Chapter 2
Jesse held up a piece of cardboard with 'Guzman' written on it. He craned his neck left and right, almost painfully looking for Letty's cousin... not sure what she looked like but sure he'd know her when he saw her... because she was Letty's cousin.
Jesse jumped slightly as his phone rang, slipping it out of his pocket, flicking it up against his ear, still holding the sign with one arm, he answered, "You have reached Jesse's boom boom room, how may I service you..."
"Jess... please tell me that your at the airport, waiting to pick up Diana?" Letty demanded, as she tipped pills onto the table haphazardly. Counting out the red tables from the white tablets.
"Yup... I'm at the entrance, gots me a little sign and everything... how's mami Ele?" Jesse demanded, waving his sign in front of the face of a couple of girls... just to make sure they weren't Guzman's.
"Ahhh she's complaining... still... like she's stopped..." Letty muttered, resting the phone between her head and shoulder as she filled a glass with water, and picked up the bunch of tablets. "Hey Jess I gotta go make her take her medicine... gimme a ring when you pick her up right?" Letty demanded pressing end on the conversation and heading in to wrestle some tablets down her mother's throat.
"Okay... Letty..." Jesse said his jaw dropping as he watched Letty come across the airport, baggage terminal... blinking quickly... rubbing his eye's... Jesse loped over to Letty and asked slowly, "Diana Guzman?"
The girl looked up... her eye's dark and hostile, looking Jesse up and down before agreeing... and demanding, "yeah...?"
"I'm Jesse... Letty, your cousin Letty, sent me to pick you up... Mami Ele, had an attack of asthma... or was in angina?? Anyway they sent me to pick you up!" Jesse told her with a grin holding his hand out to her.
"Great...: Diana muttered, rolling her eye's, passing by his hand as she came to stand at the large doors of the Airport entrance... "So where's your car then?"
Jesse was not to be deterred by Diana's surly attitude... Letty had been just the same when he'd first met her. "Over thatta way." He said pointing to his father's white Jetta.
"In the handicap zone?" Diana asked raising an eyebrow as she headed in that direction asking Jesse, "Are you handicapped?"
'Ouch'... Jesse thought, stinging from the remark... she was quickly starting to sound less and less like Letty. "No... I just parked there... want me to take you bags?" Jesse asked, resolving not to get upset, she was Letty's cousin.
"No..." Diana told him quickly holding her carry-all and tote bag close to her body, as if she expected the tall, skinny, blonde to attack her for them.
Jesse nodded slowly. 'Okay so she wasn't big on the friendly, make a good first impression... but that was okay because she was Letty's cousin.' Jesse unlocked his car, as he jogged around to the driver's side telling Diana, "Jump in."
Diana was already settled in the front passenger seat when Jesse slipped into the car. "Are you hungry or anything... I can stop by one of the drive-through's and grab you something?" Jesse told her as he pulled out of the handicapped parking.
"No... I just wanna get to... my aunts' place..." Diana told him... her aunt... that felt weird... she hadn't really ever though of herself as having an aunt. Just her father and Tiny... but the woman was offering her a place to stay... free food... and a retreat from her father. The only problem was Tiny wasn't with her.
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Jesse pulled up into the Toretto's drive-way, slamming his car door absently as he wandered up to the front door, knocking, then shaking his head as if trying to clear the cobweb's, he walked in.
Peering into the lounge room, Jesse continued to amble through the house looking for the rest of the crew. He plodded into the kitchen, finding, Leon, Vince, Mia and Dom sitting around the table playing cards. Saying not a word, Jesse reached into the fridge and grabbed a Corona, pulling up the seat next to Vince, Jesse popped his top and took a long comforting pull on his beer.
Mia looked up from where she was expertly suffling the cards, "Did you go pick up Letty's cousin?" she asked curiously of Jesse, because he was looking a little dazed and un-aware. The last thing he needed, was to have gotten stoned and forgotten to pick up Letty's cousin.
Jesse nodded slowly, taking another comforting swig on his beer, his eye's moving back and forth quickly in his head like he was trying to figure something, of massive importance out.
"So is she fine? Is she like Letty? Is she hot?" Leon demanded quickly.
Jesse didn't move and remained ominiously silent.
"Your a dog, man..." Vince muttered to Leon with a smirk.
Jesse still remained silent.
"Come on man, what she like?" Leon asked again, urgently.
"Like Letty..." Jesse said disjointedly, as he tugged on his collar and added, "Only meaner."
Dom looked up at that, shaking his head and chuckling, but remaining quiet in self-perservation. Whatever he said to that would go straight from his mouth to Letty's ears... espically with Mia around.
"Forget that shit!" leon demanded disbelieving, looking to Dom for back-up only to be left hanging. Turning back to Jesse, Leon shook his head, "You be tripping man... To much..." Leon made smoking motions.
"We gotta meet this woman!" V declared forcefully, laying his cards on the table, the game forgotten as Mia grabbed the phone dialing in a familar collection of digits.
"Meaner than Letty?" V thought allowed, "Maybe she'll give you buster's a run for your money!" Vince pondered, everyone taken him to mean Jesse and Leon, since Dom and Mia had immunity to any general insult V uttered.
"Yeah? Hey! How's your mami? Sweet! Look girl you gonna bring up your cous and make with the intro's?" Mia asked quickly. "Yeah, yeah... we all here. 5? Make that 10? Yeah... later girl!" Mia said quickly turning to the table of interested males, informing them... "They gonna head up as soon as Ele's settled and has stopped fussing over Diana, but Letty was getting the full name treatment, so can't say how long they'll be." Mia told them... sitting back at the table... then standing deciding to clean up around the house a little before Diana made her entrance.
"I have to go... go... lie down in Mia's room..." Jesse said suddenly... jumping from the table like a nervous child.
"Wuss!" Leon snorted at his best friend.
"Lucky..." V grumbled quietly, watching Jesse fumble quickly up the stairs... getting accidently elbowed in the head by Mia's cleaning elbow.
Jesse held up a piece of cardboard with 'Guzman' written on it. He craned his neck left and right, almost painfully looking for Letty's cousin... not sure what she looked like but sure he'd know her when he saw her... because she was Letty's cousin.
Jesse jumped slightly as his phone rang, slipping it out of his pocket, flicking it up against his ear, still holding the sign with one arm, he answered, "You have reached Jesse's boom boom room, how may I service you..."
"Jess... please tell me that your at the airport, waiting to pick up Diana?" Letty demanded, as she tipped pills onto the table haphazardly. Counting out the red tables from the white tablets.
"Yup... I'm at the entrance, gots me a little sign and everything... how's mami Ele?" Jesse demanded, waving his sign in front of the face of a couple of girls... just to make sure they weren't Guzman's.
"Ahhh she's complaining... still... like she's stopped..." Letty muttered, resting the phone between her head and shoulder as she filled a glass with water, and picked up the bunch of tablets. "Hey Jess I gotta go make her take her medicine... gimme a ring when you pick her up right?" Letty demanded pressing end on the conversation and heading in to wrestle some tablets down her mother's throat.
"Okay... Letty..." Jesse said his jaw dropping as he watched Letty come across the airport, baggage terminal... blinking quickly... rubbing his eye's... Jesse loped over to Letty and asked slowly, "Diana Guzman?"
The girl looked up... her eye's dark and hostile, looking Jesse up and down before agreeing... and demanding, "yeah...?"
"I'm Jesse... Letty, your cousin Letty, sent me to pick you up... Mami Ele, had an attack of asthma... or was in angina?? Anyway they sent me to pick you up!" Jesse told her with a grin holding his hand out to her.
"Great...: Diana muttered, rolling her eye's, passing by his hand as she came to stand at the large doors of the Airport entrance... "So where's your car then?"
Jesse was not to be deterred by Diana's surly attitude... Letty had been just the same when he'd first met her. "Over thatta way." He said pointing to his father's white Jetta.
"In the handicap zone?" Diana asked raising an eyebrow as she headed in that direction asking Jesse, "Are you handicapped?"
'Ouch'... Jesse thought, stinging from the remark... she was quickly starting to sound less and less like Letty. "No... I just parked there... want me to take you bags?" Jesse asked, resolving not to get upset, she was Letty's cousin.
"No..." Diana told him quickly holding her carry-all and tote bag close to her body, as if she expected the tall, skinny, blonde to attack her for them.
Jesse nodded slowly. 'Okay so she wasn't big on the friendly, make a good first impression... but that was okay because she was Letty's cousin.' Jesse unlocked his car, as he jogged around to the driver's side telling Diana, "Jump in."
Diana was already settled in the front passenger seat when Jesse slipped into the car. "Are you hungry or anything... I can stop by one of the drive-through's and grab you something?" Jesse told her as he pulled out of the handicapped parking.
"No... I just wanna get to... my aunts' place..." Diana told him... her aunt... that felt weird... she hadn't really ever though of herself as having an aunt. Just her father and Tiny... but the woman was offering her a place to stay... free food... and a retreat from her father. The only problem was Tiny wasn't with her.
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Jesse pulled up into the Toretto's drive-way, slamming his car door absently as he wandered up to the front door, knocking, then shaking his head as if trying to clear the cobweb's, he walked in.
Peering into the lounge room, Jesse continued to amble through the house looking for the rest of the crew. He plodded into the kitchen, finding, Leon, Vince, Mia and Dom sitting around the table playing cards. Saying not a word, Jesse reached into the fridge and grabbed a Corona, pulling up the seat next to Vince, Jesse popped his top and took a long comforting pull on his beer.
Mia looked up from where she was expertly suffling the cards, "Did you go pick up Letty's cousin?" she asked curiously of Jesse, because he was looking a little dazed and un-aware. The last thing he needed, was to have gotten stoned and forgotten to pick up Letty's cousin.
Jesse nodded slowly, taking another comforting swig on his beer, his eye's moving back and forth quickly in his head like he was trying to figure something, of massive importance out.
"So is she fine? Is she like Letty? Is she hot?" Leon demanded quickly.
Jesse didn't move and remained ominiously silent.
"Your a dog, man..." Vince muttered to Leon with a smirk.
Jesse still remained silent.
"Come on man, what she like?" Leon asked again, urgently.
"Like Letty..." Jesse said disjointedly, as he tugged on his collar and added, "Only meaner."
Dom looked up at that, shaking his head and chuckling, but remaining quiet in self-perservation. Whatever he said to that would go straight from his mouth to Letty's ears... espically with Mia around.
"Forget that shit!" leon demanded disbelieving, looking to Dom for back-up only to be left hanging. Turning back to Jesse, Leon shook his head, "You be tripping man... To much..." Leon made smoking motions.
"We gotta meet this woman!" V declared forcefully, laying his cards on the table, the game forgotten as Mia grabbed the phone dialing in a familar collection of digits.
"Meaner than Letty?" V thought allowed, "Maybe she'll give you buster's a run for your money!" Vince pondered, everyone taken him to mean Jesse and Leon, since Dom and Mia had immunity to any general insult V uttered.
"Yeah? Hey! How's your mami? Sweet! Look girl you gonna bring up your cous and make with the intro's?" Mia asked quickly. "Yeah, yeah... we all here. 5? Make that 10? Yeah... later girl!" Mia said quickly turning to the table of interested males, informing them... "They gonna head up as soon as Ele's settled and has stopped fussing over Diana, but Letty was getting the full name treatment, so can't say how long they'll be." Mia told them... sitting back at the table... then standing deciding to clean up around the house a little before Diana made her entrance.
"I have to go... go... lie down in Mia's room..." Jesse said suddenly... jumping from the table like a nervous child.
"Wuss!" Leon snorted at his best friend.
"Lucky..." V grumbled quietly, watching Jesse fumble quickly up the stairs... getting accidently elbowed in the head by Mia's cleaning elbow.