The next morning I woke early, I left Juice to sleep and I went out to work. I opened up TM Chibs was the first to arrive which was perfect.
"Close the door, I need to talk to you" I said.
"Am I getting the sack?" he asked.
"No nothing like that" I said.
"What's up then?" He asked.
"I don't want you to tell anyone else about this will you promise me?" I said.
"Depends what it is" he replied.
"Juice said he wants to leave the club" I said.
"Are you being serious?" he asked.
"I swear, he got really emotional." I replied.
"Why?" He asked.
"He said that when he got stabbed, he thought he was going to die and all he could think about was me being alone. He said he's never been scared of death before but now he has something to live for he doesn't want to put himself in situations it could happen" I said.
"And what they hell did you say to him?" he asked getting arsey.
"What do you take me for!?" I shouted, "I told him it was the biggest mistake of his life"
"Well why has he all of a sudden started on this shit?" He asked.
"I don't fucking know do I?, do you think I'd be telling you if it was my idea?" I snapped, "Do you think I want this?, I've just settled here, I'm happy here I've built friendships and I've just had a promotion. Why the hell would I encourage this?".
Just then Opie came bursting through the door from the garage, "What's going on?" he asked. He saw Chibs and relaxed.
"Oh I saw your car and the doors were shut I got worried" Opie said.
"Yeah I'm fine, I've said what I had to say" I said looking at Chibs. He walked out without even acknowledging me.
Opie looked confused, "Everything ok?" he asked.
"FINE" I shouted. Opie turned round with his eyes wide in shock and confusion. I was super pissed off with Chibs, as he knew how much I cared for the club and how much I had helped him whilst he was in the hospital. I'd personally gone and done him food shopping to make sure he ate well when he got home. I'd even cleaned his house from top to bottom for him with some crow eaters. Even bought him new bedding and towels.
I couldn't believe he had the audacity to say I had encouraged this, when he knew full well that when I arrived, Juice was clearly the newest member before the prospects got patched in and they give him the shitty jobs to do. But now he had more respect from others because me he's old lady was so well respected and loved by everyone in the club.
I was in the vilest mood all day and I had forgotten Juice had a doctor's appointment. He called me on the landline as I was just doing the repos.
"Hello Teller-Morrow auto shop" I answered.
"Babe you're cutting it a bit fine?" he said.
"What you mean?" I asked.
"My doctor's appointment?" he replied.
"Oh shit sorry I forgot" I sighed, "Hold on I'm swamped here I'll sort it"
I put the phone down and flung open the door to the garage. "Jax!" I shouted.
"What's up Lissie?" He asked.
"I forgot its Juice's doctor's appointment" I said.
"Sure go sort it" he said
"I can't I'm swamped here" I sighed.
"Well I can send someone" he said.
"Yeah but it has to be in the car because he can't be on a bike until he's fully healed" I said.
"I'll go" Chibs said.
"No I'd rather someone else did" I said.
"Yeah, I need you to finish up the ford" Jax said, "Rat boy take the car and get Juice from home, he's got a doctor's appointment take him where ever he needs to go"
"Thank you George" I smiled.
"No problem" he replied.
I gave him the keys to my car and rang Juice back.
"Hey babe" he answered
"Rat boy is on his way, he's going to take you in my car" I said.
"Ok, I would have preferred that you took me though" he said
"I know babe, but it's my first day as manager and we have a big back log after all what has gone on the last few weeks" I replied.
"Can I come and see you afterwards?" he asked.
"Course you can babe" I said, "I would really like that, if you could bring me something to eat. I didn't have any time to grab anything and I doubt I'll be able to get anything"
"Course I can babe" he said.
"Thank you, I hope everything goes ok at the doctor's babe"
"Thank you Lissie, Love you" he replied.
"Love you too JuJu" I said.
I sorted the paperwork out for Opie and half sack to go and pick up the repos, but they had to check the cars over so we didn't have a repeat from last time.
Juice came through the door a few hours later with the most gorgeous bunch of flowers and food.
"What you bought me flowers for?" I asked.
"They're for Rat Boy to say thanks for taking me" He grinned.
I rolled my eyes at him and he handed them to me. "They're to say congratulations on the promotion" He said kissing me on the lips.
"Thank you babe" I smiled.
I grabbed the vase from the cupboard and emptied my bottle of water in it. I arranged the flowers and put them on top of the filing cabinet.
"Come on lets go sit on the benches for lunch" he said.
"I don't really have time" I sighed.
"Alissa just come on" he said rolling his eyes.
"Ok, let me just tell someone" I sighed.
"Chuck's back" he said.
"Aww I love Chucky I've missed him" I smiled.
I opened the door to the garage and saw Chucky talking to Tig in the corner.
"Chucky, can you man the phones whilst I have lunch?" I asked.
"Yes of course" he smiled walking over.
Chucky had worked for Jax when I first got to Charming, he was a strange guy who had a problem where he kept masturbating. He didn't know he was doing it half the time and he got a lot of flak for it, but he was very sweet and I had always got on well with him. He had gone away for a while, I didn't know where and I was scared to ask. Now he was back he only had his index finger on each hand. The guy's always kind of took the piss out of him and I hate it, I would always stick up for him. Whenever I had to run errands I would take him with me.
Juice and I walked over to the benches and he got my dinner out of the bag. He always got me what I fancied, it was like he had a 6th sense. Today he got me a tuna pasta salad with pine nuts, and feta cheese and a passion fruit iced tea.
"It's a lovely day" I smiled. I walked over to my car and got my shades out before I ate my lunch.
"So how did you get on at the doctor's?" I asked.
"Fine babe everything's healing nicely. I can come back to work next week" he smiled.
"So are you coming back then?" I asked. He looked at me and grinned, but he didn't reply to my question.
"How has your first day as manager been?" He asked.
"Busy , same as all my days here" I laughed.
"Well at least you get more money now" he said.
"I know yeah" I sighed.
"Oh they called about the money from the sale of the house will be cleared in your account in 3 to 5 working days" he said.
"That's good" I smiled.
"What are you going to do with it?" he asked.
"Well I don't actually know, I was thinking about buying a house" I said.
"Why isn't my place good enough?" he laughed.
"Course it is but it's yours" I replied.
"No it's ours. We don't have to pay any mortgage at mine, there's a room we don't need and it's in a nice area" he said.
"It's true, maybe we could spruce it up a little though" I said.
"Yeah sounds good to me" he smiled.
"So I was going to save some money for wedding as of the rest I don't know" I said.
"You should use it for something useful" he said.
"Maybe I should start my own business or something" I replied.
"But what though?" he asked.
"I don't know maybe a boutique? There are a lot of young women in charming, if we need to buy clothes we have to go out of town. I could still work here, get some of the girls working in there. Give them something to do instead of hanging round the guys all the time, waiting to be snapped up. Plus it's more appealing to the guy's when they're strong independent women with jobs" I said.
"I think you would make a killing" he said.
"Well that's my plan then" I smiled. "Well that's if you decide to stay in the club"
Juice looked at me and smiled, "As long as you're happy with me staying here then I'm happy"
"Well that's good, but I did kind of tell Chibs" I said.
"What you mean kind of?" he asked.
"I said you were thinking of leaving and we got in a row, he said it was my fault basically" I said.
"I'll sort it" He replied.
"I can handle Chibs myself" I said rolling my eyes.
Juice laughed, "And this is why I love you Alissa"
