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him on the back before limping off toward the upstairs apartment door to get cleaned up.
    “Why the fuck you gotta embarrass him like that?” Jameson asked Knox as he came over to where we sat, pulling his shirt back on.
    I looked up at him, taking in his busted lip. “He needs to check that shit. Tired of him thinking he can make calls without talking to me first,” Knox said to Jameson before looking down at me, “Who’s this?”
    “Starla this is Knox , our Prez. Knox this is Starla,” Jameson introduced us.
    “Nice to meet you, Knox,” I said to him.
    “You too,” he said back, “You from the States?”
    “Yeah, my friend Joni,” I said, pointing across the lot to where she was standing next to Butcher and McGee, “And I came over to do some sightseeing. So far we’ve only seen Dublin and the surrounding area. We did make it down to the shoreline once, but we still have a few more weeks left before we head back.”
    “We’ll have to see what we can do to get you a tour around Ireland,” Jameson said with a smile, taking a pull from his cigarette.
    “Yeah, we’ll be here in Dublin for a while. Maybe we can show you all the hidden treasures Ireland has to offer,” Knox said, looking up to where Rage had limped off to, “Guess I better go check on my VP, make sure I didn’t hurt him too bad.” Jameson let out a laugh as Knox took off toward the upstairs apartment.
    We sat on the picnic table for what felt like hours, laughing at each other’s stories, staring at each other until the other one noticed, and then turning in embarrassment. Something about Jameson’s quiet demeanor intrigued me. His eyes told a story much deeper than the one on the surface. I hung onto each word he spoke as the life of the party grew around us, but as the volume around us became louder the small bubble we were enclosed in grew smaller. I could feel a pull, something inside of me drawing me closer to him.
    If you would have asked me then, I’d given you some kind of excuse about indigestion, too much beer, hell gas even. But looking back now, I know it was love. It was, as Ani now says, the tethering of our souls into one. People laugh about love at first sight, but I don’t, it’s out there it’s real. A mother falls in love with their child from the moment they lay eyes on them, why couldn’t your heart open up to another person like that? I didn’t know it then, but that night in Ireland, sitting on that picnic table and staring into the eyes of Jameson, was the start of the next chapter of my life.

Chapter Five
    Two days after the party, Jameson, Butcher, and Knox came to the hotel and picked up Joni and me. We set out into Ireland, flying down the roads as we took in the sights and smells. Even though we’d seen most of the places they’d taken us, it felt like I was looking at it through a whole new set of eyes. For the first time in my life, everything around me seemed clear; and out of it all, the clearest thing in front of me was a beautiful Irish man in holey jeans and a motorcycle cut.
    The week before we were supposed to fly back home, Jameson surprised me with a weekend getaway. I tried as hard as I could to focus on the time we had to together and not focus on the impending doom of my upcoming departure. I wrapped my arms tight around his waist as we left out of the Dublin city limits and into the country side. We passed through rolling green hills, some covered with sheep or other livestock, and just as my ass was beginning to go numb we turned onto a gravel road. Nothing in sight but beautiful green country side until we came over a hilltop and in front of us was a simple little stone cabin. We pulled up out front and got off the bike, looking between him and the cabin, I could feel the flood of excitement washing over me.
    He took my hand and led me into the house, dropping my small bag of clothes next to the door and closing it behind us. This was the first time we had really been able to be