New neighbor's chapter 9
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Dom stared at her in disbelief. "You gotta be fuckin' kiddin' me Sati. Your not even fully healed and you want to race?" Reki coughed and Satiana turned around to stare at her. Then her eyes shifted to the two men who had come with her cousin. They smiled at her-mocking her.
"Dom"-Satiana whispered menacingly, "don't fight me on this one. I have more riddin' on this race than you know." Dom just stared her down and shook his head.
"If I have to take your keys away Satiana then I will but you won't race Johnny Tran I will." Satiana almost screamed in anger. To lose face was one thing but to lose it in front of her own people was another.
"Dom your out of line you don't control me and if I can pay then I'm in and guess what"-she pulled out a wad of hundreds-"I can pay." Satiana walked passed him and handed the money to Hector then walked off to her car. Dom followed her and pulled her around by the arm.
"What the fuck are you tryin' to do Sati' make me look bad? I gave you an order. You won't race tonight you're hurt." She pulled her arm out of his grasp.
"If I have to save face by making you look bad Dom then that's what I'll do. You don't care what anyone else thinks of your team as long as you look good in their eyes. Its not like I'm running or anything. And Dom I have a news flash for you-I don't work that way. I don't follow orders and I will race tonight." Dom's voice lowered an octave as he stared coldly at Satiana.
"If you race tonight were off." Satiana stepped back as if she had been slapped.
"What-Dom you don't mean that you can't be serious. You know how much racing means to me." She looked over his shoulder at her cousin who was talking to Mia and listening to her conversation.
"I mean it Satiana and I'm deadly serous. You race tonight and were off." Her eyes changed to ice blue.
"Then I guess Dom-were off." Satiana turned opened her car door and got in. She looked up at him one last time then shut the door and started to follow the people who were going to the racing spot.
Dom just stood there and watched her drive off.
"Damn….
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"Is she going to sit in her car until her race starts?" Mia asked as she waited at the starting line for Dom's race to start. Eric looked at his cousin and they both sighed.
"She probably will. My sister may act all high and mighty but she's really not and whatever Dom said to her to make her drive away from him like the hounds of hell were after her has upset her." Eric looked up at Mia then over at the rest of the group.
"He does not know how much pressure is on her right now." Everyone turned to Reki who was looking at her hands.
"What do you mean cousin?" Eric asked. She looked up at Eric and smiled then she bowed.
"Eric, you sister is like the princess of the underworld. The Yakuza is only as strong as its leader. If she were to ever lose face, no one would listen to her and since she ordered your grandfather over here, she must back up that order. If she doesn't your protection will be gone. Her pride is one thing to her. She is strong and willful to a fault but you are a completely different story. For her family Satiana would kill and become anything-lose everything-and live a life she has shunned since she was born. Her fear for her family out rules her love for your"-she turned to Mia-"brother."
"So your saying this is all my fault." Reki turned to him and shook her head.
"No…
"Then what are you saying?" Eric's voice got louder as the first racers drove off from the starting line.
"Only that your sister, my cousin, would move the heavens for love but her family means more than that to her." Reki turned as they all heard the cheering crowd.
Dom had won again. The new guys car was smoking and Dom was laughing with Jessie and some other people.
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"Shit, I can't believe Dom would treat me like this. I may be hurt but he knows that I'm a good driver." Satiana balled up her fists and swore then wiped her eyes.
"Damn him for doing this to me." Satan beeped and Satiana looked up. Dom had just finished his race and Johnny was driving to the starting line. Satiana hit the gas and drove over too.
Johnny looked over and smiled at her. Satiana glared at the man knowing full well that he couldn't see her. She rolled down her window.
"Johnny, your gonna lose." She blew him a kiss then rolled up her window. Satiana turned on her music as loud as she could get it. The subs in the back rocked her car and Satiana smiled as everyone looked at her car. They were so used to it being silent that when they heard sound it scared them.
Hector threw his hands down and Satiana and Johnny drove off. Satiana smiled and stopped her car counted to five then drove off again.
Satiana passed the finish line mere seconds before Johnny and laughed aloud. She turned off her music and drove over to where Hector was standing with her money. Satiana got out and smiled evilly at Hector.
"My money…
"Uh, yeah…
"Give it to me." Satiana held out her hand and Hector just passed her the money. She smiled at him.
"There now, that wasn't so hard." Eric ran up laughing.
"Oh shit sis, that was mean as hell but damn, you should have seen the peoples faces when you stopped. Jessie almost had a hard attack when he looked up and saw you stop." Satiana looked down at her brother and smiled.
"You want to ride with me or are you going to get a ride from, our neighbor?" Eric stopped laughing and looked at his sister. He felt the undercurrent of that question. Her green eyes were bloodshot from crying.
"What? What do you mean Dom?" Satiana nodded not wanting to say his name. Eric looked back at Mia and then Reki who was coming forward. Then his eyes rested on Dom who just looked down. She was asking him to choose between her and Dom.
"You know I'll always go with you sis." Eric smiled and Satiana nodded as she walked back over to her car. Reki and Eric followed her and got in the car as Satiana turned around.
"See ya Mia, Vince, Jessie, Leon." She didn't even look at the two men from Japan. Then she looked at Dom at waited until he looked at her. "It was fun." She tuned around, hopped in her car, and drove off.
"Cops…" Leon yelled from his car.
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Dom parked his car in the garage an jumped out. He hit the lock and his car beeped. Shrugging on his jacket, he stepped out in the cold night air. Satiana was supposed to pick him up but he knew he had blown that. So he just started walking. The siren of a police car startled him and Dom just put his head down and kept waking. The police car passed him then screeched to a stop and turned.
"Shit, am I some kind of fuckin' cop magnet?" Dom took off running down the alley. The new guy who was always hitting on Mia pulled up next to him and stopped. The passenger door opened an invitation Dom didn't miss as he jumped in and they sped off.
"Hey man, nice of you to pick me up in my car." Brian just looked at him and kept driving.
He swerved passed one police car nearly missing it.
"Well I thought that if I got in your good graces you might let me keep my car." Dom laughed.
"You are in my good graces but your not keeping this car." Brian swerved again and Dom grabbed a hold of the dashboard.
"You done this before." It was rhetorical but Brian answered anyway.
Dom turned around as he heard motorcycles and cursed. It was Johnny Tran and his gang.
"My fuckin day just keeps getting worse." Brian looked over at him and nodded.
"You know them?" Dom nodded.
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Dom walked inside his house tired. He looked around at all the people parting and scowled. He walked over to Leon and snatched his beer away from him as he started to say they were just about to go look for him then started over to Vince.
"Where were you?" He looked down at his friend angrily.
"There were mass cops there. The came in from every direction. That shit was orchestrated and it all happened after Satiana left. You know she had something to do with it." Dom almost hit him for mentioning her.
"This your beer?"
"Yeah, that's 'my' beer." Dom picked it up and glared one last time at Vice before turning around to find Jessie practically having sex in his kitchen.
"Yo Einstein, take it upstairs. You can't detail a car with the cover on." Dom walked off.
"Can't even get that right." He said to himself.
Brian walked in the house at that time and Dom could feel the hatred coming off his friend in waves as he walked over to the new guy. He smiled.
"Yo Dom…" He stopped when Vince called him. He was about to blow up and he knew it.
"Why'd you bring the buster here?" Dom turned fully.
"Cause the buster kept me out of hand cuffs! He didn't just run back to the fort. The buster brought me back." He glared at his friend and then turned around to Brian holding a beer in each hand.
"You can have any brew you want. As long as it's a Corolla." Brian took the one out of his right hand.
"That's Vince's, so enjoy it." Dom turned around to stare down his friend. There was a knock at the door and Brian opened it. Eric was just standing there looking up at him.
"You lost, little boy?" Brian said as he looked at Eric. Eric just pushed him out of the way causing Brian to drop his drink, which broke when it hit the floor.
"Damn it kid, who the hell do you think you are?" Eric turned around and glared at Brian before he spotted Mia coming and just backed off all together.
"Dom I need to talk to you." Eric said as he walked up to the man. Dom shook his head "not right now Eric I'm tired." Dom waved him off and started towards the stairs.
"NO! RIGHT NOW!" Dom turned around slowly and stared at the boy who had become like a brother to him.
"Eric, don't." Dom warned. The room became quiet and everyone watched Dom and Eric in interest.
"I left it up to you Dom. I let you in to my families' life and you promised that I could trust you yet you lied like our father. It will never happen again you said. You compromised my sister's honor once and I forgave you, but not again. I trusted you and you let me down." Dom was down the stairs in a second his hand clutching the small boy in their fierce grip. Eric winced but stood tall and proud.
"Let… Him… go." Everyone turned to see Satiana standing at the door. Her hair was hanging over her shoulder and she glared at Dom. This scene was all together to familiar to Satiana and for a second she forgot where she was-Eric noticed this and shivered.
"Satiana, I can take care of this." Satiana looked at her brother and saw the fear in his eyes. Then she looked back at Dom and followed his arms to where they were still on her brother. She raised her eyebrow.
"Did I stutter? Dominic?" He glared at her and let go of Eric. Eric turned to Satiana and stepped in between her and Dom.
"Satiana, stop. Go home. I can take care of this." She looked at her brother again her eyes a cold blue.
"No. You go home Eric. Dominic, and I have a lot to talk about." As she whispered this, she looked over at Dom. He nodded and started walking upstairs. Satiana followed.
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Will Dom get a beatdown when he goes up stairs? Will Satiana let go of her pride or will she find out Edwin's secret... you'll find out in the next exciting episode of (Music plays) its your neighborhood.
