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Chapter 15

"What?" I questioned softly, thinking I had heard him wrong, no I must have heard him wrong.

"Nothing," he tried to brush it off but something told me it was definitely something.

"Saw who?" I asked feeling like I already knew the answer but I needed to hear it, I needed to hear him say it but he sat there not saying a word only making my heart beat faster against my chest. "Saw who, Dominic?"

"Maddie…" he started softly still not meeting my eye.

"No, don't you Maddie me. Who the fuck do you think I saw Dom," I demanded standing up from my spot and losing any control over my temper.

He was silent for a few more seconds before standing up himself, "Carrie."

"That…that's not possible…" I whispered taking a step backwards not wanting to be anywhere near him at the moment.

"After the accident…" Dom tried to explain with a sad look on his face but it only infuriated me more.

"No," I shook my head. I couldn't hear this, it wasn't true, this was all just some horrible nightmare and I was going to wake up any minute.

"She goes by Melanie now," he continued taking a step closer to me but I mirrored his actions taking a step back.

"Stop! I said stop!" I shouted at him before running back towards the house needing to fix the feeling of being all alone.

When I got in I saw Jesse already asleep on the couch and I was usually better at hiding my emotions from the team but apparently tonight I wasn't as I walked in the living room.

"Did Dom find you?" Letty questioned, "He said he wanted to talk to you about something."

"Yeah," I replied my voice cracking a little.

"Are you alright?" Brian asked immediately picking up on the tone of my voice.

The question turned everyone's attention to me as I took a deep breath and shook my head in the negative, "I just want to go to bed."

Leon shared a look of confusion with Vince before getting up and putting his hand gently on my lower back to lead me to our room. When we got there I quickly changed into night clothes and slipped under the covers.

"What happened out on the beach?" Leon asked as he stripped down to his boxers, turned the light off and climbed into bed.

"Just hold me," I whispered hoping that the feeling I got when I was wrapped in his arms would make me forget about everything else.

He moved closer and pulled me so my back was flush against his chest with his arm wrapped around my middle. "God, baby girl, you're shaking."

"I'm fine," I lied and closed my eyes praying for the darkness to take me away.

Carrie's car pulled up next to the Mazda and tried to bump them but they were a second quicker and slammed on the breaks hard causing her to hit the side of my car instead. Another car came out of no where and stopped right in front of Carrie, she swerved the best she could but hit the curb and the speed we were driving at made the car roll several times, one of the times hitting into my own making me hit a tree, hard.

"You…you did this!" Sam's voice screamed at me through the driver's side window that had been smashed. "You killed my sister!"

My head throbbed and I had to fight to stay conscious but I needed to check on Carrie. I stumbled out onto the pavement in time to see her car burst into flames.

"No!" I screamed shooting up in bed and gasping for air.

"Hey, hey, hey," Leon sat up next to me rubbing small circles on my back, "you ok?"

My hand went automatically to the scar on my collar bone that I had gotten in the accident from my seat belt. I never thought it was fair that I walked away with a scar and that Carrie had died but I felt my punishment, my karma, was watching her burn to death in the flames and not being able to do anything about it.

"Nightmare," I mumbled.

"Wanna talk about it?" he offered pushing a piece of hair behind my ear.

"You know, I think I smell Mia's pancakes," I avoided the question and got out of bed to head for the kitchen where she was indeed making breakfast.

I sat down next to a barely awake Vince while Jesse was talking Letty and Brian's ears off about the new engine he wanted to get for the Jetta and what modifications he could do to it. Leon followed me out after throwing on a pair of pants and went directly for the coffee pouring two cups and setting one down in front of me.

"Thanks," I plastered on my fake smile taking the sugar and adding three spoonfuls.

"Morning," Dom nodded walking in and everyone mumbled a greeting back except for me. I sat there in silence stirring my coffee and staring at it like it was the only thing in the kitchen. "Maddie," he greeted since I hadn't answered him and again I stayed quiet pretending I didn't hear him.

"Hey," Vince bumped my knee with his, "you with us?"

"Yeah," I answered simply.

"Alright, that's it," Letty spoke up, "what happened, huh? And before you," she glanced in my direction, "say 'nothing' or 'I'm fine' you weren't after we got home from the races and you," she moved her gaze over to Dom, "have been off since you came in the house last night."

"Why don't you tell her, Dominic," I smiled sarcastically spinning on my stool so I could face him. Carrie was just as much my best friend as she was Letty's and if she really was alive she had the right to know.

"Maddie," he started but I cut him off.

"That's right you won't admit you said anything because it's not true!" I shouted getting off my stool and advancing on him, "How could you tell me something I know in my heart of hearts isn't true?! You…you lied to me!"

"No…I didn't," Dom replied keeping his voice calm while looking at me sympathetically.

"I was there!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, my breathing rigid as the tears flowed from my eyes. "I saw it with my own two eyes, Dom, I see it every time I close my eyes. I remember everything. I can still see the way her car rolled…seven times…seven times before landing upside down. I can still hear the explosion as the fire hit the Nos tanks. I can still feel the heat of the flames…" I trailed off and if it wasn't for Leon who wrapped his arms around me at some point I would have fallen over.

"Shh," Leon tried to soothe me.

"Wait, are you saying what I think you are?" Letty questioned.

"No," Vince shook his head in disbelief, "We went to her funeral, we were all there."

"I hate you," I whispered though you would have thought I screamed it by the look on his face. Sure I had said those words to him before when we had fought but this was the first time I had ever meant it.

"Madison," Dom tried to explain.

"I hate you!" I shouted easily slipping out of Leon's arms and taking a swing at him.

"I'm sorry," Dom said softly not bothering to block any of the punches I was throwing at him. After a few more good swings Leon pulled me back and Dom continued, "I just found out a couple of months ago. A customer at Harry's was talking about this amazing new racer; I came to check it out and didn't believe my eyes when I saw her."

"And you couldn't tell me? You know what I was going through…how I was feeling about the whole thing and you just let me go on believing my best friend was dead!" I argued when a thought occurred to me. "You couldn't have even told Sam? He blames me for his sister's death! I blame me for her death…and she's not really dead?! How would you feel Dominic, huh? How would you feel if that was me or Mia…you thought we were dead when we were only a couple of hours away?!"

"She doesn't remember!" Dom yelled for the first time since we had started fighting.

"What?" I breathed out and let Leon pull me to lean against him.

"She doesn't remember," Dom repeated, "She goes by Melanie now…Maddie she had no idea who I was. She doesn't remember her life before the accident. She doesn't know you anymore."