The Nerd And The Biker

Chapter 12: Sage

It's been two days since I've locked the doors and sets the alarm. I heard the others show up and leave, stupid assholes. I lift the forth bottle in three days and cheer to a sucky life.

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***Axels POV***

Its been nearly a week since Sage locked herself in at the Pit Stop. A fucking week and no Sage. Melanie came over yesterday and told us the password to the alarm. It was her birthday. For nearly seven days we've tried to come up with something and we couldn't figure it out and all along her password was her fucking birthday. We're about ready to break into The Pit Stop and get her out, I miss my princess so much it hurts.

"Alright on three." Brady counts down and I kick the door open. The alarm goes crazy and the smell of liquor hits all of us. Summer goes to deactivate the alarm as the rest of us go find Sage. The bar is normal looking, tables are in order with the chairs on top of them, ready to be put down for when the bar opens. It doesn't take long to find her, she was sitting at the bar with seven empty bottles of beer and three empty bottles of vodka next to her.

"What do you want?" She growls. "To berate me some more? To call me more names? Go ahead I don't care."

"Prin-" I start.

"Don't. Don't call me Princess, don't call me Say, don't call me SJ, don't touch me, don't talk to me. Leave and don't come back. Actually come back because you have to fix my door."

"Sage what's going on?" Brady asks her.

"Oh now you talk to me, fuck I hoped I was imaging you, Secret, Summer and Autumn. Damn this is good." She says as she takes a swig of the nearly empty vodka bottle.

"Sage why are you doing this? This isn't like you." Secret says gently.

"I found out I liked the taste of alcohol, turns out I'm more like Jennifer than I thought. Cheers bitch," she cheers the air and takes another drink of the vodka. "Now what do you want? I can't remember what you said."

"We are worried about you an-," Summer starts.

"And now you care. We are so worried about you and we wanted to make sure Jennifer Jr was okay? We are so worried about you and we wanted to yell at you?" She laughs. "Well come on pick one I have all day to do nothing."

"We were worried about you because we miss you," Summer says to her.

"Oh finally someone who cares. You hear that Mom they care you big asshole." She yells at the ceiling.

"Fuck this," Secret says. She walks over to Sage and slaps her. Sage looks at Secret and smiles before launching herself at Secret.

"Why did you do that Secret? Sage used to baby sit the owner of the karate studio kids. He trained her instead of paying her because she asked him to." Autumn yells.

"I know he taught me also." She yells back. Blocking a kick that Sage aims at her head. They fight for a solid thirty minutes until Secret gets the upper hand and whispers something to my princess before knocking her out.

"Secret are you insane? She is a nationally ranked blackbelt." I yell at her.

"So am I." She winches as stands up.

I lift Sage in my arms as James helps her. We all leave and everyone gets into an SUV or hops onto a motorcycle and goes back to the compound. I place her in my room and ask Summer to clean up Sage. I head to the basement and knock around the punching bag, I lose track of time and I'm taking out of my fog when Dallas shoves my shoulder.

"What?" I growl.

"Shes awake," he calls over his shoulder as he leaves. I follow after him and go to my room where Sage is.

"Take me home." She says as soon as I walk through the door.

"No way princess," I tell her. She glares at me. "Go ahead glare at me it ain't gonna get you anywhere."

Do you know how worried we were about you?" Summer whispers with tears in her eyes.

"Are you going to bore me with the details of how worried you were Summer. You haven't been worried about me since my pathetic brothers left in October." She snarls at her.

"Hey that's enough!" Alex yells at her.

"Why? What are you gonna do about it Alex? You can't do anything that hasn't been done before." She snaps at him.

"Everyone out now," I calmly say. They all shuffle out the door. I close and lock the door behind them. I lean my head against the door and take in a deep breath of air. I turn and face her.

"Do you know how worried I was when you wouldn't call me that night? I nearly called the cops Sage!" I yell at her. "The reason we left for nearly two months is because we were almost killed because someone in the gang is a traitor and wants me and your brothers dead. Is that what you want? To know that I nearly died trying to get back to you? Not to mention we were packing the compound up to move here because your brothers want to get close to you and so does your dad. So yes were all worried about you when you didn't answer because I was afraid they had taken you and killed you." I look at her and see tears running down her cheeks. I slowly walk to her and she launches herself into my arms and sobs.

"Why didn't you call me back princess?" I whisper as she moves to sit on the bed in front of me.

"I was so upset about what James called me that I turned it off and threw it at the closest wall and it broke. I kicked everyone out of the bar and cleaned for hours with the music on. I crashed in my office but I woke up to a nightmare. I went to the bar and took a beer and drank it, I liked the way it made me feel, I was relaxed so I had another, then another and I can't tell you how many times I drank a beer in the last seven days, hell I don't remember adding the vodka to it. I just wanted to be numb for one more minute, one more hour, one more day so I kept drinking just like Jennifer. She was right about me you know, I'm just like her. She always said a beer a day kept the pain away. I look more like her than I do my father, I can hardly remember what I've done in the last seven days. I was careless, stupid and a fool, just like her. Well the apple doesn't far from the tree aparently."

"No princess you're nothing like your mother, you're better and pure. You took what was given to you and made it work, you didn't quit or take a time out. You try to make yourself better than she was."

"Axel I don't try to be better than she was, I try to be better than I was yesterday and yesterday was terrible." She yawns and looks at me with those big eyes of hers shining with tears.

"Okay. How about you rest while I go grab stuff from your house?" I kiss her forehead and unlock the door and leave the room shutting the door behind me. It'll take some time before she trusts her brothers but she is strong enough to overcome anything.