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It was a couple days since Sophie had passed out and had to be carried back to our apartment. I was trying to convince her it wasn't that big of a deal if she went back, the Donnelly's wouldn't care about what happened a couple of nights ago. If they were the same Donnelly's as I remember something way more interesting had happened to them by now.

"No I can't go back. I don't care if the Pope died and the wake was being held there, I'm not going." She said crossing her arms trying to end the conversation.

"You have to, it'd be disrespectful to Ms. O'Brien if you didn't. She used to babysit us, her husband just died, and you don' want to go because you got drunk a couple days ago?"

She nodded her head and focused her attention back to the television.

"You're going, that's final. Go get dressed." I told her as I closed my bedroom door.

I took a quick shower and let my hair air dry. I put on a black tank top and a pair of black skinny jeans and a pair of black heeled boots.

I walked out of my room to find Sophie in a little black dress; she looked too dressed up to be going to a wake.

I grabbed my leather jacket and threw it on." Ready?" I asked her.

"Yea, but I'm not letting you go out like that." She said looking at my hair and make-up or lack thereof.

"What's wrong? We're going to a wake not a club." I said justifying how I looked.

"I don't care." She said putting her hands on her hips.

"Fine!"

She put my hair up in a high pony tail, and added to my basic make-up. I had to give Sophie credit, my make-up wasn't over the top, just basic foundation and eye shadow.

"Can we go now?" I asked her. I wanted to leave before she made me change into an outfit like hers.

"Jane this was stupid, let's just go back home." Sophie said pulling me away from the bar.

"Soph, come on. It's happening." I said walking into the bar. I felt Sophie step in behind me. I pulled her along as we gave our condolences to Ms. O'Brien. After that Sophie left to go see some of her friends, so I went to take a seat at the bar.

"What can I get you?" Jimmy asked looking me up and down.

"Jimmy do you seriously not remember me?" I asked him. Jimmy looked at me more closely and shook his head.

"Jane, Jane Murphy. I use to hang out with Sean when we were kids?" I told him trying to jog his memory.

"Holy shit you're little Jane Murphy. Hey Tommy get over here!" Jimmy called across the bar.

"What is it Jimmy?" Tommy asked.

"Remember the Murphy brothers we used to hang out with? Their little sister used to hang out with Sean? That's her!" Jimmy said pointing to me.

"Yeah I know I saw her couple nights ago. How's your sister doing?" Tommy asked me.

"Good, she's recovering nicely, as you can tell." I pointed over to my sister who at the moment was taking a shot with one of her friends. I shook my head, she didn't want people to think badly of her but there she was getting drunk, again.

Tommy laughed and Jimmy was still staring at me like he was watching a dead person talk.

"Is there something on my face?" I asked him, wondering if Sophie had gone a bit overboard with the make-up.

"No, just can't believe you're the girl that used to hang out with Sean. I mean you're hot now, what happened?" Jimmy asked laughing.

"It's called puberty Jimmy." I told him, rolling my eyes at him.

"Well it did wonders for you. Kevin look who it is." Jimmy yelled across the bar again.

I spun around on my bar stool and saw a guy with brown curly hair walking towards us. I immediately knew it was Kevin. He looked exactly the same as he did when we were little, except he was taller and had bigger shoulders.

"What?" Kevin asked taking a sip of his beer.

" 'Member Jane, she used to hang out with us when we were kids." Jimmy told him. "That's her." He said pointing to me like I wasn't there, Jimmy was just like I had remembered.

"Huh." Kevin said looking at me.

"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" I asked him feigning offence.

"No I uh didn't uh mean it lik-"

"Kevin, its fine." I told him smiling. I felt Kevin relax next to me. "Buy me a beer, yeah?"

"So how's your mom doing, I haven't seen her in a while." I asked Kevin. We were sitting at a little table near the cigarette machine.

"She's fine, still bugging Sean to get back to high school." Kevin said shaking his head.

"Go back? Sean dropped out?" I had no idea, when we got to high school I got a scholarship to a private school for mathematics. After I transferred I got lost in my school work.

"Yeah, he dropped out his final year." Kevin said with a slight shrug.

"Whoa, I had no idea. Guess I've been gone too long, huh?" I tried to hide the sadness from my voice, wasn't sure if I had succeeded or not.

"Not that long, things are still pretty much the same. How are your brothers doing, now them I haven't seen them in long time."

"My dad retired so Jake runs the restaurant now. Luke and Dylan are still studying up in Boston. But I thin-"

"Kevin! Three grand, Kevin? You owe three thousand dollars?" Tommy yelled interrupting our conversation. Kevin turned around and gave Tommy a half smile and a shrug.

"Do I want to know?" I asked laughing.

"Probably not." Kevin said laughing.

"No Bangin' on the machine!" Jimmy yelled.

"It took my money!"

"It's supposed to take your money!" Jimmy yelled at the guy.

"Wanna yell in my other ear?" A guy at the bar asked.

Jimmy gave him the look, the look I'd seen many times before. That was the look Jimmy had whenever he was about to get in a fight.

I was right; Jimmy jumped up on the bar and punched him right in the face. Soon there was a fight throughout the entire bar. Soon Tommy joined, followed shortly by Kevin and Sean. I was use to fights; I grew up with three brothers and the Donnelly's, fights were basically a daily occurrence. But I never got involved for three reasons. One: they could always take care of themselves. Two: they would be worried about me getting hurt. Three: they didn't want people thinking they need a girl to fight for them.

But I drew the line when this guy started to punch Kevin in the face.

I grabbed my beer mug and smashed it over his head. He turned to look at me and I punched him in the face and quickly kicked him in the stomach. Kevin got up as the guy fell over clutching his side.

"Thanks." He said smiling. I wiped some blood off his face, thankfully it wasn't his.

"Cops!" Somebody yelled.

"Come on," Kevin yelled grabbing my hand and pulling me out of the bar.

We ran out of the bar and into the alley where a huge truck was waiting.

"Pile In!" I heard Jimmy yell. Kevin opened the door and waited for me to get in.

I hesitated not sure if I should actually get in or not.

"Jesus Janey, hurry up!" Sean said giving me a shove.

"Alright, I'm going." I told him as I climbed into the truck. Kevin and Sean quickly got in after me.

"Get out of the truck, the cops are here!" Tommy yelled at us. But none of us made a move to get out of the truck.

"Come on, you know Jimmy can't drive!" Kevin yelled at Tommy.

"Neither can you! Get out of the truck!" Tommy turned around and started to walk away just as a cop car pulled up in front of the alley.

Tommy cursed, "Get back in the truck!" Tommy yelled at Jimmy.

I laughed as they climbed in and Tommy started to truck.

"Hey Tommy, you like this shirt?" Jimmy asked holding up a Hawaii shirt.

"You askin' if I like that shirt?"

"Yea, cause I got about a thousand more in the back!" Jimmy said laughing. I couldn't help but smile, Jimmy always got himself into crazy situations.

"You wanna move!" Tommy yelled at the cop car that was still parked in front of the alley.

We all broke out laughing as the cop car drove away.

Tommy looked over at me like he finally realized I was in the car.

"Damn it Shawn, you shouldn't have brought Janey."

"I didn't. Kevin brought her." Sean said defending himself.

"Hey, she was in the fight too! I had to bring her or she'd get arrested or something. You want that Tommy?" Kevin asked.

"Shut up Kevin," Tommy said shaking his head, he knew I wouldn't have been arrested. "You shouldn't hang out with us Jane, I don't want to bring you down with us."

I laughed at Tommy's words. "I think it's a little late for that. " I told him. "Drop me off at the restaurant, my shift started about twenty minutes ago."

"You still working at the restaurant?" Tommy asked.

"Yup, and Jake's still the same slave driver." I told them laughing. "How's Jenny, I haven't had the chance to talk to her."

"Jenny's good." Tommy relied simply.

"She still married to that guy?" I asked, last time I had seen Jenny was at her wedding.

No one answered me and everyone avoided my gaze. "What? What's wrong?" Still no one answered my question.

I turned to Jimmy knowing he'd be the most honest with me. "Jimmy, what happened?"

"Alright, I'll tell you. Her husband's dead, he stole some money from a bunch a drug dealers and they killed him."

"Holy shit, when this happen?"

"About a year ago." Sean said.

"Holy shit." I said again, I turned back to Tommy and asked, "You make your move yet Tommy?"

Tommy turned and gave me a look that told me to shut up.

"What, you need to make a move."

"She doesn't know." Tommy said quietly.

"Doesn't know what?" I asked like an idiot.

"That her husband's dead." Tommy replied

"What The Hell! Why hasn't anyone told her?" I asked punching Kevin's arm.

"Ow!" Kevin said rubbing his arm.

"You wanna tell her that her husband's dead. They never found his body."

"Okay point taken. " I said agreeing, I could see Tommy's point, how do you tell someone you love that their husband's dead when you have no proof. I apologized for hitting Kevin, and the boys got into talking. I didn't join the conversation; I was still processing all I had learned today.

"See you later Jane," Tommy said as we pulled up in front of the restaurant.

"Thanks for the lift, see you guys soon. "I said as I turned to get out. I waited for Kevin and Sean to get out but they didn't move. "You guys gunna get out?" I asked.

"Just hop over." Sean said lazily.

"You've got to be kidding me." I said shaking my head as I sat down on Kevin's lap and grabbed my purse from the floor of the truck. By this point Jimmy and Sean were laughing, Tommy looked like he was trying not to laugh and Kevin was blushing.

"I don't think I've ever been jealous of Kevin before! I guess he's lucky after all!" Jimmy said laughing. At that even Tommy was laughing.

"Fuck off Jimmy!" I said punching him in the arm. I quickly got off Kevin's lap and onto Sean's, who was still laughing.

"I'll see you guys later!" I said as I slammed the door shut.

They were still laughing as they drove away. I walked into the restaurant shaking my head. Thankfully Jake wasn't there to yell at me for being late. I quickly put on my apron and started my long shift.