Chapter 46
Dominic awoke in a cold sweat and shaking lightly. He ran his hand over his head and turned to look at the clock, it read 4:00 am. He grunted at the fact that he had only slept one hour. He laid back down and played with Letty's hair for awhile, she turned to lay on her tummy. He then started running his fingers from the base of her neck to the small of her back. She turned away from him with a moan, after a few minute she finally woke up. "What the fuck?" she turned to look at Dom. He smile innocently at her, which melted her heart and made her forget she was mad at him for awakening her.
"What's wrong baby?" she asked as she moved to her side. "I couldn't sleep. I was having this nightmare." "About what?" she asked with curiosity. "About my father. He was standing there telling me that he's about to go race and that he hopes to win this one. Then he walks down the track and this car comes out of nowhere and it's coming straight at him. I try to help him but I can't. I can't even talk to him. Then it hits him and that's when I woke up." Letty moved her hand to rub the back of Dom's neck making him relax. "Have you always had nightmares about your dad?" Dom nodded, "Sometimes of my dad, sometimes of prison." he tangled his hands in her hair laying her on her back he rested his head on her stomach.
"Dom what was prison like?" she asked cautiously not wanting to upset him. "It's not a place that I want to return to, it was the worst experience of my life. When I came out I promised myself that I would die before I go back." she ran her fingers up and down his shaved head feeling the growing stubble like small needless.
"You need to shave your head." he chuckled at her comment. "Dominic, what's going to happen with the racing?" he thought about it for a long moment, entertaining himself by circling her bellybutton with the tip of his index finger. "We are going to race." "What do you mean by we?" Letty asked hoping that he would let her. Even if he was against her racing she would still do it. "I mean all of us, you I'm not so sure of, but you've done a lot of life threatening things in your lifetime to not let you race." "Ah yes those where the days. I remember I would get home with scrapped knees or blood coming out of somewhere," Letty chuckled. "You did break your arm when you tried to skateboard down a hill." "Yeah but it was yours and V's idea." Dom looked up at her with a shock expression. "Our idea? I don't think so little girl." "Yes it was. You two decided to bet that I wouldn't do it. So to prove you wrong I did it, which you already knew I would." she accused. "Ok maybe I knew you would, but remember I told you not to." "Whatev' I am getting sleepy" Dom move so his face was up next to hers. "So go to sleep princess." After a few moments she began to doze off. "Dommy?" "Yeah baby?" "Stroke my back." Dominic smiled, he lifted her shirt up and began to make small designs on her bare back.
Later that morning Dominic got up trying hard not to wake Letty up. He took a shower to awaken himself up some more. Then he walked downstairs and began making coffee. Once it was done he served himself a cup and went outside to pick up the newspaper. When he walked back inside he thought about going to the garage which he hadn't done in a long time. He decided to go, he wrote a note to Letty and left.
He slowly opened the car door when he got there looking up at the building brought back memories of better days. He opened up the gates and finally the garage doors, dust filled the air. Everything was left the way it had been before he went to jail. He took a look around noting the changes that would have to be made. He went to the stockroom looking at the parts, some would have to be thrown away because of old age. He went into the office and looked at papers that where left on the desk. Many where old and would not be needed anymore. He sat down on the chair and began to reminisce.
Letty finally woke up and looked over at the empty spot next to her. She took a look at the clock and was shocked when it read 1:00pm. She had practically slept all day, something she had not done in a long time. She quickly got up and noticed that the house was quite. 'Maybe they went out' she thought to herself. She took a quick shower and put on whatever she could find. When she entered the kitchen she saw a note on the counter and read it.
Let,
I went to the garage. I'll be back later but if you need me I have my cell with me.
Love Dom
She put the note back down and heard a knock at the door. She went over to answer, when she opened the door she made a disgusted face. "What do you want?" He smirked, "Now now Leticia is that a way to treat a guest?" she rolled her eyes at him. "Aww you call yourself a guest, but I don't call pigs guest." she smiled innocently. "Where's that boyfriend of yours?" "He's not here, so you can take your Asian ass outta here." "I wouldn't be talking like that if I was you. All alone in your house." he shook his head in disapproval. Letty smiled, "For your information I am not alone the boys are here and need I remind you that I did beat yo ass last night." Johnny growled out in frustration, "Fine tell your boyfriend that I'm looking for him." Johnny walked down the stairs and left.
Letty walked back to the kitchen where Leon and Jesse where coming up the stairs with sleepy eyes. "Hey guys." "Hey." they both said in unison. Jesse sat down on top of the counter while Leon began to pour himself a cup of coffee. "Ah! this is cold." Leon immediately spit the coffee right out. "What'd you think that I'd made you coffee? I don't think so." Letty and Jesse laughed. "Well maybe you could be nice and make some." "I don't drink any. Dom's the one that drinks coffee." Jesse kept laughing and finally stopped when Leon shot him a warning look. "So do you think your boyfriends ok with us staying here? Because he didn't even tell us that we had to pay rent or anything." Letty wrinkled her forehead. "Don't worry," she paused for a moment, "Dom he doesn't like people but he seems to have taken to you. He doesn't mind and don't worry about the rent, he'll probably have you work at the garage and store anyway." Jesse hopped off of the counter and took a look inside the frig frowning at not having found anything good to eat. "So Let do you cook or something?" Jesse asked. "No I don't know how to cook first of all. Secondly I'm not your maid and thirdly I don't know how to cook." "So what are we suppose to eat?" Leon asked making a new pot of coffee. "I donno."
Dominic walked in the back door and saw all the occupants of the house sitting around the kitchen. "What's going on?" he asked as he walked over to Letty and gave her a kiss on the top of her head. "Nothing we where just trying to get Let here to cook something for us." Leon responded with a smirked and Dom laughed. "Yeah right, unless you want to die soon you can try her food." Letty slapped Dom's arm glaring at him. "Why don't you shut that big mouth of yours and make something to eat, 'cause apparently you're the only one in this house who actually knows how to cook." Dominic raised his eyebrow at her. "I don't think so I've got other things to do. Actually why don't we just go out to eat then we can go to the garage to do inventory." "Inventory?" Letty asked. "Did I stutter? we gotta get the garage up and running again. Oh and we can talk about how we are going to work this racing thing out." They all agreed on a restaurant and headed there.
After they where seated they all looked over the menu and ordered. "Um Dom, Johnny came by the house when you weren't there, said to tell you that he is looking for you." Dominic looked over at Letty wondering what exactly Johnny was up to. "Did he say what he wanted?" "Nah." Jesse didn't really want to talk about Johnny and all that at the moment he was more interested in the cars and garage. "So when are we going to start working in the garage?" Dom turned to look at Jesse. "First I have to get some parts and clean out the garage. I need to figure out the paperwork, but I think we can start next week. I was thinking that we could go over to Racer's Edge and take a look around." "Cool. When are we going?" Jesse asked with excitement. Leon saw the excitement in his eyes and was glad that his best friend was finally happy. He was also glad that they now had a place to live and a family.
"Dom what are we going to do about Coney?" Letty was worried about her little sister. She wondered what they where doing to her. She knew Johnny didn't care for people unless it was worth it to him. Coney was just a young girl which Johnny wouldn't find her worth his time.
"I don't know but if he doesn't agree with the plan I'll take matters into my own hands."