Warning: This chapter may cause heart attacks. And I'm not just talking about Victor . Sorry for all the typos and everything in the chapter twenty but I was too tired to edit it.
"I am really bored." Sami announced, getting off the couch to go over to the television set to turn it off. Lucas gave her a dirty look and stood up as well.
"I was watching that." he informed her testily. Sami raised her eyebrows in disbelief.
"No, you weren't. You were practically falling asleep, which proves that you are just as bored as I am." suddenly, she grinned impishly, "But you know what I need that would make me less bored, don't you?"
"I could talk a wild guess."
Sami rolled her eyes, "Not that. I was talking about cookies. I want cookies and I know for a fact that Nicole has some stashed in her hotel room. And since she's not there and I don't feel like walking all the way downstairs to buy some cookies, I think we should go steal Nicole's."
"Good plan." Lucas shook his head in amusement, "You should have been there when Jan told Shawn that Nicole was her girlfriend. I can't believe they are actually going through with this. So, what, now they're pretending to be off on a date somewhere?"
"Yup." Sami said cheerfully, pulling Lucas by the hand out of their hotel room, "Nicole is going to be very angry when she finds out we ate her cookies. This is going to be fun. I love making her mad."
Sami and Lucas walked into Nicole's hotel room and Sami went straight for the mini-fridge sitting in the corner of the room, "She hides them in here." Sami told Lucas, pulling out a bag of Oreos. Lucas picked up a box of Frosted Flakes sitting next to the fridge and looked around for a bowl.
"Why does she keep all this food in here?" Lucas asked.
"She says it's because she has to eat while she's writing to help her write better." Sami frowned, "I don't see how that works but whatever." Lucas opened the fridge a little bit wider and scowled.
"She doesn't even have milk in here." Lucas complained, "Why does she have cereal if she doesn't have milk for it? Wait, never mind, I don't need milk. I just had a great idea."
"What?" Sami asked suspiciously, watching Lucas pour some Frosted Flakes into the bowl he had found while she bit into a cookie. Once Lucas had finished pouring the cereal, he reached into the fridge and pulled out a can.
"Milk substitute!" Lucas grinned, holding up the whipped cream triumphantly, "Now all I need is a spoon."
"That's disgusting." Sami wrinkled her nose in disgust at Lucas as he covered his Frosted Flakes in a generous amount of whipped cream. Lucas put the whipped cream and cereal back where he had found them and smirked at Sami before taking a large bite of his whipped cream covered Frosted Flakes.
"You are a very twisted person, Lucas." Sami was about to continue but the sound of voices on the other side of the door stopped her.
"It's Nicole!" Sami whispered frantically, looking around for a hiding place, "Come on, we have to go under the bed."
Lucas' eyes darkened wickedly, "What are we going to do under there?" he asked.
"Eat." Sami answered simply, crawling underneath the bed. Lucas barely managed to make it under after Sami before the door to the hotel room opened. Instead of hearing Nicole's voice, Lucas and Sami heard Brady speaking instead.
"Shawn, I'll be out in a second, I just need to make a phone call." In Nicole's room? Sami couldn't stop herself from thinking. Sami wondered if there was more going on between Brady and Nicole than either of them were letting on.
Lucas and Sami fell into silence while they listened to the faint beeping sound of Brady dialling a number on a phone.
"Hi, is Victor there?" Brady asked after a few moments of silence, "Wait a second, Chloe, is that you?"
Sami tried to pull another cookie out of the bag with making too much noise as Brady continued to speak, "I completely forgot about the time difference. So that means it must be the middle of the night in Salem. But I guess that's all the more reason for you to explain what you are doing in my grandfather's bedroom in the middle of the night. Wait, Chloe, don't- What? Oh, hey, grandad. Would you mind explaining what the hell is going on?"
Lucas cringed, "It sounds like Brady is going to end up losing his girlfriend to Victor. That would really suck."
Sami nodded in agreement, "But it kind of makes sense. We all know that Victor likes his women young."
"Really? She did? You what?" Brady let loose a string of profanity before continuing on with the more civil part of the conversation, "I can't believe you! You know how I felt about Chloe, this is totally inexcusable." Brady paused for a minute, "What about Nicole? Oh, come on, those are two completely different things."
Lucas filled his spoon with more Frosted Flakes, "You have to try some of this Sami." he told her. Sami tried shaking her head back and forth to avoid letting Lucas put some of his cereal into her mouth. He ended up smearing it all over her face and she gave him an indignant look.
"Now look what you did." Sami wiped some Frosted Flakes off of her forehead, "You're such a slob, Lucas."
Lucas ignored the last comment and licked some whipped cream off her nose, "Don't get so excited. I always clean up my messes." he added, his tongue running across her lips lightly.
"Look, this is too much to deal with. I can't have this conversation right now. Good-bye." Brady said shortly.
Lucas licked a little bit more whipped cream off her cheek, "I love whipped cream from a can. You don't have to work for it or anything."
Sami, who had been in the middle of eating a cookie, suddenly covered her mouth with her hand and laughed silently, her shoulders wracked with laughter. Lucas realized what she was laughing about, "I didn't mean it like that. God, you have such a dirty mind."
Sami's face suddenly turned red and she began coughing. She tried to hold back from coughing but finally she couldn't hold it in any longer and began coughing very noisily. In a matter of seconds, Brady appeared at the side of the bed. Sami and Lucas crawled out from the underneath the bed, meeting Brady's eyes with sheepish looks on their faces.
"Were you spying on me?" Brady demanded, crossing his arms over his chest angrily, "And what the hell were you doing under there? What's that white stuff all over your face, Sami?"
"No, we weren't spying on you and it's just whipped cream. Nothing else." Sami jumped in defensively, wiping her face, "We thought you were Nicole." Sami's curiosity got the better of her and she couldn't resist asking Brady about the phone call he had just made to his grandfather, "Were you going to tell Victor you knew where Nicole was?"
"Of course not." Brady frowned at the suggestion, "I just wanted to see how my grandfather was doing. But it's not really how he's doing that's the big thing right now. It's who he's doing." Brady grimaced and sat down on the bed.
"Chloe?" Lucas asked tentatively. Brady nodded.
"That's disgusting. What happened? Did he drug her?" Sami asked, not able to find any other explanation for a young woman jumping into bed with someone like Victor. Unless they were after his money the way Nicole had been but somehow, Sami had a feeling that wasn't the case.
"He didn't drug her." Brady sighed, "Chloe came back to Salem to see me and since granddad was already a little annoyed with me for going off to find Nicole, I think he must have made it sound like I had run off to confess my love to Nicole or something. So, I think Victor and Chloe just, er, you know, did it to get back at me."
"Wow. You're having a real rough time, aren't you? Between Nicole and Chloe, you haven't had any luck with women lately, have you?" Sami asked.
"Well, Chloe and I are over." Brady responded, "I'm sick of trying to continue a long distance relationship with her when I don't even think I love her anymore. And then there's Nicole, who's decided that she likes Jan better than me. Yeah, I've been having the worst luck ever."
Lucas almost felt sorry for Brady, "Look, man, Jan and Nicole are just messing with your head. They're not really lesbians, they're just doing it to get back at you and Shawn."
"Really?" Brady looked shocked for a moment, then his eyes began blazing angrily, "Well, they aren't the only ones who can play that game. I guess I should give Nicole a taste of her own medicine."
"How?" Sami asked warily.
"By pretending to be gay." Brady replied flatly, "And since Shawn and I are cousins, I can't really pretend to be in love with him. That only leaves one other person." Sami bit her lip to keep from laughing when she saw that Brady was looking right at Lucas.