Chapter 4

As soon as Jason was gone, Courtney turned around to face Jax. "Listen, I'm really not up for a fight right now."
"No fight, I understand. I might not like it but I understand." Jax told her with a smile.
She looked at him quizzically. "What did you just say?"
"I understand, now go get dressed because I'm taking you out for breakfast."
"Uh…o-okay." Courtney's brow was furrowed in confusion but she headed to her room anyway.

Jax sat down on the couch while he was waiting. His feet bumped against something. Curious, he leaned down to see what it was. He slid out the box and slowly picked up one of the empty bottles. He glanced after Courtney and shook his head. He had so many questions. What exactly was going on? What had happened? Were these from last night? If so was she drinking with Jason? Did anything happen between the two of them?
Jax tried to shake the thoughts out of his head. He had to trust Courtney. Besides, if anything had happened, she would have told him.
He stood up and smiled when Courtney came into the room. "Ready?"

"Just a minute," She proceeded to head into the bathroom. She took two of the same Advil capsules and smiled at her reflection. Everything was fine. Jax was surprisingly calm and just because Jason had spent the night; they had just played poker as friends. That's all they were anymore, friends.
She exited the bathroom and smiled brightly. "Ready."

Carly looked up from her magazine in surprise. Courtney and Jax had rushed to the hospital as soon as they heard about what happened.
"Are you okay?" Courtney demanded. She was slightly out of breath from running around and looking for Carly.
"I'm fine," Carly laughed, putting her magazine down. "Actually, Steven's working on getting me released within the hour."
"So soon? Are you sure, didn't you just have surgery?" Jax asked.
"I'm sure as hell not staying here on Christmas. I'm going home and that's final." Carly said, determined.
"Well I'm sure that Steven and Bobbie will make sure of that but do you mind checking on the progress?" Courtney asked Jax.
"Of course," Jax leaned down and kissed her on the cheek before leaving the room.
"Okay can you help me get dressed?" Carly asked, trying to get up.
"Jason stayed at my house last night." Courtney blurted out.
"What?!" Carly screeched, her eyes wide.
"Shush! Jax will hear you."
"Jason stayed at your house? Are you two back together?" Carly asked excitedly.
"No of course not, he got snowed in from the blizzard so he stayed over."
"So nothing happened?" Carly frowned in disappointment.
"No…I mean I don't know."
"You don't know?"

Courtney sat on the edge of the bed. "To make a long story short, we both got really drunk and I don't really remember a lot of what happened."
A smile slowly spread across Carly's face.
"What?" Courtney asked.
"This is just the break in the ice berg that you guys needed. What do you remember?"
"I was wearing his shirt when he came back and Carly, I think he was checking me out." Courtney admitted with a slight blush.
"Of course he was, you know he can't resist you."
"Oh shut up!"
"It's true. You know what's going to happen now don't you?"
"And what is that?" Courtney asked even though she was sure she didn't want to hear Carly's answer.
"You're going to see him today because lets face it, it's Christmas and he can't stay away from you. You two are going to talk in private and he's going to confess to you how much he still loves you and you two are going to get back together. It's going to be the perfect Christmas miracle."
"You read too many romance novels." Courtney said with a laugh but secretly she was smiling at the thought.