American Honey
Chapter 27
Mac let out a content sigh as he set his steaming coffee mug down and eased back in to the old rocking chair. He could not remember the last time he was able to enjoy a quite morning like this, not to mention having a day off. It was also oddly quite which normally would mean his children would be up to something, but since his daughters had moved out, it was just a normal morning.
"Breakfast Daddy?" Molly offered as she opened the screen door and walked out on the porch with a plate full of eggs,bacon and toast and the paper in the other hand and made her way to the patio that was on the side of the porch.
"What did you do or what do you want?" Mac questioned as he took the plate and watched his youngest suspiciously.
"I am not Maxie or Kristina." Molly retorted innocently as she took a seat on the chair next to her father's, "Don't worry Mom didn't touch it."
"Where is your Mother?"
"Trying to get the phone away from Kristina so she can talk to Maxie."
"For heaven's sakes they moved ten minutes away and we see them almost everyday, what could she possible have to say." Mac ranted as he shove a fork full of eggs into his mouth.
"I think she is just trying to cope, she goes to a house full of kids to the four of us."
"I thought it might relax your mother" Mac replied as he set his fork down and moved towards the bacon, "What the hell is this?" Mac screamed as he spit out the food and glared at his daughter.
"Bacon"
"I know bacon and that is not bacon." Mac spat as he took a long sip of his coffee.
"It's turkey bacon, it's better for you then regular bacon." Molly tried to explain.
"No, your mother saw a special and now thinks it's better for me and bribed you to feed it to me. She knew I would fall for it because you are the innocent one." Mac ranted as he stood up, only to turn around when he heard his wife.
"Kristina Lily Scorpio give me that phone right now!" Alexis yell could be heard through out the house as Kristina ran out the front door, "I want to speak to my daughter!"
"I am going inside and finding something real to eat." Mac declared as he stood up and placed his plate on the chair.
"I think that you might want to wait." Kristina advised as sent a wink at her younger sister.
"What are you doing? Are you doing something to me?" Mac questioned as he slowly sat back down, "Was there something in my food?" His eyes widened as Kristina and Molly knelled down behind the bushed that lined the patio.
Kristina dropped the phone on the steps and pulled out her cellphone and switched it to video just in time to see a running man come into view, "I told you I wanted to talk to your sister." Alexis demanded as she stormed out on to the porch and stomped over to the patio where the other three were.
"Why are we ducking down?" Mac gasped as he watched Nikolas sprint up the path and into the backyard.
"Kristina! Give me the phone." Alexis demanded as she reached for the phone.
"Mom!" Nikolas yelled completely unaware that the four were standing outside on the patio, "You are not going to believe..." He continued as he ran straight into screen door and feel flat on his face into the kitchen floor.
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"What did she say?" Johnny asked as he placed a beer down and slid it across the table to his best friend.
"Are you not even listening? She didn't get to finish because your girlfriend swooped in and dragged her out the door. Something about Nik I think." Patrick answered as he took a long sip.
"Oh, Maxie and Emily were paying Nik back for something." Johnny remembered his mission that Maxie sent him on earlier, as he opened his own beer, "So, you think that is was something important that Robin was going to tell you?"
"It has to be, I don't think that she would break up with me, at least I hope not. I mean the conversation was going really well, we finally cleared the air."
"I think we need a woman's perspective on this." Johnny declared as he pulled out his phone just as there was a knock on the door, "It's open." Johnny called as Sam slowly opened the door, followed by Emily and Jason who carried a heavy box.
"Why didn't you just use your key? That's why you have one, so you don't have to knock and I don't have to move." Johnny wondered as he stood to greet the three.
"Nik took my key and I wanted to be polite." Sam answered as she carefully looked at Johnny.
"If you are going to be doing something private you should lock the door." Patrick defended, "We were just going to call you. I need your help."
"First, what the hell is that?" Sam nodded towards the pink robe with flowers that Johnny had on with a
pair of boxers.
"Laundry doesn't really mix with Maxie and I, so we are at a stalemate right now."
"I was wondering what was happening, but I have seen you in worse." Patrick laughed.
"Where can I put this?" Jason asked as he motioned with his head to the box. Sam took it from him and placed it on the table.
"This was left behind at my parents house and Robin said it belonged to you two." Sam answered as Patrick stood and moved to open the box.
"Jase, we have to go." Emily tugged on her brother's arm, "You promised to go look at the campus with me."
"Are you sure you are okay with going by yourself?" Jason asked as he turned Sam to face him. Sam smiled and nodded, "I'll see you later." He promised as he gave her a peck on the lips before he and Emily left the apartment.
"What are you doing later?" Johnny asked as placed an arm around Sam's shoulder.
"Cake tasting, Maxie set it all up."
"You are not making Jason go?"
"No, because I don't even want to go."
"You can't go alone, it will look desperate." The man observed as he gave her a squeeze, "I can not let that happen. I will go with you."
"You are out of food aren't you?" Sam asked as she watched Patrick pull a frame out of the box.
"Let's just leave it at me being nice, I will go find something that doesn't smell."
"So, what is in the box?" Sam asked as she moved next to Patrick.
"Just some old pictures." Patrick shrugged as he looked over the black and white picture.
"Really?" Sam countered as she dug through the box, "You are kidding me right? This is my Helena."
"I happen to really love your bat crap crazy grandmother." Patrick smirked.
"Tell her the truth." Johnny urged as he walked into the room in a pair of basketball shorts and a pink t-shirt, that looked like it was two sizes too small.
" Well, my dear this is a story from long ago." Patrick started in a deep voice as he hopped onto the table, "It's a dirty little secret from out blackout days."
"You say that in the past tense, implying that it no longer happens." Sam laughed.
"Save all the questions till the end please." Patrick shouted.
"He finally has a story that I want to hear and he is dragging it out like a Harry Potter novel." Sam stage whispered to Johnny, who has slipped into a seat next to her.
"We used to steal photos from house parties." Johnny summed up.
"Why?"
"Because it is the one thing that you can't replace." Patrick chuckled as he let out an evil laugh.
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"Are you sure this is something that we should be doing without Sam?" Emily asked as they pulled into the local dinner.
"Maxie is driving Sam crazy with all this planning and I know she is not going to say anything, she is too afraid of hurting her feelings."
"I have never seen you like this." Emily smiled as the two slid into a both.
"Like what?" Jason asked as he accepted a menu.
"Carefree, you look like a weight has been lifted off your shoulders."
"I spend so long being the person everyone wanted me to be; our parents, then Sonny and Carly." Jason started as he took a long sip of water, "Once I meant Sam, I didn't have to pretend to be anyone else, then who I was."
"I think getting stuck in this town was the best thing that ever happened to us." Emily insisted, "We met the two people who complete us."
"That just happen to be siblings." Jason laughed.
"Twins." Emily corrected, "That are nothing alike." She laughed just as her brother's phone singled that she had a text, "So?"
"Everything is set and the eagle should be here in two days." Jason answered.
"Two days to get everything set? We have done the impossible before." Emily promised as she pulled out a large binder.
"Why do you always seem to have binders full of wedding ideas?" Jason asked after he had placed his order.
"I made it this morning to help us out." Emily shook her head as she opened the binder and flipped to a certain page.
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"I don't want to do this." Sam pouted as she crossed her arms like a child and glared at the door, while Patrick and Johnny stood behind her.
"What are you saying?" Johnny asked shocked, "You Samantha Scorpio, do not want to eat cake, many types of cake and it's free"
"This is not about food." Patrick disagreed as he placed an arm around Sam and pulled her towards him, "This is about our little Sam getting cold feet."
"It's like eighty." Johnny frowned as he finally looked away from the window display of cakes and towards the two.
"She is having doubts about the wedding." Patrick spelled out as he carefully watched Johnny's face till it clicked.
"Sorry, I haven't eaten and you know how I get when I don't eat." Johnny smirked as he moved to Sam's free side, "What are you having second thoughts about?" He asked as he hugged her other side.
"This is just moving a little faster than I thought, I am in no way having doubts but, I feel like am on a runaway train with no say in anything."
"Do you love Jason?" Patrick asked as he tightened his hold.
"More then I thought that I could ever love someone."
"You want to marry him?" Johnny asked this time.
"Of course, I just... this whole wedding is not what I want." Sam finally admitted, "I have had no say in any of it and I haven't said any of this out loud because I don't want to hurt Maxie." She trailed off, "The only thing I have had a say in is my wedding dress."
"So let's change it." Patrick smirked, "Messing up Maxie's plans is something I have mastered and take great pleasure in."
"No church, no hall." Johnny muttered as he opened the door and wondered into the store for a second and then reappeared a moment later carrying a cake and running towards the parking lot as he yelled, "I know the perfect place."