Chapter Five

"Yo Joce!" Letty screamed from the front porch.

Jocelyn looked away from Vince and towards the porch.

"Come 'ere," Letty said, waving them over.

Jocelyn and Vince walked up to front yard and up the stairs.

"Yeah?" Jocelyn asked, sticking her hands in her back pockets.

"I want you to meet the team. The guy with the toothpick in his mouth is Leon. Jesse's the one with the beanie on. That's Mia and her boyfriend, Brian. This brute next to me is my boyfriend, Dom. Guys, this is my sister, Jocelyn," Letty said as she pointed out the members of the team.

Dom chuckled at Letty's description of him. "And she wouldn't have it any other way. It's nice to meet you, Jocelyn."

Jocelyn smiled and said, "You too."

Dom looked down at his watch and said, "We better head to the garage. A Celica is getting dropped off in about 20 minutes."

The team separated and headed toward their cars.

"You're with me," Letty called out to Jocelyn.

As the two girls climbed into the car, Letty asked, "So are you going to go to the garage with me or hang with Mia?"

Jocelyn shrugged. "I think it would be best if I went to the store. I haven't been in a garage in so long that I'm afraid I won't be much help."

Letty nodded and started her car. She then backed out of the driveway and headed to the store.

"So I take it that you quit racing?"

Jocelyn nodded and looked out the window. "When I first met Carter, he made a comment that he didn't like street racers. To him they were just NASCAR wannabe's. When he said that, I didn't want him to think of me as one, so I quit racing and never told him that I had street raced. A little while later, I quit my job at a local garage because it was too tempting to be around all the cars."

Letty watched her sister out of the corner of her eye.

"Well, we'll just have to get you reacquainted with the racing world," Letty commented as she pulled into a parking space in front of 'Toretto's'.

"We'll see," Jocelyn said as she climbed out of the car.

Jocelyn threw the old blue dishrag onto the counter as she looked at the clock on the wall. It was 5:30. Jocelyn groaned. The team wouldn't be off until 6 o'clock maybe 7. Mia giggled from her spot in the office.

"I heard that!"

Jocelyn chuckled. "It's not that I don't like working here..." she began to say.

Mia smiled as she came out of the office.

"I understand," she said as she raised her hands in mock surrender. "Letty has the same attitude about working here."

Jocelyn smiled at the thought of seeing Letty making sandwiches for impatient teenagers.

"I have a hard time seeing her working here," she replied.

Mia nodded. "She rarely does, but..."

Mia's sentence was cut short by the sound of high performance engines.

"Team's here," she announced.

Jocelyn took the dishrag from off the counter and began to wipe it down again. She looked up when she saw six beautiful cars pull up. She went down the line naming each car. There was a red Mazda RX-7, an orange Toyota Supra, a blood red Nissan 240SX, a blue Nissan Maxima, a yellow Nissan Skyline, and a white Jetta. Each car had similar decals on the sides. The team filed out of their cars.

Jesse and Leon walked in and headed over to the bags of chips. They then became fascinated with the sunglasses and started messing with them. Mia ran up to Brian and gave him a hug and a kiss.

"Get a room," Letty said as she took a seat on a barstool.

Dom and Vince took a seat on each side of her.

"So," Letty said with an evil grin. "How was your first day?"

Jocelyn rolled her eyes. "I'm going with you tomorrow."

All three of them chuckled.

"It wasn't that bad," Mia said, laughing lightly.

"No offense, Mia, but it was horrible. I don't have enough patience for this job," Jocelyn stated.

Mia smiled before continuing her conversation with Brian.

"I have an idea," Letty said as Jocelyn messed with the rag. "Why don't we go out to eat tonight?"

Leon groaned from the other side of the store. "Does that mean I got to get dressed up?" he asked.

Letty laughed. "Yeah it does, ya big baby...What d'ya think, Dom?"

Dom shrugged. "What do you think, Jocelyn?"

Jocelyn looked up from the rag. She felt slightly uncomfortable with everybody's gaze on her.

"Me?" she asked.

Dom nodded.

"It's cool with me."

"Well then it's set. We'll go out to eat tonight. We should probably leave for the restaurant around eight, eight-thirty."

The team agreed. "Well it's time to go then," Letty said with a smile.

Jocelyn walked into the bathroom wearing a pair of khakis and a three quarter length black shirt. Letty was sitting on the counter applying her mascara.

"You're going like that?" Letty asked, not looking at her.

"Yeah," replied Jocelyn. "Why?"

"Mia!!!" Letty called out.

The sound echoed in the bathroom. Mia came up to the door within seconds.

"Yeah?" she asked.

"Do you remember the dress you bought last week? The really sexy black one?" Letty asked, turning to Mia.

Mia nodded. "What about it?"

"Let Joce wear it."

Mia smiled and said, "Oh, she'll look great in it!"

"Dress?" Jocelyn asked tentatively.

Mia grabbed Jocelyn's hand and dragged her into her room. She then immediately threw open her closet doors and began searching for the dress.

"Here it is!" Mia exclaimed as she pulled out a gorgeous black dress.

It was a halter-top dress made out of a silky material. The neckline was very low and the back was low as well

"No," Jocelyn said almost immediately.

"Why not?" Letty asked as she leaned in the doorway of Mia's room.

"For one, there's no way I can borrow that. It has to be expensive, and I'll be spending the whole night worrying about spilling stuff on it."

"And?" Letty asked. She raised her eyebrows.

"And...and...well, I won't look good in it."

Mia laughed. "Trust me. You'll look gorgeous."

"Whatever," Jocelyn replied as she took the dress from Mia and headed into the bathroom.

"Oh and here are the shoes," Mia said as she handed her a pair of black heels that had laces that wrapped up her mid-calf.

Jocelyn groaned before closing the bathroom door.

"Come on Joce, let me see," Letty called from outside the bathroom door.

"Hold on," she replied. "I got to finish my make-up," Jocelyn called back.

She heard Letty growl lowly before walking away from the door. Jocelyn finished applying her mascara. She closed the tube before taking a good look at herself in the mirror. Mia had been right, the dress looked absolutely stunning. It came up to her mid-thigh and fit in all the right places. Jocelyn had done her make-up dark and left her hair down. Just before she walked out of the bathroom, Jocelyn put on a necklace that Carter had given to her for her birthday. It was a small rose bud on a silky black ribbon.

Jocelyn put her hand on the doorknob and took a deep breath. She knew that Mia and Letty were on the other side waiting on her. Slowly she opened the door and stepped out. Mia gasped and Letty smiled.

"You look amazing," Mia said.

Jocelyn blushed slightly.

"You do look amazing," Letty said as she gave her a hug.

"Y'all do too," Jocelyn replied.

Mia was wearing a cream colored dress that had patterns drawn in red all over it. She looked beautiful. Letty was wearing a dress as well, even though she didn't look happy about it. She wore a red dress that accented her curves well.

Jocelyn quirked an eyebrow toward Letty.

"Mia made me," Letty said so only Jocelyn could hear.

"Shall we?" Mia asked as she gestured toward the stairs.

The girls nodded.

"I'll go first, Letty you go second, and Jocelyn you can go third," Mia offered.

"Okay," Letty said quickly when she sensed that Jocelyn was going argue.

Mia started to walk downstairs. Jocelyn's stomach was filled with butterflies. Letty smiled as she waited for Mia to get to the end. Jocelyn stood awkwardly at the top of the stairs as Letty started to walk down the stairs.

Her mind was racing.

'Should I be doing this? Well, it's not exactly a date...Will Vince think I look nice? Whoa, where did that come from?'