Sam sighed as she placed Lila on the bed right next to Cameron and Meeko, she was happy that Lila was too young to understand what was going on. The sad part was Lila had become used to her father not being around all the time. It had been a week since she had left Jason in the hospital room and had yet to hear from him, she would be lying to say that didn't hurt, but she needed to be strong because she was not going to back to Jason, not until he learned the his family needed to come first. Sam knew what it felt to always be an after thought when it came to Jason and there was no way she was going to let Lila ever feel like that. "You don't have to go tonight if you don't want to." Alexis called as she stood in the doorway.

"I can't stop living my life, plus what are the chances Jason is going to show up at the Police Ball." Sam said as she pulled the covers over Lila and turned to face her mother.

"Your father and I will understand if you wanna stay home and take it easy." Alexis reassured as she led the women into the hallway.

"I promised Lucky I would go with him." Sam said as she straightened out her dress not looking at her mother, "Thank you for letting Lila and I stay here."

"Sweetie you are always welcome here." Alexis smiled as she pulled her oldest into a hug, not knowing what else she could do for Sam.

"I don't know what I did Mom, why does this always happen to us? When Jason and I are finally happy something suddenly takes a turn for the worse." Sam muttered as she buried her face in Alexis's shoulder.

"Sweetie, you and Jason actually need to sit down and talk about everything that has happened in the past year. Elizabeth and Brenda are not the root of the problem, it's Jason taking advantage of you, He is so quick to jump to everyone else's problems and thinks you are okay with it because you never tell Jason what you really want." Alexis explained to her daughter, "You need to be honest with him and not just tell him what you think he wants to hear."

"I am just scared that he is going to relies one day that he can do better than the girl that he knock up in high school." Sam confessed.

"Jason is crazy about you, he just has issues with expressing himself." Alexis tried as the doorbell rang.

"That should be Lucky and Lulu." Sam said as she dried her eyes.

"Go to fix your makeup, I'll send Lulu up to help in a minute." Alexis ordered as she headed towards the door.

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Mac slammed the door to his truck as he headed up to the walkway, leaving Matt to catch up. Alexis had sent him to the house to pick up some of Lila and Sam's things because they were running low on clothes. Alexis had make sure Jason would not be there ahead of time to make sure Mac wouldn't do something he would regret. Mac on the other hand wanted Jason to be there so he could finally give the man a piece of his mind. Just as Mac was about to put the key in the door, it swung open showing Carly with a pile of clothes in her arms.

"Oh, Sam didn't tell me you were getting her things." Mac said shocked at seeing the blond.

"I'm not." Carly smiled as she walked past him and started to throw the designer clothes all over the lawn than headed around the house.

"Daddy." Maxie greeted as she sat on the couch holding Jason's shirt in one hand and scissors in the other.

"Good girl." Mac smiled as he continued into the house and up the stairs.

"Matt can you help Carly with the sprinklers?" Maxie asked sweetly as she went to grab another shirt. Matt didn't say anything and just headed towards the basement, knowing that it was better to follow Maxie's orders than to ask questions.

"See you at the party." Mac called as he carried two suitcases down the stairs and headed towards the door a few moments later, "You mother wants you to be home in an hour."

"Alright, we have a few more things to-do." Maxie voiced as she turned her attention back to the pile of shirts on the ground.

"Don't worry Jason will not be home for some time." Mac added before he closed the door behind him.

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"Where is your father?" Alexis asked as she sat at the table with Sam, Lucky, Kristina, Molly, Robin, Patrick, Matt and Maxie.

"Anywhere but here. Which is where I would like to be." Kristina complained as she looked down on her nails.

"Ethan is going to stop by a little later, he had to close up the Haunted Star." Lucky mentioned as he took a sip of water as Sam shot him a smile.

"Well that's good news." Molly smiled as she picked at her food.

"Dad had some last minute work to-do." Maxie spoke as she turned to her mother, "He said he would be here as soon as possible."

"He better be if he knows what is good for him." Alexis threatened as she took a sip of wine.

"Oh I love this song." Maxie yelled as she shoot up and move towards Robin and Sam, "We are so dancing." Maxie added as she grabbed their hands and pulled them to the dance floor.

"Molly wanna dance?" Lucky asked as he held out his hand with a smile.

"Of course." Molly answered as she took his hand and they headed order towards her sisters.

"I am not dancing with you." Matt hissed to his brother.

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"Don't even say it, I know you don't have anything to say without your lawyer, which I am fine with because you are just going to listen to me." Mac ordered as he slammed the door to the integration room and walked right over to the table where Jason sat on the other side. "You are lucky you are not in a jail cell right now for what you did to my daughter." Mac started as he pulled out the other chair.

"Sam left me." Jason interrupted.

"Because you are an ass. What did you honestly think what was going to happen? That Sam would just continue to take a back seat to everyone else in your life. I am surprised that she stayed for that long. I would love nothing more than for to leave your sorry ass."

"Sam and I have a child together and another one on the way."

"The one thing I give you credit for is that you are a good father, even if you haven't been around lately."

"I am giving Sam the space that she needs."

"That is the last thing she needs right now, she needs you to-be a man and stand up and fight for her. Stop letting other people get in the way. She is carrying your child for goodness sake." Mac argued as he stood, "So go talk to her or I am going to throw you in a prison cell."