CHAPTER 3
The next morning when I woke up, I couldn't help but just lay in my bed for a while. After a while, I got up and went to my kitchen to start a pot of coffee. I sat on my couch while I waited. After a few minutes, my phone started to ring. I answered it, not even bothering to look at the caller ID. "Yellow?" I said.
"Are you coming to TM today?" Gem asked me.
I leaned my head against the back of my couch. "I don't know." I said.
"Baby, what's wrong?" Gem asked.
"I don't know Aunt Gem. How about I come up there and you and I can go to lunch?" I said.
"Sounds like a plan Baby. I can get Piney to watch the office."
"Great. I'll be there in a little while." I said, hanging up the phone. I sat there and thought about the first time that Aunt Gem had called me after I left.
***FLASHBACK***
I'm sitting on my couch in mine and Alex's apartment, when my cell rang. I quickly answered it. "Hello?" I said.
"Hi baby." Gem said.
"Hey Aunt Gem. Everything okay?" I said.
"Yeah baby. Everything here is fine. I just wanted you to hear it from me before you heard from anyone else because I know that he won't call you himself and tell you."
"What is it?" I asked.
"Tara left Jax this morning. She confessed everything to him. She told him everything about making up the rumors. When he asked her why, her only response was because she knew that you loved him." Aunt Gem told me. I couldn't believe it. Tara did all that crap to get me to leave and then when she leaves, that's when she decides to tell him the truth?
"Wow." I said.
"Baby, I think that you should come home and talk to him."
"Aunt Gem, I can't."
"Why not?"
"Aunt Gem, it's not that simple. Jax made it clear that he didn't have feelings for me when I tried to tell him about mine. He told me that I was lying about everything that Tara was trying to do. There's no way that he's going to want to talk to me."
***END OF FLASHBACK***
When I pulled into the lot at TM, I noticed that all of the bikes were there. And that's when it hit me. I had made plans with Jax to go out to the streams. I walked over to the office where Aunt Gem would be. I walked into the office and sat down on the couch.
"You okay, baby?" She asked.
I lit a cigarette. "I don't know Aunt Gem. But your gonna kill me." I said and she raised an eyebrow at me. "I forgot that I made plans with Jax today."
"It's okay Baby. Go have fun. We'll talk later." She said, smiling.
"Thanks." I said. I got up and made my way over to the clubhouse to search for Jax. When I walked into the clubhouse, the only person that I saw was Uncle Clay. "Hey, have you seen Jax?" I asked him.
Uncle Clay took a drink of his coffee. "I think that he's in his room, Princess."
I kiss him on his cheek. "Thanks." I say heading down the hallway. When I get to Jax's door, I knock. I hear a muffled 'yeah' through the door. I slowly open the door, hoping that Jax doesn't have a croweater in there. "Hey." I say.
Jax turns around and looks at me. "Hey. I'm almost ready and then we can go." He says.
I smile at him. "Sounds good." I walk over to his desk and sit on it. I sit there and watch Jax as he finishes getting dressed. He's putting on his shoes when he notices that I'm watching him.
"See something you like?" Jax says with a smile.
I smirk at him. "Oh Baby, I always see something that I like."
He laughs. "Come on, let's go."
On the ride, out to the streams I tighten my arms around Jax's waist. I always found comfort and security in riding on the back of Jax's bike. When we get to the streams, Jax helps me off his bike and we walk down to the spot where we used to sit and talk when we were younger. "So, you wanted to talk some more from last night?" I asked.
"Yeah, but I have a question."
"Shoot."
We both light our cigarettes. "Who's Alex?" He asks.
I laugh. "I wondered if you heard me talking last night."
"I didn't intend too, it just kinda happened."
"I get it. Alex and I were roommates. She's flying out here. She'll be here tomorrow. She's gonna be living with me." I say.
Jax nods. "Okay so, not what I thought it was." Jax says.
"What did you think it was?" I ask him.
"I guess I thought that you were gonna tell me, that Alex was your boyfriend."
"Nope. Alex is short for Alexandra." I say.
Neither of us said anything for a minute. "Kris…" I turn and look at him, when he says my name. "Is what Tara said true?" I don't say anything. "Are you in love with me?"
