Writer's note: Okay I changed Dom's age now he's twenty-one (21), I need to
change his age to make the story work. I promise I won't chance anymore of
the character's ages.
Chapter 4
back home
2
years later
Mia was running around the house, Dom was coming home; her brother was finally coming home from Lompoc, she had been running around the house all week like a chicken with it's head cut off. And no matter how hard Letty tried she wouldn't relax, 'everything has to be perfect for Dom when he gets home', and she wonders why she has so much stress. "Where's Letty?!?" Mia shouted as she walked into the kitchen where Anais and Lisa were preparing the meat, the girls looked at each other then at Mia and shrugged their shoulders. "How can you not know where your sister is!!"
"Clam down Mia," Lisa said as she put the meat in the refrigerator.
"Why don't you take this glass of water and go up stairs to your room a relax, and we'll call you if we need you, if Dom comes or if Letty shows up. Okay?" Anais said as she handed Mia a glass of water.
"Alright but Letty promised to be here," Mia said as she took the glass and walked up the stairs.
"Where is Letty anyway?" Anais asked as she turned towards Lisa.
"Why you asking me? You share a room with her and you're the oldest it your job to keep track of us," Lisa replied as she took off the apron.
"I can't keep track of everyone."
"Well it's your job."
"It's always my job."
"Com' on I ain't got all fucking day!!" Letty shouted, she had a bat in her hand. She and a few of her female friends were playing baseball against a few boys who were getting their asses whipped by the girls. The guy threw the bat and Letty swung at it, it was a homerun. She ran the bases, well more like she ran the chalk drawing of squares. The girls had won, which of course didn't please the boys at all.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck!!" Alex shouted. "I want a rematch."
"That was your forth rematch this week and it's your fucking last!" Letty shouted back, she not very good at controlling her temper.
"I want."
"If you know what's good for you you'll shut your mouth before I shove my foot so far up your ass I'll be able to kick, that peanut you call a brain!!"
The boy backed up and ran away from the girls. "Oh, shit Mia gonna kill me!" Letty shouted as she ran to her 1964 GTO.
"Letty, gurl where ya going?" one of the girl asked.
"I have to get home before Mia kicks my ass, I promised I'd be there to help her get the house ready for when Dom got home."
"Well then you should really get home."
Letty got home and drove home; she had on a t-shirt and a pair of shorts. She had to change and take a shower before she went over to the Toretto's.
"Where is she?!! Where is she!!??! She said she'd be here, she promised!!" Mia said as she set the table, she was pissed at Letty, she wasn't there yet and Dom would be there any minute and she had to pick up Danielle at the airport. She had just finished the season and she was just getting back in time to see Dom come home. Mia thought she of all people deserved to be there, she had paid for the lawyer and all the other legal shit that went with it. Mia didn't know why she did that, she didn't have to but to her Dom was family and that was what Mia's mom was thankful for. Danny paid for all of it, she couldn't afford it; and then it happened.
Flash back
Dom had been in prison for three months now, Diana had gone to go see her son. It was around nine and Diana went out again to go shopping; it was a Saturday night and it was a warm summer night. After she went shopping Diana went to visit her sister who didn't live that far from where she was. By time she left her sister's house it was ten-thirty. She was driving home and then it happened she crash. The driver in the other car was a drunken six-teen year old; there wasn't a scratch on the six teen year old, but Diana was in critical condition. Two months later Diana died, the house was already paid off and Mia didn't want to leave and from that day on Danny took care of her, Mia's aunt moved it just until Dom came home. Now he was.
End flashback
"Mia clam down, gurl she'll be here," Lisa said as she took the plate out of Mia's hands, she was afraid she might break it in her hands.
"She's suppose to go pick up Danny at the airport and bring her here," Mia said as she started to pace.
"Mia breathe, and clam down she'll be here. I'm gonna call her cell right now. Sit down, relax and have a glass of water."
"Okay I can do that," She sat down at the table.
Lisa walked into the living room and called Letty, her cell phone rang four times before she answered it. "Hello?"
"Shakira where the hell are you?"
"Lisa?"
"Yeah, Mia's jumping off the walls and she's bitching about the fact that your not here yet. Where are you?"
"I'm on my way to the airport."
"What time did mom's plane get there?"
"An hour and thirty minutes ago."
"And you're just going to go get her now?"
"Are you forgetting our mother is famous, she has to sign autographs and talk to the freaking press?"
"Oh right. Well Mia wants you to get here soon, she running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I took a plate away from her, I thought she'd might break it."
"Well I got to go."
"Bye."
"Bye."
Lisa walked back into the kitchen where Mia was still sitting, "Letty is on her way to pick up mom."
"You mean she on her way now!! Danny's plane arrived an hour and a half ago."
"Mia clam down they'll be here."
"They better be!!"
"Breathe Mia breathe."
Mia took a deep breath and stood up, a car was hear pulling up to the house. Mia ran out the front door hoping it was Letty and Danny. She opened the door to find Vince's Nissan Matima in the driveway. Vince got out of the car and then Dominic got out of the passenger's side. "Dom, thank god your home!!!" Mia shouted as she ran up to Dom. Dom picked Mia up and spun her around.
"Hey, I missed you. Lisa how have you been?" Dom asked as he hugged her.
"Okay, but I think you've been doing better," Lisa said as they parted, she looked at Dom. His muscles were huge, she didn't expect him to look like that. Anais walked out of the house looking for Mia.
"Dom?" Anais asked as she walked up to him.
"Anais, how have you been?" Dom asked as he hugged her.
"Fine."
" Hey, Dom. How does it feel to be home?" Osvaldo asked as walked over to them.
"A lot better that prison."
"Well of course it does."
They continued to talk for a few hours, and Mia was getting pissed Letty wasn't there yet with Danny.
A 1964 GTO pulled into the driveway with 'Daddy's little girl' by Ja Rule blaring for the stereo, Dom turned his attention to the car, it was beautiful; Danny got out of the passenger side of the car. Dom walked up to her, she was like a mother to him she had always helped him. He gave her a big hug and a kiss on the cheek. Dom wondered who the driver of the car was, all his friends were there. All of them except Letty.where could she be. The driver cut the engine and got out of the car, the driver was a women; she had long black hair, she had on a pair of tight light blue hip hugger jeans and a skin tight red tang top, she had on a pair of black sunglasses so Dom couldn't see her eyes. She walked up to him and gave him a hug, Dom didn't know who she was but he had to admit she had a nice ass and a perfect body. He was about to ask her who she was when Mia took her away from him.
"Letty can I ask you something?" Mia asked as she pulled her into the kitchen.
"What Mi?" Letty asked as she grabbed a bottle of water.
"Well you know Stephanie?"
"Yeah."
"Well she a cheerleader."
"Uh huh."
"Well she kinda gained weight and broke one of her bones so she can't cheer and since you have all those years of gymnastics I thought you could take her place."
"No way in hell am I gonna where one of those slut outfits and be peppy!!!"
"You know I think your mother would like to know about you and street racing."
Letty turned around and walked back to Mia, "Then again."
"I thought you see it my way."
"I hate you so much."
"Yeah, well practice is at five, tomorrow."
"What? Mia I can't my car won't be ready by Friday night."
"So, maybe that's a good thing."
"I'll try my best to be there on time, I can't promise that I won't be late."
"Fine but please try."
"Yeah."
Letty looked out the window a saw a yellow Nissan Skyline and turned Mia. "Leon's here?"
"Yeah, he's family."
"To us maybe but Dom doesn't even know him."
"Yeah well he's a good guy."
Letty walked outside looking for her dad.Letty scanned the crowd for her dad, she hadn't seen him in a while, Leon had gone to pick him up. All of the sudden someone came up behind her and picked her up. "Put me down, put me down!!" Letty shouted as the person lifted her. She turned around to see who it was, and to her surprise it was Leon. "Leon, don't ever do that again."
"Clam down gurl, you're turning into Mia."
"No, that's not even funny."
Leon gave her a hug, "Do you know where my dad is?"
"Yeah, over by the basketball hoop."
"Should have known that."
"Yeah you should have."
"Shut up."
Letty walked over to her dad, who was playing basketball with Vince. When he saw Letty he picked her up and spun her around; "How have you been baby?" Osvaldo asked.
"Dad I'm not a baby anymore," Letty said as she hugged her dad.
"Says who, you're still my baby."
"When did you get here Letty?" Vince asked as he gave her a hug.
"When my mom got here, I'm the one who picked her up."
Dom looked everywhere, he couldn't find Letty, the rest of her family was there but not her. Where could she be, Dom asked himself. The girl who he had seen earlier came up to him, "Having fun?" She asked. His eyes roamed over her body, "Yeah, I am," Dom replied, he was about to ask her who she was, when she took off her sunglasses. He looked at her eyes, the same brown eyes that he saw after his mom died, it was Letty.
Flash back
Dom knelled down between his mother's and father's grave; he hadn't cried once since he heard his mother died, it wasn't because he didn't love her he just hadn't. He had gotten out of jail but only for twenty-four hours then he had to go back. Everyone had tried to make Dom leave the graves, but they had failed so they sent Letty and hoped she could get through to him. Dom was looking at the ground when Letty walked up to him, he saw the boots she was wearing. She had on a black skirt that was just above her knee and a black long sleeve shirt. Dom had on a black suit, he looked up at her. "Everyone already left," Letty said as she knelt down in front of him.
"So, why haven't you?"
"I didn't want to."
"Why not?"
"Why don't you?" Letty asked as she sat next to him.
"You know I haven't cried once since I was five. I didn't cry when my dad died or when my mom died."
"Why not?"
"Cuz I man doesn't cry."
"They say a man ain't supposed to cry No matter what, no matter why. Well I am a man an I hope you understand Quite Often Like the rain falls from the sky Many a tear has fallen from my eyes Mainly because I'm not afraid to show How I feel inside. You see Mama taught me to live On love An not some foolish pride. Willie Reddix, Mississippi."
Dom looked at her, "A poem?"
"I read it in a book about death row called 'Welcome to Hell'. You should read it."
"What does it mean?"
"It means it doesn't make you less of a man if you cry."
"How would you know you're a girl."
"Did you know my grandfather wanted a grandson but all he got were granddaughters?"
"No, what's your point?"
"I'm the youngest granddaughter and when I was a few hours old my grandfather put his dog tags around my neck and I never took them off. When I was three years old he'd tell me about wars and all the stuff he went through in the military, none of his other grandchildren were interested in any he said about it. When I was seven I asked him if he wanted his dog tags back and he said he wanted me to keep them forever and give them to one of my kids. He was a real man, he cried when his sister died and he never took his anger out on anyone."
"What's your point?"
"My point is a real man is a man who cries because he lost someone he loves a man who would do anything for his family; a man who helped his daughter make it in real life even though she got pregnant at sixteen. A man who never abused the people he loved and knew how to control his anger and emotions."
"Right."
"What doesn't make a real man is a man who doesn't take care of his mistakes a man who abuses his family and tries to control a women that is not a real man."
"I miss her, and I miss him, why did this happen?" Dom started to cry, Letty put her arms around Dom's neck and hugged him, he hugged her back and she helped him through the rest of the day until he went back to prison.
End flash back
"Letty!!" Dom shouted as he picked her up and spun her around.
"Okay put my down now. And I've been waiting for you to realize it was me," Letty said as Dom put her down.
"I knew who you were."
" Why didn't you greet me like this when I got here is?"
"Okay so I didn't know who you were but you look a lot different."
"Yeah, well it's been two years."
Letty introduce him to Jesse and Leon, he seemed to like them, which is a good thing since they work in his father's garage. A few hours after dinner the adults left, Letty's parent to go to a press conference and the rest to go home before it got too late. They watched a movie and then they had nothing to do. Mia walked into the room and sat next to Letty.
Mia was running around the house, Dom was coming home; her brother was finally coming home from Lompoc, she had been running around the house all week like a chicken with it's head cut off. And no matter how hard Letty tried she wouldn't relax, 'everything has to be perfect for Dom when he gets home', and she wonders why she has so much stress. "Where's Letty?!?" Mia shouted as she walked into the kitchen where Anais and Lisa were preparing the meat, the girls looked at each other then at Mia and shrugged their shoulders. "How can you not know where your sister is!!"
"Clam down Mia," Lisa said as she put the meat in the refrigerator.
"Why don't you take this glass of water and go up stairs to your room a relax, and we'll call you if we need you, if Dom comes or if Letty shows up. Okay?" Anais said as she handed Mia a glass of water.
"Alright but Letty promised to be here," Mia said as she took the glass and walked up the stairs.
"Where is Letty anyway?" Anais asked as she turned towards Lisa.
"Why you asking me? You share a room with her and you're the oldest it your job to keep track of us," Lisa replied as she took off the apron.
"I can't keep track of everyone."
"Well it's your job."
"It's always my job."
"Com' on I ain't got all fucking day!!" Letty shouted, she had a bat in her hand. She and a few of her female friends were playing baseball against a few boys who were getting their asses whipped by the girls. The guy threw the bat and Letty swung at it, it was a homerun. She ran the bases, well more like she ran the chalk drawing of squares. The girls had won, which of course didn't please the boys at all.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck!!" Alex shouted. "I want a rematch."
"That was your forth rematch this week and it's your fucking last!" Letty shouted back, she not very good at controlling her temper.
"I want."
"If you know what's good for you you'll shut your mouth before I shove my foot so far up your ass I'll be able to kick, that peanut you call a brain!!"
The boy backed up and ran away from the girls. "Oh, shit Mia gonna kill me!" Letty shouted as she ran to her 1964 GTO.
"Letty, gurl where ya going?" one of the girl asked.
"I have to get home before Mia kicks my ass, I promised I'd be there to help her get the house ready for when Dom got home."
"Well then you should really get home."
Letty got home and drove home; she had on a t-shirt and a pair of shorts. She had to change and take a shower before she went over to the Toretto's.
"Where is she?!! Where is she!!??! She said she'd be here, she promised!!" Mia said as she set the table, she was pissed at Letty, she wasn't there yet and Dom would be there any minute and she had to pick up Danielle at the airport. She had just finished the season and she was just getting back in time to see Dom come home. Mia thought she of all people deserved to be there, she had paid for the lawyer and all the other legal shit that went with it. Mia didn't know why she did that, she didn't have to but to her Dom was family and that was what Mia's mom was thankful for. Danny paid for all of it, she couldn't afford it; and then it happened.
Flash back
Dom had been in prison for three months now, Diana had gone to go see her son. It was around nine and Diana went out again to go shopping; it was a Saturday night and it was a warm summer night. After she went shopping Diana went to visit her sister who didn't live that far from where she was. By time she left her sister's house it was ten-thirty. She was driving home and then it happened she crash. The driver in the other car was a drunken six-teen year old; there wasn't a scratch on the six teen year old, but Diana was in critical condition. Two months later Diana died, the house was already paid off and Mia didn't want to leave and from that day on Danny took care of her, Mia's aunt moved it just until Dom came home. Now he was.
End flashback
"Mia clam down, gurl she'll be here," Lisa said as she took the plate out of Mia's hands, she was afraid she might break it in her hands.
"She's suppose to go pick up Danny at the airport and bring her here," Mia said as she started to pace.
"Mia breathe, and clam down she'll be here. I'm gonna call her cell right now. Sit down, relax and have a glass of water."
"Okay I can do that," She sat down at the table.
Lisa walked into the living room and called Letty, her cell phone rang four times before she answered it. "Hello?"
"Shakira where the hell are you?"
"Lisa?"
"Yeah, Mia's jumping off the walls and she's bitching about the fact that your not here yet. Where are you?"
"I'm on my way to the airport."
"What time did mom's plane get there?"
"An hour and thirty minutes ago."
"And you're just going to go get her now?"
"Are you forgetting our mother is famous, she has to sign autographs and talk to the freaking press?"
"Oh right. Well Mia wants you to get here soon, she running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I took a plate away from her, I thought she'd might break it."
"Well I got to go."
"Bye."
"Bye."
Lisa walked back into the kitchen where Mia was still sitting, "Letty is on her way to pick up mom."
"You mean she on her way now!! Danny's plane arrived an hour and a half ago."
"Mia clam down they'll be here."
"They better be!!"
"Breathe Mia breathe."
Mia took a deep breath and stood up, a car was hear pulling up to the house. Mia ran out the front door hoping it was Letty and Danny. She opened the door to find Vince's Nissan Matima in the driveway. Vince got out of the car and then Dominic got out of the passenger's side. "Dom, thank god your home!!!" Mia shouted as she ran up to Dom. Dom picked Mia up and spun her around.
"Hey, I missed you. Lisa how have you been?" Dom asked as he hugged her.
"Okay, but I think you've been doing better," Lisa said as they parted, she looked at Dom. His muscles were huge, she didn't expect him to look like that. Anais walked out of the house looking for Mia.
"Dom?" Anais asked as she walked up to him.
"Anais, how have you been?" Dom asked as he hugged her.
"Fine."
" Hey, Dom. How does it feel to be home?" Osvaldo asked as walked over to them.
"A lot better that prison."
"Well of course it does."
They continued to talk for a few hours, and Mia was getting pissed Letty wasn't there yet with Danny.
A 1964 GTO pulled into the driveway with 'Daddy's little girl' by Ja Rule blaring for the stereo, Dom turned his attention to the car, it was beautiful; Danny got out of the passenger side of the car. Dom walked up to her, she was like a mother to him she had always helped him. He gave her a big hug and a kiss on the cheek. Dom wondered who the driver of the car was, all his friends were there. All of them except Letty.where could she be. The driver cut the engine and got out of the car, the driver was a women; she had long black hair, she had on a pair of tight light blue hip hugger jeans and a skin tight red tang top, she had on a pair of black sunglasses so Dom couldn't see her eyes. She walked up to him and gave him a hug, Dom didn't know who she was but he had to admit she had a nice ass and a perfect body. He was about to ask her who she was when Mia took her away from him.
"Letty can I ask you something?" Mia asked as she pulled her into the kitchen.
"What Mi?" Letty asked as she grabbed a bottle of water.
"Well you know Stephanie?"
"Yeah."
"Well she a cheerleader."
"Uh huh."
"Well she kinda gained weight and broke one of her bones so she can't cheer and since you have all those years of gymnastics I thought you could take her place."
"No way in hell am I gonna where one of those slut outfits and be peppy!!!"
"You know I think your mother would like to know about you and street racing."
Letty turned around and walked back to Mia, "Then again."
"I thought you see it my way."
"I hate you so much."
"Yeah, well practice is at five, tomorrow."
"What? Mia I can't my car won't be ready by Friday night."
"So, maybe that's a good thing."
"I'll try my best to be there on time, I can't promise that I won't be late."
"Fine but please try."
"Yeah."
Letty looked out the window a saw a yellow Nissan Skyline and turned Mia. "Leon's here?"
"Yeah, he's family."
"To us maybe but Dom doesn't even know him."
"Yeah well he's a good guy."
Letty walked outside looking for her dad.Letty scanned the crowd for her dad, she hadn't seen him in a while, Leon had gone to pick him up. All of the sudden someone came up behind her and picked her up. "Put me down, put me down!!" Letty shouted as the person lifted her. She turned around to see who it was, and to her surprise it was Leon. "Leon, don't ever do that again."
"Clam down gurl, you're turning into Mia."
"No, that's not even funny."
Leon gave her a hug, "Do you know where my dad is?"
"Yeah, over by the basketball hoop."
"Should have known that."
"Yeah you should have."
"Shut up."
Letty walked over to her dad, who was playing basketball with Vince. When he saw Letty he picked her up and spun her around; "How have you been baby?" Osvaldo asked.
"Dad I'm not a baby anymore," Letty said as she hugged her dad.
"Says who, you're still my baby."
"When did you get here Letty?" Vince asked as he gave her a hug.
"When my mom got here, I'm the one who picked her up."
Dom looked everywhere, he couldn't find Letty, the rest of her family was there but not her. Where could she be, Dom asked himself. The girl who he had seen earlier came up to him, "Having fun?" She asked. His eyes roamed over her body, "Yeah, I am," Dom replied, he was about to ask her who she was, when she took off her sunglasses. He looked at her eyes, the same brown eyes that he saw after his mom died, it was Letty.
Flash back
Dom knelled down between his mother's and father's grave; he hadn't cried once since he heard his mother died, it wasn't because he didn't love her he just hadn't. He had gotten out of jail but only for twenty-four hours then he had to go back. Everyone had tried to make Dom leave the graves, but they had failed so they sent Letty and hoped she could get through to him. Dom was looking at the ground when Letty walked up to him, he saw the boots she was wearing. She had on a black skirt that was just above her knee and a black long sleeve shirt. Dom had on a black suit, he looked up at her. "Everyone already left," Letty said as she knelt down in front of him.
"So, why haven't you?"
"I didn't want to."
"Why not?"
"Why don't you?" Letty asked as she sat next to him.
"You know I haven't cried once since I was five. I didn't cry when my dad died or when my mom died."
"Why not?"
"Cuz I man doesn't cry."
"They say a man ain't supposed to cry No matter what, no matter why. Well I am a man an I hope you understand Quite Often Like the rain falls from the sky Many a tear has fallen from my eyes Mainly because I'm not afraid to show How I feel inside. You see Mama taught me to live On love An not some foolish pride. Willie Reddix, Mississippi."
Dom looked at her, "A poem?"
"I read it in a book about death row called 'Welcome to Hell'. You should read it."
"What does it mean?"
"It means it doesn't make you less of a man if you cry."
"How would you know you're a girl."
"Did you know my grandfather wanted a grandson but all he got were granddaughters?"
"No, what's your point?"
"I'm the youngest granddaughter and when I was a few hours old my grandfather put his dog tags around my neck and I never took them off. When I was three years old he'd tell me about wars and all the stuff he went through in the military, none of his other grandchildren were interested in any he said about it. When I was seven I asked him if he wanted his dog tags back and he said he wanted me to keep them forever and give them to one of my kids. He was a real man, he cried when his sister died and he never took his anger out on anyone."
"What's your point?"
"My point is a real man is a man who cries because he lost someone he loves a man who would do anything for his family; a man who helped his daughter make it in real life even though she got pregnant at sixteen. A man who never abused the people he loved and knew how to control his anger and emotions."
"Right."
"What doesn't make a real man is a man who doesn't take care of his mistakes a man who abuses his family and tries to control a women that is not a real man."
"I miss her, and I miss him, why did this happen?" Dom started to cry, Letty put her arms around Dom's neck and hugged him, he hugged her back and she helped him through the rest of the day until he went back to prison.
End flash back
"Letty!!" Dom shouted as he picked her up and spun her around.
"Okay put my down now. And I've been waiting for you to realize it was me," Letty said as Dom put her down.
"I knew who you were."
" Why didn't you greet me like this when I got here is?"
"Okay so I didn't know who you were but you look a lot different."
"Yeah, well it's been two years."
Letty introduce him to Jesse and Leon, he seemed to like them, which is a good thing since they work in his father's garage. A few hours after dinner the adults left, Letty's parent to go to a press conference and the rest to go home before it got too late. They watched a movie and then they had nothing to do. Mia walked into the room and sat next to Letty.