Chapter 8 - Who is Nyssa Williams?

After Vince and Nyssa had vacated the room Dom looked at the others. Mia had gone to bed right after Brian had gone home and Vince had gone to his own bed.It was just the core team minus Vince who were still up watching TV. "What's up with V and this girl?" He asked his team in general. Without waiting for an answer he went on. "What do we know about her? She's staying over all of a sudden two nights in a row? And Vince has never brought a girl home during the daylight hours before."

"Well, she is Manda Williams' cousin, she doesn't race, and she had a brother named Danny who raced on the NIRA circuit. Danny left her a sweet Skyline when he was killed on his job. She has a step dad who beats her and who kicked her out of his house. That's how she ended up staying with Vince. He's known her for two days. I overheard all that I need to know more info about her before I can confirm any of that on the net." That was what Jesse had overheard and picked up on over the two days. He went back to his computer screen.

"Oh god, she's related to Manda?" Dom was not thrilled by this news. "And wait she's living with us now? Last time I checked this was my house. How did this girl end up living here without me knowing about it? Staying over a few times is one thing but living here? I don't know if I like that."

"Well, when I heard her and Vince talking she said she didn't wanna stay here because it felt like she was imposing and Vince told her it was no imposition if she stayed in his room."

"Jesus, Vince knows we don't need strangers around right now and he tells her she can live here without asking me?" Dom was getting more pissed off the more he thought about it. The fact that he brought Spilner around didn't seem to register with him. Leon reminded him.

"She's just a kid Dom; she's 19 years old for Christ sake, Dawg. Still in high school cause she failed a grade. You brought Brian Earl Spilner the serial killer around. He's more likely to be dangerous then a female kid." Leon added his opinion about Nyssa. Letty punched him in the shoulder.

"The fact that she's female doesn't make her stupid or weak Leon." Everyone looked surprised to see Letty stand up for the strange girl.

"No but Vince thinks Spilner is a cop." Leon stuck up for his friend. "I've never known V to be wrong about something like that. If he thinks Nyssa is fine and Brian is a cop then he's proly right."

"Yeah, but Jesse ran a profile on Brian and nothing like that turned up. And Brian doesn't live here." Dom was confident in Jesse's computer skills. They found lots of dirt on Brian. But nothing that lead to him being a cop. "All we got on Brian is so jeuvie charges for boostin cars and a couple overnighters for drunk and disorderly."

"I know Dom but the girl's not likely to be much more then a wannabe racer who sees Vince as a way into the scene and maybe into the team." This was Jesse's opinion. "'Sides, Vince likes her and she seems nice enough to me."

"Well if that car of hers raced on the NIRA circuit she might just have a shot at it but she doesn't really seem to have it in her." Dom didn't see the girl as a racer. She didn't seem edgy enough, didn't really seem to have the push, the drive to make it as a racer. He could see Vince driving her car and winning though. There was lots of edge to Vince.

Dom decided to just leave it alone for now. After all, the team was right. Nyssa was just a kid, he didn't even know what Vince saw in her. The two of them were 24, kind of old for a 19 year old. But it had always seemed that Vince wanted the domestic type female, like Mia. Cook and clean, and be domestic. Not a racer girl like Letty. You had to pry Letty out of the garage and make her clean up her own self let alone the house.

Elsewhere in the house

Vince shook Nyssa awake after he'd moved all her stuff, both were oblivious to the fact they were the center of a discussion upstairs. Nyssa came to with a sleepy little moan. "Why'd ya wake me for? I was having the best dream." Nyssa smiled. Vince sat down beside her on the bed.

"Yeah, bout what?" Vince asked, intrigued by the soft look in Nyssa's eyes.

"Nothing." She murmured and turned bright red, turning her face away from Vince's blue gaze in embarrassment. She wished she'd kept her mouth shut like a smart girl would have.

"Oh, it was one of 'those' dreams was it? Was I in it?" Vince chortled gleefully at the thought of being involved in one of this girl's erotic dreams.

"Vince, what kind of a question is that?" Nyssa asked, still embarrassed out of her mind and trying to throw him off the trail.

"The kind you should answer, because just maybe I could help you recreate it if I was in it." Vince turned her face to meet his eyes, hoping to see her longing reflected back at him.

"Well maybe you were in it and maybe it belongs to stay a dream till you are sure about what you want." Nyssa turned her head away again, wishing she didn't want him to tell her he was sure whether he was or not, just so she'd have an excuse to let him show her how her dream should have ended.

"Girl you're killing me. I'm sure of what I want right now."

"And till you're sure you'll still be sure of what you want tomorrow it stays a dream." Nyssa got over her embarrassment and made this statement emphatically.

"Fine, you're no fun." Vince huffed. "You should get ready for bed if you want a ride to school tomorrow."

"V, baby?" Nyssa saw a chance to get back at him for embarrassing her over her dream and she was going to take it.

"Yes Nyssa?" He said, thinking from the tone of her voice she was going to tell him she changed her mind.

"Tomorrow is Saturday. I don't know how it worked when you went to school but in this century we don't go to school on Saturday." Nyssa giggled at the look on Vince's face. It was Vince's turn to be embarrassed.

"You got a smart mouth on you. I'm not that old you know." Vince growled.

"I got a mouth that is more then smart and I still wanna go to bed. Tomorrow I'm sleeping in. If you wake me I will kill you."

"You sure you don't want to show me how that dream went?" Vince tried his luck one more time. "Tomorrow's Saturday so there's no hurry."

"I'm sure I do want to show you all about it but I don't see that as a smart move." Nyssa sighed, wishing he'd stop pushing her endurance for denying both herself and him something it was clear they both wanted. She wasn't the type of girl who could sleep with a guy just to do it though and she knew she'd be selling them both short if she started changing that now.

"How bout a hint?" Vince sounded almost whiney in his insistence.

"No, let me get ready for bed." Nyssa was starting to sound exasperated.

"Go ahead, nothing stopping you." Vince kicked back on his bed against his pillows, locking his hands behind his head and looking at Nyssa challengingly. She refused to take his bait.

"Go watch TV or something for 3 minutes." She pointed to the door.

"Fine."

Vince went and watched Leon play his video game for a few minutes. Was Leon ever not playing a video game? Vince couldn't think of the last time he'd found his friend watching TV instead of on the PS2.

When watching Leon got too boring to keep doing he went back to his room which was now dark as pitch. He walked in past the door and kicked one of the boxes of Nyssa's stuff as he'd forgotten where he'd left most of it and was not expecting anything to be in his way. He swore softly, hopping on one foot as he held the other. When the pain in his toe subsided he found his dresser and took a clean pair of boxers out. He stripped off and pulled his shorts on. Now that his eyes had adjusted to the dark there was lots of light from the full moon outside, coming in his window. He realized that, in the dim light Nyssa had watched him change. He crawled in bed.

"You like the free show?" He growled in the dark.

"Very much so. Thank you." Nyssa giggled.

"Good." Vince heaved a heartfelt sigh for his poor world, which had been turned almost completely upside down in the space of 48 hours.

"V?" Her voice shocked him, he'd thought she was already asleep and he'd been ok with that, needing time to organize his jumbled thoughts.

"Yes Nyssa?" He asked with an exasperated sigh.

She came up on her elbow after rolling his way and looked down at him. She laid her top half over his chest and kissed him. His hands came up and rubbed her back. As he went to flip her over under him she pulled away and lay on her side facing him, head on her hand as she looked down at him, expression unreadable.

"That was your hint about my dream. Goodnight Vince."

"You can't do this to me Nyssa. I'll never sleep now. How can you kiss me like that and then say goodnight?" He'd just gotten thoughts of her having sexy dreams about him out of his head.

"You wanted a hint." She told him coyly. She'd never gotten to play with a guy before and she was developing a taste for it.

"Can I have another hint?" Vince asked like child who wanted candy. Nyssa kissed him again but she would not let him take it any farther then involved kissing. She was not going to sleep with the guy just because she was there. She told herself over and over that if she made him wait he'd realize he wanted her around eventually.

But he so felt good, half on top of her. His weight was comfortable while he held most of it on his elbows. He tried to push it and almost made her cave in with nibbling kisses down her neck and back up to nuzzle her ear. She'd had all she could take, wanting him like she did, and was going to give in to him and let him take things to the natural end when he stopped his activities with a groan and told her to go to sleep. He rolled off her and pulled her with him to come up against his side, her head on his bare chest.

Vince couldn't tell why he'd stopped. He'd felt her softening under his touch, giving in to what they both wanted. But he also sensed somehow she hadn't really wanted it in her heart, just in her hormones. She wasn't ready and Vince wasn't ready to make her lose her budding trust in him by pushing her farther then she wanted to go with drugging kisses and teasing caresses that only comforted till the harsh light of day. But the heat and weight of the girl beside him breathing softly against his neck lulled him into a deep sleep almost before he'd managed to tell himself not to get use to having her there.

They slept in till 1pm again the next day. Vince woke up first and looked a Nyssa. She said she didn't want to be woken up but he wanted to go to Harry's and get her NOS tanks filled and then take the car for a real run.

Aw hell, he would have to find out how long the thing had been just sitting in a garage. It had to be all tuned up before he could use a NOS shot if it had hardly been driven in years. That, along with the trip to Harry's would take time. He didn't want to waste time in bed with all that fun stuff to accomplish. He decided to risk his life and wake her.

But then he couldn't decide how to wake her. Shake her or kiss her. She looked really good in his bed, felt really good against his side. He had to admit having a steady girlfriend who was not Mia sounded good for the first time ever. No more brushing off the girls who called wanting a repeat performance when his show was a one night engagement. Plus if he got with Mia and ever hurt her Dom would have his head.

What a hypocrite.

He hurt Letty all the time but if a guy ever hurt Mia Dom would give him a new face. Nyssa however, had no one to cry to and besides that he liked her. She was funny, smart and not a bit of skank in her. She and Mia had a lot in common in Vince's opinion.

He decided to go with a kiss and see where it went. Why was he putting so much thought into this? It wasn't like him not to just go with his instincts and do whatever they first told him to do. She'd kissed him back enthusiastically enough the night before he reminded himself. He leaned in and kissed her softly on the mouth. She moaned low in her throat and kissed him back, so he deepened his kiss. She arched into him and wrapped her arms around his neck. He kissed her till he had to breathe or pass out. She blinked up at him with a stunned look on her face.

"Morning sunshine."

"I told you not to wake me." She said in a voice made breathless by the method by which she'd been woken.

"Well I was nice about how I did it." Vince grinned. "It's 1pm girl. I want to go drive."

"You woke me up for that? The keys are in my pants from yesterday. Knock yourself out." Nyssa flopped back in the bed and huffed.

"That's not the attitude of a champ!" Vince teased.

"It's the attitude of a girl, in a bed, who wanted to sleep all day." She rolled over away from him and pulled the covers up over her head. She got up every weekday for school. She liked to wake up on her own terms on the weekends.

Vince took the blankets off her and picked her up. She was yelling at him to put her down and trying to get free but he threw her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and went in the bathroom.

He turned the cold water on and stepped in the shower with her over his shoulder, pounding on his back and yelling for her freedom. The cold spray hit her right in the butt because of the way he was carrying her.

"Oh Vince you are so dead. Set me down." Nyssa yelled, more indignant then a cat in a rainstorm.

Vince complied, slowly lowering her to her feet, making sure each inch of her rubbed each inch of him on the way down. He knew what it was going to do to him and he was banking on it doing the same to her. Now they were both soaking wet, and cold and their clothes were clinging wetly to both of them. And suddenly killing him was not the first thing on her mind.

Man Vince has a hard body, Nyssa thought to herself. He was a thug likely as not she reminded herself, and muscles were no doubt a plus in his line of work. She couldn't complain when the hard evidence of his tough life was pressed against her and wrapped around her in the form of his huge arms wrapped around her waist.

Vince was thinking the shower situation was better then a wet tee shirt contest. Nyssa followed his gaze and turned red. She crossed her arms over her chest and glared up at Vince.

"Get out! I'll need to take a shower and wash my hair for real now so hit the road and let me do it." Nyssa snarled. Vince knew it was all bark and no bite. He could see the lusting look in her eyes, no matter how pissed she played at being.

"Why don't we just share since we're both already wet? I could use a shower too." Vince asked with a suggestive look.

"Or not, get out and I'll get ready and we can go drive my car."

Vince left her alone with a longing glance for what might have been and she pulled off her wet cloths, throwing them in a sodden pile at the back of the shower. She used what she hoped was Vince's soap and shampoo to take her shower. The products smelled like him at least.

She got out and blow dried her hair straight, and then wrapped a towel around herself and headed to his room to dress.

"You can feel free to take that shower you said you needed now," she told him and he went to do so. Once he was out of the room she got dressed, digging in her boxes to find her clothes. She figured she may as well be comfortable if she was spending the day jumping in and out of a car. She put on a pair of pink velour track pants that rode low on her hips and a white tank that came down to just above her belly button. The top said superstar in little rhinestones. It was nice to just dress like she wanted. Not dress in a way that would keep Ed off her back and change later, when she got where she was going. She was just putting on her Sketchers when Vince came back into the room with nothing but a towel low on his hips, his hair dripping wet still.

"Don't you know you're supposed to dry off in the bathroom so you don't drip all over the house?" Nyssa asked, looking at Vince with little drops of water all over him and his hair hanging boyishly in his face.

"No one ever let me know that before. Thanks for the info. You can help me dry off now." He told her as he grabbed her and pulled her to him.

Nyssa fought because he was all wet but gave in because he smelled good too. She tried to get free when she realized just how wet he was making her white shirt. He just wanted to get her wet and riled up. He liked the way her eyes flashed when she was pissed.

Nyssa got revenge on him by licking a drop of water off his chest. "You smell so good right now. Not to mention how good you look. Sure is a shame you woke me up to take the car out. Just think what we could be doing if we were still in bed." She got loose while he was still in shock and ran out of the room. Vince watched her go with a groan. What had he gotten himself into?

Vince got dressed and found Nyssa out playing PS2 with Leon. She was actually kicking his ass. That never happened. Leon spent so much time playing the thing he could play her like a lover and no one could beat him.

"I'm ready? What about you?" Vince asked Nyssa from the door of the living room.

"Do you own any clothes that aren't old jeans and tank tops? Or are those the same clothes as yesterday?" She asked with a cheeky grin.

"You're real funny girl. Hilarious."

Leon laughed at them, he enjoyed the dynamic the two had already and hoped that Nyssa was going to be as good for Vince as he thought she would be. As the two headed upstairs everyone hooking up with nice girls had Leon wondering if he was ready to give up the skanks and look for a girl of his own to settle down with.

Mia, Dom and Letty were all in the kitchen. Mia looked from Vince to Nyssa and if Nyssa was not mistaken the other girl looked pissed. So she hadn't wanted Vince but no one else should have him either eh? Well that was too bad. Nyssa liked Mia but it was downright mean to play with anyone's feelings like it seemed Mia had been toying with Vince's.

Dom took in Vince's wet hair and Nyssa's wet shirt and put two and two together and came up with 5. Dom smirked. Just friends huh, he mentally asked himself. He didn't think so.

"Mornin guys! You want some breakfast?" Mia asked.

Nyssa looked at Vince for a queue of if they did or not.

"Naw, we got stuff to do." Vince told Mia. "We'll grab something while we's out."

"Where in the hell is your car Vince? I haven't seen it in days. We got race wars comin, don't tell me you wrecked the thing."

"Naw, I left it in Nyssa's garage when we picked up her car. I'll get it later. We wanted to travel together when we came back with her car. It's safe where it is." Vince assured Dom his Maxima would not come to any harm.

Dom had to know all about Nyssa's property so Nyssa filled him in and told him she was going to build a house there someday. She didn't know she was giving Dom all the info he needed to dig into her identity and her past. Dom thought her garage sounded as well set up as DT but on the scale of one car, not 5 like his and he figured that would help him find out about her past too.

"I'd like to see the place someday. It sounds wild." Dom said, looking at Nyssa to gage her reaction.

"No problem. Just let me know when and we'll take a drive out." Nyssa offered cheerfully. She actually liked showing her place off.

"We should go." Vince put an end to the chit chat and started to walk Nyssa out the door.

Nyssa let Vince drive the car and they hit McDonald's for a burger then they hit Harry's.

As they walked in, there was Mr. Serial Killer, Spilner. Vince couldn't believe the guy still worked at Harry's after Dom called and told Harry what he did. Vince bypassed Brian and went right to Harry for his business. Vince was glad that DT was a big enough customer to get that privilege. The two men talked, Harry wondering when Dom was racing again and how things were going.

"So, what do you need today then Vince?" Harry asked after the requisite small talk.

"We need to fill up the NOS tanks on a Skyline." Vince smiled like the cat that ate the canary. He couldn't help but be excited about driving around in a Skyline GT-R, no matter who owned it.

It was about that time that Harry noticed the new girl browsing the rims.

"Who's that girl? Did she come in with you?"

"Yeah, that's my new...Um...Friend Nyssa. It's her car that needs the NOS fill up."

"She's letting you drive her Skyline around and you just met? She either has the hots for you or she doesn't know what she has eh?"

"She's had a rough few weeks man, and she doesn't know how to drive a stick yet. She got the car a while ago but she didn't have anyone to teach her to drive it so I'm teachin her and drivin the car while I do. It's pretty well set up as it is, I just need the tanks filled. It's fresh outta storage."

"What kinda Skyline are we talkin here?" Harry asked out of curiosity. He'd just bet Dom and Leon both were less then thrilled about a new Skyline in town, let alone one belonging to someone on their own team.

"It's a GT-R, V-spec, '99 R-34 and Dom says it sounds like it is running at around 1000 horse."

"Sweet and you say she has no idea what she has?"

"She does now because I was so interested but she can hardly drive it. She wants to learn to race and I'll teach her, but first the car needs a complete tune up. It's been sitting almost totally unused for almost a year."

"Well let's bring the tanks in and have them filled." The two men went and brought the NOS tanks into the store. Harry had one of the other guys fill them, not Brain. Vince didn't think that Spilner seemed to be doing much of anything in the store and it did make him wonder why the blond man was even there.

Nyssa walked over to where the two men were talking. Harry shook her hand and told her what a nice car she had.

"Well, thanks. About I all know about it is it's really fast and I love the color because my brother picked it out for me." She smiled. "I sure hope that Vince can teach me to drive it. I'm pretty sad at it now."

"You see anything you like in the rims?" Harry asked, liking the girl's honest way immediately.

"You have lots of nice things but I think the wheels on the car are pretty nice as it is already."

"What kind are they?" Harry asked and Nyssa looked at Vince in confusion. She had absolutely no idea.

"Enkei's I think." Vince answered Harry's question. "18's and chrome for sure."

The guy came out with their NOS and they headed out. Vince paid for it; he insisted that he was going to be the only one using it for awhile so he should pay for it. They headed back to DT.

"Why are we going to the garage? The car's running fine, I don't think it needs any work." Nyssa wrinkled her brow in confusion.

"We need to make sure of that before we use the NOS. The engine has to be properly set up to handle the strain of NOS." Vince explained all about the various stresses at play in an engine and how NOS added to them, but if the engine was properly tuned it was set up to take the stress in stride. "If the car is out too far then the NOS could cause something inside of it to explode, then we're stuck tearing the block all apart when we could have taken an hour at the start and just tuned it right." Vince finished. "And since this car sat unused so long I'd just feel better if it was checked over before we put it under any real amounts of strain." Nyssa nodded that she understood. Vince was surprised at how well she really did seem to comprehend what he told her.

They got to the garage and Dom, Jesse and Leon were there. Dom asked what was wrong with the car and Jesse had the hood open before Nyssa was out of the car. He loved engines. They opened the hood and looked at her engine. It was nicely equipped the guys could tell. Nyssa had no idea what she was looking at. Vince had known that from the way it drove but it was really nice. Vince answered Dom's question and told him and Jesse it needed a full tune up so they could use the NOS they just picked up.

Jesse and Vince started in on it and Nyssa stood off to the side and watched and listened to the music Dom had playing. Dom started to ask her questions about her family.

"So where's all your family that you got no place to stay?" Nyssa looked up in shock that he knew she had no where else to stay, knew she was staying with Vince. He was supposed to think she was just sleeping with Vince a lot. She knew she should be a lot less ok with people thinking that then she was but she couldn't care.

"Well my brother's dead, my dad's in Lompoc and my aunt can't stand me so I can't stay with my father's brother either." She watched Dom's face cloud over at the mention of Lompoc prison. It was clearly not the right thing to tell him.

"What'd he do to end up in there?" Dom asked, tone low.

"Possession of stolen merchandise. They knew he was delivering the stuff for someone else and when he wouldn't tell them who they threw the book at him. Why?"

"Did two years there myself. I got out 4 years ago. How long ago did your dad go in?"

"4 years ago. He's got 3 more to go before he gets out. Maybe only 1 or 2 if he gets anything for good behavior."

"What's his name?"

"Mark." Nyssa tried to hedge on telling Dom the rest.

"Mark what?" Dom was curious if Nyssa still used his last name or if she'd taken her mother's new name or maiden name.

"Mark Williams, you know like my last name." Nyssa gave Dom a small smile to let him know she'd known why he'd wanted to know. "He's still my dad, doesn't matter what he did."

"I remember him. We only overlapped about a month but he was a nice guy. Kept to himself."

"Only in jail. He was a very active parent let me tell ya. I wish he had kept to himself in my life sometimes." Nyssa laughed and Dom joined her.

"What about your brother? What did he do?"

"Danny was in law enforcement. I guess what my dad did made Danny want to go to the other extreme. And then of course he raced in his spare time."

"What kind of law enforcement was he into?" Dom seemed to care more then Vince had about what kind of law enforcement.

"He was a cop, L.A.P.D." Nyssa hadn't wanted to answer but she instinctively knew you didn't lie to Dom. She knew what would happen if he caught her in a lie would be much worse then what he would do now that he knew her dead brother was a cop.

"You ever think of following in your brother's footsteps?" Dom asked, looking at her out of the corner of his eye.

"Naw, I'm more likely to follow him into racing or follow my dad. I know how much work I have to do on my driving before any of that is possible."

Dom nodded. He filed away the info that her last name was Williams and asked her if Nyssa was short for anything.

"Well, yeah." She tried not to say anything else.

"Well?"

"Well what?" She batted her eyes innocently trying to get out of answering.

"What is it short for?"

"Nyssandre. I got Nyssa from my brother because he thought it was cute I was named after his car."

Dom laughed. "So, how'd you meet Vince?" Dom asked and Nyssa didn't really know what to tell him. She decided to give an abbreviated version of the truth a try.

"I went to races with a friend and then when the cops came I lost her in the scramble and they left because they thought I was gone with someone else. Vince saw me walking away and he stopped to pick me up. Let me tell ya, I didn't know what would be a better idea, get picked up by the cops or get in a car with a guy who looked like Vince looked. Not to mention he told me to 'get in the car baby' and that didn't go over well." She giggled. "I'm glad I changed my mind." She looked at Vince as he worked with Jesse over her car.

Dom liked the look in her eyes when she looked at Vince. She genuinely liked him. He didn't like the fact her bother had been a cop but at least she was honest about it and the guy wasn't around to come after them. If the cops were looking out for her Vince wouldn't have had to rescue her from her step dad.

Dom remembered Mark from the jail. The guy was tough but fair. He took care of himself and his friends. No worries there either. The guy knew when to keep his mouth shut and was not going to nark them out even if Nyssa should ever find stuff out and tell him. Besides that Dom was fairly sure that Vince was not stupid enough to tell the girl anything at this point. He hardly knew her after all. But Vince had a tendency to act first, think later. He was hot headed and hot tempered.

Nyssa walked away from Dom and walked over to Vince and Jesse. She peered into her car's engine and didn't have a sweet clue what any of what she was looking at was.

"How's it goin?" She asked the guys.

"Good. It's in good shape really for all the time it sat unused. A few more tests and checks and it should be all ready to roll." Jesse answered her question. "So, are you gonna learn to work on it yourself or just learn to race?" Jesse wondered. He knew girls both ways so he wouldn't hold either one against her. Jesse had to do all the work on Mia's car because she had no idea what was what but he was only allowed near Letty's when she was really stumped.

"I thought I wanted to learn to work on it too but looking under here now I don't know how I ever would. I wouldn't even know where to start. But I like cars and I use to 'assist' my brother when he worked on this one." Nyssa pulled a face at how out of the water she felt looking at an engine and shook her head. "I'd love to make cars my life."

Dom thought maybe if things worked out she could come work for him and Jesse could teach her how to work on engines. They started the car and Jesse listened to it for a second and then sniffed the exhaust.

"Still running a bit lean. Shut it off for a second." Jesse called and dived back under the hood.

Jesse could tell all that from listening to the car and smelling the exhaust? Nyssa wondered about that. He sure knew cars. He adjusted a couple other things and had Vince start it up again. "There you go, purring like a kitten." Jesse said and closed the bonnet. "You're all ready to go."