Sami figured she may be a "smart cookie," but Kate had stonewalled her. Three weeks had passed since the confrontation in the pub and she still was no closer to digging up the truth. She'd even tried to get something on Eugenia, because Sami just knew she was in on it, but turned up nothing so far.

Between trying to find proof of the set up, working at her new job, the occasional doctor's appointment, and dodging Alice, Shawn Sr. and Rex's concern while keeping her pregnancy a secret she was exhausted. And she and Lucas were managing to avoid each other.

Sami stood behind the counter at work and absently rubbed her stomach. She was starting to put on a little pregnancy weight and she knew it wouldn't be long before she really began to show. She was already around eleven weeks.

What would she do when it became too hard to hide it? At this point she wasn't even sure Lucas would believe that the baby was his.

She realized that at this point she was making excuses for not telling him. What it all boiled down to was he hurt her. He hadn't believed in her, trusted that she was telling him the truth. And a small part of her feared his reaction, especially as more time went by with her putting it off. Either way he would probably be angry. Lucas would either think it was Brandon's, then she would have an even harder time proving that she didn't cheat on him. Or he would believe she was keeping the baby a secret from him as revenge for breaking up with her. Sami felt herself at a loss of what to do.

The store's phone rang and she answered, her voice sunny and cheerful despite the inner turmoil she was feeling. "Fashion Forward. This is Sami. How can I help you?"

"Ah Samantha dear," a voice greeted. The voice was obviously electronically disguised. "How is our little mother?"

She felt herself get angry. "I swear to God, if this is Mimi I am gonna kick your ass," she hissed, trying not to be over heard. "This is so not funny."

But somehow, she doubted it was Mimi. They were managing to get along in their mutual misery over their secrets. Neither one was willing to break the truce by telling the other's secret.

"This isn't Mimi."

Sami felt the chill race up her spine. "If this isn't Mimi, then who are you?"

"Sami, Sami, Sami. Is that anyway to treat a friend? Who this is isn't important. But what is important is that I have proof that you've been telling the truth all along. Kate did set you up, with a little help from Eugenia."

"What?"

"I'll contact you later to tell you how to get the evidence."

Sami heard a dial tone, telling her the mysterious caller had hung up. "What is going on?" she said to herself, trying to dispel the sense of foreboding she had.

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"Well boss," Bart chuckled after Tony had hung up the phone. "I bet that's really got little Miss Brady going, huh?"

"Oh yes. I'll just toy with her a little longer. Then she'll be on board for our little plan."

TBC…