Memory
Most of the memories Sam has from her early life were less than pleasant.
She could remember her dad saying he was going to the store to buy a loaf of bread, but never coming back. She remembered all the times her mom yelled that she should be more like Melanie. She remembered running away from home when she was six because the twelve-year old girl who lived next door to her kept bullying her. She also remembered that her mom didn't even notice she was gone until the next day. She remembered the day that Melanie told her that she would be attending a fancy boarding school across the country; leaving Sam all alone.
Looking back on more recent memories, though, Sam would actually feel a warm, happier sensation. That reason being, she knew, was because of a certain somebody had entered her life.
Now looking back she would remember her and Freddie's first kiss out on the fire escape; she would remember their first date, and how she took two hours to prepare for it. She would remember him staying up with her for so many nights to help her get her grades up so they could attend the same college after high school, and the look on his face when she told him she got in. She would remember the time Freddie got down on one knee and proposed to her, and the butterflies she got in her stomach when he kissed her after she said yes. She remembered their wedding and their 'I do's', and their honeymoon to Europe, and she remembered the shocked, but ecstatic face of Freddie when she told him that she was pregnant with their first child.
With Freddie in her life, Sam was able to look back at even her oldest memories and smile, because she knew that he would always be there to make new ones.
