Criminal -Neil Westfall-

Chapter Thirty

"Hey beautiful, this seat taken?" I turn my head seeing this drunk guy, I know he was drunk too. I shake my head hoping he wouldn't talk to me anymore. "What's a girl like you doing here alone?"

"I'm not alone. I'm with people."

"Yeah? Is that why you are here sitting alone? Let me buy you a drink."

"No thanks. I have one." He puts his arm around me getting closer.

"Come on baby." I give a fake smile taking his arm away.

"No, I'm fine." He started rubbing my leg. I push it away but he squeezes it tight.

"I said let me buy you a drink lady."

"Hey man," The guy was pushed off me and was forced to stand up. "She said no."

"Listen, I'm trying to get with her. Don't be a clock block." He laughs.

"First, I believe you meant to say cock block instead of clock block. And second, she's with me. So stop trying to get on that high horse." He stands next to me then wraps his arm around me making sure the drunk guy could see his tattoo of the clubs name on his arm. The guys eyes widened and he walked away fast. I smile then look up at him while he moved away.

"Thank you for that Josh."

"We look out for our own." He nods sitting next to me.

"Your own?"

"Yeah, you're an old lady now. Doesn't matter if you are with Andy or Neil, you are part of the family now. And forever will be." He took a big gulp of his beer.

"You guys see me as family just because I was with Neil?"

He nods looking at me, "Of course we do. Everyone loves you here Kat. We think you treat Neil just right. Now doesn't mean he treats you right. But we all really do love you." I blush looking away.

"Where were you anyway?" I take a sip of my drink placing it down softly on the bar.

"I was across the bar watching over you," I looked confused for a second.

"You were watching me?"

"If you haven't noticed, you have not been left alone since the accident with that one guy. And I'm sorry for bring that up but that's how it is. Again, we look out for our own. We protect you. We shouldn't hover over you, we know that. I mean after all we just met you. But you are important to Neil, making you important to us."

"If I was so important to Neil why did he cheat on me?"

He lets out a sigh, "He had a moment of weakness, we all do. We all cope in different ways. I'm not saying what he did was the right way to cope but it was one of his ways of trying to move past what happened. I know he doesn't like to show his feeling or open up. He barely does that to the club. He does know we are there for him when he needs us." He took a break to take another gulp. "I just think you should at least talk to him. I don't know if you and Andy are serious and I don't need to know but if you feel like it's getting to that point, talk to Neil before." I bit my lip feeling guilty all over again. After all he was just trying to cope.

"Neil almost killed him.." Josh chocked on his beer a little, from surprise.

He took a deep breathe before answering. "Love makes people do stupid and crazy things. Then again Neil is that type of person who would do that for any lady in danger."

"So I heard." He rubbed my shoulder.

"If you ever wanna talk I'm here for you Kat. I'm always someones go to man for when somethings wrong. I keep everything to myself. I'd die before telling someone something that wasn't said by myself. "

"Thank you," He smiled at me.

"Are you okay though? I saw that guy touch your leg. That's when I had to put a stop to things. I mean I was going to either way but he shouldn't be touching a girl like that." I laugh a little to show him I'm okay, "That's good. I didn't want to take him out back with some of the boys." I bit my lip starting to think.

"Josh, can I ask you something?" He nods then shrugs looking at me. "Okay, well. Has Neil...Ever.. You know.." I looked down at my drink.

"Killed anyone?" I look at him, he knew that's what I was going to ask and he knew I wasn't going to say it. I wouldn't know how I felt if I knew Neil has ever killed anyone.

It was a minute before Josh said anything. "No, he hasn't. That's why he was crushed when he saw what he did to the guy. But he also wanted him dead for what he did to you. Right now he's trying to find the guy who did that drive by, the person who killed Jackson," He smiled looking down. "Man, Jackson was loved by everyone. All the guys started to learn ASL for when he came to visit the club house or when we went out of our way to come and see him. It is truly heartbreaking knowing he's gone, probably even worse for Neil. None of us got to see him before it happened, no one got to say goodbye. " He looked at me with sad eyes. "I believe Neil will kill the guy who killed his brother, make him suffer before he did. So he could feel the pain that Jackson went through after being shot all those times."

I chugged the rest of my grasshopper and ask for another. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know how to feel. At that point I just wanted to drink all of it away. My brain was spinning and thinking too much. Josh and I just sat there listening to the music, drinking our drinks then asking for more, every once in awhile look at the stupid dumb drunk people dance on the dance floor.

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Two post in one dayy!

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