American Snapshot 5 Family Game Night

Summary: Mac thinks the family needs some bonding time and may just have some ulterior motives along the way.

- Takes place shortly after Chapter Two.

- acase1426/american-snapshot/ Has pictures for my story

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"We have more than enough family time together." Maxie complained as she sunk down onto the floor next to Sam, so the two were between the couch and the coffee table. Johnny and Jason were both sitting on the couch between them with the girls sitting between their legs. Ethan and Kristina were on an arm chair on the opposite side of the couch.

"You don't have to live in this house, Mom keeps trying to have us have dinner together every night and now she wants us to go shopping together." Kristina added as she leaned her head against Ethan's shoulder.

"Don't make me get the spray bottle." Maxie warned.

"I think that Mom is just having empty nest syndrome." Sam reasoned.

"How? She still has Molly and I here."

"Think about her baby is gone. The little boy that always needed her is living across the country." Sam reasoned.

"Of course this is going to be Nikolas's fault." Maxie complained, "Is not even here and still wreaking havoc on my life."

"I thought that Family Game Night was banned after the whole Monopoly incident that almost caused our parents to divorce."

"We agreed never to talk about this again." Sam glared at her blonde sister.

"Just like the time that we ate the squirrel." Johnny nodded.

"You ate the squirrel with Patrick because we were stranded overnight and overreacted as usual." Maxie corrected as she patted Johnny's leg.

"I am just surprised that you didn't get worms or something from that." Sam added.

"If we had eaten something like a crow I am sure that we would have gotten sick, because those are garbage birds."

"Also, I would like to point out that we should still be able to talk about something if we were there to witness it. The rule should be that we do not talk about it with people that were not involved in the incidents." Johnny added.

"I am glad I met you when I did. I thought you were all out of your mind then, but the more stories I hear about you, I am glad that you have seemed to calm down." Jason commented.

"The beasts are about to be unleased. Jason trust me, this is going to be a test to your marriage." Johnny warned as he looked at the older man, "The Scorpio women take winning very seriously."

"And might just flip a table just to stop them from paying taxes." Ethan inputted as he wrapped his arm around Kristina and pulled her closer to him, "Kristina and Sam are never allowed to be banker and realtor ever again. They had a whole criminal enterprise going."

"You are just mad that I stole all the get out of jail free cards and you kept going to jail." Kristina poked him on the chest.

"I know why we are here." Sam declared as clapped her hands and ignored the discussion that was taking place.

"We are here to have a family game night because our mother is stuck with all of us who have our lives on track and her little wounded gazelle moved away." Maxie rolled her eyes.

"No. Mom and Dad are out right now with Molly for dinner."

"A dinner with Molly's new 'friend'." Kristina added as she put air quotes around the word friend.

"They are trying to use us." Maxie finished, "Get us to do the dirty work and scare the guy off with this game night."

"I am sure that if you impersonating an officer did not scare him off. I don't think that this will." Jason spoke.

"It's not going to scare him at all because we are going to be on our best behavior." Maxie smiled just as the front door opened and Mac, Alexis, Molly and Noah came into the house.

"Oh good, everyone is here for game night." Alexis smiled as she walked into the house and headed for the kitchen with the other three following her.

"Robin is going to be upset that she missed this."

"She is throwing her guts up, I think that she would rather be anywhere but her bathroom." Johnny commented.

"I hope I never get pregnant, you are an insensitive jackass that I think me being all hormonal and everything will just make me snap and I will kill you."

"We are trying to act normal." Jason muttered as Sam placed her head against Jason's knew with a huge smile.

"I don't think anyone in this family knows what normal is."

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"I think introductions are in order." Alexis announced as everyone gathered into the living room and placed two bowls of chips down.

"Noah, these are my older daughters; Samantha, Maxie and Kristina." Mac introduced as he placed an arm around the teen, "These are the men they have chosen to bring into our family." He waved to the other three.

"Jason, Johnny and Ethan." Molly listed as she grabbed Noah's hand and pulled him over to the other couch that was empty.

"It is so nice to meet you Noah. You know because this is the first time that we are meeting and everything," Maxie smiled, "We are so happy to have you in our home and to join us in this game night."

"Ease up babe." Johnny muttered as he ran a hand down her back.

"We have some choices for Game Night." Mac announced as he grabbed a bag from the hallways and moved over to the coffee table, "Unfortunately there are too many people to play Monopoly. So, I have a few other options." He added as he first pulled out Uno and looked
to Maxie.

"I will burn this house down." Maxie glared at the deck of cards. It was safe to say that Uno was a sour subject for the blonde. It may be the fact that every time they ever played they would always gang up on her and always only give her the draw four cards or just skip her in general.

"Let's just skip that one." Kristina smiled as she looked at the blonde.

"I know where you sleep." Maxie warned.

"This is going well." Mac smiled as he moved his gaze towards Molly and Noah. The girl had her head in her hands and Noah was just watching with his mouth open.

"Next choice Sweetheart." Alexis urged as she nodded towards the bag.

"We have the Newlywed Game, which we can play at couples. " The sheriff continued as he pulled another board game out.

"We are not all couples though. Molly and Noah are just lab partners that like to watch the stars at night at the beach." Kristina grinned, she was enjoying that for the first time her relationship was not the one under a microscope or the one getting picked on.

"Skip it." Johnny smirked.

"The last one I have, took me a long time to get. I finally found it on Ebay, I know that we used to have it years ago but it just disappeared." Mac explained as he slowly pulled the last game out and Sam's gaze zeroed in on the bag and she already knew what was coming.

"It ended up in the ocean because I couldn't put it in hell where it belonged." Sam glared,

"You better be joking Dad."

"Oh I did." Mac disagreed as he pulled the game out.

"Oh Hell no. Goodbye." Sam yelled as she stood up climbed over the couch and ran towards the door just as Mac set down Jumanji down on the table.

"I'm out." Kristina added as she quickly followed her sister out the door, both didn't seem to care that they forgot there shoes.

"I feel like I am missing something here." Jason wondered as he started at where Sam had gone then back at the game.

"Our parents got us this game for us one Christmas and we were happy to play. But because of the movie our parents thought it would be funny to scar us when out Mother got the card that said kidnapped by Monkeys, she went to the bathroom and started to scream. Then our Dad yelled for us to run and he found us halfway down the street."

"I no longer wonder how you turn out the way you do." Johnny admitted.

"Noah has to go home. He had practice early in the morning." Molly urged as she wanted to get Noah out of this mess, she thought that he has seen enough.

"I think our job is done and we accomplished what she wanted." Alexis smiled once her youngest was out of the room.

"Where do you think you children got your manipulation skills from?" Mac asked as he looked at Maxie.

"Our Mother." The blonde smiled as she stood up, "I am assuming that game night is over since everyone has left."

"We should go find Sam and Kristina." Jason said as he stood.

"They are properly at your house already." Ethan added as he stood and followed the older man out.

"Well played Dad." Maxie smiled, "I think that Noah is going to take a lot more to scare off."
"I will work on it."

"You are bound to scare one off, I mean you can't strike out five times out, you've failed four times so I think you can get this one." Maxie winked as she left the house.

"It's impossible to scare them away because anything I am able to come up with is no even in the same playing field as what you four come up with. It's like they build immunity to craziness." Mac frowned as he began to pack the games up