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Chapter 3- Get Along Fine

Sam and Jo re-entered the cottage a few minutes later. 'I've persuaded Sam to stay,' Jo said as she to the fridge and got out a bottle of wine.

She passed two glasses to Phil and Sam. 'I'm off to have a bath,' When I come back, I would like you two to be talking again, please,' Jo said.

Sam grabbed the bottle and stalked through to the living room. 'Please Phil,' Jo said.

Phil followed Sam's lead and went through to the living room and Jo went upstairs to the bathroom. 'Do you want one?' Sam asked gesturing towards the bottle of wine on the table.

Phil nodded. Sam scowled, 'Phil please, we can do this, we're friends. Please lets just be civilised, for Jo's sake at the very least, come on Phil,' she begged.

Phil sighed deeply. 'OK then Sam, give us a glass of wine,' he said.

He sat down opposite Sam and he passed his glass to Sam and his hand brushed against hers. It sent shivers up Sam's spine. She poured Phil a glass as she tried to ignore the feeling she'd just experienced. Sam passed Phil the glass and he smiled at her, 'thanks Sam,' he said.

Sam and Phil's glasses clinked together and they took a sip from them. 'Jo's a crafty one, isn't she?' Sam said, relived that the ice had been broken between her and Phil. 'She never said you were coming,'

'I think that was the general idea, I think this was Jo's idea of trying to get us to talk,'

'I think so too, we've both been completely selfish haven't we?'

'In what way?'

'We didn't care about how Jo felt about us not talking; it's as if she's being forced to choose between me and you,'

Sam took another sip from her glass before either of them spoke. 'I'm sorry Sam, for the way I behaved over the split. I don't see the point in ruining a friendship because of a failed relationship,'

'I agree,' Sam said. 'Jo told me not to tell you about this.'

'Likewise,' Phil replied. 'The only time Jo mentioned you was when she told me not to tell you, probably because she didn't want us to back out.'

Sam nodded. 'Anyway, this place is really nice, you should be happy about that,' she said.

Phil leant across and took Sam's hand in his. He gazed into his eyes but they were disturbed by Jo coming down the stairs. 'Glad to see you two are talking again,' she remarked.

'Yeah, we decided that we weren't doing anyone any favours by giving each other the silent treatment. We realised we hadn't been considering how this would make you feel, we're both really, really sorry Jo,' Sam said. 'We've all been friends for so long and seems stupid to risk that.'

'Funny, that's exactly what I was thinking,' Jo muttered.

'Sorry Jo, you'll have to speak up,' Phil said.

'I didn't say anything,' Jo lied.

'What DVD's have you got?' Sam asked, changing the subject.

'Loads, come on, I'll show you,' Jo said as she took Sam by the arm and led her towards the shelf where she'd put the DVD's.

Sam scanned through the DVD's. 'What about this?' she asked.

Jo turned around and looked at what Sam had picked up. 'Chicago?' she replied, Sam nodded. 'Do you mind Phil?' Jo asked.

'It's not a rom-com is it?' Phil asked.

'No, it's a musical, you plonker,' Jo said as she chucked a cushion at Phil.

Sam, Phil and Jo sat down with a bag of popcorn between them and the film started. The film finished about 2hours later. 'Are you gonna make a start on dinner?' Sam asked once Jo had turned the TV off.

'Yeah OK,' Jo replied. 'It's getting a bit cold, Can you go and put the fire on Phil,'

'Yeah sure Jo,' Phil said as he stood up and began to walk out of the living room, in search of the fire.

Jo turned to Sam. 'I think you'd better go too, between you and me,' Jo said, lowering her voice slightly. 'I don't think I can trust Phil not to burn this place down, you remember that time when we went camping in Cornwall, don't you?'

Sam cringed. 'Course I do. Phil set his tent on fire while he was trying to start the camp fire, didn't he?'

Jo laughed. 'Yeah, he had to share with us for the rest of that week,'

'Now that was uncomfortable, I'm surprised he didn't try and set our tent on fire too,'

'If he set our tent on fire, then we wouldn't have had anywhere to sleep,'

'True, that was pretty uncomfortable though, Phil squeezed between us now that was a new experience; you'd better make sure he hasn't set the fir yet,'

Sam stood up and picked up the bottle of wine and a couple of glasses and went off to find Phil. Jo got off the sofa too and went through to the kitchen to make a start on dinner.

So will Sam and Phil sort out their differences properly, will Jo succeed in getting them back together? There's only one way top find out. 19reviews b4 I post the nxt chapter luv Gemz xx