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In the morning when I woke up the sun was out, it looks like it's gonna be a hot day. I think I'll wear some shorts and a muscle shirt that use to be my brothers. I kind got used to my parents always giving me my brothers and sisters clothing, but I think I prefer my brothers clothing over my sisters. She wears sluttish clothes all the time.
I walk downstairs and the house is empty, then I heard sounds coming from the garage. It's my dad he is working on the car. My dad taught me to fix cars up. I became interested in them and helped out as much as I could. Meanwhile my mom wants me to be a girly girl, but that's not for me. I can't stand wearing dresses and doing my hair all nice and neat, I'm just not that kind of girl. Anyway if I do wear dresses or do my hair by the end of the day I will be all messy.
"Good morning mija, how are you doing?" my dad said looking up as I walked in. "Hey dad, I'm fine. Why didn't you go to work this morning?" He usually went to work early. "I don't start until later today. Leticia hand me that wrench." He points to a wrench on the floor. I walk towards the wrench, pick it up and give it to my father. He is under the car now. "You want to help me fix up the car?" Do I want to help? You don't even have to ask. I am interrupted from my thoughts when I here someone calling my name.
"Letty, come and play!" Mia is shouting from across the street, she looks funny as she waves her hands and yells. Then a car drives up our driveway, which is weird cause I don't recognize the car at all. A women that I have never seen before steps out of the car.
"Humberto?" she calls for my father in a high pitch tone. "Yes" he gets up from under the car and goes towards the women. "We need to talk, alone" she looks over at me and I glare at her. There something about her that I don't like. "Why don't you go play with your new friends Leticia." I look at my father and nod my head, but I would rather know what she wants. I start walking across the street and go to where Mia is standing at.
"Hey Letty. Who's the women?" Mia asked looking across the street. "I have no idea, I've never seen her in my life." I roll my eyes as I see them walk into the house. "Oh. You want to come in and play, the boys are at my dads garage so they wont bother us." she says enthusiastically. I guess she doesn't get along with the boys. I was actually hoping to see them. They seem to be very cool.
"What do you want to play?" I ask and quickly add, "No playing with dolls!" she laughs, "Don't worry, I've seen the way you play with dolls its not even funny" she's being sarcastic. I roll my eyes at her and she starts to giggle. "Whatever. Lets go do something outside or something."
We hear a car, it's Mia's dad.
"Hi dad, where are Vince and Dom?" she asks as she walks over to him. "Hi sweetheart, hi Letty. I left the boys at the garage." he puts the mail down on the table. "Hi, Mr. Toretto" I say with a smile. I like him, he is nice and kinda reminds me of my dad.
"You girls want to come to the garage with me? I bet you'll have more fun." he says with a smile and then winks at Mia. "Ok" I say excitedly. "Yeah sure" Mia says looking at me like I'm crazy.
We get into Mia's dads truck and go over to the garage. We get there and go to where the boys are at.
"Hi, Mia" Vince says looking at Mia. I think he likes her, but I'm not sure. "Hi, Vince" her face turns to a look of "Oh it's you again" Then he turns and looks at me. "Hey Letty, how you doing?" "Hi Vince, I'm doing good. You?" "Just great" he smiles and stretches his arms.
Dom seems to still be mad at me for beating him on Nintendo. Cause he just ignores me completely.
We follow Mr. Toretto to a car. He tries to explain what the car does and how to change the oil. I already know these things, my dad taught me. "You want to give it a try? Mia" he tries to hand her a tool. "A try at what?! You know that I don't fix cars. I am a girl, dad." with that Mia walks off into the office. I decide to stay out here with the guys.
"How about you Letty?" Mr. Toretto looked at me. "She should probably go inside with Mia. She might break a nail." Dom interrupts walking over to them. I barely know him and he already gets on my nerves, it's like he wants to make me mad.
"I already know how to change the oil from a car." In a matter-of-fact tone and of course I was proud of what I knew. "Who taught you?" Dom asked looking at me. "My dad." I say raising my eyebrow at him. Who does he think he is? Trying to act all tough and shit. "Then why don't you change the oil?" he challenges me, but he doesn't know that I love a good challenge. "Ok" Mr. Toretto hands me the tools as I need them. I finally finish and get out from under the car. I can see Dom walking towards me.
"You done?" he asks in his all knowing tone, which makes me wanna laugh, but I don't. "Yes I am." I say proudly, yes I'm proud so what. "Let me check and see how you left it." Dom starts to check that I have changed the oil the right way. I can tell just by looking at his face that he is impressed. "You did a good job." he says almost cringing and walking away.
Vince looks at me and waits for Dom to walk away. "Wow, you left him impressed. Which is rare for a girl to leave him impressed." he grind from ear to ear. "Yeah, but he does not like me." I looked down, "Yeah he does, he is just mad that you beat him at Nintendo, don't worry he will soon get over it. Especially now that he has found a girl who likes cars." Vince says with a smile.
I look at him and smile back. Then I head to where Mr. Toretto is standing at. Mia walks out to her dad.
"Dad, I just arranged your desk. It was a mess, I cannot believe that you don't clean after yourself." Mia looks at me and rolls her eyes, I cant help but laugh. "Mia, honey you know that I get busy with work." Mr. Toretto strokes Mia's hair back. "Yeah dad, I know."
Vince and Dom are walking towards us. "I am going to take Letty away from you" Dom looks at me and grabs my elbow and drags me to a car.
"So what do you want?" I ask looking at him curiously. "I want you to help me fix this car up. I think maybe we can become good friends." Dom smiles at me once more, then he lifts the hood of the Mitsubishi Eclipse. I walk over to stand next to him. "What's the problem?" I ask looking inside at the engine. "The piston rods have to be replaced. You know how to do that right?" Dom looks over at me. "I know what it is, but I don't exactly know how to change them. Maybe you can show me?" I ask raising my eyebrow at him and he looks at me rolling his eyes. "Yeah, I'll show you." He goes to get tools that we need and then returns.
"Ok lets start." He begins to teach me. He tells me the name of the tools that we will be using in fixing the problem. He points to the parts and gives me the name of the parts. He shows me how to tell if something is good or bad. The time goes by fast, cause next thing I know Mia is telling us that it's time to close the garage and go home. We help Mr. Toretto close the garage and get in the car with him. We arrived at their house and we all get out. I look over at my house and see a car parked in the driveway. I don't recognize it at first and slowly I start to remember that it is my uncles car.
"Hey you want to stay for dinner?" Mia asks me, I look at her. I would love to stay, but I wonder what is going on at home. "I think I better go home." I say a little worried. "Ok. Is everything ok? You look nervous or something." Mia says looking at me with concern. "Yeah I am fine. I'll see you tomorrow." I start walking down the driveway and cross the street.
I arrive at my house and open the door. I can hear my mother crying in the kitchen and someone trying to calm her down, it's a male voice probably my uncle. I stay in the living room to hear what they are saying.
"Stop crying, he is not worth it."
"I…I cant believe he would…do something like that," she cries, "Why?!"
"He is a bastard you already now that."
I walk into the kitchen this time wanting to know about who they are talking about.
"What is going on? Mama why are you crying?" She looks at me and I can see her make-up all over her face. Her eyes are red from crying.
"Mija, why don't you go to your room. Your mom and I need to talk, ok." My uncle gives me a kiss on my forehead and I go upstairs to my room. I still wonder who they are talking about. Who is the bastard and what did he do to make mama cry like that. I look out the window and see my dad getting out of his car. He opens the door and I run toward the hallway. I can hear my mama screaming at him. I watch from the top of the stairs as my mama hits my dad. He is trying to hold on to her, my uncle finally grabs her.
"Me voy!" I am leaving My mom says to my father. "No! por favor no te vallas." Please don't leave My dad pleads with my mom, but my mom comes upstairs and she looks at me before she goes into her room. I stand there watching my dad try to stop her. She comes out with her luggage. "Me voy. Nunca quiero a volver a saber de ti. Te dejo a Leticia, pero me llevo a los de mas." I am leaving. I never want to hear from you again. I leave Leticia in your care, but I am taking the rest of the kids
My dad stopped fighting my mom. Now it was me who was fighting with her. "No mama don't leave me!" I yell and cry grabbing onto her leg as tight as I can, "Take me with you! I am sorry if I did anything to make you want to leave. Please don't leave me!" I felt my small body being lifted up and then I watched as she walks out the door with my uncle behind her. I kick and scream, but my dad never lets me go. When he finally lets me go I ran outside, but the car was gone. I fell to my knees and cried some more. My dad picks me up and takes me inside. He carries me to my room and lays me in bed. He kissed my forehead and leaves the room closing the door behind him. I look at the shadows dancing around the room. I promise myself that I will never let anyone get close to me and that I will never shed a tear for anyone. It seems to me that the ones you love are the ones that hurt you more. I slowly drift off to sleep.