Chapter 5: Dom's First race

Dom's PoV

I ran my hand over the bright red paint of my mustang. Not even 48 hours ago my dad had finally handed me the keys to the car we had been rebuilding for the last 2 years. Looking at the car now you would have never been able to guess that at one time it had been totaled in an accident. No now my beautiful car looked like it had been babied all its life. Tonight dad was out with a few of his buddies and so Vince and I were headed out to the local street racing scene.

"So when do we leave?" Letty asked from the other side of the car. I looked up to find her wearing her converse high-tops, the very distracting bright pink legging that she wore under her dress to church every Sunday, Mia's black pleated skirt that was much too short falling inches above her knees, and the damned tube top that I encouraged her to buy a little over a year ago. Her already too short shoulder length hair had been curled so it was just below her chin and my damned sister had put a distracting pink lip gloss on her smirking lips. What the hell was Mia thinking?

"You aren't coming." Never again would Mia and Letty bet on Letty's outfit again. I'd make damn sure of it even if it was the last thing I did.

"Sure we are, otherwise we can call dad and tell him you and V are street racing," Mia said from next to her. I growled at my 10 year old sister in frustration over the situation they had both put me and what she had dressed Letty in.

"Fine but you two stay right by Vince, understand me, now get in the back." If Vince let anything happen to Letty, and Mia, I would skin him alive.

Both girls smiled at each other before climbing into my car. A few seconds later Vince came out of the house. "What are they doing in there?" he asked in disbelief.

"If we don't let them come they call dad, get in and when we get there keep them out of trouble."

"Fine." Soon we were all on our way. The race was a short drive away and I had to constantly pull my gaze from Letty in the rearview mirror. I'd never been so distracted before, what the hell was wrong with me?

Letty's PoV

Mia and I bounced in excitement as the cars took off with Dom already in second place. Soon they had disappeared down the street.

"Where did they go, we can't see them now." Mia whined.

"It's a nine block race, they go down one and a have turn right, go down another three make another right, comeback three blocks make another right, come up three blocks and then turn right back onto here and will finish right in front of us." A kid from next to us said. I looked over at the stranger. He looked to be about my age with sandy blonde hair. "Name's Leon."

"Letty, and the bouncing little imp is Mia and the brooding coyote is Vince."

"Nice to meet you. So who you here to watch?"

"The red 'stang, he's our big brother." I said.

"Sweet car, is it mint condition?"

"No Dom and Papa Tony found it in a junk yard and restored it." Even I could hear the pride in my voice at what Dom had done.

"Sweet, look they're about to round the corner." I watched as Dom sped around the corner with a beat up barracuda about two car lengths behind. This was it Dom had it in the bag. Then suddenly the barracuda hit a bust of speed that it shouldn't have had.

"What the hell did he do?" I asked in disbelief, as the other driver gained ground.

"NOS, don't tell me Dom doesn't have any?"

"What the fuck is NOS?" I asked just as they crossed the finish line Dom only half a car ahead.

"Well looks like he'll be going home with the pot anyway, Jimmy's gonna be pissed."

"Who's Jimmy?" I asked as we all made our way to the cars.

"Guy who had never lost a race before this in the beat up barracuda." Leon answered, "And my brother."

"Ah," I turned ready to congratulate Dom only to find him kissing The Skank who had started the race, "who the hell is that?" I growled.

"That would be Monica, my brother's girlfriend."

"Oh boy."

Dom's PoV

As I rounded the last corner I glanced into my rearview mirror missing the cocky brown eyes that had stared back at me earlier that night. Suddenly the barracuda started gaining ground at an alarming rate. I moved my eyes back to the road and pressed down uselessly against the already floored accelerator and prayed. We crossed the finish line with the hood of his car just behind my door. I had won. I stepped out and immediately my eyes sought out Letty. She was in the crowd headed toward me talking to some kid who I had never seen before, and the look in his eyes as he looked at her. How dare he look at my Letty like that; wait my Letty? Letty was not mine. What the hell is wrong with me? I turned to find the race bunny fawning over me and noticed she was the opposite of Letty in every way. She had white blonde hair that hung down her back and her eyes were a sparkling blue. Her chest was bigger than any I had seen this close before and I could tell she wouldn't know the difference between a dipstick and fuse. She was exactly what I needed to get my head back on straight. I grabbed her and pulled her against me immediately sticking my tongue down her throat. I pulled back feeling a hand on my shoulder and the guy who had collected the money handed me the 4g's I had just won. I looked up to see the barracuda pulling away with the kid that had been with Letty in the passenger seat. Vince and the girls were next to me, Vince grinning ear to ear, Mia glaring at the blonde next to me, and Letty staring off into the distance.

"You wanna come home with us?" I asked the chick.

"Sure." She purred out.

"Great, Vince get in the back with the girls." I knew exactly what I needed to do to permanently forget about Letty for the next few days.

Letty's PoV

The ride home was short and as soon as we got in the door Dom and The Skank disappeared up the stairs.

"I'm going to my room." I said heading toward the stairs as the moaning started above us.

"Right behind you." Vince replied.

"Letty can I stay in you room? I don't wanna be scarred any more than I already am." Mia pleaded.

"I'm Sorry Mia, I need to be alone." I continued down the stairs.

"You can stay with me; I'll sleep on the floor." Vince said.

I walked into my room and turned my radio on as loud as I could without keeping Mia and Vince up but still drowning out the noises from above. I kicked my shoes into the corner before falling face first on my bed as the first tear rolled down my face. Unknown to everyone I had purposely lost to Mia that day hoping that she could turn me into something that would interest Dom but I could see now, I would never be what he wanted, even if he was what I needed.

A/N: sorry every one and sorry to those of you who read the original chapter posted, as a reward I will be posting chapter 6 either tonight or tomorrow night,(aka as soon as I finish it) even if I do not have all five reviews. Thanks for sticking with me