CHAPTER 7 - Reunited

"hey guys" Mia said walking in to the living room followed by Letty and Leon.

"hi guys" we both replied from the floor.

"your away from me for two days and your already shagging the first tramp that comes along" Letty threw at me.

"You better watch your mouth Letty cause this is the only place you got to stay" Stacey said as I helped her up. "I can always leave you out on the street believe me I got no problems with that"

Letty did one of her death stares then sat on the couch in a sulk. Stacey hugged Mia and Leon as I did. Then we all sat with a beer talking. Stacey announced around 4 AM that she was going to bed.

"Keep the noise down please," she asked standing up and stretching.

"Where are we all sleeping?" Mia asked before yawning.

"There's two spare rooms up there with single beds, so you and Letty will have to share and Leon and Dom will have to share" Stacey informed Mia

"We need to talk," I told Letty when Stacey had disappeared up the stairs. "In fact there's something I need to tell you all" I added. "Let's go outside". I knew Letty wasn't going to be happy when I told her about Junior and I didn't want her to shout and wake him. Mia, Leon and Letty joined me on the decking and I began. "Me and Stacey have a son," I told them.

"What?" Mia asked

"His name's Dominic Junior and he's two years old and he's sleeping upstairs," I explained

"Wow congratulations man" Leon said hugging me.

"Thanks man" I said smiling.

"So you show up here and she has a little kid running around and she tells you that he's yours and you believe her?" Letty asked

"Letty don't fucking start. I got a kid with Stacey deal with it" I nearly yelled at her.

"Can I go see him?" Mia asked

"Yeah he's upstairs," I told her. Mia rushed back in to the house Leon followed her knowing Letty and me needed to be alone.

Letty and me spoke about things for about 2 hours. We discussed everything the last two years, the last month, Junior, our relationship, everything. I told her I love her but not in the way I loved Stacey. I loved her as a friend; I wasn't in love with her. She said she knew I was always going to go back to Stacey she just didn't think it would have been this soon. I saw another side of her, she was really understanding. It was kinda scary.

Letty went to bed about 6 am I sat and watched the sun rise. It was so beautiful this was definitely a place I could get use to. Me, Stacey, Mia, Junior living here. Letty, Leon and Vince could get a place near by. We'd all work in Stacey's garage till the heat was off then maybe get jobs elsewhere or start racing again make some money.

But for now all I wanted was to know Vince was ok, but I couldn't phone the hospital I guess he'd be here as soon as he could get here.

Stacey got up at 8 AM I was still sat on the decking thinking about things. "Morning" she said handing me a cup of coffee.

"Hey" I replied "why you up so early?" I asked

"I'm goin in to work wanna make sure the place is still running" she explained. "I have to get up this early to make sure Junior's ready to go to his Nanny's"

"Nanny" I chuckled "I can look after him"

"It's not as easy as it looks," she warned me

"I'll be fine plus Mia's here now she can help"

"If you don't mind" she said.

"I'm his Father I gotta start somewhere!" she nodded in agreement and left for work at 8.30.

I did everything with Junior, watched TV, played on the beach, made him lunch, it was great, he didn't cry once and he loved Mia and Leon. Letty kept her distance and only really smiled at him as he ran around on the beach screaming as I chased him pretending to be a shark. He really lifted my spirits I was actually genuinely happy, he made me forget about the past month. But he really tired me out.

When Stacey got home she asked me if I minded watching Junior a little longer so she could go out with Mark, 'so he wouldn't get suspicious' she said. I gritted my teeth and said yes but that's all I could think about all night was what he was doing with her, with my woman, touching her, kissing her, telling her all the things I wanted to tell her.

She got home around 12.30 I was still up waiting for her. "Have fun?" I asked sitting on the couch watching the TV quietly cause everyone else was in bed.

"Er…sort of" she replied

"Why sort of?" I inquired. I could see out of the corner of my eye that she was playing with her fingers and not looking at me I knew she was nervous.

"He proposed" she told me.

I shot around to look at her "what did you say?"

"I said I'd think about it"

"Do you want too?"

"Three days ago I would have jumped at the chance but it wouldn't be fair to now, he doesn't know you're here and if he does find out I don't think he'd ever wanna see me again let alone marry me!"

"so your that serious about the guy that you'd marry him?" I inquired

"Yeah I am but it's never gonna happen is it?"