Chapter 14

"Hi Brian, good to hear from you." Dom sounded as if he was having the time of his life, there was a party going on in the background and he'd obviously been drinking.

"It's not Brian, you prick it's Chloe – let me talk to Mia." Chloe wasn't in the mood to be nice to Dom, she hated him for how he'd treated the rest of the team and for what he'd said about her to Brian.

"MIA, PHONE"

"Hi, Mia speaking."

"Mia, it's Chloe. Katy said you called." Chloe knew this conversation was going to go one of two ways, either Mia would cry and pretend she'd been desperately worried about everyone or she'd get all defensive about her behaviour.

"Oh thank God you called Chloe; I've been trying to get hold of you for weeks." Mia sounded close to tears but Chloe couldn't tell if it was all just an act or whether she was genuinely concerned for her 'brothers.'

"You could have tried answering your phone; I called you every day for 3 weeks." Chloe wasn't in the mood to be pleasant to Mia; Vince's pain was still too fresh in her mind.

"How's V? Is he out of the hospital yet?"

"If you're that concerned about V, why don't you come back and see for yourself?" Chloe was getting more and more pissed with every word that came out of Mia's mouth.

"I can't Chloe; you know that – the police are still looking for us." Chloe knew that she was getting to Mia; she had started whining and trying to make excuses for her behaviour.

"Bullshit Mia, I know that Brian called and told you and Dom the case had been dropped. There's nothing stopping you from coming back"

"How do you know what Brian said? Is he there with you?" Mia couldn't understand how Chloe knew about the phone call from Brian, she'd never met him yet she'd obviously talked to him recently.

"Yea, he's here. So are V and Leon."

"Lee's with you? I thought he went with Letty." By now Mia was totally confused. Dom and Letty had had a huge argument the previous night and when she'd gotten up that morning both Leon and Letty had packed their stuff and left. Both her and Dom had assumed they were together.

"Letty's not here, it's just me, Katy and the boys. Look Mia, I don't have a lot of time so why don't you tell me what you wanted." Chloe didn't really care about Letty leaving, she didn't know the girl very well but she couldn't help feeling sorry for the way Dom treated her.

"I wanted to ask you to talk to V and see if he'd keep the garage running." Mia was sure that Vince would sort things out with the garage – he knew how much it meant to her and he'd do anything for her.

"Don't worry about the garage Mia; I've got it all under control. I've got the store and the house covered as well." Chloe couldn't believe that all Mia had wanted was to make sure someone was looking after the business. She'd never even asked how the funeral went or how badly Vince was injured.

"Just so as you know Mia, Brian told me what Dom said about me – how I'm not to be trusted as I'm not a member of the team. Well, he's right; I'm not a member of the team. I never wanted to be. I was quite happy just being your friend but when you ran out on Vince and Jesse you made me a member of the team. You left them and ran to bloody Mexico - do you have any idea what Vince has been through these past few weeks? What I've been through? I missed my exams because Vince needed me at the hospital. I had to go to Lompoc to tell Jesse's dad his son was dead and then I had to arrange the bloody funeral by myself. I buried a man I hardly knew because you and Dom abandoned him." By this point in the conversation Chloe was ready to hit someone. 'Just as well Mia's not here,' she thought, ' she'd have more than a few bruises by now if she was'

"I'm sorry, we had to run. We had no choice." Mia knew that Chloe was right, but she had to do what Dom said, he was her only blood family after all, the others were just friends.

"NO CHOICE, I SUPPOSE YOU HAD NO CHOICE WHEN YOU LIED TO LEON ABOUTJESSE CALLING EVERYNIGHT AND BEING THE ONE LOOKING AFTER VINCE. YOU MAKE ME SICK MIA, YOU AND THAT CONTROLLING ASSHOLE OF A BROTHER OF YOURS." Chloe was so furious she couldn't stop herself from shouting at Mia. Who the hell did she think she was trying to wheedle out of everything and make out that Chloe was being unreasonable in expecting her to stick around and look after her family?

"Chloe please, I'm sorry." Mia was desperate for Chloe to understand why she'd left, Dom was her brother and no matter what he'd done she'd follow him anywhere.

"Sorry doesn't cut it Mia, it doesn't even come close. All the time I've known you, you've gone on and on about family and the team then you ran out on them when the going got tough. You don't abandon your family Mia, you and Dom should have stayed to face the music." Chloe spoke in the same deadly calm voice Vince had heard Mrs Toretto use on occasion. The one that showed she was beyond pissed and scared the life out of anyone it was directed at.

"Don't call me again Mia; you made your choice when you left with Dom. You don't have family in LA anymore." Chloe hung up without giving Mia a chance to respond. She knew that she'd upset the younger girl but she really didn't care, she'd never forgive her for the way she'd left Vince and then lying to Leon as well – it was all too much and if she never saw her again it would be too soon.