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UPDATED 8/19/20
Chapter 5
Eliza POV
The next morning, Opie and I packed up my car for our three-day trip up to the cabin. I let Opie drive, mainly because it had been years since I had been up to the cabin and I wasn't sure that I could find my way up there without Opie giving me directions. The drive up there was pleasant. Talking to Opie had always been easy except for before when we couldn't talk about our feelings for each other. When we got to the cabin, Opie unlocked the door and I went in to begin airing the place out. I wasn't sure how long it had been since Piney had been up there.
Once we got settled, Opie and I stretched out on the couch with a couple of beers. "Ope..." I said and he grunted, a response from him that I understood. "Can I ask you something."
"Of course, babe. You know that."
"How many crow-eaters did you sleep with while I was gone?" I asked.
"Babe..."
"No, tell me I wanna know."
"A few. But you have to know, there was never an emotional connection with them. It was strictly physical. It's different with you and me. You always know what to say and you always see right into my heart." Opie said.
"You're such a sap sometimes..." I said laughing at him. "I know what you mean though. I remember when we were 15 and Jax and Tara wanted all of us to come up here for the weekend...and Ma wasn't gonna let me come but you convinced her so that you wouldn't feel like a third wheel around Jax and Tara." I said sitting up and climbing into his lap, straddling him. I leaned forward and kissed him.
"I can't believe how much time we've time wasted because we were both too scared to admit our feelings for each other." Opie said.
"I know babe but we're together now." I said. Opie and I discussed various things that we knew we needed to discuss but in the end, we ended up just laying on the couch with my head in his lap and him running his fingers through my hair. We were laying there when I heard my phone ringing in my purse. I grabbed it to see who it was. It was Jax. "Hey Jax, is everything okay?" I asked him when I answered.
"Not particularly. I really need to talk to you guys, but I don't want to interrupt your weekend." Jax said.
I could hear the worry in his voice. I hadn't heard him like this since he and Tara had that pregnancy scare when they were 17. "That's nonsense Jax."
"Okay I'll see you in a bit." He said hanging up.
"What's wrong?" Opie asked me when I put my phone back in my purse.
"I'm not sure. Jax said that he needed to talk to us but that he didn't want to bug us." I told Opie.
"That's ridiculous." He said.
"I know. So, he's on his way up." He nodded padding my spot on the couch next to him for me to come back. I walked over to him and laid back in my spot with my head in his lap and he resumed playing with my hair.
"So, while we're waiting on Jax..." Opie started to say. "I've been thinking, and I want you to move into my room at the house." Opie said. I didn't move at first but then I slowly sat up, turning to look at Opie.
"You're sure about this?" I asked him.
He nodded. "Very sure. I like sleeping next to you and I like waking up next to you. I don't want to go back to before." He said.
I sat there and thought about it for a minute. Yes, things were moving fast with us...but everything was perfect, and it wasn't like we didn't already know each other. "Okay." I said nodding at him. He pulled me close to him and kissed me hard.
Opie and I stayed like that for a while until we heard Jax's bike pull up. I stood up and went to open the door. He was walking up the steps when I opened the door. "Hey." I said. My brother looked up at me and he looked like he hadn't slept all night. "Damn Jax. Have you even slept?" I asked him. He shook his head. "Come on, I'll make you some coffee." I said leading him into the cabin. Jax went and sat on the couch next to Opie while I went to the kitchen to start the coffee. When I came back, I sat on the coffee table in front of Jax. "Jax...What's going on?" I asked him.
He had his head in his hands. Finally, he looked up at me. "I screwed up...really bad." Jax said. He turned and looked at Opie. "Wendy's pregnant."
I looked up at Opie. "Shit." Opie said.
"Who's Wendy?" I asked.
"Two months ago, I went out to Reno just to get away and I met this girl...a crow-eater for a charter out there. She was visiting her parents and somehow, we both ended up at the same bar. We both got shit-faced drunk and I woke up the next morning to find that we had gotten married." Holy shit! "Once we had sobered up, we realized that it was a mistake and immediately filed for an annulment. Well she said that she hadn't been feeling good, so she went to the doctor and the dates line up to that night." Jax said.
I stood up pacing around the room. I ended up behind the couch and behind Jax. I slapped him upside his head. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" I yelled at my brother.
"Damn, E! What the fuck?" Jax said.
"How could you be so stupid? A crow-eater? Really? Did you not learn anything from Dad!" I said to Jax and Opie raised an eyebrow at me. "Dad had a love child in Belfast. Jax and I found letters when we were little, but we never told anyone, but I think that your dad knows cause they were best friends." I said.
"Makes sense." Opie said.
"Anyway..." Jax started. "Wendy said that we'll do a DNA test and if the baby is mine, she wants to give me full custody."
"Wow." I said.
"Liza, I can't be a dad. I don't know how." Jax said.
I sat back down in front of him. I grabbed his hands. "Jackie, look at me." I said and he looked up at me. "You can do this. Plus, you're not alone. You have me and Ope. Plus, even though it was stupid for you to knock up a crow-eater, Ma's gonna be ecstatic once she's done yelling at you."
"Your right. Ma will help out too." Jax said.
I went into the kitchen and fixed us all a cup of coffee. When I walked back into the living room, I sat the coffee on the table and sat in Opie's lap. "Okay...So here's what we're going to do. When Ope and I get home, I'm moving into his room. We decided before you got here." I told Jax and he nodded. "We will turn my room into the nursery and put a daybed in there as well. Cause you know how Ma is."
"Yeah. I do." He said. He put his hand on my knee. "Promise you'll be with me through it all?"
"Wouldn't be anywhere else."
Jax left shortly after we finished our coffee. The rest of the weekend Opie and I spent just the two of us. It was nice. Sunday morning, Opie and I headed home. We wanted to have plenty of time to move my things from my room to his. When we got to the house, I noticed my mother's car in the driveway. I got out of my car and approached the house. She was in my room packing my things. "Ma! What are you doing?" I asked my mother.
"Well Jax told me about Wendy and the baby. The baby's gonna need somewhere to sleep so I'm moving you home." My mother said.
Opie POV
When I walked into the house after grabbing mine and Eliza's bags out of the car, I heard yelling from the back of the house.
"Mom! I'm not moving home." I heard Eliza say.
"Well, you can't expect to stay here when the baby is born." Gemma said.
I walked down the hallway towards Eliza's room. "Mom, I'm moving into Opie's room."
"What!"
"Mom it was decided before Jax even told us about Wendy being pregnant, besides it might not even be Jax's kid." Eliza told her.
I stood in the doorway to the bedroom. "She's right, Gem." I said. Gemma and Eliza turned to look at me. "Jax even admitted that Wendy told him that it was only possible that it's his kid."
Gemma stood there and stared at me and Eliza. After a minute or two she stormed out, slamming the front door behind her.
"You ok babe?" I asked her.
ELIZA POV
I stood there and watched my mother storm out of the house, slamming the front door behind her. Before I could move or say anything, I heard Opie ask me if I was okay. "I think so. I mean its mom being mom." I said. Opie walked towards me and pulled me into a hug. "Okay, let's get this stuff moved."
Opie and I spent the rest of the morning moving my stuff into his room and cleaning and rearranging Opie's room to make room for my stuff. When we were done, I collapsed on the bed. Opie collapsed next to me. I was about to fall asleep when I heard his phone start ringing. "Ugh!" He growled. I heard him pulled his phone out and answer it. "Yeah...Now?...Yeah ok." He said before closing it and putting it in his pocket. "Babe?"
"Hmm?" I said never opening my eyes.
"I gotta go to the clubhouse. I shouldn't be long. Clay just wants to catch me up." I heard Opie say.
"Okay babe. Ride safe." I told him before rolling over and reaching for my pillow. The last thing that I heard before I drifted off to sleep was the front door shutting. When I woke back up it was dark outside. I got up and walked into the kitchen. There was no sign that either of the guys had been home. I decided to order a pizza and watch a little TV. I called and ordered the pizza. While I waited for the pizza, I curled up on the couch and. turned the tv on to find something to watch. A short while later, there was a knock on the front door. I got up and went to answer it. I paid for my pizza and went back to the living room. I ate my pizza and watched a little bit of tv before I heard the engine of a bike coming up the street. I sat up from laying on the couch and waited to see if it was Opie or Jax. A few minutes later, the front door opened, and Opie walked in. "Hey baby." I said.
"Hey babe. Sorry I'm so late. I didn't think that it was going to take as long as it did." Opie said.
"It's okay. I slept majority of the afternoon then I ordered a pizza and watched a couple of movies." He pulled his kutte off and hung it up by the front door. He then walked into the living room and sat next to me on the couch. I leaned over and kissed him. We sat and talked for a little while before we headed to bed. Come morning I would be starting my first day at TM. Part of me felt bad for making a deal with Clay but on the other hand I was glad that I made the deal because it brought me back home and brought me back to Opie. Granted working at the garage would put me closer to the club but I guess in a way I was okay with that because someday it would be Jax running the club instead of Clay. But in a way, I guess that I always knew that I would end up close to the club.