Okay, to answer some people's questions:

Tigerlily- I try to update everyday because I wanna keep people's interest. Sometimes I don't get to, that's why I say every 1-2 days. But hey, if you have a problem with it I can take longer…LOL j/p. ;)

NeoVixen- Yes that was the name on the plane ticket (for those who didn't remember) I'm really glad you picked up on that.

China- I'm sorry that I got you confused, but Letty wasn't going to see anyone at the beginning, she just went for a drive, then stopped at the tattoo parlor, and then went to the travel agency. I hope that clears things up. (If you're still confused, re-read chapters 5, 7, and 8.)

Speed Girl- Yes you do know Kalista, re-read the chapters above for more clarification.

Now on with the story!!

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Dom was completely confused, first he finds that note in Letty's jacket, then there's some guy leaving a message and calling her by her middle name. I thought only we knew that Kalista was her middle name, he thought. I guess I was wrong. Damn…I seem to be wrong about a lot these days. What the hell did I do to deserve this? Maybe it was just a freak coincidence. Giving himself false hope, he quickly erased the message and walked outside.

He opened the driver's door to his RX-7 and got in, Letty noticed that he looked troubled as soon as he sat down. "Is everything okay baby?"

"Yea everything's fine," he replied, a little too coldly.

The ride to the garage was quiet in the small car. Dom was in the lead, and everyone else was following in a neat line. All of the others carried on their conversations nonchalantly, none of them aware of the tenseness in the Mazda. Giovanni showed a little interest in street racing, and him and Sandy were riding with Jesse, so Jesse was happily talking about the good old days.

"So do you guys plan on racing around here?" Giovanni asked.

"Well we would, but we don't know of any places around here where racers gather. Hell if we did we would probably already be the 'Royal Family' of the streets," Jesse said laughing. Giovanni looked a little confused by his comment, so Jesse decided to explain. "Back in LA we were the 'Royal Family' of the streets, no one could beat our team. Dom was the King, Letty the Queen, and we were…well you get it."

"Yea, how long did it take all of you to get your cars together?" he continued.

"It varied, all of us worked on our own cars when we got them, unless someone needed help. If you spent a lot of time on your car, it would get done faster. It was also a money issue. At the beginning we didn't have all the racing money, so we couldn't do things really fast. Dom got his car finished first and started racing. Then Letty, then Vince, then Leon, then me. Mia's car got done last cuz she wasn't really much into racing. Mine took longer cuz I had to map out everyone else's car."

"So you really are the genius Letty told me you were?" Sandy interrupted.

"Umm, I don't really think of it in that way," Jesse answered shyly, Sandy smiled at that. Letty had been right, this kid was really easy to love, and Sandy was liking him already.

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When they finally got there, they saw that the garage was actually very upstanding. It was well taken care of, and it looked very posh for a garage. The place was smaller than the garage in LA, but they had their own garage now, so if anyone needed a special job they could do it there.

"Wow I like this place!" Mia said when they got out of the cars, "It looks very clean."

"Shut up Mia," Letty said shaking her head. "The place's supposed to be dirty, it's a garage!"

"This is probably the lobby part or somethin'," Brian reasoned when they walked inside.

The room was a light peach color, with big stuffed couches littering around. Dom walked up to a big window where a young woman was sitting. "Hi I'm here to see Mr. Delarosa," he told her.

"One moment," she said in heavily accented English. She walked out a door on the other side of the office and came back about two minutes later, "Mr. Delarosa will see you." She pressed a button and the door that led from the lobby to the other side of the garage opened, suddenly she appeared in the small hallway and led them to Mr. Delarosa's office.

"Wow there's more of you than I expected," he said when they got inside.

"Yea well, everyone on the team has a say in this decision, and we brought some friends along," Dom replied.

"Very well, look, here's the deal. I am getting old and I want to retire, I have no children so I'm just gonna sell this place. My asking price is 250 thousand dollars."

"That's fair," Letty said.

"Yea that sounds okay to me," Mia agreed.

"Does everyone else agree?" Dom asked.

Brian, Jesse, and Leon quickly nodded and Mr. Delarosa proceeded to take out the contract papers. "How much time do you need to get me the money?" he asked.

"I can write you a check right now," Dom replied.

Mr. Delarosa was a little taken aback, "Uh, okay then. I'm going to leave everything here for you to use, so you guys can start working as early as tomorrow. If you want."

"Yes! Definitely!" Jesse yelled jumping up, then realized what he had just done and sat down quietly.

Letty laughed, "I guess we're starting tomorrow then, unless we want Jesse to have an anxiety attack."

The others laughed at that and one by one stood up to leave while Dom talked out the details with Delarosa. He wrote the check and signed the contract, then he was on his way to the lobby to tell the others when they started. Dom was about to open his mouth when Jesse started talking.

"So when do we start Dom?!!" he asked excitedly.

Dom chuckled, "We open at 10 AM tomorrow, but we have to be here by nine to get ourselves set up."

"Yes!!" Jesse whooped.

"Okay so what do we do now?" Jennifer asked. The others were kind of surprised, she hadn't said much since they got there. They realized that she was like a female Jesse, it took a lot to get her to talk.

"Oh my god! When we were coming here I saw this movie theatre and they were playing xXx!! I've been wanting to see that movie forever!" Letty answered.

"Hey I'd go for a movie," Mia said.

"Yea dawg, I heard that movie was gonna be off the heazy!" Leon added.

"Aight then, let's go see it," Dom finished.

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The team parked in a row, always keeping the same pattern, when they got to the movie theatres. They received a few envious stares from a couple of teens in front, and many curious looks from people just passing by. Letty decided to go get the tickets for all of them, so Dom gave her the money and she went to the box office.

"Hi, may I help you?" the teller said politely.

"Uh hi…Cindy," Letty said looking at her name tag, "Let me have nine adult tickets to xXx."

"Sure…uh at $8.75 a ticket that'll be…$78.75," Cindy replied.

Letty handed her a 100 dollar bill, Cindy got her change and gave her the tickets, "$21.25 is your change, enjoy your show!"

"Thank you," Letty replied walking away. "Okay I got the tickets, the movie starts in 15 minutes, so we have just enough time to get popcorn and stuff," she said when she got to the others.

They went and got every kind of junk food imaginable, "I want extra butter on my popcorn!" Letty said. And that's how it started, Jesse wanted Juju Bees, Leon wanted Goobers, Mia and Brian wanted cookie dough, Dom wanted gummy worms, Sandy wanted nachos, Giovanni wanted Raisinettes, and Jennifer wanted buncha crunch. By the time the guy got all their food they had two minutes to get to the movie, Dom paid quickly and they were off.

When they got to the theatre, they realized that they there was no one else there, so they had the whole theatre to themselves. Everyone went to sit down where they wanted, but before they were all seated the movie started.

As soon as the preview for the movie came on, Letty yelled, "Oh my god Dom! It's that guy that looks like you!" Everyone heard and started laughing, including Dom.

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Three hours later they walked out of the movie theatres blown away by the movie they had just seen. "Wow Letty, you sure picked a good movie! That GTO was sweet!" Jesse commented.

"Yea, but I betcha I coulda done those stunts better than the guy who looks like me," Dom challenged.

Letty snorted, "Honey, most people would say you look like him."

"Yea right, he probably saw me one day and decided to steal my style," Dom replied childishly.

"Whatever, can we go somewhere to eat? I'm freakin starvin'!" Letty said ignoring his comment.

"Letty how the hell do you eat so damn much and stay so damn skinny?," Mia asked.

"Fast metabolism?" Letty offered. "Now let's go eat!"

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The next day Jesse was the first one to be ready and at the door waiting for them to leave. Sandy, Jen, and Giovanni left the night before and promise to come back on Saturday for dinner. "Will you guys hurry up?!! We're gonna be late!" Jesse called.

The rest of the team, except Mia, came down shortly after Jesse called for them. "Where's Mia?" Dom asked.

"She said she'll come by later, she has to clean the house today," Brian answered.

"Aight then let's go," Dom said.

When the team got to the garage they found that it was no different from the garage in LA. Big surprise there, thought Leon. Each of them quickly found something to work on from the board. There had been six cars brought in the day before, and two were coming in that day.

Mia called a few hours after they got there to say she wasn't going to go, that she would go the next day. Other than Mia's phone call, nothing eventful happened, and around 5:30 they decided to close up. Dom decided to go outside to take the sign down, when a young man walked over to him.

"Are those your cars?" he asked.

"Uh yea why?" Dom retorted cautiously.

"Do you race?" the guy asked avoiding the previous question.

"Not anymore why?"

The guy relaxed, "I was just wondering…no wonder I've never seen you at the races."

"What races?" Dom asked, getting curious.

"You didn't know there were races? I figured someone with cars like that would. I mean those are some—"

Dom cut him off, "We're new in town. So where are these races?"

The guy proceeded to introduce himself as Osvaldo, better known as Wally, then told Dom about the street races. Dom got more excited with every word, Yes! I'm gonna get to be the King of the Streets again! Dom jotted down all the information and went inside to meet the others.

"Guys, I have good news!" he said when he reached them, "We're going to the street races this Saturday."

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I'm so glad I finally got this up! I've been totally dying to do a street racing scene for awhile now. I also realized that my story needs a little more sex in it…LOL. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter. I'll post more soon. Oh yea, can you guys pleeeeeeeease read my poetry and leave some reviews?! I would really appreciate it. Thanx a bunch! Love ya…

-Zuleyka