A/N: Sorry, it's been so long since I updated this and I'm sure that have a lot of these apologizes in my notes, but I got stuck and then I in this chapter I leave you with a cliff hanger. I suck, get over it.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: It's not ending well

Sam sat up in bed and yawned. She looks around the room and sighs. She felt like crap. She remembered feeling like this after she came off of her very first high. After having the aching feeling that Melissa had killed her mom, all Sam wanted to do was forget about it. The drugs helped with that. Now that she had a clear head she knew she couldn't forget what had brought her to this point, the truth about her mother.

Sam knew that walking out of her bedroom she was going right into the lion's den, but she had no choice. She was hungry.

Sam opens her bedroom door and walks out. She spots Julian and Brooke sitting at the table looking at her. Sam ignores them and heads to the fridge to get milk for cereal. Her stomach was growling.

"Do you have anything to say?" Julian asks in an icy tone.

Sam ignores him and continues to do what she was doing.

"Sam, you scared us. Please sit down and talk to your father."

Sam sits down at the table with a bowl, cereal box and milk. A spoon was in her mouth. Sam continues to ignore the both of them.

"You told me to never do this again. Drugs, Samantha, what the hell were you thinking? You could have died."

Sam glances at her father.

"How long has this been going on?" Julian asks in a calmer voice.

Brooke sits in her seat worried about what was going to happen. Sam starts eating her cereal. Julian gets up from the table and storms out of the house and slams the door behind him.

Brooke decides to take initiative and see what is going on with her soon to be step daughter.

"I've never seen him like that before. He was so scared. We both were and then Peyton brings you home and he knew you were high. I didn't see it. I can't understand why I missed it," Sam looks up. "The point is you scared him and all he wants is some answers. I mean why would anyone want to get high anyway?"

"To forget, to be numb," Sam states in a scratchy voice. "I needed to forget. It was the only way to forget."

"Forget about what?" Brooke asks concerned when she sees tears roll down her eyes.

"She killed my mom."

-WLOM-

"I don't understand that girl. I really don't," Julian complains in a huff. "I mean, who does she think she is, ignoring me like that."

"She sounds like Sara."

Julian looks at Peyton annoyed. After storming out of his house he had only one destination in mind and that was to the Older Scott's house. He needed to see Peyton. Besides himself and Sara, Peyton was the only other person who knew the real Sam. He wanted perspective on his daughter's life.

"I know she does and it just bugs the crap out of me. I mean I love Sara, I really do, but she's gone and Sam is all I have left of that particular past. If Sara were here she would know what to do."

"Maybe instead of coming up with something on your own you should try to put yourself in Sara's shoes. If she was alive and she had found out that Sam had done drugs, what would Sara do?"

"She'd put Sam in a program. Sara was clear on that the first time this happened that if it happened again, Sam wasn't going to like the outcome. I just, I don't want to be the bad guy here."

Peyton places a hand on the arm of her friend.

"You're not the bad guy Julian. You're being a father and that's what Sam needs right now. I don't know what's going on with that girl, but it's really starting to freak me out. This isn't the Sam we know. This Sam seems lost and I don't know what to do for her, but you're her father. You need to figure it out Julian or going to lose her."

-WLOM-

After her brief talk with Brooke, Sam retreated back to the bedroom. She didn't feel good and she needed to lie down. In the meantime, Brooke was waiting for Julian to show up. She had no idea what to do with the information that Sam had given her. She didn't know if it was true. She didn't know if she could trust that Sam's information was right. Julian would no more than her.

Julian walked through the door and spotted Brooke pacing the room.

"Brooke, what's going on?"

Brooke stops and faces Julian.

"You know Melissa pretty well right?"

Julian scoffs.

"I thought I did until I learned she hit my daughter."

"Is she capable of committing murder?"

Julian furrows his eyebrows.

"I don't know. Brooke, what are you trying to get at?"

"Sam says the reason that she turned to drugs was so she could forget. Melissa had implied to Sam that Sara's accident might not have been an accident after all."

-WLOM-

She knew this was stupid, but she hadn't got enough the first time. The pain was still evident and she wanted it erased from herself and this was the only way she knew how.

"Double the price, double the quantity."

Sam hands over her money and she gets a few vials in return. She would enjoy those a little later.

-WLOM-

With a little coaxing from the principal, Julian was able to locate Melissa's home. Brooke telling him that Melissa was responsible for Sara's death just about broke his heart. Sam's mom died because of him and he wasn't going to get over that so quickly.

Julian knocks on the door hard. Melissa answers with a huge smile.

"Julian, what a surprise?"

"Cut the crap, Melissa."

"That's no way to talk to me Mr. Baker."

"I don't care. I just need you to answer me this one question," Melissa sighs in boredom. "Did you kill Sara?"