Back Again (Draft)

Chapter 12

" that's..Uhh..a story I'd rather not get in to" I say"understandable" he says then stands up. He walks over to me and sighs putting a hand on my shoulder, I look at him with kind eyes

 "you Ok sir " I ask "been better, but hurry along now, come see me later, I've got some new kiddies comin in, and I think you'd be a good mentor to them" he says with a sly half grin "yes sir" I say and walk out to be greeted by Jae leaning on the railing.

"We need to talk" he says walking back downstairs with me

 " What's up Jae?" I ask

 "It's about Mason" he says with a sigh

 "what did he do now" I say with a slight hint of annoyance in my voice

 "surprisingly he didn't do anything, that chick he's been seeing broke it off with him and he's well, he's acting like he normally does" Jae says " I swear that boys gonna be the death of me, get him out to the shooting range and watch him, I'll grab the beer and I'll make his cookies" I say heading over to the kitchen

 "your such a good friend" he says giving me a side hug slyly grabbing my ass. I smack his hand and walk away giggling.

I walk into the kitchen and slip an apron over my head. I grab some cookie dough from the fridge and role it out. I put my headphones in and sing along to the song.I roll out the dough making it into little balls still singing along to the music, I put the dough in the oven and turn around to see meadow sitting on the counter, she gestures for me to take my headphones out and I do.

"your really good at singing brooky, you should do it more often" she says with a big smile on her face "T-thanks" I say with a slight blush on my face which just makes her smile bigger "Why don't you sing in front of everyone?" she asks

 " It's embarrassing" I say checking on the cookies

 "Why? you have a beautiful voice, you shouldn't hide it" she says" It's a personal thing alright, everyone's already seen me at my worst and knows everything about me, so I want something I can keep to myself" I say sternly " I understand, but at the same time I don't, you are one of the most bad ass bitches here, you should be one of the leaders yet you don't apply, you keep trying to live this normal life with random guys and stopping yourself from becoming who you really are" she pauses

 "One of us" she says toughly" We all see so much potential in you. your good with guns, you can keep calm in stressful situations, and your tougher then nails, you could run this place better then Ryder does. yet you seem so keen on leaving, what is holding you back from who you really are" She asks.I stay quiet trying to muster up the words to stay.

" I don't know, I've always been distant, I've never thought to be better or to take it further cause I'm at a good place here" I say hesitantly " That's not it and you know it" she says giving me a look" I don't wanna talk about it meadow, It's complicated" I say giving her the same look" It's only complicated if you make it that way, but I'm not gonna push" she says as she struts out the door

I sigh and the timer goes off for the cookies so I pull them out and let them cool.

I grab a small cooler and put some ice, beer and coolers in it. after that I Ice the cookies and put them in the cooler, I sigh and pick the cooler up and quietly sing porcelain face as I'm walking to my room.

I walk into my room and change into black ripped jeans and a black AC-DC crop top, I throw on a blue jays hat putting it on backwards. I pick the cooler back up and walk outside to our makeshift shooting range and set the cooler down, Jae gives me the look of Oh Shit.

l walk up behind Mason and and wrap my arms around his waist. He stiffens up and keeps his eyes on the targets, Jae backs off and hands me a note explaining what happened and I skim over it, already piecing it together from Mason's actions. I let go and sit next to him, I grab his hand gun and place it down, he looks at me fury in his eyes.

" Leave me alone" he says with a rough voice " what happened" I say keeping a straight face " I don't wanna talk about it" He says looking away and grabbing a beer " You do want to talk about it, you just refuse to because of man honor or something" I say my feet dangling off the side of the small stone wall, he grunts in response "very funny Brooky, now seriously just leave me alone, I don't wanna hurt you" He says taking his gun back and firing a few rounds into the dummy's chest " And you won't, we've been over this, you can't hurt me, I'm a bad ass remember" I say with a sly smile. he rolls his eyes " Yea and I'm the queen of fucking England".

'You could be" I say, He shoots me a look, I put my hands up in surrender "ok, ok so it's bad, what happened, did she cheat on you or something" his eyes start watering " Yes, now she's fucking pregnant with some random shitters kid, and she's leaving the group before Ryder finds out" he fires the whole mag into the dummy's heart.