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Samantha held the small packet of pills in her hand and stared at it. Ever since she had become sexually active she had been fastidious about birth control, that is, until she had met Jack Neil. Now for the first time in her life she was actively not going to do anything to prevent pregnancy, in fact she was planning to do everything she could to actively get pregnant. That thought was both exciting, and terrifying at the same time.

"Samantha if you don't get your cute ass out of that bathroom you are going to be walking to school!" Jack called through the door.

Samantha grinned, remembering how much she loved that man, the terror subsided and she threw the packet into the rubbish bin and went out to get her ride to school.

That afternoon, Jack had basketball training so Samantha was meeting Annie by the car and the two were going to head over to the local mall to do some Christmas shopping before coming back to pick up Jack. They had invited Oliver, Drew and Michael but Oliver and Michael both had after school jobs and were working and Drew's father was picking him up so they could go Christmas shopping together. As Samantha approached the car she saw a slight crowd gathering. It was some kind of sixth sense that made her increase her pace until she reached the group and what she saw made her angrier than she had been in a very long time.

Annie was standing, a look of fright on her face, near the car and a boy Samantha recognised as being on the football team was slowly circling her. Samantha couldn't hear what the boy was saying but if the look on Annie's face was anything to go by it wasn't anything good. The crowd had begun to grow and some were even cheering the boy on. As the boy raised his hand and traced his hand down Annie's cheek and continued down to her breast Samantha decided it was time to step in and put a stop to it.

"Get your hands off her!" Samantha said menacingly as she moved closer. She saw a look of relief cross Annie's face and out of the corner of her eye she saw Jack, Drew and Bob Cavendish approaching. Knowing she had back up if she needed it made her feel a bit better.

The boy turned to see who was daring to interfere with his fun. "Well if it isn't the little missus." He mocked. Thankfully he turned his attention to Samantha and Annie was able to move closer to Drew, Bob and Jack. "You know all about what I'm interested in don't you honey, if fact I bet you and your husband do it all the time hmmmmm?" He started circling Samantha in the same way he had Annie. The only difference was Samantha was meeting his eyes with a look of confident determination. The boy leaned in and whispered in Samantha's ear. "Why don't you let me show you how a real man does it?"

Bob Cavendish was looking on in mortification as someone he held dear was being victimised by a bully. He turned to Jack. "I think between us we can put a stop to this Jack." Jack reached out and put a hand on Bob's arm, never taking his eyes off his wife.

"And spoil the show? " Jack smiled. "Trust me Bob, Samantha has this situation totally under control, if I step in and help her I'll be sleeping on the couch for a week."

Just as Bob was about to protest Jacks attitude he saw Samantha move with lightening speed and before her attacker knew what had happened he was lying face down on the ground.

Samantha held the boys arm high up his back and dropped so one of her knees was in the middle of his back, she leaned in close and whispered in the boys ear in the same way he had to Annie and herself, her voice however was menacing and left the boy in no doubt she was serious.

"If you EVER come near me or my friend, or any girl for that matter, again I will make sure that the bits of you that you were so keen to show me will never work again. Do I make myself clear?" The boy remained silent refusing to give this girl satisfaction. "Do. . . ?" Samantha repeated, putting more weight on her knee and moving his arm higher.

"Yes!" The boy hissed.

"You should also know that I can see at least ten phones recording this, you getting your ass kicked by a girl is probably going viral on YouTube as we speak, I suggest when I let you go you walk away with the tiny bit of dignity you have left."

Just as Samantha had predicted he would, the minute she let him up and he saw her back was turned he swung out to hit her. Samantha was almost bored with his predictability and ducked as he swung. The force of the swing caused his balance to be off which made it easy for Samantha to knock him off his feet.

"You bitch!" He yelled at her from the ground. Sam raised her foot and pushed down on his neck.

"There is no way this is going to end well for you. This, here," she waved her arm around where their altercation had taken place, "not even a challenge for me. Now I suggest you go home because my husband is over there and trust me he is barely restraining himself from getting involved and if he does not only will that prize piece of your anatomy never work again, you will be lucky if you can walk away from here."

This time the boy had the good sense to walk away, making sure he screamed profanities at her the whole time. As soon as they were sure the show was over the crowd quickly dispersed and Annie came running over.

"Samantha! Are you okay? You were amazing!" Annie hugged her.

"I'm fine, are you okay though?"

"Oh yeah you arrived before he had a chance to do something, all he did was say a bunch of gross stuff."

"Nice job Carter." Jack smiled purposely using his old name for her as he walked up and wrapped his arm around her shoulder and kissed her lightly on the temple, letting her know he was proud of her.

"Thanks S..Jack". She smiled at the near slip.

Bob and Drew, who had been standing nearby were still in a state of shock that their slight friend, who looked like she couldn't hurt a fly had successfully taken out a high school footballer. Bob recovered first and came up and kissed Samantha's cheek. "You amaze me, my dear."

They said their goodbye's to Bob and Drew when Samantha suddenly realised Jack was there.

"Hey, aren't you supposed to be at practice?" She asked.

"What can I say I heard there was a hot blond kicking ass in the parking lot and thought you might need someone to watch your six." Jack smirked.

"Training got cancelled huh?"

"Yup."

Annie had watched the exchange fascinated by the way Jack and Samantha related to each other sometimes, it was as if they each knew what the other was thinking. "You two are so weird sometimes."

Jack and Samantha laughed.

"Now ladies I believe you two had some Christmas presents to buy me." Jack put his other arm around Annie's shoulder. "The least I can do is buy you both some dinner while I give you my list for Santa."