Chapter Forty Three:
Sam woke up the next day to the sound of a slamming door, she looked at her watch and it was 2 in the afternoon, apparently she'd slept in. She got out of bed and went into the living room and saw Chad sitting on the couch looking really pissed.
"Hey, was that you that slammed the door?" Sam asked sitting down next to him.
"Yeah it was, sorry to wake you."
"What's wrong?"
"Ritza just broke up with me, something about me not listening to her or some happy horse shit."
"You don't know what she said?"
"Well not word-for-word."
"You just proved her point." Sam said trying not to laugh.
"How?"
"You said that she said that you don't listen to her, now you're saying you don't know what she said, you proved her right." she explained.
"Don't you have someone else to bother?" he asked realizing she was right.
"Nope, only you."
"Nope, I gotta head to work."
"But it's Sunday."
"Crime doesn't stop because stores close early." he got up and went into his room to get changed.
Sam turned the tv on and started watching some cartoon, she wasn't sure of the name but it was pretty weird. She jumped when Chad walked over to her and kissed the top of her head.
"I'm leaving kiddo, I'll see you tonight." he said.
"Alright, bye."
Once he left the house got quiet, she jumped when the door bell rang. She was shocked to see Andie standing there.
"Hey what's up?" Sam asked.
"Me and Diana were going to the mall, we wanted to know if you'd come with us."
"Yeah, just let me get dressed."
"Alright, come over to my house when you're ready."
"Alright."
Sam closed the door and ran to her room, after getting dressed she left a note on the table,
then she ran across the street to Andie's, she knocked on the door and Andie's mother
answered it.
"Oh Sam, c'mon in." she said smiling sweetly.
"Thanks." Sam walked into the living room and sat down. "When are we going?" she asked.
"As soon as my dad's ready, he's gonna give us a ride." Andie answered.
It didn't take long for her father to come down stairs, they all piled into the car, the entire ride was silent. Sam was thankful when they pulled up outside the mall, now maybe someone would start a conversation. They walked around for about ten minutes before Sam couldn't take it anymore.
"Alright, one of us has to say something." she said rather loudly.
"God, you scared me." Diana said holding her chest.
"Sorry, but I can't stand quiet."
"Alright, what do you wanna talk about?" Andie asked.
"Mikey?"
"Why would you wanna talk about him?"
"No, Mikey." she said pointing in front of them.
"Oh, sorry."
They walked over to him, he seemed to be with a girl, and that didn't sit right with Sam.
"Hey Mikey, what are you doing here?" Sam asked devilishly sweet.
"I'm just showing my cousin here around town, what are you guys doing here?" he asked.
"Why didn't you tell me you're cousin was coming for a visit? I'm Sam." she said introducing herself, she kinda felt stupid.
"I'm Emma, I've heard so much about you." she answered shaking Sam's hand.
"Really? I've never heard of you."
"It doesn't surprise me, I'm hardly ever in New York."
"You travel a lot?"
"My dad's constantly going somewhere for a job, in fact last week we were in California."
"That's pretty cool."
"Hate to break up the girl talk, but we've gotta head home." Mikey said cutting in.
"Why are you leaving so soon?" Sam asked.
"I just got a call, something happened to Moe."
"Oh alright, call me later then."
Mikey and Emma took off down the mall, Andie, Diana and Sam continued on their shopping spree, but Sam had trouble consintrading. She was thankful when Diana had to get home, they called Andie's father and were soon home. Sam went down to Mikey's house in hopes someone would be there to answer her questions, when she knocked on the door she was glad to see Mikey.
"Hey what happened?" Sam asked.
"He got shot in the leg, he'll be fine." he said moving aside to let her in.
"How'd that happen?"
"He was chasing some guy down an alley and the guy turned around and shot him."
"Well it's good that he's fine, right?"
"I guess so." he said sitting down on the couch.
"We'll it's not like he's dead or anything." she said sitting down as well.
"Yeah but it still sucks."
"Well he'll be home soon, and it's not like their going to let him go back to work, so you'll have him for a while."
Sam thought that Mikey was just ignoring her, but then he let out a slight grunt and she realized he was asleep, he soon started snoring. Sam decided it best to go home, she didn't want to stay there if he was asleep. When she got home Chad was sitting on the couch watching tv.
"Hey." Sam said sitting down next to him.
"Yeah, hey." he answered.
"So I heard something happened to Moe?"
"Yeah, he wasn't supposed to jump out of the car, it wasn't like the guy needed to be chased."
he said sounding angry.
"Well it's not his fault that the guy was an asshole, he was just doing his job."
"Yeah and it got him shot, so it wasn't worth it."
"Yeah but how would you feel if you heard that the guy killed an old lady or something?"
"He just wasn't supposed to chase him."
"Chad, it's not you're fault he got shot, it happens."
"Not to my friends it doesn't." he yelled, he got up and stormed off to his room and slammed the door.
Sam sat there shocked, she couldn't believe Chad just yelled at her, it wasn't like him. She somehow needed to prove to him that it wasn't his fault, the only way to do that was to have Moe tell him, but Moe was at the hospital. This proved to be difficult, but not impossible, all she had to do was wait until Moe came back and have him talk to Chad. But how long was Moe going to be in the hospital? She jumped when the phone rang.
"Hello?" she asked.
"Hey, it's Mikey. I just got a phone call saying I had to pick Moe up, mom was with him but she's in no shape to drive. I wanted to know if you wanted to come with?" he asked.
"Sure, I'll go with you."
"Alright, I'll be there in like two minutes." without another word spoken he hung up.
Sam went to Chad's door and knocked, she didn't get an answer so she opened the door anyway, since when does she wait?
"Hey Chad, I'm going with Mikey to pick Moe up." she said walking in.
"Alright, bye." he mumbled into his pillow, it looked like he was trying to sleep.
Sam went outside and waited for Mikey to show up, he soon pulled up to the curb and they where off.