Chapter 6

Lately Mercedes and I haven't been around each other. She was either at work or at her parents and I was either at my office or at home finishing up the basement. Sometimes we wouldn't even see each in the mornings when we wake up. Mercedes is always up before me leaving for work lately and I'm in bed wondering where the hell my wife went. She has been a little distant lately and maybe it's just me but I think she is hiding behind work, but i think maybe it's because what happened a couple of weeks ago

Flashback

"Hey Mercedes when I was coming back from the store I saw this carnival you wanna go?" Sam asked eagerly. She laughed because he was acting so much like a five year old.

"Yea sure why not?"

"Yes" he did a little dance and pumped his fist. she laughed so hard at him acting like a little kid.

"Let's go" he grabbed her hand and ran to the car.

When they arrived at the carnival he jumped out of the car and ran to open Mercedes door.

"Come on Mercy come on come on come on come on" she laughed.

"Okay okay I'm getting out" as soon as she was out he slammed the car door and took her hand and ran to the entrance.

"How many tickets" the guy in the booth said annoyed.

"5,000" Sam said a little to eagerly.

the man in the booth sighed " Sir we can only sell up to 50 and you have to come back for more"

"50 is fine thank you" Mercedes said looking at Sam like he was crazy. "You need to calm down"

he paid for the tickets. "I'm sorry i haven't been to a carnival in years" he looked around and saw an ice cream stand "i"ll be right back grab the tickets"

she watched him walk, well skip, away she laughed she turned back to the guy and grabbed the tickets. "Thanks"

"Excuse me miss" she looked up at they guy in the booth.

"Yes?"

"Are you his wife?"

"Yeeess?" she looked at him skeptically.

he looked at her then in the direction that Sam went " Oh"

She turned around and walked to where Sam was "Okay?" she stood next to Sam.

"Wanna share one?" she shook her head no. After he finished his ice cream they rode on almost all the rides. Mercedes refused to go on any roller coasters. They played board walk games. Sam won Mercedes a medium sized stuffed panda bear. They held hands and laughed and just all together had a great time.

"Ohhhh SAM LOOK a photo booth we have to take pictures" now she was the one grabbing his hand and running toward the booth. "Get in come on come one"

"Look who's rushing who now" he smiled as he slid in the booth.

"Oh hush" she pressed the button for it to start.

"Make silly faces" he said and she laughed as they made a silly face.

"Now an ugly face" she said and he laughed at her ugly face as he attempted to make one of his own.

"Now a kissie face" she poked her lips out to the camera but Sam turned her head at the last second and kissed her just in time for the picture.

"Sam you said kissie face" he laughed

"Yea a kissie face so I could kissie yo face" she laughed as she got out of the booth to get the pictures.

"Aww i love this" she said he took the picture strip from her hands to look at it.

"We are so cute" the sun was setting and they decided to head back home.

"That was so much fun Sam now i see why you were so excited"

"See the carnival's are so much fun" he looked around the living room finding and empty picture frame. He took the carnival picture and put it in the picture frame. He just stared at it and smiled.

"Looking at the wedding photo again" Mercedes said plopping on the couch and turning on the T.V.

"Nope our new photo" he held it up to show her."see"

"Aww that's sweet" she flipped through the channels finding nothing on to watch "There is nothing on"

he went up toward the T.V and went to open the little cabinet under it taking out two controllers. "Wanna play call of duty"

she smiled " I call first controller" they played 5 rounds of survivor mode and Mercedes won each round. Sam threw his controller in front of him and pouted

"Aww what's wrong" she giggled.

"I didn't win and I really wanted to win" she laughed and kissed his cheek. she took his controller and started the game, finding her person and killing him.

"happy now?" he still pouted.

"No cause you still technically won" she crawled over to him and kissed him. she looked at him and saw he was still pouting she pecked his lips again and again and again until a smile formed on his face. The next kiss was very passionate and slow. Sam placed his hands on her waste and pushed her forward to straddle him. Still kissing him Mercedes put her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply. Sam stood up and Mercedes wrapped her legs around his waste as he walked up the stairs to the bedroom.

He walked in and kicked the door shut still holding her in his arms. He walked over to the bed and placed her down then laid on top of her still kissing her. He broke the kiss and started kissing her neck. she slid her hands down his chest the up his back. Sam then place his hand under her shirt. She moaned at the contact of his lips on her neck. He then began to lift her shirt over her head. she did the same to Sam and rand her fingers up his back scratching it a little. He then moved his hand down toward her leggings and then stuck his hand in them

"Stop stop stop" she said and Sam sat up with concerned eyes "I'm sorry i just can't"

He sighed and laid his head in the crook of her neck "No I took it too far I'm sorry" he sat up and she grabbed her shirt to put it on, not noticing that she was covering her scars with her hand before she did.

'Why do you do that?"he said

she looked at him confused "do what?"

"Cover your scares, you do that when ever you get dressed, get out the shower, and right now" she sighed.

"Can we just drop this?" she asked

"No we promised we wouldn't keep anything from each other"

"I'm not keeping anything from you"

"Then tell me why you do that"

she sighed again "I really don't why its just a habit i guess"

"are you sure?"

"Yes" he looked at her for a minute then laid on the bed and got under the covers. He reached out for Mercedes.

getting up from the bed "Uhh i have to catch up on some papers from work and i need to turn the T.V off" she walked out the room. The next morning Sam woke up to an empty bed. Her side of the bed looked like she didn't even sleep there last night. He got up and walked around the house with no sign of Mercedes. He went to look in the other bedrooms and found her sleeping on the bed in the guestroom with her personal notebook and pen in her hand, still in last nights clothing.

"She slept in here?" he whispered

End of Flash Back

Ever since that day things have been off between him and Mercedes. He heard the door open and close. He came out of the basement and thought that maybe he needed to talk to her

"Hey honey umm i think we need to talk"
she looked up at him teary eyed " yea we do"

he walked up to her "hey what's wrong"

"I'm going to stay with my parents for a couple of weeks"

"what?"

"I just can't be here right now and just know that I'm not leaving you I just need to get away for a little bit"

"Mercedes please just talk to me"

she let some tears fall " I can't right now because i have to leave right now" she walked up the stairs and packed some of her clothes with Sam right behind her.

"Baby what happened did someone say something to you? did someone do something to you? Mercy pleaase answer me" he was starting to cry.

She picked up her bag and walked passed him to the stairs and out the door to her car.

"MERCEDES WAIT PLEASE DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG i'M SORRY MERC-" she closed the back door and ran to hug Sam.

"you didn't do anything thing wrong Sam trust me I'm just have to leave and when i come back I will tell you everything" she kissed his lips and went to her car. She got in and closed the door but Sam opened it back up looking at her with tears streaming down his face. "Please just..just stay please"

she put her hand on his cheek and wiped some tears away"I have to go"

"Please tell me you will be back"

she nodded her head "I promise" he kissed her one last time " I love you"

he smiled " I love you too" he closed the door and watched her drive off he sat on the ground with his knees up and he face in his arms crying. he looked up down the driveway

"Don't leave me Mercy"

Not even gunna lie i shed like 2 tears at the end but anyways what do you think is going on with Mercedes? why is she leaving? is she really gunna come back? stay tuned for the next chapter...