Previously...

Letty's Pov

Mr T poked his head out of the office and smiled at us two before frowning "It's good to see you two laughing but do you know where the boys are?"

"At Taylah's house." We both answered in the same mocking, sing-song voice sharing a look

"That's the third time this week." Mr T frowned

"We know." I grumbled peering back under the hood of the car completely missing the look father and daughter shared at my answer


Ages: Letty 15, Dom 15, Vince 15, Mia 13.

Letty's Pov

Mia and I were both on our periods, difference between us two though was you could never tell when I was but Mia made it painfully obvious. Another difference between us was I couldn't even handle talking about that kind of stuff with anyone whereas she didn't mind talking to anyone about it, Mr T, Dom or Vince. It just made me embarrassed.

"Letty!" Mia yelled and I winced, knowing exactly what she wanted "Can you go get me some pads and tampons from the store? I'm almost out."

"But I have to go to work!" I yelled back looking at the time. The garage was swamped again and Mr T was on light duties because of a strained back injury so he was staying home today to rest it.

"AND I HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL!" She yelled back

I sighed and walked away from the good looking breakfast on the table, snagging a piece of bacon to keep me slightly satisfied.

"Letty I'll go get her stuff." Mr T said

"No." I replied "You have a back injury, you need to rest."

He laughed at me "I'm sore Letty, not a cripple. Plus you need to get down to the garage you are the only one there today."

"What happened to the rest of the others?" I queried feeling stress setting in

"All sick or looking after their families who are sick." Mr T answered snagging his car keys "I'll give you a lift halfway to the shops and you can walk the rest of the way."

I nodded, diving beat walking by a mile.

"You know if you are so swamped… we could take the day off school and help Let out." Dom asked with a small grin on his and Vince's face at the thought of getting out of school

"Absolutely not." Mr T shook his head. If it was one thing he was passionate about it was his kid's education, he wouldn't have them missing a day of school unless they were dead or dying.

"But-." Vince tried

"No buts, Letty is capable of running the garage by herself for a day and plus you both have school, you know how I feel about you guys having not needed days off." He said crossing his arms, showing that his conversation was done.

"I don't see how you can let Letty drop out but you won't let us, you favour her more because she is a girl." Vince snapped irritably

"I don't favour her," Mr T said quietly "She isn't my daughter by blood and I don't have proper guardianship of her, I have no authority over her choices but she still chose to honour my word and did what I asked her to do so I could give her a full time job at the garage."

I felt myself wince and look away, since I had moved in and become part of the Toretto family it had been a sort of not talked about area of my moving in. It wasn't that I was ripping them off or trying to… it was more that I didn't want to create friction in a family's house that wasn't my own, nor the person looking after me.

"Letty has her GED and passed them with flying colours, neither of you have yours and I don't want you to get them because I highly doubt at the moment you could pass them as well as Letty did." Mr T frowned "Now I have to go get some stuff for your sister, please catch the bus on time and have a good day boys."

I didn't look up as they walked out the door and I winced "I'm sorry I'm causing so much trouble for you."

"You aren't," Mr T frowned "They are, you have done everything I have asked of you and they have done next to nothing for me to show they are ready to leave school. You are just a different type of person Letty… I can trust you to run my garage because you are mature and have a high school education, they don't. They are my sons but I'll be dammed if I let them run a garage without any forms of high school education or certificate, just because they are my sons doesn't mean they get a free pass."

When I made it to the garage and opened up, beginning to get to work after changing into my coveralls I felt slight content slip over me. That conversation weighed on my mind all day. I realised finally after finishing up on my third car for the day that Mr T was right, I may love Vince and Dom but they weren't mature enough to run a garage just yet and when they were I wouldn't keep that from them. The things that had happened to me from a young age had aged me mentally, I had to deal with adult things when I was young so I was used to responsibility and working hard for what you want, they weren't.

"Knock Knock!" I heard Vince yell right next to where I was under my fourth… fifth car, causing me to jolt up right and bang my head on the belly of the car

"Mother fucker." I growled rolling out from under it rubbing my head "What the hell do you guys want?"

"School's over chickie," Dom grinned, happy to be out I could tell "Come over to give you a hand, what do you need help with?"

"Uhh." I mumbled as my stomach fluttered strangely at Dom's cheeky grin before I snapped myself out of my staring "The uhh, umm, the," I cleared my throat "I need the Honda and Dodge done by this afternoon, the cards are already on them with notes that I did up this morning."

They nodded and wandered over to the cars they wanted and began working, the usual sounds of clanging filling the garage. I lost myself in my work again, bolting and unbolting, removing and washing, I just lapped it all up. It was a while later that I tensed at the feel of a warm hand resting on my back gently and bit back a groan of pleasure at the warmth radiating though my skin and into my slightly cramping muscles. I stood up straight and felt myself flush cherry red at my thoughts and Dom giving me a confused look, I just felt myself flush a deeper red.

"What?" I snapped moving away from Dom slightly to give myself a little more room to breathe… and keep my thoughts under control

"I was just gonna ask you if you wanted to come home? It's past six and dad's giving us a lift home." He answered looking at me worriedly "You okay you look a little feverish."

I felt myself go wild at his words, wouldn't you like to know, my thoughts teased me before I cleared my throat.

"Yeah, give me two minutes and I'll meet you out at the car." I nodded before shutting the hood of the car

I walked back into the locker room and stripped out of my coveralls hanging them up deciding that they could do one more day before they needed a wash. I sat briefly hanging my head in my hands, what was happening to me? You're growing up, chicka a voice inside me whispered, I sighed, I had always liked Dom but lately… it had grown and I didn't like everything he was awakening within me. I felt out of control, since I met him I had harboured a kind of brotherly love/awe of his family and his knowledge of cars but now… I liked him. Every time he mentioned Taylah I felt white hot anger shoot though my veins jealously was a disease and it had spread to me and was now festering away at me. There was no two ways about it, I had it for him and I had it bad. Walking out of the garage pulling the roller door down before I locked I felt the eyes of the three males on me, did I have blood on my pants or something? Turning around I walked towards the car and slipped into the back next to Vince, Mr T pulled out of the driveway and headed back towards home without a word. The car was eerily quiet, the time usually filled with playful banter.

"You get many cars done today Letty?" Mr T asked looking at me through the rear view mirror

"I got…" I paused trying to think how many I got done "I think about seven or eight, Dom and Vince did two between the two of them after school."

Mr T gave me a surprised look "That many?"

I nodded in response

"We only had five in, did you open up shop in the front?"

I nodded "I figured if I'm in there working might as open up the front as well, can't hurt to be over full then empty."

The conversation went dead and we sat in silence which wasn't too long because the garage was only a few minutes from the house. All of us got out and walked up the steps to see the house lit up, bleeding yellow light onto the footpath. We heard music inside and all shared an amused chuckle, Mia had the oddest taste in music, she liked country. I looked down the street at my old house out of habit but was surprised when I saw that it had a few lights going in it as well, but only a few. Maybe the living room and kitchen, looks like my mother had come back after a year only God knows where doing God knows what. I didn't say anything to Tony, he had a lot on his mind already and I doubted she was going approach me anyway. I suspected that she didn't know where I was living now anyway; I didn't think that she had known Mr Toretto before she left.

"You alright?" I heard a voice behind me rumble out, surprising me

I looked back to see Dom watching me carefully, looking down the street trying to see what I was looking at until his eyes landed on my house. I saw his jaw tick and his eyes narrow, he didn't look impressed. Nodding I didn't say anything, my thoughts were all over the place, while one half of me was trying to trick myself into thinking that I didn't care the other half was going insane in fear, anger but most of all curiosity. I had heard a story of cops going to domestic where a husband was beating his wife but the minute the cops had tried to restrain the man the woman went insane, beating the cops. I had initially when I heard them thought the woman was weak, wanting to stay with that when she was getting beat up but now that I was older… I understood. A small part of me was trying persuade me to go see what was happening, to go back, to go home, to everything that I had known. Back to my only family that was left.

"You better not be thinking about going back there, Let." Dom said, his eyes burning with emotion that I didn't quite understand

I shrugged, too confused by my own thoughts to answer him. A part of me did want to go back though... she was my mother after all. She might have changed; she might have finally gone sober and clean, given up everything and been coming back to start a life, a real life with me. I stopped right there, logic kicking in, why the fuck would she care about me now after everything she had put me through? I answered my own question in two words without really needing to think about it, she wouldn't. She wouldn't care about me now; she hadn't given two shits about me since my father had died. I felt tears welling in my eyes before I couldn't stop them slipping down my cheeks.

I let out a hysterical laugh before I joked to a shocked looking Dom "Fucking PMS."

"Got that damn straight," He laughed with me finally, wrapping a warm arm around my shoulders "You women are crazy."

We finally began walking back up to the house, now on the porch. I went to open the door when Dom reached around me and held it closed, I thought for one wild second that he might have been about to kiss me as I turned around to face him.

"If you need anything Letty you just need to let me know, alright." He said quietly, giving me that look again that I couldn't quite understand "Don't you hesitate, you hear me?"

I nodded "You got it." I rasped out before we walked inside, not noticing the single figure standing up the street watching Dom and I from the darkness…


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