Family Secrets
The Article
"Hey Sam what are you doing here besides annoying us?" officer Ed Lane pointed out.
"Well, I thought that I should give you guys some pointers since I was pronounced the best shooter on this team" Sam exclaimed not really paying attention to the team. He was busy reading an article about a girl whose family died in an explosion at her house.
18 year old Abigail Mathews was critically hurt Friday, July 27th 2012 due to an explosion at her house. 'She was getting home from a friend's to celebrate her surprise birthday party when her house blew up'. One witness told us. Witnesses say that she was getting up the first step of her front steps when she stumbled and her house exploded. She was flown backwards fifty feet into the side of a neighbor's house. She is recovering in the ICU at St Mary's hospital. Her whole family was in the house at the time of the explosion and are considered deceased. There is no known cause to the explosion yet.
Upon reading this Sam stopped talking and stood up. "Sam you okay buddy?" Ed said taking cautious steps toward Sam. Ed knows how bad Sam is when he gets stuck in his head, but he doesn't what's going on this time. "Yeah… uh… I've…. Uh… I've got to go." Sam said, and then bolted for the door.
"What's up with him?" Greg asked as he walked through the door that Sam just left through. Greg's attention was to Ed because he was reading the newspaper with a confused look on his face.
"Is there a connection between Sam and a girl named Abigail Mathews?" Ed asked glancing up to from the paper.
"Not that I know of." Greg said taking his turn for looking at the paper.
"Ok so I just talked to Nat." Spike said about 10 minutes later. "And she said that Abigail Mathews is a close family friend of the Braddock's. Sam always looked after her like a brother would. They were really close. She would spend time with him a lot until she went into high school. They have seen each other at least nine times in the last three years."
"I'm going to try and find Sam." Ed said to the team. He looked all over the barn and it wasn't until he got to the locker room that he found Sam. He heard the sound of something being hit against metal and realized Sam was beating up his locker. "Uh Sam? You okay?"
"My stupid locker won't open."
"Sam what's going through your head?" Ed asked opening Sam's locker.
"I need to go Ed. I need to make sure she's safe… this is my fault. I couldn't go to her party. I could have kept her safe." Sam exclaimed getting into normal clothes.
"This isn't your fault Sam."
"Don't try and stop me Ed."
"Then let me come with you."
Sam thought about this for a minute. "Fine, but just you, no one else."
Sam bolted to the nearest truck and barley waited for Ed to get in and settled before he put the pedal to the medal and sped to St. Mary's hospital.