You Are My Sunshine

Chapter 44 - Making A Mountain Out Of A Molehill

"Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life." - Unknown

"I'll roll by," Opie assured Amelia the next day as he prepared to head up to Charming. "Give her a hard stare or something, I don't know." He chucked awkwardly.

"Skinny bitch," Amelia hissed bitterly. "I want her to know I know. I don't want her to think she and Jax have some sweet little secret."

"Don't even waste your time, you got nothing to prove." He gave her a light punch to the shoulder. "You're a fucking Winston."

Amelia smiled and nodded, she knew what that meant and she agreed. They were Winstons they had nothing to prove. "What are you going to say?" No longer whispering, Opie knew Amelia meant Mae and not Tara but he didn't want to get into that.

"I'm not gonna talk to her, I'm not even gonna drive by, I was kidding, you psycho."

"I meant Mae," Amelia rolled her eyes. "You have to talk to her. You can't just drop a box of shit on her steps and run away like a goddamn baby."

"What am I supposed to say?" He grumbled. "I don't want to mix her in with the club."

"Really?" Amelia crossed her arms. "That's the only reason you walked out?"

"You gotta be shittin' me," he shouted and turned his back on Amelia. "She fucking told you?"

"Of course she did." Amelia laughed despite her brother's foul mood. "We tell each other everything, Ope." There was a few things she was keeping but generally it was true.

"Did you tell her about Mae?" He asked, suddenly panicked, turning to face her again. "Please Amelia, tell me you didn't."

"Oh no," she said adamantly. "I knew you didn't want her to know yet. I hate to say it but my loyalties to you and to Jax just slightly beat out my loyalties to Donna."

"Good," he grunted.

The approaching Harley drew Amelia to the front door while Jax joined Opie in the kitchen. They talked business and Jax then slammed two giant stacks of cash on the counter.

"Holy shit," Opie's eyes went wide. "We've been up and running for four weeks. Where did this come from?"

"You're VP and you don't know?" Jax chuckled scratching the stubble on his cheek.

"Wait, this is the Russian money? They gave it all upfront?"

Jax grinned smugly. "Me and Chibs went for the meet with Juice and Hap, we were all just as surprised."

"So this clears us with SAMCRO? We're ready to earn for ourselves?"

"Yup, and this is just the beginning."

Meanwhile...

"Hey," Juice looked at Amelia like a deer in the headlights. "I wasn't expecting you here, I heard about the fight and all. I thought you were still at Ope's."

She shook her head anxiously chewing the inside of her cheek as he questioned her. "I was, we uhh, we talked."

"Got cha," he smiled knowingly. "Opie still here?" Juice gestured to the extra bike and Opie's pickup in the driveway.

"Juan Carlos," Amelia started only to clamp her jaw shut as Opie approached from behind.

"Hey," he looked between them suspiciously. "What's going on?"

"Nothing," Juice said, perfectly normal and seemingly unaffected. "I need to talk to you though."

"What's up?"