God I love your smile." Natalie said as she reached over me to grab her phone off its charger. "You should always smile."

"I will now that I have a reason to." I kissed her temple. "I have to be at the clubhouse soon, you coming with?"

"Yeah, I'll come. I don't have work anymore." She frowned.

"How's Bri's face?"

She waved her hand. "Its ok, she gets her nose job in like a month or so."

"That's cool. You going to her party?"

"Yeah, you?" She twisted her ponytail around her fingers.

"Yeah, I'm gonna be playing bouncer, sucks because it's on my birthday." I frowned and let out a frustrated sigh.

"We can go for an hour then leave. She has Happy to keep shit in order." She ran her fingers down my thigh. "No arguing with me Juicy."

"Fine, I like that plan anyways." I smiled at her and lazily traced the flowers on her pants.

"Alright, plans are set. Let's head to the clubhouse sooner you handle that the faster we can leave and hangout again." She stood and walked to the door to pull on her boots.

#

It felt good walking into the clubhouse with Natalie on my arm. It was a happy feeling and I felt proud. She was gorgeous, smart and quirky and she was my lady. We spotted Bri sitting on the bar with Jax and Tara and walked over and as soon as we approached to talk, Bri hopped off the bar and stalked off towards the dorm.

"What was that?" Tara asked as she watched Bri disappear.

"That was a pissed off Russian." Jax laughed and she smiled.

"I don't know why she'd be pissed at us." I said and looked down at Natalie.

"You guys left her bleeding the other night." Tara shook her head and her long brown hair fell from its bun. "You left her to be cared for by Kozik."

"She looked fine, I texted her the next day. She said she was ok." Natalie frowned. "I'll go see what's up."

"You guys going to the party?" I asked.

"Yeah, I owe Bri a dance and Tara wants to see me try to bust a move." Jax moved his shoulders and Tara laughed.

"Oh lord, stop Jax!" She slid off the bar and dragged him with her.

I walked to the back to find Natalie and pushed open the door to Happy's old room to find the women staring at each other in complete silence.

"What's up?" I asked.

"Nothing." Bri said through gritted teeth. "Nothing at all."

"Why are you mad Bri?" I asked her.

"Because my best friend ditched me." She looked at me with dark eyes and an even grin playing on her lips.

"It's not a big deal, you looked fine." Natalie smacked the bed softly.

"Mmk." Bri stood up. "I'll see you guys later, I have to go do stuff."

"Woah." Natalie said. "She's actually mad."

"Yeah, I sensed that." I shrugged. "You should apologize."

"You left her too!"

"Yeah but I'm not her best friend." I smiled softly. "You are."

"True. I'll do it later. I need food." She stood and walked out the room and I followed her. Shaking my head, her and Bri had to fix things.

"Idiot." Happy's voice came from behind me and I about jumped out of my boots.

"Yeah?" I turned and faced him.

"Church." He mumbled and walked past me.

I hurried to church and sat down. Bri was at the head of the table with Jax, his gavel in her hand and they were whispering about something before he took the gavel back with a huge smile.

"Alright," Jax banged the gavel. "Bri and I have something to tell you."

"I knew it! You're brother and sister!" Tig laughed.

"Ha ha." Jax retorted. "No, we're not. Although I do think of her as the little sister I've never wanted. She's a pain in the ass that's a fact."

"Anyways, I have a business venture you all may be interested in hearing about." Bri stated. "It involves women and booze."

"More porn?" I asked.

"No." Jax shook his head and smiled. "A strip club."

"I'm in." Tig smacked the table.

"Me too." Kozik smiled and shook his head. "Love strippers."

"Same." Happy added, earning him a glare and smirk from Bri.

"We would be part owners, it'd move us closer to going completely legit." Jax spoke. "So we can vote it in or we can pass it up."

"Either way, I'm still opening a strip club and you guys are more than welcome to spend your money there." Bri laughed.

"Alright, we'll vote on it. You can leave." Jax said and Bri smiled and walked out of the room.

"Ok, let's go over pros and cons." I said. "It seems good but would it conflict with Diosa?"

"It shouldn't, the girls can work both if they want." Bobby said. "Pussy is money."

"Why is she opening a strip club anyways?" Kozik asked.

"It was a gift." Happy laughed. "Her dad bought it for her."

"And here to think I thought my family was twisted." Jax smirked. "Cons?"

"It could turn out like the Jellybean." I stated.

"Russians love the Jellybean." We all laughed.

"The club seems like a good idea, but can we afford it?" Bobby asked.

"Yeah we can." Jax said. "All in favor of seeing the strip club?"

It was unanimous. We were going to visit the club and then vote on whether we wanted to be part owners.

"How'd it go?" Natalie asked when I walked out.

"We're going to a strip club."

"Oh." Her face fell and I felt bad.

"For business not pleasure." I assured her. "I'll see you when I get back."

"Yeah Juicy." She gave me a quick kiss. "Don't have too much fun."

"I won't." I smiled. "I promise."

SOASOASOASOA

"How do you deal with this life?" I asked Tara as she pushed her son Abel on the swing. "I feel like I have to be a bitch around here to be taken seriously."

"Yeah, well the guys don't really listen to any woman besides Gemma." She shrugged. "It's their world their rules, if you come in as an outsider you have to prove yourself, even more so as a woman."

"I'm just trying to tread water and not get smacked by Gemma again. She officially has me scared." I laughed. "I just sort of want to fit in but its difficult for me."

"Why's that?" She gave me a sad look.

"I came here as Happy's lady, and then I got pulled into their business. It's not actually how I planned to be introduced to people. I think they're tolerating me because of Happy and what I have to offer business wise." I let out an exasperated sigh. "It's like high school and I'm the weird girlfriend that is just accepted because the guys are afraid to speak against the scary friend."

She laughed. "Just be yourself and you'll be fine. They'll like you even if you're soft. Leave the bitch thing to Gem. She's mastered it."

"Yeah, I'll try it but if someone is mean I'll probably be mean back." I smiled. "How do you not strangle the croweaters?"

"Believe me I want to but I don't want drama, I try to keep to myself. Look out for the boys." She smiled. "Plus you have to trust him, if he hasn't cheated on you, then he probably won't."

"I trust him. He's be faithful for well over a year, I just don't like sharing or people touching what's mine." I smirked. "He's my scary tattooed man and that's that."

"You're something else." She shook her head. "Don't let this get to you and don't get in too deep."

"That's the thing I think I'm in too deep already." I pouted. "I gotta get out and live a separate life like before."

"That's going to hard believe me." She patted me on the back. "Just try to relax and be yourself."

"I'm weird though." I laughed. "So weird."

"Then be weird. Obviously Happy loves it, Kozik is your friend and Juice. So the other guys will warm up to you. I like you and your weirdness, even dig the bruises." She chuckled. "So just be you and make friends."

"Yeah, I'm going to try to be relaxed and be myself. I mean Tig is weird but he has friends and Happy is well you know him, but he has friends. So I'll try." I wiped a smudge off my shoe and smiled.

"Abel and I have to go, errands and such." She said. "I'll see you around here if not then at the party for sure."

"Bye T, bye Abel." I trilled. "Be safe and such."

"Byeee Bri." She waved. "Be weird!"

I sat on the small slide and pulled out my phone to take a barrage of selfies when Happy approached me. His height casting a massive shadow over me.

"You comin'?" He rasped.

"Where?" I didn't bother looking up at him. I wasn't ready for the what's wrong conversation.

"The strip club." He crouched and caught my gaze. "It was your idea."

"Yeah, I know, but I should really go do party preparations." I smiled.

"What's wrong?" He caught my chin and lifted my face to catch my eyes again.

"Nothing. I'm just preoccupied." I shrugged.

"Lies, we'll talk at home. For now get your ass up and let's go." He stood to his full height and pulled me up to my feet.

"I really don't wanna." I whined as we got closer to his bike.

"No choice. Don't be a pain in the ass Brianna. Let's do this and we can go home and talk and you can pout there." He handed me a helmet and I strapped it on while he climbed on his bike and started it up, I climbed on behind him and wrapped my arms tightly around his middle. Soon we were off and in line behind the others.

#

We stood facing the sleek black and glass building. The outside made it look more like an office building than a strip club, but I assumed that was the idea and it was brilliant. Discreet wasn't usually my thing but for this it was much needed.

"Dollhouse." Jax laughed. "Let's go in." He pulled open the door and everyone filed in, waiting for his next move.

"It's full." I smiled. "That's a good sign."

"Let's check out the talent." Kozik smiled and rubbed his hands together. "I got a few singles."

"Easy, Koz." I whispered to him. "Get a private dance or something."

"Good idea." He split off and went to locate a dancer for a private dance.

"The office is through that red door, you guys can look through financial records and talk to the bookkeeper. She'll answer all questions about revenue and whatnot." I smiled at the guys. "I'm going to hang out here and make some calls."

"Sounds good." Bobby said and they all walked off, Happy hesitated for a moment and I squeezed his hand and let him know I was ok and he could go deal with club business.

I walked around and took a look at the dancers and the clientele they brought in. It was mostly business men, the designer suits gave them away.

"Miss Hohrykova." A small statured dancer walked up to me. Her fake boobs spilling out of her gold bikini top.

"Call me Brianna. What's up?" I smiled down at her.

"I just wanted to say hi. I heard you were the owner now and you know." She giggled nervously.

"Well Hi. Don't worry I'm keeping all the dancers." I saw a wave of relief wash over her.

"Thank you." She smiled and walked off awkwardly in her heels.

"Brianna Banana." Kozik shouted from the door of his private room. I walked over to him and he yanked me inside. "Look!" He dragged me to the table which was covered in drugs.

"OK?" I looked at him with a weird look.

"Can't be around it, I'm a recovering addict." He stepped behind me.

"I'll flush it, you'll be fine. Where's your dancer?" I asked.

"She was too high, sent her out." He rubbed a hand over his blonde spikes.

"Drunk girls are fine but strung out ones are no good?" I smiled at him. "Honorable." I quickly removed all the drugs from the table and flushed them.

"I got some morals." He shrugged.

"Mhm. I see." I frowned at the touch of the stripper pole.

"I can't believe you touched that." He laughed. "So gross."

"It's sticky, like why is it sticky!" I jumped up and down and squealed. "Oh my God." I groaned at the realization.

He let out a howling laugh. "You better pray that girl had no diseases!"

"Herman, that's not even funny!" I smacked him. "I'm going to be sick." I felt the bile rise in my stomach.

"Why'd you even touch it weirdo?" He smirked and pulled open the door.

"I thought it'd be clean, I don't know. I'm all out of it today." I sighed.

"I can tell." He pushed the door closed. "You'll be alright kid."

"I know." I nodded. "You like the place though?"

"I do." He scanned the room. "How long you been all sober and shit?"

"Only a year. Had a bad slip up." I pokes his arm. "Why don't you wear shirts with your cut?"

"Because I like showing off my body, makes the ladies go crazy." He laughed.

"I think they're already crazy to want you to begin with."

"Oh that cut deep Brianna Banana." He put his hands over his hurt and made a fake crying sound. "So evil you are."

"Shit, I'm so nice." I pulled out my phone. "Are you like Happy? Or do you not like things to the extent he does?"

"Not sure what you're talking about. Are you talking sex wise or what?" He winked at me.

"I'm not doing this conversation with you." I shook my head. "I was talking torture wise idiot."

"Ooooh, I don't like it to the extent he does but I get down." He chuckled. His brows creasing in thought. "How do you even know about that?"

"I figured it out when we were watching horror torture flicks and he smiled through them all." I smiled at the memory. "Plus he told me, he tried to push me away, I'm relentless though. I got him."

"He needs to share you." He squeezed my thigh. I pushed his hand away.

"No, no. I don't like being shared or sharing."

"You should tell that to the group of dancers gathered around him." He pointed to the corner and I followed his gaze. Instantly becoming angry at the gaggle of women talking to Happy.

"Oh hell no." I practically ran to where he was and Happy met my gaze and rolled his eyes. "Excuse you, you all need to go away right now."

"Auditions are Thursday night, sweetie." The blue haired dancer said to me.

"I'm Brianna Hohrykova, the current owner." I held out my hand and watched her face falter, before they backed away.

"Sorry." They muttered.

"Its fine, don't let it happen again or I might have to replace you all." I said.

"Jealous much?" Happy asked, his voice low and raspy.

"Not jealous, territorial." I wrapped my arms around him.

"I am a catch." He smiled. "Kozik pushing up on you?"

"Yeah, I can handle it though. He keeps wanting you to share." I mumbled into his chest.

"Maybe for Christmas." He looked at me with a serious look.

"You wouldn't." I pulled away from him.

"You never know." He pulled me back in and kissed my head. "There's always a first for everything."

"Ugh." I separated myself from Happy. "I'd be devastated."

"Love you."

"Love you too Happy. So do you like the place?" I took a seat at the front of an empty stage.

"Yeah, when you gonna strip for me?" He sat at the end of the stage.

"When you put in a pole in the room then I'll strip for you." I smiled.

"Deal." He smirked. "You ready to leave?"

"Yeah I am." I stood back up.

"Too bad, the guys wanna see a few girls before we go." He took my chair.

"I think my sister is working here now." I whispered.

"Seriously?" He grabbed my hands.

"Yeah, I guess she needs the money even though she had a trust fund." I stopped talking and knew he had put two and two together.

"Damn." He shook his head.

"Yeah, I don't know whether to cry out of frustration or hide my head in embarrassment."

"You can strip with her and make it a sister act." He laughed.

"Not funny." I pinched his nose and smiled.

"But you smiled." He smirked triumphantly.

"Yeah I did." I sat on the chair's arm. "For real though. Like what if I see her! They'll see her too. Omg."

"It'll be fine, relax, don't get worked up. It's nothing they haven't seen before." He looked at me and smiled. "I won't look if it'll help."

"Oh lord." I rolled my eyes. "You better not."

"I won't. Let's go join the group, don't want them thinking we snuck off to fuck." He stood and dragged me towards the group of men all sitting around waiting for the show to start. He sat next to Kozik and placed me behind them.

"How come you get all the attention? You're not even half as attractive as me." Kozik said.

"I got the tattoos." Happy laughed. "Girls love it, it's how I got Bri."

"That girl is a cock tease." He shook his head.

"Watch it. She's my lady." He turned to look at me and I turned my attention to my phone.

"Share her! Its the brotherly thing to do Hap." He frowned.

"Date her sister."

"Can I?" He asked and looked at me.

"Bri. Can he?" Happy asked.

"He can do whatever he wants, as long as she wants to date him. She's on second."

"She's a stripper! Omg this is heavenly." Kozik smiled and moved closer to the stage, pulling Juice out of his seat and taking it as his own.

"Omg, Hap, you've unleashed the pervert." He shrugged and I moved to the seat next to him.

SOASOASOASOA

I pretty much texted Natalie the whole time I was touring the strip club, I felt bad for leaving her behind, but I felt guilty for feeling bad because I never truly felt bad when I left Brianna so many times, I only felt bad when she wanted to walk away from me.

"Drink?" The waitress asked me and I waved her away. I wasn't in the mood to drink, I needed to be sober and ride out the feelings I was swimming through.

Loud rap music started to flow as the next stripper came out, her hair was long and blonde, reminding me even more of Natalie, it wasn't until she turned around that I recognized her to be Bri's sister. They looked so much a like it was creepy.

I looked to my left and Kozik was throwing singles on the stage and smiling like an idiot and I looked behind me and Tig was adjusting himself in his seat and grinning sheepishly. Jax was entertaining some blue haired bimbo, Happy was scowling as usual and Bri had her head in her hands.

I got up and walked out of the club, my phone gripped tightly in my hand. I just needed to call and check in on Natalie and her cravings. I sat on my bike and dialed her number, growing nervous as it kept ringing.

"Hey." Her voice filled my ear and the anxiety melted away.

"Hey babe, I was calling to check on you." I smiled to myself.

"I'm fine J. Finished eating." She laughed. "For the hundredth time today."

"Damn." I rubbed my head.

"I'm gonna get fat." She whined.

"Blame it on the baby." I said as I watched a lizard run past my feet. "I just saw a lizard."

"Catch it! It's good luck!" She shouted into the phone.

"It left already."

"Boooo, bad luck for you." I could her the smile in her voice. "I gotta go, I gotta nap."

"I'll see you soon."

"Of course. Byeee." She sang.

"Bye." I closed the phone and slid it into my pocket as Bri pushed out of the door. She looked at me then turned away. "Can we talk?"

"No." She said.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I walked over to her.

"Nothing." She looked at me and her eyes were dark.

"Is it about me being with Natalie?" I asked her.

"Oh, no. I'm not upset about you two being a couple. I'm happy if you two are happy. I'm upset because my best friend chose a guy over me when I was in bad shape." She sniffed. "You guys deserve each other."

"Sorry." I frowned. "It was a bad call."

"It was a bad call." She sucked in her bottom lip and just stared at me. "I'm not upset about you two, so just remember that."

"I will, so about your party." I started. "I'm not too sure I want to go to it, it's my birthday that day and I want to spend time with Natalie."

"Alright, I was actually throwing it for you as a surprise, but I get that you don't want a big party." She smiled.

"Wow, I didn't realize it was a surprise party for me." I felt happy but it didn't change the fact I wanted to be with Natalie.

"That was the point." She laughed. "It was a friendly gesture but I get it. You and Natalie have fun, take lots of weird pictures."

I laughed. "We will. What's wrong though?"

"Oh you know, just struggling with balancing my two personalities." She laughed.

"Weird Bri is better than psychotic Bri. I know them both firsthand." I smiled. "I mean you know."

"I know." She pulled her hair from it's perch on top of her head and it tumbled in waves down her back. "Don't tell anyone though, I have a reputation to protect."

"I won't tell, I don't think you have much of a reputation anyways, only Jax, Happy, Kozik, and me like you."

"I figured as much." She smirked.

"I like the club though, your sister was amazing." I met her eyes.

"She's in her element. I can't say much more than that."

"I'm going back inside, you coming with?" I asked.

"No." She said. "Go have fun."

"Alright." I pulled open the door and walked in, only to hear screaming when the door slammed shut, I walked out and Bri was gone, a van was speeding off, had it been there the whole time? If so why hadn't either of us seen it?

I ran back into the building. "Happy!" I yelled. Weaving through customers. "Happy!" I shouted as I closed the distance between us.

"What?" He growled.

"Someone took her!" I yelled. "I walked in and I heard a scream and when I ran back out she wasn't there!"

"What?!" His face fell.

"She's not there." I shook my head. "Happy you good?"

"No." He slammed his shoulder into me as he walked past, whispering something to Kozik. They looked at me then rushed outside.

"Jax!" I grabbed him as he came out of a private room. "Someone took Bri."

"Jesus." He said as he straightened his shirt. "Did you tell Hap?"

"Yeah, him and Koz just stormed out."

"You get the rest of the guys and let's get out of here." He ran a hand over his head and stalked off towards the doors.

"We gotta go! Someone took Brianna." I told them and we ran off to join Jax outside.

"She dropped her phone." Happy waved it in the air. "The one fuckin' time I hoped she had it and she dropped it."

"Relax." Kozik said. "We'll get her back, were like Batman and Robin, or Mario and Luigi. You decide."

Happy shot him a look that could kill and Kozik just smirked. "We have to find her. It could be the Calaveras."

"You think they really took her?" Jax asked.

"Who else would it be?" I asked.

"Could be just random, her family is loaded." Kozik tossed out as he sat on his bike.

"Doubt it was random." Happy pulled on his helmet. "I gotta find her. Ma will kill me if anything else happens to her. Already got yelled at because of her face."

"That was funny." Kozik was laughing. "Never seen you run so fast."

"She's a scary lady." Happy shrugged.

"Let's go now, we gotta figure out how to get her back." I said. "She's in danger."

"I really don't see why were going after her. She's really not that important." Bobby said. "She sort of irks me."

"I think its the attitude." Tig nodded.

"Attitude o' not we need to find her for Happy." Chibs pulled on his helmet.

"Thanks brother." Happy patted Chibs on the shoulder.

We all climbed on our bikes and took off back to Charming. No suspects besides the Calaveras were on our minds. They had to have taken her and we had to get her back, mostly for Happy if anything.

Felt I needed to go back to some sort of plot and I wasn't feeling the party chapter felt so awkward and I don't know. I like this one better. Thanks for the reviews of chapter 13. Loved them so much.