Tribulation | Jax Teller

Family Recipe

Donna raises an eyebrow as she watches Noelle angrily cutting the potatoes. Donna is surprised that Noelle hasn't lost a finger. Although with how hard she is peeling the vegetable she is imagining that Noelle is actually disemboweling her husband.

Donna turns her attention from Noelle to Jax who is laughing in the backyard as he plays with his boys. Donna can say she is glad that Jax is back at home with his family. She knows the boys really missed their father especially little AJ, who is the spitting image of his father.

And as much as Addie tries to hide it, Donna knows the little girl missed him terribly.

Donna doesn't know how Noelle did it. Donna thinks if that if the roles were reversed she would have crumbled under that weight especially since Noelle had three kids to take care of. AJ was only six months with medical problems when Jax went away. Donna thinks she would have resented the club and Opie for putting her in that position.

However, Noelle didn't crumble and Donna is pretty sure that the mother of three only cried three times in those five years. Once when Jax told her he was going away, the trail, and after the first visit in Chino.

It doesn't take Donna very long to guess what the reason is behind this cold front the two Tellers are putting up with each other.

Donna eyes the mother of three with her long blonde hair that is held up in a ponytail. Noelle is wearing dark skin tight jeans that show off her ass. A tight white tank is underneath a black flannel. It's almost hard to believe that Noelle had given birth to three kids with the way she kept her body in shape. Donna remembers when Noelle had come to town with her red lipstick that she still wears. It was the typical girl next door with the innocent bubbly look and personality. Noelle even solidified that image when she became a cheerleader.

When she first arrived she thought Noelle was just going to be some holier than thou type considering how her parents were. But Noelle didn't let the expected social order that high school's normally had in stopping her from being genuine friends with everyone.

She also recalls that Tara Knowles had hated Noelle with a passion especially after the blonde beauty was assigned to tutor Jax in science.

Donna understands why, but even if Tara wouldn't have admitted she didn't like Noelle because of her trust issues with Jax. Donna never understood Jax's and Tara's unhealthy relationship. They claimed to love each other, but Donna thought of it as obsession. Besides Tara was just jealous and Jax did flirt with everything back in the day, but Tara seemed to take it a step further with Noelle. Donna could say she was impressed because Noelle never took the bait considering how Tara loved cat fights back in the day.

But after Tara left Charming and Jax went through his grieving period Donna wasn't surprised he tried to exercise his grief with Noelle. After all, Noelle was most of the guys' wet dream. She was the modern day Marilyn Monroe. It was almost fitting that the Prince of Charming would swoop in and make his claim on her.

And she knows that Noelle's sex appeal was the true issue of this cold front.

Even if Donna hasn't fully immersed in her husband's outlaw ways she knew like most men honestly liked to have a sense of entitlement – ownership – of their woman.

Jax was gone for five years and Noelle had to create a life outside of him. She learned to be independent from him. She took care of herself without any of his help. And it didn't help that as she ages she still retains her youthful glow. Donna thinks she might be envious if she was that type of woman.

But she knows the two of them didn't expect all that followed from their first initial hookup. After all, Opie did reveal Noelle made Jax work for it.