"Hey Sunshine." Jackson walked up behind the brunette, watching her jump slightly, drawing a soft chuckled from his lips. "You're a really hard person to track down."

Sunshine shrugged, not bothering to turn around as she continued read her book. "I had no intention on being tracked down, especially by you Jackson." She shook her head slowly, groaning internally as he cut off her light source, forcing her to close her book and look up at him. "What could you possibly want to talk to me about? Apologizing for cheating on me with Tara? Boy was she boasting about that at school the day after you dropped your bomb."

"I wanted to check in on you, making sure you were doing okay and stuff." He sat down on the swing next to her and shrugged slightly. "We were friends and I hope we can get to the point of restoring our friendship."

"I don't think that's the best idea, you see, the way my personality is set up, I don't really like to keep friends around that can hurt me the way you did." She turned her attention to her legs and shrugged. "Plus, I'm so much closer to getting out of Charming. I really don't want to keep any ties besides my aunt."

"I miss having you as a friend though." He pinched her arm softly and sighed. "We've had this lifelong friendship, I know I fucked it up but can't we at least get to a point of being friends again?"

"No." She shook her head as she pinched his arm back. "If you had just told me you didn't want to be with me anymore, then yeah we could've worked out a friendship. We however can't work on a friendship when I don't feel like I can trust you anymore. Like I don't think I could even trust you to hold this book. You may drop it for another book that you see."

"I'm willing to earn your trust back." He nodded slowly as he grabbed the book, turning it over in his hands. "What class is making you read Hamlet?"

"No class, I'm reading it because I want to read it." She grabbed the book back and shrugged. "I don't even know if you're being genuine at all. You just want what you want, you want what's going to make yourself happy and I don't think you're taking my feelings into account whatsoever Jackson. Like that entire time, I knew you still held feelings for Tara and I had told myself that one day you were going to end things with me because you worked shit out with her. It's a horrible mindset to have but it's what I had. I just didn't think you'd live up to the rumors and reputation of you being a liar and cheater."

"I never cheated on Tara… This was the first time I ever did what I did." He dragged his hands up and down his face, slowly realizing that the conversation wasn't going the way he had planned it. In his mind, they were going to work it out but now, sitting and listening to the brunette, there was no chance of that happening at all. "I was drunk, I wasn't thinking at all but I came to you with it. I really did come to you with it. I'm sorry."

"Well, let's hope you can keep it that way then huh?" Sunshine shrugged as she stood up from the swing. "I don't know how you're not riddled with an immense amount of guilt right now but I guess to each their own. I really can't be your friend right now Jax. I hope you can respect that. I'm too hurt to be your friend. Also, your girlfriend Tara would have a fit if she knew we were friends."

"Sunny, come on." Jax looked at the brunette. "Please, just really think about it. Please."

"I think you should go now Jackson." Maria looked at the teens. "Sunny, it's time for dinner, come inside and wash up then sit down for dinner."

"I'll see ya around Jackson." Sunshine shrugged as she walked into the house ahead of her aunt. "I don't like him at all."

"I know." Maria nodded her head slowly. "He hurt your feelings and you just want to be done with the nonsense."

"Graduation is coming up soon, I'm valedictorian." She washed her hands slowly and sighed. "I also made friends with Wendy. She's going to come over this weekend for a sleepover if that's okay with you? I had invited Donna but she said something about double date plans. You know what sucks? I thought she was still going to be my friend and want to hang out with me, even after this happened."

"I love you but you're being neurotic right now my love. Donna had plans, she's not ditching you as a friend." Maria set a plate of food in front of the teen. "Now eat up and get your sense back."

"Happy!" Sunshine moved after the guy, her eyes on the reaper that seemed to be smirking at her. "Happy! I know you hear me! Quit walking so damn much, I have something great to tell you! Just wait up."

"Here we go again." Happy turned around, looking slightly down at the brunette. "It looks bad to have a teen girl chasing me down in public. How many times do we have to go over this little girl?"

"I don't know, I would've sent it to you in the mail but I saw you first." She held up a framed picture and smiled proudly. "Your artwork was framed and hung up in the front office of the school, so, I asked the teacher to make a copy. So, this is the original and it's all yours. I wanted you to have it back since it's your work."

"I don't want it, you keep it." He shrugged his shoulders. "You keep it and take it with you to college or whatever, hang it up in the living room as a reminder to never return to Charming unless it's dire. I'm serious about it too Sunshine."

She rolled her eyes and huffed, tucking the picture under her arm before she nodded slowly at the man. "You're such a grump, you need to just relax and know that I heard every single word you've told me. I'm getting out of Charming, I'm going to make something of myself and the next time I step foot back here, it's going to be when I'm successful and have my life together. You're a cool friend, I hope you know that."

"Not your friend." Happy shook his head as he turned the brunette around and nudged her back in the direction she had come from. "Stop tracking me down kid, next time you run into me, I may not be so nice to you." He winked at her and smirked.

"Alright, alright." Sunny nodded her head, continuing in the direction she was pushed in, her eyes twinkling as she spotted her new friend Wendy. "Wendy Case! Hey!"

"Sunshine V, I am not attempting your last name." Wendy hugged the brunette and laughed. "What're you doing talking to Happy? You into him or something?"

She shook her head slowly. "No, no. He helped me with artwork for a project I had. I wanted to give it back to him but he told me to keep it. He's scary as hell though, I won't lie about that fact at all. What're you up to?"

"I am coming from the clinic." Wendy shrugged her shoulders. "Had to reup on birth control but you won't believe who I saw in there though. Looking very scared and freaked out when she was walked back into the waiting room by the nurse. Just guess."

"Here we are, we are not doing the gossip thing." Sunshine shrugged. "If you tell me Tara though, I will rage."

"No,no." The blonde shook her head slowly. "Donna, I saw Donna."

"Oh." Sunshine nodded slowly as she linked arms with Wendy. "That's so sad though. I hope she's alright."

"I'm sure she's going to be alright." Wendy nodded and smiled. "Now, it's time for that kick ass adventure I promised you. Are you ready for your life to be changed?"

"Depends, is this good life changing or is it something that could jeopardize college?" Sunny chuckled. "Let's go, you can drive." She passed Wendy her keys. "You know how to drive right?"

"I do not know how to drive but there's a first time for everything." She got into the driver's seat and smirked. "So, you're now my driving teacher."

"Oh lovely, do not crash my truck and do not kill us. I want to make it to college." Sunny buckled her seatbelt and smiled. "I am trusting you with my life right now."

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"Despite the shaky driving, we made it in one piece." Wendy smiled as she passed the cigarette to Sunny. "It's nice here huh? I love hanging out in the redwoods."

"It's pretty nice. I used to play hide and seek out here with my aunt." Sunny nodded as she took a drag of the cigarette before passing it back. "It sucks that some of the trees are being cut down though."

"I think they just cut down the ones that were dying already." She shrugged as she laid back on the blanket and smiled. "This is where I tell you that I brought you out here to kill you. No one will hear your screams out here."

"I mean, if you must kill me, I want you to do it slowly and make sure you don't mess my face up. I want an open casket." The brunette stood up and shrugged her shoulders. "That's all I need from life. I need to be pretty when I die."

"I wish I had the motivation you have. I really want to get out of Charming but I can't even afford to do it." Wendy sat up and sighed. "I'd kill to get out of this backwards ass town."

"Hmm." Sunny nodded slowly as she lowered herself back down to the blanket, grabbing Wendy's hands and smiling. "So, what I'm hearing right now is that you'd get a job, earn some money and be all for maybe being roommates with me? I know we don't know each other all that well but at the same time, if I was in a dorm, I'd be stuck with a stranger anyways."

"That's what I'm saying." Wendy nodded slowly as a smile spread across her face. "You'd really let me move in with you and shit?"

"Yeah." Sunny shrugged as she chuckled. "It could be fun and if anything, we'd figure it out together. If not, then you can always just move back home to Charming. It's nothing serious, it's just as if we were living in the dorms together. If it works, it works if it doesn't then you move out and I keep my apartment all to myself."

"Then I suggest we get to know each other better." Wendy grinned and nodded eagerly. "I'm Wendy Case, I want to eventually go to college and be like a social worker or something. I just messed up really badly in high school. I didn't get the grades to go straight to college but someone told me to look into community college or a trade school."

"Well, I'm Sunshine Vellenueva, I'm going to college to become a lawyer." The brunette shrugged and smiled. "I know it's very ironic when you think about it right? I dated a baby jailbird and I want to become a lawyer and put bad guys away."

"I love that thought." The blonde rested her forehead against Sunny's and smiled. "So, let's chase our dreams together. I'm down to put in the work to pay for my half of things."

"We have a deal." Sunshine nodded slowly. "Wendy Case, you're leaving Charming with me."

"Jax." Tara smiled as she wrapped her arms around her boyfriend and kissed his cheek. "What are you doing up so early. I thought you'd sleep in."

"I have to go into the clubhouse." Jax shrugged as he kissed Tara and started to pull away from her. "Talking to Clay about prospecting soon. They may make an exception, let me prospect earlier than my eighteenth. So, I don't wanna miss out on this opportunity. It's a huge one for me."

"You'll see me afterwards right?" She smiled as she watched him pull on his shirt. "I really want us to go to out tonight. Have some fun and just be alone. I'm over the whole double dates thing with Donna and Opie."

"Yeah, I'll be here after I'm done. We can grab lunch together." He smiled at her before leaning down, pressing a kiss to her lips and smiling. "It'll be just the two of us, I promise."

"Good, have fun at the clubhouse." Tara nodded. "I'll see you later."

"Later Tara." Jax walked out of the room, dragging his feet as he made his way towards the front of the house before rerouting back to Tara's room. "Come with me."

"You want me to come to the clubhouse with you? Won't Sunny be there?" She scooted off her bed and moved to her tall white dresser. "It won't be awkward right?"

He shook his head slowly. "No, she actually quit the job at the office, it set my mom back because she's having to pick up the slack while the new croweater learns how to process all of the paperwork."

"Oh." She smiled as she pulled on a pair of jeans. "Then, let's head out. I'm ready to go."

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"It didn't go how I planned it to, I still have to wait until my eighteenth birthday to prospect." Jax wrapped an arm around Tara and shrugged. "It was cool though, getting to sit in on church. It just makes me want this so much more."

"Well at least you know you have your spot once you're eighteen." Tara smiled. "Now, let's go grab something to eat, just the two of us."

"Jax." Gemma stopped in front of the couple. "Let me talk to you for a minute."

"I'll be back." Jax followed after his mom and sighed. "What's wrong?"

"You had to go and chase off the best office assistant that I've ever had in this place?" She looked down at her son and shook her head slowly. "Go talk to Sunny, I want her working this office again. These little sweetbutts are messing up and costing me more money than we're actually pulling in on a daily. Today, one of them didn't charge the customer, do you think that customer is going to come back and pay? No, talk to Sunshine, get her back in the office and then you can continue whatever it is that you have with that Knowles girl."

"Sunshine doesn't want to work here, she wants nothing to do with me. I went to talk to her and she could barely even look at me. You think she's going to really do a favor for me?" Jax shook his head. "Train Tara to work in the office, she's capable and could use the work."

Gemma laughed. "Like Tara is going to stick around in Charming and work in this office. I'll just run the office on my own if I can't get Sunny back in here. I'll talk to her myself. I knew you two shouldn't have even gotten together, I said she wasn't cut out for it, I told her mom that she wasn't cut out to be a girlfriend to you or any Son. It takes a certain type of woman to stomach this lifestyle and she wasn't cut out for it."

"I cheated on her." Jax looked at his mom. "That's why she broke up with me and that's why she quit working her. That has nothing to do with this lifestyle or the club. I'm not even part of the club just yet mom."

"Still." She shook her head. "You think Tara's cut out for it? Isn't she going to run off to college, leaving you high and dry again? Really think about shit Jackson. You have to think everything out and not just act on emotion. Be smart about shit."

I know, I know. Wendy and Sunny might have thrown you off a bit but it's been a slight friendship that's been forming 'off screen'. It's also one that's going to be necessary for them both. It's going to be fun and light. Also, the friendship, or rather the one-sided friendship Sunny shares with Happy has been 'off screen' as well. So, you haven't missed anything, so don't panic at all. this story is going to end at 30 chapters but I do want to write a sequel to it, it'll be an AU, starting s6. um, it's already been outlined. also, thank you to the supporters. I love you all and you're the reason why I'm focusing on getting updates of this story out. I felt bad for taking forever and ever on updating it. so, I hope you can forgive me on that.