Author's Note - Sorry for the late chapter but thank you for the reviews and i'm glad people like this story. Remember for my new story followers i enjoy feedback good or bad it really doesn't matter just wanna know how i'm doing anyway enough of me talking on to chapter four!
Chapter Four - Screams Of Joy & Bonding With Her
Brie rubbed her eyes getting up before heading in the shower she felt a lot better maybe because that was the first peaceful sleep she had in years. After getting out she threw on her black short sleeved V neck and skinny jeans that had cuts in them with a pair of black flats. She looked at her hair in the mirror and was gonna ask Brian could she cut it soon to make her look different. Just like how Mia did it she brushed it up in a high pony tail before walking out the room closing the door behind her.
"Mia's waiting for you Brie." Letty said coming out the room but saw the girl looking a bit sad. "What's up with you?"
"Um did i do this or do they come like that." Brie pointed down to the cuts in the jeans.
Letty brow raised before laughing shaking her head. "No you didn't that's how they are supposed to look now go on." She patted her back sending her off downstairs before going in the bathroom.
Brie walked in the kitchen to see Mia already there talking to Dom both of them looked up seeing her. "Morning." She said quietly waving.
"Morning sleepy head." Dom ruffled her hair she jumped a bit but that was just out of reflex. "I'm going out back to help Brian with the car call us when it's done."
"Really? I just thought me and Brie would just sit here and eat it all." Mia smiled.
"Stop being sarcastic." Dom pointed.
"Okay, and keep Jack away from the tools please!" Mia called out as Dom just waved her off going out back making her sigh. "I know he heard me, well you ready to get started?" She smiled turning to Brie who nodded quickly. "Alright lets get started."
Mia and Brie got started she watched how she actually took direction really well when it came to cooking. It was more easier cooking with an extra set of hands in the kitchen and they made a lot it was definitely more food to choose from. Eggs, pancakes, sausages, bacon, hash browns, biscuits, and waffles. Brie set up the table outback before quickly going back in bringing back out the orange juice and apple juice.
"K, Mia everything's out ther-" Brie stopped when she saw Mia covered in flour. "U-Um what happened to you?"
"I forgot i put the flower on the top shelf reach for something up there and boom i'm covered in-" Mia was cut off by laughter and looked over to see Brie holding her stomach laughing at her. It was the first time she seen her smile let alone laugh she couldn't even be mad anymore and soon joined in. "Okay laugh it up but you got something right there."
"Where?" Brie stopped laughing touching her face.
"There." Mia threw flour on her face making her gasp it was now her turn to laugh.
"Real funny." Brie nodded taking an egg cracking it before letting it drop on Mia's head who eyes went wide when she felt it.
Mia smiled. "That's how you wanna play huh?" She picked up what was leftover of the pancake mix.
"Sure is." Brie picked up the bowl of waffle mix.
Outside Sean closed the hood of the car. "Start her up Roman."
Roman started the car it took a while but finally turned on. "Hahaha i knew this old thing still worked."
"Bet you he says that a lot." Tej said getting a snicker from Brian and Twinkie.
"I heard that!" Roman called out getting from out of the car walking over. "So how you feeling man?"
Brian nodded. "Step by step i'm getting there she's making progress to little bit but it's better then nothing."
"Day by day but why don't you try bonding with her today." Dom said leaning against his charger.
"Bonding with her?" Brian repeated.
"You know like finding stuff she likes to do things that spark her interest stuff like that." Tej said. "Who knows maybe she likes cars."
"Maybe...i got it!" Brian snapped his fingers lifting Jack up.
Dom looked at his brother with a raised brow. "What?"
"Her birthday us coming up in two weeks i should throw her party." He nodded.
"And by you, you mean Mia and Letty right?" Tej asked.
"Mia and Letty what?" Letty asked walking over leaning next to Dom.
"Help plan a party for Brie." Dom said.
Letty brow raised. "Do i look like a party planner?"
Brian shrugged slightly. "Somewhat." Letty smirked flipping him off making him chuckle. "But we will all help i know it's been a long time since she had one so we will throw her one back here."
"I say let's do it two weeks is enough time to plan a party could make it a surprise to." Dom nodded.
"Yeah we-" Brian was cut off by screaming coming from the house in the kitchen his eyes widen a long with Dom's. "Brie! Mia!"
Everybody quickly ran in the house but stopped when they saw the kitchen look like a tornado went through it. "What-the-hell?" Letty said slowly as she looked around confused.
Hearing laughing their eyes traveled down to the two girls on the floor leaning on each other covered in flour, eggs, pancake and waffle mix.
"Umm are you guys okay?" Brian asked. "And i mean it both physically and mentally."
"Where fine." Mia laughed. "Just got into a small food fight."
"Mia was covered in flour then she threw some on me!" Brie said in between laughs Brian looked down she was smiling and laughing.
Seeing this he couldn't help but smile and looked over at Dom who was shaking his head. "You girls look like you have been doing crack with all that white on you."
"What's crack?" Brie asked.
"Something bad!" Brian quickly said. "Don't ever do it just know it's bad for you and not meant for you crack is bad."
Mia and Brie slowly looked at each other before they burst out laughing again. "Can you guys take the food outside while we go clean up." Mia said as they got up from off the floor. "We will be right there so just start without us."
"We will you're both cleaning this up later you know that right?" Dom said looking over at Mia who waved him off as they both headed upstairs.
After getting cleaned up Brie switched her outfit to a black long sleeve shirt with white stripes in it. It had a hoodie attached to the back and she rolled the sleeves up by her elbows, and put on a pair of dark blue jeans with tennis. Brushing her hair back Mia put a black head band on her and pushed it back a bit. They soon walked back downstairs and joined the rest of the family for breakfast. She smiled when they all gave her and Mia compliments about how good it was. Afterwards her and Mia cleaned up the kitchen while the guys did the dishes.
"Brie can you hand me those back up paper towels on the shelf." Mia asked as it was now just them again.
Brie nodded jogging over and stepped up on the small two step ladder and reached but still couldn't get them she reached until she was on her tipy toes. "Got em."
Mia looked over. "Brie be careful."
"Huh-Ahhh!' Brie let out a scream as she stumbled off but was caught by somebody at the last minute she sighed out of relief. Thinking it was Brian or Dom she looked up seeing a different but familiar face it was Sean her eyes widened.
"You alright?" Sean put her down letting her go remembering what Dom told them yesterday.
"I'm fine." Brie looked down until he put the paper towels in her hand she took a silent deep breath one of the steps to healing is trusting people she smiled replaying those word's before looking up. "Thank you Sean."
He smiled nodding. "No problem." After saying that he continued into the living room where he was going.
Mia coughed snapping Brie out of the small trance she was in and shook her head. "Blushing." She sung walking over to the sink.
"Am not...am i?" Brie asked before shaking her head. "Mia, how is Sean and Twinkie family? Nobody ever told me how.
"Well, you heard about Han." Mia said as she nodded sitting on the counter top. "Sean was like another farther figure to Sean and taught him everything he knew about drifting and Tokyo. But they came over from Tokyo and Dom wanted them to be around family so he offered them a place to stay here also Sean is known as the Drift King."
Brie cocked her head to the side. "Drift King?"
"Yeah, it's like street racing but instead of driving normally you drift but Sean or Dom could explain it to you better then i can." Mia waved it off.
"Is street racing what my brother does?" Brie asked.
Mia nodded. "Yup along with Dom, Letty, Tej, and Roman but Dom is a most definitely some guys think of him as the king when it comes to street racing."
"That's cool racing sounds like a cool thing." Brie nodded.
"Sorry Mia." Letty said coming in the kitchen. "I'm taking the kid for a bit."
"For what exactly?" Mia's brow raised.
"Show her some defense moves out back." Letty said taking Brie's arm helping her off the counter heading to the back door.
"Defense moves for what?" Brie asked looking back.
"You wanna know how to defend yourself and not have somebody protecting you all the time right?" She asked getting a quick nod from her. "Then time to get started."
"Please be gentle with her!" Mia called out as they walked out the back door.
"Uh huh." Letty waved her off as they got out to the backyard to see Roman and Tej waiting along with Twinkie. They came to a stop and Letty turned towards her she was definitely ready to teach her how to protect herself. "Alright you ready?"
Brie quickly shook her head. "Uh-uh."
"Good let's get started." Letty smirked.
Brie had to admit it was more fun then she thought and Letty was a very good teacher that mostly taught her kicks and punches today. She managed to hit a right hook on Roman but quickly apologized when he stumbled back falling. Tej, and Letty where to busy laughing not expecting that right hook from a girl her size. Letty said she had something called un tapped strength and said it was normal since her will to fight back was locked away mentally and physically. But if they kept this up she would be fighting back no problem when it comes to anybody.
Later on that night Brie was in her night clothes and walked downstairs getting a bottled water she was going to head back upstairs. But seeing the back door open she looked around before walking over looking out the door seeing Brian sitting on the porch. She walked out and over there before sitting down next to him and saw his eye's where focused on the star's.
"You laughed today." Brian said looking down.
Brie nodded. "First time i done that in a while it felt great guess i really learned a lot today."
"Really? Like what." Brian asked.
"That a food fight can start at any time." She nodded getting a chuckle from him. "And that there's more to racing then i thought..." Brie trailed off thinking of something.
"Brie? Brie...Brianna?" He waved his hand in front of her face before snapping.
"Huh-oh sorry mind just went somewhere else." She shook her head smiling slightly. "Do you forgive yourself yet?"
Brian sighed nodding. "Working on it day by day step by step, right?"
"Right." Brie smiled laying her head on his shoulder relaxing. "Thank you Brian...for everything." She mumbled closing her eyes.
He shook his head. "No thank you."
Mia walked out the back door in a rush startling the two. "Sorry guys but we got a problem."
"What is it? What's wrong?" Brian asked quickly standing up.
"Hobbs called we have to go into questioning tomorrow." Mia sighed looking down at Brie. "And by we I mean Brie they wanna know what happened."
"They wanna do this now?" Brian questioned as Mia nodded he sighed shaking his head. "You have got to be kidding me."
"They're gonna make me talk about it aren't they?" Brie asked still sitting down not looking at them.
"No." Brian said sternly stooping down in front of her so they were face to face. "Nobody is gonna make you talk about anything you don't want to if you don't want to answer a question they ask just say so. We are going in together and we are all coming out together I promise I will be there with you through it...you're not alone anymore, k?"
Brie nodded smiling lightly. "Okay." She hugged him.
He rubbed her back sighing. "It's gonna be alright..."
Meanwhile...
"Gone! What the hell do you mean gone!" A guy yelled throwing a glass vase across the room.
"She's gone we looked everywhere down there it was hard to even get in cops raided that place top to bottom gotta feeling they took the girls." Another one answered as he was dressed as a cop.
"I don't care about the rest of them I only wanted one I had her for years I'm not loosing her to some cops. One of you get me her file so I can look up who's she related to." He said sitting back down.
"Why her file Ricky?" He asked.
Ricky drummed his fingers across his desk smirking. "See if we are lucky they took her back to her family so if we find them then we find her." He smirked picking up the picture of Brie. "You are not leaving that easy... I had you for to long to let you go."
"I swear he's obsessed." One guy whispered snickering. "What's so special about her?"
A loud gun shot rung out through the room the same guy looked down shocked as his whole shirt was getting soaked with blood. He fell to his knees his eyes rolled back before he fell on the floor still bleeding out as all the guys looked at Ricky.
He still had the gun pointed in the same direction but his eyes remained on Brie's picture as a wicked smirk remained on his face. "Anybody else wanna question it?" He asked as they all shook there heads saying 'No' he nodded. "Good now get him out of here and clean it up...hopefully his blood didn't stain my floor." He sighed out.
SORRY! For such a late update I'm finally back I just had school to deal with thank god it's my last year but expect an update every Thursday, see everyone next time!
Chapter Five - 10 Steps Back & Getting Closer