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Gabriella stormed into the house with her family following behind her. She was shaking she was so angry. "Sit down!" Mia yelled pointing to the couch. Without saying a word she walked over to the couch and sat down.
"I need some ice." Vince mumbled sitting down in the chair across the room. Jesse disappeared for a second bringing back ice for Vince's face. They all sat there in silence staring at Gabriella who now found her hair more important. She began looking through the strands until she felt the couch shift. Mia was now sitting next to her looking at her with puppy dog eyes.
"What?" Gabriella snapped.
"What are you doing Gabby?" She whispered.
"What are you talking about? And what are you two doing home? Aren't yall supposed to be with Dom?"
"We got a phone call that maybe we should come home." Vince replied softly.
"I wonder why." Gabriella glared at her sister. "You just couldn't let it go could you?"
"Gab..."
"No!" She jumped up from the couch. "I am so sick and tired of you intervening into my life. I am sixteen, I deserve to be able to make decisions on my own."
"You were at a street race tonight!" Mia raised her voice.
"It wasn't like I was racing, he was teaching me to drive."
"I thought you didn't want to learn to drive Gab?" Vince asked.
She remained silent. "We told you to stay away from Johnny Tran and you didn't listen to us. We told you not to go racing and what did you do? You also lied to us about spending time with Brianna, she wasn't anywhere in sight." He went on.
"I deserve to be happy."
"You are sixteen years old, I am not going to let you go off with a street racer in the middle of the night."
"You are not my father." She replied under her breath.
"What was that?" Vince asked.
"You are not my father!" She yelled at him.
"No I am not, your father was an amazing man and someone that I am proud to say was like a father to me. I loved your father so much and I miss him every day that he is gone. I am so sorry for what happened to you and Mia, I really am. But Dom put me in charge while he is gone. You might not like it but that is how it is. We asked you not to do something Gabriella and you did it anyways."
"I didn't do anything wrong."
"Gab, there is seriously something going on with you. You are making out with Johnny on the side of the road today, then you lie about going to Brianna's, you go to a street race. You are lashing out on everyone every chance that you get." Mia began. "What do we need to do to make things right?"
"There is nothing going on, I like Johnny. There is nothing wrong with him. He is one of the best things to happen to me, why can't you be happy for me? I finally found someone who makes me happy…"
"You are sixteen!" Mia yelled. "Johnny is a bad person. He is not good Gabriella."
"You don't even know him Mia! So how can you say that?"
"I know him, Dom knows him…" Vince stated.
"DOM IS NOT HERE!" Gabriella screamed. "I am so tired of hearing about Dom, he isn't here. He isn't going to be here for a very long time."
"Stop!" Mia yelled.
"No you stop! This is my life and I will live it how I want to live it and not one of you can say anything about it."
"Gabriella, don't make this hard on yourself." Vince stood up putting the ice down on the table.
"You are grounded Gabriella, you will go to school and you will come home. Jesse will then come pick you up and take you to the garage until it closes. You will do your homework down here, and then you will go to bed…" Mia replied standing up. "We will decide how long this will go on, but for right now it's indefinite."
"You cannot do this!" Gabriella.
"Yes I can! You are not doing this to yourself."
"NO!" She screamed. She walked away as Mia grabbed her arm.
"You aren't leaving!" Mia yelled jerking her back. Gabriella turned around shoving her sister aside. "Gabriella, don't you dare walk out that door."
"I am done." Gabriella choked out. She walked out of the living towards the door when she felt her body being jerked backwards. At first she was in shock then it turned into anger as Mia stood between her and the door. With all of her anger she lunged at her sister grabbing a hold of her shoulders bringing her down to the ground. Gabriella slapped Mia in the face as Mia rolled on top of her. "STOP!" Vince yelled pulling Mia off. "That is enough!"
"I hate you!"Gabriella yelled. "I hate you! Why are you even here Mia? Why do you even care? You weren't there, you left while he was racing and now he is gone. All of you act like nothing happened, you pretend like my father was never here. So that's what I did and that is what I am doing now. Our so called family just fell apart after he died and now Dom is gone. Stop acting like you care anymore."
"Is that what you think? That we don't care?" Mia asked.
"Stop, just let it go."
"No, Gabby we need to talk about this. You can't keep this in."
"Just leave me alone." She cried. She picked herself up off the floor and walked out the door. She went a ways down the steps before sitting down. The air was blowing causing her to shiver a little but she stayed seated.
"It's after one o'clock Gab." Vince was behind her.
"Let me just stay out here for a few minutes." She replied.
"Can I stay with you?"
"What you think I am going to take off or something?"
"No." He replied sitting down next to her. "I think you need someone to hold you and tell you everything is going to be okay."
"I don't…"
"Yes you do. I know that you think we don't care, but I care about you more than anyone in this world. I cared about your father, but I am going to be honest with you. You with the first person I thought of when I saw him crash. I had to get you out of there. I had to make sure that you were okay. You father has done things for me that I don't know if I could every repay him but he still did it. He was always there for me. He took me in like I was his own son. The night he died, I cried like a baby in my bed. It hurt me Gab, it hurt me real bad. As for Dom, he is going to be alright. He misses you."
Gabriella wiped the tears off of her face. "And he also told me that he has been writing you."
"I haven't opened them."
"You mad at him?"
She nodded her head. "I feel abandoned."
"Maybe if you go see him?"
"He doesn't want to see me." She shook her head.
"Would it help?"
"I don't know." She whispered. They remained silent for a little while as Vince's scooted closer to her wrapping his arms around her shoulders. She laid her head on his shoulder closing her eyes.
"Your brother had sex with Lillian Tran. No one knows about it, it just happened last summer. He never called her back and Johnny has been pissed at him ever since. I'm not saying that he is dating you to get back at Dom, but this kid is bad news Gab."
"Vince, he is so nice to me. He treats me so good. He hasn't hurt me in any way."
"Just be careful please, I will not hesitate to kill him."
Gabriella gave a soft laugh. "Am I still grounded?"
"Oh yeah!" He laughed kissing her on top of the head.
Gabriella paced back and forth out in the waiting area of the prison. It was Sunday and Dom had agreed to let Gabriella come and see him. She knew what was about to come and she wasn't excited about it.
"El, you alright?" Jesse asked. She looked over at him realizing he was with her. She gave a soft smile nodding her head. "I'm right here okay."
"I know that Jess, thank you!"
"Ella…" Mia walked over to her. "He is ready to see you."
Gabriella nodded her head but didn't speak. She walked through the double doors in front of her. Two cops approached her.
"License please."
"I don't have one." Gabriella replied softly.
"How old are you?"
"Sixteen." Gabriella became nervous as the cops asked her questions. Finally they let her through the door. She walked passed a few people talking to men from the prison when she spotted her brother. He was sitting down waiting on her. She took a deep breath as she walked over to him. He pointed to the phone before picking his up.
"Hey." He whispered. Gabriella didn't speak. "I talked to Vince. Want to explain to me what is going on?"
She shook her head. "You getting my letters?"
She nodded her head. "Okay, so this is where you start talking back to me Gab."
"I haven't opened them," She replied. "I haven't wanted too."
"Why?"
"Because I am so mad at you."
"I know you are."
"You never said goodbye, you didn't even look at me when they took you away. Then you tell Vince that you don't want me here. Why? Why would you do that?"
"Because I am ashamed of what I did."
"I don't care about what you did Dom. You are my brother, I have your back no matter what you do."
"I wish so bad that I could change things, I wish I could take them back."
"Me too."
"Now we need to talk…"
Gabriella sighed. "I've been grounded till the end of the world."
"What did you do?"
She just looked at him through the glass. "Gab…"
"I told Mia that I was staying with Brianna Friday night and instead we went to a street race with Johnny Tran and his friends. Vince came and got into a fight with Johnny and his friend Jake."
Dom was silent. "We got home and me and Mia got into a fight and I smacked her."
"You better be so glad that there is glass between us right now. What in the hell were you thinking?"
"I don't know."
"Johnny Tran…"
"I know, Vince told me. No need for the lecture. But he is also someone that I have known for a very long time. I don't think he would hurt me."
"He is bad news Gab."
"I understand that. But you guys won't tell me why."
"Visiting hours will be over in five minutes." A guard came around the corner.
"Gabby, I don't want you to come back here okay. This is not a place that I want you to be at. I love you and I will always love you."
She nodded her head. "I love you too."
"Stop antagonizing your sister, she has enough on her plate."
Gabriella couldn't help but laugh. "Goodbye Dom." She put her hand up to the window as he did the same before hanging up the phone. Her heart ached for him as he stood up and walked away from her leaving her sitting there with her hand on the glass. She took a deep breath before standing up and walking to the door.
"Gabby…" Mia whispered rushing over to her. Gabriella had to give it to her sister, she was there even though she said some mean things to her two nights before. She wrapped her arms around her sister.
"I'm okay."
"How mad is he?" Jesse asked.
"He's pretty pissed." She laughed. "But he is good. He looks good."
"You ready to go?"
"Yeah." She let her hand fall down into Mia's. "I'm ready."
Gabriella laid on the couch that day staring up at the ceiling when a phone began to ring. She looked around the room noticing no one was around. It sounded like her phone but she didn't know where it was. She got up from the couch and walked into the kitchen where her phone was laying on the counter. She looked around again before picking it up. "Hello?" She questioned the person calling.
"Gab."
"Johnny? Is that you?"
"Oh man, I have been trying to get a hold of you all weekend."
"They took my phone. I am grounded too."
"This could possibly be my fault."
Gabriella began to laugh. "No its mine."
"Are you okay?"
"I will be, how are you? How's the face?"
"I have a black eye, but I am fine. "
"Johnny, I need to ask you a question."
"Okay…" He sounded afraid. "Go ahead."
"Did my brother sleep with Lillian?"
There was silence. "Are you only wanting to be with me because you think it would upset Dom?"
"Gabriella…" He started. She waited for him to speak again. "I want to be with you because of you, no one else. We were friends way before that shit with Dom and my sister. Am I mad? Yes. Do I want to kill him? Yes. Because it's my sister. I am not in your life to make your brother's hell. He is doing that enough for himself."
"Okay." She whispered.
"You believe me don't you?"
"Yes, I believe you. But I'm not allowed to see you right now. I can see you at school but I am stuck in this house until they say otherwise. I leave school I have to go to the garage then come home."
"I understand, but I want to be with you. I am here for you Gab."
"Thank you Johnny, I'll see you tomorrow at school." She hung the phone laying it back on the counter where she found it. As she turned around Jesse was standing behind her. "Jesse!" She yelled putting her hand to her chest.
"I'm sorry I was just…"
"The phone was ringing no one was in the house…"
"Gab, you don't have to tell me. Its fine."
She nodded her head. "What are you doing in here?"
"I needed to get something…" He stopped and looked at her.
"Jesse what—" In one swift movement Jesse had Gabriella in his arms, his lips were on hers. He kissed her hard and passionately, like it was the last thing he was going to do in life. He held her back as he lifted her off her feet pressing her up against the counter. She didn't pull away, she just stayed there kissing him back. This definitely just mixed things up a bit.
AN: uh oh! Jesse grew some balls. REVIEW!