Chapter Forty Six:
Mikey and Sam waited in his room for a while, the yelling had stopped a couple of minutes ago, but neither one wanted to go into the kitchen and get yelled at. They heard Rose banging some pots around, but they still wanted to make sure the 'war' had ended.
"So you never told me, what's you're cats name?" Sam asked looking down in her lap at the cat who was soundly asleep.
"His names Puss." Mikey said sitting down next to her.
"Puss?"
"Ya'know, Puss in boots?"
"Oh, sorry I've never heard of a cat named Puss." she said giggling.
"You should see the looks on peoples faces when I take him to the vet."
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Rose was still fuming, she was glad that everyone stayed out of her way, she wasn't in the mood for questions. She had hoped that neither Sam nor Mikey had heard the yelling, but doubted they hadn't.
Moe hobbled into the room and sat down at the table, but he didn't say anything. He thought the whole mix up was hilarious, he didn't see why Rose was mad, it's not like Mikey was gonna ditch her or anything.
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Mikey and Sam talked for a while more, then decided it was probably best not to leave Rose alone with the sharp objects, so they went into the kitchen. They each took a seat on either side of Moe and watched as Rose moved around the kitchen. She soon stopped and stared at them.
"Why don't you take a picture, it'll last longer." she said trying to lighten the mood.
"Do you need help?" Sam asked.
"No, I'm okay. But I wouldn't exactly kill someone if they would be kind enough to help anyway."
The room got quiet and everyone looked at Mikey.
"What?" he asked looking up from his lap.
"She means you sweety." Sam said smiling.
"For what?"
"She needs help, so help her." Moe piped in.
"Why don't you?"
Moe looked down at his casted leg, then back at Mikey who rolled his eyes and stood up.
"That's a good boy." Sam chuckled.
"Why don't you help to?"
"I'm all kinds of prego, so no."
"Yeah, she's pregnant. So she's going to stay right here and be lazy with me." Moe said leaning his head onto her shoulder and smiling.
"Sometimes you can be a real ass." Mikey grunted walking over to Rose.
"Oh, I'm shaking."
Mikey didn't say anything, instead he flipped Moe the bird. He chuckled when he heard him gasp.
"I've never been so offended in my whole life, Mikey how could you do that to me?"
The room got quiet and Rose continued cooking, she jumped when the phone rang.
"It's okay Ma, I'll get it." Mikey said patting her shoulder and walking into the other room.
"Isn't he a nice young man." Moe mocked.
"Yo Sammy, it's for you." he said coming back into the room.
"Who is it?" she asked.
"The Pope, who the hell do you think it is?"
Sam took the phone and went into the other room.
"Hello?" she asked.
"Hey Sammy, it's Chad. Where are you?" came the answer.
"I'm over at Mikey's but you should already know that, you called here, remember?"
"How long are you going to be?"
"I'm gonna eat over here, is that alright with you?"
The line went dead for a while and Sam could hear a distant voice, but she couldn't make out what was being said.
"Sammy, you still there?" Chad asked making Sam jump.
"Yeah, what was that?"
"I told mom you were staying over at Mikey's for dinner and she freaked out and started crying, I think you should come home."
"What's wrong?"
"She's having MAJOR mood swings, she was laughing a second ago."
"Alright, I'll be right over." she sighed and hung up the phone.
She went into the kitchen and everyone was laughing, apparently Mikey decided to start a food fight and Rose was covered in mashed potatoes.
"I leave for a minute and look what happens." Sam said putting her hands on her hips.
"It was YOU'RE boyfriend." Moe said laughing.
"Oh so when he does something wrong he's mine?"
"Damn right, but don't worry, that just means you'll have him a lot."
"As much as I hate to break up this party, I gotta head home."
"Oh, why?" Mikey asked peaking around Rose like a little boy.
"My mom almost had a melt down when she heard I was staying here, she's having BAD mood swings."
"Mikey'll take you home, he doesn't mind." Rose offered.
"Yeah, I'll take you home." he answered.
"Alright, I'll see you guys later then. Bye." Sam said going through the living room and out the front door, with Mikey close behind.
Mikey went to open the car door, but Sam just turned and started walking up the street.
"Didn't you wanna take the car?" he asked confused.
"No, walkings fine."
"Alrighty."
Mikey followed Sam quietly, it was the first time they'd been alone together since the car ride to the hospital, and neither of them had anything to say. Mikey was disappointed when they reached her front door.
"I had fun today." Sam said looking down.
"Yeah, me to, I should probably head home."
"Alright, bye." she kissed him and went inside.
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Mikey walked home quietly, when he opened the back door he was shocked to see that Moe was no longer at the table, and that Rose was sitting there with her hands folded in front of her.
"Hey Ma, what's up?" Mikey asked.
"We need to talk." she answered.
"Kay, 'bout what?"
"First you need to sit down."
"Ma, I think I'm a little old for this 'sit down' speech."
"Michael, shut up and sit down."
Without another word spoken Mikey sat down, he was scared of his mother when she got like this, it was only ever followed up by getting yelled at.
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When Sam entered the living room she was almost knocked over by her mother.
"Oh Sammy, I'm so glad you're home." she said hugging her.
"I'm glad I'm home too."
"Chad told me you were staying at Mickey's, and I lost it."
"Mom, it's not Mickey, it's Mikey." Sam said trying not to laugh.
"Well whatever his name is, I'm just glad you're home."
"So what's for dinner?"
"Well I had Donald go out and get some pizza, but he's not back yet. So for now there's nothing."
"That's okay, you wanna watch some tv?" Sam asked sitting down on the couch.
"Sure, what would you like to watch?" Gail said also sitting down.
"I dunno, we'll find something."
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Rose took a few deep breathes so she would calm down, she really didn't want to yell at Mikey, but she knew she had to.
"Ma, what is it?" he asked getting uncomfortable.
"I wanted to talk to you about Sam." she said after calming down a little.
"Kay, what about her?"
"Do you have any idea how much responsibility having a baby is?"
"Yeah."
"You have no idea Michael, you just want to live in some fantasy world." she said staring to yell, she got up and started pacing. "You think having a baby means buying all these cute little clothes and having nothing to worry about, but that's where you're wrong. When I had Moe I thought life would be easy, but I was wrong. I had him two months premature and I was worried shit less, he had to stay in the hospital for one month on a ventilator, do you know how scary that is?"
Mikey sat there shocked at her sudden outburst, he sat there completely speechless.
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They watched tv for about 20 minutes until Donald came back, they went into the kitchen and sat down at the table.
"So Sammy, how was you're day?" Gail asked.
"Kinda boring, how was yours?" she asked.
"Donald and I settled on a date for the wedding."
"Cool, when is it?" Chad asked.
"It's two months from today."
"Are you kidding me? Two months? That's it?" Sam asked shocked.
"Well, I figured I didn't wanna be huge in the pictures, and I didn't want you to be huge either. So two months seemed right."
"But mom that's going to add a huge amount of stress, don't you think you should wait until after you have the baby?"
"No, I wanna get married first."
"Well you're the adult here, whatever you say."
They ate the rest of their meal in silence and Gail and Donald went to bed shortly after, Sam on the other hand sat on her bed and listened to the radio until she fell asleep at 3am.
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Rose had been yelling at Mikey for hours, but he stopped listening a while ago. He couldn't listen to her anymore, all she was telling him was the bad stuff, what about the good stuff? Is it really that bad?
He looked at her and her mouth had stopped moving, either she had stopped talking or it was one of her famous pauses.
"Ma look, I know all the bad things, but what about the good things?" he asked.
Now it was her turn to be speechless, she had just spent the last couple of hours telling him everything that could go wrong, and now she had to say something positive.
"Michael, that's not the point." she said finally sitting down. "When you have a baby, everyones there to tell you the bad things so you know how to identify them, but it's you that has to find the good things. You'll know them when you see them." she kissed the top of his head and went up to her room.
Mikey sat there thinking, but mostly praising himself, he'd finally gotten her to stop yelling at him. He decided it was best to head to bed, he did have school tomorrow.
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A/N: You guys might not get a chapter soon, I sprained my wrist while using my crutches and it's kinda hard to type, so enjoy this chapter.