Chapter 4
When I hung up the phone with Jax, I headed toward St. Thomas to find out what was going on. Jax sounded worried when he called and it had me concerned. When I pulled into the parking lot, I saw Gemma standing outside the entrance. As I walked towards her, I feared that something had happened to Jax. "Gem?" I said as I approached
She turned towards me. "Thank God! Jax has been pacing for an hour." She said. She put her arm around my shoulder and we walked into the hospital. "I'm glad your here...Jax really needs you right now."
"Gem, what's going on?" I asked.
We stopped walking just before we reached the elevators. "I found Wendy passed out on the kitchen floor. She OD'd. Abel was born 10 weeks premature."
"Oh my God! Is he gonna be okay?" I asked.
"He's in surgery, but Jax is a nervous wreck. He's scared to death that Abel is gonna die. I don't think that he even wants to be in the same room with him." Gemma said as we walked to the elevators and she pressed the button.
When we got to the NICU, I found Jax sitting in a chair in the waiting room. I walked over to him and sat in the chair next to him, I put my hand on his shoulder and said, "Baby?" Jax looked up at me and I could tell that he had been crying. "Baby, I talked to your mom." I said. He stared at me. "He's gonna be okay...you have to believe that."
"I don't know if I can." Jax said. "How could she be so stupid?" He asked me.
"Jax, she's an addict. You can't really expect her to change. The only thing that is important right now is for you to be there for Abel."
He smiled at me and when he did, I knew deep down that he believed that everything was going to be okay. I sat with Jax for a while and eventually Gemma joined us. We sat in the waiting room and waited for Abel to come out of surgery. When the doctor came out to update us after his surgery, I was surprised at who I saw.
"Jax." She said. It was the one person that I didn't really want to see...EVER AGAIN. Tara Knowles.
"Tara." Jax said.
She turned to me. "Lacey."
"Tara." I said. "How's Abel?"
"He's doing better. His heartrate is stabilized and Dr. Namid is confident that he will make a complete recovery with the IV fluids that we're giving him. Of course, because of how early he was born he will have to stay in the NICU for a while, but I can take you to see him if you want." She said turning back to Jax.
Jax nodded. He turned to me. "Come on, lets go see our son." He said and I nodded.
As I walked with Jax, following Tara down the hall, I realized how nice it sounded when Jax called Abel 'our son'. It felt amazing. I stayed with Jax for a while with Abel before I told him that I needed to go see my parents. I told him to come by my house later, if he wanted to.
However, I knew that I had to tell my parents that Jax and I were back together. I knew that my mother wouldn't be happy about it but my father would at least try to be understanding about it. This was on my mind as I left the hospital and drove out to my family's ranch on the out skirts on Charming. When I pulled up, my sister was coming out of the stables on her horse. "Hey Tris." I said.
"Hey, Lace. Up for a ride?" She said.
"Not today. Gotta talk to Mom and Dad. They in the house?"
"Yeah. Mom is freaking out. She kinda ran into Mrs. Ramsey the other day and she mentioned that she saw you twice this week meeting with bikers."
"Great. Thanks Tris. Enjoy your ride." I said to my sister and made my way inside the house. When I walked in, my Dad was sitting on the couch reading the Sacramento evening paper. I sat down next to him. "Hey Dad." I said.
"Hi sweetheart. Everything okay?" My Dad said.
"Yeah. I just needed to talk to you and Mom."
"This have anything to do with the bikers that you've been seen with around town?" My Dad said looking up from his paper and raising an eyebrow at me.
I nodded. "Where's Mom?"
"I'm right here." Mom said walking into the room and sitting on the loveseat across from me and Dad. "So...you care to explain your behavior this week?"
"Mom its not like that." I said. I take a deep breath. "For over a year, I had been seeing a member of SOA from the Tacoma charter. We knew each other from when Jax and I dated. Anyway, it was never anything serious. Well one day, he showed up at my apartment and told me that he wanted something serious with me. Well, after about six months we talked about everything and he told me that if I was going to move forward with him that I needed to make sure that there was no chance that Jax..." I continued with my story. After some time I finally reached the end, "So...Jax and I are back together." I finally finished. There was silence. I think that this was a first. After a few minutes, my Mom stood up and walked out of the room. "Dad?"
He looked at me. "You really love him?" He asked and I nodded. "You never covered your crow, did you?"
I shook my head. "I couldn't. Even after we broke up, I loved him so much that it hurt. I just wanted a reminder of my life with him."
I stood up to walk towards the front door to leave. "Lacey," my father started. I turned around to look at him. "I love you and as long as your happy...I'm okay with it."
"Thanks Dad." I said before leaving.
