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Brian's pov

Today's my date with mia.

It's mainly so I can get some info but I would be lying to myself if I didn't actually want to go out with her and get to know her.

This situation sucks.

This amazing woman has agreed to go on a date with me but im here to convict her brother , maybe my sister and I need information.

Everyone was working on the cars all day, including me and then it was almost time to leave so mia and i started talking.

"You got big plans tonight?"

Dom asks me,pulling me out of the garage walking towards the back.

"Yeah. We're going out to dinner."

"You break her heart, I'll break your neck."

"That's not gonna happen."

"I want to show you something. Me and my dad built her. Nine hundred horses of Detroit muscle. It's a beast.  You know what she ran in Palmdale?"

He asks as he shows me a beast of a car.

"No. What?"

"Nine seconds flat."

"God."

I said impressed and at a loss of words

"My dad was driving. So much torque, the chassis twisted coming off the line. Barely kept her on the track."

"So, what's your best time?"

I asked, genuinely interested

"I've never driven her."

He said and I looked at him slightly shocked.

"Why not?"

"It scares the shit out of me."

He admitted.

I walked around it to see a picture of a man with a boy next to him on a cork board.

"That's my dad. He was coming up in the pro stock-car circuit. Last race of the season. A guy named Kenny Linder came up from inside, in the final turn. He clipped his bumper and put him into the wall at 120."

He told me and I just stared at him, shocked at the fact that he was willing to share this with me.

"I watched my dad burn to death. I remembered hearing him scream. But the people that were there said he had died before the tanks blew. They said it was me who was screaming. "

I felt bad because he truly thought he was sharing this with a friend. Which technically.....he was.

But i just.... felt bad.

"I saw Linder about a week later,I had a wrench, and I hit him. And I didn't intend to keep hitting him, but when I finished, I couldn't lift my arm.
He's a janitor at a high school now. He has to take the bus to work every day. And they banned me from the tracks for life."

I just kept looking at him.

"I live my life a quarter-mile at a time. Nothing else matters. Not the mortgage, not the store...
not my team and all their bullshit. For those 10 seconds or less...I'm free."

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I waited for Mia to walk out.

Then she did.

God she was gorgeous.

I hate that I'm not doing this for the right reasons.

But maybe I don't have to think about it.

For a minute.

We went and sat down.

After a lot of conversation i  had to start asking about the gang.

"So, how is it, anyways, that the gang came to be?"

"What?"

"The gang."

"The gang? No, they don't call themselves a gang."

"What do they call themselves?"

"They're a team. They call themselves a team."

"All right. How did the team come to be?"

"Well, that's a whole lot of history."

"I've got time."

"Okay. Vince grew up with my brother. Actually, he didn't ever actually grow up, as you can tell.
But they were friends as kids. And Letty, she just lived down the street. Always into cars.

"How does Jesse fit into the whole thing?"

"Jesse. Well, Jesse and Leon just sort of showed up one night and never, ever left. "

"How does...iz-bella fit into it?"

"Well...she showed up to live down the street when she was 15 and then we met her again at a street race. From there dom and bella just... They fell in love and she's never left."

"It's just the way my brother is, you know. Dom's like...He's like gravity. Everything just gets pulled to him. Even you."

"No."

"No?"

"No. The only thing that pulled me in was you.
Being friends with your brother is just a bonus."

'That's good. That's good. It's nice to come first
every once in a while."

I'm a horrible person.

"Want to go for a drive?"

"Yeah?"

We drove around for a while before going back to my place.

In the middle of the night, my phone began to ring

"Bilkins has decided that we're gonna move
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n Jhonny tran and his guys at 17:00. Unless you say otherwise. If you agree, just say yes."

Just then mia started waking up.

"Yes"

I muttered quickly

"Who was that?"

"It's just a wrong number."

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