CHAPTER 3- Catching Up
I walked in to one of Stacey's spares rooms a towel wrapped around my waist. I went in to the wardrobe that stood besides the window and pulled the duffle bag from the top shelf.
I placed it on the bed and opened the zip. I had left two pairs of jeans, two wife beaters, two white t-shirts and a few pairs of boxers in there. I knew this day would come so I was prepared for it. I went in to the side pocket and found the roll of money I had left, $100,000, again I knew I'd need it so I left it here.
I dressed in to a pair of black jeans and a white t-shirt and walked in to the kitchen. Stacey was just placing the plate on the table. Bacon, eggs, sausage, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, toast it looked delicious but I wasn't that hungry right now. She was tidying up now throwing the frying pan in to the bowl of hot, soapy water wiping the sides continuously in the same spot that was clean already. I stood in the doorway to the kitchen watching her.
"Not going to work?" I asked her
"My assistant manager can handle it. Had a lot of questions considering I haven't had a day off in four and half years!"
"You deserve it then" I said sitting down at the table in front of my food. I picked up my fork and began to dig in. Stacey stopped cleaning and went to leave the room.
"I'm sorry I left you" I said she stopped in the doorway. "I know now it was the wrong thing to do. I should have stayed here with you, worked in the garage, lived here, been with you and I'm sorry for not staying with you"
"It wouldn't be the first time you left me" she said, she meant Lompoc.
"That wasn't my fault" I explained
"I asked you to stop a hundred times to let it go, that it was an accident that he didn't deserve it but you wouldn't listen!" she said.
She was there when I bumped in to Kevin Linder (the guy who killed my Dad). One second we were walking down the road holding hands laughing and joking and then the next I'm beating the hell out of this guy. The whole time I was hitting him I blanked out couldn't see him or anything around me but the one thing I remember was Stacey screaming for me to stop. Over and over and over she was screaming for me to stop that I was going to kill him. When I had finished hitting him she wanted to stay and help him; call an ambulance but I grabbed her by the arm and dragged her away, screamed in her face that if she didn't come with me she'd never see me again. I was right; she didn't see me for two years!
"I'm sorry"
"Sorry is always too late with you Dom" she said before continuing out of the room.
I ate the breakfast she had made me it was delicious. I put the plate in the bowl along with the frying pan. I looked out of the window looking at the beach. Stacey was sat on the end of her decking looking out at the ocean. The wind was blowing her hair in to her face but she didn't bother to move it, I guess there were more important things on her mind.
I walked out of the back door in the kitchen and started to walk across the 8 foot of decking and sat down besides her.
"Letty called. Her and Leon are ok. They are gonna come over tomorrow or the day after" she told me not looking at me.
"Mia?" I asked
"She's with them. She called three days ago told me to call you. Talk you out of doing the last heist, as she put it"
"Why didn't you?"
"I did one
better. I came down to race wars."
"What?" I asked "why didn't you talk to us?"
"Saw you and Letty" she explained looking at me for the first time. "Figured if you needed talking out of it she would do it"
"Me and Letty were never serious, it was just sex" I began
"Cut the crap Dom. I'm not dumb she always had a thing for you it was inevitable, I knew it wouldn't have been long before you were screwing her."
I felt like shit. I felt like I had been cheating on her, like I had betrayed her. I was never faithful to Letty, that's no secret but I never felt bad about it. She knew, everyone knew. But not once did I feel guilty when Letty was screaming in my face telling me how much of a hoar I was or how she should leave me. I'd sit and listen to it pretending I cared. She'd start throwing her fists I'd push her away Leon, Vince or Jesse would grab her throw her in another room before I started throwing my fists at her.
But Stacey was different I cheated on her once. With Tia Tran (the business deal that went bad), I've never felt so bad in all my life. I never did it again.
"I'm sorry" I didn't know what else to say."don't be" she said "you moved on, its what people do"
"Have you?" I asked.
"I'm seeing someone yeah" Stacey told me"it serious?" I asked hoping and praying to god it wasn't."I've been with him a year and a half what do you think? Got a feeling it's all gonna go down hill now you're here though" she said half joking half serious.
I kept quiet. Wanted to tell her I wouldn't cause trouble for them, that if she was happy I'd leave them to it let them do their thing but I would have been lying so I didn't.
"You gonna tell me what happened then?" she asked after watching me think for a minute "why you're here? Why Letty and Leon are coming down here? Where Vince and Jesse are?" she asked.
AUTHOR NOTE: I'M NOT SURE WHERE I AM GOING WITH THIS I'M JUST TYPING SEE WHERE IT TAKES MEā¦ITS JUST BABBLE TO BE HONEST BUT IF ANYONE HAS ANY IDEAS AS TO WHAT COULD HAPPEN PLEASE LET ME KNOW OR WE COULD CO-WRITE. STACEYUNDERWOOD
