Starting Fires
It was Tuesday evening and Tianna was getting ready for the race that evening. Well, at least she was trying to anyway. Romeo's bed, which had been Tia's bed for the past months, was scattered all over with various articles of clothing. All were potential outfits for the race that night, and Tia couldn't decide what to wear.
"Hey Tia!" Romeo called out from the kitchen, "Are you decent?"
"Yes," well assuming decent meant covered then she wasn't lying. She had the towel from her shower still wrapped around her, and her damp hair was twisted up with a claw hair clip.
Romeo walked in and immediately turned to face another direction, "Damn it Tianna, I thought you were decent."
"What are you so worried about, compared to being naked this is decent," Tia said has she walked over to her brother. "What's up?"
"Phone for you," Ro said holding the cordless phone out to the scantily clad woman.
"Neat, who is it?" She asked taking the phone.
In a disdainful tone Romeo answered with one word, "Her."
"Oh get over it boy, you were planning on breaking up with her, she just got to it first." She shooed her brother back into the kitchen and as she talked on the phone moved back over to the bed to begin again the task of picking out an outfit. "Hey Mystic. How's it going?" She laughed, "Yeah I think you bruised his ego, or something, when you broke up with him."
"She did not!"
"She did too! Now stop spying and go get my car from Harry's!" Tia yelled at her brother but didn't speak again until she heard the door shutting and Romeo's mustang starting on the street below, "Sorry about that. So you're single again? Can't find a guy or not looking?" Tia pulled all the clothes that weren't blue or black out of the piles and put them away. Narrowing the field was always a good way to more quickly find a solution. "Do I have a guy yet?" Tia laughed again, "What would I do with a guy if I had one? Mystic! I can't do that! That's naughty!" Well there was an idea. Of the shirts left, there was a black one strap shirt with 'naughty' written above that Stitch alien from the movie. The letters and the alien were both blue. "This'll work....hmm? Oh sorry, I was talking to myself that time. I've been trying to figure out what to wear, for like an hour now. What do you mean that's proof I have a guy?" She folded up the other shirt's and put them away.
That mouth pouted, she may have narrowed it down to one shirt, but she still had to figure out what to wear with that shirt. "Hey, why don't you stop harassing me and help me figure out what to wear tonight? The one you made me, with that cute alien...yeah that one. A skirt? Well I hadn't thought of that. Let me see if I have any." Tianna put the pants and shorts she'd pulled out away and rummaged through the closet to find skirts. "Ha! I do have a skirt. I have three actually. One is long and spins, one is long and fitted, but has two really high slits up the front, and the other one is a short angled cut. From the left side down. Um, it starts high up on my thigh to end just above my right knee." Tia hung the long skirts back up and walked back over to the bed, "So the short one with the alien shirt and blue fish nets? I don't have blue fish nets." Tia frowned, "You did? Oh! Sorry you did, I remember now. Ro tried to throw them away but I kept them. You're talking about the thigh high ones, right?"
"Great! Thanks for the help Mystic...Oh! Wait do you know where the race is tonight?" A confused look graced Tianna's features, "Why are they holding it in the desert? To avoid the heat the cops are putting on.... Man do I understand that. All right! Well, then, I'll see you tonight. Later."
"What is that? Is that my car?" Tia stood in shock before the Honda Civic that Romeo had parked in front of the building. It was the same make as her car, the same plates, but the paint job was new, and the decals were different. "Is that supposed to be me?" She was referring to the pink haired anime-like girl on the side of her car.
"I think the resemblance is remarkable actually. It's amazing what they can print out in vinyl. All those little bits that look like they're flying out of your outstretched arm, the ones near the hood of the car, those are pieces of candy. I think it looks cooler than before actually. I mean, I really like it." Romeo shrugged, "Whatever, get in, and let's go."
When Tia climbed into the driver's seat of the car, she had to scoot it forward some so she could reach the pedals, men always messed with things when they were in someone else's car. The side mirrors were good, but when she looked up into the rear view mirror she noticed it was focused on the back seat. More specifically, it was focused on a bouquet of flowers in the back seat. Tia fixed the mirror, then quickly whirled around to look at the flowers. There were three pink roses and three pink daisies, but there were six white daisies. Tianna grinned and snatched the little note from the paper the flowers were wrapped up in. "Yay!" Tia giggled softly, the flowers were from Dominic. His note had said he hoped she liked the new look of the car, and that he'd thought about painting the whole thing pink, but didn't know what she would think so just repainted it black, and had decals to it instead of airbrushing it. That way, if she didn't like it she could take it off. He didn't say anything about the flowers. "How cute."
"Are we going or not, Tia?" Ro asked from the open window of his car.
"I'm sorry. All right," she turned around and started her car, "we can go now." She let him lead the way into the night. Soon, they'd be at the desert, where she'd get to see Dominic, and get to win more of his money. Tia was giddy with excitement, she could hardly wait.
Racers were already gathering at the seclude section of road in the desert, music was blaring from people showing off the systems in their cars, the "tag-along-skanks" as Tia liked to refer to most of the women who were there. They were the women who came to watch, and auction themselves off as prizes to which ever man had the hottest, or fastest car. They didn't race, they just got in the way. Tia laid down the horn, to move a group of them in the way of her parking her car by her friend Mystic's Skyline. "Get out of the way you skanks!" Soon she turned her car off and climbed out of the car.
"You never play nice do you?" Mystic said, combing her fingers through shoulder length, chocolate brown hair, with bluish-purple streaks.
"Of course not," Tia straightened one of her blue fish-nets, "How do you like the new paint job?"
"I love it. The purple ghost flames, and the kitty with the pointy hat like the one the mouse wore in Fantasia. You did an excellent job, I should have paid you more." Mystic was referring to the paint job Tia had done on her Skyline, a few weeks back.
Tianna laughed, "Well actually I meant on my car, but I'm glad you like yours."
The tall woman walked around Tia's Civic inspecting the new job, the chains that hung from her belt, and her many bracelets jingling as she walked. Once she made it back to Tia, she pointed at the girl on the side of the car, "Is that supposed to be you?"
"I'm told the resemblance is striking."
"It is, I just wanted to make sure you know. I've got a gift for you, to go with that outfit." Mystic opened the door to her back seat and motioned for Tia to sit on the purple, crushed velvet upholstery of the seats. Then she opened the trunk and handed Tia a pair of boots. "I found them at an Army surplus store, so they're like, real combat boots. The fat blue laces didn't come with them of course."
Tia tugged off her pink-laced boots, and tossed them through her open car window. Then pulled on the ones from Mystic and set to work on tying the laces. "These are great, the blue laces a perfect match for these nets too."
"I know, those fish nets used to be mine remember?"
"I know. Back when you dated, Romeo." Tia stood, and jumped up and down a bit, testing her new boots out. "I like them. You could really hurt somebody, all while looking cute doing it."
Romeo walked over about this time to speak to Tia, but not wanting to be rude he nodded to Mystic, "How are you doing, girl?"
"I'm doing good. Is your ego all better yet?"
Romeo glared, but before he could spew forth a nasty comment, Tianna spoke, "What's going on tonight Romeo?"
"It will all start soon. Dominic and his team are driving up now. Just thought I'd let you know. Seeing how you need to thank him for saving your ass, and fixing you car up like he did." With his few cents in, Ro waved bye to them both and went to talk with the other two racers, Hector and Edwin, who were supposed to be racing that night also.
"Toretto did that!?" Mystic grinned and pointed to Tia's car. When her friend nodded, she continued, "Is he the one that put the flowers in the back seat too?" Again her pink haired friend nodded, "That's it then, isn't it?"
"What's it?"
"He's the new man in your life. Not a bad choice, Grade A meat that one. Just yummy. His friend Leon isn't too bad to look at either." The girls shared some laughter over the comment, and both turned to look when the roar of a group of engines pulled in and parked in the center for all to admire. The DT team had arrived.
Dominic stepped out of his RX-7, clad in a grey Dickies, button down T-shirt, and kackie pants, over brown work boots. He ran a hand over his clean shaven head, and shut his car door. He looked back at his team. Leon with his yellow Skyline, and Vince with his blue Maxima were parked diagonally behind him, and Jesse with his white Jetta was parked behind them but centered with Dom's car. His mind drifted ever so slightly to the thought that it had once been a v formation with another's fuschia car, but there was no time to be wasted lingering on the past.
The team was greeted by numerous people, and four amatuers lined up for the first race of the evening. They knew that once Toretto arrived everything could get started. They pulled up to the red line, their engines were revving, and for the moment at least, all eyes were on them. Except for one black-eyed gaze. That one was on Tia. When the word go was shouted though, the gaze was dragged to watch the new kids race. None of them had NOS, none of them had more than two hundred dollars to bet, but one of them, had a red mazda, he won. He was probably one of Torettos worshipers.
The crowd cheered when the race was over but by this point, Vince was off looking at some of the cars, and checking out some of the ladies. Romeo had decided to participat in the next race and was pulling up to the red line. Leon was talking to Dominic, and Mystic was shoving Tia off in the mens direction. Leather clad feet carried Tia soundlessy over to the pair, and she stood hip cocked to one side, hand rest upon the curve. Her head tilted a bit, and with another hand she pushed a strand of pink hair from her face, "Hey Leon. My friend Mystic over there is having a problem with her Skyline, do you think you could check it out for her?"
Leon turned to look at the tall, woman leaning against her car. She was dressed in the typical intimidating punk fashion, but Leon liked that in women. "Skyline? Sure I'll check it out. Talk to you guys a little later," and off went Leon jogging over to see what the problem was.
"There really a problem with the girl's car, Princess?" Dom's eyes slid slowly down Tia's form, the only thing he didn't approve of was her hair being pulled up into a high pony tail, but at least she had bits of it pulled free in a way that remind his of a broken spider web.
"Sure there is," Tia grinned taking a couple steps closer to Dominic and placing a hand on his chest, and leaning up as if to whisper some great secret in his ear, "the back seat is empty."
It was Tuesday evening and Tianna was getting ready for the race that evening. Well, at least she was trying to anyway. Romeo's bed, which had been Tia's bed for the past months, was scattered all over with various articles of clothing. All were potential outfits for the race that night, and Tia couldn't decide what to wear.
"Hey Tia!" Romeo called out from the kitchen, "Are you decent?"
"Yes," well assuming decent meant covered then she wasn't lying. She had the towel from her shower still wrapped around her, and her damp hair was twisted up with a claw hair clip.
Romeo walked in and immediately turned to face another direction, "Damn it Tianna, I thought you were decent."
"What are you so worried about, compared to being naked this is decent," Tia said has she walked over to her brother. "What's up?"
"Phone for you," Ro said holding the cordless phone out to the scantily clad woman.
"Neat, who is it?" She asked taking the phone.
In a disdainful tone Romeo answered with one word, "Her."
"Oh get over it boy, you were planning on breaking up with her, she just got to it first." She shooed her brother back into the kitchen and as she talked on the phone moved back over to the bed to begin again the task of picking out an outfit. "Hey Mystic. How's it going?" She laughed, "Yeah I think you bruised his ego, or something, when you broke up with him."
"She did not!"
"She did too! Now stop spying and go get my car from Harry's!" Tia yelled at her brother but didn't speak again until she heard the door shutting and Romeo's mustang starting on the street below, "Sorry about that. So you're single again? Can't find a guy or not looking?" Tia pulled all the clothes that weren't blue or black out of the piles and put them away. Narrowing the field was always a good way to more quickly find a solution. "Do I have a guy yet?" Tia laughed again, "What would I do with a guy if I had one? Mystic! I can't do that! That's naughty!" Well there was an idea. Of the shirts left, there was a black one strap shirt with 'naughty' written above that Stitch alien from the movie. The letters and the alien were both blue. "This'll work....hmm? Oh sorry, I was talking to myself that time. I've been trying to figure out what to wear, for like an hour now. What do you mean that's proof I have a guy?" She folded up the other shirt's and put them away.
That mouth pouted, she may have narrowed it down to one shirt, but she still had to figure out what to wear with that shirt. "Hey, why don't you stop harassing me and help me figure out what to wear tonight? The one you made me, with that cute alien...yeah that one. A skirt? Well I hadn't thought of that. Let me see if I have any." Tianna put the pants and shorts she'd pulled out away and rummaged through the closet to find skirts. "Ha! I do have a skirt. I have three actually. One is long and spins, one is long and fitted, but has two really high slits up the front, and the other one is a short angled cut. From the left side down. Um, it starts high up on my thigh to end just above my right knee." Tia hung the long skirts back up and walked back over to the bed, "So the short one with the alien shirt and blue fish nets? I don't have blue fish nets." Tia frowned, "You did? Oh! Sorry you did, I remember now. Ro tried to throw them away but I kept them. You're talking about the thigh high ones, right?"
"Great! Thanks for the help Mystic...Oh! Wait do you know where the race is tonight?" A confused look graced Tianna's features, "Why are they holding it in the desert? To avoid the heat the cops are putting on.... Man do I understand that. All right! Well, then, I'll see you tonight. Later."
"What is that? Is that my car?" Tia stood in shock before the Honda Civic that Romeo had parked in front of the building. It was the same make as her car, the same plates, but the paint job was new, and the decals were different. "Is that supposed to be me?" She was referring to the pink haired anime-like girl on the side of her car.
"I think the resemblance is remarkable actually. It's amazing what they can print out in vinyl. All those little bits that look like they're flying out of your outstretched arm, the ones near the hood of the car, those are pieces of candy. I think it looks cooler than before actually. I mean, I really like it." Romeo shrugged, "Whatever, get in, and let's go."
When Tia climbed into the driver's seat of the car, she had to scoot it forward some so she could reach the pedals, men always messed with things when they were in someone else's car. The side mirrors were good, but when she looked up into the rear view mirror she noticed it was focused on the back seat. More specifically, it was focused on a bouquet of flowers in the back seat. Tia fixed the mirror, then quickly whirled around to look at the flowers. There were three pink roses and three pink daisies, but there were six white daisies. Tianna grinned and snatched the little note from the paper the flowers were wrapped up in. "Yay!" Tia giggled softly, the flowers were from Dominic. His note had said he hoped she liked the new look of the car, and that he'd thought about painting the whole thing pink, but didn't know what she would think so just repainted it black, and had decals to it instead of airbrushing it. That way, if she didn't like it she could take it off. He didn't say anything about the flowers. "How cute."
"Are we going or not, Tia?" Ro asked from the open window of his car.
"I'm sorry. All right," she turned around and started her car, "we can go now." She let him lead the way into the night. Soon, they'd be at the desert, where she'd get to see Dominic, and get to win more of his money. Tia was giddy with excitement, she could hardly wait.
Racers were already gathering at the seclude section of road in the desert, music was blaring from people showing off the systems in their cars, the "tag-along-skanks" as Tia liked to refer to most of the women who were there. They were the women who came to watch, and auction themselves off as prizes to which ever man had the hottest, or fastest car. They didn't race, they just got in the way. Tia laid down the horn, to move a group of them in the way of her parking her car by her friend Mystic's Skyline. "Get out of the way you skanks!" Soon she turned her car off and climbed out of the car.
"You never play nice do you?" Mystic said, combing her fingers through shoulder length, chocolate brown hair, with bluish-purple streaks.
"Of course not," Tia straightened one of her blue fish-nets, "How do you like the new paint job?"
"I love it. The purple ghost flames, and the kitty with the pointy hat like the one the mouse wore in Fantasia. You did an excellent job, I should have paid you more." Mystic was referring to the paint job Tia had done on her Skyline, a few weeks back.
Tianna laughed, "Well actually I meant on my car, but I'm glad you like yours."
The tall woman walked around Tia's Civic inspecting the new job, the chains that hung from her belt, and her many bracelets jingling as she walked. Once she made it back to Tia, she pointed at the girl on the side of the car, "Is that supposed to be you?"
"I'm told the resemblance is striking."
"It is, I just wanted to make sure you know. I've got a gift for you, to go with that outfit." Mystic opened the door to her back seat and motioned for Tia to sit on the purple, crushed velvet upholstery of the seats. Then she opened the trunk and handed Tia a pair of boots. "I found them at an Army surplus store, so they're like, real combat boots. The fat blue laces didn't come with them of course."
Tia tugged off her pink-laced boots, and tossed them through her open car window. Then pulled on the ones from Mystic and set to work on tying the laces. "These are great, the blue laces a perfect match for these nets too."
"I know, those fish nets used to be mine remember?"
"I know. Back when you dated, Romeo." Tia stood, and jumped up and down a bit, testing her new boots out. "I like them. You could really hurt somebody, all while looking cute doing it."
Romeo walked over about this time to speak to Tia, but not wanting to be rude he nodded to Mystic, "How are you doing, girl?"
"I'm doing good. Is your ego all better yet?"
Romeo glared, but before he could spew forth a nasty comment, Tianna spoke, "What's going on tonight Romeo?"
"It will all start soon. Dominic and his team are driving up now. Just thought I'd let you know. Seeing how you need to thank him for saving your ass, and fixing you car up like he did." With his few cents in, Ro waved bye to them both and went to talk with the other two racers, Hector and Edwin, who were supposed to be racing that night also.
"Toretto did that!?" Mystic grinned and pointed to Tia's car. When her friend nodded, she continued, "Is he the one that put the flowers in the back seat too?" Again her pink haired friend nodded, "That's it then, isn't it?"
"What's it?"
"He's the new man in your life. Not a bad choice, Grade A meat that one. Just yummy. His friend Leon isn't too bad to look at either." The girls shared some laughter over the comment, and both turned to look when the roar of a group of engines pulled in and parked in the center for all to admire. The DT team had arrived.
Dominic stepped out of his RX-7, clad in a grey Dickies, button down T-shirt, and kackie pants, over brown work boots. He ran a hand over his clean shaven head, and shut his car door. He looked back at his team. Leon with his yellow Skyline, and Vince with his blue Maxima were parked diagonally behind him, and Jesse with his white Jetta was parked behind them but centered with Dom's car. His mind drifted ever so slightly to the thought that it had once been a v formation with another's fuschia car, but there was no time to be wasted lingering on the past.
The team was greeted by numerous people, and four amatuers lined up for the first race of the evening. They knew that once Toretto arrived everything could get started. They pulled up to the red line, their engines were revving, and for the moment at least, all eyes were on them. Except for one black-eyed gaze. That one was on Tia. When the word go was shouted though, the gaze was dragged to watch the new kids race. None of them had NOS, none of them had more than two hundred dollars to bet, but one of them, had a red mazda, he won. He was probably one of Torettos worshipers.
The crowd cheered when the race was over but by this point, Vince was off looking at some of the cars, and checking out some of the ladies. Romeo had decided to participat in the next race and was pulling up to the red line. Leon was talking to Dominic, and Mystic was shoving Tia off in the mens direction. Leather clad feet carried Tia soundlessy over to the pair, and she stood hip cocked to one side, hand rest upon the curve. Her head tilted a bit, and with another hand she pushed a strand of pink hair from her face, "Hey Leon. My friend Mystic over there is having a problem with her Skyline, do you think you could check it out for her?"
Leon turned to look at the tall, woman leaning against her car. She was dressed in the typical intimidating punk fashion, but Leon liked that in women. "Skyline? Sure I'll check it out. Talk to you guys a little later," and off went Leon jogging over to see what the problem was.
"There really a problem with the girl's car, Princess?" Dom's eyes slid slowly down Tia's form, the only thing he didn't approve of was her hair being pulled up into a high pony tail, but at least she had bits of it pulled free in a way that remind his of a broken spider web.
"Sure there is," Tia grinned taking a couple steps closer to Dominic and placing a hand on his chest, and leaning up as if to whisper some great secret in his ear, "the back seat is empty."
