Chapter 18

Sariah breezed through the door as if she didn't have a care in the world.

'Maria, I'm sorry for running out this morning I had a lot on my mind.' She smiled but didn't wait for an answer. Maria just shook her head and carried on reading her magazine. She wandered out into the kitchen and passed Vince on the way.

'When's round two?' Vince laughed and started to weave about in front of her.

'How bout now? Me and you outside?' Sariah grinned and pushed past him to get to the fridge.

'Vince, could you come in here for a moment?' Sariah called after him

'What's up?' Vince said as he sat on the counter.

'Are you and the guys going out tonight?'  Sariah looked at him with her head cocked to one side looking into the fridge.

'Yeah, why your thinking of starting round two with out us here are you?' Vince jumped down off of the counter.

'There ain't going to be a round two v so stop going on about it.' Sariah was getting aggitaed she just wanted to forget about last night (for now at least.)

She grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and went into her room. She led down on her bed and thought about her plans.

It was simple. Win a car from the rich kids, she knew she'd win, she'd seen them race! Then next there'd be Dom, he was her aim and no one or nothing was going to stand in her way. She would be the queen of street racing, his days were numbered.

Later the same day.

Sariah had gone to the garage later in the afternoon. She heard Dom and Conner come back but managed to get out of the house with avoiding them, she wasn't ready to face them yet. She had a lot of work to do and decided to go in on the Sunday so she could get some peace and quiet and get on with her backlog of designs. The orders for graphics were still coming thick and fast.

Sariah sat back in the office and started to think over the previous nights events.

She knew she had to at least try and make up with Mia. Then she decided she would invite her out later in the week to try to patch things up.

She was still fuming with anger over how Dom and Conner had treated her, it wasn't so much the fact that Conner had hit her (although that didn't help) it was just the complete change in his attitude towards her.

When she was little Conner was always the one she would go running to when she was upset of Dom had told her off about something but he was no longer the same person.

After her chat Hector earlier in the day she had calmed down a lot.

Back in the Torretto house Conner was also thinking about the previous nights events. He thought that maybe he had gone to far in hitting Sariah but he was also convinced she deserved it. Conner was beginning to see the effect Sariah had on Dom and it was beginning to have the same effect on him. She wasn't living her life or behaving the way that their mum or dad would have liked and for that reason Dom and now Conner were beginning to feel that they had let their parents down.

At the garage, Sariah was working on her designs she was beginning to get fed up so she packed up and went home.

As she walked up the path she groaned as she saw Dom and Conner's cars out front.

'Got to face them some time.' She took a deep breath and headed up the porch steps.

As she opened the door she could hear Dom laughing and Leon talking. She took another deep breath and walked into the lounge.

'Hi' she said without looking at Dom and walked into the kitchen.

Letty was in there trying to cook something.

'Hey Lett.' Sariah brightened up a bit when she realised that she wouldn't have to answer Dom's questions.

'Hey Sariah. Are you staying for something to eat, seeing as the guys are going out, I thought I'd cook? I can take female criticism about my cooking but not theirs.' She laughed and carried on cooking.

'Is Mia here?' Sariah asked.

Letty stopped what she was doing and looked a Sariah.

'Am I going to have to break you two up again?' Letty looked cautiously.

'No I was going to try and apologise to her seeing as it was me who started it.' Sariah sighed.

'That's ok then. She's out the back with Brian

'Thanks Lett' Sariah smiled and went to go outside as Dom came into the kitchen, she stopped dead in her tracks and looked him straight in the eye.

'Hey Sariah, have you been at the garage today?' he asked her

'Ummmmm' she cleared her throat

'Yeah, yeah I have. I had loads of work to do.' Sariah was sure he could tell what she was thinking, he had a penetrating stare that used to have no affect on her but now it scared her.

Dom walked over to Letty and put his arms round her.

'I'm just going to talk to Mia.' She walked down the steps thinking how stupid she was for being scared of her own brother and made a mental note to sort that out otherwise she'd never beat him in a race.

She saw Mia cuddling Brian as she walked over to them. Mia had a black but it wasn't swollen and she had a cut lip.

Mia glared at Sariah.

'Brian can I have a word with Mia in private please?'

He looked at Mia and she nodded. He then went inside. Mia walked over to the picnic table and sat down. Sariah sat down next to her.

'Feel like I've been here before.' Sairah sat looking at the ground.

'Me too' Mia looked up at the sky.

Both of the women said 'sorry' at the same time. They both giggled and held hands with out looking at each other.

'I want to be a big sister to you. But first I want to explain why I called you what I did.' Mia looked at her.

Sariah nodded her head.

'You are everything I wanted to be when I was you age. I am jealous of you.' Mia had tears pouring down her face

' You're the one who everyone respects and trusts, I was just the rebel.' Sariah was also crying.

'You get away with it, you've got the guts to try different things' Mia laughed

Sariah was beginning to realise what she meant.

'I'm not always happy like this you know. It does get me in a lot of trouble. Just look at last night' Sariah pointed to Mia's face.

'Its not that bad.' Mia whispered.

'After they took you inside I had a massive row with Conner and Dom, it wasn't pretty!' Sairah narrowed her eyes wondering whether to tell Mia that Conner had hit her.

'Oh I see.' Mia put her arm round Sariah's shoulder.

'Lets go inside. Letty's cooking!' Sariah laughed. Mia wasn't ready to hear the full extent of her argument with Dom and Conner.

Mia laughed. They walked up the steps arm in arm.

Thanks for the suggestions for cars that chap should be next. Hope this chapter explained a few things. Conner and Dom are frightened of letting their parents down and Mia is jealous of Sariah. There are a lot more twists and turns to come from this story. So keep reading.

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