Chapter 6 - Meet the Team
"Well I might be able to convince Ed to let me go out to dinner." Wow, she couldn't believe he asked her out. She couldn't remember the last time she got asked out. Most guys thought she was some sort of ice princess because she had kept to herself since Doug screwed her over and Danny died.
"Good, let's go."
They headed to the track. Vince drove there and showed her what the car could really do. She had never seen it move like this. Vince could really drive. If she could learn to drive the way he could she might just be able to get on the NIRA circuit. They got to the track and he got her to get in the drivers seat. They took it slow because she wasn't kidding when she said she could hardly drive it. She really had no idea how to shift it or when to shift it. She told him the NOS tanks were empty because the thought of NOS scared the hell out of her so she never had them filled. Vince made a mental note to do so, so he could give the car a real run. They finished up and headed for her house.
She told him he would have to pretend the car was his cause her step dad thought she didn't have one. He had no idea what her brothers car had looked like. There were boxes in the front yard when she got there. She let herself in and shouted, "Hey Ed, what's up with all the boxes?"
Her step dad came out of the living room and slapped her. "I know you weren't at your cousin's last night so where were you? I called the school and you didn't show up till after lunch. You little slut, you were with some guy last night weren't you?" He grabbed her and pushed her against the hall wall. "Since you're giving it out I think I'll just have some too." He moved to grab her and kissed her while he was at it.
Vince was worried about her for some reason. He didn't know what made him do it but he decided to check on her. He found her in the hall struggling with a man who must be Ed.
"Get off her asshole, what are you doing?" He threw the other man down the hall and looked at Nyssa, who had a small cut on the corner of her mouth from the slap. Ed came at him and Vince just stood up to his full 6'3 and stared down at him. Ed backed off. Vince put his arm around Nyssa and walked her out of the house. She opened one of the boxes and it was full of her stuff.
"That bastard. He is kicking me out I would guess. This is all my stuff." She was so mad.
"Well I would not let you live here now anyway after what he tried to do. Let's load it up in the car and then go back to my place." Vince couldn't stand men who beat on women ever since his dad use to hit his mom. They packed up the car full of her stuff. Ed came out as they were finished and about to get in the car.
"I hope that thug is worth not having a home over you little slut!"
"I'm a slut? You're the one who just tried to force your step daughter to kiss you, you creep. Jesus, you married my mother you sick fuck." She said that all loud enough to be sure the neighbours heard. "I guess you did a great job of raising me hun? Now I am a slut who runs with thugs. I guess if my kid was a slut who hung around with thugs I wouldn't scream about the fact from the front porch. What did my mom ever see in you? Did you have money at the time? Cause lets face it, you can't be much in bed. I mean a slut like me use to sleeping with guys like him," she made a thumb gesture at Vince, "wouldn't get much from a night in bed with you other then a terminal case of boredom."
Vince was cracking up. Man this chick had a sharp tongue and a quick mind for insults. Her step dad was turning red. Then he started to run for the car. Thank god after years of drinking and doing not much Ed couldn't run fast.
"Oh shit, get in the car Vince. Let's go!"
Vince fired the car up and they took off just before Ed would have had Nyssa by the throat in the front seat. Vince looked over at the girl "You ok Nyssa?"
"I'll be fine Vince. But my garage is not going to be much of a house. Not that living with Ed was much of a home to begin with."
"You'll stay with us till you think of something."
"I can't impose like that. I can't think of anything other then my garage. Either that or staying with my cousin's parents permanently. "
"You can stay with us for now, and maybe get a job and save up some money to move into your own place. I'm offering. So it's fine. Don't argue." He said when he saw her mouth start to open. So she didn't. "What's the history there? Why are you stuck with old Ed?"
Nyssa told him the whole story. Her dad was in jail for various charges stemming from being a delivery driver, but for criminals. He moved illegal goods from point A to point B no questions asked. The cops caught him on a big job and he wouldn't nark out the people he was working for at the time so he got a 7 year sentence. When her mom found out that her dad had not worked for a courier as he had told them she flipped out and took Nissan and her brother away. Nyssa thought that there had been more to it then that because unless her mom was downright simple she had to have known her dad was not making the kind of money needed to buy his kids cars for their 16 birthdays and live in a huge house on the water with a pool and everything from working for FedEx. But her mom had left her dad with that as a reason and moved to a slightly different part of California. There she married Ed. However Ed was an asshole.
Her mom had turned tail and ran after a few years of taking his abuse, leaving Nyssa and Danny in his care. It seemed she wanted a way out of all responsibility, not just a way away from Ed. As soon as Danny had been done of the police academy and had a job they had moved out together. When he was killed she had to go back to old Ed because he was technically her legal guardian.
If her mother could've been located she could have given her up for adoption and then she would have been a ward of the state. That would have been better the living with Ed. Ed hit the bottle then he hit whoever was closest to him. Her real dad was a great guy who had wanted to give his family all the best and had thought was he was doing was the best way to do so. But since he was in jail.
She was 19 now so she had been planning on leaving Ed as soon as she was done of school and had a job anyway but he had forced her to leave a few months early was all.
Vince listened to her story the whole way home. She was so matter of fact about it. Like her father being in jail and her mom running off leaving her with an abusive ass was no big deal. He called her out on that. She told him that was what happened. That was life. Being all sad and whining about it wouldn't get her dad out of jail or bring her mom back. She had to look at the positive. She said that her and her brother got their love of cars from her dad who could teach Vince and all his friends a thing or two about performance driving. But it was her dad's lawless way of making his money that had made her brother go into law enforcement. Danny had had some sort of complex about crime. Nyssa didn't get it. She had bowed to the pressure at first and told people she didn't agree with what her dad did but she didn't really care.
She never told Vince Danny had been a cop and Vince just seemed to assume he had been in security or something. The word LAPD never came up.
They pulled up to the house and got out. Dom came out from the backyard at the sound of the strange car pulling up to his house. He could identify all the cars on his team blindfolded just by how they ran and the exhaust profile. Vince was the only one missing and that was definitely not his car.
"Where did you get that Vince?" Dom did not want someone who might some day race him to have a Skyline. He loved his Mazda but Skylines were the shit. Skylines came standard with 6 speed trannies, all wheel drive, and close to 400 horsepower at 6000 rpm. They didn't redline till 8000 rpm, and could easily be modded to hit 1000 horsepower and still be a street legal daily driver. They had to come from Japan they were not sold in the USA. There was no equivalent. The only American car that came close was a Dodge Viper or a C5 Corvette. But as soon as you hit a turn the Skyline had you because of the all wheel drive and the better chassis design. He would have to guess that this Skyline at those moddes and was running at around 1000 horsepower. Dom didn't want it racing around him for sure, but then again they said that it wasn't the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the Dog didn't they.
"It's hers." Vince said with a head gesture at Nyssa.
"Then why you driving it?"
"Cause she wasn't feeling like driving and who am I to turn down the chance to drive a sweet ride like this?"
"I guess. It a racer?"
"Yep, her brother raced NIRA with it anyway."
"Ya? What's his name Nyssa?"
"It was Danny. He's dead now, he left me the car. Vince is going to help me with the car." She was going to say teach me to drive but she caught a signal not to from Vince.
"Cool, come eat guys, Mia made chicken."
"Well we was going to go out Dom." Dom looked at him like why would you go out when you could stay here with us.
"This is fine Vince; we can go out tomorrow if you want to eat with your friends." Nyssa said. She thought it would be cool to see them all interact.
"Ok, good chance for you to meet everyone." Vince loved weekend barbeques in the backyard. All that great food and cold Corona.
They walked out back. Some song about evil ways was playing from inside the house. There was Blondie, or wait, Brian. Vince turned to look at her. She could see the anger on his face.
"Maybe we will go out tonight." He told her and started to drag her down the driveway toward the car.
Dom yelled at them, "Get over here Vince, and introduce your new girlfriend around."
"Well I might be able to convince Ed to let me go out to dinner." Wow, she couldn't believe he asked her out. She couldn't remember the last time she got asked out. Most guys thought she was some sort of ice princess because she had kept to herself since Doug screwed her over and Danny died.
"Good, let's go."
They headed to the track. Vince drove there and showed her what the car could really do. She had never seen it move like this. Vince could really drive. If she could learn to drive the way he could she might just be able to get on the NIRA circuit. They got to the track and he got her to get in the drivers seat. They took it slow because she wasn't kidding when she said she could hardly drive it. She really had no idea how to shift it or when to shift it. She told him the NOS tanks were empty because the thought of NOS scared the hell out of her so she never had them filled. Vince made a mental note to do so, so he could give the car a real run. They finished up and headed for her house.
She told him he would have to pretend the car was his cause her step dad thought she didn't have one. He had no idea what her brothers car had looked like. There were boxes in the front yard when she got there. She let herself in and shouted, "Hey Ed, what's up with all the boxes?"
Her step dad came out of the living room and slapped her. "I know you weren't at your cousin's last night so where were you? I called the school and you didn't show up till after lunch. You little slut, you were with some guy last night weren't you?" He grabbed her and pushed her against the hall wall. "Since you're giving it out I think I'll just have some too." He moved to grab her and kissed her while he was at it.
Vince was worried about her for some reason. He didn't know what made him do it but he decided to check on her. He found her in the hall struggling with a man who must be Ed.
"Get off her asshole, what are you doing?" He threw the other man down the hall and looked at Nyssa, who had a small cut on the corner of her mouth from the slap. Ed came at him and Vince just stood up to his full 6'3 and stared down at him. Ed backed off. Vince put his arm around Nyssa and walked her out of the house. She opened one of the boxes and it was full of her stuff.
"That bastard. He is kicking me out I would guess. This is all my stuff." She was so mad.
"Well I would not let you live here now anyway after what he tried to do. Let's load it up in the car and then go back to my place." Vince couldn't stand men who beat on women ever since his dad use to hit his mom. They packed up the car full of her stuff. Ed came out as they were finished and about to get in the car.
"I hope that thug is worth not having a home over you little slut!"
"I'm a slut? You're the one who just tried to force your step daughter to kiss you, you creep. Jesus, you married my mother you sick fuck." She said that all loud enough to be sure the neighbours heard. "I guess you did a great job of raising me hun? Now I am a slut who runs with thugs. I guess if my kid was a slut who hung around with thugs I wouldn't scream about the fact from the front porch. What did my mom ever see in you? Did you have money at the time? Cause lets face it, you can't be much in bed. I mean a slut like me use to sleeping with guys like him," she made a thumb gesture at Vince, "wouldn't get much from a night in bed with you other then a terminal case of boredom."
Vince was cracking up. Man this chick had a sharp tongue and a quick mind for insults. Her step dad was turning red. Then he started to run for the car. Thank god after years of drinking and doing not much Ed couldn't run fast.
"Oh shit, get in the car Vince. Let's go!"
Vince fired the car up and they took off just before Ed would have had Nyssa by the throat in the front seat. Vince looked over at the girl "You ok Nyssa?"
"I'll be fine Vince. But my garage is not going to be much of a house. Not that living with Ed was much of a home to begin with."
"You'll stay with us till you think of something."
"I can't impose like that. I can't think of anything other then my garage. Either that or staying with my cousin's parents permanently. "
"You can stay with us for now, and maybe get a job and save up some money to move into your own place. I'm offering. So it's fine. Don't argue." He said when he saw her mouth start to open. So she didn't. "What's the history there? Why are you stuck with old Ed?"
Nyssa told him the whole story. Her dad was in jail for various charges stemming from being a delivery driver, but for criminals. He moved illegal goods from point A to point B no questions asked. The cops caught him on a big job and he wouldn't nark out the people he was working for at the time so he got a 7 year sentence. When her mom found out that her dad had not worked for a courier as he had told them she flipped out and took Nissan and her brother away. Nyssa thought that there had been more to it then that because unless her mom was downright simple she had to have known her dad was not making the kind of money needed to buy his kids cars for their 16 birthdays and live in a huge house on the water with a pool and everything from working for FedEx. But her mom had left her dad with that as a reason and moved to a slightly different part of California. There she married Ed. However Ed was an asshole.
Her mom had turned tail and ran after a few years of taking his abuse, leaving Nyssa and Danny in his care. It seemed she wanted a way out of all responsibility, not just a way away from Ed. As soon as Danny had been done of the police academy and had a job they had moved out together. When he was killed she had to go back to old Ed because he was technically her legal guardian.
If her mother could've been located she could have given her up for adoption and then she would have been a ward of the state. That would have been better the living with Ed. Ed hit the bottle then he hit whoever was closest to him. Her real dad was a great guy who had wanted to give his family all the best and had thought was he was doing was the best way to do so. But since he was in jail.
She was 19 now so she had been planning on leaving Ed as soon as she was done of school and had a job anyway but he had forced her to leave a few months early was all.
Vince listened to her story the whole way home. She was so matter of fact about it. Like her father being in jail and her mom running off leaving her with an abusive ass was no big deal. He called her out on that. She told him that was what happened. That was life. Being all sad and whining about it wouldn't get her dad out of jail or bring her mom back. She had to look at the positive. She said that her and her brother got their love of cars from her dad who could teach Vince and all his friends a thing or two about performance driving. But it was her dad's lawless way of making his money that had made her brother go into law enforcement. Danny had had some sort of complex about crime. Nyssa didn't get it. She had bowed to the pressure at first and told people she didn't agree with what her dad did but she didn't really care.
She never told Vince Danny had been a cop and Vince just seemed to assume he had been in security or something. The word LAPD never came up.
They pulled up to the house and got out. Dom came out from the backyard at the sound of the strange car pulling up to his house. He could identify all the cars on his team blindfolded just by how they ran and the exhaust profile. Vince was the only one missing and that was definitely not his car.
"Where did you get that Vince?" Dom did not want someone who might some day race him to have a Skyline. He loved his Mazda but Skylines were the shit. Skylines came standard with 6 speed trannies, all wheel drive, and close to 400 horsepower at 6000 rpm. They didn't redline till 8000 rpm, and could easily be modded to hit 1000 horsepower and still be a street legal daily driver. They had to come from Japan they were not sold in the USA. There was no equivalent. The only American car that came close was a Dodge Viper or a C5 Corvette. But as soon as you hit a turn the Skyline had you because of the all wheel drive and the better chassis design. He would have to guess that this Skyline at those moddes and was running at around 1000 horsepower. Dom didn't want it racing around him for sure, but then again they said that it wasn't the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the Dog didn't they.
"It's hers." Vince said with a head gesture at Nyssa.
"Then why you driving it?"
"Cause she wasn't feeling like driving and who am I to turn down the chance to drive a sweet ride like this?"
"I guess. It a racer?"
"Yep, her brother raced NIRA with it anyway."
"Ya? What's his name Nyssa?"
"It was Danny. He's dead now, he left me the car. Vince is going to help me with the car." She was going to say teach me to drive but she caught a signal not to from Vince.
"Cool, come eat guys, Mia made chicken."
"Well we was going to go out Dom." Dom looked at him like why would you go out when you could stay here with us.
"This is fine Vince; we can go out tomorrow if you want to eat with your friends." Nyssa said. She thought it would be cool to see them all interact.
"Ok, good chance for you to meet everyone." Vince loved weekend barbeques in the backyard. All that great food and cold Corona.
They walked out back. Some song about evil ways was playing from inside the house. There was Blondie, or wait, Brian. Vince turned to look at her. She could see the anger on his face.
"Maybe we will go out tonight." He told her and started to drag her down the driveway toward the car.
Dom yelled at them, "Get over here Vince, and introduce your new girlfriend around."