Samantha Morgan sat on the wooden deck of her house in Texas. The late afternoon sun shined and the red wood looked like something from an old western movie. It was all finally over. She glanced up from the book that she was reading and looked up at Jason.
Jason Morgan was shirtless and was putting away the lawn mower after mowing the lawn. Their new dog, the one they got almost a year ago was running around the yard playing with a five year-old Lila. The little girl with her white dress fell on the freshly cut grass and laughed as the dog ran around her. Her white dress showed grass stains and mud and soil but Sam didn't mind. They had enough money to buy her ten new dresses if they wanted to.
Out of the wood ranch house came Sage Alcazar McCall with a digital photo camera.
"Hey hun," Sam smiled at her new-found 21 year old daughter.
Sage's long black hair had slim blonde highlights in the front and it flowed when the wind blew. Jason climbed up the front steps of the porch and Lila with the dog fallowed.
Danny McCall sat up from the step he was sitting on and walked over to the bench where Sam sat.
"Give me the camera," Diego Sanchez Alcazar said when he reached for the camera and Sage handed it to him.
"Come on Sage," Sam said when she grabbed her arm and pulled her closer to herself. Jason sat down with Lila in his lap and Sam sat next to him. Danny and the dog sat down on the wooden floor of the deck next to Jason and Sam's feet and hugged the dog. Sage sat down next to Sam and they all waited until Diego snapped the picture.
"Finally, a family portrait with all of us in it." Sam smiled and stood up.
Jason stood up too and placed Lila on the bench to sit on her own. He took the camera from Diego and a wide smile appeared on his face when he glanced at Sage and realized she wasn't suspecting anything. "When are you going to PC again?" he asked Diego.
"This weekend."
"Well take the dog with you, I hope he shits on Sally's grave." Sage said still holding a grudge against the woman who shot her and kidnaped her little sister and her uncle Danny. "And take him to visit Faith's prison cell, I hope he bites her ass off."
"That's a nice mental picture." Sam teased.
"What's an ass?" Lila asked of the word she kept hearing all the time but noone ever told her the meaning of it.
"You're to young to know." Jason said smiling at his adoptive daughter.
"But why?" Lila was a persistent little girl.
"Shhh." Sam silenced her daughter and looked back at Diego and Sage.
The boy, who has been dating Sage for the past year got down on one knee.
"Oh shit." Sage said while covering her mouth.
Diego pulled out a small box from his pant pocket and opened it to reveal a diamond ring, "Sage Alcazar McCall, will you marry me?"
"Hell yeah," Sage replied while flashing her ring finger to him. Urging him to slip that ring on. Jason and Sam both laughed at her response.
The phone rang inside the house, "I'll get it," Sage said and walked in through the door.
"Congratulations," Jason said to Diego when he Sage was out of view.
"Thanks man,"
There was an awkward silence in the air as the early evening sun began to set and birds chirping in the distance. Suddenly an "Ahhhh!" coming from the house broke the silence and they all ran in.
The sound of a phone's busy signal rang silently on the kitchen table with a bloody knife laying next to it. A trail of blood ran to the back door and to the outside. On the table a note laid folded in half.
Sam picked up the folder sheet of paper and read the note.
Dear Sam,
So I guess you didn't tell me about my daughter. That's cool. I guess you were scared I might take her from you so you chose to give her up. Stupid you, I will find her and I will take her. I promise you, Sage will be only but a memory to you.
Love,
Ron McCall.
THE END
This was just the begining. Watch for the sequal called "The Family Mob 2" it will have even more twist. Please leave feedback.
