Live Fast, Die Young Chapter Four
"Well?" Was the first thing Kerrianne said to her when she walked into the Anarchy Automotive offices the next day.
"Well what?" Sophia asked, trying to prolong the inevitable onslaught of questions.
Kerrianne gave her a look, telling her to stop fucking around. "What happened last night?"
"He just walked me home. Nothing happened..." Sophia busied herself, grabbing everyone's weekend bags to throw in Venus' SUV.
Kerrianne followed her, grabbing the last two bags Sophia couldn't fit in her hands. "You mean he didn't... do anything?" Sophia shook her head to say 'No.'
"What the fuck! I don't believe that! Everyone says he fancies you, even Da."
Mortified, Sophia blushes an embarrassing shade of red, "What do you mean everyone says that?"
Kerrianne gives her a stupid look, shutting the hatch on the SUV, "Exactly what it fucking sounds like: everyone says he likes you. Happy doesn't exactly cozy up to anyone around here, and by the looks of it he's 'bout to wrap himself around your fucking pinkie."
Sophia wishes she had a rubber band around her wrist so she could snap it against her skin until she stopped blushing but she doesn't so instead she chews the bottom of her lip before deciding to retaliate, "Well... what about you and Juicy? Hm?" Checkmate.
Kerrianne blushed instantly and Sophia knows she's hit the nail on the head. Kerrianne charges at Sophia and just like that they're chasing each other around the lot throwing curses and damning the other to hell.
"Oi! What the fuck?" Sophia stops dead with Kerrianne on her back when Chibs calls out to them. The two guilty girls stand still as stone while Chibs stares them down the stern set of his brow barely hiding the smirk on his lips. "Knock that shit off some of us have work ta do."
Twenty minutes later and all the girls have arrived for their weekend trip. Sophia isn't looking forward to the drive to San Fran knowing that at some point or another everyone is going to take turns drilling each other about shit they probably don't want to talk about, but they will anyways because that's what girls do.
Venus and Fiona are both kissing their male counterparts goodbye, Sophia tries not to gag when she sees Tig shove his tongue inside of Venus' mouth. Not one for PDA's Sophia turns to look at Kerrianne and Juice who are standing three feet apart from each other. Not touching but looking like they seriously want to. Sophia gives them three weeks tops before they make it official. Patting her pockets Sophia searches for a cigarette she knows she doesn't have on her person.
Just like always Happy slides up next to her, offering up a cigarette from his pack.
"Might as well just take the pack." He shrugs stuffing the lighter inside as well before handing her the box. "Your gonna need it." His chuckle sends a wave of nerves shooting down her spine and Sophia can't help but to slide just a bit closer to him.
"Ugh. Don't remind me, yeah?" They share a look before Sophia heads towards the SUV where everyone else is climbing in.
Long fingers wrap around her elbow and pull her back to him. Her shoulder bumps his chest, his lips brush against her ear: "Text me when you get there." Followed by a not subtle enough sniff.
Sophia shoots him a wink before walking away and try's her hardest not to succumb to the giggle at the fact that Happy had just sniffed her.
Sophia climbs into the third row seating with Kerrianne letting Lyla and Ellie slide into the middle row with Venus driving and Fiona navigating.
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The drive to San Fran goes quickly enough with constant conversation flowing throughout the car. Sophia quickly redirects conversation anytime they focus on her for too long, much more comfortable with talking about Ellie's high school antics or Lyla's behind the scenes porn studio horror stories.
Still Sophia finds time to whisper interrogate Kerrianne about whats really going on with Juice.
"A lot of stuff happened before you got here, with Juice and the club that is, before even I got here. I don't know what all happened but he's told me some. He got tricked and went rat," the term 'rat' is mouthed rather then spoken aloud. "He and Da used to be so close but then all this stuff happened and their relationship kinda fell apart. But when he finally came clean about everything they forgave him, and they've been repairing their relationship slowly since then."
Kerrianne gives a nonchalant shrug of the shoulders before staring out the window.
"Thats not what I wanted to know about. We've all got skeletons in our closets Kerri, I wanna know about you two fixin' to bump uglies." Sophia lets out a devilish cackle while Kerrianne blushes hard.
"I don't know we've just always got along really well and now… well I'm twenty and things are legal and theres no stress anymore with the club. We don't have to worry about people not coming home anymore. So I don't know sometimes I think he's gonna make a move but… I don't know he never does."
Sophia rolls her eyes, "Well you know he's not gonna do anything till your dad gives the OK. You don't just fuck the club presidents daughter. He's gonna try to fucking court you I swear to god it's gonna be great. And you fucking deserve it to, your fucking great and so is Juicy. So just give him a minute to pull his head out of his ass then shit'll be smooth sailing." Sophia squeezes Kerri's hand before moving to climb out of the backseat. Venus had pulled up to their hotel while the girls had been whispering to each other.
Sophia grabs the bags from the back again and Kerrianne comes around to help her and together they lug everything up into the elevator. Venus punches the button for the top floor and Sophia doesn't even have to asks she knows the taller woman has booked some sort of suit for the their two day outing.
"Might as well live it up!" Venus laughs while waving Tig's credit card in the air. They haven't even been in their room for ten minutes before venus calls room service to order a bottle of champaign.
"Alright Dolls, suit up! We're going shopping!" Venus orders, Lyla squeals happily from the far reaches of the suite but everyone else looks entirely unprepared.
"What do you mean suit up?" Sophia asks and nearly regrets when Venus shoots her a look that could kill.
"You are not shopping in that." Venus points a demeaning finger at Sophia's ripped jeans, clunky boots, vulgar shirt and trusty leather jacket.
"Wha?" Sophia pulls at her duds uncomfortable with the idea of changing into something she wouldn't be comfortable in.
"Don't worry Venus, I saw this coming and packed extra." Kerrianne sends an angelic smile in Venus' direction before pulling Sophia down the hall to the room they were going to share for the night.
"No!" Sophia freaks when Kerrianne begins to pull skirts and crop tops from her bag. "Hell no!"
"Which makes you more uncomfortable?" Kerrianne holds a skirt in one hand and a crop top in the other.
"That bit of fabric. I don't do legs." Kerri works with what she's given, tossing Sophia a pair of tight, black, and hole-less jeans. She pulls out a couple ridiculously small shirts before throwing a blood red one in her direction. "Go change in the bathroom, I'll change in here."
Sophia does as she's bid, stopping to reach into her bag for a new pair of socks and her bag of toiletries.
Sophia changes quickly, eyes skating briefly over her legs. If they weren't covered in tattoos people would see the scars on her skin plain as day, which is why she went to such lengths to cover every inch of skin from her hips down. Camouflage.
Changing her top Sophia takes a second to brush her teeth, re-apply deodorant and then style her hair. The shortish brown hairs on top of her head had a habit of slowly moving throughout the day until eventually she looked like she had a bowl cut. After re styling Sophia washed her hands and straightened the small top she wore.
Kerri was done dressing as well, changing into the small black skirt Sophia had freaked out over earlier and a blue shirt that exposed her flat stomach. Kerri looked to die for and Sophia quickly took a picture of her, getting the girl to pose for the picture. Before Kerri could ask what she was gonna do with the picture she sent it to Juice.
Kerrianne blushed but didn't fight her, instead she pulled out her phone and took a picture of Sophia, who had her back turned to the camera, looking out the hotel window. She quickly got Hap's number from juice and sent him the picture.
Kerri laughed to herself when two minutes later Sophia's phone started going off.
"Fuck!" Sophia called rushing for her phone where she had left it on the bed, "I forgot to text Happy I bet he's pissed!"
Sophia pulled up the phone and saw three messages from Happy. "I'm not opening that. Come on lets go shopping." Sophia dragged Kerri from the room meeting the others out in the living room.
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Four hours later the girls had finally stopped for dinner, but only after Ellie, Kerri, and Sophia had begged for respite, not being able to handle the pace the older women set when out shopping.
Their haunt for the night was a small mom and pop owned restaurant tucked in-between a large boutique and a jewelry store. The front of the building was completely unassuming, blacked out windows and dull grey awning over the entrance, not even a sign that announced the building as a restaurant, but at this point Sophia new better then to question Venus who had clearly put in a decent amount of work over the last 24 hours planning this outing.
Once inside Sophia was surprised to see the entire restaurant was decorated in a 1950's Rockabilly style. Even the waitstaff themselves were dressed in period correct outfits.
"This is so fucking cool," Sophia whispered to Kerri, scared that if she spoke too loud she would somehow ruin the magic of whatever alternate reality they had just stepped into.
Kerri said nothing, clearly sharing the same idea as Sophia, instead she just grabbed the other girls hand and nodded her head furiously.
Venus made her way to the back of the dining room and led them all thru a door which housed a private dining room.
"Ladies, let the festivities begin!" She giggled before taking a seat at the circular table in the center of the room. Glasses of champaign had already been placed at the table as well as appetizers of all kinds.
"Venus this is the coolest fucking place I've ever been to, how did you even know it existed." Sophia asked in-between sips of champagne.
"Well baby, I cant reveal all my secrets just yet." She replied coyly before taking a sip of her champagne.
Conversation quickly turned to the clubs upcoming charity ride and all the preparations that still needed to take place. Sophia was surprised to learn that the ride was to raise money for all of the kids of former club members who had passed in recent years, and was quite a big deal with almost all of the other charters of the club coming out to show support and help raise money.
Fiona called all the women to order around the table and quickly began discussion on who would be in charge of what when it came to the charity ride, Putting herself and Venus in charge of the party that would be held at the clubhouse after the charity ride was over. Lyla was put in charge of supplying entertainment, whether it be in the form of women, music, or whatever else she could think of. Kerrianne drew the short end of the stick and was given the task of decorating the club house for the party, which Sophia had a sneaking suspicion she would get roped into helping with.
They stayed in the private dining room a few hours longer just drinking and fucking around before Venus dragged them all back to the hotel room and ordered them all to sleep, they had a big day ahead of them tomorrow with one more Venus surprise before heading back to Charming.
The two girls collapsed into giggles on their bed, drunk from all the alcohol they had consumed in the past few hours and high on life itself. Kerri quickly pulled out her phone and began sending rapid fire texts to whom Sophia assumed was Juice, maybe drunk Kerri had all the courage she needed to get the ball rolling with Juice. Sophia pushed the thought to the back of her mind and grabbed a pair of sweats and a t-shirt, quickly escaping to the bathroom before she fell asleep in Kerrianne's clothing.
Sophia wasn't surprised to see her new friend passed out dead asleep when she got back from the shower, not wanting to disturb she grabbed her phone and Happy's pack of cigarettes off the nightstand before heading out to the patio off the living room of the suite. She lit a cigarette and promised herself she would only smoke one because she really did need to quit and turned her phone on to check the messages she had previously ignored from Happy.
Happy: You get there alright, Girl?
The next one came twenty minutes after the first, which would have been around the time they had gotten to the Hotel.
Happy: You better not smoke all my cigarettes.
The last message, the one she dreaded opening the most came shortly after Kerri had sent Happy the picture of her in clothes that made her feel so uncomfortable and at the same time pretty, which wasn't a word Sophia had ever really associated with herself, always choosing to focus on the flaws before anything else, and really there were so many flaws to focus on.
Happy: Call me. Now.
Sophia's heart slammed in her chest, tapping a staccato beat against her ribs. Happy made Sophia nervous, made her feel things she hadn't felt towards a guy in a long time, feelings that led beyond a casual fling. Which would scare her if she thought that was something Happy wasn't capable of, but from what she's been told none of the guys are who they were before everything that had happened with the club happened, all of them content with the quieter life style that had taken up and welcoming all the changes that came with it. While Happy hadn't said it to her directly she had a feeling that a relationship with him wouldn't be hard to convince him to take a chance on, but it would be hard to convince herself.
At the base of all her many issues there lie self-esteem, depression, and a misplaced sense of abandonment that came with her parents dying while she was in high school. Entering into a relationship when your not at your best, mentally, was always a bad foundation to build a relationship on, because most people, or at least most people Sophia had tried with before, didn't want to take the time to put in the effort to help someone else with problems that were not their own.
It was 11:45 pm when Sophia called Happy, her hands shaking, phone wedged between her ear and shoulder, left hand in a vice grip around her right wrist trying to stop the nerves shakes going through her body, he picked up after the first ring.
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Um, yeah, wow so it's been a long time since I updated this story and yeah. I recently fell down the Happy rabbit hole, which isn't a bad place to be, so here I am and I'm updating again. So let's see how this goes, the first half of this chapter was written long before the second half so I apologize if it's not as cohesive as I'd like it to be, but I'm pushing it out anyways because I want some encouragement from you guys to keep me going. I wish I could say I'm sorry for leaving it off on a cliff hanger but I'm not so ha. Please Read and Review as always and have a good day!