One month Later

"Oh no! my pants don't fit anymore." she said to herself as she tried hard to button up her jeans. "Will Leticia Rodriguez please come to the main office." The intercom echoed through out the building. She rolled her eyes, 'Great I wonder what happen' she thought. "Hey what did you do?" Alexis entered breathlessly. "Nothing." she finally got the button thorough the hole. "Then why are they calling you?" "I don't know!" Letty said irritated. "Oook, sorry." Alexis turned around ready to head out the door "No wait. I'm sorry I'm just frustrated. Can you please go with me to the office?" Letty grabbed her jacket and put it on. "Yeah sure." The girls walked out the door and headed to the office in silence.

The office was bustling, phones were ringing off the hook. "Can I help you ladies?" one of the secretaries asked. "Yeah I was called to come here." Letty raised her eyebrow. "Your name?" "Leticia Rodriguez." The lady was looking through some papers, "Ah yes, you can wait there," she pointed to some chairs, "the principle wants to talk to you." Letty and Alexis went and sat down.

"What do you think he wants to see you for?" Alexis asked quietly. "I don't know." Alexis looked around the room and then back at Letty, "Maybe it's about all the ditching." Alexis grumbled, Letty turned and looked at her rolling her eyes. "I don't think so."

"Leticia Rodriguez." The principle called out. She got up and walked to the door, "Hi." "Hi." They walked into the office, Letty took a sit and so did the principle. The principle was looking at his computer and finally looked at Letty. "Well I don't suppose you know why you're here right?" "No I don't know why I'm here." Letty responded. "Ok well Ms. Rodriguez your father called this morning. He said that you're going back home, something has happened. He said something about a family emergency. He will be here to pick you up tomorrow morning. You must pack all your belongings, you're not coming back to finish this semester." Letty became daze for a moment a million thoughts running through her mind.

She walked out of the office, Alexis looked at her worried. Letty had become a little pale. "Are you ok? What happened?" Alexis looked at her as she walked by her and out the door. "Hey Letty! Are you ok?" Letty sat on a bench and so did Alexis. "Something bad happened. My dad is going to come pick me up tomorrow." Alexis looked at her a little shocked, "Do you know if your coming back?" Letty shook her head, "No I'm not. Something really bad had to have happen for my dad to come for me." "What if it was you boyfriend?" Letty looked at her for a minute anger washing over her, but then she calmed down, "No. My dad hates him. It has to do with the family."

Letty went back to her room and started to pack her clothing and her stuff. Alexis was helping her out. Both girls had become close friends while there. They both knew that they would miss each other a lot. "Here's my phone number and address." Letty gave a piece of paper to Alexis. "I'm going to miss you so much. Here you go, this is my number and add. Call or visit whenever you want." The girls hugged each other and sat on Letty's bed. "Wow, I can't believe that I'm leaving. At first I didn't want to be here and now I don't want to leave. This has become home to me." Letty said looking around at the room. "At least this way you'll be able to see your boyfriend." Letty couldn't help but smile at the thought that she would get to see Dom and tell him of her little surprise.

Echo Park

Mia finished packing her clothing and necessities. It had been a month since Dom was sentence to jail. Her grandma Georgia had come to stay with her for awhile, but now her grandma had to go back to Montana where she lived. Mia would be going with her and would live there until Dom got out. She wasn't to happy about the move. She sat on her bed and looked around at the room one last time. Vince walked in and saw her, she began to cry.

"Aw, don't cry Mi. Everything will be ok you'll see." Vince tried to comfort her, but it only made her cry harder. "But I don't want to go Vince. I want to stay here, where I grew up." she wailed. Vince hugged Mia and held her for a moment.

"Mia darling it's time to go." grandma Georgia stated. Mia walked down the stairs with Vince behind her. She took one last look around at the house, made sure that the back door was locket and headed out the front door, she locket it. She walked down the stairs to the sidewalk, where a cab was waiting. She looked at Vince and she began to cry. Vince hugged her and a small tear rolled down his cheek. "Bye Vince. Take good care of yourself ok?" Mia smiled at him, "Bye Mia. I will take care of myself, you take care too." Mia got in the cab closing the door behind her. The cab drove off and Vince watched as the cab took a turn. He turned and looked at the white two story house in front of him, he began to walk back to his house leaving behind memories that he would forever remember.

Jesse and Leon

"Are we there yet?" Morgan had to laugh at Jesse's childlike voice. He had been asking the same question every 30 minutes. "No Jess. We still got two more hours." Leon said annoyed. The three where driving thorough the California desert for an hour now and where beginning to get tiered.

Finally after two hours a sign said, "Welcome to Los Angeles" They where finally in the City of Angeles. Morgan drove into downtown and made her way to a motel near Venice. When they arrived they paid for a room and went to it. Jesse ran to the beach followed closely by Leon and Morgan.

"Look at it Le, it's so big!" Jesse said in amazement. He had never seen the ocean in real life. Only in movies, but today his dream had come true. He ran into the water feeling the coolness of the wet sand between his toes. Morgan ran to Jesse and Leon pushed Morgan making her fall into the water. Jesse and Leon started laughing, but Morgan got a hold of their legs and pulled them into the water with her. The group had fun out on the beach for a long while. Near sunset they went in to the motel to take a shower and get dressed.

"Leon maybe we should go see the L.A. scene." Morgan said as she put on the final touches of her make-up. "What about Jess? I am not going to leave him here by himself." Leon looked over at her. "Don't worry we'll take him with us." Leon thought about it for a moment. "Yeah, but his only 14." Morgan rolled her eyes, "Don't worry I got a plan." she gave him a mischievous smile.

Lompoc

He ran his hand over his shaved head. He had been there a month and it was killing him. The first day he got in a fight with some of the prisoners. They where all bigger then him, with large muscles. He was big, but was not that muscular which was a disadvantage. One of the prisoners he had gotten in a fight with threw a hard blow to his face. Leaving Dom with a black eye. He decided that he would start working out everyday lifting weights to gain more muscle. It's not like he had anything else to do.

His grandma Georgia had told him that Mia was going to go live with her in Montana. He wondered how she was doing, how she took the fact that she was no longer going to live in a city with big shopping malls. The town where his grandma lived was a small town in were everyone knows everyone. With no big shopping malls, but small boutiques. 'How I miss you.' he thought to himself as he looked at a picture of his sister and himself at a fair years ago.

"Hey man, what you looking at?" his cellmate Christopher asked. "Um…this is my sister and I when we were younger." Dom handed him the picture. His cellmate was a man in his late 40s, he had been doing 20 years to life for killing a family. He had been driving drunk that night. Chris smiled and handed the picture back to Dom, "You have a love one back home?" Dom downcast his eyes looking at the floor and nodding. "She…I grew up with her. She is 16 right now, but I didn't get to see her the last few months. I don't even think that she knows that I am here. She is everything to me." "You know that if she loves you, when you get out she will still be waiting for you." Dominic had a small sad smile, "Yeah I know she will, but I don't want her to. She is 16 she needs to live her life and go out with other guys." Chris looked up at him and laughed lightly, "You know when I was your age I was just like you. Cocky and stubborn." Dominic looked at him not sure if he should take it as a compliment or an insult. "I had a girl just like you. I knew her since I was 13 and she was 10. I fell in love with her, we became a couple and she gave me a wonderful life. I went to jail when I was 18 and I let her go. Told her that she needed to live her life that she needed to experiment and not wait for me. She waited anyway, but when I got out she had taken my advise and went her own way. I have regretted it everyday of my life." Chris pulled out a picture of a 15 year old girl, with brown hair and blue eyes. "This was my girlfriend." Dominic pulled out a picture of Letty when she was 10 and one of when she was 15. "This is mine." Chris took it and looked at it, "She is beautiful." "Yes she is." Dom said proudly. "Don't let her go." Dom smiled. "Lights out!" The guard shouted. They got in bed, Dom looked up at the ceiling, he had the top bunk. His eyes began to close slowly.