Chapter 37:

Dinner was served. Everyone was sitting at the large dining room table that was in the house, getting ready to eat the food Billy and Andy had prepared for them.

"So, Samantha, who are all your friends?" Evan asked.

"Oh!" Sam said as she swallowed some food. "Sorry. I didn't introduce you all." Then Sam did a quickly introduction of everyone.

"Wait a minute." Mrs. Sherlock said as she pointed to Inuyasha. "Now I know where I've seen you before." She said.

"Mom? Are you OK?" Billy asked.

Mrs. Sherlcok was looking at Inuyasha wide eyed. She was shicked out of her mind. It couldn't have been them. She just knew there was no way on earth that it could be them. But it was them. "You're that Inuyasha guy from the cartoon!" Mrs. Sherlock exclaimed.

"Mom." Evan said. "You can't be serious. They are real people. Not cartoons." Evan said, a bit of laughter in his voice.

"I am serious." Then Mrs. Sherlock stood up and went to the living room, where Sam had a few of her Inuyasha DVDs on the shelf. She pulled one out and looked at it before heading back to the dining room and holding it up next to Inuyasha's face. "See? It is him." Mrs. Sherlcok said.

"But that's impossible." Andy said.

Eric leaned over to Sam, who was sitting between Eric and Koga. "I think you should tell them about your secret now." Eric whispered.

"Yeah right." Sam whispered back.

"Seriously Sam." Eric whispered. "How else can you explain this?"

"I...I don't know." Sam whispered.

"Sam. Tell them." Sarah said.

"I can't do that." Sam hissed.

"Tell us what?" Mrs. Sherlock asked, looking at Sam.

"Ummm... Nothing?" Sam replied, hoping to avoid telling her family the truth.

Then Nick leaned over to Sam. "I'll tell if you tell." He told her.

Sam thought abot it. It would probably be easier for her that way. If she wasn't saying it alone. But what about Jacob. He wasn't getting off the hook just like that. Sam look ed Nick. "We can't tell unless Jacob tells too."

Nick looked at Jacob. Sam did have a point. It wouldn't be fair for the two of them to tell their secret and Jacob go along still keeping his.

"What do you want to tell us Samantha?" Mrs. Sherlock asked again, looking between Sam and Nick. "Nick? You have something to say too?"

"No." Sam said. "Mom, ummm... How do I put this?" Sam asked herself. "I umm... I..."

"You what?" Billy asked, concern now on his face.

"I'm a-"

"FIRE!" Eric yelled, looking into the kitchen, where the laftover lasagnia had caught on fire.

Bille and Andy jumped out of their seats and ran as fast as they could to the kitchen, grabbing the fire extingisher and doing their best to put out the fire while Mrs. Sherlock watched them in fear. (motherly fear for her sons).

The fire was soon put out. Sam was glaring at Jacob. She new he had caused it.

"I don't know how it could have set on fire." Billy said.

"Yeah." Andy said. "We turned the stove off when we were done."

"Well it's over and done with, so lets just move on and eat what we have out here." Mrs. Sherlcok said as she took a bite of her lasagnia, obviously forgetting about the whole cartoon people staying with them thing that she had been making sucha big deal about before. Then she looked at her two oldest sons. "You boys are getting too good at cooking."

"Maybe they should live here instead of going back over to Europe." Sam said, relieved that everyone had forgotten about how Inuyasha and everyone were cartoons.

"So, what are you kids going to do this evening?" Mrs. Sherlcok asked.

"Well." Jacob started. "Sam, don't you think you should get a dress?"

"I already got one." Sam said through her gritted teeth.

"Why do you ask Jake?" Billy asked.

"I asked Sam to go to the prom with me." Jacob replied, a smirk on his face. "And it looks like she agreed."

Andy let out a long and low whistle.

Mrs. Sherlock looked at Sam. "You already got a dress?" She asked. "Well let's see it. Bring it out here." Mrs. Sherlock told Sam. "I want to have a look at it."

Sam let out a groan as she got up and went to the closet where she had hung her dress. She pulled it out of the long bag that said Macy's on it to reveal and long black dress that had sparkles all over it and a long slit. It was a halter dress, and dipped down a bit low at the neck.

"No way." Mrs. SHerlock said. "Not that dress. That is hardly prom material."

"But MOM!" Sam whined. "I just bought it today."

Then Shippo jumped out of his seat and looked at the dress. "What kind of kimono is this?"

"It's a dress Shippo." Sam said. "It's the dress I want to wear to a dance I'm going to. But it looks like I'll need to get a new one." Sam said.

"Yes. You are not wearing that dress. It is more for a banquet of some sort than a prom." Mrs. Sherlock said. "I can take you and Jake out, and drop you off at the mall." Mrs. Sherlock said. "Then you can return that dress and get a new one, and you can get Jake a tuxedo."

"Can we go too?" Eric and Sarah asked at the same time.

"Sure thing." Mrs. Sherlock said. Then she looked at the rest of the kids. "Do you kids want to go too?"

Inuyasha shrugged. "What the heck? We'll go." She said. And everyone else nodded in return and relief swept over Sam. She was so glad she didn't have to go to the mall ALONE with Jacob. That would be hell for her. Or hell for him, depending on what they did. The mall was, after all, practically Sam's second home.

"So I'll take you kids after dinner." Mrs. Sherlock said. Then she looked at the boys. "Walter. Evan. You two have dish duty while I take them to the mall. Billy. Andy. You two keep an eye on Walter and Evan until I get back."

Walter and Evan groaned. Why did they get to do chores on their first day home?

Billy and Adny looked happy. All they had to do was keep an eye on the little twins. Everything was good for them.

AN- There's another chapter. Scary. Sam almost got caught. ;;;sigh;;; Well, plz R&R. Thanx! TTFN!