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LETTY'S POV
The walk over to mi abuela's house was silent. We had just meet and the was nothing I felt
I could use to start a conversation with him.
Half way there he began talking "So you like cars huh?
"That surprises you?"
"Yea. I never met a girl who did, other than my mom"
"Yea sorry about your loss"
"Mia told you huh?
"Not what happened but that she died last year"
"Yea, do me a favor, if your going to be staying here can you keep an eye out for her"
"Yea sure"
Before I could say anything else, we where there and he was knocking on the door.
The door opened.
"Hey Mrs. Ortiz" Dominic said
"Hello Dominic" she then turned to me "Leticia Maria Ortiz!"
I shivered at her addressing me by my entire name.
Dominic chuckled "Your name is Leticia?"
I shoved him.
I looked at her "Thanks" I said sarcastically
"Yea well I got to go, see you tomorrow. Goodnight." Dom left
"Goodnight" I called out
She helped me inside.
"Nice place"
"It was your dad's"
"Was?"
"Well after running with the wrong crowd and beginning in an out of jail, someone had to take care of this place"
"You seen him lately?"
"Have you?"
My answer was no.
"Ustedes saben qué voy a preguntar (you know I'm going to ask)"
"Why I'm here or why I left?"
"Ambos (both)"
"Well for starters, I was expelled from school"
"¿Por qué? (why?)"
"I just had to leave okay"
"How's your brother and sister?"
"Better than I was"
"And your mother?"
"Happy with being Paco's bitch" I smiled
"Typical Maria. I talked to her mother. She said she washed her hands clean of that mess"
"She did" I yawned
"You should get some sleep, we got to enroll you in school"
"So I can stay?"
"Yea" she said walking up the stairs
"Why?" I followed
"Time for us to break the cycle. Your room is the first one on the right. Goodnight"
"Goodnight"
The room was perfect. My own bed, my own room. I felt guilty thinking about the life I had left for Raul and Selena, but they were better off without me. I was the trouble maker, the one who always messed up, the one who never quite fit in or accepted things for the way they are.
The next morning, I opened my eyes and almost forgot where I was. I crawled out of bed and walked downstairs to find a breakfast feast prepared and laid out for me.
"Is all this for me?" I wondered
"Well who else is here?" she laughed
Good point.
"So I made an appointment with the principle, for ten o'clock this morning" she continued
"Cool"
"If all goes well, you'll be enrolled"
"If?"
"Yea, he told me the reason for your expulsion"
"Oh yea, what did he say?"
"Does it matter? You know, I know and the principles had quite an interesting discussion about it"
"So I guess I we'll have to try a different school"
She shrugged and picked up her coffee mug to take a sip "Let me let you in on a little
Secret.' She leaned in closer "His wife, sucks at playing bingo"
At first I didn't know what she was talking about. How did bingo relate to me getting enrolled into school? Then it hit me, my soon to be principle's wife plays bingo with my grandmother. How could they not be friends, anyone who has ever met her loved her instantly, even my mom at some point loved her. "So I'm getting in"
She got up "hurry up with breakfast, later I'm taking you shopping for your first day of
school tomorrow"
I smiled from ear to ear and watched her leave the room
There were few times in my life when I actually felt loved, one my brother and sister, anyone by my father and now by my grandmother.
After she met with the principle we went shopping.
Hours later we came out of our last store exhausted
"You hungry?" she said as we walked past a diner
"Yea"
We decided go inside. The hostess showed us to our tables and we sat down
"Have you spoken to your mother?"
"She hasn't called"
"So?"
"So I haven't spoken to her"
"Your going to have to face your demons eventually Leticia"
"I have no demons"
"Yes you do, we all do"
The waitress came to our table. "Hi, my name is Amy. Can I take your order"
"Yea, I'll have an apple pie" I told her
"A whole one?" she questioned
I could see that Amy was shocked but kept writing as I told her the rest of my order.
"Lots of whipped cream and a strawberry lemonade"
"Will that be all?" Amy asked
I said "yes" then she turned to my grandmother who couldn't stop laughing said "I'll have the same"
We ate the pies and sat back after being so stuffed. Amy then dropped off the bill.
As Amy left my grandmother left a $50 and said "Ready"
Six years later at the Toretto's household - 1996
"Run idiota!" I screamed at the tv
Mia screamed and hid her face. "Uh Letty why do we have to watch this!"
"Shh its almost to the good part"
Tony and Dom sat in the couch laughing at our reactions.
"How could two people who are as different as night and day be best friends?" Dom asked
"Simple just look at you and Vince" I remarked
Dom and Tony looked at Vince sweating bullets as he watched the movie.
"You okay Vince" Dom asked laughing
"I'm fine dawg" replied trying to look away from the tv
"You don't look fine" Tony added
"Look, its hot in here okay!" he shouted, got up and went into the kitchen
I laughed at him
The doorbell rang.
Dom was about to get it but Tony patted his shoulder and said "I got it."
Tony opened the door and I could here my abuela and another woman speaking spanish.
"¿Donde estás ella? (where is she)" the voice asked
Were they talking about me? I wondered
"Suzie, what's wrong?" Tony asked
"Hey Tony, Letty home?" my grandmother asked
"Yea" Tony replied
The woman pushed her way past Tony into the living room where we sat and watched the movie.
"Leticia" the woman said
I looked at her. I couldn't believe who it was.
"Who is this?" Tony asked
"She was my daughter-in-law" my grandmother answered
Dom stood up "Wait, wait, wait! If she was your daughter-in-law that makes her..."
"Letty's mom" Mia added
Tony looked to Suzie for confirmation and Suzie nodded her head
"Vamos Letty, Vamos a volver a casa (come on Letty, let's go home)" Maria said to me
There was so many questions thrown into the air. Everyone had them and wasn't shy
about asking them either.
"What is she doing here?" Tony asked
"Why is she here?" Dom asked
"Is Letty leaving?" Mia asked
"Vamos Leticia (Come on Leticia)" Maria kept saying
Throughout all the chaos I managed to speak up. I stood up and started yelling "Who the hell do you think you are!"
The room got silent
"Your mother!" Maria challenged
"Oh that's funny cause I haven't seem or heard from you in over 5 years!" I shouted
"Girl I don't know what these people have been teaching you but you do not talk to me that way! Now get your things!"
"No!"
"Get your things!" she pulled my wrist
"Fuck you!" I screamed at her
"¿Lo que dices me? (what did you say to me?)"
"FUCK-YOU!"
Maria slapped me across my face
Tony flinch but mi abuela put her hand out in front of him, directing him to stay back and
do nothing
Dom flinched too but looked at Tony as he told him the same
I couldn't believe she hit me, after all this time. All those years of being angry and hating her. I slapped her back. She couldn't believe it. Before I knew it, she had jumped on top of me and started hitting me, I rolled her over then started hitting her.
I felt someone pulling me.
When they finally managed to pull me off of her I cold see Tony holding Maria back and
Dom holding me back.
"Suficiente! (enough)" my grandmother exclaimed
"Dom, take her to the garage" Tony threw his keys for Dom to catch. He caught it, picked me up with a tighter grip and took me outside. I was struggling in his grasp.
Once we got to the car he opened the door and buckled me in then closed it and walked around the other side to the driver's seat.
The ride was silent. I mostly held my head down in fear of seeing the after effect of the fight. We got Toretto's and before the car could come to a complete stop I opened the door and got out. Dom braked.
"Are you crazy!" he yelled at me, as he got out the car and slammed the door. I turned around to look at him.
"Jesus Letty" he walked up beside me and rubbed my cheek with his hand. "Your lip is bleeding, come on" he held my hand
I followed him inside the garage. Walking into Tony's office I was instructed to sit as Dom fetched some ice from the freezer
"You took quite a hit there" he said rested the ice against my lip
I took it from him "After all these years..." I took a deep breath
"At least you had a chance to get some of that built up anger out"
"I'm not angry"
"Oh yea? Could of fooled me"
"Hm"
"When was the last time you seen your dad?"
"Uh, I can barely remember"
He got up and walked to the door then stopped and looked at me "You should see him, in jail I mean. Get some rest alright" he said before closing the door
I stayed up the entire night thinking about what Dom had said.
I walked around the garage until I found him.
I spotted him covered with a blanket sleeping on a couch around the corner "Hey Dom" I whispered and tapped on his arm
"Yea?" he said barely awake then opened his eyes "Letty what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just couldn't sleep that's all"
He moved the blanket "Come on" he said sliding over to make room for me
I went under the blanket and laid next to him
He started to fall back asleep
"You really think I should go see him?"
"Yea" he mumbled
"Come with me?"
He looked at me "Letty, don't you think Mia should go with you?"
"You know how Mia gets, all emotional and shit"
"what about your grandmother?"
"Has enough to worry about. And your dad too. If you don't want to go..."
"I'll go, lets just get some sleep first"
The next morning Dom's phone kept ringing.
"Uh" he groaned
"It's you" I said checking my phone
He shifted and found his phone "Yea." he looked at me "She's with me, we spent the night at the garage. Yea, okay. Bye"
"Tony?"
"Yea" he got up "We should head out"
I got up "Sure"
When we got outside, he locked up the garage and we got into the car.
"So when you gunna get your own car?"
"Hopefully in a month"
"What kinda car you getting?"
"Depends"
"On?"
"What car I race"
"Tony's gunna let you race!"
"Well he didn't say that"
"So your sneaking around?"
"He didn't say no" Dom smiled
"But yet again he didn't say yes"
We laughed.
"When's the race?"
"Next Thursday, against some rich kid named Ronnie".
"Good Luck"
He chuckled "Thanks, but it ain't about luck"
"What you racing with?"
"Planning on sneaking one of the cars my dads been working on"
I smiled "And if he catches you?"
He pulled into my grandmothers driveway. "No worries"
"See ya" I said getting out of the car.
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