Bam and Sami walked into Castle Bam. The young girl gawked at the vast room she entered.
"It's even cooler than I expected it to be." she said quietly to herself. Bam looked down at her and saw that she had a black Bam shirt on. He snickered.
"I see you're a fan of mine. Do you skate?" he asked, turning to face her.
"I used to. I kinda gave up once I got my guitar. I couldn't fucking ollie." she replied. Bam sat down and signaled for her to do the same. She stupidly sat as far away from where Bam was as possible. He just laughed.
"Come here. I won't bite." he said, smiling. He patted the empty space on the couch and she sat down next to him. "So...why'd you run away?" Sami sighed and told him why.
As soon as Bam heard Sami's story, he felt something. Like, the feeling a big brother gets when his little sister has been hurt. He felt as though he needed to protect Sami, from anything and everything else that happened to her. He wanted to soothe her from her stress. He put his arm around her and sighed. She looked up at him. The room was silent except for the crickets chirping outside. Finally Bam managed to say something.
"Let's watch a movie..." he said, opening up the dvd player and putting in Lost Boys. He sat back down next to Sami and watched the movie with her. Half way through the movie, sleepy Sami layed her head on Bam's shoulder and fell asleep. He looked down at her and smiled. He slowly got up and ran to get a blanket. He covered the shivering pre-teen up with it and turned the tv off. He made his own bed on the floor in front of the couch and fell asleep too, thinking he was protecting Sami from the nightmares she could have.
The next morning, Bam woke up to a thud. He looked up and Sami was on the ground, rubbing the back of her head.
"Ow. Damn couch pushed me off it." she joked. "Are you okay?" he asked, crawling over to her. "Yeah, don't worry. I'm fine." Sami was flattered that Bam was a compassionate person towards her, but in a way, she was a bit creeped out because they had only just met.
Bam slowly got up and walked to his room and took a shower in the bathroom in there. Sami looked at the clock and walked over to the phone. She hesitated but then gathered up the courage to call home. She picked up the reciver and listened for the oh so familiar voice of her mother. After 3 rings, she picked up.
"Hello?" her mother asked. Her voice was quiet and sad.
"Mommy?" Sami asked.
"Sami?"
"Hey"
"WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU FUCKING BEEN? WE'VE CALLED THE COPS AND THEY'RE SEARCHING FOR YOU RIGHT NOW! WHERE ARE YOU?" Sami recoiled but still was able to speak.
"Check the caller id." It was silent for a few minutes and then her mom spoke once again.
"Margera, Brandon? You're at his house? Why are you there"
"He found me and took me in"
"We're coming up there to get you, okay?"
"NO! It's nice here! I don't have to deal with you know who and shit like that!"
"You fucking would rather stay with Bam then your family"
"Tim is not my family."
"He's mine now. Since you don't want us to be in your family, I'll just disown you. Have a nice life, Sami." Sami was speechless once she heard the phone click. She hung it up slowly, and started shaking. She sat down on the couch and burst out into tears.
A few minutes later, Bam came out into the lounge, dressed in his red button up top and black jeans. He saw Sami on the couch, shaking. He rushed over to her.
"Oh my God, what happened?" he asked, panicing.
"I-I just ta-talked to my mom." she managed to get out, before shaking even more violently.
"What did she say"
"She was mad...then I told her where I was...then she said that she was gonna come and get me and I said that I wanted to stay here with you, and she said she would...she would..." Sami started crying harder.
"What would she do?" Bam asked in a comforting tone.
"Disown me." Sami replied, quietly. Bam brought her into a hug and she cried on his shoulder.
"Shh, it's gonna be okay. Everything's gonna be okay." he said. Those words of comfort helped the girl realize that someone cared about her.
"I've only known you, personally, for a day and you are the nicest person to me. Thank you Bam."
"No problem. You know, you don't have to stay with me if you don't want to. I can be alone"
"No, I'm gonna stay here with you. You like me, more than anyone in my family ever did...except my dad." Bam mentally frowned, remembering what she said had happened to her dad but smiled when Sami said that she was staying.
"Oh...um, do you want breakfast?" he said, changing the subject. She nodded and tried to stop shaking. Bam wiped her tears away with his thumb and got up. "Let's go out to eat, I can't cook for shit." Sami slowly got up.
"Let me get ready first. Okay?" She walked into the guest room, where her bags were, and shut the door.