Chapter 19

Vince pulled up in front of the garage and saw Gina's car. He sat there for a moment wondering if he should go in. Could he forgive her for what she did? He honestly didn't know.



Gina looked out the window and saw Vince sitting in his car. She could almost tell what he was thinking about. He didn't know if he could forgive her and she didn't blame him. Everything that happened with him wasn't in her plans. She let her feelings for him cloud her mind when she should have been more focused on Dom. When he pulled the car back out on the street, Gina held in her tears.

"I've lost him" she said to herself.



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One Year later:

"G" Jesse said while pounding away on his laptop.

"Yeah" Gina answered while coming up and standing behind him.

"What you got?"

"Well, Mr. Thompson's people are giving me shit about the security system. They said it's not going to work" Jesse told her while pulling up the Thompson file on his computer.

"Don't worry about them, I spoke to the old man and he's confident in us. Just step it up and everything will be fine"

Jesse turned and looked over his shoulder, he smiled then stated, "You're the boss."

Gina winked at him then padded him on the shoulder.

"Oh Mia called and told you to be at the house at 6:30" Jesse yelled at her.

"K" she said while sitting down at her desk. She looked out and smiled to herself. Jesse had a tough year but came out of everything stronger. They started this business together and it had brought them nothing but joy. Gina knew she didn't want to be a police officer anymore but there was still something inside of her that wanted to help people. So one day it came to her that she and Jesse could get into the home security business. After their break in at Johnny Tran's house, she knew this would work.



The year also helped her and Dom slowly start to form a relationship again. Both of them needed to put the past behind them and start out new. Mia was still in school and getting ready to finish. She and Brian stayed friends but nothing more. She also had recently meet a guy in one of her classes who had the same major as her. So she and this guy started dating and Mia was really happy with him.

The rest of Dom's team was doing well also. Letty and Dom were still together. She, Leon, Jesse and Vince still worked at the garage. The garage was doing so well that Dom opened another one. He was busy running both of them. Every thing was going well for them.

Even with all the good times that surrounded her, Gina still wasn't complete. She often thought of Vince. He'd been so busy with moving the rest of his stuff back into his home plus Dom pretty much had him running the other garage. She barely saw him. It pained her to know that he was hurt by her. She never wanted to hurt him, but it happened.



At 6:30 Gina pulled up to her brother's home. She stepped out the car and walked up to the house. Dom opened the door and welcomed her with open arms.

"Hey baby sister," he said while hugging her tight, "come on in."

She smiled up at him then saw Letty, and walked over to her.

"Hey G, look I picked the dresses out for you and Mia. Come on" Letty took hold of her and dragged her into the dinning room.

Mia was sitting at the table looking at a magazine. "Hey Gina"

"Mia" Gina said while smiling.

"Okay, here it is...do you like it?" Letty asked will biting her bottom lips.

"Letty it's beautiful..." Gina replied.

"Good" Letty smiled then sat down next to Gina.

"So, we can go this week and check them out."

Gina turned to Letty then said, "Letty, you and Dom aren't getting married until next year we don't have to go so soon"

"We're getting married in a couple of weeks," Letty

said, "I'm pregnant and I want to be married before we

have the baby."

Gina's faced dropped, she shook her head and then looked over at Mia.

"It's true," Mia told her.

She looked back at Letty then said, "Okay..oh my god"

Letty smiled then almost started to cry.

"Don't cry Letty," Gina said while hugging her, "you and Dom are gonna be great parents."

When Dom entered the room he leaned down and kissed Letty. Mia and Gina looked at one another then smiled.

"So how is business?" Dom asked Gina.

"Fine. Jesse is brilliant...but you know that."

"Yeah, he'd wants me to pay you and him to install an alarm system at the garage and here." Dom told her.

"It's on the house Brother," she said with a wink.

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Leon and Vince came strolling in around seven they'd been working late. They had a girl with them but Gina had no idea who she was. She was tall with long red hair. Gina introduced herself and started wondering with one the them she came with.



Vince tried to act like Gina's presence wasn't bothering him. But once her saw her, the same old

feeling was deep inside of his belly. He said hey to her but went back to talking with Dom and Leon.



Gina started to feel like someone had turned up the heat in the house. She was on the verge of not being able to control herself. Vince was right there, but there wasn't anything she could do. When the red head whose name was Beth walked up by him and put an arm

around his waist, Gina felt like she'd been kicked in her stomach. She told Letty and Mia she had to get some air.



She stood outside and rubbed her forehead, calm down she keep telling herself.

"Gina?" she heard from behind her. She turned and saw Dom smiling down at her, "You ok?"

"Yeah."

"I'm so glad you came," he told her.

"I'm glad you wanted me to come...Dom this last year we've dealt with a lot and I just want you to

know I am happy for you and Letty. You two will be great parents."

Dom reached out and took his sister in his arms, "I love you, Gina."

"Love you too brother."

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Vince stood on the porch and watched Gina and Dom. He was happy that they gotten past all the crap that happened. He turned and went back inside.

When Gina and Dom came back inside Dinner was already on the dinner table. Everyone sat down while Vince stood up and held up his glass.

"I wanted to make a toast to Dominic and Letty. Two amazing people, who we love. Here's to you."

"Where is Jesse?" Leon asked.

"He's fixing something. He'll be here soon." Dom told Leon.

Vince took his seat which was next to Gina. He glanced over at her and smiled. She looked away from him then started eating her food. The entire meal both Gina and Vince said nothing to one another.

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After dinner everyone went into the living room to chat.

Dom was sitting in his chair with Letty in his lap. Mia and Jesse who arrived right as dinner was finished were sitting on the couch. Leon sat by Jesse so he could talk to him about lord knows what. Gina sat on the arm of the couch next to Mia. Vince sat in the other chair which let the Beth girl with no seat. She looked over at Leon then without saying a word dropped

down on Vince. Gina focused back on Mia. She didn't want anyone to know that Beth was beginning to bother her.

Gina looked down at her watch and decided it was time for her to go. She' couldn't stand seeing Beth all giggly and flirty with Vince. So she stood up and announced she was going home. After hugging everyone but Vince and Beth she made her exit.

Vince rolled his eyes after Gina left. He was starting to get angry and didn't know why. Later that night he pulled Jesse to the side for some Q and A about Gina.



"Hey Jess?"

"Yeah V?"

"So you and Gina doing good?" he asked.

Jesse almost laughed at Vince. He knew about what had happened between them. So he decided to spice things up.

"Great, the business is great. Gina and I work well together. She's great and you know ever since she met David she has been really happy."

Vince shook his head then asked, "Wait, what?"

"David. He's another security guy. He helped us out when we started the business. They work real well together. She hasn't said anything. She's waiting for the right time." Jesse said trying not to over do it.

Vince rubbed his hand through his hair and smiled at Jesse.

"Don't say anything to Dom and them." Jesse added before walking away from Vince.

After Vince got home, he paced up and down his bedroom. The memory of their night together filled his mind. He shut his eyes trying to forget but couldn't. He sat at the foot of the bed while kicking his shoes off. Lying down he grabbed one of his pillows and put it over his face.



"FUCK!" he yelled into it.

He then sat up and threw the pillow across the room. The rest of the night he sat on his couch in complete darkness.

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Gina was on her home computer when she got an IM from Jesse. She replied and then asked how he was doing.

ComputerGod-Just wanted to let you know that I told V about David.

GToretto-What?

ComputerGod-about you and David

GToretto-what about me and David...Jesse what the hell are you talking about!!

ComputerGod-you know that you and him are seeing one another.

GToretto-Jesse why did you tell Vince I was seeing David?

ComputerGod-cause it would piss V off to no end!

GToretto-Why?

ComputerGod-don't play dumb G..you know why

GToretto-Jesse I am going to kill you

ComputerGod-No you won't you love me:)

Gina sat back in her chair and let out a laugh.

"Great," she said to herself before telling Jesse she would talk with him later.

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The following day she went into work and found Jesse wasn't there yet. She made coffee then went straight to her office to check and see if she had any messages.

She dialed up her voice male and found she had a couple. Oddly enough, one was from David. The other one was from Mia. She listened to Mia's first.

"Hey Sis, just wanted you to know that this Friday night we are having Letty's bachelor et party..come the house around 7pm and dress up SEXY!! Love you bye."

She laughed to herself then checked the other message.

"Hey Gina this is David I wanted you to know that Bobby send some parts for you over here so I am going to come by today or tomorrow and drop them off have a great day."

Gina hung the phone up and went right to work. She looked down at her watched and noticed it was 8:45am and Jesse was never more than 10 minutes late. She grabbed her phone and called the garage to see if he was there.



"Toretto's garage can I help you?" she heard Vince say.

"Uh..Vince is Jesse there?" she asked.

Vince took in a deep breath before saying, "no he just left..we had some trouble with a car."

"Ok thanks I was getting worried..thanks."

He went to say something again but the phone went dead.

Letty walked up and asked if he was all right.

Vince looked at her and said no.

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"Jesse you leaving?" Gina asked while typing an

email.

"No..Vince is meeting me here."

"Oh," she said before stopping what she was doing and reached down for her purse. She took out her compact and checked herself out.

"You look fine," Jesse piped in before getting up and going to the bathroom.

Gina rolled her eyes and put the compact back in her purse and threw it on the floor.

When the front door opened, she jumped up and went to see who it was.

"Hello David," she said while giving him a hug.



"Gina, here are your parts," he said while handing her a box.

She put them down and asked how he was doing.

"Oh fine, just working and keeping busy and you?" he asked.

"Good, my brother is getting married next week," she told him.

Jesse came out the bathroom with a smile on his face. He told David hello then sat at his desk.

Gina heard Vince's car pull up and threw Jesse a look.

Vince strolled on in, he smiled at Gina then at the guy standing next to her and went over to Jesse's desk.

"V."

"Jesse you ready?"

"UH..I need to get something from the back hold on..Hey Gina why don't you introduce Vince to

David?"

Gina wanted to scream but didn't she smiled at Jesse then walked over towards Vince and said, "David this is Vince..Vince this is David."

Vince slowly stood up and walked up to the David. He looked him up and down then took hold of the hand in front of him.

"Nice to meet you Vince," David said before feeling Vince's grip tighten on his hand. He yanked

it away then turned his attention back to Gina.

"Well I have to go..I'll see you later." He said before giving Gina a hug and walking out the

door.

Gina watched David leave then looked back at Vince. His face went ridged.

"I need to get back to work, nice to see you V," she said before walking to her office.

"Okay we can go," Jesse said as he came to stand next to Vince. He could tell his friend was

pissed off. He then decided to add a flame to the fire.

"Isn't David nice? He and Gina seem to get along really good."

Vince grinded his teeth together before storming out

of the office.

TBC