Fast Future Furious Past

Chapter Sixteen

Skylar went inside the house to get ready for the race. It took her nearly an hour in the shower scrubbing off the paint that stuck to her like a second skin. She stepped out of the steamy shower, wrapped a towel around her body, then cracked open the bathroom door. After looking in the hall she darted across it and into her room. Shivering, she quickly dressed, slipping on the black skinny jeans and black tank top she had set aside this morning. She glanced at the clock and saw that it was already after seven causing her stomach to somersault anxiously. She pushed aside her nervousness and set to work on her makeup, keeping all but her eyes simple. To her eyes she decided to apply some black and purple then blended it making her green eyes seem to pop from the smoky contrast of the dark colors. She quickly brushed her hair and used a hair clip to sweep it out of her face. She was just slipping on her low heeled black ankle boots when there was a knock at the door.

"Yeah?" she said standing up as Dom opened the door.

"Mia brought food and," he stopped as he looked at her.

"Something wrong?" she asked worriedly as she glanced at her clothes.

Dom shook his head, "Never realized how much you look like Rene til now."

Skylar smiled just as Letty walked in, "Mia's here with food so I thought I'd-" she stopped mid sentence catching sight of Skylar, "Damn chica you clean up good," she nudged Dom in the side before continuing, "Think the guys are gonna have a hard time concentrating at the race."

Her statement caused a low deep growl from Dom while Skylar rolled her eyes.

"Please, they'll be too busy falling over themselves trying to get with some shorty short, bikini top clad skank to pay attention to me."

Letty laughed, "I like her spunk. She reminds me of me at that age."

"Now that's a scary thought," Dom said shaking his head.

"Hey!" Letty said smacking Dom's chest before they went downstairs.

Skylar picked at her food while the others talked about plans for the night. The clock on the stove in the kitchen read out nine thirteen and she knew from Dom that they had to meet up with the other racers at ten.

"Skylar!" Dom's said loudly causing her to jump and snap her head in the direction of his voice.

"You ready?" he asked his voice softer as he looked at her.

Skylar shoved her plate aside and stood up grabbing the black leather jacket she'd slung over the back of her chair and slipped it on nodding.

"Ready as I'm gonna be," she mumbled.

"You'll do fine," Mia assured her, "Now go kick some ass, make some money and have some fun."

Skylar smiled at Mia's sassy statement, "I'll try."

"Let's roll out," Dom said.

Skylar was heading out the door when Dom stopped her.

"You okay?" he said, "You looked kinda green in there."

"I'll be fine," Skylar said as they walked to their cars, "Its just nerves. Once I get out there I'll be fine."

Dom said nothing more as he walked off to get into the Charger. Behind the Charger set Letty's Jensen Interceptor, behind Letty was Skylar and behind her was Brian's Nissan GT-R. She got into her car, linked her phone up to car's speakers and smiled as the music started immediately blasting from the speakers the bass seeming to vibrate everything in the car. She looked in her rear view mirror watching Brian shake his head while it seemed Mia was laughing before focusing on the cars in front of her. Dom pulled out quickly Letty keeping pace behind him. Dom wanted to make sure Skylar wouldn't lose her way by seeing that Brian and Mia kept up behind her. She glanced back her eyes narrowing in annoyance at seeing how close Brian was.