Dom's POV
After Letty ran out of the room nearly in tears, I pulled out my phone and walked outside to the kitchen as not to be over heard. I could hear the boys grilling Mia about Letty's behaviour. Not being hassled my ass. I thought to myself.
"Yo Dom, what up man?"
"Hey Hector, I got an issue over here with Letty."
"Ah shit, what's Jason gone and done now?" Hector swore.
"Well to be honest I don't know myself, Letty's acting weird she skipped school today and just now she come up to me and wants me to ask you to lift Jason's ban, all the while in tears."
"We talking about the same Letty?"
"Yes."
"Damn….actually Dom Jason and his mate Matt have been pretty smug since they got home from school today. You could have a point."
"Hec, I really don't want to do this but it's the only way to find out what the go is, so can you lift the ban."
"Yeah man, I aint happy about it though. He's up to something I just need to find out what…"
"We, we need to find out what. Listen man any chance of helping me out with this."
"Anything for a brother you know that Dom. What have you got in mind?"
"lift the ban, but warn him to stay away from Letty, just get you're boys to keep a close eye and ear out for anything. She's pretty messed up, I don't know what the go is."
"Alright I got it bro. I'll have Edwin and a couple of boys keep an eye on em too. See ya at the races yeah?"
"you got it man." I said as I hung up.
I walked back into the room and found Mia still being asked questions, but she wasn't answerinkg them.
"I got hector to lift the ban but we aint happy about it." I said loudly directing it towards Mia.
"This is so messed up brother. He shouldn't be allowed near Letty after what he did." Vince vented. Mia nodded and quickly fled upstairs.
"Hey, listen up. I spoke to Hector, something's up. He said Jason and his mate Matt or something seemed a little too smug after school today. Keep an eye on those two tonight and try not to let these two wander far. Letty doesn't cry for no reason, we know that and she sure as hell doesn't do it front of people." Leon nodded in agreement as did Jesse.
"Hector keeping an eye out too?" I nodded.
"Good that shits going down if he's messed with Letty again."
"Oh they won't be able to walk let alone race for a long time if they've messed with Letty again." I promised.
It was quiet for a while as we started our game up again.
"Dom man, you really need to tell Letty how you feel." I rolled my eyes at Leon's advice.
"Dude she's got a boyfriend and I don't want her running off again. Besides she knows how I feel."
"You told her?" Leon asked shocked.
"Yeah man I told her. Balls in her court now I promised to back off and give her space. I haven't done a great job of that so far."
"What was her response to that dawg." I sighed.
"That conversation we had over the phone is when I told her, probably not the best moment to drop that bomb shell on her."
"That well huh?" Jesse cringed I nodded.
"Yep that well…. Like I said balls in her court now."
We finished our game off and I passed the controller over to Jesse to pack up.
"I'll go get the girls." Walking up the stairs I stopped in Mia's room first.
"Hey you ready to go?"
"Yeah." She said looking up from a text book. I raised an eyebrow at her outfit.
"What?" she asked as she stopped in front of me.
"No outfit for me to disapprove of tonight?"
"Nope, I guess the message finally sunk in."
"Doubtful. I will find out you know." Mia didn't say anything just grabbed her jacket and ran downstairs. Rolling my eyes I walked towards Letty's room and knocked.
"yeah?"
"You okay?" I asked walking into the room.
"Yep fine, we ready to leave?" She asked trying to sound happy.
"Uh yeah but listen I wanna talk to you before we go." I said but I watched her roll her eyes and sighed.
"Look I didn't mean to lose it down stairs, I just don't think it's fair to continue banning him after he's already apologised. It was after all just a dare." She said as she stood in front of me. I went to open my mouth to say something back but she shook her head at me.
"Please don't fight me on this okay? This is what I want. Did you ring Hector?" I frowned but nodded.
"Okay thanks, so can we go now? I don't wanna be late Dom." I stared at her in silence, just looking at how scared she looked, she wasn't doing very well of hiding it. Eventually I nodded though and stood up from leaning on the door frame.
"Yeah alright let's go. You ridin' in your own car?" I asked as I watched her pause for a moment thinking.
"Uh nah I don't think I'll race tonight, do you mind if Mia and I ride with you?" she said as I let out a relieved breath that I hadn't realised I'd be holding, before nodding.
"No that's fine, hurry up and get your asses in the car." I watched as she smirked at me as she walked passed, I rolled my eyes and followed her. Mia was waiting at the front door with the rest of the team and I watched as they shared a look that seemed to catch Vince's eye too as he looked suspiciously between them. I just rolled my eyes and shook my head as I saw Letty flip him off as she walked out the door.
"bloody teenage girls." I muttered quietly as Jesse and Leon snickered behind me.
The drive to the races was disturbingly quiet as I kept sneaking glances at Letty, I knew she knew I was looking at her but she ignored me and turned up the radio and stared out the window for the rest of the ride.
AT THE RACES
Like usually the moment I stepped out of the car the chaser swarmed around me and from what I saw briefly Vince had the same problem.
"Sorry ladies I'm not interested tonight." There was a lot of pouting and whining but eventually when they realised I wasn't going to budge they moved one to another racer.
We hung around the cars just chatting together and a few others that would occasionally walk up. I noticed that Jason and his mate were among Hectors crew and I made a mental note to keep an eye on where they were tonight. Another thing that caught my attention was that Mia hadn't left Vince's side all night and Letty hadn't moved from my side. Every time we moved they moved with us, if that's not a giveaway that something was wrong then I didn't know what was.
"Hey Let, your boy's here." I sighed and shifted against the car as I caught sight of him and Tyler. They seemed to be arguing between the two of them and glaring in our direction which peaked my interest. Maybe Letty had told him about what had transpired, it gave me some hope.
However I was a little worried myself when Tyler suddenly pulled Nathan back. I watched as he snapped and suddenly made his way towards us with Tyler trailing behind him like a lost puppy.
"What's his problem?" I muttered to myself.
"Didn't think you'd show tonight." Nathan said tensely as he stopped in front of Letty. I tensed up as I heard the tone of his voice obviously something had gone down between the two of them.
"It's race night, I'm always here."
"Yeah now I know why." He spat. I watched as she flinched at his tone and I started to get mad at the way he was speaking.
"It's not like that…" She said quietly.
"Yeah whatever Let, I don't care."
"I thought you were different Mia, I guess you were doing the same thing with him then?" Tyler said looking over at Mia. Whoa hold up no one speaks to my baby sister that way, standing up straight I went to open my mouth but V beat me to it.
"What the hell is going on here?" Vince asked confused as to why he had been brought into the conversation.
"Oh fuck off Tyler I didn't do anything wrong. You know that." Mia shouted. 'language Mia.' I thought to myself.
"No you just covered for your slut of a friend." Mia gasped and Letty stood there stunned at the words that had just left Nathan's mouth. I however was furious and I could tell the others gearing up for a fight too.
"Hey that's my baby sister you're talking to. And who are you calling a slut?" I asked stepping towards the boys.
"Oh like you don't know." Nathan spat at me. I looked between Letty and Nathan and realised I had been right about my earlier thoughts as I put two and two together.
"I don't know what you think happened but you better get your facts right before you go and start throwing around words like that." I snarled back at him, he hesitated for a moment looking at Letty.
"Whatever, in a way you were right about her. She got exactly what she deserved by leading Jason on. I hope she was worth it." I too stood there unable to say anything as Nathan and Tyler bolted before any of the team could do anything. I got over my shock pretty fast and swivelled around angrily looking at Mia and Letty.
"Okay you two explain now what the fuck that was all about." I asked angrily.
"Nothing." She snapped. I was furious and took a step forward towards her, I pushed her back softly into the car behind but I noticed she winced in pain and I was shocked.
"DOM careful!" Mia yelled and Letty looked like she wanted to kill her for it. I looked at Mia confused before looking back at Letty as she continued to wince as she moved away from the car. Narrowing my eyes at her I took a step closer.
"I didn't push you hard, hell I've pushed you harder. What's wrong? And DON'T say nothing Letty." I warned having lost my patience.
"I broke up with Nathan and Tyler broke up with Mia because of it. That's it." She said. I stared at her feeling guilty for being the reason behind her break up with Nathan but in all honestly I was happy she was single again.
"Okay so why did Mia yell careful and why are looking like you're in pain?"
"It hurt." I raised an eyebrow and looked at her in disbelief.
"You're a shitty liar Letty." Shaking my head.
"Okay so what was with the slut comment?" Leon asked and I waited for her answer, she sighed frustrated and went to answer but Mia beat her to it.
"He got the wrong idea when Letty had told him she had cheated." 'Wonderful. Now everyone had a fair idea of what she and I had gotten up to.' I thought catching the look V sent me.
"And the Jason comment? Is that what brought earlier on?" She hesitated which was enough of an indication to say she was about to lie and instead of saying anything she nodded. 'Liar.' I thought as I took in her appearance.
"I'm sorry Let, I never meant to cause trouble." I said softly. She smiled slightly and nodded but I saw through it.
"I know." I paused and went to say something more but Hector arrived.
"Hey guys, Let you alright girl?" I watched as she nodded and smiled at Hector.
"Well I gotta be honest with ya girl I ain't happy about letting him and his mates back. But I had a talk to em and they made a promise to stay away. So any trouble you tell me alright?" again she smiled and nodded, but I watched as Hector pretended to seem satisfied with her answer before we left to discuss 'races' together leaving them with the rest of the team.
"I see what you mean. Anyhow I got eyes out on em now. If they do anything I'll know." I shook his hand and we continued chatting about the races. I waved Vince over as Hector told me about a race that was about to start tag team style. With one last look at Letty V and I went to meet the guys we'd be racing against, we wouldn't be long. I thought to myself walking away.