***Alright...I know I said I wouldn't post til Friday but in honor of Amber being back in the studio and on SET and her Christmas concert which I guessed lol I am posting the Pre-dinner chapter. Next Chapter is the Dinner Chapter...thanksgiving was going to be all one but I decided to split it in three. Pre-dinner, dinner, and the aftermath. I hope you all enjoy. Oh and you get to meet two new characters in this chapter...well kinda three...let me know what you think of them.
***Shout out moment though...cuz y'all left some lengthy comments. lol...thanks to LLUCAS0814 thanks for reminding me about Child services...I do read reviews and implement changes where I see it is necessary. ISSYB...I enjoyed ur essay... Kayah16 I know it was hard leaving a review 3... Cherica u made me laugh...and you got ur wish...Sam listens to u...and for the guest who wanted to know why she gets to see her child...because sex offenders do get visitation. anyway I loved all of your reviews even if I didn't shout you out. Thanksgiving will be posted tomorrow...Thursday get it? no...okay..read on***edited
Mercedes woke up with Sam's arms wrapped around her mid-section. She looked over at the time realizing she needed to be up and getting things ready. Her mother was due to arrive in the next few hours and the last thing she needed was to give her mother something to critique. She did a silent prayer for the holiday week, praying for a peaceful dinner. Even though deep down she knew that was asking for a miracle. She was going to have her mother, Tina and Sam's boss there and his coworker bringing a date, not to mention Sam going to see Penny. She prayed that when Sam took Sarah to see Penny that nothing would change between them. She rolled over and looked at Sam as he slept with his lips slightly parted and his blonde hair covering his left eye. She was used to having them around and wasn't ready for any of that to change. Looking over at the time again she sighed and tries to get up but Sam pulled her back to him.
"Where are you going?" he mumbled still holding on to her. She smiled loving that he can always sense when she was no longer in his arms.
"I have to get things ready…you know my mom is on the way here. She'll be here in a few hours and I gotta get things ready." She explained as she tried to pry herself away.
"Is the sun even up yet, Mercedes?" he groaned with his eyes still closed as he held her.
"No not yet."
"I know something that is up though." He smiled at her with his eyes still closed he grabbed her hand and placed it on his crotch, then looked at her and smiled harder.
"You are so nasty!" she laughed as he rolled on top of her and grabbed a condom from the night stand. She giggles as he kisses her neck and rummage through the drawer to find the condom.
"Hey I gotta get some before your mom comes and cock blocks me." he replies finally finding a condom. Mercedes had to agree with him there because there was no way she'd have sex with her mom anywhere in the house. "I'll make this quick." He said smiling as he pulled her top over her head exposing her breast.
"You know you never make it quick…you seem to always take your time." she replied as he began to suck on her right nipple. He grabbed her breast with both his hands and continued to suck and nibble on it. "Hey…you do know I have two tits right…this one over here is getting neglected." Mercedes said grabbing her left breast.
"Oh…is Mindy lonely?" he asked smiling her as slowly dragged his tongue across her left nipple.
"Mindy?"
"Yup…I named them. This is Mindy." He then dragged his tongue over to the right breast and sucked on the nipple again. "…and this is Cindy." Mercedes giggled as he pushed them together. "My favorite twins." He continued to suck and nibble on both as Mercedes enjoyed the feel of him grinding on her crotch. He took the condom and ripped it open, placing it on before guiding himself inside of her.
"Oh…God…Sam!" she exclaimed as he entered her. He smiled down at her as she reached to push him in deeper.
"I love when you call me God Sam!" he smiled as he began to slowly stroke her. She looked up at him under her lashes with her eyes slightly parted and bit her bottom lip. "I love…" she looked at him and smiled as he paused and stared into her eyes. "…the way you're looking at me right now!" he placed his head in the crook of her neck as she held on to him wondering if that was what he intended to say. They didn't say another word to each other and lay back quietly when he returned from flushing the condom away. She wanted to ask him but by the time she got the courage to he had fallen asleep, so she instead got up and started with her day.
The way he looked into her eyes played over and over in her head as she showered. It played over and over as she cleaned and put things away to make room for guest. Then she went to the kitchen to prepare Zoey's baby food before she woke. Normally Tina would just feed her store bought baby food but Mercedes always made her food from scratch right from her blender. As the blender pureed the baby food Sarah came out rubbing her eyes.
"Good morning, MaMer." Sarah smiled and hugged her. Mercedes looked down and smiled at the little girl and turned off the blender.
"Morning beautiful!" she replied as she stirred the baby food then walked over to pick up Zoey who woke up from all the commotion. "Morning Zoey!"
"Can I help feed the baby?" Sarah asked bouncing around. "I know how to do it." Mercedes eyed the child and smiled.
"Yes…you can but first you need to go wash up." Sarah smiled and ran to the bathroom. Mercedes placed Zoey in her walker then walked over to the kitchen to pour out the baby food in a dish. She pulled her phone out to check the time and also noticed no phone call from Tina yet. She prayed she didn't go do something stupid running behind Brody.
"I'm done!" Sarah said running out.
"Okay…well sit right here." Mercedes instructed placing a chair in front of the high chair. Then she grabbed Zoey and placed her into it before strapping her in. "Now…be careful she can be feisty. I gotta start with our breakfast." She replied walking back to the kitchen to make breakfast.
"What kind of baby food is this?" Sarah asked as she looked at the mush. "It smells good."
"It's mango banana surprise." Mercedes responded laughing as she heard Sam singing horribly in the bathroom as she walked back to the living room. "The surprise is that I added carrots and sweet potatoes to the baby food." She whispered. "Gotta have your veggies." Sarah laughed and started to do airplane sounds as she zoomed the food to Zoey's opened mouth.
"She likes it." she stated with surprise as Mercedes watched on and smiled. "MaMer, are you going to adopt Zoey and make her my baby sister?" Sarah asked shocking Mercedes. She wasn't sure how to answer that question since Sarah wasn't exactly her daughter and Zoey already had a mother.
"Well look at it like this…" she smiled. "Zoey is my god daughter so she can be like your god sister." Sarah smiled and nodded at the response then fell quiet.
"MaMer?"
"What's up?" Mercedes asked sitting next to her as she starting setting the table up for breakfast.
"Daddy says I'm going to see my mom today." She replied sadly.
"Yeah, it's just for a few hours and then you will be back to help me prepare for thanksgiving like you wanted." Mercedes added trying to see why she seemed sad. "Aren't you happy?"
"Yeah I guess so." She replied placing more food in Zoey's mouth.
"It's okay to be happy…remember she's the same mother that used to read you bed time stories, right?" Mercedes reminded her. Sarah looked up at her and nodded smiling just as Mercedes heard a car pull up. "Let me go see who that is." She runs to the door and opens it to see her mother coming up the steps. "Mom!"
"Can you believe it's already this cold outside?" Mama Jones stated pulling her daughter in for a hug. "Good to see you…now where's that man of yours?" she asked looking over Mercedes shoulder.
"Is that Mama Jones?" Sam asked as he came running out of the room his hair still wet. She pushed Mercedes aside and pulls Sam in for a hug. Mercedes was shocked because this was their first time meeting and her mom usually never liked any guy she dated.
"Young man, are you trying to get sick…it's cold out here!" she says pulling her luggage in and closing the door.
"Lemme get that for you." Sam said taking the luggage as Mercedes looked on in shock. When her mother met Blaine she told him point blank that she didn't like him with the first ten minutes of meeting him. And here she was trying to make sure Sam didn't get sick.
"So, I see you're still being Zoey's active mother, huh?" Her mother asked when she noticed Zoey in the high chair. "Is this the precious Sarah that I've heard so much about?" she asked looking at the smiling face of the seven years old. "Look at you, feeding a baby when you're a baby yourself. You're more a mother than Zoey's mom ever was!"
"Mom!"
"I like you already." Sam smiled as Mercedes poked him. "What? Your mom speaks the truth." Sam gave her mom a side hug as Mercedes glared at him.
"Quit glaring at the poor man! If you didn't want the truth you shouldn't have invited me. I could have gone to your brother Marcus' house and eat his wife's nasty cooking but he invited your dad so…you know I'm not welcomed there." Mercedes mom walked into the kitchen and started checking on breakfast.
"Mom…you're a guest…I got this." She said moving her mother out of the kitchen. "Plus, you hate Bree so there's no way you'd have gone to Marcus house."
"Damn right…she gave me a bunch of bad ass grand-kids." she looked at Sam as he watched in amusement. Sarah's eyes were wide open as she listened to Mama Jones tell Sam stories of her bad ass grand kids. "But y'all got these sweet babies here. I'd rather be here where there's no drama." Sam looked over at Mercedes as she turned swiftly into the kitchen.
"Need any help?" Sam asked wrapping his arms around Mercedes. She turned to face him placing her head on his chest.
"She said no drama…this place is going to be a crime scene tomorrow." She laughed nervously. She knew for a fact that her mother and Tina would get into it. Her mother never held her tongue for nobody.
"No it won't…everything is going to go great." He said tilting her chin up to him. "And I will be back later on to help you get everything started. We won't be gone long." he kissed her softly before grabbing some of the food from her.
"So…it's just going to be you and Sarah with Penny?" she asked nervously.
"Uh no there's going to be Child services supervisor there." He replied looking at Mercedes and noticing a change in her mood. "I'm only taking her so she could see her mother. That's all."
"I know…I was just wondering." Mercedes replied before walking back out to the dining room where Sarah was showing Mama Jones her drawings. They sat and ate then Mercedes got Sarah ready to go meet her mother. After they were done Sam left with Sarah back to his place to wait for the arrival of Penny and the Child Services representative.
"So he's going to see his ex-wife?" Mama Jones asked as she took a sip of her coffee and looked at Mercedes. "The pedophile?"
"Sarah still needs to have a relationship with her, mom." Mercedes replied. She really didn't want to have this conversation but she knew her mom wouldn't leave it alone.
"She's a pedophile…her rights as a mother should have been revoked!"
"Mom…she's still Sarah's mother." Mercedes defended. Her mother rolled her eyes and looked at Zoey then back at Mercedes.
"It seems like the wrong people are becoming mothers while the ones who deserve it are left taking care of them." She sipped her coffee again as Mercedes rolled her eyes. "I'm just saying every time I talk to you I hear Zoey in the background crying. Does Tina ever have her?"
"Yes she has her mom." Mercedes replied rolling her eyes. Mama Jones never liked Tina from the day she met her. Usually it was because Tina got Mercedes in so much trouble during the school years. After a while she just accepted that Mercedes was never going to stop being friends with Tina, no matter what she did to her.
"Check yourself before you wreck yourself with all that attitude you're swinging my way." Mama Jones responded. Mercedes couldn't contain the laughter when she heard her mother say it. "Yeah I'm hip I know hip hop. I keep up with the times."
"Mom…that was from like the 80's…no one says that anymore."
"Maybe you don't…'cause you ain't hip. Busy being everybody's mommy and superman." Her mother replied. "Look…I'm not trying to be hurtful…I'm just tired of you being used especially by Tina. You don't have to save everybody Mercedes, some people don't want to be saved." Mercedes nodded as she heard the exact same speech from Sam. Was Tina really taking advantage of her like everyone thinks? As Mercedes thought about it she received a call from Sam explaining that they were going to be later back because Penny was running late. She decided to start preparing for tomorrow with her mom to keep her mind off of things and to keep her mom out of her head with negativity til Sam returned.
Sam and Sarah sat patiently waiting on Penny to arrive. After he called Mercedes to inform her of the delay he felt a bit nervous. She sounded a bit worried about him saying that he would be late, not to mention her asking if they'd be alone. He was never a cheater and didn't see it happening now. He still cared about Penny but his feelings for Mercedes had grown in the past weeks. He almost slipped and said he loved her that morning, but he held back. He was afraid that it was all too soon. Everything was just happening so quick with them and he didn't want to rush it. Finally after an hour of waiting Penny arrived with the child service representative.
"Hello, Mr. Evans my name is a Shelby Corcoran. I will be supervising Penny's visits with Sarah from here on out. "
"Nice to meet you! This is Sarah!" he said as Sarah hid behind him shyly. He looked over at his ex wife, and smiled as they entered. She definitely looked different. She ran to hug Sarah but Shelby held her back.
"Sorry, Penny…you can only touch her if her father gives you consent and if Sarah feels comfortable hugging you." Sam was in shock and the look on Penny's face showed she was in shock as well and hurt at the same time.
"That's my daughter."
"I understand…" she replied placing a hand on Penny's shoulder. "Sarah, can you wait in your room while the adults have a chat?" Shelby bent down and asked. Sarah looked to her dad and waited on his nod before leaving. "Let's go over the rules really quick, okay. " Shelby smiled as they sat on the table and listened to her read the rules. "No whispering to the child. No offensive words or sexual gestures. You will have absolutely no contact with the child's genitals, breast and or buttocks…and the same vice versa." Penny and Sam both made faces as they listened each rule sounding cruder than the next. "No carrying or placing the child on your lap. No hugging without parental consent from guardian with full custody. No petting and you may not escort the child to the restrooms."
"These rules are awful…I would never do that to my child."
"These are the rules, Mrs. Evans."
"Owen…I go by Owen now." She replied softly as she looked over at Sam. Sam shook his head and looked at his watch wondering how much longer he had to be there. They wouldn't be dealing with this craziness if she hadn't fallen in love with the teenage gardener. Now she had to deal with the consequences.
"My apologies, Ms. Owen, let's get started!" Shelby nodded to Sam as he got up and went to get Sarah. "Sarah…if you want… you can hug your mother…okay?" Sarah looked at her then at her dad before walking over to Penny. She eyed Penny for a minute then smiled shyly before waving to her.
"Hi mommy." she said softly and hugged her. Penny held on to Sarah and cried hugging her tightly. Sam and Shelby watched as Sarah gave her mother a pat on the back. "Don't cry!"
"You look so pretty. Who did your hair?" she asked touching her pigtails.
"MaMer did it! She bought me this dress too!" Sarah said smiling brightly for the first time. Sam smiled as he watched her brag about Mercedes teaching her things. She spent most of the time talking about Mercedes as Penny just listened with a smile on her face. "After school she showed me how to cook and how to tie my hair all pretty before I sleep."
"Oh sounds like a really nice baby sitter." Penny replied assuming it was just someone that was helping Sam. He could have corrected her but instead he just looked at his watch. "So for thanksgiving…"
"Yeah…I can't do thanksgiving." Sam cut her off. She looked at Sam then at Shelby and frowned. "We already have plans."
"Oh…okay…well maybe next year then."
"Well…times up and I actually have to get back to Dayton with you before heading home and starting my own thanksgiving cooking." Shelby smiled as she stood and extended her hand to Sam. "It was a pleasure meeting you and your lovely daughter and we'll be in touch for the next visit."
"Thank you…likewise!" he shook her hand and looked at his watch again as Penny hugged Sarah one last time before they left.