Chapter 16 - So tired of the Drama

AN: Hey all. Boy am I glad that the fanfiction.net not taking uploads thing is fixed. I wanted to just answer a question that Xandra asked. Yes Nyssa had to tell her dad that her brother was killed. There was no one else. I'm to damn lazy to find the quote for that but the gyst of it is that she had to tell him because her mother was long gone so there was no one else to do it. Her dad was devastated as most parents would be over the lost of any of their children. Since there was nothing he could do about it at the time Nyssa had to stay with the step dad from hell. She tells me she's glad I gave her Vince *Wink* But there are more suprises in store for her in later chapters needless to say. Now on with the story.

When she woke up the next day Vince was snoring away on his back and it was already 11 am. She stretched and then sat up and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. She walked out of the room and went to the bathroom. She wandered back to the bedroom and then though about whether she wanted to go back to bed or get dressed and take her 'stang down to Jesse cause it had to be all tuned up, and all the fluids changed, and maybe even new hoses etc. She then had to get it inspected. Oh wait, she remembered, Dom does that too. Sweet. She started rummaging for clothes. It was really time to do laundry. She pulled on a black thong and a pair of hipster blue jeans. She put on the matching black bra and then realized she had no clean tops. She opened Vince's drawer and stole a black mesh tank top out of it and pulled it on. It was baggy but the mesh was fine and you could just see her bra showing through. Just the right look she thought.

"Hey, is it nice to steal my clothes without asking?" Vince had watched her dress. She woke him up getting out of bed.

"No, but I need to do laundry or go shopping cause all my stuff is dirty. So I had to wear something."

"You can borrow a whole shirt you know. You don't need to go around with your underwear showing on my account."

"You're funny. I gotta take the 'stang down to the garage. It has not had an oil change or anything in over a year."

"You gotta be kidden me."

"Nope. I didn't know it was still there till I talked to daddy. So I am taking her down to Jesse this morning. Then I'm doing laundry." She wrinked her nose. She hated doing laundry.

"Well, wait a minute and I'll come with you."

"No way. You need to stay in bed and take it easy."

"I can take it easy while you drive. I'm going and if you don't let me go with you I will just go in my own car. Only that means I need to drive myself."

"That's dirty." He gave her one of those looks. "But fine, get ready."

Vince got dressed and they headed out. She got in the car and started it. Once Vince was in she put the top down. It was a beautiful sunny day. The garage was only about 5 minutes away from the house. But she didn't head right there. Vince asked were they were going. She told him to see Mia and get some lunch. Vince was hungry since he really didn't get to eat yesterday. Mia made them sandwiches and as they were eating Brian showed up.

Vince had turkey and Nyssa had ham. Brian ordered the tuna. Again. Vince was going to start shit with him again. Nyssa could tell. And Dom wasn't even here today, he was at the garage. Nyssa looked at Mia and it was obvious that Mia had thought of what would happen if the two men did in fact fight again wile Dom was not here to break it up... Brian had held his own the last time and Vince was not even fully recovered from his cut yet. Just as he turned to go at Brian Nyssa finished her sandwich.

"That was great Mia, thanks but we gotta go now. Don't we V, V, baby, hello? You in there?" She knocked on his head; he gave her the dirtiest look. "Dom is waiting for us after all." Nyssa put a hand on his arm and took his hand. "This looks much better already V. Would hate to see you pull a stitch out." Vince brought his other hand up behind her head and gently grabbed her ponytail and tipped her head back. He looked in her eyes and she knew he knew why she said that. He was not happy that she reminded him of his weakness, even if it was just temporary. He let go of her hair and she stood up and looked down at him. She leaned over and pressed her forehead against Vince's. "You ready Vince?"

"Yea, I'm ready. Let's go see Dom." He stood up and with his arms locked under her butt picked her up so her forehead and his stayed pressed together. Just to prove he wasn't weak. She kissed him and he set her down, looking embarrassed to be kissed in front of Mia and Brian.

Just then Mia saw the red car. "Who owns the red Mustang?"

"I do." Nyssa stated. "My dad bought her for me on my 16th but my mom made me leave her behind when my dad went to jail and my mom decided she couldn't live with the fact that everything he ever bought us was likely bought with his 'dirty money'. I on the other hand could not care less so when I found out he never got anyone to sell the house and everything was just how we left it I went and go her so that I would not always be stealing V's car to run to school."

Brian could not help it. He asked her "You're still in school? Where do you go?"

"I go to Mission Street high."

"You're only in high school? How old are you?" Brian was worried she was underage and he knew Vince had to be 24 or so. If the girl was only 17 that would make for statutory rape against Vince.

"I'm 19, I know I should be done of school but I was held back the year my older brother died."

"Oh ok. Didn't want to be nosy but you seem way too mature to be a high school student."

"Thanks Brian. That's nice to hear. Well we really do have to jet. See you two later."

They got in the car and Vince bitched about Brian the whole way to the garage. Nyssa told Vince he really had to get over it since it seemed that Brian was here to stay. Vince was like 'over my dead body.' Nyssa told him he might not want to say that too loud in case thunder rolled in.

They arrived at DT around 12pm and she just pulled the car in. Jesse and Letty walked over and asked where she had gotten that. She told them where the car had come from and why it was here. Jesse popped the hood and started to have a look. Dom came out of the office and asked the same thing, where had the car come from. Vince told him. Dom looked Vince over and was happy to see he looked much better today. Vince told him that Brian was hanging around the store again. Dom said he wasn't surprised and he thought Mia was likely going to make an exception to her rule of not dating Dom's friends over Brian. Vince scowled at Dom over that.

"Vince, you gotta get over Mia and move on Man. You have Nyssa now. She's one down ass girl. She's gonna fit right in once you get her ready to race. Unless of course you don't want her to? Maybe you want her to stay domestic and take care of the house and you huh? But look at her and Letty. How close those two are already is scaring me. You know how Letty is normaly slow to warm up to new people, but the two of them are so close already and you know they love to start shit."

"I am over Mia but damn Dawg, I put in the wrench time with Mia for 5 years and the fact that she fell for Spilner so quick is a blow you know? I'm not sure about me and Nyssa. I think I want her but I owe it to both of us to be sure this time. If she was a skank it would be different." Vince laughed. "Will you listen to me? When did I go soft? Why do I have to be sure? The old Vince wouldn't need to be sure. He would just take what he wanted. Even you still take what you want, if you get me."

"Ya and someday I'm gonna lose her over it. Be sure. I wanna stop doing that to her but it just never works out that way. Look at her Vince. She's my life and I'm gonna fuck that up and lose her over some skank I just couldn't say no to." Dom was looking at Letty, who was laughing with Nyssa over something Jesse said. The two dark beauties were watching Jesse drain the coolant. It was a slow day and he decided to just flush out everything. Dom continued. "Be sure you are ready for a relationship before you start one Man or you'll regret it. Listen to both of us, all deep an shit. Maybe we're both goin soft." They both laughed at that. Each was the only one the other could say this stuff to. They had been like brothers for so long that the sometimes felt able to drop the tough guy exteriors for a few minutes and talk about things they were not supposed to care about like feelings.

Jesse was telling Nyssa about all the stuff he could do to the car to make it faster. She laughed at his exuberance. She was telling Jesse how many awards the car had won for being a perfectly restored mustang and that she didn't want to race it. Jesse obviously didn't get it. She laughed at the look on his face; he was confused over why anyone would own a car that they didn't want to race. She asked why he thought she needed two race cars when she already one that everyone thought was so great. Jesse just looked at her like she had two heads. Letty and Nyssa looked at each other and cracked up. Jesse went on with the car; he closed the rad stopcock and started to fill it back up. Letty was bent over the engine, they didn't see too many classic cars here, they mostly worked on neighbourhood cars and import race cars. Dom was known across the whole state and often people who had heard of him would drive miles to have him build their racing engines. Nyssa was also bent over the engine staring in at it intently.

Dom saw the devilish look on Vince's face and wondered what he was going to do. He started to sneak around behind Nyssa. He was going to grab her for sure. This was a side of Vince they had rarely seen, this playful, attentive side of him.

Nyssa and Letty were talking about the differences between import and domestic cars when Vince grabbed Nyssa and picked her up in the air. She screamed then laughed when she realized what had happened. She told him to set her down. He did with a laugh. She was enjoying this side of Vince. Maybe he really was starting to care for her after all. He suggested they take the skyline out for awhile since nothing else was going on.

She hadn't seen the skyline in days. She just hadn't looked for it. She was always driving Vince's car or the Mustang. Letty drove them back to the house. Then they walked up to the Skyline. She saw that the windows were all tinted out now. Vince must have gotten it done while she was at school one day. She asked him when he had gotten the windows done. He told her the day he cut himself. He hadn't been cutting wires, he had been cutting tint and the knife slipped. Plus it had been a knife he found lying around so he had no idea where it had been. Nyssa thanked him and told him it looked great. You couldn't see in the car from outside any more.

She was much more comfortable with the car in every sense now then she had been. Soon he was going to have to take two cars and start her doing mock races. She could shift now and drive on the streets in traffic well. Not perfect and not totally confident but she was doing much better now. They just drove around for about an hour and then headed to see how the mustang was doing. Jesse had it all done and sitting out front. He was talking to some girl. She had brought her RX-6 down because it was making some sort of noise in the engine and Jesse was looking it over for her. Nyssa thought they made a cute couple. She could never believe Jesse was older then she was. He seemed so young. He was so smart with engines and cars. She hoped that girl was nice.

They all went home around 5pm and Nyssa helped Mia cook supper. She told Vince to go sit down for awhile because he looked tired. They ate then Nyssa went to call her cousin and see what she missed. Manda gave her the rundown of what she had missed in class that day and then asked where she had been. Nyssa filled her in on the Vince situation and told her she had to stay home to take care of him. Nyssa hung up soon after and then went downstairs to do her homework. She normally would have done it with Mia but Mia and Brian had gone to a movie. She had a lot to catch up on after just one missed day so she got a start at it.

Vince went to bed at 12 and when he entered his room Nyssa was asleep on her tummy, face in a book, still wearing all her clothes. She had obviously fallen asleep while doing her homework. She was such a hard worker. He wouldn't have cared that he missed stuff and worried about getting caught up, he would have just asked the next day what he had missed. He smiled down at her; she made quite a sight asleep on her text book. He almost called the guys in to see then decided he wanted to save the sight for himself. Vince packed all her stuff into her backpack and then picked her up. He held her up while he turned the covers back and then set her down on the bed. He undressed her and pulled her favourite night dress down over her head and turned out the light. He didn't want to think of her being uncomfortable in her clothes all night. Plus she had taken care of him when he needed it. He wondered what was wrong with him. Was he going soft for real? After all, why did he care? It was a question he would have to answer soon. He set the alarm and went to be himself.

The next day was Thursday. Nyssa woke up early since she went to bed early. She wondered how she got into her nightdress and into bed. She didn't remember getting changed. Last thing she remembered she was working on math. Oh well. She got up and got dressed and headed out. She took the skyline and headed by Manda's. She picked up her cousin, who had only seen the car once before when Danny drove it. Manda was impressed. They went to school and other then explaining her absence to all her teachers she had an uneventful day.

She got home and ran into Dom in the driveway. She asked him what was up. He told her not much, no one was home; they were all working at DT because it got incredibly busy that day. She told him that was fine because she had a ton of work to get caught up on. Dom headed back to the garage and Nyssa went in the house. She was working at the kitchen table when Mia got home from University. They studied for awhile together then they fixed dinner. They knew the guys would be hungry when they got home. They made spaghetti and garlic bread and salad. They just set the table when the guys came in the back door, rowdy and loud as ever.

Vince grabbed Nyssa and spun her around.

"So you took the Skyline on your own today eh?"

"Yep."

"How'd that go?"

"Fine, good really. I like the fact that no one can see in anymore. Thanks for doing that for me."

"No problem. What did you ladies make for supper, it smells good."

"Food, you guys go clean up a bit then we can eat."

The guys all went and did that then they sat down and ate. After dinner they all watched some TV. They were going to races that night so everyone was just chillen for awhile before they went to get ready. Around 9 Nyssa went to get ready. She went and showered and straightened her hair. She went back to the bedroom and put on some tunes. She did her makeup and tried to pick out an outfit. She didn't have to drive so she could wear whatever she wanted. She never knew what to wear to these things. She picked a pair of black flair bottom pants with rhinestones on the seams on the outsides. She paired it with a silver tube top. She stood back and looked at herself. She guessed she'd do. She was about to leave when Vince walked into the room.

He looked a Nyssa and then looked again. He asked her if that was what she planned on wearing that night. She said yes then asked him why. He told her he had just wondered was all and then pulled off his tee shirt and started to root around in his drawer for what he was going to wear. She turned off the stereo and headed upstairs. She ran into the girls and asked Mia and Letty if there was anything wrong with her outfit. The girls told her no. She decided to take the Skyline that night for the hell of it. She told the girls and they thought she should ask Vince first to see what he though, just in case he didn't want her to.

Nyssa didn't really care what he thought of it to be honest. She thought maybe she should ask Dominic. Vince came up the stairs just then and saw the girls talking. It never boded well for him when Letty and Nyssa got to talking. He walked up to them and asked what was up. Nyssa told him she thought she would take the skyline down. Vince told her they could take it instead of his car if she wanted but he didn't want her to take a car on her own yet. She was doing well with the car and was kind of annoyed at this answer. She asked why. He told her he didn't think she was comfortable with the car yet that if the cops chased her she could get away. She kind of agreed with him on that point so she said it was fine if they both rode in her car but she was driving down. Vince agreed.

They headed down to the alley. They all pulled in and Dom was again swarmed by skanks. Letty surprisingly walked over to where Nyssa and Mia were standing and turned her back.