He leaves the kitchen and I help the ladies to tidy the room. "Thanks for doing this, Winne." I look at her, she's so friendly.
"It's not a problem. Who doesn't enjoy a shopping trip?"
"I don't have any money though, I'll have to ask Brady for some."
Winnies takes my two hands in hers. "Lyssa, don't you worry about that. Spider and Tank have already given us money and Prez says it can come out of the church fund."
"Church fund?"
Winnie laughs. "I'll explain about church later on." She grabs my hand and leads me out of the kitchen so that we can find the other old ladies and see who wants to come on a shopping trip.
As you can imaginethey all want to go, but in the end there's me, Winnie, Aurora and Nova. Plus Phoenix and Chance. They decided against the prospect as there are four of us and so they want to make sure we are protected if needs be.
Sitting in the truck with the others I love their camaraderie. There is a lot of banter and it’s so nice to see after the few days that I've had.
"Hey, Lyssa, what was Spider like when he was younger. He's always so uptight and serious. Was he always like that?" Winnie asks, smiling at the others.
"No, not at all. He was always so much fun to be around and I loved being around his friends in particular. They were all so good looking." The girls laugh. "Especially Tank." I blush, I shouldn't have said that.
"Ah, so we were right, Nova, we did see a spark." Aurora says, nudging Nova in the arm.
"No, that's not what I meant. He was always fun when he was around. We had a pool back then and Brady and his friends would be out messing around in the pool, drinking beer when our parents went to bed. I used to sneak out and watch them. Oh God, that makes me sound like a pervert." I laugh.
Nova smiles. "I think I would have done the same. So, erm," she clears her throat. "Did you and Tank ever get together?"
"No way. Brady wouldn't let any of his friends near me and sure I was younger than them and they thought I was an annoying little girl."
"Well, no one can say that now, you are sure a fine woman," Chance says, laughing.
"Why thank you, sir." I laugh with him.
It's so easy being around these people, why didn't I come over more often? Oh yeah, Brady didn't want me to, he said I was too much of a temptation. I think he's wrong there, I think I would have been very tempted.
"I saw Tank coming out of your room this morning, I thought Spider stayed with you," Aurora asks. The other girls turn to her and screw up their faces like they didn't want to ask me that. She laughs, "Well y'all are thinking it."
We all laugh. This trip is going to be so much fun.
"He took over during the night to give Brady a break."
The truck stops then and we all get out and move as one into the nearest clothes store. Looking around I pick out a few things to try on and they look so great I want to buy them. But I don't have any money so I put some back. Winnie catches me. "Spider, Tank and Prez gave us money, remember. Pick those up." She hands them to me and places a few more items on top. She pulls off the top item of clothing. It's a little dress. "I think Tank won't be able to resist you in this number."
"I think Spider will lose his shit if she wears that," Nova laughs.
"I can't wear that!" The thought of being exposed in a room full of bikers doesn't sound like fun.
"Take it anyway, you never know you might get to use it at some stage." Winnie moves over to the cash register and she pays for everything. I needed new everything, all of my stuff that I had left is in the apartment that was getting repossessed today. I had nothing of value in there and I need to move on from that life. The only thing in my way now is the mafia and hopefully the Rebel Hearts MC can help me with that. If not, then I'm better off dead, because I know they will come looking for me at some stage.
When we get back to the clubhouse, we have bags of shopping and the girls help me bring them up to the room that someone has cleaned for me. I guess this is going to be home for a while. "I'll unpack and put everything away. Thanks girls for helping me. I really appreciate it.
Winnie hugs me and says, "Tonight we are having family night and you're coming."
"What's family night?"
"It's where the brothers and their old ladies have a night of drinking, dancing and no club girls are allowed. It's always funand we like to do it when someone comes to visit or someone new joins us." Winnie looks at the girls. "What do you say girls, are we going to have fun tonight?"
Nova, Aurora and Winnie jump up and down like kids. I don't think they are much older than me and I laugh because they look so excited.
They leave me to sort out the room that I am going to be staying in for a while. I leave the door open to air the room and then start unpacking the things that we bought. It's not long before Tank comes into the room. Well, he's leaning against the door frame watching me.