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traceyklewis - Emery does have feeling for Ryan that's why she's decided to give it a go, but she does feel something for Jax but she's still trying to figure out exactly what they are as in is it as a friend or more? I'm still trying to decide which way I want it to go with them. but I'm sorry fro any confusion.

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Chapter 13- Would like Ice with that?

He woke that morning with a pounding in his head, and the space beside him empty and cold, shifting to sit up, he looked to the bedside table to find a glass of orange juice and some Tylenol, he knew Emery must have put it there for him, he took the tablets and drained his juice, just as the door to Emery's ensuite opened up. She step through the door with a pink towel wrapped around her hair and piled on top of her head, with another wrapped around her, the part of her chest that was exposed still had droplets of water trickling down, he had to fight to look away, thankfully she didn't seem to notice the blush he was sure was creeping onto his face. When he looked back to her she was smiling brightly with a toothbrush sticking out of her mouth, a thin layer of white foam coated her lips, she walked past the bed and reached for her white silk dressing gown which had cherry blossoms on it, once she put it on she turned her back to him and shimmed out of the towel letting it drop to the floor as she tied her robe at her waist. Jax couldn't help but feel a heat rise in him, his mind drifted back to the night they had met the Mayans and how she'd began changing in front of him, he remembered how soft her skin had looked so smooth and pale, he'd wanted to trace his hand down the indent that ran down her back where her spine was, stopping where two little dimples sat peeking through the top of her leggings when she'd reached for her top off the chair.

'how you feeling?' his memory was broken by the sound of the red head's voice,

'like shit' he replied, then like running straight into a brick wall, his memories came flooding back from the night before, he remembered the conversation he'd had with Tara as she told him that she didn't want to be with him anymore, and that she was leaving Charming for good and that she was never coming back.

Emery glanced over at Jax as he sat in the bed seemingly deep in thought, she began to blow dry her hair as she continued to study him, once she'd finished she sat on the bed sticking her head in his eye sight to get his attention,

'hey your gonna be late for school if you don't start getting ready' she spoke softly as she brushed his hair out of her eyes,

'think I'm gonna ditch' he muttered as he looked at her

'well in that case you can get a haircut whilst me and Chibs go see dad' she began as she opened up her wardrobe, pulling out a mid-thigh length pale blue summer dress, 'then later you can give me a ride to work' she smiled at him as she opened her top drawer pulling out a bra and French knickers to match, as she discreetly mushed them into her folded dress out of sight of Jax,

'sure I can give you a ride' he said as he stood up out of the bed, stretching, he smirked a little as he saw Emery eye him before slipping back into her bathroom, 'wait your ditching too?' he called loud enough for her to hear,

'hmmm hmmm, it's not really gonna affect my grade, and besides it been ages since I've seen my dad I don't want to wait till Friday' she called back,

'fair point' he muttered as she walked out the door,

'hey mind if I borrow one of your shirts?' she asked giving him a sweet smile as he raised an eyebrow at her. Rolling his eyes he just nodded,

'okay I'll be there in a sec, just gonna do my face' she chirped as she sat at her vanity table, with one last roll of his eyes he slipped through the door heading to his room to shower.

She couldn't help the tears that gathered in her eyes as she ran from the doorway to where her father stood from his chair, barrelling straight into his arms, she felt all the tension from the past few days go, the tension from being lonely, she'd never admit it to anyone though she knew that the majority of the club knew that the reason she spent most of her time at the clubhouse these days was because she couldn't face being home alone, all the tension from not knowing how her dad was doing inside, was he okay? Had the nords got to him?. 'I missed you' her voice was barely audible but her father squeezed her closer. Holding her at some distance she could see him assessing her face, she'd managed to cover some of the small cuts, she couldn't however hide the split lip she sported, she didn't miss him raise his eyebrow at the fact she was wearing Jax's blue and white checked long sleeve shirt which she had put on over the top of her dress leaving it open, with her knee length high heeled boots,

'Jesus Em' he peered at her

'Break apart!' a guard came over getting between them and pushing them apart as Emery gave him the stink eye and her dad gave him the finger,

'I'm okay dad' she sat at the desk opposite him

'don't think Clay hasn't told me what went down, and don't think were not gonna discuss it' he gave her a pointed look as she guiltily looked down at her hands where they rested on the desk 'but that can wait I don't want to waste our time with me going off at you' he smiled across the desk at her,

'what so your gonna wait a year and a bit to rag on me?' she laughed at him

'hey, I could do it now in front of all these people?' he mockingly raised his eyebrow at her

'its really good to see you pa' she gave him a sweet smile, showing her dimples it was the one smile he'd missed most, it was the smile that normally greeted him in the morning, and said goodnight to him. After her dad had lectured her on the fact that he thought her dress was too short, they sat and discussed what was going on with the club, what he'd been up to inside, he gave her a small rant on how she didn't need to get a job and that if she'd wanted a job she should have asked Gemma if she could work in the office and so on until the bell rang signalling that visiting time was over, her eyes watered again as she stood to hug her father goodbye, taking hold of his hand before she turned away from him she kissed his cheek,

'you need it more than me, I love you pa' then she was gone with a tight smile and a delicate wave. He looked down to see that his daughter had slipped her necklace that was once her mother's into his hand, he'd have to make sure he kept it hidden.

She was four hours into her shift, Bobby had retired and only popped in every now and then, so his son Eddy was in charge, they got on well, he was a little nerdy and jumpy but was good company, she managed to get to grips with how things worked, although she did have some difficulty with the milkshake machine, she also secretly loved her uniform though she'd never admit it to anyone, she wore a typical retro's waitress outfit, it was a pale pink dress, that fanned out around her thighs, it had the white little frilly apron on it, she wore white ankle socks which were frilly round the hem, and she put black shoes which had a small heel on with it, she'd drawn the line however at the hat choosing instead to beehive her hair and having it up in a ponytail since she couldn't wear it down. She was in the middle of making a milkshake and laughing and joking with the girl she was serving about how she'd finally got it right when the doors opened and she heard familiar laughter, looking up she saw April, Donna, Jax, Opie, Ryan and Juice walk in all laughing about something that April had said, as she looked to her friendship group April waved and Emery nodded holding up her hand saying one minute, after ringing up the till for the young girl, and telling Eddy she was taking a short break she walked over to the group, leaning on one hip she pulled out her pen and pad out of her apron pocket, popping her chewing gum

'can I get you guys anything?' she mocked in a fake girly voice, before laughing and taking a seat next to Ryan, who put his hand on her thigh, kissing her on the cheek as she smiled up at him, the girls had all laughed at her when she'd told them about the job saying they hoped she didn't turn into one of those girls who were constantly swaying their hips and popping their chewing gum thinking they looked sexy when I fact it just made them look obnoxious

'look at you redbird, looks like your living the dream', Opie joked at her, she threw her towel at him as she stuck her tongue out, Jax watched as Ryan's arm came up to drape around Emery's shoulders, pulling her closer into his side as the group all laughed and joked, it was nice to see her fairly happy again since everything that had happened with her father, seeing the two of them together only made his heart ache more for the fact that he no longer had that in his life, for all the arguments and fights he and Tara got into he still loved her, he couldn't help that, he just had to remember that alcohol wasn't gonna fix it either. One thing he knew for sure though was that he and Ryan were gonna be having a talk. But if he was honest with himself he didn't want to have a talk with Ryan, he wanted to kick the crap out of him for putting his hands on Emery, though he wasn't quite so sure why watching him kiss her, hold her made his blood boil. Well maybe he did but he didn't want to admit it, he couldn't.

Once her break was over everyone got up to leave,

'I'll pick you up when you finish' Ryan told her as she smiled at him, leaning up to place a soft kiss on his lips,

'guess I'll see you at 9 then' she sent him on his way with another kiss and a wave.

'so you know the sons huh?' Ed spoke to her as she was cleaning out the coffee machine,

'hmm hmm' she smiled at him,

'so that brown haired boy your boyfriend?' he asked she wasn't sure if he was digging for information or if he was just making small talk,

'I guess you could say that' she spoke as she continued cleaning,

'figures' he muttered, she turned to face him,

'and what does that mean?' she asked starting to get a little defensive,

'well girls tend to go for the bod boy kinda guy don't they' realising he wasn't trying to rile her up she laughed a little at him,

'don't let them hear you say that' she laughed at him,

'so you know them well?' he asked

She finished cleaning the machine, deciding she liked Ed she answered, 'yeah, my dad's a son'

He looked as though the answer had been obvious, as he slapped his palm to his face, 'of course, Trager, Emery Trager, as in Tig Trager right?' she just laughed at his goofiness, the door chimed and in walked the green eyed boy she'd been waiting all afternoon for,

'hey, I'll just be a sec' she called out to him as she walked to the coat hanger, grabbing her leather jacket and bag,

'see you tomorrow Ed' she called as she walked out hand in hand with Ryan.

'well he seems….friendly' Ryan turned to her raising an eyebrow, she nudged him with her shoulder,

'he's Bobby's son and he's harmless' she told him, 'although he has got those really cute freckles' she joked as he tutted at her pulling his hand away, she laughed at him intertwining her hand with his again, 'I'm joking, I mean the freckles are cute but you have nice eyes' she mock him as he raised their hands to kiss hers,

'carry on and you can walk home' he poked her in the stomach,

'you wouldn't do that to me?' she gave him her best puppy dog eyes,

'oh, really?' he smirked at her,

'nope you'd be too scared that Happy'd kick your ass if he found out' she winked at him, laughing he handed her, her helmet as he position himself on his bike feeling her slide on behind him.

Once he'd parked up outside of her house she slipped of the bike taking off of the helmet and handing it to him,

'you coming in for a bit?' she asked with a shy smile

'I can't babe. I've got club business tonight' he gave her a tight smile as she just nodded her head in understanding even though she was a little disappointed. She looped her hands around his neck as she gave him a long lingering kiss before waving goodbye as he waited for her to enter her house before setting off. Once inside she tossed her keys onto the table clicking the button to check for any answering messages, this was the first time she'd been home in over 3 days, the only message were from April asking about some homework, slipping the bobble out of her hair she gave a sigh as she switched on the lamp. Walking into the kitchen she grabbed a beer and sipped it as she sieved through the mail. After a nice relaxing bath, she braided her hair into a side fish plait and moisturised, whilst she caught up on pretty little liars. Halfway through painting her nails a reddish plum colour the phone began ringing, racing downstairs she answered it,

'hello' she chimed,

'….' She could hear someone breathing but no one was talking,

'hello….. is anyone there?' she asked, wondering if maybe they hadn't heard her the first time,

'….' She had nothing but some weird breathing as her reply, feeling slightly weirded out she put the phone down, shaking of her feeling of unease she finished painting her nails and letting them dry before slipping into bed and letting sleep claim her.

Walking the corridors in school the next day she and April made their way to their lockers, today she'd gone for a more comfortable look, wearing light blue denim shorts with a grey baggy vest top which she'd tucked in at the front, on her feet she wore white converses, with a brown leather rucksack, which was hung on both arms and rested at the bottom of her back.

'so you up for it?' April asked a little giddy as she was placing some of her books into her locker,

'sure I don't see why not?' Emery replied a she pulled out her Spanish textbook, 'I mean it could be fun' she shrugged as her blonde friend looked to her,

'really… you mean really, really?' she asked the excitement bouncing in her eyes 'you're not just saying it then gonna cancel at the last minute?'

'nope, not gonna cancel…I'll come to the party but if it's a drag I'm leaving' she held her hand out to her friend 'deal?'

April excitedly shook her hand, 'oh my god yes!' she let out a little squeal as Emery cringed slightly at the sound coming from her eccentric friend. 'we so need to go tomorrow after school and get a new outfit' Emery couldn't help but roll her eyes before agreeing to go with her. Passing Rita on their way to their next class, she received a nod of the tanned girl's head, which she returned

'you still need to tell about how exactly you and Rita became friends' April practically whispered to her,

'were not friends just….civil' she shrugged as they entered the class taking their seats to wait out the boring lesson together.

Emery was tired, she'd been dragged around pretty much every shop and whilst she loved shopping, she hated shopping with April. April was the kind of girl that would look and look and look, because in her mind there was always something else to get or she didn't want to miss out on anything. It had been hard enough for Emery to get Happy and Clay to agree to let them come to Oakland to shop especially without Jax or Opie being with them. Last night Emery had got more weird phone calls and even some messages of someone just heavily breathing, so she'd decided to speak to Gemma about it thinking it wasn't really a big deal but she'd rather let someone know. So since then Happy had stepped up to the Godfather role and he'd been staying at Emery's house with her. In all fairness she was enjoying having someone there, someone to greet her when she got home, someone to cook for. She'd been missing her father a whole lot more since seeing him and she just hoped their time apart would go fly by. After finally finishing shopping Emery trudged outside to where April had parked her car, they'd decided to go back to Aprils to try on their clothes since Happy was on club business and wouldn't be back till late.

April was strutting round her room in her new brilliant red high heels asking Emery's opinion on them for the fifteenth time when there was a loud banging at the front door, instantly Emery looked towards April who just shrugged at her,

'mom and dad aren't back till late' she said in a small voice, walking to the window there was a black SUV 'I don't know who's car that is' she squeaked as there was another bang at the door, Emery pushed forwards looking out the window,

'well, I really don't think it's the girl scouts with cookies' she spoke to her friend who looked truly terrified, Emery took hold of her friends hand squeezing it gently,

'I'm scared Em' her friend looked down to her with teary eyes, wiping her friends eyes Emery fought back her fear and instead thought about how to get them out of here the window was too high up for them to jump.

'I'm not gonna let nothin' happen to you okay' she gave her a honest looked all evidence of her previous fear gone, 'I'm getting us out of here, grab your keys were gonna try for the back door before they get in' she told the girl as she slung her rucksack on her back, then taking the scared girls hand she led the way down the corridor to the stairs. They were halfway down the stairs when the door burst open, 'RUN' Emery shouted to her friend as she pushed her in front of her, as April ran down the rest of the stairs and towards the kitchen one of the men tried to grab her, as April let out a small scream at the man's closeness, Emery took a photo in its frame off the wall, the photo was of her and April at their first school dance, lifting it high, she brought it down hard on the attackers head hearing him let out a small cry as the glass broke scattering across the floor. The man turned grabbing Emery round the neck, she fought to stay calm as her airwaves were blocked off by the man's meaty hand, she tried kicking out but didn't get very far before he dragged her down the rest of the stairs throwing her against a wall, she let out a heavy oof as she hit the wall and slumped to the floor, there was a pain in her back and her head was pounding. She saw April turn to look at her a horrified look on her face,

'go April!, get in the car' she waved the girl off when she gave her a worried glance 'go' she mouthed to her friend before seeing the flash of blonde disappear out of the back door, as the attacker got closer to her Emery quickly shot up gripping hold of a large piece of glass from the frame trying to ignore the spinning in her head that came with it,

'just stay down kid, it's the blonde we want' the man muttered, hearing the man say he wanted April made Emery's blood boil, no way in hell was she letting this man anywhere near her friend, looking back to the broken door she saw another man approaching them he was a lot taller and well built, she needed to get out of here and fast she couldn't really take this one, she hadn't heard April car leave so she guessed the blonde was waiting for her friend, bringing her attention back to the first attacker she saw his left shoulder fall as he brought his fist round hoping to make contact with her face, instead she ducked, landing a punch in the man's gut as his hand slammed into the wall causing some of the plastering to fall, as he hunched over at her punch she brought her knee up to collide with his nose, swallowing up the bile that rose in the throat at the sickening sound of his nose crunching under the force of her knee she then slammed the shard of glass into his shoulder blade not noticing that she'd cut her own hand doing it which was now bleeding quite badly. The man staggered back letting out a gargled cry holding on to his nose that was now gushing blood. Not wanting to stick around Emery quickly span around and ran to her friends waiting car they were soon pulling out of the drive and were on their way to the clubhouse.

'pull over' Emery spoke softly to her friend who now was sobbing and had make up running down her face, the obviously not hearing her continued to sob so Emery placed her hand on her friends arm to gain her attention, 'pull over Ape, I'll drive' her friend just nodded as she pulled into a lay by, Emery got out the car and walked round to the driver's side as her friend climbed over inside the car

'are you okay? Your hands bleeding' her friend spoke though her voice sounded alien and so broken, giving April a tight smile Emery pulled off nodding a little,

'I'm fine, told you I would let nothing happen to you' she smiled a little at her friend who returned it giving her, her silk scarf to wrap around her bleeding palm,

'I'm so sorry Em I'm such a coward' she hung her head in her hands 'I just ran, I ran and left you to fight a man on your own' she was shaking her head that still lay in her hands, keeping an eye on the road she stroked the top of her friends head,

'your not a coward Ape, I told you to run' she changed gear as she sped up then continued to stroke her friends hair 'besides turns out those men were there for you, so it's a good job you ran' April looked to Emery with wide eyes,

'don't worry, the club will handle it' Emery spoke to her, but April didn't miss the darkness that misted over her friends eyes,

'but I'm not samcro' April muttered,

'to me you are, and to most of the boys, like Jax and Ope' she lifted up her friends chin 'you're more Samcro than you know, besides I owe you one remember' she winked at her friend,

'well look on the brightside Em, between having to drive this car and that range rover the other day, I think you're gonna be just fine on your driving test' she giggled a little,

'let's just hope we don't get pulled over, or if we let's just pray it Unser' Emery laughed back at her friend as she pulled into the parking lot of TM