Chapter Fifty Three:
They quietly followed M to the luggage claim, and they put M's luggage into the car.
"Hey Mikey? Can I drive home?" Sam asked.
"I dunno."
"Well I have my permit with me, pleeeeeeeeease?"
"Why not."
They all piled into the car and Sam started it up, when she backed it up the tires screeched and she slammed to a halt.
"Let's get home shall we?" she asked.
"Dear God, what have I allowed?" Mikey thought to himself.
"Slow down Sammy, there's a turn up ahead." M warned
"I know what I'm doing." she answered.
"Slow down, slow down, SLOW DOWN!" M screamed as she hit the curb.
"Calm down would ya? I only kissed the curb, I didn't run over a child."
"Sam-bo, if you keep driving this way, you're going to get arrested."
"No I'm not, now shut up and enjoy the ride."
She was finally driving, something she'd wanted to do for a long time, but it wasn't long before there were red and blue lights in the rear view mirror. She sighed and pulled to the side of the road and got out her permit.
"I told you so." M said.
"Shut up would ya? I can handle this." she said looking in her rear view mirror at the cop slowly coming to her window.
"Do you know why I pulled you over?" he asked in his thick NY accent, shining his flash night in everyones face.
"Um, no officer." she replied.
"Well it seems you were speeding."
"How fast was I going?"
"75, in a 50. License and registration please."
She handed him both piece's of paper and looked down at her lap, now she was in trouble.
"Excuse me, but the name on the registration doesn't match your's. Where did you get this car?"
"It's my mother's."
"But it says here that a Ms. Buckner owns this car, are you aware that you're last name is Lowenstein?"
"Yes, but my mom and dad got a divorce."
"Finney! What the hell is taking so long?" his radio cracked.
"I'm having some difficulty." he replied.
They heard the police car door open and shut, the foot steps were slowly getting closer, could this get any worse?
"What's the problem?" the other guy asked stepping beside the officer at her window.
"She says she's got her mom's car, but the names don't match up." Finney answered.
"Well let me see." the officer said taking both the permit and the registration, he soon handed them both back to Finney. "Sammy?" he asked looking in the window. "What the hell are you doing driving?"
"We had to pick M up, and I wanted to drive back." she answered shocked to see her brother.
"Well you do realize it's illegal to be the only driver in the car, right?"
"Well Mikey's here, he's got his license."
"The driver with the license is supposed to be over the age of 18, and been driving for over a year."
"Oh, I didn't know that."
"Alright, take it as a warning and get outta here." Chad said handing her the permit and registration.
"But-" Finney started.
"No buts, she's my sister man, let it be." Chad cut him off and walked back to the car.
"Let this be a listen." Finney said shining the flash light in everyones face again.
"Yes sir, we will." Sam answered.
He walked back to the cop car, got in and they soon drove away. Sam waited for them to leave before she did.
"Holy shit, you almost got you're ass arrested." M said laughing.
"I know, can you imagine what my mom would say?"
"She'd FREAK!"
"Can we go home now?" Xander whined.
"Yes we can, lets just hope mom isn't back yet."
The rest of the ride was really quiet, almost to quiet. Sam pulled into the driveway and quickly went into the house, she checked every room before coming back out.
"It's fine, their not back yet." she said through the open window.
Everyone else piled out of the car, got some of M's luggage and went into the house. They brought all of M's stuff into Sam's room and dumped it on the floor.
"Home at last." Sam said walking back into the living room and plopping down on the couch. "What do you wanna do?" she asked looking up at M who was standing in front of her.
"I dunno, we could watch a movie." she shrugged and sat down slowly slouching so she was laying down.
"No, I'm to bored."
"We could lay here like lumps."
"Now that sounds like a plan."
"What are we doing?" Mikey asked coming into the room and sitting down next to Sam and playing with her hair.
"Laying here, wanna join us?" she asked looking up at him.
"Sure."
"Mom's gonna be home soon, hearing what she's gotta say about M being here should be fun."
"When are they coming back anyway?" M asked.
"Soon actually, they should be here any minute."
They sat around and talked for almost an hour, it was well past dark and Gail and Donald had finally gotten back.
"We're home." Gail called into the kitchen.
"We're in here." Sam called back.
They walked into the living room and Gail looked shocked to see M, but a good shocked.
"I didn't know you were coming here." Gail said hugging her.
"Yeah, Sam-bo convinced me to come down here for the wedding." she answered.
"I'm so happy to see you, it's been ages."
"I know, it's been so long."
"So how long are you going to be staying here?"
"All summer vacation."
"That's great."
Gail and M went into the kitchen, leaving everyone else in the living room, Donald went into his room.
"That went better then I thought." Sam said amazed.
"As much as I hate to say it, I gotta head home." Mikey said standing up and heading towards the door.
"Oh, do you really have to go?"
"Yeah, Moe's gonna freak as it is."
"Alright then, I'll see ya tomorrow."
"Why? Where are we going?"
"Maybe we could go see a movie."
"Alright, I'll see ya tomorrow. Bye all." he said waving and closing the door behind him.
"There going to be in there a while." she said pointing into the kitchen. "What do you wanna talk about?" she asked looking at Xander.
"I dunno, I thought I'd have a lot to say once I got my voice back, but I guess I don't." he answered shrugging.
"Well, I noticed you've been hanging around Mikey much, you guy friends or something?"
"Yeah, he's cool."
"You seem to think he's a little more then cool."
"I've got something to tell you." he said out of nowhere.
"Kay, what's up?"
"In all honesty I really like Mikey, but I'm not sure it's in a good way."
"How do you mean?"
"I mean I really like him. Sammy, I'm gay."
Sam sat there with her mouth hanging open for what seemed like an eternity, she couldn't believe she hadn't noticed. She quickly closed her mouth, she had to think of something to say.
"I had no idea." she finally said.
"Most people don't know, or at least I don't think they do."
"Have you told you're parents yet?"
"NO! They'd freak."
"Maybe not."
"Yes they would."
The room got quiet for a while, the only sound was M and Gail in the kitchen laughing. Sam jumped when Xander jumped up.
"I gotta head home though, I'll see you later." he said walking over to the door.
"Yeah, alright." Sam answered waving to him.
Once he left she sat on the couch for a while, she couldn't believe she'd known him for so long, and didn't know he was gay. It was very strange that she wouldn't notice.
She got up from the couch and went into the kitchen, she sat down and listened to their conversation, for the most part she stayed quiet. She loved seeing her mom laugh and it became apparent they were laughing for a while when her mom peed herself, she only did that when it'd been a while.
They all stayed up talking until 3 in the morning, Gail had called it a night when she remembered she had to be at the florists in the morning. Sam and M slept in the living room that night, neither of them felt like moving all the luggage that was in the way.
"I'm glad you came down here M." Sam said laying down on the floor in her sleeping bag.
"Me to, so what do we got planned for tomorrow?" she asked.
"Mikey and I are going to the movies, maybe I can set you up with Moe."
"Who's Moe?"
"Someone I think you'll like a LOT."
"Then by all means, set me up."
They both soon fell asleep, they'd talked for two hours and the sun was coming up.
A/N: Terribly sorry for such a long wait, I'm lazy, but you should already know that. ;)