Chapter 31: Two Weeks Later
~Sam's POV~
It's been two weeks since I came back from the hospital and everything has been going great. My health is improving tremendously and I'm enjoying being around the business. Nothing too big has been happening and I'm grateful for it. Just basically keeping the storyline and the fans love it. Mark had told me about the changes and what's been going on as far as with the situation with Amy and I totally understood where Vince was coming from. Of course I agreed to it. I admit that my attitude towards Amy has changed. I mean I'm starting to see her as a person and I am really trying hard to see where she's coming from and how she feels. Just the other day I went up to Vince and told him that I wanted to do something after my match with Amy at the PPV event. I did my best that I could do to explain what I wanted to do, but it had become so personal that I couldn't tell him everything. He agreed to allow me to do that because he noticed a change in me. an attitude change toward Amy. I had talked to Jeff and asked him to help me with something. The only people that know that I am doing this are Jeff, Matt and Mark. They totally supported on my decision of what I wanted to. They said that they noticed that Amy has changed her attitude and made a life changing decision but they don't know what it was. I was halfway finished with the poem and I wanted to finish the poem by tonight. It's Wednesday night and I'm at home. trying to finish the poem. I had finished doing my homework for the day and I was a little bored and thought that maybe I could focus on this and finish it by tonight. "Babydoll, dinner's ready."
"Ok, I'll be there in a second," I shouted back as I closed my poetry book. "I'll finish this after dinner. I got to." I whispered as I opened the door and walked out. "Yum, dinner smells good tonight."
"It's your favorite meal," Paul said as he sat down the last dish on the table before sitting.
"Ohhh baked chicken salad and baked potatoes. It looks good," I said as I looked at the food on the table.
"Dig in, babydoll," Paul said as he put a baked potato on my plate. We chatted during dinner about everything. That's one thing that I love doing with Paul. just talking with him. I could spend the rest of my life talking with him about everything and anything. About 45 minutes later, we had finished dinner and we started cleaning up. I always helped Paul clean up after dinner. We continued to chat while we were washing the dishes, "Babydoll, what were you doing in your room before dinner?"
"I was working on a poem for someone," I replied as I put the dish on the dish rack.
"Someone I know?"
"Yeah, it's for someone that I am closely working with right now. I want to tell you, honest, I do." I trailed off.
"But."
"But it's personal. It's taking a lot out of me right now. I'm halfway finished with the poem and I feel like I don't know what else to write," I said as I dried my hands with the dishrag and tried not to cry.
"Babydoll, come here," Paul said as he stretched out his arms. I automatically walked into his arms. I always felt safe in his arms. No matter what I was going through, I always felt at peace whenever he held me. He carefully lifted me up and carried me to the living room. He sat down in on my favorite love seat that was closest to the tall glass sliding doors. "Ssshhh, it's going to be okay. Let it all out." Paul said soothingly. I just sat there crying my eyes out. I couldn't stop myself from crying. I don't know how Paul knew about this, but he allowed me to cry out my anger, my frustrations, just everything that I was holding in about the storyline. He knew that I loved working with Jeff, Matt and Mark. He also knew that I had problems with Amy. He just held me and let me cry.
~Paul's POV~
I held onto her and allowed her to cry. I knew that she had to let go of her frustrations somehow. The past two weeks, she had changed towards Amy. For some reason, there was tension in the room every time both of them were there at the same time. When she told me that she was writing a poem, I knew immediately that she was writing that poem about Amy but it wasn't the best time to talk to Samantha about it. After some time, I looked down at her and found her sleeping, but at the same time, still sniffling. I decided to wait a little while longer before going to her bedroom. I stroked her back and sang softly to her. I sang 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing' to her. She had asked me a while ago to sing that to her every time she was struggling and I agreed to it. After I sang the song, I carefully got up from the loveseat and walked to her bedroom. When I got into her bedroom, it was slightly messy, but only near her desk. I gently laid her down on her bed without waking her up. I was startled to hear her voice, "Daddy?"
"What is it, babydoll?"
"I want to sleep with you," she said as tears began to well up her in eyes.
"Ok, just change your clothes and come into my room. I'm going to the kitchen and finish washing the dishes, ok?" I said softly as I brushed her hair out of her face.
"Ok," she whispered and got up to change her clothes. I got up and went to the kitchen to finish the dishes. I heard shuffling upstairs as I put the last dish in the dish rack. I dried my hands and turned the light off and went upstairs. My heart immediately melted as I saw Samantha in my bed sleeping with her teddy bear that Jeff had given her a week and a half earlier. I laughed as soon as she told me that she named the bear Nero. It was Jeff's middle name and thought it was cute. I changed my clothes, turned the television on and got into bed. As soon as I lay down comfortably, Samantha had cuddled up to me immediately. how she sleeps so fast is beyond me. After watching television for a couple of hours and holding Samantha, I decided to read a couple of chapters in my book. I was not yet tired ant it was only 10 p.m. I continued to read until midnight before hitting the sack.
~Sam's POV~
I woke up the next morning feeling an arm draped over me. I sighed as I remembered what had happened the night before and how I felt. I finally had a better idea as of what to write in my poem. I slowly got out of bed and went to my bedroom and got my poetry book out and started writing. After I finished writing the poem, I had decided to take a shower and start on breakfast, since I woke up at 6 and couldn't go back to sleep. I turned on the water and let it run for a while as I got out of my clothes and stepped into the shower. I allowed the hot water run down my body. After an hour, I stepped out and wrapped a towel around my body. I started putting on lotion, and then put my hair in a towel as I went to my closet. I put on some faded blue jeans and light blue halter-top and then went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth. I brought my Walkman and Shania Twain CD with me and sang along with it as I started making breakfast. I screamed as soon as I felt someone's hand on my shoulder. "Daddy!" I said as I took off the headphones.
"I'm sorry, babydoll, but you were being a little loud when you were singing," Paul said as he ran his hand through his hair.
"Sorry," I said softly.
"Don't worry about it. Just what are you doing up so early?" Paul asked as he started helping me make breakfast.
"I woke up at 6 and I couldn't go back to sleep. I think it's because I slept early last night," I said as I flipped the French toast on the pan.
"I see. so what have you been doing since then?"
"Well, I finished the poem and took a nice long shower. I just started making breakfast as you can see."
"You finished the poem?"
"Yeah, I did and I was thinking of sharing it on TV, but I haven't decided on it yet."
"You don't have to if you don't want to, you know?"
"I know, but I'm still thinking about it. I told Vince that I wanted to share one of my poetry on TV but I'm not sure which one as of yet. He told me to take my time and let him know when I want to do it," I said as I put the French toast on a plate.
"That's good. as long as you don't stress yourself," Paul said as he grabbed our plates and headed for the table.
"I'm not. I have all the time that I need. I'm not sure yet, but I'm thinking of doing something for 'King of the Ring.'"
"Really? Isn't that the same night that you're going against Amy for the unification between the Hardyz and Mark?"
"Yeah, it is. like I said, I don't know yet."
"Take your time, ok?" Paul said as he looked at me with concern.
"I will, daddy," I said softly. After we finished eating breakfast, I got my schoolwork ready and started doing my homework before Kellie came at 10 and it was only 9:30. I was startled when I heard the doorbell ring. I got up and opened the door. I found Kellie standing there with Christine. Christine and I screamed and hugged each other tightly. I dragged her in the house leaving Kellie at the door. When I realized that I left Kellie at the door, I ran towards her and opened the door. "Ooopppss, sorry," I said shyly.
"It's ok," she said as she came in the house.
"What's going on?" Paul asked as he came downstairs in jeans.
"Nothing, daddy," I said, smiling.
"If it's nothing, then why are you smiling?"
"It's probably me." Christine trailed off.
Paul turned around and saw Christine, "Hello, Christine."
"Hi, Hunter."
"Call me Paul. I'm not at work right now."
"Call him Hunter. He's always at work." I trailed off as I smirked. Paul gave me an evil eye and smacked my butt. "Owie!"
"You deserve that!" Kellie said as she laughed.
"I did not!" I retorted back, but I couldn't help but laugh.
"Don't start, babydoll."
"Daddy, did you know that Christine was going to be here?"
"Yeah, I did. It was a surprise for you."
"Thank you, daddy!!" I squealed as I jumped into his arms and hugged him.
"All right, enough. it's time your studies!!!" Kellie said firmly.
"Aww!" Christine and I whined.
"Don't you dare start on me, girls!!!" Kellie said as she saw us go for the puppy dog mode and stood against it.
"All right!!" I said as I gave up and sat down. Christine did the same thing and we got started on our studies.
Two and a half hours later, Kellie said, "All right, lunch break."
"Finally!!!" Christine and I said in unison as our head collapsed onto our books. Kellie laughed at our antics. "What are we going to do for lunch today, Kellie?" I asked.
"Well, I'm not sure yet. I didn't discuss this with Paul. Just stay there and I'll talk with Paul. be back in a bit," Kellie said.
"We're too tired to move," Christine said as we went into a giggle fest.
A few minutes later, we heard Kellie and Paul talking, "All right, girls, Paul is taking us out to lunch. So gather your things and we'll head out." Christine and I immediately got up and headed for the door, chatting. "Girls, don't you need your things?"
"What for?"
"What do you mean, 'What for?'"
"We're not driving. so we don't need keys. Paul's paying for lunch. so we don't need money. What do we have to bring?" I asked.
Kellie looked at me incredulously and shook her head. Finally she said, "Smart ass!"
"You love me for it!" I said as we laughed and went outside to the car. We came back an hour and a half later to finish out studies. We finished about 3 hours later and were already cleaned up by the time I needed to train with Paul. Christine stayed with me and trained with Paul and me. We trained until 7 and got cleaned up. An hour later, we all decided to order in Chinese and watch TV. Christine and I chatted the whole time during dinner. She told me what has been happening at school and I told her about what's been going on with everyone at work. It was so cool to talk with her.
"All right, it's time to drop Christine off at Kellie's," Paul said after the movie finished.
"Can't she sleep over?" I asked from the ground.
"No, she can't. We have an early flight tomorrow and Christine leaves after her tutoring session with Kellie tomorrow."
"Aww! All right, but can I go with you when you drop her off?" I asked, sadly.
"Yeah, you can," Paul said.
"Yes!" I said, cheerfully. I was trying not to sound sad or anything. It's just that I haven't seen Christine in a long time and wanted to spend time with her. We both got up from the floor and went to get her books and everything. We got into the car in 5 minutes and left towards Kellie's apartment, which was 20 minutes away. Christine and I continued to chat in the car until we arrived to Kellie's place.
"We're here, girls," Paul said as he opened his door. We got out of his car and walked towards Kellie's door. Paul knocked on the door and waited for Kellie to open the door.
Kellie had opened the door a moment later. "Hi, Paul, girls."
"Hi, Kellie. Sorry that we came so late to drop Christine off," I said.
"Don't worry about it. I was up correcting the homework that you gave me. You finish your homework a little too fast. Maybe I should give you more," Kellie said.
"No!" she said as she covered her mouth.
Kellie smiled and said, "I wasn't going to, anyway. You're already ahead. We are going to talk more next week about your homework schedule, ok?"
"Am I behind or something?"
"No, you're not behind. You're way ahead of your class. We just need to discuss your graduation preparation and everything."
"Ok, we'll talk more next week," she said as Kellie nodded. "Christine, it was good to see you, even if it was for a little while. I wish we could talk more."
"Me, too," Christine said as they hugged.
"I'll call you tomorrow, ok?"
"Ok, call me tomorrow night after your match," Christine said and we all said our goodbyes and left. Samantha and I got home a little before midnight. We both got dressed for bed and slept before going back to work the next day.
~Sam's POV~
It's been two weeks since I came back from the hospital and everything has been going great. My health is improving tremendously and I'm enjoying being around the business. Nothing too big has been happening and I'm grateful for it. Just basically keeping the storyline and the fans love it. Mark had told me about the changes and what's been going on as far as with the situation with Amy and I totally understood where Vince was coming from. Of course I agreed to it. I admit that my attitude towards Amy has changed. I mean I'm starting to see her as a person and I am really trying hard to see where she's coming from and how she feels. Just the other day I went up to Vince and told him that I wanted to do something after my match with Amy at the PPV event. I did my best that I could do to explain what I wanted to do, but it had become so personal that I couldn't tell him everything. He agreed to allow me to do that because he noticed a change in me. an attitude change toward Amy. I had talked to Jeff and asked him to help me with something. The only people that know that I am doing this are Jeff, Matt and Mark. They totally supported on my decision of what I wanted to. They said that they noticed that Amy has changed her attitude and made a life changing decision but they don't know what it was. I was halfway finished with the poem and I wanted to finish the poem by tonight. It's Wednesday night and I'm at home. trying to finish the poem. I had finished doing my homework for the day and I was a little bored and thought that maybe I could focus on this and finish it by tonight. "Babydoll, dinner's ready."
"Ok, I'll be there in a second," I shouted back as I closed my poetry book. "I'll finish this after dinner. I got to." I whispered as I opened the door and walked out. "Yum, dinner smells good tonight."
"It's your favorite meal," Paul said as he sat down the last dish on the table before sitting.
"Ohhh baked chicken salad and baked potatoes. It looks good," I said as I looked at the food on the table.
"Dig in, babydoll," Paul said as he put a baked potato on my plate. We chatted during dinner about everything. That's one thing that I love doing with Paul. just talking with him. I could spend the rest of my life talking with him about everything and anything. About 45 minutes later, we had finished dinner and we started cleaning up. I always helped Paul clean up after dinner. We continued to chat while we were washing the dishes, "Babydoll, what were you doing in your room before dinner?"
"I was working on a poem for someone," I replied as I put the dish on the dish rack.
"Someone I know?"
"Yeah, it's for someone that I am closely working with right now. I want to tell you, honest, I do." I trailed off.
"But."
"But it's personal. It's taking a lot out of me right now. I'm halfway finished with the poem and I feel like I don't know what else to write," I said as I dried my hands with the dishrag and tried not to cry.
"Babydoll, come here," Paul said as he stretched out his arms. I automatically walked into his arms. I always felt safe in his arms. No matter what I was going through, I always felt at peace whenever he held me. He carefully lifted me up and carried me to the living room. He sat down in on my favorite love seat that was closest to the tall glass sliding doors. "Ssshhh, it's going to be okay. Let it all out." Paul said soothingly. I just sat there crying my eyes out. I couldn't stop myself from crying. I don't know how Paul knew about this, but he allowed me to cry out my anger, my frustrations, just everything that I was holding in about the storyline. He knew that I loved working with Jeff, Matt and Mark. He also knew that I had problems with Amy. He just held me and let me cry.
~Paul's POV~
I held onto her and allowed her to cry. I knew that she had to let go of her frustrations somehow. The past two weeks, she had changed towards Amy. For some reason, there was tension in the room every time both of them were there at the same time. When she told me that she was writing a poem, I knew immediately that she was writing that poem about Amy but it wasn't the best time to talk to Samantha about it. After some time, I looked down at her and found her sleeping, but at the same time, still sniffling. I decided to wait a little while longer before going to her bedroom. I stroked her back and sang softly to her. I sang 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing' to her. She had asked me a while ago to sing that to her every time she was struggling and I agreed to it. After I sang the song, I carefully got up from the loveseat and walked to her bedroom. When I got into her bedroom, it was slightly messy, but only near her desk. I gently laid her down on her bed without waking her up. I was startled to hear her voice, "Daddy?"
"What is it, babydoll?"
"I want to sleep with you," she said as tears began to well up her in eyes.
"Ok, just change your clothes and come into my room. I'm going to the kitchen and finish washing the dishes, ok?" I said softly as I brushed her hair out of her face.
"Ok," she whispered and got up to change her clothes. I got up and went to the kitchen to finish the dishes. I heard shuffling upstairs as I put the last dish in the dish rack. I dried my hands and turned the light off and went upstairs. My heart immediately melted as I saw Samantha in my bed sleeping with her teddy bear that Jeff had given her a week and a half earlier. I laughed as soon as she told me that she named the bear Nero. It was Jeff's middle name and thought it was cute. I changed my clothes, turned the television on and got into bed. As soon as I lay down comfortably, Samantha had cuddled up to me immediately. how she sleeps so fast is beyond me. After watching television for a couple of hours and holding Samantha, I decided to read a couple of chapters in my book. I was not yet tired ant it was only 10 p.m. I continued to read until midnight before hitting the sack.
~Sam's POV~
I woke up the next morning feeling an arm draped over me. I sighed as I remembered what had happened the night before and how I felt. I finally had a better idea as of what to write in my poem. I slowly got out of bed and went to my bedroom and got my poetry book out and started writing. After I finished writing the poem, I had decided to take a shower and start on breakfast, since I woke up at 6 and couldn't go back to sleep. I turned on the water and let it run for a while as I got out of my clothes and stepped into the shower. I allowed the hot water run down my body. After an hour, I stepped out and wrapped a towel around my body. I started putting on lotion, and then put my hair in a towel as I went to my closet. I put on some faded blue jeans and light blue halter-top and then went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth. I brought my Walkman and Shania Twain CD with me and sang along with it as I started making breakfast. I screamed as soon as I felt someone's hand on my shoulder. "Daddy!" I said as I took off the headphones.
"I'm sorry, babydoll, but you were being a little loud when you were singing," Paul said as he ran his hand through his hair.
"Sorry," I said softly.
"Don't worry about it. Just what are you doing up so early?" Paul asked as he started helping me make breakfast.
"I woke up at 6 and I couldn't go back to sleep. I think it's because I slept early last night," I said as I flipped the French toast on the pan.
"I see. so what have you been doing since then?"
"Well, I finished the poem and took a nice long shower. I just started making breakfast as you can see."
"You finished the poem?"
"Yeah, I did and I was thinking of sharing it on TV, but I haven't decided on it yet."
"You don't have to if you don't want to, you know?"
"I know, but I'm still thinking about it. I told Vince that I wanted to share one of my poetry on TV but I'm not sure which one as of yet. He told me to take my time and let him know when I want to do it," I said as I put the French toast on a plate.
"That's good. as long as you don't stress yourself," Paul said as he grabbed our plates and headed for the table.
"I'm not. I have all the time that I need. I'm not sure yet, but I'm thinking of doing something for 'King of the Ring.'"
"Really? Isn't that the same night that you're going against Amy for the unification between the Hardyz and Mark?"
"Yeah, it is. like I said, I don't know yet."
"Take your time, ok?" Paul said as he looked at me with concern.
"I will, daddy," I said softly. After we finished eating breakfast, I got my schoolwork ready and started doing my homework before Kellie came at 10 and it was only 9:30. I was startled when I heard the doorbell ring. I got up and opened the door. I found Kellie standing there with Christine. Christine and I screamed and hugged each other tightly. I dragged her in the house leaving Kellie at the door. When I realized that I left Kellie at the door, I ran towards her and opened the door. "Ooopppss, sorry," I said shyly.
"It's ok," she said as she came in the house.
"What's going on?" Paul asked as he came downstairs in jeans.
"Nothing, daddy," I said, smiling.
"If it's nothing, then why are you smiling?"
"It's probably me." Christine trailed off.
Paul turned around and saw Christine, "Hello, Christine."
"Hi, Hunter."
"Call me Paul. I'm not at work right now."
"Call him Hunter. He's always at work." I trailed off as I smirked. Paul gave me an evil eye and smacked my butt. "Owie!"
"You deserve that!" Kellie said as she laughed.
"I did not!" I retorted back, but I couldn't help but laugh.
"Don't start, babydoll."
"Daddy, did you know that Christine was going to be here?"
"Yeah, I did. It was a surprise for you."
"Thank you, daddy!!" I squealed as I jumped into his arms and hugged him.
"All right, enough. it's time your studies!!!" Kellie said firmly.
"Aww!" Christine and I whined.
"Don't you dare start on me, girls!!!" Kellie said as she saw us go for the puppy dog mode and stood against it.
"All right!!" I said as I gave up and sat down. Christine did the same thing and we got started on our studies.
Two and a half hours later, Kellie said, "All right, lunch break."
"Finally!!!" Christine and I said in unison as our head collapsed onto our books. Kellie laughed at our antics. "What are we going to do for lunch today, Kellie?" I asked.
"Well, I'm not sure yet. I didn't discuss this with Paul. Just stay there and I'll talk with Paul. be back in a bit," Kellie said.
"We're too tired to move," Christine said as we went into a giggle fest.
A few minutes later, we heard Kellie and Paul talking, "All right, girls, Paul is taking us out to lunch. So gather your things and we'll head out." Christine and I immediately got up and headed for the door, chatting. "Girls, don't you need your things?"
"What for?"
"What do you mean, 'What for?'"
"We're not driving. so we don't need keys. Paul's paying for lunch. so we don't need money. What do we have to bring?" I asked.
Kellie looked at me incredulously and shook her head. Finally she said, "Smart ass!"
"You love me for it!" I said as we laughed and went outside to the car. We came back an hour and a half later to finish out studies. We finished about 3 hours later and were already cleaned up by the time I needed to train with Paul. Christine stayed with me and trained with Paul and me. We trained until 7 and got cleaned up. An hour later, we all decided to order in Chinese and watch TV. Christine and I chatted the whole time during dinner. She told me what has been happening at school and I told her about what's been going on with everyone at work. It was so cool to talk with her.
"All right, it's time to drop Christine off at Kellie's," Paul said after the movie finished.
"Can't she sleep over?" I asked from the ground.
"No, she can't. We have an early flight tomorrow and Christine leaves after her tutoring session with Kellie tomorrow."
"Aww! All right, but can I go with you when you drop her off?" I asked, sadly.
"Yeah, you can," Paul said.
"Yes!" I said, cheerfully. I was trying not to sound sad or anything. It's just that I haven't seen Christine in a long time and wanted to spend time with her. We both got up from the floor and went to get her books and everything. We got into the car in 5 minutes and left towards Kellie's apartment, which was 20 minutes away. Christine and I continued to chat in the car until we arrived to Kellie's place.
"We're here, girls," Paul said as he opened his door. We got out of his car and walked towards Kellie's door. Paul knocked on the door and waited for Kellie to open the door.
Kellie had opened the door a moment later. "Hi, Paul, girls."
"Hi, Kellie. Sorry that we came so late to drop Christine off," I said.
"Don't worry about it. I was up correcting the homework that you gave me. You finish your homework a little too fast. Maybe I should give you more," Kellie said.
"No!" she said as she covered her mouth.
Kellie smiled and said, "I wasn't going to, anyway. You're already ahead. We are going to talk more next week about your homework schedule, ok?"
"Am I behind or something?"
"No, you're not behind. You're way ahead of your class. We just need to discuss your graduation preparation and everything."
"Ok, we'll talk more next week," she said as Kellie nodded. "Christine, it was good to see you, even if it was for a little while. I wish we could talk more."
"Me, too," Christine said as they hugged.
"I'll call you tomorrow, ok?"
"Ok, call me tomorrow night after your match," Christine said and we all said our goodbyes and left. Samantha and I got home a little before midnight. We both got dressed for bed and slept before going back to work the next day.
