Someone To Love

"Whatever, Dom. Go be with your fucking sluts and get out of my face!" Letty screamed, her enraged voice echoing through the packed house. Dom followed her through the living room; hot on her heals as they stormed past Jesse, Lora and Mia.

"Are they at it again?" Vince asked, pulling himself away from a random girl for a split second - watching Dom grab Letty by the arm and spin her around to face him.

"Looks like it.." Jesse answered, enjoying the show.

"I was just talking to her Letty! D why why the hell do you get so jealous?" Dom demanded, holding her against him as she tried to move away.

"Jealous!?"

Lora laughed quietly, moving closer to Jesse as she watched Letty lash out and shove Dom away from her with all her strength.

"I wonder why guys don't understand when to just stop talking?" Mia asked aloud, glancing towards Brian, who smiled.

"Get away from me, Dom! God! You're never going to cha----."

The team looked back towards Dom and Letty, who were now kissing passionately and ripping at each other’s clothes. They watched the two firecrackers stumble up the stairs and out of sight quickly.

"Always ends the same way." Leon assured, nodding towards the now vacant stairs. The others laughed, "Loves a funny thing." Jesse assured as Lora stood to her feet, linking her hand with his.

"We should go outside now." She murmured, glancing in Mia's direction as she led him through the crowd and towards the door.

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Jesse jumped up onto the wall outside of the house and grinned, looking Lora over as she climbed up beside him. Her hair was pulled back into two short ponytails and if she had any makeup on, he couldn't tell.

"You really are beautiful." He muttered casually, pulling a cigarette from his pocket while he drank down a Corona. Lora remained quiet, millions of thoughts buzzing through her head as she watched him.

Jesse meant everything to her and she didn't know how to tell him that he was going to be a father. Nothing like this had ever happened to her before.

"Here."

Jesse broke the thick silence between them, offering over half of his Corona.

"Um," Lora looked at the bottle hesitantly before meeting his eyes with her own.

"I can't."

"What? Why not?"

Lora pressed her lips together gently and turned her eyes to the velvet black sky above them. "Jess..." She could feel the tears rushing to her eyes, forming at the rims before threatening to fall down her cheeks.

"Lora, what's wrong?" Jesse demanded, leaping from the wall to stand in front of her. She took in a breath but wouldn't answer him, desperately trying to hold back the sob that was forming in the back of her throat.

Jesse's eyes never left Lora's face, the slow buf paf panic forming in the pit of his stomach as he watched a few silent tears run past her chin. "Please tell me what's wrong?"

Lora choked back a sob and looked down at him, "I don't want to lose you." She whispered, running her fingers down his cheek as he looked at her in confusion.

"I don't understand. Lor, what is going on?" Jesse pleaded, stepping back to look at her. He couldn't imagine her with another guy, he had been with her everyday since Race Wars. What could possibly be so upsetting to her?

"Please, baby. Tell me what's wrong." He went on, taking her hand in his. She remained quiet, staring down at him lost in thought.

What if he said he didn't want this baby? What if he asked her to get rid of it. Another sob escaped her. Jesse took in a breath and kissed her fingers, trying to control his own emotions as he watched her cry. Her eyes were sparkling like sapphires in the moonlight, large tears forming and falling to her lips. Even now, when she seemed so broken she looked perfect. As if she were glowing.

"Jesse."

Lora wiped at her eyes and slid off the wall to stand in front of him.

"Yeah, baby?" He murmured, brushing back a fallen strand of coal black hair from her eyes. Lora searched his face for some sort of understanding before her lips parted.

"I'm pregnant."-------------------------