Ugh sigh...another high school/how they got together/how they met story! I am sorry I just can't help myself! I have been trying to catch up on some of the other writers for this fandom and I am getting inspired! I also have been re-watching the seasons, picking things out that I missed the first time and tried to incorporate that into my story here….including:

1. Kyle Hobart (the guy who was thrown out for ditching Opie that led to him getting arrested) Remember him from Season 1 Episode 5 Giving Back (they burned his back off for having that tat)? In this story, he is in high school with Jax, Opie, Donna and Tara to make it a little more interesting.

2. In Season 1 Episode 8 The Pull, Jax said he was the same guy, same cut, but Tara said he was different because he wasn't afraid to be vulnerable or letting someone because of Abel...meaning before, when they were in high school, Tara had a hard time getting Jax to let her in or being real with her….so that's what I want to explore with this. An emotionally guarded Jax (shocker, right?).

So let me know what you think...I shouldn't be starting another FF story, especially since I already have a few going...but like I said: I can't help myself!

You Looked At Me, And I Was Done

Chapter One

Jax

Jax groaned as a crow eater...Buffy? Bunny? He couldn't remember what the hell she had told him her name was. She was grinding on his lap and he was in heaven. Opie was sitting on one of the loveseats with Donna snuggled into his side, laughing and drinking beer.

Jax was painfully hard and he was about to pick the crow eater up and carry her to one of the back apartments and finish himself off. What stopped him was Opie calling out to their friend, Kyle, who was strangely tardy to the party.

"Hey Hobart," Opie called over the booming music and riotous Samcro crowd.

Jax tore his gaze from Bubbly and looked around to see Kyle pointing to the bar, but gesturing that he would join them in a second after getting a drink. Jax focused back on the girl on top of him when Opie leaned forward and asked, "Isn't that Tara Knowles? With Hobart?"

Tara Knowles...that name floated through his head for recognition and he looked up and examined the couple as they made their way towards Jax and Opie. Oh shit, Tara fucking Knowles. Blood suddenly flooded his brain again (which had all been in his dick) as he took in Tara. It was Tara Knowles at a Samcro party...Jax never thought he would see the day.

What the fuck was she doing with Kyle? He was an even bigger player than Jax, which was saying something. But he looked smitten with the brunette...and Jax knew why.

Tara looked fucking... 'beautiful' wasn't even the right word. Unlike every other woman here, who only wore something if it was tight, black, and revealing, Tara wore a feminine sundress with a light jean jacket on. She was...innocence, but her dress had a tempting amount of cleavage and her legs were long, tan and bare. She wore almost no makeup, if she wore any, but she glowed. She wore cowgirl boots to complete the look, her hair straightened and partially pulled back.

Right now, Tara was more tempting than any other woman here, who were all essentially wearing just underwear...Jax glanced around and saw many men looking at her lustfully.

Tara lit up the darkness in the clubhouse. Kyle realized it as he glanced around too, and proudly wrapped his arm around her as he stood in front of Jax, the croweater who was now pissed she didn't have Jax's full attention, Donna, who looked at Tara with a shy smile, and Opie, who just looked plain old confused.

"Hey Tara! Good to see you outside of school," Donna said, breaking the tension with a small smile.

Tara beamed in relief at the greeting and said, "I have always wondered what it was like...at one of these parties," as she looked around and shuddered as she watched Bobby eat some girl out on the pool table.

"Maybe I should have just stuck with my imagination, though," Tara said, wrinkling her nose adorably at Kyle as she chuckled. Kyle laughed and kissed her nose and then her lips.

Donna laughed and said, "I thought the same thing when Opie first brought me, but now I swear I am immune to it."

Tara just glanced around, and Jax wanted inside her head.

"Let's take this to the back, baby," the croweater whispered seductively in his ear, but Jax shook her off and said, "Take a walk, sweetheart, I am going to catch up with my friends."

The croweater pouted, but climbed off of Jax with a roll of her eyes and walked off, searching for her next victim.

"I hope she didn't leave on our account," Kyle said with a smirk, pulling Tara down on his lap, wrapping his arms around her. Jax didn't know why he gave a shit, but this couple...it didn't work.

Tara was too good for anyone in the club or anyone thinking about prospecting for the club. Like Jax, Opie and Kyle would be in six months. It was why Jax hadn't pursued Tara for himself as he watched her walk through the halls, or sat behind her in class, smelling the sweet smell of her shampoo...lavender, maybe?

Charming was a small town so everyone knew everyone, and their business. Tara was a sweet, smart girl with aspirations. She was involved in anything to do with science extracurricular, volunteered for blood drives, and candy striped at the hospital. She had lost her mother at a young age, and her dad was the town drunk. Sometimes Carl Knowles even showed at the club for parties like little Tara Knowles had tonight.

"So how long has this been a thing?" Jax asked, gesturing between them with his beer bottle.

Tara smiled down at Kyle, deferring to him, causing Jax's stomach to twist. Kyle was a friend and future brother, but...he was a hound dog. He couldn't keep it to one girl, especially one like Tara. Even though it made him a hypocrite, Jax didn't like the idea of Kyle hurting this girl. She was just...too damn sweet and innocent.

"Two weeks," Kyle said, shrugging, squeezing Tara's hip causing her to yelp and giggle. She slapped his chest playfully and Kyle leaned in and nuzzled his cheek against hers as he kissed along her jaw.

Not able to watch what was happening, Jax stood and walked towards the door of the clubhouse, desperately needing a smoke and some air.

Jax nodded to a few people, but went to his spot, when he wanted to be alone to think shit through. Tara Knowles and Kyle Hobart...Jesus Christ.

Jax lit up a cigarette and inhaled, rubbing his forehead. He didn't know when he started tracking Tara Knowles, but he had been doing it for a while now.

When his father had died, Jax remembered when he got the big card from his fourth grade class...everyone else had wrote, Sorry for Your Loss or Thinking/Praying for You and then signed their name.

Tara had written, "I don't know how you feel, but I am here if you need me. -Tara Knowles.

The message was odd to Jax. If anyone could say they knew how he felt, it was Tara who lost her mother the previous year…the same year Thomas had died.

He had always wondered what she had meant by that. Jax still did. Maybe that was when he started tracking her…?

Jax smoked cigarette after cigarette, wondering if there was anything to do about Kyle and Tara. Could he talk to Kyle? Either warn him off her or tell him not to hurt her? That would be weird, and it would make Kyle and everyone else think he had some interest in Tara.

Jax did, but he didn't know what his interest was or why. Jax didn't think he was romantically into her. She was beautiful, but he didn't think he could get what he wanted from her. So crow eaters and easy girls would have to do...but...it still bugged him.

And it pissed him off that it bugged him. Instead of smoking on top of the clubhouse roof, he should be partying, getting his dick sucked by B-b-b whatever the hell her name was, and fucking around with his friends, regardless of who they were with.

Just as Jax was about to make his way down the ladder, Opie's head appeared. Jax settled back down and sipped his beer.

Opie sat next to him in silence for a few minutes and said, "So you're into Tara?"

Jax looked at him in shock and said, "No."

Opie shot him a sidelong glance, telling Jax he didn't believe him.

"I don't," Jax said shrugging.

"Which is why you are brooding up here," Opie pointed out, sipping his beer.

"It was just getting crowded in there," Jax said, shrugging.

Opie was silent and said, "There are a lot of good reasons to fight your friend over, but a chick isn't one of them."

Jax sighed and lit another cigarette, passing it to Opie who took a drag before passing it back.

"She is just too...good for him," Jax said, hoping Opie understood. Tara wasn't just some chick…was he the only one that saw that?

Opie nodded and Jax wondered what he was thinking. Opie always seemed to get him.

"Donna is too good for me," Opie said inhaling a puff from the cigarette, "I knew it was selfish when I began pursuing her...but now...I love her too much to even give a shit what's right or wrong."

Opie was not afraid to talk about girls or fucking feelings. Jax not so much. He envied Opie. Opie had Donna, who was as much stupid in love as Opie. They were truly high school sweethearts. It was rare to find.

"I don't want Tara to be...I don't know...tainted by all this," he said gesturing around the club and the garage.

"You are thinking about this too much," Opie said, rolling his eyes, "We are in high school. Relationships usually last what...two months...tops? Kyle won't last that long and you know it. He'll cheat and Tara is too smart to not know. Girls like her always figure it out. She can protect herself, man."

Jax considered his words and realized Opie was right, like always. Kyle would fuck this up, and Tara would walk away. It might hurt her at first, but it would be good for her. Keep her clean of this shit.

"You're right, man," Jax murmured, stomping out the cigarette and finishing his beer off.

Opie nodded and Jax said, "Let's get back to it, shall we?"

Opie chuckled and stood, walking down the ladder first, followed by Jax.

As they made their way back to the party, Jax had to prepare himself for seeing Tara and Kyle's PDA. He would need to be patient, as Opie suggested.

Donna was talking to Opie's dad, but Tara and Kyle were nowhere to be seen. Opie moved to his girlfriend and father.

Jax panicked thinking that Tara was in the back with Kyle, but as his eyes swept the club he spotted the little candle in the coal mine and followed the light right to her.

She was playing pool, waiting for her turn. Jax looked to see who she was playing because Kyle had his arms around her from behind, resting his chin on top of her head. Kyle spotted Jax and beckoned him over. Jax stood by the couple and looked the table over and spotted Tig...one of the best pool players in the club. Surely she wasn't playing him…?

Jax studied the table and someone was kicking someone else's ass.

"Who…?" he trailed off, asking Kyle.

"Tara!" Kyle said, laughing, "She is a little hustler."

Jax smirked as Tara flushed in embarrassment. Fucking adorable...and beautiful, Jax thought.

"You are going to let a high school girl school you in pool, Tiggy?" Jax taunted across the table, causing Tig's blue eyes to flash in annoyance.

"She's gotten lucky," Tig said, his voice tense as he was losing face...to a girl.

Tig took a shot and the ball ricocheted off the corner of the pocket, just missing. Tara grimaced in exaggeration and said, "That wasn't bad luck, Mr. Trager, that was just poor form. This game is unforgiving when it comes to poor form."

She shook herself out of Kyle's hands and walked around the table studying it from every angle.

Tig scowled at her and Jax chuckled with Kyle as they watched her.

She picked her shot, and then bent deliciously, her form perfect as she lined up the ball and her shot. She tentatively stroked a few times before striking the ball as it bounced first one of her balls in, while simultaneously knocking Tig's ball against another of hers to get it in.

It was one of the most beautiful things Jax had seen and some of the surrounding crowd cheered. Tara only had two balls left and they were easy shots. She got them in and when it came to the eight ball she studied it a lot longer than normal. It was an impossible shot.

Tig grinned smugly, knowing he would take over the table when she couldn't make it.

Tara smirked as if she was struck with inspiration and walked around the table towards Kyle and Jax and bent down. Kyle and Jax both caught their breath at her beautiful ass and Kyle shot Jax a look. Jax shrugged and gave him a look that said: Can you blame me?

Tara seemed to hear their interaction, and shot them a playful smile over their shoulder before she lined up her impossible shot. What was she doing? Besides arousing every dick in this place?

Tara arched her back as if to stretch out a kink, causing Jax's heart to stop. Fuck...he took it back. He was into her.

"Eight ball, side pocket," she said, pointing to the pocket...what the hell? Was she insane?

She then took her shot, and her stick arched the white ball of the table and landed over one of Tig's balls, knocking the eight securely in the side pocket.

The crowd, which had grown, was roaring with laughter and applause as Tara flushed in embarrassment. She looked to Tig who was shocked.

"That's an illegal move!" he shouted over the crowds, indignant.

"Bet that's not the only thing illegal around here," Tara quipped saucily, a grin on her face.

Jax and Kyle laughed at her joke, along with the rest of the crowd.

Tig smiled, shaking his head, amused, "Alright kid, good game. You hustle me again in my own clubhouse and we will have problems."

Tara nodded and walked towards Kyle and then flung her arms around him, her smile so big.

Jax hated Kyle...hated that he spun her around as he rested his hand low on her back, his face buried in her hair...Jax was seven shades of jealous.

He grabbed the first croweater he saw available and said, "Can you help me with something, darling?"

She nodded coyly, biting her lip and Jax nodded and led her to the back apartments for a quick fuck. The entire time, Jax imagined it was the brunette who bewitched him tonight...her legs wrapped around him with her cowgirl boots still on.

So what do you all think? I will probably write this story a bit more slowly than the other ones, but I will go until Tara leaves Charming to go to school...what does everyone think?! Once again I am counting on your feedback!