you will be safe in my arms.

I groaned as I pulled up in front of my house and dropped my purse. I had the longest day and my head was killing me. My phone had died and my charger broke and I was just a mess. I couldn't wait to take a long bath and wait for WIll to get home from practice. I slid my key into the door and barrled into the kitchen almost running right into Jax.

"What are you doing here?!" I asked, surprised to see him standing in my kitchen looking like he just walked off the set for a hot men calander photo shoot.
"I..." he trailed off, "It's my day off." he replied, looking like he wasn't sure where to start. I nodded, I had memorized his schedule by now and part of me was thinking about asking him to come over and join me in the bath I was so looking forward to.
"I know that." I pointed out, ready to snuggle in his arms and tell him all about my stress filled week. I felt like we hadn't really had time for us in forever and I didn't want him to think I was pulling away again.
"Will will tell you everything, I can go if you want." he replied quietly before turning to walk away. What was happening?
"Why?" I blinked back at him and he just looked back warily, running his hands through his hair. "Is Will okay? Are you okay?" He nodded.
"We're fine." He agreed. "But are we okay?" I let out a deep breath. I had been feeling so fuc.king moody lately and everything anyone said to me was likely to get me upset. I think I might have been taking it out on Jax which was stupid because really I missed him so much. I nodded and buried my face in his chest, wrapping my arms around his waist and feeling relieved as I felt his arms wrap back around me.
"Yes. I'm so glad you're here I had a long day."
"It's about to be even longer baby. Will got into a fight with Rob at school today." I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah well that happens like every other day." I laughed.
"Um. Maybe. But this time Will gave Rob a black eye." I widened my eyes at Jax.
"What?!"
"Yeah he punched him." Jax nodded.
"My son has a black eye and that wasn't the first thing you told me?!" I ask, setting down my stuff to run upstairs to see Will but Jax grabbed my hand.
"No Colb. WILL gave ROB the black eye." I just took a second to process that as I looked into Jax's face. It didn't look like he was fu.cking with me.
"You're telling me my son punched someone?" I asked. He nodded.
"Has a pretty good right hook from the looks of my nephew."
"WILL!!" I yelled upstairs and my son came down, hair wet from a shower.
"Hi mom." He said guiltily, running a towel over his hair.
"You punched Rob?! I didn't even know you knew how to punch!" Will shrugged.
"Reece taught me in self defense class." I sighed and put my hand over my head.
"And you needed to defend yourself against your best friend!?"
"I thought you were going to explain it!" Will pouted at Jax and he shook his head.
"Nope. I said you needed to." He replied seriously his arms folded over his chest and even though I was so angry I felt my heart soften at how good he was with my son. How good he was in general. How the hell had I ever lived without him? I gave him a look that hopefully showed how much I appreciated him and then put my mom face back on to turn to my son.
"I"m waiting."
"We got into a fight and I punched him." Will repeated quickly and shrugged, clearly not telling me the whole story.
"William." I said his full name slowly as I narrowed my eyes on him. "I assumed that already, I want to know the whole story." Will looked back at Jax for help but Jax kept his eyes on me. Smart man.
"I can leave you two alone." he offered but Will answered before I could.
"No, stay Jax." He cut in with pleading eyes, probably hoping that with Jax here I'd be easier on him. But I had had a terrible day and now my son punched someone? No one could help him. Not even Jax. I just nodded at him before crossing my arms aross my chest and looking back to my son.
"I'm still waiting and my patience is running short." I warned him. Will's expression changed and his his face got serious, finally.  "Rob did something that got me real mad and I punched him. I know it was wrong and I'm sorry if did it." He explained, still downplaying it but at least he was getting there.
"What did he do?" I asked, narrowing my eyes even further.
"It's just between us." He said cryptically and Jax winced, knowing just as well as I did that was the wrong answer.
"No it's not!" I slammed my palm flat on the table, making both Will and Jax jump. I knew Will was growing up and he was going to start keeping things from me. But when he punched someone? He was going to have to give me the entire story.
"Colbie." Jax said my name softly, grabbing my hand which calmed be but I didn't let Will know as my other hand went into the air.
"I suppose your principal called? And you were sent home?" I asked angrily as Will nodded, "That's why it's not between you and Rob anymore! What else am I missing? What did the principal say?" This time I turned to Jax, knowing at least with him I'd get the truth.
"He's considering to get them both suspended for a week." he said, looking as if he was dropping a bomb in my lap and he kind of was.
"What?! Oh I can't believe my phone died on the one day my son decides to become a deliquint! What the hell were you thinking?!"
"I was thinking he was being a di.ck!" Will yelled back, completely out of character for him. This whole thing was out of character. I considered myself lucky with Will. He was well behaved, he was so smart...what was going on?
"Will....what happened? This isn't like you." Will looked to the ceiling as if calling on a higher power for help before he let out a deep breath and spoke.
"Rob knew I liked Kendall and he went out with her anyways! A real man doesn't choose girls over his friends and he doesn't backstab them either." I sighed.
"Kendall is the pretty brunette you stood next to during the choir concert isn't she?" Will widened his eyes at me.
"How did you know?"
"I saw you blush everytime she spoke to you." I shrugged.
"Damn it." He said under his breath.
"That's twice you've cursed tonight." I replied, narrowing my eyes on my son.
"You said it was okay as long as I didn't do it at school!" He protested. It was true, I had said that. I figured if a little swearing was the worst he did I couldn't complain. Plus it wasn't like I had the cleanest mouth. As long as his vocabulary was still a little bigger I didn't really mind. However...
"Yeah that's on days you weren't almost suspended." I point out before reaching for him and pulling him into a hug.
"I'm sorry that Rob was a di.ck." I said, contradicting myself but not caring. "I can say that because I didn't punch anyone today." I added, smirking down at my son.
"I'm not really going to get suspended. I never got in trouble before! Principal Gibbons was just trying to scare me." He rolled his eyes and I tried to keep from laughing at how observant and smart he was.
"Look how well that worked." Jax laughed from behind me.
"Go to bed early as punishment and extra chores for a week." I add before kissing his cheek.
"A week!?" I narrowed my eyes.
"Want to make it two? Or maybe I can ground you?" Will widened his eyes and shook his head.
"No! I'll do the chores!" He agreed and then hugged me again. "Thanks for not being too mad." he added, making my heart melt. I turned to Jax.
"Thanks for being there for him when I couldn't be." I said seriously, leaning in and placing a much needed kiss on his mouth before pulling away. "How did Rob go out with that girl anyways? He doesn't even have a learners permit. What do they do?" Jax shrugs.
"Hold hands on the bus?" I laughed.
"Hopefully that's all it is. Oh god Adam and Liz are going to be upset arent they?" I grimace.
"I think so." he admitted, making the same face.
"I doubt that Rob will tell them anything." Will cut into the conversation.
"You did the right thing telling us everything." I replied, even though it had taken a year to get it out of him.
"That's what is going to get them real mad." Jax pointed out.
"Are they going to get mad at me?" I asked and widened my eyes as I thought about how that would affect everything, "I mean, Will did punch Rob." I paused and sighed, "I wouldn't be too happy if role were reversed."
"Adam knows his son enough to know that if he's not talking and he's sporting a black eye he's hiding something and he's not completely innocent." he explained softly.
"I can't picture Adam being mad. He's always so nice." Out of all the Cole brothers he seemed the most.....calm. Jax broke into a wide grin as he shook his head.
"Imagine Travis on a bad day." I widened my eyes and Will swallowed audibly.
"Rob is going to be in a lot of trouble." he shot us a worried look. "Can I call him mom? I want to apologize for punching him."
"Yes. Then you're going to give me your phone." I nodded and Will pouted but didn't protest anyway. He ran away to call his friend and I turned into my man.
"You have an amazing son." he said softly as he tucked my hair behind my ear.
"I have an amazing boyfriend too." I kissed Jax and sighed as I cuddled into his neck. "I'm a lucky woman." He chuckled and tugged me closer. "Thank you for going to get him." I whisper.
"I love him too you know." Jax said softly and I tilted my head up, tears forming in my eyes and I tried to hold him back.
"He's pretty hard not to love." I replied, feeling choked up. Damn I must be about to get my period or something.
"Don't cry baby." He wiped my tears away with his thumbs and kissed me again then my nose and my forehead as I tried to figure out how the hell I deserved a man like him.
"My son punched his best friend over a girl. I think the kid phase is over." I laughed/cried as Jax led me into the kitchen and grabbed me a bottle of water.
"Nah. He's still your kid." he winked, knowing just how to make me feel as I took a long drink and sighed.
"Please say Rob and Will aren't going to be fighting over girls until they're 18." I begged. Jax laughed.
"I can't promise that at all."
"Did you and Trav and Adam ever do that?" Jax laughed again.
"Not Adam. He only ever had eyes for Liz." I smiled at that, knowing how crazy they were about each other now. "But Trav? Yeah sometimes. Though honestly it was sometimes about getting the other pissed off, or getting back at him. It wasn' t really about the girl." I nodded.
"Guys are such losers." I teased and he set his hand against his heart in mock offense.
"Thank god you stick with a loser like me." He teased.