Free Sons of Mayhem 3: War and Vengeance by Nikki Pink

It felt like a compliment and I gave him a smile when he shook my hand.
    “’evening.”
    “Nice to meet you.”
    Lucy also exchanged a greeting with him, and just as he ’d done with me, he ran his gaze over her too. If I wasn’t mistaken I saw a glimmer of something in his eyes as he sized her up.
    “Come from a business meeting?”
    “What?” I was confused for a second. “Oh.” I looked down at my conservative blouse. “No. We just thought, that, y’know…”
    Jase laughed but it seemed a little forced. No wonder, he had the funeral today. And then there’s the thing later.
    “You should know we don’t do formal around here.”
    I felt a little embarrassed, then an idea struck me. I looked at Lucy who was dressed similarly. She looked back at me. I raised an eyebrow and she grinned and nodded in response. I could swear that sometimes it seemed like we could read each other’s minds. Perhaps it comes with living together.
    Simultaneously we both reached to the bottom of our blouses and pulled them over our heads. Underneath we were both wearing bright red bras. With our tight jeans on we had managed to change our look from business casual to party girl in a moment.
    Jase grinned and ran a hand over my stomach. I tingled. I cast my eyes around the room; we didn’t look out of place; not really. Quite a few girls were wearing bikini tops, and in the corner I could see a girl sitting on a table completely naked from the waist up, while a guy I didn’t know sucked on one of her breasts while squeezing the other. The I don’t give a fuck attitude was in full effect.
    We sat together and drank for a while. Lucy and I sipped beers, while Jase and Gauge took minuscule sips from a single glass of whisky each. They didn ’t want to get drunk. Not yet, anyway.
    We tried to joke around but we were all tense. Sure we laughed and smiled, but it was all a little forced. At 9:30 Bottle joined us. Jase gave me a look. I nodded.
    Soon his hands were on my body and our lips were locked together. While we surely looked like we were kissing passionately his heart wasn’t it, and so nor was mine. Our tongues flicked at each other, we bit each other’s lips and he put a hand down my jeans, grabbing my ass while another slipped under my bra, squeezing my nipple.
    After about a minute of our very public display of affection Jase grabbed me by the hand and dragged me through the clubhouse. A lot of people saw us.
    As he was pulling me away I saw Lucy had done her part too. When I’d told her what Jase wanted us to do she’d just shrugged and said ‘sure’. She didn’t give a fuck .
    Her bra was gone and Bottle was squeezing both of her breasts while she had her hand down his pants. A moment after we ’d left they were following us, and we clambered up the metal stairs to Jase’s trailer together.
    He swung open the door and we all entered.
    “I left a couple of bottles of wine in the fridge. We’ll be back in ninety minutes.”
    I held each of his hands in mine and squeezed. “Be careful.”
    He nodded. His face looked strained. He leaned forward and gave me a peck on the lips before turning towards the door.
    “Let’s go.”
    I saw Bottle reach for Lucy ’s breasts again but she stepped backwards as if she hadn’t noticed and sat down on one of the beat up old chairs. With a thunk the door closed and they were gone.
    “Find me a shirt?” asked Lucy.
    I nodded and went to find one.
    Soon we were sitting at the rickety card table Jase used for meals with a bottle of wine between us. Lucy wore one of Jase ’s plain white t-shirts - it seemed to be all he owned.
    “They’re going to get them, right?” Lucy asked.
    I nodded, hoping I was right, hoping they’d be alright.
    “Good.”
    The time dragged as we sat and waited. We didn’t want to talk about the violence they might be committing, but it was the only thing on our minds. The very idea of making smalltalk about college was too ridiculous to even