Chapter 9: She's Mine
Jessie continued to watch Trixie and Speed gaze at each other as if they were in their own little world together. The superstar singer had never received the far away look in Trixie's eyes that she was now giving Speed.
Trixie's heart raced as she looked into Speed's oh-so-familiar eyes. She knew that his eyes once again had her frozen in her spot. That alone, made her realize that she wasn't as over him as she had thought during the past week while with Jessie.
Speed looked intently into the depth of Trixie's eyes as if to see if there was any love left in them for him after the fool he had been. Totally forgetting about Jessie and Sparky, he was tempted to take her into his arms and kiss her to see if that old electricity between them would arise and make her want him again.
"Hum," Jessie mumbled wanting the stare between Trixie and her ex to stop. "Trixie. Why don't you introduce us?" he asked in a forced friendly voice.
Trixie pulled her eyes away from Speed's and brought them to the man who had his arm around her. "I'm sorry," she said embarrassed. "I didn't mean to be rude."
"You weren't rude," Jessie said sounding very forgiving. To reassure her, he began to let his hand gently caress her shoulder.
Jessie's caress on Trixie's soft skin hadn't gone unnoticed by Speed, and it made him want to rip Jessie's head off. He was also very displeased to see Jessie smiling happily as if to say that Trixie was his.
Sparky hated to imagine what might happen as Trixie then looked at him and said nervously, "Sparky. I'd like you to meet Jessie."
Wanting the introduction to go smoothly for Trixie, Sparky held out his hand to Jessie and said in a friendly voice, "Nice to meet you."
"You too," Jessie said turning to Sparky to shake his hand, but he quickly turned his attention back to Speed.
There was more silence. Sparky realized that Trixie couldn't bring herself to introduce Speed and Jessie to each other. She was tongue tied as she witnessed the very hard stare between her ex and current boyfriend.
Taking charge, Sparky turned his attention to the two big heads and said, "Jessie. This is Speed Racer."
Reluctantly Jessie held out his hand to Speed, but Speed didn't even attempt to lift his. He had already decided he hated Jessie, especially as Trixie's boyfriend.
When Jessie realized that Speed wasn't going to comply, he slowly brought his hand back down to his side. Speed not acknowledging his hand, made him wonder what Trixie had ever seen in the racer.
Trixie was totally uncomfortable and didn't understand why Speed gave the impression of disliking Jessie. After all, Speed had said many times that he wanted her to meet someone else and Jessie was being polite to him.
Knowing what he had to do, Speed moved his eyes back to Trixie's and whispered, "Can I talk to you...alone?"
Trixie felt part of herself being drawn to Speed, but the other part of her reminded her of Jessie.
Jessie soon felt the need to answer for Trixie since she seemed to be wordless. "I'm sorry, but we really should be going," he said wanting Trixie away from Speed as soon as possible. He had sensed that the racer wanted his ex back and hoped he was wrong.
Speed ignored Jessie and remained looking at Trixie as he pleaded, "Please talk to me, Baby."
"Baby!" Jessie exclaimed furiously as he pulled his arm from around Trixie and moved directly between her and Speed. "She's not your baby anymore!"
Not wanting to be bothered with Jessie at the moment, Speed said in a steady voice, "If you know what's good for you, you'll just back off."
"She doesn't want to talk to you!" Jessie said very unhappily while feeling the anger inside of him growing stronger and stronger.
Trixie was beside herself as she watched the two. Wanting to escape, she said, "Jessie. Let's just go." She wanted the two furious men far apart since they clearly detested each other.
"Trixie," Jessie said forcing himself to calm down a bit. "I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to speak to Speed...alone."
"Is it really necessary?" Trixie asked just wanting to leave.
Looking at Jessie, Speed folded his arms and said, "I too think we should talk."
"I don't think that would be a good idea," Trixie said looking from Speed to Jessie and then back again. She could see that they were both full of rage and she was almost afraid of what might happen.
Sparky knew that there was going to be a talk whether Trixie liked it or not so he put his hand on her shoulder and began to lead her to the garage door so they could leave the two men alone. "Just let them talk for a minute," Sparky said hoping that was all that Speed and Jessie were going to do.
Seconds later, the two angry men were alone. "So talk," Speed said, not the least bit scared of Jessie.
Annoying Speed, Jessie walked away as if suddenly interested in something else rather than their talk. "What a nice looking car," he commented checking out the Mach 5. "The engine must be pretty strong."
Speed wanted Jessie to know that he could wipe the floor with him, so he said, "The Mach 5's strong...like its owner."
"You must be kidding," Jessie said turning to Speed with a look of disbelief on his face. "Am I supposed to be scared of you?"
"Damn right," Speed replied moving closer to him.
"Look. Let's just get down to the reason I wanted to talk to you," Jessie said acting very unafraid of Speed.
"I'm listening," Speed said raising an eyebrow at him.
"I'm on to you," Jessie said accusingly as he leaned his backside against the Mach 5 and folded his arms.
"On to me?" Speed questioned innocently, though he did indeed want Jessie's girlfriend.
"Yes," Jessie said convinced he was right. "I know you want Trixie back."
Speed smiled at the correct guess and said positively, "I can't and won't deny that I want her back."
"She doesn't want you!" Jessie declared as he pushed off the car.
"You haven't known her long enough to know what she wants!" Speed yelled signifying that he knew Trixie much better.
"I know enough!" Jessie screamed wanting to make Speed disappear. "I know you broke her heart and that I won't!"
"Is that why you serenaded her with that sick seductive song!" Speed bellowed so jealous of the thought of someone else being passionate with Trixie.
"Oh. Were you there?" Jessie grinned imagining how much it had to get to Speed to see his ex being swept away.
"Damn it! She belongs to me!" Speed roared possessively.
Irate at Speed for saying Trixie belonged to him, Jessie got right in his face. With tremendous anger, Jessie announced, "She's mine now...shrimp!"
Jessie's insult added fuel to the fire and Speed knew he couldn't stop himself any longer from pounding on Jessie. Appalled, Speed yelled, "I'm not just going to stand here and take that from you on my turf, Jack!"
"Then don't," Jessie said ready to fight.
"You're going to be sorry," Speed said getting his fist ready.
Chuckling, Jessie comically said, "Ooh...I'm real scared."
With that, Speed's temper boiled over making him punch Jessie right in his face.
Surprise registered on Jessie's face as his hand touched where he had been struck. He would have never guessed that Speed could hit that hard. With a smile, he said, "Nice punch, Racer, but I'm gonna kick your ass."
"Go for it," Speed said with his fist up and ready again.
Jessie may have been a pretty good fighter, but he hadn't any idea how many fights Speed had been in and the martial art moves that Racer X had shown him.
Speed and Jessie looked like boxers in a boxing match as they made circles getting ready to throw their punches. Jessie soon threw a punch, but Speed moved his head out of the way just in time.
"Your turn," Jessie said as if giving Speed an advantage. "Don't let my size intimidate you."
"Intimidate me?" Speed asked with a laugh. "Haven't you ever heard that the bigger they are, the harder they fall?"
"Prove it," Jessie said not looking worried at all.
"No problem," Speed said, and punched Jessie in the face again and then threw another into Jessie's stomach. "So how did that feel?" Speed asked ready to throw more blows.
Jessie sounded a bit breathless as he said, "Let's cut the crap. You just want Trixie back because she found someone else."
"That's not true," Speed said very seriously as his fist came down to his sides. "She means everything to me."
Jessie then saw the perfect opportunity to take a swing at Speed. "Well she means more to me!" he exclaimed and then surprised Speed with a punch to his face.
After receiving the punch, Speed became enraged again and punched Jessie hard enough to make him fall back onto the Mach 5. "Get off of my car!" Speed yelled wanting to punch Jessie some more.
"This car's probably worthless like you," Jessie said getting off the Mach 5 and then moving back towards Speed.
"Oh, yeah?" Speed yelled ready to use his karate skills. He jumped up and kicked Jessie in the face.
Jessie fell to the ground. Livid, he quickly got up and charged at Speed as if they were playing football. He ran Speed right into the wall of the garage.
Outside and not hearing what was going on in the garage yet, Trixie asked Sparky, "What do you think they are talking about in there?"
"Oh, Speed's just probably telling Jessie that he better treat you well," Sparky said not really believing that.
Letting her insecurities take over, Trixie said, "Speed's probably telling Jessie that he too will get tired of me soon."
Sparky was about to tell Trixie that Speed missed her like crazy till they heard something being pounded against the wall in the garage. Sparky began to move towards the door of the garage with Trixie following close behind him. Once in, they saw the fight in full force.
"Oh, no!" Trixie cried out. "Stop it!" she screamed, but Speed and Jessie continued to hit each other ruthlessly.
Between their punches, Trixie couldn't understand what they were saying to each other. She didn't know that Speed just told Jessie that he loved her and that they were meant to be together.
"She's mine," Jessie's barely said to Speed because of being just about breathless.
With that said, Speed punched Jessie so hard that he fell to the ground. Speed then leaned over him and said, "She'll never be yours."
Jessie made himself get back on his feet and the fight continued over the beautiful, sweet girl.
"Speed!" Sparky yelled trying to stop the fight.
"Stay out of this!" Speed growled back. "This is between him and me."
"Yeah," Jessie said throwing a punch into Speed's stomach.
Trixie didn't know what to do and how much more of this she could take. Though she had seen Speed in many, many fights before, this time he looked more furious than ever. She didn't know that the thought of Jessie trying to keep her away from him drove Speed absolutely crazy. She began to panic and ran out of the garage. To her luck, she saw the Shooting Star pulling up. "Racer X!" she screamed running over to him.
"Trixie. What's wrong?" Racer X asked walking quickly over to her before she got to the Shooting Star. The look on her face alone had been enough for him to know that his help was needed.
"Racer X," she said trying to catch her breath. "Speed and Jessie are in the garage fighting and I think they are trying to kill each other!"
Immediately Racer X began to run to the garage to save his younger brother. Once in the garage, the Masked Racer saw Sparky having no luck at stopping the fight between the two young men.
"Speed!" Racer X yelled as he watched him giving his all to this other guy. The guy had obviously hurt Speed a bit, but he didn't look like he could take much more from Speed.
Speed didn't even hear Racer X because he had been too busy telling himself that he had to keep Jessie away from Trixie.
"Sparky!" Racer X ordered. "Look. I know that guy's big, but he's so weak right now that he's about to pass out. You go pull his arms behind his back while I stop Speed."
"Good luck," Sparky said because he had never seen Speed quite this mad before. Speed had commented to Sparky earlier in the week that he wanted to let Jessie have it and now he was indeed letting Jessie have it.
Trixie wished this wasn't happening as her hands covered her face and she peaked between her fingers at the fight.
Sparky got behind Jessie, and to his surprise, he had been able to pull Jessie's hands behind his back. Racer X grabbed Speed from behind and it took all of his might to stop him. "Speed!" Racer exclaimed while dragging him out of the garage. "You need to calm down! You were about to kill that guy! Just cool down and tell me who he is!"
"He's trying to take Trixie from me!" Speed roared wanting to charge right back into the garage after Jessie.
Racer X remembered Speed saying that he had broken up with Trixie, but it was obvious now that he wanted her back. "This is not going to get Trixie back!" Racer X yelled making Speed stop the struggle to be free.
"I just wanted to talk to her," Speed said calming down. "I had no idea that he would be here and then...he called me a shrimp!"
In the garage, Trixie was helping Jessie to stand up as she felt very badly about what had happened.
Jessie knew he must have looked horrible and wanting Trixie's sympathy, he said, "That lucky son-of-bitch can fight."
"I'm sorry," Trixie said looking at Jessie's bloody face.
"I'll be okay," Jessie said as Speed walked in with Racer X.
"Jessie. I want to talk to you," Racer X said not about to accept no for an answer.
Trixie only wondered why Racer X would want to talk to Jessie.
Without hesitation, Jessie agreed to speak to Racer X because he didn't want a fight with the strange man in the mask too. They walked out of the garage for their talk.
Trixie had her hand over her mouth as she watched Sparky began to talk to Speed, who had just sat down.
"Speed. Are you okay?" Sparky asked worried about him.
"I'm fine," Speed said running his hands though his sweaty hair.
"I'll go get a towel so you can wipe your face," Sparky said leaving Trixie and Speed alone.
Though reluctant at first, Trixie slowly walked over to Speed and saw that he wasn't as bad off as poor Jessie. With confusion in her voice, she said, "Speed. I don't understand why you had to fight Jessie. You made it clear that you wanted me to meet someone else because you had never really wanted me."
Speed became speechless. Had she really believed that he had never ever wanted her?
Outside, Racer X was having a talk with Jessie. "Look, Buddy," Racer X said as nicely as possible. "You shouldn't be here. This is Speed's territory and he's not afraid of anything."
"He's afraid that Trixie is going to stay with me," Jessie said hoping Racer X wouldn't be the next to punch him, since it was obvious that Racer X was on Speed's side.
"You don't know the history between Speed and Trixie," Racer X said defending his brother.
"I know that he was stupid enough to break up with her."
In the garage, Speed stood up and took Trixie's hands in his while saying her name softly, and they both couldn't deny to themselves the electricity they felt just from the touch. "What I wanted to tell you before…alone, is that...I miss you and want you back."
Looking at him in disbelief, Trixie pulled away and as she backed up she said, "I don't want to hear this. You just want your cake and want to eat it too."
"No," Speed said moving towards her. "I swear I don't want anyone else."
"Oh, I see. You got your fill with the others, so now you can come back to poor old Trixie," she said with tears filling her eyes.
"No. I realized that no other girl can hold a candle to you," he said wanting her to believe him.
"Speed. You can't just break up with me and expect me to come running back to you whenever your want. If you really loved me...you wouldn't have broken up with me in the first place." She then turned and ran out of the garage.
"Trixie!" Speed called out behind her.
"Let her go," Sparky said walking up to Speed. "She has probably been forcing herself to get over you and then you had to go and tell her that you want her back."
"Well I do!" Speed exclaimed almost sounding desperate.
Another voice then spoke through the garage. "Sparky's right," Racer X said walking in. "Give her time to see how she really feels. You had your time having fun while she has been trying to get over you."
"But I wasn't having fun and I was wrong to want my freedom," Speed said upset.
"If the two of you are meant to be together, then you will be," Racer X said making Speed remember his mother telling him that he made his bed and now had to lie in it.
Afraid that he might have lost Trixie forever, Speed said distressed while looking at Racer X, "What will I do if we don't get back together? I need her," he admitted feeling almost wounded. "She always put me first and never expected anything in return. She was happy just to see me happy and look how I repaid her. I tossed her away like she meant nothing to me." Speed then walked away from Racer X knowing that the grass could never be greener than it was, while with Trixie. It was a shame that he hadn't known just what he had when he had begun to think that the grass might be greener on the other side.