Juice

Pulling into the compound Juice noticed a few people had returned from the Carnival long before he had. Grateful that he wasn't the only one he parked his bike next to Tig's and walked towards the club house. There were a few people sitting on the picnic tables smoking and chatting when they noticed him walk by. They all waved in which he responded with a wave of his own before walking on towards the building. The sound of pool balls hitting each other, and music playing through the speakers greeted him as he walked through the door. The croweater's waved happily and motioned for him to talk to them which would most certainly lead to at least one of them to his room at the end of the night.

Tonight however he would go to the bar, get a drink and then just enjoy the company of his boys. Ignoring the hoots of the ladies he walked past them towards the bar where a prospect stood waiting for any orders the boys may have. Tig was already perched at the bar with a bottle blonde chick hanging around his neck like he was some sort of lifeline. Taking the seat next to him Tig extended a fisted hand in which he hit it with his own followed by a "Decided to come back early?"

Taking a swig of his beer, Tig shrugged "Couldn't really handle the whole carnival thing, I mean do you know how many dolls there are?" he blew out a breath "It was like every turn I took there was a fucking doll in my face."

Juice knew his unnatural fear of dolls and instead of laughing like he would many times before he gave a sympathetic smile "I think I remember telling you not to go but you're too damned stubborn to listen so really it was your own fault."

Tig took another long swig of his beer then placed it firmly back onto the bar "I just thought maybe they would have teddy bears, not fucking dolls. Who gives dolls away as prizes anyway? Fucking crazy places, that's who." He said with a shiver.

"Awe baby, I would have protected you." The blonde chimed in. Tig merely gave her ass a squeeze without replying to what she had said.

"So, what was with you and that chick tonight?" he asked focusing back on Juice.

Letting his hands rest on the bar he motioned to the prospect for a beer and then shrugged "Not much. We did our own thing for most of the night." He left it at that making Tig bark out a laugh.

"Yeah, I gathered as much. What I meant to ask was what you guys did while you were alone?" he wiggled his eyebrows and winked.

The prospect took that moment to drop off an opened bottle of beer in front of Juice. Lifting the bottle he took a long swig then placed it onto the bar as he shifted to look at Tig "We played games, went on rides. Normal stuff, you know?"

"Really? Jesus, have I really not taught you anything?" he asked with a roll of the eyes. "Listen, you could have easily tapped her on one of the rides. You know how amazing it is to fuck on the Ferris wheel?" he looked at him dead in the eyes "Fucking amazing" he stated bluntly. This caught the blonde's attention again as she nipped at his ear causing him to growl his satisfaction.

"Unlike you I don't just fuck random strangers in public." He said taking another swig of beer.

"Mmhm, I know that's bullshit."He pointed out and laughed "But, I think I'm going to take Candy outside. We need some fresh air." He said shifting off the chair and wrapped an arm around the blondes shoulder. Looking down at Juice he cupped his shoulder and smiled "You really missed out on something." He said again before walking off with the bottle blonde stuck to his side.

"Take it easy." Juice said tilting his beer towards Tig as he watched him walk outside leaving Juice alone with his thoughts.

There were a few croweaters that slinked up to the bar, and with his usual charm he told them that he wasn't interested tonight and that maybe one of the prospects needed some attention. This gained him some disapproving glares and eye rolls as the girls stormed off.

Pulling out his phone to glance down at the Nora's number he contemplated on sending her a message, just to make sure that it was real and not some fake number for guys who had no chance to begin with. Sliding his fingers across the keys he was extremely close but quickly closed the phone and pocketed back into his pocket. Reaching for his beer again he slugged back the last little bit, how he'd managed to down his drink so quickly was beyond him. Placing the bottle back onto the counter, he sat alone with his thoughts. Memories of when Nora and he kissed came through his mind; he couldn't shake just how soft and plump Nora's lips were and how she tasted like vanilla lip gloss that she must have been wearing throughout the night. At that moment when they were sitting in the bucket he wanted nothing more than to deepen the kiss, to run his fingers through her brown hair and to have her strong legs straddled across his lap as he held either side of her face as he kissed her intimately. He'd never been that kind of guy that would fall for a girl so fast, but there was something about her that made him want more.

When he'd driven her back to her dorm he couldn't get over just how comfortable it felt with her hands wrapped around his waist like she'd done it before. She'd even surprised him by the way she expertly put the helmet on, got on his bike like she owned it and the way she knew to lean when they turned the corner. Something about her just seemed like Biker Chick material. He'd definitely have to setup another night to get together.

He needed to get to her know her. Knowing full well that when she'd talked about her life, she'd clearly been hiding things and with a little help from his lover technology he'd find out in no time just who this Nora was.

The next morning Juice awoke to a knock on his door. Barking out a raspy 'come in' the door began to open and Opie stepped into the room "Morning dude." He said looking down at the half naked Juice.

"What's up man?" he asked pulling the blanket to cover his lower half as he stifled a yawn.

"Guys want coffee. Want to come?" he asked with a smile. He'd known that Magi and Nora were at the coffee shop, Magi had sent Opie a text when they got there and knowing just how well their evening went Opie had to at least throw the offer out for him to see her again.

"Sure. Just give me a second." Juice said with another yawn.

"Alright, I'll be out front when you're ready." He said before closing the door to leave Juice alone in his room. It hadn't quite clicked that he'd be seeing Nora so soon as coffee was just a regular day to day ritual.

Nora

The Next day

Sitting in the coffee shop the next morning with Magi who looked as if she'd been awake for hours by how put together she was. Nora however wore her favorite pair of dark blue jeans, a black sweater with an obscure band name and her hair back into its messy bun. Nora was far from awake and as she nursed her coffee she cursed to herself for even agreeing on coming so early in the morning. For the first night she managed to finally get a goodnight sleep and woke up to the sound of a text go off at almost 8:00am. Luckily she didn't have class until 10:00am so if she needed to squeeze a nap she could.

"Okay" Magi began to say as she sat up straight "Tell me what happened last night. First I hear you're leaving to go back to the university and then all of a sudden you come back to hang out with Juice?"

"That's pretty much it?" she picked at the cardboard sleeve on her cup as she avoided eye contact with Magi.

Tilting her head Magi let out an annoyed puff "Seriously? You're just going to say that? Come on! Tell me what happened" she ended with a pleading tone.

Sighing, Nora sat up straight to look at Magi "Fine. I got freaked out because of your boyfriend and his friends. You failed to mention that he was a member of SAMCRO." She gave an expectant glare over at Magi who seemed to shrug off the remark instead of going into the apologies.

"Yeah? So?" she said nonchalantly "He's a part of a group, so what?" Picking up the cup she took a delicate sip to avoid any smearing of her pink lipstick and placed it back onto the table.

Nora shook her head in disbelief by her friends careless attitude "Magi, seriously? You know what kind…" she paused and closed her eyes. She couldn't tell her friend about MC life in risk of exposing who she really was in order to save her friend. Even for that she would be foolish to try to tell her to look for someone else when all she could think about was Juice.

"Kind of what?" Magi asked in confusion.

"Nevermind" Nora responded as she opened her eyes "Alright to be honest, I was overwhelmed and to see a group of huge menacing guys was just kind of overboard. I thought you wouldn't miss me so I wanted to leave."

A smirk appeared on her lips as Magi put the pieces together "Oh, so when you realized you had no ride to get back you came back. I get it." Nodding in agreement to her realization Magi only laughed harder "And then you ended the night with Juice. Talk about a good night." She added triumphantly like she had pushed them together in the first place.

"Pretty much." She admitted "When Brad said that he was still in study group I thought it would be better if I just came back instead of waiting like a creeper by your car."

"Well, I'm glad you came back." Magi smiled before taking another sip of her drink. A few students took that moment to come in, there loud chatter filled the once quiet area. There were two guys who immediately spotted Magi and Nora as they walked into the café. One wore a blue polo shirt, and jeans with brown spiked hair, while the other had a dark brown faux hawk, a simple green tee shirt and jeans as well. Deciding to ignore the two Nora focused back on Magi who now had her phone out as she texted whomever.

"So, do you know much about Juice?" Nora asked out of curiosity. She'd wanted to text him last night just to make sure he made it home safe, but she didn't want to seem like a needy croweater so she left it and thought that if Juice wanted to talk to her he could make the first move.

Lifting her head, Magi inwardly squealed by her friend's question "Do I sense that you like him?" she tilted her head as a crooked smile crossed her face.

"Maybe?" lifting the cup to her mouth she sucked down the warm liquid to cover her oncoming smile that would soon form.

Magi squealed out a laugh as she scooted closer to the table "Oh my god, could you imagine if we were both dating a member of SAMCRO? We'd be like sisters!" she said with an excited tone.

Lowering the cup, Nora lifted her hands and began to shake her head back and forth "What? No. Look I just met the guy. Get those thoughts out of your head."

Rolling her eyes Magi could only smile "Maybe that was a little extreme. Okay, what do you want to…"

"Hey girl's, how are you beautiful ladies doing?" Polo asked before grabbing a free chair to sit next to Magi. He gave her a hungry look followed by him running his hand across his chin. Faux hawk grabbed a chair to sit next to Nora as he gave her an indifferent look. He'd pick the short straw, Nora thought to herself.

"We're trying to have a private conversation." Magi bit out harshly as she eyed Nora with a 'are you serious?' look splashed across her face.

"Cool. Cool. Well hopefully you don't mind if we sit with you." He looked around at the full café "not much sitting room." Turning his attention back to Magi he gave her his most flirtatious smile "Plus a beautiful girl like you should at least get my number. Don't you think?"

"We actually do mind." Magi bit out again "and you really think I need your number? I wonder what my boyfriend would say about that." She added with a snarl. Polo laughed and made some remark about her boyfriend not having to know they exchanged numbers.

Faux hawk had moved his attention to Nora and smiled at her "How's it going sweetie?" He gave her a once over, for once she was grateful for her baggy sweaters.

'Sweetie?' she repeated to herself. Swallowing the anger that was beginning to form, Nora adorned a sweet smile as she looked at Faux hawk "Alright I guess."

"Awe, just alright?" he pouted playfully, draping his arm across the back of her chair much like Juice had done the night before had made her feel uneasy. Unlike Juice where it seemed innocent, this time it was too much, like he had some motive.

Moving her body closer to the window, she shrugged "Actually I'm great. We're great…So why don't you both just take a hike and go talk to those girls over there?" she motioned towards the group of girls at the table across from them.

Faux Hawk leaned over to take a long look over at the other table and then shrugged "You guys seem a lot more fun, and my friend here seems to be hitting it off with your friend." He added pointing towards Magi and Polo who were in a heated conversation.

To her surprise Polo's eyes widened when Magi had sat up straight and smiled "Maybe you should both go." Resting her hands on the table she waited for Polo's response.

"Yeah…yeah…Okay dude, we should go." Polo said to Faux Hawk who scrunched his eyebrows in confusion.

"What?" he spat out in confusion "Dude…" he paused when the bell of the diner chimed.

To everyone's surprise two large men walked into the diner, both adorning the Reaper vests. Magi smiled up at Opie when he walked towards the table "baby!" she squealed, standing up he opened his arms for her to snuggle close into his embrace. To Nora's surprise she noticed that behind the two stood Juice. His eyes equally widened like hers when he looked from Nora then to two guys sitting with them. Polo now fully aware of the situation stood and grabbed onto Faux Hawks shirt sleeve "Come on dude, we should get going." Faux Hawk only nodded as they scurried away from the table and out the front door.

"Friends of yours?" he asked motioning towards the door.

Shaking her head, Magi released the embrace to take a seat back down "Nah, just two guys thinking they are gods gift to women." she said with a shrug.

"Hm." Opie grunted his reply as he took the seat next to Magi. Instantly his hand found hers as he pushed his chair closer to her.

Nudging him playfully, Magi laughed "Is someone jealous?"

Nora turned her attention then as Juice sat next to her. She fought the bashful smile that was forming on her lips "Hey." she managed to say.

"Hey, didn't think I'd see you so soon." he replied with a laugh. Opie had failed to mention they were going to the university cafe, all he knew was that they were going to pick up coffee for the boys. That was it. He should have known there was something else by the way Opie had woken him up and continued to give a sly smile as they drove down the road.

"I should have known something was up when Magi asked to go for coffee so early" Nora admitted as she rolled her eyes playfully.

"Seriously though." He laughed out loud, clearly this had been a set up. How he missed the clear signs was beyond him.

Nora laughed along with him as they continued their chatter between the group. On lookers, including the barista would stare and point towards there table as people whispered "They're SAMCRO."

At one point Nora noticed the barista glare towards her and shake her head in disapproval. She'd shrugged it off as her being jealous the guys were talking to them. It wasn't uncommon girls would act the way she had been and as she continued to chat with Juice she'd notice the way the barista attempted to get his attention. Like they had some sort of prior connection. When she pouted by Juice not paying attention to her Nora took notice that his attention it was solely set on her as they chatted. It felt like they were the only people in the room when she focused on him, much like it had felt all last night when they were at the carnival.

"So, I was thinking that maybe you'd want to go catch a movie or something sometime with me." he asked with a soft smile.

'No' she wanted to say and instead without missing a beat she happily replied "Sure, that would be fun."

Magi had taken that moment to let out a "awe, you guys are so adorable." Nora came crashing back down to earth fast as she remembered they were sitting in a coffee shop, across from Magi and Opie as they looked towards the two of them and then back to each other.

Anyone could be in that shop at that moment. It would only take one person who knew her Father to let him know that she was talking to other members. Shaking her fears she needed to get out "I should probably go back to my dorm." Nora spat out fast as she pushed the chair away from the table, grabbed her coffee and began to sprint out of the coffee shop.

Everyone sat perplexed by her reaction, Magi had made a comment about how this was just a regular occurrence. Opie hadn't cared much as he held her closer. Juice however watched still confused "I'm going to see if she's okay." he excused himself from the table then went after Nora leaving Opie and Magi blissfully alone.

Running a hand across her face Nora cursed to herself over and over about how stupid she was to be in public twice with that group. She should have said 'no' to his request of going to a movie. She couldn't date Juice, she thought to herself.

Juice's voice went unheard as he followed her "Nora" he said again before getting close enough to grasp onto her hand to slow her down. He noticed almost immediately how her chest heaved in and out like she were having some sort of anxiety attack. Knowing full well what an attack like that looked like he went into full help mode as he watched her try to speak.

"I...I..." she spoke unevenly as she tried to breathe. Dropping the cup of coffee onto the ground causing the top to pop off on impact causing it's contents to run along the sidewalk she cupped her face with palmed hands willing herself to get under control.

"Just breathe Nora. Deep breaths" he said holding onto her shoulders "It's going to be okay, just breathe." he repeated as he tried to look into her brown eyes in hopes that would bring her back.

Lowering her hands so they lay limp against her side she swallowed, and nodded before looking into his comforting eyes as she took in long deep breaths. Juice's soft voice continued to soothe her by whispering "There you go. Keep breathing."

Taking breath after breath until her heart began to beat regularly, she noticed the worry covering his face as he watched her unravel in front of him. It had been years since she had an attack like that. She thought she was better, thought that all of that worry was gone.

Running comforting hands over her arms, he wanted to pull her into an embrace to tell her it was going to be okay. Instead he continued to look into her brown eyes "You're going to be okay." he simply said. Even if they wouldn't date, he would make sure this would never happen again.

Needing to close the distance Nora stepped closer towards him and wrapped her arms around Juice's waist before resting her head against his chest "Thank you" she whispered.

"Anytime..." he said wrapping his arms around her. He knew this was not the time to notice how she smelt of coconut and vanilla a sweet combination that made his body stir. Shaking the thoughts, he held her close and whispered "We've all been there, Nora. I'm just glad I could help..."

Thank you for the reviews! I'm glad you guys are enjoying this story.

I've gone back to the past chapters and have fixed the errors.

Clearly my editing is not up to par. Sorry about that guys.