American Honey
Chapter 14
"Daddy, I'm not sure you have really thought this through." Molly said a little unsure as the two stood in the lobby of the hotel.
"I am winging it until a plan comes to mind." Mac responded as he looked around the lobby, "This seems to be the best hotel in town, which means Maxie has to be here somewhere." Mac added just as his phone rang.
"Are you going to get that?" Molly asked as she watched her father's face pale once he looked at the screen.
"It's your mother." Mac mumbled as he hit the ignore button before he placed it in his pocket, "Why don't we go up to our room and then grab dinner." Mac volunteered before his phone started to ring again.
"You know that she is just going to keep calling." Molly pipped up as she grabbed her bag and headed towards the elevator as Mac ignored the call again.
"I can't worry about your mother right now." Mac sighed as he grabbed his bag and they walked into the elevator.
"Mom." Molly greeted as she picked up the phone and tried to ignore the look her father shot her, "Fishing? Oh yes, I have always been fascinated by the sea." Molly covered as she turned to her father and mouthed fishing, "Oh, you want to know why the fishing poles are in the basement? I don't know, Daddy just said we are going fishing."
"Hang up." Mac ordered.
"No Mom, I am not sure where we are going fishing, maybe some where new." She answered, "No, Dad did not kidnap me."
"Hang up!" Mac repeated as he reached for the phone, "Molly, I am your father."
"No he is just having a hissy fit." Molly laughed, "I think we are going to end up staying over night. Alright, I love you too Mom."
"You all are nothing but trouble, I don't trust any of you to take care of me when I get older. You all will probably just lock me in the basement and forget to change my diaper." Mac rambled as they reached their floor.
"Mom says you are in huge trouble and thinks you are a bad influence on me." Molly informed the older man as she took the key from him and opened the room, "Oh and next time you want to lie make sure you cover your bases, you left the the fishing poles in the basement."
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"So." Sam smiled as she twirled around in front of the mirror.
"Hot." Robin and Emily said in unison as they looked at the black dress.
"Could use a necklace, what about the one Patrick got you for Christmas?" Johnny offered as he looked Sam over.
"So, have you told your parents yet?" Maxie asked as she laid down on Emily's bed.
"We were planning on doing it tonight at dinner." Emily commented as moved over to make room for Sam, "That is if the men ever get ready."
"Can you believe that they are not ready yet? Even Maxie is done before them." Sam laughed as she leaned against the blonde.
"That is saying something considering we are normally at least an hour late to anything, thanks to Maxie." Johnny commented from the chair next to the bed.
"I want to look my best for you." Maxie smiled as she got off the bed and climbed on to his lap.
"Okay, I need help with shoes." Sam replied as she went to her suitcase, "I want something to make me taller, so Jason is not towering over me like always. Your brother is a giant." Sam added as Emily came over to look at the shoes.
"Jason is a normal size, you are the one that is oddly small. A tiny compact ball of rage." Johnny mumbled.
"Well, this tiny compact ball of rage is going to kick you in a second." Sam glared at her friend, "Now, which ones?" Sam asked as she held up a pair of black heels in one hand and a red pair in the other.
" Red, they look like they will hurt less." Johnny smiled.
"You are a little good at girl talk." Maxie commented, "I might be a little worried." Maxie commented as there was a knock at the door.
"You know there is nothing to be worried about." John winked as he wrapped his arms around the blonde.
"Girls we need to get a move on it." Jason yelled through the door, as Emily opened it.
"No way are you going to blame this on us, Mr. I take twenty minutes to-do my hair." Emily informed the taller man as the girls filed out of the room, Jason was a little shocked to see Johnny come out too.
"Did you get to paint your nails?" Jason smirked before he grabbed Sam before she got to the stairs.
"Yeah nice sea-foam blue, you missed the awesome pillow fight. Nice to see Sam is wearing the red thong she bought for the trip. " He countered as he headed down the stairs.
"Do I wanna know how he knows what underwear you bought?"
"We are best friends." Sam defended with a laugh once she saw Jason's face, "We needed him to carry out bags."
"As long as you aren't modeling these for anyone else, I'm fine with it." Jason smirked as he lowered his hand to the hem of Sam's dress and slowly started to lift it up.
"You'll find out later." Sam winked as she brushed his hands away and hurried down the stairs.
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"Yes Mother, I know." Alexis sighed into her phone as she grabbed her glass of red wine.
"I just think it's odd your husband has suddenly left, in-fact your whole house seems to be vacant." Helena replied on the other line.
"Mother we have been over this; Sam and Nik are visiting some friends, Johnny and Maxie are around town somewhere and Robin took Kristina to look at a school." Alexis explained for what felt like the millionth time.
"I never knew Mac fished."
"It's a new hobby of his. I know that tone all to well Mother, you are to leave Mac alone. We have gone over this, if anyone is going to inflict bodily harm to my husband it will be me."
"One time and you never let me live it down, I am not the one who gave your daughter the wrong medicine. Are you not worried that Molly is alone with Mac as we speak." Helena commented with a smirk.
"Mother, I have to go. Diane has a case she needs help on, so I won't be coming home till late."
"You forget I raise you Alexis, Good luck trying to find your husband." Helena offered before the line went dead.
"I am not surprised my children turned out the way they did." Alexis said aloud as she looked around the restaurant.
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"That went a lot better than I thought it would." Jason muttered as the waitress walked away with their dessert orders. Alan and Monica had left shortly after dinner because there was an emergency at the hospital. Ethan and Kristina had also taken off, saying they wanted to look around town.
"Why wouldn't it? Mom and Dad just want to see us happy Jase, no matter how hard that might be to see at times." Emily answered with a smiled as she leaned into Nikolas's arm which around her chair.
"You two could have given me a little warning." AJ commented as he took a sip of his beer, "Now I look like a deadbeat, I am going to be the only one living at home and have no plan for my wife."
"Nikolas still lives at home and he doesn't have a job, you at-least have a job, you work for your parents." Maxie pointed out with a smile as she glanced at her brother.
"Why do you always have to pick on me?"
"Because you are the wounded gazelle." Patrick answered, "You know the weakest member of the heard, an easy target." Patrick explained once he saw everyone's reaction.
"So I am injured deer like animal?" Nikolas asked confused.
"Yes and I am the powerful lioness that is going to feast on you." Maxie grinned. Sam almost spit out her drink as the words came out of Maxie's mouth. Jason handed her a napkin before he placed his hand back on her thigh.
"At least, you finally admit you want to kill me."
"Alright this has definitely taken a wrong turn." Robin coughed the water she had just sipped.
"There has to be someone you are interested in." Sam stated as she turned her attention to AJ.
"I don't know, I don't have the best luck with woman."
"Well when you compare every relation to the disaster that you and Carly where." Jason commented as he continued to trace patterns on Sam's leg.
"You two dated? Sam almost yelled not believing what Jason had just said.
"Unfortunately, yeah and how do you know Carly?"
"Sam slapped her the first time they met." Emily explained with a confidant smile.
"Awesome."
"So there is no-one you might just want to hook-up with?" Maxie asked as she joined the conversation, "Because that woman has been watching you all night." Maxie added as she nodded towards the blonde woman who was just headed towards the bathroom.
"Sure she was."
"Be right back." Sam smiled as she got up from the table, which caused Emily to shoot up and follow her.
"What is the fascination with bathrooms and those two?" Patrick asked as the waitress came over with their desert.
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Sam and Emily smiled as they walked into the bathroom, "I can't believe that she did that to him, AJ is so broken up over her cheating on him." Sam commented as she moved over to the sink and opened her purse.
"I know, I hate to see my brother all broken up over it." Emily replied as the blonde walked out of one of the stalls.
"If I wasn't with taken, I would just at the opportunity to be with a man like him. He is so sweet and not to mention handsome." Sam smiled as she replied her mascara.
"I love your shoes." Sam smiled at the stranger, "I wish I could pull heel off, I am a total disaster in heels."
"Oh thanks, I'm Courtney."
"Sam and Emily." She introduced, "I know this might seem a little odd, but are you here alone?"
"Yeah." Courtney answered a little unsure.
"You see my friend got a rough relationship a few months ago and has kind of given up on trying."
"He thinks your really cute and don't think you will give him the time of day." Emily finished.
"He really thinks I'm cute?" Courtney asked with a smile.
"Yup." The girls said in unison, "You should go talk to him, he is kind of shy." Emily added as she watched the blonde smiles brighten.
"I might do that." Courtney smiled as she hurried towards the door.
"That was very nice of you." A voice called from a bathroom stall.
"Molly what are you hiding in the bathroom?" Emily asked, "Molly!" She yelled as the shock hit her that the little girl was her in Port Charles.
"I am going to go out on a limb here and say you sold us out." Sam observed. "What did you get?"
"Italy and the new Kindle."
"Can't say I'm not proud of you." Sam laughed, "You didn't say how long you would keep it a secret."
"I gave you all enough time to get here."
"Dad and Mom are at the restaurant?"
"No, just Dad and me. He is meeting me here in a minute, he locked himself out of our room again." Molly laughed.
"Come sit with us." Emily offered as the three left the bathroom and headed back to the table. Where they found Mac was already there.
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"Oh there are the rest of my lying daughters." Mac commented as the three came sat at the table, "Not you Emily."
"Technically Sam didn't lie, you knew she and Nikolas were going to be here." Molly pointed out.
"Can you please be on my side for once."
"Not when it seems you are always wrong." Maxie snorted as she took another sip of wine.
"I am your father."
"I think he is the weak gazelle now." John muttered to Patrick.
"Where is AJ?" Sam asked seeing that the older man was no longer at the table.
"The blonde asked him out." Nikolas explained, not looking away from the bickering going on between his father and sister.
"Maxie, did you really think your father would believe that we were still shopping 24 hours later." Johnny piped up.
"Don't be a suck up, my father is never going to like you."
"I am liking him a lot better than I like you right now. Why did you all leave me alone with that crazy woman."
"That is what you are upset about?" Robin asked me confused.
"You don't know what it's like to feel like that women is going poison you every time …..." Mac started but stopped when he saw who was getting off the elevator, "How?" He asked shocked before he ducked under the table and dragged Molly down with him.
"Catching anything under there dear?" Alexis asked with a smirked as she reached the table.