Mia had invited Laura back to their place for some food and to watch a movie. As they pulled up outside the house in Mia's Acura, Laura couldn't help but feel nervous. This would be the first time in ages she would actually be hanging out with new friends and she knew she didn't wanna mess this up. Mia was really great and the others seemed as though they cared for each other loads…Laura could use friends like them.
"So, did you enjoy your first day?" Leon asked her as she sat down in the living room beside Letty who was now pretty involved with the playstation.
"Yeah, it felt so good to be under the hood of a car again."
He smiled and walked into the kitchen leaving her with Letty. As she watched Letty out of the corner of her eye she couldn't help but wonder what her problem was. Did she just not like new people, or did she feel threatened by Laura? Or maybe there was a reason for her to be nervous with her, maybe it had something to do with Dom asking her if she was a cop. It all seemed a little complicated and now definitely wasn't the time to ask questions, she didn't know them well enough yet.
The rest of the group came into the living room and sat around the place. Mia wasn't there, so she had obviously been left cooking in the kitchen.
"So Laura, I take it you don't have a ride of your own." Vince asked her while he watching something in the kitchen. Laura had a feeling he fancied the pants off Mia!
"No. I've only been in California for a month or so. In fact, I've only been in the US for that long. I used to live in Ireland." She laughed at the astounded looks on their faces.
"Wow, you're a long way from home. Why'd you move?" Letty asked, now suddenly interested in the conversation.
"I just needed to get away from things….plus, I've always wanted to come to Cali so I just packed up and left!"
"Nice!" Letty now seemed happy enough to talk to her.
"So are you gunna get a car?" Vince asked her expectantly
"Well, I'm broke at the minute so I think it'll be a while till I can afford one."
"If you had the choice of any car what would you choose?" Vince asked her staring intensely at Mia as she walked in and out of the room.
"A Nissan Skyline, for sure!"
Leon grinned, "You like mine then?"
"Yeah, they really turn me on…" Laura grinned at Leon and the team laughed at his expression.
Laura noticed Dom looked deep in thought. Just then Mia called them into the kitchen for eats.
As Mia and her talked later that night the subject turned to ex boyfriends. Both of them seemed sore at the subject but kept talking anyway. Laura told her about her ex Jerry, who had been an ass. She didn't go into detail because it was still hard for her to even think about the things he did to her… Mia told her about an ex she had that turned out to be a cop and left her with a broken heart. That explained a lot to Laura. They were both happy to change the subject and Mia suddenly surprised her by shouting at the whole group to get their attention.
"Hey you guys, listen up. Dom and I were talking in the kitchen earlier and we both think it's a good idea if we let Laura stay here. It'd only be for a while of course, until she found a place of her own, but there's a room up there not being used and she's having to live in a motel at the mo. What do you think?" she directed this question at Laura.
Of course she was gobsmaked and had trouble speaking, "But…I…You….you don't even know me…"
"Well we've established you're not a cop and even if you were we haven't anything to hide now so we trust you to stay." Mia looked excited at the idea and Laura couldn't say no.
"Ok, I will. Thanks!" Laura replied as she thought about Mia saying they had nothing to hide now. What did they have to hide before?
Dom grinned at her as the rest of the group returned to what they had been doing before the announcement. Letty saw this and gave Dom the dirtiest look before stomping out of the room. Dom rolled his eyes and chased after her.
Her and Mia drove out to the motel later that night to collect Laura's stuff and Laura dropped into the club to say she wouldn't be back. The manager seemed very unhappy and was still shouting things at her as she left.
"Phsyco…."Laura muttered as she got into the car.
Mia just laughed and drove off. The rest of the journey back they talked about how much fun they would have together and Laura couldn't help but think that Mia and her could end up inseperable.