Chapter 3

Dom got out of the car and headed towards the motel room. He knocked on the door and it was soon answered by Jesse. It never ceased to amaze him that Jesse had survived the multiple gun shot wounds he had received courtesy of Tran and his cousin.

"Sup Dom?" Jesse said stepping aside to let him enter the room.

"Sup Jesse?" Dom said taking in the sight of the people lounging around the room. Mia was lying across one of the beds in the room watching TV. Leon was propped against the head board of the other bed near the bathroom with a Corona in his hand. Vince was sitting in one of the chairs a half empty bottle of Corona in his hand. Jesse sat down on the floor in between the beds and went back to messing around on his laptop. He was about to ask where Letty was when she stepped out of the bathroom. Dom took a seat in the chair by Vince.

"Move the fuck over." Letty says, hitting Leon so she could lay across the bed he was on.

"Damn, it's my bed." Leon says, but at the look Letty gave him, he shook his head and made room for her on the bed.

"How'd you do?" Vince asked, grabbing a Corona out of the cooler by his feet and passing it to Dom.

Dom reaches into the pocket of his black Dickie pants and pulled out a wad of cash. "15 G's," he says, tossing the wad to Mia and so she could count it. They didn't really need the money cause they still had plenty from the hijackings they had pulled off.

Taking a drink from his beer, he said, "I saw Brian."

That got everyone's attention, but no one said anything. They had all been wondering if he had seen him or not but no one had really wanted to be the first one to ask about him. Their whole reason for coming to Miami a couple of days ago was to find Brian. Jesse wanted to thank him for taking out Tran. Vince had grudgingly accepted the fact that Brian had got him off that truck and saved his life. Dom wanted to thank him for giving him his car and not turning him in. Mia was still in love with him and wondered if he thought about her as much as she thought about him. But even though they all wanted him back, the fact that he had lied to them was still there.

They had all went to Mexico to avoid going to jail. First Dom, Letty, Mia, and Leon had went, followed by Vince and Jesse as soon at they were well enough to leave the hospital and get away before the cops could detain them. They had stayed in touch with Hector through his cousin in Mexico and found out that Brian hadn't sold them out to the cops. That being the case, they figured he had probably lost his job over it. By watching the news they had learned that they were no longer wanted by the authorities because they really didn't have a case against them. Jesse being the computer whiz that he was had found out by way of the net that Brian was in Miami.

"How'd he look?" Mia asked as casually as she could.

"He looked like Brian. How the hell was he supposed to look?" Dom said taking a drink of his beer.

Letty glared at him. "You know what she meant Dom. Was he with a skank?"

Dom frowned and shook his head. "I didn't see him talking to anybody." He'd only spotted Brian when he saw him talking with a bald head black guy. He had been about to get out and approach him but the Tej had given a 5 minute warning and Brian had went back to his car.

"Did you talk to him?" Mia asked.

"Naw, cops showed up."

"What's he driving?" Jesse asked, his mind was always on cars.

"An Evo." Dom says.

"He still trying to race?" Vince asked.

"Yeah. 5 of that is his." Dom chuckled, referring to the money he had won.

"Hell yeah." Vince said, smiling at this news.

"Brian must have made a name for himself down here. Seems everyone was pretty surprised that I smoked him."

"The snowman?" Vince asked, disbelievingly. "Damn, maybe it's just that everyone else here can't race." Letty, Leon, and Jesse laughed at that. They just couldn't picture the guy who had almost destroyed his car in his first race against Dom as being on top of the racing world. Mia just rolled her eyes.

"Ey dawg, when we gonna let him know we're here?" Leon said, throwing his empty bottle towards the trash can. He pumped his fist when it landed in the trash can and not on the floor.

"Whenever we find him." He hadn't really expected to see Brian there. He'd just went cause he hadn't wanted to stay in the room like the rest of the team and do nothing. He'd begun questioning Tej about Brian when the cop shout came so he'd settled for asking Tej to give him a message.

With that said, they watched TV for a while longer and drank a few more beers before everyone filtered out of the room that Jesse, Leon, and Vince were sharing, alternating who slept on the floor. Mia went back to her room and Dom and Letty went to theirs.