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Shopping Day

Mia glanced at the dress hanging in the window and whistled softly. "Can you image having something like that?"

Sherry shrugged. It didn't seem like such a great outfit. She never was one to like anything short, red, or sparkly.

Mia smiled softly and continued walking down the street. "So Sherry, what do you think of Dom so far?"

She was a little taken aback. "Dom?"

Mia laughed. "Yea… ya know. Big guy… lots of muscles. Drives like a crazy person."

Sherry laughed with her. "Oh…. He's alright. Kinda bossy though." She paused for a moment. "Seems kinda sad too."

"Dom? Sad? Are we talking about MY brother here?"

"Yea." She was silent for a few moments. "Mi, can I ask you something?"

"Shoot."

"What happened? Before I got here? Dom said something about his friends hating him or something…"

Mia stiffened and responded quietly, "We were involved in something awhile back. It screwed up everybody's life."

Sherry felt Mia's discomfort, but continued anyway. "What? What were y'all involved in? Was it illegal?"

"It was along time ago." Mia said pointedly. Her face grew sad. "A very long time ago."

"Oh. Right…."

Suddenly Mia grinned. "I hope you're ready to do some serious shopping girl, because here comes my most favorite shop in the entire world."

Sherry laughed gamely. "I'm ready. Let's do it."

Dom sped around in his car humming "Psychopathic". It used to be Jesse's favorite song. He could remember the days when it played over and over and over again in the shop while they worked. It drove him off the wall, but it seemed to calm Jesse down. He grinned thinking about the old days. Suddenly, his cell went off, interrupting his thoughts. "Yea?" he growled into it.

"What's up dawg?" came the automatic response.

"Leon?"

"The one and only brotha. How you doin?"

"Wonderin where the fuck my team went off too."

"Man dawg, don't go bringing up that. You left, we left."

Dom grunted in reply.

"I just thought you might want to know where everyone is." Leon said slyly.

"I wouldn't give a shit if I didn't need help in the shop."

Leon ignored him. "Me and Vince and Jesse are in a motel in downtown LA, and Letty told us she was going to Hollywood."

"Hollywood? What's in Hollywood?"

"I dunno dawg. I didn't ask."

"So when are y'all coming back?"

"I dunno. I have to ask the boys." Dom heard some muffled talking in the background and figured it was probably Vince and Jesse.

"We'll be moved back into the house tonight."

"Which reminds me. We added another member to the family…" he paused. "Surprise," he added sarcastically.

"Anyone I know?" inquired Leon.

"Naw man. She's from San Antonio." Dom relayed the whole story to him, empathizing on having kicked the shit out of her ex.

"Sounds like we missed a lot."

"Not a whole lot. Anyway, get moved in. We work tomorrow."

"Aye, aye captain." Leon replied, before hanging up.

Dom smiled to himself and headed back for the fort.