RING RING
What the actual Fuck? I opened my eyes and glared at the clock. It was 8 am and my phone was ringing. Why? Who in their right mind is calling at this hour? I grabbed my phone and glared at the unknown number.
"What!?" I yelled in the phone making the other person shriek.
"Um yes hello? Miss Ezra?" a nervous voice said.
"Yes!? Why are you calling at this hour!?" I yelled making Mia bang on the wall telling me to shut up.
I glared at the wall and banged back yelling that I was on the phone.
"Um I'm with the Sons and they wanted me to ask you and miss Mia to come in at noon today." he said back.
"Why?" I asked.
"I don't know ma'am I'm just the messenger." he said.
"Fine I'll be there but I can't guarantee Mia will be there." I said rubbing my forehead. Mia had enough of the club and it was only one night.
""This isn't really a request ma'am. If you could convince her it would make this all much easier " he said
I sighed and got up yawning.
"And if she says no?" I asked walking into the kitchen to make some coffee.
"Um… Can you just make sure?" he asked the nervousness coming back full force.
"I'll make sure we're both there." I said turning the coffee pot on.
The man audibly sighed in relief on the other end and quickly hung up the phone.
As I finished the coffee I walked into Mias room. She was sprawled out on her bed her cover wrapped around her legs. I put a mug down on her bedside table and smiled at the old picture of us from high school. Both of our rooms were plain. When Mia had turned 21 and I was 22 we had decided it was time to move. We had done a year of college , hated it, and now we were bartenders. Originally we were going to go to school for it back home but when my father kicked me out and Mia's sister moved to California we knew it was time to go. Mia was coming to California to be closer with her nieces who were like her own daughters and I having hated the town we lived in and dispizing my mother's city she lived in decided to come with her. We found this apartment for cheap. It was small and ugly but it was home. And starting out with only three grand between the both of us we couldn't afford to be picky. The money we made last night was the most we've had in weeks. We could now afford to buy groceries for the week. It's been tough. And although it help when Mia got the job downtown it didn't pay much. It covered our rent and the tips she made were able to buy us sandwich makings. I would really have to sell her to take the job with the club. If not it was going to be a struggle because I didn' I could handle working there by myself.
"Mia wake up" I said nudging her a bit. She grumbled and tried to hit my hand away. I sighed and rubbed my head before grabbing her small pillow and hitting her with it and jumping back when she took a swing at me.
"We need to talk" I said.
"About what?" she mumbled hugging her pillow.
"Some man from the Sons called" I said. She looked up at me squinting her eyes.
""What did he want?" she asked sleep still thick in her voice.
"They want us at the bar at noon" I said sitting down as she sat up.
"Why?" she asked grabbing the coffee mug I had sat down.
"Don't know." I said.
"Well screw them. I'm not going" she said yawning.
"Bro you know as well as I do that we can't say no" I said.
"Like hell. I don't want anything to do with them" she said.
"Bro please don't make this complicated. They probably just want to offer us a job we can say no and we'll be done with them" I said. "Well unless we accept the job" I mumbled.
Mia looked up at me a completely wild look in her eyes.
"Ezra why the hell would we even consider accepting!?" she almost yelled.
"Well the money…" I started but trailed off as Mia got up and stormed out of the room. Oh great I thought and followed her out. She was in the bathroom so I sat down on the couch in our tiny living room. As I waited I couldn't help but get sad. The Sons intimidated the hell out of me but I couldn't help but think of the money. It sucked that this is what this decision was based off but in all honesty the best chance we had at actually having a life here was slim if we both worked at bars that didn't pay nearly as much as the Sons.
As Mia came out of the bathroom I was surprised to see she had her running gear on. The gear we had gotten a year ago when we were going to work out but never did. I didn't even think she had packed it.
"Are you going for a run?" I asked surprised.
"Yup" she said and after grabbing her headphones she started to walk out.
"Mia we need to talk about this!" I yelled.
"No we don't!" she yelled back before running off. Whatever she wasn't going to last the block I thought as I walked into the kitchen to make some food. Well a sandwich.
10 mins later Mia came back sweating and panting her face red.
"How far did ya get?" I asked.
"Around the block and part way down main street" she said taking a deep breath. Huh further then I would have thought.
"Are you ready to talk about this now?" I asked sitting down at the table.
"Nothing to talk about I have to go." she said grabbing a bottle of water and taking a deep drink.
"What made you change your mind?" I asked shocked. I thought I was going to have to force her to go. She rolled her eyes and sat down in front of me.
"Jax saw me running. Made me stop and agree to go" she said irritation clear in her voice. I wanted to laugh but didn't cause she looked upset.
"Oh" I said and took a bite of my sandwich.
"He's a dick." she said before getting up and walking to her room.
I laughed and finished eating.