American Honey

Chapter 26

Sam bopped her head as she grabbed a mug from the cabinet, she had just gotten back from her morning run. Something that was in no way her idea, that was at the urging of her blonde obnoxious sister. Maxie had taken it upon herself to be Sam's unofficial wedding planner, Jason and Sam were not moving fast enough for the blonde's liking.

It had been two months since Jason had proposed and there had been little planning done other than wanting the wedding at the beach and Sam finding the perfect dress, which she had stumbled upon when she hid in a rack to avoid Maxie. Sam's focus was taken up by her new bar, which had become a huge hit.

The Beach Bar had been a huge success, Nikolas and Sam made the perfect team. Nikolas was in-charge of all the business end, while Sam managed the actual bar. Even Patrick and Johnny had made themselves useful and were surprisingly good bartenders. Sam had turned to get the milk and jumped in surprise to find Maxie standing behind her holding a marker and shaving cream.

"Hello sister dear." Maxie greeted as Sam took out her ear buds.

"What are you up to?" Sam questioned as watched Maxie.

"Payback." Maxie grinned as she passed Sam and headed up towards the stairs.

"I am better of not knowing." Sam mumbled to herself as she moved to the fridge to grab the milk.

"Talking to yourself Beautiful." Jason asked as he walked up behind Sam and slipped her arms around her waist. "First sign of insanity, though judging by your family I think we might be passed that." He smirked as he placed a kiss on Sam's neck.

"Maxie is up to something." Sam answered as Jason leaned back into Jason's chest with a sigh.

"When is she not." Jason laughed, "Where were you this morning? I woke up to an empty bed." He questioned as he kissed under her ear and then down to her collar bone.

"Morning run." Sam moaned.

"You should have woken me up, I would have went with you." Jason muttered.

"Tried that and we did get much running done." Sam closed her eyes as she leaned her head back.

"Still got a workout out of it and a new experience." Jason countered, "I don't see why you are listening to Maxie. I think you look amazing and don't need to exercise." Jason complemented as he moved his hand to her waist and pulled her closer to him, "But if you want to work up a sweat I know one way, we will both enjoy."

"I need to take a shower." Sam protested as she opened her eyes and stepped away from Jason.

"What a coincidence I do too." Jason agreed as he turned Sam to face him and leaned down to pull her into a deep kiss, "Let's save some time, we both know that you are going to give in." He asked as they broke apart.

Sam started at him for a moment before she sighed and wrapped her arms around Jason, who grabbed her hips and lifted her up. "You are lucky you are so small." Jason smirked as Sam wrapped her legs around him and he headed towards the stairs.

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Emily stuck her head out of the doorway before she glanced back at her bedroom, where a sleeping Nikolas laid. Nikolas had taken it upon himself to pay Maxie back for posting pictures of him on his twitter from their little trip to the dance studio. Nikolas had decided to get her back by placing mayonnaise in the blonde's shampoo. Only as usual it did not turn out in his favor, turns out Emily had showered at Maxie before the girls went out. Now the two were set on revenge.

"Is he asleep?" Maxie asked as she made her way up the stairs and towards Emily.

"Knocked out, slipped him some Benadryl." Emily grinned as she led Maxie into her room. Nikolas was sprawled out on his stomach with a pillow over his head, He was also wearing his famous footie pajamas that had the power rangers on them.

"I am so glad you married into this family, it almost makes up for all the years I had to put up with Wounded Gazelle here. "

"You are so sweet." Emily gushed as she grabbed the marker and moved towards Nik's face.

"Maxie?" Johnny called as he appeared in the doorway with a small box and a bag.

"Shhh." Maxie and Emily said in unison.

"I got everything on the list." Johnny muttered.

"Everything?"

"I also found this at the dollar store on the way here." Johnny nodded as he set his things down and pulled out a huge stuffed lion from the bag.

"I love you." Maxie smiled as she jumped on to Johnny.

"What is that noise?" Emily pried as she lowed down to the ground and peered into the box, "Ducklings?" Emily asked as she opened the box up and picked up on of the babies.

"Don't ask me it was on the list." Johnny shrugged as he placed the blonde on the ground and glanced at Emily, "I was given the list and got what was on it."

"You would kill a person if Maxie asked you too, wouldn't you?" Emily asked as Maxie went to word drawing on Nikolas's face.

"I don't think that Maxie would need any help killing anyone, she is a little devious. I do think that she would need help getting rid of the evidence and I would do that in a heart beat because I love her."

"Aww, now get over here and help me." Maxie ordered as she drew a cat face on her brother as Emily placed food dye in his body wash.

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Robin sat outside on the patio of her renovated barn apartment, she inhaled the scent of her coffee as she set it aside and looked over the hill. She quickly turned around when she heard the sliding door open, she gave a small smile when she saw that it was Patrick. "There you are." Patrick grinned as he sat down next to her with a plate full of food.

"I thought you were going to go help run errands with Johnny." Robin smiled as Patrick took a sip of her coffee.

"I was until I saw that livestock was involved and we all know how that turned out." Patrick reminisced as he glanced down at Bacon who was asleep on his bed,

"I still can't believe that you boys named him Bacon, that is cruel." Robin shook her head as she snatched her mug back.

"It's cute and it's what we saved him from becoming."

"We are good right?" Robin asked a moment later.

"Good about Bacon?" Patrick asked confused.

"No living together and the whole thing." Robin stuttered.

"I love waking up with you and not having to climb out the window." Patrick smiled as he took a bite of his bagel.

"So, it's not suffocating the two of us living together."

"Not at all, I've been wanting to take this step for a while." Patrick shrugged as he swallowed.

"You have?" She asked shocked.

"Yeah, I was just waiting for you to give me a sign. I know how you like your space."

"Patrick I am so sorry how I have been acting the last two years, I mean breaking up with you and freaking out with you."

"We are beyond that, we both made mistakes. I paraded those woman around in front of you on purpose." Patrick admitted with a frown.

"I just was scared at how long we were together and that sooner or later we would have to take the next step."

"I understand that now, I just wish you would have confided in me than." Patrick added as he grabbed Robin's hand.

"I was scared and that's why I pushed you away."

"Babe, you are stuck with me." He promised as he squeezed her hand.

"I'm glad because there is something I have to tell you." Robin breathed as she gathered her courage just as there was scream from the main house.

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"So what is the game plan today?" Jason asked as he wrapped a towel around his waist and then held Sam's robe out for her as she got out of the shower.

"I want to take you somewhere." Sam said with a sly grin as Jason pulled her towards him as he loosened the tie of the robe.

"Are we running away?" Jason smirked as he lifted her onto the counter.

"No, I have just been thinking and this whole wedding thing is already giving me a headache and we haven't even started to plan it yet."

"Sam, what are you trying to say?" Jason frowned and glanced away not really liking where this conversation was going.

"No not that at all." Sam hurried as she grabbed his face and made him look at her, "I love you so much, I just don't want that to be strained by all this stress."

"Eloping?" Jason asked as he ran his hands up and down Sam's arms.

"I can't do that to my family or yours, I just want a simple wedding and to be your wife." Sam declared, "I don't care about the cake, the dress, the flowers or the band. I just want to spend the rest of my life with you."

"You are amazing." Jason observed as he leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead and trailed down to her lips. He started to untie to lower the robe so he could get a better access to her neck. Sam moaned just as their bathroom door slammed open.

"Don't mind us." Maxie shouted as she pulled Emily into the bathroom and then shoved her into the foggy shower, but not before she shut the door behind them. Jason looked at Sam for a moment before he leaned back down to kiss her neck.

"Not working for me anymore." Sam decided after a moment as she leaned her head against Jason's shoulder.

"Pretend they are not here." Jason muttered as he nuzzled her neck, "This is our bathroom and we are not going to let our sisters ruin the mood." He declared as he moved in between her legs and pulled her closer to him.

"You think that you can hid from me." A voice yelled from bedroom before the door flung open and Nikolas entered the room.

"Nik!" Sam gasped as she fixed her robe and tried to keep a straight face as she looked at her brother that had writing all over his face and in his Power Ranger Footsie pajamas.

"What are you two doing?" Nikolas asked as he glared at Jason.

"None of your business, this is my bathroom and you didn't even knock." Sam defended, "Obviously something you never do with your wife." She added as an after thought.

"Conserving water." Jason answered as the same time as he squeezed Sam's hips.

"Did you see what they did to me?" He asked as he looked around the room suspiciously as he lloked for any sign of the two women. Sam buried her head in Jason chest to stop herself from laughing at the picture of a gazelle being chased by a lion was taped on his back.

"Who did what?" Jason asked as he rubbed Sam's back.

"Who the hell do you think did this?" Nikolas yelled.

"You said something about going somewhere?" Jason sighed as he easily lifted Sam over his shoulder and headed out of the room. "They ran towards your parents house." Jason added which caused the man to take off towards the front door.

Maxie and Emily peeked out of the shower and hurried towards the window to watch Nikolas take off down the road and towards Alexis and Mac's house which at the end of the street. "Molly, get the camera ready." Maxie smirked as she talked on her phone.