| Happy Lowman x OC - COMPLETED |
Sunshine. That's how they, her family and friends, called Cassie Connor most of the time. With her brunette hair, the ocean blue eyes and a smile that was wide but never reached her eyes she was one of the pretties...
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As she ran a hand over the packed box that was on top of the others, a soft sigh escaped her throat. Cassie had taken many looks around her apartment ever since they started packing to move to Charming, California, while her brothers and Happy carried the furniture into the moving truck. Happy offered her and Benny to move into his house. Since they shared the apartment here in Tacoma for years already it was nothing new to move in with him. Actually, it was more of a relief for her to be around him more often again. And Benny had a safe place to live, that's what was most important for her. Yet, it felt still weird leaving all this behind.
It wasn't that she wasn't excited, because she was⸺ California had everything she ever dreamed of. Nice weather most of the time, that outside festival feeling with all the deserts and palm trees, more hospitals where she could go back to work as nurse, more opportunities for Benny to get a decent degree, and she would see Happy more than once in a few months again. This was probably one of the main reasons why she was so excited.
Yet, it was still a new start where she had to leave everything she knew behind. Tacoma was her home since the day she was born. All family gatherings and outdoor activities took place within Washington. Cassie couldn't remember ever being outside. Except once to pick up her younger brother from Stockon. Otherwise, James was always the one who did it. Her whole life had taken place here, all the core memories that had accumulated happened right in this city.
Especially the memories she had with her dad made it hard for her to leave. Bryan loved Washington, especially Tacoma, with his whole heart and always wished his children would stay with him in this town. Since James followed into his footsteps by joining the club, Bryan had no doubts that the rest of his kids would stay, too. The siblings had been always close, he made sure of that. And now all three of them were leaving⸺ at least they left together, that's what he would've wanted.
"Hey, what's going on with you, hm?" James sat down on one of the boxes, earning a skeptical look from his sister.
"You do know there's stuff inside that can break, right?", she asked with a smirk, her tone mocking. "I'm fine, just getting a little emotional now that everything's packed up."
"I get it", he told her honestly as he put a hand on her leg after she sat down too and patted it gently. "It may looks like I don't care but it isn't easy for me to leave either. Shit, our whole fucking life happened here."
A small smile formed on her lips as she heard him say those words. It meant that she wasn't alone feeling all emotional. She wasn't being overdramatic.
"When Happy told me you were asking for transfer I panicked. A part of me wanted nothing more than to get out of this town and see more of the world but the other part wanted to stay to fullfil dad's wish. And now, two weeks later, I'm excited to finally move", she told him, the look in her eyes telling him she was telling the truth.
"That's great, Cas", he nodded slightly. "But I have a feeling there's still something bothering you."
Cassie waved it off, the small smile on her lips slowly faded. She didn't want to tell him about Kayla's tantrums even though Happy told her many times that he should know. She hoped once they were in Charming and she would go back to work Kayla would calm down a little.
