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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 247 Boat Fail
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Tara checked herself out in her new deep azalea pink scrubs before heading out for work on Monday. On Saturday, she and Scarlett did a little shopping. She was just going to get her normal Easter egg colored scrubs until Scarlett suggested she try deeper colors. She said if you want to be powerful, wear a powerful color.
It turned out Scarlett had a superpower of her own—being able to pick the perfect shade of a color. Tara tried on her choices and Scarlett's and the difference was amazing. In the pale colors she'd picked, she looked like she always did, but in the vivid colors Scarlett chose, her skin took on a glow, her hair seemed shinier and she actually looked prettier.
Scarlett explained that her father had dated a woman while Scarlett was in high school who taught her about color. She'd been a freelance color consultant and part-time interior decorator's assistant until she'd given it up, moved to Hollywood and become an aura healer and pet psychic to a group of direct to video movie stars. Scarlett's story made her laugh and Tara understood why Jax was always smiling and laughing when they were together.
Scarlett had warned her that she needed to sit down and couldn't stand or walk a lot, so Tara dropped her off at the front of the mall before parking. After shopping for scrubs, they took a break by getting pedicures. Scarlett preferred to do her own nails, but in her current condition she couldn't bend well enough to give herself a pedicure.
Next, Scarlett helped her find a couple of tops to wear with jeans. Tara told her about her date with Eric on Sunday afternoon. They were going sailing at sunset because he had a boat. Tara wasn't sure if the boat was the kind with sails or if it were more of a motorboat.
To Tara's amazement, Scarlett told her a true crime story about a woman, the woman's daughter and her friend. They had gone on a boat with a man they had just met who raped them, tied each to an anchor and tossed them overboard to their deaths. Tara had seen the same true crime investigation TV show.
She had told Scarlett about the man who killed his wife, turned up the air conditioning in their home to throw off time of death and then gone sailing as his alibi. Scarlett told her about the man who took his wife sailing, killed her, tossed her overboard and told police that it was an accident. He got caught when he confessed to his girlfriend.
It turned out that they had watched the same true crime TV stories with the same murders years ago. The two women had more than Jax Teller in common. Spending time with Scarlett reminded her of her happy days in college when she had friends and a social life before sacrificing everything for med school and her career.
While eating ice cream in the food court, they came up with the cat fight idea when Tara told Scarlett she was going to go to the SAMCRO picnic for a few minutes because Donna had invited her.
Tara confessed her cat fighting past. She told Scarlett that everyone would stare at her wondering when she was going to fight Scarlett. They decided to give the people what they wanted—a cat fight but on their terms.
It had been important to her to get people's attention to confront her past and to make a statement that she wasn't that crazy girl anymore. Nothing made a bigger statement that she'd changed than befriending Jax's new girlfriend.
When Tara returned home after shopping, she made a call to Eric changing the plan to go on his boat Sunday. She made up a problem with sea sickness. Sometimes it was better not to tempt fate.
He had taken the change in plans easily. If she'd done that with Kohn, he would have yelled at her. It was a clue to his personality that she didn't want to see because she really wanted him to be a more legal version of Jax and therefore the perfect man for her.
Eric wasn't like Jax, or at least the Jax that she knew back ten years ago. Maybe that wasn't such a bad thing. She liked his calm, easy-going demeanor.
For now, she was just going to enjoy his company just not on a boat until she knew him a lot better.
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Upcoming Chapters: Scarlett and Jax find themselves at the intersection of relationship hell, Louise may die, Bucky fights for his life, Clay continues to chant "die, Bucky, die" in his head willing it to happen and on Saturday Jax will find Scarlett in bed with another man FINALLY.
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The true crime stories mentioned are true.