Chapter 49: Bipolar Sam.
Sam's POV.
"My seat is number is 16A what's yours, honey?" I asked Alec. He grinned at me.
"Honey! I like it... baby. It's… 16C." his smile fell and so did mine. I wanted to sit next to him, so that we could cuddle up. Things were going perfectly between us now. Since my outburst about the whole Gaius thing I felt as if an elephant sized load was taken off my chest. Talking with Alec about it helped me a lot as it felt as if I could share the pain with somebody who cared about me. I didn't know where I would be of it weren't for Alec.
"Don't worry. We'll ask the 16B to switch seats with us." Alec said at the same time Daren started approaching us. "Looks like we're neighbours! I'm the 16B."
Alec's automatic glare when he was around Daren suddenly became murderous. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" I said exasperatedly.
"I'm happy to be your flight buddy too, Sam." Daren said sarcastically as he settled onto the seat.
"Great. Just great." Alec sighed heavily as he sat gloomily in his seat next to the smug Daren.
"Daren, would you mind switching with me, or if you want the window seat I'm sure Alec wouldn't mind switching."
"Oh, don't you feel uncomfortable because of me as much as I like the view from the window, for this particular flight the view from the middle seat is much better." he said giving me a good look over which obviously didn't go unnoticed by Alec. "Sam, it will get chilly during the flight. You'd better zip your jacket to the top." I closed my zip to the top, to at least give him some peace of mind.
"Having a hard time, Sam?" Nessie asked with a smirk. "Oh, shut up." I said in irritation, which made the three couples in the seats next to us chuckle.
That was it. If he wouldn't willingly give up his seat I would have to pull out the big guns.
"Please, please, please, Daren switch seats!" I begged fruitlessly. Yeah, begging was my big guns, pretty lame, I know. On other occasions I would have used my female charms. You know, giggling, twisting my hair between my fingers and smiling as if I was dumb. Even though it repulsed me to do so- I only flirted seriously with Alec and Alec only- it was a quick way to make guys do what I tell them to without things getting ugly. Men were such fools when it came to women. But of course, now that Alec was here I couldn't do that anymore.
"Really, Sam? Really? Look who wants to break the rules now."'
"Ugh! You never ever gave half a rat's ass for the rules. Now you want to stick to them!" I whispered furiously. The others continued laughing and Alec continued giving Daren the daggers. Finally I had to sit down as the air hostess was giving me the evil eye.
For the first fifteen minutes Alec and I looked straight ahead. Daren, who had very similar tastes in music except that he liked screamo much more then I did, was listening to an old song I used to love back when I was human. It brought an automatic smile to my lips. It was a rock sock by one of my favourite bands. My mood improved a lot as I started humming to the song and tapping my foot at the beat, I could hear it as clear as if I was wearing the headphones myself. As I nodded my head to the beat I turned around and saw Alec staring at me with a small grin on his face. His smile grew wilder as he realised I noticed him. I winked at him and put my hand up in an "I love you" sign. I unbuckled myself and he did the same. When our lips met not only did I feel better then before, I felt as if I was floating in mid-air. I heard Daren mumble something under his breath but I was too busy to try to find coherence in what he said. I felt someone push me from the shoulder. I looked at the culprit in annoyance.
"Fine, Fine! I'll switch but don't do that. It's seriously disgusting." Daren said as he got up and he and Alec switched seats. I smiled at him my best satisfied smirk. "Oh, itty bitty Daren still thinks girls have cooties? That's cute!" I said I said in a baby voice. I reached over Alec to pinch his chubby cheeks. He pushed my hands away from his cheeks so I just ruffled his hair. He stopped being gentle and pushed my hands away hard. I laughed out loud and linked my hand through Alec's who was also laughing by then.
"Cooties? Really Sam? Really?" Daren said a small smile tugging at his lips too.
"Is this becoming a catch phrase of yours, Daren?" Alec asked him. He kissed me on the cheek as he settled next to me, obviously trying to annoy Daren. I wasn't sure if his unneeded jealousy was either cute or worrying.
"Why? Does it bother you, old man?" Daren retorted. Alec snorted. "Old man? That's your clever retort." Alec said to him. I frowned. Nothing good ever happened when Alec got competitive, believe me, the last time Alec lost in a one on one with Daren in Halo, he trained for two days straight so that he could catch up to Daren's years of experience and waste of time in Halo. Of course the other guys were good Samaritans enough that they all helped him train, with the exception of Daren of course. They wouldn't even move away from the television so when the girls and I joked that we were going to start stripping they were so immersed in the game that they didn't even register our words in their minds.
"It's not like it isn't true." Daren said as he fidgeted with the headphone wires. I sighed. It wasn't ideal if the boys started fighting on the plane. Only god knows were we'd all end. "That is it. Alec, switch with me." I got up and ordered Alec to move. He looked a little annoyed, especially at Daren. We settled in, now with me in the middle. I could almost feel the levels of testosterone rising between them. An annoyed air hostess came to us all the way from the back.
"Will you three please settle d-" she stopped in mid tracks once her eyes landed on Alec and Daren. "Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were some naughty kids. Clearly I was wrong." She said, twisting a lock of her blond hair between her fingers and saying the word 'naughty' in a dirty tone. I didn't like her one bit.
"I'm Arlen. Can I get you boys anything?" She said, again with that dirty tone. She bended over lightly so that she could make better eye contact with them, in the process giving us a royal view of her cleavage. Alec, politely as ever looked away in the other direction but Daren, being the self-confessed player he is continued staring. Not to mention the fact that she ignored me completely, which added to my dislike in her regards.
"I'll have a cup of water please." I said, trying to distract her. I swore that if she tried to flirt with my man…
"But of course." she said, sounding as if she was constipated and giving me the fakest smile in the history of fake smiles. "How 'bout you, handsome?" she said touching Alec on the chest with her blood red fingernail.
"No thanks." Alec said swiftly, adverting his attention to a lock of my hair. I smiled smugly at her. "He's my boyfriend." I said, snuggling closer to him. She completely ignored me!
"How about you?" She turned to Daren. Oh, I hated her guts by now. I wouldn't wish this girl not even on my biggest enemy." I gripped Daren's arm.
"He's my brother." I said out of the blues.
"So?"
"He just happens to be gay." I muttered out of lack of words. Nessie, Jake, Danielle, Alec, Bonnie, Logan and Alec all burst out laughing. Daren stared at me with wide eyes, too shocked to speak.
"Pity." she said as she turned away and left us in peace.
"S-Sam, where do you come up with this stuff?" Dan, asked me from the seat behind mine. I could see them holding their sides with laughter.
"Dude! We didn't know that. Well no matter what you'll still be the same guy, it doesn't matter if you prefer anuses to-"
"Don't say it." Daren finally spoke out making everybody, including me, laugh. "Sam! It's not funny. Why the hell would you tell her that I'm gay?"
"Just because."
"Just because what?"
"Did you see her? She flirted with Alec too. She's obviously he kind of girl who doesn't give a damn about the real you! As much as you annoy me I don't want you to get hurt." I said to him.
"Gee, thanks mum. I haven't talked or flirted with a girl in almost a year!"
"Ugh, I can't believe you. By any chance did you flirt with everything that had two legs?"
"I used to be that way. Ah sweet old days. It was the perfect life of an American guy." Daren said looking lost in the past. "And now, I'm stuck with a short, European brunette putting my sexual orientation in question." He shook his head.
"Hey, what is that supposed to mean!" I said, just slightly annoyed. I never got answered as all of them where to busy laughing, including Alec. Guess I deserved that. After a while I ended up laughing with them. This was going to be an awesome trip; I didn't need to be psychic to predict that.
"Oh my God! Danielle those pumps are a killer on you. You so have to buy them." Nessie pointed out as Dan cat walked in front of a mirror. Once we arrived at the airport the first thing we did was hire one suite. We settled our luggage there and instantly went to the mall where the PlayStation convention was being held. The guys disappeared off to the side where the convention was set up and we girls hit the stores. As much as I loved high heels and army boots and converse, once I reached the thirty mark I had to control the number of shoes I owned as I was running out of space.
"They are, aren't they?" Dan said as she twirled around showing us the red pumps. They did look really good.
"They look awesome Dan." I said. She smiled and agreed to buy them and took them off. Bonnie came rushing towards us wearing magenta coloured high heels. And once again the same routine took place until Bonnie decided to buy the shoes.
"Wow, Sam, you look like you're having loads of fun." Danielle said sarcastically as she paid the cashier and we all exited the store.
"You know this is not my scene. I have a durability of two hours in shopping malls then I get bored."
"So where exactly is your scene Sam?" Nessie asked with a look that suggested double meanings.
"Let me guess. In bed with someone whose name rhymes with 'Flec'?" Bonnie said with a grin stretching across her face.
"Do you mind? Actually we um… look this is really not really interesting talking about this. Let's just change the subject."
"Aw, Sammy, come on. We're best friends; you shouldn't embarrassed to talk to us about it." Danielle said. I smiled at her, but I guess it was a little preoccupied smile.
"The truth is that there isn't much to talk about. I've been having problems…"
"Problems. That doesn't sound good. But you and Alec look so lovely dovely together. It's like there's sparks between you. Then what's the problem? Both of you don't seem like you have problems with action in b-"
"STOP" I said burying my face in my hands.
"Come on guys! We're embarrassing her. But I'm worried with what you told us Sam. It sounded like you're having second thoughts on Alec." Nessie said.
"No! I would never." I said, horrified with even considering the prospect. "I love Alec. I'm just having second thoughts about me."
"What do you mean?" Bonnie asked in confusion.
"I... I don't really want to talk about it. I'm just going through a rough patch." I said.
"I know that look on you, Sam. You're thinking about...
him." Danielle said. No name needed to be said. We all hated that man for the hell he made us go through. But I guess if you had to pick the one who suffered the most under his command, that would be. I had trouble saying what happened to me. I still never came to terms with it. And I guess that's what Alec wanted to help me do, but it's easier said than done. I thought killing him the cruelest way possible would give me closure, but it didn't.
"Does he affect your relationship with Alec?" Bonnie asked me. All humour drained from their faces. Especially Bonnie and Danielle who had seen everything and were even punished for trying to help me after I blacked out.
"Guys, this is our special girl's time. I don't want to ruin it." I said.
"Sam, do you seriously think that girls time is as important as this. What Gaius did to you was no joke, and well, I'm not going to lie to you but we three did talk about Gaius after what happened. And we all admired you for your strength. Not many would be able to got through that and continue on living as well as you do, as if nothing happened." Danielle confessed.
"I... it's just that when he did it... he used Logan to make me feel turned on, but you know that, right?" they nodded. "Well, Alec was my first everything, my first boyfriend, kiss and he was the one I gave it up to." they awed at this. I considered it very sweet and lucky too that I found the person I wanted to spend eternity with in Alec.
"Well, you know how Logan's power works. And so for me to feel that way he brought up memories of the first time Alec and I did it. He wasn't gentle like Alec was. And well every time I'm not concentrated and Alec touches me, even when he just caresses me and I'm not that concentrated I get shocked. My mind would think that it was Gaius using the same trick on me until logic kicks in and reminds me that he is finally dead." the others were speechless by the time I was finished. "So that is why nothing new is happening. Alec doesn't want us to do it unless I'm in perfect mental state. He cares a lot for me. The only problem is that I don't know how to control it. And it doesn't feel fair over him to make him wait so long. You know, he was even blaming himself for the one time we did it after he came here to help us get rid of Gaius." I said.
"Aw, Alec must be the sweetest guy I ever heard of." Nessie said in awe and the others agreed.
"So I want to do something special for him. I want to be rid of Gaius and his memory by the time we go to Paris. I want it to be a special night." I said.
"Yeah. Alex and I were talking about it. I don't know for sure but I think it might be our first time." Dan said sounding unusually shy.
"Aww! You're going to mate! That's so sweet." I congratulated her. I knew they'd end up together. They were both great and both had a similar sense of humour. In my opinion they were really suited to each other.
"Yeah, but it's only been like two and a half months. Do you think we're going too fast? Come on, Sam, you're the only one of us who's involved with a vampire mate."
I smiled at her. "I don't think there's such thing as too fast. Especially with vampires. Something that I notice a lot about us is that our strongest emotions are amplified hundred of times so it's hard not to give in."
"And you're speaking from personal experience, right Sam?" Danielle asked me, her cheeky grin returning.
"Actually I am." I responded with a wink. "So, Bonnie how about you and Logan?" I asked, the mood suddenly felt much lighter. My friends didn't have half the problems I had to deal with everyday.
"I guess it's going great. But since Logan has a child we decided to definitely go slow. But who knows." she said.
"You two are seriously open books." Nessie said to Danielle and Bonnie. "It's so easy to ready you. I know for a fact that you Danielle are still a virgin."
"What! What makes you say that?" Danielle asked, her voice rising a few octaves which was a dead give away. "Aw, our little Danielle's grow up!" I said. "Stop it! For your information I've been around that block." she defended.
"Aw look she's also lying. You don't need to be embarrassed. It's actually sweet that it's your first time." Bonnie told her.
"And this last sentence confirms the fact that Bonnie is not a virgin." Nessie concluded.
"True that. I had a steady boyfriend for two years, we did it and two months later I found him making out with some slut. I was wrecked but eventually I got over it." Bonnie said.
"I hate guys like that." Danielle stated.
"So Ness, everybody revealed today. It feels like Women's magazine or something. What would you like to confess?"
"Nothing much. Obviously Jake was my first one but he wasn't my first kiss or boyfriend. The day after we did it my dad literally broke Jake's arm." she said and we ended in a fit of laughter.
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Alec'sPOV
This convention was one of the best things I had ever attended too. We bought no less then thirty new games for our PS3 and some cool ones for our x-box. We saw spoilers from the next Call of Duty game too and we were all hooked on it. Some guy was trying out a game that seemed interesting and we stopped, watching how he was playing and debating whether we should buy the game or not.
"Wow! His head exploded! You can actually see the brains!" Sam commented from next to me. It took us all a moment to register the fact that Sam was here.
"Woah, woah where do you think you're going! This is guys time. No girl must interfere with our guys' time. Alec she's your problem. You have two minutes to send her away." Alex said.
"He is right Sam, this is guys time, plus I though that you think vide games are a waste of time." I said. Some people who were within hearing proximity gasped, and that included the Alex, Logan, Jake and Daren.
"Oh, come on guys! We've been shopping for hours and I was bored out of my mind. So I left the girls trying on clothes and went to find you guys. You can't send me away."
"Can so!" Jake muttered.
"Come on, I'll be cool. I promise."
"I don't trust her. She could be a spy!" Logan said randomly.
"Sure..."
"It's not that we don't want you with us." I started, but the other guys, chorused, 'we don't.' "It's just that have you taken a look at yourself in the mirror today?"
"What's wrong with how I look?" I looked at her wearing a plain royal blue shirt and dark jeans pencil skirt and navy blue jean pumps. She looked so sexy like that. She could pull of any look.
"How many girls with skirts do you see in this room?" she looked around her she was practically the only one wearing a skirt. The other girls were wearing much more baggy clothes.
"And how many nerds do you see staring at your legs and trying to undress you with their eyes?" Daren suddenly cut through. She gave a good look around her and it was true. Guys of all ages were giving her looks and I returned them all with murderous once. No body had the right to stare at Sam's legs but me! "Thanks, that doesn't make me feel self-conscious at all, Daren."
"Plus, you'd just be a distraction for Alec. He'd want to hold your hand and do stuff with you...we're guys we have to focus on one thing at a time! So if he's too busy with his head in the gutter he won't pay attention! See what you did Sam! You disrupted the balance of guy's time." Jake explained.
"How about I promise you to act like the best guy I can be? No holding hands and stuff. Just be one of the guys. It's easy!"
"You think you can do it! Be one of us for two hours?" Logan asked me.
She sniffed the air. "What's that? Smells like a bet to me."
"Oh you're on!" Alex said.
"W-w-wait! You want me to pretend that my mate is a man! Do you know how wrong that is?" I insisted, but no one paid attention to me. This was messed up. I couldn't pretend that the girl I loved whom I've even seen undressed was a man. It was impossible, even due to how good she looked.
"You're gonna lose so badly!" she said, sounding very much competitive.
"Sam! Come on this is stupid!" I said trying to talk some sense into her and the guys.
"Dude! Stop being such a joy kill and roll with it." She said to me. I had to blink twice to process what she said to me."
"Who ever thought we'd hear these words coming out of Sam's moth." Daren said through laughs. Guess I had no other option but to 'roll' with it. We continued going through expeditions and various players. Sam acted like a perfect tomboy. And I was completely befuddled with her. Though she really was fun even like that.
Finally we arrived at a stand where here where many people shouting. "What's going on?" Alex asked a random shouter.
"That troll won't let any others try the game." the boy said. "But that's not fair!" Sam said as she approached the stand. The boy was taken aback by her and I saw him having difficulty talking.
"I-I kn-now." the finally blurted out. Sam looked annoyed as this was the seventh time something like that happened. At a Wonder Woman demo stand some boy asked her for his autograph as he thought that she was the model on which the Wonder Woman character was created. She looked at him with pity and informed him that she was short and pale so there was no way the Wonder Woman character was her. He still asked her for her autograph and Sam told him to go get checked.
"Typical." I scoffed since I could not go within one metre distance from her or else she's loose the bet.
"I bet we can push him out of that stand." Daren said as we huddled up in a circle. "No that would be too violent. We can't attract attention more than Sam already has." Logan stated.
"Hey!" Sam defended herself.
"It's true! You've been hit on by no less then sixteen guys in two hours." Daren said counting on his fingers.
"Wait! That just might work!" Jake suddenly grinned at us.
"What?" Sam and asked at the same time. The others seemed to realize it without the need of words.
"You two really are dense aren't you?" Alex asked. "Well, excuse me for not reading minds." I replied.
"Sam, the bet is off, we have a new one for you. You're a girl, right." Sam looked taken aback. The least thing I expected her to say was just the thing she said.
"Just ask Alec." and then she winked at me. Who was this vampire and what did they do with the real Sam?
"Fine. Go over there and work your magic." Jake said. What the-? I couldn't follow.
"What magic?" Sam and I both said simultaneously.
"Do we have to spell it out for you? Go over there and flirt with him, lead him on. Then when he gets out the seat we snatch it from him." Daren explained to her.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa wait! I'm not comfortable with my mate flirting with other guys for any reason."
"Come on, Alec take one for the team." Alex muttered as the three of them ushered my poor mate who looked helplessly at me.
"Um-um Hey there, handsome." I had to tighten my firsts.
"Fuck off!" he said to her. I bit the insides of my mouth and crossed my fisted arms.
"Um-oh, yeah, that's too bad! I was going to ask you to come on a date with me!" Sam said. I wanted to incinerate Daren and the others by now.
"What?" He looked up to her and his car on the screen crashed,
"Um… sure." he said after a while. He got up and instantly Daren took his place. He kept looking at Sam until she got annoyed with him. "Over here." she said, snapping her fingers next to her face to get him to lift his stare from her chest. He got daring and actually gripped her arm. "I've got a boyfriend." she said and that was my cue to enter the scene. I wrapped my arm around her and he instantly dropped his.
"Guess who's fucking off now?" I said to him. We walked away from him. We stared at Daren playing the game for five minutes.
"Alec, is something wrong?"
"No." I muttered swiftly.
"Are you-? You're jealous!" she said as if she was Columbus discovering America. I turned to look at her. "Well excuse me if I don't like my mate seducing other man. I thought it was something you only did to me."
"Aw! Wittle Awec is jeawous. You know, if you wanted me to do it all you had to do is ask!" she said using a baby voice.
"I-" I was cut off by her lips slowly pressing against mine. "Am I forgiven? Do you want us to go somewhere where I don't feel as if I'm only wearing underwear?" She asked me, cool breath tickling my ear. I grinned.
"You are forgiven, alright. Let's go!"
"Wait! Why don't we make this our second official date?" She said excitedly. I smiled at her. She was so cute when she smiled like that.
"Very well. Sam, do you want to go on a date with me? For the second time?"
She nodded enthusiastically. "I love you, Alec!" she said as she huddled deeper into my shoulder.
"Me too, baby. Me too."
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