– Jax –
I stare at the window as I watch Harley and Gunner leave the compound, my phone vibrates breaking me out of my trance, I look down to see that Shark Eye’s is back. I get up and make my way into the bar to find him so we can talk about this party.
I find them sitting down at a table with Juice, Dino and Wood. I grab a coffee before sitting down next to Juice, I grab out a cigarette and put it between my teeth before lighting it, “So, is anyone going to tell me why we are about to sign our early death whishes?” Juice says while a smile on his face, I look back over to Shark Eye’s and Snake.
“It’s my princesses birthday, now i know she doesn’t like it but shes never had a real family to spend it with once i left she ignored the day, it never existed. her mother never cared for it so she never celebrated it with her. it used to be our special day so that’s why we are having a party if she has a problem she can blame it on me” Shark eyes looks around at everyone once he finished speaking.
All of us nod our head and agree to help them, “Everyone is to help and attend, tell them to call their friend and families, tell them to call their old ladies to come, I want everyone here to show her just how much of a family she has now” I say to everyone, “Get the girls and old ladies to cook and pick up some alcohol and groceries, get the rotters to set up extra bedding and clean up around the bar and outside. no one says a word to Harley, she will burn this place to the ground if she finds out. Clear?”.
“Crystal” they all reply, I nod my head and stand up making my way over to the auto repair shop that’s next to the clubhouse I make my way over to one of the cars and smack the hood of it, a body wheels itself out of the underneath, “Almost ready Hawk?” He gets up off of the ground and cleans himself up before opening the car door, most of the interior had been stripped there are now hidden compartments in the car making it easier to travel with guns, drugs or explosives.
“Just need to put everything back in and we will be all set, compartments are under all the seats, the four main doors and the boot too. Just added a ‘bigger’ fuel tank underneath, half is for the fuel and half can be opened to stash anything, you can take out the lights to hide shit in there, there’s a button that will open the glove compartment, you can’t open it any other way except the button, its like a hidden door, you cant see it.” He presses the button and a secret compartment pops out from where the glove compartment would usually be, I nod my head before shaking his shoulder, “You’re a genius kid”.
“Shouldn’t take more than 2 days to get her finished” Hawk smiles as he runs his hand over the paintwork on it, Hawk’s always loved cars and bikes he’s easily one of the best mechanics I’ve ever met, “Harleys gonna love the mission I have for her” he turns to face me and raises an eyebrow, “What have you got planned brother?”, I smile at him “It’s a surprise”.
I make my way back into the clubhouse and find Juice, “Any news brother?”, I had asked him about a week ago to find Harley’s ex, I wanted a full background check on him this will be my present to her, no one hurts my queen and gets away with it. “Seem’s like he owes a sister charter some money, $60, 000 to be precise” he hands me the file and I read over it quickly before turning my attention back to Juice I smirk before speaking “Call Trevor and let him know that we will be visiting in a week. Tell him I’ll call him beforehand to talk over everything” he nods his head before walking off.
I turn around and see Shark Eye’s talking to another brother, I make my way over to him as he shoos the other man off “Everything going smoothly?” I ask him and he smiles and nods, “I hope she likes it” his eyes wander around the room as he watches people begin to clean and decorate, I throw my arm over his shoulder and walk us towards the bar “She will love it, Old Man, she loves you deeply shes just a little…. Stubborn” he nods his head and laughs before ordering 2 beers, “Yeah she got the attitude from me”.
We laugh for a bit while he tells me stories about Harley as a child, how she used to be obsessed with monster trucks and race cars, all the other little girls wanted to be princesses for their birthdays while she wanted to be a supervillain, she loved playing in dirt and nature. I start to play with my fingers anxiously as I hype myself up to ask him something, I’ve never done shit like this before, im always in control and right now i have no control over the situation at hand and that fucking freaks me out.
“Shark Eye’s can I ask you something” he turns to face me and takes a sip of his beer, “Of course you can Killer” I smile at him before speaking “Jax, call me Jax… Uh well..” I trailed off trying to think of ways to word this, he’s probably going to shoot me dead once the words leave my mouth, get your shit together Jax youre the president for fuck’s sake. “I want to ask Harley to be my old lady, I want to know if you’re okay with it. You’re still Harley’s dad and I want to respect you the way you respect me”.
He turns his gaze off of me and focuses on the bottle infront of him not saying a word, we sit in silence for what feels like hours but is only minutes, “I’m going to say this once and only once, you hurt her I’ll kill you, you make her cry I’ll kill you, you make her frown I’ll kill you, you cheat on her and I will rip your heart out with my bare hands and eat it infront of you while you slowly die, and that will only be after I let Harley at you first. If you ever happen to so much as look at her without loving eyes I. Will. Kill. You. This is my blessing, you put her in any danger and so help me god whatever happens to her I will do to you twice as much. You may be my leader but she is my princess and Matthew and her will always come before the club do you understand me?”.
I smile and laugh once he’s finished his speech “You know I won’t do any of that shit to her but thank you for the reminder. I love her more than anything else in my life, I’d give up everything if it made her happy, she could ruin and destroy the MC and I’d still come crawling back to her begging for her back.” He smiles and nods before slapping his hand on my back, “You are so fucking whipped” he laughs again before walking off.
“How long until the decorations are done?” I ask Snake as he looks around “Another hour or two at most if she comes back you’re going to have to drag her out somewhere” I nod my head “Let me know when it’s done”.
I hear a commotion outside a mixture of yelling and dogs barking, what the fuck is going on now? I walk outside and am met with the best thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life, Gunner on top of a picnic table with 2 giant bear dogs jumping barking and biting at the air near him, his squeals turn into high pitch screeches as the dog’s teeth get closer and closer to his skin and clothes.
“Harley tell them to stop!!” He screams, my attention turns my perfect woman standing to the sides of the tables, 2 dog leads in her hands as she stands there arms crossed over her chest while laughing at Gunner’s expense.
She places her fingers in her mouth and whistles loudly the dog’s ears snapping up to the sound and returning to her side still growling at Gunner, he starts to step down off of the table as the dogs rear up again becoming more aggressive and agitated by the second. “Stop he’s okay,” she says simply and the dogs stop and just stand there quietly, Gunner steps off the table and the dogs come bounding up to him licking him and jumping on him playfully.
“Where you find the bears?” I ask raising an eyebrow at Harley “The pound, they were going to be killed” I hold my hand out infront fo the dog’s noses as they sniff me carefully still standing by Harley’s side, they look up to her for a signal to let them know it’s okay, she smiles sweetly down at them and a second later they’re bounding into me almost knocking me to the ground.
Harley whistles again and the dogs get off of me walking back to her, she goes to turn to walk into the clubhouse I jump to my feet and pull her into me hugging her tightly so she can’t escape my grip, “What are you doing?” Her face looks puzzled, “Late lunch remember?” Her face lights up when I say it I’m guessing she thought I had forgotten, “Hungry?” I ask and she nods her head “I haven’t eaten all day, I’m starving. Gunner can you watch the dogs?” She yells over my shoulder at him.
“Are they going to kill me?” He yells back, “Not unless I tell them to” I can hear him huff from behind me “Fine” he yells before calling the dogs over to him and walking into the clubhouse, I grab ahold of Harley’s waist and throw her over my shoulder as I walk towards my bike.
She’s giggling like a schoolgirl as I walk, her giggle’s sounding like music to my ears. I place her down gently on the back of my bike before I jump on infront of her, I start the bike and kick the stand up before peeling out of the compound, we drive for around 10 minutes before we pull up infront of a diner, it looked like it was straight from the 50/60’s.
We jumped off the bike as Harley took in the building infront of her, “How did you know I love diner food?!” She smiled while looking at every detail on the building “Lucky guess” I wink at her before taking her hand in mine, I lead her into the diner holding the door open for her as the little bell above the door dings.
We walk in a little before Harley stops dead in her tracks, “Kitten what’s wrong?” I whisper in her ear as my eyes move up to where she’s looking, an older woman is standing at the bench pouring coffee a small smile on her face, she moves from behind the table to infront of us, clicking her pen and pre-pairing her note pad infront of her, “Welcome to Rose’s diner how can I-” her sentence stopped as her eyes made contact with Harleys.
“H-Harley? Is that really you?” Tears being to pool in the older woman’s eyes, I turn my attention to my Harley to see one single tear falling down her cheek.
“Betty,” she says in almost a whisper before the older woman pulls her into a bone-crunching hug, Harley pulls back to look at the woman’s face one more time as if she’s not sure of herself, “It’s really you”.