AN: Its been a while but that's okay been working on a couple of these babies. I hope you enjoy. Again I still get nervous when I post these. Enjoy!

As we walked up the steps I could hear the bass from the music blasting. Mia helped me get up the stairs and open the door. It was pretty packed and the party was in full swing. All the boys were preoccupied and busy. As we came in I made eye contact with Vince, and I could tell I was in for it.

"What the hell?" He said loudly getting up from his posy of girls surrounding him. Leon, Jesse, and then Dom all turned their heads at him and immediately did the same thing. The people around us looked at me in horror.

They all started to come toward us but we were on our way into the kitchen already. As I got there I opened the freezer and took out the bottle of vodka and took a big swig of it leaning against the counter.

"Okay, Letty, tell me when you want me to pull it out" Mia said coming up next to me by the counter with a cloth in hand. Dom, Vince, Leon, and Jesse arrived just as I pulled the bottle back to my lips to take another drink.

"What the hell happened Letty?" Dom questioned intently, looking me over, his eyes landing on the scrap piece of metal in my shoulder. "Jesus!"

"Got caught in a corner had to run the cobra through a retaining wall. I don't think I will be able to fix her, I think her racin' days are over" I sighed and turned to Mia, "Okay Mi, do it"

She grabbed the metal at my shoulder and pulled but it wouldn't budge. I winced and took another drink. "Fuck!"

"I think we might need to go to the hospital and get it removed surgically" Mia said shaking her head, indicating she could do no more.

The boys were mostly quite and looked in aw of what was going on. "Can you not fucking stare at me, damn." I went to put the vodka up to my lips again but Dom caught my hand pulling the bottle away.

I raised my eyebrows in a challenging way. How dare he take away my vodka. "Let, you are 17, that means you are under age."

"Damn, whatever. I need to get this shit out of my fucking shoulder. One of you needs to take me to the hospital now" I said leaning further into the counter.

"Come on I'll take ya." Dom said grabbing my good arm and helped me back outside toward the car.

The car ride was very quiet for most of the way. When we were almost to the hospital Dom chucked.

"What's so funny?" I said kinda annoyed that he would find anything funny in this situation. "My cobra is fucking destroyed"

"You just can't keep yourself out of trouble." Dom was smiling but not looking at me. I smiled a tiny bit too and shook my head.

"I just can't help myself I guess" I turned and looked out the window.

Dom didn't say anything else and a few minutes later we pulled up the emergency room. The visit took about 3 hours and I walked away with only 8 stiches. Dom and I stayed silent for pretty much the entire time except when it came to telling the doctors what happened. Dom had my back and told him some bullshit excuse about messing around with a motorbike and running into stuff. It was very uncharacteristic for him to be so quite.

He always talked to me, whenever he needed to talk about anything he would always come to me first. It didn't even matter what the context was he would always talk even just a few words. He was quite today though, thoughtful.

"You okay?" I asked placing my hand on his shoulder. He turned and looked at me for a second.

"Yeah, just thinking" he responded situating his eyes back on the road.

I leaned back in my seat and continued to listen to the light volume of the rap music playing in the back ground.

When we arrived home the party had dulled and the boys were cleaning up.

"Hey Baby girl, how's the arm?" Leon said as we walked through the door.

"Ah couple stitches nothing too major, gonna have a scar though for sure." I replied shrugging my shoulders not too into a conversation right at the moment.

"Do you need help cleaning up or can I head home?"

Vince looked at me and gestured to the mess around him "hell yes, help clean this shit up women!" He said obviously having a little too much to drink.

I gave him a look that could kill and he hesitated slightly shrugging picking up a beer bottle saying "or um not ya know whatever works for you Let"

"Okay well I'm gonna head home, I'll catch y'all later" I said grabbing the door and heading down the steps.

"Wait," Dom called after me "I'll come with you"

"Dom, I literally live six houses away. I'm good, man!" I said turning around to face him trying to hid a smirk.

"I just wanna talk to you." He said shrugging

"You didn't wanna talk earlier?" I said raising a brow.

"Neither did you"

"Touché" I said pointing a finger at him. He came down the steps and we settled into a steady pace and he was silent once again.

"I don't really hear much talking going on right now, so.." I said gesturing toward him to start the conversation. He struggled to get it out but he did.

"I just want you to know I appreciate you. You have proven to me to be more than just a friend, you are family. You had my back since the day we met and have saved my ass more than once. I don't tell you that enough and I just want you to know that, Let" He grabbed my hand and gave it a squeeze. My heart fell into my chest and my breathing quickened. "You are my best friend"

"Where did this come from?" I asked looking up at him.

"I don't know something clicked tonight, I just felt the need to tell you, even in trouble you always seem to have your shit together and figured out and support all while doing the exact same thing for other people, I felt like it's over looked too much"

"Well thanks" I laughed letting his hand go smiling at the fact that he actually grabbed my hand. We had stopped in front of my house and I starting walking towards my door. "But remember Dom you're a reflection of the people you are around. You influence me more than you think. You're a magnet and attract people of all kinds. It one of the gifts god gave you."

He smiled "I'll see you tomorrow Let"

"See you tomorrow" I replied waving slightly walking up the steps. "Oh and Dom?"

"Yeah?"

"You're my best friend too," I smiled opening my door and going inside.

AN: R&R please!