| Title: Speed Author: Priscilla Chapter 3 "What did you just say?" Dominic looked incredulous, like he couldn't believe it. Everyone around us was watching him. "I want you. You up for it or what Toretto?" "Yeah I'm up for it. How much you got sweetheart?" He said with that dum smirk still on his face. Forget racing him, I wanted to strangle him for not taking me seriously. I mean I'm challenging him and he's, what? smiling? UNBELIEVABLE. The nerve of this guy! "I got 5G's winner takes all." The crowd broke out in OHH's and Damn!. I couldn't help but smile at their reactions. "You got a deal, babe. Just have my money ready." Dominic said before he headed towards Carlos, handed him the money and whispered something in his ear that made him laugh. Then Carlos came towards me. "Hey" he said. "How ya doin' ?" "Alright. You got the money?" "Yeah. right here." I said reaching into my shirt and pulling out the wad of cash. "You mind if I ask you something?" "No go ahead" he said "What he say to you about me just now?" I said nodding to Dominic. "He said that you got guts for a chick. You know challenging him and everything and then he made a crack about how long it's probably been since you got laid." Carlos said chuckling to himself. "Really. Well I guess were about to see who's gonna get fucked." With that I went to my car. As I was buckling myself in guess who leans into my car? Just guess. "You should really put your windows up before we start, sweetheart." Dominic said in that voice that makes me wanna....... well you know. "And why's that?" I asked cocking my eyebrow at him. "Cuz I wouldn't wanna get all that fuel exhaust on that pretty face." he said smirking. "Yeah well you'll have time to re-apply your makeup while I'm collecting MY 10G's." I said smiling. "Well see." And with that he turned and got into his ride. And what a beautiful ride it was. It was a red Jetta. 'Come to think of it, I may have made a mistake,' I thought to myself as the crowd spread out on either side. When some guy got on the street in front of us with a white flag in his hand I turned on the engine. Oh man, let me tell you there's nothing like that purr. I couldn't help smile. Turning my head to my right I noticed Dominic had the same smile as we locked eyes. The guy held up the flag then dropped his arm. We sped down the street. I got off on a good start, I was ahead of him! I was ahead of Dominic Toretto! But then I turned my head and there he was right level with me. He made sure we locked eyes again before a slow smile crept up his face. 'Why's he smiling?' I asked myself, and then I found out. He pressed the NOS before I even knew what was happening and soon he flew passed me and down the rest of the street. When I stopped, he was already there and was talking to Carlos. I ignored the laughter and smirks that came my way as I got out of my car and walked towards them. Dominic was being hugged by Carlos and this girl with waist long brown hair. "What the hell do you think your doing?" I asked seriously pissed. "What the hell does it look like I'm doing? I fucking won fair and square babe." "The hell you did! What was that you pressed back there. That's fucking cheating." "It's a computer based fuel injection, get a clue every body's using it. I don't know where you came from but I suggest you wager a LOT less money next time you race." "Yeah I guess the Little Princess needs some more driving lessons, hugh Dom?" I turned around to see who the smart ass was and she was standing by a purple 240SX smirking towards Dominic. I can't say that I know what happened after we locked eyes, all I know is that seconds later I was being pulled off of her by Dominic, Carlos, and this dark skinned guy I don't know, I think somebody called him Edwin. I didn't really have time to recover cause Carlos whispered something into Dom's ear and the he yelled: "Cops, Cops Cops!" Everybody was running towards their cars or their houses. So I did the only thing I could think of: I followed Dominic's car where ever he was going. He seems to know exactly what to do and I sure as hell wasn't going to jail tonight. There were about 9 cars and including mine speeding through the streets when we pulled up to an abandoned warehouse looking place. Everyone went inside turned off the engines closed the black metal door that came down from the ceiling and waited. When we heard the sirens pass the building and start to fade, everyone got out. When I finally came out of my car my door banged into something and I cursed. Looking up, there was Dominic with a VERY pissed off look on his face. Title: Speed Author: Priscilla Chapter 4 "What the hell do you think you're doin' little girl?" he asked. 'Okay so how the hell do I get myself outta this one?' I couldn't help ask myself. "What?" I asked completely dumbfounded as to what to say and because Dominic was so damn close to me again. 'God he even SMELLS good.' I thought to myself. "What do you mean what? You're not supposed to be here." "I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to go to jail and I sure as hell don't know the streets around here as well as you guys do." "I'm not a babysitter." Dominic said flatly, still staring at me. "I'm not asking you to be, ok? I just need a place to hide out for awhile. Until things cool off. I won't be able to get to my place without being noticed cause of my car." I said almost pleading to him with my eyes to not leave me there. Dominic stared at me for a little while longer then turned to his crew and asked: "What do you guys think?" "I think that we ain't no babysitters, like you said, but I mean I wouldn't wanna be left out here either if I was her." this really skinny white guy said to Dominic leaning against a white Jetta. "Mia?" Dominic said looking at the girl with the waist long hair that was hugging him earlier. "I think we should bring her. Not as one of us, but it wouldn't be right to leave her here, she'll get into trouble." "How do we know if we can trust her, I mean what do we REALLY know about her?" asked Letty, looking around to the crew and Dom. "Hey I ain't stupid enough to sell out people who help me to the cops. Besides, it's not like the cops and I mix too well anyways." I said trying to sway their decision. "Alright, you're comin' with us. But try anything shady and your ass is MINE. Got that sweetheart?" Dominic said turning to me. I nodded my head in agreement. We split up in groups of two each going in different directions, but we would end up in the same place. We left our cars in another abandoned garage looking place closed in by steel doors and brick walls, and walked a couple of blocks till we got to this house. When we got in everyone sat and started talking, but they shut up when Dom walked in with Mia and Letty behind him. He stared at me for a long time, then he asked: "So who are you anyways?" "What do you mean?" "I mean where do you come from, you sound Italian but I ain't sure." "I am Italian. From New York. Brooklyn." "That explains the attitude." Letty interrupted looking at me. "That explains your busted lip." I said remembering what happened earlier. "Hey! Cut it out. Listen, you can stay the night and tomorrow I'll take you to your car and you can walk away." Dominic said looking at me again. "Only one catch though." He added after I nodded. "What's that?" "You show me your place and tell me more about yourself. I don't like people to know more about me than I know about them." He explained. "Fine." "Alright people decide what you're gonna do cuz I'm beat and ya'll can't stay here." Dominic told everyone and went upstairs leaving me alone with Mia as everyone scattered. "You can come with me, were gonna be room mates." She said before she went upstairs too. I followed her. She handed me a pillow and a blanket and pointed to a bed. Then she handed me a really big T-shirt as a night gown, I guess. Then she turned to me and said: "My brother likes you. I can tell cause he looks at you so much. That's why Letty's getting in your face, she's jealous." "Really. I hate to see what he does to people he hates." I answered and she smirked. "Since we haven't been properly introduced, I'm Janet Corleone." "Nice to meet ya, I'm Mia Torreto." And with that we went to sleep without another word. ***************** When I woke up. I guess I kinda forgot where I was because I just went downstairs in the thin T-shirt I was wearing and into the kitchen without opening my eyes. All conversation died when I walked in. "Hey Janet. Morning." Mia said over her bowl. "Hey." I replied. Finally opening my eyes and noticing that aside from Mia I was the only other girl in the room and that ALL the guys including Dominic were staring at me with big eyes. I looked down and noticed that the T-shirt was so thin you could see my lacy black underwear through it. I immediately felt the blush on my face. How stupid could I be! I guess Mia saw that I was embarrassed and said: "Your clothes are in the closet in my room." I thanked her and ran upstairs to change. When I came back downstairs the guys were nowhere to be seen. I heard some noise coming from a door off to the other end of the kitchen and opened it. I was a garage of some sort and I guess the whole crew was working on their rides. I found Dominic and gulped. MY GOD he didn't have a shirt on and he was all sweaty and beautiful. "So are we gonna go get my car now?" I asked him trying not to drool when he looked up at me and smiled. "Sure. Finally put some clothes on?" "Yeah. Why did you like the morning look better?" "Girl any chance I get to see a non-hootie in her underwear is a welcome change." With that I followed him down a couple of blocks to where we'd left most of our cars last night. I checked everything before I got in my "baby". He laughed. "Did you think Letty would try to blow you up or something?" "No. but you never know." I said smiling. He got in next to me and whistled. "This is nice. If you could get a NOS injection, maybe add intercoolers and megaflows to the engine, you'd have one hell of a rocket." I nodded amazed by the fact that he blew everything I thought I knew about racing completely out of the water. With that we drove to my house. I gave him a tour and when he asked, I told him everything from my childhood all leading up to how my mom died, but I conveniently left out the Malone's or any of their involvement in my life. He told me about how he and his sister ended up where they were and how he got into racing. A couple of hours later we drove back to his house in silence. Neither of us noticed the black Honda that had been parked across the street the whole time, the driver waiting, watching our every move. "You should come over more often. I'd like the company." He said leaning into my passenger side window. "Sounds good. Maybe I'll come and you can finally show me what the hell that NOS crap you talk about so much is." "Come watch me Saturday?" he asked in the most sincere voice I'd heard from him yet. "Tell your sister I said hi." "I can't do that." "Why not?" I asked hoping that this feeling in my stomach whenever he talks to me was NOT what I thought it was. "You didn't give me an answer." he said with a smirk. "FINE I'll come Saturday. OK?" "Alright." he said before he leaned further into the car grabbed my head with both hands and kissed me slowly, softly. It was mind blowing. He pulled away, smiled and walked into the garage. I never did notice the black Honda up the block. ****************** When I got back to my apartment I looked at my machine. It had one message. I pressed PLAY and waited. It was Pop. He asked how I was and told me that he was sending Chris to help with my "negotiations". That he'd had Chris get in touch with a guy named Jonny Tran and his crew to help us get things going smoothly. I cursed. Chris Malone had been after me since the day I walked into his father's house. He never did get that I didn't want him, never would. 'Things are just gettin' better and better' I said to myself . |