Chapter 54
Mia and Dominic finally arrived at LAX. She was so happy to be back home, even happier when she saw her two friends waiting for them. She saw Letty and immediately both of them ran for each other. They held on tightly to one another and enjoyed the moment together.
"I missed you." They said in unison making them laugh. "Look at you. You're so beautiful." Mia looked at Letty and couldn't believe how much she had grown up. "You are too." Letty responded with the same shock.
"Aight you two can get all girly at home. Now it's my turn." Vince said loving what he saw. He never thought that little Mia would grow up to be such a beautiful woman. He also didn't think he could feel this way about her. The two hugged each other for a moment to long for Dom's liking. "Aight you can stop hugging now." The two pulled away from each other.
"Mia this are Leon and Jesse, guys Dom's sister Mia." Letty introduced. They greeted each other and finally went home.
Mia was glad to see her old home, everything seemed to look exactly the same. A lot of memories flooded back into her mind. She headed to her room and was happy to find out that nothing had been moved. She was now happy to be back home and she was right Vince did look good.
As the years went by the team became closer. They had each others backs for everything, no matter what.
Dominic started struggling with the garage and shop. The money he was making off of racing was no longer going into the cars but to pay bills. Racing was becoming more competitive and he needed cash for better and more high tech equipment.
Vince was the only other one who knew what was going on. One day as Dom and he where driving on the highway Vince got a brilliant idea according to him.
"Yo brotha, how much merchandise do you think those semis carry?" Dominic looked up at the semi on the next lane. "I don't know. Why you ask?" Vince shook is head and thought about it for a moment. Dominic looked at his friend trying to decided where he was going with this. "Imagine one of those truck carrying electronic merchandise, DVD's, Stereos you name it. I bet you could sell that and get a lot out of it." "But how would you get it? Go to a Best Buy and steal the crap out of the store?" Vince shook his head. "Nah man, hijack the truck itself." Dominic laughed. "You gotta be crazy. How would you do that man? Have you been smoking something?" Vince kept staring at the semi for a while longer thinking about it. He needed a plan.
They arrived at the house where Jesse, Leon, and Letty where busy playing video games. Mia was in the kitchen cooking dinner. Vince sat down next to Jesse on the couch.
"Yo Jesse do me a favor." Jesse looked at Vince. "Anything V man." Dominic looked at Vince and sat down to hear what exactly he wanted. "I want you to find out how much merchandise a semi-truck that delivers stuff to Best Buy carries and find out about how much money it's worth in there." "Ok man." Jesse got up and headed to his room to get his laptop.
Letty looked up from the floor and looked at Vince. "Why do you want to know that for?" Vince and Dom both looked at her. "Because I have a plan to make us rich." Letty and Leon quickly became interested and forgot about the game. "What do you mean pumpkin?" Leon asked. "If we jack the semi-trucks we can make big money. We split the money between us." Dominic wasn't so sure about this idea. "How would we do it?" Vince looked at his best friend. "I haven't figured that out yet, but maybe Jess can help."
Mia entered the room and looked at the group weirdly. "Um…what's going on?" Dominic looked up at her, he didn't want her to find out about anything yet. He might not go through with Vince's idea. "Nothing Mi." "Ok well dinner's ready." she walked back into the kitchen. Everyone got up and Jesse walked in "I got the information for you." "Ok Jesse will talk about it later." Vince informed him.
They ate in silence which was unusual for the team, someone was always talking. But tonight they where thinking about what was said. Yeah it was stupid and they knew that Dom didn't want to go back to jail, he already had cops up is ass for street racing and they all knew who he was. Yet the money sounded good to their ears and a list of what they would do with it ran through their minds.
Days later after Vince had thought about it many times and with Jesse's help he had a plan. He walked into the house with Jesse right behind him looking for Dominic. They spotted Letty and Mia sitting on the couch watching TV.
"Yo Let where's Dominic at?" Vince asked from the doorway. "Upstairs in our room." Vince and Jesse headed up a few steps before Letty's voice stopped them. "Careful his in one of his moods." Vince sighed and kept going up the stairs with Jesse behind him. They came to the room at the end of the hallway and knocked at the door. "What?" they heard Dom asked in frustration. "Can we come in." They heard footsteps and then the door opened. "What?" Dom asked once more. "We need to talk to you." Vince explained. Dominic let the two guys walk in, even though he didn't allow anyone into his room not even Mia. Vince and Jesse eyes became wide as they saw the mess in the room, it was as if a tornado ripped through the room and left clothes and the bed sheets everywhere. Clothes hug from drawers, a mirror and you could hardly see the wooden floor.
"Ok so what is this about?" Dom asked a little more calm. "Well remember that truck idea I had?" Dominic looked up at his friend. "You've got to be kidding me. Is this why you came up here for. Look Vince lets get one thing straight, I am not going back to jail you got that." Vince rolled his eyes. "I know that Dom and it's not going to happen. We have planed it all out. Trust me." Dominic sighted and sat next Jesse on the bed. "Ok what do you have?"
"Well, we could hijack the trucks while they are on their way to deliver the merchandise to the store. We can do it in the early hours of the day, meaning midnight or 1 in the morning. We get a couple of cars, all black with very dark tinted windows and a sunroof. Someone will drive one of the cars like lets say Leon. He drives while I get out through the sunroof and with a spear gun I shoot it at the windshield. Leon drives fast in the process pulling out the windshield. Now you drive the other car and you get in front of the semi. Vince comes out through the sunroof and then with another spear gun shoots it into the passenger seat and hooks the wire to his waist. He then jumps onto the front of the semi and gets in through the window. With a tranquilizer gun he shoots the driver and takes over the truck. Now there is a place right outside of Coachella where we can park the cars. The merchandise can be unloaded there and then sold or whatever. I found someone on the inside who can give us information on when a truck is leaving and heading our way. But he wants half of the profit." Jesse explains to Dominic.
"But there is something else." Vince says looking at Dominic with uneasiness. "What is that?" Dom asks. "Um…well we need Leon to keep on those scanners and tell us if we're ok. That means that he wouldn't be able to drive Jesse." Dominic irrupted Vince. "So then what?" "Well we where thinking Letty." Dominic quickly looked at Vince with wide eyes. "Absolutely not!" Dom bellowed. "Come on Dominic you know she can do it! The girl has always put her life on the line. This will be nothing!" Vince tried to convince Dom to let her go. "No! That's final. I am not going to put the life of the love of my life in danger for a couple of dollars." "Actually it could come to millions if we do it right." Jesse interrupted. Dominic thought about it, a million dollars did sound nice especially if it meant that he could pay of the bills and get out of debt. Yet putting Letty's life on the line wasn't so appealing and knowing her, she would want a part in it. "My answer is still no!" "Fine will just talk to Let then." With that Vince walked out the door and down the stairs. Dominic turned and noticed Vince was gone and went after him.
Vince was already explaining everything to Letty and unfortunately Mia was looking at Vince with horror when Dom walked downstairs. He sat down and glared at his friends back.
"So what do you say Letty? You in or out?" Vince asked looking over at Dom. She eyed Vince and then Dominic wondering what was going on with the two of them. "Yeah I'll do it." Dominic quickly stood up, "No you're not!" "It's to dangers for all of you." Mia added. "What do you mean no!?" Letty completely ignored Mia and went straight to Dom. "I mean no as in you're not doing it! I don't want to hear anymore!" With that Dominic headed upstairs Letty glared at Dom's retreating form. Mia then grabbed her car keys and left out the other door mad at them all. Letty decided to go argue with Dom and headed upstairs. Vince left the house as well and Jesse just sat there listening to the couple upstairs screaming at each other.
Letty walked into the room she share with Dom. She found him sitting on the bed.
"Don't start." He said discontent. She walked into the room closing the door behind her and walking over to him. "You cannot make decisions for me. I am not a little girl." Dominic looked up at her "Believe me I know you're not a little girl, but this is too dangerous for you to do. You can get killed and I don't want anything happening to you." Letty rolled her eyes at him. "But it's ok for you to go out there and put your life in danger? Yet I can't?" He stood up towering over her and took hold of her shoulders. "Letty this is a mans job! Lets leave it at that!" Letty couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Excuse me! But since when have I ever been girly. I have put my life in danger more times in my life time then you have in yours. And what now your becoming sexist or something!" Dominic sighed in frustration. "You need to shut the f up Leticia your not going and that's final!" he shouted at her, but he only fueled the fire even more. She slapped him hard on the cheek. "I'm not one of your stupid skanks that you can tell what to do!" Letty retorted. "Well maybe I'm dating the wrong person!" Dominic yelled back at her, but regretted when he saw the hurt in her eyes. "Fine it's over feel free to go get yourself someone who will obey your every wish!" she retorted. "Fine!" "Fine!" they yelled at each other. Dominic grabbed his jacket and headed out the door slamming it. Letty sat down on the bed and heard the squeal of the car head off down the street.
Then realization hit her hard and tears poured down her caramel cheeks. She had just broken up with the only man she ever loved. Knowing him he would probably end up in some skanks bed tonight. He had never actually cheated on her, but he flirted enough to make her think that he had.