Chapter 5

It had been a month since I had known "The Team". So far I hadn't worked on a single car with them. I was a spectator in their world. Well, actually more like a back seat driver. Try as they might, I still wouldn't go a single race. And so far I had been doing pretty good to ignore Dominic's advances, but my wall was slowly caving in around me.

When my parents argued, which seemed to be every twenty minutes, I stayed over his house in an extra room.

One night I stayed over, I carried every textbook I had over there and studied. After three hours, I took a break. I went to the bathroom and got something to drink. When I came back up, I pasted by Dominic's room. He and Letty were arguing.

"It couldn't be any more obvious Dom."

"Look, I'm not sleeping with her."

"I know you're not. She's not flirting back. If anything, she's giving you the cold shoulder. You know, not everyone has to be fucking in love with you."

"I'm not trying to get to be in love with me. Why is that you have to read into everything I do?"

"I'm not reading Dom, I'm seeing. How you touch her waist, how you mess with her hair. And you do it while I'm in the room."

"What?"

"Don't play dumb. I've seen it. The way you gaze over her every time she walks on the room."

I walked back to room I was staying in, got all my things and loaded them into my car. I knocked on the door.

"What?" Dominic yelled.

I slowly opened the door to find Letty in tears and Dominic standing in a corner.

"I was going for a ride. I wondered if Letty want to go with?"

Letty lifted her head and looked at me then to Dominic.

"Yeah. I'll go." She stood, wiped her tears and walked out the room with Dominic's leather jacket. He either didn't care or didn't notice.

I drove around and let her mumble to herself for a while.

"Emerald. I have to ask you this."

"Am I sleeping with Dominic?"

"Well?"

"No. I never will sleep with Dominic."

"Why not?"

"He's yours. I could never stand in the way of love."

"You think there's love there?"

"Has to be. He refuses to break up with you and refuse to do the same. I can tell by that question that this isn't the first time this has come up."

"He just pisses me off. He flirts and sleeps around but he always comes back home. And I just let him in to continue doing the same."

"You sure he's sleeping around? I think he's more of a flirt. You know, I wonder you kiss kind of guy."

Letty looked at me and laughed.

"What's so funny?"

"You. Are you always looking for the best in someone?"

"Always have. If you can't see the best, then you will always see the worse, especially in yourself."

"True words." She looked out the window. "Have you kissed Dom?"

"I'm going to be truthful with you. I haven't but we did come close. And I have taken up ignoring him until he stops flirting with me."

"It's his eyes."

"What?"

"It's his eyes. Those deep brown eyes that make you see into him."

"Whoa. Poetic."

"I didn't know I had it in me."

"It's the Street influence. It's getting around."

Letty laughed harder and turned to face me.

"So what's up with you and Leon?"

"Me and Leon?"

"Yeah. Come on. I can see the sparks. Hell, I get any closer when you two are in the same room and I might catch on fire."

"The only sparks flying are from my direction. I flirt with him and he ignores me. Oh god." I said the last part in shock.

"What?"

"This sound like the plot for a Midsummer's Night Dream?"

"What?"

"A Shakespeare comedy."

"Oh." Her stomach growled loudly, killing the moment.

"How about some In and Out?" I said. "My treat."

"I'm not about to argue with that. Let's go girl."

I turned on to the freeway as my protective wall against Dominic crashed and burned.

I knew I wouldn't need it anymore.

Angel Note

Okay, so it won't be that bad for Dom/Let shippers. Now if you were hoping for them to break up, then one, you haven't read my first story and two, I am kind of bored with the whole Letty is dead, Letty gets beat up or the simple Letty is out of town. And I must be honest, I have done all three, in one story.

So come readers. Keep the reviews coming. :)