The next morning I woke up pretty early, which wasn't really abnormal for me. Sam, however, slept atleast until noon or 1:00pm all the time. It's kind of ridiculous if you ask me.
The smell of coffee eventually lead me to the kitchen where Craig sat at the table with his feet propped on the table, reading the newspaper.
"Oh hey Ang. Sleep good?" Craig placed his feet back on the ground, scratching his mess of hair while putting his newspaper back down on the table, "Yeah pretty good. How about you?" I dragged my feet over to the cabinet and grabbed a bowl and all the tools needed to make myself a nice bowl of coco pebbles. My favorite. "Eh.. can't really call it sleep. I spent the entire night trying to write a song so I can finally be done with this album. I just don't want it to be crap ya know?" He looked distraught and anxious, like he always did when he was trying to finish a song. He really dedicated himself to his work. His craft. I admired that. I had no musical talent at all. I'm good at sports and that's enough for me.
I sat next to Craig with my bowl of cereal and gave him knowing nod, "It won't be crap. Just don't force it. It'll come when it comes."
"That's what she said." Sam came prancing into the kitchen in her pink pajamas, her ponytail bouncing. She winked at Craig and me and grabbed a mug to pour herself some coffee.
"10:30am?" I looked at the clock surprisingly, "It's a bit early for you isn't it?"
"Yeah well I figured we have a busy day today that I'm actually looking forward too. Also, Ash called my cell this morning so that's a big part of it." Craig's eyes lit up at the sound of Ash's name. He brushed off his Led Zepplin T-shirt before standing up and joining Sam by the counter. He leaned up against it trying to play it cool While Sam scanned the cabinet for sugar.
"Where is the sugar? Like seriously Craig, black coffee?"
"Ohkay for one, you shouldn't be drinking coffee anyways, you're already short enough as it is, and for two, What did Ash say? Is she okay?" He stumbled over his words as they fell out of his mouth, Sam rolled her eyes giving a sly smile while stirring the found sugar into her coffee.
"Ohkay for one, I'm 16, not 100 like you, I have time to grow, and for two, she said she called you last night but noone answered and she was wanted me to tell you to call her when you get the chance. She said she might be visiting soon. I don't know I was like half sleep." Craig's face lit up. He hadn't heard from Ash in a few weeks, and if he didn't turn off his phone last night like he usually did when he wrote music, he wouldn't have missed her call. He couldn't believe that she might actually be coming to visit. It had been 8 long months and he missed her more than he could say. He would call her right away.
Craig grabbed Sam's coffee from her before she could even take a sip.
"Hey I was going to drink that!"
"Well now you can drink orange juice and grow instead. I'm gonna go call Ash and then I have to go pick up some stuff from the studio. Oh, thanks for making me a cup of coffee Sam."
She smiled fakely at him as he jogged back to his room with the coffee mug in his hand. I shook my head getting up to put my bowl in the sink, then sitting on the counter next to Sam while she played with her fingernails.
"So when should we call Ellie and Sean?" She asked not even looking up from her perfectly manicured fingernails.
"Um Maybe around like 2:00pm? I kind of want to write some stuff down that we could ask them so that atleast we have some direction to go in."
"Yeah that's smart. So, what do you think Ash and Craig are talking about right now?"
"I don't know. What did she say when you talked to her?"
"Nothing really. Just what I told Craig. Like I said, I was still half dead. She sure wasn't though. She sounded like she was completely wired. I don't know how she does it."
"Well, do you wanna find out what they're talking about?" I gave Sam a devious smiled and hopped off of the counter.
"Ms. Angela jeremiah! Are you suggesting we eavesdrop?" She laughed at her attempt to sound appalled,
"Come on!"
I was use to spying on Craig. I use to do it all the time when I was younger and he had his friends over. I spied on him and Ashley a couple of times when they'd babysit me and thought I was sound asleep upstairs, I'd sneak down on the steps and listen. Sometimes they were just to gross for my little eyes and I'd run back upstairs.
Sam and I stood outside of Craig's door with our ears pressing against it.
"Dude I can hear perfectly right here." Sam grinned as I moved closer to where she was. My guess was that Craig was in the middle of getting dressed because his cell phone was on speaker and I could here stuff falling and papers crumbling as he moved around his room.
"Mr. Manning, always on the go." Ash giggled from the reciever,
", I take you wherever I go."
