Happy POV
I sat on the picnic table watching my Ma direct the prospects as to where the decorations went and how just to tape up the banners. I moved the toothpick around in my mouth as I saw Nik approaching and quickly tossed it away and replaced it with a new one.
"Hap." She smiled and sat at the table across from me. "Fancy seeing you here."
I shrugged. "What do you want Nik?"
"I want to talk." She smirked. "We're family now and we haven't really ever talked."
I shook my head. "We talked that time you helped with information on Bri."
She scoffed. "Besides that. I don't think you like me too much."
"I tolerate you." I looked past her and saw Bri waddling around. "Less than I did before you hit me."
"Why?" She lifted her hands up. "Why don't you like me?"
"You're a slut." I rolled my eyes. "All of you that hang around Bri are fucking sluts."
"So?" She rolled her eyes and shook her head. "I have the sexual morals of a man, so I'm a slut. What other reason do you have not to like me?"
"You hurt her." I pointed to Bri. "Know how many times I had to hold her while she cried about your dumbass getting arrested? Know how many times she broke the bank and made numerous calls to get your ass in rehab on short notice. You know how it broke her to say no to helping you out that last time?"
She shook her head. "I apologize for all that shit. I'm better now and I just want you to like me because she's my sister and you're going to be my brother in law and I'm going to be auntie Nik to the twins."
"I accept your apology if it'll get your mouth to clamp shut." I smirked. "You're still a slut, and you're fucking my President. Who's married, has three kids and a mom who will kill you."
She laughed. "I thought you knew Lowman. I'm a fucking homewrecker. I swoop in when shit is bad and all that."
"Not something to be proud of." I offered her a toothpick and she waves them off.
"You've fucked how many women before Bri? You've had to been with a few married women." She scoffed. "Double standards."
"Enough." I looked at Bri who waved at me and gave her a wave back. "That's how shit is."
"You're terrible." She looked behind her. "I don't know what she really sees in you besides a challenge."
"I'm amazing to her." I felt myself growing defensive. "Can we squash this shit and just try to be friends?"
"That's what I was saying!" She laughed. "Fuck, Lowman. Making me work for a friend and shit."
"I ain't easy." I laughed. "How can you look so much like your sister but you're the exact fucking opposite?"
"Because she was raised by parents and I wasn't." She frowned. "I'm the wild child but don't get it twisted that girl could party with me. Ask her about my twenty first birthday."
"You're twenty two." I frowned.
"Oh, I'm flattered by that but im actually twenty five." Sh smiled. "Saying I'm like twenty two is just to get out of being judged for being reckless."
"I'm going to judge you now." I stood up and she followed. "I'm still pissed about you hitting me with your pistol."
"Sorry." She frowned as she wrapped an arm around my waist. "I got into my character."
"Tell that to my head." I walked us over to my Bri.
"Breezy Bri." She spoke. "Me an Hap hugged it out."
"Bout time." Bri pulled us into a hug. "My Killer and my wild child!"
"Yeah, yeah." I kissed Bri. "Her and I are only friends if she doesn't get Jax in deep shit or beat the shit out of Gemma or Tara unless they deserve it."
"No." Nik crossed her arms and looked at me. "I'm giving Tara a stomp as soon as I see her next for being mean to Breezy Bri."
"First of all where did that nickname come from?" Bri laughed.
"Because when you walk your dress looks like it got caught in a breeze." She looked at her. "And I'm supposed to be the dumb one."
"Did you know she's twenty five Brianna?" I looked at her.
"I'm aware of her age Hap. She's my sister." She smirked. "Look, it seems only our family is going to show up to this shindig besides the prospects who you strong armed into coming out and helping."
"I promised them booze and good food Bri. I didn't strong arm them." I looked at them both.
"Jax said he'd stop by if he got the chance." Nik smirked. "I wish Giselle would show her face her. She'd get fucked up again."
"Kozik is still pissed about that girl fight. Got clawed up nicely pulling you and Giselle apart." I scowled. "I don't see why you women can't all get along."
"You wouldn't because you haven't had your lady swiped. How'd you feel if some dude stole Bri then flaunted it in front of you?" She blinked at me.
"You're stealing Jax from Tara." I shot back. "You can't get mad at G or Natalie when you're doing the same shit."
"The difference is, I didn't befriend Tara before I hooked up with Jax." She rolled her neck and pointed at me. "G and Nat were my best friends then they break all the girl rules and shit. I'm not Bri, I don't like seeing my ex with new people."
"Ehh." Bri shrugged as she sat down. "Nat and Juan are cute together."
"G and Koz are good together." Nik said. "I'm not even pissed at her over that lemonhead! I was pissed at Natalie but you can't beat a pregnant woman up!"
"Do you just sleep with every guy you encounter?" I looked down at Nik.
"Yeah, I mean if he's hot, why the fuck not?" She laughed.
"Slut." I mumbled.
"You're a man whore Hap." Bri glared at me. "Don't judge her."
"How am I a man whore Brianna?" I threw my toothpick at her.
"Hmm, how many croweaters have you fucked? Which of the CaraCara girls have to got off with?" She blinked at me and I knew to shut up with calling her sister a slut. "Thought so."
"Whipped." Nik chuckled.
"Not whipped, he just knows when and when not to start an argument with me. Huh my Killer?" She leaned in and kissed me. "He's the best."
"Damn right." I smiled.
SOASOASOA
Kozik POV
"Giselle you look fine." I whined for the fifth time in the last twenty minutes. "You're going to a fucking baby shower not a red carpet event!"
"I'm just nervous! I want to look better than Nik does." She poked her head out of the bathroom and smiled at me.
"You always look better than her babe." I sighed. "Let's go! I don't want to miss out on the food!"
"What'd you buy for them anyways?" She stepped out of the bathroom wearing a pretty red sun dress.
"I got an envelope and stuffed a hundred in it." I smiled. "Bri is loaded. She has what she needs already."
"It's the thought that counts." She rolled her eyes. "I bought the twins cute onesies."
"I keep forgetting it's two babies." I shrugged. "Gotta add another hundred in the envelope."
"You're something else." She shook her head. "Who else is going?"
"Everyone in our little dysfunctional family." I smiled. "I love the family. Hate the drama between you and Nik. You really should work that shit out."
"She always starts it!" She tossed her shoe at me.
"Then be the bigger woman and ignore her childish antics. It's not cute to me. I hate seeing women fight." I crossed my arms and glared at her.
"Fine." She pulled her shoe from me. "I'll be the bigger woman, but Nik is literally the bigger woman."
I laughed. "Yeah. Let's go. You look amazing. Going to steal the spotlight for sure." I gave her a quick kiss.
#
"Holy shit." Giselle said as we pulled up to the packed park. "Our family my ass, who're all these people?"
"I totally blanked." I frowned. "Aztecs, Mayans, and Russians."
"Damn." She said. "You better get up and go grab food before it's all gone Koz."
"Don't even toy with me like that. This is the only reason I came. For the food and booze." I helped her off of my bike. "Let's make a run for it. I think I see Happy and Bri."
"I can't run in heels." She frowned as we walked towards the picnic area.
"Hop on." I crouched and she hopped on my back. "Yeah! Piggy back ride for my girl."
She laughed as we got to the table and I set her down next to Bri who was being doted on by women I hadn't met before in my life.
"Kozik." Bri stood and hugged me. "This is Diana Alvarez, Dalia Moreno, and Halena Vasquez. Mayans wives."
"Hello ladies." I smiled. "Point me towards the men and the food."
They all laughed. "Over there. Play nice Kozik. I won't hesitate to get one of the Russians on you."
"I always play nice." I said. "Come on G, the food is waiting for us."
"Alright. Bri I'll link up with you later." They exchanged a quick hug and we boogied on over to the buffet.
"Juice, Happy, Marucs." I shook their hands. "What's up?"
"Enjoying the food and family." Juice smiled at me. "Didn't expect this type of turn out."
"Me either." Happy shook his head as he brought his beer to his lips for a quick swig. "I'm half on edge, half relaxed. Don't know what to make of all of us being together."
Marcus laughed. "These are the people showing respect to their Queen. Whether she knows it or not she made a big impact on every single one of our organizations."
Happy nodded. "Yeah, that's not what I'm worried about. I'm more worried about the cops thinking we're using the baby shower as some type of front to do some shit."
"Ahh." Marcus smirked. "I wouldn't be surprised if they drove by homie."
"I met your wife." I smiled at Marcus.
"Which one? The old or the new?" He laughed and we joined in with him.
"Both I guess. Diana and Dalia." I rubbed a hand over my head.
"Yeah." He nodded. "That's both of them. Came out to baby their Brianna."
"Damn, Bri is loved by every mom except for Gemma." I snorted. "Go figure that shit."
Happy shrugged. "That was a mess to begin with. Soon as Gemma locked in on the scene with Bri and Jax we all knew that shit was going south quick."
"I hope she pops Nik." Giselle finally spoke up and pulled our attention.
"We're not starting this shit." Happy glared at her. "You mess with Nik, you're fucking with me."
"Yo." I stepped between Happy and Giselle. "Don't talk to my girl like that Hap. Go talk to Nik about her problems with G."
"I already did." He rolled his eyes. "You know G and Nik used to be best friends right? That G fucked Nik's boyfriend. Best friends don't do that type of shit to each other." He glared at Giselle and she turned and ran away.
"Classy Hap." I shook my head and turned to chase after her when he caught my arm.
"Nik is my little sister now, I gotta protect her even if she smacked the shit out of me with a gun. No offense to Giselle but she has to respect Nik or she's going to have Bri on her ass and in my eyes Nik is a kitten and Bri is a lioness. Which one would you like to piss off?" He let me go and I nodded before heading towards G who was sitting on the swings.
"Stop crying." I tapped G on her knee. "Happy is just sticking up for his lady's sister the best way he knows how."
"I'm not mad or anything. Just embarrassed that he knows that shit." She wiped her eyes off. "Like I know I deserve to get hit by Nik, but for some reason I can't just stay quiet. She gets under my skin."
"Yeah." I frowned. "They do get under your skin. Both of them."
"It sucks." She sighed. "I'm going to go hang out with the ladies."
I watched her stand. "Scream if you need me babe."
She laughed. "I will for sure."
I sat and watched her walk off and sipped my beer. I just had to get involved and fall for the drama magnet of the group.
SOASOASOA
Bri POV
"Alright." I spoke as I stood in front of the guests who made it out for the baby shower. "I want to say thanks to Ma and Auntie for putting this set up together. I was against it at first but I'm glad you guys did it. It's really amazing. Anyways if you can't tell, I look very pregnant." We laughed together. "See, Happy, he managed to knock me up with twins. So forgive me for looking like a blimp."
"Happy has magic swimmers!" Juice yelled out and the guys started to hoot and holler.
"Yeah buddy!" Happy lifted up his beer in response.
"Anyways, Happy isn't much of a public speaker but I want to thank you all again on the behalf of both of us. Means a lot to see all my family gathered here and getting along. Got my Aztecs." They saluted. "My Mayans family." They whistled and hooted. "The Russians! Who I basically grew up around. Thanks to Aleksandr. He's the brute in the Armani suit." He lifted up his drink. "Thanks to Hap's family, his Ma and Auntie, who were the ones who set us up and hounded us on grandkids. Now you're getting two at once. Have fun babysitting." The women hugged me. "Last thanks goes to my slapped together circle of messiness. Happy, Juice, Kozik, Nik, Giselle, Lo, Natalie, and now Monica even though she's a little too young to bust missions with us. Thank you guys for always putting up with my antics and loving me unconditionally."
Cheers rang out once again and everyone was smiling and Nik wiped a few tears away and pulled me into a hug. "I wanna say some shit."
"Alright, don't cuss." I squeezed her hands and she smirked.
"If you can't tell, I'm Bri's sister." She smiled. "I also want to thank you guys for coming out. Past few months have been hard on Bri, losing our father wasn't an easy thing, and on top of that we recently lost our mom. It makes me happy to see all of you guys supporting her and loving her. The women being motherly and the men being fatherly and protective. So thank you."
I hugged her. "Let's get to the games now. And may the odds be ever in your favor."
"None of them will get that reference." She scoffed.
"Oh well." I snorted. " I get it. Monica does too."
We sat down with our circle. "This is fun, thanks for the shout out." Kozik squeezd my hand.
"Oh you know, gotta show my people love." I smiled. "G you look good, I hate you for upstaging me."
She blushed. "Sorry!"
"It's fine." I laughed. "Red is a good color on you."
"So this is our family?" Juice looked around. "I dig it. Everyone is paired up except Nik and Lo."
"Nik is about to be paired up." I nodded and everyone turned to see Jax walking towards us, a gift in his hands.
"Hey." He said as he stood on the outside of the circle. "Here." I took the gift from his hands.
"Thank you." I stood and hugged us. "Sit down. We were giving Nik shit about not being paired up. Now you can sit with her."
He smirked and sat next to her. "Sorry for imposing."
"It's cool." Happy nodded at him. "Welcome to the family brother."
Jax smiled. "Thanks."
"So you and Nik?" Kozik asked. "I always thought it'd be you going after Bri and getting your ass kicked by Hap."
We all smiled. "I don't see how you came to that conclusion." Jax shook his head at Kozik.
"You looked like you wanted her." Kozik balanced his plate of food on his knees. "You here to stay?"
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Are you going to stay around? Or will you go back to Tara?" Kozik glared at him. "If you're not in it for the long haul then you can leave now."
"I'm here for her." He nodded. "I'm staying for however long she'll have me. Tara and I are finished this time for good."
"Then yeah, welcome to the family." Kozik shook his hand. "It's a work in progress. We got some kinks to work out with the women."
Nik rolled her eyes. "As long as no one touches Jax everything will be fine."
"I can't promise that." Lo laughed. "He's like an outlaw Raleigh from Pacific Rim!"
"I know!" I laughed. "Just don't touch him, I already owe you, G and Nik beat downs, don't get added to the double beat down list."
"What?" G looked at me. "What did I do?"
"You guys got in a brawl when all I wanted to do was fucking camp!" I frowned. "Could have both apologized. Lo you could have stayed out of their bullshit."
"I want to add that both Nik and Lo scratched me up pretty fucking badly." Kozik held his arms out. "All I was trying to do is rescue G."
"You don't know not to get involved in a beat down?" I looked at him. "Let them fight it out. Get that shit out of their system."
"My girl got jumped." He said.
"I got an idea." Jax smiled. "Let the ladies take it to the ring. Leave if all in there."
"I'm down." Nik nodded.
"Me too." Giselle gave a small nodded.
"It's on then. Jax set it up." I smiled. "Totally ignoring the ban for this fight."
"Bri." Happy rubbed my thighs. "We got police." He nodded at the crusiers driving slowly around the park at all four sides.
"Let them look." I rolled my eyes. "We got the permits and no one is doing any dumb shit."
"Jax." Kozik nudged him. "Go see what they want."
"No way." Jax waved him off.
"Do it." Juice nudged him too. "You're the new kid in this circle."
Jax stood and handed off his kutte to Nil who walked slowly behind him towards an officer who was now standing outside of his car and watching us all.
"Terrible." I looked at my nails. "You're going to initiate him this way?"
"This is only the beginning." Kozik smirked. "He's gotta earn his way in. We've been here for you. We gotta see if he'll be loyal."
"Just don't get him hurt. Nik seems to actually like him or whatever." I shrugged and watched as Jax and Nik headed back towards us smiling. I hoped the smiling would last through the shit I knew she was about to endure being at Jax's side.