Chapter 1
"Diana, it's for you meeho..." Hector's wife called to the young girl that was currently staying on their sofa.
Diana's face betrayed no suprise as she unfolded her legs and took the phone, "Yeah?" she answered impassively.
"Diana?" A soft female voice questioned on the other end of the phone. "It's Elenora William's, Aunt Ele..." she tagged at the end.
"Aunt Ele?" Diana said slowly... rolling the new phrase off her tounge for a moment, before saying roughly... "I don't have an Aunt Ele..." her full upper lip started to curl slightly with annoyance and impatience...
"¡Ese Bastardo! Debo haber sabido que él mintió después que lo que él la hizo... mentir a sus niños..." The woman at the other end said with bitter Spanish. "Of course you do my girl... I'm Eleanora... I was... am... your mother's older sister. I married and moved to California... I... your father was supposed to tell you and Tiny, to ring me... if you ever needed anything."
"Yeah...?" Diana questioned her interest slightly taken, with the mention of her younger brother, but there was no belief behind that... this woman could be any kind of * whacko... "Well what do you want?" Diana demaned.
"Well... I was... I was thinking that I haven't seen you for years... almost 15 I was wondering if you and... Tiny... would like to come up to L.A. for a visit... I have... well... some room... Letty rarely uses her room... I'm sure you could have that..." Ele said... this had been kinda... a spur of the moment plan.
"Letty?" Letty Williams? Diana remmebered her... her mother had spoken of her maybe once... not enough for Diana to pay any attention... but the name just struck home... she remembered a hot summer afternoon, and a wading pool... Letty and her running through the sprinklers and diving in the wading pool... her father getting drunk... and yelling at her mother when, he got splashed... ohh yeah... Diana remember that day... and suddenly she remember Letty's mother and father...
"I remember you..." Diana said slowly, tilting her head back... looking into the kitchen to see Hector's wife cooking, while pretending she wasn't listening... "I got... shit here... to sort out... can I give you a call later?" Diana demanded, finding a pen...
"Of course..." Ele agreed quickly telling her neice the number to her home in L.A. adding, "You can call me collect..." Diana grunted in agreement and dropped the phone back on the receiver... going to lie back on the sofa... looking at her aunt's number on her forearm... and thinking.
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"Yeah... she should be here in a day or two... mami sent the money for a ticket over to her yesterday..." Letty informed the garage casually. One of her two cousins was coming to L.A. Letty remembered playing with them... when they'd come for holiday's... their father was a bastard... not that that had anything to do with the fact he'd kicked LETTY'S cousin out... or that her mami hated him with passion... Letty had never like the drunk bastard.
Letty wiped the sweat from her neck then wiped her hand on an oily rag... she needed a shower... she'd been working non-stop since 6:30 in the morning... now it was 7 at night. Letty arched her back, un-aware of the apprecative eye's of every male in the garage.
"A Letty cousin... Alright..." Leon said with a air of anticiaption. "She like you girl or is she actually cute, and sweet and girly?" Leon asked standing to wipe his own hands, his gaze fluttering to Mia as she spoke of sweet and girly.
Letty glowered at Leon a moment before shrugging, slipping her rag into her cover-all's that hung loosely at her waist... "Haven't seen her for years... but I know she'll be able to kick your ass..." Letty told Leon cockily... as Dom finished cleaning himself up, coming to rest his large hand at Letty's waist.
He could have added to Letty's statement, telling them all that there was no-one like Letty anywhere in the world... she was just the right mix of tough assed street bitch, and warm, supple female flesh and mind. If Dom had actually believed in perfection... Letty would have im-bodied it... luckily he didn't believe in that shit.
"We off home... See you there... Mia... coming?" Dom nearly demanded of his younger sister... only 8 month's younger then Letty, but that never seemed to enter Dom's mind she was always going to be 3 year old Mia with a dirty face and an angelic grin... while Letty was his x-rated, smouldering, doe-eyed, piece of sanctuary... who never tried to control him, but knew she had the power to.
"Yes brother dear..." Mia called much to sweetly... she'd long since given up on arguing about the way Dom treated her... she just took it as standard now... if he were to let her go out, and not even on a date, without having full background checks on the people she was going with... she'd die of a heart-attack... that's why mostly she hung with the guys... mostly.
Slipping into the car with Letty instead of her brother... in a mild form of rebellion, Mia waited 'til the car was in motion before asking Letty, "So what's your cousin's name again?"
Letty slipped her sunglasses down her nose and rolled down her window... to take in the dirty gritty atmosphere of L.A.'s night-time traffic. "Diana Guzman... her mother and my mother are sisters..."
"So tell me how come we've never heard of this cousin of your's before today?" Mia demanded turning the stereo up a few deafening decibles more, checking her reflection in the side mirror, It wasn't like Letty used them anyway.
"Don't really remember that much about her.... I haven't seen her since I was 6 or 7. Her father conviently forgot to tell her and her brother we exsisted. " Letty said her face impassive even though the disgusted voice spoke volumes.
"And her mother?"
"Dead." Letty said her hands clasping the steering wheel tighter, making an aggressive right turn, before continuing, "Ma say's she was beaten to death, but the police report say's an O.D." Letty explained her jaw tight.
"What a prick..." Mia mumbled watching Letty's fingers clench and unclench on the wheel. "What about Diana? Did he... hit her? Is that why she's coming?" Mia asked.
"No... he pissed her off and she almost killed him... when he worked up the guts, or was it got shit-faced?? He threw her out... Ma was gonna throw her a celebration dinner, but it's kinda in poor taste..." Letty muttered repeating what her mother had told her.
Mia nodded not bothering to question any further. If Diana and Letty shared even the mildest genetic connection, it didn't surprise her. "You'll have to show us a picture of her if you have one...." Mia told Letty as Letty swung out and pulled into the Toretto's driveway, Dom close behind.
"I'll see if ma has any, she probably doesn't have any of us older then about five and six." Letty said climbing out of her car, as Dom made his way up the drive-way to her.
"What's about five and six?" Dom questioned his dark eye's crinkling as he took in his two favourite women. Slipping an arm around Letty's waist and an arm across Mia's shoulder.
"Letty and Dianna happy snaps... Letty's gonna find me some." Mia explained slipping out from Dom's arm to open the front door.
Mia headed further into the house straight to the kitchen to start making dinner, like she did every night.
"How long 'til dinner Mia?" Dom called from near the front door.
"About an hour, I was thinking pasta salad and..." Mia traied off as she leaned back to explain her dinner plan's only to find her brother and his girl had made it up the stairs and were un-gratefully slamming his bedroom door.
"Diana, it's for you meeho..." Hector's wife called to the young girl that was currently staying on their sofa.
Diana's face betrayed no suprise as she unfolded her legs and took the phone, "Yeah?" she answered impassively.
"Diana?" A soft female voice questioned on the other end of the phone. "It's Elenora William's, Aunt Ele..." she tagged at the end.
"Aunt Ele?" Diana said slowly... rolling the new phrase off her tounge for a moment, before saying roughly... "I don't have an Aunt Ele..." her full upper lip started to curl slightly with annoyance and impatience...
"¡Ese Bastardo! Debo haber sabido que él mintió después que lo que él la hizo... mentir a sus niños..." The woman at the other end said with bitter Spanish. "Of course you do my girl... I'm Eleanora... I was... am... your mother's older sister. I married and moved to California... I... your father was supposed to tell you and Tiny, to ring me... if you ever needed anything."
"Yeah...?" Diana questioned her interest slightly taken, with the mention of her younger brother, but there was no belief behind that... this woman could be any kind of * whacko... "Well what do you want?" Diana demaned.
"Well... I was... I was thinking that I haven't seen you for years... almost 15 I was wondering if you and... Tiny... would like to come up to L.A. for a visit... I have... well... some room... Letty rarely uses her room... I'm sure you could have that..." Ele said... this had been kinda... a spur of the moment plan.
"Letty?" Letty Williams? Diana remmebered her... her mother had spoken of her maybe once... not enough for Diana to pay any attention... but the name just struck home... she remembered a hot summer afternoon, and a wading pool... Letty and her running through the sprinklers and diving in the wading pool... her father getting drunk... and yelling at her mother when, he got splashed... ohh yeah... Diana remember that day... and suddenly she remember Letty's mother and father...
"I remember you..." Diana said slowly, tilting her head back... looking into the kitchen to see Hector's wife cooking, while pretending she wasn't listening... "I got... shit here... to sort out... can I give you a call later?" Diana demanded, finding a pen...
"Of course..." Ele agreed quickly telling her neice the number to her home in L.A. adding, "You can call me collect..." Diana grunted in agreement and dropped the phone back on the receiver... going to lie back on the sofa... looking at her aunt's number on her forearm... and thinking.
~~~
"Yeah... she should be here in a day or two... mami sent the money for a ticket over to her yesterday..." Letty informed the garage casually. One of her two cousins was coming to L.A. Letty remembered playing with them... when they'd come for holiday's... their father was a bastard... not that that had anything to do with the fact he'd kicked LETTY'S cousin out... or that her mami hated him with passion... Letty had never like the drunk bastard.
Letty wiped the sweat from her neck then wiped her hand on an oily rag... she needed a shower... she'd been working non-stop since 6:30 in the morning... now it was 7 at night. Letty arched her back, un-aware of the apprecative eye's of every male in the garage.
"A Letty cousin... Alright..." Leon said with a air of anticiaption. "She like you girl or is she actually cute, and sweet and girly?" Leon asked standing to wipe his own hands, his gaze fluttering to Mia as she spoke of sweet and girly.
Letty glowered at Leon a moment before shrugging, slipping her rag into her cover-all's that hung loosely at her waist... "Haven't seen her for years... but I know she'll be able to kick your ass..." Letty told Leon cockily... as Dom finished cleaning himself up, coming to rest his large hand at Letty's waist.
He could have added to Letty's statement, telling them all that there was no-one like Letty anywhere in the world... she was just the right mix of tough assed street bitch, and warm, supple female flesh and mind. If Dom had actually believed in perfection... Letty would have im-bodied it... luckily he didn't believe in that shit.
"We off home... See you there... Mia... coming?" Dom nearly demanded of his younger sister... only 8 month's younger then Letty, but that never seemed to enter Dom's mind she was always going to be 3 year old Mia with a dirty face and an angelic grin... while Letty was his x-rated, smouldering, doe-eyed, piece of sanctuary... who never tried to control him, but knew she had the power to.
"Yes brother dear..." Mia called much to sweetly... she'd long since given up on arguing about the way Dom treated her... she just took it as standard now... if he were to let her go out, and not even on a date, without having full background checks on the people she was going with... she'd die of a heart-attack... that's why mostly she hung with the guys... mostly.
Slipping into the car with Letty instead of her brother... in a mild form of rebellion, Mia waited 'til the car was in motion before asking Letty, "So what's your cousin's name again?"
Letty slipped her sunglasses down her nose and rolled down her window... to take in the dirty gritty atmosphere of L.A.'s night-time traffic. "Diana Guzman... her mother and my mother are sisters..."
"So tell me how come we've never heard of this cousin of your's before today?" Mia demanded turning the stereo up a few deafening decibles more, checking her reflection in the side mirror, It wasn't like Letty used them anyway.
"Don't really remember that much about her.... I haven't seen her since I was 6 or 7. Her father conviently forgot to tell her and her brother we exsisted. " Letty said her face impassive even though the disgusted voice spoke volumes.
"And her mother?"
"Dead." Letty said her hands clasping the steering wheel tighter, making an aggressive right turn, before continuing, "Ma say's she was beaten to death, but the police report say's an O.D." Letty explained her jaw tight.
"What a prick..." Mia mumbled watching Letty's fingers clench and unclench on the wheel. "What about Diana? Did he... hit her? Is that why she's coming?" Mia asked.
"No... he pissed her off and she almost killed him... when he worked up the guts, or was it got shit-faced?? He threw her out... Ma was gonna throw her a celebration dinner, but it's kinda in poor taste..." Letty muttered repeating what her mother had told her.
Mia nodded not bothering to question any further. If Diana and Letty shared even the mildest genetic connection, it didn't surprise her. "You'll have to show us a picture of her if you have one...." Mia told Letty as Letty swung out and pulled into the Toretto's driveway, Dom close behind.
"I'll see if ma has any, she probably doesn't have any of us older then about five and six." Letty said climbing out of her car, as Dom made his way up the drive-way to her.
"What's about five and six?" Dom questioned his dark eye's crinkling as he took in his two favourite women. Slipping an arm around Letty's waist and an arm across Mia's shoulder.
"Letty and Dianna happy snaps... Letty's gonna find me some." Mia explained slipping out from Dom's arm to open the front door.
Mia headed further into the house straight to the kitchen to start making dinner, like she did every night.
"How long 'til dinner Mia?" Dom called from near the front door.
"About an hour, I was thinking pasta salad and..." Mia traied off as she leaned back to explain her dinner plan's only to find her brother and his girl had made it up the stairs and were un-gratefully slamming his bedroom door.