A/N: Most of you by now think Dom is a total asshole…I don't blame you. This chapter might change your minds.














Serena awoke the next morning. Her pillow still damp with her tears. She rubbed her red eyes and felt like crying again, but had nothing left to cry. Dom's words still stung her mind and her heart. She didn't even want to be near him she thought as she rubbed her bad shoulder, the one he shoved her down on. She got her clothes together and took a quick shower to get ready for school. She was due back today and it was going to be hell. Carissa had told her that she quit that school and moved to another that she had to start next week. Now she would be alone with Lea and her gang. That was the last thing she wanted.

She took a quick shower and put on her clothes that consisted of a pair of blue jeans that fit her hips and showed her underwear straps despite her attempts to hold them up. She glanced at her black top that had the word 'sunshine' airbrushed across it and felt her heart sink. Serena took the plain white one instead and slipped on Damon's black jacket before leaving her room. She slipped her hair through a hair tie, tightening it up and paused as she watched Dom leave his room. She kept her head down as she walked behind him.

Dom glanced over his shoulder at his sister and saw the scared and hurt look on her face. He wanted to kick his own ass at the moment. "Well," he said and she looked up at him. "Are you going to get on my back or not?"

Serena looked confused and took a step back. Dom saw this and turned around. He touched her shoulder lightly and she cowered away from him, easing back into her room.

"We need to talk," he told her and closed her door, sitting next to her on the bed. He took a deep breath. "God Serena…I am so sorry. I wish I could erase what I said from your mind but I know I can't. I said some really hurtful things and I didn't mean it." He shook his head as tears formed in his regretful eyes. "I would never want to hurt you. I was mad because I thought I was being a bad brother and I wanted to be a good brother. By doing that I became a prick and an asshole. I should have listened to you and not let your principal brain wash me. I was stupid for ignoring you and I wish I never did that because you and Mia are everything to me and having you hate me is the worse thing in the world because I love you so much Serena. You are my sunshine and you are my diamond and I am so damn proud of you. Not just for the race but just because of who you are…I am so sorry for throwing you off the couch. I was so stupid I forgot about your arm. I felt like shit after I did that and saw that you were afraid of me. Oh God, I can't describe what I felt then. My heart was ripped apart when I realized it all. I wanted to die, I felt so bad." He cried now, tears falling down his face.

Serena had never seen him cry like this. Not even at her parents' funeral. Somehow tears filled her eyes. She put her arm around him as best as she could with her other arm. "It's okay Dom. I forgive you. I forgive you. You're not a bad brother. You're the best brother I could ever ask for." She said looking into his eyes. "It's okay, let's just put this behind us…please. We'll go back to the way it was. I was just scared Dom by what Lea said. About finishing the job. I don't want you to die. I lost mom and dad. I can't lose you too, Dom. I can't."

He hugged her as she cried. "You won't, Sunshine, you won't. I'm not going anywhere. They won't hurt us." He dried her eyes. "What do you say we go downstairs and I'll buy us something to eat later after I have a chat with your principal."

She nodded, "Alright. Lemme change first." She grabbed her Sunshine shirt and put it on instead. Then she hopped up on Dom's back and went with him down the stairs.
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Everyone was happy to see them together. They acted as if nothing had happened and Mia was glad it was that way than the other way around. She liked when things were normal. She watched Serena take her every day pill for her arm and grab her usual Snapple out of the fridge. Mia smiled, glad that her brother and sister were getting along.

"I told you the fortune was wrong," she whispered to Brian, leaning over to speak in his ear.

He whispered back. "The fortune said it would try to tear a family apart. It didn't say it would succeed. So yeah, it was right if you think about it."

She rolled her eyes and straightened up as Ebony, Asher, and Damon came into the house. They were all tired from the nightlong discussion they had last night. Crimson went on about having to tell them the secrets after she found out that Damon was exposed to the Tran gang and Asher argued back that they could never know about it. It went out well past one in the morning until Crimson stormed to her room in anger and Asher went to his. Damon had been tempted to call Serena and talk to her about it, but he guessed she was sleeping and didn't want to bother her with his problem unaware that she was awake and having problems of her own.

Damon went over to her and put his arm around her waist, leaning his head on her shoulder and yawning. "Tired?" she asked, smiling.

"No," he yawned, closing his eyes.

"You guys are together?" Leon asked, raising an eyebrow.

"For almost a week, where have you been?" Serena balked, giving him a no-dah look.

"He's been with Summer," Damon said sleepily.

Letty laughed, "Oh yeah you're going to fit right in here, Damon."

Leon rolled his eyes, "Great another one."

"We better get," Dom told the gang. "Chaz and Carissa said they'd meet us down there. Serena, you and Damon go with Vince."

"Where you goin'?" she asked still standing next to Damon, who was falling asleep.

He grinned and looked at Letty, "Me and Letty gotta date with the principal."

Letty flashed him a carnivorous smile, "This should be fun."

Mia gave Dom a look. He was ready for her to give him one of her talks on not being to rough or dropping the news in a gentle and courteous manner. No cussing, yelling, or insulting as she normally did. She put her hand on his arm, "Give it to her good, and screw the courteous shit. She deserves whatever you give to her."

Dom nodded in agreement. "I'll give her hell for you," he kissed her forehead and grabbed the keys to his car leaving with Letty who seemed to be floating on air at the thought of yelling at the principal, something she hadn't done since she was in school.
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Dom arrived there ten minutes later. Letty was out of the car as soon as he parked. The girl couldn't wait to sink her teeth into the lady. He walked with her into the office and gave the lady behind the desk a go-to-hell smile. She was the same lady who told him to not talk to his sister a few days ago. "Is Ms.Myricks in?"

"Yes, and it just so happens she's meaning to talk to you in her office," she said gesturing at the door. He nodded and strode to the door with Letty. "She only wants to see you not her." She said the word 'her' with a tone of complete distaste as if Letty were a roach.

Dom grabbed Letty's hand "Where I go my girl goes?" He opened the door and stepped inside, sitting in one of the cushioned chairs in front of the ladies desk. Letty sat next to him, slouched down and legs uncrossed like a guy. If she could Dom knew she'd put her boots up on the desk.

"Mr. Toretto," the lady said without a smile. "Serena skipped school today she's not here."

"I know that, she's with Mia, my other sister, and our friends including her boyfriend," he told her, folding his hands together.

"She should be in school, Mr. Toretto. It's her first day back and she has detention to serve along with sitting in the A.C. room."

"What's the A.C. room?" Letty asked, raising an eyebrow.

Ms. Myricks looked at her, going over her clothes, "Who are you?"

"I'm Letty, Dom's girlfriend and Serena's friend. Now answer my question since I answered yours," she demanded. Dom looked at her. "Please," she added.

The principal's upper lip curled, "I see where Serena gets it from now."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Letty sat up. Dom stopped her.

"Letty…chill," he told her. She stared at him and sat back, leg bouncing up and own…that was never a good thing with Letty. It meant she was becoming angry. That was the only time she'd bounce her leg.

"A.C. is the Adjustment Center. It's for teenagers who have behavioral problems or attitude problems, ones who are not good enough for the school. Teens who like to cause trouble and starts fights…like Serena."

"Serena didn't start a fight, she became involved in it because she was attacked from behind by Lea Tong. She doesn't have behavioral problems or attitude problems. And I don't appreciate you insulting my girlfriend," Dom told her calmly but his voice had a harsh edge in it.

"That may be true that she was attacked, but she still was involved-"

"How many days was Lea suspended?" he asked.

She blinked, "Excuse me?"

"You heard him," Letty seethed. "How many days was she suspended?"

"That's private information."

Dom laughed a bit, "Telling me how many days Lea was suspended is private, but reading my sister's diary isn't?"

The principal took a deep breath, "She wasn't. She was given detention fir two hours."

Dom laughed. This was too good for him he couldn't believe him. Serena was right. Lea was favored by Ms. Myricks. "My sister didn't start the fight, but got suspended for two days and got detention and got A.C. But the girl who started it all gets detention for two hours. This is bullshit."

"Please watch your tone Mr. Toretto."

"My names Dom," he corrected her.

She looked at him angrily, "Dom, the point is she continued the fight and if you weren't babying her to begin with this wouldn't have happened."

"No," he said sternly sitting up in the chair. "Because of me taking your advice I became the biggest asshole in the world. I ignored my sister and made her sit in my office for hours on end. And I stopped calling her Sunshine and Diamond and I stopped all the other things I used to do with her. I even shoved her. How can you tell me that's right?"

"I think it is. By doing that it helps her."

Dom couldn't believe the lady, "I can't believe you. All it did was help her fear me and make others hate me. I just patched things up with her this morning."

"If you start babying her it'll get to her head again and she'll start all over. What would your father think?"

Dom looked at floor and smiled, knowing what his father would say. He looked up with a smile, "He'd say he was proud of me and the way I'm raising her. She's just like me and she's just like he was. If he were here right now he'd most likely call you a bitch. But he's not here so I'll do it for him. You are a bitch. You favor students who you think are good and you dislike students who you think are bad when it's actually the other way around. I feel sorry for your children if you have any at all. Do you have children?"

"My oldest is in New York in college and my youngest lives on campus at a nearby college."

"Do they ever call you to talk to you?" he asked.

Ms.Myricks stayed silent and looked at her desk as if there were something interesting on it.

Dom nodded in confirmation, "I thought so." He stood up Letty following him. "Oh and by the way. You got it all wrong. This school isn't too good for Serena. Serena's too good for it that's why I'm taking her out of this school." He closed her door behind him, smiling as he put his arm around Letty.

"You did good in there," she said kissing his cheek. Letty noticed the office lady talking to one of the kids on the benches…her son. Letty grinned. "Excuse me miss," the lady looked up at her. "You aren't allowed to speak to the children on the bench, the principal will tell you what happened."

"This is my son," she said.

"But remember, your son wouldn't be here," Letty smiled, leaving the office with Dom and never looking back.










GOOD NEWS…I FINALLY MADE UP MY MIND ON THE SECRETS. THAT CHAPTER WILL BE POSTED REAL SOON.