Lies
Sam stared as Elizabeth and Jason hugged. She was absolutely furious. Jason had thrown away 3 years he had shared with Sam, her daughter, and their own daughter for her.
She turned around and walked out of the court house.
Before returning to the Metro Court, where she had been staying with the girls, Sam had to get the rest of her things from the penthouse.
She walked up to the door and opened it. As she entered, she saw Jason holding her star necklace.
"I just came to get the rest of my stuff." She avoided eye contact and went over to the stairs where her box was.
"Do you need any help…?"
"No." she interrupted. He sighed. "You really expect me to accept anything from you?" Jason held out her star necklace.
"You can keep it. I don't need any reminders of this…the lies, the secrets. God Jason, why couldn't you just tell me the truth!"
"I was protecting my son!" she had always been able to get a rise out of him.
"You wouldn't have had a son in the first place if you hadn't of cheated on me!"
The summer before, Jason had seen Sam talking to Lucky and then she hugged him because he was worried about losing Cameron if Elizabeth left him. Jason had taken it the wrong way and gone back to the penthouse. Elizabeth climbed 14 flights of stairs during a blackout and they ended up having a one night stand, which resulted in Jake.
"I've already apologized so many times, Sam. I don't know what I can say to make you feel better."
"You can say that you are going to fight! I want you to stop following Elizabeth around like a lost puppy. Step up and claim your son!"
"I am protecting him from my life! I live in so much danger and I don't want him to get hurt!"
"But it's okay if my daughters get hurt? You stepped up and became Lila's father the moment I found out I was pregnant with her. You may not be her biological father, but you are her dad in every way that counts. And what about Madelyn? Or does she not matter because your precious son was born right before her?"
"Don't you ever accuse me of not loving them! I love my children, including Lila, with all my heart!"
"Then fight for your son!"
"There is no way I could win that battle. No one thinks I could be a good father to Jake."
"Everyone thinks you could. The only reason you are lying is because Elizabeth told you to." She shook her head. "This is not even worth it. You know, everyone always told me that I shouldn't get involved with you. They said I would get hurt. I said that you would always protect me and trust me and be honest with me. But I guess everyone was right." She opened up the door. "Feel free to run off with Elizabeth. You don't have to deal with some bimbo, her brat, and your kid anymore, because apparently, that's all we are to you." She slammed the door.
Sam entered the room she had at the hotel. She refused to cry, no matter how much she wanted to.
She loved Jason and probably always would. But right now, she had to worry about her daughters. The two little girls that would now be growing up without their father.
"Mama." Her nearly 3 year old daughter Lila Danielle climbed up onto the bed. The little girl looked exactly like her mother.
"Come here, baby." She held the little girl in her lap. "Where's your sister?"
"Hi Sam." Lulu, who had become the girls' nanny, carried 2 month old Madelyn in.
"Hey." She took the daughter she shared with Jason from the young blonde's arms. "You can have the next few days off, okay? I need to be with my girls."
"Okay. But call if you need anything." Sam nodded and Lulu left.
"Where's Daddy?" Lila asked. Sam looked into her little girl's eyes. Though Sonny was her biological father, she only knew him as Uncle Sonny. He refused to be a part of her life and he was now dating a woman named Claudia.
"Lila, Mommy and Daddy got in a fight. Now me, you, and Maddie are going to live somewhere else without Daddy."
Sam looked down at little Madelyn Sophia. The baby was Sam and Jason's miracle. They had tried for 2 years to conceive a child with no luck and then they got her unexpectedly. She was a month younger than her half brother, Jake.
"I go color?" Sam picked up both of her girls and opened up the door to the joining room. Lila and Madelyn had been sharing it and there was a crib, toddler bed, and a bunch of toys in it. Sam sat Lila down at the table in the corner and gave her crayons and paper.
She realized it was time for Madelyn to eat. She left the door open so she could hear Lila and went to warm up a bottle for the baby. When it was warm, Sam sat on the bed, holding her daughter.
As she looked down at her child, Sam began to cry. Jason was gone and he wasn't coming back.
Elizabeth sat nervously on the couch inside of her house. Lucky had left her and taken Cameron with him. She had visitation of her son, but the court decided that Lucky was the best person to raise Cam, even though they weren't biologically related. Jake was asleep in the playpen near the couch.
She heard the knock on her door and she stood to answer it. Jason walked inside of her house.
"What's wrong? Is it Jake? Is he hurt?"
"Nothing is wrong. Why do you assume that? I just wanted to spend some time with you."
"We agreed that it was too dangerous for me to be in Jake's life."
"But now Sam and her kids are gone. We can be together and raise our son."
"I said that you would always protect me and trust me and be honest with me." Sam's words echoed in his head.
"I have to go." He walked out of the house and climbed into his car.
Jason realized that Sam was right. He looked into the rear view mirror and didn't even recognize himself anymore.
He didn't want to be the lying, cheating Jason, Elizabeth's Jason.
He wanted to be Sam's Jason. The honest, trusting, protecting, Jason. And he was going to do anything to be that Jason again.