A/n: Just wanted to tell you all I am still alive and around, I just have been under heavy doctor's orders and medicine, lol. I broke my arm I write and type with so that is why I am so long in updating. I hope this update is good and I hope to see some reviews, as I am in a withdrawal as we speak, lmao. I love you all and thanks for being so patient! Love Cheer
Take 7…..
"Hey, I want to introduce you to Trynten but I can't find her." Brian said, his frown evident he was thinking on where she might be.
"I just saw her over across the creek at that makeshift concession stand." Letty piped up, looking peppy, even for her. They all looked at her in shock at her happy go lucky tone.
"What's got you so happy?" Dominic frowned, thinking on how odd it was for her to be in such a good mood, especially at this late at night.
"Nothin. Gawd, can't a girl be happy?" Letty asked, moving the long piece of dark black hair out of her face as she went back to her familiar scowl.
"He's just upset he's getting old and grumpy." Lace put an arm around her friend and smiled, giving Brian a wink to indicate she was again ribbing her stepbrother.
"You must be the life of the party we heard so much about." Roman grinned, an eyebrow raised, his eyes on her full stop. He got another hit from Brian and stopped staring at her only for a second.
"Yeah, that's me all right." Lace laughed sarcastically making Leon and Vince laugh at her humor. The bon fire was at full force now, crackling and making snapping noises and even managed to put off enough heat to mirror a small town fire out of control. Jesse stood over it, warming his hands as the group carried on.
"I should go back and get her." Letty coughed, glad to have an excuse to get out of Dominic's eagle eye vision he was staring her down with and she was ignoring.
"Yeah, I'll go with you." Lace coughed, eager to let the boys talk amongst themselves. The two girls walked, Letty carrying a Corona and Lace a blue plastic cup filled with a mixed drink. "Should we be so nice as to bring T one?" She asked, grinning.
"Nope. She can meet the new guys and get her own." Letty laughed, her walk almost as if she were already tipsy. They stopped, hearing deep voices talk and noted with a look to each other that one was Trynten's.
"That's Johnny fucking Tran." Lace exclaimed, turning red at the mention of him.
"Oh hell no. I'm a cut his balls off right now." Letty grabbed her pocketknife and started for the two, only to be held back by Lace.
"Wait. No, we can't. We have to let Brian take him down the legal way." Lace said, her full trust in Brian apparent.
"The only thing we have to do is pay taxes and die and even then, I can manage to avoid the tax thing. I throw out the rules when it comes to my girl and him killing her." Letty growled, her voice fierce.
"I know he killed her and I know he deserves to die. But I want him to find Bubba in the prison system and suffer, Let. I hate him just as much as you do. Believe me, he's messed up my life." Lace said dejectedly, feeling guilty again for hating him for Mia's death and it being the reason her and Brian couldn't be together.
"Gawd, I hate it when you make sense." Letty growled, her knife still in hand but her hand down now. Before it had been raised as though she was going to attack him like a wildebeest hunter and full on stab him in the back, knife raised.
"Stay here." Lace said, clearing her throat, and knowing if Letty came within tow inches of him she would kill him.
"Yeah, I'm going back to camp." Letty huffed, still not convinced tonight was his time to die and meet the hell he belonged in.
"No, stay here." Lace said, taking off in the bushes and crossing over, not giving Letty any time to argue or protest. She was good at doing that sort of thing. Probably why she always won over Dominic, Letty mused to herself.
"Trynten, Come on. Party time." Lace said, her voice louder than she had intended, making Johnny jump.
"Oh, and would I be invited?" Johnny asked, his voice silky sweet, making Lace want to jump on him as Letty had previewed she was going to earlier.
"NO, hell no. You are lucky if we let you live, asshole." Lace spat, hate in her voice and making Trynten look undoubtedly confused.
"Aww, you still blame me?" He asked, his hands out in front of him and Lace pushing Trynten back and away from him as she pulled out a pistol.
"DO you want to die tonight? I can kill you, though I would rather see you rot in prison." She warned, her voice as deep as a tiger's growl to a soon to be dinner.
"I don't understand." Trynten said, in shock and awe at Lace's 180 spin of an attitude. Trynten stood with her feet planed in the ground as Johnny slanked away, obviously not wanting a confrontation to come of tonight's' word exchange.
"He's bad. He killed Mia." Lace shook her head, not wanting to let the tears ruin her tough exterior.
"How is he bad when he's dating Letty?" Trynten asked, her eyes disbelieving of her friend.
"He's not. How would you come up with an idea like that?" Lace asked, obviously amused by this wild idea of her friend's. She walked to where Letty should have been and shook her head, angry she had bolted.
"Letty was just here. I thought I heard the two of them talking and that is who she was sneaking away with these last days. He even said she's sweet and…." Trynten trailed off, her thoughts and words stopped by Lace's growing angered expression.
"Is that so? He was here when she was here? Tell me more, oblige and amuse me, would ya?" Lace asked, her teeth gritted. Trynten went on to explain what her and Tran had talked about and how Letty's sneaking away fit all together like a jigsaw puzzle.
"I didn't know. I should be quiet." Trynten said miserably, hating to be the one to rat out her other good friend. She had had no idea that this was going to be such a huge problem and now she felt too guilty for words.
"No, that makes sense why she didn't want to stay. Do me a favor and stay as far away from him as you can, okay?" She asked, her voice softer now, seeing she was scaring the timid redhead. She looked bewildered and confused and Lace felt sorry for her and those big doe eyes of hers looking so lost. She almost felt it unfair to drag the poor girl into all this.
"Yeah. I will. I didn't know." Trynten said honestly with a nod. They headed back to the campsite in silence, Trynten mulling over the recent events and Lace working on her thoughts as to how to handle this all.
"There is the girl missing in action." Jesse nodded to Roman and Tej.
"Roman, this is Trynten Adams and T, this is Roman Pearce and Tej Parker." Brian introduced, handing Trynten a Corona.
"Hello, Miss Adams.' Tej stuck out his hand and grinned obviously liking what he saw. He got a punch from Roman and the two went at punching each other for a second, making Trynten laugh at their boyishness.
"Keep her busy, would ya, Bri?" Lace batted her eyes, making Brian look at her as though he knew something was up.
"Lace, you have that look…." He started. She was already walking towards a trailer that was being occupied by Letty and Dominic. She went in, not bothering to knock and stared at Letty.
"Can we talk outside?" Lace asked, her arms folded.
"Look, I got tired…" Letty nodded and went outside, not prepared for what happened next at all. Lace reached over, her fist balled and punched her. "What the hell, Lace?" She asked, her mouth dropped open in pure and utter shock.
"How the fuck could you do that to this family?" Lace asked, still swinging and Letty blocking the swings.
"What are you talking about?" Letty asked, her teeth gritted and as the two dropped to the ground, clutching each other and swinging.
"You know good and damn well what I'm talking about." Lace accused, her lip now split as she busted Letty right in the nose.
"No, I don't. Start talking." Letty hauled off and hit her friend that she had come to trust. She was confused as to why Lace would do this and yet, angered more than she had been in a long time.
"Break this shit up!" Dominic stood between them, Vince holding Letty back and Dominic holding his stepsister. The whole crew was now around them, Trynten stood, horrified at the sight of the two going at each other.
"No, you tell him, Letty." Lace pointed to her so called friend as she took deep labored breaths and spit out blood from her lip.
"Tell him what?" Letty asked, her eyes wide and questioning now as she too, stood, breathing heavily.
"What you been fucking doin behind Dom's back." Lace threw back at her in a harsh hateful tone.
"YOU wanna clue me in as well? You have lost your damn mind!" Letty yelled, her expression of hurt showing through her anger and fierce face.
"Where you been sneakin off to and more importantly, with who." Lace yelled back, Trynten walking away and feeling sick to her stomach. She didn't know she was being followed.
"What do you care? It was all good a few days ago." Letty yelled, her heart broken by her friend's betrayal.
"I woulda never thought you would stoop so low as for it to be with TRAN." Lace yelled back, making the whole crew's mouths drop, including Letty's .
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