What I Learned Out On The Road

The Key To Revenge

Kelly POV
It's Saturday morning I wake up and walk out to the bar.
"Want anything?" Prospect asks.
"Yeah some Jack Daniels."
He gets a glass and pour me some.
"Hey."
"What?"
"I want the bottle." I reply. He laughs at me and Tig starts walking over by me. He sit next to me.
"Hey." He smiles.
"Hey." I say without even looking at him.
"You know that you have an older brother."
"Yeah, I do. He's 26. Me and him are close. Last time I talked to him was the night before I left to come back here."
"I just got a call, he went to jail last night for possession of coke."
I turn my head around quick and glare at him.
"What?! He didn't ever touch that shit. Some of his gang,Venom, sells it on the side but it ain't part of his club."
Tig shrugs. "Then how do you explain why he got charged with it?"
"What mother fucking jail is he in?!"
"It's about 2 hours away. In northern Cali." Tig replies.
"Stay there." I tell him. I come back in about ten minutes and I have my hair down, makeup on, and clothes on.
"You're driving me to where he's at."
2 hours later.
"I'm here to see "Bentley Trager."
They make me walk through a metal detector.
"Right this way, mam'."
"Bentley?"
"Kelly? What are you doing here?"
"I heard that you were in jail for coke. I thought you didn't touch that shit."
"I don't." He replies.
"Then why the fuck do you have 10 years in prison? I don't even have enough money to bail you out."
"They placed coke on me before.."
"Before what?"
"Before I did that job. They set me up."
"Who your club?" I ask.
He shakes his head. "My partner,Ryan did."
"Stupid bitch."I huff.
"Kelly, look at me!" He raises his voice.
"Don't do anything stupid. No payback, anything."
I squint my eyes at him.
"Don't do anything stupid? You know me better than that, Bentley. He's gonna choke to death on his own blood. His gonna regret putting you in prison."
"You don't understand." He replies
"Maybe I don't. But he doesn't understand who's family he just fucked with." I reply.
"Times up!" The guard spoke.
"I love you Bentley."
"I love you Kelly." He slips a note in my purse and a little box. "Don't open this for another week, promise?"
I shake my head yes and walk out.
**
We make it back to the clubhouse.
I walk out to the TM Garage
"Juice?"
"Yeah?"
"I have two people for you to search: Amanda Palmer and Ryan Seago."
"What about them?"
"Find everything and anything."
He nods his head.
Me and Gemma walk outside TM and sit at a picnic bench and talk.
"How's your brother?"Gemma asks.
"He seems ok. He's taking it better than I am.
She nods.
"Is he your full brother?"
"Yeah I guess so. I always thought he was my half brother, he was always around when I was little. But my mom told me she had him with a different guy. So I just assumed he was only my half brother. I guess not. It's my younger brother that's my half brother. But to me, they are my brothers no matter what. And if somebody has a problem with them, they got a problem with me."
"I use to have a brother." Gemma said.
"Really? What happened to him?" I ask.
"He was killed by the Irish."
I nod. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be. Everything happens for a reason. Now lets go get some lunch." She responds.
1 week later:
Ringg ringggg.
"Damn phone always waking me up."
"Hello?"
"Kelly?"
"Yeah who is this?"
"This is the warden from California Prison you're the only one we could get a hold of. Your brother, Bently was beaten to death this morning."
It takes a minute for me to process this. Tears start running down my face and I scream. Chibs comes running in the door.
"What the hell happened?"
"My older brother, he's, he's dead."
His mouth drops open ,"Holy Shit." He drops down and he hugs me.
"Tig!" Tig and Gemma run in the room.
"Bentley's dead." Chibs says.
"Son of a bitch!" Gemma states. She and Chibs just sit there and hug me.
****
I'm getting ready for his funeral. I curl my hair, put on makeup and I have on a tight black dress with a black leather jacket, some sunglasses, dark red lipstick, tall leather boots, and black nails.
Bentley has his funeral at his gangs clubhouse. The only people I talk to there is the president of Venom, the VP, Chibs, and Gemma. When we go in for the service the casket is closed. I can do nothing but cry. I help them carry the casket to the car. I ride on the back of Chibs bike to go to the cemetery. Tig and everyone else from TM and Venom get in line to say their goodbyes. When it's my turn I step up and look at his box. A tear falls down my cheek.
"I remember when I was little you use to tell me, It's easy to be bad, It's hard to be good, but it's the hardest to be good again after being bad. I didn't know how true that was then, but I do now. We are alike in more ways than one. I didn't ever think that one day I would loose you. I should have spent more time with you, and kept you from getting involved with these nasty people who you thought had your back." I swallow.
"You will always be my brother. Forever and always. You always had my back, and I always had yours. But I guess this is a goodbye. I bend down and kiss his box and leave a kiss print and more tears fall from my cheek. I leave a red and black rose on the top. And I tape a picture of me and him on his coffin.
I whisper, "Don't worry about me, just rest. I will get payback for you." I walk away.