It's been a week since the foursome with Sophia, the damned Cubana was only in our lives for a couple of days but her absence is felt.
My Sign-in reward for this week was Ronan's particle magnum with self recharging power cells.
Letty and I are still adjusting to working for Tej, it takes Mia and calming her down to not kill a customer who had the gull to not only act like Letty doesn't know what she's doing and spank her ass.
Later that night after plowing the girls silly I went out, blew up the guy's car and broke both his hands and legs, before double tapping him with the Night-Night gun at the back of his neck to make him forget everything from the last twenty four hours.
Mia is adapting better than either of us between fixing Tej's books for a genius. The guy can't balance a check book and account for all the wealth he has laying around his properties, she even discovered his account and wealth manager were ripping him off.
Most of our nights are split between drag races, beach bonfires, and just chilling with Tej and Suki.
Suki has been eyeball fucking me and my Skyline hard so I'm pretty sure she's gonna ask to race for pinks in the next race we match up in.
Sitting beside Tej as he goes through the paperwork Mia asked me to give him, "So…you talk to Roman lately?" Tej asks even though he knows Roman wrote me off and has hated me since he got busted with a garage full of stolen rims, and accused me of snitching on him.
I take a long pull of the blunt we're passing back and forth before taking a long sip of a coke and captain mixed drink.
"You know I haven't Tej…" I say back to him and find myself staring into my glass then dark amber liquid in my glass almost hypnotic with the way the bubbles of carbonation rise to the surface.
"You should go see him…he's not doing the best Brian and neither one of you tried patching things up after everything."
"The fuck I didn't try the stubborn prick wouldn't fucking listen if their hadn't been inch thick bullet proof glass we probably would have beat each other to death with the phones!" I shout at him, and it would be great if I could talk to Roman and Tej about my dad…who runs a black ops intelligence agency, but I can't put them at risk like that.
Four or five bottles of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum with a little bit of coke and maybe an ounce weed mostly smoked by myself, Tej brings up the subject of Roman again.
"You know he's back home…near the derby ring, living out of a busted ass RV…his big ass forehead saying fuck the world…"
"Fine Tej, fuck I'll go see Roman!" I curse at him and Tej smirks back at me, I see Suki, Mia and Letty pop their heads in looking at us with concerned interest.
"Mia, Letty, we're going to Barstow!" I holler to them making all three of them jump, none of the three at first realizing they were caught snooping.
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'As much of a fan that I was of Roman Pierce in the movies…as Brian I don't feel very happy letting Tej egg me on into coming to see Roman.' I think there were a lot of things said between us when I tried looking out for him after he got himself busted.
The desert hits me pretty hard, and it's not the heat clinging to me even though the AC has the car's interior nice and chilly.
'Really oughta pamper Sophia a little when she comes back from Cuba next time.' I think though the M134 Browning Mini gun hooked to a flip up mount in the backseat of this Porsche Cayenne Turbo, is annoying, but we kept it and we armored the shit out of this bad bitch while improving its overall horsepower from 450 (that's what the factory claims anyways.) when we dyno'd it it only had 403 HP 436lbs of torque, now she has 912 lbs of torque and 873 HP, and we solved most of not all problems this model has.
Letty is driving us down a dusty two-lane road, classic rock cranking from the speakers.
Mia's in the backseat sprawled out, humming along. I'm sitting shotgun, my head leaning against the window Ray-Ban sunglasses…feeling nowhere ready to have a confrontation with Roman…not yet anyways.
We pull up to a stadium that's half rust, half duct tape and a quarter broken dreams.
"Girls…whatever happens stay in the car." I say to the two as I spot Roman Pierce, he is leaning into the engine bay of a battered up rattle canned black Monte Carlo.
"Yo Roman!" I shout the moment I step out for the car, he flinches at the sound of my voice but doesn't turn around and respond.
"YO RO-RO…ROME!" I shout and that gets a reaction out of him, he spins around and points his finger at me with a snarl on his face.
"Only my homeboys call me Rome, pig!" There's so much hate and venom in Roman's voice I know that this whole deal was a mistake.
"I'm not a cop anymore, bro." I say back to him
"Brian fucking O'Conner's not a cop anymore?" he asks, stunned for a second as he marches closer to me.
I'm not a cop an-" I barely get out before Roman's fist flies through the air heading for my jaw.
I let Roman's punch land and act like it staggers me, his punch feels little more than being hit by a pillow when Mia and Letty are feeling playful…well before they allowed me to inject them with the perfected Mirakuru that is.
I launch myself forward, fists up as I tackle him into the sand, we grapple on the ground and he punches me in the gut.
I get my footing, so does Roman, Roman throws a jab…I block it, step in close, and shove him hard.
He stumbles and glares at me. His eyes are glassy now, but he's not done.
"IT'S YOUR FAULT I'M LIVING LIKE THIS BRIAN!!!" Roman shouts and swings again, I let his hits land on me.
Roman pulls back, confused…even he knows I fight better than this…he stares at me hard gripping my shirt in his fists.
Roman just stops his breathing is heavy, as the hate and anger bleeds out of him. Then he's pulling me into a hug, forehead to my shoulder, I pat his back.
"I missed you Bri…I'm sorry…the only one responsible for Roman's shit is Roman."
" I missed you too Ro-Ro." I say softly while patting his back.
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Mia and Letty 3rd person PoV
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Mia tries not to giggle at the way Roman throws a punch, Brian has been training them extra hard in hand to hand combat and weapons since the warehouse finished construction thanks to Sophia.
Letty coos as the little tantrum one of Brian's childhood best friends was throwing comes to an end and they start hugging.
"I wish we had a camera, they look so adorable." Mia nods and makes a soft cooing sound in agreement.
"We'll have to tease him mercilessly later." Mia giggles mischievously.
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Come on Y'all we're so close!