Darlin, I fall to pieces when I'm with you: an SOA fanfiction

Chapter Ten -

Lana locked her phone and slipped it back into the pocket of her apron. She walked back into the diner, and got back to brewing the coffee. "I hope you're not expecting to take a lunch break too" Patty tutted as she squeezed past Lana to reach the mugs. "Nope, no need to" Lana responded coldly. "Oh, no lover boy today?" Patty laughed. "No" said Lana bluntly as she picked up the coffee pot and stormed off. She knew Patty would want to ask a million questions so she went as far away as possible.

The shift dragged on, not that Lana was particularly looking forward to finishing and heading home, it was going to be a long few days. As Lana was cleaning up the tables in her section the bell on the diner door rang, she turned to greet the customer, an old cop strolled in and smiled at her, heading towards the counter. She turned her attention back to the tables, "Hey Patty," she heard him speak "I'm looking for Lana?" Her head shot up at the sound of her name, her face went white, what the hell had happened? Her mom? Had she been arrested again? Found dead? Oh god what if it was Filip? What if he was hurt, or worse? No way would the police contact her though? Her thoughts were interrupted by Patty's response "Why you asking, Wayne?" She directed to the cop "She in some sort of trouble?" Lana watched on, eyes wide with fear. "No, no, nothing like that, I'm here to drive her home" Patty looked at him for a moment and then nodded in Lana's direction before she went back to cashing up the register.
The cop headed towards her looking confused, "hey sorry to disturb ya, I'm looking for Lana?" He asked her, looking around. "Yeah, that's me" she responded. "You? God sorry I wasn't expecting you to be so..young, and nice?" He spoke, for a cop he was super awkward. Lana opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out, she had no idea how to respond to that. "It's just, Chibs said his girl needed a ride, I'm a friend of the club, I said I'd help him out, I just didn't expect, wow" he carried on stumbling. Lana's heart was beating one hundred miles an hour 'Chibs' girl' she could get used to hearing that. "It's okay" she smiled, "I finish in like 10 minutes, do you want some coffee while you wait?" She asked. "Sure that'd be great" he smiled, heading over to the bar. She finished her shift and sat through an awkward car ride with the chief of police, she was so glad to be home back in her bedroom, away from everything, everyone.

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Lana lay in bed, staring at crappy ceiling of the trailer, it was only 9pm, this would be the longest night ever, would Filip call tonight? Or would he be too busy driving? She had no idea when he'd set out, or even where he was going. Her mind was too full of worry to fall asleep, instead she pulled out her phone and typed out a message for Filip:

Hi baby, I'm home safe, thanks for sorting a ride home for me, I miss you, be careful x

She sent the text, wondering if he'd even check it, he was probably way too busy with club stuff, whatever that meant. She really needed to find some friends here, it was depressing feeling this lonely. She pulled out her sketch pad and began a detailed drawing of Filip, she'd managed to sketch his face shape, eyes and scars before her eyes grew heavy and she fell asleep.

She awoke the next morning to voices in the trailer, loud voices. She reached for her phone 5:22am, who the hell was making that noise. "Listen, anything you want okay $50, anything at all baby, my room is this way" she heard her mum with a random guy in the hall, great not only is she selling herself for drug money again, she's bringing strangers to the house she thought to herself. Once she heard her mom's bedroom door close she left the safety of her bed and made sure her door was locked, as an extra precaution she dragged a chest of drawers in front of the door. She crawled back into bed and hugged her knees up to her chest, she reached under her pillow for her pink bunny she'd had since she was a baby, anything for an ounce of safety. She checked her phone and noticed a message from Filip, it came through at 2:17am: