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Chapter 10 - Perfect Guy

"I'm never taking you two shopping again." Sutton grumbled as she walked through the large mall, "You guys do know that I'm only here for two weeks right?" Sutton added, speaking to her grandma and mother.

"Well, it's a damn good thing you won't freeze then while you're here." Ellie commented.

"Yeah, besides, you can keep these clothes at the house for whenever you decide to come visit during the holidays." Annie added.

Sutton had to admit that it was nice spending time with her mother and grandmother, even though they were buying everything under the sun, including stuff for her to take back to California with her.

"Mom, I'm gonna go to the store over there. I have to pick up a few things." Sutton stated, knowing that she had yet to buy Christmas presents for her grandparents and parents, and knew that once she had gotten home, there was a small chance she'd be able to sneak away to do it.

"Alright hunny."

Sutton made her way to the store across the court yard in the mall, racking her brain on what to get her father as she examined the electronics. She knew that he loved his flat screen TVs along with different surround systems, especially when it snowed, because he hated the cold weather. She had decided on getting him a new sound bar for his movie nights, since he hated going to movie theaters. Once she had bought the sound bar, she headed to the next store that sold men clothing, and decided on getting him a few flannel shirts, and a new watch, along with a pair of hilarious socks since it had been a tradition. Then picked out a watch for her grandfather, along with two new caridgans sweaters, and a few movies that he had mentioned he wanted, but couldn't seem to find.

While she was shopping for her mother and grandmother, Sutton stumbled across a leather store, and decided to step in, to examine the items, and noticed a few leather wallets with different designs burnt into them, and instantly spotted one with a reaper on it, and found herself buying it, along with a new silver chain that could fit the wallet.

"I'm a fucking idiot..." Sutton muttered to herself, walking to a jewlery store, instantly knowing what to get her grandmother and mother.

Sutton had gotten her mother a charm necklace of a family tree with little different colored gems on the branches, almost looking life leaves, and then picked out a ring for her grandmother, that was antique styled diamond ring with her birthstone in tiny gems around the small diamond. Once she had paid for the ring and necklace, Sutton stuffed the small bag into the bigger bag from the electronic store so they wouldn't noticed, and headed to a woman's department store to pick out a couple more items for them. Sutton had finished her shopping with a couple of different blouses and shirts for them, along with perfume for the both of them.

"About time." Ellie sighed seeing Sutton, "Thought we were going to have to send a search party for you." Ellie added.

"Sorry, just had to finish up some shopping." Sutton explained, noticing her mother wasn't around, "Where's mom?" Sutton questioned.

"Oh, she was paying for the Christmas eve pajamas." Ellie explained, "Oh, did she tell you your cousins are coming with their uncle?" Ellie added.

Sutton rolled her eyes, "This mean I have to buy them presents?" Sutton questioned.

"No, we're putting your name on some of the things we got." Ellie explained, "But what you can do, is help me buy stocking stuffers. I always suck at filling those damn things." Ellie added.

Sutton laughed, and hooked an arm around her grandma's, "Let's go check out the gift cards, can't ever go wrong with them." Sutton stated walking a few feet to the stand that displayed gift cards and started picking out different ones for her 2 teenage cousins, which consisted of Itunes, and Amazon for each of them.

"We'll have to stop at the toy store though." Annie commented, "Jetson and Trina are too young for gift cards, they'll want little toys." Annie added.

"Alright, well let's get going. I'm tired of being in this place." Sutton stated, paying for the four gift cards, and then getting a couple of Itunes for herself as her grandma paid for something on the otherside.

-SOA-

Later that evening, once the car was unloaded, Sutton had disappeared upstairs to wrap the Christmas presents she had bought for everyone, and then stuck the wallet and chain she had bought for Happy into her backpack, then carried all of the presents downstairs, not bothering with going through the three sacks of different clothing her mother and grandmother had bought for her earlier that afternoon.

"I'm going to go ahead and put these under the tree." Sutton stated to her father who was hanging stockings on the fireplace, while her grandmother was getting the few ginger bread houses to build out on the kitchen table, while her mother put groceries away, with her grandpa napping on the couch.

Once the present were under the tree, Sutton had pulled out her cell phone from her sweater pocket to see that Happy had text her a couple of times, so she decided to reply quickly.

Arrived safely, spending time with family.

"Hunny, why don't you get something to eat?" Annie questioned from the kitchen, "You haven't eaten since you got here."

Sutton gave her a nod, and headed into the kitchen and sat on the bar stool in front of a basket of different fruits on the large kitchen island table.

As the young woman began cutting up a few different fruits, she noticed her mothers eyes on her, causing her to raise a silent eyebrow, "What?" Sutton questioned.

"You know, I don't like prying into your personal life, but are you seeing anyone?" Annie questioned, "It's been a while since you've dated..."

Sutton let out a small sigh, "I did meet someone."

"Oh that's wonderful sweetie! What's he like? What's his name?" Annie rounded off questions causing Sutton to let out a little laugh.

Sutton took a moment, popped a piece of fruit into her mouth before answering, "Well, his name is Happy." Sutton chuckled at the look on her mother's face, "Yes, that's his real name." Sutton added, causing her mother to raise her hands.

"I didn't say anything." Annie smiled, "So, tell me about him."

Sutton smiled to her mother, and pulled out her phone and scrolled through the pictures to find one of her and Happy together to show Annie, "Talk about a bad boy..." Annie commented, "He's handsome, in a rough way."

Sutton laughed loudly but giving a nod in agreement, "He's really sweet." Sutton smiled at the memories of the man, "He has his moments where he can be an asshole, but he's a sweetheart. It's funny because around his friends he's super quiet, but with me, I have to beg him to shut up." Sutton laughed, her heart breaking slighly at the fact he had lied about what he had done with the club, but decided to leave those details out of the conversation.

Sutton watched as her mother scrolled through her pictures that she had with Happy in her phone, "You look so happy Sutton. I haven't seen you smile like that since you were little." Annie commented, "You look so carefree and in love." Annie added.

"He has that effect." Sutton smiled softly, then focused on her fruit and heard her phone starting to ring and saw the wicked grin come across her mother's face.

"Speak of the devil..." Annie grinned from ear to ear, showing Sutton that Happy was calling.

"Ma, don't..." Sutton tried to grab the phone from her, "Mom, give me the phone." Sutton nearly growled, and was able to get the Iphone away from her mother in order to decline the call, and decided now was the time to turn her phone off, and shoved it into her pocket.

Annie furrowed her eyebrows at her daughter, "We are kind of in a fight right now. Nothing major." Sutton explained, "I just want to focus on spending time with you guys." Sutton added.

Sutton was thankful that her mother had decided to drop the questions and went back to starting different dishes for Christmas Eve dinner.

"Hey kiddo, how do you feel about doing some snowboarding?" Rocky questioned, walking into the kitchen, "You haven't been to the ski lodge since Ellie and Bob opened it up." Rocky added.

Sutton thought it over and gave her father a nod, then turned to look at her mother, "Is that alright? I mean, you don't need help tonight do you?" Sutton questioned.

"No, it's fine. Your dad has been dying to get you out there since he knew you were coming." Annie chuckled.

"Alright, let me go get changed." Sutton stated, then took off out of the kitchen and upstairs.

-SOA-

Sutton was extremely proud of her grandparents for living out their dream of owning a ski resort once they had hit retirement. They had always talked about it when she was a child, and couldn't help but to be mesmerized at the large lodge that she was standing in.

"This is amazing..." Sutton stated out loud, mostly to herself.

"If you go upstairs, there's rooms that can be rented out, and then several in the back and through out the acres." Rocky explained.

"I had no idea it was this big." Sutton stood at the desk looking over a brochure, "It stay pretty busy?" Sutton questioned to her father.

"Yeah. Right now, they're all booked up. Usually happens most during November to February." Rocky explained, "Come on, I'll show you around." Rocky added, causing Sutton to father her follow her father through out the resort.

By the time Sutton had been shown the entire place, she was beyond freezing since they were on top of a small mountain and the weather had dropped dramatically, along with snow falling.

"There's no way I can snowboard tonight. I'm too use to the California weather." Sutton shuddered as she walked into the resort with her father following.

"Kind of figured that you would say that." Rocky laughed, "Been in California too long." Rocky put an arm around her shoulders, "It's good to have you home. Still think you should move here." Rocky added, giving her a playful hip bump.

"I don't know about it pops." Sutton laughed, "I don't do cold weather anymore." Sutton smiled up to her father as they headed out of the resort and back towards his jeep.

-SOA-

Once Happy had arrived in Tacoma with Tig, he had made sure to avoid getting anywhere near crow-eaters, and if they had tried to push up on him, he had let it been know that he wasn't the least bit interested. The last thing he needed was to get in more shit with Sutton than he already was, especially since he wanted to work things out with the brunette beauty.

He knew that with her not planning on speaking to him while she was in Colorado was putting him on edge, and it wasn't something he was use to. He never had felt this way about being ignored. Hell, he was never ignored by a woman in his entire life.

Letting out a frustrated sigh, Happy finished off his beer, then turned to Tig, "I'm going to go crash." Happy stated, pushing himself off the couch and headed straight for the dorm room that he was going to be staying in while he was in Tacoma.

Once he had stripped out of his clothes and threw on a pair of sweatpants, he had made sure the door was locked, then plugged in his personal cell phone, making sure that if Sutton had did call, it wouldn't be dead.

"What the hell is she doing to me..." Happy shook his head as he found himself in the bed, staring at the ceiling in the dark.

A/N: Thoughts?

Originally, I had a few chapters already typed out and ready to go, but I decided to start them over from scratch, because I wanted to play out Sutton "thinking" over what Happy had told her, so the chapter is a little short compared to the usual, but it'll be back to longer chapters after I sort out the chapters I have typed out.