"I swear, this time I'm serious about it! I'm never drinking again!" Aries groaned as she leaned against Juice at the front desk of the hotel. They had both decided it was better that they head to Tacoma together after Happy had called Juice in the middle of the night, saying he was needed back at the clubhouse, ASAP. "I just wanna check out!" She tapped the shiny metal bell on the desk multiple times before a portly woman showed up. "I'm checking out. Aries Santiago, my card is on file so, ya know? Let's get it moving, please?"
"Be nice." Juice whispered against her head as he looked at the clerk. "She's cranky this morning, doesn't wanna leave but we have to."
"Well, Miss Santiago, you're all set." The woman smiled as she passed Aries her receipt. "Feel free to go over that list and dispute any charges."
The brunette shrugged as she looked at the total of her hotel stay and shrugged. "No, no. It's fine. It's cheaper than I expected it to be. Thanks." She shoved the paper into her purse and grabbed Juice's hand. "Let's go. I need to get to a bed and pass the fuck out."
He shook his head, flashing another smile at the woman behind the desk before following Aries out of the hotel, only to stand at the valet stand. "We're going to ignore the fact we made out last night Ari?"
Aries looked at her best friend and shook her head. "I'm not ignoring the fact Juice… I'm hungover right now. We made out, it was amazing. What else is there to talk about? It's not like that instantly made us a couple. We're still best friend, that's all." She smiled at him before pulling him into a hug. "Don't look at me like I just tipped over your Harley."
Juice looked down at her and smiled. "I'm good Ari. I just wanted to know if this was something we were just gonna try to forget about or what."
"Look at you trying to read more into this shit." She pushed him away as her car pulled up. "I'll see you in Tacoma. I know you're gonna be speeding like a demon. So, just be careful Juice! I love you too much to see you lay down your bike or whatever… Ride safely."
"Same goes to you, drive safe. If you get tired hit up a Starbucks and get a coffee to wake you up." He followed her to her car and dropped his bag in the backseat. "I'm serious Aries, be careful. If you can't make it just pull over and eat and grab coffee."
She nodded and smile. "Ok, daddy. Are you done?" She smirked at him as she started to get into the Benz. "Or do you wanna lecture me some more about driving safely?"
He rolled his eyes and hugged her. "I'm just making sure you go back home to Queens in one solid piece." Juice kissed the top of her head and smiled. "See you at the clubhouse."
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Juice waited against his bike for Aries to pull onto the lot, he had managed to ride slow enough that the brunette could keep up with him but when he felt his phone begin to vibrate against his leg, he knew he had to lose her and get to Happy to see what he needed him for. "Where are you Aries?" He sighed before looking back up to see the black Benz slowly pulling on the lot.
"Juice!" Aries shouted as soon as she was out of the car and saw her best friend. "I stopped for coffee."
He nodded as he looked at her. "I swore you were wearing more than that when we left the hotel Ari."
"I got hot on the drive so I stripped down to my shorts and sports bra." She poked at his chest. "It's not my bra and panties Juice. Lighten up and take me to your room so I can sleep off the rest of my hangover. Check in at the motel isn't happening again until tomorrow morning so. I have to crash with you."
He shrugged. "You can crash."
"Good, that wasn't really a question." She poked his forehead and smiled. "Take me to your room and let me sleep for a few hours and I'll wake up and you'll take me to the diner."
Juice nodded, taking the backpack from the brunette before wrapping an arm around her shoulders as he walked towards the clubhouse, nodding at Gage who ignored him in order to stare at Aries. "Looks like you've got his attention."
"And your bed has mine." Aries shook her head as they made their way through the clubhouse, her eyes briefly landing on Happy who just gave her a single nod before going back to watching the girls dancing. "You guys hire those strippers or did they just show up?"
He shrugged. "They just show up and never leave." He moved her into the hallway and into his room. "Get some sleep… I'll check on you later and bring you a snack or something." He watched Aries lay on his bed and wrap his blanket around her before he smiled. "Don't drool on my pillows either."
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"Juice." Aries climbed over the back of the sofa and dropped down next to her best friend, her brown eyes landing on the three men sitting across from them. "Sorry, am I interrupting club business? Or anything?"
Gage shook his head as he gave the brunette a sly smile. "No, no. We're just talking about women… Nothing serious."
She nodded, her eyes dancing between Gage and Happy. "That's cool… Just pretend that I'm not even here. I just needed to wake myself up from my nap."
"Long night?" The man cocked an eyebrow at the young woman and smiled.
Aries shrugged. "Yeah… We got drunk at this weird club and I don't know what kinda tequila they were serving but I ended up not even being able to walk out. It was a successful night but for real this time I am quitting drinking. I gotta recondition myself to go back to Queens and back to work soon."
"What do you do for work Miss Benz?" Gage tapped her knee with his booted foot.
"I sell drugs to doctors." The brunette shrugged. "Pharmaceutical Rep… It's a rewarding job, I get to travel up and down the coast. I spend more time in my car than I do my apartment, hence why I picked a really nice ass car to drive."
"Did you go to college for that?" He shrugged. "I'm just trying to get to know you."
"I didn't go to college to be a Pharm Rep, I went to college for computer security systems… I just happened to land a career in my current field and not computers." Aries shrugged as she stood up as her phone started ringing. "If you'll excuse me, I gotta take this."
Juice shook his head as he watched Happy and Gage smirk at him. "What? What's funny?"
Happy shrugged. "Aries is a hacker too huh?"
He shook his head slowly. "She used to be… She stopped when I got in trouble and she went down with me." He ran a hand over his head and shrugged. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"You got the perfect girlfriend right there and you won't even close on it!" Gage shook his head. "We know you're not gay, so what's with not wanting to date Aries?"
Juice shrugged his shoulders before shaking his head. "I'm not her type… She's more into settling down with a doctor. You gotta see her track list of guys she's dated. I could be the type she fucked around with but not the type she'd settle down with."
"Juice, my sister said hello." Aries climbed back onto the sofa and smiled at the men. "Did I actually interrupt something this time? Oh, I was wondering how many Sons are there in this clubhouse?"
"Ten full patch members and two prospects." Happy looked at Aries and nodded his head. "Kicker is the president, Gage is the V.P, then there's Keahi, Brandon, Casper, Jason, Elias, Miller, Kozik, myself. Juice and Jimmy are the prospects."
The brunette nodded slowly and smiled. "Blah. I haven't met all of you… I'll have to admit, of the one's I've met I have a top three."
"She's lying… She doesn't have a top three! I'm solely her favorite." Juice wrapped an arm around the brunette and smiled. "All of you guys are just her acquaintances."
"Oh but I do have a top three." Aries poked Juice's neck and smiled at him. "Gage, Elias, Happy… Now, it's up to you to figure out what that top three is for. Top three most annoying, most handsome top three, ohhh, maybe the top three I'd hook up with. Who knows? Wait I know but you will never know." She winked at Happy and Gage as she tossed her hair over her shoulder.
He rolled his eyes. "You didn't even include me in that three!"
The brunette shrugged as she looked at Juice intensely. "You aren't even a full Son yet, stupid. Like I can't even with you right now… Quieres ser una lista?" She poked at his cheeks and smiled. "En serio? No hablas espanol, todavia? You're a bad Puerto Rican."
Juice grabbed her face and shook his head. "I don't speak Spanish. I don't know how you speak it but we grew up in Queens, everyone spoke English."
"We took Spanish class in high school… You could have learned a little bit." Aries grabbed his face and smirked. "Let's go to that diner… I need a cheeseburger."
Gage shook his head. "Juice can't go, he's on bitch duty with Jimmy… Happy you take Aries to get that cheeseburger and see if you can't see what that top three list is all about. I'm super curious to know."
Happy nodded his head and stood up. "We either go now or you go to the diner alone." He grumbled at the brunette before turning to walk towards the exit.
"He's got such a sunny disposition." Aries kissed Juice's forehead. "I'll see you when I get back… Have fun doing bitch work Juice!" She smiled at Gage as she walked past him and out of the clubhouse to see Happy standing next to his bike. "You were oh so charming back there."
Happy shrugged as he placed his helmet on the brunette's head. "You've been on a bike before right?"
She shook her head as she fastest the helmet. "Nope. I mean I've been on dirt bikes, those are practically the same thing right?"
"Not exactly." He climbed onto his bike and patted the spot behind him before starting up the Dyna. "Get on."
Aries nodded before taking a spot behind him and wrapping her arms tightly around him as she rested her face against his back. "Don't be driving all crazy either…"
The man smirked as he pulled out of the lot, his speed moderate as he headed towards the diner. He was never going to own up to the fact that she was the first and only woman on the back of his bike and up until he met her, he never even kept a bitch seat on his precious Dyna. Nope, that was a secret he was keeping to himself, he shook his head as he pulled into the parking lot and cut the engine as he tapped Aries' leg. "Off, gotta back it in."
The brunette nodded as she slid off the bike and walked around, her brown eyes trained on Happy as he backed his bike into the spot before climbing off of it. "That wasn't even a ride! You're so taking me on a longer one after I get my burger and fries." She passed him the helmet back and shook out her hair. "You're buying right? This can be a date."
Happy let her grab his hand and shrugged. "Maybe… I gotta ask though, what happened with you and the prospect this weekend?"
"We went on a mission to get him laid. He fucked some brunette that was so annoying he practically choked her out because I guess she moaned like an annoying porn star. Then, he complained about it, we got drunk as fuck. I ended up crawling through the lobby to the elevators. Then we kissed… It was nothing more than a kiss and he initiated it."
He nodded his head as they walked into the diner and went straight for the booth in the furthest corner possible. "You made out with the idiot?"
"For like five minutes before we both passed out." She shrugged as she smiled at Happy. "Why? Am I only supposed to make out with you?"
Happy shook his head. "Nah… I'm not saying that at all. Make out with whoever."
Aries scrunched up her face before looking down at the menu. "Wasn't as good as you…" She gazed up at him slightly and smirked.
He rolled his eyes and smirked back at her. "You're getting a little too flirty for someone who's gonna pack up and head back to Queens soon… You gonna tell me the reason behind your top three and why I'm grouped in with Gage and Elias?"
"Oh what? You don't wanna enjoy the time we have together?" She grabbed his hands and rubbed his knuckles slowly. "I have a top three because I want a top three… You're grouped with them because I think you three are the most handsome… Most conventionally handsome because between you and I if I wasn't so afraid of Casper, I probably would try him out."
He let out a raspy chuckle and shook his head. "Is your top three in order or what?"
"Don't worry about it! Just know that you're my favorite and that's all there's to it." Aries leaned over the table and kissed Happy. "Let's just enjoy this date."
"This isn't a date, this is lunch at a diner." He shrugged. "Don't try to order anything off this side of the menu either… I don't get women who order off the kid's menu, not at all."
"I do what I want… If I want pizza off the kid's menu I'm gonna get pizza off the kid's menu." She pointed at the man and rolled her neck as she flipped her hair. "I'm getting a double bacon cheeseburger and fries. I was just tryna make a point."
"You're gonna snap your neck doing that shit one day." Happy shook his head as he kept his dark eyes on the beauty sitting before him. "How does someone so damn tiny have all that sass anyway?"
"Sass? This isn't sass, this is feist." Aries watched him carefully, waiting to see if he was going to pull his hand away from hers as the waitress walked up and eyed them both before plastering on a fake smile. "I'll take the double bacon cheeseburger, fries and a strawberry lemonade."
"I'll take the same thing she's having." Happy nodded at the waitress before looking back at Aries.
The brunette pressed her palms flat against Happy's and smiled. "Your hands are ridiculous! Look how tiny my hands!"
"That's because you're a tiny little thing." He shook his head and smiled, feeling relaxed and at ease with the brunette across from him. "I don't think you're gonna be able to finish what you ordered. Where ya gonna put it?"
"Don't worry about me! I'm a beast when it comes to eating." She smiled and nodded as she looked at him before looking around the diner. "Did you fuck that waitress? She keeps looking back this way."
"Maybe she's trying to fuck you." Happy shrugged as he looked back and eyed the waitress and shook his head. "Nope. I've never fucked that one."
"Oh, not that one." The brunette laughed as she slid the salt shaker across the table. "I'm thinking I should have ordered chicken tenders from the kids' menu too." She knocked on the table with her rings and shrugged. "What? Chicken tenders aren't sophisticated?"
He rolled his eyes and smirked. "You're a mess. You eat nothing like your little friend. He eats clean and you just eat whatever."
Aries grinned. "He didn't always eat like a health freak. We used to sit on the roof of the apartment building and pig out. Pizza, burgers, Chinese… Just anything that was greasy and was amazing." She shrugged as she pulled out her ringing phone and looked at the screen before rejecting the call. "I swear some people just don't get the hint."
"Who's bugging you?" He picked up the sidekick and nearly dropped it as it started to vibrate wildly. "Don't wanna talk to this 'doctor douche'? He's your ex or what?"
"He's my ex and he's a cheater. Cheating is something I don't tolerate at all. I called his office to speak with his partner about an account and he took that as a sign to start bugging the shit out of me for the last few hours." She shook her head, smiling as the waitress walked towards them. "I'm not dealing with him."
Happy nodded as he answered the incoming call. "She doesn't wanna talk to you anymore, fuck off Dr. Douche or I'll have to fuck you up." He ended the call and passed the phone back to the brunette as the waitress set the food in between them. "If he calls again, let me know and I'll handle it."
"You didn't have to do that." She smiled at Happy. "Thanks."
He shrugged. "Don't mention it." He pointed to her plate. "Eat, so we can get out of here."
"I'm eating." Aries nodded. "I'm going as fast as I can."
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"So, this is your quiet spot huh?" Aries looked around the beach as she felt Happy's arms wrap around her tightly. "It's beautiful. I see the appeal."
"You're the first and only person that I'm bringing here." Happy rasped as he rested his head on the brunette's head. "We're friends, so I'm sharing it with you."
She nodded and pressed back against him. "I'm glad you're sharing it with me, since we're friends and all." She laced her fingers through his and smiled. "This is the perfect ending to a really good first date." She turned around in his arms and looked up at him.
"See, you keep saying date but I don't remember even asking you one. Plus, we're just supposed to be friends who fuck." He lifted her up off the ground before sitting down on a log with her straddling his lap. "Can't be serious and date if you plan on hightailing it out of here soon."
Aries nodded as she pulled on the front of Happy's kutte and smiled. "Well, that's a good way to keep your head about this shit." She shrugged. "I'm all for keeping the original arrangements. No feelings, no attachment, just friends and fun."
Happy nodded slowly, his dark gaze on the waves breaking against the shore. "Yeah. No feelings, no attachment, just fun." He squeezed her hips and smiled. "When you checking back into the motel?"
"Tomorrow morning, why? You need a little fun?" She cocked an eyebrow at him and smirked.
"Yes." He smirked. "We got this good dynamic."
"We're also on this empty beach…" She leaned back and pulled her hoodie and shirt off. "What? Too adventurous for you?"
He shook his head as he glanced down at her chest, admiring the marks that were still on her caramel skin from their last encounter. "Nope."
"If you're eyeing all the hickies and bruises, they're taking forever to even fade. Thanks a lot." She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed his lips, her tongue running across his bottom lip before she bit into it roughly, only pulling away when she heard him hiss. "Don't like it rough anymore?"
"Gonna be hard to explain to the guys a fat lip." He grabbed her hips roughly, pulling her tightly against him as he sucked on the swell of her left breast. "Keep the biting for below the neck."
"I'm thinking that we could tell them I smacked you for getting fresh." She sighed, feeling his teeth graze over her skin. "You are vibrating right now… Not that I'm complaining because it's obviously in a really nice place."
Happy growled as he fished for his phone in his pocket and pulled it out. "I gotta take this, it's the clubhouse." He shook his head, his dark orbs still on the brunette as he listened to Kicker fill him in on what was happening. "Yeah…" He nodded, feeling Aries drag her nails over his chest.
Aries smirked at him, trailing her tongue up and down his jawline before pressing soft kisses to it as she tried not to laugh. "Hey, Happy." She whispered as she tugged down her bra and wiggled her body.
He shook his head, ending the call as he stood up with the brunette still wrapped tightly around him. "I gotta get you back then head down to Charming… Grab your shirt and let's go." He kissed her and smirked. "Don't think I won't get you back for that teasing shit you were doing either… Soon as I get back."
"Where the fuck is Charming?" She sighed as he set her to her feet and passed her the discarded shirt. "Never heard of it…"
"California." Happy shrugged. "It's about twelve hours away, they need me so I gotta get you to the clubhouse and head out."
Aries nodded slowly. "I'm so gonna hold back on any Prince Charming jokes I have because I can't even believe there's a city called Charming." She shook her head and chuckled. "Man, I'm so gonna need to come back to this side of the country when I get more vacation time… Let's go."
SOA
Juice, Jimmy and Aries stood in front of her car, looking at the smashed front window and shook their heads in unison. Trying to figure out who would have sent a huge rock through the Benz's window. "Doesn't make any sense." Juice shook his head as he turned his head slightly to look at Jimmy and Aries. "Who'd you manage to piss off Ari?
Aries shrugged. "I don't know Juice! It's not like I've been driving this thing around the last few days. It's just been sitting here, at the motel. I haven't done anything but walk to and from the clubhouse to hang out with you and Jimmy."
"Maybe you pissed someone off around here." Jimmy shook his head as he opened the car door and grabbed the huge rock sitting on the passenger seat. "It's a rock that's almost as big as your head Aries."
"I can see that James." Aries shook her head. "I'm just perplexed… I don't talk to many people and the ones that I've talked to have been at the clubhouse. Did you do this to my car guys? Bust out the window of my baby Benz!"
"Nope." Juice shook his head and rubbed both his hands up and down his face. "This is going to take a few days to fix. Not like the shop just carries Benz windows. We'll order it for you. We'll get the flatbed over here to take your car over to the lot."
She pulled them into a group hug and nodded. "Hugging makes me feel better…" She yelped. "Alright, who just grabbed my ass?"
"I had to!" Jimmy chuckled as he looked down at the brunette. "I'm sorry."
The brunette rolled her eyes and shrugged. "It's fine, don't let it happen again or I'll be inclined to punch you in the face." She trailed her fingers through her hair and sighed. "Man, the last time I had my car window smashed was when me and the doctor broke up…"
"I think your ex is probably stalking you!" Juice poked at Aries as they started walking out of the motel parking lot and back towards the clubhouse. "I'll protect you!" He chuckled as he wrapped an arm around Aries' neck and pulled her into his side, smiling when he felt her wrap her arms around her waist. "I got you Ari!"
"Whatever! I'm banking on this incident being caused by a housewife who mistook my Benz for her husband's. There was this dude in a Benz, he thought I was an escort. I don't know why I give off the escort vibe but whatever." Aries tossed her hair over her shoulder and smirked. "Let's just focus on getting it fixed and pizza. Yeah we're ordering pizza when we get to the clubhouse."
"You're speaking my language." Jimmy nodded and smiled. "Pizza and beer."
"See Juice, Jimmy is on board." She grinned. "We're gonna just be the knock off Three Musketeers for life. Friends forever."
"Do you just make every guy your friend? How do you get a boyfriend?" Jimmy looked at the brunette as they started towards the clubhouse.
Aries shook her head. "No, I don't just friend every guy. Sometimes it's good to start off as friends with a guy then see where it leads. I've been burned one too many times to just jump into some type of relationship with a man." She smiled at Jimmy. "Let's just say, you'd be my type if you were wearing anything but a kutte." She grinned before looking at Juice and rolling her eyes. "Pizza and cupcakes! This is our weekend boys. We're gonna live it up!" She smiled and nodded, doing her best to take her mind off Happy being gone and her Benz window. Now was time for her to have fun with her friends.
Thank you for all the reviews last chapter. Special thanks to Bray for showing so much love, lol. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, it was pretty light and fluffy, just how I love my chapters to be most of the time. :)
