My second time in a jail cell was a whole different feat. I was relaxed, even amused at the whole situation. Funny how different things were in just a few months. I sat in my small cell that was directly next to Josh's in our cozy Charming Police department. Officer Douchebag had taken us to Charming p.d. His reasons were that we were Charming's jurisdiction and we were no longer his problem. My thoughts? He knew he didn't have shit on us, other than me hitting him, and he wasn't about to give us the satisfaction of letting us go. As assholish as he was being, I'm honestly surprised that he didn't charge me for assault, but I think that he was worried that we'd press harassment charges on him right back. I sat in my little cell on the bunk, while Josh stood up against the bars that connected our cells woth the biggest smile on his face. Finally I couldn't help but smile. He seemed so at ease, the random question of if he had ever done this before filled my mind before I could stop it. He did look completely at ease in a situation where most people are a wreck. Or maybe its because we were together that he was so nonchalant. A question for another day I guess.

"What?" He shook his head as if he'd been caught creeping but we both knew he was already doing it before I said anything. The last time I was in here, I was contemplating my feelings for both of my best friends. Now I'm sitting in a cell next to a guy who I think may just like me for me and its not even a little confusing. Granted the situation with my friends was still complicated; but at least now I wasn't struggling over how I felt for them both. Opie has stepped up unbelievably and became the best friend he never was before. Jax on the otherhand, had turned into someone I barely knew any more. I knew he was hurt over Tara but that was no reason to shit all over me and confuse me with feelings he obviously didn't truly have. I looked at the man across from me and I felt relaxed. Josh was different. I knew he was the kind of guy who'd have no problem showing me off or letting everyone know that he was mine. After our talk today, I feel that we're on good grounds. He knows how I feel about things. We had some hurdles against us; like the fact that he lived so far away and my insecurities. But I really felt we had a good shot.

"Just looking at you, I'm allowed to do that." I rolled my eyes but couldn't help my smile. Its the little things that made me smile with him. He had no problem being his truly goofy self around me and i loved that.

"Yeah says who? I don't belong to you, so maybe I don't like you staring." He held up a hand to his chest and gave me a feigned hurt expression. We were both clowning around so I knew he didn't take my words to heart, at least I hoped he didn't.

"Well awe just might have to change that, because I like looking at you." I felt my chesks heat up and I turned my gaze towards the door that led to the main room. As if me staring at it was some kind of cosmic connection, Candy walked in the room with keys. I turned towards Josh and stuck my tongue out as she unlocked my cell first. I walked out and stood waiting for him to get released as well.

"You guys are free to go. Truth be told, we don't even know why you're here in the first place. So Unser said to let you go because its wasting our resources." She said with a smile. I nodded, even though afterwards I realized she couldn't see it because her back was to me.

"Thanks Candy, it means a lot. Just out of curiousity, is this going to be on our record?"

"No since no charges were made. Have a good day guys." She walked out of the room. Josh walked out of his cell, giving me that goofy grin.

"What miss innocent afraid of getting a crime on that polished record?" He started to walk towards me and didn't stop until he was in front of me. I scoffed and waved my hand at him.

"Please Ive been in here before." He raised an eyebrow at me as he brushed the stray hair from my face

"Oh really what for?" My confident demeanour left as quickly as it came.

"Well its kinda a long story..." All of my bad ass ness was out the window and I knew I was caught before he even spoke. God he's going to laugh me out of the building when I tell him what happened.

"I got time." I tore my gaze away from him and looked at the floor. I decided I should for now leave out why I accidently stole the dress. Its a conversation for another day.

"I stole a bridesmaid dress." And just like I thought he would, he cracked up laughing. He even doubled over the jerk!

"Oh man you're a danger to society. Why did they let you out?" I gave him a heated look and secretly hoped that he could feel all the meanness coming from it.

"Real funny, are you ready to go mr criminal." He shrugged.

"I am what I am and that doesn't change a thing. I've done some bad shit but I like to think I'm a decent person." I pulled away from him and started to walk away when he grabbed my hand. I turned to look at him, like what the hell? He pulled ne into his arms and grabbed my face; pulling me into him and kissed me. See it was things like this that made me sad that he lived so far away. Whenever he kissed me, I felt like my skin was on fire. Like every part of my body tingles. He pulled back and leaned his forehead against mine.

"I've got to make these next few days count cause it may be awhile before I can do this again." I nodded and the sadness filled me. I felt my eyes water up but rather than ruin the moment I shrugged it off and started to tug on his hand.

"Come on, lets go make some memories!" And we did.

We rode around on his bike until we landed in Lodi where they were having a small festival so of course we went. Josh as a typical man, had to play all the games for me and win random prizes that I had no idea how in the hell we were getting home. We found a photo booth and I kid you not blew 20 bucks in there because Josh said he had to show the guys back home how beautiful I was. We both knew that wasn't the reason but I let him live in his fantasy world a little longer. Soon this would end and we would be back being attached to our phones. As it started to get dark, we decided to take one last ride on the Ferris wheel. Surprisingly the line wasn't long. I think its because they were closing in twenty minutes but I didn't care. This was the perfect end to a perfect night. I realize that I really did miss out by not dating before. I doubt it was always this magical but damn I had a good time. We got in our car and of course he had to squeeze in next to me

"You know my butts too big for you to be over here." He rolled his eyes and leanes his head back.

"Shut it. Your butts not that big." I turned towards and feigned hurt.

"Did you just agree that my butt was big?' He turned towards me and gave me a 'seriously?' expression.

"Your butt is perfect." We stayed silent for a few minutes until we stopped at the top. I leaned forward to look out and I got a pretty good view of Lodi that surrounded us.

"You look mystified." I turned to look at him.

"What do you mean?" He took that time to light up a cigarette and take a long drag.

"The lights from the ride in your eyes and you looking out around you. You look like there's no where else you'd rather be." I leaned into his shoulder

"There isn't." He took that opportunity to kiss me. I don't know what happened to his cigarette but his mouth was on mine and right now there was truly no where else I would rather be.

We actually managed to shoved all of my stuffed animals in his saddle bags, except for the massivr black teddy bear. He was currently tied down on the back of the seat and I was sitting on him. We pulled up to my house just as my mom was walking out of the door for work. She put her keys for the house in her purse then stared at me and waited for an introduction. I cleared my throat as I got off the bike.

"Uhh hey mom. This...this is Josh. You remember..." She smiled and it lit up her eyes. Oh good lord shes already in love with him and she hasnt met him.

"The one from Washington. Hello I'm Joanne, Luanne's mother." Josh eased off of his bike in the process of my awkward introduction. He made his way over to my mother and shook her hand. I could see she was analyzing him with her eyes but her expression neger changed so thats a good sign.

"Yes ma'am. Its nice to meet you. I can see she gets her looks from you." My mom blushed like actually fucking blushed. Its over now. If he breaks my heart he's going to break hers too.

"Well kids I have to go. Oh and Lu, Donna called making sure you guys were still going in the morning."

"Shit! I completely forgot." Then I realized I had just cussed in front of my mother. "Sorry mom, it slipped. Okay I'll call her in the morning. Josh isn't foing to stay too much longer mom."

"Okay baby. I love you and Josh it was nice meeting you. Why don't you come by tomorrow fpr dinner if you're still going to be in town."

"I'd love that. Do I need to bring anything?" Oh yeah he definitely charmed her with that gave him a warm smile.

"Nope, just yourself. I'll see you tomorrow." With that my mom took off and left, leaving us sitting on the porch swing. He wrapped his arms around my shoulder and I leaned into him. Is it weird that I was breathing him in? It felt stalkerisg but I wanted to remember the exact way he smelled.

"I lile your mom, she seems nice." I shrugged

"I like her too but she's my mom. I'm supposed too." He leaned down and kissed my head and we sat like that for awhile before he finally had to leave.

"I should get back to the clubhouse sunshine. How long you think you're going to be with Donna for?" I shrugged again.

"A few hours, we have to find the dress tomorrow cause the weddings approaching soon. I should be home by one I imagine." He lit up a cigarette as he stood up.

"Damn I didn't know Ope was getting married. Good for him. Donna seems nice and she's a friend to you too. Well how about I pick you up then. We'll go get some food and figure out something to do "

"Theyre having a baby too. Yeah I'd really like that." His eyes widened in surprise.

"No shit? They moved that along fast. Well regardless I'm happy for him. I've always liked him. He's a real straight forward guy and to be honest if it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't be here now." I stood up and wrapped my arms around his torso.

"Yeah I know. I'm glad you are." I barely heard the "me too." As he leaned down and kissed me goodbye.

I awoke the next morning practically bouncing on air. Last night seemed like a dream. You know they say that sometimes one door closes so another can open...I'm so glad Josh came into my life. He makes me smile so much its new to me. Itook a glance at myself in the mirror before I exited my room and wasn't surprised to find that my cheeks were still flushed and so had a glow about me. I let out a small squeal and ran over to my dresser to find something simple to wear. I settled on some khaki shorts and a flowing baby doll top. I quickly got dressed and went down stairs to call Donna. Granted it was 7 am but the dress shops open at 8 so I wanted to get an early start. I walked out of my room humming because I couldn't help myself. My mom looked up from her newspaper with a smile on her face.

"You had fun I take it?" As if I was waiting on her to ask, I plopped down at the table and started talking.

"Oh mom so much fun! Honestly, I had broken things off with him because he sent me money and I don't like that sort of thing. He rode down here to fix things and it was amazing! We went for a bike ride and ended up in Lodi. He won me all of those," I montioned towards the living room full of stufded animals. " and we rode a bunch of rides. He didn't go any farther than the living room and no we didn't do anything. We just sat on the porch and talked and god it was perfect." She laughed and set down her newspaper

"I was wondering why there was a zoo in my living room. I'm glad you had fun baby you deserve it. He seems like a nice guy."

"Oh mom he is. He really is. I have to call Donna because Josh and I have plans for lunch. "

I hopped over to the phone and thankfully she answered on the third ring.

"Hello?"

"Hey Donna its Faith, just making sure that we're still going?"

"Oh of course, I called last night but you weren't home."

"Yeah Josh is in town so we rode around and went to the fair in Lodi." She squealed on the other end of the phone.

"I have to hear what happened. Okay I'll be there in 10."

True to her word, she was here in ten minutes on the dot. Thankfully I had gotten dressed before I called, all I had to do was put my make up on and throw on some shoes. Since I was riding in a car, I opted for sandals for once. I really hoped that I had time to come home and shower then change clothes. The sadness about him leaving some time tomorrow started to creep up but again I shook it off. Now wasn't the time. As soon as I got into the car, Donna hit me with 20 questions. I relayed everything that happened quickly as she started our drive to Stockton.

"He drove all the way down here because you broke off your friendship? Girl that man is smitten with you." My blush intensified.

"Well I'm smitten with him too."

We were three shops in when Donna found 'the' dress. It was the first one she tried on at that store too. It was a strapless white gown with a flowing skirt. The bodice was beaded with pearls and it seemed to have horizontal like lines wrapping her curves. We were both in love with it! I snapped so many pictures it was insane. The even better part is it was on clearance because it was custom fitted for some other girl and her husband was found sleeping with her maid of honor. Why women feel the need to tell all the details like that I dont know. I would have just returned the dress and said the wedding was cancelled. Since the dress was marked down to $150 we splurged and bought a trailing veil and matching shoes on the spot all together spending $250. We walked out of the dress shop and was getting back into Donna's car when she bent over to put her dress in the back seat and I dropped my Dunkachino. The back of her pants were bloody.

"Dddddonna. We need to go to the hospital." My eyes teared up as I walked over to take her keys. She couldn't drive.

"Faith what's wrong?" She pulled they keys from my reach.

"Donna, I don't want to alarm you but you're bleeding." She looked down at her pants and all color drained from her face. She quickly handed me the keys and allowed ne to drive. Please god let her and Opie's baby be okay. I would never forgive myself if something happened. All of the times I prayed she was lying or worse. God if you hear me, please let this baby be okay.

A/n: back again from hiatus I know I'm terrible. I got a new job and a new phone and its been chaotic I hope u love this chapter as much as I did writing it. Let me know as always