A/N: Before I posted this story I wanted to have the majority of it typed up, but unfortunately I have very limited time to do that as well as update my current stories…so instead I have labeled this story a Sunday Fic on my computer meaning it will be updated on Sundays (Either every Sunday or every other Sunday).
Plus some of my readers have said that maybe typing in advance would be a downfall if you readers give great ideas, but I couldn't get it to fit in with this story…so alas, I have no other chapters completed except for this one…however I do have half this story planned out detail for detail so it shouldn't be too hard to get an update.
WELCOME BACK AND ENJOY
Previously on How to Save a Life:
Sam snuggles into Kyle's side and smiles. Kyle wraps his arms tighter around his girlfriend. He gives her a kiss on the forehead.
"I'm glad that you let Charley and I come tonight Sam."
"Of course I would. I love you Kyle Decker and I love Charley as well. I never would have thought that I would find love, but I have and I'm happy, happier then I have been lately. Today was just icing on the cake."
"And what cake would this be?" Kyle says with a grin.
"My imaginary one, it's actually quite good," Kyle starts to laugh and Sam grins. "Really it's good."
"I'm sure it is."
After a few moments of silence Sam speaks up again.
"Kyle can I ask you a question?"
"Sure."
"Will you move in with me?"
June
Chapter One: Three Weeks Later
It had been three long weeks since Sam had asked Kyle and Charley to move in with her and Ashley. At first Kyle was a little hesitant because he had Charley to think about, but when Kyle sat down and talked to his daughter, it eased his mind to know that Charley loved the idea. So, here they were, three weeks later and moving boxes into the Davis household.
"I have kitchen supplies here," Kyle announces with a smile.
"Set them in the kitchen tough guy," Sam says with a grin as she continues to go through some of the stuff she had in her office. It was now becoming Charley's room.
Kyle does as he is told and then sits down next to his girlfriend on the living room couch.
"Where are the girls?"
Sam looked up from her papers and smiled.
"They are currently in Ashley's room trying to decide what to paint Charley's room."
Kyle smiles before kissing Sam softly on the lips.
"And how are you doing?"
Sam places her papers on the table and turns to her boyfriend.
"I'm doing okay. The movie is well liked. My mom is happy for the new addition, but she's worried too. I can tell. You and Charley moving in is what I wanted and I feel like we're this one big family and I'm grateful for that."
"Samantha, what aren't you telling me?" Kyle asks in concern.
"My first two books were written within a year of each other. I was 20 when my first book came out and almost 22 when my second one did. I was in contract for three books and the time to complete my third book is starting to run out."
"How long do you have to complete it?"
"About eight months and I am completely out of ideas."
Kyle was heartbroken by the situation. He knew that Sam loved what she did. She loved teaching and she loved writing. He knew a lot of talented authors get writing blocks. He knew she just need inspiration and that once she received that, everything was going to be okay.
"If you need my help, I'm here."
"Thanks Kyle. It's really appreciated, but what would make me happy is if you carried the rest of the boxes from your car."
Kyle grinned and stood up.
"Yes, ma'am."
Sam slapped Kyle on the leg.
"Get out of here you goof."
Kyle laughed all the way out of the house.
-You Found Me-
Inside the Baker house, Zack pulls away from the window as he watches Kyle enter his sister's house with boxes in his hands. Ever since Sam had asked Kyle to move in with her, Sam and Zack haven't had a chance to hang out. Zack was missing his big sister something awful.
"Zack, what are you doing?" Brooke questions her son as she enters the living room.
"Nothing," Zack says with a small sigh as he goes over to the couch to pet his dog, Raven.
Brooke smiled fondly at her son. Zack was a lot like Sam and they weren't even related. She knew something was wrong with her son. He had been staring out the window for the past hour.
Brooke walks over to Zack and sits down next to him. Raven moved off the couch and laid on the floor stretching out it's body.
"Why do you keep looking out the window?"
Zack purses his lips before responding.
"Kyle is moving in to Sam's house."
"We knew that already Zack, what's got you so upset?" Brooke asks as she runs her fingers through her son's hair.
"Sam won't play with me anymore. It's making me sad. She forgot all about me."
"Zack, Sam has her life. She's in love and she has a family. She hasn't forgotten about you. She loves you and you know that. She's just been really busy."
"We're her family too. She just forgot. I hate her."
Brooke stops running her fingers through her son's hair and instantly scolds her son.
"Zachary Austin Baker. That is enough! We don't use those words in this house."
"I don't care," Zack pouts as he runs off to his bedroom.
Brooke flinches when she hears her son's bedroom door slam shut. Sometime being a mom was hard.
-You Found Me-
Charley groaned as her head hit the pillow.
"I can't decide on a color. This totally blows."
Ashley laughed from her computer chair.
"What have you got it narrowed down to?"
Charley turned her head and sighed.
"I could go with Blue. I like the maroon or we could just go with what's already in the office and keep it white."
"White is gross, so that's automatically out. The maroon is popular, my mom had that in her teenage bedroom, but I think a light blue would be your best bet."
Charley sat up and pouted.
"How did you come to that decision so quickly? I've been staring at paint samples for the past hour or so."
Ashley grinned and turned back to her computer.
"Call it a gift."
Charley chucks a pillow at Ashley's head and laughs when Ashley scowls at her.
-You Found Me-
After unpacking boxes for what seemed like the entire day, Kyle took residence in the abandoned chair in the living room. Sam was going through all her notes on the new book she was supposed to write. She didn't like any of the notes.
"Charley's birthday is next week."
Sam stopped what she was doing and looked at her boyfriend. Charley's mother, Ryan had died during child birth. Ryan was Kyle's first love and Sam knew that, but Charley had grown up without a mother. Next week would mark sixteen years, on one hand it was a good thing. Charley was at her sweet sixteen. On the other hand it also meant a reminder for all people involved that Ryan had been gone for sixteen years as well.
"Kyle, I'm sorry. How is Charley going to take it?"
"She'll be a little closed off, but she'll be fine. She doesn't do parties though so keep that in mind. Like I said before, we just usually sit on the couch and I tell Charley about her mom."
"Do you want Ashley and me to leave the house during that time?"
Kyle shakes his head.
"No, I think having you two there is going to be better for Charley."
"I'm here for you too Kyle. It's okay to grieve as well."
-You Found Me-
It was the day of Charley's birthday, the tenth of June and Charley wasn't happy about it. She woke up angry and she wouldn't talk to a single person in her house.
Charley walked into the kitchen with a frown. Kyle, Sam and Ashley were all sitting around the table not saying anything.
"Why aren't you guys talking?" Charley asks as she takes a seat in the empty chair.
"We don't feel like it. Kind of like you," Ashley replies with a sigh.
Charley rolls her eyes.
"Ashley butt out. You don't know what it's like."
Ashley stands up from the table in a huff.
"You do realize who you are talking too, right? I grew up without a mother until now. Quit being so damn selfish," Ashley says in a huff as she walks away from the table.
"Charley, was that really necessary?" Kyle asks.
Sam gets up from the table to check her daughter while shooting Charley a sad look.
"I'm sorry, I just hate my birthday. Can't anybody understand that?"
"Yeah I can understand that sweets, but it isn't just you and I anymore okay? Sam and Ashley are a part of this family so you are going to have to figure out some way to push that anger somewhere else."
Charley looks at her father with tears in her eyes.
"It's not fair. It's not fair that I grew up without a mom."
Kyle gets up from the table and wraps his arms around his daughter while she cried.
-You Found Me-
"What's wrong with our son?" Julian asks as he comes out of Zack's room. "He won't talk to me."
"Sam hasn't been spending time with him. He's a little lonely."
Julian frowns. He didn't like the fact that his son was so sad, but he also understood why Sam wasn't hanging with him. She has a family of her own that she has to care of.
"Are we going to talk to him together or will he not listen to us?"
"Honey, I think the only person he will talk to would be our daughter, but she's getting used to having Charley and Kyle living with her plus it's Charley's birthday and that has it's own drama attached to it."
Julian sits down next to his wife on the couch.
"We do have a present for Charley, right?"
Brooke nods her head.
"Yeah, we do."
Julian nods his head.
"That's good."
Brooke looks at her husband and sighs.
"You want to go talk to our son now, don't you?"
Julian nods his head giving his wife a heartwarming smile. Brooke stands up from the couch and holds out her hand.
"Let's go, husband."
-You Found Me-
After Charley's meltdown the family decided to spend some time lounging about in the living room. Sam was curled up next to Kyle on the couch while Ashley and Charley were lying on the floor. They were watching an episode of Life Unexpected.
"I can really relate to Lux," Ashley states. "I mean besides being adopted by my birthparents thing, but if you think about it Lux and I aren't that different."
"I agree," Sam says from her spot on the couch. "I relate to her as well."
"Tasha is my favorite," Charley says. "She's got this attitude and I love it."
"I favor Baze and Ryan."
The three girls look at Kyle like he was crazy.
"What?"
"You can only choose one, Kyle, it's either Team Baze or Team Ryan. You can't have both," Sam explains.
"Team Baze, then."
The girls nod their head.
"Good answer," Charley says with a smile.
Kyle just grins.
-You Found Me-
Brooke and Julian walked into their son's room and found Zack lying on his bed looking intently at the ceiling.
"Zack, your dad and I would like to speak with you, is that okay?"
"Yeah," Zack whispers into the air.
Brooke and Julian sit down on either side of him and Zack sits up in his bed.
"Am I in trouble?"
Brooke chuckles as Julian ruffles his head.
"No, buddy, that's not it. Your mom and I know you have been feeling a little left out of Sam's life and we just want to speak to you about it."
"Does Sam not love me anymore?" Zack asks fearfully. He loved his sister dearly. He didn't want to think about what he had asked.
Brooke wraps her arms around her son tightly.
"Zachary Austin Baker, don't you ever think like that. Your sister loves you, but buddy, your sister is also growing up. She's in love and she has a family. That's what happens when you grow up, but she will always love you, always."
"I just miss her."
"We know that son, we miss her too, but we also know that at the moment, Sam has a lot of things going on in her life right now and once things cool down it will get back to normal," Julian tries to explain in a way that would make his seven year old son understand.
"Do you understand Zack?" Brooke asks when Julian receives no response from their son.
Zack nods his head. He didn't want to have his parents see him cry. He just missed his big sister.
"If you want to talk to us Zack, you can always do that okay, especially when the new baby comes," Brooke explains. "We don't want you to feel left out."
"Okay mom," Zack says with a grin.
-You Found Me-
"Was this the first time that Charley didn't ask about her mom?" Sam asks as she settles into bed next to Kyle.
Kyle places his book on his nightstand and shuts off the light.
"Yeah, it was. I know Charley wanted to though. I could see the look in her eye, but maybe with having you and Ashley there she felt like she couldn't."
Sam snuggled closer to her boyfriend.
"I get it. I went through that with Brooke when I asked her opinion about finding my birthfather. She had already married Julian and he had adopted me and I just…I don't know. It was really weird."
"You were curious."
"I didn't want to hurt Julian. Maybe this was Charley's way of not hurting me," Sam said thoughtfully.
Kyle placed a small kiss on Sam's forehead.
"If that's true than that means she thinks of you as a mother. How do you feel about that?"
Sam doesn't answer. Instead, she poses a question for Kyle.
"Ashley sees you as a father. How do you feel about that?"
Both Sam and Kyle went to sleep thinking the same thing.
They were definitely okay with that.
