Chapter 3

So says the sign

Vin Diesel ain't mine

On Orli I'll dine

An if you don't know who Orli is think 'Pointy eared bow twanger' lol thanks for your praise you guys it means a lot.

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The crowd screamed for their favorite racers and held up signs saying they loved them. The roar of voices was deafening even from the bathroom. Satiana opened the door to the woman's bathroom slowly and peered out. When she saw the coast was clear she bolted out of the bathroom and went to go find her brother. Today had to be a bad day her body was telling her that for a fact as it slowly bled.

            Eric was where she knew he would be, talking with the other racecar drivers' boys. At eight years old, he knew almost as much as she did. Satiana prayed that she would be able to get through this charade it was becoming harder to disguise her body now because it was growing by leaps and bounds. She had to bind her chest every morning and her hair was starting to grow out again.

            "Damn them," she hissed, "they never let a woman near a car unless they're trying to get in her pants." Satiana had lived like a boy outside her house for years. Everyone thought her father had two boys and that suited her just fine. As long as she had a car to get under, she didn't care what other people thought of her.

            "Eric, hey man." Satiana lowered her voice as much as she could. All the guys looked at her and Sebastian walked up to her and they did their handshake which ended with them hugging. He smiled and whispered in her ear.

            "Your getting a little soft in the chest you might want to check that girl." Satiana let go of him and glared. Of course, he would say that but he was the only guy who knew about her except her brother so she didn't mind all that much. They had known each other for years anyway.

            "Hey Dom, Sebastian said as he turned to the group of guys and one small eight year old, "This is the guy who knows all about cars Eric's big brother Iie-Kitto (iie=no Kitto= surely. Basically means 'not real' or 'not as you see it' in this context.) Satiana looked at the new guy and almost started to drool.

            Tall, thin, muscular ooh God these are the times I wish they knew me as a girl. Satiana shook her head and extended a hand. He was a drivers son they were all bastards and mean as hell to women.

            "Nice to meet you Dom welcome to the group. So your dad must be the guy from LA huh?" Satiana smiled as he shook her hand and nodded.

            "Yeah, my dad is the one from LA. Where's yours from Iie-Kitto?" Eric smiled as he saw his sister eying the new guy.

            "Were from the states too. I was born in the states but my big 'brother' Eric enfranchised this as he looked at her, was born in Japan." Satiana looked down at her brother and smiled tightly.

            "So Dom, do you race? Or do you just live off your fathers fame?" Dom laughed which came out in a low rumble. Satiana bit back a groan and looked away from him.

            "Yeah, I race that's all we do in LA. Do you race or are you just all talk?" Satiana looked him dead in the eyes and nodded.

            "Were gonna have to do something about that attitude of yours but yeah, I race. You sound as if you never lose Dom. What kind of car do you have?" Another guy walked up to Dom and Satiana and put his arm around Dom's shoulder.

            "We have Honda Civics with the works, man, what you got? I'll race your punk ass. You think you all bad cause your dad is the top of the racket huh? You ain't nothing but a skinny punk assed rich kid." Satiana put her hand on Eric's shoulder as he stepped from behind her. She knew without looking that Sebastian was glaring at the guy. Vince noticed this and smiled.

            "What's the matter little man, I thought big brothers were supposed to stick up for the little ones, not the other way around? He to stuck up to take care of himself?" Satiana rolled her eyes.

"I can take care of myself and if you want to race my McClaren F-1 then come on boy you big and bad with your cheep ass supped up Honda Civic. I'll spank your ass and throw you back in the crib." Satiana pulled out a card and threw it at Vince. It flew true and hit him on the nose.

            "I ain't stuck up and even if I was I'd still kick your ass just for the hell of it. I'll see you there. We'll see what happens when east meets west." Satiana turned her brother around and they walked off. She turned around and smiled.

            "But while were here I want to watch the race if you want to race then I'll meet you tonight if you back down, I'll understand." She laughed as she turned the corner.

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Eric turned over and looked at his clock it was 2 in the morning. He rubbed his eyes and walked to his sister's room. She was thrashing in her bed and mumbling things.

            "Damn, I thought it was over now sis. It wasn't your fault. Let it go." He walked out of her room and went to go get some water.

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"Hey baby girl you know what day it is don't you?" Satiana smiled as her father walked in her room. It was her eighteenth birthday. She was just about ready to go to the races but she had to do her final paper. It really didn't mater though because it was extra credit.

            "Well I got a special surprise for you." That's when she smelt it. The alcohol permeated her father as he swayed in her room. He smiled down at her as she stood up off her bed.

            "I figured since you wanted to know what it was like to be a racer you should experience it first hand. Come on down stairs baby." Satiana looked at the opening her father had given her. She shrugged and walked down stairs. 

            When she got to the den, she saw her mother and two of the other racers smoking weed and drinking. They all smiled at her and her mother said, "One,…two…, uh hang on… I know what comes next, oh yeah three." The men started to sing happy birthday but they were forgetting most of the lines. When it ended Satiana looked at them all and smiled shyly. Her dad walked up from behind her and put his hand on her shoulder.

            Out of the lion's den and into the fire. Satiana thought suddenly. The men all looked at her like she was a piece of meat in her tank top and pajama bottoms. One of the racers named Ellis stood up and walked over to her.

            "Come here baby, this is your birthday we gotta open our present." He ripped her tank top off and Satiana screamed and through her hands over herself.

            "WHAT THE FUCKS YOUR PROBLEM!" She yelled to the man. He smiled at her and grabbed her by the arm. Satiana kneed him and moved away from him. She turned around to run out of the room and met her fathers fist head on.

            "Bitch, respect your elders and my company." Satiana lay stunned on the ground as Ellis jumped on her. She tried to push him away but he was too big for her.

            "Get the hell off me you fucken pervert." Satiana said through clenched teeth. Ellis slapped her once twice across the face making her eyes sting and her mouth bleed.

            "You wanted to be a racer well this is the only life a woman has in racing and your gonna like it. Now stay still b…" Ellis flew off her. Satiana looked up and saw her little brother with a baseball bat. He looked down at her and she could see the confusion in his eyes as well as the hatred.

            "Who the hell do you think you are Ellis?" He was about to hit him again when their father wrenched his bat from his hands. He started hitting Eric with the baseball bat repeatedly. One two in the ribs they connected every time bringing fire to Eric's bones and blood to his mouth.

            Satiana stood up and tried to stop her father but her mother pulled her off. Then her father turned on her and started hitting Satiana. She screamed in pain as her father pelted her with the bat. Then she looked over at her baby brother. He just lay there not even moving with his blood spilling around him.

            Satiana screamed again but this time it wasn't in pain it was in rage she would not let her brother die he was all she had from her family. When her dad pulled back to hit Satiana again she rolled out of the way and stumbled to her feet. Satiana moved out of the way just as her dad swung at her and he hit her mother.

             She raced to the mantel where he kept his swords and pulled the katana down. When Satiana turned around her, eyes were a cold pale blue and she shuttered with rage.

            "Damn you, you bastard." Satiana swung the sword in a wicked arch and sliced her father from shoulder to hip, bone to bone. Satiana stared in shock as her father fell in front of her and screamed.

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"Sati, Sati wake up!" Eric shook his sister as she screamed and thrashed in her bed. Her eyes were squeezed shut and tears fell from the sides of them.

            "No, leave him alone. Don't hurt him. Eric run!" Satiana was reliving it repeatedly in gruesome detail as her brother shook her and pleaded with her to wake up. Abre walked into the room rubbing her eyes as she went. She climbed up on the bed and sat next to her sister.

            "Sati wake up, I want a glass of milk." Satiana stopped thrashing and opened her eyes. It took her awhile to figure out where she was but then she sat up. She looked at the little girl who was her half sister and sobbed. She was a killer and the little one still loved her. Satiana grabbed her sister and hugged her for dear life.

            "God, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to I just lashed out and he fell. I'm so sorry." Eric hugged his sisters as Satiana cried. Abrealla just sucked her thumb and basked in the warmth of her sister and brother.

            "It wasn't your fault Sati he would have killed us if it weren't for you." She shook her head and sobbed harder. Her eyes wandered to the wall that separated her house from their neighbors and remembered her first meeting with Dom. It seemed to calm her to know that what she had liked about him back then was still present in his eyes now after his stint in prison. His own prison sentence had been lighter than her own and that brought her back to the room.

            "I went to jail and left you there anyway with our mother. You had no one to protect you from her. When I came out three years later, she was shootin meth and seven months pregnant with Abrealla. God I failed you little brother, I even failed Abre before she was born, I'm sorry." Satiana looked up at her brother her eyes pleading. Eric hugged her harder.

            "It wasn't your fault, you took care of us when you got out and whatever happened while you were in, I survived. I'm a survivor just like you are Sati and look how it worked out. Mom finally bit the dust and we got another member to our family. Were a real family no matter what anyone says just like Dom and all the people next door are a family," Eric smiled, "albeit a very diverse and weird family but a family none the less." Satiana giggled and wiped her eyes.

            "Weird isn't the word I would use either. You know, I still owe Vince a race don't I?" Eric laughed and nodded, "That you do big sis, that you do." Abre pulled on Satiana's hair.

            "I want my milk."

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It was Saturday and everyone else was asleep after the nightmare she had just had. They had all slept on Satiana's bed and she just left them there while she went to go cook breakfast. She was in shorts and a sports bra with a tank top over it. As she put the finishing touches on breakfast she picked up her keys and walked to the door and opened it.

            Satiana smiled, as she smelt the air. It was fresh and clean with a touch of salt water in it. The morning was also quiet blissfully quiet just the time of day for a three mile jog. As she went out, she kissed the tips of her fingers and tapped them against the front door. Because it was her place. Hers. And even after five years she didn't take it for granted. Prison had shown her a few things and for the most part been good for her. She met friends and made bonds but she would never go back.

            It wasn't much, she thought as she limbered up with a few stretches. Just a little building one of the women who she had saved in prison sold to her. But then, Satiana didn't need much.

            Satiana ignored the whistle from the car that passed, its driver grinning appreciatively at her long, leanly muscled legs. She didn't jog for her looks. She jogged because routine exercise disciplined the mind and the body. A racer who allowed either to become sluggish would find herself in trouble. Or unemployed. Satiana didn't intend to be either.

            Her muscles began to warm. A thin layer of sweat gleamed healthily on her skin; she increased her pace slightly, falling into a familiar rhythm that had become as automatic as breathing.

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Dom woke up and stretched. Last night had been 'fun' he admitted. Satiana had driven like a bat out of hell and laughed like a chick on a shopping spree. He realized that it was just that for her. While other women loved to shop, Satiana loved cars and drove like a real pro. He now remembered Eric and his 'brother' from when his father has first started racing in the racket that would later get him killed.

            Dom got out of bed and went to go take a shower but Mia was in there so he had to wait. 'Damn she better not use all the hot water.' Dom banged on the door and waited till the water turned off.

            "Yeah, yeah I know the drill don't talk it all." Mia said as she walked out of the bathroom with a towel around her and headed for her room. Dom just nodded in agreement and closed the door behind him. Mia smiled, as she got dressed.

            "One, two, three now." Dom screamed as the cold water hit him and Mia laughed.

            "MIA!" She walked over to the door and laughed.

            "That's for not eating my tuna yesterday." She laughed harder as she walked to her room and shut the door.

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Satiana returned to find her door open. She stopped dead in her tracks and listened to the laughter in her house. Vince, Eric, Mia, Leon, Dom, and Abre she counted the voices and smiled as she walked in the house.

            "You should have seen Dom's face when she beat him man I was rollin." Leon said as he put some more eggs in his mouth.

            "Oh please that wasn't the funniest part of the night the funniest part was when Hector flew through the air like he was some rag doll." Mia laughed and almost choked on her food.

            "Careful Mia, I know you like the food because we have been deprived of good eatin at home but don't stuff too much." Dom said as he dodged some bacon that was thrown from his sisters direction.

            Abre turned around and spotted her sister in the doorway smiled and held up her hands. Satiana didn't move to come pick her up and Abre stopped smiling and looked at her sister angrily.

            "Up, up, pick me up!" Abre yelled over the chaos in the dining room. Satiana turned to her sister and smiled.

            "I see I have guests for breakfast. If I'd have known I would have cooked more so that I could have some." Satiana walked over and picked up her sister. The room was quiet as everyone stared at her. She looked up from her sister and found the men's eyes devouring her body. She ignored them. Satiana walked behind Dom and picked up the bacon on the floor and put it in the trash.

            "Mia," Satiana turned around and smiled at her, "did you need some help in cooking?" Mia blushed and shook her head as the guys started laughing.

            "Don't worry I used to cook really bad too ask Eric." She looked over at her brother and laughed as he turned a fascinating shade of green.

            "I really was quiet bad until I had to cook for thousands of women a day so I got better or I got beat. It was simple math and I knew how to count." Satiana bounced her sister on her hip and walked over to the fridge.

            "But of course you already know I was in prison because Leon was snooping in my files." She pulled out the orange juice and poured some in a glass and drunk it. She could again feel their eyes on her it was more than a little annoying.

            "Well, when you guys finish with breakfast Eric will 'show' you my car." Satiana put enfaces on show. "And we women will cook up a storm." She kissed her sister on the cheek and turned to Mia who had turned back to her regular color.

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Satiana sat her sister down and walked outside with three beers and one soda. The men were where she expected them to be, in her garage looking at her car. They were hot and sweaty and in a good mood. Eric was the center of attention and he was loving telling the guys about her car. He had after all saved it for her when she was in jail so he knew most everything about it.

            "Hey boys I brought you something to cool you off." She passed Vince and Leon beers and her brother the soda. Then she walked over to Dom.

            "I don't really want you to cool off because you look dead sexy the way you are. Sweat on you would make my dreams come true." Dom stared at her and smiled. She walked up to him, kissed him full on the lips, stood back, and held the drink up for him. When he didn't reach for the drink Satiana laughed, "Don't worry I won't bite… unless you want me to." She winked at Dom and walked away.

            "Hey Sati some of this stuff I didn't know they made for cars. Where did you get it?" She turned around and looked at Leon.

            "Why you want your Honda civics to purr like McClaren F-1?"

            "Hell yeah!" Vince said. Satiana laughed.

            "Ok, give me about a week and I'll have all of your cars up and running but not before we settle something Vince." He grinned and sauntered over to her.

            "We can take care of it now baby I don't mind. What do you want to do?" Satiana smiled her most flirtatious smile and looked over his shoulder at Dom.

            "I missed our last meetin but this skinny punk ass rich kid promised you a race five years ago." She wrapped her arms around him and smiled. She moaned suggestively running her fingers down his back side. Satiana smiled when she got the result she was looking for.

            "You up for it?"

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Heheh I hope this chapter cleared up some things. I need reviews. I'm MELTING, MELTINg, MELTIng, MELting, Melting, Melting, melting. Plop what are you still doing reading this go review.