CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN

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Sitting back at the table I pour a shot of vodka and lift it to my lips as Donna laughs at the finish of her tale of the cake.

"You done?" I ask quietly refilling my glass.

She shakes her head "No, now that you're back they get the story of you and your reversing issues."

I pour the second shot of vodka into my mouth and swallow, the fiery liquid burning its way to my stomach. "Okay, fine. But I get to tell the one about you and your first time on the back of a bike."

Donna grimaces then nods "Fair enough."

Turning to my friends she laughs "When Sarah got her licence she didn't waste any time coming to see me. When I lived with Mom and Dad we lived in a back section so we had this really long driveway with a kink in the middle of it. She drove down to the house just fine and spent a few hours there with me, it was when she went to leave that it all went to shit. She backed down the drive to about the halfway mark and then when she got to the kink she turned the wheel too much and ended up with her tyres falling off the edge of the drive and into the garden where she got stuck."

Al and Cam both look at me with laughter in their eyes "What the fuck?" Cam spits out, holding her laughter in check, barely.

I nod "I know. What's worse though is it wasn't even one tyre, I somehow managed to get the car so that one back tyre and the diagonally opposite front one were stuck in the garden on either side of the driveway."

Donna starts laughing and that sets off my two friends. Jax appears behind me "What is the hyena brigade laughing at?"

Al looks up at him and laughs "I really am glad she can turn around in the new place."

Jax frowns "What?"

I shake my head and drink my third vodka shot in several minutes before sighing "Donna was sharing my lack of reversing ability."

Jax leans back in his chair and laughs, his eyes dancing with the memory. "Did you finish the story or stop where you normally do?"

I pout and drag my chair closer to his "I didn't finish it."

Jax puts his arm around my shoulder and runs his fingers over my arm, the pads resting on the top of the tree on my bicep. Looking over at Cam and Al he waits till they stop laughing and meet his eyes "Ope and I were here playing pool when Clay came in and zeroed in on is. We were ordered to get in the tow truck and go to D's. Without being given a reason we obeyed cause well we weren't prospects yet and it would have been a bitch to argue. We got there and found Donna laughing at the position of the car and Sarah glaring daggers at her."

Donna's still laughing at my glare doesn't help when she points at me "Yep, that's the glare."

Jax runs his fingers over my shoulder again and chuckles "We backed the tow truck up the drive and hooked it on, pulled it out of the garden just as Donna's parents arrived home. They were less than impressed with Ope and I being there, even less so when they saw what had happened to the garden."

I poke my tongue out at Jax and Donna "I got banned from Donna's house for 4 weeks for that, and I had to pay for the plants I killed."

Donna giggles and looks at me "Could have been worse if Jax didn't lie and say there was something wrong with your steering."

I lean up and kiss Jax on the cheek "True. I think it would have been a year if he hadn't saved my ass."

Jax turns his head and kisses me lightly on the lips "I love your ass, course I'll save it."

Opie picks up his wife and puts her on his knee as he sits down "You didn't love her ass then and still put your neck on the line for it."

Jax shakes his head turning back to Opie "I did love her ass then, I just didn't know it."

Opie chuckles and shakes his head looking at the table "So are we telling stories of Sarah when she was an innocent kid?"

Donna snorts and looks at me "She was never innocent. She came here and ripped through town like the devil spawn she is."

I poke my tongue out at her again "Love you too D."

Donna picks up the vodka bottle and pours two shots of it, doing the same with the other glasses leaving one empty as she looks around "Where's Juice? Why isn't he here being all Old Man protective?"

Al gestures to where Juice is in the corner with his laptop open "He had some update he had to do tonight to the security program."

Pushing glasses at us all Donna meets my eyes and smiles softly "Seriously though S, you know I love you." I nod silently picking up my glass as she continues "But I really do have to tell them about the year your family forgot your birthday."

I shake my head looking around the clubhouse "My family never forgotten my birthday, I was here for all of them up till I left."

Jax tightens his grip around me before setting his glass down "Stand up for a second babe."

Getting to my feet he pushes my chair away to the table across from us and moves a little further back from the table "My laps cold."

Shaking my head I sit back down on his thighs, his arm coming around my waist to hold me in place.

Donna clears her throat and rolls her eyes "Right, now that you're done. You are done aren't you?"

Jax nods "I'm good."

I lean backwards into his chest "Yes baby you are."

Jax laughs, his chest moving behind me as Donna makes fake gagging noises "D, before you start telling this story, which I have no objections to you telling, I'd just like to remind you of what you and our dear Gigantore were like in your first few months together."

Jax snorts "Months, they're still like that Darlin', you just haven't noticed."

I wiggle back into his arms and smirk at the inhalation of breath at my movements "I've been distracted."

Donna lifts her middle finger "We all know what's been keeping you distracted. I seem to remember being told that you could wear a few inches off and it would still be big enough."

Jax laughs loudly from behind me before nuzzling his nose into my neck "Really babe, you were talking about me with D?"

I shrug and glare at her "Well, she was sharing about this thing Ope does with his tongue."

Opie holds up both hands "Right enough of that thanks!"

Al and Cam sit quietly, only their shaking shoulders giving away the mirth they're trying to hold back. Looking between Donna and I they both give in and start giggling.

Cam's the first to get control of her laughter and she looks over at Opie "Maybe you can tell us this story of Sarah and a forgotten birthday?"

Opie nods "I certainly can. I was there for the aftermath."

I drop my head into my hands and groan. Donna leans forward and pushes my glass towards me, waiting till I've drunk the clear liquid before refilling it again.

Clearing his throat Opie looks at Al and Cam and I giggle at the momentary thought of the huge man reading bedtime stories to his twins.

"Sarah's 14th birthday was a lesson to all of us to never forget it." Opie starts grinning at me.

**When I was 16 I actually did get my car stuck in a garden, but it was in my own drive way...my husband still teases me about it almost 17 years later.