Leather & Lace: A Sons of Anarchy Fanfic

Chapter 25

The sun peaking through the cracks of the blinds in Tinsley's apartment woke her. Sitting up, she lit a cigarette and walked to the bathroom. After releasing herself and finishing her cigarette, she brushed her teeth. Looking at her reflection in the mirror, she noticed that her eyes were almost swollen shut from her crying. Her hair stuck up in every direction. There was dried snot on her shirt from whipping her nose. She was glad she wasn't planning on leaving the house today because she was sure to cause nightmares in small children with the way she looked. Even though she had showered the night before, she started the shower, and climbed in. She washed and conditioned her hair. She washed her body. Turning the water off and climbing out of the shower, she dried off and went to the bedroom. She grabbed another pair of yoga pants and an a tank top and went to make some coffee. As he coffee brewed, she powered her phone up. The notifications began to flow in. 5 voicemails and 39 texts messages. She scrolled through the text messages seeing there was one from Willow.

Hey, call me when you get a chance.
Jax is looking for you.

Tinsley wasn't ready to talk to Willow so she scanned through the messages again and saw one from Gemma.

Where are you?

Evidently Jax hadn't filled his mom in. Wanting to get things over with, she dialed Gemma's number. It rang 3 times before Gemma answered.

"Hey sweetheart. Where are you" asked Gemma.

"I'm not coming in. In fact, I quit. I told Jax to let you know because I didn't want to call you at 10pm last night" said Tinsley.

"Wait what? You quit? What's going on" said Gemma.

"You should really talk to Jax. He's the reason I quit." Said Tinsley.

"Well put him on the phone" said Gemma.

"He's not with me. I'm at my apartment. I have no idea where he is." Said Tinsley.

"I don't know what's going on with you too but I'm going to get to the bottom of it" said Gemma.

And with that, she hung up before Tinsley could say another word. Tinsley scrolled through the messages from Jax. Some of them were him begging her to answer. Other were him apologizing. Others just telling her to call him. She listened to the voicemails and it was more of the same. On the last message though, she could hear Jax sniffling as if he had been crying. It broke her heart to think of him crying. He was the strong type that obviously never let himself show those types of emotions. The sound alone caused tears to spring to her own eyes. She wanted to call him and talk to him. She wanted to comfort him but she wasnt the one who needed to make up for anything. She hadn't done anything wrong.

Putting her phone down, she walked to the kitchen and fixed her coffee and a couple pieces of jelly toast. Sitting down on the couch, she ate her toast and scrolled social media. There was nothing new going on. She called her brother and talked to him for awhile. He knew her well enough to know something was wrong but didn't question her.

When she was done talking to him, she laid back on the couch and contemplated calling Willow. She knew Willow would see her point on the whole Jax situation but she didn't want to put her in the middle of anything seeing as how she was screwing Half Sack and Jax and him were good friends.

Deciding not to call her, she went into the kitchen to attempt baking something. Usually when she was stressed, she baked. Some of her best recipes had come from the times after Mason and her had argued the night before. Tinsley drug ingredients out of her cabinets and refrigerator, not knowing what she was going to make. She whipped eggs, milk, and flour. She melted chocolate chips in the make shift double boiler. When she was done, she had made passion fruit infused cream puffs with white chocolate frosting.