Rome pulled up in his Evo X as he finished his bag of French Fries. He licked the salt off of his fingers before he jumped out of the car. He wondered if Brian would bne here. They needed to catch up on good times. He rapped on the door loudly.

The un,mistakable sound of the engine made Brian listen up. He had actually gone into the garage to work but then decided to take a snooze in his driver seat and listen to some music.

When he heard the knock he groggily opened his eyes and shot a look through the open garage door. He didn't trust his eyes. Was that really Rome standing there on his doorstep?
Brian pushed himself out of the car and jogged out of the garage towards the car yelling loudly. "Yo, Rome! before he tackled his friend.

'Yo, Brian!' Rome said, and punched him softly in the shoulder. 'What's doin'?'

"Rubbing your bald heads, bro!" He rubbed his knuckles on Rome's shiny shaved head.
Then he let him go and eyed him with a wide grin.
"All the way from Miami? What are you doing here?" Last time he'd seen Rome was ages ago when the decided that they needed a break from the garage in Miami and Brian traveled West again.

'Thought we needed to catch up.' Rome felt some sort of nostalgia, seeing one of his best friends again. 'So, where's Dom?'

For a moment Brian wondered how Rome knew about Dom but remembered that he had probably told him about the big guy.
"He's around." Brian replied vaguely. He was never really sure where Dom was.
"Wow, Rome, bro! Vacation or what?"

'Just thought we needed to catch up.' Rome lokked at his surroundings for the first time since he got there. 'Nice place, yours?'

"Kind of." He shrugged. "It's Mia's and Dom's."
Rome knew Brian was married to Mia so technically it was his as well.
"Want a beer?" Obviously Rome didn't want to tell him what really brought him to LA.

'Yeah, a Corona please. Anything happened since I was away? I was the life of the party.' Rome knew something must have happened since he was away.

Brian tried to remember what the last thing was that he told Rome.
Rome knew that Brian was married and had Tyler with her.
"Tyler's first birthday is coming up...oh....yeah!" He left the garage and went over to the house.
Entering through the back door he pulled two Coronas out of the fridge.
"Here's something you wanna know!" He pulled up the bottom of his cargo pants and showed Rome the ugly scars from the bullett and surgeries on his knee that were slowly fading to white. "A souvenir from Carter Verone and a guy he was making funky deals with. The bastard kidnapped Mia and caused a whole lot of trouble. He let her go in the end but man o man, even pulled my brother and his girlfriend into the mess..." Brian shook his head at the painful memory. It had almost cost him his relationship.
"You remember Jack, do you?"
Jack was a couple of years younger but had tagged along when he got older in Barstow.

'Yeah, I remember Jack. Talked to him the other day to see where you was' Rome remembered the phone call a couple of days ago. '... Hey, this Jack O' Conner?' 'Yeah, who's this?' 'Roman Pearce, Brian's friend. You know where he is?'... 'Hey, Brian, you got anything to eat?'

"Yeah, I got food." Brian dropped his pants and little irritated that Rome completely ignored the fact that Verone was out of lock up and after them.

Rome followed Brian into the kitchen. 'Hey, man, I'm sorry for ignoring you today. I'm shit scared about Verone, but, you just gotta live life. You can't go live under a rock until this blows over, can you?'

Brian smirked and pulled the fridge open.
"Don't worry about it, bro."
He pulled out some cold cuts and sandwich bread.
"The whole thing happened four months ago and I never heard of him again-he's got a family now, too."

'Good, maybe he'll stay off our asses now.' Rome was enjoying this time with Brian. 'You like my car, bro?'

"I haven't even seen your car."
'Strange' He thought. "Why what are you driving now?"
He walked thought the living room with his beer in his hand and looked out the window.


(What R U driving?)

Rome started to explain the details. 'It's a Limited Edition Mitshubishi Evolution X, had to get it shipped over from Japan. So, you like it?'

"Definetly." He walked out the front door to take a closer look.
"Shipped over, huh? You're a millionaire now, or something?" He ran his hand along the custom paint job and grabbed the door handle holding out his hand for the keys.

Rome threw the keys to Brian. 'Ok, you can drive, but don't get our asses busted, fool.' Rome doubted that Brian would crash his car, but warned him anyway. 'And I swear, if you crash this car, I will punch you right in the mouth.'

Once again, you gotta give us more than one line- it's actually a rule. So...please edit-