Secret Life (ON HOLD)

{Chapter 3}

3rd Person POV:

The following morning was crazy with twenty people in the house, but they made it work. Sasha, Tara, Lyla, and Gemma made breakfast while the club members made sure all kids were dressed for the day and watched them as they played on the playground in the backyard. The women decided to do a breakfast buffet and called everyone in when they finished. Breakfast was filled with everyone talking over each other and laughing like this is how it had always been.

After eating, everyone took their dishes to the kitchen to make it easier to clean. Kenny, Ellie, Able, and Thomas went back outside to play on the playground with the club watching them from the back porch while their old ladies were cleaning up the leftover mess. It wasn't until almost fifteen minutes later that Opie realized something and had to ask, "Happy, where are your kids?" That got everyone's attention making them look out to the kids to notice Happy's three were not there then looked back at Happy himself for an answer. "They do online schooling so they are inside somewhere doing their school work." Happy said simply. "Why did you guys put them in online schooling instead of regular school?"Jax asked out of curiosity. "A lot of reasons really. The fact that I wanted to keep them hidden because of my involvement in the club was only a little part of it. Sasha also travels a bit for her part in her family's business and for her main job as an author. The kids have to go with her most of the time since neither of us trust other people to be left with the kids alone and they would miss too many days in regular school with the travel schedule. Plus, the boys started competing in motocross last year and Luna wants to start competing in skatboarding competitions within the next few years. Those four together are going to be traveling even more if they continue to grow in their sports and need to be used to this schedule instead of the regular school schedule." Happy explained further.

The guys accepted what Happy said before moving on to talk about club business and what they need to do to rebuild. The wives meanwhile were in the living room talking about how their men's activities will affect their and their children's lives.

Zacky, Zane, and Luna decided to do school work at the kitchen table today. They did school work all over the house. Sometimes they did their school work at the kitchen table, other times at their desk in their rooms, in the living room, and on a good day they would even work outside. All three kids will periodically get out of their seats to stretch or get a quick healthy snack and water just so they could move around and not be stuck sitting for hours on end, more reasons Happy and Sasha put their kids in homeschooling. Around eleven o'clock the women got into the kitchen and started to make lunch for everyone while continuing to chat.

Zane, Zacky, and Luna have done most of today's assignments by the time their mom walks into the dining room from the kitchen at noon. "Lunch is almost ready so take your school stuff upstairs guys." Sasha said. "Yes ma'am!" The twins and Luna said before they cleared all of their school work and supplies from the table and put it in their rooms neatly on their desks. "Can you three go get everyone from outside and tell them lunch is ready?" Sasha asked her children. That gained another "Yes ma'am!" before the three were out the door with the twins going to tell the kids who are out on the playground and Luna went to tell Happy and the men he was sitting with.

"WOW! How do you get them to behave so well? I can't even get my kids to pick up their toys." Tara said, amazed at watching the well behaved children. Layla followed quickly in agreement while Gemma just stood in the doorway and listened to the conversation. Gemma had already grown to have a soft spot for Happy's old lady as she watched Sasha welcome the club members into her home with no hesitation and be a great old lady and mother to her three kids. "They just know that if they do wrong, they will be punished. Whether it is having to stand in the corner, not use their electronics for a certain amount of time, or, if bad enough, have the shed that holds their dirt bikes and skateboards locked up. When it comes to manners though, they have been taught since they started to speak to have manners." Sasha tells the other women as she lays the last dishes out on the table. Before the other old ladies could say anything, everyone piled in through the backdoor to take seats at the table and started to fill their plate with food. Just like breakfast and the previous night's dinner everyone went into their own conversations while enjoying the amazing food.

Everyone was stuffed and happy after an hour. Everyone pitched in to clean up the mess, finishing in minutes. After everything was picked up Zacky and Zane went outside to the activities shed. They traded out their normal clothes for their riding gear before jumping on their dirt bikes and taking off. Minutes later Luna went into the shed to put on her elbow pads, knee pads, and helmet. Then she grabbed one of her skateboards and took off to the bowl and snake run that is built a short distance from the shed. Jax's youngest, Thomas, was laid down for a nap and the other kids went to play in the indoor playroom. The adults all gathered on the back porch to have an eye on the kids doing their activities. All of the adults watched silently as they saw the twins jump one of the hills and do a trick that Happy said was called a 'whip'. Then right after saw Luna launch out of the bowl on her skateboard and land smoothly on the concrete surrounding the bowl. "Okay, how?" Tig asks, looking over at Happy and Savannah. "How what?" Happy asks back. "How do they do that?!" Tig asks, pointing back and forward between the three kids. "They fell in love with their sports so we don't do anything. They just look up tricks on youtube then start trying them out. Sometimes we actually have to basically drag them in the house." Savannah answered with a laugh. "It's still amazing to watch." Tig says as he keeps switching between each of the kids in awe at the tricks they were doing.