"Anybody hungry?" Brian asked, coming into the garage holding two bags full of Chinese food in one hand and a few papers in the other.

Letty looked up from the hood of the car she was working on, "Hell yeah," she grinned wiping her hands on her dirty Levis. "You read my mind, I've been dyin' for Chinese." She grabbed a carton of shrimp fried rice out of the bag and grabbed one of the plastic forks.

Vince rolled out from under Serena's car, "Food!" he cried and got up, wiping his hands on a rag. "Best thing you ever did, Snow Man." He added grabbing another carton out of the bag.

"Leon, food!" Vince shouted towards him. He was working under the hood of Serena's car.

He lifted his head up too fast, and too high, hitting it on the hood. "Oww," he rubbed his head coming over and getting food.

Serena came out of the bathroom, "Alright Chinese." She hopped up on the table grabbing the teriyaki chicken.

"Dude, is that teriyaki chicken?" Leon asked her, slurping on chow mien.

She nodded, "Uh huh."

"Trade you for the noodles," he offered.

"Aight," she said swapping him cartons.

Brian looked at the cars they had been working on and noticed that one was Serena's Honda Civic Hybrid. "Why you guys working on Serena's car?"

"You didn't hear?" Leon questioned, frowning.

"Hear what?"

"He wasn't there when Dom made the announcement, dumb ass," Vince said, coming back from the coke machine he had robbed in the garage. He passed out Cokes to everyone.

"I thought Mia would have told him," Leon countered, opening his soda before grabbing an egg roll.

"Tell me what?" he said getting agitated.

"I'm racing tonight in Dom's place," Serena explained, taking a sip from her coke.

Brian blinked, "Really?"

She nodded, "Uh huh."

"That's great," he smiled giving her a small hug. "I can't believe he's letting you. Speaking of Dom where is he?" he asked looking around, finally noticing he wasn't around.

"I'm right here," Dom said, coming out of the office. "I was finishing some paper work." He grabbed a carton and started eating. After a minute he grabbed a soda and popped it pen taking a big drink before looking at Brian and picking up another container. "What did you find out?" he asked, getting straight to the point.

"Not too much, I'm afraid," he picked up the papers and started looking through them. "They keep themselves hidden pretty well. Things they don't want people to know they don't tell. I could only find a few things down at the station on them."

"What'd you get?" Letty asked, sitting up on the table next to Serena.

"Like I said not much. Crimson is a confusing case. It mentions something about her brother being killed by her ex boyfriend because she deceived him."

"But Damon's not dead," Serena frowned.

"An older brother, I guess she was undercover for him, trying to find something out and then her boyfriend found out and killed him. Tried too kill her too but she ran with her younger brother, Damon. She was nineteen then. It was six years ago. She's changed her look at lot along with her name. Apparently Crimson was her middle name; Clair Crimson Wallace. She was afraid he'd come after her so she had her name changed along with her brother and their cousin."

"Does it mention who the boyfriend is or where they lived before?" Dom asked, wiping his mouth with a napkin.

Brian shook his head. "I couldn't find that information anywhere. But I fond out a few other things. Damon Calloway, or he was Damion, was arrested once for stealing a car and another time for beating the shit out of a guy after he tried to rape his sister. He had to serve one hundred and ten hours of community service. He hasn't committed any more crimes in over a year and he's single," he said, eyeing Serena.

"Oh Jesus, will you people lay off it for Christ Sakes?"

Brian smiled and continued, "Asher Calloway, formally Ashton Wallace, did six months time for high jacking files from his computer. He was also in a gang with his girlfriend, Violet, but got out after she was shot by another member after they convicted her of beating up one of their members. They ended up moving again and that gang was killed in a drive by a week later. Violet Berto did three months for auto theft and fifty hours service for tagging. They both haven't done any more crimes in over four years.
Then there's Summer Treece, she's pretty much the only one with a near clear record. She was taken in for playing chicken and causing a wreck. She did a month before she was bailed out by Crimson. Ebony Granite was never arrested but she has been hospitalized. Apparently her family was killed in a car accident along with her boyfriend, since then she's been depressed and suicidal. She's tried cutting her wrist and cutting her arms and swallowing pills, but she was saved every time." He put the paper down. "That's all I could find."

"So, the question is, why are they here now? And who was Crimson dating six years ago?" Dom concluded.

"That's the mystery," Brian shrugged. "I looked through everything, Dom, there was nothing on her."

He nodded, "We'll find out someway."

Letty nodded and grabbed a fortune cookie. She tossed one at each of them. "We need some good fortune here. Let's see what these cookies have to say."

"Oh come on, girl, you know this shit ain't real," Leon berated, shaking his head.

"Just open the damn cookie Leon and stop your whining," she shook her head.

He tisked and opened his, pulling out the slip of paper and reading it over before reading it aloud. "Love awaits you."

"You're right, they are bullshit," Letty shrugged opening her cookie. "I mean who could love you Leon. Dogs don't even like you."

"Screw you, open your damn cookie," he said through a mouthful of his cookie.

She stuck her tongue at him and read the paper, "Surprises are in the future," Letty made a face. "I hate surprises."

"It could be a good one," Brian suggested opening his cookie and looking at the paper. "Or maybe not."

"What's it say?" Vince asked, looking over his shoulder.

"Events try to pull a family apart."

"What the hell does that mean?" Serena asked opening hers.

"Don't know," he shrugged. "What's on yours?"

She read it and her face fell from a smile. "Or Lord."

"What?" Dom asked grabbing it from her hand. He grinned and read it out loud. "Victory and true love are closer than you think."

Every one ooed while she blushed, "They're a bunch of shit anyways."

"You say that now but wait till later," Vince cracked reading his strip. "It says: The one you dream about will be yours."

"What's it mean?" Leon asked, looking around for the answer.

"Means he'll be with Crimson," Dom grinned.

"Very funny," Vince laughed sarcastically. "What's yours say, dawg?"

He opened the paper and read the print. His smile faded into a look of dread.

"What is it Dom?" Serena asked him, seeing the look on his face.

He swallowed hard and licked his lips, "It says: The past will catch up with you, treed carefully or you will lose someone close."

Letty shook her head, rubbing his shoulders, "Forget it Dom, it's a bunch of crap like Leon said. None of these will happen."

"Thank God," Serena mumbled.

"Come on, let's get the car done," she said getting off the table and tapping Serena's leg. "We only got a couple of hours left."

They nodded and went back to the car. Brian cleaned up the mess and took off to go check on Mia and see what she was up to. Dom sat there for a minute thinking. He wondered what would catch up with him. So many things had happened to him in the past he couldn't think of which one would hurt his family. He didn't want to lose anyone close, who would it be? Letty? Serena? Mia? He couldn't imagine losing one of them. He shook his head and threw the paper in the trash. It was all nonsense. Those things would never happen. It was just a piece of paper. Any of them could have gotten that one. He glanced at it and looked up at Letty and Serena working on the cart. They glanced and saw him looking at the two of them. Serena smiled and Letty kissed the air and went back to working on the engine. He smiled and went back into his office. It was all just a bunch of nonsense. He was sure of it.
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OR IS IT TRUE?…..FIND OUT LATER ON……PLEASE R&R ID REALLY APPRECIATE IT.