Chapter Fifty Two:
It had been one month to the day that Billy had come to her house, and she hadn't seen him since, not even at school. Ah school, she had actually gotten there early because it was the beginning of summer vacation, her favorite day.
On the subject of school, she had also noticed that her friend Xander had taken a liking to Mikey, she had been hoping they would at least be friends and it looked like that's exactly what they were doing.
The bell rang and it was finally lunch, one more class and she was home free, well not free but home at least. Today was really weird because she hadn't seen any of her friends, well other then Mikey and Xander, but neither of them talked to her. It was a very strange day, and she didn't like it.
"Hey guys, whats up?" she asked sitting down with Mikey and Xander.
"Nothing, whats up with you?" Mikey asked happily.
"Well after school I'm going to be busy helping my mom get ready for her wedding she's freaking out royally."
"When is it?"
"Next week."
"That soon?"
"Yeah, she set the date further back so neither of us would be huge." she answered with a chuckle. "Whats wrong with him?" she asked pointing to Xander who hadn't said anything.
"He's lost his voice and he can't talk, I've been speaking for him today."
"Oh, you should really be drinking ice water."
Xander smiled and held up his water bottle.
"He's been drinking all day." Mikey answered for him. "He's had to piss every 20 minutes to."
"I know how that feels."
Xander waved his arms around and pointed at Mikey, then pointed at Sam.
"Oh, he wants to know if we can come over after school today."
"Sure, as long as you don't mind my mom screaming at us one minute, then crying the next."
Both of them shook their heads and the bell rang.
"I'll catch you guys later, meet me out front and we'll catch a ride from Chad." she said getting up and walking away.
The rest of her class she hadn't been paying much attention, she was focused on getting home. She sat there and drew the whole time, and finally the bell rang and school was out for the rest of the summer.
She went to her locker and still didn't see Michelle or Andie anywhere, she hadn't seen either of them in weeks, it was starting to freak her out. She shrugged it off and went outside with Mikey and Xander to wait for Chad.
"So, how goes it?" Mikey asked squinting up at her through the sun.
"Fine, you?" she asked sitting down.
"Boring, the whole day was BORING!"
"Yeah, well my house will make sure that doesn't happen, trust me. My mom's being a freak."
"It's understandable, it's her wedding day, she wants it to be perfect."
"I guess you're right, but it's still a pain in the ass."
Chad pulled up and honked the horn, they all jumped up and went over to the car.
"Hey, Mikey and Xander are coming over with us, hope you don't mind." Sam said pushing the front seat forward and letting them in, before getting in herself.
"Fine by me, but mom might freak." he answered.
"It'll be fine, mom wont care as long as they don't make a mess."
"We can hear you you know." Mikey said sitting forward.
"I never said you couldn't."
"You were talking about us like we weren't even here."
"No, I was just informing you without looking at you."
The rest of the ride was quiet, thank God, Sam had a horrible headache and was getting car sick, not a good combination. They got home in record time and Donald was sitting outside on the front steps, he waved as they pulled into the drive way.
"Hey, why are you out here?" Sam asked walking over leaving the boys to get out on their own.
"She pitched a fit, so I decided to wait a while before going back in." he answered.
"How bad?" Chad asked sitting down next to him.
"Pretty bad, she threw the vase across the room and through a window."
"Not the vase that took two months to get here." Sam half-asked.
"No, the older one she was going to replace." he said with a sigh. "Well I should try and go in there, maybe she's calmed down." he stood up and went inside.
"Maybe it's best we stayed out here for a while." Sam said turning to face everyone.
"Yeah." they said in unison, except Xander who just nodded.
Everyone sat down on the front step and waited for roughly ten minutes, finally he came back out leading her by the shoulders towards the street.
"We're going for a walk, we'll be back in about an hour." he called over his shoulder.
"Great, I gotta get ready for work." Chad said quickly getting up and heading inside.
"What do you mean work? I thought you had the day off." Sam said following him Xander and Mikey followed quietly.
"No, I only had enough time to get you home, now I gotta leave."
"But why?" she whined standing in the middle of the living room.
"Because if I don't show up, I might get fired." he said coming back from his room and heading towards the front door. "I'll be back later." he said and closed the door behind him.
"Damn him."
"Work's work, it sucks, but someones gotta do it." Mikey shrugged.
"Well what are we going to do then? Huh?"
"We could watch a movie, or play cards."
"Lets watch a movie, I gotta head into my room for a second, you can start without me." she didn't even give him a chance to respond before she left.
She sat down in front of her computer and signed on to AIM, she was hoping that M would be on cause she had some questions for her, thankfully her prayers were answered.
Gothchick: hey m
Mwithatwist: hey, whats shaken bacon?
Gothchick: have u finaly stoped puting off u coming down here?
Mwithatwist: yes, in fact i'm in the air right now
Gothchick: realy?
Mwithatwist: yea, AND i'll be able to spend all of summer vaca w/u
Gothchick: cool. did my mom invite u 2 the wedding yet?
Mwithatwist: yea, got the invite 2day
Gothchick: good, i dont think i'd be able 2 stand my mom alone
Mwithatwist: well it was nice talking 2 ya, but its gunna land soon
Gothchick: alrite i'll be there to pick u up
Mwithatwist: k, bye
Sam signed off and went into the living room, they started watching some love story and none of them seemed interested in it.
"Why are we watching this?" she asked.
"He wanted to." Mikey answered pointing to Xander.
"Alright, but we're gonna have to stop it soon."
"Why?"
"Cause we gotta pick up my cousin from the airport."
"Cool, whens her plane landing?"
"Soon, we should actually go right now."
"Alright." he said standing up and stopping the movie. "Let's go."
"I've got my mom's keys, we'll use her car."
"Alright."
They all headed out to her mom's car and piled in, no sooner had they gotten on the road, Xander - who finally got is voice back - started whining.
"I'm bored." he whined.
"Aren't you always?" Sam asked from the back seat.
"Yeah, but I'm REALLY bored."
"There's a bunch of cd's in the glove box."
He opened up the glove box and just started pulling random things out, there was so much junk in there he had to start putting it on the seat next to himself.
"Has you're mom ever heard of cleaning out her car?"
"She's a huge pig." she answered chuckling.
"A candy wrapper? Ew, it's stuck to my hand." he said pulling it off with a look of disgust.
They rode for a while in silence, he was still going through the glove box, but he'd gotten out all the sticky things. He slammed it shut and leaned back against the head rest with a sigh.
"Nothing?" Mikey asked glancing over at him.
"Nope, nothing."
"Well, I thought there was some cd's in there, I guess I was wrong." Sam answered shrugging.
"It's alright, we'll just have to talk." Xander said with a long, loud sigh.
"Can we stop somewhere?"
"Sammy, not with Xander in the car." Mikey answered chuckling.
"Nooooo, I'm hungry, we need food."
"Well, we don't NEED it."
"Just shut up and pull over, I'm starving."
"Alright."
They soon found a McDonald's and the rest of the ride was quiet, with the exception of Sam burping every now and then. They finally got to the airport and waited in the terminal, they weren't there ten minutes before Sam saw her cousin.
"M!" she screamed running at a 20-something year old.
"Sam-bo!" the lady screamed back.
"M, this is Mikey and Xander. Guys, this is my cousin, M." Sam said introducing them.
"Nice to meet you." M said shaking their hands. "So where's you're mom?" she asked turning towards Sam again.
"Well, you see, my mom doesn't exactly know you're here." she answered looking down at her feet.
"What? You mean to tell me you didn't tell you're mother?"
"Not exactly."
"Sam-bo, what is you're problem? Why didn't you tell her?"
"Cause she's crazy over the wedding, and she'd say no."
"You better hope you're mom doesn't freak."
"She wont, don't worry."
"Alright, whatever you say. Let's go get my shit." she said heading off towards the luggage claim
"She likes to swear a lot." Sam whispered to Mikey and Xander.
"So I've noticed." Mikey sighed.
A/N: Thanks for such great reviews guys, it really get's mu muse going. However this chapter was so big I had to break it up, the next part'll be up soon.