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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run

Chapter 86 Braided

Scarlett had a tough night. She took three rounds of painkillers and sleeping pills. Jax woke up when she took her second round of medication and was still awake three hours later when she was taking her third.

"I'm keeping you up," Scarlett said. "You don't have to keep sleeping here. You won't hurt my feelings if you move to the other bedroom."

"I'm fine. Sometimes, I have trouble falling back to sleep."

"Since you don't have to get up at any certain time, why don't you take a couple of sleeping pills?"

"They really give you amnesia?"

"For some of the time. They are classified as hypnotics."

Shortly after taking them, he had sent Gemma a short text message. He didn't want her to worry, but he didn't want to listen to her bitching. Text messaging was the perfect solution. After, he turned his phone off. He wanted to continue to enjoy this time away from Gemma, SAMCRO and all of his responsibilities.

He slept deeply without a single dream. He liked that. Most of his dreams were nightmares. Dreamless sleep was amazing.

He didn't know how she did it, but Scarlett had taken three times the sleeping pills he had and she was awake and up before him. When he looked at himself in the mirror, he tried to remember what the hell had happened last night after he'd taken the pills.

Those damned things really did wipe out part of his memory. He wondered if Scarlett could fill in the gaps.

"Scarlett, where are you?"

"I'm upstairs sitting in the screened in porch," she called down to him.

"You want some coffee?"

"No, thanks."

Jax walked up the stairs and out to the screened in porch. When Scarlett looked at him, he saw her bite her lip. That's when his worst suspicions were confirmed.

"What's so funny?" he demanded.

"Absolutely nothing."

"Really? You don't find the braids on my beard and in my hair even a little bit funny?"

"Well, now that you mention it. It is pretty damned funny," she said and giggled.

"I don't suppose you remember how I got them."

"You don't remember?"

"No, that's why I was asking you."

"Well, after you took the sleeping pills, you sent a text to your mom and turned off your phone. Then, for some strange reason, you wanted some hair elastics. I thought you wanted to do your hair in another . . ."

"Don't say it."

"Manbun," Scarlett said. "To my surprise, you didn't want to put your hair up in a . . . Anyhow, you braided your beard and your hair."

"You are lying."

"You don't remember what happened, remember?"

"OK, funny question," Jax said, laughing at her words. "You're still in trouble. You see, I couldn't have braided my beard or my hair because I don't know how to braid."

"OK. You told me that you thought you would look really cute if you had braids. You thought you looked so hot with braids in your hair, you begged me to braid your beard. It was a little tricky because the hair isn't long, but I think I did a pretty good job. You wanted me to do it."

Jax saw how hard Scarlett was working to keep a straight face when she looked at him.

"I've never thought I would look good with braids, much less said the words. You are in trouble."

Scarlett laughed, her green eyes sparkling with mischief.

Damn Scarlett. Somehow, she had gotten the upper hand again.