THE ROAD IS LONG
Woohoo! A Mia chapter. I never thought I'd actually get inspire to write one from her perspective but here it is and it just came flowing out. Hope that it's okay and I'm sorry for the excessive use of the 'F' word. It just was necessary to show how desperate Mia is actually feeling at this point in the story. I hope you all don't hate me too much for the way that this is going and don't hate Donni too much either, I'm trying my damnedest to make her not so perfect but it's very hard. Argh. Any tips and I will be forever in your debt! Righty, tell me what you reckon. I know the story is going along pretty slowly and I'm still debating how much time is actually going to pass from beginning to end, but I'm getting there. Hokay! Happy Reading! Gem xxx Chapter 20: Turning the Tables. Mia glanced up at Dom and Letty as they entered the house, laughing and play fighting, from where she was scowling at the plate of sandwiches that she and Donni had made for lunch. Well, that she had made really-Donni had spent the entire time flirting like nobody's business with Vince! With Vince who had flirted back, shamelessly. It made an emotion that had lain dormant for so long in Mia that she nearly couldn't place it, burn in her chest with a renewed fervour. Nearly being the operative word. Jealousy. She didn't mind admitting it to herself. She was jealous that Vince's attentions had suddenly been stolen from her, attentions that had been solely for her for the best part of the past four years. At first she had thought that it was simply because Vince and Donni had never met before and were trying to be polite to each other and get along. But that theory hadn't lasted for long when they had started getting on a little too well for Mia's liking. He hung on Donni's every single word, laughing at her jokes and finishing off the ends of her sentences, bringing a smile to her older cousin's face. And Donni was just as bad, if not worse! Pushing him playfully in the shoulder when he made a smart-assed remark and flashing her dazzling smile that had made many men go weak at the knees before that day. Mia grit her teeth together a little harder, the squealing of bone against bone almost, but not quite, drowning out the playful banter of the two who leant up against the kitchen counter behind her. She looked up at Letty and Dom, hoping for a reprieve from the incessant flirting and immediately wished that she hadn't. Letty grinned like she never had in the past few years, her hair mussed and bedraggled as she wrestled with Dom, throwing mock punches and kicks at him and dodging his wide arm span. And Dom grinned back, catching her flying fists in his palms and holding onto them to prevent her escape, a never before seen deviousness flashing in his dark eyes. Mia rolled her own deep brown eyes, irritation tingling even stronger in her chest and making her jaw contract a little more. She should have been happy for them really. Shit, she should have been fucking ecstatic! Her brother and Letty had been fighting like cat and dog since way before the last heist and their little display that very morning had had her convinced that they were always going to be at each other's throats. But she simply wasn't in the mood to be happy for them. Everyone always thought of her as good, kind little Mia, who loved everyone and would never say 'boo' to a goose! Well they were fucking wrong! She got just as shitty as the next person and her hormones weren't helping matters at that particular moment…neither was Vince. What was that, with Vince all of a sudden? She'd been quite adamant that she hadn't liked him back in L.A when he had been chasing her like a greyhound after a rabbit. Shit, she'd turned him down so many times that she had lost count. But, he starts showing a little interest in her cousin and out from fucking nowhere she felt like she wanted to rip his fucking balls off for even talking to another woman! She shook her head and knuckled at her eyes, attempting to tell herself that it was simply her hormones. Yeah…just the hormones. "Y'okay, Mia?" Letty beamed at her from the other side of the kitchen table, Dom's arms securely fastened about her waist as he rested his chin on her right shoulder and smirked at his baby sister. "Feeling better now?" "I'm fine." Mia responded curtly, pushing the plate of sandwiches into the centre of the table and moving away to wash her hands, just so that she didn't have to witness the suddenly nauseating interactions between Dom and Letty, and Vince and Donni. She opened her mouth to question Mia further, sensing that something was not quite right with the younger girl and Mia braced herself for the no doubt excessively vigilant questioning. Instead, however, Letty loosed a roar of surprise making all eyes turn in their direction. It seemed that Dom had taken a new lease of life after their little 'talk', hefting her over his shoulder as if she weighed nothing, like he used to when they had been first going out and Letty had been barely out of school. He flashed a conspiratorial grin at Vince and tossed Mia and Donni a wink before slapping Letty on the ass and giving her a jolt to keep her in place upon his broad shoulder. "Don't you fucking dare, Dom!" Letty screeched, her face turning red as all of the blood rushing to her upside down head. "I mean it!" Mia heard Donni chuckle as she nudged Vince with her elbow and muttered something to him that made him join her laughter. Vince never laughed so easily! Never! Fuck! She was losing him…her Vince. She'd not had a kind word to say to him in months and yet her heart was breaking at the thought that he may have found love for someone else…her cousin no less! But she was getting paranoid. Vince had had girlfriends before, none lasting longer than a week or two at the most. What was to say that it wouldn't be the same with Donni? And Donni was as much of a player as he was. Yes, she didn't need to panic just yet. It wasn't like they had even admitted to liking each other, and they'd only met a few hours ago. Mia stole a glance at Vince from the corner of her eye to see his dark blue eyes intent on Donni's smiling face as she looked on at Dom and Letty's antics. He'd never had that look in his eye for any other girl before…only when he had looked at Mia. He was only supposed to look at her like that! "Dom, put me the hell down! I want my lunch! I'm hungry!" Letty's voice crept up a notch as she realised what exactly Dom was planning to do for the rest of the afternoon. She struggled in vain and Dom only laughed, boosting her further over his shoulder. He turned around so that his back and Letty faced the tabletop. "Go on then. Grab me a sandwich while you're there." he ordered and Letty grinned, reaching down and taking a sandwich in each hand, one for her and one for Dom. "Alright. Come on then. Get that ass moving! High-ho silver!" she feigned impatience at Dom as he began making his way towards the stairs. "Later, people." "Come tell me when Tino gets in from work." Dom called back over his shoulder and Donni rolled her eyes, nodding her head and waving a hand in dismissal at him. "I need to talk to him. I need to talk to everyone actually." "Yeah, yeah!" Donni growled causing Vince to smirk behind his hand. "Now piss off before I throw up!" Dom only replied with a wider grin, if that was at all possible, and took off up the stairs two at a time, with Letty yelling and bobbing precariously from where she hung over his back. "Not seen 'em like that since they first got it together." Vince commented to Donni and she smiled back at him. "It's great to see them so happy together again. Coming down to Baja is just what they needed to get themselves back on track. They deserve to be allowed to just love each other, without the interruptions that they were having back in L.A. They just weren't right before." Donni turned to glance at Vince properly, scrutinising him slightly, cocking her head to one side. Finally she chuckled and shook her head. "You puzzle me, Vince." she said suddenly and Vince gave her a questioning look that spurred her speech onwards. "I mean, you're so caring about your friends, you're so funny and laidback. Why ain't you got yourself a girl like my psycho of a cousin has?" Mia almost dropped the plate that she was taking over to Leon at Donni's words but she regained her composure, placing the food down beside the still sleeping, injured man. This was really it. She was losing Vince completely…and she couldn't do a thing about it. She'd been trying all morning and failing to hold his attention for more than a few minutes at a time and even when he did speak to her, his eyes always followed Donni's movements. Fucking hell. Mia had to refrain from leaping over the kitchen counter and punching her cousin square in the face like Letty had taught her to do when she'd been having problems with bullies at school. So desperately she wanted to scream at Donni and rip out her hair and then kick Vince in the balls…but she couldn't bring herself to hate either one of them, if she was being truthful. That was what was making it ten million times worse for her to deal with. Instead of being able to hate her competition, she loved Donni like an older sister. She was family after all and Dom was always ranting and raving about how family are always there for each other. Always. No matter what. And Vince? Vince was suddenly in her heart. No word of warning. No little crush to begin with like Letty had borne for Dom since the girl had been ten years old. No. Simply seeing him again made her feel emotions that she had thought that she would never ever feel again after Brian's betrayal. Brian…Shit, why did she have to go and think of him? She had fucked up big this time. Perhaps even irreparably. Christ, if he hadn't turned up she wouldn't be pregnant and she probably would have given Vince the chance that he had been begging for over and over again. Instead she had flaunted Brian in front of him like a prize stallion and not given a shit about what Vince had been feeling inside. Fuck, if it was anything remotely like what she was experiencing, she didn't know how he had coped! Vince's deep laugh rumbling through the muggy air brought Mia out of her contemplations and turned her attention, unwilling back to him and her cousin. "I ain't never found the right girl." he replied to Donni's question and Mia felt as if her heart had plummeted through her stomach down to her feet. She was supposed to be his 'right girl'! I didn't rain in Mia's world, oh no, but it fucking poured! "I'm going for a walk!" Mia snapped, cutting off any reply that Donni had been about to make to Vince and the two turned to watch her storm from the house and out into the blaring sunshine, taking off at a brisk, determined stride towards the paddock gate and letting herself into the massive expanse of land that they owned. "What's up with Mia?" Vince wondered aloud, scratching at his beard and grabbing up a sandwich from the large plate in the centre of the table. Donni folded her arms across her chest, wedging her hands under her arms and shrugging, leaning back against the kitchen cupboards. "I think it's her hormones. She's a little down, you know, with the baby and everything. It's a lot for a girl of nineteen to cope with on her own." Vince nodded his head slowly in understanding as he chewed. "Maybe I should go talk to her…" he mused but Donni shook her head, laying her hand on his forearm gently. "Just let her cool off a bit. When she wants someone to talk to, she'll initiate it. You can't force her to speak to you, it'll just make her feel crowded. It was the same with Frankie's mom...before she ran off with the postman that is." Vince nodded his head again and turned his smile back to Donni, taking another bite of his food. "You're a very wise woman, Donni." he stated in a low, alluring tone, quirking an eyebrow at her and Donni replied with another of her dazzling smiles. "I know." she retorted. -00000- Poor Mia, she's got it rough! I'm so wicked, aren't I? Please tell me what you reckon.
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