Two more periods and the school day was over with. Sami loaded up her backpack and put it on her back, shutting her locker. She walked outside and waited for
Bam to pick her up.
A few moments later, Bam pulled up in his purple Lambo.
"Get in." Bam said, waving for Sami to move. Sami walked toward the car, slowly, looking around at her fellow students. They all stared at the car and who was
getting in it. Suddenly, someone came running up to her. It was Justin.
"You live with Bam?" he asked, wide-eyed.
"Yeah. Why?" she replied.
"Dude! That's fucking awesome!" Sami laughed.
"I know. Ain't it"
"Yeah. Man...that's kickass"
"Thanks. Well, I have to go. Homework and whatever"
"Same here. See you tommorow, Sami."
"Later, Justin." Sami waved and got into the car with a smirking Bam.
"What?" she asked, putting her backpack on the floor of the car.
"Who's he?" Bam asked, putting the car in drive and starting to drive home.
"Just a boy in my math class"
"A cute boy in your math class"
"Baaaam!" Sami whined.
"Whaaat?" Bam whined back, stopping at a stop light and looking at Sami. She laughed.
"Your such an assey"
"No shit." Bam drove up the Snakerun Driveway and parked the car. He and Sami got out and went inside.
"How was school today, babe?" Raab said in his weird voice, looking up from his magazine.
"Fine. How was your day, Raaby?" Sami answered back in the same voice.
"Good." Sami laughed and threw her backpack on the couch, sitting down next to it. She pulled out her math book and did her page of division.
"Done." Sami said, throwing her pencil down about five minutes later.
"Damn that was fast. That all you have tonight?" Dico asked, who had walked into the room a few minutes before.
"Yup. Time to go call Kat." Sami jumped up and ran for the phone, picking it up and dialing Kat's number.
"Hello?" Kat answered, her voice shaky.
"Hey, Kat." Sami said, in a cheery voice.
"Oh, hey Sami-ster. What's up"
"We hanging out today or what"
"Uh...I don't think I can...I'm kinda grounded"
"Oh...okay. Well, for how long"
"A month"
"Hot damn! A month? Why"
"It's a long story"
"I've got time. Lots of"
"A long story that I don't have time to tell"
"Ah...okay. Well, I'll see you at school tommorow"
"Alright. See ya, Sam"
"Bye." Sami hung up the phone and went up to her room and sat down on the bed and sighed, looking up at the celing. She listened to the faint noise of everyone
talking downstairs and the louder noise of the cool autum breeze, coming in through her small window. She stood up and walked over to that window to go close it,
when she heard a noise that she hadn't heard in awhile. A party? No, it's too quiet to be a party. A loud radio? Of course not. There was no beat to this sound.
Fighting. Yeah, that was it. But who? It wasn't Bam and another woman was it? It was definately a man and a woman, though.
Sami thought for a minute, looking out her window. 'Kat's parents?' she thought. 'Yeah...that's what it is...but why are they yelling so damn loud?' Suddenly, Sami
saw a figure jump out of a window. It hit the ground and started running.
"Holy shit! That's Kat!" Sami whispered to herself. She looked down at the loungewear she was in and rushed to change into her The Clash shirt, blue patched
jeans, pink and black Adios, and her black jacket and climbed down her window to the ground. She rushed across the yard and into the bushes where she saw Kat
disappear into.
"Kat!" Sami whispered loudly, having a feeling she was nearby. Sami ran through the bushes and onto her street. She jogged down the street and saw Kat many
feet ahead of her, running. She had a feeling she knew where she was headed.
"Abandon railroad tracks..." Sami said to herself, catching her breath. She walked quickly down the street and turned the corner into the foresty path that lead to the
tracks where they hung out a lot when Kat would get home from school. Sami walked as quick and carefully as possible down the path, trying not to step on the sticks
and break them for Kat to hear.
Meanwhile at Castle Bam...
"Ew...dude, did you burn that?" Bam asked, looking over at Raab who was baking a cake.
"No. It's fine, dude." Raab replied, pulling the cake out with oven mitts and setting it on the top of the stove. Bam was cooking spagetti on top of the stove and Dico was
helping with the meatballs.
"Meatballs! Meatballs! Rakeballs! Rakeballs! UHHUH!" Dico sung, placing the balls of meat on a cookie sheet to cook them on. Bam and Raab laughed and Dunn
came down the stairs.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Bam asked.
"I was bored." Ryan replied, picking up a banana from the fruit bowl in the middle of the bar and peeling it. He took a bite of it.
"Yo, Raab. Go get Sami. It's time to fucking eat." Bam told Raab, slapping him on the ass to get him moving.
"Alright, alright. Be patient, Bammi." Raab laughed and jogged up the stairs towards Sami's room. He knocked on the door.
"Yo, Sam-Sam, get your ass out here." Raab said, leaning on her door. "Sami?" He knocked again and waited a few minutes. He finally got impatient and opened
the door. "Sa-" He paused and looked around her room and saw her window wide open and her jacket and shoes gone. "Oh shit...BAM! GET UP HERE!"
"WHY?" Bam yelled back, turning the stove off and serving the spagetti onto plates.
"SAMI'S NOT IN HER ROOM! SHE'S GONE!"
"WHAT?" Bam dropped his spoon and ran upstairs to her room. "What the fuck"
"Look. Her window's open and her jacket and shoes are gone"
"Surely she didn't jump out. She would've broken her legs"
"You can climb Bam. See that thing?" Raab pointed outside to the strong trellace that Jess put up as a joke for Sami, just in case she wanted to climb out one night.
"Damn it. I'm calling the cops." Bam said, moving towards the phone.
"No, don't. Just call your close friends and whatever and we'll have a search party formed to look for her"
"I guess you're right." Bam picked up his phone and called Jimmy Pop and his wife Gina, Jess and Kelly, and Ape and Phil and told them to go look for her.
"Come on, we should go too." Bam said, walking back downstairs with Raab. "Dico, Dunn, Sami's missing. You two stay here, just incase she comes home before
we do"
"Um...okay." Dico said, taking in all his friend had just told him. Bam nodded and grabbed the keys to the Lambo and walked out with Raab. They got into the car and
set off to go find Sami.
Meanwhile, at the railroad tracks...
Sami walked slowly down the path, leading to a rusted up old train car near a small stream and an old railroad track. She stepped on a stick, snapping it.
"Who's there?" Kat yelled. Sami sighed and walked into the clearing, where the moon was the only light to be found. "Oh...it's only you"
"Yeah..." Sami replied, walking towards her friend, who sat on top of the train car. She climbed up the small ladder they had leaned up against the car and sat down
next to Kat. "So...what happened"
"I don't want to talk about it." Kat said, crossing her arms and turning away.
"I heard yelling..." Sami said, in a quieter voice, looking up at the sky.
"You fucking heard that? What are you, spying on me or something?"
"What? No, I'm not spying on you"
"It sure seems like it. Or your stalking me or something." Kat stood up onto the train car and took in the scenery. It was quiet for awhile until Kat jumped off the car. "I
need to be alone for awhile." she said.
"Dude, you have to come home." Sami replied.
"NO! I don't want to go back there. Ever." Sami nodded and sighed, remembering why she was where she was in the first place.
"I understand"
"Yeah, right." Kat mumbled, sitting down by the creek and throwing clods of mud into the water, just to see them sink. Sami jumped off of the car, too and just stood
there, watching Kat.
"I do understand..." she said.
"No you don't..." Kat replied, throwing a small rock into the creek.
"I never told you why I just showed up here, did I?" Kat turned around to face her.
"Nope. You never did"
"I was going through a lot of shit at home, so...one night, I decided to just pack up the most important things I had and leave. Just run. I ended up here, thinking there
would be some house or shelter I could stay in. I walked up a random dark street and walked into a part of the forest and then Bam found me. And he took me in. I'm
one of the lucky ones...aren't I?" Kat listened with interest and sighed once Sami finished. "See...I understand, in a way"
"You do understand." Kat stood up and gave Sami a tight hug.
"Yeah, I do. Go back home. You might not end up like me." Kat pulled away, sighing again.
"You're right...I'm going back home"
"Okay. Come on then." Sami started to walk away, thinking Kat would follow.
"I think I'll take my own way home. Plus, I was thinking about staying here for a little while longer, just to think." Sami nodded.
"Alright. I'll see you tommorow"
"Night, Sami." Kat said, nodding. Sami smiled and turned, walking back down the pathway she took before. After a few minutes of walking, she ended up to the street
she had been on about an hour ago. She decided to take a longer way back home, since it was a beautiful night and walked down the street instead of up it. She got
halfway to one of West Chester's main streets, when a strange car slowed down next to her. She shifted her eyes to look over at it. It looked so familiar but she
couldn't tell who's it was. The window opened a crack.
"Hey...you..." a deep voice said. Sami turned her head to look at the window.
"What?" she replied, in a monotone voice, still walking.
"Get over here." the deep voice replied.
"Why should I?" Sami asked, sticking her hands in her pockets.
"Cause I said so." Sami started walking a little faster, causing the person in the car to start laughing.
"What the fuck?" Sami said, mostly to herself. The window rolled all the way down so Sami was able to see the person inside, who was laughing.
"You asshole." Sami said, her facial expression turning from serious to happy.
"What?" he asked, mocking Sami. Sami walked over to the car and leaned in the window.
"Where'd you come from, Pop?"
"Bam called and said you were missing." Sami grimaced.
"Shit...how long have I been out?" she asked, looking at the clock in Jimmy Pop's car. "Oh...an hour and a half"
"Yeah. I think you're in deep shit. Get in and I'll take you to my house where Bam can come and pick you up from there." Sami got into the backseat and shut the
door, sighing. Jimmy started driving again, in silence. Sami looked down at her shoes, knowing she was in trouble with Bam. Jimmy looked at her through the mirror.
He had never seen her so...sad looking. She was usually hyper as fuck around him, mostly because she was crushing on him.
"Are you okay?" he finally asked Sami. She nodded. "Just...mad at myself right now." she replied. "Oh..." That was all that was said until Jimmy pulled into his driveway and pulled out his cell phone to call Bam.
"Yo, Bam." Jimmy Pop said, into the phone.
"Hey." Bam replied.
"I found Sami. You can come pick her up now"
"Okay. I'm near your house now, so I'll be right there"
"Alright. See you soon"
"Bye"
"Bye." Jimmy hung up his cell and turned off the car. He and Sami got out. Sami walked slowly up the sidewalk to his house. Jimmy sighed and walked over to her. He lifted her up and threw her over his shoulder.
"What the hell?" Sami asked, laughing.
"You're slow today." Jimmy replied, laughing too. He ran to the house with her in his arms and opened up the door.