Chapter 10 - I Though You Were Over Her?

As always there was a big party at Dom's house after races. When they'd arrived home Vince had disappeared from Nyssa's side and she'd lost track of him. She found Letty and Mia quickly enough and the three of them ended up dancing together in the living room. Nyssa was glad that Mia seemed to like her and that Letty was giving her the benefit of the doubt. If she'd been waiting on Vince to entertain her she'd be alone and lonely somewhere in a corner. She looked up from her concentration on her dancing to see Vince fooling around with his guitar while watching them dance. Dom was also watching the girls dance.

Nyssa caught sight of Dom and noticed the way he watched Letty dance. He was so intense. He looked like he was analyzing her right down to the core and he couldn't tear his gaze free of her lithely moving form. Then her gaze slid to the corner where Vince's chair was and her gaze landed on Vince talking to a blonde chick and playing guitar. Nyssa wondered what was up between Vince and the blonde girl, if she was a friend or more.

Oh well, she thought. There wasn't a lot she could do without making a scene, which was not something she was willing to do. So instead she grabbed Mia and they did a crazy dance to the music. Mia laughed at her antics and Letty gave them both a look like she thought they were crazy. Nyssa had already had the one beer she had decided it was ok to have, but she was pissed about Vince ignoring her so she went and got another one.

She carried her beer back to the living room from the kitchen and she and Letty did some dancing, Mia having gone off with Brian while Nyssa was gone. Letty was way more fun to dance with anyway, more wild and crazy. They were doing a booty shake together that would lead people to believe there was more to them then just friends. Nyssa couldn't believe that Letty was opening up to her presence so well. She hadn't expected to get along with the tougher girl and she was surprised to find out she'd been wrong. The girls noticed Dom looked even more intense now and they even had Vince's attention.

Nyssa knew this was not the time to worry about it but she wondered if Vince really cared about her. Or if he saw her as a nice girl who had a car his wet dreams were made of and he was using her being around to get to use that car. Dom couldn't take his eyes off Letty and Nyssa and the girls could tell he was getting hot and bothered by the way the two of them were dancing.

Vince however had gone back to talking to blonde. Nyssa wondered if he would even care if she went after some other guy. Say someone like Leon, she mused as the other man walked by with a beer in his hand. Leon was cute and he wasn't having any luck with the ladies tonight. But he wouldn't get with Nyssa as long as there was a chance Vince was interested in her. She needed to know how Vince really felt about her presence. She thought she should talk to Manda about it before she made any decisions. Manda had way more experience with guys. The little slut, Nyssa thought affectionate.

Leon and Jesse tried to pick up all night. It was funny because it was going no where, for once. Brian showed up and danced with Mia for awhile. A slow song came on and Brian pulled Mia into his arms. Dom got up and grabbed Letty with a possessive growl. Since she had no man to dance with Nyssa headed to the kitchen for another beer.

On her way off the floor Leon grabbed her arm and asked her to dance. She loved the song that had started to play and hadn't wanted to stop dancing so she said sure to Leon. She really wanted to dance with Vince but, well, Leon was there and wanted to dance with her where as Vince hadn't shown any interest. Leon pulled her close and they began to move to the music. He told her a joke to put her at ease and she laughed. She thought Leon was funny.

Leon liked Nyssa. She was cute and funny. But he wasn't quite sure how Vince felt about her and really shouldn't have asked her to dance. Vince was liable to get into it with him over it. Oh well, Leon figured. It wouldn't be the first time that ol' Coyote got pissed at him over a girl.

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Vince tried to lose Blondie for the 4th time and she wasn't having it. She kept trying to talk to him about clothes and various other girl things he really didn't care about. Just like he didn't care about her. He wanted to know what Nyssa was up to. He felt bad about leaving her alone on her second party with them ever. He leaned around the blonde girl and saw Nyssa dancing in Leon's arms. What the fuck, he thought. Leon was moving in on his girl? Well you haven't so much as talked to her since you all got home, he reminded himself. Were that Mia he would have been very attentive all night long.

Vince got up and walked over to where Leon and Nyssa were dancing and cut in on them. Nyssa looked at him cool as you please.

"So how's your night going?" Nyssa asked, trying to mask her anger and not being all that successful.

"It's been boring. I couldn't get rid of Candy no matter how I tried to get her to shove off. She just couldn't accept the fact that I wasn't interested." Vince sighed. Nyssa gave him a look like 'yeah whatever'.

"Why didn't you just get up and leave her then? Just get up for a walk or come over here long ago so she'd take the hint? I mean if you didn't want to talk to her there was nothing keeping you there with her all bloody night!" Nyssa looked away in hurt she masked with anger. She wouldn't let him know how much his indifference to her presence had hurt her feelings. Vince caught the look in her eyes and thought fast.

"I can't dance. I never do, I sit over there and play the guitar." It wasn't really totally true but maybe it would work. He could do this kind of sway in a circle thing ok but he didn't dance to club music. She gave him a look that clearly said his explanation wasn't cutting it. Then song ended and Nyssa stepped back out of Vince's arms as quick as she could without making the scene she'd been avoiding all evening.

"I'm ready to take a break from dancing so I think I'll go get another drink." Nyssa told Vince quite honestly. She was slightly tired from all the dancing and she was thirsty.

"So, you drink often?" Vince asked, seeing that the two beer she'd already had had made her intoxicated already.

"No. You corrupted me. My first drink ever was the beer you gave me at the last party."

"How many beer have you had?" Vince asked, just to be sure he'd counted correctly.

"Two and here comes three." Nyssa turned away and headed to the kitchen. Vince grabbed her arm and stopped her in her tracks. He didn't want her to get any more drunk, especially not in the mood she was in.

"You've had enough. Why don't I get you a glass of water?"

"I don't want water I want another Corona." Nyssa's eyes flashed in her anger and she went to pull her arm back out of Vince's clutches. Vince didn't let her go and instead dragged her over to a couch and sat her down, following her onto the couch and putting an arm around her shoulders to keep her by his side when she tried to get up to get away from him. Vince looked up from her for a moment and saw Brian and Dom talking together on the other side of the room. Then he turned his attention back to keeping Nyssa in her seat.

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"I'm gonna be by your garage in the next few days. I got something for you." Brian told Dom and smiled enigmatically.

"What's that?" Dom asked, curious.

"Naw dude, I'm not telling ya anything. You'll just have to wait and see." Brian refused to give in and tell.

"Ok, but you know I don't really like surprises." Dom answered.

"You'll like this one." Brian moved further into the house, away from Dom looking for Mia.

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Vince looked at Brian from his vantage point on the couch with suspicion. He really didn't buy the story that a kid that worked the counter at Harry's had a car worth 80 large. Especially since the kid lived in Harry's back room. He couldn't even afford his own place. Vince couldn't see sign of Letty or Mia.

Brian headed for the kitchen. Nyssa didn't notice him go. Vince did and he excused himself from her. He told her it was to go to the washroom. He really followed Brian into the kitchen. He saw Brian grab Mia and they kissed. Vince saw red. He thought he was over Mia but he really didn't want Spilner around the place.

He pushed Brian off Mia. Mia screamed at Vince to leave Brian alone. Brian shoved Vince back. The two men broke into a fight.

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Nyssa heard the commotion coming from the kitchen area and went to investigate. She saw Vince fighting with Brian. Obviously over Mia, since the other girl was standing off to the side screaming at Vince to stop fighting with Brian.

Nyssa was mad and upset all at once. She saw Letty looking at the fight with distaste as well. Letty then headed toward the living room. Nyssa followed her intending to dance with her some more. She was so lost in her own thoughts almost ran into the back of Letty who had stopped in the door to the living room.

She followed Letty's gaze to where it rested on Dom. And the infamous blonde chick, who were now dancing together. That bitch was really making the rounds tonight, Nyssa thought. Letty went for the dancing couple, death in her eyes. Nyssa held her back, with difficulty.

"Letty, it's not worth getting in a fight over in front of all these people."

"But they're all over each other." Letty snarled, livid.

"Yes and if you go up in there and fight the bitch then she wins. She made you jealous which tells her all she needs to know."

"Which is?"

"That you're scared that that little blonde skank has the power to take your man away you. You. Letty, his girl, and the girl who races, not just watches but races. Why do you think when I saw Vince fighting Brian over Mia I just walked away? I got no call to be jealous over that. Vince'll have to explain it to me when I call him on it. No way is it Mia who is at fault. Same thing, for you. Well, sort of the same thing. Blondie is after Dom. But if he encourages her that's on him."

"You are so right. And do you know what's going to happen about it?" Letty cocked an eyebrow in question.

"No, tell me." Nyssa laughed, knowing that Letty's plan was going to be good.

"We are going to get into Dom's tequila and get shit faced." Letty gave her an evil grin.

"Sounds good." Nyssa grinned back.

So that was what they did. They picked their way into Dom's liquor cabinet and got out a bottle of the amber liquid.

"Why isn't it clear? I thought tequila was clear."

"Ay Chica. The good stuff is aged in oak barrels and it turns sorta amber. Dom's gonna be ripped when he finds out we drank this. You sure you want in?"

"Oh yeah. Bring it on!" Nyssa didn't want Dom angry with her but she knew that it was going to make Vince angry with her too so that made it ok. Letty opened the bottle and started pouring shots.

They each did 3 shots of the brew. Big ones. They looked at each other then rhymed in unison. "One tequila," each girl slammed back a shot. "Two tequila," each girl picked up the next shot glass in line and slammed back the shot it contained. "Three tequila," down went the final shot as the girls looked at each other and then stood up. They fell into each other and shouted "FLOOR". Then they laughed uncontrollably against each other, holding each other up from landing on said floor. Everyone in the kitchen cheered.

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Dom heard the crowed saying "Fight. Fight. Fight." He had to go check it out. He found Brian and Vince pounding on each other yet again. Dom had to pry Vince and Brian apart. Brian stopped the minute Dom threw him backward but Dom had to keep Vince from grabbing the smaller man all over again. Dom sent Brian home, inviting him over the next day for another barbeque and telling him he would have some sense beaten into Vince by then. Brian left. Dom didn't know what was up with Vince, who was dead sober anyway and Dom had no idea what he was thinking. If Mia wanted Brian what did Vince have to say about it when his girl had stayed over the last three nights in a row? Just as he was about to go in at Vince they both heard the cheering and went into the kitchen to see what was up.

Dom and Vince walked in to see Nyssa and Letty dancing on the kitchen table in their bra's swinging their shirts over their heads with a crowd of guys all around them cheering the two Latin women on. Both girls saw the guys at the same moment and their mouths formed simultaneously the word "shit". They climbed down as Dom and Vince fought their way over to the girl's side. Dom spoke first.

"What the hell has gotten into you two?"

Letty and Nyssa glanced at each other and sing songed, "One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor!" They dissolved into giggles, holding each other for dear life as they quaked with laughter trying not to end up on said floor.

The guys looked at each other then back at the girls and sighed. They both saw the now half empty bottle of tequila. Each one threw his respective girl over his should and headed for the proper room. The party broke up about then with Mia and Jesse shoeing people out of the house.

Dom and Letty fought and then made up the way they always did. It was same old shit different day for Letty and Dom.

Down in Vince's room Vince was going in at Nyssa.

"I thought I told you no more liquor." He roared at Nyssa after shutting the door.

"So what? You're not my dad, or my keeper. I can get drunk if I want to. And man am I drunk. I think. Never been drunk before so I have nothing to compare it to. Plus you hardly looked at me all night, and then you fought Brian over Mia, the girl you are supposedly over. So what if I had something to drink?" Nyssa shrugged and looked away from him.

"I know what I did was stupid but I thought he was forcing her, OK? What does that have to do with you getting drunk and putting on a strip tease in my kitchen?" Vince hadn't toned down the roaring at all. He was turning red with anger.

"Everything." She sighed, annoyed by his lack of understanding.

"I guess I just don't see how?" Vince growled.

"You never looked at me all night, it took Leon asking me to dance to make you notice me, you got in a fight over another girl, you never noticed I left the room because you were busy with Blondie till I was shit faced. The whole time I was dancing with the girls you were talking to some other girl. Do you know Dom couldn't take his eyes off Letty the whole time we were dancing? The whole time, Vince. Not just when we got kind of dirty, the whole time. He was just staring at her with this, fucking intense look, and you were talking to a blonde skank. I guess I have my answer. You're not ready for us, for any relationship. Either you still want Mia or you need to get more over her before you start a relationship with another girl." Nyssa ranted, not pausing for breath till she was done. At which point she just looked up at Vince mutinously.

"You finished?" He continued without waiting for her to answer. "I don't dance. I did get jealous when I saw you with Leon, I was talking to Candy and didn't see you leave but it was cause she wouldn't shove off, Dom and Letty have been together forever, they're bound to look at each other, I'm over Mia, I thought Brian grabbed her and forced her to kiss him and once I started to fight him if felt good and I couldn't stop. And I don't know what I see happening with us." He knew parts of that answer were lame but hoped she was too drunk off her ass to notice. No such luck.

"Yeah well, if anything the fact that Dom and Letty have been together so long should make them less intense not more. And she caught him dancing with the same blonde chick you were talking to all night and she wanted someone to drink with so I obliged her since I was pissed at you for both ignoring me and for telling me I couldn't have another beer. And frankly if you don't like it you can just go fuck yourself."

"God! I'm sorry for not being as attentive as you would have liked me to be ok? I'm not use to having a specific girl at these things alright? Now can we go to bed?" Vince didn't want to talk about it because that meant he had to think about it and he didn't want to. He just wanted to go to sleep and pretend it would all be gone by morning.

"Yes we can." With that she started to strip off right in front of him and she didn't stop until she was in front of him in all her naked glory. Then she crawled into bed as naked as the day she was born. She was asleep in seconds. Or passed out more likely, Vince told himself as he looked down at her blissfully unaware of the turmoil she'd tossed him into. Vince stood beside his bed in shock. He shook it off and stripped to his shorts and turned out the light and went to bed.