It is around 10 pm as I pull up to the race that David Park told Dom about, I look around as cars are lined up along the sides of the road surrounded by a large amount of scantily clad women.
As I am looking around, I spot a familiar blonde-haired man and as I drive closer, I see that it is my brother Brian who is leaning against his car.
I finally get past him and that is when I notice a very familiar 1960 Dodge Charger, I try to hide my smile as I pull up across from it and I climb out of my car and hear someone call out in Spanish so I look up and see someone hitting golf balls off of the balcony.
As I walk around my car, I notice that Brian walks past me, following a beautiful lady with some other people behind him so I just follow the group as I suddenly feel the familiar feeling of Dom's body being close behind me.
"OH! We can do this all day," some guy cheers as we enter the balcony, I am standing on Dom's left-hand side while Brian is on his right, I cross my arms which makes my cleavage a lot more prominent and that is when I notice that the other racers are staring at my body with hunger in their eyes as some guy is still hitting balls off of the balcony onto the netting above the cars.
"You all know why you're here, Good drivers... are a dime a dozen. Man, every corner's got a chingadera turner racing for pinks. That's not what Braga has got me looking for. Braga wants someone who would sell their abuelita to be behind the wheel. Someone who drives their 10-second cars not in a straight line, but to push it and make it through places no one else would take it. Real drivers. Entiendes?" The guy rants as he walks over to us and looks straight at me, I feel his eyes crawl along my body and I force the shiver of disgust away as Dom speaks up.
"So, what are we hauling?" he asks and I smirk, crossing my arms once more but I notice that the guy next to Dom reacts to what he has said.
"Oye, for the money Braga's paying. You don't need to know," the same guy says and I chuckle into my hands.
"You just said you wanted real drivers. A real driver knows exactly what's in her car," I say and I see the guy in front of me smile before taking a swig of his beer as the guy with the mohawk next to Dom stands up and looks over at me.
"Mira, real driver, nobody's forcing you to race Mami," he says in a patronizing tone so I glare at him but then move my body in front of Dom's to get close to Mohawk.
"You the boss? or am I talking to the boss?" I ask and Mohawk steps closer to me.
"Do I look like a boss?" Mohawk says and as I go to say something, the guy from before speaks up interrupting me before I open my mouth.
"Mami, my job is to find the best drivers, period. Whoever wins the race gets the info, we cool?" the guy asks as the lady from before walks around the room and hands everyone a small black box.
I feel Dom move his body so that he is right behind me and we both stare at Mohawk who stops smiling and moves his eyes to above my head where Dom's eyes are.
"Are we cool?" the same guy asks as the lady walks in front of the pair of us.
"Yeah, we're cool," Dom says and grabs the box that is held out to him, I turn my body to face the lady and take the box out of her hand as one of the guys from earlier starts speaking.
"No, we ain't cool, man. Who's closing these streets?" Tiny guy asks and I hide a small laugh behind my hand.
"No one. That's the point," the guy says and that is when we are dismissed, we all leave the building and walk over to our cars, I smirk over at Dom who winks at me as we climb into our cars and drive to the starting line.
I pull up next to Dom and that is when I notice that Brian is on the other side of Dom as Tiny is next to me, I plug the box into my stereo system and that is when I see that it is a GPS.
"Please wait while directions are downloading,"
We all rev our engines as we wait for the GPS to work, I look over at Dom who smirks at me before I turn my head and look over at the two idiots on the other side of me who are winking and flirting and blowing kisses but I just glare at the pair of them before turning back to the road.
"Proceed to the highlighted route, 10,"
"9,"
"8,"
"7,"
"6,"
"you sure you want to do this?" I hear Dom say so I turn and see that he is looking over at Brian.
"5,"
"A lot has changed," Brian responds.
"4,"
"You're right," Dom agrees with him before turning back to the road and I can see that he is gripping his steering wheel tighter, making his knuckles turn white.
"3,"
Everyone revs their engines again so I quickly turn back to the road as the countdown is nearly complete.
"2,"
"1,"
"Go!"
The moment that the GPS says that final word, we all take off and both Dom and I get our cars up on our back wheels as we speed away from the start line.
As I am driving, I notice that all 5 of the men pull ahead of me and I sigh in frustration as I notice that Tiny has dropped back and is swerving in front of me to stop me from passing.
"Right turn ahead,"
"Come on!" I growl then speed up, hitting the back of his bumper and causing him to spin out of control so I can get ahead and pass the weird spiky afro dude to be behind my brother and Dom.
"You are now five miles from your destination,"
We drift around the corner, and I can hear people yelling out as we go past and start to swerve in and out of the traffic that is on the road, getting honked at as we do, I see that my brother has drifted too wide so I take the opportunity to speed up and overtake him as Brian quickly swerves and causes 2 cars to crash into each other.
"Oh shit!" I exclaim as I turn my eyes back to the road and continue to speed up, I see that Brian has managed to get beside me and that is when he quickly side-swipes me, causing me to lose a little bit of control of my car so he takes his opportunity and overtakes me once again to get up beside Dom.
"Damn it!" I hit my steering wheel once I regain control and speed up, still swerving in and out of traffic, I see my brother about to be hit by a truck in his way so he slows down and swerves behind it.
"Let's do this brother," I mutter under my breath as I get closer to him and wait for my moment, which I quickly take to pass him and leave him behind the truck so I can get real close to Dom.
"Right turn ahead,"
We quickly drift around the corner and get out of the intersection, causing a small traffic jam behind Dom and me which makes the weird afro dude crash his car into the traffic, that is when I see my brother dodge under a flying white ute and quickly disappear from my sight.
Dom and I drift around another corner and that is when I manage to get up beside him as the Tiny dude comes up on my other side as we continue to drive straight.
"You are 2.6 miles from destination,"
Dom, Tiny, and I swerve through traffic, I notice that Tiny has gone wide around a car so I try to speed up but it doesn't work as he slams his car into my side, rocking my car and causing me to groan.
"You are now four and one-half miles from your destination,"
We pull out onto the small highway and continue driving as Tiny keeps trying to knock me off the road.
"Come on man!" I groan in pain as my head slams against my window, all of a sudden I hear something smashing and I notice that behind me, my brother has reappeared and is catching up quickly.
"You are now one mile from your destination,"
We continue to swerve through the traffic and Tiny hits me once again and I groan in pain as I start to get a headache.
"Nice car, baby!" Tiny calls out so I look over at him, that is when I see Dom has come up on his other side and I can see the glare on his face from here.
"Bye-bye," I wave and speed up in just enough time for Dom to slam into him, I flick my eyes in between my rearview mirror and the road to see that Tiny has slammed into Dom, I watch as he tries to do it again but Dom did the same thing that I did... sped up.
I laugh as Tiny's car clips the back of Dom's and starts to flip and fly off of the bridge, Dom then drives up beside me and we turn to look at each other and smile.
"Same time?" I call out and he nods in agreement, all of a sudden Brian comes up from a slip lane and gets on the other side of Dom as we drift around our last corner.
"You are now one-quarter mile from your destination,"
All three of us speed up, I make eye contact with Dom and watch as he pushes his NOSS after Brian overtakes him, I see that Brian shakes his head as Dom gets passed him and that is when Brian speeds up, hitting his NOSS as well.
"Wait for me boys," I mutter and then press my NOSS, causing my car to jolt forward with the new speed, I quickly overtake both my brother and my boyfriend but as I do this, I see Brian spinning out of control right before I drift over the finish line with Dom right on my tail.
"You have reached your destination. Goodbye,"
The crowd is cheering like crazy as Brian pulls up and all three of us climb out of our cars.
"At least we know you can't beat me straight up," Brian storms over to Dom who just smiles at him.
"I didn't know there were any rules, anyway... I didn't win, your sister did," Dom says and I smile at him.
"Now that's what I call real driving," Mohawk says as he walks over to me.
"No, that's bullshit, man!" Brian exclaims but Mohawk just brushes him off.
"Go cry to your mama, eh?" Mohawk says and that's when I wince, knowing that our mother is a sore subject to both Brian and I, Brian walks away as the guy from earlier walks over and shakes my hand.
"Damn chica, who knew you could drive like that! You work for Braga now. When the GPS calls, you follow, the both of you," He says, pointing between Dom and me, causing a smile to appear on my lips.
The guy and Mohawk walk away and the lady takes the chance to walk over to us with a small flip phone-like machine.
"Driver's license," she asks and I hand mine over to her before she looks at Dom.
"What driver's license?" he smiles and I laugh.
"Thumb," she says so I scan mine before Dom does his as Brian drives off.
"Cellphone number," she says and that is when my smile disappears and I turn to look at her but I notice that she is looking at me.
"The print is for Campos. The number is for me," she tells me and I smile, writing it down for her before she goes to walk away.
"I never got your name!" I call out and she stops, turning back towards me.
"Gisele, and yours?" she wonders and I smirk.
"Marley," she walks away and I sigh, turning to face Dom who smiles at me.
"How is it that you won a race and then got hit on in the same night?" he places his hands on my hips as I hang my hands across his shoulder loosely.
"I'm just that good baby, and besides... you hit on me after every race anyway so it's not anything new," I reach up on my tippy toes in my heels and place my lips on Dom's as he holds my body close to his.
"I've been wanting to hold you ever since you climbed out of your car tonight, let's get home," he smiles at me and I nod.
"Oh I know baby you haven't been able to take your eyes off of me," I smirk, kissing him one last time before pulling away.
"Race you home?" I ask and he nods as we climb into our cars and speed off home.
Hope you guys enjoy this chapter!
Translations are below
Oye - Hey
Mira - Look
Mami - Mommy
Mama - Mother
Chica - Girl