THE ROAD IS LONG
Chapter 13 unlucky for some and definitely for me! It has taken me sooooo long to get this one out even though I had a fair bit written. But…my dissertation is finally finished (woohoo!) and handed in (double woohoo!) and I don't have to worry about it until I get my results and see that I failed miserably (not woohoo but I don't really care about it…just yet). So that means that my post won't be as few and far between as they have been, depending on whether my inspiration keeps flowing or not. Anywho, this chapter is very random. Wanted to have some more character development and wanted it to have Letty in it coz I've only had her interacting with the original characters and not any of mine. Well, I hope it's okay. It's basically what the title says…girls having a chat…about boys..Lol! Hope you like! Okay, Happy Reading! Gem xxx Chapter 13: Girl Talk. Letty sat scowling into the mug of bitter, black coffee that she was nursing in an attempt to wake herself up properly. After being rudely woken at an obscene hour of the morning by the noisy, subconscious 'courting rituals' of the house's two teenagers, she had intended to crawl back into the lumpy, creaking bed that she had shared with Dom and sleep well into the afternoon. Dom, however, had had other ideas it seemed, positioning himself face down and spread-eagled across the sore excuse for a double bed. She wasn't usually one to be kicked out of bed the morning after. No. She was generally the one doing the kicking out and perhaps Dom had finally gathered enough courage and decided to pay her back. She had begun to climb back in, attempting to move his heavy, unyielding limbs out of the way until Dom had barked at her to stop shaking the bed, dubbing her the 'royal pain in his ass'! Yes, those where his exact words and they made Letty grind her teeth together harder. He had picked the wrong day to grow a backbone and try and exact his revenge! "Lemme guess?" Donni's voice broke into Letty's thoughts and made her glance up at the older woman who pottered about the kitchen. "Dom pissed you off?" she queried with a chuckle, placing a plate of toast in the centre of the table, sucking butter from her thumb and taking the seat opposite the younger woman. Letty snorted in resentful amusement, pausing to take a swig of her coffee and wincing at it's bitterness, baring her teeth. "How did you guess?" she replied sarcastically, reaching for a slice of lightly toasted bread and biting off as much as she could possibly chew. Donni smiled again, folding her arms on the table top. "I been around the block a few times." She said enigmatically. "I know the look of a 'boyfriend induced fury' when I see one…Had enough of my own to write me a bestseller 'bout it!" Letty sniggered as she chewed her toast, considering the woman before her, wrapping her free hand about her mug and soaking up the heat it exuded. "Ya got me." She conceded with a barely concealed yawn. "So…what did he do to chase you from your sleep so early in the morning? No offence, but you don't seem like much of a morning person." Donni spoke while taking her own slice of toast and lacing it with honey to satiate her sweet-tooth. "I'm not." Letty grunted out through a second mouthful. Usually she would go ballistic at such a comment, though she managed to keep her temper down to a mere niggling irritation. Donni was Dom's cousin after all, not the enemy that she knew so well in the form of the curb-crawling women of the racing world. She stopped her actions for a time to scrutinise Donni as she wiped up the access honey that had seeped onto her plate and sucked it from her finger, oblivious entirely to Letty's musings. Finally the long, raven haired woman looked up, smiling when she noticed Letty's watch and set to slathering another round of bread with the sticky, sweet amber mess. "Told me I was a royal pain in his ass." Letty replied after the pause, taking another swallow of scolding fluid and snorting into her cup dangerously when Donni let a breath hiss out between her teeth, her eyebrows raised much like Dom's did in disbelief. "Guess he ain't a morning person either, huh?" Letty couldn't hold it in that time and laughed, almost scalding herself in the process. "Definitely not. Have to drag his ass outta his pit some mornings." She continued to chuckle. Donni grinned and nodded her head in agreement. "Had a few men like that myself." She admitted with a gentle nod of her head. "'Cept it was my bed I had to try and drag 'em out of!" Letty gave a noise of mock admonishment and shook her head. "See that's where you're going wrong. Never let a man know where you live." She schooled with a broad grin. "Soon as they know where you live, you'll never get rid of them!" Donni shook her own head in amusement, leaning back in her chair and draping her arms over the sides. "You sound like you're speaking from experience." She teased and Letty replied with another face-wide smile. "I've still got Dom following me around, haven't I? That's proof right there!" Letty quirked an eyebrow and they both dissolved into peels of laughter at Dom's expense. 'Well,' Letty thought. 'He deserves it for chucking me out this morning!' "So…" she asked when they had both sobered sufficiently, relaxing back into her chair a little more. "These men you had to kick out? Was it because they gave a poor performance?" she teased with a devious smirk. "Or are you just a bit of a player, Donni?" Donni's eyebrows shot up again in an expression that was so like Dom that Letty had to stifle more laughter. In the end the older woman's own smile grew and she narrowed her eyes at Letty's teasing. "Bit of both, really." She confessed with a shrug. "Ain't never found a man worth keeping around for more than a few weeks." "Amen to that, sister!" Letty agreed emphatically and Donni snorted again. "Dom must have really pissed you off." She muttered, attacking a third piece of honey smeared toast, though she watched Letty's reaction carefully, almost as if she was attempting to determine whether the Latin-American girl truly loved her cousin, or if she was simply playing him. Letty locked her smouldering, darker stare with Donni's, sensing the scrutiny that she was under. Then she shook her head slowly, gazing back down into the black liquid in the faded yellow mug. "Don't get me wrong, I love him so much it's excruciating sometimes." She glanced back up at Donni locking their eyes again, trying to show her truthfulness in their soft brown depths. "It's so annoying! He still makes me go all weak-kneed like a fuckin' lovesick schoolgirl!" she growled in frustration and Donni smiled, left with no doubt that Letty loved her baby cousin more than words could describe. Letty sighed almost in defeat, propping her chin onto her free fist and swirling the coffee in her mug with the other. "We've both got a helluva temper on us. I'll be the first to admit that! We can both be right stubborn fuckers when we want to be and that's generally with each other." She paused again and Donni nodded sagely in accordance, as if she knew exactly where Letty was coming from. "And an argument ends up either of two ways, right?" Donni said with a mischievous, one-sided smirk that caused Letty to nod warily. "You either scream 'til you're both blue in the face and go to bed lonely, or…the bedsprings get a proper workout!" Letty's laughed barked out, echoing around the silent house and she stifled it swiftly with another mouthful of her coffee. "Exactly!" she replied finally. "S'been the same since Dom and I got together. I was sixteen. He was twenty." Donni barely flinched as the age difference which was a pleasant surprise for Letty. She and Dom had come up against so much opposition from so many people that she had almost come to expect it. Donni, however, seemed indifferent to the four years that separated them and glanced up when she sensed Letty's astonishment. She beamed and waved a hand dismissively. "You thought that I was gonna go all ape-shit coz of a four year age gap!" she asked incredulously. "Four years ain't nothin', Kiddo!" she chuckled. "My first proper boyfriend, the one that showed me the ropes so to speak…" another deep throated laugh escaped her lips and Letty found herself smiling conspiratorially. "I was eighteen and he was thirty-two." "Fucking hell!" Letty blurted and Donni continued to laugh. "Yeah, I get that a lot." Letty shook her head in disbelief, mouth gaping wide. "Jesus! People must have really given you a rough ride! I mean, I thought that I had it bad with what they said about me and Dom!" Donni shrugged nonchalantly. "I got used to it." She replied though her tone was a little more subdued. "Yeah, you have to." Letty nodded in agreement. "Just gotta take it all in your stride, I guess." She smiled coldly, remembering all of the people who had caused a fuss, all the girls who had joked that she was a kid and couldn't give Dom what a real woman could. "It's easier now that we're older though." She continued turning her thoughts away from the misery that she remembered in L.A. "But I'd been dancing around after Dom since I was old enough to realise that boys didn't have cooties!" Donni chuckled and reached across the distance of table between them to commandeer Letty's half finished mug of coffee to steal a few mouthfuls. "Then you grew tits and a fine ass and Dom was all ears for you, right?" she grinned devilishly returning the mug to Letty who nodded and rolled her eyes. "Hit the nail on the head." She replied and the stared at each other in an amused silence for several minutes before their smiles refused to be subdued for any longer. "Men!" they muttered in unison. -00000- Well, I know that chapter was slightly random but I wanted to develop the link between Letty and Donni just so that I'm not having all the characters interacting with the same ones over and over again. Gets a bit boring…Please feel free to comment, criticise, add tips, hints and whatever else takes your fancy! Next chapter is either a Mia, Donni, Letty chapter or….(drum roll please!) ol's Coyote and Leon arriving (finally!). Not sure…what do you reckon?
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