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"Damn right, I'd fucking kill ya!" Dom yelled from his position in the doorway. Leon jumped up, standing slightly behind Jesse.
"Dom! How-" asked Leon surprised.
"How long have I been standing here?! Long enough, Leon!" Dom cut him off. He stepped forward, kicked the door shut and uncrossed his arms, revealing two clenched fists. Jesse and Leon stepped back, unsure of what Dom what would do.
"You like my sister - my BABY sister?" he hissed at Leon. Leon was backing up towards Jesse's desk, and Dom was inching forward with a look in his eyes that Leon didn't like. Jesse could see disastrous things happening in his room - so he quickly grabbed his laptop and whispered
"Good look dawg!" To Leon and ran out of his room so fast he was a blur.
'Oh crap! No witnesses to my murder!' Leon thought.
"Dom ya'know, I can explain -" He backed up towards Jesse's desk, and banged into it. Now he had nowhere to run.
"You kissed her?" Dom cut him off again, taking a small step back and lifted his hands behind his head.
"No! Man I SWEAR I've never tried anyth-" He put his hands in front of him to protect himself.
"You touched her?"
"No."
"You slept with her?"
"NO!"
Dom didn't move from his position for a good minute. He slowly put his hands down, clenched his fists, and then turned around.
"Man, put some clothes on." Leon looked around for something - anything. He found a shirt of Jesse's hanging on the back of a chair. He quickly put it on . He knew that any second, Dom's fist would make one hell of a noise when connected to his jaw. He tensed up and looked down at the floor.
'Here it comes!' HE screamed in his mind.
Dom spun around quickly back to Leon. His finger was in his face.
"If you..when..I can't believe this." His voice was soft now. Leon was confused.
"I'm sorry, man. I can't help the way I feel."
Dom glared at him, and let out a long, low growl. 'Shouldn't have said that!' Leon noted to himself. Dom's features softened as he sighed.
"You not gonna hit me..?" Leon asked. 'Why did you say that? That was an invitation you moron!'
"No. I wanna pound your fucking face in..and you know I could..but I know that then Letty would start on me, then Vince, then Jesse. And it would really upset Mia and Elly." Leon couldn't believe this. This was the part of Dom he had never seen before - the part of him that he didn't really think existed. He was taking into consideration the repercussions of his actions.
"I guess I'm just gonna tell you what I told V a long time ago. Deep down I know that one day Mia and Elly will find somebody and start raising a family. And, in a way I'm glad that..if anyone, it'd be one of my brothers..."
"Wow, Dom, that means so much to me."
"Ah, quit the sappy shit. Just..don't push her into doing shit..and just coz I didn't almost kill ya, don't mean I'm happy bout the situation. A'ight?" Leon nodded vigorously.
"Sure, dawg." They did their little handshake thing, and Dom left. Leon let out a sigh and dropped onto Jesse's bed again.
~~**Meanwhile~~** Jesse ran out of his room so fast, he bumped into Vince.
"Whoa, Jess, where's the girl?" he smirked.
"Dom just found out." Jesse said quickly.
"Bout what?" Vince asked confused.
"Bout Elly and Leon."
"Oh." Vince looked even more confused. "Why, what did they do?"
"Dawg, get with the programme! Leon likes Elly remember?"
"Oh yeah.Oh my god! Dom found out? Shit. Does everybody know now?"
"Everybody apart from Letty and Elly, of course. But I think Dom'll soon tell Letty."
"Yeah. Where are they now?"
"My room." They looked down the hall towards Jesse's room. No sounds could be heard.
"Ya think he's dead yet?" Vince asked. Jesse smiled.
"Who's dead?" a voice asked. Jesse and Vince spun around.
"Elly!" Jesse exclaimed.
"Errrr.." Vince started. "just this guy who didn't pay Dom when he said he should." Jesse looked at Vince.
"Nice one!" he whispered.
"Well, my bet would be that he is. You guys seen Leon? He left his stuff in the bathroom." Elly asked, holding his shirt and his silver chain. Dom came out of Jesse's bedroom then, and stopped when he saw the congregation in the hall. He looked at what Elly was holding, and bad images and thoughts came to his head.
"Hey Dom, what were you doing in Jesse's room?" Dom just growled in return and went upstairs to bed. Jesse and Vince shrugged and made a swift exit to Vince's room. Elly went upstairs to her room, and noticed Mia had managed to crawl her way into bed.
~~**Later that night~~** Everybody knew how Leon felt about Elly, apart from her. When Dom had told Letty she was so excited. Shocked but excited.
"Elly? Leon and Elly. wow. Mia and Vince, Leon and Elly." she laughed. Dom gave her a look and she stopped. Dom couldn't sleep. His sister, his baby sister was sleeping 2 doors away from him, and Leon, was downstairs somewhere. Well, he hoped he was. He jumped out of bed and quietly made his way to Elly's bedroom. He could hear no noise, but still opened the door.
'Good, just one person in the bed.' He thought as he went back to his room.
Letty had trouble sleeping to start with. Mia had said something about this earlier tonight. Was she secretly trying to tell her that she knew Leon liked Elly? Oh my god, was she trying to tell her that she secretly liked Vince back?!
'Nah, she wants blonde hair and blue eyes' she thought as she made her way to sleep. She quickly opened her eyes at a very weird thought. Vince had a huge crush on Mia, Leon had a huge crush on Elly, was it possible that Jesse had a huge crush on her?!
Vince was in his own room, Jesse had crashed on Leon's bed and Mia had passed out on her own. Leon had gotten an hours sleep on Jesse's bed. He can't believe that in one day his feelings that had been bottled up for a year were now in the open. He especially couldn't believe Dom's reaction to the circumstances. Maybe Vince's affection for Mia had softened him up a bit. He got up, and walked to the window. He looked up through the window, to see Elly's car smashed in a million pieces. It broke his heart to see her so upset.
Elly couldn't sleep, and when she did, she had nightmares about her mother. One time, she heard Dom come into the room. He said nothing, and made no point of waking her up. Maybe he was sleepwalking? She got out of bed, and looked out the window. Her beautiful car was smashed into a million pieces. It mirrored her heart.
~~**Next morning~~**
Dom had been up for an hour and a half when he heard noise from upstairs. Ten minutes later the soft feet on the stairs indicated it was Mia.
"Mornin' Dom." She said giving him a quick kiss on his head.
"Hey Mia." Mia reached into a cabinet for some aspirin. Dom chuckled.
"Bad night with JD?" Mia nodded.
"Letty doesn't know when to make me stop. Breakfast?"
"Nah, I'm good." The microwave clock read 8:08am. Mia had about 2 minutes peace ahead of her before she had to start breakfast.
'Ah fuck it, let them just eat cereal.' She thought, as she got cereal and bowls out the cupboard. 8.17am and Jesse appeared.
"Hey guys." He said sleepily.
"Mornin' Jess." Mia replied not taking her eyes off the paper. Jesse went over to the table and slowly sat next to Dom; still unaware of the events that had happened when he left the room. Mia left to go get ready, which left Dom and Jesse alone.
"How long you known?" Dom asked taking a sip from his coffee. Jesse glanced over quickly, and noticed that Dom's stare was in the direction of the knife block. He gulped and replied,
"A year."
"Vince?"
"Bout 9 months."
"Mia?"
"Couple of weeks. Does Lett know?" Dom nodded. "What happened last night then?" Leon came in then, still sleepy. Dom rose up from the table.
"Ask Leon." He left, as Vince came into the kitchen.
"So, what happened?" Vince asked as he sat down to breakfast. 'Cereal?' He thought. 'Damn Mia I'm hungry!'. Leon took a seat next to Vince.
"Nothing really. He said he wasn't happy about the situation, but was glad it was one of the team and not stranger."
"Ah yeah, I got that speech coupla years ago." Vince said with a mouthful of cereal.
"Did he hit ya?" Jesse asked.
"Nah, which is a fuckin' miracle. But, he had this look this look in his eyes though, as if he was gonna." Letty entered the kitchen. Everybody knew from past experiences that if you spoke to Letty before she had a cup of coffee, serious injuries were to follow. She leaned against the counter, looking at Leon. He looked so uncomfortable. 'Poor guy,' she thought. 'He's gonna get it ripped outta him from now on! Well, that'll teach him to let a secret slip in this house.'
"Sleep well, Leon?" she asked, slightly grinning. 'Ah great, the grillings begin'.
"Yeah. You?" he didn't look up at her, but Jesse did, waiting for her reaction. She kind of froze for a moment, Mia's words and her thoughts replaying in her head.
"Fine." She looked away, and went to sit down. Mia and Dom came back in then, talking about a mistake in the book for the garage. Letty, Vince and Jesse were going over what they would be doing at the garage today. Leon was pouring himself a coffee before they headed off. It was 8.43am and Elly appeared. As with Letty, Elly was not a morning person, and headed straight towards the coffee machine.
"Hey Leon." She mumbled, leaning on the counter sleepily. He tensed up as he could feel everybody's eyes looking at him. This is exactly what he didn't want to happen. There was a weird feeling in the room. Everybody was looking at him, wondering what he was going to do or say next.
"Hey." He replied.
"Pour me one would ya?" he poured her a black coffee, and put in 3 sugars, the way she liked it.
"Thanks." She turned around, yawned, and couldn't help but rest her head on Leon's shoulder, closing her sleepy eyes.
'Fuck Elly! What are you doing to me? You smell so good in the mornings!' Leon looked down into his drink, swilling it around, not wanting to make eye contact with anyone. Elly opened her eyes to see everyone staring at her. Mia and Letty were grinning like Cheshire cats. She stood up straight.
"What?" No one answered. She looked over to Leon, who was gulping down his coffee. A knock at the door came. Although Dom was nearest, he just kept staring at Leon, and made no effort to open it.
"I'll get it." Elly said slightly annoyed. What was with everyone this morning? The person at the door was a police officer.
"Hello, Miss. Toretto?" she nodded. " Officer Ritter here, we met last night. We have somebody here to come take your car to the scrap yard. I just need you to sign here." She signed. "Upon closer inspection of the vehicle we found your drivers licence. This is the number to reach me, in case you have any questions. The cheque from your insurance company will have to come to us for legal reasons; I'll contact you when we receive it. Okay Miss Toretto?"
"Yes, thanks a lot." She took her licence and his card, and closed the door. And walked back to the kitchen.
"Who was that?" Letty asked.
"Police Officer. They're towing my car to a fuckin' scrap yard."
"Hey, language!" Dom warned her softly but sternly. He didn't like it when she swore, but he couldn't blame her considering what had just happened to her car.
"Ready?" It was more of a statement than a question from Mia.
"Yup." Since Elly didn't have a car, and Jesse's wasn't suitable to drive, Mia gave Elly a lift to the store, and Jesse rode with Leon.
~~**Lunchtime~~**
Elly was quietly singing to herself, and restocking some supplies at the store. Mia was looking over the books for the garage, while minding the counter, and Dom was out in the back. Letty pulled up followed by Leon, Vince and Jesse. Jesse walked over to Vince's car and popped the hood, fiddling with the engine.
"I'm telling ya, V, you gotta keep putting that oil on it, I gave ya. Other wise it'll put a whole right through your carb."
(A/N: I know nothing about cars. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Sorry, I just had to make something up there.)
"Hey Letty." Mia said looking up.
"Hey, girl what's up?" she walked over to Elly.
"Hey chica, Dom around?" She asked putting the sunglasses on top of her head.
"Yeh, in the back room." She finished restocking, and noticed the red truck outside again. 'Fucking moron' Elly thought. 'Every lunchtime; tuna sandwich, white bread, no crust. What kind of an idiot eats a sandwich with no crust?' she walked over to Jesse who was playing with the sunglasses.
"I think we got trouble brewing." She nodded over to the blonde guy with blue eyes - typical Californian guy. He sat down on a stool.
"Let me guess, tuna sandwich, on white bread and no crust." Mia said. She knew this guy's order off by heart.
"Depends, how's the tuna?" he replied flicking through a magazine, a slight smirk on his face.
"It was crappy yesterday, it was crappy the day before that, so by process of elimination it's crappy today."
"I'll have a tuna sandwich." He smiled. Vince went over and sat down next to him. Leon leaned behind him and took a cocktail stick from the dispenser.
"Take it easy, brotha." He said quietly. He went to stand with Elly and Jess, who were playing with the sunglasses. Leon took a pair of sunglasses from the rack and put them on, and looked towards the tuna guy.
"Oh, he's gorgeous!" he said in a mocking New York accent. Jess looked over the brim of the ones he was wearing.
"Ay, he's beautiful!" Elly started to laugh.
"You guys are too much!" She playfully hit Leon over the arm, causing Jesse to smile at Leon, forcing Leon to give him a 'Fuck off' look.
Vince snatched away the magazine. He was looking at a car magazine. Mia gave him the sandwich.
"V, V, Vince! You want something to eat?" Mia asked, trying to get his attention away from the good-looking guy.
"Nah, preppy boy's making me loose my appetite."
Elly, Leon and Jesse chuckled quietly from the back.
"Vince lost his appetite? Maybe we should invite tuna guy over sometime." Jesse noted.
"Why don't you just take off and eat somebody else's crappy tuna sandwich, huh?" he thrust the magazine angrily back at him.
"I like the tuna here."
"Bullshit! No body likes the tuna here." Tuna guy finished his sandwich, pulled out some money, and stood up.
"Thanks, Mia." He said as he walked out. He turned around as he got to the exit. "See ya tomorrow."
"Oh, you dumbass. Why did you say that?" Elly noted quietly in the back.
"Yup, he's gonna get his pretty face kicked in now." Jesse was almost hoping for V to at least take one swing at him. Vince got up from his stool, and jumped on him, as he was about to get in his car. Leon had to admit, he liked the tuna guy drama - it took the spotlight off him for a while. Jesse and Leon had to intervene when Vince had him on the floor. They managed to pull him away. Dom came to the entrance of the store, to make sure things didn't get outta hand. Letty, Mia and Elly went over to the scene. Elly snatched his wallet from the ground, where it had fallen from his back pocket.
"Brian Earl Spilner. Huh, sounds like a psycho name." Elly read from his driving licence.
"Sounds like a fuckin' cops name!" Vince yelled.
"VINCE! Calm down!" Letty ordered. Leon and Jesse dragged him back into the store, and Elly handed him his wallet back.
"See ya tomorrow Brian." Mia said quietly as she went back inside.
~~**Later that night~~** Dom and Vince were sitting outside on the deck, everybody else was settling down to a movie. "C'mon Dom, Brian Earl Spilner, he's a fuckin' cop! I'll bet my life on it!"
"A'ight, a'ight. I'll get Jess to check him out. Happy?" They headed inside, and the phone rang. It was Hector. He told Dom that races were to begin at 10pm at Armstrong Avenue.
"That was our old friend Hector, 10pm, Armstrong Avenue. Elly, looks like ya gonna get ya car tonight." He smiled and she beamed back from her place on the floor. That was one prop to having your big brother as the King of the street racers. She didn't have to fork out money for a car; he could easily win her one.
"Aren't you gonna go get ready girls?" Vince asked from his seat. Letty's eyes widened and her mouth fell open, while Elly just glared at him.
"Don't you think we look pretty enough Vince?" Mia said fluttering her eyelashes. Everyone laughed. Elly and Letty looked at each other, both with a look that said. 'Is she FLIRTING with him?'
~~**~~**~~**~~**
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"Damn right, I'd fucking kill ya!" Dom yelled from his position in the doorway. Leon jumped up, standing slightly behind Jesse.
"Dom! How-" asked Leon surprised.
"How long have I been standing here?! Long enough, Leon!" Dom cut him off. He stepped forward, kicked the door shut and uncrossed his arms, revealing two clenched fists. Jesse and Leon stepped back, unsure of what Dom what would do.
"You like my sister - my BABY sister?" he hissed at Leon. Leon was backing up towards Jesse's desk, and Dom was inching forward with a look in his eyes that Leon didn't like. Jesse could see disastrous things happening in his room - so he quickly grabbed his laptop and whispered
"Good look dawg!" To Leon and ran out of his room so fast he was a blur.
'Oh crap! No witnesses to my murder!' Leon thought.
"Dom ya'know, I can explain -" He backed up towards Jesse's desk, and banged into it. Now he had nowhere to run.
"You kissed her?" Dom cut him off again, taking a small step back and lifted his hands behind his head.
"No! Man I SWEAR I've never tried anyth-" He put his hands in front of him to protect himself.
"You touched her?"
"No."
"You slept with her?"
"NO!"
Dom didn't move from his position for a good minute. He slowly put his hands down, clenched his fists, and then turned around.
"Man, put some clothes on." Leon looked around for something - anything. He found a shirt of Jesse's hanging on the back of a chair. He quickly put it on . He knew that any second, Dom's fist would make one hell of a noise when connected to his jaw. He tensed up and looked down at the floor.
'Here it comes!' HE screamed in his mind.
Dom spun around quickly back to Leon. His finger was in his face.
"If you..when..I can't believe this." His voice was soft now. Leon was confused.
"I'm sorry, man. I can't help the way I feel."
Dom glared at him, and let out a long, low growl. 'Shouldn't have said that!' Leon noted to himself. Dom's features softened as he sighed.
"You not gonna hit me..?" Leon asked. 'Why did you say that? That was an invitation you moron!'
"No. I wanna pound your fucking face in..and you know I could..but I know that then Letty would start on me, then Vince, then Jesse. And it would really upset Mia and Elly." Leon couldn't believe this. This was the part of Dom he had never seen before - the part of him that he didn't really think existed. He was taking into consideration the repercussions of his actions.
"I guess I'm just gonna tell you what I told V a long time ago. Deep down I know that one day Mia and Elly will find somebody and start raising a family. And, in a way I'm glad that..if anyone, it'd be one of my brothers..."
"Wow, Dom, that means so much to me."
"Ah, quit the sappy shit. Just..don't push her into doing shit..and just coz I didn't almost kill ya, don't mean I'm happy bout the situation. A'ight?" Leon nodded vigorously.
"Sure, dawg." They did their little handshake thing, and Dom left. Leon let out a sigh and dropped onto Jesse's bed again.
~~**Meanwhile~~** Jesse ran out of his room so fast, he bumped into Vince.
"Whoa, Jess, where's the girl?" he smirked.
"Dom just found out." Jesse said quickly.
"Bout what?" Vince asked confused.
"Bout Elly and Leon."
"Oh." Vince looked even more confused. "Why, what did they do?"
"Dawg, get with the programme! Leon likes Elly remember?"
"Oh yeah.Oh my god! Dom found out? Shit. Does everybody know now?"
"Everybody apart from Letty and Elly, of course. But I think Dom'll soon tell Letty."
"Yeah. Where are they now?"
"My room." They looked down the hall towards Jesse's room. No sounds could be heard.
"Ya think he's dead yet?" Vince asked. Jesse smiled.
"Who's dead?" a voice asked. Jesse and Vince spun around.
"Elly!" Jesse exclaimed.
"Errrr.." Vince started. "just this guy who didn't pay Dom when he said he should." Jesse looked at Vince.
"Nice one!" he whispered.
"Well, my bet would be that he is. You guys seen Leon? He left his stuff in the bathroom." Elly asked, holding his shirt and his silver chain. Dom came out of Jesse's bedroom then, and stopped when he saw the congregation in the hall. He looked at what Elly was holding, and bad images and thoughts came to his head.
"Hey Dom, what were you doing in Jesse's room?" Dom just growled in return and went upstairs to bed. Jesse and Vince shrugged and made a swift exit to Vince's room. Elly went upstairs to her room, and noticed Mia had managed to crawl her way into bed.
~~**Later that night~~** Everybody knew how Leon felt about Elly, apart from her. When Dom had told Letty she was so excited. Shocked but excited.
"Elly? Leon and Elly. wow. Mia and Vince, Leon and Elly." she laughed. Dom gave her a look and she stopped. Dom couldn't sleep. His sister, his baby sister was sleeping 2 doors away from him, and Leon, was downstairs somewhere. Well, he hoped he was. He jumped out of bed and quietly made his way to Elly's bedroom. He could hear no noise, but still opened the door.
'Good, just one person in the bed.' He thought as he went back to his room.
Letty had trouble sleeping to start with. Mia had said something about this earlier tonight. Was she secretly trying to tell her that she knew Leon liked Elly? Oh my god, was she trying to tell her that she secretly liked Vince back?!
'Nah, she wants blonde hair and blue eyes' she thought as she made her way to sleep. She quickly opened her eyes at a very weird thought. Vince had a huge crush on Mia, Leon had a huge crush on Elly, was it possible that Jesse had a huge crush on her?!
Vince was in his own room, Jesse had crashed on Leon's bed and Mia had passed out on her own. Leon had gotten an hours sleep on Jesse's bed. He can't believe that in one day his feelings that had been bottled up for a year were now in the open. He especially couldn't believe Dom's reaction to the circumstances. Maybe Vince's affection for Mia had softened him up a bit. He got up, and walked to the window. He looked up through the window, to see Elly's car smashed in a million pieces. It broke his heart to see her so upset.
Elly couldn't sleep, and when she did, she had nightmares about her mother. One time, she heard Dom come into the room. He said nothing, and made no point of waking her up. Maybe he was sleepwalking? She got out of bed, and looked out the window. Her beautiful car was smashed into a million pieces. It mirrored her heart.
~~**Next morning~~**
Dom had been up for an hour and a half when he heard noise from upstairs. Ten minutes later the soft feet on the stairs indicated it was Mia.
"Mornin' Dom." She said giving him a quick kiss on his head.
"Hey Mia." Mia reached into a cabinet for some aspirin. Dom chuckled.
"Bad night with JD?" Mia nodded.
"Letty doesn't know when to make me stop. Breakfast?"
"Nah, I'm good." The microwave clock read 8:08am. Mia had about 2 minutes peace ahead of her before she had to start breakfast.
'Ah fuck it, let them just eat cereal.' She thought, as she got cereal and bowls out the cupboard. 8.17am and Jesse appeared.
"Hey guys." He said sleepily.
"Mornin' Jess." Mia replied not taking her eyes off the paper. Jesse went over to the table and slowly sat next to Dom; still unaware of the events that had happened when he left the room. Mia left to go get ready, which left Dom and Jesse alone.
"How long you known?" Dom asked taking a sip from his coffee. Jesse glanced over quickly, and noticed that Dom's stare was in the direction of the knife block. He gulped and replied,
"A year."
"Vince?"
"Bout 9 months."
"Mia?"
"Couple of weeks. Does Lett know?" Dom nodded. "What happened last night then?" Leon came in then, still sleepy. Dom rose up from the table.
"Ask Leon." He left, as Vince came into the kitchen.
"So, what happened?" Vince asked as he sat down to breakfast. 'Cereal?' He thought. 'Damn Mia I'm hungry!'. Leon took a seat next to Vince.
"Nothing really. He said he wasn't happy about the situation, but was glad it was one of the team and not stranger."
"Ah yeah, I got that speech coupla years ago." Vince said with a mouthful of cereal.
"Did he hit ya?" Jesse asked.
"Nah, which is a fuckin' miracle. But, he had this look this look in his eyes though, as if he was gonna." Letty entered the kitchen. Everybody knew from past experiences that if you spoke to Letty before she had a cup of coffee, serious injuries were to follow. She leaned against the counter, looking at Leon. He looked so uncomfortable. 'Poor guy,' she thought. 'He's gonna get it ripped outta him from now on! Well, that'll teach him to let a secret slip in this house.'
"Sleep well, Leon?" she asked, slightly grinning. 'Ah great, the grillings begin'.
"Yeah. You?" he didn't look up at her, but Jesse did, waiting for her reaction. She kind of froze for a moment, Mia's words and her thoughts replaying in her head.
"Fine." She looked away, and went to sit down. Mia and Dom came back in then, talking about a mistake in the book for the garage. Letty, Vince and Jesse were going over what they would be doing at the garage today. Leon was pouring himself a coffee before they headed off. It was 8.43am and Elly appeared. As with Letty, Elly was not a morning person, and headed straight towards the coffee machine.
"Hey Leon." She mumbled, leaning on the counter sleepily. He tensed up as he could feel everybody's eyes looking at him. This is exactly what he didn't want to happen. There was a weird feeling in the room. Everybody was looking at him, wondering what he was going to do or say next.
"Hey." He replied.
"Pour me one would ya?" he poured her a black coffee, and put in 3 sugars, the way she liked it.
"Thanks." She turned around, yawned, and couldn't help but rest her head on Leon's shoulder, closing her sleepy eyes.
'Fuck Elly! What are you doing to me? You smell so good in the mornings!' Leon looked down into his drink, swilling it around, not wanting to make eye contact with anyone. Elly opened her eyes to see everyone staring at her. Mia and Letty were grinning like Cheshire cats. She stood up straight.
"What?" No one answered. She looked over to Leon, who was gulping down his coffee. A knock at the door came. Although Dom was nearest, he just kept staring at Leon, and made no effort to open it.
"I'll get it." Elly said slightly annoyed. What was with everyone this morning? The person at the door was a police officer.
"Hello, Miss. Toretto?" she nodded. " Officer Ritter here, we met last night. We have somebody here to come take your car to the scrap yard. I just need you to sign here." She signed. "Upon closer inspection of the vehicle we found your drivers licence. This is the number to reach me, in case you have any questions. The cheque from your insurance company will have to come to us for legal reasons; I'll contact you when we receive it. Okay Miss Toretto?"
"Yes, thanks a lot." She took her licence and his card, and closed the door. And walked back to the kitchen.
"Who was that?" Letty asked.
"Police Officer. They're towing my car to a fuckin' scrap yard."
"Hey, language!" Dom warned her softly but sternly. He didn't like it when she swore, but he couldn't blame her considering what had just happened to her car.
"Ready?" It was more of a statement than a question from Mia.
"Yup." Since Elly didn't have a car, and Jesse's wasn't suitable to drive, Mia gave Elly a lift to the store, and Jesse rode with Leon.
~~**Lunchtime~~**
Elly was quietly singing to herself, and restocking some supplies at the store. Mia was looking over the books for the garage, while minding the counter, and Dom was out in the back. Letty pulled up followed by Leon, Vince and Jesse. Jesse walked over to Vince's car and popped the hood, fiddling with the engine.
"I'm telling ya, V, you gotta keep putting that oil on it, I gave ya. Other wise it'll put a whole right through your carb."
(A/N: I know nothing about cars. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Sorry, I just had to make something up there.)
"Hey Letty." Mia said looking up.
"Hey, girl what's up?" she walked over to Elly.
"Hey chica, Dom around?" She asked putting the sunglasses on top of her head.
"Yeh, in the back room." She finished restocking, and noticed the red truck outside again. 'Fucking moron' Elly thought. 'Every lunchtime; tuna sandwich, white bread, no crust. What kind of an idiot eats a sandwich with no crust?' she walked over to Jesse who was playing with the sunglasses.
"I think we got trouble brewing." She nodded over to the blonde guy with blue eyes - typical Californian guy. He sat down on a stool.
"Let me guess, tuna sandwich, on white bread and no crust." Mia said. She knew this guy's order off by heart.
"Depends, how's the tuna?" he replied flicking through a magazine, a slight smirk on his face.
"It was crappy yesterday, it was crappy the day before that, so by process of elimination it's crappy today."
"I'll have a tuna sandwich." He smiled. Vince went over and sat down next to him. Leon leaned behind him and took a cocktail stick from the dispenser.
"Take it easy, brotha." He said quietly. He went to stand with Elly and Jess, who were playing with the sunglasses. Leon took a pair of sunglasses from the rack and put them on, and looked towards the tuna guy.
"Oh, he's gorgeous!" he said in a mocking New York accent. Jess looked over the brim of the ones he was wearing.
"Ay, he's beautiful!" Elly started to laugh.
"You guys are too much!" She playfully hit Leon over the arm, causing Jesse to smile at Leon, forcing Leon to give him a 'Fuck off' look.
Vince snatched away the magazine. He was looking at a car magazine. Mia gave him the sandwich.
"V, V, Vince! You want something to eat?" Mia asked, trying to get his attention away from the good-looking guy.
"Nah, preppy boy's making me loose my appetite."
Elly, Leon and Jesse chuckled quietly from the back.
"Vince lost his appetite? Maybe we should invite tuna guy over sometime." Jesse noted.
"Why don't you just take off and eat somebody else's crappy tuna sandwich, huh?" he thrust the magazine angrily back at him.
"I like the tuna here."
"Bullshit! No body likes the tuna here." Tuna guy finished his sandwich, pulled out some money, and stood up.
"Thanks, Mia." He said as he walked out. He turned around as he got to the exit. "See ya tomorrow."
"Oh, you dumbass. Why did you say that?" Elly noted quietly in the back.
"Yup, he's gonna get his pretty face kicked in now." Jesse was almost hoping for V to at least take one swing at him. Vince got up from his stool, and jumped on him, as he was about to get in his car. Leon had to admit, he liked the tuna guy drama - it took the spotlight off him for a while. Jesse and Leon had to intervene when Vince had him on the floor. They managed to pull him away. Dom came to the entrance of the store, to make sure things didn't get outta hand. Letty, Mia and Elly went over to the scene. Elly snatched his wallet from the ground, where it had fallen from his back pocket.
"Brian Earl Spilner. Huh, sounds like a psycho name." Elly read from his driving licence.
"Sounds like a fuckin' cops name!" Vince yelled.
"VINCE! Calm down!" Letty ordered. Leon and Jesse dragged him back into the store, and Elly handed him his wallet back.
"See ya tomorrow Brian." Mia said quietly as she went back inside.
~~**Later that night~~** Dom and Vince were sitting outside on the deck, everybody else was settling down to a movie. "C'mon Dom, Brian Earl Spilner, he's a fuckin' cop! I'll bet my life on it!"
"A'ight, a'ight. I'll get Jess to check him out. Happy?" They headed inside, and the phone rang. It was Hector. He told Dom that races were to begin at 10pm at Armstrong Avenue.
"That was our old friend Hector, 10pm, Armstrong Avenue. Elly, looks like ya gonna get ya car tonight." He smiled and she beamed back from her place on the floor. That was one prop to having your big brother as the King of the street racers. She didn't have to fork out money for a car; he could easily win her one.
"Aren't you gonna go get ready girls?" Vince asked from his seat. Letty's eyes widened and her mouth fell open, while Elly just glared at him.
"Don't you think we look pretty enough Vince?" Mia said fluttering her eyelashes. Everyone laughed. Elly and Letty looked at each other, both with a look that said. 'Is she FLIRTING with him?'
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Whoa! That was a long one! There shall be more action next time, I promise, and more romance too!! Keep reviewing! The more reviews the quicker I update!