DISCLAIMER: I only own the neighbors and Serena. I hope you like it, the best is yet to come.





Summer went down the stairs into the living room where mainly everyone was. Crimson sat in a recliner chair, her feet curled under her slim form, applying ruby red nail polish to her fingernails. "So, what did you see?" she asked, still applying the polish and not bothering to look up.

Summer shrugged, "They weren't doing much. I couldn't hear anything. All I saw was the blonde boy…what's his name?" she asked frowning in concentration while sitting down in one of the cushioned chairs.

"Brian," Violet supplied coming into the room and sitting on another chair.

"Yeah him, anyway, he left first to go somewhere and about five minutes later the others came out except for the girl with the long black hair."

"His sister, Mia," Violet helped again, drumming her fingers on the arm of the couch.

"Yeah her. The one with the dark hair went in his own car," Summer continued.

"Vince," Crimson told her, blowing on her nails to dry them faster.

"Uh-huh," she mumbled, irritated by being corrected every ten seconds. "And Dan went in his car with the other two chicks."

"Letty being the one with black hair and Serena being her almost exact look a like, and it's not Dan it's Dom," Violet added.

"Will you stop correcting me every minute, Goddamn it?" she huffed angrily.

"Get the names right then," Crimson told her, touching her nails lightly, making sure they were thoroughly dry.

"And Leon took his own car," she finished the report, smiling by getting a name right.

"Someone's got a crush," Violet sang the words, teasing her friend.

"I do not!" she denied.

"It's written all over your face," Violet told her.

"Okay so what if I do? Crimson thinks Vince is cute," Summer said, pointing at her.

Crimson shrugged, "So what if I do? Doesn't mean I'll act on it?"

"You will, Crim, I know you too well by now. You always get what you want and by the looks of it you want Vince," Violet added, shifting in her seat to drop her legs over the recliners armrest.

"I don't want him," she shook her head. "Maybe I want to test drive his car, he has a nice car."

"That's not all you want to test drive," Violet grinned, bouncing her foot up and down.

"Fuck you," Crimson laughed, putting the cap back on the nail polish.

"That's my job," Asher said, coming into the living room. He sat on the other armrest next to Violet, a stack of papers in his hand that had been printed out from the computer in his room down the hall.

"What did you find out?" Crimson asked.

Asher shuffled through the papers, "Let's see. Brian's an ex cop. He quit his job after letting Dom and his family off the hook and blaming the case he was working on, on Johnny Tran who was killed in a motorcycle accident. He now works and lives with Dom and by the look of it, he's dating Dom's sister."

"Serene?" Summer questioned.

"No, you dumb ass, Mia, and it's Serena," he corrected her before continuing. "Mia is the only one with a clean record. She's done nothing in the past. Dom, however, has been arrested on two accounts. Attempted murder as they call it when he was younger for nearly killing a guy with a wrench and again for auto theft. He served two years all together. His youngest sister, Serena, has been picked up for theft twice, driving without a license, and beating the shit out of girl. She served three months in juvey for the theft both times and was suspended from school for a week for the fight since the girl had started it she wasn't sent to juvey again. Dom's girlfriend, Letty, was arrested for a week for starting a fight with a girl who was talking trash to her and arrested again for four months for auto theft. Vince was arrested for assault with a weapon for six months and caught drag racing once three years ago. And last, Leon was arrested for theft for a year when he robbed a store. That's all I can find,' he told her looking up from the papers.

"I knew Mia didn't do anything. She looked too innocent," Violet said.

"Well, I didn't expect Serena to have done the things she's done, but age isn't a thing and neither is looks," Asher countered.

"I can't believe Leon did something. I never would have guessed," Summer droned.

"What's up with her?" Asher asked his girlfriend.

"Summer's a love sick puppy," Violet explained, patting his leg.

"Asher, what about the case?' Crimson spoke up.

"What case?" he asked frowning.

"You said Brian had a case on Dom, what was it about?" she asked, quizzically.

"Apparently Brian was an undercover cop sent in to watch Dom and his crew. He soon found out that Dom and them were high jacking trucks and selling the stuff for money. He tried to stop them from doing it again with the help of Mia. They tried to rob a truck one more time but this time they drive was carrying a weapon. Vince ended up getting shot and his arm was a wreck from a wire that had caught around it."

"So that's what the scars on his arm are from," Crimson mumbled out loud.

Asher nodded and continued. "Letty tried to help him but the driver pushed her off the road. Her car flipped, she ended up a little bruised but was okay. Leon and Serena, who was with him, stopped to help her. Dom ended up finding out about Brian after Vince was taken to the hospital in a helicopter. Dom, Mia, and Serena, went back to the house while Leon took Letty to a hospital to be checked out. At the house, Brian showed up, Dom and him got into an argument. Before anything could happen, Dom's friend Jesse showed up. He had lost a drag race to Johnny Tran on pink slips and Jesse didn't want to give Tran his dad's car so he took off. He came back apologizing for it and Tran's gang came by then and started a drive by. Jesse took a bullet to the chest. Dom went after them in his car and Brian went after them too. In the end, after they had killed Johnny and his brother, he and Brian had a drag race past train tracks while a train was coming. They barely made it, but Dom hit a car and it flipped him. He was okay and Brian let him go and then blamed the jacking on the dead Tran's. No one ever found out it was Dom."

"What happened to Jesse?" Summer asked, intrigued by it all.

Asher shook his head, "He died before the paramedics could get there and help him. He died in front of Mia and Serena."

"That's sad," Summer said solemnly.

"It happened a year ago," he added putting the papers on the coffee table in front of him.

"Nothing's happened since?" Crimson added.

"Not that I know of," Asher shook his head. "Look on the bright side, the Tran's are dead."

Crimson nodded, that was a problem solved, she just hoped Tran's other relatives wouldn't find out they were there.

"Looks like we shared the same enemy with them," Violet said, leaning against Asher's legs.

"Were they in any more trouble with Tran's family?" Crimson questioned.

"Not that I know of. Besides they weren't in trouble with the Tran's. It was Jesse who got into the trouble and it dragged them into it," Asher told her.

"Yeah, that's a good point," Crimson told him.

Asher looked around, "Where's Ebony and Damon?"

"Damon's out still driving his car and if you can hear the music, Ebony has locked herself in her room," Summer answered, gesturing to the music coming from upstairs where Papa Roach, Last Resort, blared.

"She worries me sometimes," Asher grumbled.

"She worries us all. I don't think she'll hurt herself again…at least I hope not," Violet guessed.

They were silent for a moment. "Well, I'm going to order pizza," Summer said, getting up from her chair and walking into the hall to get the closest phone.

Asher rubbed the back of Violet's neck softly and kissed her neck, "That gives us twenty minutes to fool around."

Violet grinned and giggled, "Sounds like a plan."

Asher picked her up and swung her over his shoulder as he carried her up the stairs while she giggled.

Crimson smiled and leaned back against the chair, looking at her bails and trying to take her minds off things. She took a deep breath and let her breath out slowly. At least Tran was dead, that was a problem taken care of. She just hoped that no one who knew him would remember them.




Wonder what kind of problems Crimsons in?….I'm not even sure yet…If anyone has any suggestions about that I'd be VERY thankful for the help. Please R&R.