HEADS UP: Tara-Jax shippers…..just breathe….breathe okay? We all know what the [END] game is lol =)
BTW: This is short & sweet (okay maybe just short). Point is..right, exactly. it's straight to the point. This is the precursor to some good old fashioned Teller-rage...the shit that makes roid-rage look like an upset toddler lol
Jax stood there frozen.
He ignored the ice-cold feel of the lockers against his bare skin as he leaned back against them. Absently, he twisted the |SAMCRO| T-shirt in his hand, wringing it tight like one would a wet towel.
Sarah loved to stir up trouble.
She always knew just what to say to get under someone's skin. And she'd worked her magic on him tenfold. She knew exactly what weapon to use against him. But even though the stab had landed, Jax refused to let her twist the knife lodged in his chest.
Sarah Hale was lying on her ex-best friend purely to get a rise out of him—one that was different from the kind she usually worked for.
But Jax wasn't going to give her the satisfaction—he wouldn't be giving her any satisfaction ever again.
Sarah was lying about Tara and David just like she lied about everything else. Everyone around that girl was just another piece on the board for her to play with and Jackson Teller was out of the game for good.
It didn't matter that David Hale being Tara's secret boyfriend made perfect sense. Jax was unwilling to accept that Tara had a good reason to hide the fact that she was with that self-righteous jackass. Jax pushed the memory of her getting upset over him talking about seeing David and Maize in the parking lot from his mind. The hesitation in her eyes when he leaned in to kiss her in the cafeteria during their second day of detention was for that Geek with the bike not the guy he hated since junior high school. The just friends speech Tara had given him was because she was scared of how strong her feelings were for him not because she wanted to be with David instead.
And Opie Winston was his best friend, his brother, his right hand.
Jax sure as hell wasn't prepared to even entertain the notion that Ope' knew about David the entire time and didn't say a goddamn word.
Sarah Hale was full of shit.
And when he heard the light click-clack of heels against the locker room floor he hoped that it was her, returning for round two. He was more than ready to call her out on the bullshit lie she'd just told him.
It was Sarah.
Again.
But her tears were gone, dried against the apples of her cheeks just as quickly as they'd fallen. She had a look of triumph swirling in her grey eyes, her mouth quirked up to one side like she was in on a joke he'd missed the punchline for.
"You think I'm full of shit, don't you?" Sarah challenged. Crooking her finger at him, she nodded her head towards the entryway for the high school gym. "I already did the tell part….Come on, Prince. You're missing the show."
Slowly, as if his feet were made of lead Jax followed behind her. Sarah stopped short, folding her arms across her chest as she smirked at something all the way on the other side of the gym. Jax followed her line of vision.
And what Jax saw caused a brief stutter in his heart, followed by a frenzied thumping against his ribcage that had his eardrums ringing. There was a tightness in his chest threatening to spread further up North, until the sting of betrayal spread across the handsome features of his face. He was twisting and untwisting the shirt still in hands, every wring a little closer to cutting off the circulation in his fingers.
Sarah turned around, her back facing them.
It was obvious she didn't step foot in the gym to bear witness to public displays of affection on the other side of the room. She was there for front row seats to an entirely different show.
When David's eyes darted over towards the corner where they stood, hazel eyes connected with blue. Sarah didn't get to see the sharpness in her brother's eyes, the triumphant smile he wore as he pulled Tara into him, wrapping his arms around her waist. Sarah didn't get to relish the way Tara reached up to wrap her arms around his neck, embracing David's hug as he rested his chin on her shoulder. David pulled back just enough, his eyes never leaving Jax's as he picked the spot between her left cheek and ear, pressing his lips against the skin there. That would have been the cherry on top for Sarah…if she'd been looking in their direction.
She wasn't.
Instead she was studying Jax. Her eyes scanned his face, eagerly waiting.
"I'll give her one thing," Sarah said, standing in front of Jax. "Tara changes my mind almost as often as she changes her own. Once again I stand corrected. I thought Tara and Opie were cute together…but her and Davey? Way cuter."
Jax could practically see drool pooling at the corners of her mouth. Watching her through the corner of his eye, he knew exactly what Sarah expected—what she wanted.
A reaction.
She was waiting for him to react—fly off the handle.
She wanted to drink in how much seeing the two of them together hurt him. She wanted proof that Jackson Teller had actual feelings that were capable of being hurt…the same way he'd crushed hers.
No more fuckin satisfaction, Jackson thought. For either one of you.
Shaking his head at the curly-haired blonde in front of him once, he offered her the signature Teller smile, the grin that complimented the devil-may care demeanor he normally assumed without effort. The smile on his face took a lot of effort. And every ounce of swagger in his step was forced as he wordlessly turned on his heel, moving past the locker room, heading straight for the side exit he'd come through when he'd chased after the brunette wrapped up in his enemies arms on the other side of the gym.
But his feet moved with ease when he'd finally turned his back on them—all three of them.
Especially Tara.
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