Chapter Seven


Lucas and Sami realized just how dysfunctional the Lockhart family was when Mimi came into their bedroom and announced she was going to sleep on the floor. Patrick had been telling Mimi stories, which had scared her immensely. So, Mimi was sleeping on the floor in the room that Lucas and Sami were staying in. But she wasn't sleeping. Mimi was now afraid of the dark. Patrick's stories about the people-eating, blood-sucking monsters did it every time. Not to mention the fact that Lucas was snoring. How did Sami deal with that? Lucas' snoring was really starting to annoy her, it also reminded her of the noises she had a feeling the people-eating, blood-sucking monsters would make.

Deciding that she couldn't take it anymore, she covered Lucas' face with his blanket. It was a matter of minutes before he shoved the blanket off, "Not now, Sami, I'm too tired." he mumbled groggily

"Sick!" Mimi was glad that Lucas and Sami were at a high point in their relationship but she didn't want to think about it too much. That was wrong. She covered Lucas' face with a blanket again and this time, he woke up. Sitting up, he turned and tried to plant his feet on the ground. Mimi squealed indignantly and pushed his feet away.

"No stepping on my face!" Mimi yelped. Lucas recoiled and looked down at Mimi.

"You're still here?"

Mimi sniffed, "Yes. It's not my fault my brother is a sadistic ass. I hope the people-eating, blood-sucking monsters get him." Lucas tried to get out of the bed, "What are you doing? Did I give you permission to take bathroom breaks?"

Lucas was getting annoyed now, "When did I start seeking your permission to do things?"

"Since now." Mimi shot back, "You have to stay here. You have to protect me and Sami. What if the monsters come and get us while you're going to the bathroom? What if the monster eats me and your girlfriend? You'd never be able to get over the guilt!"

Lucas began speaking to Mimi in a tone he would have used on a three year old, "Mimi," he started, in a patient, condescending tone, "There are no monsters. You are not going to die if I go to the bathroom. Sami will protect you."

"My ass, I will." Sami broke in irritably, sitting up in her bed, "I'm not going to do either of you any favours after you so rudely woke me up."

"I don't know how you got to sleep in the first place." Mimi responded, "Lucas' snoring is so annoying. That's why I tried to make him be quiet with the blanket. Then he started saying stuff about you in his sleep and it was wrong."

Lucas suddenly growled, causing Mimi to shrink back and shield herself with a blanket, "Don't do that, it's creepy. You're one of them, aren't you? You're a people eating, blood-sucking monster!"

Lucas had grown very tired of Mimi's childish antics, "Get out! You are not five, you can sleep in your own bed!"

Mimi sighed reluctantly and got to her feet. She walked out of the bedroom, her blanket trailing behind her. As soon as she was out of the room, a hand grabbed her arm, causing her to shriek loudly and throw her blanket into the air.

"Patrick, you jerk!" she screeched. Sami rolled her eyes and turned to Lucas.

"Why couldn't we have gotten the quiet cabin?" she wondered.


Over at the cabin next to Lucas and Sami's, it turned out that Mimi and Patrick were not the only ones battling serious cases of insomnia. The group had rented two cabins and Rex, Mimi, Patrick, Lucas and Sami were supposed be staying in the first cabin, while everyone else stayed in the second cabin. But Rex had gotten into a fight with Mimi earlier that night, so Rex was staying in the same cabin as Belle, Shawn, Phillip, Brady and Nicole. Actually, no one except Belle had insomnia. But the way Belle was trying to cure her insomnia was keeping everyone awake.

"You're toxic, I'm slipping under!" she sang loudly, oblivious to the disgusted groans coming from the bedroom she had been sharing with Shawn. Belle was now in the living room, leaving Shawn, Rex and Phillip in her bedroom, trying to block out the sound of her high-pitched singing.

"You're girlfriend has awful taste in music, man." Phillip commented, "Is there any way to get away from her all-night Britney Spears karioke party?"

Rex grimaced, "How can it be a party when she's the only one in there? Damn, I wish I wasn't fighting with Meems. If I was with her, I'd be sleeping right now."

"Or not." Shawn mumbled, then began singing, "Rex and Mimi sitting in a tree, F-U-C-K-I-N-G."

"It's bad enough we have to listen Belle sing. Please don't decide to join her and stop singing right now." Rex gave Shawn a dirty look. Phillip saw that Shawn's song had annoyed Rex greatly, so he joined in.

"First comes Rex-"

Rex punched Phillip in the arm, "Hey, that's bullshit. I do not ejaculate prematurely!"

Shawn snickered, "Look what we've done to this innocent grade school song."

Phillip listened as Belle began singing 'Oops, I Did It Again', "I can't take it anymore. I'm leaving." he opened the door to Shawn and Belle's room just in time to see Brady and Nicole coming out of their room.

"Where are you going?" Phillip asked.

"We're going to get away from Belle's singing." Nicole whispered, "We're going skinny-dipping."

Phillip was silent for a moment, then spoke again, "I'm coming too." he whispered and he, Brady and Nicole began creeping towards the front door of the cabin.

"I never liked Britney Spears." Shawn heard Nicole say, "My favourite band was always Swollen Members." Shawn saw her smile insinuatingly at Brady.

"Whore." Brady snorted, "Is that even a band?"

"Yes." Nicole sounded offended, "They're a great band too. Mad Child is damn sexy." the three of them left the cabin and Shawn turned back to Rex.

"Well, since Belle is in the mood to sing Britney Spears songs, maybe she'll also be in the mood to give me a lap dance." Shawn said, "See you later."

Rex groaned again and went back into the room he was sharing with Phillip. He flung himself down onto his bed and hoped that Belle would be finished singing soon. Because he didn't know how much more Britney he would be able to take.


Mimi slapped Patrick hard on the back of the head, "You make me sick!" she informed him crossly.

"I know." Patrick gave her a lopsided smile, "And you make me laugh. I can't believe the blood-sucking, people-eating monsters still scare you." he thought back to the first time he had told the story, when Mimi had been eight. They had been telling horror stories during a power failure. Then Patrick had grabbed Mimi's flashlight, turned the flashlight off and bit her arm. He had never heard her scream so loud. She had actually thought the people-eating monsters had gotten her.

"If I wasn't so angry and scared shitless, I would actually be able to think of a comeback for that." Mimi retorted hotly. She turned her back to her brother, "Now, if you excuse me, Lucas has kicked me out of his room so I'm going into the living room."

"Hey, if you're not going to sleep in your bed, can I have it?" Patrick asked, "Because, you know, there's this mosquito in my room and it's pissing me off and I can't sleep. It already bit my mouth and now my mouth itchy."

Mimi smirked, "I hope you get rabies from the mosquito."

"Mosquitos don't carry rabies, do they?" Patrick thought about it for a minute. Mimi began walking away from her brother without answering his question. Patrick took this as a yes, so he went into Mimi's bedroom and burrowed underneath the blankets.

Mimi went into the living room and noticed a video-tape lying next to the television set, "Hey, someone left a movie here." she read the label on the video-tape, "Pi? This sounds boring but that could be a good thing. It could bore me to sleep." the tape was already over halfway through but Mimi was too lazy to rewind it, so she just pressed the play button after inserting the tape into the VCR.

She sat down on the couch and reached for her purse, which had been sitting next to the couch. She found a jolly-rancher and began sucking on it. Mimi loved jolly-ranchers. She frowned when she realized the movie was black and white. She then watched as a psychotic-looking bald man stood over a sink, looking at himself in the mirror. Suddenly, a loud screeching sound caused the man to keel over in pain. Mimi watched, feeling more and more brains cells dying as she watched the man hold his head in his hands. Rex used to get headaches like that, Mimi mused, I wonder if he heard screeching too. Wow, this movie is dumb. It kind of reminds me of The Ring. That's a little scary. The Ring had scared Mimi a lot, she had never looked at little dark-haired girls the same again.

Suddenly, the man picked up a drill, "Oh, come on, don't." Mimi almost choked on her jolly-rancher as he held the drill against his head. Suddenly, the psychotic man began narrating.

"One time, when I was five, my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So, one time, when I was seven, I did." That's wonderful, Mimi thought to herself, Did that comment have any relevance to the movie at all? Suddenly, he pushed the drill into his head, splattering blood onto the mirror. This movie was reminding her more and more of The Ring with each passing minute. The scene cut to the man standing next to a fence and Mimi snorted. Don't even try to tell me he survived pushing a drill through his head. Mimi was disgusted with the movie, so she got off the couch and turned it off. It had only been about five seconds after she had pressed the stop button when her cell phone started ringing. Mimi stared at the phone in horror. No one would be calling her this late at night. She knew the movie had been too much like The Ring.

Screaming, she ran into Lucas and Sami's bedroom and jumped onto the bed, knocking Lucas off the bed and waking both Lucas and Sami up again in the process.


Rex covered his head with his pillow, "Make her stop." he moaned loudly. He listened as she began singing 'I'm A Slave For You', "Kill me noooooooowwwww..." he sang in a melancholy voice.

"Gladly." Shawn replied, walking into the room. Rex sat up, "Yeah, I came back here to see what you were doing. Belle wouldn't do a lap dance or a strip-tease for me. Life isn't fair."

Rex shook his head sadly, "I wish I hadn't gotten into a fight with Mimi. It was so stupid and I wish I was in her cabin instead of this one. Then I could get some sleep."

"Why are you fighting anyway?" Shawn asked.

Rex flushed, "She and Belle were comparing you, Phillip, Patrick and Lucas' chests when we were swimming. I overheard and I felt left out so I said that I had a six-pack. Then Mimi said, 'Yeah, in your fridge back at the loft'. After that, I accused Mimi of flirting with Phillip and then she got mad."

"That's all?" Shawn looked amazed, "That is really dumb. Go talk to her. I'm sure she'll forgive you."

"I think she's awake." Rex remarked, "I saw some lights on over at her cabin and I tried calling her cell but she didn't pick up."

Shawn patted Rex on the back, "Go talk to her, Rex. Anything is better than listening to the Britney wanna-be in there."


"Mimi, I told you to go away! Do you realize it is around two in the morning?" Lucas demanded grumpily. Mimi shuddered, not being able to think of a time the sound of a phone ringing had ever sounded so terrifying.

"I'm going to die." she whispered dramatically, "In seven days! I have seven days to live. Then, the little girl is going to come out of her well and attack me!"

Sami whimpered underneath the blankets, "You're not making any sense and I'm tired."

"I was watching this movie. And it was called Pi and it was so pointlessly scary, it reminded me of that video-tape from The Ring. Then my phone rang after I turned the movie off." Mimi choked back a sob, "It's really true, Pi is the new killer video-tape. I'm going to die in a week, without even getting the chance to make up with my Rexipoo."


Rex climbed through Mimi's bedroom window. Immediately, he saw his girlfriend buried underneath the blankets. He went over to the bed, sat down and placed one hand on top of the bump underneath the covers.

"Hey, Meems. Did you want to kiss and make up now?" he asked in a soft voice. The covers were pushed away, revealing to Rex not the beautiful woman he had been expecting, but her brother instead.

"For the love of God!" Patrick yelled, startling Rex so much that Rex ended up falling off the bed.

"Do you sleep with your sister like this all the time?" Rex inquired after the shock had worn off, "That's my girlfriend you're sharing a bed with, you perv."

"I'm a perv?" Patrick raised his eyebrows, "You're the one who climbed in through the window to 'talk' to my sister. Wait a second! You unvirginized my sister, didn't you?"

Rex laughed nervously, "Unvirginized? Is that even a word?"

"Answer the question." Patrick said through clenched teeth.

"You mean you didn't know? I thought everyone knew that I had." that was obviously the wrong answer. Patrick's jaw dropped and his eyes darkened angrily. He shoved Rex onto the bed and began trying to smother Rex's face with his pillow.

Mimi heard the shouting from inside Lucas and Sami's room. She might have been mad at her brother but that didn't mean she really wanted him to get eaten by the people-eating, blood-sucking monsters. She bravely left Lucas and Sami's room to go see what was going on. She went into the bedroom, to find Patrick straddling someone, whose face was covered by a pillow. But after surveying the scene more carefully, she realized who was under the pillow.

"Rex!" she yelped in surprise, "Look, I know we had a little fight but this is going too far! And what the hell? You never let me be on top!" she stormed out of the bedroom and back into Lucas and Sami's room.

"Now you have to let me stay here." Mimi told them, "I need comfort! I just caught by boyfriend in bed with my brother."

Lucas scowled at Mimi and got out of his bed. Not speaking, he pulled on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Mimi watched in confusion, "What? You don't believe me? Go see for yourself, Lucas. It's true."

"I don't want to see. Do you want to go for a walk, Sami?" Lucas turned his attention to Sami, who was still hiding underneath the blankets. Sami pushed the blankets off and pulled herself out of the bed. Her hair was in a tangled mess on top of her head from diving under the blankets. She shot Mimi a quick dirty look.

"That would be wonderful, anything to get away from her." Sami couldn't believe that this was the second night in a row she would not be able to get a decent night's sleep.

Rex came barging into Lucas and Sami's room with Patrick right behind him, "Mimi it wasn't like that." Rex began, "It was Patrick, he was trying to kill me. He freaked out because I climbed through your window so I could see you. I just wanted to tell you that I was sick of fighting.

"Suuuurreee." Sami said, rolling her eyes. Rex pointed at Sami and began laughing hysterically.

"I think you're got some kind of an animal on your head." Rex told her, "Can I kill it?"

Sami tried furiously to make her hair look somewhat presentable, "Oh, go rot in hell with your girlfriend." Mimi was just standing there, looking at Rex with a love-struck look on her face.

"You climbed through my window at two-thirty in the morning just to apologize to me?" Mimi swooned, "That is so adorable, Rex. Of course, I forgive you. Now, maybe I can go to sleep since you can protect me from the people-eating, blood-sucking monsters."

Lucas and Sami left Rex, Mimi and Patrick in the cabin and stepped outside. Sami noticed the lights on in the front room of Belle, Shawn, Phillip, Brady and Nicole's cabin, "It looks like no one is sleeping tonight." she remarked.

As Lucas and Sami neared the dock of the lake, they heard shrieks of laughter coming from the water, "Brady, no! I'm ticklish, stop it. Don't tickle me there, that's my special spot!"

Phillip sounded very grossed out when he replied, "Ew, don't tickle her anywhere when I'm around."

"You were the one who decided to come with us." Brady shot back.

"Only because I wanted to get away from Belle's singing." Lucas frowned and turned to Sami.

"I guess we should stay away from the lake. I don't want to see Brady touching Nicole in her 'special spots' either." Sami giggled and she and Lucas continued walking away from the lake. Lucas noticed how quiet Sami was.

"Is something wrong?" he asked her, "You're not saying anything."

Sami smiled reassuringly at him and reached out to take his hand, "No, nothing's wrong. I'm just tired. And I was thinking about things."

"Like what?" Lucas questioned her.

"I was thinking about what happened, what I said on the dock." Sami took a deep breath and Lucas felt his stomach tighten with fear. She couldn't actually try and take it all back again. Not after everything they had already been through, "Does it mean that... we're together?"

Lucas sighed with relief, "Is that what you want?" she nodded silently, "Then we are. And I'm glad because it's what I want too."

Sami sighed happily and encircled her arm around his waist, "I still can't believe we wasted so much time fighting and hating each other. I wish we had done things differently because you're one of the only people I feel like I can trust anymore. I don't feel like I need to be afraid of losing you."

"You're right, you don't need to be afraid." Lucas brushed his fingers along the side of her face, "Because now that I know you feel the exact same way I do, I just want the three of us, you, me and Will to have a future. Together."

Sami smiled and stopped walking. She wrapped her arms around Lucas and rested her cheek on his chest. The two of them had walked into a forest and they were surrounded by trees. The lake and cabins were a good distance away. The air held a bitter coldness but neither Lucas or Sami noticed.

"Lucas?" Sami raised her head to meet his eyes, sliding her hands up his chest. Lucas looked at her expectantly, "Since we're probably not going to get much sleep tonight anyway, I have a proposal for what we could do tonight."

Lucas smiled, not even needing her to finish explaining. He already knew what she was thinking, "Yes, I want to, Sami."

Sami smiled back at him for a split second before he claimed her mouth with his. He tangled his fingers in her already tousled blonde hair, pushing his tongue into the cavities of her mouth. Earlier that day, he had told Sami that together, they were perfection. And as he began making love to her under the light of the full moon, he realized that he had been right and that nothing would ever feel as right to him as being with Sami did.