DON'T OWN ANYTHING. DON'T SUE ME. ONLY OWN KAMRYN (:

CHAPTER TWO

Sitting at the dinner table in an Italian restaurant that night, Kamryn was more than uncomfortable while waiting for her brother to come in.

Wearing a mildly uncomfortable formal dark blue long sleeved dress that came to just above her knees, the red head kept her gaze averted to the long stemmed fake red and white roses that sat on top of the circular table her parents reserved next to the window.

Her parents, Margaret, a successful clothing shop owner, and Ian Collins, a successful lawyer, had to be two of the most uptight people she would ever meet. While she loved her parents dearly, she couldn't understand how they functioned. Her father seemed to be emotionless once she turned ten and her mother always seemed to be unavailable since she met Jax Teller.

"Hey, guys," her brother, Drake, said coming into her view and she sighed in relief. He kissed their mother lightly on the cheek and shook his father's hand before taking a seat next to Kamryn.

"How've you been?" Kamryn asked her older brother. Drake had just turned nineteen and he was home from UCLA for the week.

"Good, classes are going good. Everything's good," Drake said, pushing a hand through his dark hair and took a sip of the water in his glass.

Nodding, Kamryn looked down at the red table cloth, unable to held feel awkward. Her brother had recently come out of the closet and their parents found out. While Drake was fucking another guy in his bedroom, his parents had walked in.

They were never good knockers.

Add to the fact they despised their daughter's boyfriend and were trying and failing to be supportive of their sons lifestyle, and, well, it just wasn't that great of a dinner.

It was mostly silent except for the occasional question from Ian asking if he needed help financially or Margaret asking about his health.

But it was easily one of the worst and most uncomfortable family dinners, they've had.

/

Laying down in her bed, Kamryn was waiting for a text from Jax but instead an unknown number called her. Running a hand through her damp hair, she answered.

"Hello?"

"Hey, this is Kamryn right? Cute redhead from earlier?"

Frowning, Kamryn took the phone from her ear for a moment before returning it to her ear. "Who is this?"

"The guy you turned down this afternoon."

Kamryn could hear the smile in this guy's voice and narrowed her eyes. "In case your a little dense I'll explain a little bit, what I was telling you this afternoon was no I will not go out with you. I have a boyfriend."

"Forget that for a minute," he said in an easy tone. "You've never asked me what my name is."

"Because I don't care."

"It's Max. And if you didn't care you would have hung up on me by now."

Realizing he was right, she could just hear his chuckle before she hung up the phone, and threw her flip phone on the right side of her bed and threw herself back on her bed.

/

"And he just called you last night?" Donna questioned her during their first period together.

Nodding, Kamryn leaned her head against her hand. "It was weird. I don't even know this guy."

"Gonna tell Jax?" Donna asked her looking at the board where the teacher was talking before back to Kamryn.

"No," Kamryn said in a firm voice. "I don't wanna deal with him in a mood."

Nodding, Donna said, "Could totally understand that. He's totally the jealous type."

They didn't talk for a couple minutes before Donna poked her arm. "Did Jax ever mention getting a tattoo for him, to you?"

Kamryn frowned at her. "No, why?"

"Ope asked me the other day, whether or not I would ever think about getting a tattoo. Like for him."

Tilting her head Kamryn smiled slightly. "Well, you've been together forever. I think it's kinda sweet. Did he have something in mind?"

"A crow and Property of Opie written underneath it."

Kamryn's eyebrows raised in surprise. "Wow, territorial. I don't know if I'd do that for Jax. Especially knowing I'd be around his mother a lot more after making our relationship really official."

"Yeah, Gemma's somethin' ain't she?" Donna asked shaking her head with a smile.

"She's a real piece of work is what she is."

"So what do you think, would you get it if Jax asked you too?"

Sighing, Kamryn shrugged and looked at Donna. "I don't know. Not right now. We're young. I don't wanna get his name tattooed anywhere on my body if there's a chance I might regret it later."

/

"Surprised to see me, darlin'?" Jax asked sitting sideways on his bike puffing on a cigarette.

"Yeah, I thought you were said you were coming to school today," Kamryn said frowning at him and put one her hands in the pocket of her shorts.

"I did," Jax said with a a cheeky grin on his face.

Rolling her eyes and shoving him sightly, Kamryn told him, "You know what I mean jack ass."

"Yeah, somethin' came up," Jax said and let his head to the side before sighing and looked at her. "I didn't come here to fight with you. I came to pick you up and to take you somewhere."

"Well, I hope you have everything ready for our date tomorrow," Kamryn said to him while climbing onto the back of his bike. "I don't wanna be disappointed. Especially with how distant you've been acting."

Effectively cutting her off, Jax gave her a quick kiss after throwing his cigarette on the ground and revved his bike. "Hang on."

/

"I love it when you bring me up here," Kamryn said leaning on his shoulder while sitting on the roof of the house near the garage. "Like nothing can bother us up here."

"Kam, I wanna talk to you about something," Jax said seriously and Kamryn looked up at him, frowning.

"What's the matter? Everything okay?"

Jax rubbed the back of his neck before looking toward the gates of the garage. "I see how Ope and Donna fight and how they'll go days without talking because he doesn't wanna tell her everything. I don't wanna end up like that."

"So, what do you wanna tell me Jax?" Kamryn asking him softly.

"I'm scared to tell you," Jax responded softly, staring down at her almost intimidatingly. "Scared you'll leave before I get to explain everything."

Kamryn locked her small hands with his larger and calloused one's. "I'm not goin' anywhere."

Jax smiled sadly at her before opening his mouth and about to let everything spill.

/

"I'm not gonna like it here," seventeen year old, Tara Knowles said with conviction to her father.

"Well, it's the only place where there's work," Mark Knowles told her with no sympathy. "Ever since you're mother died things have been tight. Be thankful your Grandfather is renting this to us for cheap."

He continued to move around her bringing in box after box into the small house. Filling up actual useful space with boxes that didn't even need to be in here. He was bringing useless things that they'd never use in their new small house.

Did she mention it was small? The boxes seemed to be dwarfing it.

Looking outside, in the setting sun, Tara sighed, "I'm really not gonna like it here."

/

"You run guns?" Kamryn asked standing up. "Like, your doing this illegally," she stated, running a hand through her straightened hair.

Nodding, Jax said, "Yeah, that's why I have a nice bike and not in school a lot. I'm learning the family business."

Looking down at where he still sat, Kamryn cross her arms. "This isn't funny, Jax."

"I'm not laughin'," he assured her.

"God." Kamryn put her face in her hands.

"That's not it," Jax told her and looked at her face when her hands fell. "I'm droppin' out of school."

"What?" she yelled. "Do you know how stupid that is?"

"It's logical," Jax countered. "I'm never gonna be a doctor or teacher or some shit like that. I'm a good engineer and what I do in my club. I'll go back and get my GED later."

"But it's dangerous," she said softly.

"Yeah, it is. It's not like I'll never get hurt if I were in some straight-laced piece of shit job barely making enough to get by. This is really logical, Kam. I'm only seventeen and I'm not even in the club officially yet and I'm already rakin' in more dough than any other kid my age by being a waiter or some shit."

Standing in silence for a minute, Kamryn looked around before picking up her jacket that sat next to Jax, and began to walk away.

"You're leaving."

Kamryn turned around and face him just before going down the ladder. "I just, I wanna be alone and think. I'm going home."

"Let me take you," he said already standing but stopped when she put a hand on his chest.

"Jax, nothing good is gonna come out of me being around you right now. I'm confused, upset, and worried. I just really wanna be alone right now."

Jax ran a hand over her shoulder lightly. "Then you can be alone once you get home. I'm not letting you walk home when it's getting dark out."

"I'll text you when I get home, okay? I just, can't be alone if you're around. Right now, I need to sort all this shit out in my head and I can't do that if your around me," Kamryn sighed and gently took his hand off of her shoulder. "I don't want you around, right now. "


So before you all say 'oh that was too fast' at how he told her and it's only the second chapter, but SHORT STORY people. like ten chapters. Obviously a lot is gonna go on and it's because I want all this little tedious b.s. covered for the second story. I'm aware I'm moving a little fast. Honestly, think of this as a prequel of sorts. And though I adore Donna and Opie as separate characters I despise them together. so while there will be lots of TALK about their relationship. Don't expect to read lovey-dovey scenes between them..

But, review! Let me know what you think! What do you think is gonna happen now that Tara's here. What's gonna happen with Jax and Kamryn? What's going on with Max and why can't he take a hint? It's high school guys, these aren't MAJOR problems but lemme know your predictions! Make me happy and leave a review!

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