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Chapter 14

Prince Snuffleufagus the Third

It was Sunday, and Sam was walking through the park with her 'entertainment.'

"If you hum like that it makes you sound like you listen to music," Kazuki said.

Sam snorted, and glared at him.

"You know, if you keep doing that your face is going to stay that way," he said shrugging.

"Why do I put up with you? She asked.

"You love me," he replied.

"Unfortunately," she muttered.

He laughed.

Kazuki was her best friend. The friend that you'd call up after every break up, the one who'd pick you up when you were wasted, the guy to call if you needed a few bucks, or just felt bored and wanted to go to the movies. He was your man.

"So why did you move to this dump?" he asked.

"I'm sorry all of our parents can't have money growing off of trees," she replied.

"It doesn't grow off trees, it grows off of fat old men," he said.

"To bad not many of them live around here," she muttered.

"You couldn't have left just cause of him, I would have stayed with you this year," he said.

"I don't want to talk about this," she said. They'd lived together, before Sam had moved out. Moving to where she was now. Not the greatest neighborhood in Odabia.

"You can't just run from it," he said.

"I'm not going back ok," she said.

"Who's holding you back?" he asked.

"None of your bees wax," she said.

"HA, that means someone is," he smiled happily.

"Why do I talk to you?" she asked.

"So what's his name?" he asked.

"Go away," she said.

"Come on, you don't mean that," he said.

"Yeah I do," she said.

"Sam."

"What?" she said facing him. He was . . . ok looking. Better than some of the guys she had dated. He had black hair, which curled slightly, around his head. Blue eyes; not like Matt's more of a duller grayish blue. He was taller than her, but she wasn't that tall. She'd met him with braces but they were gone now. He was skinny, no muscle what so ever. She probably had thicker arms and legs then him; he was just skin and bone.

"Nothing," he said smiling, with his, 'You can't hate me 'cause you love me look'.

She rolled her eyes and continued walking, sometimes she really couldn't remember why she put up with him.

"What do you want to do today," he asked.

"I don't know," she said.

"I think you need something in your apartment," he said.

"You do," she replied.

"Yea, you're all alone," he said.

"So?"

"What about a. . ."

"How about a no," she said.

"I'll pay for it," he said.

"No thanks," she replied.

"Are you going to homecoming?"

"No."

"Then you're getting a cat."

"I don't want a cat."

"Cat's are cute."

"No they aren't"

"Liar."

"Dog's are better."

"True," he said smiling, "But you're getting a cat, come on," and he grabbed her hand pulling her along.

Matt was hanging out with Tai. Why Tai he wasn't sure, but what else was he supposed to do with himself. . .

Tai on the other hand was just walking, not sure why Matt was here. Not that he didn't want to hang out with Matt he was just being overly gloomy.

Walking along, he saw a redhead. Sam to be exact.

"Hey Matt," Tai said; HE WAS SAVED!

Matt remained silent.

"Is that Sam?"

He looked up seeing the redhead, with a dark haired person.

"Come on," he said, looking back at Matt who was staring at them.

"We should leave them alone," Matt said.

Tai sighed, "HEY SAM."

Sam looked up from where she'd been arguing with Kazuki.

She wished she could evaporate from the spot. Yes she loved Kazuki dearly . . . but she didn't want them to meet him.

Sam sighed.

"Who are they?" Kazuki asked.

"No one," she muttered, watching them approach.

He rolled his eyes, "You can barely go anywhere without men following you."

"It's not like I have a sign that says, 'Follow Me'."

"It looks like you do," he said watching the brown and blonde walking toward him.

She rolled her eyes.

"Dated any of them?"

She sighed.

"Just kidding," he said, "Though the brown haired one has a nice body, and Mr. Blondie is pretty cute, though brown dude is more my type."

"Let's not hit on them please," Sam said.

"Whatever you say."

"Hey," Tai said smiling.

"Hi," Matt muttered.

Sam stood their staring at the kitten in her hands. Which was basically an orange fuzz ball. Kazuki had bought it because; his exact words, 'Well he's a guy cause of course you don't do that 'female' friendship thing, totally throw off whatever you're trying to do and you can both be moody hot headed redheads.' Of course he threw in a big charming smile along with his little explanation.

Kazuki coughed.

"Oh, yeah," she said, remembering he was here and that they were here, and they didn't know each other, "This is Kiki, Kiki this is Tai and Matt."

"It's Kazuki, Strawberry," he said.

Sam shrugged, "Kiki's a cuter name."

"If you're a girl," he said.

Sam shrugged.

Tai nodded.

Matt just stood there.

"So you guys hang out with Sam?" Kazuki asked.

"Yeah," Tai said.

Kazuki nodded, "Figures."

"What?" Tai asked.

"Sam only hangs out with people that have balls."

Sam punched Kazuki in the gut, which caused him to drop the kitty litter.

Tai just stared at the two of them.

Matt was thinking about other things, missing Kazuki's comments.

"What was that for," he asked.

"You're being an idiot."

"So you punch me?"

"What else am I suppose to do? Words don't process in your thick skull," she said petting the cat.

Kazuki rubbed his stomach.

Tai stood their awkwardly, "So. . ."

"You guys should come over to Sam's we're getting her kitten settled in."

"Yeah," Sam mumbled. . . "WHAT?"

"We're also picking out names," he said ignoring her.

"It has a name."

"What?" Tai asked, trying not to stare.

"That is not a proper name for a cat," Kazuki said.

"Keeks, you got it for me, so it's my cat, so I get to name it," Sam said.

"Kazuki, that's my name honey, and the cat can't have that ridiculous name."

"The cat has that name," Sam said.

"What name?" Tai asked.

"Prince Snuffleufagus the Third of the House of Sam."

"It's a horrible name," Kazuki said.

"Snuffalufagus for short," she said.

"Why the third?" Tai asked.

"Who wants to be the first or the second," she said shrugging.

"Three's a cool number," Kazuki said, "Three musketeers, three peas in a pod."

"So now you're supportive?" Sam teased.

"Yeah, got to stay sort of on your good side, my mother likes you," he said.

"Great, so you're just doing this cause she paid you too," he said.

"Yep."

"How much am I worth?" she asked.

"Hmm," he said.

She smacked him playfully with her free hand, "I'm going to take him home."

"I'll come with you," he said smiling.

"You guys can come too," Sam said to Tai and Matt.

"You don't have food at your place do you?" Kazuki said.

"Peanut Butter and Jelly," she said.

"We need a food store, because you're probably starving yourself, hey I'll take Tai," he said dragging Tai along with a big smile.

She glared after him. Why did he have to take Tai. Probably thought he was cuter. . . Which she realized left her with Matt. She looked over at him. He wasn't really there.

Matt watched Tai leave.

"So. . ." Sam said not sure what to do, Kazuki had left her with everything, kitty litter, bed, toys, and a cat. . . Did she want any of this? No. But she had it, and he was pretty cute.

"Yeah. . ."

"Do you want to or um. . ." awkward.

"Oh, let me help you," he picked up what Kazuki had left on the ground.

"Oh, thanks."

"Do you mind if we grab my car?" he asked.

"Oh, no."

A car ride later and they were now at Sam's apartment.

She was beginning to feel self conscious. Forget the fact that the elevator smelt strongly like pee, and that the building wasn't anything special. He was barely talking.

She began putting the cat's stuff away. His litter box was going in her 'pantry closet.' She vaguely wondered if they were allowed to have cats here. She was pretty sure Keeks had checked that out already, to prevent her from finding any loopholes.

Silently she waited for Tai and Kazuki to return.

"So what inspired you to get a cat?" he asked.

"Kiki," she said.

He nodded.

Of course the peace and quiet of their awkward silence would not last long, with the entrance of Kazuki and Tai. Though Tai had been unusually quiet, Kazuki was unusually loud, perverted, and annoying. Oh wait, he was always like that.

"WELL," Kazuki announced his entrance, "I believe you'll have enough food for a whole week, maybe even two. I even found these crafty little chicken pot pies you could microwave as long as you don't blow up the place with that."

"I believe I've successfully cooked for myself thus far I can handle it," she said.

"You never know, you're the one who set the kitchen on fire," he said.

"That was an accident, you put the flame on too high," she said.

"Yeah . . . whatever you say raspberry," he said.

"You can put them in the kitchen I'll unpack them in a sec," she said.

"Don't worry, I got it, your cabinets are probably a disaster," he replied.

"HEY!" she said getting up and following him into the kitchen, which was basically just behind the couch.

Tai looked at Matt.

Matt looked at Tai.

They got up and followed.

"Do either of you clean her cabinets?" Kazuki asked them.

"No. . ." Tai said.

"They've never been here before," Sam said.

"WHAT?! Samantha did you not give them the grand tour," he said.

"Keeks, it's a two room apartment what could be more exciting, the fact that if you forget to hold the toilet handle it doesn't flush," she said.

"Really, you need to get that fixed Samantha, I can have my plumber come check it out," Kazuki said.

"I don't need it fixed," she replied.

"Or a whole new toilet, that would work better. What color?" he asked.

"I don't need one," she said.

"How can you live with an unsatisfactory toilet Samantha?"

"I deal," she said.

He sighed frustrated.

"So," Kazuiki smiled at Matt and Tai.

Tai squirmed a little nervous. He had no clue who this crazy guy was, but it had been a little strange shopping with him.

"OH! Um, Kazuki you should really leave," Samantha said grabbing his hand.

Instead Kazuki wrapped his arms around her, "No, I want to talk to these two, that I'm leaving my precious Samantha with."

She groaned.

"How has Samantha been?" he asked.

"Fine," she answered for them.

"She told me she isn't going to homecoming. No one would ask her?" he questioned.

"Tai did," she said, saving Tai from answering.

"Oh, and you said no?" he asked.

"Yeah," she sighed this was going to save Tai at her cost.

"Samantha would anyone want you living like this, you live in a box, you're working all the time, you are always worrying, and you won't let anyone in. I mean you had me but you move to this. What do you have?" he asked.

"A lot," she said, glaring at him, "I'm doing fine."

"Fine?" he said, "Yeah this looks like fine, do you think this is how they'd want you to grow up? Do you think they'd want you to be alone?" he asked.

"How the hell am I suppose to know?" she asked, she could feel herself losing control, and she really didn't want to lose it on Kazuki.

"Sam, I care."

"Yeah but they don't he left me, right now no one gives a shit if I die tomorrow. And the people that probably would are dead. What does it matter?" she asked.

"I do."

"Yeah and what are you suppose to do to change it all?" she asked.

"I just think you should, open up more Sam. Relax a little more. You're locking up everything. How long are you going to last?" Kazuki asked releasing her, "And you can't tell me that the two of them would be fine if you dropped dead tomorrow."

"Of course we wouldn't," Tai said getting up. He walked over to her wrapping his arms slowly around her, "Who'd keep me in check?"

"Matt does a pretty good job," Sam mumbled.

Matt knew he should say something, "Sam you need to live, so I can rub it in Tai's face when he loses."

"See Sam, lots of people do," Kazuki said.

She stuck her tongue out at him. Juvenile, yes, but he was Kazuki.

"Samantha," he said, "I'd say your place is pretty clean for being here alone."

"Alone?" Tai asked shocked.

"Yeah," Kazuki said confused, "Sam moved in August."

"From home?" Tai asked.

"No. . ." Kazuki looked at Sam.

She frowned at him.

"Samantha," he sighed.

"There's plenty of perverted people out there in the world," she said.

"Yeah, but no one knows?"

"You do," she said.

"Damn it," he said.

She shrugged, in Tai's arms.

"You know I hate the fact that you moved out," he said.

"So?"

"So you're living alone here?"

"Yes, We've established that Kazuki" Sam sighed.

"Yeah, I know, I'm clarifying though." He said.

She rolled her eyes.

"So, now you guys know, Sam's here alone, because she decided to move out in August, and she couldn't just find another place in Tokyo. No, she had to leave the city, move to some place she knows no one, and has no family here."

"Well anywhere I moved I'd have no family," Sam said. "And actually once upon a time, before Grandma and mom died, I did have family here."

He frowned.

"And I still might have family here, they'd probably not care if I was alive though, they were pretty pissed at mom for marrying dad, though they were right, he wasn't the greatest dad," she shrugged.

He continued to frown.

Tai was trying to comprehend all this, They used a lot of he's and she's.

"So where I'm standing from I think my move was brilliant," she said.

He rolled his eyes, "Guess I can't convince you otherwise, mom would still love it if you would move in, she adores you."

She felt comfortable in Tai's arms. It was nice to be comforted. Yes if she'd have preference it would have been Matt's but it was probably better this way.

The cat walked into the kitchen and meowed.

Sam smiled at it, pulling away from Tai to go and feed it.

"Though you threw away living with me, in a nice home, with other kids and Tammy," Kazuki said.

"Tell Tam I love her, and she's been a great substitute mommy, but everyone grows up Keeks," she said.

"And how old are you?" he asked.

"18," she said.

"That's young, most kids are still at home with their parents."

"Well," she said facing him annoyed, "I'm sorry I can't be at home with my parents. My mom is where ever her ashes were chucked and my dad made it pretty clear that I'm a waste of his time so what am I suppose to do about it?"

There was nothing she was supposed to do about it; she went to grab the cat food. She didn't even know where the hell her father was, let alone convince him that she was worth his time. Though maybe she wasn't, making him perfectly right in ditching her at the first chance he got.