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Back Then: High School

Chapter Five- One Day

April 28th met Letty on her favorite spot on the couch looking down at the acceptance letters, battling with a decision. May 1st was the deadline for accepting university offers so she knew she couldn't dillydally for much longer. Choosing between Mia and Dom was something she had never had to do. One usually lead to the other harmoniously but as she stared at her future forking into two paths, she just didn't know what to choose.

Her mother came home and met her in the same position making her realize she had been there for half of the day.

"What are you doing sweetheart?" Mimi sat next to her on the couch and smoothed her hair.

Letty sighed dramatically and dropped her head into her mother's lap. Mimi automatically began raking her fingers through Letty's hair. It was something that always made Letty feel better but the magic had finally worn out.

"Use your words." Mimi said.

"I just have a big decision to make."

"What do you mean," she looked down at the acceptance letters. "I thought you had your mind set on NAU? You and Mia have been talking about the school since you were freshmen."

Mimi was laying on the guilt pretty thick and she didn't even know it.

"I know but…"

Mimi sighed. "Dominic isn't there,"

"I know what you're going to say-"

"No, you don't. I'm not going to discredit your feelings for Dominic. I've watched you be in love with that boy since you were fourteen."

"I didn't think I would miss him this much. How can I choose between Mia and Dom?"

Letty sat up from her lap and looked at Mimi as if she were to answer.

"You're looking at it wrong. You chose NAU for their business program and for your best friend. You fell in love with that school and with Arizona all on your own. You're not choosing between Mia and Dom, you're choosing between yourself and Dom."

Mimi stood up from the couch and said, "I'm not going to tell you what to do, it's your decision."

Letty strolled into the Toretto house like she lived there. Mia met her in the living room and all but dragged her up the stairs.

"What's with the secrecy?" Letty asked and Mia shushed her in response. She slammed her bedroom shut and turned around at Letty with a smile.

"I found something, I wanted you to be here when I opened it." Mia said, referring to the brown box in the middle of her room.

"I think I found some of my mom's stuff."

"You never talk about her," Letty said.

"I don't remember her much and I hate asking dad or Dom, I don't want to make them sad. I found this box in the basement."

"Well let's open it,"

The girls sat on either side of the box and opened it flaps. On top were a few articles of clothing, hair brush, a string of pearls and a stack of postcards and pictures bounded together in a rubber band.

Mia fished out the big yellow and blue yearbook and Letty began flipping through the pictures.

"NAU," she must have gone to college there." Mia said. She held the book like it was the precious cargo.

"Then these are pictures of Arizona. It's so beautiful," Letty said. She showed Mia pictures of the orange sunsets and desert lands.

They both seemed to be taken with the landscape. Letty felt at home looking at the pictures. She looked up at Mia who was struggling to keep it together.

"I just want to feel close to her." Mia said. Letty hugged tightly.

"Let's go to NAU then," Letty said.

"Like now?"

"No, for college."

"Really?"

"Yes. The desert is calling my name and youcan follow in your mom's footsetps."

Mia wiped at her eyes, "Let's do it."

It was a big coincidence that the desert served a purpose for both she and Mia. She couldn't describe it but she felt a pull to Arizona.

Letty slouched into the couch, a single tear rolling down her cheek.

"I'm sorry Dom,"

Mia and Letty were sitting on white chairs in their graduation gowns. They were all tapped out after taking so many pictures with their friends and families. The ceremony had long finished, most of the attendees had gone off to nice dinners. Mia and Letty were soaking up the final moments just for a while longer.

"We pulled it off huh?" Mia said.

Letty nodded, "We should leave before they change their minds and take back these diplomas."

Mia laughed, studying her friends face. "You're disappointed?"

Letty shrugged. "He said he would try to make it. It was never set in stone."

"Don't worry babe, in a few months we'll be at NAU and there'll be a whole lotta boys to make you forget your melodramatic relationship with my brother."

That was the thing Letty thought, she didn't want to forget. She still had not told Mia about her application to New Mexico State. Letty didn't see the point, she had chosen Mia and Northern Arizona University. Dom had practically reinforced the decision for her when he stopped direct communication with her.

Telling Mia to tell her 'hey' while on the phone did not count.

Letty got up and extended her arm to Mia, "Come on, let's blow this joint." She pulled Mia to her feet and the friends began to walk to the parking lot.

Standing in front of their parked cars, Letty felt a wave of content wash over her. She had ended her high school journey exactly how she started it, with Mia. "See you at the party in a bit," Mia said, still holding Letty's hand.

"Call me when you're leaving," Letty said. They parted ways, going off in separate cars. Only then did Letty let her features sink. She was disappointed, more so than she let on. Dom had said he would try to make it. That was a bust. She knew there was a slim chance but she had gotten her hopes up at the very idea. She really missed him. Wanted to see him at the end of this chapter of her life. Now that she had chosen NAU and he wouldn't be home for summer, she wanted a proper goodbye.

When she got home, she swallowed her sadness and shed her cap and gown. She stared at her reflection, Dom would have loved to seen her. She was a woman now, in her classy peach cocktail dress. Hair actually groomed and shoes without flames on them. She was that leather skirt wearing rebel but on the inside.

She wanted to present herself to him now, as a young woman, no longer the young girl desperate for his love. She abandoned that train of thought, had some nachos with her mom downstairs before returning to her room to get ready for their graduation party.

She changed into the party dress Mia had bought for her. Gold and skin tight with a swooping cow neck. She tussled her pressed hair in front of the mirror before grabbing her bag and heading for the door.

Lucas, their classmate, had rented a pool house and was throwing a huge graduation party. Letty didn't really want to go, they had all said their goodbyes and reminisced at graduation and prom but Mia wanted to go because Lucas promised edibles so Letty was going just for moral support she guessed?

She realized she would never reach the party when she opened her front door and saw Dom leaning against his charger in her driveaway.

She was running toward him before she could speak. "Oh my God," He scooped her and spun her around in a semi-circle. He held her close to his chest for what felt like a lifetime but was only a few moments. She couldn't stop hear tears as they ran down her face into the crook of his neck. He just held her tighter, never letting up.

"Look at you," he said smiling, drinking her in with his eyes.

Letty imagined she looked insane with mascara on her cheeks and swollen eyes.

"So beautiful," he said it so sincerely she had no choice but to believe him.

"You came," she said.

He smoothed over her dark hair, keeping his hand at the back of her neck.

"You didn't think I'd miss my girls' big day. Congratulations by the way," he said, only for Letty to realize the only person she wanted to hear it from, was Dom.

"Sorry I'm late." She shook her head, he was right on time.

He opened his passenger's side door for her and said, "Can you ride?"

A thousand times yes, she thought but said, "Let me let Mia know I'm taking a detour."

Dom chuckled lowly, like he always did. "Who do you think sent me here?" She had the greatest friend in the world. She got into the car, smelling that familiar smell that was uniquely Dom's and felt at home.

He drove them to the beach, it was shaping up to their special place. They didn't speak for a while, her senses were still processing his nearness after so long.

She sat on his trunk and he leaned over it facing her. He couldn't tear his eyes off of her, like he was afraid he would blink and she would be gone.

Sea breeze blew over them, flapping his school's hoodie and making her hair dance on her shoulders.

"How does it feel?" he said.

She dropped her head back and enjoyed the wind before answering, "It feels fucking awesome,"

"That sounds about right." He smiled shyly at her.

"Does your phone not work in New Mexico?" she said. She would not be Letty if she didn't press him on that.

He dropped his head in shame.

"I stopped calling on purpose." he said. "Mia said you were doing good, going on dates and focusing on school. I didn't want to make you distracted."

She rolled her eyes. When was he going to stop making decisions for her? She wanted to go in on him and his controlling ways but knowing they only had this one night, she didn't want to waste it fighting.

"So NAU?" he said. She nodded, her eyes fell on the bold letters NMSU in crimson on his hoodie. She had been one decision away from wearing those same school colors. She shook the thought away and asked, "How's university?"

Dom shrugged, "You are going to find out for yourself come this fall,"

Letty studied his face. He looked stress beneath the smile. Tired even.

"You must be tired."

Dom turned to her, shocked she picked up on that. Why that would surprise him anymore he didn't know.

"It's a lot, student loans and assignments and part time jobs."

Letty touched his chin, making him look at her.

"If anybody can handle it, it's you. You're stronger than you know." she said.

He put his own hand over hers on his face.
"You've always seen me for more than I am."

She shook her head and dropped her forehead to his. "Wrong. I've always seen you for who you are." She leaned down and kissed him gently, chaste and lovingly. "More myth than man."

Dom fucking loved this girl. It felt like she was pouring into him when he didn't know he was empty in the first place. Like he was having his first taste of premium gas.

So wise, so mature. She had grown up before his eyes, and he loved her all the progress she had made. He kissed her back, harder this time, more pressing. His tongue moved with hers, a smooth dance in her mouth.

This time, they didn't have all the time in the world so Dom had to love her quickly.

Come tomorrow, he was back to school. He had chosen to do a summer semester to fast track his degree. He wanted to graduate a year earlier to ease up on his dad financially. He had to leave her again, except this time it felt different.

They pulled apart and he knew he was grinning like a fool when she blushed under his gaze.

"You know Arizona isn't that far from New Mexico…" he said.

She looked down, "It's not that close either." she said. Should she have told him she applied to his school?

"Let's go night swimming," she teased, remembering their last time on the beach. She jumped off the trunk and began undoing her dress. He began to strip down too, there wasn't anything else to do. They raced into the water, he let her win.

Letty was different from the last time they had been swimming. There was a certain confidence she had now that made her glow all that more to Dom.

She swam around him, closing her eyes and enjoying the sway of the water. When she opened her eyes, Dom's eyes were on her.

"What?" she questioned when his staring bordered on creepy.

He shook his head, "You're a woman now, I can tell." she smiled confirming but that was all Dom wanted to know. He didn't want to know what boy had been instrumental in her 'woman hood'. He also gave in realizing that it would not be him.

When they got out of the water, sun was just about setting. It was beautiful, warm tones of orange and yellow faded into the clouds. He stood watching it, feeling like he was breathing unlabored for the first time in a long time. She was at his side, hugging him. Head on his shoulder, they stayed that way watching the sun's decent. The wind licked at their wet bodies but nothing could get them to look away.

When the sun had disappeared and they were getting dressed, Dom found that Letty had commandeered his New Mexico State hoodie; not bothering with her dress. Dom smirked, it looked better on her anyway.

He took the long way home. Cruising, letting the moment drag on for as long as possible. He walked her to her door, hand in hers because part of him didn't want to say goodnight.

They stood facing each other in front of her front door. Both silent, what was there to say really? They wanted to be together but time and space had separated them, as it always did.

"Stay with me," she broke the silence. She was pulling him through her door but Dom didn't move his weight.

"You said it yourself," she unzipped his hoodie showing him her damp half naked body, dissolving any resolve he had left, "I'm a woman now."

Dom finally moved with her through the doorway. She closed the door on the outside world and his restraint, simultaneously. He had her pressed into the closed door the moment the lock clicked into place.

Swooping her hair to one side, he ladled wet kisses on the back of her neck, holding her in place with his hand strapped across her torso. She trembled and whimpered under his lips and he loved every moment of it. He moved his kisses to the side of her neck, under her ear making gasp and arch her back into hard body behind her. He had found her out and began kissing and nibbling on that one weak spot that had her squirming against him and murmuring his name. He bit down on her earlobe and her head tilted back to find his lips. She attacked his lips with an urgency he had never felt from her. She was distraught with lust and he matched her intensity.

He kissed her back while his fingers slid down her body, leaving no beauty undiscovered. Over her breast, down her taunt stomach only to skirt so lightly over her pulsing center.

She shook against him in response and he swooped his hand over where she needed him most to play with the milky skin between her thighs. Her gasps were deep and desperate and she spun around to face him, plunging her tongue into his mouth again.

It was her turn to explore the ridges and contours of his body. Her small hands snaked under his wet T-shirt and scraped lightly at his chest with her short finger nails. Her touched rippled goosebumps along his arms, up to his neck. He felt like she was shocking him with endurable bouts of electricity. He kissed her harder then, plunging his tongue in and out of her mouth over and over. She whimpered, trying to press closer to him, not that it was possible. He felt his arousal straining against his jeans, against her hip and clenched his fist at her back to retrain himself. It was almost painful holding himself back just to prolong her pleasure.

"Upstairs," he commanded, breathlessly, eager to get back to her lips. She stripped off her his hoodie and lost her remaining underwear every five steps she took to her room.

Letty stood at the foot of her bed, completely naked. She saw Dom strip off the last of his clothing and close her bedroom door. She didn't even know where her mother was but the possibility that they could be walked in on didn't phase her a bit. Dom eyes were glued to hers as he took intentional steps toward her. She didn't move a muscle, she felt like puppeteer strings were attached to them, she moved when he moved.

He finally broke eye contact to stare at her naked form, appreciatively so if she read his expression correct. He pushed her hair back over her shoulders, now she hadn't anything hidden from him. It was a beautiful moment, complete intimacy. No secrets. No clothes. Naked in every meaning of the word.

Once satisfied with his mental pictures, he used one finger and pushed at her shoulder. He had barely touched her and she fell back into the bed as f a great forced had knocked her over. Her eyes fell close, wanting to experience him through all her other senses and didn't feel him climb over her like she expected. Instead, she felt his warm lips creeping up the inside of her thighs. She shuddered as he blew a breath against her thigh, she shivered at the sensation. He inched and inched until she felt his tongue right where she needed him. Her breath was harsh, making her whole body shift up the bed as he worked on her bundle of nerves to her inner lips with an expert rhythm.

She felt like her brain was swimming in her head, the buzz of a hundred beers, the euphoria of a stiff joint. Her body tingled as he worked his tongue back fourth on her center. She had had oral sex but she realized what she had before was a joke, she was in the major leagues now and where the fuck did he learn to make a woman feel so—

"Fuck..." tumbled from her lips as she felt her orgasm building. Before she could descend into a pleasure like insanity, he let up from his position and climbed over.

He kissed her lips the moment he entered her with a strong stroke.

They moaned in unison as they were joined. Letty was in stimulus overload as he moved inside her, deep and slow grinding. She took it all in, savored it, the groans of his pleasure, sweet nothings being whispered into her ear. Pillows fell and the sheets crumpled and collected in her fist as their bodies moved up and down the bed. She had foolishly wondered for a moment who was making so much noise before she realized it was her own moans of ecstasy.

Her orgasm began mounting again, growing with her erratic screams. She peaked with an erotic yelp, digging into the tender skin of Dom's back. Her orgasm spread over her in undulating waves making her twitch ever so lightly. She held on to Dom as he mounted his own finale.

He pulled his member out of her and came beside her thigh. Her body felt spent, too exhausted to curse herself for coming off the pill. She would pop a morning after pill in the morning. Right now, all that mattered was the love they left all over her sheets.

He collapsed next to her and reached for her hands. They fell asleep entwined.

Morning peaked through the curtains but Dom was already wake. He had held her in arms since he had woken up an hour before. He watched his half angel, half devil sleep peacefully until the light peaking through the curtain woke her up. She stared at him with beady eyes of lust for a moment.

"Good morning," he said, tucking hair behind her ear like he always did.

She smiled in response and nestled against his chest.

He would have to get moving soon, to beat traffic out of the city. She knew that too he supposed as she lingered in his embrace just a moment longer before she got up.

This was the hardest part, a hundred times more difficult after what they had done last night. Flashes of lust and pleasure and love filled his mind. How she had woken him during the night, taking his entire shaft into her mouth. How she watched him writhe in pleasure until he combusted. He had woken her before dawn again and taken her on all fours completely uninhibited. He had the scratch marks to prove it.

This time truly was different, while last time she had been reluctant and forceful. She was calm this time. This time she was letting him go.

His T shirt was still wet in a pile on the floor so he put on his boxers and jeans only. It was quite a site for Letty the way she stared at him, gleaming in deviltry.

She poked her head out the bedroom door and heard her mother's snoring from down the hall. She quietly dragged on his hoodie over her naked body and walked him to the front door.

They faced each other, sad but ready for another goodbye.

She kissed him lightly.

"Later alligator," he said. She smiled, he had remembered.

"In a while crocodile." she said. He placed a kiss on her forehead before leaving. She waved him off through a crack in the door.

As Dom drove off, he knew while it wasn't the right time for their love story. It would be one day. It would be the right time and the right place because ultimately, always in the end, it would be him and Letty.