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Chapter 24 - I'm the world's biggest Jackass.
Torrie told them all that she was going to show Dom what she had been working on then she was taking off. Of course they all heard everything cause she was yelling at him so loud and he answered her back in a similar fashion.
She told them that she was going to blindfold them and take them to the spot where the surprise was hidden. They agreed to this plan. Brian and Torrie had planned this long ago. They would drive them around the block a few times then come back to the house. With the blindfolds on they would have no idea where they were. They blindfolded everyone and Torrie took Dom in her car and Brian took everyone else with the strictest instructions not to let anyone peak. Dom could hear her crying in the car. He was starting to worry that there was a surprise.
If so he fucked up. He would likely lose her to Vince. Vince would treat her better. No she was not interested in Vince so she would leave him. Leave them. His team would hate him for driving her away. Just like he drove Letty away. Torrie was the sweetness and light of the team. She was not driving well which was also a bad sign since she was such a good driver. For her to put her poor Nissan though this she must be really upset. She was grinding the gears and taking corners at incredible speeds. Dom was scared out of his mind since he could not see where the car was going and it was hard for him to relinquish control over a moving vehicle to anyone else to begin with.
He was thinking about what he had done and how he had handled the situation the whole time. He had found it so hard to be faithful he had looked for that in Torrie. When even though he had a history of cheating she never once acted like she did not trust him. And he had been faithful to her. He had surprised himself. If he had been faithful to her, if he had managed not to stray then he maybe he had to look at the possibility that she had not cheated on him after all. The more he thought about it the less likely it seemed she was that kind of girl.
They got back to the house. Brian kept everyone in the car till Torrie had opened the shed door up and gotten Dom in front of it. Dom could feel the anger coming off Vince and Brian in waves. Man was in trouble if he misjudged this one. His whole team would be pissed at him.
Torrie had all the lights she could on so he could see the car in the twilight. He was standing in the door to the shed at home without a clue where he was. Brian got everyone else in a row behind Dom. Torrie took a deep breath. There were tracks down her face from the tears and her eyes were all red. Brian was so glad he was not Dom. Dom was going to hate himself for how he handled the whole situation. She stood in front of Dom and took his blindfold off.
"Happy birthday Dominic."
"Oh God." Dom saw his father's car looking like the day before he wrecked it. "How did you find it? When did you think of this? Oh god I'm so sorry. I made you cry. And you were doing this for me and I was such an ass in front of everyone." That was a lot of explanation for Dom in front of other people.
Dom didn't know what to do. He was so overwhelmed with what he had done to her and all the while this was what she was doing. He looked at the car. There wasn't a scratch on it now. It looked better then it had before. She had the paint so perfect. He could see his dad sitting in the car the summer they built it, looking so proud of Dom, for all the help he had been. And then racing it at Palmdale and the look on his face while he had trouble keeping the beast in line, in check and on the track. He was just floored. And scared. He knew how to fix cars. He didn't know how to fix this, how did you fix a heart you broke? He looked at his own face in the gleaming hood of the black beast and a single tear slipped down his cheek and splashed onto the black reflection of his face. Aw hell, he hadn't cried since, well it had been a long time, maybe when his dad died.
The team had moved away, to give them a little space to, well, fight they figured. Torrie saw the tear hit the car and did a double take. That was not what she expected. "You're crying. Why?"
"Because this is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me and I accused you of cheating on me in front of our whole family when you were doing this for me. I hope that someday you can forgive me. You're increadable and too good for me."
"I really don't know Dom. I was going to leave you. In fact I am leaving you. Right now. Show you and leave you, that was the plan and that's what I'm doing. Whether or not I will come back at some point I don't know. I can't take being treated this way. I hate the way you handled this. I hate you right now. You could have asked me at any time what I was spending time on but even knowing me you assumed the worst."
"I am so sorry. Give me a chance to make it up to you. Please?"
She thought maybe she should give him a second chance. He may have learned his lesson. But she was not going to let him off easy. He would have to earn her back. And she was leaving him for awhile for sure. She had to think and with him around she would not be able to.
"Dom, I'm leaving for awhile at least. I need to think on my own and so do you. If you were happy you wouldn't have assumed what you did. You would've talked to me first. You'll have to prove to me that you trust me. We're back to square one. Now do you really like the car? I wasn't sure if you would."
He walked around the car and hugged her, "I love the car. I thought it gone forever. I can't believe you got it back."
"Well Brian got it back but I fixed it up. I did almost all if it myself but Brian and then Vince had to help me with some stuff." She pushed him away. She did not want him to touch her. His touch made her want to forgive him anything because his arms felt like home and she wanted to hold onto the anger. She did not want to be the foolish woman. She wanted to be the unfoolish one.
"I am so sorry. I really am. I was a jackass and a real jerk. I will win you back. I'll do it or die trying Torrie." He looked at Torrie then at the car and thought about what she had done. Every moment of free time she had for the last month she spent working on a car in an old shed for him. He looked down into her big green eyes and realized the truth. The future was there in those eyes. "I love you Torrie. You are the best thing that ever happened to me. You are the world to me." Torrie started to cry in earnest now but she had to be strong now more then ever. But now there was hope. Now that he realized he loved her there was hope.
"I loved you too Dominic but I was scared to tell you before you knew how you felt for me. I would never cheat on you ever. I hope that we can get back to the place where I love you again. I miss the feeling already."
"I am going to be sorry to my last day for thinking that of you. I'll make it up to you I swear."
She smiled up at him. "I hope so Dom. I really do."
Then they were engulfed by the whole team in a big group hug. The team wanted to break the atmosphere. Then they went for a drive in the charger to celebrate. Everyone else forgave Dom right away. They had seen how effected he had been by Torrie's tears. They also knew how dysfunctional his relationship with Letty had been. He had cheated on her so many times he thought that was how it worked. He thought of himself as a cheater. They all knew that. He had to learn that there were not cheaters, just people who dealt with situations the wrong way. The day would come. Torrie would help him get there. He was sorry and no one doubted Torrie would take him back. He just had to earn it. Everyone was happy that Dom and Torrie were on the way to being ok with each other because it was obvious to them they were in love long ago. They had been wondering when they would come to realize it themselves.
They headed for home. Dom parked the car back in it's shed. There was a race meet tonight.
"Torrie, you know there is a race meet tonight. We are all going ok?"
"I don't know Dom. I might sit this one out."
"Nope, you are going. You drive your own car tonight."
"Dom I really don't think I want to go."
"Too bad girl. I still head the team. You go and you race in your own car tonight. I wanna see how you do."
"Fine Dom I ride in my own car tonight but don't be surprised if I don't win. My heart's not in it tonight. And I still need to find somewhere to stay for the next couple days." Torrie was not impressed that after the day she had and what he did to her he was still making her race. But in her own car. That meant he thought she was good enough to race alone in her own car. That was something at least. Unless he was just sucking up to her.
"Good, be ready at 10. And why don't you just stay here. You can stay in your own room or in the basement with the guys or even upstairs with Mia and Brian. There is no reason for you to live in your car or anything like that." Dom hugged her for a second cause he just had to touch her again or go crazy then headed into the house.
"You're going to forgive him right?" It was Mia who presented this question. They were standing together in the backyard. Torrie was scruffing her boot in the dirt again, thinking of that night, that seemed so long ago, that Dom had taken a chance on her. She guessed she owned him the same thing. She could take once chance on him.
"I don't know if I have it in me to forgive him Mia. But he took a chance on me once. I guess I owe it to him to take a chance with him now. But I have never been so hurt. My heart will take a long time to heal. I'm just worried I'll never know if what I do is good enough. I'll always be waiting for him to accuse me of cheating again. Smiled at a guy at a race meet, then I like him. Looked at the guy at Burger King too long, I wanna sleep with him. See what I mean? I mean he cheated on Letty up and down the pacific coast and I never once saw him talking to a race slut and accused him of sleeping around on me. We spent ever night in the same bed and he still thought I could run off and cheat on him. And to make matters even more bizarre." She trailed off.
"Go on, what makes it even more bizarre?"
"Two things, that he picked Vince as my 'partner in crime'. Not that Vince isn't good looking, he is going to make some girl an awesome girlfriend someday, but sheesh not me. That is gross to me you know?"
"Oh I know, what's the other reason?"
Sure you want to know? It is kind of personal and Dom is your brother after all."
"Well yea but you're like a sister to me and I want you to be happy. I think you could be with Dom."
"Well, Mia, he and I have never, well you know." Torrie turned red.
"Never what?" Mia didn't get it.
"Never well," Torrie leaned in like there was a chance others could hear, "had sex."
"Never!? You sleep in his bed every night and you and he have never."
"Well we have done stuff, but never the big S."
"Why?"
"I never figured it out. I come on to him and he, well, he, um, satisfies me but never with the, well, happy ending." It was embarrassing to talk about but good to get it off her chest too.
"He never gave you a hint?"
"No. Only thing I can come up with is the fact that I have never well done that with anyone."
"Oh man, you are a virgin and Dom found out."
"Ya but I don't see the big deal. I was with him and I want to. I have made it more then clear I am ready and willing. Made suggestive comments but still nothing."
"I don't know what to tell you. Dom is quite a player normally so I figured the fact that he never strayed from you meant that you were keeping him very happy if you know what I mean."
"We I am I think, well was, just not with sex."
"I think you need to know about his relationship with Let. It might give you some incite."
"What's to know? They were together on and off for 7 years. He cheated on her like the species would die out if he did not sleep with as many women as possible and she left him over it. End 7 years."
"There is more to it then that. They got together when Dom was 20 and she was 16. She was so young and Dom was already considered quite a catch, fast as hell on the street and hansom. Letty had a thing for Dom since she was 11 or 12. Dom just did not notice her till she was older. But she was not a girl he could just sleep with. Her family lived in the neighbourhood. Now at 20 Dom was not ready for a serious exclusive relationship. He still wanted to play the field. But he loved Letty too. He got into a relationship with her. He didn't cheat on her in the first year or two. Then the strain began to show. He realized that he never should have gotten into a relationship with her that young. Since she had not dated around she never learned how to act either. She was always pushing him. He loved her so he always came back and told her he was sorry and Letty was so damn into him she always told herself and us this time is different he is going to be ok now. He won't do it again. And it wasn't as many times as everyone thinks. You know how things get blown out of proportion when the story goes around. But Letty loved him so much that every time was a little harder. And that made the pushing worse. She would try to drive him to it so she could yell at him for it. I know it is juvenile but that is what they were when they got together don't forget. So now Letty has Dom convinced that he is one of those men who will always cheat and Dom has Letty convinced that there is something wrong with her that makes her easy to cheat on. Neither of them are right. Dom needs someone to teach him that he is not 'a cheater' by default you know?"
"I see where the dysfunctionality comes from, I really do, and I feel for both of them. I just don't know how to teach him that he can be faithful to a woman. How would I know? I've never had a steady boyfriend before. I mean I love Dom but he is almost like one of those dogs they say are for experienced owners only you know? I might have wanted someone a little less high maintenance for my first boyfriend ever."
"Just love him Torrie and the rest will come together."
"Ok Mia, I'm willing to give it another try, but our relationship is back to square one right now. He has to earn me back all over again and make me think he means it. And I am sleeping in my own bed till the time when I feel he is ready to make a commitment to me."
"Good girl. That is the best plan and best news I ever got. Now go get ready. This is the big night after all. Racing on your own in your own car."
Chapter 24 - I'm the world's biggest Jackass.
Torrie told them all that she was going to show Dom what she had been working on then she was taking off. Of course they all heard everything cause she was yelling at him so loud and he answered her back in a similar fashion.
She told them that she was going to blindfold them and take them to the spot where the surprise was hidden. They agreed to this plan. Brian and Torrie had planned this long ago. They would drive them around the block a few times then come back to the house. With the blindfolds on they would have no idea where they were. They blindfolded everyone and Torrie took Dom in her car and Brian took everyone else with the strictest instructions not to let anyone peak. Dom could hear her crying in the car. He was starting to worry that there was a surprise.
If so he fucked up. He would likely lose her to Vince. Vince would treat her better. No she was not interested in Vince so she would leave him. Leave them. His team would hate him for driving her away. Just like he drove Letty away. Torrie was the sweetness and light of the team. She was not driving well which was also a bad sign since she was such a good driver. For her to put her poor Nissan though this she must be really upset. She was grinding the gears and taking corners at incredible speeds. Dom was scared out of his mind since he could not see where the car was going and it was hard for him to relinquish control over a moving vehicle to anyone else to begin with.
He was thinking about what he had done and how he had handled the situation the whole time. He had found it so hard to be faithful he had looked for that in Torrie. When even though he had a history of cheating she never once acted like she did not trust him. And he had been faithful to her. He had surprised himself. If he had been faithful to her, if he had managed not to stray then he maybe he had to look at the possibility that she had not cheated on him after all. The more he thought about it the less likely it seemed she was that kind of girl.
They got back to the house. Brian kept everyone in the car till Torrie had opened the shed door up and gotten Dom in front of it. Dom could feel the anger coming off Vince and Brian in waves. Man was in trouble if he misjudged this one. His whole team would be pissed at him.
Torrie had all the lights she could on so he could see the car in the twilight. He was standing in the door to the shed at home without a clue where he was. Brian got everyone else in a row behind Dom. Torrie took a deep breath. There were tracks down her face from the tears and her eyes were all red. Brian was so glad he was not Dom. Dom was going to hate himself for how he handled the whole situation. She stood in front of Dom and took his blindfold off.
"Happy birthday Dominic."
"Oh God." Dom saw his father's car looking like the day before he wrecked it. "How did you find it? When did you think of this? Oh god I'm so sorry. I made you cry. And you were doing this for me and I was such an ass in front of everyone." That was a lot of explanation for Dom in front of other people.
Dom didn't know what to do. He was so overwhelmed with what he had done to her and all the while this was what she was doing. He looked at the car. There wasn't a scratch on it now. It looked better then it had before. She had the paint so perfect. He could see his dad sitting in the car the summer they built it, looking so proud of Dom, for all the help he had been. And then racing it at Palmdale and the look on his face while he had trouble keeping the beast in line, in check and on the track. He was just floored. And scared. He knew how to fix cars. He didn't know how to fix this, how did you fix a heart you broke? He looked at his own face in the gleaming hood of the black beast and a single tear slipped down his cheek and splashed onto the black reflection of his face. Aw hell, he hadn't cried since, well it had been a long time, maybe when his dad died.
The team had moved away, to give them a little space to, well, fight they figured. Torrie saw the tear hit the car and did a double take. That was not what she expected. "You're crying. Why?"
"Because this is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me and I accused you of cheating on me in front of our whole family when you were doing this for me. I hope that someday you can forgive me. You're increadable and too good for me."
"I really don't know Dom. I was going to leave you. In fact I am leaving you. Right now. Show you and leave you, that was the plan and that's what I'm doing. Whether or not I will come back at some point I don't know. I can't take being treated this way. I hate the way you handled this. I hate you right now. You could have asked me at any time what I was spending time on but even knowing me you assumed the worst."
"I am so sorry. Give me a chance to make it up to you. Please?"
She thought maybe she should give him a second chance. He may have learned his lesson. But she was not going to let him off easy. He would have to earn her back. And she was leaving him for awhile for sure. She had to think and with him around she would not be able to.
"Dom, I'm leaving for awhile at least. I need to think on my own and so do you. If you were happy you wouldn't have assumed what you did. You would've talked to me first. You'll have to prove to me that you trust me. We're back to square one. Now do you really like the car? I wasn't sure if you would."
He walked around the car and hugged her, "I love the car. I thought it gone forever. I can't believe you got it back."
"Well Brian got it back but I fixed it up. I did almost all if it myself but Brian and then Vince had to help me with some stuff." She pushed him away. She did not want him to touch her. His touch made her want to forgive him anything because his arms felt like home and she wanted to hold onto the anger. She did not want to be the foolish woman. She wanted to be the unfoolish one.
"I am so sorry. I really am. I was a jackass and a real jerk. I will win you back. I'll do it or die trying Torrie." He looked at Torrie then at the car and thought about what she had done. Every moment of free time she had for the last month she spent working on a car in an old shed for him. He looked down into her big green eyes and realized the truth. The future was there in those eyes. "I love you Torrie. You are the best thing that ever happened to me. You are the world to me." Torrie started to cry in earnest now but she had to be strong now more then ever. But now there was hope. Now that he realized he loved her there was hope.
"I loved you too Dominic but I was scared to tell you before you knew how you felt for me. I would never cheat on you ever. I hope that we can get back to the place where I love you again. I miss the feeling already."
"I am going to be sorry to my last day for thinking that of you. I'll make it up to you I swear."
She smiled up at him. "I hope so Dom. I really do."
Then they were engulfed by the whole team in a big group hug. The team wanted to break the atmosphere. Then they went for a drive in the charger to celebrate. Everyone else forgave Dom right away. They had seen how effected he had been by Torrie's tears. They also knew how dysfunctional his relationship with Letty had been. He had cheated on her so many times he thought that was how it worked. He thought of himself as a cheater. They all knew that. He had to learn that there were not cheaters, just people who dealt with situations the wrong way. The day would come. Torrie would help him get there. He was sorry and no one doubted Torrie would take him back. He just had to earn it. Everyone was happy that Dom and Torrie were on the way to being ok with each other because it was obvious to them they were in love long ago. They had been wondering when they would come to realize it themselves.
They headed for home. Dom parked the car back in it's shed. There was a race meet tonight.
"Torrie, you know there is a race meet tonight. We are all going ok?"
"I don't know Dom. I might sit this one out."
"Nope, you are going. You drive your own car tonight."
"Dom I really don't think I want to go."
"Too bad girl. I still head the team. You go and you race in your own car tonight. I wanna see how you do."
"Fine Dom I ride in my own car tonight but don't be surprised if I don't win. My heart's not in it tonight. And I still need to find somewhere to stay for the next couple days." Torrie was not impressed that after the day she had and what he did to her he was still making her race. But in her own car. That meant he thought she was good enough to race alone in her own car. That was something at least. Unless he was just sucking up to her.
"Good, be ready at 10. And why don't you just stay here. You can stay in your own room or in the basement with the guys or even upstairs with Mia and Brian. There is no reason for you to live in your car or anything like that." Dom hugged her for a second cause he just had to touch her again or go crazy then headed into the house.
"You're going to forgive him right?" It was Mia who presented this question. They were standing together in the backyard. Torrie was scruffing her boot in the dirt again, thinking of that night, that seemed so long ago, that Dom had taken a chance on her. She guessed she owned him the same thing. She could take once chance on him.
"I don't know if I have it in me to forgive him Mia. But he took a chance on me once. I guess I owe it to him to take a chance with him now. But I have never been so hurt. My heart will take a long time to heal. I'm just worried I'll never know if what I do is good enough. I'll always be waiting for him to accuse me of cheating again. Smiled at a guy at a race meet, then I like him. Looked at the guy at Burger King too long, I wanna sleep with him. See what I mean? I mean he cheated on Letty up and down the pacific coast and I never once saw him talking to a race slut and accused him of sleeping around on me. We spent ever night in the same bed and he still thought I could run off and cheat on him. And to make matters even more bizarre." She trailed off.
"Go on, what makes it even more bizarre?"
"Two things, that he picked Vince as my 'partner in crime'. Not that Vince isn't good looking, he is going to make some girl an awesome girlfriend someday, but sheesh not me. That is gross to me you know?"
"Oh I know, what's the other reason?"
Sure you want to know? It is kind of personal and Dom is your brother after all."
"Well yea but you're like a sister to me and I want you to be happy. I think you could be with Dom."
"Well, Mia, he and I have never, well you know." Torrie turned red.
"Never what?" Mia didn't get it.
"Never well," Torrie leaned in like there was a chance others could hear, "had sex."
"Never!? You sleep in his bed every night and you and he have never."
"Well we have done stuff, but never the big S."
"Why?"
"I never figured it out. I come on to him and he, well, he, um, satisfies me but never with the, well, happy ending." It was embarrassing to talk about but good to get it off her chest too.
"He never gave you a hint?"
"No. Only thing I can come up with is the fact that I have never well done that with anyone."
"Oh man, you are a virgin and Dom found out."
"Ya but I don't see the big deal. I was with him and I want to. I have made it more then clear I am ready and willing. Made suggestive comments but still nothing."
"I don't know what to tell you. Dom is quite a player normally so I figured the fact that he never strayed from you meant that you were keeping him very happy if you know what I mean."
"We I am I think, well was, just not with sex."
"I think you need to know about his relationship with Let. It might give you some incite."
"What's to know? They were together on and off for 7 years. He cheated on her like the species would die out if he did not sleep with as many women as possible and she left him over it. End 7 years."
"There is more to it then that. They got together when Dom was 20 and she was 16. She was so young and Dom was already considered quite a catch, fast as hell on the street and hansom. Letty had a thing for Dom since she was 11 or 12. Dom just did not notice her till she was older. But she was not a girl he could just sleep with. Her family lived in the neighbourhood. Now at 20 Dom was not ready for a serious exclusive relationship. He still wanted to play the field. But he loved Letty too. He got into a relationship with her. He didn't cheat on her in the first year or two. Then the strain began to show. He realized that he never should have gotten into a relationship with her that young. Since she had not dated around she never learned how to act either. She was always pushing him. He loved her so he always came back and told her he was sorry and Letty was so damn into him she always told herself and us this time is different he is going to be ok now. He won't do it again. And it wasn't as many times as everyone thinks. You know how things get blown out of proportion when the story goes around. But Letty loved him so much that every time was a little harder. And that made the pushing worse. She would try to drive him to it so she could yell at him for it. I know it is juvenile but that is what they were when they got together don't forget. So now Letty has Dom convinced that he is one of those men who will always cheat and Dom has Letty convinced that there is something wrong with her that makes her easy to cheat on. Neither of them are right. Dom needs someone to teach him that he is not 'a cheater' by default you know?"
"I see where the dysfunctionality comes from, I really do, and I feel for both of them. I just don't know how to teach him that he can be faithful to a woman. How would I know? I've never had a steady boyfriend before. I mean I love Dom but he is almost like one of those dogs they say are for experienced owners only you know? I might have wanted someone a little less high maintenance for my first boyfriend ever."
"Just love him Torrie and the rest will come together."
"Ok Mia, I'm willing to give it another try, but our relationship is back to square one right now. He has to earn me back all over again and make me think he means it. And I am sleeping in my own bed till the time when I feel he is ready to make a commitment to me."
"Good girl. That is the best plan and best news I ever got. Now go get ready. This is the big night after all. Racing on your own in your own car."