CHAPTER 2

Goodness Gracious Great Balls Of Fire

A couple hours later I sat in front of the bar beginning to roll a joint. It was just me at this point and I was fine with that. I had changed the music to rap and was nodding my along to the music breaking up the weed. I had dimmed down the lights and started sorting out seeds and stems. "I love it when you call me big Poppa." I muttered rolling the joint up. I sipped my beer and grabbed the lighter off the counter. I lit the joint and took a long hit from it. "'Cause I see some ladies tonight that should be havin' my baby, baby." I took another hit enjoying the song. I let the smoke ghost out of my mouth thinking about Happy. "Most of these think they be mackin' but they be actin Who they attractin' with that line, "What's your name what's your sign?" I heard a door shut somewhere in the quiet building. I took a long hit from the joint and started coughing my head off.

I dipped behind the bar grabbing a tequila bottle. I was still coughing and wiping tears off my face when I ran into a brick house of a body. "Ooof." I held the tequila and joint tighter. Strong rough hands steadied me and I squinted up at Happy. "What are you doing mama?" I shrugged out of his grasp and wiped more tears off my cheek. "Nothing, going to bed." I rasped. My throat raw from coughing. Happy picked me up carrying me to my dorm. I wrapped my arms around his neck and laid my head on his shoulder. He sat me down on my bed and went to my bathroom. I kicked my shoes and socks off. and rolled off the bed trying to get my shorts and shirt off. I finally got my clothes off and laid back in bed.

NEXT DAY*

Lillie woke up, her head pounding. "Fuck." Her voice came out strained and sore. She groaned there was too much fucking noise for her to handle right now. Lillie rolled over seeing the other side of the bed empty. "Fucking figures." She spat grabbing a bottle from the night stand and threw it as hard as she could. It smashed against the wall with a satisfying crash, sending glass everywhere.

Lillie slid out of bed grabbing a half joint from the ashtray on the night stand and stomped her way out of the room."Fucking assholes, all the fucking same." She muttered and slammed the door shut behind her. When Lillie got to the roof she wedged herself into a small spot bringing her knees up to her chest. Lillie lit the rest of the joint leaning her head back against the wall. The birds cry annoyed the fucking shit out of her. She took another long hit and thought about happy and the end of her night. She didn't have any answers, couldn't remember much but she did remember him coming back to the room with her. Lillie finished the joint and laid her head on her arms, which were resting on her knees.

HAPPY*

Happy got out of the shower just in time to hear glass shattering. He opened the door looking for Lillie; the mess of curls was on her way out of the room muttering about assholes being all the same. She slammed the door shut so hard behind her that it knocked a couple pictures off the wall. Happy quickly toweled himself off and got dressed minus a shirt because Lillie was wearing his.

He made his way to the bar only after stopping in his room to put on clean underwear and a clean shirt. Happy emerged in the bar room fully dressed and on the hunt for Lillie. He entered the kitchen grabbing a cup of coffee. "Who pissed in her cheerios?" Jax asked Opie as they came into the kitchen. Happy leaned against the counter slowly drinking his coffee. Both had woken up to The slamming of Lillie's door. "How is she even up?" Groaned Opie he shook his head looking at the clock it was trying to shake out the hangover.

"It was 4 when we left her and she was till raring to go." Jax gulped his coffee down and rubbed his eyes. Not answering his brother. "She was still up at six, Put her to bed." Happy said. ad brought Lillie back to the dorm room. She had crawled into the bed stripping down to her bra and underwear. He had gone to the bathroom and when he came back out she was passed out. The hurried tapping of heels announced that Gemma was in the building. "Where is your god damn sister?" She asked after greeting the men and kissing her son. All of them shrugged. They didn't know. No one had actually seen Lillie this morning besides Happy and all he saw was her leaving.

"She won't answer her phone and we need to go shopping before the party tonight. SAMTAZ will be coming in. So claim your beds now." Gemma added she dialed Lillie's number and waited. "That fucking kid." She turned and marched to the back hallway where the dorms were. Happy got another cup of coffee and made his way outside for a cigarette. Jax and Opie followed him out. Jax was on his phone walking around the building with Opie close on his heels. A phone landed in front of them. The men backed up to look up at the roof as Lillie threw her self over and emptied what was in her stomach. It barely missed Opie and Jax. They recovered from their shock and backed up more as she threw up. When she was done Lillie left disappearing back into the club house. Happy pushed off the wall and went to talk to Lillie. When he got to her room he heard the shower running. And thought it would be better to check in on her after her shower.

LILLIE*

I got out of the shower wrapping a towel around myself and brushing my teeth. Once I was done I washed my mouth out and walked into my room. I saw Happy sitting on the bed waiting for me. "What do you want?" I asked walking past him. Happy growled pulling me to him. I pulled out of his grasp and put on panties on under the towel. I pulled on a bra and a tangerine colored shirt that split up the back and white shorts. I fixed my bra and walked back to the bathroom. Putting on on make up. Happy came behind me. I was watching him in the mirror as I put on mascara. "What's going on with you?" i asked adding winged eyeliner. Happy shrugged "You still don't like me?" I nodded biting back a smile. "Can't stand your ugly ass." Happy huffed wrapping his arms around me. "Not ugly." He muttered smiling into my hair. I leaned away from him, putting on some lip stick.

I pulled away from him putting studs in my ears. I slipped a ring through my septum and stood back assessing my appearance. "Hate that shit." Happy muttered I turned. "Good thing you don't have to look at it then, huh?" I stuck my tongue out at him. "What the fuck did you do?" He asked stepping closer to me. I smiled showing off more of my piercings and sat on the counter. "Did you mean this?" I stuck out my tongue showing off my snake bites. "Or this, or this?" I pointed to my smiley and frenulum piercing. He shook his head leaning closer to me. "You don't need it." I looked him up and down and shrugged. I looked away from him crossing my arms. He growled, his hands on my hips. "What the fuck is this, Hap?" He looked defeated and shook his head "I don't know." I frowned. "I'm not yours, you can't claim me and get pissed every time I go out. It doesn't work like that. I don't do that to you. This would be a very different story if I did." He nodded in agreement.

"You in here, baby?" Gemma called as she entered the room. I packed my makeup up and ducked past Happy. "In here Mom." I said entering the room. My mother smiled looking past me to Happy who was coming out of my bathroom. "I was showing my my new piercings." I said smiling picking up my purse. "You mean your tits or did you get something newer?" Mamma asked smirking. I stared at my mother curious Then smiled. "Those are old news ma, but look at this." Pulled my shirt up showing off my belly. I had it double pierced and it just healed. Ma bent to look the my navel and shook her head. I smiled even more as I slipped into my white low top converse. "Got stuff to do for the other charters tonight, Baby, we need to go." Ma said walking out of the room. She glanced at Happy then back to me. "Forgot to tell me about some?" Happy asked following me out of the room. I smiled "Only ones you don't know about are for my dates." I followed Ma out to her Caddy and Lit a cigarette.

"Would you tell me if you were fucking around with a son?" Ma asked waiting for the red light to change to green. I blew smoke out of the window. "I would." She looked over at me. "Then why aren't you?" Ma asked getting on the highway. "Because I'm not. I swear." Ma nodded knowing that I wouldn't lie to her. She parked the Caddy and got out. I followed her as we walked into the mall. We passed a group of guys and one caught my attention. Holy fuck he was hot. He was tan with curly chestnut colored hair. He was tall and built like a mother fucker. "Oh god damn." I muttered to my mother. "Baby shut your mouth you're drooling." She said dismissively. I looked over my shoulder to find him looking my way. I smiled and looked him up and down one more last time before my mother pulled me into the mall with her.

"You are just as bad as Jackson. My god." She said still holding tight to my elbow. "I have good tastes what can I say?" I remarked smiling. Ma shook her head leading me into a store. After trying on what felt like the entire stores inventory. Ma and I headed out with our bags. I passed by a shoe store and stopped looking at pretty awesome pair of converse with cats on them. "Will you ever grow up?" My mother chuckled. I saw her shake her head from the reflection in the window. "I'm not letting you wear those." I looked over my shoulder at her. "Mamma, I NEED THEM." I gasped grabbing her arm in an over-exaggerated way. Ma shook me off of her and kept walking laughing a little. I followed after her catching up as she admired a pair of boots in the store front. "Those are beautiful." I said my hand on the glass. The boots were knee high and had no heel. They were a beautiful dark caramel color. I made my mind up in a second. "I'm getting them. I need them." I said starting my quest.

I came out twenty minutes later with my mother hot my heels. "Fuckin bitch." My mother muttered as we stopped outside the mall to light a cigarette for both of us. I inhaled taking a deep drag. The shoe store didn't make those boots in kid sizes. The dumb bitch behind the counter had snidely said to us. "Hey, HEY YOU CAN'T SMOKE HERE." I turned looking at the security guard marching towards me. "Don't fuckin talk to me, rent-a-cop." I spat closing the distance between us. He took a step back. "Put out your cigarette and come with me, I'm calling your parents." I turned to look over at Ma but her back was turned an was on the phone. He grabbed me wrenching my arm towards him."

"DON'T YOU TOUCH HER. Hold on baby," I heard my mother shout and stomp over she was either talking to my dad or jax on the phone. "Hey man let her the fuck go." I heard some other people chime in. I pulled out out my ID card and slammed it into the security guards chest. The hot guy from earlier pulled me away from the security guard and pushed me towards MA. The guy got in the security guards face.

I sat down on a bench extracting another cigarette since I dropped my previous one. I looked over her shoulder and that hot guy from earlier approaching us. Ma's phone started to ring and she got up to answer it. She walked around the corner and the hot guy sat down beside me. "You okay?" He asked looking at my arm. I shrugged. I'm good a little mad that I wasted a cigarette but nothing terrible." I smiled taking a drag from my cigarette. He handed me my ID card not before glancing at it. "You really don't look twenty." He said smiling. My god I died. He had beautiful straight teeth and the prettiest green eyes. Those lashes my god let me tell you about these lashes. "I get that a lot." I smiled and rolled my eyes shifting towards him. "Marcy let's go. Now." Ma said. I got up following after her. "Maybe I'll see you around?" I said Walking backwards beaming at the man. He laughed and it was music to my ears.

"Are you okay?" She said after we got on the highway. "My arm is going to bruise but I'm good." She nodded and laughed shaking her head. "Can't take you anywhere." I tutted but smiled looking out the window. "You thinking about that boy?" I sighed unable to keep the smile off my face. "He was gorgeous, Ma." I said dreamily. She side eyed me. "Your daddy isn't going to let you go out with anyone with out a patch. Now isn't the time, baby. " I nodded looking back at my mother. "I know but still, you can't tell me he wasn't a total babe." Ma laughed and shook her head.

LATER THAT NIGHT.*

I was sitting across the table from Juice. We were playing slaps and I was going to win. "I tell you, Juice; If you would have seen this guy." I slapped his hands and he cursed and did a shot. I set my hands under his, pouring us another shot and continued. "He was a BABE. So beautiful." He shook his head, and jumped as I tapped my palms against his. "What you can talk about all the hot pieces of ass you see but I can't tell you about the ones I see?" I asked looking from his hands to his face smirking. I went to slap his hands and he dodged the attack. I threw back my shot and placed my hands over his again. "I don't care about guys. Not something I'm interested in." I narrowed my eyes at him resting my hands completely in his. "Will you ever grow up?" Jax said sitting beside us taking a long pull from his beer.

"You sound like, Ma." I said staring at Juice. He smiled tickling my palms. "What's your given name?" I asked as I dragged a finger nail down his wrist. He twitched "Juan Carlos." I smiled even more and heard Jax groan. I looked sideways at him as he threw his head back. "You guys are boring. Don't fuck with him Lil, I need my intelligence officer." I felt Juice start to move and pulled my hands back as his slapped the table. I shot up in my seat hands raised in triumph.

"Marcy we need to chat." My father said beckoning me to the chapel. My mother stood by his side their arms crossed. "Oh shit." Jax drawled the rest of the room chuckled. I flipped Jax the bird and walked past my parents. "We need to give your room to actual club members." Daddy said sitting down at the head of the table. I nodded. "Your mother said you had quiet the admirer at the mall today." He continued Looking from my mother to me.

I shot a glance to my mother, like what the fuck. I was twenty not sixteen. "I know you are used to doing things a certain way since you were up in Seattle but now that you're here you are going to do things my way. You fighting everyone you see will not happen. You will have a patch with you at all times. While you're here you will stay with your mother and I til I say differently. You will not distract my men. You do what your told when your told and I don't want to hear any more about your shitty attitude. Do you understand me? " I nodded my hands balled up in a fist.

I walked over to the bar trying to control my temper. What in the actual fuck was that mans problem. Seriously? I asked for a bottle of tequila. The crow eater behind the bar took her sweet as time like she was too stupid to remember what i had asked her for. When she finally handed the bottle over to me, I slid off the stool to pack my room. Fuck that guy. Seriously? Are you fucking serious? Stomped down the hallway and slammed my door shut. I pulled my bags out and flopped on the floor. Began stuffing things into bags. I chugged the tequila grumbling to myself. "Fuckin twenty." I spat getting up and clearing the bathroom of my stuff.

There was a knock at my door but I ignored it. clearing the side tables out of my stuff. I pulled my shirt off and my shorts throwing them into one of the packed bags. I chugged more of the tequila, Ignoring the knocking. I grabbed the shirt off my bed wrenching it on. I stomped over to the door and threw it open. I looked up at Happy and blew some hair out of my face. He rolled off the door jam and brushed past me. I shut the door leaning against it when it closed. He had a drink in his hand and looked around the room. I chugged more of my bottle. "Going somewhere?" Happy asked nodding to the bags. I nodded. "Home." His eyebrows shot up and stood toe to toe with me. "Home?" He asked leaning closer to me. I nodded.

I looked him up and down splashing the tequila around in its bottle. "They want me to stay with them." I huffed sipping the tequila. "Could stay with me." He offered I shot him a glance and drank some more tequila. "No." He let out a frustrated breath. "You still mad, mama?" I looked up at him like he had just offered me some crack. "Yea, just a bit." I narrowed my eyes at him ad crossed my arms over my chest. "Why? all they do is fuck around on you." He knew the topic at hand and just jumped right in. I rolled my eyes letting out an exasperated sigh. "Because you nerd I fuck around on them with you. How have you not realized that?" He was about to drink from his bottle. it was at his lips and he stopped. His eyes on me. "I'm not going to be like them. like luanne and ma. Be some wife and sit around while you're out fucking around and getting hurt and me stuck in some fucking kitchen."

"I don't fuck around." He said cutting me off he leaned into me so that our noses were almost touching. "Don't play I'm not deaf I hear all about your conquests and shit." He stepped closer to me our noses touching now. "Not asking you to marry me, girl. Just stay with me." I tried to step by but the door was in my way. "I don't fuck around either." He looked almost shocked. "You're the only one. asshole." I said quietly looking away. I didn't want to look weak have a hole punched my bad bitch resolve but he needed to know. For some dumb reason he had to know. "So what, we chill and sleep together but ignore each other when everyone else is around?"

Happy Opened the door behind me, holding on to my hip so I wouldn't fall out into the hallway. "Quit stalling and find out." He said leading me to his room. I followed him slowly sipping my tequila attempting to make it last. He opened the door waiting for me to come in. I did and finished the last of the bottle at the same time. I toed off my shoes and I laid on his bed and stared up at the ceiling. I thought about Happy and the random times we've made out. Mostly drunk at parties they would always end with us passing out in bed. Thinking about the relationships I've had through out my college years Happy was always my fall back. The guy I could turn to. After a disappointing date or a fight I would go to him. He always held priority over who ever I was dating. Being with another person always made me want Happy more. And seeing him with some dumb bitch mad me lose my grip on everything. Cause us to fight then not speak for a couple times just in time for a new date which Happy would crash.

Happy climbed into the bed and laid beside me, pulling me to him. "When do you want to finish your tattoo, mama?" He asked his hand brushing over the out line of the tattoo on my thigh he had started a couple months ago. "Whenever you have the time." I said shrugging. his finger traced the out line of the tattoo. He rolled to his side still facing me as his hand slid up my thigh. to rest on my hip. "Want my shirt back." I smiled at him and shook my head. "No. Its mine now. It smells like me. Can't have it." Happy's eyes widened as I spoke. My smile grew watching him react to what I was saying. "Mine. has my name on it." His grip on my hip tightened and I tried to not laugh in his face. "Oh yeah? where?" I said in defiance and crossed my arms tightly over my chest. "Woman." He warned. "No. I'm wearing it." I stared at him. He blinked a few times. "I'll give it back in the morning." I yawned getting comfortable. I curled into his side yawning more. "I want it washed and pressed." I stretched letting my arm fall across his chest. "I bet you do." I said closing my eyes and smiling.