American Honey
Chapter 24
Jason just stood there for a moment in silence, before Robin and Patrick joined the group, Sam's back still to Robin. "Sam and I are parents, you and Robin are more like step parents." Patrick corrected Sam as he placed an arm around her.
"Are you trying to say you drugged Sam and slept together and she is now pregnant?" Robin hissed.
"Unless I skipped that day in science, which is a real possibility, I don't think people give birth to pigs." Maxie laughed as Sam turned around to show Robin the baby.
"Back up for a minute, why would you assumed I would have to drug Sam into sleeping with me?" Patrick asked shocked at the statement.
"There is no way Sam would do that to me." Robin answered as she came to see the new addition to the family, "You on the other hand are capable of that." She added as she glared at Patrick.
"Jason?" Maxie asked as she waved her hand in front of Jason's face, who still have not said a word since Sam asked him.
"Glad that there is not going to be a shot gun wedding?" Johnny questioned as he glanced at Jason waiting for a response.
"There is going to be an extravagant over the top wedding." Maxie answered for him as she pulled out her trusty wedding book seemingly out of nowhere.
"How did the pig get here?" Jason asked as he choose to ignore the other four in the room.
"Patrick and I were putting the furniture together when I heard a noise... I mean..." Sam started as she watched Patrick carefully.
"We heard Lily bark and found this little guy wondering around front yard." Patrick finished as he walked up to Sam and took the piglet from the smaller woman.
"I asked Sam?" Jason answered again as started her in the eye,"I find it hard to believe that the two of you were able to put all the furniture together."
"Do you have that little faith in me?" Sam asked with a frown.
"I think that you are capable of doing anything." Jason smirked as he moved so he was standing directly in front of Sam, "I think it would have been more believable if you were able to complete the living room in two hours. Yet you and man who has the attention span of a ferret, over here were able to put the whole house together in two hours."
"Maybe it was a miracle." Sam countered as she looked up at the taller man.
"Maybe it was another one of your crazy plans." Jason muttered as he lowered his head in an effort to close the distance between the two, "I Don't want any secrets between us." He muttered as he placed a kiss on her forehead and then trailing down till he reached her lips, "I thought we were partners in crime now." Jason mumbled as he placed a kiss below her ear, his hand trailing down to her engagement ring.
"We are." Sam sighed as she bit back a moan.
"Really?" Jason questioned as he placed more kissed along her collarbone.
"We payed someone to put the furniture together." Sam breathed, "Patrick found the website to rescue the piglet."
"Good girl." Jason smirked as he scooped her up in his arms and headed out of the barn.
"You have lost your pig privileges are revoked." Robin ordered as she took the animal from his arms and went to head back to the house, "So are your computer ones too." She called over her shoulder.
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The next morning, Jason and Sam found themselves waiting in the airport for Nikolas and Emily's fight to get in. Jason was watching Sam as she scribbled away on a notebook that rested on her lap. The two had gotten there at ten and it was now eleven thirty, the plane had been delayed for some reason. "You are wedding planning already?" Jason questioned as he leaned closer to try and get a look at the list.
"Do I look like Maxie to you?" Sam laughed as she held the pad to her chest, "We have been engaged for two day. We have the rest of our lives to get married." She explained, " I am brainstorming names for the bar." Sam replied as she propped her head on his shoulder and handed over the list to him.
"Sand Bar, Life's a Beach, and Sea Breeze." He read aloud before he glanced back at Sam, "Which are you leaning towards?"
"Those three are my top picks." Sam sighed as she shook her head, "You guys did all the hard work and I can't even pick out a name."
"This is important to you, it make sense that picking out a name is going be be difficult." Jason insisted as he shifted her so her legs were across his lap and she was facing him, "We were only the manual labor." He laughed, "You are the one that got the liquor licenses in record time."
"It helps growing up in a small town and having a sister that knows everyone's secrets."
"How you manage to blackmail people so easily scares me." Jason admitted with a slight frown/
"I don't call it blackmailing."
"Then what do you call it?"
"Getting people to see things my way with a little encouragement"
"In other words blackmailing." He laughed, "Something your sisters are masters of, I feel sorry for Johnny and Patrick."
"Have I ever blackmailed you?" Sam countered.
"No, but this relationship is relatively new. I would give it a few years."
"That is the way Maxie and Johnny flirt and Patrick is just stupid sometimes."
"What about us?" Jason asked not sure he wanted to know the answer.
"We are so far out of their league it doesn't count, I have known you for less then six months and we are already engaged and living together. Those four have been together since middle school and are just moving in together." Sam stated, "I am so winning on the relationship front... I mean we are so winning." Sam corrected with a smile.
"So I am like a trophy fiance then?"
"No, you are the person that makes me the happiest I have ever been." Sam confessed with a serious tone. Jason looked at her for a moment before he raised his hand to brush her hand out of the way and then leaned down to kiss her. But before they could make contact, they heard a very familiar voice as it came off the airplane.
"Do they know how expensive that shampoo was? There was no way I was going to put it into my checked luggage, since we all know how well that worked last time. But instead of loosing it this time, I had to throw it out." Nikolas ranted as Emily and he make there way towards the seating area, "All that money down the drain."
"I think if you call your Grandmother, she will be more then happy to replace it for you." Emily consoled in a sweet tone, "Since you are such a kiss ass." Emily added with a frown.
"I was just being nice to the flight attendant."
"By letting her feel you up."
"She split the drink on my lap. What was I supposed to do?"
"Be an adult and wipe your own crouch." Emily hissed as she grabbed her purse and headed right past Sam and Jason towards the baggage claim.
"Oh and the life guard at the hospital gave you mouth to mouth because you were dying."
"I was sucked under the current, I could have died." Emily yelled for everyone to hear.
"Please don't let that be a glimpse into our future." Sam prayed as she leaned her head against Jason's chest.
"I can promise you that you are the only one I will allow to feel me up." Jason laughed, "I also know that if anyone tries to kiss you, you have a mean right hook." Jason added as he placed a kiss on her head before he slid her off him lap and stood.
"Feel you up?" Sam laughed as she took his hand and stood, "I think there are other things I rather do."
"Since our siblings are oblivious to us being here, why don't we go do that." Jason smirked as he liked his idea more and more, "They can take a taxi home." Jason urged as he used there linked hands to bring her closer to him.
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"Please." Jason pleaded as he reluctantly followed Sam down the terminal as they kept a reasonable distance from the arguing couple, "They still don't realize that we are here."
"Jase, I promise I will do whatever you want if you let me see how this plays out." Sam promised as she squeezed his hand and gave him a wink.
"Even?" He asked astonished with wide eyes.
"Yes, even that." Sam approved as they reached the baggage claim.
"Alright." Jason smiled as he sped up and pulled Sam behind him and hurried over towards his sister.
"If my bag is lost again, I am going to sue and never fly anywhere." Nikolas vowed as he and Emily made their way over to their belt.
"I can finally see why Maxie calls you one of the girls, you complain about everything."
"Oh well I guess you wished you knew that before we eloped."
"I am learning a lot about you, like you always leave the seat up on the toilet and I always fall into it." Emily frowned as they waited for their things, "You would think growing up in a house with woman that you would be trained better."
"We tried but he was a little slow." A voice interjected from the entrance, "I even hit him with a rolled up newspaper. Squirting water does not work either." Maxie smiled as she and Johnny walked over to the two.
"Maybe a lion will come alone to take care of the wounded gazelle." Johnny added with a grin, "We have missed having you around to make fun of." He added as he patted his friend on the back.
"Why are you two here?" Jason asked with a frown as he and Sam made their presence known to the four.
"We are here to pick up Emily and leave Nikolas at a gas station." Maxie answered as she spared a glance at her brother and then back at the taller man.
"No, Sam and I are her to pick them up. We were waiting for them in the terminal and they walked right by us." Jason argued.
"I was supposed to pick them up, that was what the post it note said." Maxie defended as she crossed her arms.
"Actually, you were supposed to pick up the pictures of their wedding." Johnny corrected.
"The note said pick up Nik and Emily."
"Well I was tired and you father can talk forever, so I wrote down the cliff notes version." Johnny explained with a sigh, "At least I wrote the note, I mean you are always complaining that I don't."
"You two are welcome to bring them home." Jason interrupted as he moved his hand to the small of Sam's back ready to guide her towards the door.
"Is that a ring?" Emily asked her attention finally pulled away from her husband and to her friend and brother.
"Oh here we go." Jason groaned as dropped his hand from Sam, "You didn't even know we were here for the last twenty minutes, yet you see Sam's ring."
"Why not? It is the size of a golf ball. Where Emily's is smaller then a grain of sand." Maxie observed.
"Nikolas is cheap, lazy, has to many hair products and complains. Johnny is always wrong and the woman are always right." Jason summed up, "There the fighting can end and Sam and I can leave."
"Jason you proposed?" Emily asked as she ignored her brother.
"No I just bought her a ring and she put it on her ring finger."
"Be nice." Sam ordered as she elbowed him in the side.
"That was not part of the deal, all you said was I had to stay here and watch the argument. Not be nice or care about any of this." Jason disagreed as he turned to Sam just as the bell rang to show the bags were about to come.
"It was really romantic." Sam gushed as she ignored Jason and went on to stand next to Emily.
"She and Patrick also had a baby." Johnny added as Nikolas pushed his way to the front of the convenor belt to wait for his bag.
"I'm sorry." Emily coughed, "We weren't gone that long."
"It's a long compacted story, but they were hiding it in a barn until Robin and Jason found it."
"There is a scratch on my bag!" Nikolas yelled as he carried his bag over to the two.
"Where are mine?" Emily asked as she looked at him.
"Oh, I didn't know you were incapable of carrying your own over packed suitcases." Nikolas laughed.
"I will give you two hundred dollars to take them now." Jason offered the blonde.
"Four and I can use your truck whenever I want." Maxie negotiated.
"Deal." Jason smirked as he pulled his wallet out, handed her the bills and then grabbed Sam's arm and darted towards the door.