Chapter 5 - All about the Car?
"What's with bringing her back here Dawg?"
"She's harmless, well other then being Manda Williams' cousin. She had no where else to go. She was going to sleep in her garage on the floor out in the middle of no where and I wasn't leaving her there. Plus you guys bring girls over all the time."
"Not to do nothing but sleep in the same bed. She's not a skank you brought home for the night V. You goin soft on us?"
"No, but she's got a sweet car and she's going to let me drive it while I teach her to drive it too. Enough about my personal life already. What'd Dom want?"
"He had to move the big job up two days to Monday. So don't make any plans then."
"Well that's fine with me; I'm pretty open this week." They all laughed at that. Vince did his own thing. Mostly he worked for Dom at the DT garage but no one knew were he got money. Well other then the thing they all did together. But Vince did something with his days otherwise.
"I'm going to bed now guys. Later." With that Vince went and knocked on his own door. He shook his head at the absurdity. "You decent Nyssa?"
"Yes." The answer came and he went into the room. Her hair was up on top of her head in a messy riot of curls but she was still wearing all her clothes.
"Why didn't you change for bed?"
"My night stuff is at Manda's so I have nothing to change into. I thought I had it in my bag but I didn't put it in the bag before we left the house. I thought that's were I would be sleeping. I'll just sleep in my clothes. No big deal."
"Oh, ok, just a sec. I'll find you something." He went to his dresser and rooted around for a minute. He found an old shirt of his. It should cover her from her neck to her mid thigh at least. That had to be better then sleeping in leather pants. "Here, wear this. I'll turn my back while you change."
He turned around and she turned her back to him and striped off. Vince peaked while she was turned around. She had a nice ass he thought. He turned back around before she could catch him looking. She told him she was done and he faced her again. He told her to get in the bed and he did so too. She curled up on her side facing away from him. He lay on his side and looked at her back.
"Vince?"
"Ya?"
"Thanks for doing this for me. It's been a long time since anyone worried."
"No problem girl, go to sleep." He listened as her breathing changed to the deep, even timber of sleep. He had a lot on his mind. Was he going soft? Maybe. Why was this not a problem? It should be. The old Vince would not have brought a strange girl home out of concern for her. He only would have brought her down here if he thought he was going to get laid out of it. He didn't know if Nyssa would have slept with him or not but he found he didn't care. He hadn't wanted to think of her out there trying to sleep on the floor. And he wanted to know why she was scared of her step father too. He finally drifted off after about half an hour.
Vince woke up with the girl in his arms. How did that happen? Last he remembered they had been on opposite sides of the bed. He looked at the clock. Ah shit, it was 1pm. She was going to flip. She was supposed to be at school right now she had said. He was going to have to wake her. He wondered what school she was in. He had been done by 19. It had been technical school, but he had still been done and he got a trade out of it. He shook her.
"Wake up Nyssa. Hey wake up."
She swatted at his face without waking up and snuggled against him closer. He wanted to let her sleep but he knew she was going to be upset as it was.
"Nyssa, it is like 1 o'clock girl wake up."
She came to with a start. She looked up at him.
"Where am I?"
"You don't remember?"
The whole evening came back to her then. "I do now. Thanks for letting me crash here. What time is it?"
"It's, well, um, it's 1pm."
She jumped out of bed. "Oh shit, oh shit. I missed school. If they tell Ed I'm dead. Manda was going to drive me this morning. Oh fuck. I gotta call Manda and see if she told anyone anything about me."
"Calm down Nyssa, and get dressed. I'll run you where ever. I'll even go in and tell them you being late is all my fault if you want. Why are you still in school anyway? Shouldn't you have graduated by now?"
"Yes I should have, but when my brother died I failed a year. And the last thing I need is a strange guy coming in to tell the principal I'm late because we overslept."
"Ok, I can see that would look bad." Vince laughed at the thought of how that would sound. Especially since she was standing in his bedroom wearing nothing but his old jersey. She joined him in the laughter, having come to the same visualization herself. "Want me to hide my head down under the blanket while you dress?"
"No, I want to put on a strip tease for you." Vince looked hopeful for a second till she set him straight. "What are you, simple? That was sarcasm. Hide yourself!"
He did so and she pulled out the clean change of clothes she had in her bag and got dressed. Today she was feeling more like herself. Black wife- beater, black leather low riders, chunky black boots, no makeup. She wondered why she was so comfortable with Vince already while she dressed. She normally didn't trust people till she got to know them. That ass she had dated at 16 had done that to her. He had pretended to like her and then when she finally gave into his pressuring and slept with him he dumped her. She had been chubby at the time and had an attitude as well and Doug and his jock friends had a bet to see if he could get the ice princess in bed. Well he had then her dad had taken care of him. She brought herself back from the past to the present. After all that is why she took care of herself now and had great, real friends.
"Kay, I'm ready now, you can come out now."
Vince got up, and just started to get ready; he never had her turn around. She turned on her own, face flaming. They headed upstairs and Dom was in the kitchen. Vince hadn't expected that. Dom should be at the garage and it was not even lunch time.
"Wondered when you were getting up Vince. Who's that with you?" Dom expected to hear, no one she was just leaving. That was the standard 'I had a skank over last night' answer for all of them. After all Vince had been crushing on Mia since Dom himself had hooked up with Letty. He knew Vince slept with other girls but that was all it was to him normally. He was a man, with a man's needs. He was not going to wait around for Mia forever. But the girls were always skanks.
"Her name's Nyssa. Nyssa, Dom, Dom, Nyssa." Nyssa shook Dom's hand. "I have to drive her, um, home, and then I'll be back Dom." Telling Dom he had to drive her to high school just sounded really bad. Nyssa looked at him like the same thing occurred to her and she was glad he fibbed.
"Just a second Vince. Where did you meet her? Who is she? I would like to know more about the pretty lady."
Oh shit. Vince thought. He thinks she is a race skank. He likely thinks she will jump right from my bed to his if he snaps his fingers. After all he is the catch most of the skanks are after.
"She's Nyssa. I met her at the races last night. She's a friend of mine. I think she is going to become an even better friend of mine, and she has to get home or she is going to be late for work."
"Oh, ok." Dom took the hint from Vince saying she was going to become a better friend. That meant she was not a skank. Well that was good. Vince needed to get over Mia, who was never going to love him in that way. He watched the two head to Vince's car. They sped off. When did they ever not speed he guessed and went back out to the garage.
Vince drove her to school and let her off in front. "Say when you done for the day? I could come back for you and we could take your car for a spin." What the hell was he thinking making plans with her again already? She was going to think he was desperate.
"Ok Vince that sounds great. I'm done at 3:15 ok?"
"See you then, right back here."
"See you then." She ran into the school and went strait to the principal's office. "Hey Mister Morris, sorry I missed this morning. I had bad cramps."
Her principal told her fine and gave her a pass to get into the rest of the day's classes. Periods were the shit with Mr. Morris; he got so flustered he just told you not to worry about it. Out of Tampax was the magic phrase to get an afternoon off.
She ran off and sat down in her chem. lab beside Manda. Manda was a year younger so now they had all the same classes. Manda gave her the third degree on the break. She told Manda everything. How she had stayed with Vince but nothing happened. How she met Dom and how Vince was going to teach her to drive the Skyline and maybe even race it. Manda was so envious of her. When Nyssa told her Vince was picking her up after school she could swear Manda almost decked her. Oh well, that's what you get for abandoning me there Nyssa though.
The final bell rang and she ran out to where Vince was supposed to meet her. And there he was, standing beside his car, leaning on her door. She hadn't expected him to show. She ran up to him and he actually hugged her. It was hard to tell which one was more surprised. He set her down and asked her how her day had gone. She told him long and boring. He helped her into the car and then they took off. Manda watched them go, blue eyes flashing. Her ungrateful cousin never even asked her if she needed a ride. And Manda had to cover for her this morning when her stupid stepfather called looking for her.
Nyssa and Vince arrived at the garage and parked Vince's car. "So Vince how do you want to do this? Do you want to leave your car here and take mine or do you want to follow me where ever?"
"No, lets just take your car together. Let me drive it to the track?" He asked with such a hopeful look on his face she laughed.
"Sure you can drive it there. Do you like me at all or is this interest all for my car?" She asked, semi serious.
"No, I like you too. But I really want to drive this car."
"Aight, let's get a move on. I have to go home for supper."
"Do you have to go home for supper? I was kinda going to take you out to this great little Cuban restaurant I know. After all it's Friday." No he wasn't! That just kind of slipped out. What was with him? But the idea had appeal now that he thought of it.
"What's with bringing her back here Dawg?"
"She's harmless, well other then being Manda Williams' cousin. She had no where else to go. She was going to sleep in her garage on the floor out in the middle of no where and I wasn't leaving her there. Plus you guys bring girls over all the time."
"Not to do nothing but sleep in the same bed. She's not a skank you brought home for the night V. You goin soft on us?"
"No, but she's got a sweet car and she's going to let me drive it while I teach her to drive it too. Enough about my personal life already. What'd Dom want?"
"He had to move the big job up two days to Monday. So don't make any plans then."
"Well that's fine with me; I'm pretty open this week." They all laughed at that. Vince did his own thing. Mostly he worked for Dom at the DT garage but no one knew were he got money. Well other then the thing they all did together. But Vince did something with his days otherwise.
"I'm going to bed now guys. Later." With that Vince went and knocked on his own door. He shook his head at the absurdity. "You decent Nyssa?"
"Yes." The answer came and he went into the room. Her hair was up on top of her head in a messy riot of curls but she was still wearing all her clothes.
"Why didn't you change for bed?"
"My night stuff is at Manda's so I have nothing to change into. I thought I had it in my bag but I didn't put it in the bag before we left the house. I thought that's were I would be sleeping. I'll just sleep in my clothes. No big deal."
"Oh, ok, just a sec. I'll find you something." He went to his dresser and rooted around for a minute. He found an old shirt of his. It should cover her from her neck to her mid thigh at least. That had to be better then sleeping in leather pants. "Here, wear this. I'll turn my back while you change."
He turned around and she turned her back to him and striped off. Vince peaked while she was turned around. She had a nice ass he thought. He turned back around before she could catch him looking. She told him she was done and he faced her again. He told her to get in the bed and he did so too. She curled up on her side facing away from him. He lay on his side and looked at her back.
"Vince?"
"Ya?"
"Thanks for doing this for me. It's been a long time since anyone worried."
"No problem girl, go to sleep." He listened as her breathing changed to the deep, even timber of sleep. He had a lot on his mind. Was he going soft? Maybe. Why was this not a problem? It should be. The old Vince would not have brought a strange girl home out of concern for her. He only would have brought her down here if he thought he was going to get laid out of it. He didn't know if Nyssa would have slept with him or not but he found he didn't care. He hadn't wanted to think of her out there trying to sleep on the floor. And he wanted to know why she was scared of her step father too. He finally drifted off after about half an hour.
Vince woke up with the girl in his arms. How did that happen? Last he remembered they had been on opposite sides of the bed. He looked at the clock. Ah shit, it was 1pm. She was going to flip. She was supposed to be at school right now she had said. He was going to have to wake her. He wondered what school she was in. He had been done by 19. It had been technical school, but he had still been done and he got a trade out of it. He shook her.
"Wake up Nyssa. Hey wake up."
She swatted at his face without waking up and snuggled against him closer. He wanted to let her sleep but he knew she was going to be upset as it was.
"Nyssa, it is like 1 o'clock girl wake up."
She came to with a start. She looked up at him.
"Where am I?"
"You don't remember?"
The whole evening came back to her then. "I do now. Thanks for letting me crash here. What time is it?"
"It's, well, um, it's 1pm."
She jumped out of bed. "Oh shit, oh shit. I missed school. If they tell Ed I'm dead. Manda was going to drive me this morning. Oh fuck. I gotta call Manda and see if she told anyone anything about me."
"Calm down Nyssa, and get dressed. I'll run you where ever. I'll even go in and tell them you being late is all my fault if you want. Why are you still in school anyway? Shouldn't you have graduated by now?"
"Yes I should have, but when my brother died I failed a year. And the last thing I need is a strange guy coming in to tell the principal I'm late because we overslept."
"Ok, I can see that would look bad." Vince laughed at the thought of how that would sound. Especially since she was standing in his bedroom wearing nothing but his old jersey. She joined him in the laughter, having come to the same visualization herself. "Want me to hide my head down under the blanket while you dress?"
"No, I want to put on a strip tease for you." Vince looked hopeful for a second till she set him straight. "What are you, simple? That was sarcasm. Hide yourself!"
He did so and she pulled out the clean change of clothes she had in her bag and got dressed. Today she was feeling more like herself. Black wife- beater, black leather low riders, chunky black boots, no makeup. She wondered why she was so comfortable with Vince already while she dressed. She normally didn't trust people till she got to know them. That ass she had dated at 16 had done that to her. He had pretended to like her and then when she finally gave into his pressuring and slept with him he dumped her. She had been chubby at the time and had an attitude as well and Doug and his jock friends had a bet to see if he could get the ice princess in bed. Well he had then her dad had taken care of him. She brought herself back from the past to the present. After all that is why she took care of herself now and had great, real friends.
"Kay, I'm ready now, you can come out now."
Vince got up, and just started to get ready; he never had her turn around. She turned on her own, face flaming. They headed upstairs and Dom was in the kitchen. Vince hadn't expected that. Dom should be at the garage and it was not even lunch time.
"Wondered when you were getting up Vince. Who's that with you?" Dom expected to hear, no one she was just leaving. That was the standard 'I had a skank over last night' answer for all of them. After all Vince had been crushing on Mia since Dom himself had hooked up with Letty. He knew Vince slept with other girls but that was all it was to him normally. He was a man, with a man's needs. He was not going to wait around for Mia forever. But the girls were always skanks.
"Her name's Nyssa. Nyssa, Dom, Dom, Nyssa." Nyssa shook Dom's hand. "I have to drive her, um, home, and then I'll be back Dom." Telling Dom he had to drive her to high school just sounded really bad. Nyssa looked at him like the same thing occurred to her and she was glad he fibbed.
"Just a second Vince. Where did you meet her? Who is she? I would like to know more about the pretty lady."
Oh shit. Vince thought. He thinks she is a race skank. He likely thinks she will jump right from my bed to his if he snaps his fingers. After all he is the catch most of the skanks are after.
"She's Nyssa. I met her at the races last night. She's a friend of mine. I think she is going to become an even better friend of mine, and she has to get home or she is going to be late for work."
"Oh, ok." Dom took the hint from Vince saying she was going to become a better friend. That meant she was not a skank. Well that was good. Vince needed to get over Mia, who was never going to love him in that way. He watched the two head to Vince's car. They sped off. When did they ever not speed he guessed and went back out to the garage.
Vince drove her to school and let her off in front. "Say when you done for the day? I could come back for you and we could take your car for a spin." What the hell was he thinking making plans with her again already? She was going to think he was desperate.
"Ok Vince that sounds great. I'm done at 3:15 ok?"
"See you then, right back here."
"See you then." She ran into the school and went strait to the principal's office. "Hey Mister Morris, sorry I missed this morning. I had bad cramps."
Her principal told her fine and gave her a pass to get into the rest of the day's classes. Periods were the shit with Mr. Morris; he got so flustered he just told you not to worry about it. Out of Tampax was the magic phrase to get an afternoon off.
She ran off and sat down in her chem. lab beside Manda. Manda was a year younger so now they had all the same classes. Manda gave her the third degree on the break. She told Manda everything. How she had stayed with Vince but nothing happened. How she met Dom and how Vince was going to teach her to drive the Skyline and maybe even race it. Manda was so envious of her. When Nyssa told her Vince was picking her up after school she could swear Manda almost decked her. Oh well, that's what you get for abandoning me there Nyssa though.
The final bell rang and she ran out to where Vince was supposed to meet her. And there he was, standing beside his car, leaning on her door. She hadn't expected him to show. She ran up to him and he actually hugged her. It was hard to tell which one was more surprised. He set her down and asked her how her day had gone. She told him long and boring. He helped her into the car and then they took off. Manda watched them go, blue eyes flashing. Her ungrateful cousin never even asked her if she needed a ride. And Manda had to cover for her this morning when her stupid stepfather called looking for her.
Nyssa and Vince arrived at the garage and parked Vince's car. "So Vince how do you want to do this? Do you want to leave your car here and take mine or do you want to follow me where ever?"
"No, lets just take your car together. Let me drive it to the track?" He asked with such a hopeful look on his face she laughed.
"Sure you can drive it there. Do you like me at all or is this interest all for my car?" She asked, semi serious.
"No, I like you too. But I really want to drive this car."
"Aight, let's get a move on. I have to go home for supper."
"Do you have to go home for supper? I was kinda going to take you out to this great little Cuban restaurant I know. After all it's Friday." No he wasn't! That just kind of slipped out. What was with him? But the idea had appeal now that he thought of it.