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Chapter 5

When Chloe pulled up onto her driveway Vince's eyes nearly fell out of his head. He'd not really thought much about Chloe's place so he was stunned by what he saw. She had a beautiful house right on the beach. It didn't look as large as the Toretto house but the area was much nicer. The house was at the end of a long driveway with enough parking for 6 or 7 cars.

"Come on, lets get you inside, it's been a long day and I for one am ready for my bed." Chloe was completely worn out – it had been a very emotionally draining day and all she could think about was the queen sized bed that was waiting for her in her room.

"I thought you said my car was here?" Vince was suddenly very worried, he couldn't see his car anywhere on the driveway and he was sure Chloe had said she'd brought it home.

"It's in the garage, don't worry it's perfectly safe. I just didn't want to leave it on the driveway with no-one home so I put it away. Come on, we need to have something to eat before bed and you need to have a shower."

Vince was well aware that he needed a shower, Chloe had been helping him clean up whilst he was in the hospital but that was only with wet washcloths. He was getting to the stage where he'd sell his own grandmother for a hot shower.

Chloe told Vince the security code to open the front door and whilst he opened up the house she got their bags from the trunk of the car. Vince felt guilty when he saw how much she was carrying – the trunk off the car was full with bags of shopping as well as their bags from the hospital.

"I bought some food whilst I was out, I don't know about you but I was getting sick of hospital food." Chloe had bought more than just 'some' food – she'd bought more than she normally bought in a month but one thing she remembered about Vince from the beach BBQ was that he loved his food. One day she'd have to ask him what he did with it all as there wasn't an ounce of fat on him.

Vince followed Chloe into the kitchen and sat down at the kitchen table, he'd never bothered helping Mia put the shopping away before but now he felt bad that he couldn't help Chloe. "Is there anything I can do?" Vince wanted to help somehow, but he didn't know how.

"Yeah, you can get a couple of drinks out of the fridge and have a think about what you want to eat, there's a pile of takeaway menus by the phone if you want to have a look."

It took Chloe 4 trips to get all the shopping in – she'd gone overboard with the food, but she'd no idea what Vince did or didn't like and she didn't want to have to go shopping again until after the funeral.

"Is there a Mexican menu here? I'd kill for some enchiladas." Vince couldn't help but smile at the irony in his comment – the team had run off to Mexico and left him yet he couldn't help drooling at the thought of Mexican food.

"There should be, but I can just as easily make some, it'll be quicker than delivery anyway." Mexican was one of Chloe's favourites so she'd bought plenty of tortillas and taco shells in the hope that Vince liked spicy food as well. One look at Vince's face told Chloe that he was trying to decide whether it was fair to ask her to cook after the day that she'd had. "It's ok, I don't mind – I love to cook and right now I can't think of anything I'd rather have than Mexican." Well, apart from Vince, naked in her bed, but Chloe wasn't brave enough to say that.

"Let me just put the food away and I'll get on with dinner. If you want to make yourself useful you can have a look through the cupboards for a wok, I know there's one there somewhere but I'm not exactly sure where."

"How can you not know where things are? This is your house isn't it?" Vince wasn't sure why he added that last comment, Chloe hadn't said anything about this not being her house but somehow it didn't seem to fit her. The house was beautiful, very tastefully decorated from what he'd seen but it lacked the spark that Chloe had. Everything about her was so vibrant and alive yet the house seemed almost dead.

"It was my parent's house – I inherited it when they died. I've been coming by every day to air it out and water the plants but no-one's lived here since they were killed."

"So why have we come here and not gone back to your place?" Vince was really confused, he knew that she had a house somewhere, after all she had a housemate but he couldn't understand why they'd come to her dead parents place.

"Because my housemate's there and I figured after everything that's happened you'd want some privacy. She's more than a little bit crazy and you'd never get any sleep if we stayed there – she likes to party 24/7."

After an enjoyable dinner of home made enchiladas and nachos Chloe showed Vince round the house. It was larger than it had seemed from the outside with 4 bedroom suites in the main part of the house and another 3 in the self contained basement. There was a swimming pool in the back garden and a hot tub on the patio. Vince was amazed by the house, it was absolutely beautiful and obviously worth a fortune. He couldn't help but feel out of his depth here – he was just a boy from Echo Park yet Chloe had obviously grown up with more money than he could imagine.

When they got to Chloe's room she made him sit on the bed whilst she turned the shower on. Vince hadn't realised how tired he was until he sat down on the bed – all he wanted to do was lie down and sleep but he was well aware of how much he needed a shower and a shave. 'A few minutes won't hurt' he thought as he lay down on the bed resting his head on the soft pillows.

Vince was fast asleep when Chloe came back out of the bathroom and she had to think twice about whether to wake him up or not. He needed his sleep but he also needed a shower. Deciding that he could shower in the morning she quietly crossed the room and knelt by the side of the bed to take his boots off. Once his boots and socks were off she carefully undid his jeans and slid them down, trying hard not to touch him or stare too much. There was no way she could take his tank top off so she covered him up with the duvet, kissed him gently on his forehead and headed off to one of the other rooms for some much needed sleep.