Hello! It's me again here with Chapter three of Newbie. Sorry that it took so long to get this chapter up. I'm going to try and get the next couple up within a week. At least I hope so. So to all my reviewers:
Braelyn: Glad to hear that you like it. I'm trying to slow down the story slightly.
Scottish lass2: not offended. But I'm glad that you reviewed.
Gringa088: Nice to know that it's cute!
Sweetest Addiction: Thanks for reading.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Carman, Jered, and Jennifer, and maybe a few other things.
Chapter 3 Past Friends
Saturday July 13, 2002
The next day everyone of Team Toretto slept until noon and the first person to actually get up was Mia. After showering and getting dressed she headed downstairs and started getting food ready for lunch.
About a half-hour later the rest of the team started making their way into the kitchen smelling the food. The only exception was Leon and Carman who were still downstairs in bed. The atmosphere was quite subdued compared to what it had been the night before at the party.
"So what are we doing today?" asked Mia smiling. She was the only one that didn't have anything to drink last night and therefore had no hangover.
"Ug, Mi, do you have to be so loud?" growled Dom holding his head.
"Not my fault you have a hangover!" said Mia in a singsong voice.
"She's right it's all your faults." Said Carman as her and Leon headed into the kitchen.
"Ug how are you so happy?" asked Vince.
"The power of not having hangovers."
"Never?" asked Dom in disbelief.
"Never," said Carman with a grin, and it was true. She'd been drinking ever since she turned 16 and she'd never had a hangover.
"You're truly evil." Said Vince as they finished eating their food.
Later that day the crew basically moved to the living room and started watching movies. Carman and Mia were up in Mia's room.
"Wonder what they're doing up there." Said Vince looking toward the ceiling.
"Probably talking about me." Said Leon glaring at the ceiling.
The rest of the guys just laughed but stopped when they heard footsteps on the stairs.
"And just where are you guys going?" asked Jesse.
"Shopping of course." Said Carman like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Shopping? Why?" asked Leon.
"Because we can." Said Mia as the two headed for the door.
"How about we head out to dinner tonight," suggested Dom.
"Sounds great," said Mia, "what time?"
"7:00?" asked Dom.
Everybody nodded. It was already 5:00 but that would give the girls plenty of time.
"Alright we'll be back soon," said Carman as the girls left the house with one destination in mind, the mall.
"Girls and shopping, I'll never understand it." Said Jesse and all of the guys nodded.
After spending several hundred dollars on clothes Carman and Mia made their way back to the Fort to meet the guys and head out for dinner.
"How much money did you guys spend?" asked Leon as the girls walked into the house.
"Couple hundred, why?" asked Carman.
"Couple hundred? Where'd you get a couple hundred?" Dom asked looking toward Mia.
"I won a race last week." Said Carman as Mia headed upstairs with her stuff.
"So we going to dinner?" asked Jesse rubbing his stomach, twenty minutes later.
"Yes, Mia let's go!" shouted Dom up the stairs.
"Coming," said Mia as she appeared with Carman behind her. And the girls to say the least were stunning. Mia had a short black dress and Carman had a mini black skirt and a sky blue top.
Leon let out a low whistle looking toward Carman. "You look very nice tonight."
"Thank-you."
"Alright let's go love birds." Said Dom as the group headed outside.
Leon, Jesse, and Carman got in Leon's skyline and Dom, Letty, Mia, and Vince climbed into Vince's Maxima.
After a short drive the group arrived at Giovani's and headed inside.
"Hello, do you have a reservation?" asked the blond later at the door. Dom nodded and said it was under Toretto.
"Right this way." Said the blond as she grabbed the menus and led them to the dining room.
"Thank-you." Said Dom as they sat down and the blond left.
"Nice place." Said Carman and Leon nodded, "we come here a lot, they have really good food."
The group became silent as they looked over the menus trying to decide what to order.
"Hello, my name is Jennifer and I will be your waitress for this evening. Would you like to start off with some drinks?" asked a tall brunette woman.
Dom nodded, "I'll have a corona please."
"Corona."
"Corona."
"Corona."
"Diet Coke."
"Corona."
"Uh, a coke." Said Carman as the waitress nodded and walked away.
"No corona?" asked Dom looking toward Carman.
"She ain't old enough." Said Jesse beating her to it.
"How old are you?" asked Vince.
"20, I'm almost there. Beside shouldn't you guys no you did throw a birthday party for me."
"We didn't really ask about your age, we just planned the party, besides you look at least 22." Said Mia.
After getting their drinks they all order their food and continued talking while they waited to get their food.
"Alright, foods here." Said Jennifer as she and a waiter both held trays.
As they made their way down toward Leon and Carman's end of the table, Carman tried to hide her face.
"Carman? Is that you?" asked the waiter.
"Jered, hey I thought that looked like you." Said Carman as she stood up to hug him.
"I didn't know that you were in L.A. thought that you were still in Texas."
"Oh I was but I graduated and came to see my brother." Said Carman fidgeting.
Dom cleared his throat.
"Oh right," said Carman. "Jered this is Dom, that's Letty, Mia, Vince, Leon, and my brother Jesse, guys this is Jered."
"Nice to meet you all. We'll have to get together sometime." Said Jered smiling.
"Yeah sometime." Said Carman as she sat back down and began eating as Jered and Jennifer walked away.
"Well?" asked Leon. Carman sighed looking up, everyone way waiting.
"Well what?" she asked.
"Who is he?"
"Jered."
"We know that, we want to know who he is." Said Jesse just as curious as Leon.
"Oh I knew him from Montana, that's all." Said Carman trying to eat but failing as everyone kept watching her.
"What?" she growled.
"You hid your face when he came, why?" asked Letty.
"Because I didn't want to see him, okay?"
"Why?" asked Leon getting slightly aggravated at Carman's lack of information.
"He's my ex-boyfriend okay? Things didn't go well." Said Carman standing up and heading toward the door. This was not something she wanted to deal with right now.
"Done already?" asked Jered as Carman walked out the door.
"Smoking already?" shot Carman.
"Look I don't think that you have any reason to be pissed at me." Said Jered turning toward her.
"Your right." Said Carman realizing that she had no right to be pissed at Jered.
"It's okay, so you seem to be happy."
"Yeah I guess, life's been pretty good for me." Said Carman as the door behind her opened and she heard Mia's voice.
"Carm, you coming back in?"
"I'm not really that hungry anymore Mia, thanks though."
"So what, your going to sit out here and talk to your ex-boyfriend, while your current boyfriend sits inside ranting." Asked Mia.
"This is just to much, I need time alone." Said Carman walking off toward the parking lot.
"Carman! Where are you going!" shouted Mia.
But Carman just shrugged her off and kept walking down the road. Seeing Jered had just brought up to many memories, she thought that she had buried.
All right there's chapter 3, hope everyone reviews. Good or bad reviews, I don't really care. Now I'll try and get the story updated within the week.
-Aimee
