American Honey
Chapter 12
Emily and Sam continued to watch from the hallway as Maxie and Johnny chatted away with Monica, Tracy, Edward and two other men that Sam did not recognize. "Why are we waiting in the hallway?" A voice whispered from behind the women, which caused the two to jump, they had not noticed that Nikolas and Jason had come downstairs. "Sorry." Jason apologized as he pulled Sam to him and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Why is our sister here?" Nikolas asked as he glanced over Emily's shoulder and was shocked at what he saw.
"I don't know, but I doubt that it's anything good." Sam answered as she leaned into Jason's hold, "But we are not going to find out standing here." Sam added as she broke out of Jason's grasp and grabbed his hand.
"I am fine not knowing. I much rather just grab something to eat and let her distract the family." Jason grunted as he let Sam pull him into the living room, Emily and Nikolas tailing behind them.
"Sam!" Maxie shrieked as soon as she saw her older sister standing there, she wasted no time and rush straight at Sam, in an attempt to hug her which resulted in Sam falling to the ground.
"I hadn't realized that you all were up yet. I thought for sure you would want to sleep in." Monica mused as she pulled her two children into a hug, "You are just in time for breakfast." She said as an afterthought as she took her seat next to Alan.
"Daddy, when did you get home?" Emily asked with a smiled as she ran to greet her father.
"Your brother and I got in early this morning. That is when I found those two wondering around the yard." Alan explained as he pulled his only daughter into a hug.
"Aren't you going to introduce us to your friends." A.J asked as he nodded over to the direction where the Scorpio sibling were gathered.
"Why are you here?" Nik asked as he shot a glare at Maxie while he held out a hand to help Sam up and ignored the blonde's outstretched hand.
"Well, I thought you might be needing this." Maxie snapped as she stood up and walked over to where Johnny was and pulled out a familiar blue suitcase.
"What did you do?" Nikolas hissed as he grabbed the bag away from her and thrust it at Sam.
"I was being a fantastic sister and bring you your bag." Maxie defended, "You think he would be a little nicer, I mean we did fly all this way just for him." She mumbled to Johnny, who just took a step back from her, knowing that this was not going to end well.
"You are defiantly last on the list of wonderful sisters." Nikolas said to himself as he turned to Sam who had already opened the bag and was looking through it, "How the hell did my bag end up in Mississippi?" He asked once he looked at the luggage tag.
"Maybe you filled it out wrong. The point is you have it now, the airport back home called and said they got your luggage back and here we are." Maxie scrambled as Nikolas turned his attention back to her.
"I am guessing you mislabel his bag, so you could use that as an excuse to get here." Sam observed as she stared at Maxie. She was about to say something else but jumped when she saw there was now a man standing at her side.
"Hi there." The man smirked as he held out a hand, "Since my siblings seemed to have forgotten there manners. I am A.J." The man winked as he grabbed Sam's hand and placed a kiss on it.
"Sam." Sam managed to say, not fully sure who this man was.
"A beautiful name for a beautiful woman." A.J mused as he let go of her hand.
"Great, I now have my bag, that you had sent to Mississippi. You can now go." Nikolas smirked as he crossed his arms.
"Nonsense, you two are more the welcome." Monica smiled, "You all are practically family."
"Maxie has to get home, she has work." Nik insisted.
"I answer phones at a police station, I'm not exactly in a rush to get back to that."
"Well, Johnny must have something to get back too."
"I don't have a job, my girlfriend and best friend are both here so I'm good." Johnny spoke up for the first time.
"Do Mom and Dad even know you are here?" Nikolas asked still not happy that they were going to be staying.
"They are a little occupied at the moment. Grandmother is in town." Maxie grinned as she helped herself to a glass of orange juice.
"Mac actually is staying with Patrick and I at the moment." Johnny informed the older man with a smirk.
"I think he is scared that Mom is going to help Grandmother poison him, after what happened last week with us." Maxie guessed as took a sip of the juice.
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"You are Jason's brother?" Sam guessed as she choose to ignore the bickering that was taking place between her siblings.
"I am guessing the golden boy didn't share too much about his family." A.J laughed as he grabbed Sam's hand again and brought her over to the couch, where Monica, Alan and Edward where sitting. With Emily and an unhappy Jason, "This is my father, Alan." A.J smirked as he introduced the two.
"Dad this is Sam." Jason interrupted as he came around the couch and pulled Sam to him.
"It's nice to meet you Sir." Sam greeted as she shook his hand.
"No need for the formalities Dear, it's Alan." The older man corrected as he pulled her into a hug, "My son definitely has good taste." He murmured which caused Sam to blush.
"We were a little worried there for a minute." A.J laughed as he shot another wink to Sam, which caused her to turn more red, "But I have to commend you Jase, you know how to pick them." He added as he clapped his brother on the back.
"I said the same thing last night." Tracy interjected with a small smile.
"Do you have somewhere else to be?" Jason asked as he glared at his brother.
"I cleared my whole week, I plan on sharing all your embarrassing stories with Sammy here." A.J mocked as he looked at the smaller woman, who had taken a seat on the couch.
"You know Samantha, you and my grandson would make wonderful grandchildren." Edward informed the young woman, who had taken a seat next to him, "I am not getting any younger and none of my blood sucking children deserve to inherit ELQ."
"ELQ?" Sam asked confused and turned her attention away from the two men and towards the older man.
"Our families empire, I'm surprised Jason didn't tell you."
"Now, you know she isn't a gold-digger and that she fell for Jason because of his charm." Tracy interrupted, " I'm not sure what that says about her."
"He might not have much to say, but he is sweet. He did save me from a bar fight."
"This Jason, he is emotionless." Tracy asked unsure.
"Obviously, this young lady brings out the best in him." Edward brightened, "You will make a fine Quartermaine."
"You know what I think we should go to Kelly's for breakfast." Emily exclaimed as she tried to cheer everyone up.
"Why?" Jason asked oblivious to what was going on, "There is plenty to eat here."
"Because as we speak Grandfather is busy scaring Sam away."
"I think breakfast sounds great." A.J commented.
"Who said you were invited to come?"
"I think it would be fun if we all went." Sam interrupted as she linked arms with Jason, "It will be nice to get to know the brother I didn't know about." She added as she pecked Jason on the cheek.
"Fine." the man grumbled as the everyone stood up to get dressed.
"I totally want to hear the stories." Sam muttered to A.J before she took off as Jason waited for her at the bottom of the stairs.
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"Hey, why the long face?"Sam asked as she laced her hand with Jason's as they walked through the park. After breakfast, A.J and Emily had decided to show Maxie, Johnny and Nikolas around town, while Sam and Jason took their own tour.
"I'm fine." Jason mumbled as he pulled Sam closer to him.
"And I am a Wonder Woman." Sam laughed.
"I pretty short Wonder Woman." Jason smirked as he wrapped his arms around Sam.
"You are not upset at your brother, are you?" Sam asked as Jason kissed her forehead.
"Embarrassed? Yeah. Unset? No. I just don't want them to overwhelm you"
"Please you had to deal with my crazy family and apparently still do." Sam laughed as she gazed into his eyes.
"Your family is fun and excepting."
"So is yours. I had no idea what I was so afraid of, they could have not been more welcoming."
"I think my Mother and Grandfather are already planning the wedding."
"My Mom is already one step ahead of them and Molly is naming our future children."
"Really now?"
"Yeah, she has already informed that we at least have to have six because she can't narrow her list down."
"Doesn't seem to be a problem in your family." Jason laughed as Sam punched him in the shoulder.
"Maybe A.J will be more than willing..."
"Mine." Jason growled as he pulled Sam into a kiss and backed up until them were seated on a bench or at least Jason was with Sam on his lap.
Sam quickly pulled away as heard a familiar laugh, "No." She muttered as looked over Jason's head and over to the gazebo, where she saw two all too familiar people standing there. She immediately shot off a confused Jason and pulled him to a near by bush.
"Mind telling me what we are hiding from?" Jason asked only to be swatted at by Sam who was busy peering out of the plant.
"You have got to be kidding me." Sam muttered, "What is with my family?"
"What is it?" Jason asked as he looked over Sam's head and his eyes widened at who he saw standing there.
"Robin! Patrick!" Sam yelled as she jumped out of the bush and straight towards the couple, who were both startled at Sam's sudden appearance.
"What are you doing in a bush?" Patrick questioned.
"What are you doing in New York?" Sam countered as she crossed her arms and Jason came out to join the three.
"I had a conference."
"Shopping." The two said simultaneously.
"A conference of what? Lazy wannbe doctors?"
"Be nice." Patrick ordered.
"We were curious, we wanted to see what Jason's family was out." Robin admitted.
"I mean it's only fair, Jason got to meet all of us." Patrick added.
"Did you at least get a group deal with Maxie and Johnny?" Jason asked as he placed an arm around Sam.
"Why would we do that?"
"Because they flew her earlier this morning." Sam informed the two.
"We just got in twenty minutes ago. What do you mean that Maxie is her? She and Johnny said they were running out for a little while."
"And you weren't worried when they were got for six hours?"
"It's Maxie and Johnny, I am happier not knowing what they do when they are alone." Patrick grimace.
"Do Mom and Dad know you are here?"
"No, we told them we were visiting a school with Kristina."
"Kristina is here with you?"
"And Ethan."
"Why?"
"Helena is in town and I think that is enough said, so where are we staying?" Patrick asked which caused Sam to bury her head in Jason's shoulder.