Ride Home To Me

Chapter 9

Dom talked to Mr. T and my ma about taking me to the races this weekend. Letty and Mia are so excited, and Mia especially can't stop talking about it as we sit in her room waiting for Letty to get ready.

"You're gonna have so much fun Gabi, my dad is so good on the track. I already know how to drive and he says once I'm sixteen and get my license he's gonna teach me to race," Mia says.

"That's cool Mia," I chuckle. I turn towards the closet and call out, "Let you done yet? Man you dress slower than my abuela, and she's dead."

"Shut up pendeja." I hear her muffled response from behind the door and giggle with Mia. I turn at the sound of the door opening and Letty muttering obscenities under her breath. "I don't like this Mia."

Mia rushes to fix her up and adjust the pieces she put her into, but I remain sitting on the bed just in case. Letty nods towards me, the questioning look on her face silently asking me about the outfit. I look her up and down, and try not to laugh. She's wearing her regular blue jeans and a pale purple top that belongs to Mia, with some pink barrettes in her hair. It's nice, but...

"I think you look great, Letty, but you don't look like yourself," I say honestly, giggling.

Letty huffs. "You come and help me then. Mia has too much pink stuff."

I smile. "You guys wanna come over to mine? I think you might like my stuff better and we can be back by five."

Letty changes back into her original clothes and we walk the short distance back to my house. When we step inside, my ma is there getting ready to leave.

"Hey Ma," I say, kissing her cheek as she passes by. "When you gonna be back?"

She looks guilty. "Right now I just have to pick up some chicken from the store so I can have dinner with you mija but my shift starts at 6 so I'll be out all night."

She says goodbye to the three of us and we head upstairs to my room. Mia goes to use the bathroom so I'm alone in my room with Letty. She sits on my bed and looks at all the posters on my walls while I dig through my drawers.

"Here," I toss a tight black shirt and a black belt at her. "See how that looks with your jeans."

She can't really fit into my closet so I just turn around while she switches her top. Mia walks in and grins.

"Maybe Gabi should dress you more often Let," she says. I turn to see that while it's a bit short, the black t shirt suits her even as a crop top. The small shades sitting on my dresser catch my eye, so I grab them and put them on for her. I turn away fast to hide the heat in my cheeks, because damn she looks good.

Letty grins at herself in the mirror and fluffs her hair a bit.

"Thanks hermana," she says.

"Don't mention it," I mumble, biting my cheek.

"You excited?" Mia pokes her, giggling.

"I'm still kinda trying to believe your brother actually asked me out," Letty smiled.

I lay down on my bed while they chat back and forth about the date. When my ma comes back with dinner we reheat some rice and frijoles and eat together, then head back to Mia's house.

I go ahead of the girls and step inside to see Dom waiting on the couch, watching a movie. I grin and fistbump him, pointing to the door right as Letty and Mia walk through it.

"Your date's here hermano," I tell him.

Dom grins and turns off the TV, and kisses Letty on the cheek.

"Don't have too much fun," I call out to them, winking at Letty when she makes a face at me.

"Gabi ew, that's my brother and my best friend," Mia scrunches her nose and fake gags.

"I'm just sayin, they are a bit older than you Mia so you gotta keep the possibilities open-"

"Shut up right now! Ew! Grossssss-!" She covers her ears and rushes up the stairs. I laugh and wave bye to Dom and Letty before following behind her, continuing the teasing.

"You can't rule it out Mia! Don't worry, long as your brother uses a condom it'll be fine...!"

A/N: Shorter chapter this time, sorry... :) Things may seem a bit slow right now but they'll start picking up hopefully soon! Just for future reference, there's gonna be time skipping through this thing cause this story is supposed to span over several years and I'd rather that this book wasn't a million chapters long but I guess we'll see haha. Aight that's it for now I think. Bye!