The Fast and the Furious: Redline

Chapter Five
The Snowman's Bet

Taylor double-checked her outfit in the mirror to make sure it was flawless. She fidgeted nervously wither her red mini-skirt. She also wore a black tub top and black boots that came up to her calves. She had left her hair down, and wore dark make-up. Mainly black mascara and eyeliner with gray shimmery eye-shadow. Her purpose was to draw attention to her eyes, and she thought she had done quite well. She grabbed her keys and walked out of her house, skipping slightly.

As she climbed into her car, she heard a car coming down the road. Taylor stepped out of her car and watched as Leon's car pulled into her driveway.

"I could have driven, ya know," she said with a smile as Leon got out of his car. She placed her hands on her hips and watched him approach her. Quickly, she glanced over what he was wearing. He wore a button-up black shirt with loose blue jeans. A black beanie sat atop his head and another shirt was hanging out of his back pocket.

"I know. I just wanted to see you before everyone else did," he admitted.

"Oh."

Her smile grew bigger as Leon wrapped his arms around her waist. She ran her hands down his blue jersey and placed a small kiss on his lips.

"My heart's been broken once, Leon," she whispered. "I don't know if I could survive it being broken again."

Leon leaned back a bit and looked her in the eyes. A look of pain ran through her dark blue eyes for a brief second.

"I won't hurt you, Taylor," Leon said honestly.

"That's good," she said with a small smile as she played with the hem of his jersey.

"Come on, let's go to the race," he said as he took her hand in his and began to walk toward the Skyline.

Butterflies danced across Taylor's stomach as they pulled up to the races. The cars were in a V formation with Dom leading them.

"You ever been to one of these before?" Leon asked, breaking the silence.

"No, it's my first time," she admitted, a little embarrassed.

Leon stopped the car and they both stepped out of it and watched as Letty scared off a couple of skanks.

"She always like that?" Taylor asked as she stepped closer to Leon.

She felt a little intimidated by all the girls running around with barely any clothes on.

"Yep," Leon replied before he wrapped his arms around Taylor and sat his chin on top of her head. Taylor felt Leon's chest against her back and smiled. She was beginning to really like being around him.

"Okay, Hector," Dom called out.

A Hispanic man walked up to Dom.

"Yeah? What's up, man?"

A black man walked up to the two of them and they began to talk about the races and how it would be set up. Taylor stood there watching them. She tensed up a bit when she saw Brian approaching the group of men.

"Oh shit," she heard Leon mumble.

"Hey, wait. Hold up," Brian called out. "I don't have any cash, but I do have the pink slip to my car."

"Hey, you just can't climb in the ring with Ali 'cause you think you box," Jesse said as he approached the group as well.

"He knows I can box," Brian said pointing to Vince.

Taylor turned slightly and looked at Vince, who didn't look too happy. She gave him a small smile when he looked over in her direction. He returned it with a nod before glaring back at Brian.

"So check it out," Brian said. Taylor attention immediately returned back to him. "It's like this. I lose, the winner takes my car, clean and clear. But if I win, I take the cash, and the respect.

"Respect," Dom said, laughing.

The crowd began to laugh.

"To some people, that's more important," Brian replied.

For Taylor, that bumped Brian up on her list. She didn't see Brian as the bad guy like the rest of the team did. Part of her knew that he was a really good guy.

"That your car?" Dom asked.

Brian nodded and the crowd moved toward the car.

Taylor and Leon walked slowly over to Brian's car. She wasn't in any big rush to get to the car because she knew that she wouldn't understand any of the mumbo-jumbo that they would be talking about.

"What's with the toothpick?" Taylor asked as she took it out of Leon's mouth.

"Give it back," he said with a smile.

"Nope," she replied as she held it away from him.

Leon laughed and wrapped his arms around Taylor's waist.

"Why should I?" she asked playfully.

Leon leaned over and kissed Taylor on the lips. When he finished, she said, "You can have it back now.

Leon replied with a laugh and took it from her hand before placing it in his mouth. Taylor turned around to look at Brian's car, which she believed to be an Eclipse. He placed his hands on her hips and they both listened as Jesse described the parts of the car. Taylor tuned Jesse out and focused mainly on the hunk that was standing behind her. She couldn't believe that he actually was attracted to her. Her ex-boyfriend, Jarrett, had drilled it into her head that she was lucky for him to be dating her and that no one else would ever wanted. Over the two years that they had been dating that she had begun to believe it. She cursed herself for ever dating him, but then she remembered that if she hadn't of met Jarrett then she wouldn't have met Leon. For it was because of Jarrett that she was walking down that strip of beach the day Leon and her met.