CHAPTER 12- Driving to California

Driving down to California was great, on the open road again. Me, Stacey, Junior, Mia and Brian where all in Stacey's car, she was driving. She didn't trust me said I have a heavy foot and crunch the gears, please me, a pro-driver crunching gears-give me a break.

Leon, Letty and Vince where in the car Vince and Brian had drove down in, they were behind us, Leon was driving kept trying to pass us but Stacey made sure he was behaving himself.

Ok so this choice we had to make? Racing again or not? Stacey's friends back home in California still had the business set up, a few garages, street racing at least three times a week. The main guy was Tej- he was cool I'd met him once before I went in to Lompoc he had come down to L.A to see Stacey.

Tej had his hand in everyone's pocket; he was one of them guys where if you wanted something he could get it.

We were all going up there to get some money, jobs, or maybe just race. Tej had a place for us all to live, he practically said he'd pay for us all he just wanted to best street racing team in the world on his streets, and we were more than happy to oblige.

Stacey had been really quiet the whole journey and we had been on the road for nearly two hours now, she had been to see Mark before we left, and it obviously hadn't gone well.

We stopped after 2 and a half hours at a service station, everyone got out to stretch their legs. Mia took Junior to the toilet and the rest went in to get some food.

"You coming man?" Vince asked Stacey

"no I just need to stretch my legs" she told him.

"I can take over driving" I suggested

"no" she said sharply. Vince gave me a worrying look knowing something was wrong so he ran to catch up with the rest of the team.

Stacey stood against the car with her eyes closed, her head looking towards the sky. "you ok?" I asked

"I'm great" she said sarcastically

"What's wrong?" I asked "you've been in a foul mood with me since we left the house. what have I done?"

"everything Dom, you've done everything wrong. DON'T YOU GET IT?" she yelled at me walking towards me.

"GET WHAT?" I bellowed back.

"YOU'RE HERE!" she screamed "you're here. I gave you a choice Dom, racing or me and Junior and you're here on your way to California to start your life all over again"

"I never said I was gonna stay down there I just…" I began

"I guess it's my fault," she interrupted "I was stupid to think you could change, that you wanted to change"

"I want to be with you a Junior I do but…"

"but the racing is still in you I get it," she interrupted again "it's still in me too but I don't have the luxury of choosing whether to do it or not"

"Cause you had Junior right?" I asked "I don't know what I'm gonna do when I get down there and there's more going on than you know"

"What else is going on?" she asked me "except than you wanting to live life in the fast lane as always?"

"nothing you need to worry about" I told her

"Dom don't tell me half a story tell me what's going on?" she said angrily.

"Letty's pregnant" I sighed "she told me at the hospital two days ago, she's two months gone" She walked around the car and got in to the drivers side and closed the door I got in the passengers side. "Say something please"

"You have an opportunity here" she began looking out of the window so I couldn't see her face, I could tell in her voice that she was close to tears. "You missed the first two years of Junior's life, you missed me being pregnant, here's your opportunity to get it back…you should stay in California with her, I'll drop you off there then I'll come home with Junior"

"No I don't want to lose you" I said

"You lost me the moment you told me she was pregnant Dom" she said "you should make a life with Letty, you wouldn't like my life in Mexico" she added as Mia tapped on the car window for me to get out and let them all back in.

AUTHOR NOTE: I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED 17 CHAPTERS IN TOTAL SO NOT LONG TO GO. NOT SO SURE ABOUT THE ENDING BUT HEY IT'S THE WAY I SAW THINGS ENDING UP. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO WRITE A DIFFERENT ENDING I WOULD LOVE TO SEE WHERE YOU THINK IT WILL ALL END UP!