Chapter 6 The Valley (part 1)/Emeralds Story is Told
China's POV
After I said goodnight to Dom and Letty, me and my friends went into the kitchen to talk.
"Beer anyone?" I asked opening the fridge to find an assortment of Coronas and Snapples and other beverages.
"Emerald can use something to drink. Water or a fruit drink or a non- alcoholic beverage." Angel said sitting next to Trick with Emerald on her lap.
I handed her a Snapple and a small glass for Emerald. I handed everyone else a Corona, including Angel and taking a Corona for myself.
" sigh Looks like I got to go buy more beer for Dom." I said sitting on Ty's lap. No more chairs!
"We were thinking of going to see Dom and Nic in the Valley either tonight or sometime tomorrow." Trick said taking a swig of his Corona.
"Can we go tomorrow? Cause I want to head back to the hotel and get my stuff." I said finishing off my Corona. Ty wrapped his arms around my waist.
"That should be cool. I'll give them a call in the morning. But for now, we're going to head back to the hotel and get some sleep." Trick said finishing his Corona and standing up.
Sigh I left with everyone else just in my own car cause I was going to come back. I got my stuff out of my hotel room and headed home. I saw the living room lights on and I wondered who was up at two in the morning. I pulled into the driveway and Vince, Leon, Jesse, and Dom all came out on the porch. I gulped down the lump in my throat cause I knew this routine all too well for my liking.
" gulp Dom, guys. Uh...what's going on?" I asked getting out of my car and getting my duffel bag out of the trunk.
"Where'd you go?" Jesse asked before Dom could have the chance to go off on me.
"Went to the hotel to get some of my stuff. Why? Where'd you think I went?" I said staring Dom in the eyes. I knew he thought I went to the Valley with Trick and the rest of my friends.
"I thought you and your friends were going to the Valley tonight." Dom said simply. The four of them were blocking my way to the door.
"No, we're going sometime tomorrow. Dom, before you go off on me, me and my friends have a couple people who ran from a whole shit load of shit in Dallas. They called us from somewhere in the Valley. Figured they stopped running." I said pushing past Dom and Leon. I went to the kitchen first and cleaned up me and my friends' mess and then headed up the stairs. I didn't notice Dom or the guys when they followed me in the house. I didn't say a word to Mia or Letty when I passed them on my way to my room. Dom and the guys stopped when they reached Mia and Letty.
Dom's POV
I gave Letty a massage and she fell asleep after about 10 minutes. I watched her for a couple minutes then went to see if China was in bed yet. When I checked in her room, she wasn't there. I heard her and her friends in the kitchen talking. I crept down the downs so they wouldn't hear me.
"...Cause I want to head back to the hotel and get my stuff." I heard China say. I started to wonder as I crept silently into the dark living room. I watched as they all left and waited until I couldn't hear their tires anymore. I then went and woke up Vince, Leon and Jesse. I knew I shouldn't have awakened Jesse, but he helps to keep me calm in the worst of situations. I needed the three of them before I went crazy.
An hour later I heard China's tires and the four of us went out on the porch to meet her.
" gulp Dom, guys. Uh...what's going on?" she asked getting out of her car and getting her duffel bag out of the trunk.
"Where'd you go?" Jesse asked before I could have the chance to go off on her.
"Went to the hotel to get some of my stuff. Why? Where'd you think I went?" she said staring me in the eyes.
"I thought you and your friends were going to the Valley tonight." I said simply. The four of us were blocking her way to the door.
"No, we're going sometime tomorrow. Dom, before you go off on me, me and my friends have a couple people who ran from a whole shit load of shit in Dallas. They called us from somewhere in the Valley. Figured they stopped running." she said pushing past me and Leon. She went to the kitchen first and cleaned up her and her friends' mess and then headed up the stairs. She didn't notice me or the guys when we followed her in the house. She didn't say a word to Mia or Letty when she passed them on her way to her room. Me and the guys stopped when we reached Mia and Letty.
"What's up with her?" Letty asked sleepily.
"We wake you two up?" Leon asked with a slight smirk on his face.
"Make that the three of us Leon." Brian O'Conner said walking up behind Mia. Vince and Jesse chuckled.
"Sorry." Dom said leaning against the wall behind Letty.
"What's wrong babe?" Letty asked turning to face him.
"I think it's the fact of China being all grown up." Vince said teasingly, smiling all the while.
Jesse's POV
Dom didn't look too happy with China when she got home from the hotel tonight. He looked downright pissed to me.
"I'm...going to go see if she's okay. I'll be back in a couple minutes if she don't want to talk to anyone." I said heading for China's room.
I knocked on China's door. No answer. Knocked again. Still no answer.
"China?" I asked tentatively opening her door. She was lying across the foot of her bed looking at something. I walked over to her and laid down next to her across her bed.
"You know, coming back here, coming back home. I think it's the biggest mistake of my life, coming back here I mean. I knew that all of you wouldn't accept my friends unless they proved themselves to all of you. There are only two girls and one little girl who lost her mother at birth on the team I'm now on. She's only about five years old. She looks up to me. I mean, she looks at me like I'm her mother. Trick is her father, her real father. Mean, when I stopped at Dallas, I thought I was going to keep going and then I got involved in a street race with Trick and then things happened so fast for me from that very moment. Mean, I already had a family but then I got more friends then I can count right now cause of everything that's happened in my life. Papi being killed, Dom going to Lompoc when I was about eight leaving me and Mia with V and Let, the Trans pulling shit with us, Dom scaring off my friends every time they hung around after school at the garage." China said, finally taking a break to sigh.
"You want to talk to Dom about this? Mean I can listen all you want me to cause I've missed you sissy girl." I said. I noticed a little too late that I called her 'sissy girl'.
She growled and just about slapped me off the bed. Her eyes got big and tears started to well up in them. "OH! Jesse! I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to-I didn't mean to slap you." China said before she started to cry silent tears.
"China. Don't cry, c'mon I didn't mean anything by it. I-I was just..." I said my ADD kicking in.
"Kidding?" China said with the shadow of her great but beautiful smile that could cause anyone and everyone to smile or laugh.
"Yea." Was all I could say in answer. I did a mental sigh but didn't say anything.
"I just couldn't take anymore of Dom's bullshit and neither could my friends. Figured Dom would stop pushing them further and further away from me after school and shit like that. Just wish that Dom had changed before I left two and a half years ago. Then maybe...nah, I take that back. I'd probably be dead right about now." She must've realized what she said. She looked shocked and looked as if she was about to cry again. "Jess, I didn't mean it the way it sounded." China said as tears once again started to make silent trails down her cheeks.
"It's okay. For the record, I won't tell Dom." I said knowing full well that Dom would throw a fucking fit if he found out what his "Baby" said to me. He'd probably kill her himself, if he had the chance.
China's POV
Next Day
I was downstairs in the kitchen waiting for everyone to wake up. The rest of 'Team Scorpions' was going to stop by at around one or so, so that we could go to the Valley and see Dom and Nic, just got to find a way to not let Dom and everyone else find out. They'll flip.
" sigh God, wish my life wasn't so fucking fucked up. Then maybe I'd be able to be happy. No matter what the fucking consequences are." I said getting up and putting my empty Snapple bottle in the trash. "No matter what the fucking consequences." I said again before going out the backdoor only to find Dom, Leon and Vince outside. The three stopped dead in their tracks.
"C." was all that Dom said.
"I-I didn't know anyone else wa-was awake." I said, my voice shaking. Come to realize that my voice wasn't the only part of me that was shaking. My whole body started to shake. "Shiiiiit!" I screamed as I fell down the back porch steps.
"China!" Dom, Leon and Vince said running for me.
"No! Dom, Leon, Vince. STOP!" I yelled causing them to stop dead in their tracks just a couple steps away from me.
"China, please, let us help." Dom said taking a step towards me.
"Don't Dom. I don't need your help. Not right now at least." I said getting shakily to my feet. "It'll stop soon. I hope." I said the last part under my breath as I turned to go back into the house. The three of them followed me.
"China." Letty said when I walked in the kitchen with Dom, Leon and Vince trailing behind.
"Letty." I said walking past her and to the fridge to get a Corona. Dom just stared. "What? It helps with the shakes." I shrugged it off and walked to the front porch.
No One's POV
Jesse walked into the kitchen as China was walking out of it.
"What'd you find out?" Dom asked Jesse when the front door slammed.
"Almost everything came up on all of them. Including China." Jesse said sifting through the stack of papers in his hands.
Everyone looked shocked at hearing China's name. Dom was the first one to recover.
"What came up?" Dom asked.
"Trick's real name is Ronald Dean O'Conner. He was like the ring leader back in Dallas. His crime record is this: 2 years in JuV for boosting cars repeatedly when he was 16 and 9 months of community service for beating the living hell out of a dude who killed his fiancé 2 ½ years after their daughter was born." Jesse said looking at Trick's background check.
"What's the daughter's name?" Vince asked looking through the front window.
"Emerald Maeve O'Conner." Jesse said looking at her record. "She's only 5 ½ so that would mean there's nothing on her.
"What about everyone else?" Dom asked from his seat next to Jesse.
"They're all clean. Every single one of them." Jesse said shocking everyone in the room.
"What else would you expect?" China said making them all jump.
"China, how long have you been standing there and how much have you heard." Dom said his eyes showing the first embers of a fire about to roar to life.
"I've been standing there since I heard you say "What'd you find out" and so that would mean I heard the whole damn conversation." China said walking into the kitchen and throwing her beer bottle away. "Oh, the reason why you can't find anything on everyone else, including me other than what you already know about me, is the fact that I now know how to hack into police records and all that good shit. So, with that said, I'm going to go get changed, grab some cash and my keys and I'm gone." China said heading for the stairs before Dom got up and all but ran after her.
"Where the fuck are you going?!" Dom yelled at China before she disappeared down the hall to her room.
"My business not yours big brother!" China screamed and walked the rest of the way to her room.
"CHINA!! I am not done talking to you!!" Dom said running up the stairs two at a time and stopping at her bedroom door.
"Well I'm done talking to your fucking ass!" China yelled through the door as she got ready to leave.
To Be Continued. sorry for the cliffhanger but..that's all I can think of for this chapter..
China's POV
After I said goodnight to Dom and Letty, me and my friends went into the kitchen to talk.
"Beer anyone?" I asked opening the fridge to find an assortment of Coronas and Snapples and other beverages.
"Emerald can use something to drink. Water or a fruit drink or a non- alcoholic beverage." Angel said sitting next to Trick with Emerald on her lap.
I handed her a Snapple and a small glass for Emerald. I handed everyone else a Corona, including Angel and taking a Corona for myself.
" sigh Looks like I got to go buy more beer for Dom." I said sitting on Ty's lap. No more chairs!
"We were thinking of going to see Dom and Nic in the Valley either tonight or sometime tomorrow." Trick said taking a swig of his Corona.
"Can we go tomorrow? Cause I want to head back to the hotel and get my stuff." I said finishing off my Corona. Ty wrapped his arms around my waist.
"That should be cool. I'll give them a call in the morning. But for now, we're going to head back to the hotel and get some sleep." Trick said finishing his Corona and standing up.
Sigh I left with everyone else just in my own car cause I was going to come back. I got my stuff out of my hotel room and headed home. I saw the living room lights on and I wondered who was up at two in the morning. I pulled into the driveway and Vince, Leon, Jesse, and Dom all came out on the porch. I gulped down the lump in my throat cause I knew this routine all too well for my liking.
" gulp Dom, guys. Uh...what's going on?" I asked getting out of my car and getting my duffel bag out of the trunk.
"Where'd you go?" Jesse asked before Dom could have the chance to go off on me.
"Went to the hotel to get some of my stuff. Why? Where'd you think I went?" I said staring Dom in the eyes. I knew he thought I went to the Valley with Trick and the rest of my friends.
"I thought you and your friends were going to the Valley tonight." Dom said simply. The four of them were blocking my way to the door.
"No, we're going sometime tomorrow. Dom, before you go off on me, me and my friends have a couple people who ran from a whole shit load of shit in Dallas. They called us from somewhere in the Valley. Figured they stopped running." I said pushing past Dom and Leon. I went to the kitchen first and cleaned up me and my friends' mess and then headed up the stairs. I didn't notice Dom or the guys when they followed me in the house. I didn't say a word to Mia or Letty when I passed them on my way to my room. Dom and the guys stopped when they reached Mia and Letty.
Dom's POV
I gave Letty a massage and she fell asleep after about 10 minutes. I watched her for a couple minutes then went to see if China was in bed yet. When I checked in her room, she wasn't there. I heard her and her friends in the kitchen talking. I crept down the downs so they wouldn't hear me.
"...Cause I want to head back to the hotel and get my stuff." I heard China say. I started to wonder as I crept silently into the dark living room. I watched as they all left and waited until I couldn't hear their tires anymore. I then went and woke up Vince, Leon and Jesse. I knew I shouldn't have awakened Jesse, but he helps to keep me calm in the worst of situations. I needed the three of them before I went crazy.
An hour later I heard China's tires and the four of us went out on the porch to meet her.
" gulp Dom, guys. Uh...what's going on?" she asked getting out of her car and getting her duffel bag out of the trunk.
"Where'd you go?" Jesse asked before I could have the chance to go off on her.
"Went to the hotel to get some of my stuff. Why? Where'd you think I went?" she said staring me in the eyes.
"I thought you and your friends were going to the Valley tonight." I said simply. The four of us were blocking her way to the door.
"No, we're going sometime tomorrow. Dom, before you go off on me, me and my friends have a couple people who ran from a whole shit load of shit in Dallas. They called us from somewhere in the Valley. Figured they stopped running." she said pushing past me and Leon. She went to the kitchen first and cleaned up her and her friends' mess and then headed up the stairs. She didn't notice me or the guys when we followed her in the house. She didn't say a word to Mia or Letty when she passed them on her way to her room. Me and the guys stopped when we reached Mia and Letty.
"What's up with her?" Letty asked sleepily.
"We wake you two up?" Leon asked with a slight smirk on his face.
"Make that the three of us Leon." Brian O'Conner said walking up behind Mia. Vince and Jesse chuckled.
"Sorry." Dom said leaning against the wall behind Letty.
"What's wrong babe?" Letty asked turning to face him.
"I think it's the fact of China being all grown up." Vince said teasingly, smiling all the while.
Jesse's POV
Dom didn't look too happy with China when she got home from the hotel tonight. He looked downright pissed to me.
"I'm...going to go see if she's okay. I'll be back in a couple minutes if she don't want to talk to anyone." I said heading for China's room.
I knocked on China's door. No answer. Knocked again. Still no answer.
"China?" I asked tentatively opening her door. She was lying across the foot of her bed looking at something. I walked over to her and laid down next to her across her bed.
"You know, coming back here, coming back home. I think it's the biggest mistake of my life, coming back here I mean. I knew that all of you wouldn't accept my friends unless they proved themselves to all of you. There are only two girls and one little girl who lost her mother at birth on the team I'm now on. She's only about five years old. She looks up to me. I mean, she looks at me like I'm her mother. Trick is her father, her real father. Mean, when I stopped at Dallas, I thought I was going to keep going and then I got involved in a street race with Trick and then things happened so fast for me from that very moment. Mean, I already had a family but then I got more friends then I can count right now cause of everything that's happened in my life. Papi being killed, Dom going to Lompoc when I was about eight leaving me and Mia with V and Let, the Trans pulling shit with us, Dom scaring off my friends every time they hung around after school at the garage." China said, finally taking a break to sigh.
"You want to talk to Dom about this? Mean I can listen all you want me to cause I've missed you sissy girl." I said. I noticed a little too late that I called her 'sissy girl'.
She growled and just about slapped me off the bed. Her eyes got big and tears started to well up in them. "OH! Jesse! I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to-I didn't mean to slap you." China said before she started to cry silent tears.
"China. Don't cry, c'mon I didn't mean anything by it. I-I was just..." I said my ADD kicking in.
"Kidding?" China said with the shadow of her great but beautiful smile that could cause anyone and everyone to smile or laugh.
"Yea." Was all I could say in answer. I did a mental sigh but didn't say anything.
"I just couldn't take anymore of Dom's bullshit and neither could my friends. Figured Dom would stop pushing them further and further away from me after school and shit like that. Just wish that Dom had changed before I left two and a half years ago. Then maybe...nah, I take that back. I'd probably be dead right about now." She must've realized what she said. She looked shocked and looked as if she was about to cry again. "Jess, I didn't mean it the way it sounded." China said as tears once again started to make silent trails down her cheeks.
"It's okay. For the record, I won't tell Dom." I said knowing full well that Dom would throw a fucking fit if he found out what his "Baby" said to me. He'd probably kill her himself, if he had the chance.
China's POV
Next Day
I was downstairs in the kitchen waiting for everyone to wake up. The rest of 'Team Scorpions' was going to stop by at around one or so, so that we could go to the Valley and see Dom and Nic, just got to find a way to not let Dom and everyone else find out. They'll flip.
" sigh God, wish my life wasn't so fucking fucked up. Then maybe I'd be able to be happy. No matter what the fucking consequences are." I said getting up and putting my empty Snapple bottle in the trash. "No matter what the fucking consequences." I said again before going out the backdoor only to find Dom, Leon and Vince outside. The three stopped dead in their tracks.
"C." was all that Dom said.
"I-I didn't know anyone else wa-was awake." I said, my voice shaking. Come to realize that my voice wasn't the only part of me that was shaking. My whole body started to shake. "Shiiiiit!" I screamed as I fell down the back porch steps.
"China!" Dom, Leon and Vince said running for me.
"No! Dom, Leon, Vince. STOP!" I yelled causing them to stop dead in their tracks just a couple steps away from me.
"China, please, let us help." Dom said taking a step towards me.
"Don't Dom. I don't need your help. Not right now at least." I said getting shakily to my feet. "It'll stop soon. I hope." I said the last part under my breath as I turned to go back into the house. The three of them followed me.
"China." Letty said when I walked in the kitchen with Dom, Leon and Vince trailing behind.
"Letty." I said walking past her and to the fridge to get a Corona. Dom just stared. "What? It helps with the shakes." I shrugged it off and walked to the front porch.
No One's POV
Jesse walked into the kitchen as China was walking out of it.
"What'd you find out?" Dom asked Jesse when the front door slammed.
"Almost everything came up on all of them. Including China." Jesse said sifting through the stack of papers in his hands.
Everyone looked shocked at hearing China's name. Dom was the first one to recover.
"What came up?" Dom asked.
"Trick's real name is Ronald Dean O'Conner. He was like the ring leader back in Dallas. His crime record is this: 2 years in JuV for boosting cars repeatedly when he was 16 and 9 months of community service for beating the living hell out of a dude who killed his fiancé 2 ½ years after their daughter was born." Jesse said looking at Trick's background check.
"What's the daughter's name?" Vince asked looking through the front window.
"Emerald Maeve O'Conner." Jesse said looking at her record. "She's only 5 ½ so that would mean there's nothing on her.
"What about everyone else?" Dom asked from his seat next to Jesse.
"They're all clean. Every single one of them." Jesse said shocking everyone in the room.
"What else would you expect?" China said making them all jump.
"China, how long have you been standing there and how much have you heard." Dom said his eyes showing the first embers of a fire about to roar to life.
"I've been standing there since I heard you say "What'd you find out" and so that would mean I heard the whole damn conversation." China said walking into the kitchen and throwing her beer bottle away. "Oh, the reason why you can't find anything on everyone else, including me other than what you already know about me, is the fact that I now know how to hack into police records and all that good shit. So, with that said, I'm going to go get changed, grab some cash and my keys and I'm gone." China said heading for the stairs before Dom got up and all but ran after her.
"Where the fuck are you going?!" Dom yelled at China before she disappeared down the hall to her room.
"My business not yours big brother!" China screamed and walked the rest of the way to her room.
"CHINA!! I am not done talking to you!!" Dom said running up the stairs two at a time and stopping at her bedroom door.
"Well I'm done talking to your fucking ass!" China yelled through the door as she got ready to leave.
To Be Continued. sorry for the cliffhanger but..that's all I can think of for this chapter..