Chapter 17 - Now this guy can Dance
AN:Sorry for the short chapter and for the fact that not much happens but now that I basically only have the two stories it'll get easier for me to write them and then you'll get more story faster. Sorry to the fans of She's Bonnie but it's almost done. :( Two for one type deal. But you people reading this need to review. I'll hunt you down and turn you into Vampires like me if you don't! J/K but still please review.
"Rome!" Brian exclaimed and walked over to his friend. He gave him a slap on the back. "What are you doin' in LA?"
"Miami got boring when you left to come back here so I decided to check it out. Why did you leave?" Brian looked down at his shoes and thought for a second. "It was over a chick wasn't it?" Rome asked.
"Yeah, I had a girl when I ended up down there and I missed her, so I came back up here to try to make up with her and her family when we were done and she did forgive me so here I am." Brian gave Rome a sheepish smile. He'd left Miami rather abruptly and had barely told his friend he was leaving and where he was going.
"It's always a chick with you Brian." Rome smiled.
"Hey, Mia's not a chick, she's a very sweet girl and I love her to death." Brian got defensive.
"And her 'family' is the guy you let go right?" Rome asked. Kat was watching this with great interest. She'd heard rumors about what had gone down, about Brian being a cop and trying to bust Dominic and the others for jacking trucks, but she figured that they were just rumors because everyone was still around. But she hadn't known Brian had run away to Miami either.
"Hey man, not so loud. I managed to keep that shit mostly under wraps and got them all off; I don't need the wrong person to hear you." Brian gave Kat a fearful look, like she hated Dom enough to turn him in because he really did it or something.
"Brian, I heard all about it before in rumors from other people. I might not like Dom but I wouldn't do anything that would get you, Jesse or Leon in trouble either." Kat told him with what she hoped was a reassuring smile. "I'm coo, remember where I'm from?"
"I know that Kat, but Harry doesn't know the whole story and who knows who else could walk in and hear him." Brian gave Rome a nasty look. Rome threw up his hands.
"Aren't you gonna introduce me to your friend?" Kat gave Brian a look.
"Oh right. Sure. Rome this is Kat, Kat, Rome, a friend of mine from childhood."
"Nice to meet you Rome." They shook hands.
"Same to you Kat. When I talked to Brian about his job here he never mentioned he had such a pretty co-worker."
"Really?" She gave Brian a kidding look like he should have mentioned her first. The three people started talking about Miami and racing. It was really slow that day and no one ever came in to shop. They slowly migrated toward the counter and Kat hopped up on it and grabbed her bag of goodies. She helped herself and then let the guys look to see if they wanted anything.
"Oh, Brian, I got lost at lunch and ended up at Torreto's. Mia says hi." Kat smiled.
Brian grinned back. The song playing on the radio changed to 'Put your back into it'.
"So, Kat, you tried to dance with the white boy, you wanna dance with someone who knows what he's doin'?"
"You think you can keep up?" Kat asked with an innocent look.
"I can, you might have trouble."
"Oh, it's on man. Let's go!" Kat laughed out. Rome held out a hand to help her down off the counter and they moved to an open section of floor. Brian restarted the song and they danced to it. Brian was in shock by how they danced. It looked like they were all over each other. Kat was laughing, it was obliviously a fun time to her, Rome looked slightly more stunned then like he was having great fun. He obviously hadn't expected Kat to be able to dance like that. But he was keeping up with her. The song ended with Kat's back against Rome's front and a stunned look on the man's face. "Well, you weren't kidden when you said you danced better then Brian." Kat gasped out. "And you gave me a good workout." She grabbed a clean rag and wiped her forehead. When she was done Rome took it and did the same.
"Where'd you learn to move like that girl?" Rome was surprised at her skill.
"It was a pretty standard way to dance in my high school. We use to sneek into this club called VooDoo and hit it every weekend. It was a great time, and where I lived then no one cared we were up in the club at 16." Kat hopped back onto the counter and fished in her bag of goodies again. She popped open her cherry coke and took a big swig. Then she proceeded to open a package of fundip. "Fundip and Cherry Coke, how old are you again?" Brian asked her.
"Old enough to know better and way too young to care." She stuck her now blue tongue out at him and took another drink of coke. "Well guys, we should start to think about closin' up the place."
"Yeah, I guess we should." Brian checked the time. They started to work on the stuff they had to get done to close the store. Kat had called the guys earlier and told them to be home if possible when she got back so that they could go out to dinner. She told them she had something important to talk to them about. She really wanted to tell them they got a house and show it to them.
Since she had told them she would meet them at home she was somewhat surprised when they all walked in the store.
"Guys what are you doin' here?" She asked with a grin. "I thought I was gonna meet you guys at home."
"We decided to save you the trip home and just meet you here." Kale told her as they walked up to her and proceeded to grab her in a group hug.
"I want you all to meet Brian. Well, Sean you know him already of course but anyway, Brian this is Kale and that's Stacy. Guys this is Brian. Oh, and this is Brian's friend from school Rome, who I just met." Everyone shook hands. "Well Bri, it's that time of day and my guys are taken' me out to dinner." She said with a wink and the guys grinned.
"Oh we are, are we?" Stacy said. "You're the one with the fancy job." He said, everyone knew he was kidding.
"Yep, cause you all owe me. I'll tell you for what over dinner." She started to herd them all out of the store. "See you tomorrow Bri." She called back over her shoulder.
"Yeah, see ya Kat." Brian answered and watched them go. Kat basically telling the three huge guys what to do and them doing it with a smile.
"So, what's up with the girl and the homeboys?" Rome asked Brian when they had peeled out of the lot of the Racer's Edge in Kat's Eclipse.
"They've been taken' care of her since she was 15. I guess she was a run away and they found her but after they found out what she'd run away from they never sent her back. She loves 'em like brothers, and I know for a fact that Sean would kill anyone who so much as looked at her wrong. They kind of scare me sometimes, but Kat is really nice."
"Why do they scare you?" Rome knew it wasn't cause they were black or big, half the kids in their clique in school had been.
"They were leaders in the gang The Tigers. Sean's brother is the head of that gang still."
Rome whistled through his teeth. "I heard 'bout them. They are bad. Why'd ya hire the girl then?"
"I didn't know at first, obviously, but she's nice, like I said. She's smart, she knows cars. She can race. She might be better then we've seen down here in awhile. I think she's gonna challenge Dom. I don't think she can beat 'im. But she's gonna make him work to keep his King of LA title. She fits in like no one else ever has. I just like her too."
"Well, girl can dance. She seein anyone?"
"I think she has a thing for my friend Leon. And I think he feels somethin' for her too. I hope so anyway cause they're cute together. Anyways, I'm done here, you have a place to stay yet?"
"Naw B, why do ya think I'm here?" Rome asked him.
Brian told him it shouldn't be a problem for Rome to stay with them at Dom's for awhile at least. They headed to the house to introduce Rome to the team.
"So guys, you know I have something to tell ya. Is what it is killen' ya?" Kat looked around at the guys. They were at their favorite Italian restaurant waiting to order.
"Yeah kid, the suspense is killen' us." Kale said with a laugh. "You always make us sweat the big news." Sean reached over and tickled her sides.
"Spill it." He laughed at her squirming, trying to get away.
"Stop it." She laughed out, trying to catch some breath. "I'll tell, I'll tell." She got out. Sean stopped.
"Well?" Sean asked.
"I found a house. It's perfect, close to my work, not too far from Sean's. Good neighbourhood. Reasonably priced, and huge. And I hope you're not mad at me but I bought it on the spot. I didn't want someone else to get it." She looked around with a nervous look on her face so the guys wouldn't yell at her for not consulting them first.
"Ah kitten, you know we don't care where we live, long as we get our own rooms finally." Stacy told her. "Where is this house exactly?"
The waitress came and took their orders then. They ate and then while they were deciding what to do after that Stacy remembered she'd never answered him cause they ordered and ate right after he asked. He asked again.
AN:Sorry for the short chapter and for the fact that not much happens but now that I basically only have the two stories it'll get easier for me to write them and then you'll get more story faster. Sorry to the fans of She's Bonnie but it's almost done. :( Two for one type deal. But you people reading this need to review. I'll hunt you down and turn you into Vampires like me if you don't! J/K but still please review.
"Rome!" Brian exclaimed and walked over to his friend. He gave him a slap on the back. "What are you doin' in LA?"
"Miami got boring when you left to come back here so I decided to check it out. Why did you leave?" Brian looked down at his shoes and thought for a second. "It was over a chick wasn't it?" Rome asked.
"Yeah, I had a girl when I ended up down there and I missed her, so I came back up here to try to make up with her and her family when we were done and she did forgive me so here I am." Brian gave Rome a sheepish smile. He'd left Miami rather abruptly and had barely told his friend he was leaving and where he was going.
"It's always a chick with you Brian." Rome smiled.
"Hey, Mia's not a chick, she's a very sweet girl and I love her to death." Brian got defensive.
"And her 'family' is the guy you let go right?" Rome asked. Kat was watching this with great interest. She'd heard rumors about what had gone down, about Brian being a cop and trying to bust Dominic and the others for jacking trucks, but she figured that they were just rumors because everyone was still around. But she hadn't known Brian had run away to Miami either.
"Hey man, not so loud. I managed to keep that shit mostly under wraps and got them all off; I don't need the wrong person to hear you." Brian gave Kat a fearful look, like she hated Dom enough to turn him in because he really did it or something.
"Brian, I heard all about it before in rumors from other people. I might not like Dom but I wouldn't do anything that would get you, Jesse or Leon in trouble either." Kat told him with what she hoped was a reassuring smile. "I'm coo, remember where I'm from?"
"I know that Kat, but Harry doesn't know the whole story and who knows who else could walk in and hear him." Brian gave Rome a nasty look. Rome threw up his hands.
"Aren't you gonna introduce me to your friend?" Kat gave Brian a look.
"Oh right. Sure. Rome this is Kat, Kat, Rome, a friend of mine from childhood."
"Nice to meet you Rome." They shook hands.
"Same to you Kat. When I talked to Brian about his job here he never mentioned he had such a pretty co-worker."
"Really?" She gave Brian a kidding look like he should have mentioned her first. The three people started talking about Miami and racing. It was really slow that day and no one ever came in to shop. They slowly migrated toward the counter and Kat hopped up on it and grabbed her bag of goodies. She helped herself and then let the guys look to see if they wanted anything.
"Oh, Brian, I got lost at lunch and ended up at Torreto's. Mia says hi." Kat smiled.
Brian grinned back. The song playing on the radio changed to 'Put your back into it'.
"So, Kat, you tried to dance with the white boy, you wanna dance with someone who knows what he's doin'?"
"You think you can keep up?" Kat asked with an innocent look.
"I can, you might have trouble."
"Oh, it's on man. Let's go!" Kat laughed out. Rome held out a hand to help her down off the counter and they moved to an open section of floor. Brian restarted the song and they danced to it. Brian was in shock by how they danced. It looked like they were all over each other. Kat was laughing, it was obliviously a fun time to her, Rome looked slightly more stunned then like he was having great fun. He obviously hadn't expected Kat to be able to dance like that. But he was keeping up with her. The song ended with Kat's back against Rome's front and a stunned look on the man's face. "Well, you weren't kidden when you said you danced better then Brian." Kat gasped out. "And you gave me a good workout." She grabbed a clean rag and wiped her forehead. When she was done Rome took it and did the same.
"Where'd you learn to move like that girl?" Rome was surprised at her skill.
"It was a pretty standard way to dance in my high school. We use to sneek into this club called VooDoo and hit it every weekend. It was a great time, and where I lived then no one cared we were up in the club at 16." Kat hopped back onto the counter and fished in her bag of goodies again. She popped open her cherry coke and took a big swig. Then she proceeded to open a package of fundip. "Fundip and Cherry Coke, how old are you again?" Brian asked her.
"Old enough to know better and way too young to care." She stuck her now blue tongue out at him and took another drink of coke. "Well guys, we should start to think about closin' up the place."
"Yeah, I guess we should." Brian checked the time. They started to work on the stuff they had to get done to close the store. Kat had called the guys earlier and told them to be home if possible when she got back so that they could go out to dinner. She told them she had something important to talk to them about. She really wanted to tell them they got a house and show it to them.
Since she had told them she would meet them at home she was somewhat surprised when they all walked in the store.
"Guys what are you doin' here?" She asked with a grin. "I thought I was gonna meet you guys at home."
"We decided to save you the trip home and just meet you here." Kale told her as they walked up to her and proceeded to grab her in a group hug.
"I want you all to meet Brian. Well, Sean you know him already of course but anyway, Brian this is Kale and that's Stacy. Guys this is Brian. Oh, and this is Brian's friend from school Rome, who I just met." Everyone shook hands. "Well Bri, it's that time of day and my guys are taken' me out to dinner." She said with a wink and the guys grinned.
"Oh we are, are we?" Stacy said. "You're the one with the fancy job." He said, everyone knew he was kidding.
"Yep, cause you all owe me. I'll tell you for what over dinner." She started to herd them all out of the store. "See you tomorrow Bri." She called back over her shoulder.
"Yeah, see ya Kat." Brian answered and watched them go. Kat basically telling the three huge guys what to do and them doing it with a smile.
"So, what's up with the girl and the homeboys?" Rome asked Brian when they had peeled out of the lot of the Racer's Edge in Kat's Eclipse.
"They've been taken' care of her since she was 15. I guess she was a run away and they found her but after they found out what she'd run away from they never sent her back. She loves 'em like brothers, and I know for a fact that Sean would kill anyone who so much as looked at her wrong. They kind of scare me sometimes, but Kat is really nice."
"Why do they scare you?" Rome knew it wasn't cause they were black or big, half the kids in their clique in school had been.
"They were leaders in the gang The Tigers. Sean's brother is the head of that gang still."
Rome whistled through his teeth. "I heard 'bout them. They are bad. Why'd ya hire the girl then?"
"I didn't know at first, obviously, but she's nice, like I said. She's smart, she knows cars. She can race. She might be better then we've seen down here in awhile. I think she's gonna challenge Dom. I don't think she can beat 'im. But she's gonna make him work to keep his King of LA title. She fits in like no one else ever has. I just like her too."
"Well, girl can dance. She seein anyone?"
"I think she has a thing for my friend Leon. And I think he feels somethin' for her too. I hope so anyway cause they're cute together. Anyways, I'm done here, you have a place to stay yet?"
"Naw B, why do ya think I'm here?" Rome asked him.
Brian told him it shouldn't be a problem for Rome to stay with them at Dom's for awhile at least. They headed to the house to introduce Rome to the team.
"So guys, you know I have something to tell ya. Is what it is killen' ya?" Kat looked around at the guys. They were at their favorite Italian restaurant waiting to order.
"Yeah kid, the suspense is killen' us." Kale said with a laugh. "You always make us sweat the big news." Sean reached over and tickled her sides.
"Spill it." He laughed at her squirming, trying to get away.
"Stop it." She laughed out, trying to catch some breath. "I'll tell, I'll tell." She got out. Sean stopped.
"Well?" Sean asked.
"I found a house. It's perfect, close to my work, not too far from Sean's. Good neighbourhood. Reasonably priced, and huge. And I hope you're not mad at me but I bought it on the spot. I didn't want someone else to get it." She looked around with a nervous look on her face so the guys wouldn't yell at her for not consulting them first.
"Ah kitten, you know we don't care where we live, long as we get our own rooms finally." Stacy told her. "Where is this house exactly?"
The waitress came and took their orders then. They ate and then while they were deciding what to do after that Stacy remembered she'd never answered him cause they ordered and ate right after he asked. He asked again.