The next morning I was dead. The sleep I got the night before, all three hours of it, was not enough but the conversation between Jace and I was too good to stop. He's very easy to hold a conversation with. But Jace wasn't the first man on my mind this morning- Dom was. I kept replaying our conversation over and over in my mind. I can't believe he actually called a part of me sexy. Sure it was my accent, which plenty of people have back home, but it was a step. I heard my phone chirp and I reached over onto my night stand to grab it. It was a text from Jace. morning darlin sorry to keep u up but on my end it was more than worth it -Jace

I caught myself smiling at his text. Even though Dom's warning was fresh in my mind I couldn't help but like Jace. He was sweet, funny and cute. Is it even possible to like two people at the same time? I wasn't sure.

mornin to u too doll it was worth how dead tired Im gonna be today -Roxie

I got up out of bed and stretched. Yeah its already going to be a long day I can feel it. I slowly got dressed and made my way downstairs. I didn't see any sign of my mom anywhere so I pulled out the stuff to make chocolate chip pancakes. I got into my groove literally by turning on some country music while I made breakfast. I had already made eight pancakes when I broke out in solo singing into the spatula.

" SHE WAS SIPPIN ON SOUTHERN AND SINGIN MARSHAL TUCKER WE WERE FALLIN IN LOVE IN THE SWEET HEART OF SUMMER SHE HOPPED RIGHT UP IN THE CAB OF MY TRUCK N SAID FIRE IT UP LETS GO GET THIS THING STUCK!, " I was so into the song I didn't notice I had an audience until my verse was over and I heard clapping. I opened up my eyes, yes I was that into it I had my eyes closed. Singing, dancing and completely gone to the beat of the music; I looked into the direction of the clapping and there was Mia and Dom standing there along with my mom and dad. Could this get any worse?

"Don't stop on our account it was just getting good," I heard my dad say. My face turned beet red.

"Yeah yeah yeah laugh it up and what do you two want?" Dom smirked in my direction.

"Is that any way to talk to your friends?" Dom said with laughter in his voice. Ugh why do I like him again? Mia smiled and came and sat next to me.

"We were coming to see if you wanted to hang out today but obviously you're busy performing for millions of fans," Mia said with a giggle. I rolled my eyes.

"If this is all I'm going to hear all day I'm not going anywhere." Mia patted my shoulder.

"Go get dressed chick we've got things to do!" I sighed and pushed up off of the table.

I went upstairs and dug around through my dresser. I settled on my blue flare hip huggers with a white tank top and a black one over it. I put on my silver heart necklace that fell in between my clevage and my white nikes. I did my hair in loose curls on the end and did my make up. If I do say so myself I look good. I grabbed an outfit for tomorrow and pajamas since I was pretty sure I was going to be staying the night at Mia's.

When I got back downstairs I discovered that Mia and Dom had went outside to wait for me. I hugged and kissed my mom and dad bye then I flew out the door. As soon as I hit the car my phone was going off. I pulled it out of my pocket to see a text.

Were going to have so much fun tonight! - Mia

I looked up from my phone. Did she seriously just text me from the front seat? I raised an eyebrow but decided to text back anyway.

Why whats on the agenda - Roxie I heard her phone go off and I snuck a peek at Dom, he looked up in the rear view mirror and caught me looking. He grinned and I blushed.

"You guys are aware that I know you're texting each other right?" I took that as an opportunity to gaze out my window. I didn't need those piercing brown eyes staring a hole into me.

We finally got to our destination, which turned out to be the Toretto garage. It was a Saturday but that didn't mean it was a slow day, everywhere I looked I seen a new vehicle. I was completely awestruck. I've been to car shows and been to the garage my dad used to work for but it was nothing like this. It may look runned down but there were more tools than I could wrap my head around. Stealing me from my awe, Mia jerked me into the far right of the parking lot. I quickly snapped out of it or maybe being jerked dragged me out of it. I gave her a 'what the hell' look.

"First off what I'm about to tell you can not leave us. You got it?" I nodded. Was she about to tell me she was a psycho murderer?! I tried to calm my racing heart and mind. I always get panicky in situations like these and her pausing was not helping.

"We're going to a street race tonight. I've never got to go to one before but as long as you came along I got to go! I'm so excited!" I let out a breath of relief. My best friend was not a homicidal maniac. Then it hit me, a street race? Similar to the one Dom was talking about? What a jerk! He's only letting us go because of Jace and Johnny. Ughhh!

"That sounds awesome! I'm excited too! What time do they start?" She grinned sheepishly.

"That's the thing it won't be until 9 pm. " I pulled out my phone and looked at the time, it was 10:30 am now. So we pretty much had the whole day until the race.

We spent the next few hours helping around the garage. Mia was sweeping the garage and office and mopping the office when she was finished with the sweeping. Obviously the girl wanted to see what all of the fuss was about when it came to the race. I chuckled to myself as I walked to get Dom a wrench. I was on tool fetch duty, which I didn't mind. I knew what I was looking for from all of the years of helping my dad. On the positive side I got to stare at Dom and not be obvious about checking him out. Which may I add how incredibly delicious he looks in his work shirt with the couple buttons undone so I see his wife beater. I took the wrench he handed me and went to grab a pipe wrench.

It was around 2:30 when Mia and I took lunch. We walked down the road until we got to the diner.

"So what are you going to wear to the races?" I looked at her cluelessly. I motioned to the outfit I had on.

"What's wrong with this?" She scoffed at me.

"Um you've been hanging around the garage and touching tools all day. So not to be rude you look and smell like my brother." I laughed. If she only knew how little that bothered me.

"Gee thanks," we both laughed and entered the diner. We were on our way to our table when I felt arms wrap around my waist. I quickly went to elbow the person in the face but cooled down when I heard his voice.

"hey darlin'." I instantly relaxed and he let go. I turned around to face him. He had on a black hat so his hair hung in a straight line, a hoodie and some worn jeans. I smiled.

"Hey Jace," Mia was looking past him for Johnny.

"Hey babe don't take this offensive but you smell like you've been under a car." Mia snickered in the background and I mentally flipped her off.

"I helped out a little at the garage," He nodded understanding.

"Do you guys want to sit with us or by yourselves?" Mia immediately joined the conversation.

"With you guys," with that we were led to their table. Johnny was sitting in the middle of the booth surrounded by two other guys whom I didn't recognize.

"Look who I found lurking about," Johnny immediately made the guy to his right get up and motioned for Mia to slide in. She did and the other guy slid into place. Jace and I sat on the left side.

"Mia and Roxie this is Mike and Brandon." We all nodded, acknowledging each other. I looked through my menu that was placed in front of me and decided on chicken strips and fries along with an iced tea with lemon. I wasn't quite sure what Mia ordered since I had a warm arm wrap around my shoulders

He leaned down and kissed my forehead with his slight stubble tickling my cheek. I was doing everything in my power not to like him TOO much due to what Dom had said but Jace wasn't making it easy. He seemed really genuine. I could be wrong though.

We all sat and conversed until we were finished eating. When we were done we stood up. Tonio gave Mia and I each $25 for helping today. We both reached into our pockets but got stopped before we could get to our money.

"Lunch is on us today girls, keep your money go buy something pretty." Johnny reached over and hugged Mia and I seen him slip something into her pocket. It went un noticed by everyone else.

"Thank you guys for lunch," I hugged Jace and went to leave but he grabbed my arm.

"Can we talk?" I motioned to Mia that I was walking outside. As soon as we exited the doors I turned around to face him.

"So what's up?" He pulled me closer so he could hold my face in his hands.

"I want you to be my girl. I'll give you some time to think on it but let me know." All I could do is nod. And with that he kissed my forehead and walked into the diner. Mia almost came flying out after he walked in. She didn't say anything until we got a couple minutes from the diner.

"Sooooo... what did Jace want?" I laughed at how obvious she was. I knew it was eating her up inside not knowing.

"You know...stuff." I bit the inside of my cheek so I wouldn't smile. She stopped walking and crossed her arms over her chest. I lost it. I started giggling like a school girl.

"Oh my god did he ask you out?" I nodded and then motioned to her pocket.

"So what did Johnny put in your pocket?" Her mouth dropped.

"I completely forgot about that." She put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a $50 bill.

"No fair, I know you're his daughter but that's $25 more than me. I want a raise." We both laughed it off. "I wonder why he gave me money." I shrugged.

"He did tell us to buy ourselves something pretty," She shrugged.

"Lets go shopping!"

Shopping: a quick and fun way to spend a few hours without getting bored. Mia and I went to two different shops until we found an outfit we both liked. Mia ended up with a black top that dipped down enough to show a small bit of clevage and a pair of white denim jeans. I loved but hated how she managed to make everything look great. She decided she was going to curl her hair. I ended up with a jean skirt that came an inch above my knees and a grey shirt exactly like Mia's.

It was now after six and I couldn't be more on pins and needles. We walked back to the garage and every one was gearing up to leave. We walked straight up to Dom and as soon as we got close he scrunched up his nose. Mia and I both looked at him.

"What is that god-awful smell?" Mia laughed and pointed in my direction.

"That would be an exact replica of how you smell Dom." He leaned in close to my neck and took in a breath. I think my body heat intensified by 70°. I felt my breath hitch and he slowly moved away from me and made his way over to Mia. He didn't get as close to her as he did to me but he immediately pulled away from her which caused me to grin. Finally not the stinky one today.

"Nah Mi, she smells like the garage. You on the other hand, smell like really bad men's cologne." Mia flew on the defense without thinking it through.

"Johnny's cologne does not stink!" Dom's face lost its joking look and quickly turned to one of rage.

"You were with them?!" I looked away from him, conviently noticing Tonio heading our way. I quickly hit Mia's arm and she looked and saw him too. Dom must have picked up what was going on because his mean act dropped.

"Later and not just you Mia," with that he took off to go and grab his car. Tonio approached not even two minutes later.

"You girls ready to head home?" We nodded. "Okay then follow me," we both did what we were told. I was honestly surprised that Dom had gotten that mad. He acted like we had commited a sin or something. Johnny and Jace, well at least Jace couldn't be that bad. Or maybe thats what he wants me to believe. Am I being nieve? Or is Dom just being over protective? I didn't know what to think or believe or whom for that matter.

A/n: im sorry to cut this one short but i feel like its really ran on big things are happening at the races so stay tuned. Dramababe im not ignoring ur stories im having issues with my phone i promise i will be back at it soon. Thank u for the reviews :)