Hiii! Here's the next part. This is the chapter before the bonfire so if anyone has any suggestions or reviews, its appreciated :D
BTW Garrett's friend is about to make a visit to a certain club member very soon...
Ava was finishing up closing at the store when she saw Luke waiting outside in his truck. Looking at Luke smoking a cigarette, she wonders what he would say if she got the crow.
"Hey, Luke." She tells him giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"How was work?" He asks her getting in the truck.
"Work. Nothing new happened." She tells him.
"Your mother called wondering if we've heard fom that piece of shit Garrett." He tells her sounding pissed.
"Really? Of course she'd wonder." Ava replies sarcastically. "We haven't seen him. That's what we say."
"Yeah, I know. I know. I just don't want you to get in the middle of this if the cops start askin questions." He says worrying about the fallout of this whole situation.
"Hey you don't need to worry, okay? Abel took care of it so it's over." She tells him wanting life to move on from this.
"Yeah, but this won't just go away this soon. Your mom will ask questions and try to start some shit. And who knows? With this going on, maybe it'll help you decide what you wanna do after graduation." Luke tells her pulling into the driveway.
"What do you mean?" Ava asks him getting out of the car and going inside the house.
"Abel's life is not the most normal one invented, honey. Crazy shit happens and lies are a necessity. I just wanna know that you know what you're getting yourself into before it's too late to get out." He tells her. "This life is no joke, no game. Clay and Jax are serious men. Once you're in, you're in."
"I know." Ava says trying to figure out if she can handle everything that comes with being a part of Abel's life. "When I need to decide, I will. This is my life."
"You haven't decided yet? Ava, you've let Abel in. You trusted him to protect you. And you stand by him through all the trouble he and his boys start. What the hell makes you think you haven't already chosen the outlaw life?" He tells her. The phone rings and Ava sees its Abel.
"I gotta take this." She tells him avoiding his question and going upstairs to her room. "Hey, baby." She says picking up the phone.
"I got your text. What's wrong?" Abel asks.
"Where are you?" She asks him barely able to hear him with the noise and music in the background.
"I'm with the club getting the tattoo done." He tells her.
"Nothing's wrong. Don't worry about it. It can wait till tomorrow." She tells him not wanting to get him upset over her mom and the ATF agent at work.
"All right. I gotta go but I'll call you tomorrow." He tells her.
"Yeah. Love you." She says ending the call and laying down on her bed.
Next morning...
Waiting for Abel to call, Ava decides to clean up house to keep her mind off things. Walking around the house in Abel's white t'shirt and red shorts, she starts getting the living room cleaned up while Luke is still asleep. Midway through her cleaning, the doorbell rings.
"Come in." Ava says to the visitor. "Hey, Maddie."
"Hey, girl. Spring cleaning are we?" She asks making both of them laugh. Since she and Abel got together, her and Maddie have gotten close, both wantin him happy.
"Yeah, just wanna sort through this house before things get busy with school and work and stuff." Ave tells her sitting down on the couch. "How's Abel? And tell me about Dean."
"Abel's great, just goes around grinning and shit. He would have come but mom wants him to take it easy since he got the tattoo all over his back and the other one just got done healing. He wanted me to tell you he'd call later. He's been asleep all day." She tells her laying her head back.
"That's good. What about Dean? I mean, how is that going?" Ava asks getting up to get both of them a beer.
"It's going good. I wish my dad was a little nicer and stuff but it's working out." Maddie says playing with the straps on her gray hoodie.
"You're his baby girl. Daddys always have a hard time letting another guy be his little girl's prince charming. He'll let up once he accepts that Dean isn't just a guy you're hanging out with. This is a guy that you want." Ava tells her thinking about how tense things were between Abel and Luke when Abel first started coming around. Luke didn't kick Abel out of the house but he wasn't the nicest guy either by giving Abel the third degree all the damn time.
"Yeah, but my mom's working on that." Both girls laugh at that. "Anyways this bonfire tonight. Things are being put together and you and I are in charge of the food. Opie took care of the cops so nobodys gonna bother us or start shit."
"I can't wait. It'll be a good night." Ava says also telling Maddie that she invited Maxie.
"Maxie? Oh, shit! Trevor doesn't know?" She asks.
"Maxie wanted to surprise him." Ava says laughing at how this cat and mouse game is playing out between the two. As the two girls sit and talk about later that night, Luke comes down the stairs wearing only his boxers.
"Morning, lads." Luke says casually looking around for his smokes.
"Luke, get upstairs and get dressed. We have a guest." Ava tells him trying not to laugh her ass off.
"Don't worry about it, Ava. I've seen worse, believe me. Nothing is more rated R than the guys that my dad and Abel know." Maddie interrupts causing all three of them to laugh.
"I believe it." Ava tells her smiling at Abel's name. "We gonna go now to get the food?"
"Yeah, we'll get it now and then drive it to Trevor's and put it in the coolers and Trevor will drive it down in his truck." Maddie says taking out the lost of food they'll need.
"All right, let me just change and we can go. By the way, I figure I should tell you. I saw an ATF agent talking to the Jaimison" Ava says telling her everything she overheard.
"Wow. ATF again? Jesus Christ. Well, let's tell Abel and Trevor first and the club will decide what they wanna do." Maddie tells her sounding confident that the club will resolve this.
"You sound so sure." Ava says knowing the feds in Charming is no good.
"The club took care of the feds once and they can handle them now. No worries, Ava." Maddie tells her.
"Yeah." She replies thinking about the history between SAMCRO and ATF agents, especially with an agent Stahl. Her phone started vibrating and she sees a text from Abel. "It's your brother."
Hey, I'm up and I miss you. Come over. My mom doesn't want me driving yet.
"He wants me to come over." Ava tells her.
"Later. Let's finish this first." Maddie says laughing at her brother.
"Ok, I told him we'll stop by after we get this food and drop it off at Trevor's place." Ava says.