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Garage Bay Hauler
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I can't help but smile as I notice
Letty's got grease on her cheek again, how she managed to get grease on herself from a clean freshly painted car I'll never know.
But I do find it adorably cute Mia seems to be of that same opinion as she walks over with a wetwipe, I refuse to call it a baby wipe yet…as it feels too much like foreshadowing.
And cleans Letty's cheek so she doesn't smear it across her face, Letty shoots both of us glares without any heat behind them.
I return back to laying in the wiring harness that has been reinforced and hardened against possible EMP weapons.
My eyes are drawn back to Letty as I she uses the back of her hand to wipe at something on her face.
Somehow the grease is back with a vengeance with fresh streak, in a new smear angling up her cheek.
It's like the grease flew out of the grease gun and personally targets Letty as a target for grime or something.
Letty doesn't care…if anything, she grins wider every time she notices it, and especially when Mia and I notice it.
Letty notices me staring at her and asks, "You sure you got this wiring harness wired right?" Letty's teasing and playful smile as she tightens a bolt near the firewall assures me that she's being a playful pain in the butt.
Which granted I deserve after my insistence after our threeway tryst last night that we armor the Skyline and make it so the three of us can ride in it comfortably if needed while not losing too much speed/acceleration.
I glance up from where I'm connecting the last of the harness plugs to the ECU. "You doubting me again?"
"I've seen the way you cook eggs, O'Connor. You don't exactly scream precision work." Letty teases but we both know that is untrue and that she and Mia both love and adore my cooking, especially my extra cheesy eggs.
"Wow, that's cold…see if I make you breakfast again even when you give me those puppy dog or bedroom eyes, Young Lady." I mutter and try to sound offended.
Mia leans over the Skyline's front fender, arms crossed over the edge. She's wearing one of my t-shirts. It's oversized on her and sliding off her right shoulder. 'I really do need to take these two shopping…for clothes.' I think while dreading it at the same time.
Mia gives me a smug, almost-too-sweet smile that always means trouble.
"I don't know, babe… you do overcook pancakes." Mia snickers as I gasp.
"You both are so mean." I pretend to be upset and try to pout but Letty cackles, and makes me laugh.
"You both are Traitors," I say. "At least Supra and Sky here love their Daddy and think his cooking is the best in the world, isn't that right girls?" I ask and Supra honks it's horn but for some reason it seems like she's siding with the girls on this one.
"Hey," Letty says, flicking a socket at me that bounces off my arm, "You get the privilege of making us food and get to watch us look hot and play with tools." Letty continues with a playful expression on her face.
"You're doing great at both," I admit without shame.
Letty winks, and returns to her part of putting the GT-R back together.
"I was thinking maybe we should go with a set of matte black for the Skyline…something aggressive while using blue neon." Mia interjects while nodding to herself and chewing on the cap of a paint pen. "I like the sound of that…" I nod to Mia easily.
The GT-R's nearly reassembled mechanically anyways it needs the interior finishes new wheels and tires the factory Nismo rims were warped and cracked from sitting too long.
The engine purrs beautifully though we still need to map/dino when and dial in some tunes.
We're still parked just outside of Miami, in a long term parking lot for trucks and trailers.
Letty's got music playing low. Some mix of metal and reggaeton. Mia's drawing…painting something in her book/canvas thing.
While Letty and I are looking at a parts catalog marking interior parts, rims and spoilers that we like for the Skyline.
It is very relaxing just hanging out and doing these types of things with Mia and Letty…but this peace can't last. We need a solid place to live as much as the Hauler feels like a perfect place to live to me I know it's not and we also need a set of identities.
"Alright do you two feel like going for a ride?" I ask the two Mia barley looks up from her drawing/painting
Letty grabs her Corona from the workbench. "You taking her for a little racing?" Letty asks while motioning with her beer bottle towards Supra.
"Maybe afterwards but it's not just a trip for fun," I reply. "I'm going to go see an old friend who should be able to set us up with some fake papers."
Mia frowns and looks away from her drawing/painting. "Who?"
"My old friend Tej Parker, if it involves engines he pretty much runs here. Used to crash in his or Roman's rooms when dodging C.P.S. and we also used to boost cars together."
Letty raises an eyebrow. "Sounds like our kinda people, but I'll hang here with Mia…you should take a Night-Night gun with you just in case though."
Mia looks worried, "Are you sure about this Brian? L.A. aired our photos on the local news saying we are wanted for questioning and out-ted you as an undercover cop."
"I'm sure Mia Tej is good people, and he's pretty chill unless you're a computer that he wants to take apart…I'd also trust him with my life. He's the only friend who didn't turn on me when I became a cop."
'Wow, I have some strong trust in Tej and even Roman engrained into me…'
My reply seems to shut them both down for a moment, I walk around the Skyline and give Mia a kiss on the temple and pat Letty's ass.
"Alright you two stay in the Hauler, and keep her cloaked. I'll ping you if things go sideways…do you guys want me to pick up anything?"
"Mmm, pads, tampons, pregnancy tests…" Mia says to me with a teasing smile on her face.
"Midol, morning after pills, chocolate, ice cream, snacks, maybe something we don't have to cook…pizza wings, hold on I'll go grab you some cash." Letty adds on and then jogs off into the living part of the Hauler.
"Ohh, I love that cute look you get on your face when you're overwhelmed." Mia giggles, stands up and wraps her arms around the back of my neck, her painting supplies temporarily forgotten in her chair.
"Heh, thanks a lot Mia…I see that I'll have to try harder to survive your and Letty's love." I mutter back to her and act playfully resigned to my fate which makes Mia laugh as she stands on her toes and kisses me.
"You love every second with us." Mia states it as a fact without an ounce of doubt in her voice or eyes.
I humm as if I'm considering her words which makes Mia pout and move her hands down to pinch my waist.
Letty returns with a thick roll of cash and a Night-Night gun with a fresh mag inserted inside of it.
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I was going along typing up a storm my fingers still moving across the keypad if took me almost a minute to realize that I wasn't getting the haptic feedback and that words weren't appearing in the document. Once I did my phone crashed and slowly loaded into safe boot mode it was pretty sketchy it's working now but words are lagging behind so I think I pushed my phone a little too hard this week dropping all these chapters lol 🤣 🤣