Chapter one: leaving home

Jessica LaBrava sat in her bedroom looking down at her acceptance letter to Pepperdine University. She contemplated on whether or not to tell her dad about her acceptance into Pepperdine. Her dad is non other than David "Happy" LaBrava. He is known as the killah within all of the SONS.

Jessica grew up within the SAMCRO family, she was known as "the princess" of SAMCRO while Jax her best friend was known as "the prince" of SAMCRO. She spent all her life never being afraid to hold her ground, she was taught to fight and not be afraid to fight back, she was also taught that family and loyalty were the most important things in life.

Now getting back to the story….

Jessica had received the later the week before; she'd look at the letter whenever she knew her dad was out of the house. Now being one of times she knew he was out of the house, Jessica turned her laptop on and bought a plane ticket to Malibu. She had made up her mind and she decided that she was going to attend Pepperdine University whether her dad liked it or not.

Right after she bought her plane ticket she heard the rumbles of a couple of motorcycles getting closer and closer. Jessica closed her computer quickly and hid the letter underneath her bed. She went downstairs and into the kitchen to get some yogurt. She sat down at the island and started eating, just then her dad and Jax walked in.

Jax said, "Hey there Jess."

Jessica smiled and said, "Hey there Jackie boy."

"So I don't even get a hello? And I'm your father, what the hell is wrong with is picture." Happy said in his raspy voice.

Both Jax and Jessica chuckled. Then Jessica said, "Hey daddy. What are you guys doing here? I thought you guys were coming back till tomorrow?"

Happy looked at his daughter and thought what the hell? She's never asked why we would come home early. Something's up and I don't think I'll like it.

Happy was taken out of his thoughts by Jax asking, "Jess, why did you just ask that? You've never asked us why we've ever come early. What's going on?"

Jessica thought to herself shit I just gave myself away just great. I might as well them now, I mean I am leaving tomorrow. Fuck my fucking life.

"Well uhm you see I was kind of hoping you guys would come home tomorrow so I could think of something to say to you guys." Jessica said in a nervous voice.

Happy looked confused and said, "Baby girl what do you mean 'think of something to say to us'?"

Jessica started to fidget and she said, "Well uhm you see what had happened was last week I got an acceptance letter to Pepperdine University and on a full ride scholarship and everything. And I decided I wanted attend Pepperdine so today I kind of bought a plane ticket to Malibu for tomorrow…..sorry daddy but I kind of wasn't thinking when I did this. I know you may be disappointed in me but you gotta understand I need to spread my wings and fly."

Both Jax and Happy said at the same time, "WHAT!"

Jessica sighed and said, "You heard me you guys. I leave to Malibu tomorrow and you guys cant stop me. I want to go there and become a lawyer. I mean you guys should have a lawyer within the family right? Well that could be me in a couple of years. I'll only be gone like what 6 years, at the most. I'll back during holidays ya know. It'll be like I never left and I'll call you guys everyday."

Happy was beyond pissed that his daughter did this without thinking. He taught her better, he taught her to always use her brain and do things spontaneously or whenever she felt like it.

He spoke in low raspy voice, "Okay. But you call ME twice a day. Got it?"

Jessica nodded and jumped up and gave her dad a hug and a kiss.

Jax then said, "What I don't get is why your leaving so early? You still have the rest of the summer to just chill here."

Jessica already knew that she just needed to get away from Charming a little earlier. Some things went down, and she wasn't ready to talk about them just yet.

She replied by saying, "You'll understand soon. Trust me, I wish I could tell you but I can't right now. A lot has happened and I just need time to get away and think things thru. And tell Tig I said 'I love you Alex'. He'll know what I mean.

Happy and Jax already knew that Tig and Jessica have a thing going on for awhile but they didn't think her leaving so soon would have anything to do with him.

Jax nodded and said, "Do you promise you'll tell what's going on when your ready?"

Jessica nodded and gave Jax a kiss on the cheek. She then said, "Well I better getting packing huh. I mean school literally starts in 2 weeks and I'm going there 2 weeks early. I must be crazy."

They all chuckled at that little joke.