American Honey
Chapter 23
Sam hesitantly flipped through the large frilly binder that sat on her lap as Patrick pulled off the expressway and on to a back road that was lined with corn on each side. Sam had spent the first two hours of the trip playing with the radio, looking out the window and counting the way this trip could go wrong.
As of two days ago, the plantation house was officially the young groups, all that was left was to pack, get the necessities and assemble the new furniture. Robin and Jason had the task of going to Bed Bath and Beyond, something that Sam and Patrick had willing done the day before. The two had spend five hours and came home with everything that had been on As Seen on TV display, marshmallow gun included. Needless to say, the two were no longer aloud to do the shopping. Maxie and Johnny had the task of packing every up.
The later was what Sam and Patrick were supposed to be doing and to be fair they did start. Or rather Sam had started, while Patrick was messing around on his computer. He happen upon this site and then decided that this was something that needed to be taken care of right now. "You are planning already?" Patrick asked as he glanced on the binder that rested on Sam's lap.
"No, I don't know why she even has this." Sam answered as she looked hesitantly opened the book and remember how happy Maxie was to finally have a use for it.
-Flashback-
"I'm sorry can you repeat that?" Alexis asked as she looked from Sam to Jason and then finally to the large ring on Sam's finger.
"Jason proposed last night and I agreed." Sam answered slowly as she looked around the room.
"You did it that soon?" Mac asked as he finally found his voice.
"You knew and I didn't?" Maxie asked as she glared at Sam, "We spent all day together and you didn't think to mention it at all? What kind of sister are you?" Maxie rattled off as she stormed out of the room and up the stairs to her room.
"Jason know how to be a man and actually came to me and asked my permission to marry Sam." Mac answered as he glared at the two other men in the room, "You two never asked me to do anything; you move into my house and have my wife tell me and then you go and buy a house or apartment for all you to live in, again without my permission." Mac huff.
"I don't think we should be taking advice from wounded gazelle, who was trying to one up his wife by using the fact she forgot her anniversary against her. Which you got wrong by the way, you do pay me every year for a reason." Patrick smirked as he stood his ground.
"Maxie and I are not involved at this at all. You should be angry at Patrick not at me, he forgot to pay our rent, which set at this in motion." Johnny tattled as he moved away from Patrick and to the other side of the room.
"Can we get back to the fact that Sam is getting married?" Alexis interrupted, "Don't worry, we are going to have a very long conversation about you paying the children to remember the date we declared our undying love to each other." She promised as she glanced at her husband before she turned to face her daughter.
"This is amazing news." Robin smiled as she hugged Sam and then was joined by Alexis and Jason.
"I am still made at you, but since I am such a nice person I am going to let you use dream wedding book." Maxie announced as she waltzed back into the kitchen and handed Sam the book.
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"That thing is huge she had to have been making that since she was a child." Patrick observed as they pulled into a long driveway of a farm.
"I think this wedding is going to be the scariest thing to ever happen to me." Sam muttered as she threw the book on the back seat.
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"Have you kept every piece of clothing since you were five?" Johnny asked amazed as he labeled what felt like the six tote full of shirts.
"I hate doing laundry. So I just buy clothes so I don't have to do it." Maxie answered as she walked out the walk-in closet with an arm full of dresses, "I also love fashion."
"Look at all these shoes! There is no way you have ever worn all of these. Why do you have so many?"
"Cinderella is proof that a pair of shoes can change your life." Maxie countered as she threw a pair into the tote.
Maxie and Johnny had spent the last two hours packing up the blonde's things and were no where near done. Since Robin and Sam were moving into the house by the end of the week, Maxie and Johnny decided to move into their new condo at the same time. Johnny had found the perfect home for the two that was ten minuets away from where her sister lived and close enough to all the shopping in town.
How did you buy all this? I'm just saying because although you do have job, if you can call it that, you are never there." Johnny wondered out loud, "I think in the last three months you have been there once."
"I answer phones at police station, one which my father is in charge off. So that means I can show up when I want to." Maxie sighed as she shook her head and tossed a green dress in the donation box. That had a lone shoe, two socks, a ripped shirt and now a green dress, "I also happen to be Russian nobility in my family, which mean a bat crap crazy grandmother that wants to buy my love." She added with a smile and she handed the rest of the dresses to him.
"Than you should be able to pay someone to-do all this." Johnny smirked as he dropped the clothes and left the room, "I'll be at the bar."
"Jonathan if you walk out that door, I swear..." The blonde trailed off as she watched her boyfriend scurry out of the room and slam the door behind him, "I am going to make him pay." Maxie declared as headed back into the closet.
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"Plates, towels and sheets." Robin listed out loud as she checked off each item off of her list. "That's the last of it." She concluded as she gave the cart a once over. Robin and Jason had been the ones sent off to get essentials for the house.
See and that only took two hours." Jason added with a smirk as the two headed towards the check out.
"We also are not children." Robin laughed as she started to unload the cart, "Do you think that anything is going to be put together by the time we get home?"
"50/50 chance. Depends on how distracted the two get."
"So, is this starting to sink in for you?" Robin asked as she changed the subject.
"That I am in love with a crazy woman, I think I knew that when we were all in a motor home driving to Atlantic City." Jason laughed as he pulled out his wallet.
"I meant how real this all is becoming. Moving in together and starting a new life." Robin admitted.
"When I first met Sam that is when a new chapter in my life started, the first few days we spent together I knew she was it for me. I wasn't looking for anything of this and it fell on me like a ton of rocks." Jason started as he started to load the cart with shopping bags, "We tend to not like change, no matter how good it can be for us."
"I am worried that Patrick and I are not ready for this big of a step. Two months ago, we were on again off again."
"Do you love him?"
"With all my heart." Robin answered honestly as they headed out of the store and towards Jason's new truck.
"You just have to trust in that and have a little faith." Jason advised.
"I have an issue with control." Robin admitted with a laugh, "I am not good with letting things happen on their own or trusting someone else with something like my heart."
"Patrick knows all this about you and still loves you." Jason replied as he placed an arm around the smaller woman, "Love is not something you can explain and you can't help who you fall for or how fast you fall." Jason finished as he pulled her into a hug.
"What if something happens and we break up?" Robin asked as she looked up at him.
"You can't spend your time worrying about the what ifs, you have to live you life and make the best of it." Jason sighed, "I was terrified that Sam would not say yes when I proposed, but I took that chance and it turned out right."
"You're right, Patrick and I made it this far and we are still together." Robin said with a bright smile as she pulled away from Jason and hopped into the truck, "I am happy that your car broke down."
"I am too." Jason laughed as he started the truck.
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"I didn't think you would go along this so willingly." Patrick said amazed as he pulled the hay out of the back of his truck.
"All I had to-do was see it's cute little face." Sam smiled as she looked into the crate, "Do you think that the others will be mad?"
"No, the furniture is put together and everything else is in order." Patrick smirked as he pulled the last hay bail from the truck.
"We didn't do it thought, we paid someone to-do it for us." Sam corrected as she pulled out the animal from the travel crate and into her arms.
"They never said how it had to be put together, just that it had to be assembled." Patrick explained his point of view, "Plus the way I see it they are never going to fine out, I am not going to say anything because I do not enjoy to be yelled at, he can not talk." Patrick motioned to the baby in Sam's arm, "So the only way they are going to find out is if you talk."
"We save a life." Sam agreed as she cooed down at the little piglet in her arms. Patrick had come across a animal sanctuary, that saved abused farm animals and declared that he wanted to save him and had to go now.
"Can you get all this in the barn? I am going to go delete the history on my computer, so they believe we just found this little guy wondering around."
"Why do you have to clear the history?"
"Maxie snoops and has ruined my life before." Patrick responded as he headed towards the stairs, "The website we found this guy on is on the computer and if she finds out we went to pick him up three hours away even Maxie can connect the dots."
"Okay." Sam shrugged as she headed to the barn that was on the opposite side of the driveway then the house.
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An hour later, Robin and Jason pulled into the driveway and were shocked to see Maxie chasing Johnny around with a hammer Lily on her tail, while Sam was pulling a bail of hay from Patrick's car towards the barn that was on the other side of the driveway.
"It's not to late to turn back around." Jason offered as he watched the scene with a frown. He should not be that surprised that these four left alone would be trouble.
"They have already seen us." Robin frowned as Patrick made his way towards the two.
"Hey." Patrick smiled as he opened Robin's door with a smile, "How was the shopping?"
"Good, we got everything on the list." Jason answered.
"Really, you obviously have more self control than I do." Patrick remarked as he helped Robin with the bags.
"How did you make out?" Robin asked her boyfriend.
"Really good." Patrick smirked as he stared at the brunette.
"Um, is something wrong?'
"You are amazing." Patrick answered with a smile as he pulled her down up for a kiss.
"That it?"
"I love you like a pig loves not being bacon." Patrick smiled as he pulled Robin into a hug.
"I'm not sure how to respond to that." Robin said unsure as she hugged him back.
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"Going for a cowgirl look?" Jason asked as he walked up behind Sam.
"Jason!" Sam squealed as she dropped the bail and jumped into his arms.
"Missed me?"
"Of course." Sam smiled as she kissed him.
"Jason!" The blonde screamed as she ran away from Johnny who had somehow managed to get a hose and was now chasing her. She took a flying leap and jumped on to his back. The sudden weight had caused Jason to fall forward and trap Sam between the hay and Jason.
"Maxie." Sam muttered her voice muffled by Jason's shirt, before Jason shifted so that he was holding himself up on the hay with Maxie still on his back.
"You tried to kill me with a hammer because I wouldn't help you move?" Johnny asked as he sprayed the three with the hose.
Sam used the diversion to roll out from under Jason and ran towards the barn. Maxie and Johnny has shown up a little while after Sam and Patrick had gotten back from the farm sanctuary, well Johnny showed up with a case a beer in an attempt to avoid Maxie. The blonde showed up a few moments later so she could yell at the man.
The two after a twenty minutes of fighting took the time to see the piglet in Sam's arms. The two immediately stopped fighting and offered to help fix the fence around the barn. This task was only a diversion from the fighting, which started right up after Johnny accidentally dropped wood on her foot. Which led to the blonde chasing him around with a hammer.
"I am going to kill you when you least expect it and there is not a thing you can do about it." Maxie promised, "Now that we live together it is going to be so much easier." She added as she took off towards the house so she could change.
"You two need some serious consoling," Jason shook his head as he followed Sam towards the bar.
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"You are just too cute and so small." Sam cooed as she picked the piglet up and hugged him towards her.
"Are you hiding another boyfriend in here?" Jason questioned as he entered the barn and pulled off his wet shirt.
"I have no idea what you are talking about." Sam smiled as she kept her back to him. Jason smirked as he walked closer to the smaller woman.
"How would you feel about becoming parents?" Sam smiled as she turned around and the look on Jason's face was priceless.