"I want you all to stay away from him." Dom said as he walked back into the store. He had a bad feeling about the kid, but something about him interested him. If the kid could get on his good side, he'd probably be a good racer, he could get some money off of him.
"What? Dom, come on, you can't be serious!" Jezzie said. Sure, Jezzie had a bad feeling about him, but she wasn't going to stay away from him just because Vince picked a fight. She needed mroe info about him before she'd make her decision. And she kenw just how to.
"Yes, I am serious Jezzie. Can I trust that you'll listen to me?" Dom asked, standing in front of her. Jezzie shrugged.
"Dammit Jez. Why do you have to be so hardheaded about this? It's obvious he's a fucking cop!" Vince said; he wiped the blood from his mouth and nose. It was obvious to Jezzie that everyone but Mia and Letty were going to be against her on this.
"Really? Oh, fuck off Vince. You just don't like him cause he's on Mia's good graces. Inching in on your territory, huh?" Jezzie said, leaning over in Vince's face.
"Jezebeil!" Dom said, pulling Jezzie away from Vince's face. Jezzie looked at Dom and sighed. She felt bad for what she just said to Vince, but he deserved it. He should have given up on Mia a long time ago.
"Whatever. He needs to get over Mia. She's not owned by him so she can like whoever the fuck she wants to. He doesn't need to start fights just because somebody likes Mia." Jezzie said, looking Dom in the eyes. Dom frowned at her.
"Jezzie, back off. Leave it alone." Jez rolled her eyes. Dom still had a hold of her arm and it was starting to hurt.
"I'm not going to promise anything Dom, if I run into him, I run into him. Ok?" Jezzie smiled a little and Dom sighed, letting go of her arm.
"Just don't go find him on purpose, alright? I gotta call Harry." Dom started walking to the back.
"Uhh...Dom?" Jezzie asked, getting up from her seat. Dom turned around.
"Yeah, Jez?" Dom knew something was wrong, or weird. She had a look on her face like she did something she wasn't supposed to.
"I gotta head over to Harry's..." She started, looking at her feet. Dom shook his head.
"No. You're not going to Harry's. Send Leon." Dom pointed at Leon. Jezzie looked up and shook her own head.
"I can't. It's gotta be me, but I can't hold if off. There's a race tonight and I need it before tonight." Jezzie wasn't going to give up. She didn't really need to talk to Harry; she just wanted to warn the kid. And naturally, there was nothing she needed before the race, she wasn't even going to race.
"Fine. But you get over there and you get back. No playing around, got it Jez?" Dom knew she wanted to talk to the kid, but he also knew she'd go anyways. He'd started to wonder why she asked him; usually she would have gone off. Maybe, after 10 years, she finally got the idea that everything had to go through him and that it was better to ask him first then to just go off and do it.
"I got it." Dom sighed and turned around and headed to the phone. Jezzie turned to Leon. "Leon..." She said in her most sexy voice. Leon sighed and handed her his keys. She took them and jumped in his arms, she wrapped her arms around his neck, and he held onto her waist. "Thank you. I'll take good care of your baby, I promise." Leon laughed and they kissed each other.
"Right and take care of the car too."
"Aww...Lee, you are so sweet." She kissed him and smiled. "I love ya."
"I love you too Jez." He let her go and she climbed into his car.
Jesse patted Leon on his shoulder. "Those are the two finest things I've ever seen, and the fact that they can get along together. Woo hoo boy...you are lucky." Jesse whistled and walked away, leaving Leon staring after his car, which had already disappeared from his sight.
Jezzie was tearing up the pavement as she sped her way over to The Racer's Edge. She reached the store in record time and quickly climbed out of the car. She moved to run inside but forgot about the bag. She opened the driver's door and pulled out the bag of her bulbs. She had bought yellow and blue bulbs, but decided to use yellow, so she had to bring the blue ones back. She shut the door and walked towards the door, pushing the lock button as she ran inside. She waved to Callisa, the girl behind the counter. Jezzie saw Brian in the spare room and Harry was talking to Brian.
"Brian, you're going to ruin business!" Harry yelled. Jezzie walked closer and peeked over Harry's shoulder. Brian was changing his shirt.
'Nice.' Jezzie thought, smiling. But she shook her head. "Hey Harry." She said as she walked into his office, putting the bag on his extra bed. Harry appeared in the door.
"Jezebeil! How nice of you to come." Jezzie frowned at the use of her full name.
"What did I do?" Harry told Brian to wait a minute and then he stepped into the office, shutting the door behind him.
"You knew he worked here! Why didn't you stop him?" Harry said, barely above a whisper, but with enough force to make Jezzie shudder.
"Harry, you wanted me to get between Brian and Vince? I don't think so. I may be able to take on some guys, but not two guys whose testosterone level is beyond normal, ok? Vince is not one to mess with. Especially when ya got a punk messing with Mia." Jezzie crossed her arms and stared at Harry. He ran a hand through his hair and sighed.
"A punk? Is that what you think he is?" Harry asked. Jezzie sighed.
"I don't know what he is and that's why he's a punk. Jesus Harry, do you know anything about him? We just think it's weird how he keeps coming around the store every damn day and he's not letting up. Vince is convinced he's a cop and I'm starting to think he is too. Dom ain't too happy about him coming around and starting fights. And as much as it was Vince's fault, the blame lies with the kid." Jezzie wasn't too proud of what she just said, but she needed to get something out of Harry. She figured he'd crack and tell her if anything was going on. But he didn't.
"I know. I already talked to him about that, but he's not going to let up and he can't." He ran a hand through his hair again. Jezzie was confused, he couldn't let up? Maybe Vince was right, she though. "Dom wants me to fire Brian." Jezzie dropped her arms to her side and frowned.
"You're not going to, are you?" She asked. She didn't want Brian to get fired, never mind the fact that he just got in a fight with one of her best friends. Besides, Harry needed the help, whether he was a cop or not.
"No. I told him good help's hard to find." He sighed and turned around and opened the door, stepping out into the store. Jezzie shrugged and followed him. Brian was standing in front of the NOS set up.
"No, no Brian!" Harry said rushing over at him. Brian didn't look up. "Amateurs don't use NOS Brian!"
"I need NOS Harry. I need one of these, no, make it two." Brian was still staring at the NOS. Jezzie walked up.
"Are you sure you can handle that much NOS?" Jezzie asked. Brian looked at her. "It's very powerful, get enough and it could blow," She made a motion with her hand, like a car was blowing up. "you up bro. And if you're an amateur, like Harry says, then you're gonna wanna take it slow." Jezzie didn't want to piss him off, but she didn't want him to risk the chance of blowing himself up. Brian smiled but turned to Harry.
"I need them by tonight." Jezzie shrugged.
"Oh Harry, I put the blue ones on your bed, they're in the bag. I ended up putting the yellow ones on. Jesse's convinced that there's two much NOS in my system, or some shit like that. Looks like I won't be racing tonight." Jezzie shrugged again and Harry laughed.
"He won't let you drive your own car?" Harry asked.
"You know it. But that's Jesse for ya." Jezzie turned to Brian. "Listen, be mindful of Dom, he's not as stupid as he looks, and neither is Vince. You watch your back Spilner." Jezzie hugged Harry and left the store. Brian stared after her.
"You be careful Brian. Those Toretto's are not one to fuck around with." Brian looked at Harry as he warned him. "And especially not Jezzie. She will kick your ass, then her guy Leon will, then Jesse, then Vince, then," Brian held up his hands.
"I get it Harry. I mess with any of them and the rest of them are on my back. I got it. Now get me NOS." Harry sighed and shook his head. Brian walked away.
"No, I don't think you do." Harry sighed and reluctantly told Callisa to get two tanks of NOS for Brian.
Jezzie parked Leon's car in the parking lot for the garage and then went inside. Everyone was busy at work. Jezzie walked over to Leon and leaned next to him on the car.
"Hey." Leon said, not looking up. He knew that she just went over there to talk to the kid; he just wasn't sure what it was about, and that's what scared him the most. That's how it was with the guy before, she used to go over to Harry's and talk to the guy.
"I know you're on Dom's side about this, I'm not mad. I have my reasons for going over there.." Jezzie whispered. Leon nodded.
"Right." Leon didn't want to sound like he was upset, or disappointed, or mad; he just didn't understand why she had to stick her nose in everything. Jezzie grabbed his chin and made him look at her.
"Leon, he's got enough NOS in his fucking car to blow up everyone's fucking car. He wants to beat Dom bad, but I don't know why." Leon grabbed her hands and kissed them.
"Why do you care so much?" Leon asked, going back to work. Jezzie sighed.
"Because he seems like a nice kid and Mia likes him...a lot." Leon sighed.
"So what if Mia likes him. If you think he's a cop, prove it. Shouldn't you be at the store?" Leon asked. He didn't want to have this conversation, he wasn't sure of why, but he didn't want to talk about the kid. Something was going to happen between Spilner and Jezzie, he could almost sense it. But then he was on Dom's side, whatever Dom wnted done was done, if he didn't want them around the kid, then Leon wasn't going to go around the kid.
"Yeah. I ju-ju-just came by to give you your car. I'm taking mine." Jezzie was hurt by his abruptness. She shook her head and walked over to her car. Jesse was just shutting the hood.
"Finish my car, Jess?" Jezzie asked as Jesse threw her, her keys.
"Yeah. It sounds beautiful. It should run right, but I don't think you should take it to the races tonight." He leaned up against her car and she nodded.
"All right. Hey, I gotta head over to the store. I'll see you guys back at the house." Jesse nodded and headed over to the office. Jezzie got in her car and drove over to the store.
The afternoon went by slow at the store. Jezzie sat in the back for the most part, shifting through Dom's car magazines, not really reading them. She was busy thinking about the night to come. The races were sure to be busy tonight. She knew that Brian would want a piece of Dom, but she also knew that he was biting of more than he can chew.
Dom had only been beaten once, but few remember that day, only because few people were there. Nobody really talked about that day; they just didn't like to rub it in. It was just Dom and Jezzie, they were neck and neck the whole time, until the end, both pushed NOS, but Jezzie pushed ahead of Dom and won. They didn't talk about it after that. Jezzie respected Dom's feelings and she didn't want to rub it in.
Jezzie sighed and threw the magazine on the table.
"You ok?" Mia asked. Jezzie turned around and smiled.
"Yeah. I think Leon's mad at me." Mia frowned.
"Why would he be mad at you?" Mia knew that Leon wasn't mad at her, probably just upset, he'd never been mad at her.
"Because I went over to Harry's. I think he knows that I went there to talk to Brian. I think that he thinks that I like Brian." Mia made an 'oh' face and nodded.
"What did you talk to him about?"
"Well, we didn't really talk. I talked to Harry and then Brian wanted to get some NOS for his car and I told him that it's dangerous shit. That's about it. But I gotta tell ya Mi...that kid has a nice looking body." Jezzie winked and Mia laughed.
"When and how did you see his body?" The expression on Mia's face made Jezzie smile.
"When I went into the store, he was in the extra room changing his shirt. I just happened to peek over Harry's shoulder at the right time and boy...yummy." Jezzie shrugged and Mia shook her head.
"First off, my guy, back off. Second of all, shouldn't you be talking about Leon's body?" Mia raised her eyebrow and smirked. She knew what went on in their bedroom at night. Jezzie laughed.
"Just letting you know what I saw Mia. Just be careful...something's not right about him. He wants to prove himself too much. And I'm going to laugh when he gets his ass handed to him." Jezzie stood up and walked to the side counter, Mia followed her.
"I know what I'm doing. Come on, help me lock the store up." Jezzie nodded and helped her. 20 minutes later Jezzie was driving Mia home. Jezzie parked her car on the curb and the two walked into the house.
"That's not what I'm saying Dom!" Leon yelled as Jezzie and Mia walked through the front door. They could hear Dom and Leon yelling at each other in the living room.
"So then tell me what the fuck you're saying Leon! That's my best friend you're talking about!" Dom yelled back.
"She may be your best friend, but she's my girlfriend and she's been sneaking around too damn much." Leon said. Jezzie's jaw dropped and so did Mia's. Mia gave Jezzie a look and Jezzie shrugged. They walked into the living room and everything got quiet.
"What's going on guys?" Jezzie asked. Dom was sitting on the couch, his head in his hands. Leon was leaning against the wall, looking at the floor. Letty, Jesse, and Vince were standing on the stairs, watching them argue.
"Nothing. You guys get ready so we can go." Dom said quietly. Mia gave a Jezzie another look and Jezzie shrugged again. They headed upstairs, Mia going to her room and Jezzie going to her room.
Jezzie stood in front of her closet, trying to think about what to wear. She decided on a short-sleeved black shirt with a low cut in the front, which also came to just below her navel, showing off her tribal tattoo on the lower of her back. She picked a white skirt that stopped about 4 inches above her knee. She was deciding on what shoes to wear when there was a knock on the door.
"Yeah?" She asked. The door opened, it was Leon. He shut the door behind him. "What's up buttercup?" she smiled but he didn't.
"Why'd you go over to Harry's?" He asked, sitting on the edge of the bed. He knew he didn't have to be jealous, but he just wanted to make sure. She looked over at the dresser and spotted her boots on the floor next to the dresser. She walked over and picked them up, then sat next to him on the bed and put them on.
"Well for one, I needed to drop those bulbs off. And I wanted to warn him. He doesn't know Dom; he doesn't know what Dom can do. And since Mia likes him a lot, I figured I owed it to her to at least warn him, but I don't think that's going to do very well." Jezzie finished buckling up her boots and stood up.
"You look good." Leon stood up and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"You didn't think I went over there cause I like him, did you?" She could tell he was just a little bit jealous. He shrugged.
"Maybe a little bit. But obviously, I was overreacting." Leon kissed her nose. Jezzie nodded.
"Maybe just a little bit." They kissed for a minute and then they walked downstairs, hand in hand.
"Ready?" Dom asked. Jezzie and Leon nodded and they all headed out to the cars.