Hey ppelz!
Srry that I took so long to update this! I hope you like this and I haven't forgotten the other girls in this story, as you'll see in this Chappy ~_* I hope you enjoy it.
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^Serena's POV^
Serena rolls off the side of her bed with an 'Oof'.
"Ouch!" Serena mumbles as she gets up from the floor and rubs her side.
"I better go and talk to Sammy" she mutters to herself as she walks out her bedroom door and sees Sammy seating on the couch, watching t.v., and eating.
"Get your feet off my coffee table." Serena tells him as she rubs the sleep from her eyes and curls up in her chair.
"Sorry" Sammy mumbles and takes his feet off the table and suddenly finds the floor more interesting.
"Sammy, look at me." Serena tells him as she finally becomes awaken.
Sammy lefts his head up and looks at Serena face.
"I'm sorry for the way I reacted last night, but I also am still ashamed at you." Serena begins.
"Stop Serena." Sammy tells her.
"Okay" Serena says as she continues to look at Sammy.
"Your right and I am sorry." Sammy says with a pleading look on his face.
"Thank you," Serena says as she gets up from the chair and gives Sammy a hug.
"I'm going to get dressed and go down to the garage." Serena says as she walks back to her room and closes the door behind her.
Serena takes out a pair of tight black leather pants and a black t-shirt a pair of white haunting eyes on the front and puts them on.
She then slips on her tennis shoes and walks back into the living room.
"Sams, I'm going now and I'll be back later." Serena replies as she grabs her keys and cell phone.
"Oh, okay" Sammy muttered as he watched the race that was taking place on the t.v.
"What's wrong Sams?" Serena asks as she walks towards where he sat on the couch.
"Nothing, I'll see you when you get home." Sammy answered as he waved his hand at her.
"Sams!" Serena started as she caught his hand in her hands so he couldn't move.
"What?" Sammy asked innocently.
Serena let his hand go and sat down next to him on the couch.
"What's the matter, and don't say nothing because I can see right through that lie." Serena replies as she looks into his eyes.
"I-I...I'm just worried about you especially since you had that break down or whatever you want to call it last night." Sammy answered as he looked down into his lap, as if in guilt.
"Sammy, you don't need to worry about me. I am your older sister, so there for if anybody does need to do any worrying it's me about you." Serena tells him as she moves his chin tenderly and makes him look her in the eyes.
"Sere, I am always going to worry about you and just because you're the oldest doesn't mean I can't worry about you. Tell me what yesterday was all about!" Sammy replies and more or least demands the last part.
"Fine, since I can tell you aren't going to give up last nights little emotional catastrophe." Serena replies with a weak smile.
"No, I'm not!" Sammy retorts.
"Yesterday was actually the day mom and dad died, and before you say anything. You probably didn't know, since after all you were only 7 or 6 so you probably don't I guess.remember it all that much, but I guess it was just one of those days that the whole world came down around me, I dunno." Serena explains with a shrug on the last words.
"Oh, Sere. You should have told me." Sammy exclaimed as he hugged Serena.
"It's okay, and I didn't want to worry or burden you." Serena replied, "Anyways" Serena adds as she gets out of Sammy's embrace and wipes away the few tears that managed to slip out. "I'm going to go out for awhile, but I'll call on my way home and I'll take you out somewhere, just me and you nobody else." Serena suggests as she gets out and straightens out her outfit.
"Alright, I'll be ready and waiting." Sammy replies with a small smile on his face.
"Okay, talk to yea later" Serena yells over her shoulder as she walks out the door with the door shutting behind her.
^Darien's POV ^
"Darien!" Raye yells as she stomps her way into his room.
"Yea?" Darien asks as he continues to steadily type away on his computer, not even noticing his sister's face.
"What happened at Serena's apartment last night?" Raye demands as she slams his laptop closed just as Darien removed his hands from the keyboard.
"What are you talking about?" Darien asks as he looks up at her and finally notices the gleam in her eyes that mean only one thing, she's pissed off and when she gets pissed off you better tell her if you know what's good for you, since the last person that ignored the gleam was thrown out of a 4- story window
"Umm.nothing really. We just kinda.kinda.got into it?" Darien mumbled meekly as he literally coward away from her dominating form.
"Well, when I went by her apartment as you very well know, she was in her room crying and you were mentioned as one of the reasons why!" Raye yelled as she continued to walk even closer to him.
"Um.Raye. I know I made a mistake and I fully intend on fixing it, but first I need to take care of business or we'll fall behind, and what do you mean by 'one' of the reasons?" Darien finished in a questioning tone with an uneasy frown on his lips.
"Well, Darien Allen Spiron! Is that concern or should I say care I sense in your voice?" Raye asks haughtily with a slight smirk.
"N-No! I just.I mean-Uggh. I just don't want Serena to have her personal life get in the way of her racing or it could fully blow these business deal I have going!" Darien replied as he finally got his backbone back and pushed himself back to his computer and started to go back to work, before Raye put her hand on the screen.
"Darien! I swear, if you start screwing around with her, mentally, I'll personally throw you from the tallest floor in this city and this time I want call an ambulance." Raye explained and quickly left just as she entered, leaving Darien gawking at her retreating form.
"I swear if she wasn't my sister I would have been gotten rid of her!" Darien started to mumble as he went back to work, but his mind this time was elsewhere.
*What did she mean by me being 'one' of the reasons, and did she say I actually made her cry? I've never really seen her cry-well except for that one time when I saw her crying in her sleep. Maybe I should call her.* Darien tells himself as he begins to reach for the phone but suddenly snatches it back as if it burned him, "No, I'll just go and see her, she's probably at the garage about now." Darien mutters to himself as he looks at the clock on his wall.
He quickly leaves his office and goes down into one of his many garages and quickly gets into one of his many sports cars and leaves just as quickly.
^Raye's POV^
*I hope that little rant gets him quickly and knowing him, he'll probably take action, but I hope it's quickly. I wonder if I should call Jade and get the full 411 on this Dylan she mentioned?* Raye asks her self as she sat down in her red satin chaise.
Raye snatches up her portable phone, dials the local police precinct, and hears a familiar voice answer the phone.
"Hello, this is Officer Micheal Grant. How may I help you?"
"Hey Officer Micheal. I was wondering if you could connect me to Chief or whatever Jade." Raye asked in her most polite voice.
"Um.sure, I guess. Could you please state the business you have with him?" Micheal asked a little uneasy.
"It's personal." Raye simply stated as she stretched out on the chaise.
"Oh..um..okay." Micheal stuttered and then clicked her over.
"Hello, this is Sergeant Jade. How can I help you?" he asked in an easy droll.
"Hello Jade. This is Raye, I'm a friend of Serena's from the races." Raye replied easily, as if she has done this numerous times.
"Oh, hey Raye. How can I help you?" Jade asks as he tenses a little.
"I just have a question concerning Serena." Raye simply stats.
"Oh, and what would that question be?" Jade asks with protectiveness apparent.
"Well, I was talking with Serena last night, she was really upset, and she mentioned the name Dylan as being one of the reasons." Raye explained with ease as she awaited his response.
"Dylan doesn't concern you, so please just forget about it." Jade replies and hangs up.
"Well now. This has just gotten extremely curious." Raye mutters to herself in amusement as she puts down the charger, with a challenging smirk.
^Serena's POV^
Serena pulled into her garage, parked her Lexus SC in its parking space, and then gets out of the car with a smile on her lips as she walks over to another and begins to check it out.
"Hmm..Nick has really out done himself this time!" she exclaims to nobody in general as she walks around inspecting the new sports car.
"Actually that's my car, but thanks all the same." Came an all too familiar voice close by that causes her to stiffen on the spot.
"What do you want!" she asks as she backs away from the car.
"To talk. Is that a crime all of a sudden?" he asks with amusement.
"Right now it is." She venomously retorts as she turns around and heads toward another new car that she has recently received.
"What's going on with you? Shouldn't you be happy? I mean you have qualified for one of the biggest races that has hit this town in years." Darien asks with confusion laced with what she first thought was worry but quickly shook it off as just her imagination.
"I've just got some 'things' going on in my life right now. It doesn't involve racing so don't worry about it." Serena replies as she waves her hand at the subject as she stops by a new white convertible.
"Serena! Remember when you asked me, and might I add very shakily, to protect you. Well, that's what I'm trying to do, but I can't unless you let me in so I can protect you." Darien tells her, not taking his eyes away from her form.
"Darien," she replies as clutches the side of the car tightly.
"There are a few things going on in my life that you don't know about and I'm just dealing with them, so if you don't mind leaving so I can get to work and prep up my next car for the race." Serena replies in a surprisingly sweet voice as she steps away from the car and takes out a huge key ring that's filled with keys of all kinds.
"Serena, all I've got to say is, whatever I said to you last night that made you so upset..I'm sorry." Darien replies low enough that Serena could just barely hear it.
"Don't worry about it" Serena waves it off as she unlocks the car, gets in, and quickly speeds out the garage.
Serena wipes away a few of stray tears that managed to escape, takes out her cell phone, and quickly dials her home number.
"Hello?" comes a welcoming male voice.
"Sams, get ready. I'm on my way home to get you." Serena said in a cheerful voice as she keeps on driving and turns onto the deserted part of the highway that she loves so much.
"Alright, see you in a few minutes then!" comes Sammy's cheerful voice and then hangs up quickly.
*God, I hope I can go through with this!* Serena tells herself as she takes the new car through her normal routines for all of her new cars.
^Darien's POV^
*Damnit! What the hell is her problem? I apologized which was hard enough for me, but then she just throws it in my face as if it was nothing and on top of it, I try and get her to open up to me but she wont. What the fuck does Raye want me to do?* Darien rants to himself hits his steering wheel with frustration.
"What have I done to deserve this kind of punishment?" Darien mutters to absolutely nobody.
"This woman is gonna be the end of me. She is so damn stubborn and strong headed, but that's good and yet how am I suppose to do my end of the bargain if this is how it's suppose to be?" Darien demands to himself as he speaks out loud.
He pulls up to his house, once he has his car parked and locked up in his garage he storms through the mansion in search of his oh-so-dear sister of his and get all of the information she knows.
"Raye!" he yells in his most demanding voice, and if I should say so is pretty damn demanding that it normally makes even the most powerful man coward under him in defeat.
"What is it?" Raye asks innocently as she steps out of her bedroom wearing a skimpy outfit.
"What the hell do you know!" he asks, still using his demanding voice.
"Many things my dear brother, so you need to be a little more specific." She replies in her easy droll as she leans against the doorframe to her room.
"You know very goddamn well what I am talking about!" he yells at her.
"Darien, if she doesn't want you to know then obviously there's one of 2 things going on. 1) You said something you shouldn't have or 2) She doesn't want you to know and that means she probably already knows about you little 'business' dealing involving her." Raye replies with a shrug.
"You know that idea by itself is so absurd it's actually hilarious!" Darien replied with a mock laugh as he stands in front of his unfazed sister.
"I wouldn't take her so highly, because from my research that I have don't on her, she has personal as well as business connection in extremely high places as far up as the government and as low as the highest drug lords." Raye explained as she shook her finger at him.
"What are your sources?" he asks as he narrows his eyes into small slits.
"Why dear brother! If I told my sources to any old person that asked, then let's just say I wouldn't be where I am today if I did." She replied with a wink and hen quickly sashayed away back into her room and slammed the door shut in his face.
"I swear! That isn't a woman but the devil its self in disguise!" he retorts as he sulks away to his office.
^Serena's POV^
"Sorry I'm late!" Serena replies as she opens the door to her apartment.
"It's okay sis." He replies as he grabs his coat and walks out the door with Serena following closely behind and they get back into her car.
"So, where are we going?" he asks excited. It wasn't every night that his sister took him out and she was well known in every circle/ring that was within 2 cities distant.
"You'll see. It's kinda of a surprise." She replies as she gets onto the freeway and quickly begins to speed as fast as she could go down the unusually packed freeway.
"Okay!" Sammy exclaims as he begins to go through her c.d. collection that she seems to take with her everywhere she goes.
"Sams, that's my racing music. Why don't you just listen to the music?" Serena tells him as she continues further down the freeway.
"Alright" Sammy replies as he begins to fiddle with the radio.
~*^^*~ After about 2 hours of driving in the convertible, they finally stop in a rather small town.
"Sere, what are we doing here?" Sammy asks with confusion as he looks around at his surroundings.
"You don't remember this place?" Serena asks a little hurt.
"Um.not really." Sammy replies as he continues to look around him.
"Well come on, you'll remember eventually." Serena exclaims as she locks the car and they begin to walk down the quiet street, for them it was a little unnerving since there use to the hustle and bustle of the a city type town, but it was completely normal for this countryish type town.
"Okay, this quietness is starting to become really unnerving, so unless you tell me what's going on, I'm going to start freaking out!" Sammy replies with a childish look as he crosses his arms in front of him and stomps his foot.
Laughing, "Come on Sams. I promise you'll figure it out." Serena replies as she begins to drag him towards 2 huge metal gates that has ivy, and some kind of small purple flowers growing all over it, as if in an attempt to over to it.
"Se-Sere-Serena! This-This isn't where I-I think it-it is, is it-it?" Sammy asks stuttering as he literally stops in his place with his eyes going wide as if in recognition.
"Maybe" Serena replies as she leads them through the gates and into a small cemetery that looks as if it has been taken care of.
"This is! It's the cemetery mom and dad were buried in!" he exclaims as his eye roam over all of the tombstones in front of him.
"Yea, it is. So I guess I should say, Surprise!" Serena replies meekly as she throws her hands up.
"Thanks Sere" Sammy mumbles as he begins to walk around.
"Um.don't mention it." Serena replies as she makes her way towards 2 identical headstones.
Serena kneels between both of them as she makes a small silent prayer.
"Hey mom, dad. Sorry I haven't made it here in a long time, but yea know how things get." Serena says as she scratches the back of her head.
"I've been taking really good care of Sammy and I guess you could say Sammy has also been taking care of me too." Serena continues as she seats down in Indian style and begins to get comfortable.
"I know I haven't been the ideal daughter and everything but I do want you to know that I-we really miss you. " Serena begins as she starts to pick at a piece of grass and twirl it around in her fingers.
For the rest of the night Serena sat there, in-between her parents and just telling them everything that has happened in her life.
Sammy just sat with his grandmother, since their grandfather wanted to be buried with his family, and did the same.
~*^^*~
"Thanks Serena, really I mean it. That was something I'll always appreciate." Sammy tells her as they were on their way towards the apartment.
"I'm glade. I wanted to do something for you that was special and I think in a way, we both kind of needed that." Serena replies with a smile as she takes a look at her brother and for once, in a really long time, she sees the little boy that hasn't been their in a very long time.
She simply smiles in content and simply continues on with their drive back.
~*^^*~
That morning, Serena was up before the girls even came by and was dressed in another one of her racing outfits and waiting in the kitchen for Lita and the other 2 girl to come, when Sammy came into the kitchen fully dressed.
"What are you planning on doing?" She asks with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm going to your race today, duh!" Sammy replies as he makes himself a cup of coffee and seats down next to her, and waits.
"Come on girls! I've got a great plan to wake her up this morning!" Mina replies giddily from the other side of the door a few minutes later as Lita opens the door quietly and is followed by Mina and Amy.
"What is it?" Lita asks, just as excited.
"I think we should throw ice water on her!" she replies as they tip toe into her bedroom, not even looking in the kitchen to see the gaping people seating in their.
A couple seconds later,
"Where is she! She didn't go partying last night, did she?" Lita asks worried as she flees from the room and stops dead in her tracks causing a domino reaction behind her.
"Oww!" was heard behind along with, "What's wrong Lita?".
"Se-Sere-Serena! What are y-yo-you doing up th-this early?" Lita asks open mouthed.
"Just am." Serena shrugged, "What is this that I heard about throwing ice water on me?" she adds with a glare at all 3 of them.
"Just joke" Mina replies with a weak laugh.
"Har, har!" Serena laughs and then gets up with Sammy following behind her, "Come on girls, and I wont forget this either!" she tells them as she grabs the cell phone and keys, walks out the door with Sammy behind and is soon followed by 3 gaping girls.
^Darien's POV^
"Damnit!" Darien growls as he slams his hands down on the desk in front of him as he rereads the information in front of him.
"How does she make all of these connections?" he asks himself as he prints out the information and saves the rest on disk.
*I wonder if I can ask around in her other circuits?* Darien asks himself as he gets into his lucky car as he speeds off, toward the day's race.
Darien continues to ponder that one question on the entire ride.
"How is it, that I am letting this mere, girl-no, woman, get to me like this!" he tells himself out loud as he registers his car and parks it in his normal parking space.
"Hey man! Long time, no see!" comes a shout close by and is soon greeted by his best friend Andrew.
"Yea, way too long!" Darien replies as he smiles back at him.
"What's you been up to?" Andrew asks as he leans himself against Darien's car.
"Just a little bit of everything." Darien replies with a shrug as he too leans against it.
"Cool! Word has it that your making a major deal with a certain company." Andrew replies with a wiggle of his eyebrows.
"If your talking about Celestial Moon, then yes, but let's not talk about that here." Darien says as he begins to shoot him glares.
"Okay, okay. Sheesh." Andrew replies as he raises his hands in defense.
"Good. How's you and Rita doing? I hear she's going to big time now." Darien tells him, as he tries to change the subject and for him, it works to easily on the blonde.
"We're doing just fine and yeap she has, but is unfortunately move to Europe somewhere, for artistic exploration. Whatever the fuck that's suppose to mean." Andrew replies sadly, as he slumps against the car.
"That's gotta suck" Darien replies in an understanding way.
"Yea, but she says that she'll be coming back soon, since I already told her flat out that I wasn't going anywhere." Andrew says with a defiant shake of his head.
Chuckling, "That's the way to go" Darien tells him as he pats his shoulder and then stands up as he notices the group of guys coming his way.
"Hey Seiya, Yaten, and Taiki. What's up?" Darien asks politely.
"Hey Darien, nothing too much." Seiya says as he looks at Andrew, "Hey Drew" he says as he nods his head in his direction.
"Hey" he mumbles back.
"Darien, can we ask you some questions?" Yaten asks in a serious polite voice.
"Sure" Darien shrugs as they walk off.
^Serena's POV^
Serena and Sammy parked in her usual parking place and was followed by 3 other cars who parked on either side of her.
"Wow Sere! How is it that the cops don't know of this place?" Sammy asks with wide eyes as he takes in the site around him.
"Easy, Jade tells all of the cops that this place is used for chemical waste." Serena replies with a grin as she walks to the trunk of her car and begins to mess around with her NOS system.
"His smart." Sammy says as he walks over to her.
"What are yea doin?" he asks confused as she adjusts some nozzles and what- nots.
"Just fixing some of the equipment for when/if I race today." Serena replies with wink as she slams the trunk down and then turns to the Ami, Mina, and Lita walking up to him.
"Are wither of you racing today?" Serena asks.
"I am" Lita replies as she walks over to the registering table.
"You guys actually have a registering table here?" Sammy asks with disbelief.
"Yeap sure do. How else are we going to know whose car is whose if you should die or something in a wreck?" Mina says as she begins to prance around.
"Makes sense" Sammy replied as he shook his head for a moment.
"Let's go and get us some sets for when the races start today." Ami says to everyone finally as she looks at everyone.
"Good idea." Serena replies as she leads everybody toward an area where a crowd has already started to gather.
"Hey Serena!" came a shout from the front of the crowd, then a head of Raven black hair popped in front of her.
"Oh, hey Raye!" Serena exclaims a little startled.
"I didn't know you were coming today." Raye replied as openly eyed Sammy.
"Of course I came today. After all, Lita's racing today and I'm not going to miss that." Serena replies as she began to lead them towards where Raye shouted from.
"Oh really! I don't think I've seen her race before." Raye replies with a curious look.
"She hasn't raced since..I think since we were in the.uh, hang on now, Sammy was in I think 9th so, that was at.." "In 9th I went to Joseph Academy." Sammy piped up from her side.
"Oh yea! Then it was when we were in the Dragon Flames or something like that." Serena shrugged as she took them towards an empty bench in the front.
"You guys were in the Dragon Flames!" Raye exclaimed with bugged eyes.
"Yea, only Lita, Amy, Mina, and Me. Sams was still in school and only let him get involved with Drag Races and NASCAR." Serena replies with a wave of her hand.
"The Dragons got busted up like 8 years ago, but their still a big name gang even today." Raye replies quietly that Serena or Sammy could barely hear her.
"I know. If it wasn't for the fact that the cops started sending in double agents then we prob still be together, but I'm not gonna start dragging up the past." Serena replies with a steely gaze sent back to Sammy mainly.
"Se-Sere," Sammy began as he caught the glaze or glare is what it really felt like.
"Yea" she replies in the same tone as the gaze.
"Is that when you meet Jade and Micheal?" Sammy asked, trying to get it straight mainly in his head.
"Yeap, they saved my asses so many times in one night, I think for sure I was a cat in the past life." Serena replies with a giggle at the thought.
"What night are you talking about?" Raye asked, very curious at where this conversation has turned.
"Oh nothing" Serena said with a wave of her hand.
"Sere!" is shrieked nearby.
"Yea" she yelled back.
"There you are!" Mina replies as she skips over to them, "Ames was wondering if you wanted to go to the abandoned runway after we're done here." Mina tells her as she begins to look around her.
"For what?" Serena asks with suspicion as she narrowed her eyes.
"Well, she wanted to check the new car, make sure your reflexes are still good and wanted to have a few mock races." Mina said as she listed off the things on her fingers as she twirled a piece of her idly.
"Um...okay, where's Ames and Lits by the way?" Serena asked as she looked around at the people around them.
"Over at Lits car. There just doin the yea know, the manual checks and what- nots. Any who, I think they kinda want you over their." Mina tells her and then shrugs her shoulder as if not sure of what she just said.
"Okay, I'll be right back." Serena tells them as she gets up from her seat, which is taken almost immediately.
"Don't get too comfortable." Serena retorts to her and then dashes off to where Lita has parked her VX 220.
"Finally!" Lita exclaimed as Serena stopped beside the car.
"I'm here. What do yea need help with?" Serena asks as she leans against the car.
"Oh nothing major. Just for you to check underneath the car and give it your full look through." Amy replied as she was typing away on her little computer.
"Alright." Serena replies as she slips on the mechanic jumpsuit that Lita hands her, pulls her hair back, and ties it into a topknot, slides underneath the car on the black piece of wood that Lita had drilled wheels on to.
^Raye's POV^
*I can't believe that those 4 girls where in the Dragon Flames! That's still one of the roughest gang of Racers there is around in this state. No wonder Serena has the attitude she has. You has to be tough and basically be emotionless to survive in their. I wonder how far up she got in their ranks? I wonder if Sammy knows anything?* Raye asks herself as she continues to ponder all of the new information she has just received from Serena.
"Sammy" Raye began as she turned to him.
"Yea" he replied as he continue to stare at the starting line.
"Do you know how far up your sister got up into the Dragon Flames when you went to Joseph Academy?" Raye asks as she continues to look at his express and sees that it falls to an emotion of what almost looks like sadness.
"All I know is that every time I asked about where the money was coming in from Serena would change the subject or if I asked her how come she was starting to look worn out and tried all she would tell me is to worry about my schooling and activities. I do know I heard her crying a few times and murmuring how life wasn't fair, but I just thought it was because she lost a race or something, but now that I think about it, I don't think it was because of her losing a life." Sammy replies very quietly, that if you didn't strain your ears to hear it, then it the words would be lost to the wind.
"Wow! She must care for you a lot if she didn't want you to worry about her and she also must have been really high up on the ranks if she was acting and looking like that." Raye replies as she begins to think about everything that Sammy told her.
*Sense I can kinda tell how Serena is and since she acts like the world isn't a problem, she must have been pretty high up on the Dragon Flames ranks. Not to mention I did hear that they had to start killing off some of the lower members. I wonder if Serena had to do some of the killing?* Raye asks herself as she gazes off to the horizon.
^Serena's POV^
"Lita" Serena says to the brunette that's standing over her.
"Yea" she replies as she hands Serena a wrench.
"We need to start keeping a closer eye on Raye. She's starting to ask questions acting a little bit too suspicious for my taste." Serena replies in a deathly low voice, that didn't seem normal for Serena.
"You got it." Lita replies with a firm nod of the head.
"Pass it on to Amy and Mina." Serena replies as she rolls from out of the car.
"I heard you, Serena," Amy tells them quietly as she continues to type on the computer.
"Ames, what the hell are you doing?" Lita asks with a confused expression.
"I'm just getting some information." Amy explains as she keeps her eyes on the screen.
"Okay, whatever" Serena replies as she pulls off the jumpsuit, "I'm going back over to where I was. Good Luck Lits" Serena said with 2 thumbs up and a little wink before she walks away towards Sammy and Raye.
*Why would Raye be suddenly interested in my past? It doesn't make sense, unless she's either working for a gang that's still raveling Dragon Flames or it's something else, hopefully it's the former, because that will be easy to take care of but the latter is more tricky and something that causes for more thinking.* Serena tells herself as she makes Mina scoot over so she can have her spot back.
"Sammy told Raye how you were acting while you were active in Dragon Flames." Mina whispers so quietly that her lips didn't barely move.
Serena just nods in affirmation and turns her head so that she was looking at the starting line and also to where her ears could listen more easily to what Raye and Sammy were talking about.
^Darien's POV^
*She looks more tense, as if she's about to pounce on a prey. I wonder what's going on? Wait! How come I'm starting to worry about her like this? It makes no sense. I only need her to think I care about her and then I have her and the rest is an easy landslide from their.* Darien tells him self with a smirk of arrogance.
"Yo Darien! The race is about to start." Andrew yells as he waves for Darien to come over to him.
Darien just simply walked over to Andrew who was frantically waving his arms so that he would know where to go.
"Stop looking like a lunatic and just turn and look at the cars." Darien tells him with boredom in his voice.
"What's wrong with you?" Andrew asks with an attitude.
"This 'business' deal." Darien replies with exasperation.
"I told you before you even started this deal that she aint gonna fall for it and besides, she's too stubborn and way to smart in more ways then you'll ever know." Andrew replies with a knowing smirk.
"Shut up! What do you know!" Darien retorts with a grunt.
"More than you realize." Andrew tells him with the smirk still on his face.
"I swear Andrew! You might be my best friend but I won't hesitate to kill you if you don't shut the hell up!" Darien tells him in a hushed voice, not wanting anybody to hear them.
"Yea yea. How many times have I heard that threat? Let's see..too many to count." Andrew quips
"Shut up! They're about to start the race." Darien tells him sharply.
"Fine, fine! Sheesh, you'd think you could take a few jokes and jabs here and there!" Andrew mumbles as she seats back in the bleacher and slumps back.
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Here yea go guyz! Chappy 13 for yea! Please let me know what yea think!!!!!!!!!!!!
~*~*Princess2000204*~*~
Srry that I took so long to update this! I hope you like this and I haven't forgotten the other girls in this story, as you'll see in this Chappy ~_* I hope you enjoy it.
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^Serena's POV^
Serena rolls off the side of her bed with an 'Oof'.
"Ouch!" Serena mumbles as she gets up from the floor and rubs her side.
"I better go and talk to Sammy" she mutters to herself as she walks out her bedroom door and sees Sammy seating on the couch, watching t.v., and eating.
"Get your feet off my coffee table." Serena tells him as she rubs the sleep from her eyes and curls up in her chair.
"Sorry" Sammy mumbles and takes his feet off the table and suddenly finds the floor more interesting.
"Sammy, look at me." Serena tells him as she finally becomes awaken.
Sammy lefts his head up and looks at Serena face.
"I'm sorry for the way I reacted last night, but I also am still ashamed at you." Serena begins.
"Stop Serena." Sammy tells her.
"Okay" Serena says as she continues to look at Sammy.
"Your right and I am sorry." Sammy says with a pleading look on his face.
"Thank you," Serena says as she gets up from the chair and gives Sammy a hug.
"I'm going to get dressed and go down to the garage." Serena says as she walks back to her room and closes the door behind her.
Serena takes out a pair of tight black leather pants and a black t-shirt a pair of white haunting eyes on the front and puts them on.
She then slips on her tennis shoes and walks back into the living room.
"Sams, I'm going now and I'll be back later." Serena replies as she grabs her keys and cell phone.
"Oh, okay" Sammy muttered as he watched the race that was taking place on the t.v.
"What's wrong Sams?" Serena asks as she walks towards where he sat on the couch.
"Nothing, I'll see you when you get home." Sammy answered as he waved his hand at her.
"Sams!" Serena started as she caught his hand in her hands so he couldn't move.
"What?" Sammy asked innocently.
Serena let his hand go and sat down next to him on the couch.
"What's the matter, and don't say nothing because I can see right through that lie." Serena replies as she looks into his eyes.
"I-I...I'm just worried about you especially since you had that break down or whatever you want to call it last night." Sammy answered as he looked down into his lap, as if in guilt.
"Sammy, you don't need to worry about me. I am your older sister, so there for if anybody does need to do any worrying it's me about you." Serena tells him as she moves his chin tenderly and makes him look her in the eyes.
"Sere, I am always going to worry about you and just because you're the oldest doesn't mean I can't worry about you. Tell me what yesterday was all about!" Sammy replies and more or least demands the last part.
"Fine, since I can tell you aren't going to give up last nights little emotional catastrophe." Serena replies with a weak smile.
"No, I'm not!" Sammy retorts.
"Yesterday was actually the day mom and dad died, and before you say anything. You probably didn't know, since after all you were only 7 or 6 so you probably don't I guess.remember it all that much, but I guess it was just one of those days that the whole world came down around me, I dunno." Serena explains with a shrug on the last words.
"Oh, Sere. You should have told me." Sammy exclaimed as he hugged Serena.
"It's okay, and I didn't want to worry or burden you." Serena replied, "Anyways" Serena adds as she gets out of Sammy's embrace and wipes away the few tears that managed to slip out. "I'm going to go out for awhile, but I'll call on my way home and I'll take you out somewhere, just me and you nobody else." Serena suggests as she gets out and straightens out her outfit.
"Alright, I'll be ready and waiting." Sammy replies with a small smile on his face.
"Okay, talk to yea later" Serena yells over her shoulder as she walks out the door with the door shutting behind her.
^Darien's POV ^
"Darien!" Raye yells as she stomps her way into his room.
"Yea?" Darien asks as he continues to steadily type away on his computer, not even noticing his sister's face.
"What happened at Serena's apartment last night?" Raye demands as she slams his laptop closed just as Darien removed his hands from the keyboard.
"What are you talking about?" Darien asks as he looks up at her and finally notices the gleam in her eyes that mean only one thing, she's pissed off and when she gets pissed off you better tell her if you know what's good for you, since the last person that ignored the gleam was thrown out of a 4- story window
"Umm.nothing really. We just kinda.kinda.got into it?" Darien mumbled meekly as he literally coward away from her dominating form.
"Well, when I went by her apartment as you very well know, she was in her room crying and you were mentioned as one of the reasons why!" Raye yelled as she continued to walk even closer to him.
"Um.Raye. I know I made a mistake and I fully intend on fixing it, but first I need to take care of business or we'll fall behind, and what do you mean by 'one' of the reasons?" Darien finished in a questioning tone with an uneasy frown on his lips.
"Well, Darien Allen Spiron! Is that concern or should I say care I sense in your voice?" Raye asks haughtily with a slight smirk.
"N-No! I just.I mean-Uggh. I just don't want Serena to have her personal life get in the way of her racing or it could fully blow these business deal I have going!" Darien replied as he finally got his backbone back and pushed himself back to his computer and started to go back to work, before Raye put her hand on the screen.
"Darien! I swear, if you start screwing around with her, mentally, I'll personally throw you from the tallest floor in this city and this time I want call an ambulance." Raye explained and quickly left just as she entered, leaving Darien gawking at her retreating form.
"I swear if she wasn't my sister I would have been gotten rid of her!" Darien started to mumble as he went back to work, but his mind this time was elsewhere.
*What did she mean by me being 'one' of the reasons, and did she say I actually made her cry? I've never really seen her cry-well except for that one time when I saw her crying in her sleep. Maybe I should call her.* Darien tells himself as he begins to reach for the phone but suddenly snatches it back as if it burned him, "No, I'll just go and see her, she's probably at the garage about now." Darien mutters to himself as he looks at the clock on his wall.
He quickly leaves his office and goes down into one of his many garages and quickly gets into one of his many sports cars and leaves just as quickly.
^Raye's POV^
*I hope that little rant gets him quickly and knowing him, he'll probably take action, but I hope it's quickly. I wonder if I should call Jade and get the full 411 on this Dylan she mentioned?* Raye asks her self as she sat down in her red satin chaise.
Raye snatches up her portable phone, dials the local police precinct, and hears a familiar voice answer the phone.
"Hello, this is Officer Micheal Grant. How may I help you?"
"Hey Officer Micheal. I was wondering if you could connect me to Chief or whatever Jade." Raye asked in her most polite voice.
"Um.sure, I guess. Could you please state the business you have with him?" Micheal asked a little uneasy.
"It's personal." Raye simply stated as she stretched out on the chaise.
"Oh..um..okay." Micheal stuttered and then clicked her over.
"Hello, this is Sergeant Jade. How can I help you?" he asked in an easy droll.
"Hello Jade. This is Raye, I'm a friend of Serena's from the races." Raye replied easily, as if she has done this numerous times.
"Oh, hey Raye. How can I help you?" Jade asks as he tenses a little.
"I just have a question concerning Serena." Raye simply stats.
"Oh, and what would that question be?" Jade asks with protectiveness apparent.
"Well, I was talking with Serena last night, she was really upset, and she mentioned the name Dylan as being one of the reasons." Raye explained with ease as she awaited his response.
"Dylan doesn't concern you, so please just forget about it." Jade replies and hangs up.
"Well now. This has just gotten extremely curious." Raye mutters to herself in amusement as she puts down the charger, with a challenging smirk.
^Serena's POV^
Serena pulled into her garage, parked her Lexus SC in its parking space, and then gets out of the car with a smile on her lips as she walks over to another and begins to check it out.
"Hmm..Nick has really out done himself this time!" she exclaims to nobody in general as she walks around inspecting the new sports car.
"Actually that's my car, but thanks all the same." Came an all too familiar voice close by that causes her to stiffen on the spot.
"What do you want!" she asks as she backs away from the car.
"To talk. Is that a crime all of a sudden?" he asks with amusement.
"Right now it is." She venomously retorts as she turns around and heads toward another new car that she has recently received.
"What's going on with you? Shouldn't you be happy? I mean you have qualified for one of the biggest races that has hit this town in years." Darien asks with confusion laced with what she first thought was worry but quickly shook it off as just her imagination.
"I've just got some 'things' going on in my life right now. It doesn't involve racing so don't worry about it." Serena replies as she waves her hand at the subject as she stops by a new white convertible.
"Serena! Remember when you asked me, and might I add very shakily, to protect you. Well, that's what I'm trying to do, but I can't unless you let me in so I can protect you." Darien tells her, not taking his eyes away from her form.
"Darien," she replies as clutches the side of the car tightly.
"There are a few things going on in my life that you don't know about and I'm just dealing with them, so if you don't mind leaving so I can get to work and prep up my next car for the race." Serena replies in a surprisingly sweet voice as she steps away from the car and takes out a huge key ring that's filled with keys of all kinds.
"Serena, all I've got to say is, whatever I said to you last night that made you so upset..I'm sorry." Darien replies low enough that Serena could just barely hear it.
"Don't worry about it" Serena waves it off as she unlocks the car, gets in, and quickly speeds out the garage.
Serena wipes away a few of stray tears that managed to escape, takes out her cell phone, and quickly dials her home number.
"Hello?" comes a welcoming male voice.
"Sams, get ready. I'm on my way home to get you." Serena said in a cheerful voice as she keeps on driving and turns onto the deserted part of the highway that she loves so much.
"Alright, see you in a few minutes then!" comes Sammy's cheerful voice and then hangs up quickly.
*God, I hope I can go through with this!* Serena tells herself as she takes the new car through her normal routines for all of her new cars.
^Darien's POV^
*Damnit! What the hell is her problem? I apologized which was hard enough for me, but then she just throws it in my face as if it was nothing and on top of it, I try and get her to open up to me but she wont. What the fuck does Raye want me to do?* Darien rants to himself hits his steering wheel with frustration.
"What have I done to deserve this kind of punishment?" Darien mutters to absolutely nobody.
"This woman is gonna be the end of me. She is so damn stubborn and strong headed, but that's good and yet how am I suppose to do my end of the bargain if this is how it's suppose to be?" Darien demands to himself as he speaks out loud.
He pulls up to his house, once he has his car parked and locked up in his garage he storms through the mansion in search of his oh-so-dear sister of his and get all of the information she knows.
"Raye!" he yells in his most demanding voice, and if I should say so is pretty damn demanding that it normally makes even the most powerful man coward under him in defeat.
"What is it?" Raye asks innocently as she steps out of her bedroom wearing a skimpy outfit.
"What the hell do you know!" he asks, still using his demanding voice.
"Many things my dear brother, so you need to be a little more specific." She replies in her easy droll as she leans against the doorframe to her room.
"You know very goddamn well what I am talking about!" he yells at her.
"Darien, if she doesn't want you to know then obviously there's one of 2 things going on. 1) You said something you shouldn't have or 2) She doesn't want you to know and that means she probably already knows about you little 'business' dealing involving her." Raye replies with a shrug.
"You know that idea by itself is so absurd it's actually hilarious!" Darien replied with a mock laugh as he stands in front of his unfazed sister.
"I wouldn't take her so highly, because from my research that I have don't on her, she has personal as well as business connection in extremely high places as far up as the government and as low as the highest drug lords." Raye explained as she shook her finger at him.
"What are your sources?" he asks as he narrows his eyes into small slits.
"Why dear brother! If I told my sources to any old person that asked, then let's just say I wouldn't be where I am today if I did." She replied with a wink and hen quickly sashayed away back into her room and slammed the door shut in his face.
"I swear! That isn't a woman but the devil its self in disguise!" he retorts as he sulks away to his office.
^Serena's POV^
"Sorry I'm late!" Serena replies as she opens the door to her apartment.
"It's okay sis." He replies as he grabs his coat and walks out the door with Serena following closely behind and they get back into her car.
"So, where are we going?" he asks excited. It wasn't every night that his sister took him out and she was well known in every circle/ring that was within 2 cities distant.
"You'll see. It's kinda of a surprise." She replies as she gets onto the freeway and quickly begins to speed as fast as she could go down the unusually packed freeway.
"Okay!" Sammy exclaims as he begins to go through her c.d. collection that she seems to take with her everywhere she goes.
"Sams, that's my racing music. Why don't you just listen to the music?" Serena tells him as she continues further down the freeway.
"Alright" Sammy replies as he begins to fiddle with the radio.
~*^^*~ After about 2 hours of driving in the convertible, they finally stop in a rather small town.
"Sere, what are we doing here?" Sammy asks with confusion as he looks around at his surroundings.
"You don't remember this place?" Serena asks a little hurt.
"Um.not really." Sammy replies as he continues to look around him.
"Well come on, you'll remember eventually." Serena exclaims as she locks the car and they begin to walk down the quiet street, for them it was a little unnerving since there use to the hustle and bustle of the a city type town, but it was completely normal for this countryish type town.
"Okay, this quietness is starting to become really unnerving, so unless you tell me what's going on, I'm going to start freaking out!" Sammy replies with a childish look as he crosses his arms in front of him and stomps his foot.
Laughing, "Come on Sams. I promise you'll figure it out." Serena replies as she begins to drag him towards 2 huge metal gates that has ivy, and some kind of small purple flowers growing all over it, as if in an attempt to over to it.
"Se-Sere-Serena! This-This isn't where I-I think it-it is, is it-it?" Sammy asks stuttering as he literally stops in his place with his eyes going wide as if in recognition.
"Maybe" Serena replies as she leads them through the gates and into a small cemetery that looks as if it has been taken care of.
"This is! It's the cemetery mom and dad were buried in!" he exclaims as his eye roam over all of the tombstones in front of him.
"Yea, it is. So I guess I should say, Surprise!" Serena replies meekly as she throws her hands up.
"Thanks Sere" Sammy mumbles as he begins to walk around.
"Um.don't mention it." Serena replies as she makes her way towards 2 identical headstones.
Serena kneels between both of them as she makes a small silent prayer.
"Hey mom, dad. Sorry I haven't made it here in a long time, but yea know how things get." Serena says as she scratches the back of her head.
"I've been taking really good care of Sammy and I guess you could say Sammy has also been taking care of me too." Serena continues as she seats down in Indian style and begins to get comfortable.
"I know I haven't been the ideal daughter and everything but I do want you to know that I-we really miss you. " Serena begins as she starts to pick at a piece of grass and twirl it around in her fingers.
For the rest of the night Serena sat there, in-between her parents and just telling them everything that has happened in her life.
Sammy just sat with his grandmother, since their grandfather wanted to be buried with his family, and did the same.
~*^^*~
"Thanks Serena, really I mean it. That was something I'll always appreciate." Sammy tells her as they were on their way towards the apartment.
"I'm glade. I wanted to do something for you that was special and I think in a way, we both kind of needed that." Serena replies with a smile as she takes a look at her brother and for once, in a really long time, she sees the little boy that hasn't been their in a very long time.
She simply smiles in content and simply continues on with their drive back.
~*^^*~
That morning, Serena was up before the girls even came by and was dressed in another one of her racing outfits and waiting in the kitchen for Lita and the other 2 girl to come, when Sammy came into the kitchen fully dressed.
"What are you planning on doing?" She asks with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm going to your race today, duh!" Sammy replies as he makes himself a cup of coffee and seats down next to her, and waits.
"Come on girls! I've got a great plan to wake her up this morning!" Mina replies giddily from the other side of the door a few minutes later as Lita opens the door quietly and is followed by Mina and Amy.
"What is it?" Lita asks, just as excited.
"I think we should throw ice water on her!" she replies as they tip toe into her bedroom, not even looking in the kitchen to see the gaping people seating in their.
A couple seconds later,
"Where is she! She didn't go partying last night, did she?" Lita asks worried as she flees from the room and stops dead in her tracks causing a domino reaction behind her.
"Oww!" was heard behind along with, "What's wrong Lita?".
"Se-Sere-Serena! What are y-yo-you doing up th-this early?" Lita asks open mouthed.
"Just am." Serena shrugged, "What is this that I heard about throwing ice water on me?" she adds with a glare at all 3 of them.
"Just joke" Mina replies with a weak laugh.
"Har, har!" Serena laughs and then gets up with Sammy following behind her, "Come on girls, and I wont forget this either!" she tells them as she grabs the cell phone and keys, walks out the door with Sammy behind and is soon followed by 3 gaping girls.
^Darien's POV^
"Damnit!" Darien growls as he slams his hands down on the desk in front of him as he rereads the information in front of him.
"How does she make all of these connections?" he asks himself as he prints out the information and saves the rest on disk.
*I wonder if I can ask around in her other circuits?* Darien asks himself as he gets into his lucky car as he speeds off, toward the day's race.
Darien continues to ponder that one question on the entire ride.
"How is it, that I am letting this mere, girl-no, woman, get to me like this!" he tells himself out loud as he registers his car and parks it in his normal parking space.
"Hey man! Long time, no see!" comes a shout close by and is soon greeted by his best friend Andrew.
"Yea, way too long!" Darien replies as he smiles back at him.
"What's you been up to?" Andrew asks as he leans himself against Darien's car.
"Just a little bit of everything." Darien replies with a shrug as he too leans against it.
"Cool! Word has it that your making a major deal with a certain company." Andrew replies with a wiggle of his eyebrows.
"If your talking about Celestial Moon, then yes, but let's not talk about that here." Darien says as he begins to shoot him glares.
"Okay, okay. Sheesh." Andrew replies as he raises his hands in defense.
"Good. How's you and Rita doing? I hear she's going to big time now." Darien tells him, as he tries to change the subject and for him, it works to easily on the blonde.
"We're doing just fine and yeap she has, but is unfortunately move to Europe somewhere, for artistic exploration. Whatever the fuck that's suppose to mean." Andrew replies sadly, as he slumps against the car.
"That's gotta suck" Darien replies in an understanding way.
"Yea, but she says that she'll be coming back soon, since I already told her flat out that I wasn't going anywhere." Andrew says with a defiant shake of his head.
Chuckling, "That's the way to go" Darien tells him as he pats his shoulder and then stands up as he notices the group of guys coming his way.
"Hey Seiya, Yaten, and Taiki. What's up?" Darien asks politely.
"Hey Darien, nothing too much." Seiya says as he looks at Andrew, "Hey Drew" he says as he nods his head in his direction.
"Hey" he mumbles back.
"Darien, can we ask you some questions?" Yaten asks in a serious polite voice.
"Sure" Darien shrugs as they walk off.
^Serena's POV^
Serena and Sammy parked in her usual parking place and was followed by 3 other cars who parked on either side of her.
"Wow Sere! How is it that the cops don't know of this place?" Sammy asks with wide eyes as he takes in the site around him.
"Easy, Jade tells all of the cops that this place is used for chemical waste." Serena replies with a grin as she walks to the trunk of her car and begins to mess around with her NOS system.
"His smart." Sammy says as he walks over to her.
"What are yea doin?" he asks confused as she adjusts some nozzles and what- nots.
"Just fixing some of the equipment for when/if I race today." Serena replies with wink as she slams the trunk down and then turns to the Ami, Mina, and Lita walking up to him.
"Are wither of you racing today?" Serena asks.
"I am" Lita replies as she walks over to the registering table.
"You guys actually have a registering table here?" Sammy asks with disbelief.
"Yeap sure do. How else are we going to know whose car is whose if you should die or something in a wreck?" Mina says as she begins to prance around.
"Makes sense" Sammy replied as he shook his head for a moment.
"Let's go and get us some sets for when the races start today." Ami says to everyone finally as she looks at everyone.
"Good idea." Serena replies as she leads everybody toward an area where a crowd has already started to gather.
"Hey Serena!" came a shout from the front of the crowd, then a head of Raven black hair popped in front of her.
"Oh, hey Raye!" Serena exclaims a little startled.
"I didn't know you were coming today." Raye replied as openly eyed Sammy.
"Of course I came today. After all, Lita's racing today and I'm not going to miss that." Serena replies as she began to lead them towards where Raye shouted from.
"Oh really! I don't think I've seen her race before." Raye replies with a curious look.
"She hasn't raced since..I think since we were in the.uh, hang on now, Sammy was in I think 9th so, that was at.." "In 9th I went to Joseph Academy." Sammy piped up from her side.
"Oh yea! Then it was when we were in the Dragon Flames or something like that." Serena shrugged as she took them towards an empty bench in the front.
"You guys were in the Dragon Flames!" Raye exclaimed with bugged eyes.
"Yea, only Lita, Amy, Mina, and Me. Sams was still in school and only let him get involved with Drag Races and NASCAR." Serena replies with a wave of her hand.
"The Dragons got busted up like 8 years ago, but their still a big name gang even today." Raye replies quietly that Serena or Sammy could barely hear her.
"I know. If it wasn't for the fact that the cops started sending in double agents then we prob still be together, but I'm not gonna start dragging up the past." Serena replies with a steely gaze sent back to Sammy mainly.
"Se-Sere," Sammy began as he caught the glaze or glare is what it really felt like.
"Yea" she replies in the same tone as the gaze.
"Is that when you meet Jade and Micheal?" Sammy asked, trying to get it straight mainly in his head.
"Yeap, they saved my asses so many times in one night, I think for sure I was a cat in the past life." Serena replies with a giggle at the thought.
"What night are you talking about?" Raye asked, very curious at where this conversation has turned.
"Oh nothing" Serena said with a wave of her hand.
"Sere!" is shrieked nearby.
"Yea" she yelled back.
"There you are!" Mina replies as she skips over to them, "Ames was wondering if you wanted to go to the abandoned runway after we're done here." Mina tells her as she begins to look around her.
"For what?" Serena asks with suspicion as she narrowed her eyes.
"Well, she wanted to check the new car, make sure your reflexes are still good and wanted to have a few mock races." Mina said as she listed off the things on her fingers as she twirled a piece of her idly.
"Um...okay, where's Ames and Lits by the way?" Serena asked as she looked around at the people around them.
"Over at Lits car. There just doin the yea know, the manual checks and what- nots. Any who, I think they kinda want you over their." Mina tells her and then shrugs her shoulder as if not sure of what she just said.
"Okay, I'll be right back." Serena tells them as she gets up from her seat, which is taken almost immediately.
"Don't get too comfortable." Serena retorts to her and then dashes off to where Lita has parked her VX 220.
"Finally!" Lita exclaimed as Serena stopped beside the car.
"I'm here. What do yea need help with?" Serena asks as she leans against the car.
"Oh nothing major. Just for you to check underneath the car and give it your full look through." Amy replied as she was typing away on her little computer.
"Alright." Serena replies as she slips on the mechanic jumpsuit that Lita hands her, pulls her hair back, and ties it into a topknot, slides underneath the car on the black piece of wood that Lita had drilled wheels on to.
^Raye's POV^
*I can't believe that those 4 girls where in the Dragon Flames! That's still one of the roughest gang of Racers there is around in this state. No wonder Serena has the attitude she has. You has to be tough and basically be emotionless to survive in their. I wonder how far up she got in their ranks? I wonder if Sammy knows anything?* Raye asks herself as she continues to ponder all of the new information she has just received from Serena.
"Sammy" Raye began as she turned to him.
"Yea" he replied as he continue to stare at the starting line.
"Do you know how far up your sister got up into the Dragon Flames when you went to Joseph Academy?" Raye asks as she continues to look at his express and sees that it falls to an emotion of what almost looks like sadness.
"All I know is that every time I asked about where the money was coming in from Serena would change the subject or if I asked her how come she was starting to look worn out and tried all she would tell me is to worry about my schooling and activities. I do know I heard her crying a few times and murmuring how life wasn't fair, but I just thought it was because she lost a race or something, but now that I think about it, I don't think it was because of her losing a life." Sammy replies very quietly, that if you didn't strain your ears to hear it, then it the words would be lost to the wind.
"Wow! She must care for you a lot if she didn't want you to worry about her and she also must have been really high up on the ranks if she was acting and looking like that." Raye replies as she begins to think about everything that Sammy told her.
*Sense I can kinda tell how Serena is and since she acts like the world isn't a problem, she must have been pretty high up on the Dragon Flames ranks. Not to mention I did hear that they had to start killing off some of the lower members. I wonder if Serena had to do some of the killing?* Raye asks herself as she gazes off to the horizon.
^Serena's POV^
"Lita" Serena says to the brunette that's standing over her.
"Yea" she replies as she hands Serena a wrench.
"We need to start keeping a closer eye on Raye. She's starting to ask questions acting a little bit too suspicious for my taste." Serena replies in a deathly low voice, that didn't seem normal for Serena.
"You got it." Lita replies with a firm nod of the head.
"Pass it on to Amy and Mina." Serena replies as she rolls from out of the car.
"I heard you, Serena," Amy tells them quietly as she continues to type on the computer.
"Ames, what the hell are you doing?" Lita asks with a confused expression.
"I'm just getting some information." Amy explains as she keeps her eyes on the screen.
"Okay, whatever" Serena replies as she pulls off the jumpsuit, "I'm going back over to where I was. Good Luck Lits" Serena said with 2 thumbs up and a little wink before she walks away towards Sammy and Raye.
*Why would Raye be suddenly interested in my past? It doesn't make sense, unless she's either working for a gang that's still raveling Dragon Flames or it's something else, hopefully it's the former, because that will be easy to take care of but the latter is more tricky and something that causes for more thinking.* Serena tells herself as she makes Mina scoot over so she can have her spot back.
"Sammy told Raye how you were acting while you were active in Dragon Flames." Mina whispers so quietly that her lips didn't barely move.
Serena just nods in affirmation and turns her head so that she was looking at the starting line and also to where her ears could listen more easily to what Raye and Sammy were talking about.
^Darien's POV^
*She looks more tense, as if she's about to pounce on a prey. I wonder what's going on? Wait! How come I'm starting to worry about her like this? It makes no sense. I only need her to think I care about her and then I have her and the rest is an easy landslide from their.* Darien tells him self with a smirk of arrogance.
"Yo Darien! The race is about to start." Andrew yells as he waves for Darien to come over to him.
Darien just simply walked over to Andrew who was frantically waving his arms so that he would know where to go.
"Stop looking like a lunatic and just turn and look at the cars." Darien tells him with boredom in his voice.
"What's wrong with you?" Andrew asks with an attitude.
"This 'business' deal." Darien replies with exasperation.
"I told you before you even started this deal that she aint gonna fall for it and besides, she's too stubborn and way to smart in more ways then you'll ever know." Andrew replies with a knowing smirk.
"Shut up! What do you know!" Darien retorts with a grunt.
"More than you realize." Andrew tells him with the smirk still on his face.
"I swear Andrew! You might be my best friend but I won't hesitate to kill you if you don't shut the hell up!" Darien tells him in a hushed voice, not wanting anybody to hear them.
"Yea yea. How many times have I heard that threat? Let's see..too many to count." Andrew quips
"Shut up! They're about to start the race." Darien tells him sharply.
"Fine, fine! Sheesh, you'd think you could take a few jokes and jabs here and there!" Andrew mumbles as she seats back in the bleacher and slumps back.
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Here yea go guyz! Chappy 13 for yea! Please let me know what yea think!!!!!!!!!!!!
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