ilovevanessahudgens: I FINALLY WATCHED IT!! And I loved it!

I'm SOOO sorry it took so long for this chapter. This chapter isn't very long, but at least it's something. Right? Riiight.

Sam ran her hand through her hair, sitting on the steps of the porch. She saw one of her blonde friends sit next to her, but didn't both looking to see who it was. She could see a cigarette floating to her mouth and then saw the long stream of smoke rings. That meant it was Ashley, because she's the only one of the blondes that smokes.

Sam watched Jade run around the front yard and she looked beside her, watching Ashley make more smoke rings. "You look like a fish," she said.

Ashley blew the rest of the smoke out of her mouth and took another drag. "Thanks," she said, blowing the smoke out.

Sam looked back to Jade and then looked at her shirt. She stretched it out as far as it would stretch and she let it snap back to her form with a sigh.

"A penny for your thoughts," Ashley said.

A sigh escaped Sam's lips. "I think I'm pregnant."

Ashley smiled. "Congratulations. That's great."

"Not for me."

"Why not?"

Sam shrugged. "I dunno, I just… I'm not ready for another one. Not yet. Not ever."

"What about Chigger? You do really good with her."

"Because I have to, not because I want to."

Ashley looked at Sam for a few seconds and she sighed, shaking her head as she flicked the excess ashes from her cigarette. "That's terrible, Sam."

"I never wanted her. I hate kids. I just tolerate her because she's mine."

"Knock it off. That's your little girl you're talking shit about. What if she hears you? What if she asks you why you don't love her? What are you gonna tell her; because she was a mistake and should have never been conceived?"

Sam looked at Ashley for a few seconds. "Fuck you," she snapped, standing up.

"Well, Jesus Christ, Sam; you have to think about that. If you say the wrong thing at the wrong time, you're going to regret it because she won't want to be around you after you hurt her feelings. No mother would deliberately drive their child away like that."

"Well, I guess I'm not fit to be a mother," Sam said, walking inside.

Ashley sighed and she put her cigarette out in the ashtray. "Chigger, let's go inside," she called to Jade.

"How come? I wanna play," Jade said, running up to the steps.

"Because I need to talk to Mommy. I'll bring you back out after dinner; you can't be out here by yourself," she said, standing up. "Go inside, play with your dolls. I have a new game on my cell phone you can play, if you stay sitting down with it."

"What game?"

"High School Musical. It's fun."

"Okay! Is it in your purse?"

"Yeah. It's in the kitchen."

Ashley walked into the house after Jade ran in and she sighed, closing the door behind her. She walked into the living room and stared at Sam for a few seconds, crossing her arms. "So, since you're basically saying that you wish your daughter had never been born, I guess that means you'd be more than willing to take her to some stranger's house and give her up," she said.

"Shut up. Drop it," Sam said.

"What?" Charlotte said. "When did this happen?"

"Five minutes ago," Ashley said.

Charlotte looked at Sam. "Sam… that's… awful," she said.

"Shut up!" Sam snapped. "Forget about it, okay!"

"How the hell do you expect someone to forget about that!" Ashley said. "Sam, that little girl is a miracle. Saying that she was a mistake is horrible, unloving, and not human."

"You called her a mistake?" Charlotte asked. "How could you do that? Jade is your baby."

"I know!" Sam shouted. "Let it go, leave me alone about it!"

"I can't do that, Sam… That's my goddaughter."

"I can't either; I'm a mother," Ashley said.

"Not a very smart one. Your kids aren't even a year apart," Sam said.

"That wasn't on purpose. That was an accident."

"So, you call your kids accidents, but when I say it was a mistake for me to have a kid, you yell and jump my ass about it."

"Getting pregnant so soon after having Scotty was an accident. I never said my kids were accidents. You literally called Chigger a mistake."

"Same difference! God, you two are… Ugh, you both get on my fucking nerves!"

"Why! Because we're trying to tell you that what you said was wrong? It's true! It was wrong, it was cold, and it was heartless!"

"Why do you care so much about what I say!"

"Because I do, okay! I said the same thing about Scotty once, and it almost ended in a divorce! There were witnesses when I said it, and if it had gone to court, I could have gotten my kids taken from me for verbal abuse! The same thing could happen with Chigger!"

"I'm not you! I'm not married to Will!"

"You can still get that little girl taken away from you!"

"I don't care!" Sam shouted, standing up. "Let whoever wants her, take her! I don't care!" she yelled before running out of the room.

Charlotte and Ashley both had tears rolling down their cheeks by this point. Ashley sat on the couch and she sniffled, shaking her head slowly.

"How can anyone say that about their baby?" Ashley whispered.

"Sam's a complicated person," Charlotte said.

"Obviously."

"Are you okay?"

Ashley nodded. "I'm fine… It just hurts me. As a mother, you know? I went this myself and I was so close from losing my kids. I don't want Sam to lose Chigger. That little girl loves her to death."

"Yeah… I'm like her second mother. She's not as close to me as she is to Sam, though… She's just like her. Everything about her is an exact replica of Sam. Except for the stuttering. She's never stuttered."

"Serenity stutters. She gets so frustrated sometimes because we correct her and try to get her to pronounce it right."

"I do that with Jade. She was speaking by the time she was two because I talked to her so much."

"Yeah, she was a little chatterbox when I met her."

"Always had been, thanks to me."

"It's all your fault."

"Yep. Proud of my work."