Are You Ready? /// The Fast and the Furious /// Book One

Right to Party

The after party was at the Toretto house. 

Many people were already here, drinking and mingling.

Vince was playing guitar.

Dom and Brian walked in.

Brian walked toward Leon.

"Yo, Dom, we were just about to go looking for you, bro," Leon told him.

Dom hit the beer bottle out of his hand, walking along toward Vince. "Where were you?"

"There were mass cops there," Vince told him. "They came in from every direction. It was orchestrated."

Dom picked up a beer bottle. "This your beer?"

"Yeah, that's my beer," Vince answered.

Dom walked toward Letty.

"You all right?" Letty asked.

"Am I all right?" Dom repeated.

"It was just a question," Letty told him.

Brian walked further into the room.

"Yo, Dom," Vince told him. "Why did you bring the buster here?"

"'Cause the buster kept me out of handcuffs," Dom answered. "He didn't just run back to the fort. The buster brought me back." He walked toward Brian. "You can have any brew you want, as long as it's a Corona." 

Brian took the beer he offered. "Thanks, man."

"That's Vince's, so enjoy it," Dom told him.

Dom and Brian looked toward Vince.

Vince was not happy. "You--"

Brian wiped the top of the bottle with his shirt, drinking. He looked at Dom. "Hey, bro. You got a bathroom?"

"Upstairs," Dom told him. "First door on the right."

Brian walked upstairs.

Vince stood, walking toward Dom. 

Dom sat down.

"He's got no call being up in here," Vince told him. "You don't know that fool for shit."

"He's right, Dom," Leon told him.

Dom looked at Vince. "There was a time when I didn't know you."

"That was in the third grade," Vince told him.

"Yeah," Dom agreed. "So, what girls are here?"

"You name it," Leon told him. "You want mine?"

Letty pointed at Leon. "You need to shut the hell--"

Anna smiled, taking a drink.

"You want two?" Leon asked.

"You don't have anything?" Dom asked.

Letty looked at Dom. "You look a bit tired. I think you should go upstairs and give me a massage."

"Look at all our guests," Dom told her.

"How about we go upstairs and you give me a massage?" Letty asked.

Dom and Letty walked toward the stairs.

"Crazy lady," Leon told them.

Brian walked downstairs. 

"You wipe the seat?" Vince asked.

Brian saw a gun on the table.

Vince stepped toward Brian threateningly.

Anna was annoyed, pulling Vince back. "Jesus Christ! Would you cut this shit out? Come on."

Mia arrived next to Brian. "Come on. Let's go get me a drink."

Mia and Brian walked into the next room.

Anna gave Vince a look, taking a drink, sitting down on the window seat.

Jesse sat nearby Anna. "Now, come on, baby. Don't be like that. Tonight is the night to let everything go and have a little fun."

"It'd be easier if boys didn't wanna start a fight every five minutes," Anna told him.

"Granted, I'll take that as a fact," Jesse told her. "

"You know, after a near-victory like tonight, and a party like this, and drunk like we are now, it would be a pretty good time to make a move," Anna told him.

"Why don't you make a move?" Jesse asked.

"I just did," Anna told him. "Just can't promise it goes past any of this."

Jesse smiled, chuckling. "I'm good with that."

Anna smiled.

They leaned closer, kissing for a moment.