Not Knowing No

Serenity knew that she wasn’t in her bed when she woke up. She was in the same bed she woke up in earlier and she hated it. But when she tried to sit up someone but their hand on her stomach and held her down. “Well looks like you’ll live.”

“That’s just so fucking great for me.” She muttered harshly.

“You shouldn’t have ran.” The guy said to her.

“You shouldn’t have picked me up and thrown me over your shoulder. So it seems we both made mistakes.” She growled at him.

“Are you worth all this trouble?” Dom asked her.

“No I am not. I’m worth nothing. There you happy I said it.” She said as she closed her eyes.

Dom didn’t say anything. It shocked him that she thought so lowly of herself. She didn’t show it any other time. So what was different about all this? Then he realized that she was reliving her past. “I am sorry that we did this to you. But we just met you and it seems that we have grown fond of you already.”

“Why so I can do your clothes? You and your friends? Or so you can show people you can control someone’s every move?” She asked him.

“I would never do that.” Dom said as he let her go.

“Yeah you showed that so many times today. Not letting me leave following me home forcing me to come back here with you. Yeah you aren’t a control freak.” Serenity said as she turned her back to him.

That hit Dom funny and then he looked at it from her point of view as well as he could and realized that he was forcing her into this thinking that she would have chosen it anyways. Now it was too late for that. “I only wanted to make sure you were safe. You know have a safe place to stay so Skyler won’t come back for you. After that beating you gave him I know that he would come back for you and with more people. I know their kind.”

“Look I know what I have to do and staying here isn’t helping. Thanks for saving me last night but I have to do this on my own. I don’t want anyone hurt because of me.” Serenity said to him.

“Where is your family? What happened to them?” Dom asked her.

“My parents are dead to me like I am to them.” She said as she looked away from him.

“What happened between you and them?”

“I was born a girl.” Serenity said to him.

“Why would that matter?”

“Because my father was always told that lazy men have girls. He didn’t think himself lazy and me being there made him think he was. They gave me to my grandmother. She died when I was 16. I lived on my own on the money she left me and then I met Skyler. Then it went to hell.” Serenity said to him without looking at him.

“You really don’t trust people do you?”

“My experiences taught me that no one is who they appear to be.”

The comment hung in the air and he shook his head. Then he looked down at her and saw that she was shaking. “I am sorry that you feel like we are trying to hurt you. I didn’t mean for it to seem that way. Usually the girls I meet throw themselves all over me. Honestly I am not use to being told no. I find it refreshing.”

“Good for you.” She muttered and then sat up.

“You think that I have a huge glass of J.D. or something that can get me completely hammered?” Serenity asked him.

“Why would you want to do that? I never have seen you drink in the club.” Dom said as he stood up.

“I want to get so fucking drunk that I don’t remember where I am. Is that fine with you?” She asked him.

“That is no way to live.” Dom stated.

“That doesn’t seem to stop everyone else that I know. Fine a glass of tea or water. Anything!” Serenity said to him.

Dom walked out of the room and down the stairs. Vince went in and sat in the chair in front of the bed. “Great a babysitter.”

Vince just laughed and rolled his eyes. “You know he doesn’t do this for just anyone. You think that you have an issue with trust. He does too and for him to do this goes against everything he has done before. So you should actually think about someone but yourself.”

“So you do talk. I didn’t ask for this. I just wanted to live a normal life but no such thing as normal for me. I am sorry that I sound like a whiner. I really am and you are right I should stop thinking about myself. So tell me why is he doing this?” She asked him.

“He is doing this because Mia said you were a good person from what she knew of you and that is all that he needed to hear. Mia usually has good judge of character. If she likes you then you have to be worth something in her book.” Vince said to her.

“You know I didn’t think any of you besides Dom like me.” She said to him.

“I didn’t say we like you we don’t know you but we are trying to get to know you.” Vince said as Dom knocked on the door.

“Come in Brother.” Vince called to him.

Dom entered with a tray and set in on the bed in front of her. “There is a sandwich and some tea. Mia says she’ll see you in a few.” Dom said to her.

“Dom, thank you for all you have done for me. I know that you didn’t have to do it and I know that I have been a bitch. I will stay willingly and help out. But if I start getting orders I am out of here. You understand?” She asked him.

“No orders. I promise. Now eat. You haven’t eaten anything today.” Dom said before he walked out followed by Vince.

Vince looked at Dom and smiled. “She isn’t that bad.”

“What the hell did you say to her?” Dom asked as they walked down the stairs.

“Nothing you need to worry your pretty little head about. But I do wonder if she ever thought about a threesome.” He said with a laugh.

“Don’t know but I’ll have to ask her.” Dom said as they ran into Mia.

“Ho is she?” Mia asked them.

“Better said she will stay willingly. So we don’t have to lock her in.” Dom said with a wink.

Mia laughed and nodded. “Good because I think I’d like to have her around willingly.”

Serenity ate her sandwich and drank her tea as she sat in bed thinking about everything that has happened in the last day. It was hard for her to even think that she couldn’t defend herself. But she saw it in her mind and knew that there was more that she needed to learn. So it was time that she got on the phone and found someone that would teach her what she needed to know. But now that she was here she felt like she wanted to like them protect her. And that thought really scared her. Why would she want them to protect her now after the last year of doing it herself? “Hey girl you need some clothes?”

“You got anything that can hide scars on the back and Belly?” She asked her.

“What kind of scars?” Mia asked as she walked in and closed the door.

Serenity pulled the shirt over her head and looked at Mia. “These scars.”

Mia gasped and covered her mouth. “Are they the only ones?”

“No they aren’t but they are the worse ones.” She said as she pulled the shirt back on.

“I’ll get you some of Dom’s shirts and some shorts from me. Be back in a second.” Mia said as she left the room.

Jesses was on his computer at the garage and he was looking her up. Everything that she ever did was there for him to see and it shocked him about who she was and all the things that she did in her life. He knew that the name Serenity black sounded very familiar but he didn’t realize why until now. She was the daughter of one of the richest people in The USA and she lived in what he was told a dump. So he went fishing in her finances and found out that she had three accounts. And they all had more then 200,000 in them. He couldn’t help but wonder why she was running from the guy she was running from. But then he saw his name and looked him up. It shocked him to see that it was the president’s youngest brother and he knew right away why she was running. They were in deep shit and he knew it. But to tell Dom would mean the girl would be out on her butt before she knew what was happening. But he picked the phone up and called him.

“Mai, I need to talk to Dom.” Jesse said when she answered the phone.

“Yeah Mad Scientist?” Dom asked when he got on the phone.

“We are in deep shit Dom and I mean deep shit. You get your ass here now. I want you to see this.” Jesse told him.

“Be there in two.” Dom said before he hung up.

Jesse read more about Serenity. She was the first woman street car racer in Florida that had won more races in a row them Dom had in the first three years that he did it. She was amazing behind a wheel. He also read that she owned a garage in Florida but gave it to her brother about five months ago. She left a lot of shit behind to run from this guy. He must have pull with his big brother because there is no way he would be out on the street with all the times that Serenity had called the police on him and pressed charges. But they all seemed to be dropped without so much of investigations. “So she couldn’t do anything but run. She had to run.”

“What the hell do you mean she had to run?” Dom asked from the doorway.

“Read this. You’ll understand when you get done.” Jesse said handing him the file that he had printed out on both of them.

~~~~~~
Serenity was in the backyard under her car looking at the gas tank when Dom pulled up to the hour three hours later. She knew that there was something funny with the tank and then she found the dime size hole in it and shouted. “FUCK!”

“What’s up?” Dom asked her.

“Skyler but a screwdriver through my gas tank. Now I have to get a new fucking one and put it on. I fucking hate him.” She said as she slid out from under her car.

“So are you going to tell me who this fucker is?” Dom asked her.

“Why should I? You already know everything you need to know. Jesse looked me up.” She said looking at him.

“How do you know that?” He asked her.

“Well this morning you told him to and he was the only way you found out where I lived. I know that you didn’t follow me.” She said as she stood up.