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Chapter 2: Charming

"Where is she?" I asked Opie, "I dunno she was with her dad last time I saw her?"

"Skylar Davies?"

"Skylar Davies?"

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"Jax get the fuck out of bed!" I replied with a groan. I heard my bedroom door open and felt someone sit down. "Jax, Jax"someone flicked my head. "Fucking hell what does a guy gotta do to sleep around here?" I pushed myself off the bed and to my dresser to get a pair of boxers and jeans. "Sorry brother it's 9 I was told to wake you, we have church in 5"

I found jeans and put them on, "Op do you remember Skylar?" I asked him looking for a t-shirt. "Davies?" "Yea Davies, how longs it been since we've seen her?" I asked him putting my white 'Samcro' shirt, "'bout 8 years, I think why?" Opie said lighting a cigarette. "I've just been thinking about her, it was weird we just lost contact with her" I stood facing Opie, "Brother she lost contact with us, we called, texted, we went to her house she was gone. Jax we did what we could." Opie was right there was nothing we could do, Opie stood up and walked towards me and put his hand on my shoulder, "Brother I know you loved her, but she was the one who left not us" I hated when Opie was right about these things, I don't see why she left I think that's what really pissed me off the most.

"Come on brother lets go and meet with the others" I said to Opie as we both left my room for church.

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"Shit with the Mayans, assholes blew up one of our gun warehouses, the fucking thing would have been seen two states away!" Clay exclaimed as he banged his fist on the table. "How the fuck did they know where they were?" Tig asked. "Someone must of tipped them off" said Chibs. "But who only we knew about them, unless we have a rat" I said as I looked around the table of men. "I don't think that's it brother, they know we run guns too, probably have eyes on us." Bobby suggested. "Has anyone noticed anything?" Clay asked, his eyes searching for answers but only got shakes of heads. "Okay everyone needs to keep a look out, a sharp look out from now on, okay?" Everyone agreed and Clay slammed his gavel.

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I don't know how long I've been walking for, honestly I'm just glad to be out. I haven't been able to do anything with my life, I'm 26 years old and I've been stuck with an abusive alcoholic father.

I don't even know where I'm going, well I do, I'm going to Charming. But I don't even know how I'm going to make any money or where I'm going to stay or work. I have some money to get me started if I'm lucky. I saw a small building about a mile down the road but I could hear the music from here.

I got to the door of what appeared to be a trucker joint. I walked inside and straight to the bar. "Excuse me do you have places to stay?" I asked the man behind the bar. "Sorry love this is a bar not a hotel, now what can I get you to drink?" I sighed "just give me a bottle of beer and two packs of Marlboro Reds" he reached under the counter for my smokes and into the fridge for my beer he set both on the counter, "that'll be $15 darlin' " I gave him the money and went back outside to have a smoke, I sat down in the only available chair next to a man with barely no hair and a beer belly who was also having a smoke.

"How you doin'" he asked me as I sat down, "I'm ok thanks looking to get to Charming that's all" he smiled at me, "well you're in luck I'm heading there in about 15 minutes, how about you finish your beer and I'll meet you by that red truck?" I smiled at him "yea sounds brilliant" he got up and walked back into the bar.

I don't even know where I'm going to go when I get to Charming, I can hardly land on Jax or Opies doorstep. About 10minutes later the man came back out and walked over to me I had just finished my beer. "Ready to go?" He asked "yea" I said lifting my bag off the ground. As soon as I got in the truck I fell asleep.

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I woke up at noon in the truck momentarily forgetting where I was I sat up and lit another smoke. "Yer awake" the man said, "I didn't quite catch your name?" "Skylar" I replied, "well Skylar, we are around 15minutes away from beautiful Charming, I'm Earl by the way" I yawned, "thanks for giving me a ride Earl." "No problem sweet heart, say would you mind if we made a stop first and then I'll drop you off at a motel or something?" "Yea that's fine, what's the stop?" I asked him. He took a piece of paper out of his pocket, and he read it "Teller-Morrow Garage" I smiled it couldn't be could it?