CHAPTER FIVE

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The drive seems remarkably full when I pull the Ram into it a little after 330, both Donna's and Gemma's cars are there, Donna's in the drive and Gemma's parked on the grass out the front. The space for the Ram is empty but there's two bikes parked next to Gemma's truck easily identified at Opie's and Clays.

There's a level of noise from inside the house that startles me a little as I lift Abel in his seat from the base "Can you go inside and ask them to tone it down a bit, Abel's sleeping."

Jax nods and throws open the door shouting "Quiet you lot."

Rolling my eyes when Abel's eyes blink open I shake my head lightly looking down at him "Daddy's a little slow. You'll have to give him a chance to catch up."

The tiny yawn that comes out makes me laugh when Jax comes back down the stairs "What's up babe?"

I look over at him "You're shouting woke him up."

I'm barely in the door when Donna lifts him from the seat and carries him through to the kitchen, Clay, Gemma and Opie all sitting at the table already. Donna sits down at the empty chair holding Abel against her chest and talking quietly to him. The grin that crosses Opie's face makes me laugh.

"Ope just remember, he's mine." I tell him setting the car seat on the bench and pouring coffee into cups for Jax and I.

Jax appears beside me and looks at the seat "What's that?"

I look over and then back at him "Al decorated it for me. Is it okay?"

Jax grins, the tiny Anarchy symbols on either side of the rubber hand point of the car seat are only noticeable if you're looking. "That's awesome."

I nod "Wait till you see the pushchair. It's..." I trail off, my eyes fixing on Donna "Was the pushchair in the hotel?"

Donna shrugs "Dunno, you'll have to ask Al when she gets here."

Al laughs from the door behind me "No it wasn't, it was at TM, it's in back of my car outside." Spinning on my heel to look at her she smiles at me "We went and picked up the car Juice brought me. Do you want me to go get it? You can come gush over the car when you're not stressed about a whole lot of people arriving for dinner soon."

I smile at her as I nod heading down the hall and undoing the 4 hooks on the front of the corset as I go. Throwing it onto the bed with a sigh, returning to the kitchen the first thing I do is put on one of my aprons before cracking the oven door to check the beef in there "What time's everyone getting here Gem?"

"8, is that gonna be ready, I know it was huge."

Pulling the roasting pan out of the oven I set it on the top "It's almost cooked now, I wanted to make sure it was well and truly ready. I'll put it back in about 30 minutes before everyone gets here to finish cooking and heat all the way through."

Gemma and Clay head off a few minutes later, Gemma telling me she's already put the salads in the fridge and they'll be back at 730 with the rest of the sides. Clay shaking his head and following his wife out the door, her voice already listing the things she needs to order for the proper party and the wedding reception.

While I think about it I ring Elliot quickly and ask him if it would be possible to have the reception she's planning on his farm. The laughing congratulations and assurance it'll be fine make me relax and I flick a text to Gemma letting her know that the venue is booked for her bound to be over the top party.

Abel starts squeaking in Donna's arms "Think he's hungry S."

I roll my eyes and get up, pulling the bottles, formula and kettle towards me. Making up a bottle with the still warm water I scoop him out of her arms and stick the rubber teat in his mouth, the rapid suckling sounds making me laugh.

Donna cocks her head to the side, before shoving her hand in her bag and pulling out her camera. Calling my name I look up right as she takes a photo. Poking my tongue out at her she shrugs "It's cute."

Walking through to the living room I sit down on the armchair and wait while everyone follows me, Al appears in the door a few minutes later with the pushchair in front of her "All done, where do you want it?"

"Jax. Come see what Ali did." I call winking at her.

Jax comes through the door and looks down at the black pushchair "Fuck, that's better than the car seat."

The once plain black pushchair now has a silver anarchy symbol over the cover for the removable carry cot. "I was going to do the reaper but it wouldn't have worked well on the material."

Jax shakes his head "Al, that's awesome."

Al smiles and bows slightly "Happy to be of service. Now, I'm going to go sleep for a while, I didn't go back to sleep after this morning's rude awakening. S, ring me at 7 to make sure I'm up for dinner?"

I nod and wave at her from my chair, Abel still happily sucking on his bottle. Al gives me an awkward hug, leaning over the side of the chair and telling me again to ring her later to make sure she's awake. Donna and Opie all leave not long after, leaving just Jax, Abel and I sitting in the living room.

Looking over at Jax he shakes his head "So what do we do now?"

I can't help but laugh at the clueless look on his face "Now, we completely forget everything we think we learnt about children and start fresh learning about Abel."

Jax laughs "Forgetting everything is easy babe, I have no clue about babies anyway. Ellie and Kenny were only ever screaming bundles."

Pulling the now empty bottle from Abel's mouth I adjust him and rub his back slowly till he burps right by my ear. "First lesson Daddy, how to change a diaper."

Jax wrinkles his nose but follows me to Abel's room where everything is sitting on the sideboard. Sliding down so I'm sitting on the floor I nod towards the cabinet "Pass me that big blue blanket please baby."

After putting the change mat on the floor it takes me a few minutes to get Abel's nappy changed, making Jax watch everything I was doing the main reason it took so long. "Now you can have the next dirty one."

Jax grimaces but nod, picking Abel up and hugging him to his chest, reaching down and pulling me to my feet "Do you need any help with dinner?"

I shake my head "No, but you can come keep me company unless you've got stuff you need to do."

Shaking his head he follows me through to the kitchen, sitting down at the table with Abel "What am I meant to do now?"

I laugh at the complete confusion on his face "Wait there a second." Going back to Abel's room I pick up one of the few books still left behind and take it back to the kitchen "Read to him."

Jax lifts the book the cartoony looking bus on the front of the book "Where did this come from?"

I smile over at him, setting the bag of potatoes that Gemma dropped off on the bench "I picked it up from Barnes and Nobel when we were in New York."

Jax opens the front cover of the book and starts reading, his voice low and smooth as he reads about wheels and buses.