Chapter 9
"Hey give it back!" I yell. I start running after him.
But it's too late. He already hid it.
"This isn't funny! Casey give it back!"
"No."
"Why?"
"Cause you didn't text me when you were with him. So your not gonna text him cause your with me."
I crossed my arms. "He's coming over here in less than 2 hours."
"Why? He was just here 2 hours ago. I never spend time with you."
"Like that's my fault."
He looked hurt. I sat down on the couch and hugged my knees. Casey sat next to me. I tried not to burst into tears, but I couldn't help it. Tears were streaming down my face. Why did he have to leave? Why couldn't he just stay here and keep me company? It's better than going back and forth.
"Sammy what's wrong?"
I looked at him. "Why did you leave?"
"I can't tell you."
I jumped off the couch and yelled, "You never tell me anything anymore! I don't care if we're step-siblings, I still love you."
He stayed on the couch, looking down. "Sammy, I still love you too."
I wiped away the tears. "No, you don't! Stop lying to me! Keep my phone, I don't care! But you should go."
He got off the couch. "Sammy yes I do! And I'm not leaving."
"There's no point in staying here. If Danny sees you here, you guys will just end up fighting."
"Sammy, I don't care! I wanna be here with you."
"WELL I DON'T WANT YOU HERE!" I yelled at him and then I buried my face in my hands and sat down against the wall and started sobbing so hard I had a headache.
"Sammy, I'm sorry..." He said sitting down in front of me and grabbing my hand.
"Casey.. don't leave again." I said quietly. Putting my head on his shoulder.
"I'm not going to."
"Let me see my phone."
"Why?"
"So I can tell Danny not to come."
"Fine.'
He handed me my phone.
Danny don't come. My mom is taking me somewhere. Come by tomorrow and you can sleep over again.
He responded a minute later. Okay, Sammy! See you tomorrow. Have fun with your mom.
"He's not coming." I said throwing my phone down.
"Good."
"Casey?"
"Why did you get me a necklace?"
He looked at me. "I don't know. I wanted to give you something before I left."
"Where did you get the money from?"
"Sammy, just drop it."
"Casey, please tell me!"
"Fine, I got a hundred from my dad and 200 hundred came from my savings and then I got the rest from some of my friends. No big deal."
"Casey, it is a big deal!"
"No it's not."
"But you paid 400 for it."
"Sammy, the money was just gonna go to waste! Don't worry about it. But at least it's proof."
"Proof of what?"
"Proof that I love you..."
I kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks Casey." Then since I was kind of tired from crying for the past half hour, I fell asleep.
I woke up at least 2 hours later and found Casey and Danny talking in the corner of the room. I eyes popped wide open and sprang up.
"Danny? Why are you here?"
He came over to me. "I came cause I knew that your mom wasn't taking you anywhere."
"How did you know?"
"Heather told me."
"Why are you talking to Heather?" I snapped
"We're friends. Chill Sammy.
"Sorry, I'm just tired."
"It's okay." Then he kissed me, and I completely forgot that Casey was in the room. I was just making out with Danny and then I remembered Casey. I pulled away from Danny, jumped off the bed, grabbed Casey's arm, and raced out the room with him.
"What are you doing?" He whispered.
"I wanted to thank you."
"For what?"
"For staying with me." I smiled at him.
He smiled back. "I told you I was gonna be here for you."
Danny came out of the room, and hugged me from behind. "I'm not mad at you. You can hang out with Casey whenever you want." He whispered in my ear so only I could hear. I grinned and then turned around to face Danny and kissed him. Then I pulled back, and said, "Thanks!" I turned back to Casey, he looked uncomfortable.
"I'm just gonna go. I'll be back tomorrow." Danny said. Then he kissed me again and left.
"So..." I said turning to Casey.
"So... your never gonna break up with him?"
"No.." I said quietly.
"Sammy, your gonna get hurt."
"Stop worrying about me."
"It's kind of hard not to."
"Then try."
He didn't say anything.
"Casey, please?" He looked at me and I gave him my best puppy dog look.
"Fine. I'll try, but if you get hurt, I'm gonna kick his as- I mean butt."
I laughed. "Okay."
"We never got to finish that movie."
"Then let's watch it."
"Is there popcorn anywhere in this hotel?"
"I'll go check."
I went to the cabinets. Surprisingly, there was popcorn, cookies, chips, and CANDY! How did I not notice this. I took out the popcorn and put it in the microwave for 2 minutes and then added 10 seconds. Mmm, it was so buttery.
We watched a stupid romance/comedy movie on Encore. They have the sappiest movies on the channel. But somehow, everytime a couple kissed me and Casey moved closer and then at the end... me and Casey got caught up in the moment and we kissed. But just for a second, cause it didn't feel right, since I was dating Danny. I pulled away and looked down.
"Sorry, Sammy. I.. shouldn't have done that." Casey said getting up.
"Where are you going?"
"I should uh, go back to Billy's."
"Why?"
"It's weird being here..." He looked at me. "Not a bad weird. I mean, it's weird being here cause you and Danny and me and you and I know I'm just messing it up for you. The only thing I'm doing is making things worse. So yeah, I should go." Then he left. Just like that. Without a good bye and everything. Honestly he wasn't messing anything up. Why does he keep saying that?
A/N: I didn't know about that record, but Thanks! :) I love reading and writing about Sammy Keyes! The only reason why I was happy about going back to school was because my school library has the first 6 Sammy Keyes books in the series. On the second day of school (Wednesday) I checked out 'Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief' and 'Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man' I read them both that same day and then on Thursday, I brought those back and checked out 'Sammy Keyes and the Sister's of Mercy' and 'Sammy Keyes and the curse of Moustache Mary'. The curse of Moustache Mary was the first book with CASEY in it! God I love him! :)