You Think You Know Somebody
She ready to murder someone when she gets a phone that from Troy asking to pick him, Logan and Luke up for a diner near the border.
It seems the three of them went to Tijuana over the weekend and ended up having Troy's dad's car stolen.
After finding out that his dad is going to send him to some boarding school once he finds the car gone, she offers to help her friend find the car. With the friends and family discount.
The next day, Luke comes up to her to ask for help. It seems there was a piñata of steroids in the backseat of the car.
He stupidly decided to get involved with Hank Zigman. If he doesn't find the drugs and get him a ton of money, Zigman will punish him severely.
She reluctantly agrees to help him.
Unknown to her dad she found a safety deposit key among her mom's stuff.
faking a death certificate, she goes to a bank and tells the teller about the safety deposit box key she found in her mom's old stuff.
In it, she finds many secret photos of herself. All with a target over her face.
Maybe mom didn't leave because she wanted too, maybe she left to protect me.
The next day, she confronts Logan about his steroid plan. Logan, being the annoying thing that he his, tells her that it was Luke's plan not his.
She finds out thought that Troy knew about it and is uneasy that he didn't tell her about when she offered to find the car.
She heads home and finds Rebecca, her guidance counselor and dad new girlfriend, in her kitchen making something for supper.
Feeling uneasy about it, she says that she has plans and rushes out of the house.
He's sitting on the porch of his place, chatting with Felix, when a familiar LeBaron pulls up to the curb.
He rises to his feet. Felix leans back with a smirk. No show today.
She stops at the fence like she's not sure whether she's welcome.
That softens him to whatever's about to come out of that tempting mouth of hers.
"So, I'm trying to find a way to say this without sounding like a utter snarky bitch." she blurts out
"When has that ever stopped you?" he retorts as he walks over to her.
He keeps the fence still between them. Make her work for what she wants.
"I'm trying to help my friend Troy and in the middle of a case for a somewhat friend. It seems that I'm up to my neck in Mexicans and stolen cars."
He just snickers. He should be offended.
"Isn't Troy your boyfriend?" he asks hating how curious he is.
"No way, vato. He might want to be but to me he is only a friend. Been there, don't plan to repeat that." she says with a small laugh.
"Come on, my cousin Angel's got a body shop next town over. He's legit, but every once in awhile...stuff comes through and he looks the other way, you know?" she nods and seems unsure about following him to his bike.
"We can just take mine," she suggests as she plays with her keys.
He shakes his head.
"Not gonna let a car he doesn't know onto the lot. Me, he'll have the gate open once I turn down the street. Come on, I'll go find my extra helmet." she follow him, obviously nervous. No. She can't possibly. Oh, this is rich.
He is going to milk this for all it's worth.
"Don't tell me that Little Miss Badass is afraid of riding a motorcycle!" he yells. Felix starts laughing and shaking his head.
"I am not afraid!" she predictably insists trying to use a death glare on him but he is laughing to damn hard..
The girl is stubborn as all hell, he's beginning to see why she and that pit bull of hers get along so well.
"Don't worry about it, I think it's kinda cute," he tells her without thinking.
"I am not scared of getting on your bike," she stutters but he would swear that she was blushing.
He tries to ignore the pleased feeling he gets to know that he can make her blush.
"Then I guess there's no problem," he says easily and goes into into the cramped, messy garage.
There are a few spare helmets lying around and it takes him a few minutes to locate one small enough for her, tucked in the back under a workbench.
He takes a minute to wipe it free of dirt and sawdust, he finds her up near the house, eyeing the bike like it's a tiger or something that she's trying not to spook.
"Ready to go?" he asks, handing the the helmet towards her. He looks over at the porch and notices that Felix had either left or gone inside.
She takes it and after a second he helps her fit it right.
"I'm not scared to ride a motorcycle," she says softly, as if he's somehow forgotten.
"Of course not," he agrees. "So hop on, then."
He gets on and busies himself with flipping the killswitch and keying the ignition, and after a moment, he feels her weight settle in behind him.
She keeps a few inches between them and places her hands on his sides.
"What's the holdup, vato?" she asks.
"Don't have to do this, you know," he says easily. "I could just go see Angel and report back to you tomorrow." He know without even turing around that she's glaring at him.
"I don't make it a habit of sending other people to do my dirty work when I'm perfectly capable," she says. "Let's go."
"Alright, then." he takes his own helmet from where it dangles off the left handlebar and slides it into place. When are you ever going to get her on this bike again. Don't be a wimp. He can almost hear Lilly whisper in his ear.
Without warning, he reaches down and grabs her hands, yanking her forward so that the whole line of her body presses firmly into his back.
"E..Weevil!" she yells.
"Gotta hold on unless you feel like eating pavement," he replies easily.
She leaves her arms wrapped around his waist. She should not feel this good behind me.
The motor roars to life beneath them.
It's a comforting sound, followed by the familiar purr thrumming between his legs, but V lets out a yelp and lurches to the side before catching herself.
"You've gotta stop doing that!" he yells back.
"What?" She leans forward to be heard over the engine, her breath hot against his ear.
He pulls her arms firmly across his middle.
"Just hang on and trust me." She snorts softly but today he wants to hear her say it. He needs to hear her say it. "Do you trust me?" he presses.
"What?" she says again, but they are pressed close together so he knows she heard his words crystal clear.
"Do you trust me?" he repeats.
She hesitates.
He tries not to let it get to him but the pause rankles at him all the same, and he's glad for the barrier of the helmet visor between them.
Finally she lets out a loud sigh.
"I guess I have to in order to get on this thing, huh?" she tries to sound annoyed but he can hear the smile in her voice. She did it on purpose to make me sweat.
He grins beneath his helmet.
"Then just relax and let me do all the heavy lifting, chica."
At the junkyard, he talks to his uncle Angel.
Who tells him, not knowing that she can slightly understand him, that the car has come and gone.
She has Weevil bring her to where the pinata is suppose to be and she is shocked when there are no steroids in it.
Luke is screwed.
She tells Luke in the women's bathroom.
He looks scared and she tells him that he needs to collect $8,000 himself to pay Zigman back.
Wanting to find her mom to tell her that she knows, she sends disposable cell phones to Lianne's friends and family in an effort to let her know that it is okay to call her.
She asks for her dad's help in finding Troy's car. To have him go to the car tracking company and turn on the tracker. He agrees if she will make the effort to be nice to Rebecca.
The next day, he goes to the car tracking company and poses as a high-ranking executive.
The boss reluctantly does a scan.
Still uneasy about her dad dating again she does a background check on Rebecca, which she gives to her dad.
Unfortunately this leads to a argument where she brings up her mom.
She breaks down in tears when he leaves the office.
She's not sure why she's there but she hopes he doesn't make her leave.
She knocks on the door and smiles when she can hear Letty, yelling at him to get the door.
"V?" he seems surprised to see her there. With one look he can tell that she's been crying.
"Can..can we go for a ride?"
"Yeah, just give me a minute." she nods and wraps her arms around her waist.
He quickly tells Felix, who he had been playing a game with, that he would be back.
He grabs his jacket and the two of them walk to his bike.
"You gonna tell me." he asks as he helps her put on her helmet.
"Later, I promise. Right now I just don't want to think."
She gets on behind him and wraps her arms around him, burying her head in the scent of his jacket.
Later she calls Troy and the two of them track the car only to be lead to a dog with the tracker attached to it.
The morning her dad hands her a background check he did on Troy.
She hadn't done one on him herself because he was just a friend and she wanted to trust him.
She confronts Troy about his past, which includes expulsion from two schools due to drug trafficking and possession. Knowing that he knew about the steroids she questions if he knows what really happened to them.
He storms off not answering her.
Luke gives her the $8,000 that he has collected and she goes to give it to him. Making sure to bring Backup.
She is is not shocked ot see Felix follow her and he promises to stay at her car until she comes back out.
She confronts Hank Zigman and hands him the $8,000, but he still says they are not "even."
She sneakily snaps a photo of him when he counts the money.
She tells him that he will eventually regret that moment. She then uses an image of Zigman to send a message to the border patrol, knowing that he is going to try to get more steroids.
She rides with Weevil, to the diner that she picked the boys up and sends him into the bathroom with a bag of candy.
He comes back out minutes later with a smile.
"Right where you thought it would be."
"Hoping this will teach him."
"Hope I never get on your bad side." he says with a chuckle.
"You doing anything for supper tonight?" she asks.
"No plans."
"You want to some over to the house. Maybe order something and watch some movies." Your just asking him to hang out. You do this with Wallace all the time. It shouldn't be this hard.
"V, are you asking me out?" Oh, suddenly have need of a deep hole to bury myself in.
"No..No..Just thought we could hang out as friends."
"Friends, huh. Okay chica."
After taking a shower, she notices that she has a missed call.
Checking her voicemail she hears her mom telling her not to look for her.