Here's chapter three hope yall like it.

Chapter 3: The Truth

We get back to the garage and hear Sal talking to someone trying to calm them down. Colin goes in to see Darius with a gun to Sal's head and Nikki trying to stop him. While this is going on I decide to sneak around back and enter behind him. I can hear Darius, "Where is he! Where's the bastard?"

Sal's pleading at this point, "I don't know what your talking about!" Then Darius cocks the gun.

And Asks him on last time. "where's is Scott?"

Nikki grabs Darius arm, "Come on, baby he's not worth it." He shoves her to the ground. I Really get mad then. Colin tries to get to him but Kenji stops him. So it's all up to me. I grab a crescent wrench. And have a gun in the back of my jeans. I noticed Nikki has backed up in the coner beside me. I try not to let her see me as I get ready to attack. Darius says, "Where is he?" for the final time. As Sal goes to reply I see my chance. I slam Kenji in the back of the head and pull out the gun on Darius. Sal moves out of the way. We have a stare down until Darius says, "You know man. I don't know why you came back. You lost everything the night you ran away. The only thing I didn't get was the money. But that doesn't matter to me now that Nikki's mine."

The fire rises in my eyes and I know he's trying to get to me. So I reply, "You know Darius. She maybe yours for now but we'll see how she feels when she finds out the truth." I holler at Colin and Sal to bring in the bags. And so I begin the explanation of what happened that night. With help from Colin and Sal. "Well come on tipped off the cops about the race, and someone told them not to shut my car down."

Colin interrupts, "yea then Nikki was running to Scott's car with the bag a guy knocked her down and I swear he had the same bag. He also switched them in the process."

Then Sal speaks, " Once Nikki got to Scott's car the cops grabbed her. So Scott spun out and the cops let him through the alley then shut it back up."

Finally I say, "So now Darius why don't you tell her the truth."

He laughs and says, " So this loser has it all figured out. You still have no proof and even if you did you couldn't race me for the city your still at the bottom of the ranks."

I say "That maybe so but I will come for you." Then I nod to Samson and Sal and they bring out the two identical bags. I look over at Nikki for the first time her face has mixed emotions shock, relief,anger,and betrayal. So I continue, "this was the bag that Nikki gave me in the supra that night. I discovered that there was no money in the bag about 3 miles out. But I found a note saying run. Ill get the money and Nikki and meet you. I trusted you and what did you do stab me in the back, take the love of my life, and ruin what I had been working so hard for."

Darius says, "So I don't care you still have no proof it was me." I continue as Colin hands me the other bag.

"Tonight after I wrecked my car. I stayed behind to wait for you to come frame me. And look what you left, the bag with the money to the city in it or at least what's left of it."

Nikki gets to her feet still in shock walks over and slaps Darius in the face then walks outside. Colin and Sal get Darius to leave, and I go to find Nikki. She was sitting out on the back deck looking out onto the city. "Hey" I say as I walk up.

She's startled to hear my voice but replies, "Hey"

I then say, "Nikki look I never meant to hurt you. I tried so hard to contact you, but nothing I tried worked."

"Scott why are you back here, now. I mean why didn't you come back sooner. I would have understood."

"I did come back actually a few months after it all. I saw you and was about to approach you when Darius came up/ I saw him hug you and then pull you in and kiss you. That's all I could take. Lucky Colin saw me and cooled me off before I went for Darius right then and there. I told him I'd never return that I would move on, but...

I couldn't"

"Scott I'm... Sorry. Darius fed me a lot of lies made me think I loved him but you were always in the back of my mind. If I had only listened to Colin. He tried to tell me you didn't do it, but I just blew him off. But what made you come back this time?"

"Colin called and said you and Darius were fighting all the time and that Darius had finally become King of the city and that I needed to make my return. But the only reason I truly came back was because the whole time I was gone you're all I could think about. You never left my mind."

Her eyes started to get watery as she looked at me. I could only imagined what she was thinking. Then she did the unexpected. She wrapped her arms around me and kissed me. I was surprised by her actions at first but then quickly returned the kiss and wrapped my arms around her. When we finally pulled apart I said, "What was that for?"

she smiled, "I've waited for so long for you to come back and I guess that after your explanation and all the memories came flooding back I just couldn't resist."

I laugh, "Well in that case." and pick her up and kiss her once more. After the kiss I look into her eyes and say, "Nikki I love you."

She looks at me in astonishment ans then smiles, "I love you too."

When we finally walk back inside Colin and Sal are sitting on the couch watching some TV. And Samson is working on his ride. Colin turns his head when we come in and says, "Scott someone's on the phone for you." I kiss Nikki on the forehead and get to the phone.

"hello" I say

"hey man where are you?" It's my boy David back in Rockport.

"Oh..Um.. I left"

"Nikki?"

"yea."

"how'd I guess where you at me and Jessica are leaving?"

"Palmount city you coming to get in on some of this action."

"hell yea."

"ok see ya in a bit then."

I hang up the phone. "who was that?" Colin says interested.

"one of my old crew members from Rockport. He's coming down here to check out the scene for a while.