A/N: Here is the promised update I gave my Back to Me readers. Not sure when I will end this story because I do have a smaller storyline ready within this story so I'm thinking within the next ten chapters is when this bad boy will come to an end. (Then I can get started on my newer ideas and work on some long overdue stories that I still have on my computer.)

If there is anything important that you really want to see in this story then please let me know so I can plan out the last ten or so chapters and finish this story with a bang.

Chapter Twenty-One: Spoken Mind

When Sam had asked him to drop her off somewhere, he had no idea that it was going to be him. Over the course of a few weeks, Julian had gotten to know both Trey and Shawn. He didn't have an opinion on who he would rather see with his daughter because let's face it, Sam is his daughter; He didn't want to see her with anybody. He knew Sam was a teenager and part of being a teenager was screwing up and apparently dating. It had changed since he was in high school.

Julian pulled out of the drive way and looked at his wife.

"Are you worried even just a little bit?"

Brooke hides her grin. She liked seeing the protective fatherly side of Julian.

"Of course I am, but Sam has to experience life on her own. We just have to remind her that we are here for her if she needs us and that's all we can do."

Julian stays silent until he reaches the next light.

"I don't like it," Julian says with a frown.

Brooke chuckles and grabs her husband's hand.

"I don't like it either, but what can we do?"

"We could lock her in her room for the rest of her life," Julian states in a no nonsense way.

Brooke purses her lips and shakes her head.

"I don't want to have to listen to the fall back on that plan. I guess all we can do is wait."

"Well that's no fun," Julian says with a pout.

-ATTD-

Sam knocked on the front door and waited for it to open. When Brooke had asked her who she pictured herself with it was surprisingly not Trey that had come to mind; it was Shawn. She had a lot of things in common with Trey. She just hoped that he would understand that she needed to see if she and Shawn could work together as a couple. Both Trey and Shawn were cute, but something about Shawn's character stood out a little more.

The door opens and Trey stands in front of her with a smile.

"Samantha, it's good to see you."

Sam smiles slightly.

"It's good to see you, too. But there is a reason as to why I am standing on your doorstep."

Trey leads Sam over to the porch swing and they sit down. Trey had a feeling that this conversation wasn't going to go where he liked, but he decided to wait just in case he was wrong. He wasn't.

"I like you. I do and I know this is completely stupid of me to say, but I want us to be friends and I know you asked me out, but I have to decline. It's funny because both you and Shawn asked me out on the same day and I it kind of threw me for a loop," Sam says with a laugh as she bounces her leg a little. Trey watches her with a kind smile. If he couldn't have Sam as his girlfriend then having her as a friend would be just as nice.

"I get it. You want to see where you and Shawn can go. I understand. It was worth a shot. I had to take it. You're a pretty girl Samantha and I just wanted you to know that."

Sam blushes and nods her head.

"I can handle friends," Trey says with a smile showing off his pearly whites. He also had a twinkle in his eye. "Besides, you can help me with my dating skills if you're taken."

"I'm not taken yet. I need to speak with Shawn first. Hopefully I'm not giving my answer too late."

"He'd be crazy to turn you down."

-ATTD-

After hanging out with Trey for a little bit, she had asked if he could drop her off at Shawn's and being the friend that he was trying to be did as he was asked. Did he like that Sam had chosen Shawn and not him? Yes. Was he going to dwell on it? No. He swore to himself that if anything happened between Shawn and Sam-like a break-up- then he was going to help pick up the pieces.

Here Sam was again, only this time she was on Shawn's doorstep and not Trey's.

Shawn had been upstairs in his room with Michelle listening to music and just being lazy. They didn't want to think about homework. When the doorbell rang, Shawn had excused himself and went downstairs. He was surprised to see the object of his attraction to be standing on his porch steps.

"Heya Sam, what's up?"

Sam walked closer to the front door to avoid the sun that was shining in her face.

"I've been thinking about what you had asked me and I came here to give you my decision."

Shawn held his breath and nodded his head.

"I accept your date proposal. I know we are friends, but we could end up being really great together. So, I hope it's not too late to accept."

"Of course it's not," Shawn says too quickly. He blushes after speaking. He was trying not to sound like an idiot. It wasn't working very well. "I mean, yeah, it's totally cool."

Sam grins and nods her head.

"Okay, that's good then. Um, that's all I wanted to know," Sam says before walking down one step. She looks over her shoulder and smiles at Shawn when she catches him throwing his fist in the air in victory. Shawn turns beat red. "I'll see you later."

"See ya."

-ATTD-

Shawn ran up to his room with a smile on his face. Michelle looked up from the CD she was looking at.

"Who put that smile on your face?" Michelle asks with a grin.

"Sam agreed to go out with me."

Michelle's grin vanished.

"She and I are going out. Can you believe that? Sam wants to go out with me. Aren't you happy for me?"

"Yeah, of course," Michelle responds with fake enthusiasm.

Only problem was, she wasn't.

A/N: When I had asked if people wanted to see Sam with Trey or Shawn not many people responded. But Shawn was voted for.

I do have plans for this part of the story so stay tuned.