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7.12.17 (Announced Baby Bump)
chapter forty-nine
"I can't believe you, Sam..."
Melanie looked at me with her eyebrows furrowed as tears start to well up in her tear ducts. I was lost for words. I couldn't respond to her words because I felt the tingling feeling on my cheek when she slapped me. Why is she so angry at me? Why did she get offended when I told her something about my relationship? I didn't know Melanie had this violet side in her body and she showed it to me by slapping me...
"I'm so proud of you!"
What the hell...?
"You finally did it, you skank! You got your man!" She wraps her arms around my shoulders while leaving me confused. Why the fuck is she hugging me after she slapped me in the face?
"Get off!" I pushed her away from me almost causing her to fall off the bed. She stared at me with a sad expression. "Why the fuck did you slap me?" I asked loudly giving her a forbidding look.
"Because I thought this moment would never happen, but I'm so glad it did." She answered cheerfully.
"But you just called me a skank..."
"Well, you are. But in a loving sister's perspective." She smiled. "I mean, your ex-boyfriend did all the slutting when he cheated on you with so many girls, but you are a skank and proud of it. You're proud of it because it's with Freddie."
"You fucking slapped me though!" I yelled, ignoring her previous comment.
"Yeah, sorry. I may have gotten a little carried away," she chuckled.
"And why were you crying and looking at me like you hated me?" I asked another question still confused at her charade.
She cocked her head to the side looking puzzled as she pointed at her eyes. "You mean my tears? These are tears of joy, Sam! Tears of joy for finally stepping up and being yourself for once."
I feel like I'm having another Carly episode because she did the exact same thing to me...
Actors.
"Wait, when did you start slapping and cursing. You're the innocent child! You never curse." I argued.
"Sammy, there's a lot of things you don't know I've done since I got to that school." She shrugged. Oh my god... what does she mean by that?
"And what did you do?!" I exclaimed demanding her to answer me.
She pursed her lips as she doesn't look at me. "Well..." she paused. "I may have lost my virginity when I was fourteen to this boy who was in my algebra class..."
That answer alone made me gasp loudly looking at my sister like I don't even know her anymore. Oh, my God, my innocent little sister is no longer innocent... "What?!" I exclaimed.
"Oh, come on, don't act all shocked. Like you haven't lost your virginity yourself." She rolled her eyes.
"But... I lost my virginity way after you. So how did you do it before me?" I asked pointing at myself, shocked. This is just all wrong, I usually do stuff first before Melanie, but suddenly, she lost one of the most important events in a girl's life first?
My head hurts...
"I don't know, Sam. It just happened." She shrugged her shoulders. "We met on my first day of freshman year in class, we got to know each other for a couple months. We were talking about it one day which led to him telling me—another day, that he wanted to try it with me, so I agreed and wanted to try it myself. After we had sex, we admitted that it was too awkward, so we stayed friends." She explained as she looked nonchalant. I cannot believe this girl. She has sex with this boy I don't know about, and they just closed the deal saying that they want to stay friends and never speak of it again.
"You didn't... feel anything towards him after that?" I asked curiously.
"To be honest, no. I like him as a friend, but that's it. And he doesn't feel the same way because we talked about it. We're still friends today so I'm glad to have him as a friend at least."
Wow... so I guess we're different people according to who we have sex with. Melanie has sex with a guy and they just go back to being friends with no problem. I, on the other hand, fell in love with my best friend deeply after we had sex for the first time together. It's weird how we're twins but have different thoughts to how we control our lives.
But I have to admit, she got the balls to actually be a woman!
"No matter how uncomfortable it is to hear my little sister doing that... I'm impressed, Mel." I smiled at her. "You just went for it without complications."
"Yeah, I guess." She laughed. "But anyway, enough about my sex life. Let's talk about yours." She wiggles her eyebrows.
"There's nothing to talk about, Mel."
"Are you kidding? My sister finally got her true love after all this time! I knew Jonah was bad news, to be honest with you." She said as she scoots closer to me on the bed. Did... did everyone notice Jonah was terrible except for me? How come I didn't mark anything wrong with him until the night he told me he cheated on me?
"So, everyone knew except me," I said to myself.
"Well, Sam, that's what happens when you're in a relationship with somebody. We don't recognize anything wrong with our partner, but someone from the outside does. All of us just... see and have a radar about someone. Like mom and dad, for example, they noticed something sketchy when dad talked to him years ago, and I thought he looked like a player. It's not your fault though, he was your first boyfriend so you thought he was amazing and sweet. I'm just mad he cheated on you for years and decided to tell you about it months ago." She rolled her eyes looking furious.
After her explanation, it all started to make sense. I was naïve the whole time not recognizing his flaws and what he was hiding. If I had a clue that he was cheating on me years ago, then I would've broken up with him before he could explain himself. I wish I didn't have to learn about that the hard way, but if that hadn't happened...
I wouldn't have Freddie.
"What are you grinning about?"
I snapped back to reality and stared at Melanie as she has a wicked smile on her face. I didn't realize I was grinning because all I was thinking about was Freddie. The man that changed my life and makes me happy since that day of meeting each other for the first time in daycare.
"Sorry, I was thinking about Freddie," I mumbled feeling my cheeks on fire.
"Ah yes, your boyfriend. So how did this happen after you guys... had sex?" She asked.
My mind flows back to the moment everything changed, and I couldn't help but smile at the amazing memories Freddie and I shared together. He would never disappoint me from being happy. "After Freddie and I did... you know what, something in my body felt different and I had feelings that couldn't just go away. Something that I haven't felt before with Jonah. Freddie was always there for me since we were friends, and I don't know... every time I looked at him he just had this... sensation that I love; I couldn't stop having the feelings in my body that made me get goosebumps. Everything about him is just... beautiful." I finished dozing off not knowing if Melanie was listening to me, but everything I said about Freddie never gets old.
"Aww..."
I look at Melanie and saw happiness in her eyes as she looks at me. "Sam... that's so cute!"
"Ugh... not this again. Why are you so mushy about it?" I asked annoyed.
"Because it's so rare for some people to find true love and you did. I'm so happy for you. I guess your little elementary school crush has paid off, right?" I forgot that I told her about how I had a crush on Freddie when we were little. I only told her that embarrassing secret no one else could know about, especially Freddie. But I guess my crush did pay off because now I'm dating him and I couldn't be happier.
"I guess it did..." I smiled glancing at the floor.
"Sam, it's so cute that you're in love!" She wraps her arms around me as I didn't have time to prepare myself for her eagerness. "My sister is in love!" She yelled next to my ear and I cringed at how it sounded.
I regret telling her anything.
"Melanie, get off!" I tried to pull her arms away from me but she didn't budge, and I had no way of her letting go of me.
"No! I'm so happy for you, I'm gonna cry." She cooed while squeezing her arms around me tightly. God, she's suffocating me... she won't fucking let go. No matter how many options I tried to get her off, she ends up crying because my love life is a movie and she won't stop the tears.
What did I do to deserve this?
Freddie's POV
Sam's father can be scary when he needs to be. After Sam and I had told our family about us dating, everyone was shocked, but I didn't expect Sam's mom to be okay with it so quickly after hugging me to death. However, two people didn't seem happy for us;
Sam's dad and my mother.
I didn't know how to handle Mr. Puckett's death stare when he wanted to talk to me. It was like he wanted to kill me on the couch with his bare hands and I was afraid I was going to die on Christmas. My mother had this disappointed look on her face when we told her and I didn't know why. It was probably because we didn't reach to her right away and told her our status from being friends to lovers.
But Sam and I agreed to wait to tell everyone about us. That didn't work because of our affection for each other on the couch as everyone stared at us. Now I'm talking to her father as my Mom and Ms. Puckett are in the room as well, listening to the conversation while I'm here—nervous as hell.
I've been sitting on the sofa for a while as Mr. Puckett is sitting on a dining room chair in front of me, talking to me about his daughter. The conversation was not as complicated as I thought it was going to be; he mainly talked about how we were little and developed some sort of feelings towards each other—which was true. Then he explained about Jonah. I couldn't stop gritting my teeth the whole time at the mention of his name and how he hurt her.
Half-an-hour later, he asked me one question that made my heart pound.
"Why do you want to date my daughter?"
Everything about that question is just a question that someone shouldn't have time to think about. I know why I want to date Sam, she's everything I could ever want. I want to cherish her every day and never want to make her cry. She deserves happiness and trying life the way she wants it without doubting on herself when something gets tough. I will always be there when she makes those kinds of decisions, but I need his approval first to let that happen.
"...she's someone I could count on and be with for the rest of my life, even. I had... I didn't have a happy childhood by not knowing my father, he left me when I was just a kid. I bet you know that already. Sam was already there at the beginning, but she helped me realize I shouldn't worry about my trust issues anymore. She helped my issues disappear.
"If it weren't for Sam, she wouldn't have helped me believe in love correctly. What real love means. So, sir, she has helped me a lot since the day I've known her, and I want to be with her every single day for the rest of her life."
I'm sitting in the best posture I can achieve as I answered his question with confidence and every word being one hundred percent true. "It probably sounds corny, but I don't care. I love your daughter, and I don't want to do anything to upset her or make her get into any kind of danger while she's with me. So, I'm asking for your permission. Can I date your daughter?"
I stared at Mr. Puckett wondering what he's thinking about after my answer and was nervous of what he would say. Suddenly, I turn to my mom and she looked at me with a beaming smile on her face as I saw her eyes glisten. Then I turn to Ms. Puckett and saw the same expression matching my mothers. The women are staring at me as if they're watching something upsetting on T.V. However, Mr. Puckett is a different story. He's staring at the ground in deep thought. Maybe he's thinking if I'm capable dating his daughter, the girl he's known his whole life and wants nothing to happen to her. I don't blame him though; she's been hurt before and doesn't want to make the same mistake again.
After a few seconds, he looks up at me and gives me the father look that could get a boy to pee his pants. If he's trying to scare me with his look... he's doing a great job because I feel uncomfortable as I shift a little on the couch. He's not saying anything which is making me worried if he denies about Sam and I being together. I can't imagine my life without Sam if he says no, then it would make our relationship awkward and I don't want that for us. I want to be with her forever. I don't care what it takes to make that happen.
I can't live without her.
Mr. Puckett still glares at me until he exhaled a deep sigh. "If you ever hurt my little girl, I will ruin you. Do you understand? I don't care if you are family."
My eyes were bulging out like saucers as I repeated what he said in my head multiple times. He... he said yes... kind of. I can date Sam and be with her. I don't even care that he threatened me. Wow, I can't believe this is happening; it's like he gave me another Christmas present that I will cherish for a lifetime.
"Thank you. Thank you, I promise I will never hurt her." I smiled ear-to-ear staring at everyone in the room appreciating this moment.
On cue, Sam and Melanie enter the living room and stared at all of us. "Are you guys done talking?" Sam asked nervously, alternating her eyes between her dad and me.
As I was about to answer, her father stood up from the chair and walked to his daughter, resting his hand on her shoulder. "Yes, and you can date him, Sam. I know he'll take good care of you." He said sincerely.
Sam opened and closed her mouth repeatedly like a fish breathing underwater and turned her head at me with a surprised look on her face. I smiled at her as I stood up from the couch and walked closer to the father and daughter.
Sam didn't know what to do as she looked at her dad for a few seconds then looked at me for a couple of seconds, going back and forth staring at us with big eyes. I let out a light chuckle at how cute she's acting from the news of us dating with her father's permission.
Before anyone could say a word, Sam snaked her arms around my shoulders and hugged me, giggling near my ear in relief as I wrapped my arms around her torso, hugging her dearly. Telling our parents about us feels great just to be able to let it out and not worry about them freaking out anymore. I'm glad everyone improves of our relationship; it's not like what we had between us in the past was going to change if we were friends or not. But I'm thrilled I get to be with her even longer.
There was a sharp knock on the door that interrupted our moment and we all looked at the door, confused.
"Is it Christmas carols? They don't exist anymore." Ms. Puckett questioned.
"It's probably Carly, I told her she could drop by anytime today," Sam replied, unwrapping her arms around me. She walks to the door, leaving us hanging and opens the door midway. "Hey Carly, glad you could make it."
She stopped herself as she looked at someone in the doorway after she opened the door wide open. I squinted my eyes trying to get a better look at the person in front of her.
As I narrowed my eyes getting a clear vision at them. I felt my heart drop to the bottom of my stomach, feeling my throat hitch and my breathing become heavy as I look at the person outside the apartment.
I can recognize that face anywhere.
Dad...