...Chapter 4...
Opie had taken Amanda out to the docks and both of them were just sitting there, with their feet dangling in the water. "I'm so sorry, Ope." she said, after five minutes of silence. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you, I mean, you had a right to know... I just.." she trailed off.
"Well, I don't know if telling me would have helped, since I was locked up, because of the fact that I wouldn't have been able to be there for you or the baby."
"I guess." Amanda shrugged. "It wasn't meant to be."
"But what if it was?"
"I don't know, Ope." she looked up at the sky. "As much as I wished it were true, you'd still be with Donna."
"How do you even know that?"
"Because I do." she looked over at him. "You can sit there and tell me that you'd leave Donna for me, there'd be no..." Amanda suddenly got cut off by Opie's lips planted on hers.
After a few minutes of overdue making out, Opie rested his forehead on Amanda's, as both of them were trying to catch their breath. "I know a guy that will let me use his boat house... wanna go?"
She backed up and raised her eyebrow. "Seriously?"
"Yeah, why not?" he stood up, then helped her up. He rubbed his thumb on her cheek and she nodded. "Come on." he grabbed their shoes with one hand and held grabbed her hand with the other, then lead her to the boathouse, where they spent the rest of the night, loving each other, until they fell asleep.
Donna went over to the clubhouse the next morning, looking for Opie, but she ran into Jax instead. "Hey, have you seen Ope?"
"Ope?" he looked at the ground, running his fingers through his hair. "Didn't he go home last night, during the party?"
"No... and his bike isn't here either." she crossed her arms over her chest. "He's with Amanda, isn't he?"
"Not that I know of."
"Then where is she? I know she's back in town."
"Uh, she told me that she was going to a hotel, last night." he lied, because he honestly didn't know where she was.
"I highly doubt it, if you see her before I do, you tell her to stay the hell away from my husband." Jax just nodded as Donna walked back to her car, got in, and drove off.
Jax took a deep breath and he took out his cell phone to call Opie. No answer, so he called again, this time, Opie picked up. "Yeah, hello?"
"Where are you?"
"Huh?"
"Opie... Donna came looking for you and she thinks you're with my sister, so are you?"
"No." Opie lied. "I'm not."
"There's only two places she's supposed to be... here at the clubhouse or at my moms and she's at neither, so that leaves only one more place." he paused. "With you."
"Ope, who is that?" Jax heard in the background.
"Shit!" Jax yelled. "You are..." he paused to whisper in his phone. "With my sister."
"Look, I'll be over to the clubhouse in a little bit, just don't say anything to Donna or anyone else."
"Yeah, okay." Jax told him, then hung up.
"Was that my brother?" Amanda said, with a yawn.
"Yep." Opie set the phone down on the bed next to him and rolled over to face Amanda. "Donna was looking for me, but Jax covered our asses."
"Ope." she sighed. "I really don't want Donna to find out, because wife or not, she comes up at me, I'll kick her ass."
"It won't come to that." Opie chuckled. "But we should be headed back... before Donna chops my nuts off."
Amanda laughed out loud. "Sucks for you."
"Actually, it'd also suck for you." he said, climbing on top of her. He stared at her for a few seconds, then gave her a heart felt kiss. "Come on, let's go."
"All right." she groaned. "Take me to a motel or something, that way, everyone will think I've been there, but if they don't, then I don't know... haven't really thought that far ahead." he nodded with a laugh, then after both of them got dressed, they left the marina, and went back to Charming.
After Opie dropped Amanda off at the Motel 6, he rode over to the clubhouse, where he saw Jax sitting on his bike, smoking a cigarette, then Opie pulled up, parking his bike next to Jax. "You know." Jax started. "I don't feel comfortable lying to Donna's face like that."
"Don't worry about it, nothing happened." Opie lied, again. "Manda and I were talking and we fell asleep."
"You sure about that? I mean, this is me you're talking to."
Opie looked at Jax, right in his eyes. "Nothing happened."
"For your family's sake, nothing better not have happened."
"Look, I'm just gonna go crash." Opie started walking away. "Talk to you later." then he walked into the clubhouse. Jax shook his head and headed over to Gemma's.
Just as Amanda was about to fall back to sleep, her phone rang, she groaned as she pressed the talk button. "Huh?"
"Where the hell are you?"
"Holly?"
"Yeah, where have you been? You just vanished last night."
"Oh, yeah... I'm at the Motel 6 and you disturbed my sleep."
"Well, I'm sorry that I let it slip to Opie, I didn't mean to."
"It's fine." Amanda sighed. "He was gonna find out sooner or later... so, did you have fun at the party?"
"Yeah, I was drinking, and was dancing with Tig, then I woke up in his room."
"Oh, boy... you better be careful with Tig.. he can be a loose cannon at times."
"Don't worry, Manda, I got this."
"All right, then." Amanda chuckled.
"Hey, I'm gonna head on over there to the motel that you're at... then we can go to breakfast or something."
"That would be great, because I am kinda hungry." she paused. "I'm in room fourty-seven."
"Okay, Manda, see you in a little bit." Holly told her, then hung up. Amanda dropped her phone beside her and fell back to sleep.
Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock.
"No..." Amanda groaned, literally rolling out of the bed, stumbling over her shoes. "I just fell back to sleep." she muttered opening the door.
"Hello, Amanda."
"How the hell did you find me?" she thought to herself, rubbing her eyes. "Uh, hey, Donna... what are you doing here?"
Donna crossed her arms over her chest. "Look, I don't know if you were with Ope last night or not, but I'm telling you right now, to stay the hell away from my husband. He just got out of Chino and he doesn't need you bothering him."
"Well, there's no guarantee that he'll stay away from me, since we're friends, and all. Being Jax's sister, Opie is bound to be around me, and that's something you can't control."
"You heard me." Donna glared at her for a few seconds, then got into her car, and drove off.
"That woman is nutty." Amanda said, shutting the door, then she plopped on the bed, and fell back to sleep. Five minutes later, she heard more knocking. "Oh, my God... really!" she got up and opened the door. "Oh, hey, Holls... come in."
"What's up your ass?"
"I'm just tired and Donna was just here."
Holly walked in and sat down on the bed, as Amanda shut the door, then leaned up against it. "Whoa... what'd she want?"
"She told me to stay away from Opie."
"Are you?
"Hell no."
Holly laughed. "Good, you stand your ground and take your man!"
"Shut up." Amanda shook her head.
"Okay, get..." Holly paused, to look at Amanda wearing what she had on last night. "I was gonna say dressed, but you already have that accomplished, just fix your face or something, then we can go get something to eat."
"Yes, Mom." Amanda gave her a half ass salute, walking into the bathroom, then she made herself presentable. After that, they got into the car, and Amanda drove off.