"Hey, do you guys want to come over?" Regina asked Sammy and Craig, standing up with the help of Hayden.
"It's sort of a thing that we always do after classes with Candice and Juan," Hayden said. "Do you want to join our little circle?"
Craig looked at Sammy. Even though, Sammy had the loner look going on but she loved making new friends. "Sure," Sammy said.
"I'm going to tell Joey and Caitlin," Craig said. "I'll be right back." He kissed her on the cheek and then ran over to Joey and Caitlin.
"Craig's really nice," Candice replied, watching Juan and Hayden leave with Craig. The girls hung back and followed at their own pace. "Where'd you pick him up at?"
"We've been friends since birth and his mom said that we would be together and look at us," Sammy replied, grinning.
"Yeah," Regina replied. "Is his mom excited?"
"Sadly, the baby won't meet her grandma on her dad's side," Sammy said.
"Oh," Regina said. "I'm glad you told me before I opened my big mouth and said something around him to make me feel stupid."
"Yeah, she has a bad case of verbal diarrhea," Candice replied.
Regina made a face at her friend and they walked out and joined the boys and headed over to Regina and Hayden's apartment.
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What the guys were doing…
"So," Juan said. "How long have you known Sammy?"
"Since we were babies," Craig replied.
"Wow," Hayden said. "You've been friends that long?"
Craig nodded. "It's really cool, my mom said we'd be together and now we are," he grinned and took the pillows from his new friends as they opened the boot of a car and he handed them the pillow.
"Juan can't drive so I have to chauffeur him around," Hayden joked.
"I can drive," Juan argued.
"Then why does Candice always call us when she needs to go someplace?"
Juan thought for a minute and said, "She's just afraid to get in the car with me."
"I rest my case," Hayden smiled. He looked at Craig. "Do you drive?"
"Yeah," Craig said. He smiled, remembering when he took a car from Joey's lot with Marco, Spinner, and Sean and went for a joyride. "Yeah, I do. But I'm not allowed." Joey didn't say specifically but Craig knew that Joey would never let him drive the JoMo anywhere, not even down the road and back.
"Why?" Juan asked.
"I'll tell you later," Craig said, seeing the girls coming.
"Alright," Hayden replied, he scribbled down the address and handed it to Craig. "This is where Regina and I live."
"Ok," Craig said. He kissed Sammy on the cheek as she came up and rubbed her stomach. Juan held the door open for Candice and then climbed into the back next to her and closed the door. Hayden held the passenger door open for Regina and waved back to Craig and Sammy.
"See you guys later," he said.
"See you," Craig replied. "Come on." He whispered to Sammy. They walked over to the JoMo and climbed in behind Joey and Caitlin, Craig handed Joey the slip of paper with Hayden and Regina's address on it and then sat back next to Sammy and put his arm around her.
"Crap!" she exclaimed. "I forgot about Gabe."
"Don't worry, Sammy," Caitlin said. "Joey and I'll take care of him for you."
"Thanks," Sammy replied. She leaned back and laid her head on Craig's shoulder.
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Craig and Sammy went up to Hayden and Regina's apartment and the door swung open and Regina ushered them in. "Thanks for coming!" she exclaimed.
"No problem," Sammy said.
Candice was leaned against the counter. "Juan and I live two floors down but it's a mess since we're fixing up the nursery," she replied.
Sammy nodded.
"We're still with Joey and Caitlin," Craig said.
"Oh," Regina replied. "We've lived here since we found out about the babies and Hayden popped the question." She paused before finishing, "That same night I was kicked out of my house."
"Come on, Gi, enough of the sad sob story," Hayden said, kissing her on the cheek and brushing her hair back. "Let's get to know the new peoples."
"You're right," Regina said. Then in a singsong voice said, "Into the living room."
Sammy and Craig smiled and walked into the living room with the other two people.
There was an awkward silence until Regina said, "So, Sammy, you said you had another baby. What's he/she like?"
"Well, I have a son, Gabriel," Sammy replied. She went onto tell how she had her "father's baby" or so she thought. "Then I found out that he wasn't my dad." She went onto tell them about her mom.
Regina had her hand rested on her stomach. "Wow," she said. "You called your mom a slut?"
"Well, she is," Sammy replied.
"I can't believe you said that to her face though."
"Neither can I," Candice said.
"That took guts," Hayden replied.
"That's Sammy for you," Craig said.
Sammy smiled. "Craig, tell them about you," she replied.
Craig took a deep breath before going on to tell them about losing Sammy for the first time, then next losing his mom, his dad hitting him, leaving his dad to live with Joey and Angela, his dad dying, his one night thing with Manny, Manny getting pregnant and aborting the baby (in which the girls argued about for a little while), Sammy coming back, falling back in love with Sammy and Gabriel, and finally getting ready to start a family with Sammy. "I'm talked out now so who's going next?" he asked.
Candice was the next one to go. She said that her father was a drunk and her mom had been arrested a couple of years earlier for prostitution (which made Craig and Sammy's eyebrows shoot up), her father had hit her too like Craig, so she met Juan and she lived with his family and they fell for each other and now they were going to have a baby together.
Juan was next, his story was pretty much the typical going to church every Sunday and then rebelling and meeting Candice who had been pretty much a rebel at the school they were currently attending. But when they found out Juan had gotten Candice pregnant, Juan's mother went out and nearly bought out Baby Gap.
Regina had told them about her parents kicking her out of the house. She had been an honor roll student until she met Hayden. "I crossed her over from the goody-two shoes," he said, smiling.
"And I thank you so much for that," she said, laying her head on his shoulder.
Hayden claimed that he had always been pretty much a bad ass. His father had left him and his mother and two sisters, both younger than he was when the youngest was two about five years before. "I even tried to kill myself, until I met Regina," he said. "Now, I'm glad I didn't."
Craig and Sammy hung out for a little while before calling Joey to come pick them up and then went back to his house.
