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…Chapter 4…

Crystal walked out of the room and walked out to the main part of the clubhouse. She saw some of the guys drinking, playing pool, or groping on some of the women in there. Seconds later, she saw Jax kicking a box to the other side of the room, and storm outside, slamming the door. Crystal stood there debating whether or not to see what's wrong with him. "What the hell?" she thought to herself, then walked out of the clubhouse.

She watched him on the garage, kicking everything in his path, then suddenly he punched a wooden pole. "Fuck!" he yelled in pain.

Crystal slowly went up to him and said "Hey, are you okay?" he quickly turned around, raising his eyebrow, with a 'who-the-hell-are-you?' look. "I'm Crystal… Nicole's cousin."

"Oh, yeah… I'm Jax, what's up?"

"Nothing really, I just wanted to see if you were okay, you look upset."

"I'm fine." he looked down at his hand. "It's just bruised." he groaned. "I haven't seen her in over ten years and she comes back talking shit."

"What was she saying?"

"She said that… when she gets Hailey back, she's leaving again." he shook his head. "I refuse to just sit there and let it happen. I just found out that I have a daughter and now she wants to take her away from me, when I had no clue she even existed? Fuck that! I have a lot to make up for because of her."

"I can talk to her if you want, but she is a little hardheaded." she looked around. "I mean, it doesn't seem that bad… living here." she shrugged. "I wouldn't mind." Jax smiled at her and she smiled back. "I, uh, need to get back in and check on Taylor and maybe see what Nicole's doing." he nodded, then she walked back in the clubhouse, and walked into the room that Nicole was in. "Hey." both Happy and Nicole got startled, breaking their gaze from each other, and Crystal smirked. "Am I interrupting?"

"No, no." Nicole stood up. "We're just talking."

"Sure."

Nicole glared at Crystal, then shook her head. "What are you doing? Is Taylor okay?"

"She's fine, still sleeping."

Happy stood up. "I'm gonna let you two talk." he walked to the door, then turned around, and looked at Nicole. "See you later."

"Okay." she nodded, then he winked at her, and walked out.

"Oh, what the hell was that?"

Nicole gave Crystal a funny look. "What was what?"

"The look you gave him as he winked at you."

"You're seeing things."

"No, I'm not." Crystal laughed. "You like him."

"Are you kidding me? I haven't seen Happy in a long time, I hardly remembered him."

"Riiiiiiiight, I think you do like him, you just won't admit it."

"Crys, are you hearing yourself? You are fucking bananas."

"Okay, okay… so you're telling me, if Happy were to ask you out on a date or something…"

Nicole held up her hand. "Wait a minute." she kind of chuckled. "You have no clue how these guys operate, first of all."

"Then enlighten me."

"Well, for one… they don't date or go on dates." she shook her head. "None of these guys are the 'dating' type. Even when I was with Jax, he never took me out on a date."

"Maybe Happy will."

"Oh, shut up, Crys… come on, let's go to the car and see if we forgot anything." then before they walked out of the room, they didn't know that Happy was by the door listening to their conversation, so when he heard them about to walk out he quickly slipped into the bathroom, stealth-like and unnoticed.

...

As the night went on, Nicole kept her distance from Jax. She didn't want to be anywhere near him, she mostly stuck next to Crystal, Happy, Juice, or Opie, and to her surprise, Taylor was clinging on Happy, and he didn't seem to mind. As she was sitting on the couches in the main room of the clubhouse, her phone rang. She dug it out of her pocket as she stood up, and headed towards the door as he pressed the talk button. "Hello?"

"Hey, it's Mac."

"Hi, what's up?"

"I just wanted to see if you were doing okay."

"Yeah, I'm fine… so is Taylor and Crys."

"Good. Did you talk to that Jax guy?"

"Yeah, him and the guys I know, filled me in on what's going on." a few minutes later, Happy stood right in front of her, looking curious. "Have you found out anything over there?"

"Not yet."

"Okay." she nodded. "Mac, is there a way you can get Jared's body preserved or something?"

"Why?"

"I can't have his funeral without Hailey there, it wouldn't be right."

"I'll see what I can do."

"Thank you." she paused. "Well, I gotta go, call me if you find out anything."

"I will… you three take care."

"Okay, talk to you later, Mac." she told him, then hung up her phone. She put the phone in her pocket and looked up at Happy. "What's up?"

"Who's Mac?"

"Um, he's one of my good friends and he was my husbands best friend."

"What does he do?"

"He's a detective."

"You're friends with a cop?"

"Yeah and my husband was one too." Happy nodded. "I want to say thank you for letting me stay in your room."

"It's no problem."

"Where are you gonna sleep?"

"I'll park it on my floor."

"No, Happy… just keep your room, I'll find somewhere else to crash."

He put his finger to her lips. "You don't have a choice where you're sleeping, so you'll be in my room, alright?"

"Okay, then." she nodded, with a smile.

Little did they know that Jax was watching everything that they were doing. He saw her giggling and touching his arm every so often, and it was pissing him off. She comes over smacking him in the face, announces he has a daughter, and now flirting with one of his brothers? He shook his head and went back inside the clubhouse.