Chapter 22- Crash Into Me

M/N: I want to thank all my friends who encouraged me to continue the story. It means lot to me. Your words of encouragement meant so much to me. Here is a little update. I have a lot in store for this story but I am having a hard time keeping up with everything as I have only 64 days left to graduate. So please be patient. I have introduced Venus in this story. I will let you know I am an ally to the LBGTQ community and that may upset some people. If that is the case, I will not fault or be upset if you unfollow the story. I will understand completely as everyone is entitled to their beliefs and opinions. ….hugs to you and smiles.

Always,

Michele

"May I help you?" the woman asked in a thick Spanish accent.

"Yes. I'm Sherry we spoke on the phone."

Recognition flooded Mrs. Torres face.

"Yes Sherry please come in." Mrs. Torres stepped aside to let Sherry in the house.

"Can I get anything for you to drink?" Mrs. Torres asked as she motioned for Sherry to sit down.

"No I am fine. Thank you."

Mrs. Torres sat across from Sherry and studied her to see what features of Justin looked like her.

"You know we told Justin when he was about sixteen that he was adopted. When he was about twenty, he tried to search for you. May I ask why after forty plus years you decide to contact him now?"

"Something personal has happened that brought up memories of him and I need closure. Does he know he is half black?"

Mrs. Torres shook her head no.

"To be honest I did not know you were black. The doctor that set up the adoption did not divulge that information. I can see some of his features look like yours. He has your nose and lips."

Sherry smiled. She could not wait to see how her son looked.

"May I ask why you gave him up?"

Sherry let out a long sigh before answering.

"I thought the man I was with would have married me but he did not and I could not raise a child on my own."

"Did you have more children?"

"Yes I found a good man to marry and I have two girls and two boys. Actually, my daughter is a nurse at St. Thomas and works with Justin often."

Mrs. Torres raised and eyebrow. "Really? What's her name?"

"Breanna Fletcher."

Mrs. Torres smiled. "Yes I know Brea! She is friends with my daughter in law and has been to many of our get togethers. Wow it is a small world. Is she aware that Justin is her brother?"

"Yes I finally told her not to long ago."

The doorbell rung and Mrs. Torres stood up.

"That must be him?"

"Who?"

"Justin."

Sherry's heart skipped a beat.

"Oh I was expecting to meet him today." She said panicky.

"I told him you were stopping by. You have waited forty years to meet him. Why delay any longer?" she said walking to the front door. Sherry was nervous she was about to see her first born for the first time since she had to give him up minutes after giving birth. Sherry heard her son and Mrs. Torres conversation in Spanish as they walked into the living room. Sherry stood up as they entered the living room. Her eyes moisten when she laid eyes on her son. He was handsome and favored her other sons a little except for the complexion. He had Lenny's eyes and cheekbones. His eyes were still a beautiful shade of green. She could see how he could pass for Latino, as he was a light caramel color with a short buzz cut.

Justin eyed the petite black woman standing in front of the couch shaking nervously. His biological mom is black? He was half-black?

"Mrs. Fletcher?"

Sherry nodded as she extended her hand to shake Justin's. Justin grabbed her hand and pulled her into a hug. Sherry broke down and started sobbing.

"I'm sorry….I'm so sorry." She sobbed into his chest. Mrs. Torres started to tear up as she witness the exchange between her son and his biological mom. Justin pulled away from Sherry and took her hand to sit next to him on the couch.

"Mrs. Fletcher?"

"Please call me Sherry." She interjected.

"Sherry I do not want to think that I am mad at you or have any resentment towards you. You gave me life and I was raised by a wonderful family. I know you had your reasons for giving me up and I can see it was a hard decision for you to make." Justin told Sherry while squeezing her hand.

"Yes it was very hard. I could not raise you on my own and I knew you would have a better chance with a family with both parents." She said as she took a Kleenex Mrs. Torres handed her.

"I'm assuming my bio dad is white?"

Sherry nodded in confirmation and stiffen a little at the thought of Lenny. Seeing Sherry's change in demeanor Justin decided he did not want to inquire about his bio father anymore at that time. Mrs. Torres pulled out tons of picture of albums of Justin growing up and Sherry smiled and cried as she looked at the pictures of her first-born. Sherry learned that Justin received a scholarship for football at a prominent college and unlike most of his teammates went on to continue his education and received his medical degree. As Sherry gazed at each picture in awe, Justin had the opportunity to really at his bio mom. She was a beautiful woman and vaguely looked familiar. Remembering her last name Justin asked if she was related to a Breanna Fletcher. Sherry looked at her son and smiled.

"She is my daughter. She is a nurse at St. Thomas. You work with her."

"Breanna is my half sister?!" Justin said stunned.

"Yes she is."

Justin sat back into the couch to let everything process. Now he realized why he always felt a connection to her. He always looked out for her and her and his wife was close. Wow wait until Idalia finds out Brea is actually her sister in law.

"Does Breanna know about me?" Justin asked.

"Yes she found out a few weeks back." Sherry answered.

Justin did not understand why she never said anything to him or Idalia. They even had phone conversations about Idalia's party and she never said anything. Reading Justin's expression about her baby girl she told him she wanted to tell him not Brea as it was not her place. Plus she has been super busy since moving in with her new boyfriend. Justin frown as he thought of Jax.

"We are going to have to do something about that." Justin told Sherry. Sherry smiled as best as she could to Justin, as she knew once you are with a Son a woman was hooked and she was living proof of that.

"Hello" Brea answered her cell as she sat two beers on the table for Jessica and Happy. Happy had just brought Jessica home from the hospital and the first thing Jessica wanted was an ice-cold beer.

"Brea I need you to come get me."

"Where are you at Gemma?"

"Is Jax with you?" she whispered into the phone.

"No." Brea frowned…what was going on now.

"I need you to pick me up at the station. Do you have five hundred for bail? I will pay you right back today.

Brea's mouth fell open. What the fuck!

"Gemma what…"

"I'll explain everything when you get me. Can you come now?" Gemma asked cutting Brea off.

"Yeah sure. I'm on my way." She said before hanging up the phone.

"Can you guys watch the kids? I have an errand to run."

"No problem." Happy said looking over at Jessica.

"We'll be fine. Go ahead." She agreed with Happy.

"Ok. I should not be too long. If I am just throw in a couple of Kid Cuisines in the microwave for Abel and Mya." She said grabbing her keys.

After paying Gemma's bail, it took only a few minutes before Gemma showed up in the waiting room. She looked tired. Brea did not ask what had happen until they got into her car.

"I got a speeding ticket." She said.

"And you didn't take the ticket."

"I wasn't speeding!"

Brea sighed and shook her head.

"Gemma do you have to always butt heads with authority? You could have paid off the ticket and not have a charge."

"I won't have a charge. Wayne will take care of it. Thanks Brea for bailing me out. You can take me to Diosa's so I can get your money back."

"Ok." Brea started to ask for the address for her GPS but Gemma told her to just follow her directions. Since Brea knew that Jax and the club were partners with Nero she was not too surprise to see Jax's bike parked in front of Diosa's. She tried to swallow the little bit of jealousy that was creeping up. Upon entering she looked for Jax and found, his back turned to her and the blonde-haired woman she saw weeks ago at the garage hugging him. The blonde looked up at Gemma and Brea and recognizing Brea from the garage she leaned over and began to French kiss Jax. Brea stopped short not believing her eyes. Was he kissing her back?

"That bitch!" Gemma hissed and looked over at Brea. She tried to grab Brea's hand but Brea recoiled as tears began to well up in her eyes.

"She's nobody sweetheart." Gemma told her to try to reassure Brea. Brea's hand went up to her neck as a lump had formed in her throat. She knew this was going to happen. He was going to break her heart and she was a fool to fall in love with him.

"I have to go." Brea said barely above a whisper and before Gemma could protest, Brea turned around and ran out the door. She made it to her car when she saw Jax run out after her.

"Don't! Don't!" she yelled at him as he ran up to her. She was shaking so much it took her a moment to get her keys in the lock to unlock her door.

"It was nothing Brea! She is just someone who Nero and I are partnered with. She means nothing to me."

"It didn't look like nothing Jax !" Brea almost shouted as she finally opened the door to her car and got in. Jax stopped her from shutting the door.

"Brea I will explain when I get home I promise. I would never do anything to hurt you. You know how I feel about you and how much I care for you and Mya."

No I love you….figures Brea thought.

"Fine Jax. I need to go." She said slamming the door shut almost catching his fingers in the door. Without another word to him, Brea started the car and drove off without looking back at Jax.

When Jax entered back into Diosa's Collette walked up to him and put her hand on his chest.

"Everything alright babe?"

Jax removed her hand.

"Don't call me that." He snapped. Gemma told him Colette saw Brea walk in just before she kissed him. He kissed her back for a split second before he pulled away as he thought of Brea. The day she saw Brea at the garage Nero told Jax Collette had asked who she was to Jax as she had caught the way Jax was looking at her. So she knew who she was to Jax when she saw Brea walk in and she decided to make Brea jealous and kiss Jax.

"Who was that woman you ran after?" Colette asked playing dumb.

"She's my woman." Maybe she needed to hear it from him for it to sink in. Colette eyebrows raised as she did little to hide her shock. She knew Nero told her that the black woman was Jax's old lady but she seriously thought that Nero was just pulling her leg. Jax was really with a black woman. From what she saw from afar of her she was pretty but could really lose some weight. Jax was really attracted to her. She could not believe it.

"This," Jax said pointing to her and then himself. "Can never happen again."

Disappointment spread across her face.

"Are you sure Jax? You know how good I suck cock and make you feel in bed." She stepped closer to him only to have him step back.

"I have Brea now and I will not do anything to jeopardize my relationship with her…..no matter how good you suck my dick."

"You are missing out and I know you will be back." She told him with a seductive smile on her face.

"You did what!?" Nero bellowed out at Gemma. All eyes in the room turned to Nero and Gemma standing by the bar.

"Will you calm down." Gemma hissed.

"Calm down? You were arrested."

Leaving Colette Jax walked over to Nero and his mom.

"Mom what did you do?"

"Nothing Wayne can't handle." Gemma said crossing her arms in defense.

"You do know Wayne is not a part of the department anymore." Jax said sarcastically.

"Well maybe the colored cop can help." She said. Nero and Jax both put up their arms in disgust saying Jesus Christ in unison.

"I need money to give back to Brea." Gemma said lighting a cigarette.

"I can't even deal with you right now." Jax told her.

"Yeau you better go handle Brea. She was pissed after seeing your older woman fetish kiss you." Gemma told Jax in his face. Jax held back the urge to slap the shit out of his mom and walked out the door.

"Where are the babies?" Brea asked walking outside to Happy and Jessica enjoying a bottle of Tequila in the backyard.

Jess lifted up a baby monitor and told Brea they were fast asleep.

"Thank God! Do you guys minding watching for a few more hours. I need to get away for a couple of hours." Happy stood up and grabbed Brea's face by the chin as he can see her eyes were red and she was crying and still fighting back tears.

"What did he do?" he asked.

"Nothing." Brea said pulling away.

"Don't lie Brea.

"Please just watch the kids for a couple of more hours. I will be back soon. I need retail therapy."

Happy nodded and sat back down not wanting to push her anymore but he knew it had something to do with Jax.

"Thank You!" Brea leaned over and kissed Happy's and Jessica's forehead before she took off to the bedroom. Once in the closet she pulled down the black duffle bag from deep in the closet. Jax showed her a long time ago where he kept his cash. She unzipped the bag and stood in awe of the twenty's, fifty's and hundred's that stared back at her. At last count it was more than seventy-five grand in the bag. Brea took out a stack of fifty's totally five grand. She was going shopping and Jax could kiss her ass.

"Oh honey that will not look good with you complexion." A voice said behind Brea. Brea turned around and successfully hid her shock at the transsexual standing before her. Now Brea was use to having transsexual patients and her good friend recently got the surgery and moved to New York for her own one-woman show but Brea just did not expect this huge tit woman in front of her.

"Lime Green…..sweetheart no." Venus said holding up the lingerie with disgust.

"You have a beautiful brown complexion and I think red or pink would look good on you." Venus put the hideous lime green outfit back on the rack. Brea just stood in awe of Venus. Venus extended her hand.

"I'm Venus…you?"

"Breanna." Brea said breaking out of her trance.

"So are we trying to impress a man?" Venus asked looking through the racks for something more suitable for Brea's complexion. Brea did not know why but she let everything spill about what happen earlier to her. She felt maybe if she looked sexy enough she could keep Jax.

"Honey I know Nero. He helped me off the street."

Brea's mouth open with shock this time. She knew Nero?

"Trust me Colette is a whore! Does your man go there often?
Brea told her about Jax and his partnership with Nero.

"Oh My God girl! You are Jax Teller's old lady!" Venus looked at Brea up and down and felling self-conscious Brea started to cover her stomach.

"My God sweetheart you are stunning…but take this in the best way….you could lose a little weight….why don't you come with me to train?"

"Really?"

Venus looked at Brea again.

"Yes baby I am serious. Now let's find a sexy outfit to keep bitches like Collette away."

After finding a few outfits, they started to walk to the women's dressing room when a sales associate stopped them.

"I'm sorry but only women can use these dressing rooms."

"I'm sorry…what? We are both women!" Brea said getting upset still feeling the raw sting from Jax earlier.

"No….this is a man in women's clothing." The woman associate said, as she looked Venus up and down.

"She is just as woman as I am! Do I need to call my LBGTQ friends down here to educate you?" Brea almost shouted.

"Your what?" the sales associate asked clueless.

"You are about to find out." Brea said as she started to dial her friends. Venus touched her shoulder with concern on her face.

"Breanna…don't worry about it sweetheart." She said trying to pacify the situation.

"Oh hell no Venus! We are not letting this go. I can see you are a wonderful person and you do not deserve any form of discrimination or prejudice against you. I can't stand ignorant people." Brea fumed as she started to dial her friends and a few activists she knew.

Brea and Venus waited outside as people and allies from the LBGTQ community started pulling up to the store. They pulled out poster boards and markers from their vehicles and wrote about LBGTQ rights such as 'trans-rights' and different slogans with the store name on the poster boards. After about thirty minutes of standing in front of the store, holding up their signs the manager came out and asked them to leave or he will call the police.

"Call the police. We are standing here peacefully. You have no right to deny a woman the right to use the women's dressing room." Elizabeth a LBGTQ activist told the manager.

"It is a man in women's clothing!" the manager said exasperated.

"No. Venus identifies as a woman so therefore she is a woman. You have no right to deny her or dehumanize her."

The news crew pulled up as one of the activist called them to report on the protest. They interviewed Venus, Brea and others. The manager and sale associate who denied Venus access declined to be interviewed. Soon a few police cruisers pulled up.

"Guys we are going to have to ask you to move along you are disrupting business." Eli said through a bullhorn.

"We are protesting peacefully! We as the Lesbian, Bi-sexual ,Gay, Transgendered and Queer community have every right to be here!" Elizabeth shouted back. "We demand to speak to the owner!"

The owner of the store must have been on his way because as soon as Elizabeth ask to see the owner he and his wife pulled up in their Lexus. They searched out Venus and asked if she could come with them so they could apologize in front of the news crew.

"We here at Leather and Lace want to formally apologize to Ms. Venus. It is not our store policy to discriminate against anyone no matter his or her race, color, gender, age, religion, disability or sexual orientation. You can rest assure the employees who discriminated against you will be dealt with." The owner told the news crew.

Brea heard the sound of Harley's and looked over to find Jax and Tig pulling up.

"We invite Venus and her friend here," he said pointing to Brea. "to come in and shop on us and everyone else will get 50% off their purchases today. We again want to extend our sincere apology."

"Thank you." Venus said into the mike the reporter was holding in her face. As everyone disbursed and went into the store Venus and Brea noticed Jax and Tig sitting on their bikes looking at them.

"Uh oh….you think we are in trouble?" Venus asked as she crossed her arm under Brea's and they walked toward their men.