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I think my great fashion sense comes out in this chapter. HA! LOL! Only kidding. I'm shutting up now.
Here's chapter 4!
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The guys were waiting at the bottom of the stairs for the girls.
Dom was leaning on banister at the bottom of the stairs, casting quick glances to see if any of the girls were ready yet. He was wearing a simple black t-shirt, which showed off his defined muscles even more, and navy jeans. Vince was leaning against the doorframe leading to the living room, wearing baggy faded jeans and a black tank top with a dark green net tank top over it. He was playing catch with Jesse, who was wearing a white tank top with an open blue shirt and blue jeans, sitting on a table in the hallway. Leon was leaning against the front door, wearing a black tank top, dark blue jeans, a spiked belt, and his usual silver chain. He placed his hands on top of his black beanie, and crossed his legs in front of him, staring at an invisible spot on the floor while chewing the small stick in his mouth. (A/N: Now, is that a good mental pic or what? I am so good to you girls!)
"FOR THE LOVE OF MY INSANITY, WILL YOU HURRY UP!" Dom yelled upstairs.
"SHUT UP DOM! I'M COMING!" Elly yelled back at him, as she came down. She was wearing black Van trainers; black cord flared trousers, which rested on her hips; and a red work shirt that was too small for her, so it really showed off her chest. Leon almost lost his balance and fell down the side of the door when he saw her. She had made her black hair fantastically straight, but made one side slightly curve round her face. Her jet-black hair made her blue eyes seem like whirlpools of a never-ending blue ocean. Elly stopped on the bottom step. Dom had blocked her way, and was casting a quick 'big brother' glance over what she was wearing. The red shirt didn't go down too good, but he couldn't be bothered to wait a further half hour for her to pick out another top. He stepped aside to let her pass, and redeemed his spot.
'Damn! What's up with Leon?' Elly thought as she passed him. 'He's looking damn hot in that beanie tonight, and that belt, youch, I'd sure as hell like to whip that off...'
Leon felt slightly uncomfortable as Elly passed him, he was sure she was looking at is crotch. Why would she do that?
Letty appeared at the top of the stairs, wearing dark green combat flared trousers, black Airwear boots and a green tank top with a smaller white top over it.
"Finally!" Dom said under his breath. Letty heard him, and punched him on the arm.
"You know it was worth the wait." She winked, and walked over next to Elly.
"Sweet outfit Lett." Elly noted.
"Thanks, you too girl. Love your hair like that." Letty replied. Leon watched as Letty lightly ran her hands through her hair. He could feel jealously running through his veins. Why was he so jealous? Maybe because he wanted to touch her too, to feel the silk glide through his fingers. It wasn't like it was a random guy hitting on her; it was Letty. Letty, her closest friend, her sister, one of HIS closest friends, HIS sister: FUCK! She was family!
'Man, I'm fucked up!' Leon thought to himself.
"MIA!!!" Dom boomed.
"CHRIST, DOM, I'M READY!" Mia made her way down the stairs. Mia had made her hair slightly curly at the bottom, and was wearing Letty's black short leather skirt, black knee length leather boots, and a vintage style floral tank top. He blocked her way, just like he did with Elly. He wasn't happy with the size - or lack of it - of her skirt. He gave her a look that showed he wasn't happy.
"Dom, do you want me to go change?" Mia put her hands on her hips. Dom shook his head.
"Let's go!" Dom ordered.
Leon turned to open the door.
"No! Wait I'm not ready! I gotta change my shoes." Elly stated, taking her Vans off. Dom growled.
"Elly, they're shoes, deal. You'll spend most of the night either in a car, or standing up."
"Well, I won't be able to stand up will I if I'm not comfortable." She pushed past an angry Dom and headed upstairs to change into her New Rocks.
"A'ight, you guys head off. I'll wait for the oh-so-annoying-one." Dom ordered.
"HEARD THAT, OH-SO-BALD-ONE!" Elly yelled from upstairs. The others chuckled.
Leon fully opened the door, and let the somewhat cooler night air hit him, and walked briskly towards his car. He quickly, got in, closed the door, and banged his head a couple of times on the steering wheel, then let it rest there.
"Hey Einstein, what's up with Leon tonight?" V asked Jesse, as they were heading out the door.
"Same thing that's wrong with him every night!" He replied, giving a nod upstairs motioning to Elly. Mia was riding in Letty's car, as her car needed a new tyre and was in the garage. Jesse and Vince thought it would be best to ride together in V's car, sensing that Leon needed to be alone. They all got in their cars, but couldn't get moving because Dom's car was blocking the driveway. 2 minutes later Elly appeared.
"Comfy?" Dom asked sarcastically.
"Yes." She retorted. Dom quickly looked towards the cars. Mia and Letty were together, V and Jesse were together, so that meant that Elly would HAVE to ride with Leon. He never let anyone ride with him before a race. He had to get himself psyched up; needed to be alone. As much as he disliked the idea, he told her -
"You'll have to ride with Leon." As she was locking the front door.
"Not a problem, Dom." She replied happily.
'I don't mind riding with the hottie!' she thought. My god. Leon the hottie. There's something she never thought she'd think. He was like her brother, as were Vince and Jesse. Dom walked over to his car, and Vince and Letty started their engines. This caused Leon to look up, and he noticed Elly coming towards him.
"Shit! I can't do this. She looks so hot tonight." He mumbled. Elly got in the car.
"Hey, Ell." He tried to sound calm, cool and collected. But he was tense, anxious and messed up in the head.
"Hey Leon. Looks like you got stuck with me tonight." She winked and put her seat belt on. He started the engine, and smiled.
"No probs, glad of the company."
'Damn, Leon that smile! Stop it!' she took a deep breath. 'No, Elly YOU stop it, you're behaving like a love struck 12 year old!'
Dom pulled out the drive, followed by Letty, Leon and Vince. They had been driving for about 3 minutes, but it was worst 3 minutes of Leon's life...but probably the best because he was so near to her, without any interruptions.
'It's not like you HAVE to talk, man. I mean countless times you've been together in the same room and not talked. But then again, that's because you were staring at her and you can't talk when you're staring at her. But how can I not look at her she's so-' Elly interrupted his babbling train of thought.
"I can't believe what that guy did to me!" Leon quickly glanced over to her; his eyes swiftly met her breasts as he looked at her. He mentally hit himself, and made a note to hit himself physically later on. 'Dawg, that was wrong!' he told himself. He looked up to her face, and saw pain in her eyes; that made his blood boil and his heart shatter.
"What guy? What did he do?" he asked sternly. He had flashing mental images of some sleazy prick touching her and hitting her. His grip on the wheel tightened.
"That fuckin' idiot who ran into my car!" she folded her arms and crossed her legs in a sort of huff. Leon had temporarily forgot about the car incident, but it still made him angry that someone had done something to cut Elly so deeply.
"Ah, well, ya'know these fuckin' amateur racers who have a coupla drinks, and show off to their friends, thinking they're made of tough shit." She smiled and looked over to him.
"What, so YOU were never an amateur who showed off?" she asked playfully, in a low tone. His profile looked great against the L.A setting sun, and the soft light coming from passing stores. He squinted his eyes in thought, then looked out his window quickly. Turning back he said,
"Yeah, I was an amateur once, fuck, Dom was an amateur once - and I learned a long time ago not to race in neighbourhoods." He said seriously. He looked towards Elly, and locked with her ocean eyes for a couple of seconds. He could feel himself sliding into her eyes, and being locked there forever.
"What made you stop, Leon?" she didn't want to push, but she was nosy, and didn't know a lot about his life before he and Jesse had entered the family.. He shook his head and looked out intensely towards the road. He didn't want to talk about it right now, and she felt bad that she had asked him. Leon sensed that there was a bridge of tension between them. He laughed and dared to say,
"Hell, you still ARE a fucking amateur!" Elly let out a short laugh, and hit him on the arm.
"Hey! You can't talk that way to Dominic Toretto's sister!" she said playfully back. They laughed even more. After a few minutes silence, Leon asked,
"Do you think Dom's gonna let you race at Race Wars this month?" she thought for a moment.
"Maybe, depending on how this new car of mine runs. But I think he'd much rather me try and get some new customers in, than race, ya know?" Leon nodded in response.
'I can't talk to her anymore, she's making me insane. Even her voice is driving me wild.' He decided to put his music system on for the rest of the journey. 'Cars' by 'Fear Factory' came blaring out the speakers. (A/N: That's a wicked song.) He turned it down a bit, so that Elly didn't think he was being ignorant.
"I love this song...I like the line that goes 'Here in my car I feel safest of all', it reminds me of Dom...and Dad." She turned out the window. Leon tensed up as she said the word 'Dad'. He had known their Dad, Alex Toretto, for about a year before he dies. He was a great guy, and he knew it was a very touchy subject for Mia, Dom and Elly.
"Oh, um, you want me to turn it off?" he reached for the volume setting.
"No, no, no!" she pulled his hand from the volume setting, " They're good memories, it's alright Leon." The way she said 'Leon' reminded my of his fantasy in the shower the other night. And her hand. Oh, her hand was so good on his, it fit perfectly. He smiled at her; as she took his hand and placed it next to her on the seat. For the rest of the journey she looked out the window, and Leon kept looking straight ahead, their hands the only way of communication.
~~**The Races~~**
Everybody parked and got out their cars. Leon was happy the ride had ended, but he still wanted Elly's hand on his...fuck, he just wanted the whole of Elly on him. He physically hit his upper arm that time for the image in his head. Elly wasn't looking at him, so he hit himself again for the time in the car. 'God, what a twat I must have looked right then' he smiled to himself.
"Oh fuck." Elly said, standing in front of Leon's car.
"What?" Leon looked around, walked over to where she was and leaned on his hood. If she just leant back slightly, and twisted to her left, she'd be in his arms.
"Brian 'psycho' Spilner is here."
"Really? Where?" She held out her hand in the direction of Brian. Leon lowered his head to meet the beginning of her shoulders, and followed the stunning arm's direction through the crowds of people to see him standing by a green Toyota, talking to Edwin and Hector.
"I bet Vince is gonna have some fun." Leon smirked. He could feel Elly's eyes on him. He turned to meet them. She had a weird expression on her face. One he'd never seen before. She was telling him so much, but her face was emotionless.
"You alright El-" He was cut off when Elly quickly turned on her heel and walked away.
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'FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!' She was screaming in her head. 'You were gonna kiss him you stupid-ass bitch!'
"Elly! Elly!" Leon was calling after her, but a bunch of people walked in his path, and he quickly lost sight of her as she merged into the big crowd forming around Dom.
'So, what if you did kiss him? It wouldn't be the end of the world, and it wouldn't mean anything, Leon kisses girls al the time. Go on, turn around and kiss him!' Again, she quickly turned on her heel, and looked back towards the yellow Skyline.
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"Leon!" a high-pitched squeal came from behind him. He turned and saw Harriet. She was a peroxide blonde, with heavy blue eye shadow, pink cheeks, and drawn on lips; wearing blue hot pants and a pink top with the words 'I'm Cute!' in glitter across it. Despite her looking like a total skank - which she was - she was pretty. Kind of. Well, not really. Okay she was horrible. She had been coming on to Leon for about 2 months now. Every single race he would hear the high-pitched voice, that dogs 10 blocks away could hear.
"Leon, it's Harriet! Don't you remember me?"
'I try not to!' he smiled to himself. He turned and forced, really forced a smile on. She squealed again and engrossed him in a hug. He spun her around; hopefully she'd fly out of his arms, onto a car bonnet. When he had done a 180 spin, he saw Elly staring at him. She had that look in her eyes. The one that seemed to tell him so much, yet he couldn't understand what she was saying. He dropped Harriet, and started his way over to Elly, but even more skanks crowded him. Why were they always around him when he didn't want them? Dom began his announcement.
"A'IGHT! LISTEN UP! TONIGHT'S GONNA BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT! ONE RACE!" He paused to grab the crowd's attention even more.
"ME AND ONE OF Y'ALL...FOR A PINK SLIP." He quickly glanced over at Elly, and she smiled back. The crowd were astonished and went up in 'Oooohs' and 'Arrrrrs', someone even called out 'fuck yeah!'. To own Dom's former racing car would be a priceless item. He motioned for the crowd to be quiet.
"IF THE PIGS DECIDE TO HAVE AN EXTRA DOUGHNUT, THERE'LL BE ANOTHER RACE. ME AN' 3 O' YA FOR 5G EACH. YA WANT IN SEE MY MAN HECTOR. WE SPLIT IN 10!" he turned and walked over to Hector.
"Mia holds money, Elly holds pink slip. Got it?" He said. He alternated who held the money every race, and he made extra special care that no one heard him, in case they decided to jump over ever was holding the rewards.
"Crystal, my brotha, crystal." Hector replied.
"Hey Hector!" Elly and Mia came up to meet Hector. They each kissed him on the cheek and hugged him.
"Well, if I ain't just a thorn between two roses, huh Dom?" he beamed.
"Hey, man, you stay away from my girls! That includes Letty!" Dom pointed a finger at him as he walked off to meet'n'greet. Hector turned to Mia and said quietly.
"Dom said you hold money." Mia nodded in agreement. She spotted Brian, and made a swift exit. Hector turned to Elly,
"Dom told me about cha car, girl, I was sorry to hear that. He doing the pink slip for you?" Elly nodded.
"A'ight Dom said you hold the pink slips."
"Okay Hector. Where's Lila?" Lila was Hector's little sister, who was the same age as Elly; only she looked much older. A crowd was forming around Hector coz they wanted in on Dom's 'one on one' race. Over the hustle and bustle he shouted,
"Over by the green Toyota." She nodded and headed to the green Toyota. Gee, that says a lot. There could be at least 10 green Toyota's here. Hang on; maybe it was THAT green Toyota. She veered off to the right and met Vince on her travels.
"Hey V!" Elly greeted him.
"Yo, Elly!" He returned. A brown haired girl came up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Who's she?" she snorted and pointed at Elly. Mia, Letty and Elly had gotten used to the bitchy looks comments they got from the countless racer skanks they had met via Leon, Jesse and Vince. But, there was a line, and if they crossed it, they would retaliate. Vince sighed.
"That's my girl, Elly." Elly stuck her tongue out.
"Your GIRL? A'ight, Vince, check me when you're done here." She gave a quick glare to Elly as she turned around. Elly responded by quickly flipping her the bird. Vince turned to see Elly again.
"Oh, um, you know I didn't mean my GIRL as in -"
"V, I know. Don't sweat it." She held up her hand to motion that she understood. He smiled and nodded.
"Where you off to?" he asked, quickly looking around.
"Erm, just over there actually." She pointed sheepishly to the green Toyota. THE green Toyota.
'Shit's gonna hit the fan!' she thought as she saw Vince's face drop and turn to anger.
"Brian I'm-a-fucking-cop Spilner." He growled under his breath and he took off towards the car.
'Shit's hit the fan'.
She followed Vince towards the car. Jesse approached her with a young blonde on his arm.
"Hey, Ell, where's the fire at?"
"Spilner."
"Oh." Was all he could say. Elly took off and Jess followed, she didn't see but Leon was following them too. When she got nearer, she noticed that Lila and Letty were there too talking, and Mia and Brian were laughing.
Mia could sense somebody coming towards her. She noticed Vince was first, looking rather pissed; Elly hot on his heels, biting her lip; Jess followed with a skank in his arms, smiling at the prospect of a fight BEFORE races had begun; and Leon bringing up the rear with an 'Oh crap' look plastered on his face. Elly went up to Letty and Lila, and they greeted each other. Jess and Leon just hung around behind Vince, ready to stop Vince potentially beating Brian to death.
"Vince, this is Bri -" Mia thought Vince would calm down if she spoke to him.
"Yeh, Brian the-tuna-eating-cop Spilner." He spitted above the racing commotion.
"Vince, will you just cut the crap and leave this shit alone?" It was more of an order than a question posed by Letty. She came up to stand slightly behind Brian. Vince moved menacingly towards Brian, causing him to take a step back. If Mia hadn't of been there, he would have lunged forward and beaten the shit out of him. Mia put her hands on Vince's chest and pushed him back.
"Vince, leave it...please." She pleaded. Dom came up to the scene.
"What the FUCK is going on here?" Dom's booming low voice caused everyone to jump and look in his direction. He stepped forward and raised his arms out to the side.
"Are we fucking fighting, or are we fucking racing?" No body moved or answered him. "Vince, Lett, Leon, Jess split." Again, no body moved.
"AM I FUCKING INVISIBLE? I SAID SPLIT!" They quickly left the scene, and got back to their cars. "Lila, hector wants you." He said softer. She nodded and ran into the racing crowd. Dom walked over to Brian, and Mia went to stand next to Elly, who were quickly joined by Hector, along with a crowd forming.
"If I were you I'd just leave. Don't make public appearances unless you want your pretty little face rearranged by Vince - and let me tell ya, he won't rearrange it for the better." Dom said seriously to Brian.
"Hey, man, I don't know what his problem is, but he's got one with me!" Brian retorted.
"You got a problem with Vince?" Dom asked, folding his arms.
"Well, now I do, yeah." Brian confessed. Dom's voice grew louder.
"Well, when ya gotta problem with Vince, ya gotta problem with my family, when ya gotta problem with my family, ya gotta problem with me." Brian didn't know what to say, so he just turned and drove off.
"Was that necessary?" Mia hissed.
"It was more necessary than Vince pounding the shit outta him." He turned to Elly with a more happy tone. He hated going into a race mad or angry. He needed to be...just right, calm, cool and collected.
"How does a Skyline sound, Elly?"
"Huh?" she blinked. He smiled.
"Hector set me up to race a dude with a Skyline. Metallic dark purple. Jess checked it out for me. Said it's good, but with a little dough it could be the shit. How about it?"
"Dom, I dunno, a SKYLINE? Can you really beat a Skyline?" Dom snorted.
"The current owner has more of Daddy's money than he does sense." Hector came up then.
"Elly, this kid has only driven once before. He dove his car over the start line, he stalled it, then he fucked up on his NOS timing, and nearly lost control of the car. and about blew himself up. He's got the power, but not the know-how my man does here." He slapped Dom on his back. Elly smiled and nodded.
"A'ight, a Skyline it is!" She hugged Dom and he picked her up and spun her round.
"Thanks so much Dom." She whispered.
"Don't mention it, Tots." He put her down, and smiled. Tots. Her dad had started calling her Tots when she was 5. She tripped over an oilcan when she was playing at his garage one Sunday. She landed hard on a 'TOTSVILLE & SONS' spanner, which had dented the selective letters 'TOTS' into her knee. She remembered getting up, brushing herself off. She didn't even cry, even though she had made her right arm bleed, and her knee was red for days. And because she was so brave, she got to ride as the passenger of Daddy's charger. That was the one and only time she'd ever ridden in that. It had scared her to death. Hector handed her Dom's pink slip and the slip for the Skyline.
She raced back to Leon's yellow Skyline. He was checking the scanner out.
"Hey." She said, and he looked up. He mumbled some sort of greeting, still fiddling with the scanner. He started hitting the side of it, cursing at it.
"What's up with it?" she asked.
"I dunno, it's not giving me a bas line signal." She had no idea what that meant, but still leaned over to get a closer look. He could smell her hair. He breathed her in deeply, disguising it as a big sigh. She flicked a switch. It lit up. She smiled.
"Didn't turn it on."
"I knew that." 'Typical male response' she thought. He started the car up and headed off to the racing strip through the crowds of people, following Vince's car.
"Hear what car Dom's racing for slip?" she asked.
"No." he replied shortly. He didn't really care, and he made it show. He was pissed off, and he didn't know why. Was it that look she had been giving him all night that he couldn't work out? Was it the hand incident? He didn't know and that made him even more pissed off, and edgy.
"Skyline." She said flatly. What was his problem. They had been getting along greatly - as usual, then he turns all...moody. If he didn't want to talk, then she wasn't going to waste her time. His eyes widened.
"Really? Dom's racin' a Sky-"
"Yup." She cut him off, crossed her arms and legs and looked out the window at the L.A night, silently declaring the end of that conversation. 'HA! You would wanna talk when it's about a Skyline, wouldn't ya? Well tough.' she thought.
'What's her problem, all moody?' He thought. 'Err, that was your doing, man' an unknown voice said in his head. He began chewing his stick more furiously.
~~**Racing Strip~~**
As soon as Leon had stopped is car, Elly got out the car and headed for Letty and Mia. Why was she so mad? 'Leon's an ass ...a hot ass, but an ass.' She noted. She shook her head for describing him as 'hot'.
"Hey, when's the race start?" she asked Letty and Mia.
"Soon as the cops are busy and the line's painted. Anxious to get ya car, girl?" Letty smiled.
"Hell yeah!" Elly cheered.
"Oh my life there's Brian!" Mia squealed and took off in the distance. Elly and Letty couldn't stop her fast enough.
"Ah, shit." Letty murmured.
Elly was glad that Mia liked this guy so much; she knew he was a good guy at heart. Why couldn't she find someone like that, who made her smile just by looking at him? 'Because he's with a skank named Harriet' a little voice inside her said. She was shocked by her own thought.
Leon radioed Hector to tell him it was good to go. Cops were busy with a maniac wielding a gun, so it looked like the 2 races were in order tonight. The starting line was completed. Dom's red Mazda Rx-7 and the dark metallic Skyline pulled up. Elly patted her pocket to reassure herself that it was soon to be hers. Hector looked at the driver of the Skyline. He revved his engine up, but it sounded weak. He nodded his head to signal he was ready. Hector raised his right arm. He turned to Dom. He turned his stereo system on and a song with a lot of bass could be heard. Dom revved his engine up, and nodded. Hector raised his left arm. Paused. And dropped them simultaneously as the two cars set off. The crowd began instantly cheering for Dom.
The Skyline had a lot of power built into it already. If a more experienced driver were racing they could have beat Dom. But this guy had obviously just bought everything under his hood because 'it looked good'. He was behind Dom all the time, apart from when he used his NOS to get a quick burst in front, but it was too early. Dom used his and sped miles in front of him. The crowd formed around Dom as he stepped out from his car. Vince shook his hand and slapped his back.
"Piece a piss, huh Dom?" Dom laughed, nodded and said,
"Sure was brotha." Elly and Mia ran up to their big brother and gave him a hug. Letty draped her arms around his neck and gave him a quick kiss. He received more handshakes from the guys, and a few hugs from the skanks. Letty was standing close by, marking her territory.
The driver of the Skyline stepped out the car, and stepped closer to Dom. He was short and chunky, and had an unruly mass of brown curls. For someone who was supposedly rich, he dressed like a tramp. The crowd was relatively silent.
"Keys." Dom held out his hand.
"What? No way, you'll have to wait till Monday." The rich guy retorted. Dom scoffed.
"Excuse me?! Monday? No, right now. Keys." He held out his hands further.
"No, I said Monday."
"Did you just say 'no' to ME?" Dom stepped forward, and Vince got in the rich guy's face.
"Yo, man, just give us the goddamn keys."
"I can't! I live an hour's drive away, and I don't have a car to go back home in!" The guy babbled. Laughter erupted in the crowd. Dom went to stand next to Vince.
"Well, you should have thought about that before you raced away your car." The sight of the two muscled men, and the humiliation from the crowd laughing at him forced the guy to give up his keys. He chucked them onto the ground, and started to turn away for the long trek home. Vince grabbed his shoulder and roughly turned him around.
"Pick 'em up." The guy was about to say something back, but thought better of it, picked the keys up, and put them in Vince's palm. Not taking his eyes of the guy, Vince put his hand out behind him to pass the keys back to Dom. The crowd had dispersed slightly, going off in their own little gangs. Dom handed the keys to Elly.
"Your car awaits you." He said, as he walked past her to go see Letty. She smiled, and dispersed into the crowd to find Mia and Lila.
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The three guys who had bought in for the 5g race went up to hector. One of them asked,
"Yo, man we getting our race or not?" Hector told them to hang on while he radioed Leon for the all clear.
"Yeh Hector, we clear, gotta make it quick though. Cops are dealing with the situation quickly." Leon answered back. And what a quick one it was. Two of the guys had been beginners, and the third guy was a good driver, but not good enough to beat Dom. 'Must be a lot of new drivers on the block' he thought, as he crossed the finish line first, for the second time that night.
~~**~~** Elly found Lila talking to another friend, and invited her to come back to the party at their house in her new car. they went off to find Mia, who was, surprisingly with Brian.
"Brian, I thought Dom told you to stay clear of 'public places'?" Elly asked Brian as she went up to them.
"Elly, please don't say you're going to be like them, too?" Mia asked quietly.
"I'm not, I'm just worried that if Vince sees him here he'll get hurt." Elly replied.
"Well, he'll have to deal, coz he's coming back to the party with me." Mia crossed her arms, looking pleased as punch.
"A'ight, well, Brian you can follow me home. Mia, wanna ride in my new skyline?" She asked, dangling the keys from her finger. Mia smiled and nodded, and they headed off towards the car. When they got in, they couldn't believe how messy it was. McDonalds and fast food wrappers littered the passenger floor and back seats. The steering wheel was sticky and the gear sick was dirty. The girls let out 'yucks' and 'eews'.
"Fuckin' slob!" Lila said from the back as she lifted up a dirty sock. Elly grabbed the sock, and threw it out the window.
"Hey!" Jesse turned to face the window.
"Shit! Sorry Jesse! Didn't see you there!" he stuck his head more into the window.
"Jeez, how he can drive like this?" Elly was about to reply, but Leon's voice came across shouting,
"COPS! COPS! COPS!" Jesse cried out a quick 'later' and ran to Vince's car. Elly started her car and drove home to the party, with Brian in tow.
Author Note: Wow, that was even longer than chapter 3! Sorry bout that guys. Chapter 5 will be posted very, very shortly. Chapter 5 has a lot more action and some romance angst.
Disclaimer: I am in no way advertising Vans trainers, or New Rock boots, or any other brand names that appear in this chapter and throughout the rest of the story.
I think my great fashion sense comes out in this chapter. HA! LOL! Only kidding. I'm shutting up now.
Here's chapter 4!
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The guys were waiting at the bottom of the stairs for the girls.
Dom was leaning on banister at the bottom of the stairs, casting quick glances to see if any of the girls were ready yet. He was wearing a simple black t-shirt, which showed off his defined muscles even more, and navy jeans. Vince was leaning against the doorframe leading to the living room, wearing baggy faded jeans and a black tank top with a dark green net tank top over it. He was playing catch with Jesse, who was wearing a white tank top with an open blue shirt and blue jeans, sitting on a table in the hallway. Leon was leaning against the front door, wearing a black tank top, dark blue jeans, a spiked belt, and his usual silver chain. He placed his hands on top of his black beanie, and crossed his legs in front of him, staring at an invisible spot on the floor while chewing the small stick in his mouth. (A/N: Now, is that a good mental pic or what? I am so good to you girls!)
"FOR THE LOVE OF MY INSANITY, WILL YOU HURRY UP!" Dom yelled upstairs.
"SHUT UP DOM! I'M COMING!" Elly yelled back at him, as she came down. She was wearing black Van trainers; black cord flared trousers, which rested on her hips; and a red work shirt that was too small for her, so it really showed off her chest. Leon almost lost his balance and fell down the side of the door when he saw her. She had made her black hair fantastically straight, but made one side slightly curve round her face. Her jet-black hair made her blue eyes seem like whirlpools of a never-ending blue ocean. Elly stopped on the bottom step. Dom had blocked her way, and was casting a quick 'big brother' glance over what she was wearing. The red shirt didn't go down too good, but he couldn't be bothered to wait a further half hour for her to pick out another top. He stepped aside to let her pass, and redeemed his spot.
'Damn! What's up with Leon?' Elly thought as she passed him. 'He's looking damn hot in that beanie tonight, and that belt, youch, I'd sure as hell like to whip that off...'
Leon felt slightly uncomfortable as Elly passed him, he was sure she was looking at is crotch. Why would she do that?
Letty appeared at the top of the stairs, wearing dark green combat flared trousers, black Airwear boots and a green tank top with a smaller white top over it.
"Finally!" Dom said under his breath. Letty heard him, and punched him on the arm.
"You know it was worth the wait." She winked, and walked over next to Elly.
"Sweet outfit Lett." Elly noted.
"Thanks, you too girl. Love your hair like that." Letty replied. Leon watched as Letty lightly ran her hands through her hair. He could feel jealously running through his veins. Why was he so jealous? Maybe because he wanted to touch her too, to feel the silk glide through his fingers. It wasn't like it was a random guy hitting on her; it was Letty. Letty, her closest friend, her sister, one of HIS closest friends, HIS sister: FUCK! She was family!
'Man, I'm fucked up!' Leon thought to himself.
"MIA!!!" Dom boomed.
"CHRIST, DOM, I'M READY!" Mia made her way down the stairs. Mia had made her hair slightly curly at the bottom, and was wearing Letty's black short leather skirt, black knee length leather boots, and a vintage style floral tank top. He blocked her way, just like he did with Elly. He wasn't happy with the size - or lack of it - of her skirt. He gave her a look that showed he wasn't happy.
"Dom, do you want me to go change?" Mia put her hands on her hips. Dom shook his head.
"Let's go!" Dom ordered.
Leon turned to open the door.
"No! Wait I'm not ready! I gotta change my shoes." Elly stated, taking her Vans off. Dom growled.
"Elly, they're shoes, deal. You'll spend most of the night either in a car, or standing up."
"Well, I won't be able to stand up will I if I'm not comfortable." She pushed past an angry Dom and headed upstairs to change into her New Rocks.
"A'ight, you guys head off. I'll wait for the oh-so-annoying-one." Dom ordered.
"HEARD THAT, OH-SO-BALD-ONE!" Elly yelled from upstairs. The others chuckled.
Leon fully opened the door, and let the somewhat cooler night air hit him, and walked briskly towards his car. He quickly, got in, closed the door, and banged his head a couple of times on the steering wheel, then let it rest there.
"Hey Einstein, what's up with Leon tonight?" V asked Jesse, as they were heading out the door.
"Same thing that's wrong with him every night!" He replied, giving a nod upstairs motioning to Elly. Mia was riding in Letty's car, as her car needed a new tyre and was in the garage. Jesse and Vince thought it would be best to ride together in V's car, sensing that Leon needed to be alone. They all got in their cars, but couldn't get moving because Dom's car was blocking the driveway. 2 minutes later Elly appeared.
"Comfy?" Dom asked sarcastically.
"Yes." She retorted. Dom quickly looked towards the cars. Mia and Letty were together, V and Jesse were together, so that meant that Elly would HAVE to ride with Leon. He never let anyone ride with him before a race. He had to get himself psyched up; needed to be alone. As much as he disliked the idea, he told her -
"You'll have to ride with Leon." As she was locking the front door.
"Not a problem, Dom." She replied happily.
'I don't mind riding with the hottie!' she thought. My god. Leon the hottie. There's something she never thought she'd think. He was like her brother, as were Vince and Jesse. Dom walked over to his car, and Vince and Letty started their engines. This caused Leon to look up, and he noticed Elly coming towards him.
"Shit! I can't do this. She looks so hot tonight." He mumbled. Elly got in the car.
"Hey, Ell." He tried to sound calm, cool and collected. But he was tense, anxious and messed up in the head.
"Hey Leon. Looks like you got stuck with me tonight." She winked and put her seat belt on. He started the engine, and smiled.
"No probs, glad of the company."
'Damn, Leon that smile! Stop it!' she took a deep breath. 'No, Elly YOU stop it, you're behaving like a love struck 12 year old!'
Dom pulled out the drive, followed by Letty, Leon and Vince. They had been driving for about 3 minutes, but it was worst 3 minutes of Leon's life...but probably the best because he was so near to her, without any interruptions.
'It's not like you HAVE to talk, man. I mean countless times you've been together in the same room and not talked. But then again, that's because you were staring at her and you can't talk when you're staring at her. But how can I not look at her she's so-' Elly interrupted his babbling train of thought.
"I can't believe what that guy did to me!" Leon quickly glanced over to her; his eyes swiftly met her breasts as he looked at her. He mentally hit himself, and made a note to hit himself physically later on. 'Dawg, that was wrong!' he told himself. He looked up to her face, and saw pain in her eyes; that made his blood boil and his heart shatter.
"What guy? What did he do?" he asked sternly. He had flashing mental images of some sleazy prick touching her and hitting her. His grip on the wheel tightened.
"That fuckin' idiot who ran into my car!" she folded her arms and crossed her legs in a sort of huff. Leon had temporarily forgot about the car incident, but it still made him angry that someone had done something to cut Elly so deeply.
"Ah, well, ya'know these fuckin' amateur racers who have a coupla drinks, and show off to their friends, thinking they're made of tough shit." She smiled and looked over to him.
"What, so YOU were never an amateur who showed off?" she asked playfully, in a low tone. His profile looked great against the L.A setting sun, and the soft light coming from passing stores. He squinted his eyes in thought, then looked out his window quickly. Turning back he said,
"Yeah, I was an amateur once, fuck, Dom was an amateur once - and I learned a long time ago not to race in neighbourhoods." He said seriously. He looked towards Elly, and locked with her ocean eyes for a couple of seconds. He could feel himself sliding into her eyes, and being locked there forever.
"What made you stop, Leon?" she didn't want to push, but she was nosy, and didn't know a lot about his life before he and Jesse had entered the family.. He shook his head and looked out intensely towards the road. He didn't want to talk about it right now, and she felt bad that she had asked him. Leon sensed that there was a bridge of tension between them. He laughed and dared to say,
"Hell, you still ARE a fucking amateur!" Elly let out a short laugh, and hit him on the arm.
"Hey! You can't talk that way to Dominic Toretto's sister!" she said playfully back. They laughed even more. After a few minutes silence, Leon asked,
"Do you think Dom's gonna let you race at Race Wars this month?" she thought for a moment.
"Maybe, depending on how this new car of mine runs. But I think he'd much rather me try and get some new customers in, than race, ya know?" Leon nodded in response.
'I can't talk to her anymore, she's making me insane. Even her voice is driving me wild.' He decided to put his music system on for the rest of the journey. 'Cars' by 'Fear Factory' came blaring out the speakers. (A/N: That's a wicked song.) He turned it down a bit, so that Elly didn't think he was being ignorant.
"I love this song...I like the line that goes 'Here in my car I feel safest of all', it reminds me of Dom...and Dad." She turned out the window. Leon tensed up as she said the word 'Dad'. He had known their Dad, Alex Toretto, for about a year before he dies. He was a great guy, and he knew it was a very touchy subject for Mia, Dom and Elly.
"Oh, um, you want me to turn it off?" he reached for the volume setting.
"No, no, no!" she pulled his hand from the volume setting, " They're good memories, it's alright Leon." The way she said 'Leon' reminded my of his fantasy in the shower the other night. And her hand. Oh, her hand was so good on his, it fit perfectly. He smiled at her; as she took his hand and placed it next to her on the seat. For the rest of the journey she looked out the window, and Leon kept looking straight ahead, their hands the only way of communication.
~~**The Races~~**
Everybody parked and got out their cars. Leon was happy the ride had ended, but he still wanted Elly's hand on his...fuck, he just wanted the whole of Elly on him. He physically hit his upper arm that time for the image in his head. Elly wasn't looking at him, so he hit himself again for the time in the car. 'God, what a twat I must have looked right then' he smiled to himself.
"Oh fuck." Elly said, standing in front of Leon's car.
"What?" Leon looked around, walked over to where she was and leaned on his hood. If she just leant back slightly, and twisted to her left, she'd be in his arms.
"Brian 'psycho' Spilner is here."
"Really? Where?" She held out her hand in the direction of Brian. Leon lowered his head to meet the beginning of her shoulders, and followed the stunning arm's direction through the crowds of people to see him standing by a green Toyota, talking to Edwin and Hector.
"I bet Vince is gonna have some fun." Leon smirked. He could feel Elly's eyes on him. He turned to meet them. She had a weird expression on her face. One he'd never seen before. She was telling him so much, but her face was emotionless.
"You alright El-" He was cut off when Elly quickly turned on her heel and walked away.
~~
'FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!' She was screaming in her head. 'You were gonna kiss him you stupid-ass bitch!'
"Elly! Elly!" Leon was calling after her, but a bunch of people walked in his path, and he quickly lost sight of her as she merged into the big crowd forming around Dom.
'So, what if you did kiss him? It wouldn't be the end of the world, and it wouldn't mean anything, Leon kisses girls al the time. Go on, turn around and kiss him!' Again, she quickly turned on her heel, and looked back towards the yellow Skyline.
~~
"Leon!" a high-pitched squeal came from behind him. He turned and saw Harriet. She was a peroxide blonde, with heavy blue eye shadow, pink cheeks, and drawn on lips; wearing blue hot pants and a pink top with the words 'I'm Cute!' in glitter across it. Despite her looking like a total skank - which she was - she was pretty. Kind of. Well, not really. Okay she was horrible. She had been coming on to Leon for about 2 months now. Every single race he would hear the high-pitched voice, that dogs 10 blocks away could hear.
"Leon, it's Harriet! Don't you remember me?"
'I try not to!' he smiled to himself. He turned and forced, really forced a smile on. She squealed again and engrossed him in a hug. He spun her around; hopefully she'd fly out of his arms, onto a car bonnet. When he had done a 180 spin, he saw Elly staring at him. She had that look in her eyes. The one that seemed to tell him so much, yet he couldn't understand what she was saying. He dropped Harriet, and started his way over to Elly, but even more skanks crowded him. Why were they always around him when he didn't want them? Dom began his announcement.
"A'IGHT! LISTEN UP! TONIGHT'S GONNA BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT! ONE RACE!" He paused to grab the crowd's attention even more.
"ME AND ONE OF Y'ALL...FOR A PINK SLIP." He quickly glanced over at Elly, and she smiled back. The crowd were astonished and went up in 'Oooohs' and 'Arrrrrs', someone even called out 'fuck yeah!'. To own Dom's former racing car would be a priceless item. He motioned for the crowd to be quiet.
"IF THE PIGS DECIDE TO HAVE AN EXTRA DOUGHNUT, THERE'LL BE ANOTHER RACE. ME AN' 3 O' YA FOR 5G EACH. YA WANT IN SEE MY MAN HECTOR. WE SPLIT IN 10!" he turned and walked over to Hector.
"Mia holds money, Elly holds pink slip. Got it?" He said. He alternated who held the money every race, and he made extra special care that no one heard him, in case they decided to jump over ever was holding the rewards.
"Crystal, my brotha, crystal." Hector replied.
"Hey Hector!" Elly and Mia came up to meet Hector. They each kissed him on the cheek and hugged him.
"Well, if I ain't just a thorn between two roses, huh Dom?" he beamed.
"Hey, man, you stay away from my girls! That includes Letty!" Dom pointed a finger at him as he walked off to meet'n'greet. Hector turned to Mia and said quietly.
"Dom said you hold money." Mia nodded in agreement. She spotted Brian, and made a swift exit. Hector turned to Elly,
"Dom told me about cha car, girl, I was sorry to hear that. He doing the pink slip for you?" Elly nodded.
"A'ight Dom said you hold the pink slips."
"Okay Hector. Where's Lila?" Lila was Hector's little sister, who was the same age as Elly; only she looked much older. A crowd was forming around Hector coz they wanted in on Dom's 'one on one' race. Over the hustle and bustle he shouted,
"Over by the green Toyota." She nodded and headed to the green Toyota. Gee, that says a lot. There could be at least 10 green Toyota's here. Hang on; maybe it was THAT green Toyota. She veered off to the right and met Vince on her travels.
"Hey V!" Elly greeted him.
"Yo, Elly!" He returned. A brown haired girl came up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Who's she?" she snorted and pointed at Elly. Mia, Letty and Elly had gotten used to the bitchy looks comments they got from the countless racer skanks they had met via Leon, Jesse and Vince. But, there was a line, and if they crossed it, they would retaliate. Vince sighed.
"That's my girl, Elly." Elly stuck her tongue out.
"Your GIRL? A'ight, Vince, check me when you're done here." She gave a quick glare to Elly as she turned around. Elly responded by quickly flipping her the bird. Vince turned to see Elly again.
"Oh, um, you know I didn't mean my GIRL as in -"
"V, I know. Don't sweat it." She held up her hand to motion that she understood. He smiled and nodded.
"Where you off to?" he asked, quickly looking around.
"Erm, just over there actually." She pointed sheepishly to the green Toyota. THE green Toyota.
'Shit's gonna hit the fan!' she thought as she saw Vince's face drop and turn to anger.
"Brian I'm-a-fucking-cop Spilner." He growled under his breath and he took off towards the car.
'Shit's hit the fan'.
She followed Vince towards the car. Jesse approached her with a young blonde on his arm.
"Hey, Ell, where's the fire at?"
"Spilner."
"Oh." Was all he could say. Elly took off and Jess followed, she didn't see but Leon was following them too. When she got nearer, she noticed that Lila and Letty were there too talking, and Mia and Brian were laughing.
Mia could sense somebody coming towards her. She noticed Vince was first, looking rather pissed; Elly hot on his heels, biting her lip; Jess followed with a skank in his arms, smiling at the prospect of a fight BEFORE races had begun; and Leon bringing up the rear with an 'Oh crap' look plastered on his face. Elly went up to Letty and Lila, and they greeted each other. Jess and Leon just hung around behind Vince, ready to stop Vince potentially beating Brian to death.
"Vince, this is Bri -" Mia thought Vince would calm down if she spoke to him.
"Yeh, Brian the-tuna-eating-cop Spilner." He spitted above the racing commotion.
"Vince, will you just cut the crap and leave this shit alone?" It was more of an order than a question posed by Letty. She came up to stand slightly behind Brian. Vince moved menacingly towards Brian, causing him to take a step back. If Mia hadn't of been there, he would have lunged forward and beaten the shit out of him. Mia put her hands on Vince's chest and pushed him back.
"Vince, leave it...please." She pleaded. Dom came up to the scene.
"What the FUCK is going on here?" Dom's booming low voice caused everyone to jump and look in his direction. He stepped forward and raised his arms out to the side.
"Are we fucking fighting, or are we fucking racing?" No body moved or answered him. "Vince, Lett, Leon, Jess split." Again, no body moved.
"AM I FUCKING INVISIBLE? I SAID SPLIT!" They quickly left the scene, and got back to their cars. "Lila, hector wants you." He said softer. She nodded and ran into the racing crowd. Dom walked over to Brian, and Mia went to stand next to Elly, who were quickly joined by Hector, along with a crowd forming.
"If I were you I'd just leave. Don't make public appearances unless you want your pretty little face rearranged by Vince - and let me tell ya, he won't rearrange it for the better." Dom said seriously to Brian.
"Hey, man, I don't know what his problem is, but he's got one with me!" Brian retorted.
"You got a problem with Vince?" Dom asked, folding his arms.
"Well, now I do, yeah." Brian confessed. Dom's voice grew louder.
"Well, when ya gotta problem with Vince, ya gotta problem with my family, when ya gotta problem with my family, ya gotta problem with me." Brian didn't know what to say, so he just turned and drove off.
"Was that necessary?" Mia hissed.
"It was more necessary than Vince pounding the shit outta him." He turned to Elly with a more happy tone. He hated going into a race mad or angry. He needed to be...just right, calm, cool and collected.
"How does a Skyline sound, Elly?"
"Huh?" she blinked. He smiled.
"Hector set me up to race a dude with a Skyline. Metallic dark purple. Jess checked it out for me. Said it's good, but with a little dough it could be the shit. How about it?"
"Dom, I dunno, a SKYLINE? Can you really beat a Skyline?" Dom snorted.
"The current owner has more of Daddy's money than he does sense." Hector came up then.
"Elly, this kid has only driven once before. He dove his car over the start line, he stalled it, then he fucked up on his NOS timing, and nearly lost control of the car. and about blew himself up. He's got the power, but not the know-how my man does here." He slapped Dom on his back. Elly smiled and nodded.
"A'ight, a Skyline it is!" She hugged Dom and he picked her up and spun her round.
"Thanks so much Dom." She whispered.
"Don't mention it, Tots." He put her down, and smiled. Tots. Her dad had started calling her Tots when she was 5. She tripped over an oilcan when she was playing at his garage one Sunday. She landed hard on a 'TOTSVILLE & SONS' spanner, which had dented the selective letters 'TOTS' into her knee. She remembered getting up, brushing herself off. She didn't even cry, even though she had made her right arm bleed, and her knee was red for days. And because she was so brave, she got to ride as the passenger of Daddy's charger. That was the one and only time she'd ever ridden in that. It had scared her to death. Hector handed her Dom's pink slip and the slip for the Skyline.
She raced back to Leon's yellow Skyline. He was checking the scanner out.
"Hey." She said, and he looked up. He mumbled some sort of greeting, still fiddling with the scanner. He started hitting the side of it, cursing at it.
"What's up with it?" she asked.
"I dunno, it's not giving me a bas line signal." She had no idea what that meant, but still leaned over to get a closer look. He could smell her hair. He breathed her in deeply, disguising it as a big sigh. She flicked a switch. It lit up. She smiled.
"Didn't turn it on."
"I knew that." 'Typical male response' she thought. He started the car up and headed off to the racing strip through the crowds of people, following Vince's car.
"Hear what car Dom's racing for slip?" she asked.
"No." he replied shortly. He didn't really care, and he made it show. He was pissed off, and he didn't know why. Was it that look she had been giving him all night that he couldn't work out? Was it the hand incident? He didn't know and that made him even more pissed off, and edgy.
"Skyline." She said flatly. What was his problem. They had been getting along greatly - as usual, then he turns all...moody. If he didn't want to talk, then she wasn't going to waste her time. His eyes widened.
"Really? Dom's racin' a Sky-"
"Yup." She cut him off, crossed her arms and legs and looked out the window at the L.A night, silently declaring the end of that conversation. 'HA! You would wanna talk when it's about a Skyline, wouldn't ya? Well tough.' she thought.
'What's her problem, all moody?' He thought. 'Err, that was your doing, man' an unknown voice said in his head. He began chewing his stick more furiously.
~~**Racing Strip~~**
As soon as Leon had stopped is car, Elly got out the car and headed for Letty and Mia. Why was she so mad? 'Leon's an ass ...a hot ass, but an ass.' She noted. She shook her head for describing him as 'hot'.
"Hey, when's the race start?" she asked Letty and Mia.
"Soon as the cops are busy and the line's painted. Anxious to get ya car, girl?" Letty smiled.
"Hell yeah!" Elly cheered.
"Oh my life there's Brian!" Mia squealed and took off in the distance. Elly and Letty couldn't stop her fast enough.
"Ah, shit." Letty murmured.
Elly was glad that Mia liked this guy so much; she knew he was a good guy at heart. Why couldn't she find someone like that, who made her smile just by looking at him? 'Because he's with a skank named Harriet' a little voice inside her said. She was shocked by her own thought.
Leon radioed Hector to tell him it was good to go. Cops were busy with a maniac wielding a gun, so it looked like the 2 races were in order tonight. The starting line was completed. Dom's red Mazda Rx-7 and the dark metallic Skyline pulled up. Elly patted her pocket to reassure herself that it was soon to be hers. Hector looked at the driver of the Skyline. He revved his engine up, but it sounded weak. He nodded his head to signal he was ready. Hector raised his right arm. He turned to Dom. He turned his stereo system on and a song with a lot of bass could be heard. Dom revved his engine up, and nodded. Hector raised his left arm. Paused. And dropped them simultaneously as the two cars set off. The crowd began instantly cheering for Dom.
The Skyline had a lot of power built into it already. If a more experienced driver were racing they could have beat Dom. But this guy had obviously just bought everything under his hood because 'it looked good'. He was behind Dom all the time, apart from when he used his NOS to get a quick burst in front, but it was too early. Dom used his and sped miles in front of him. The crowd formed around Dom as he stepped out from his car. Vince shook his hand and slapped his back.
"Piece a piss, huh Dom?" Dom laughed, nodded and said,
"Sure was brotha." Elly and Mia ran up to their big brother and gave him a hug. Letty draped her arms around his neck and gave him a quick kiss. He received more handshakes from the guys, and a few hugs from the skanks. Letty was standing close by, marking her territory.
The driver of the Skyline stepped out the car, and stepped closer to Dom. He was short and chunky, and had an unruly mass of brown curls. For someone who was supposedly rich, he dressed like a tramp. The crowd was relatively silent.
"Keys." Dom held out his hand.
"What? No way, you'll have to wait till Monday." The rich guy retorted. Dom scoffed.
"Excuse me?! Monday? No, right now. Keys." He held out his hands further.
"No, I said Monday."
"Did you just say 'no' to ME?" Dom stepped forward, and Vince got in the rich guy's face.
"Yo, man, just give us the goddamn keys."
"I can't! I live an hour's drive away, and I don't have a car to go back home in!" The guy babbled. Laughter erupted in the crowd. Dom went to stand next to Vince.
"Well, you should have thought about that before you raced away your car." The sight of the two muscled men, and the humiliation from the crowd laughing at him forced the guy to give up his keys. He chucked them onto the ground, and started to turn away for the long trek home. Vince grabbed his shoulder and roughly turned him around.
"Pick 'em up." The guy was about to say something back, but thought better of it, picked the keys up, and put them in Vince's palm. Not taking his eyes of the guy, Vince put his hand out behind him to pass the keys back to Dom. The crowd had dispersed slightly, going off in their own little gangs. Dom handed the keys to Elly.
"Your car awaits you." He said, as he walked past her to go see Letty. She smiled, and dispersed into the crowd to find Mia and Lila.
~~**~~**
The three guys who had bought in for the 5g race went up to hector. One of them asked,
"Yo, man we getting our race or not?" Hector told them to hang on while he radioed Leon for the all clear.
"Yeh Hector, we clear, gotta make it quick though. Cops are dealing with the situation quickly." Leon answered back. And what a quick one it was. Two of the guys had been beginners, and the third guy was a good driver, but not good enough to beat Dom. 'Must be a lot of new drivers on the block' he thought, as he crossed the finish line first, for the second time that night.
~~**~~** Elly found Lila talking to another friend, and invited her to come back to the party at their house in her new car. they went off to find Mia, who was, surprisingly with Brian.
"Brian, I thought Dom told you to stay clear of 'public places'?" Elly asked Brian as she went up to them.
"Elly, please don't say you're going to be like them, too?" Mia asked quietly.
"I'm not, I'm just worried that if Vince sees him here he'll get hurt." Elly replied.
"Well, he'll have to deal, coz he's coming back to the party with me." Mia crossed her arms, looking pleased as punch.
"A'ight, well, Brian you can follow me home. Mia, wanna ride in my new skyline?" She asked, dangling the keys from her finger. Mia smiled and nodded, and they headed off towards the car. When they got in, they couldn't believe how messy it was. McDonalds and fast food wrappers littered the passenger floor and back seats. The steering wheel was sticky and the gear sick was dirty. The girls let out 'yucks' and 'eews'.
"Fuckin' slob!" Lila said from the back as she lifted up a dirty sock. Elly grabbed the sock, and threw it out the window.
"Hey!" Jesse turned to face the window.
"Shit! Sorry Jesse! Didn't see you there!" he stuck his head more into the window.
"Jeez, how he can drive like this?" Elly was about to reply, but Leon's voice came across shouting,
"COPS! COPS! COPS!" Jesse cried out a quick 'later' and ran to Vince's car. Elly started her car and drove home to the party, with Brian in tow.
Author Note: Wow, that was even longer than chapter 3! Sorry bout that guys. Chapter 5 will be posted very, very shortly. Chapter 5 has a lot more action and some romance angst.