Wandering Romance

You Ever Dance With The Devil In The Pale Moonlight?

Part I: Appetite for Destruction

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Aubrey has never formally met Jackson Teller. She has simply grown up always knowing who he is like how it's innate knowing how to breathe. Growing up in a small town like Charming, you didn't have to really meet anyone to know them. It was like they were some weird SciFI town where basic information was just stored in their DNA. It was like epigenetics, it was passed down genetically to know certain people and things about Charming.

And everyone knew about Jax, his mother, and his club.

It was part of the reason why she had always known who Jax Teller was. His family and club were like the boogeyman of Charming. They were the perceived devils of the town families told their kids to stay away from. And it was dangerous to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight, or so she thought.

She and Jax had gone to the same schools as it wasn't like there were a lot of choices of schools to go to in Charming. You either went to the public schools or your parents shipped you off to Stockton to the private schools, Count of Aquino or Pilgrim Grove.

She and Jax were a year apart, but managed to hang out in the same crowds.

Or mostly, she found herself somehow in the web of his closest associates.

Lowell Harland was the same age as her and she ended up being his partner in a lot of things for classes. He was nice and a little awkward, but was a whiz when it came to mechanics and any problems relating to it. It was clear the boy was troubled. He had a junkie for a dad and a mom trying to pay bills with money that wasn't stolen for drugs. Despite Lowell's connection to SAMCRO it didn't stop bullies from picking on the sweet boy.

Then there was Kyle Hobart, in her opinion was a pig. He was a couple years older, but got held back once in kindergarten. She doesn't know how it is possible to fail kindergarten, but he did. They shared gym together and she made it a point to steer clear of his line of sight. He flirted with anything and everything. It always amazed her how he managed to trick a girl into being his girlfriend. The kicker of it was that they always cried when he ended up cheating up them. Aubrey never understood men like that. If they wanted to sleep around that was fine as long as you were upfront about it. But don't try to settle with one girl when you only plan to fuck her best friend behind her back. Aubrey tried to avoid him at all cost with his cheesy pick-up lines and stupid smirk. She's surprised no one had burst his bubble that the only reason he was so appealing was because he was very close friends with Jax. After all, he mostly got Jax's sloppy seconds.

The only group in Jax's little posse she did like or go out of her way to talk to was Opie. Despite being tall and foreboding, the man was a Giant Teddy Bear. He also seemed to be the only sane one.

She had gotten close to Ope after he dated her good friend Payton for a few months. She even doubled with them for a couple things when she was seeing an old boyfriend. He was always respectful to her and wasn't obnoxious like Kyle or cocky like she knows Jax can be. He was easy to talk to as well, but he was also fine with silence. She was sad that Payton had broken things off with the Sasquatch, but it seems Opie wasn't hurting too bad. He had moved on to Donna Lerner a small quiet girl that had moved from Lodi to Charming over Christmas Break last year.

Despite their inner circles' mingling and her friend dating his best friend, she and Jax never really spoke or interacted outside of sharing a few blunts and an occasional drink. They always had ended up at the same parties. They were always in the same room a few feet away from one another. It wasn't as if they weren't aware of each other because she was very aware of Jax with his discreet stares at her.