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Tig pulled up to Ava's gate and she had to lean over him to put the code in, she didn't know if Happy wanted her to give out the code or not, she until she asked him she would have to punch it in.

Tig drove up and Koz and Juice stared at the house in awe.
"You live here?" Koz asked.

"Yes."

"Holy hell." He said as he followed Ava into the house and started looking around.

"Oh my god you have the Sony Triumph!" Juice said as he pointed to her massive television.

"So?" Ava asked.

"It's not available to the public. How did you get it?" He asked, clearly jealous.

"No clue, just said I wanted the newest TV and that showed up."

"Where is the pool?" Koz asked.

Ava walked through the kitchen and pointed to a pair of french doors, which Koz opened and walked out.

"Wow, this is going to be a good week!" Koz said as he stared at the massive pool, water slide and rock wall waterfall.

Happy watched as Ava's Rover pulled up, however he began to get pissed when only Tig and Koz got out. He was halfway across the parking-lot when Tig met him.

"Where is she?" Happy growled.

"She's fine. She's with the retard."

"Doing what?"

"Shopping for dinner." Tig said.

Happy relaxed slightly, but was still pissed that no one had called him.

"She told me to tell you to call her." Tig said in a high falsetto voice, that sounded nothing like Ava.

Happy shook his head, "Okay."

"Ava says we're staying at her place till we leave." Tig said.

"Yeah."

"You okay with that?" Tig asked, watching Happy's face.

"Sure."

"You gonna be there?" Tig said as he tried to pull information from Happy about he and Ava's whatever the hell it is they had.

"You think I'm gonna leave you animals alone with her?" Happy said as he shook his head.
"Good point." Tig said with a grin as he went into the clubhouse. Koz was busy talking to his Tacoma guys, so Happy pulled out his cell and called Ava.

Ava was slowly going down each isle, buying her usual weekly supply of food and then tripling it since she was going to have a full house and she was making dinner tonight for almost twenty people.

Her phone blared Kingdom by Dave Gahan (which Ava felt was a perfect song for her and Happy's relationship) and she smiled, "Hi"
"Heard you're with the retard shopping."

Ever since Juice ate a couple of Tig's extra powerful sleeping pills and woke up dressed like a baby with a sign reading 'slightly retarded child, please help me'. He has affectionately been refereed to as 'the retard', it wasn't meant offensively but as a fucked-up term of affection.

"Yes it's giving me a perspective into having a special needs child." Ava said.

As she spoke, Juice was literally running up and down the isle bringing things to Ava's cart, asking if he could have them.

"No." Ava said as Juice brought forth his latest item.

"What?" Happy asked.

"Juice wanted Lucky Charms, way too much sugar."

Happy laughed, "Everything going okay?"

"Yeah, Gemma's getting the stuff I can't get and I'm getting dinner and enough food for all of us for at least a week."

"You don't have to cook for them." Happy said, half snarling.

"They are our family and our guests, of course I do."

Happy grunted in agreement.

"How did the retard get to go with you?" Happy asked.

"He and Koz volunteered and I figured that Juice was better then Koz." Ava said.

"I agree." Happy said as he watched Koz on the lot, talking and cracking jokes.

"Are you going to talk to Koz?" Ava asked, biting her bottom lip.

"Yeah, I'm sick of him hitting on you every time you turn around." Happy said, his voice approaching growling levels.

Ava smiled, "Well I'll see you at dinner."

"Okay babe."

"Wait, what are we going to do about the gate code? I don't want to give it out to everyone."

Happy sighed, "Is there a way to make temporary codes?"
"Yeah."
"Leave the gate open for now, since people are going to be arriving and tonight when we're all at home we'll make temporary codes for our 'guests'." Happy said the last word with disdain.

As much as he loved his brothers, he hated sharing he and Ava's private space with them.

"Oh, I never got to tell Chibs, could you tell him he gets to move in with us?" Ava asked.

"Yeah, he's here."

"Bye."

"Bye." Happy said as he hung up. First he was going to tell Chibs and then he was going to set Koz straight before he had to kill his brother and his best friend.