Chapter 6

Letty and I were both ready and waiting for Mia. We had invited Belinda over, and her and Mia were getting along well. We had learned that Mia's college was close to Belinda's university, so they usually met up in the afternoons and walked to the garage together.

Letty sat on the couch, arms folded, with one leg crossed over the other, and both of them bouncing up and down.

"What the hell is taking her so long?" She was obviously becoming impatient. Letty was wearing her favourite black leather skirt, a caramel coloured, spaghetti tank top she stole from me and a pair of black lace-up boots. Her make up was minimal, almost non existent, and her hair was pulled up away from her face. Overall, she spent about 5 minutes getting ready.

"Not all of us can do nothing and still look as beautiful as you do naturally, Let." I chuckled, ducking the pillow she flung at my head.

"Hey. Watch it!" Dom boomed from behind me. I turned around and grabbed the pillow off him.

"Letty did it!"

"Bitch." Letty snapped from behind me.

I turned back to Letty and threw the pillow back at her. "Stop talking about yourself, Let. We're all starting to get worried over here." She just stuck her tongue out at me in reply.

"What are you doin just sitting here anyways?" Dom questioned, gesturing to us all dressed up.

"We're waiting for Mia."

"Why?"

"None of your business." Letty spat out at Dom, who just raised his brow at her. She replied once again by just sticking her tongue out at him.

"Is that your reply for everything?" Dom responded.

Let scowled at him and looked to the staircase. "C'mon Mia! We're waiting for you."

Suddenly we heard laughter from upstairs and the sound of feet stamping against the stairs.

"Finally." Letty jumped up, grabbed her keys and the coats, throwing mine at me and almost ran out of the door.

We all said our goodbyes to Dom and ran after her.

………

We pulled up in front of the club and headed in. Letty walked far in front, and Mia and Belinda followed Let, giggling the whole time. I, on the other hand kept to myself, at the back. The only thing running through my mind was, keeping thoughts of what happened that day out.

As we walked through the door, the smell of sweat and cigarette smoke hit us first, before the distinct smell of alcohol filtered through. The sound of music surrounded us, pumping the latest Urban Dance sounds. We pushed our way through the bodies and found an empty table at the back of the club. One of the waitresses cleared off the old bottles that were around, and got our drinks.

Letty bounced her head to the music and watched the people on the dancefloor. As Mia and Belinda left the table, I shuffled over closer to Let.

"What's up with you and Dom?" I shouted over the music.

"What do you mean?"

"You just seemed a bit off with him earlier."

"Oh, that was nothing. We just had a little heated discussion before."

"About?"

"Nothing important." She took a sip of her drink and got up, mouthing the word 'bathroom' as she walked off. I sighed and leaned back against the seat.

"Yo, stranger." I felt his breath on the back of my neck before I heard him speak. His familiar voice making me smile.

"Hey man. What you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same question." Vince took a seat next to me, grabbing Letty's drink.

"I wouldn't do that."

"Why?"

"It's Let's drink."

He quickly put the drink back on the table. "So ... what you guys doing here?"

"Just getting out. You?"

He shrugged and scanned the club. "Jess called me. Sayin some shit about how I had to see this shit. I can't say no to the lil' man." He shrugged again and grabbed my drink instead. I smiled and shook my head, slightly amused.

Vince drained my drink and let out a sigh of approval, before leaning back in the seat, stretching out his arms against the back.

The DJ flipped records and mixed in a new song. As Christina Milian sang her tunes to 'Hands On Me', the crowd on the dancefloor cheered and whooped; the women quickly grabbed their men and grinded down against their bodies.

"Why aren't you out there? I mean, you're just sittin' here alone, when you should be havin' some fun." Vince smirked as he looked over to me, then gesturing over to the dancefloor.

"I ain't got no-one to dance with."

Vince clutched his hand to his chest and pretended to be hurt. "You cut me Cass. Cut me real deep." He shook his head sadly and sighed deeply. I just laughed.

"Where are the guys? Weren't they the one's to call you?"

Vince looked at me, giving me a 'I haven't got a fucking clue what they're up to' look and a slight shrug. I saw his eyes shift to something behind me and I looked over my shoulder. I quietly mumbled a frustrated, "not again" before getting up and running over to Letty, picking another fight at the back of the club.

I quickly grabbed her wrist that was up in the air, ready to come flying down on the woman she had in a tight grip under her, desperately trying to pull her off.

"You fucking bitch! You ain't got nothing on me. Stupid ho!" She screamed to the girl, still on the floor in shock. She tried her best to wriggle out of my grip, but Vince had run up next to me and was holding her back as best he could. Letty kept kicking and screaming, swinging her hands around trying to get another hit.

"Letty! Back off." I yelled in her face, trying to get her to calm down. It hadn't worked. She kept kicking and had just missed my leg.

I turned around to the girl she was trying to attack. She had stood up, and was dusting her skirt off, as though nothing had happened; with a cocky smirk on her face. Two other girls had come to stand by her side, they too with the same smirks on their faces.

"What the fuck you smiling at? Fucker. You're gonna get such a bitch slapping!" Letty continued, as Vince tried harder to keep her at bay, having great difficulty.

"Why don't you tell your friends to back off. Come and get it." The girl put her hands on her hips and raised her nose in the air, provoking Letty.

I looked to Vince and smiled. He raised a brow at me before letting Letty go; she dived straight for the girl, punching her straight in the jaw, knocking her to her to the floor again. "Stupid bitch." She spat again, before kicking her once in the waist and turning around, walking straight past us. I quickly followed after her, looking out for Mia and Belinda.

Two security guards approached us, and we both stopped in our tracks. Letty looked up at them and gave them a 'what do you want?' look, putting her hands on her hips and shifting her weight to one leg.

"We're sorry ladies, but we're going to have to ask you to leave."

"Yeah, we were just leaving." Letty said as she pushed past them and headed towards the door. Vince caught up behind us, gesturing that I had better go after Letty, while he looked for Mia and Belinda. I quickly thanked him and ran after Letty again.

I found her in the car park, leaning up against the car, with her arms crossed across her chest, and one leg crossed over the other. She was looking out into the distance with a frustrated look on her face. As I approached her, she looked up at me, sighed and looked down to the floor.

"I was expecting you to drive away."

She shrugged and looked at her feet as she moved them from side to side. I sighed and stood against the car, next to her.

"What happened in there, Let?"

Letty looked up and gave me a side on glance. "She said that her and Dom were together and some shit about how he was gonna leave me. And some other shit like that." She did a small shrug to act as thought she didn't care.

"You know it's not true. Dom would never—"

"Yeah. I know. That's why I punched her." We both smiled and I shook my head slowly.

"Is that what you and Dom were arguing about?"

She paused and then nodded slowly. "I'm so sick of all these girls coming up to me sayin that Dom's theirs. It's all fucking bullshit. And I know it. And he knows it. And everybody fucking knows it, Cass. I'm just so sick of it all! I dunno what it is. Why do they do that? Are they that jealous?" She said with a quiet sigh.

We both stood there for a second, looking at nothing in particular, before Letty burst into laughter. "I can't believe I fucking punched her. Dom is gonna kill me."

I shook my head slowly, "What will I do with you, Let? C'mon, let's go home."

"Yeah. I wasn't having much fun anyways."

Vince had found Mia and Belinda and was walking out with them in tow. "Found 'em" He said with a smirk. Mia had a scowl on her face; as though somebody had just taken candy from a baby, and she was the baby.

"But I don't wanna go. We were just starting to have some fun!"

"Tough. Get in." Letty opened the car door and we all hopped in. Vince went to his car and we followed him home.