Chapter 11

Jessica POV

"Okay, let's talk." I say. Hap nods. I turn to Tig and kiss his cheek before walking outside with Hap. We sit on the picnic table. "So, what'd Koz want you to tell me?"

"First off, he wants you to be happy." Hap says. "Second, he wants you to know what happened and why he left." I nod. "He realized that things were getting serious. Clay had been pressuring him to ink you. Something about wanting you to settle down with a crow. I don't know. Anyway, when he realized how serious things were getting, he panicked. He got scared and knew that he had to get out." Hap tells me. Great. Just what I need Koz became a chicken. "When he got to Tacoma, I asked him where you were and he said that you were here. When I asked him why you weren't with him, the only thing at first that he would tell me was that he didn't tell you that he was leaving." Hap says and I roll my eyes. He lights a joint and hands it to me. I take a hit. "Jess, I don't know what was going through his head and he still won't tell me. The only other thing that I know was that last week Clay called him and told him that you weren't seeing anyone and that he needed to get his ass down here and make things right with you."

"So my dad was behind everything. Koz leaving and his return?" I ask and Hap nods. "I'll kill him." I say.

After talking and smoking with Hap I walk back into the clubhouse and get myself a drink. After six shots of tequila, I turn from the bar and see my Dad standing with Gemma and Jax. Now or never. I walk over to my Dad, "You!" I say pointing at him. "This is your fault. Everything. You did this!" I start yelling at my Dad.

He looks shocked. "Jess. What happened?" My dad says.

"You pressured him. You made him leave. Then when I'm finally over it all you bring him back. What the hell is wrong with you?" I yell. By this time, I feel arms around my waist pulling me away from my dad. "It's your fault that I'm like this."

"Jess…" My Dad tries to say.

I turn my head and see that it's Tig that's pulling me away. He's pulling me towards the dorms.

Clay POV

I couldn't believe what had just happened. My daughter… had just yelled at me. In front of the whole club no less. I turned and looked at Gem. "What did you do?" She asked me.

"I have no clue." I said. And I didn't…but I had an idea.

"You better make this right." Gem said walking away after my daughter.

Jessica POV

When Tig got me into the dorm room and on the bed, he was staring at me. "What happened?" He asked me.

"My father happened." I said.

A minute later, the door opened and I saw Ma walk in. She walked in, shutting the door behind her. She sat on the edge of the bed. "Jess, honey, what happened? What did your dad do?" Ma asked me.

I looked at Tig. "I'm gonna go get you some coffee." He said, making his way out of the room.

I turned back to Ma. "Dad's the reason that Koz left. Hap sent him to talk to me. Apparently, Dad was pressuring Koz about inking me and settling down. So he transferred to Tacoma. Hap said that last week, Dad called Koz and told him that he needed to come down here and make things right. Dad's the reason that he left and the reason that he came back." I tell her.

"Yeah well your dad can be a moron when it comes to matters of the heart." Ma says.

"What do I do, Ma?" I ask her.

She scoots closer to me and starts rubbing the side of my head, like she used to when I was a kid. "Right now, your going to sleep off all of the tequila that you've had. And yes, I know that it's tequila because you were the same way when you were a teenager and you had your first breakup at fifteen. Then, in the morning, your going to sit down with your dad and talk to him." Ma says.

"Thanks Ma, for always being there for me." I say.

Tig POV

When I walk out to the barroom, I see Jax and Clay still talking. I'm not sure what he's done, I just hate seeing Jess upset. They walk over to the bar, as the prospect hands me a beer. "How is she?" Clay asks me.

"She's upset. I haven't see her like this since…" I say trailing off. Jess hasn't been this upset since the first night that Gemma sent me to check on her.

***Flashback***

Gemma had asked me to check on Jessica. Apparently, since Koz left she hasn't been eating. When I got to her apartment, I knocked on the door. I waited for her to answer. When she did, her eyes were all read and puffy. She looked up at me. "He's gone Tigger." She said.

I hated to see her in pain. "I know. Come on, we'll sit and watch tv." I said, walking into her apartment and closing the door behind me.

She nodded. "Okay." She said.

We walked into her living room and sat on the couch. She sat beside me and laid her head on my shoulder. I turned the tv on and tried to find something to watch. After a while, I looked down at her. "Your Mom and Jax are worried about you." I said.

"I know. Jax said that Ma's wants to take me to the hospital if I don't eat something soon." She says.

"So eat something. I don't want that for you." I tell her.

"I just haven't had an appetite." Jess says.

"Jess, you gotten eat something. What do you want? I'll get you anything, just as long as you eat." I tell her.

"I guess pizza, but I'm telling you. I probably won't eat much." She says.

"At least I can go back to the clubhouse and tell her that you ate something." I say.

That night, Jess ended up eat half the pizza.

***End of Flashback.***

"Since when?" Clay asked me.

"Since the night that Gem asked me to check on her cause she wasn't eating." I tell him.

"You!" We hear Gemma say over the clicking of her heels.

We turn and look at her. "Did you talk to her?" Clay asks.

"Is she okay?" Jax and I asked at the same time.

She turns to me and put a hand on my arm. "She's sleeping. Just let her sleep it off. She drank tequila." Gem says and I nod.

"Oh no." Jax says and Gemma nods at him.

"Did you talk to her?" Clay asked Gemma again.

She glares at him. "I did. And here's what she told me." Gemma says telling us about everything that Hap told Jess. I couldn't believe it. Clay had been behind his own daughter's heartbreak. "How could you do that to her?" Gemma asked him.

"In my defense, when I talked to him about inking her, I didn't think that I was pressuring him. When I asked him to come back and make things right with her, I thought that I was helping. I didn't think it was going to make things worse." Clay says.

"Well it did." Gem says. "In the morning, your going to sit down and talk to her. Your going to apologize and then your going to tell Jess that your done interfering with her personal life. Do you understand me, Clay?"

"Yes dear." Clay says.