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Chapter 3-Birthday antics

She could hear him that voice, that voice she would never forget, she was pulled from her dream by a knock at her bedroom door at the clubhouse she'd spent most of her time here, since it was the schools holidays it was easier and she preferred it here, probably because here she felt safest, here she was constantly around family. The door knocked again 'Yeah?' she croaked out reaching out to her bedside table to take a drink from her glass of water as her door creaked open to reveal her dads smiling face

'Morning angel' he grinned 'you decent enough?' curiously she nodded her head, Tig had learnt early on once Emery had started to 'develop' to knock and check before walking into her room, he could clearly say he had never been so red in all his life as Emery screamed and tripped over some clothes as she dashed to shut the door in his face, she didn't give him eye contact for at least two days. As the door swung open to reveal Gemma, Clay, Jax and Opie, she couldn't help but grin at Jax and Opie as they both sported their matching Prospect cut's without thinking she jumped out of bed and pounced on both of them, both catching her in time before she fell on her ass

'Congrats guys I'm so happy for you!' she squealed at them, both looking down to grin at her. Her dad cleared his throat behind her and she realised that she was scarcely dressed in just a thin tank top and short pyjama shorts her dad raised his eyebrows as she waved him off

'It's just pyjamas dad' she moaned 'besides I'm proud of them' she beamed at her best friends as she climbed back into her bed and pulling the covers round her waist to appease her father he rolled his eyes at her then Gemma stepped forward holding what had to be the biggest cake she'd ever seen as all the crowd shouted a big Happy birthday at her she smiled, not believing she'd actually forgot her own birthday, the crowd moved towards her singing happy birthday, Gemma handed Clay the cake as she began taking pictures of Emery as she blew out her cake, Clay placed the cake on her bedside table kissing her head 'Happy 16th birthday baby girl' he smiled at her 'just gotta take care of some things' he shrugged as an apology

'It's okay uncle Clay see you in a bit' he waved a goodbye as the rest congregated around Emery's bed her father sitting next to her, Jax sitting by her crossed legs and Ope by Tig as Gemma stood camera at the ready, Opie was the first to give his present, Emery opened it smiling at the throwing knife Ope had got her that had the reaper on the hilt she grinned up at him 'I love it Ope, wow' she grinned at the knife 'just wow' she threw her arms around his neck in thanks not noticing Gemma taking a picture with the camera, Jax was up next, she opened the box to find a helmet inside it was matte black, with a custom design of the reaper but with a more female approach, she beamed up at him, since she didn't have her own bike yet she begged her dad or Jax or Ope to let her go with them on their bike nine times out of ten it ended up being Jax's, she was glad he'd remembered that she didn't like the shiny helmets 'I feel like there's a trend going on here' she smiled at him, as she reached over and hugged him, he kissed her on the cheek, 'no problem Red glad you like it' his husky voice rang out as he wore his signature smile, she looked closely at him was Jax blushing? Again Gemma's snaps of the camera had gone unnoticed,

'Hey guys give me a sec with my birthday princess will ya?' Tig asked though it wasn't really a request, Jax and Ope left the room but not before wishing Em a happy birthday and telling her breakfast would be up soon,

'Everything okay pa?' she asked a little curious now

'yeah sweetheart' he cleared his throat 'I just wanted to give you this for your birthday but I didn't wanna upset you in front of the guys'

'okay, um, what is it dad? You're worrying me' as she said that he held out a box for her, timidly she opened it and her hand flew to her chest when she saw it was her mums locket, it was a delicate white gold chain, it had the most beautiful pendant she had seen and she instantly remembered she used to play with it when her mum would hold her, she would tell her that she wore it to keep her father close by, being young she thought nothing of it, hand shaking she went to open up the heart locket turning it over she saw the son's Anarchist A etched on the back, she look at her father before managing to finally open the locket, on one side there was a picture of her as a baby her mother holding her with a beaming smile looking like she was the happiest person in the world, and the other side was a picture of Tig smiling brightly, leaning against his Harley with a new cut on, if she had to guess she'd say he'd just been patched in.

'you took this off her that night we met, when you went back into the house?' she said in a small voice he just nodded not knowing if she would be angry that he'd taken it from her mother's lifeless body. She looked up at him tears in her eyes

'thank you it's beautiful' she whispered touching it again as her tears began to fall 'will you help me put it on?' she asked her voice breaking. He just smiled and nodded his head,

'You look just like her you know' She nodded 'Does it upset you?' She asked, he just simply lifted her from the bed and crushed her to him a single tear falling from his eye 'no angel it doesn't upset me, it's nice, like a part of her's still here' she bit her lip to try stop the tears from continuing and nodded, then she handed him the locket as she turned and lifted her hair for him to clasp it shut, once done he moved her hands letting her hair flow down. 'okay' he sniffed holding her shoulders 'I'm gonna go snag a coffee whilst you get ready for breakfast but be quick, clubs got a run' he took a shaky breath 'also Gem's throwing a big club party, for your birthday and Jax and Ope becoming prospects' he wiped the tears from her face as she nodded, he kissed her on the head. Then as if on cue the pair started laughing at each other they didn't have many emotional moments but this is how they always ended.

Once her dad had left, Emery showered quickly tying her hair up not wanting to wash it till later for the party, she applied a little mascara and powder to her face before changing into skinny jeans a vest top and combat boots sliding the knife Opie had given her into the left boot before letting her hair fall in its natural curls to just below the bust. She was more a knife girl than a gun girl although she'd never used it her dad insisted she had something to protect herself with, whilst training with Happy and the others she'd become attached to knives and had a pretty good throw on her, she looked at her reflection deciding to instead put her hair back into a pony that curled together at the end, she walked over to where her bed was to cuddle Tiberius as he lay in his prize place leaning against her pillows though she'd outgrown carrying the monkey around with her constantly she would always hold him and breathe him in whenever she felt sad or lonely, or if she missed her mum, no matter how old Emery grew she would never forget about Tiberius, standing up she straightened herself out fiddling with the necklace one last time, then she took a deep breath and left her room in search of breakfast.

After breakfast all the men including Opie and Jax left for club business, so Gemma and Emery cleaned the aftermath that was breakfast, which had resulted in Tig, Chibs and Bobby having a food fight as Opie not so slyly threw bits of scrambled egg at her resulting in her scrunching her nose in frustration as she was powerless since everyone had eyes on her, wishing her happy birthday.

Once she'd been passed around the group receiving a sloppy kiss from Luann the porn queen and a promise she'd give her a job in a heartbeat whilst complementing her on her ass and chest, to a squeeze from big Otto, finding a gap in the crazy whilst the girls started cooking, since Emery had been exempt as Gemma wanted some element of surprise, so wanting some peace to think she climbed the steps to the roof sitting down on the roof reaching into her back pocket she pulled out a joint reaching into the other side for her zippo lighter

'shit' she muttered realising she left it on her drawer and contemplating whether she could be assed to go down and get it.

'really? so you weren't gonna share eh Red?' Emery looked up smiling at the familiar drawl

'depends, you got a light?' she asked as he smirked throwing his lighter at her, 'always', lighting the joint and taking a hit she passed it to Jax

'so how'd it go or can't you say since I'm no old lady?' she grinned at him, he shrugged his shoulders 'was ight you know, the usual' he shrugged 'hey when don't me and Ope not ever fill you in?' he winked, and it was true she couldn't fault him on that, only she knew he only told her about the basics like what the Mayans were doing etc even though she knew that other things happened, Jax and Opie kept her curiosity sedated with little things, just as she was thinking this Ope's head popped through the entrance to the roof 'ahh just what the doctor ordered' he grinned eyeing up the joint, Emery passed it to him as he joined them.

'Tara and Donna coming tonight' Em asked, she loved Donna and got on with her really well she was like her best friend, Tara, not so much although nothing was ever going on with Jax and Emery, Tara didn't like their friendship and was hard on Jax when he wanted to spend time with her.

'Yeah' Jax sighed 'though really I've just about had enough, I can't keeping dealing with her shit, she needs to sort herself out' he said between puffs of the joint, as if on cue his phone started buzzing, the roll of his eyes told her and Ope it was definitely her that was ringing huffing a sigh Jax walked off answering handing the splif back to Emery.

'nice locket' Ope said looking at the chain around her neck she looked down at it with sad eyes, biting her bottom lip to keep tears at bay and held it in her hand 'yeah' she let out a breath 'dad gave it me this morning it was my mums, it's got a picture of her and me when I was young and dad in there' she gave a weak smile. Opie pulled her forward onto his lap taking the joint out of her hand and putting it on the floor, she rested her head against his chest, Emery took a deep breath breathing in the leather which was the most comforting smell she's ever known and ever will since to her that smell always meant she was safe.

'how you doing little red bird?' she could feel the rumble through his chest as he spoke the beginnings of a beard tickling her head, Opie was the only on she'd let call her Red bird even though she thought it childish once she hit her pre-teens Opie had refused to let it go, 'I'm good' she smiled up at him 'I just miss her, its hard you know' she shrugged 'it's harder on days like today or when something special happens I can't help but wish she was here, I just wanna make her proud but I don't really know how to do that' Opie took a deep breath 'your pain aint gonna go away even you know that, but it'll get easier' he said as he pushed some stray hairs out of her face, she smiled at him, 'thanks Ope' he kissed her on the head 'No problem' he just smiled at her as Jax's voice came into focus it seemed he and Tara were having a bit of an argument, no doubt about tonight's party. He gave a huge sigh as her and Opie looked at Jax 'well' Opie started 'It's gonna be an interesting night' Emery finished for him they grinned at each other as Em stood up,

'I better start getting ready for the party' she smiled at Opie as she climbed down the ladders going to her room. After showering she turned her music up putting on some black lace French knickers and a matching strapless bra she began dancing around her room as she held different outfits up against her slowly getting frustrated, not hearing Gemma come in until she twirled around in a dance and full on shit herself

'Jesus Christ, I nearly had a heart attack' she screamed as she clutched her chest Gemma all the while grinning and looking her up and down as she stood in her pants and bra

'well damn baby girl, can see why Luann's nagging you' she winked as Emery blushed but she wasn't embarrassed her and Gemma were close, Gemma had been the one she had to go to when she'd started her period, when Tig was informed about this however he well and truly freaked the fuck out and glared at any boy that even walked past her much to many of the club members amusement. One of Emery's best memories was when after Gemma had informed Tig of the fact his daughter was now a woman, and that she was in a bit of pain with her period and had gone home, Tig had returned home with chocolate, sweets, crisps and other snacks and had let himself sag on the sofa next to Emery where she sat wrapped in a blanket holding a hot water bottle, that day he'd filled her bottle back up with hot water and sat with her whilst they stuffed their faces with junk and watched chick flicks, though he made her swear that she wouldn't tell any other members of the club, eventually they'd found out and ragged on him about it, but those months where she had really bad period pain her dad would still come home and comfort her in this way. Looking at Gemma she couldn't help but feel like she was some sort of mother to her, she'd helped her with her make-up when she'd confided that she wanted to start wearing it and even helped her when it came to shopping for clothes and especially underwear because for Tig that was definitely a no go as she got older.

'I can't decide on anything to wear' she muttered whilst she kicked a top at her feet 'I wear the same shit all the time' she whined until she noticed Gemma's smile 'what?' Em asked Gemma just handed her a wrapped box, winked and left, just like that, opening the box Emery saw a dress a beautiful black dress with lace around the middle which would show off part of her toned stomach, when she put in on it hugged her in all the right places and came to just below the knee with a split up the side up high on the thigh and was strapless, she loved it but couldn't help think she'd feel out of place amongst the crow eaters that would be there but loved the fact Gemma knew that wasn't her style, she dressed more appropriately and elegant then what the entire of the crow eaters did. Emery added to her makeup making her eyes smoking and adding a dark lipstick the eye make-up made her eyes pop the grey dazzling through, the lipstick drawing attention to her full lips, she was adding the finishing touches to her hair when there was a knock at the door, she opened it to find Chibs stood holding a present,

'wow lass you look absolutely beautiful' he smiled at her, Chibs had become like her second father, he was the one she'd talk to if she'd done something wrong or if she was in trouble because her father was way too overprotective, Chibs rarely gave her crap for anything she did and would drop anything instantly to help her if she needed him.

'you don't think it's a bit much for the party? I mean it's a sons party and the girls don't normally dress like this and I don't really wanna look out of place I mean-'she blabbered on until chibs stopped her 'You look brilliant princess, and you ain't no crow eater, you don't dress like a crow eater either and tonight's a special occasion, not every day you turn 16 lass, you should enjoy it' he smiled at her glad he'd obviously calmed her

'here I didn't know what to get so Gemma helped me out she said you'd need this' he smiled at her as she took the present opening the box to find a stunning pair of black heels with studs on the side, she was in love 'oh my god Chibby I can't' her hand held to her mouth, 'sure you can lass me an the club bought em for you' he took them out the box and set them at her feet 'come on lass try em on the party's started and Gemma's gonna be hunting you down soon' he chuckled, bracing herself on Chibs's shoulders she slipped into the shoes, she didn't ever have a problem with heels, she always wore them day to day as boots or small heeled court shoes, she would wear he big heels to the parties which around here was all the time though during the day if she was helping out round TM she would wear flats like her boots or converse they were just more practical, 'thanks Chibby their beautiful' she beamed up at him, he kissed her on the forehead before dragging her into the club and up to the bar,

Emery grinned at the family that surrounded her although she wasn't yet legally allowed she knew being a son and being 16 meant that drinking was more like a rite of passage, she probably could have started younger if she wanted but didn't wanna ruin her taste for it, and besides the club was the safest place as any to get drunk, kind of. Let the fun begin she thought eager for her first taste.