I surprisingly woke up really rested, like I haven't slept that good in I don't know how long. I probably could have went right back to sleep if I didn't have a light shining in my eyes. I opened one eye to test my surroundings out. Apparently the apocalypse had not happened while I was asleep, the room still looked the same. I don't know why it even occurred to me that some mass explosion happened while I was asleep. I know I tend to sleep hard but damn. I could feel something heavy on me so I quickly looked over and I was still wrapped up in Jax's arms. Another big surprise for me because normally I was all over the bed. I guess its because I was used to sleeping by myself or maybe its because I was comfortable. I mean unusually comfortable, it felt as if all of the drama from the night before vanished right along with my tiredness. My head was still rested up against Jax's chest and I noticed his breathing became more normal and his heartbeat sped up so I started to assume he was awake. I opened up the other eye and stared at him for a minute. Judging by the position we were in I don't think we had moved at all. I mean granted I know I fell asleep cuddled up to him but I figured I would have flipped over or even moved to my back but no, I was still laying on my right side staring at him. I noticed the left side of his mouth twitch and it eventually curved up to be a smirk. I sat there staring until he finally decided to give me the pleasure of letting me know he was awake. He look down on me and smiled.

"Good morning Jax," he leaned down and kissed my forehead, then pulled me closer. He rested his chin on top of my head and closed his eyes.

"Good morning Faye, I'm sorry I passed out on you." I shook my head and continued to stare at him. His features were still that of the relaxed little boy I saw last night but this morning they screamed that he was a man now. I was surprised at just how normal this felt, like I had stated before its not like we hadn't cuddled before but this felt different. It felt comfortable and so normal. Well of course it was normal, we were friends right? Really good friends, and it was him who kissed me. I didn't violate our friendship contract so this was okay. I was starting to confuse myself to just what I was doing. Last night I had clearly stated I didn't have feelings for him but here I am at complete peace cuddling with him like there was nothing in the world I would rather be doing.

"That's okay you seemed like you were exhausted and besides Opie said it was my fault anyway." He positioned himself so he could look at me. His eyes studying me for a minute before he finally said anything.

"I really was exhausted. I'm not saying I didn't drink a lot, because I did but I can't remember the last time I passed out. And why would me drinking too much be your fault." I looked down at my hands that were currently resting between us. I picked at the beds of my fingernails for a few minutes, trying to determine how to answer his question. I wonder if my hot new look was the reason he drank himself into oblivion. It couldn't be right. I shouldn't have said anything. The last thing I wanted was Jax and Opie fighting because of me. Bro's before ho's right? But did that saying still apply when you were one of the 'bro's' too?

"Stress tires a person out, and your best friend is not only getting married but he's having a baby. Things are going to change big time in both of your lives and that's okay. You will both make it." I sighed and debated on whether or not to tell him what Ope said and then decided fuck it. "It was because of the way I was dressed. You didn't want to deal with men oogling me, I think that's what he said." He started to play with my hair and wrap the few chunks that fell into my face around his index finger. He looked so concentrated I almost hated to move. Wait why was I mystified over my best friend playing with my hair? I shook my hair, lightly pulling my hair slightly out of his fingers. He let go quickly and pulled my face up to look at him. He stared at me and I felt the tingles all over my body. Woah where did those come from? It had to be my nerves or maybe it was just the heat of the moment. I had never gotten a feeling like that from Jax before.

"How are you doing with the shitstorm that hit last night? I know you love him but did you take what I said into consideration?" My mouth instantly went dry. He remembered talking to me, so then he must remember kissing me. Maybe he thinks that I returned his kiss because I'm laying in his bed practically having pillow talk with him! What have I gotten myself into? He interrupted my thoughts by talking again.

"Ope can be a shit head sometimes but I love that guy. He's my best friend, not in the same way you are but my absolute best friend. I don't know how things are going to be without that guy. But sometimes his thinking is a little out there so no the way you were dressed was not the reason I was drinking so much. I had a lot of shit on my mind and I let drinking erase that for a few hours. So don't blame yourself you did nothing wrong. You did look smokin' hot though." I felt my cheeks redden and I tried to look away from him but he pulled my face back in place. "Don't do that Faith, don't look away because I complimented you. Look at you, someone needs to be complimenting you daily. And to be honest I would much rather it be me than one of those dickheads out there. When I do it, I mean it. They will do it just to get in your pants, speaking of which when did you get in my clothes?" I just stared at him, unsure of what to say. Deep down part of me was really starting to think he meant the kiss. I wanted to bring it up but I wasn't sure what he was going to say or if I was even going to like what he said. To be honest, this moment I don't think I would mind so much if he kissed me again. Woah, what the hell was going on with me this morning? This is my best friend! I needed to slow my roll before I did something I knew I would regret.

"Jax, there's something I want to talk to you about."

"You know you can talk to me about anything, even with morning breath." My hand instantly flew up to my mouth covering it as he laughed and brushed the stray hairs that fell onto my face.

"Its about..." the door opened cutting me off. Of course who else to be standing at the door but Opie. He stared at the two of us and stayed silent for a moment. He looked almost like he had seen a ghost, I strongly resisted the urge to stick my tongue out at him. Yeah it was childish but at this moment I didn't care, he was constantly calling me kid anyway.

"Um Jax, Clay needs you."Ope just stood there staring at the two of us, I could tell he was unsure of what to say. Jax sighed and rolled out of bed and since he slept in his jeans, because I was uncomfortable taking them off all he had too do was throw on his shoes. He threw me a quick yet big smile and headed towards the door. They both just kind of stood there. Jax looked at Opie questioningly but didn't say a word. I had a feeling they were going to have a lovely conversation after I was out of ear shot. I didn't see why it was Opie's business on what didn't happen between me and Jax. Let him think what he wants because at this point I no longer care.

I laid there for another fifteen minutes waiting to see if Jax would return so I could talk to him about things. I had made up my mind that I needed to get it all out of the table and set boundaries and what not. Okay maybe not going that far but I needed to set things straight. I only prayed I didn't hurt his feelings. I cared way too much about him to hurt him, especially not the way Opie hurt me constantly. I walked out of Jax's room with my clothes thrown over my arm. After my conversation with Kyle, a big part of me wanted him to think I was sleeping with Jax. That's horrible and unfair to Jax but Kyle's ego needed a big set back, maybe this would give it to him. I could do a lot worse to him, I could tell Jax and let him beat him to a pulp but I would much rather handle the problem on my own. I pulled Jax's door shut quietly and walked through the clubhouse, trying to advert my eyes from the discarded women laying all over the room. I stared at the ground and just kept walking, thankfully knowing this place like the back of my hand. I was pretty proud of myself that is until I collided with someone. I quickly looked up to see Gemma. Great and of all times to run into her I do so while in her son's clothes. This was going to be lovely. Instead of giving me a lecture she moved out of my way with a smug grin on her face. I honestly don't know what was worse, the fact that she thinks I slept with Jax or the fact that she let me walk away without saying a word about it. I walked past her and it wasn't until I got to the front door that she called to me.

"Hey honey, are you forgetting Jax brought you here last night?" Fuck, I did forget. How was I going to get home? I looked around the clubhouse and saw none of its members. The chapel doors were closed so I guessed they were in there but it was forbidden to be in there so there goes finding a ride with anyone who was not Gemma or a croweater. I sighed and made my way to where Gemma was standing by the bar and hopped up on one of the bar stools. I swung myself around so I was facing Rick, the bartender. I sat my clothes on the bar, earning an even more obvious smile shared between her and Rick and I rolled my eyes.

"You guys have known me how long and you assume this of me?" Gemma looked down into her coffee and the bartender shrugged his shoulders while he was wiping out a cup. He was a decent sized guy, he was about 6'4" with long black hair. His hair wasn't shiny or perfect but that of a mechanic/motorcycle enthusiast. He had a small beard going on but only a slight mustache and of course, he was covered in tattoos.

"I've known you a little while but I've known Jax longer so I know just how easy it is for him with the ladies. From the looks of things that's you included, when you see him coming you get a big smile on your face. And just for the record that was a total walk of shame you did, walking with your head down afraid to look anyone in the face." I rolled my eyes. I couldn't believe these two. I thought that they knew me better than that but I guess not. I couldn't believe they even insinuated that was a walk of shame. That was me trying to avoid seeing ten tons of naked female flesh before 9 a.m.

"First off, that was not a walk of shame. Do women ever leave Jax acting like they're ashamed? Nah I didn't think so. Secondly, Jax and I are just friends guys. I crashed in his room because I was tired and wanted to sleep. In case you forgot I had a bit of a long night, apparently I have a baby shower to plan and a bachelor party." The bartender named Rick laughed causing Gemma to laugh. Yeah I left a little piece of my heart on the counter with that last one, maybe I could pick it back up and shove it back in my chest without anyone noticing. Nope not possible so I kept on like everything was fine.

"Yeah that was crazy. Opie seems happy though?" Gemma said as she shook her head and put her hands up.

"Yeah that chick seems like a wrapped up bag of fun," Rick said and both Gemma and I looked at him crazily. "What about you Faith? Are you a wrapped up perfect bag of fun?" I scoffed. Ew first off he looked old enough to be my father, secondly ew never in my life time.

"Did you already forget? Jax claimed that ass last night maybe you should ask him." I was completely appalled and yet my cheeks reddened. I couldn't believe she said something like that. Granted it was Gemma but still ugh. Great I was never going to hear the end of this.

"Nothing happened. Ask him, he will tell you."

"Ask who what?" I heard Jax come up behind me. Great this just kept going from bad to worse.

"We were just talking to our little Faith here about what she did last night." Jax sat on the stool next to me. I just wanted to go home this was mortifying enough before he got here and with my luck he was going to join in on it.

"You okay Faye?" Jax asked with obvious concern in his voice. I nodded suddenly feeling a headache coming on. It had Gemma and Rick's name written all over it. I had a good night's sleep and I was doing my best to avoid drama this morning.

"Yeah when you get time can you give me a lift home?" He nodded, still staring at me and my face heated up even more. He was making this awkward. Had he always been like this and I just didn't notice? Nah, its just because I was so confused about him kissing me that's all. And that's what I told myself as we were walking outside towards his bike.

"Jax we need..."

"So you won't believe..." We both started talking at the same time. I became even more embarrassed than I was a few minutes ago. I motioned for him to go ahead as I started to nibble on my thumb. I wasn't sure how this conversation was going to go but it needed to happen and that factor scared the shit out of I figured I would let him say what he had to say in case my words ruined his day or whatever. I was scared. If this conversation went bad, I was losing my other best friend. On the other hand, if the conversation went great and the kiss was just a misunderstanding hopefully things would be back to normal.

"So you won't believe what Ope said to me. He gave me a lecture on sleeping with you. I told him we didn't do anything and he didn't believe me but he seemed mad as hell Faith. He even said and I quote, 'Jackson Teller doesn't cuddle.'" Well that was a quick way to get my attention. Why would Opie be pissed if Jax were sleeping with me? He was getting married, and then the light bulb over my head lit so hard it broke. Maybe he still had feelings for me! That would be awesome. Maybe we still had a fighting chance! It took everything in me not to happy dance in front of Jax because I still didn't know where we stood. If things worked out with me and Opie, it would be a lot different then I imagined in my head but it would still be perfect. I tried to picture us in my head, the way I used too, him sitting in the recliner watching football and me reading a book with our kids and dogs playing in the floor but everything started to blur. I tried concentrating again and it was still a blur, I lost sight of Opie completely and there I sat alone with my book in my head. That was weird.

"I wonder why he would be so pissed I mean he's getting married, that's what he wanted, her." He shrugged his shoulders and stared out into the parking lot. He looked like he had a loaded mind. I took a step towards him and reached out to give him a hug but he didn't respond to my advance. He just stood there staring out into the sunrise and a grim look on his face.

"Please Luanne, remember what I said. You deserve so much more than to be someone's back burner so don't jump head first into this. Promise me that you won't." I nodded, feeling the tears well up in my eyes. How could he bring me so much happiness and crush it in a single blow? He was right though. I did deserve to be so much more than a back burner but if you had a chance with the one person you loved more than anything wouldn't you take it? Wouldn't you jump right on it? That's what you do when you love someone and there's a chance they might love you back, at least that's what I thought.

"I'll keep it in mind, but Jax we need to talk about something." He turned to look at me and his eyes were swimming with emotion I was a little taken back. I stared down at the ground trying to work up my nerve on what to say and finally I just spit it out.

"Why did you kiss me?" He looked back out at the sunrise and stayed silent for a few minutes. I wonder if he even remembered kissing me, maybe he didn't and that's why he was thinking so hard. I stood staring at him, waiting for him to speak. When he finally spoke he was still staring at the sun, which I found odd. He always looks at me when he talks.

"I was drunk and looking for a release, I'm sorry." Wow I felt like I had just been knocked backwards. That was the answer I had wanted to hear and yet why did it feel like I was betrayed? I simply nodded at him, unsure of what else to say. This was what I wanted, I wanted things normal and I guess this was as normal as I would get right now.

"You ready to go?"

a/n: sooo new chapter on this wonderful Teller Tuesday. God that man is gorgeous is he not? I usually update Just a former old lady today but I'm kind of stuck in a bit of a rut. My last review had me thinking a lot so I'm revising my current thoughts on the story, not ending it just trying to figure if I was going in the right direction. A special shout out to my readers you guys are fantabulous! just saying! i love reading your reviews because they never fail to make me smile you guys are the best. I'm going to keep updating as soon as possible I started a new job today ya for me in the long run but I promise to update as much as possible. Remember I have a two year old who has gone crazy lately lol, please keep reviewing and hopefully I have enough time tonight to get a new chapter started. I really like how this story is flowing together. btw guys are there seriously no team opie fans lol everybody was like nope jax hahaha i loved it though i hope you all enjoy the story. as for my last guest reviewer, you guys seriously need to give yourselves names so i can address u individually lol. I plan on writing in more Opie and I was kind of hoping every one noticed the Jax attraction in the first chapter. Tessaturd- hell of a pen name hahahaha i love it though I'm glad youre enjoying the story. Emmettluver im so glad you are back and she just might you never know. i have a feeling a lot of people arent going to like this chapter lol Tisha, it will be interesting I see a Faith Opie screaming match in the future :) and tracey you will just have to wait and see