"Yo, Spilner, want a beer?"
"Sure."
Dom walked into the house. None of the people downstairs had heard Dom outside, just his sister upstairs who was frantically changing her clothes. Vince took one look at the look on Dom's face and told Nyssa to get over to the side of him, out of the way. She moved, wondering if Dom had a temper to match his looks. Dom walked over to Leon who said,
"Yo Dom, we was just about to go looking for you Brotha!"
In answer Dom smacked the beer out of his hand and nearly clocked the blonde girl in Leon's lap in the head with it. He then walked over to Vince and asked,
"Where were you?"
"Yo Dom there were mass cops man, that shit was orchestrated, they came in from every direction."
"This your beer?" Dom asked Vince, shooting Nyssa a dirty look.
"Ya, that's my beer!"
Dom took the beer and walked away. He walked by Jesse who was making out with some girl.
"Yo Einstein, take it upstairs, you can't detail a car with cover on." Dom shouted then muttered, "He can't even get that right."
Just then the blonde guy walked in. She could feel the anger coming off Vince and wondered why Vince hated the blonde dude so much.
"Yo Dom, why'd you bring the buster here?" Vince shouted.
"Cause the buster kept me out of handcuffs. He didn't just run back to the fort. The buster brought me back."
Dom turned to the blonde guy. "You can have any brew you want, long as it's a Corona." Blondie picked a beer. "Enjoy that, it's Vince's"
The blonde guy went off to the bathroom and Vince shouted at Dom.
"He's got no call being up in here, you don't know that fool for shit."
"Vince, there was a time when I didn't know you!"
"That was in the third grade!"
Dom made some wise crack about what girls were there and Letty took him off upstairs. Nyssa wondered why Dom was always being mean to Letty. Flirting with skanks, asking about other girls. Blondie came back down and Nyssa decided she had to find out his real name. Vince and his friends went for him as soon as he came back, making wise cracks at him. Nyssa didn't think she could do anything about it, she imagined that Blondie was about to have his face rearranged. Just then some other girl came around from the dining room and pushed Vince away. This other girl quickly moved Blondie off into the kitchen, leaving Vince and his friends staring after them. Vince seemed to remember Nyssa at that point. He came back over to her then.
"Say, wanna go for a drive Nyssa? I need to get out of the house for awhile."
"Sure Vince, I could go for a drive."
They climbed into the car and took off. Vince squealed out of the driveway and off down the street, smoking the tires and redlining first.
"So what's with you and Blondie?" Nyssa asked, figuring he had to talk about it or it would eat him to death. She felt drawn to Vince. Why did she care why he didn't like the beautiful blonde guy? It could be anything. He slammed the car into third at 6300 rpm. One reason why he might be envious hit her.
Vince did want to talk about it. Nyssa was an impartial third party after all. "I just don't like him. He's trying to pick up Mia. Brian Earl Spilner. I think he's a serial killer. And I don't even think he wants Mia for real. He just wants to get to Dom and he's using her."
"Oh, he wants Mia for real. Trust me on this one. And she wants him too. But that is a serial killer name."
Vince gave her a dirty look and sped up. She wondered how fast they were going as he slammed the car into 4th. From what she knew of driving they had to be going around 80 mph.
"So you want Mia too?"
"Since she was 17 and that was about 5 years ago."
"I see. Well Vince, I don't want to make you mad at me but I hate to break it to you, she doesn't like you that way. I think she has it bad for Brian, our serial killer."
"I can see that but I spent 5 years chasing her and he comes around the diner 3 weeks ago and he gets her like that?"
"He doesn't have her yet but he will. It is obvious she doesn't feel romantically about you though Vince. Take it from me and move on man. It is not worth wasting your life waiting for her to find feelings for you she just doesn't have. Better to accept that now then have her turn to you in a moment of weakness and then have both of you be miserable and unhappy for a long time while one of you tries to screw up the courage to admit you messed up and end it." Nyssa spoke from experience.
Vince was quiet for a couple minutes then he told her,
"I know it is stupid to want a girl that doesn't want me. She was just never with anyone seriously before and I guess I thought she would come around to me. I see now that she just doesn't like me that way. And to tell the truth I have kinda moved beyond her too. But I still don't trust the guy. He seems strange. I think he's a cop."
"Is that a bad thing?" Nyssa wondered what they would say if they knew her brother had been a cop.
"Hell ya, it's a bad thing. We run from cops every race night almost. No way is a cop at races just to race. I mean that would make him a cop breaking the law. If he is coming around races it is because he is casing a racer. And if he is up in Dom's then it is one of us. Since he's been hanging around the diner too I would bet my car he is after Dom. And ordering Mia's crappy tuna every day. No one orders the fucking tuna. It's terrible. Mia can cook but not make tuna."
"But what would Brian be undercover to find out? Surely street racing is not that big of a deal? I mean they would send someone undercover to bust street racing?"
"Yes. No. I don't know. But something about Brian Earl Spilner is fishy." Vince knew damn well what a cop would be after but he wasn't talking about that to a chick he just met.
"Ya, his love of crappy tuna."
They shared a laugh over that. Vince looked at her. She didn't seem like a cop and he just met her. So he was going to have to trust his instincts about Brian. He looked at the clock. It was getting late. Vince asked her where she wanted to go for the night. She looked at him. He looked back.
"Well, I guess I could call Manda and tell her I am still alive and go to her place. I don't want to though. I still can believe she left me there."
"Well just let me take you home then."
"My step dad will seriously flip Vince. I didn't want to say anything but that is not even an option. You can take me to my garage."
"Your garage isn't at your home?"
"Nope, it is in a garage my bother kept it in, where he was going to build us a house to get us away from my step dad. My step dad thinks the car is gone. I told him I sold it for 3 thousand bucks. Then gave him 3 grand that I 'got' for it so he would shut up. I still drive it sometimes. He doesn't know cars thank god. I should sell it and use the money to leave my stepfather but my brother left me the car and I can't bear the thought of selling it. My brother left me money but I don't get it till I turn 21 and that is still 2 years away."
"That sucks. Well I can take you there then."
"That'd be ok." She gave him directions and he headed that way. Nyssa decided to call Manda and tell her she was still alive and not to call Ed. Nyssa called Manda with her cell and told her she was fine. Manda asked her were she went. Nyssa was still mad, she just didn't want Manda to tell her dad or Ed she was missing.
"Oh fuck you Manda. Like you care where I went. You were right beside me; Leon yells cops and you left me like garbage. Probably because that Evan asshole would have done the same thing to you if you didn't get to the car at the speed of light." Nyssa could not believe that Manda was trying to yell at her over this.
"Well you could have gotten a ride to my place or called way before this. We thought maybe the cops got you. Wait a second, how do you know Leon?" Manda was ashamed of what she did and had never been so scared in her life as when she realized Evan was not going to wait for Nyssa. But how did Nyssa know people on team Torreto all of a sudden.
"Well I got a ride to a party and I had a great time. Now I am going to crash here for the night." Nyssa improvised. She was going to use the info Vince had given her to her advantage.
"Where are you? What party? And how do you know Leon?"
"I'm at a place owned by a guy named Torreto. A nice guy named Vince brought me here. Leon lives here too so that's how I met him. They throw great parties. I guess I got lucky when you abandoned me. At least I didn't have to listen to that pseudo racer Evan any longer."
Vince was listening to this with interest. Nyssa was milking her cousin for all she was worth.
"Oh man, you got to go party at Dom's?"
"Yes, best party ever. Oh, you didn't call Ed did you?"
"No, I'm not crazy. I was gonna call him tomorrow if you didn't show up."
"Good, I gotta go, we're going to dance some more. I'm staying here with Vince and Leon for now. Don't call Ed."
"Kay, bye." Manda hung up and stared at her phone. Well hell. Her cousin went to one race night and was in with the Torreto's already. That was so not fair. She had been crushing on Dom for months and had never gotten a chance to even party at his house.
Vince and Nyssa pulled up to the garage. It was dark and in the middle of no where. Vince wondered how she was going to get out of here the next day. Who would come get her? This place was in the back of beyond. She hopped out of the car and headed for the door on the side of garage. Vince was not going to let her walk into a dark building in the middle of no where on her own so he hopped out of his car and followed her up to the door. She was fumbling with her keys. She looked at Vince standing there beside her. She realized they were in the middle of no where and to quote Vince himself, 'she didn't know this fool for shit' but she didn't fear him. She sensed she was safe with Vince.
"I just wanna check the place out to make sure it's safe." He told her.
She saw the bulge of the 9mm in the waist of his pants. She wondered what kind of people him and his friends were that they carried semi automatic hand guns. But she still felt safer with him then she did when he was not with her. This was a remote place. Her brother had always planned on building his house here and she would too once she got his money. Thank god Ed was not the trustee. The person her brother put as the trustee was completely trustworthy and was making the small inheritance her brother left her turn into lots of money. It was a gorgeous place in the daylight. Had beach front and everything.
"Sure."
Dom walked into the house. None of the people downstairs had heard Dom outside, just his sister upstairs who was frantically changing her clothes. Vince took one look at the look on Dom's face and told Nyssa to get over to the side of him, out of the way. She moved, wondering if Dom had a temper to match his looks. Dom walked over to Leon who said,
"Yo Dom, we was just about to go looking for you Brotha!"
In answer Dom smacked the beer out of his hand and nearly clocked the blonde girl in Leon's lap in the head with it. He then walked over to Vince and asked,
"Where were you?"
"Yo Dom there were mass cops man, that shit was orchestrated, they came in from every direction."
"This your beer?" Dom asked Vince, shooting Nyssa a dirty look.
"Ya, that's my beer!"
Dom took the beer and walked away. He walked by Jesse who was making out with some girl.
"Yo Einstein, take it upstairs, you can't detail a car with cover on." Dom shouted then muttered, "He can't even get that right."
Just then the blonde guy walked in. She could feel the anger coming off Vince and wondered why Vince hated the blonde dude so much.
"Yo Dom, why'd you bring the buster here?" Vince shouted.
"Cause the buster kept me out of handcuffs. He didn't just run back to the fort. The buster brought me back."
Dom turned to the blonde guy. "You can have any brew you want, long as it's a Corona." Blondie picked a beer. "Enjoy that, it's Vince's"
The blonde guy went off to the bathroom and Vince shouted at Dom.
"He's got no call being up in here, you don't know that fool for shit."
"Vince, there was a time when I didn't know you!"
"That was in the third grade!"
Dom made some wise crack about what girls were there and Letty took him off upstairs. Nyssa wondered why Dom was always being mean to Letty. Flirting with skanks, asking about other girls. Blondie came back down and Nyssa decided she had to find out his real name. Vince and his friends went for him as soon as he came back, making wise cracks at him. Nyssa didn't think she could do anything about it, she imagined that Blondie was about to have his face rearranged. Just then some other girl came around from the dining room and pushed Vince away. This other girl quickly moved Blondie off into the kitchen, leaving Vince and his friends staring after them. Vince seemed to remember Nyssa at that point. He came back over to her then.
"Say, wanna go for a drive Nyssa? I need to get out of the house for awhile."
"Sure Vince, I could go for a drive."
They climbed into the car and took off. Vince squealed out of the driveway and off down the street, smoking the tires and redlining first.
"So what's with you and Blondie?" Nyssa asked, figuring he had to talk about it or it would eat him to death. She felt drawn to Vince. Why did she care why he didn't like the beautiful blonde guy? It could be anything. He slammed the car into third at 6300 rpm. One reason why he might be envious hit her.
Vince did want to talk about it. Nyssa was an impartial third party after all. "I just don't like him. He's trying to pick up Mia. Brian Earl Spilner. I think he's a serial killer. And I don't even think he wants Mia for real. He just wants to get to Dom and he's using her."
"Oh, he wants Mia for real. Trust me on this one. And she wants him too. But that is a serial killer name."
Vince gave her a dirty look and sped up. She wondered how fast they were going as he slammed the car into 4th. From what she knew of driving they had to be going around 80 mph.
"So you want Mia too?"
"Since she was 17 and that was about 5 years ago."
"I see. Well Vince, I don't want to make you mad at me but I hate to break it to you, she doesn't like you that way. I think she has it bad for Brian, our serial killer."
"I can see that but I spent 5 years chasing her and he comes around the diner 3 weeks ago and he gets her like that?"
"He doesn't have her yet but he will. It is obvious she doesn't feel romantically about you though Vince. Take it from me and move on man. It is not worth wasting your life waiting for her to find feelings for you she just doesn't have. Better to accept that now then have her turn to you in a moment of weakness and then have both of you be miserable and unhappy for a long time while one of you tries to screw up the courage to admit you messed up and end it." Nyssa spoke from experience.
Vince was quiet for a couple minutes then he told her,
"I know it is stupid to want a girl that doesn't want me. She was just never with anyone seriously before and I guess I thought she would come around to me. I see now that she just doesn't like me that way. And to tell the truth I have kinda moved beyond her too. But I still don't trust the guy. He seems strange. I think he's a cop."
"Is that a bad thing?" Nyssa wondered what they would say if they knew her brother had been a cop.
"Hell ya, it's a bad thing. We run from cops every race night almost. No way is a cop at races just to race. I mean that would make him a cop breaking the law. If he is coming around races it is because he is casing a racer. And if he is up in Dom's then it is one of us. Since he's been hanging around the diner too I would bet my car he is after Dom. And ordering Mia's crappy tuna every day. No one orders the fucking tuna. It's terrible. Mia can cook but not make tuna."
"But what would Brian be undercover to find out? Surely street racing is not that big of a deal? I mean they would send someone undercover to bust street racing?"
"Yes. No. I don't know. But something about Brian Earl Spilner is fishy." Vince knew damn well what a cop would be after but he wasn't talking about that to a chick he just met.
"Ya, his love of crappy tuna."
They shared a laugh over that. Vince looked at her. She didn't seem like a cop and he just met her. So he was going to have to trust his instincts about Brian. He looked at the clock. It was getting late. Vince asked her where she wanted to go for the night. She looked at him. He looked back.
"Well, I guess I could call Manda and tell her I am still alive and go to her place. I don't want to though. I still can believe she left me there."
"Well just let me take you home then."
"My step dad will seriously flip Vince. I didn't want to say anything but that is not even an option. You can take me to my garage."
"Your garage isn't at your home?"
"Nope, it is in a garage my bother kept it in, where he was going to build us a house to get us away from my step dad. My step dad thinks the car is gone. I told him I sold it for 3 thousand bucks. Then gave him 3 grand that I 'got' for it so he would shut up. I still drive it sometimes. He doesn't know cars thank god. I should sell it and use the money to leave my stepfather but my brother left me the car and I can't bear the thought of selling it. My brother left me money but I don't get it till I turn 21 and that is still 2 years away."
"That sucks. Well I can take you there then."
"That'd be ok." She gave him directions and he headed that way. Nyssa decided to call Manda and tell her she was still alive and not to call Ed. Nyssa called Manda with her cell and told her she was fine. Manda asked her were she went. Nyssa was still mad, she just didn't want Manda to tell her dad or Ed she was missing.
"Oh fuck you Manda. Like you care where I went. You were right beside me; Leon yells cops and you left me like garbage. Probably because that Evan asshole would have done the same thing to you if you didn't get to the car at the speed of light." Nyssa could not believe that Manda was trying to yell at her over this.
"Well you could have gotten a ride to my place or called way before this. We thought maybe the cops got you. Wait a second, how do you know Leon?" Manda was ashamed of what she did and had never been so scared in her life as when she realized Evan was not going to wait for Nyssa. But how did Nyssa know people on team Torreto all of a sudden.
"Well I got a ride to a party and I had a great time. Now I am going to crash here for the night." Nyssa improvised. She was going to use the info Vince had given her to her advantage.
"Where are you? What party? And how do you know Leon?"
"I'm at a place owned by a guy named Torreto. A nice guy named Vince brought me here. Leon lives here too so that's how I met him. They throw great parties. I guess I got lucky when you abandoned me. At least I didn't have to listen to that pseudo racer Evan any longer."
Vince was listening to this with interest. Nyssa was milking her cousin for all she was worth.
"Oh man, you got to go party at Dom's?"
"Yes, best party ever. Oh, you didn't call Ed did you?"
"No, I'm not crazy. I was gonna call him tomorrow if you didn't show up."
"Good, I gotta go, we're going to dance some more. I'm staying here with Vince and Leon for now. Don't call Ed."
"Kay, bye." Manda hung up and stared at her phone. Well hell. Her cousin went to one race night and was in with the Torreto's already. That was so not fair. She had been crushing on Dom for months and had never gotten a chance to even party at his house.
Vince and Nyssa pulled up to the garage. It was dark and in the middle of no where. Vince wondered how she was going to get out of here the next day. Who would come get her? This place was in the back of beyond. She hopped out of the car and headed for the door on the side of garage. Vince was not going to let her walk into a dark building in the middle of no where on her own so he hopped out of his car and followed her up to the door. She was fumbling with her keys. She looked at Vince standing there beside her. She realized they were in the middle of no where and to quote Vince himself, 'she didn't know this fool for shit' but she didn't fear him. She sensed she was safe with Vince.
"I just wanna check the place out to make sure it's safe." He told her.
She saw the bulge of the 9mm in the waist of his pants. She wondered what kind of people him and his friends were that they carried semi automatic hand guns. But she still felt safer with him then she did when he was not with her. This was a remote place. Her brother had always planned on building his house here and she would too once she got his money. Thank god Ed was not the trustee. The person her brother put as the trustee was completely trustworthy and was making the small inheritance her brother left her turn into lots of money. It was a gorgeous place in the daylight. Had beach front and everything.