Hello my readers! This is the first official chapter of the series of flashbacks I plan to post involving Mel and Jax as both teens and children. The flashbacks might not go in time order, but I will give you the heads up right before the new chapter begins. This chapter was posted in Just Married's later update, but I added some more to it to make it better for you all. I hope you enjoy!

Linda finished unpacking her and her husband's belongings in the room she once called her own.

She was in utter disbelief that the universe managed to drag her back to Charming.

And what better way to do so by giving her mother multiple tumors on the brain.

Her mother was supposed to be in the hospital, preparing for tomorrow's surgery.

But, the stubborn bull refused and said she will not go to that hospital until the minute her scheduled surgery is about to begin.

The sound of small shoes running across the hardwood floor within the hallway just outside her bedroom paused Linda's endless thoughts and concerns, making her head turn toward the open bedroom door.

She peaked her head out, finding her daughter running down the hall toward her mother's room.

"Melanie!", she whispered, causing her to stop in her tracks to turn and look at Linda.

"You can't be runnin' about inside. Your nana needs to rest and she can't do that with you runnin' up and down the hallway like the tazmanian devil okay," she stated, stepping out of the bedroom to bring herself closer to Melanie.

"Okay mommy. I'm sorry," Mel replied as she looked up at her mother.

Linda bent down to her five year old's height, touching the side of her face.

"It's okay, Mel bear. Ya know, mommy just finished up packing. Do you still want to head over to the park?"

A huge smile crossed Mel's face.

"I'll take that as a yes. Go on and get your buckets from your new room."

Melanie took off in the direction of her bedroom.

"Mel, what did mommy just say?"

She stopped running immediately and walked the rest of the way.

Linda chuckled to herself and headed toward the front door, picking up her car keys off the table placed a few feet away from organized shoe rack.

When Linda drove every couple of feet, her eyes shifted back to her daughter to see what she was up to in the backseat.

She has learned early on that her child was a wild card and was capable of doing anything with all resources surrounding her at that given moment.

With each time she did, she found Mel swinging her legs back and forth as she looked out the window with full blown wonder in those big brown eyes of hers.

"How much longer, mommy?", she asked, looking away from the window.

"No more than five minutes, Mel bear."

"That's too long," she huffed, turning her attention back to the window in disappointment.

"I know honey. It's a lifetime," she replied sarcastically.

Mel looked forward, seeing a set of occupied swings and a large jungle gym in the distance.

"Mommy, we're here!", she yelled, leaning forward in her car seat.

"You see, I told you, no longer five minutes."

"That wasn't five minutes. I think you counted wrong."

Linda pulled her brand new silver Camry into the only parking spot available.

Already unbuckled, Mel gathered her many multicolored buckets that were scattered all over the car's floor.

"Mel bear, do not leave this car yet. We'll go to the park toget.."

Mel ignored her mother, opening the car door.

Leaving the door open, she sprinted toward the crowded park with her buckets clanking together and her auburn pigtails bouncing all over the place.

Linda quickly got out of the vehicle to chase after her hyperactive five year old.

"Why can't she ever listen," she asked the universe as jogged after her.

With no other children in the sandbox, Mel plopped herself down inside of it, beginning to fill each and every bucket with a different amount of sand.

Linda reached the sandbox, ready to scold her.

But, seeing how happy she was, she thought better of it and walked over to the benches that were occupied with parents.

"Is this seat taken?", Linda asked.

"No."

Gemma moved her purse, looking up at Linda.

"Linda?"

"Gem?"

Gemma stood to her feet, bringing her in for a hug.

"When did you move back to Charming?"

"Yesterday. My mom isn't doing so great. Joe and I came back to take care of her," Linda replied as she took a seat with Gemma following suit.

"Ah shit, I'm sorry."

"Me too. Where are your boys? I want to see how big they got because I have a feeling pictures won't do them justice."

"Jax is attempting to swing on the monkey bars with Opie and my Thomas is right here," she smiled, turning the baby carriage where he was asleep.

"They're gorgeous, Gem. You better watch out. They'll be lil heartbreakers once they reach sixteen."

" Don't I know it. Where's Mel?"

Linda turned her head, pointing at her daughter who was still in the sandbox.

" She's beautiful as well, Lin. I see a lot of Joe in her. Especially with those large brown eyes of hers."

" Everyone says that. The only thing she inherited from me is my rebelliousness. My mom always wished for a grandaughter like me. The evil bitch got her wish," she laughed along with Gemma.

Melanie carefully flipped over the final bucket of sand, slowly pulling it from the sand's mold.

Before the bucket was completely removed, a blonde haired boy and his friend who had shaggy brown hair ran into the sand box, jumping up and down onto her unfinished castle, laughing hysterically while doing so.

Mel stood up with tears brimming in her eyes.

"Hey, why'd you do that?", she asked, looking down at the large mountain of sand that used to be her sand castle.

"It was ugly anyway," Jax replied, continuing to jump onto the pile of sand.

In response, Mel stepped forward, shoving Jax with enough force for him to stumble and fall.

His head caught the corner of the wooden sandbox and the arm he tried to catch himself with got scraped against a rusty nail sticking out of the aged wood, automatically making him ball his eyes out.

The overcrowded park looked their direction.

Linda and Gemma stood up, discovering it was their children that was causing the scene that was unfolding within the park.

Gemma unlocked the wheels of the baby carriage and quickly followed Linda to see what happened.

"Mel, what happened?"

"She pushed Jax," Opie answered for her.

"Is that true?"

"He ruined my castle!"

Gemma stopped the stroller in front of a hysterical Jax.

"Jesus Christ, what the hell happened?', she asked, picking him up, applying pressure to his bleeding head with the material of her long sleeved shirt.

"My daughter shoved him."

"But, he ruined my castle mommy."

"That doesn't give you the right to hurt people, Mel."

"Yes it does."

"Melanie Elizabeth..", Linda rubbed her forehead in frustration.

" I need to take him to St. Thomas. Op, come on."

Opie followed behind Gemma as she exited the park.

"We'll come with. My daughter is going to apologize whether she wants to or not."

Melanie sat back down in the sand, attempting to go back and fix her demolished castle.

"I don't think so."

Linda picked her up, gathering her daughter's buckets.

She began to cry herself, kicking and squirming in her mother's arms.

"You will say sorry Mel bear. What you did was wrong. If you don't, you will be forced to be around him until you do."

That threat only made Mel cry even harder.

Alright my readers, that is all for chapter one! The next flashback I've been working on is when they're in high school and Mel's father has his health scare that leads to his untimely death. Until next time...