Chapter 6: "Papa may have…"

Sorry about the delay on this chapter… I never intended to have nine stories going but I do… I am also building a website, so look out for that soon! I hope you enjoy, and I hope I have another chapter to you sooner! R&R, and tell me anything that you want to happen, and I will try to grant your wishes.

Xoxoxo HaLeY

"Henry, have you seen Meg?" Jack asked

"No. I am looking for Sam too."

They exchanged glances.

"Where do you think they could be?" Henry asked himself

"I don't know but they will be in big trouble when we find them!" Jack aid as he and Henry headed in different directions.

Meg and Sam sat on old crates in the basement making small talk and sharing a chocolate bar that Sam had found in his pocket.

"I wonder if anyone is looking for us." Meg said

"I doubt it, … it is in the middle of the service."

Right then though, to both of their surprises the door swung open.

"MEG GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!" Mr. Pryor said storming down the stairs and grabbing his young daughter by the arm.

"God dad, let go, that hurts!" Meg screeched

Sam stood back as Henry came into the basement.

"SAM!" Henry said in a low booming voice.

Meg turned back and glanced at Sam one last time as her father was dragging her out.

~ Later that night Meg was sitting in her bedroom being yelled out by her father

"How could you do that Meg! I told you not to hang out with Sam anymore."

"I was just giving him a Christmas present!"

"A Christmas present in the basement of a church!"

"Well since everyone was staring at us-"

"I don't want to hear it Meg! There is no excuse for the scene that you caused!"

"THE SCENE I CAUSED!" Meg said "I wasn't the one yelling and carrying on like a mad man!"

"EXCUSE YOU!" Mr Pryor yelled. "This is my last straw Meg! I have taken so much from you. Maybe too much!"

"Dad Sam is my friend!"

"You cannot be friends Meg!"

"Why, because we look different?"

"It is so much more than that Meg! Do you know the rumors that have been going around about you and Sam? EXPECIALLY since tonight at the church. I raised you to care about your reputation."

"You don't understand!"

"Well then make me understand!"

"I don't care about what people think about Sam and I. They don't matter. The only reason that Sam and I cannot be "friends", is because we don't have the same color skin. I am glad that I am not changing for them because then I would be missing out on a wonderful friendship."

"That is it Meg I don't know what else to do with you." He yelled as he stormed ut of the room and slammed the door behind him.

Meg sat on he bed with a clenched jaw. She would not let herself shed another tear, especially over her father. She and Sams relationship was for THEM not everyone else. She just hoped Sam felt the same way as she wondered what kind of lecture he was getting from Henry.

The next couple of days were tense ones around the Pryor house. Meg and her father did not say a word to one another. Meg spent most of her time up in her room listening to albums. The same ones that she and Sam had listened to so many times together.

Two days left until the end of winter break.

"So I heard about what happened at the Christmas service." Roxanne said

"Who didn't?" Meg said sarcastically

Roxanne gave her a look.

"So does this mean that you admit you have feelings for him." When Meg blushed Roxanne took that as a yes. "Oh my God! I knew it! So have you told him yet? How-"

"Not here Rox." Meg warned her

Roxanne nodded understanding the place that this coming out would put her friend in. Roxanne and Meg left school together that day. Roxanne noticed how Megs eyes were darting around.

"What's wrong?" She asked her

"Nothing…" Meg said as Rox gave her the "yea right", look. "It is just that I have not seen him all day…" Meg said

Roxanne noticed Sam standing in a corner looking around in the same way that Meg was.

"I think he's looking for you too." Roxanne said gesturing her head inconspicuously so that nobody else saw.

"Cover for me?"

"Sure." Rox said with a smile. "You are at my place."

Meg hugged her best friend as she made her way over to Sam.

"Hey." Meg said to Sam

"Hey." He replied.

"We should um… talk. But not here." He said.

Meg nodded as she followed Sam to the back of the school under the bleachers. Nobody was ever back there so it made perfect sense that that was where Sam would choose.

They sat in an awkward silence for awhile.

"I've missed you." Meg confessed.

"I've missed you too." Sam said touching her knee. "Meg do you think that it's weird?"

"Us? No… I mean not really. We have so much in common… I guess I wasn't the only one grounded all break huh?" She asked

"Nope."

They laughed

"Our families don't understand." Meg said "So what did your dad say?"

"It doesn't matter."

"Yes it does."

"He said that I was makin' a bad name for myself. People in my neighborhood are not going to understand me and any white girl. They all think that I am turnin' my back on my race, and I can't see you anymore if I ever expect to get anywhere-"

"Seems your dad was nice about it."

"Nah." Sam said

"Did he change your mind?"

"About us?" Sam said. Meg smiled at him. "No." He said.

"Good."

"But we can't make this work if we can never see each other."

"We will." Meg assured him. "We can meet here. And in the night time."

"You are NOT going to my neighborhood at night!" Sam said firmly.

"Well then you come to mine." She said smiling. "And then we can hang out at Rox's, you can tell your dad that you are going running, and nobody is ever at her house besides her an-"

"Meg." Sam cut her rambling off, and she smiled. "I think that we can make this work…"

And there under the bleachers they had their third kiss…