
V and I finished up about four thirty. I had grease and transmission fluid from head to toe. It was even in my hair. I was going to have to rush to get ready by six as it was and I really wasn't in a hurry to get going.
V pushed the creeper he was laying on out from under the Maxima, and stood up, wiping his hands off. He looked at me and laughed.
"Allie-cat, how is it that we were working on the same thing on the same car and I am not all that dirty and you look like a grease monster?" He teased.
"Cause 'somebody' poured transmission fluid on me," I replied. V had accidentally dropped a bottle of Pennzoil ATF while I was still under the car with result being that I ended up with a face and mouth full of transmission fluid.
"Damn," he smirked. "That must have been a bitch."
"V, I ain't got time to hurt you today, leave me alone." I had a shop towel in my hands. I threw it at him.
A strong arm circled my waist. "Tell him you are dirty because you were doing it right," Dom laughed. "That's what Papi would say. If you ain't filthy when you finish, the car ain't gonna run right."
"Uggh, you stink, Dom." I pushed away from him.
"You don't exactly smell like roses yourself, baby sister." He put a sweaty kiss on my cheek. "Ain't you going somewhere soon?"
"Yeah."
"Then you better go home and take a shower cuase, if I went to pick up a girl and she looked like you do right now, I'd run," he laughed again.
"You'd have too," V grinned.
"Yeah, well, I wouldn't go out with someone who looked like you , even when your clean," I shot back. "Either of you."
"You wouldn't have a chance," Letty spoke up. "They'd run him off before he even got near you."
"Damn right," they said in unison, setting me off in giggles. I love my big brothers, even if they do tease me to death.
"Come on, girl," Letty said. "Strip off those coveralls and I'll run you back to the house."
"Okay. V can put up our tools for giving me a Pennzoil bath." I grinned at him. I cleaned up best I could, so I wouldn't get Let's car dirty then followed her out, with a "Bye, ya'll."
At 5:45, I was actually ready.
Jesse came out of his room, looking annoyed. "Where does this chick live?"
"Her name is Selena and she lives on Canal street, in a big green house," I replied. "You might be cute if you didn't have such an evil look on your face."
"Yeah, well, I can always smile," he answered. "But you ain't got time to change clothes. Where'd you get them, anyways? Ho's-r-us?"
I had on Letty's mini skirt and one of Mia's shirts.
"Boy, get out of here," I snapped. "Pate and me'll meet ya'll at the theater at 6:30."
"Whatever." He snatched his keys up and walked out.
What a night for him to be in a pissy mood.
Payton showed up at 6:02. Dom opened the door, looking particularly menacing. I always want to laugh when he does that cause, I really know what a teddy bear my brother can be and I've yet to see the guy that didn't stutter when he asked what they wanted. Even Pate's voice faltered for a minute and he knows Dom well.
I hugged Dom quickly before practically pushing Payton out the door, mumbling goodbye and something about Jess being waiting on us.
We actually ended up waiting on Jesse and Selena.
They got there just before 6:30. Jesse walked around and opened the door for her, and he thought 'I' looked like a ho.
Selena's not really a good friend of mine. It's more like we both have good friend in common so we end up spending time together through her. However, she is the only friend I have that doesn't have a steady boyfriend right now. Anyways, she looked like skank. At least my skirt made the pretense of covering my butt. (Otherwise, Dom might not have let me out the door. HAHA)
We decide to see this sci-fi flick that was playing called Pitch Black. IT sucked big time. At least what I saw of it did.
We bought our tickets and manged to find four seats together. I ended up sitting between Jesse and Payton. Which turned out to be a good thing and a bad thing at the same time.
I had to listen to some stupid conversation they were having about how Payton should fix his computer, but when the movie started, they quieted down. Payton did at least.
Jesse likes Sci-Fi's about as much as I do, so we were both bored by the intro.
Then Vin Desiel's character appeared on the screen. Jesse leaned over and whispered, "Hey Allie don't freaky dude look like Dom?"
I giggled. "Sorta, they're both big and bald. But, MY brother is way cuter than that fool."
"How do you know that? You been checking Dom out?" He teased.
"No. But I do know that everywhere we go with him, women of all ages and descriptions DO check him out," I laughed. It seemed his bad mood was now forgotten.
"He looks like Dom with weilding goggles on," Jesse continued.
I luaghed outloud this time, then hissed, "Jesse!! Now, I'm gonna think about that everytime Dom gets ready to weld something."
Payton's hand was traveling up my leg. I caught it and held it still.
Jesse hates sci-fi. He amused himself and me by making comments worth of MST2K.
"Richard B, Riddick." He repeated. "I'm Dick Riddick. Boy, his parents hated him."
Even Payton laughed at that one. Selena, I know, thought we were being childish. She's the only one who was interested in the movie.
Jesse was cracking on it, I was spending half the time listening to him, the other half, fending off Payton's wandering hands. Did he really think that was sexy? I mean, come on, who wants to be felt up in a crowded theater? And Payton was, well.., trying to feel me up in a crowded theater.
"Pate. Please. Stop. That." I whispered, moving his hand again.
He sighed and momentarily moved his hands, both from my leg and my shoulder. Key word being momentarily.
Ten minutes later, I was once again trying to keep his hands out of my skirt.
"Now, looka there," Jesse said, as some woman got eaten. "If ya' done what freaky dude with the very large personal grooming tool had said and been still, ya wouldn't have gotten eaten by the creature with the red chassis lights."
"Payton, move your hand," I demanded. He did, right where I didn't want it. I froze only for a second then said, "Jesse, let me borrow your keys."
He gave me a strange look, but handed them over.
I took them then turned to Payton. "Not that direction, you stupid jackass." I twisted one of the keys into his hand. He yelped and jerked it away.
"Damn it, Allie!! That shit hurts."
"Good." I dropped the keys back in Jesse's lap and walked out.
I went to Jesse's car. I don't know why I went there, but I did.
I was leaning against the door with my arms on top of the car and my face buried in my arms.
After less than a minute, two arms circle mine. I could feel the heat of someone else standing behind me. I didn't have to look up to see who was there. I already knew. That scent. Cologne, smoke, motor oil and something undescrible. Jesse.
He pressed a kiss against the back of my neck. Then another and another down my shoulders.
"Allie, Baby," he whispered in my ear. "Turn around and look at me."
Jesse's POV
I was sleeping peacefully when Allie came bouncing in the my room and jumped up on the bed beside me.
"Wake up, Jesse."
Most people would ask, my Allie just tells.
"Wake up!"
I opened my eyes and she was leaning over me, smiling.
"Good morning."
I looked for my watch. "What time is it?"
"I don't know, like 6 or something." She laid down beside me.
Okay, this was freaky, she's never happy at six in the morning. "I take it you made up with Dominic."
"Yeah, and guess what?"
"What?" I yawned.
"He let me drive the Charger."
"Whoa." Dom never even drives his Charger himself. He must have felt really bad.
"And he says I can go out with Payton," she replied.
Shit. Just what I wanted. Dom's right. Pate just wants to get in her pants. She don't believe that, but I know him better than she does. Wait a minute. Dom's right and he knows it. He wouldn't just say okay to this. There has to be more than she's saying.
"If?"
"If, what?" She asked.
"Dom will let you go if?" I've live here for 6 years, nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
"If? Um.., well, you're gonna love this. We have to double, but I'll hook you up with one of my friends." She said, quickly.
She was wrong. I didn't love it.
"What do you say, Jess? Will ya' do it for me?" She asked.
"No."
"Jessseeee, pleaseeee, it's the only way he's gonna agree an' I really want to go." She pretended to pout.
Big brown puppy dog eyes are a bitch, when they are being used against you.
"Oh, all right." I can't believe I just agreed to that, but maybe if I'm along, Pate won't be trying shit.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!" She was so excited, she kissed me.
I thought I showed her last night that I didn't want anybody else.
She kissed me again before bouncing up. "I got to get ready for school." She announced, heading for the door.
She nearly ran over Leon, in the hall, he stopped in my doorway. "What's up with her?"
"Dom's letting her go out."
"Oh. If?"
See what I mean?
"If I go with them, like on a double date." I answered.
"And you agreed?"
"Yeah."
"Man, are you crazy?" He exclaimed. 'Do you really want to go out with them and watch Pate mack on the girl YOU love?"
Yeah, Leon knows. "No, but, look how happy she is."
He shook his head. "Boy, you really do got it bad." He laughed and I threw a pillow at him.
When I went downstairs, allie was getting her books together for school. she had on Mickey Mouse overalls and her hair was in pigtails. She looked seven years old. I smiled, but she caught me.
"Laugh, and die, Herndon." She glared at me.
"I wasn't laughing."
"You wanted too." Then she softened. "Hey, Dom, Jesse says he'll go."
Dom looked at me, surprised. I got the feeling he was counting on me to say no. Though why, I don't know. If he can't tell her no, I don't know why he expects anyone else to be able to.
"You did?" He asked.
"Yeah." I shrugged.
He nodded. "Then, I guess you can go, Allie-cat. Now, ain't it time for you to get to school? Unless you decided to stay home and fix those Chevy's."
"No thanks," she laughed. "I'll see ya'll after school. Jesse, I'm gonna see if Selena'll go with us tomarrow, is that okay?"
"Fine." Whatever. She could ask whoever she wanted. I didn't care. Like I told Leon, I was just going to make her happy.
She kissed Dom, then was out the door.
I knew the next night was going to be an interesting one if nothing else.
Chapter 17
Allie's POV
Well, Saturday night finally came. I wasn't nearly as excited as I thought I would be. In fact, after spending most of the day at the shop, helping V fix the transmission a Nissan Maxima, I would have been perfectly happy to stay home and watch a movie with everyone else.
BUT, I had already told Payton I could go, and he was going to pick me up at six, and I had dragged Jesse and Selena Martinez into it, so I had to go.
V and I finished up about four thirty. I had grease and transmission fluid from head to toe. It was even in my hair. I was going to have to rush to get ready by six as it was and I really wasn't in a hurry to get going.
V pushed the creeper he was laying on out from under the Maxima, and stood up, wiping his hands off. He looked at me and laughed.
"Allie-cat, how is it that we were working on the same thing on the same car and I am not all that dirty and you look like a grease monster?" He teased.
"Cause 'somebody' poured transmission fluid on me," I replied. V had accidentally dropped a bottle of Pennzoil ATF while I was still under the car with result being that I ended up with a face and mouth full of transmission fluid.
"Damn," he smirked. "That must have been a bitch."
"V, I ain't got time to hurt you today, leave me alone." I had a shop towel in my hands. I threw it at him.
A strong arm circled my waist. "Tell him you are dirty because you were doing it right," Dom laughed. "That's what Papi would say. If you ain't filthy when you finish, the car ain't gonna run right."
"Uggh, you stink, Dom." I pushed away from him.
"You don't exactly smell like roses yourself, baby sister." He put a sweaty kiss on my cheek. "Ain't you going somewhere soon?"
"Yeah."
"Then you better go home and take a shower cuase, if I went to pick up a girl and she looked like you do right now, I'd run," he laughed again.
"You'd have too," V grinned.
"Yeah, well, I wouldn't go out with someone who looked like you , even when your clean," I shot back. "Either of you."
"You wouldn't have a chance," Letty spoke up. "They'd run him off before he even got near you."
"Damn right," they said in unison, setting me off in giggles. I love my big brothers, even if they do tease me to death.
"Come on, girl," Letty said. "Strip off those coveralls and I'll run you back to the house."
"Okay. V can put up our tools for giving me a Pennzoil bath." I grinned at him. I cleaned up best I could, so I wouldn't get Let's car dirty then followed her out, with a "Bye, ya'll."
At 5:45, I was actually ready.
Jesse came out of his room, looking annoyed. "Where does this chick live?"
"Her name is Selena and she lives on Canal street, in a big green house," I replied. "You might be cute if you didn't have such an evil look on your face."
"Yeah, well, I can always smile," he answered. "But you ain't got time to change clothes. Where'd you get them, anyways? Ho's-r-us?"
I had on Letty's mini skirt and one of Mia's shirts.
"Boy, get out of here," I snapped. "Pate and me'll meet ya'll at the theater at 6:30."
"Whatever." He snatched his keys up and walked out.
What a night for him to be in a pissy mood.
Payton showed up at 6:02. Dom opened the door, looking particularly menacing. I always want to laugh when he does that cause, I really know what a teddy bear my brother can be and I've yet to see the guy that didn't stutter when he asked what they wanted. Even Pate's voice faltered for a minute and he knows Dom well.
I hugged Dom quickly before practically pushing Payton out the door, mumbling goodbye and something about Jess being waiting on us.
We actually ended up waiting on Jesse and Selena.
They got there just before 6:30. Jesse walked around and opened the door for her, and he thought 'I' looked like a ho.
Selena's not really a good friend of mine. It's more like we both have good friend in common so we end up spending time together through her. However, she is the only friend I have that doesn't have a steady boyfriend right now. Anyways, she looked like skank. At least my skirt made the pretense of covering my butt. (Otherwise, Dom might not have let me out the door. HAHA)
We decide to see this sci-fi flick that was playing called Pitch Black. IT sucked big time. At least what I saw of it did.
We bought our tickets and manged to find four seats together. I ended up sitting between Jesse and Payton. Which turned out to be a good thing and a bad thing at the same time.
I had to listen to some stupid conversation they were having about how Payton should fix his computer, but when the movie started, they quieted down. Payton did at least.
Jesse likes Sci-Fi's about as much as I do, so we were both bored by the intro.
Then Vin Desiel's character appeared on the screen. Jesse leaned over and whispered, "Hey Allie don't freaky dude look like Dom?"
I giggled. "Sorta, they're both big and bald. But, MY brother is way cuter than that fool."
"How do you know that? You been checking Dom out?" He teased.
"No. But I do know that everywhere we go with him, women of all ages and descriptions DO check him out," I laughed. It seemed his bad mood was now forgotten.
"He looks like Dom with weilding goggles on," Jesse continued.
I luaghed outloud this time, then hissed, "Jesse!! Now, I'm gonna think about that everytime Dom gets ready to weld something."
Payton's hand was traveling up my leg. I caught it and held it still.
Jesse hates sci-fi. He amused himself and me by making comments worth of MST2K.
"Richard B, Riddick." He repeated. "I'm Dick Riddick. Boy, his parents hated him."
Even Payton laughed at that one. Selena, I know, thought we were being childish. She's the only one who was interested in the movie.
Jesse was cracking on it, I was spending half the time listening to him, the other half, fending off Payton's wandering hands. Did he really think that was sexy? I mean, come on, who wants to be felt up in a crowded theater? And Payton was, well.., trying to feel me up in a crowded theater.
"Pate. Please. Stop. That." I whispered, moving his hand again.
He sighed and momentarily moved his hands, both from my leg and my shoulder. Key word being momentarily.
Ten minutes later, I was once again trying to keep his hands out of my skirt.
"Now, looka there," Jesse said, as some woman got eaten. "If ya' done what freaky dude with the very large personal grooming tool had said and been still, ya wouldn't have gotten eaten by the creature with the red chassis lights."
"Payton, move your hand," I demanded. He did, right where I didn't want it. I froze only for a second then said, "Jesse, let me borrow your keys."
He gave me a strange look, but handed them over.
I took them then turned to Payton. "Not that direction, you stupid jackass." I twisted one of the keys into his hand. He yelped and jerked it away.
"Damn it, Allie!! That shit hurts."
"Good." I dropped the keys back in Jesse's lap and walked out.
I went to Jesse's car. I don't know why I went there, but I did.
I was leaning against the door with my arms on top of the car and my face buried in my arms.
After less than a minute, two arms circle mine. I could feel the heat of someone else standing behind me. I didn't have to look up to see who was there. I already knew. That scent. Cologne, smoke, motor oil and something undescrible. Jesse.
He pressed a kiss against the back of my neck. Then another and another down my shoulders.
"Allie, Baby," he whispered in my ear. "Turn around and look at me."