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Charming Is Not so Charming

Chapter Nine: Fundraiser & Juice's Back

Juliet was helping Gemma and Luann set up for the annual fundraiser. April Hobart walked up to the booth and Juliet's smile faded. April's ex-husband, Kyle, was the guy that caused Opie to go to prison for the 5 years. The club wasn't going to like this as April asked if the club would allow Kyle to come out and see his son play in his band.

"I'll see what I can do." Gemma told her.

"Hi, Juliet." April said with a smile.

"Hi, April." Juliet said as the woman watch April walk away. "The club is not going to like this."

"Yeah, no shit." Gemma said.

Juliet was getting ready to head to the store to pick up more things for their chili booth and Gemma was going to head to the garage to talk to Clay about Kyle.

"Hey, ask when Juice will be back."

"Missing him already?" Gemma picked.

"I just want to make sure he isn't getting any from a nasty sweet butt."

Gemma smiled as she got into her car.

The next day, Juliet was at the chili booth when Bobby arrived late dressed up as Elvis. She smiled as she watched him interact with the children, who were also dressed up like Elvis. Donna came over Kenny and Ellie.

"I'm so glad you all could make it." Juliet said hugging Donna. "I haven't had a chance to come and see you since I've been back."

Juliet noticed how big the kids had gotten.

"OMG, they're practically grown."

Donna smiled looking at her kids. She told Juliet that they were going to walk around and that she would catch up with her later.

Juliet and Gemma seen Jax pin Kyle up against a wall and Jax looked over at his sister and mom and released Kyle.

"There's going to be trouble." Juliet said shaking her head. "I see it now."

Juliet went to change into her Priscilla costume and stood with Bobby taking pictures with the kids as Elvis and Priscilla. After all the pictures, Juliet sighed taking off the wig and wiped the sweat from her forehead. She looked over at Opie, who was sitting with all the fireworks and noticed him looking at Kyle. Jax walked over to his best friend and sat down, Juliet decided to walk over to divert the situation.

"You know, it's not safe to be smoking around fireworks, dumb asses." She told them. "There's tons of children here."

"Nice costume." Opie said looking up with a smile.

"She flipped them off and they noticed Kyle still had his SOA tattoo. The guys got up.

"Guys." Juliet said as Jax went to walk towards Kyle.

"I've got this." Opie said stopping Jax.

They watched as Opie followed Kyle.

"Jax."

"They're just settling some things, Jules." Jax said. "Relax."

Juliet rolled her eyes and went to go change out of the hot ass costume. She fixed her hair and pulled it up into a high pony tail and changed back into her normal clothes and went back to helping at the SAMCRO chili booth.

Tig, Bobby and Jax had to leave early, which didn't sit well with Gemma. That night, Kyle's son was setting up to play his set when April came over and said she couldn't find Kyle since he was last seen with Opie and Jax. Juliet seen Opie setting the fireworks and her mom walked over to him. Seconds later, she made her way over to Juliet.

"It's not looking too good for Kyle."

"Shit." Juliet cursed. "What the hell do we tell his ex-wife?"

"That she needs to be heading over to St. Thomas."

Juliet made her way over to the stage and found April and she ran her fingers through her hair.

"April, you need to go to St. Thomas." Juliet told her. "Gemma will bring your kids home."

"Jesus, what did they do?" She asked the youngest Teller.

"I don't know anything else." Juliet said putting her hand on the woman's shoulder. "I'm sorry."

April looked over at her son, who was on the drums and left. Juliet told her mom she was going home and she walked past Opie and his family as he started the fireworks. She waved and they smiled and waved as she made her to her car.

Juliet went home and took a long hot shower and thought about what the club had done to Kyle. She had also seen the huge SOA tattoo that Kyle still had on his back. She knew that once a member was ex-communicated or no longer in the MC that they would have to black out their tats. Since Kyle hadn't in five years, the club probably gave him two options; knife or fire. Juliet shivered thinking about either one having to be done but also knew that it was Kyle's own fault. Blacking it out would have been so much better than having it burned off or cut off. She got out, changed into some shorts and a tank and laid down in her bed. She hadn't talked to or seen Juice in a week and she had to admit, as much as she hated to, that she kind of missed him. Bobby had told her earlier that he should be back tomorrow and that made her feel better.

She woke up and done her normal routine in the morning before heading to the shop. Before she headed to the garage, she stopped into Charming Hair Salon and put in an application and met the owner, Ally. She said she would look over Juliet's application and give her a call back once she made a decision. Juliet would take the part-time job from opening time to noon and then go to the garage and work from then until closing.

She was in the office all of half an hour when Half Sack came in and asked for the number to the septic company. It had to have been Piney filling the tanks up as usual but Half informed the women that someone had flushed panties. He got the number and before heading out he told them that they both looked nice today.

"Thank you, Eddie." Gemma told him.

He walked out and Gemma turned to her daughter.

"What the hell was that all about?"

Juliet shrugged and she heard a large truck pull up. Gemma opened the blinds and Juliet got up to look. She seen a girl get out of the cargo truck with Juice and Juliet frowned.

"Who is that bitch?" Juliet asked.

Clay went over and grabbed Juice by the neck. The women couldn't hear the conversation but it wasn't pleasant. The girl stopped Clay and Clay and the girl had words. Jax came up and slapped Juice in the back of the head. Juice was upset as he tried to grab the girl's arm to get her out of there.

"You think Juice was hitting that while he was in Nevada?" Juliet asked her mom.

The girl looked over at Half Sack, who turned away from her. Juliet had enough and walked outside and crossed her arms as Juice once again grabbed the girl's arm. He seen Juliet standing beside the office door and knew he was in deep trouble. Half Sack came over to the office and Juliet grabbed his arm before he went inside.

"Did Juice sleep with her?"

"No." Half Sack said shaking his head.

"Don't lie to me, Half Sack."

"I'm…I'm not, Juliet. I swear."

She nodded and let go of his arm as she followed him into the office.

"Who is that girl?" Gemma asked closing the door behind them.

"Um…" Half Sack said shaking his head. "I don't really…I don't know."

"Yeah." Gemma said not buying it getting into his face. "I saw your heart skip a beat from here. Who is she?"

"Just a Tribe hang around."

Gemma nodded and Juliet knew that it wasn't Juice who had messed with the girl, it had been Clay.

"Clay hit that, didn't he?"

"I wouldn't know who Clay's hitting…" Half Sack said nervously. "Except for you. I'm sure he's hitting you…because you're his wife and all."

Juliet sighed shaking her head at Half Sack, who looked at her for help. She felt a little guilty over feeling relieved it wasn't Juice but she felt bad for her mom.

"Get out." Gemma told the prospect.

He walked out and Gemma let out a hurtful sigh.

"I need a minute, sweetheart." She told her daughter.

Juliet nodded and walked out of the office behind the prospect. Juice came back 15 minutes later and the girl wasn't with him.

"I can explain." He told her coming up with his hands in surrender mode. "I didn't…"

"You bringing this girl back here just caused a lot of shit." She told him coldly. "I know what you all do when you're on runs but you cannot bring them back. You can sleep with whoever you want, it's not like you have claim over me and me over you. We're just having a good time together, right?"

She didn't give him time to answer as she walked away bumping into him.

"I haven't been back an hour and already have people pissed at me." He groaned as he headed towards the clubhouse for a meeting.