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"I'm not wearing this." Trynten shook her head as she stood in Lacie's room, before a full length mirror. The teal green, haltered shirt showed her stomach and the bellybutton ring she was sporting. She had on a shorter than what she was used to black mini skirt and she had rather high black high heels that laced up almost halfway to her knees. She did like the straps but this just wasn't her style. Her cheery red hair had been left down, curled and some of it was clipped back loosely with some glitzy, glittery hair clips.
"You're right. Not without this." Lacie put a big, linked and looped silver chain belt around her waist from behind, catching Trynten off guard." now you're ready." She nodded, making Trynten groan at the final outcome of the 'make-over'.
"Oh, that makes it all the better." Trynten rolled her eyes, being sarcastic.
"You're right, it does." Letty grinned, being funny and pretending to not hear the sarcasm.
"Seriously, I just should get home." Trynten said, sipping on her corona as Lacie put the finishing touches on her own the outfit. The three girls were headed for a night out, on Trynten's behalf, trying to make her feel better and their need for an escape from the crew making it a perfect excuse.
"So you're sayin you just want to go to jail, eh?" Letty asked, making Trynten sigh with a stressful tone to it. There was a knock at the door and Letty opened it a crack, sticking her neck out. "Can I help you?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
"It's just me." Brian help up his hands innocently.
"Oh, what do you want?" Letty pretended to be annoyed and rolled her eyes, sounding non-caring, as if he didn't matter in her world of existence. He gave a hands over his heart reaction, acting like he was so loved.
"I just came by to see if you guys intend to race some poor, non suspecting suckers." Brian looked at Lacie and Letty.
"Why?" they both asked simultaneously.
"Just because Lace's car isn't ready and so if you plan to make any kinda runs, you better take a different car than hers." Brian explained, looking at Letty, then Lacie. He was shocked they were both dressed up. That didn't happen often. Letty was wearing a pair of new black cargo pants and a red halter necked shirt. He looked at the strapless cream colored mini dress that Lacie was wearing and just wondered how the guys downstairs would let them out of the house.
"And here had faith in you, boy." Lacie teased, grinning as she picked out some shoes. Trynten's mind reeled as she watched the group converse.
"Can I come in?" Jesse knocked on the door.
"Come in." Letty opened the door she was guarding. He looked at Trynten, his cheeks looking like they were blushing. Letty kind of pushed him in the back, and he shrugged himself and coughed.
"Cops were just here. We told them we hadn't saw you." Jesse looked at Trynten and informed her, earning a look from both Letty and Lacie. His eyes widened. "V sent me." he shook his head, not wanting to be yelled at. He was the youngest of the group and the most easily to upset of the group.
"I'll be back." Letty cracked her knuckles and headed for down stairs. She went back to the room, noting Jesse hadn't followed and went back in, grabbed him wordlessly, and headed downstairs. She was greeted by a group of wolf whistles and though flattered, she waved it all away with a typical Letty grin.
"Where you think you're goin?" Dominic asked, sitting on the couch, knocking back a Corona.
"Out with Lace and the new girl. Look, she has to have her shit out by 9 am and she ain't got the money to pay rent so Lace and I are getting her drunk and goin to go get it for her." Letty rolled her eyes at his attitude, not taking his silent temper tantrum.
"Just let her go, she's a wanted girl." Dominic shook his head, his tone of a warning one.
"Oh, and like we're all saints. Let's see, what was on our agenda for tomorrow. Right, it's a day off." Letty mused sarcasticly.
"Just be careful. I don't want to bail either of you out and I need you both to be at work." Dominic shrugged, bluffing like he didn't care.
"So, Jess is pretty hung up on this girl." Letty ignored his warning and tried to stall for time till the other two girls came downstairs.
"He's just hung up on the fact she's an actress." Dominic scoffed, messing with his label and chucking his bottle in the trash.
"You ready?" Lacie asked Trynten as they started for downstairs.
"As I'll ever be." Trynten sighed, looking tired. She tried to appreciate their effort but it was hard when she only wanted to go home to mope and try to figure out her options. They made it out of the house and to the club, the music blaring and the club crowded.
"Hey, can I get an autograph?" A girl asked, walking up to the club.
"You got me mistaken." Trynten looked down, taking a big drink of the rum and coke she had been ordered by Letty.
"Sorry. I thought you were Trynten Adams. You look just like her." The girl slinked away, as if embarrassed.
"What's that all about? You ashamed of your acting career?" Letty asked, playing with her straw as she waited for Lacie to get back with the next round.
"No. Maybe. I don't know. It's not a career anymore. Its' all over and the way I see it, the sooner I get over that, the better." Trynten admitted as Lacie sat down the tray of drinks.
"SO, talk to us and tell us what happened, I'm nosy." Lacie smiled, pushing a lemon, salt , and a shot of tequila towards her.
"It's too long of a story." Trynten sighed sadly.
"We got nothin but time." Lacie sat down, eyeing a guy walking by as she did. He flashed her a grin.
"I thought you and Brian were going out." Trynten said, the words popping out before she realized she had no business saying that. This made Letty howl into big laughter.
"They like to play cat and mouse. He likes her, she likes him. They both too stubborn to admit it." Letty explained, getting a glare from Lacie.
"he's too worried about Dom's thoughts on the whole thing since he dated Dom's real sister and me, I got a man. Not much of one, but I have one." Lacie explained, leaning back after taking her shot.
"Yeah. Sorry." Trynten apologized. Lacie just waved the apology away and grinned.
"Drink up. You got a long ass story to tell so get your throat wet." She advised.
"And while you do that, I'm a head to the dance floor." Letty grinned, her eyes on a guy she had been scoping out for some time now that often was at the race scene.
"I thought… never mind." Trynten laughed.
"They are on the verge of breakin up soon." Lacie said, already knowing from Trynten's confused look that was the thing almost ready to come out of her mouth. "Listen, Strawberry shortcake, I gotta level wit ya." Lacie sighed, ready to lay some stuff out on the table. This got Trynten's attention and not liking the tone of her voice, she downed the shot and chased it with her Corona, finish the whole bottle in second. The tone of bad news scared her. She was so skittish, she figured drinking might take and ease the bad news when it did hit.
"Care to dance?" a guy walked up, looking from Lacie to Trynten as the smoky room and the music seemed to get even more so crowded.
"Nope. See ya." Lacie didn't even look at him.
"Can you just tell me this leveling news you got to tell me before I go into convulsions here?" Trynten asked, taking the shot Lacie pushed towards her.
"Wow, that orphanage really did fuck you up, didn't it? I mean, you are so uptight." Lacie said, making Trynten spit out the shot she had just taken into her mouth, out of pure shock.
"Orphanage? How the hell do you know about that? No one, I mean, no one knows that stuff." Trynten stiffened up, wiping up the spit out drink on her clothes and the table.
"I do. One reason. I was there." Lacie admitted. Trynten's mind reeled, wondering, tabloid magazine?
"I don't find it funny at all. I gotta go." Trynten o got up to leave in a haste. She made a mad dash for outside, Lacie running after her, grabbing her arm.
"Hey, hold up!" She said, frowning at her new found friend running from the problems, something she had learned long ago dint' work.
"Just let me go." Trynten said, whipping around, tears falling down her face. "Why would you do that? Why you trying to make fun of me? I don't know how you know what you know but it's not funny." Trynten jerked away and took off walking.
"Ok, it is true pageant girls are prissy girls. Yeah, Miss Okalahoma, you take off and run when it gets tough. You should be prouda that." Lacie called to her. Trynten shook her head in disgust and kept on going. "I know. Only because I was there, too. I know you had to think twice when I called you strawberry shortcake." Lacie called after her. This made Trynten stop in her tracks, though not turn around. "Trynten, my name hasn't always been Lace. Try Lala." She said, her tone in a softer voice now. Trynten faced her, tears streaming at full force now.
"It doesn't make sense and I still don't trust you." Trynten shook her head, being stubborn. She sat down on the curb, putting her hands in her head. Lacie sat beside her , sighing and giving her a second to take it all in.
"You don't gotta trust me. I know you worked for all that you got to on your own and I know you had to work hard. I remember those nights all that you have done were just hopes and dreams. I ran across you on accident but before tonight I knew you were living there. My boyfriend lives there and we had talked and he told me about you moving in, the famous Trynten Adams." Lacie laughed, her memories of the conversations making her laugh. "I knew from your first movie who you were." Lacie explained.
"Exactly. Were." Trynten sighed.
"Hey, you made that name on your own. You can get it all back, you gotta hell of a drive. Did you ever get adopted by a family?" Lacie asked, seeing Trynten relax a bit.
"No." Trynten said, almost bitterly. "You? I don't get how…" She started.
"Dom?" Lacie asked, raising an eyebrow with a grin.
"Yeah, you always knew what I was thinking. I guess some things don't' change." Trynten smiled somewhat, tossing a rock she had been paying with across the pavement.
"Dom's dad adopted me. Well, his mom and dad but she died like two months after. Dom and I don't get along too well but we're working on it and his dad always preached to him about how important family was so we just say we're blood related to make it real, I guess." Lacie admitted, wondering if Letty was confused as to where they were.
"yeah, I didn't think the difference in you two added up." Trynten smiled.
"Ok, Miss Nancy Drew, you can stop sleuthing." Lacie laughed.
"Wow, I woulda never thought, of all people, to run into you." Trynten laughed, shaking her head as Lacie helped her up.
"yeah, well, don't expect to be running to my bed anymore when there's a storm." Lacie teased, making Trynten punch her in the arm from embarrassment. "So, you still want to be an actress? Or you want to give illegal activities a go?" Lacie joked as they walked back inside.
"Right now, all I wanna do is drink." Trynten admitted, smiling at Letty walking over, looking quite happy.
"wow, you got her to relax." Letty mused, taking a much needed drink from the dance floor. She plopped down in the booth table, seeing Trynten's mascara streaked dried up tears and knew the two had to have come to an understanding.
"Let, did you know Beauty queens liked to drink?" Lacie asked, a mischievous smile on her face.
"I thought you said she was an actress. Jess only told me that and you know Mr. info." Letty laughed as a full tray of drinks were brought to the table.
"Yeah, he is. But you're looking at miss Oklahoma sitting wit us." Lacie laughed.
"Shut up, please. It's not a big deal and it's former and it's over." Trynten rolled her eyes, dismissing it all.
"Why does t all gotta be over with you? Get a positive attitude. But first, drink up." Letty chided as she took a shot. Then she laughed. She was the last person who would tell someone to be positive.
"I say we play quarters." Lacie nodded to Letty, who nodded in agreement.
"Miss Adam's,, what do you have to say to the public about your image and what you're doing now to your young admirers?" a person followed by a camera walked up, shoving a microphone in her face.
"Look, she ain't no Britney Spears so don't try to pull that shit on her." Letty stood up, the bully and no taking bullshit side of her kicking in.
"We just want a word with her. Seclusion for months is not fair to her fans." The guy said, his face hopeful she would respond.
"Ok, I have a comment for you. I am not a role model, I am not into acing anymore and I would appreciate for you t o leave me alone." Trynten said, her pale white face that matched the red hair quickly turned pink and flushed.
"So, you admit you are leaving your fans behind and you don't' care that they are even your fans?" the guy pressed on, getting an exasperated look from Trynten.
"That's it. Your time is up." Letty threw the guy a right hook into his jaw, the bouncers automatically running up the stairs to break up the soon to be altercation.
"Everyone out or I'm calling the cops." The bouncer pointed towards the door. The girls walked out, busting up in laughter at the whole thing.
"You awake back there?" Lacie asked Trynten on the way back to the house.
"Barley, I had enough alcohol to make me just sleepy." She yawned, a smile still on her face. "Can you take me home?" she tried again.
"you gotta be out by nine, what are your plans? On the real, Trent?" Lacie asked, looking in the rear view mirror.
"Can you just take me by to get my stuff and I'll get a hotel and figure it out tomorrow?" Trynten laid her head back on the seat and closed her eyes.
"Yeah, we can do that." Lacie looked at Letty, who nodded. Their plan was halfway competed and they had her cooperation so they were doing better than expected. Trynten trudged up to the collection of condos building and yawned as Letty and Lacie followed.
"Hey girl. You ready to come move it wit me yet?" A guy asked, making Lacie stop following, and holding Letty back.
"No, you don't ever take no for an answer do you?" Trynten asked, rolling her eyes.
"You know you want to. You're just afraid of that image of yours. Come on." The guy put a hand on her shoulder, pulling her towards his door.
"You say I'm the one who cheats. What would you call this?" Lacie stepped around the corner, arms folded and fists balled. Trynten looked shocked and relieved at the same time. But now she was more confused than ever.