…Chapter 2…

"God, I fucking missed you." Kozik whispered, hugging her tight.

"I missed you too." she giggled. "But I though you were gonna tell Happy about us, because he still thinks we hate each other."

Kozik backed up to look at her. "Yeah and have him kill me?"

Nicole rested her hands on his shoulders. "He's not gonna kill you, you're his best friend, and I don't think he'll do it."

"Being his best friend and Brother, isn't gonna stop him."

"Okay, then if he hurts you in any, way, shape, or form… then that would be hurting me and he wouldn't do anything to hurt me, Kozik."

"Yeah, he's gonna love the idea of me fucking around with his little sister, knowing my track record." Kozik rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Riiiiiight."

"Well, we can stop what this is, now, and he wouldn't ever have to know."

Kozik pulled Nicole into his arms. "You know I can't do that."

"And why is that?"

"Because… you're my girl and I missed the hell out of you."

"Kozik." she laughed. "We seen each other two weeks ago."

"Well, that's a long time, being away from you." he started kissing her neck, then suddenly stopped, and backed up to look at her. "Did you ever go to the doctor to find out what was wrong with you?"

"Uh, yeah… just a stomach flu, nothing serious."

"So you're okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." she looked away. "But right now, I'm tired, and I just wanna go to sleep."

"Okay." he kissed Nicole on her forehead. "Let's go the bed." he grabbed her hand and led her into the master bedroom.

"Oh, my old bed is in here." she nodded. "Cool." then she went into her suitcase and pulled out her pajamas. "Can you clear the bed while I go potty?"

"Sure, Babe." he nodded, taking off his cut, then Nicole went into the bathroom.

After she put her pajamas on, she looked down at her stomach, and placed her hand on it, trying not to cry. "It's not just a stomach flu." she whispered. "And I don't know how long I can keep you a secret. I already know that Daddy doesn't want you, but I do, ever since I found out you were growing inside me." she rubbed her stomach. "Don't worry though, Mommy's gonna fix this."

Nicole splashed some water on her face and wiped it off with the towel, then walked out of the bathroom. She saw Kozik sitting on the edge of her bed wearing nothing but his navy blue and black boxers. "Come 'ere, Sexy." he smiled, then she slowly walked up to him, and he wrapped his arms around her waist. "Babe, can't you move back to Charming?"

"I have school and it would be hard to pretend to hate you, if I lived here… me being in Oregon, is better, I'm in between Tacoma and Charming." she backed up to look at him. "We don't have to pretend, unless Happy's there, which isn't that often."

Kozik sighed. "I guess that will have to do."

Nicole ran her fingers through his hair. "Well, I told you what you have to do… to change it."

"Yeah, I know… but I'm not ready to make it to the top of Happy's hit list and leave you behind."

"Awe… always thinking about me." she lightly smacked his face. "I need some sleep." she wiggled away from him, then got into bed, while Kozik turned off the light.

Seconds later, he crawled into the bed with her, then pulled her to his chest, and wrapped his arms around her. "Damn, I miss this."

"Miss what?" she asked.

"This… you and me, just laying here, and I miss waking up next to you."

"Yeah, me too." she chuckled. "But everytime you'd leave, Remy would take your spot."

Kozik groaned. "Dumb dog."

"Hey, she's still a puppy."

"I know, I know… so who's watching her, while you're with me?"

"You mean, while I'm in Charming?"

"Same difference." he laughed.

"Yeah, well… Erin and her brother Noah are puppy-sitting."

"That's good." he slightly nodded. "Good night, Baby." he mumbled, kissing the side of her head.

"Good night." she said, softly, closing her eyes.

The next morning, Nicole woke up to the sound of motorcycles pulling up, then her eyes shot open, and she started to panic. "Kozik! Wake up!" she shook him, but all he did was mumble nonsense. "Kozik! Wake your ass up!"

"What the fuck you doing?" he lifted his head. "Go back to bed."

"The guys are here. I don't know who, but you need to get out on that couch, quick-like."

It took a second for all of it to register in his mind. "Oh, shit!" he jumped out of her bed, then threw his jeans on, and grabbed all his stuff, running out the door.

Nicole got up. "You forgot your cut!" she ran out and tossed it to him as the doorbell rang. "Lay down." she whispered. "Pretend you're asleep."

"Yeah, yeah." he waved his arm, then covered his face with the couch pillow.

Nicole counted to three and took a deep breath, then opened the door. "Good morning… guys." she smiled at Happy, Jax, and Juice as they walked in.

"What took so long to answer the door, Nicky?"

"Well, Hap, I'm all the way in the back room and his lazy ass wasn't gonna get up and open the door for me." she said, pointing to Kozik, then Happy nodded, sitting in the recliner.

"Welcome home." Jax said, giving Nicole a hug.

"Thanks, but I'm not exactly home." she let go. "I'm only staying a week, if that."

"Maybe." Jax smirked. "All of us can change your mind."

Nicole shook her head. "Nah, I'm doing all right in Portland."

"Okay, fine." Jax nodded. "Go get dressed… I'm taking you to the clubhouse, so you and Mom can go to the funeral parlor."

"Oh, goodie." she rolled her eyes. "I'm so not looking forward to planning this funeral, it just needs to hurry up, and be over with."

"Yeah." Kozik sat up. "So your ass can hurry up and go back to Oregon."

Nicole wasn't expecting Kozik to say anything, but she looked over at Happy. "Can you make sure this good-for-nothing asshole is off my couch, and out of my house, before I'm done getting dressed?"

"Sure, Nicky." Happy nodded with a frown, then Nicole went into her room.

Five minutes later, Nicole's phone went off with a text message from Kozik, she picked it up and read it."That was close, but I don't know if I'll be able to keep my hands off of you."

She responded back. "Well, you'll have to keep your hands to yourself and if you want the guys to be convinced that we hate each other, don't hold back."

Kozik responded back a minute later. "Okay, Baby… if you say so, I can be mean."

Nicole put her phone in her back pocket and walked out into the livingroom wearing dark blue jeans, a black baby-doll tank top, and black Chucks. She grabbed her purse and laptop case, then put on her sunglasses. "I'm ready."

"What's that?" Jax pointed.

"My purse?"

"No, the other thing."

"Uh, my laptop."

Jax raised his eyebrow. "You're bringing your laptop? For what?"

"I want Juice to take a look at it and update it with new firewalls and security junk." she looked over at Juice. "Can you?"

"Yeah." he held out his hand. "I'll take it with me."

She handed it to him, then looked over at Jax. "There, now all I got is my purse."

"Let's go." Happy groaned, then all of them walked outside.

"About fucking time!" Kozik shouted out. "Took long enough to get dressed."

"Shut up, Ass clown… what the fuck would you know about getting dressed, since you just rolled off my couch."

Happy groaned. "Would you two fucking stop with the bullshit."

"Hap, that jackass started it."

"Nicky, I don't care." he got on his bike. "Let's just fucking go."

"Fine with me." Nicole said, getting on the bike behind Jax, then all the motorcycles took off.