T2 - The Second Toretto

Chapter 3

Brian and I looked over as soon as we heard the five cars pull in. Dom was in front, obviously, in his 1993 Mazda RX-7, behind him was Leon in his 1995 Nissan Skyline GT-R R33 and Letty in her '97 Nissan 240SX behind the two of them were Vince and Mia in Vince's '99 Nissan Maxima A32 and Jesse in his '95 Jetta.

I walked over to Mia and Letty as soon as they were out of the car. The first thing we noticed was Dom talking to some, uh, possible walking STD's like my dad would say. Letty got her bitch on real quick with Dom's little friends so I decided to do the good family/girl code thing and help her out.

"I smell skanks." I told Letty, making a little cat sound and sniffing around quickly making Dom shake his head.

"Why don't you girls leave before I leave treadmarks on your face." Letty said.

The two blonde racer-chasers looked at each other and then at us with distaste before retreating away.

"Really Charlie? I'd think that you would try to diffuse, I didn't expect you to join in. Letty, I was just talking." he said.

"Year, whatever." she replied.

The guys eyed me warily and looked around angrily at the men who were looking at me.

"Got something to say?" I asked Vince.

"Couldn't you have put on a little more clothes?" he asked.

"No, I didn't feel like it so what?" I asked, making him sigh.

"I'm sorry Charlie." he said.

"Yeah, right, you're lucky that I love you." I replied, making him sigh in relief.

"I love you too kid."

"I'm not a kid." I pouted, making the guys laugh.

"We'll talk later." Dom told me.

"Yeah, whatever." I said, repeating Letty's favorite quote.

"Okay, Hector." he said.

"Yeah? What's up man?" Hector replied.

"Yo, what's up?" Edwin said.

"Edwin." Dom said.

"How we doing this tonight?" Edwin asked.

"One race. $2g buy-in, winner takes all. Hector, you're going to hold the cash." Dom said.

"Why Hector?" another racer asked.

"Cause he's too slow to make away with the money, man." Edwin said, laughing at his own joke.

"Charlie, you in tonight?" Dom asked.

"Nah, I'm having fun just watching. I don't wanna embarrass the guys on my first day back." I replied, making a few of the guys scoff.

"Okay, good luck, guys." Dom told them as he started to walk away.

"Hey, wait. Hold up. I don't have any cash but I do have the pink slip to my car." Brian said as he ran up to us.

"You just can't climb in the ring with Ali, 'cause you think you box." Jesse scolded, making me momentarily proud.

"He knows I can box." Brian said with a smirk and pointing at Vince.

I coughed to cover my laugh and looked over at Mia and Letty who were fighting for the same thing. The look on Vince's face could be described as murderous as some of the guys around us started to make some noise.

"Check it out, it's like this. I lose, the winner takes my car, clean and clear. But if I win, I take the cash and I take the respect." he said.

"Respect." Dom repeated.