Long chapter here! When I originally uploaded this story I did it in a different order and at the end of chapter three I promised on 'the precious' that I would add new content in this chapter after a shuffle!
But hey, it's all sorted now so...
ENJOY!
"Jess!" Sam ran over to the younger girl at the ADD.
"I'm not talking to you."
"You're not still upset about that little prank are you? The glue was harmless!"
"The lockers weren't! The smell is still in my nose." Jess finally glanced at the solider girl to glare at her.
"Oh well. It'll go."
"I cleaned them out yesterday!"
"As I said, It'll go. Now for the important stuff! I was just talking to Evans. Is it true?"
Jess immediately started to blush and turned her attention back to the many screens.
"It is, isn't it! You're going out with him tomorrow night!"
The field co-ordinator spun around in her chair, looking at Sam in shock.
"He told you that?"
"Ma boys confide everything in me." Sam spoke with a note of pride in her voice and her cheeky smile on her face. "Now, I have to put up with a group of girls controlling what I wear, making me tell them what happened, badgering me again and again… and if I have to put up with it, I'm definitely putting you through the same treatment."
"SAMMY! That's not fair!"
"Don't worry. Promise I'll be nicer than them! I'm just excited for you! He's soo sweet! Okay I'm going to come over tomorrow when we're all off. We are going to sort out everything!"
She became aware that Jess was looking terrified.
"What? I'm not that scary! I promise it'll be fun! I'll persuade Abby to come and we can be girly, for one night only!" Sam pulled her best puppy dog eyes at Jess. "Please?"
Jess rolled her eyes as she turned back to the ADD. "I'm agreeing only because you have dimples."
Sam knew the co-ordinator was expecting her to complain so she stayed silent, gave the girl a hug and happily announced she was going to do her paperwork.
*Later that day*
Anomaly, incursion, failing EMD's, traffic jams and rescuing team-mates- not Connor for once but Becker! For some unknown reason he had felt that climbing up a ladder while shooting a charging creature was a good idea. The soldier had ended up handing onto a window sill by the tips of his fingers. Then, when they got back to the ARC, more troubles! Every time the team got close to the exit something else went wrong. Sam was almost ready to kill the next person who tried to stop her from leaving the building.
"SAM!" The girl turned as Abby called her name.
"Come on! I'm finally at the exit! Please, please, let me out of this madhouse!"
Abby laughed. "It's not work related. I promise. It's just…" She paused as she eyed the other girl. "You're not going on a date dressed like that are you?"
Sam looked down at her clothes. She was wearing a pair of comfy jeans, a strap top and a hoodie tied around her waist.
"I don't see anything wrong with this. But no I'm not wearing this on the date."
"Good."
The younger girl pulled a face. There was nothing wrong with what she was wearing!
"Not good. The others are dressing me tonight." Sam's frown deepened. "They're already at my house taking over the place. I'm telling you they'll leave one hell of a mess."
"Ooh, good luck!"
"Thanks I need it. See ya tomorrow."
"Have fun." Abby called as Sam finally made it out the doors. "BUT NOT TOO MUCH IF YOU CATCH MY MEANING!"
"So? What's he like?" Fern had pulled Sam into her house before she even tried to open the front door.
"Let go. I need a shower."
"There's no time for that! When's your date? Where're you going? What are you going to do?"
"I don't know and there's always time for a shower." Sam shrugged off her friends arm and ran for the bathroom before she could be stopped.
By the time she was out five minutes later, a towel wrapped around her, Sam found her bedroom in a state. All of her clothes had been piled onto her bed and arranged in-what she assumed- was matching outfits.
"This is useless!" Becky threw a skirt on the covers. "How can we chose what you wear if we don't know what you're doing?"
"I know!" Fern agreed. "Wait! Pass your mobile."
Before Sam could stop them her phone had been snatched from the pile of clothes she was carrying and her friends were searching the contacts list.
"You said his name was Hillary right?"
"No. No you are not calling him."
"Grab her towel!"
Before Sam could stop them Lauren and Becky had taken hold of the end of her towel. They gently pulled at the edge to prove the point that she couldn't move without their say-so. Well no, they pulled it to prove she could move but if she did she would end up naked.
"Hello?" Fern was holding Sam's phone to her ear.
"Give me my phone!" It was a calm order.
"Hi, this is Hillary, right?"
"GIVE ME THE PHONE!" All sense and decorum left the moment Sam realised the phone had been answered.
"Sam, hush yourself! Can't you see I'm talking to someone? - I'm sorry about my friend she's over excited about her date tonight-"
"FERN! GIVE ME THE DAMNED PHONE THIS INSTANT!"
"- You heard that? Yeah I'm sorry about her. I'll try and calm her down for you… unless you like it that way?" Fern smirked at her giggling friends who were struggling to hold onto Sam. Covering the mouthpiece of the phone she whispered "He sounds hotttt."
"Give me my- Oh screw it!" Sam shook off her friends and her mortification, picked up the first clothes she saw and left the room.
"Ooh she picked the cute top!" Becky cooed.
"Sam?" The girl ignored Jess as she pulled out some cake from a cupboard and started to search for a knife. "Sam?"
"She's looking for a knife, Jess. I think it's sensible to leave her alone for a second." Connor teased.
"Abby said that your friends were dressing you?"
"OOH OOH! WAS IT BECKY WHO DRESSED YOU?"
"Connor, I have a knife and very good aim. Take your own advice." He swallowed. "Yeah thought so. No Becky's not allowed to dress me without me having SOME say."
"No fair."
"Perv. Can't we wait for Abby and Matt?… And Becker." She cursed herself for the almost slip up but the other two didn't seem to notice.
"Oh come on, Sammy! Please?"
"I don't like repeating myself. I've told you before!" As she huffed she realised her mistake and the others began to snicker. "Shut up!" She started to laugh too.
At the exact moment Sam yelled "shut up"Abby and Matt entered the room, talking animatedly. They looked at her confused as to what they may have done wrong.
"Sorry! Was talking to Connor. Tea?" The last remark was to Becker who'd followed the other two in.
"You even have to ask? How was the date?" He turned his head as he walked past, so the others couldn't see him wink at her.
"Terrible."
Sam put the chopped cake on the small table between the chairs the other's sat on. Abby groaned and Becker raised an eyebrow in surprise, looking a bit upset. For a trained soldier he wasn't that good at hiding his emotions.
"Well no. That's a bit harsh. It wasn't terrible. When I said that I was talking about the others."
"Ooh what did they do?" Abby sighed.
"Wait? Who others?" Matt was the only person unaware of Sam's friend's actions. Although strictly speaking Becker 'didn't' know either.
"I'm going to say she's referring to her friends." Becker attempted to recover.
"They called him."
"What?" Connor laughed.
"They stole my phone and called him so that they could plan my outfit."
Abby leant over her boyfriend to talk to Jess. "Why didn't we think of that?"
"We cou-"
"You can't. I've locked all contacts on my phone." The soldier girl cut across Jess before she could state her plan.
"Damn it!"
Matt looked sceptical. "You allowed them to get your phone and call him?"
"It's not like I could stop them- okay yeah I could have stopped them but I'm not exactly going to try and take them out!"
"Well what happened then?"
"Yeah, what happened? I can't believe your friends would actually call the guy you're dating just to try and dress you."
Becker smirked at Sam, evidently finding the situation even funnier than he had the night before.
I am happy to say that I didn't break the promise on the precious- we all know what happens if you do that and brake a promise! - Guess who watches Lord Of The Rings too much...
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