Waking Up Married

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Sitting at the bar, alone, thinking about the last week. I came home from work and my life was turned upside down and now I am moving across the country to get away from all of the bull shit that has become my life. I was in my own little world when I sense someone sitting beside me. "Hey pretty girl. You are too pretty to be sitting here alone. Let me buy you a drink?" he asked putting his hand on the back of my bar stool. "No thanks. I'm good." I say, hoping he will just walk away. Of course, my luck sucks. "Come on. Don't be like that. We can get to know each other." he says as he start to play with my dark brown hair that falls to the middle of my back. I shrug him off and say "Again, no thanks." He still doesn't stop. He starts rubbing his hand up and down my back and says "Come on baby. We can have some fun." Before I can say anything else, another guy walks up and says "Are you seriously messing with my girl?" he asked, putting his arm around me. "Sorry man, I didn't mean any disrespect." he says before almost running away. My saviour turns to me and asked "Are you okay?" I look at him and the first thing I see are his sad eyes and this sweet smile. 'Uh, yeah. Thanks for that." I say. "No problem. Didn't look like he could take the hint. I saw it from all the way over there." he says and motions to his friends across the room. "At least let me buy you a beer for your help." I say. He smiles a little wider and says "Okay." The bartender gives him us both a beer and I say "I'm Gabby by the way." He shakes my hand and says "Juice."

Well, one beer turned into three. Three turned into five and before we know it, the bar is closing. "You wanna come back to my hotel room?" I asked leaning close to his ear. "Not done thanking me?" he flirts. "Not even close." I say. We are both drunk, me being more intoxicated than I am used to. We walk outside and he asked, "Where's your car?" I laugh and say "I left it at the hotel. It's just down the road and I knew I wouldn't be able to drive." He pulls me close and kisses me and it completely takes my breath away. Pulling away, he looks at me and says, "We'll take my bike." I get on the back of his bike and we head to the hotel.

I wake up the next morning and I hear his soft snores next to my ear and it's kind of soothing. His arms were around me and I turn towards him and start kissing on his chest and working my way up to his neck. I kiss his lips and he wakes up. "Morning babe." he says sleepily. "Morning." I say. He pulls away from me and heads to the bathroom. I lay there a second and I see something on the nightstand. Sitting up, I look at the paper and see that it's a marriage license. He comes out of the bathroom and sits beside me and says "I guess you want to talk about this, huh?" I look at him and then at my hand and see the simple silver band and then see the one on his hand that matches. "We got married?" I asked. "Yeah. How much do you remember?" he asked. Thinking for a second I say "I remember you saving me and us drinking. I remember leaving the bar and...I remember getting married now." I say. "Look, if you want out, I'll give you the annulment." I continue. "What if I don't want that?" he asked. I look at him confused. "Look, I see my brothers with their Old Ladies and I see how happy they are. I see how they have someone to stand by them and I want that." I look at him with some understanding. "And from the fact that all of your things are in your car, tells me that you don't have anything to go home to either." he says. I look down at my hands and feel a tear fall down my face. He pulls me into him and says "I won't hurt you. Just give this a chance." I sit up and wipe my tears away and say "When do we head home?" He smiles and kisses me softly.

A couple of hours later, we are getting ready to leave the hotel, all of my things packed back up and put back in the car. "Follow me to the SAMNEV clubhouse and I'll introduce you to everyone and then we will head home." he says. "Uh, where exactly is home?" I asked. "Charming, California." he says. I follow him to the clubhouse and I get out of the car as Juice walks over to me. "Don't worry. Just stay by me." Juice says. We walk up to a group of people and they are all looking at us. Juice takes my hand and intertwines our fingers. "Hey guys." Juice says. "Hey Juice. Who's the girl?" the blonde asked. "This is Gabby. Gabby, this is Jax, our president, Opie, Chibs, Tig, and Bobby." he introduces us. "Nice to meet you darlin." Jax says. "Juice, can I get a second?" Jax asked and he kisses my cheek and follows him to the side. I can still hear what's going on. "Want to fill me in on what's going on?" Jax asked. "We met last night and hit it off. We got a little drunk and hit a chapel on the way to her hotel room." he explained. Jax's eyes went wide. "You married her?" he asked. "Yeah and before you say anything, she gave me her social security number and her drivers license for me to do a background check this morning and she's got nothing. She's clean." They come back over and Jax says "Well, looks like we have a new member of the family. Juice and Gabby got married last night." I thought that they would all think he was crazy but they all start coming to us and hugging both of us and telling us congrats. Even a blond haired girl named Lyla hugged me and said "Welcome to the family Sweetheart."

We take a little time to get to know each other and Juice can't seem to wipe the smile off his face. The entire time we are there, he has his hand on me somewhere, whether it's having his hand on the small of my back, arm wrapped around me or holding my hand. It's really sweet and I am so not used to someone being affectionate like that. I like it...a lot. When we go to leave, Opie asked me, "Do you care if Lyla rides with you? It's was a little rough on her riding in." I smile and say "Sure, it will give us a chance to get to know each other." She smiles and loops her arm with mine and says "We can talk about our Old Men." I look at her and start laughing. I was going to like her.

We walk to the car and Juice and Opie walk with us. Opie kisses her and heads to his bike. Juice pulls me to him and says "Please drive safe. Just follow us. We should be there in about four hours." I smile at him and say, "Okay baby. Please be safe." He kisses me deeply and closes the door once I am inside and we are on our way to Charming, California and on to our new life together.