CH5

All through out that afternoon, Alex continued to work on her tan, Rhiannon had her sketch pad and was drawing; every time Rome went past Alex he couldn't help but stare and go up behind her and kissed her. And Lance, Peter and Tim sat at the little white table next to them playing poker.

When it came to about 5.00pm, Tej was going around to all the 'groups' of people asking who wanted to be in the races tonight. He then reached Alex, Lance, Tim, Peter and Rome.

"Hey guys, who wants to race tonight? I'm organising now and collecting later."

"I'll race." Alex said as she removed her sunglasses and placed them on her head.

"How many races chica?" Tej asked.

"I'll go two for tonight."

"Aight, anyone else?" Tej asked the others.

"I will" Peter said, "I wanna see how good our girl has gotten. So I'll be in one of the same races as her."

"Done"

"I will too." Tim piped up.

"Same race as Alex too?" Tej asked him as he wrote down on his notepad.

"Yeah"

"Aight. Peter, you'll be in the first race with Al and Tim, you'll be in the second race with Al. anyone else before I go?"

"Nah, we're right," Lance said as Tej started to walk away, but stopped, "It's a 5 G buy in for each race. And yes I know that I owe you 10 G from the last race you were in Alex"

Alex smiled, "Love you too Tej." She said as he walked away.

"Hey Al, when was the last race you were in?" Rhiannon asked her older sister.

"Last weekend when you went to that movie marathon at the drive-ins with your friends"

"Damn, I should've been there. Can I come tonight please?"

Alex looked at her sister, "I'm not sure"

"Come on please, I'll be good I promise"

"Alright, on one condition. You stay with either me, when I'm not racing, or either Rome, Suki, Lance, Peter or Tim"

"Ok, I can do that." She paused, "Do you think I can race?"

Alex just looked at her for a minute, "Don't push it."

Rhiannon started laughing, "I was only joking"

"In a few years you will get the urge for speed. Then you'll beg me."

"How can you be so sure of that?"

"You have the same blood I do. In fact, mom told me that Dad was in the street racing, so it runs in our blood, but my urge came as soon as I turned 16"

"But I'm not as interested in cars as much as you are. Remember you are the one who started working at the local garage near home as an apprentice. You have nothing to worry about, I'm not into racing, you got my share of the genes from Dad."

Alex smiled at her younger sister, "Well that's good, if you become any trouble to me… I don't know what I will do, but I'll think of something when we come to it."

"Which I hope we wont because I don't want to give that hard of a time" Rhiannon said as she hugged her older sister.

"How touching," both Rhiannon and Alex looked around to see Lance pretending to wipe away a tear, Peter pretending to cry on his shoulder and Tim pretending to cry on Lance's other shoulder.

"Oh shut up!" Rhiannon said as she got up and started to play fight with the trio.

Peter, Lance and Tim got Rhiannon on the ground and started tickling her. Alex saw this and laughed, then she decided to go and join in.

"Stacks on" Alex yelled and pushed Peter and Tim over and pounced on them.

"And I thought that you only do that to me, if you know what I mean, but now I'm offended." Rome said as he looked the opposite way and crossed his arms across his chest.

Alex, Rhiannon, Lance, Tim and Peter were on the ground out of breath and still laughing when Rome had said that he was offended. Alex got off the ground and ran over to Rome and knocked him to the ground. "Now what were you saying? You are offended, but there is something that you get and they don't."

Then there was a huge smile on his face, "Yes that is true"

"They are my best mates from back in LA my team, my 'homeys' I should say"

"I understand, I was only kidding."

"Yeah I know, I just felt like tackling you."

They all mucked around for a further hour when Alex decided it was about time to go home and get changed and ready for the races.

At about 11pm, Rhiannon was downstairs pacing, "Come on Al. You said we have to leave here by 11 and well, it's 11 already."

"Aight, I'm coming" Alex said as she came down the stairs wearing hipster tight fitting jeans that hugged her hips perfectly, and a black halter neck top that showed a little bit of stomach. Her hair was straighten again and boots that had a flat heel. "Come on, let's get in the car."

"Finally" Rhiannon said as she went out the door before Alex and got in the passenger seat of the Skyline.

"Don't be so impatient," Alex said as she got in the driver's seat and started the car.

20 minutes later they arrived where the races were held outside another garage. When Alex and Rhiannon got there, all the racers were showing others what they had done to their car.

"Wow! How many racers are here?" Rhiannon asked.

"Um, I'm not sure. But Tej's events are always huge" Alex replied as she parked the Skyline.

"There are heaps of cute guys around here"

Alex looked at her sister, who was checking out all the cute guys, "Down girl! I really wouldn't know, 'cause I have a cute guy of my own. And remember our deal."

Rhiannon and Alex started walking to where the others were "Hey Al, why do I have to stay with someone all night?"

"'Cause, the guys around here, they may look absolutely hot, but they can't be trusted. All they want is a quick something-something without the whole relationship thing that goes with it."

"Then how can you be so sure that Rome isn't like that?"

"Because I trust Brian, he has known Rome a lot longer."

"And you have known Lance since you were 15, and the both of you like each other. Why haven't you ever gotten with him."

"It's not that easy, honey, can we talk about this tomorrow. I promise I will tell you the whole thing about me and Lance tomorrow."

"Pinky promise?" Rhiannon said as she held out her little finger.

"Pinky promise" Alex replied and hooked her little finger with Rhiannon's.

"Hey Babe" Rome said as he jogged over to Alex and pecked her on the cheek.

"Hey Sexy, so when is the first race? "

"In about 10 minutes." Tej answered before Rome could.

The rest or the night went smoothly, Alex won the two races that she was in so she won about $40,000 from each race that night. Rhiannon seemed to enjoy herself watching her sister racing and winning.

"Come on Rhi, time to get going." Alex said to her sister as she collected the money off Tej.

"Alright," With that, Rhiannon and Alex said bye to everyone and made their way home in the Skyline

The next morning Alex woke up and decided to go and jump on Rhiannon.

She creped into her little sister's room, Rhiannon was still dead to the world, so Alex ran and jumped on her.

"What the hell do you want?" Rhiannon said as she pulled her doona up and over her head.

"Well, with all the money I won last night, I've decided to take you out to breakfast and then we'll go on a, what is it called, um, what's the word… Shopping Spree"

Rhiannon moved her doona from her head and looked at her sister, "Are you for real? Or is this some sort of joke?"

"No joke, now get up. If you're not down stairs in an hour, I'll go by myself and spend all the money on myself." Alex said as she walked to the door, "and because I take the longest, dibs on the shower first" Alex ran and got her stuff to run into the bathroom.

"You cheated, you had that planned out." Rhiannon yelled out from her room.

"Yep, sure did" Alex yelled back.

An hour and a half later, Rhiannon and Alex were sitting at a table, outside of a cafe having breakfast and a coffee. Both were enjoying the Miami morning sun.

"I'm glad that we moved from LA to Miami, it's so much nicer and it has a better atmosphere. " Rhiannon said as she looked around after taking another bite of her croissant.

"Yeah, I agree." Alex replied as she took another sip of her skinny cappuccino

"So, remember that promise that you made last night. About what was between you and Lance."

Alex blushed, "Do you really want to know?"

"Of course, this is all gossip to me." Rhiannon said as she finished off her croissant.

"Alright. You remember all those times when we were back in LA, when you always went to your friends house on a Friday night and sometimes Saturday nights. Well there were street racers in LA too, but the thing that was going on in between me and Lance was… more off a lust thing."

"Was this when you were with Mitch?"

"Yes… when I found out that he was cheating on me, I decided that it was time to pay him back. So I… well you know, kind of got with Lance."

"Get out, I never knew that there was something going on with the two of you."

"We were good at hiding it weren't we? Anyway, this went on for the three years that we were in LA and as a team." she paused, "When Mitch found out we fought, when you weren't home, and that's when all the beating started."

"But even though he cheated on you, he still refused to let you go."

"Bingo. That's when I decided that I just had to get away. I told the team that I was leaving and said that when I was sure that we were safe I would call them. So when we were settled here, I called Lance and told them where we were and that we were alright."

"Wow! Never thought that something like that would be happening. Yikes."

"Well I'm just glad that Mitch took his anger out on me and not you."

"Come on please, not again with this sappy stuff" Rhiannon laughed.

Alex laughed too, and then finished off her cappuccino, "Have you finished?"

Rhiannon ate the last bit of her croissant, "Yep, so just out of curiosity, how much did you win last night?"

"About $40,000"

"So that means that I can get whatever I want?"

"Yep, sure does. So let's just say that you and me will be getting a whole new wardrobes."

"But what about the bills and rent?"

"Don't you worry about that. We're ahead in the rent and I have put most of that away for the bills. So don't worry about anything like that, just let me deal with that bit."

"Ok, well when am I going to get this new wardrobe."

"How about now." With that the two sisters went shopping for the majority of the day.

END OF CHAPTER 5… Please Read and review…