She woke up and looked around the room.

Where am I? She thought.

She went to lift her head off the pillow but it hurt too much. She looked around the room again. She suddenly realised it was Leon's room. Then it all started coming back to her.

"Oh no," She muttered to herself and fell back onto the pillow. She lay there for a minute thinking about the night before. Suddenly she felt sick.

"Oh shit," She jumped out of bed quickly and ran to the bathroom to be sick.

She was sitting on the bathroom floor feeling awful when someone knocked on the door.

"Hey are you ok?" She recognised Mia's voice.

She pushed herself up off the bathroom floor and opened the door.

"Oh you look like shit girl."

"Thanks Mia, good morning to you to."

"I'm sorry. Maybe you should go back to bed for a while. Do you want me to get you anything?"

"No I'm ok. Thanks Mia."

She walked towards Leon's room.

"Ali that's leons room."

She just turned around and give her a look of 'Don't ask'.

She went back into the room and collapsed on the bed again. Before long she was sleeping.

Someone opening the door woke her up. She opened her eyes a bit to see who it was.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you. Just need to grab some clothes."

"It's ok Leon it's your room."

She turned around in the bed a bit to face him.

"How are you feeling?"

He looked at her trying not to laugh.

"Like shit. You?"

"I'm not too bad actually."

"Le I'm sorry bout last night. I didn't mean to offend you or anything just I case I did."

"Don't worry bout it you were just drunk. I wasn't complaining tho." He said smirking at her.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that. Not because I didn't want to just not the best timing you know what I mean?"

"Yeh don't worry bout it. We'll talk about it another time when you're feeling better."

"Ok thanks Le. What time is it anyway?"

"3"

"In the afternoon. My god I didn't think it was that late."

"Yeh everyone's just out in the yard. It's a really nice day."

"Ok I'll be down in a minute."

She got out of bed again and went into the bathroom. A couple of minutes later she was out again and headed down the stairs and out in to the back garden.

Mia and Brian were sitting on sun chairs and Dom was sitting on the back steps. Vince and Letty were playing basketball at the top.

"Morning everyone" She said groggily as she squinted in the bright light.

Everyone just laughed.

"You want a drink girl?" Dom looked up at her smirking.

"Very funny"

She went over and sat on the chairs beside Mia and Brian.

"You feeling any better girl?"

Mia looked concerned.

"I'm fine Mia. It's all self inflicted. It's just a hangover."

They stayed out the back for the rest of the afternoon and had dinner out there. After dinner everyone headed inside and helped tidy up before going into the living room to watch a film. She was leaving something into the kitchen when Leon came in to get a drink.

"Hey Le."

"Yeh" He turned around to her.

"You want to go for a drive?"

"Yeh sure. I'll just tell the guys we are going to buy some drink."

He went into the living room for a minute and came back into the kitchen to get her.

They went out the back door and headed towards his car and got in.

"Where do you want to go?"

"I don't mind."

"Ok I know this nice place bout 10 minutes away." He pulled out of the driveway and sped off down the road.

"Away for drink. Do they think we were born yesterday?" Dom said grinning to the rest of the group.

Letty hit him on the arm.

"Dom"

"What. It's probably true."

"Leave the girl alone."

"What's changed your tune?"

"Nothing she's just not that bad. Leave them alone. It's about time Le had someone nice."

Dom looked around the rest of the group.

"Is everyone else hearing this? Letty's gone all soft on us."

Letty just glared at him.

"I'm sorry girl I'm just messing." He kissed her on the forehead and she fell back into place leaning on his chest.

10 minutes later they pulled into a car park overlooking the beach.

"This is really nice Le."

"I used to come out here all the time. Calms me down."

"Do you need calmed down now?"

"No I'm fine now. I just still like this place."

"Look Le I think we need to talk don't you."

"If you want to. I don't want you thinking that you have to do or say anything."

"Why are you always so nice Le?"

"I'm only nice to people I care about." He smiled at her.

"Le do you think this would really work? We don't even know anything about each other."

"Ok what do you want to know? Ask me anything?"

"Who are you really? How come you ended up living with Dom and Mia?"

"I'm Leon. I'm just me. How can you explain yourself? You know who I am. Who I've been since you got here. That's me."

"OK"

"Me and Jesse found Dom one day when we were out. He needed mechanics and we just happened to be the closest people to him at the time and took our chance to introduce ourselves. Since then we've lived in the house and worked in the garage. We've all gotten really close in that house. We are a family."

"But what about before that. How come you were just out and suddenly decided to move into some stranger's house and forget everything else?"

He looked out the window.

"Le you don't have to tell me things. I just want to know who you are."

"No it's fine. Ali I like you. This is real."

She just smiled at him. She knew she was feeling the same way.

"I lived with my mum and dad and my big brother. My dad was a mechanic. Taught me most of the things I know really. My mum was the sweetest person. We had a pretty average life until my mum got killed in a store shoot out. She only went to buy some things for dinner and she never came back. My dad was never the same after that."

"What age were you?"

"11 and Chris, my older brother, was 15. We just tried to get on with things but you don't realise understand things fully when you're so young. I didn't understand why my dad changed so much but he did. He didn't seem to care about anything anymore. I came home from school when I was 16 and found him dead in the house."

"Oh God Le I'm so sorry." She put a hand on his leg.

"No it's fine. It was a long time ago. So anyway I was left with nothing really. Chris was with some girl all the time and I never really saw him. I was out one night and I met Jesse. He was sitting on his own in the corner of a bar I was in and I went over and talked to him. We talked for hours and he came back and stayed at mine. We decided to leave the house and go into LA. That's were we met Dom. That was 7 years ago. I couldn't be happier now though."

"Even still Le you've been through loads."

"Everyone has a past. Even you I'm sure." He looked at her with a questioning eye.

"Of course I do. And you've told me yours so I suppose it's my turn. What do you want to know?"

"How come you decided to come to LA?"

"You know when so many things happen and you think you just can take any more so you've got to get away. That's what happened."

"Why what happened?"

"Everything. I co owned a garage with my boyfriend Taylor. We had been going out since I was 15 and at the start I thought he was the person I would grow old with. But that was just stupid young love. It wasn't long till I had found out he cheated on me. We got through it though and I forgave him. Two weeks before I came over we went to races as normal, that's were I met Brian, and then went back to his house for the party. We went upstairs to go to bed and one of the guys came to the door to say there was some trouble downstairs. Taylor went down and I followed shortly after him. When I got down he was fighting with some guy that I hadn't seen before. Everything happened so fast and the next thing I knew i was on the floor beside him and shots had been fired. He got shot and was rushed to hospital but he died that night. Brian was there the whole time; in fact I think he drove my car back from the hospital. After that everything changed. No one was the same. Our rock was gone. Without Taylor nothing seemed right. I went out one day and when I came back this pregnant girl was sitting in the living room. It all became clear very quickly that he had cheated more than once and this girl was pregnant with his child. That's when I decided I was going to LA. Brian had asked me earlier that week and I just rang him and told him that I was going. I booked my flights the next day and left at the end of the week leaving just a note for the guys."

"I'm so sorry Ali. That can't have been easy. Won't the guys be missing you though?"

"I thought they might be worrying that's why I rang them that night I got here. I was actually prepared to apologize and everything but when I rang the house she answered the phone. I was just so hurt. That's when I decided that I was going to stay in LA and make a new life for me."

"That's really courageous though. I don't think I'd be able to do something like that."

"You did do something like that Le."

"Ali I moved about 30 miles. You moved to a different continent I think that's slightly more difficult. What about your family?"

"Family."

She laughed slightly.

"I would use that word very lightly. My dad was an alcoholic my whole life. My mum stuck with him for the sake of me and my two older sisters. When I was 15 we found out he was having an affair with someone he worked with. 2 weeks later he came to me and told me he was getting engaged. The week of my 16th birthday. One of my sisters stopped talking to him and the other one just didn't really bother. I stuck with him and tried to make and effort but it didn't make a difference. He had his new life and that was all her really cared about. He got married the next June. I even went to his wedding for him because he wanted me to. The next June he went on holiday and never came back. I got a phone call saying that he was staying there. He didn't even ring me to tell me my granda had died and didn't even turn up for his funeral. I decided then that I would never forgive him no matter what he did. After all that had happened I just got more involved in the garage and spent all my time with Taylor and the guys. I spoke to my mum before I left. She didn't want me to go but she knew she couldn't stop me either."

"Do you not miss home?"

"Not yet. I'm having fun for the first time in a very long time."

"And what about us? Do you want to give it a go?"

"I think I do Le. But you'll have to be patient with me. I find it very hard to trust people."

"Likewise Ali."

She leant over the middle of the car and kissed him. He kissed her back.

"Do you want to head back now?"

She just nodded at him. Once they were on the road she took hold of his hand and just then she felt safe again.