Slow Ride

8

Pulling into the Toretto's drive way was a slow and painful one, Mia was in the garage with the door open and sitting on the charger that Dom was rebuilding when she saw the car arriving, the absolute angry look on her face made their insides churn in fear, "If you drive away now, we can still live to see another sunrise." Anna whispered, her eyes not moving from her best friend, "Agreed but she will find us and kill us then and more painfully."Dom countered, both weighed their options but in fact the one where they faced Mia right then seemed the best.

Dom was the first to get out of the car, saying "Hey Mia..." "Don't 'Hey Mia' me Dominic Toretto, where were you the whole night, I though that you had been caught by the cops and sent to jail again!" Mia snapped at him, getting off the hood of the car and making her way to his face, "Mia..." Anna called out as she got out of the car, her casted wrist behind her back, "And you Annabelle Elizabeth Penelope Simons, what on earth happened to you? Don't try and hide your wrist, I saw the cast as you pulled into the drive way! Why is your wrist in a cast? AND WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING?!" Mia shouted at the two, Dom looked at his sister then at the British girl and opened his mouth to reply when Anna beat him to it.

"My mom's house." the tanned British brunette said using her casted left wrist to pull back her hair behind her left ear, exposing the left side of her of her face, a few stitches scattered, instantly Mia's angry demeanour evaporated and she stepped closer to her best friend, shock clear on her face, "I accidentally overheard Dom telling you and Letty about a race so I snuck out and went to race, we got into an accident while racing and I passed out." Anna continued before looking at Dom and finishing "He took me to the hospital and stayed with me." 

The 23 year old man smiled at her softly before Mia jumped forward and wrapped her arms around the wounded brunette, a chocked sob escaping her lips, this reaction completely threw Dom and Anna off, they were still expecting Mia to scold them until they turned to dust. It seemed that the commotion woke up Letty and Vince, because the two stumbled outside looking sleepy and confused, "Damn girl what happened to you?" Vince asked prompting Dom and Letty to send him a glare while Anna rubbed Mia's back with her good hand.

Vince cleared his throat and walked down the few steps and hugged his friend while Letty walked to Mia and Anna looking at the two and frowning when she caught sight of her British friend's face, unfortunately the silence was briefly lived because soon enough Lilian Simmons stalked out of the house and stomped her way to her daughter and her friends. "Annabelle!" she hissed beyond angry, no ounce of worry or confusion or regret or even relief covering her features, only pure and scolding hot anger, Mia sprung away from Anna while everyone turned around to face the woman, "Just what do you think you're doing? Fleeing in the middle of the night when I told you that you were grounded?! Hanging out with people who clearly have bad influences on you! I did not raise you like this! To be a disobedient tramp!" Lilian growled, her face turning red with the amount of anger.

A low gasp escaped everyone's lips but Lilian and Annabelle's, "I believe that we talked about who raised me to be who I am today, yesterday." Annabelle said as politely as she could, "And you were right." Lilian stated confusing Anna, who frowned at her mother's words, "I would never raise you to be a whore who flees the house, disobeys me, get's into accidents and hangs around the bad kind of people." Lilian continued, "Well excuse me!" Mia snapped stepping in front of her best friend, "Just who do you think you're talking about? We would never hurt intentionally or not Anna, we wouldn't do to her what you did to her face."  she hissed glaring at the older woman.

"And you must be the whore who roped my daughter into the wrong ways." Lilian said in a bored tone, as if Mia's words hadn't affected her, which most likely they didn't, Dom, of course being the over prtective brother he is stepped in front of Mia and glared at the older woman in front of them and stated as he crossed his arms "And who you think you're calling a whore? I don't see a mirror around." Lilian let out a humourless chuckle and shook her head before cocking her brow at the ex-prisoner, "You don't actually believe I don't know who you are Dominic Toretto, ex-prisoner at Lompoc, street racer, gangster. You know, one word, one white lie from me and you'll get a one-way trip back to Lompoc for the rest of your life!" Lilian sneered, enjoying the fact that Dom clenched his jaw at the mention of the prison.

Not wanting her best friend's brother to go to prison, Anna walked forward, placing a hand on his arm, istantly calming him down and told her mother in a calm tone, "I don't like the way you're talking about and to my friends, you've been away for more than half of my life so you have no right in waltzing back into it like you own it, like you own me. I suggest you pack your stuff and leave me alone, for good this time because I had no official mother for 18 years, I sure as hell don't need one now. I have my own family, in England, Madeleine and my brothers, and here, my friends."

The cool poise that Anna was having made Lilian snap and launch forward towards her daughter, her hands outstretched and aiming for Anna's neck, thankfully Dom was faster than her and pulled the tan British teen behind him, into Mia and Letty's arms and stood in front of them protectively with Vince, "I advice you to leave my property before we have you arrested for trespassing." Vince said angrily, glaring at the older brunette woman in front of him. The spy fumed and glared at the two young adults before saying loud enough for her daughter to hear "You have a week to get your stuff out of my house or I'll have you arrested and thrown into Lompoc for anything I come up with you ungrateful slut." Lilian then turned on her heel and walked to her car, driving away like a mad person.