WARNING:this chapter contains some sexual content (i mean nothing hardcore) but just in case you are not into that its underlined so you can skip whatever is underlined :)

Chapter 16

Opening night crept up like a ghost. Sam was do consumed with her thoughts of nervousness that she jumped half out of her skin when someone knocked lightly outside her door.

"Yes?" Sam said a little out of breath.

"Honey? It's your Gram. May I come in?" Sam's gram said from the other side of the door.

"Uh. Sure." Sam said going back to being a nervous wreck.

"Nervous?" Gram asked with a small amount of amusement on her eyes.

"A little." Sam confessed trying to focus on breathing.

"Honey you are going to be fine stop worrying about it. " Gram tried to reassure her.

"Aha." Sam said with a nervous giggle.

"Samantha, you are a beautiful talented girl and remember you are not alone up there. Your mom is always there next to you ready to catch you before you fall. She is so proud of you. We all are honey." Gram said while giving Sam a reassuring hug. Sam almost broke down in tears, as it was a couple of treacherous ones managed to escape.

"Now, now you'll ruin your makeup." Gram play scolded.

"Yeah and I don't want Mrs. Hampton to hang me." Sam joked around giving another nervous laugh. Her grandmother joined her.

"I just came back here to wish you good luck. Don't worry about anything because you know you're going to be fine." She smiled. "We all came here to watch you perform doesn't matter if it's good or bad okay." Gram said giving her a final hug.

"Thank you Grandma." Sam said giving her a final hug before they both headed out the door, her Gram towards the audience and Sam towards backstage.

After the play everyone went to the Ely's ranch to have a big celebration for Samantha and Jen. They both had done wonderful jobs and where being appraised left and right for their work.

Something Samantha didn't tell anyone, though is that right after she had gotten approached by Julliard school of performing arts and they had told her that they were very interested in having her attend their school and where willing to offer her a full ride scholarship. She wasn't planning on telling anyone soon either.

She had way too much to worry about anyway.

The Ely's ranch was full of people; it was almost like when they had thrown Jake that after graduation party when he had graduated high school. There was way too many people plus Sam was on a mission of avoiding a certain someone so Sam went into the Ely barn and sat down on a blanket that for some reason had been left there. Samantha was successfully avoiding him; she had been since winter break. At first it wasn't intentional, she had just been really busy, and so had him.

But later she began actively avoiding him, mostly because she was still confused over what she wanted. She really wanted to be with him, she had waited all that time and now to be stopped because some stupid girl couldn't get a hint? But at the same time she wasn't sure if it was morally right because no matter what Dana still thought her and Jake where in a relationship which meant that they where, right?

It was in this deep state of thought that Jake found Sam.

"You okay Brat?" Jake asked teasing lightly. Sam jumped. Jake laughed.

"Do you enjoy scaring me half to death?" Sam asked annoyed.

"As long as it's only half because I don't know what I would do if you where scared to death." Jake said as he grabbed one of Sam's hands and took it into his own. Sam felt all the blood rush to her cheeks. She didn't know what to say so she said nothing at all. Jake chuckled again.

"You preformed really well." Jake said while beginning to rub circles on Sam's hand.

"You, you, uhm, you where there?" Sam stumbled over her words; she was finding it very hard to talk.

"I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Jake said as he kissed Sam's hand. Sam's heart stopped. Not once had his lips ever made contact with any part of her, even if it was just her hand, her head was spinning. She wanted to remember why she had an objection to being with Jake in the first place.

"Oh." Was all Sam could answer. Jake smiled into her hand and continued placing kisses slowly up her arm. His lips felt rough but soft at the same time. Every time they made contact with Sam's skin she would explode inside. Sam felt her mouth dry, the butterflies in her stomach where flying around like a hurricane.

"So can I ask why you have been avoiding me?" Jake asked in between kisses, smirking when Samantha couldn't seem to remember how to talk. A good ten seconds passed before some far off part of Sam's brain screamed at her to answer anything.

"What?" She asked almost in a trance.

"Why have you been avoiding me?" Jake asked again, smirking and pulling her closer to his body.

"I, um, I haven't." Sam said still caught in a trance.

"Yes you have." Jake said starting to kiss Samantha's other shoulder and slowly, tenderly moving down to her other hand till he had that one in his hands as well.

Samantha wanted to throw herself in his arms right then and there, but still a sensible part, a very small, minute sensible part was telling her to remember that he was 'taken' for all intents and purposes and whatever they did would constitute as cheating.

Jake felt her make to pull back. He had worked so hard to gather up the nerve to get to where he was right now, he would never push anything physical from Samantha but he wasn't going to chicken out either. He has promised himself that he would kiss her by the end of tonight. The things that he wished would happen afterwards could be left in his dream until she wished.

Remembering his very vivid, very naughty dream, Jake felt an involuntary blush begin to form. Sam caught him blushing and she stopped herself from pulling back, she was shocked. Jake Ely blushing.

"Jake?" Sam asked trying not to laugh. She thought it was very cute.

"Sam?" Jake asked looking Samantha straight in the eye, his look was so full of passion, need, and love that Samantha was temporarily taken aback.

Kiss me! Kiss me! She thought. Don't kiss me! It's wrong! Her mind countered.

At the end Samantha had no choice. Jake leaned forward and very slowly, so as to give Samantha time to back away, he pressed his lips to hers. It was a very chaste, very tender kiss, but their first.

Sam's insides exploded at the fact that Jake Ely, the guy she thought she would never have, had just kissed her. She was so happy a big smile formed on her lips.

Jake had been nervous at Samantha's response but took the smile as encouragement and leaned in for a second kiss.

Their second kiss was filled with all their need, desire, despair, and want. Their love and their lust. Jake's lips crushed onto Samantha's after barely giving her enough time to recover. The kiss slowly began to deepen and Jake's tongue swept along Samantha's lower lip begging for entrance which Samantha gladly accepted. Jake rested one of his hands on Samantha's mid thigh making Samantha moan at the closeness. Sam's hands reached up to Jake's neck and latched on there. Their tongues danced gracefully, each enjoying each other's taste. Jake broke the kiss but never lost contact with Samantha. He kissed down to her neck, where he began sucking lightly, never enough to leave a mark. Samantha moaned a little louder, she could feel a heat start to grow deep in her stomach. She felt a need to be closer to him. She moved his head back to her lips and they began their tongue dance again and that's when Samantha made to straddle him. She could feel the growing bulge in Jakes pants and smiled in satisfaction. Jake moved his hands and cupped her butt and pushed her into him, a low growl escaping him. Samantha almost turned crazy with want at feeling her womanhood up against bulge. She couldn't get enough of the intense pleasure it caused her. She began grinding into him, moaning and kissing his neck all at once. If it was even possible, Jake grew larger. His hands began roaming Samantha's body glad that she wasn't stopping him. As if practiced they both stopped their administrations at the same time yet neither made to move from their current position.

They looked each other dead in the eye, passion and love was reflected in them. They gave each other a sweet tender kiss and rested their foreheads together; neither had said a word yet. Jake moved Samantha from straddling him to being almost cradled in his arms.

"I love you." They both said at the same time, and chuckled. They stayed in this position for a couple more minutes in content silence.

"We should get back to the party." Jake finally said.

"Yeah before they start to worry?" Samantha said making her way off of Jake.

"You may want to, um, fix your hair there." Jake said with a smirk.

"What you smirking about." Sam said jokingly as she took his advice and began fixing her hair and makeup.

"How do I look?" Sam asked turning towards Jake.

"You look beautiful, but then again you always do." Jake said planting another sweet chaste kiss on her lips and then they both made their way out of the barn and towards the party.