Sam looked at the papers on her desk. She then looked at the blank document on the screen of her laptop. She sighed and tapped her fingers on the desk. Her phone then rang. She told herself she was only going to answer if it was Phil, John, Lea, or Danny, but sighed giving in and answering.
Sam: hello?
Pamela: What the hell is this?
Sam: who is this?
Pamela: This is you in twenty years! "Who is this?" I swear!
Sam: Mom?
Pamela: yes! Honestly Samantha are you on crack or something?
Sam: I am guessing you got the invitation.
Pamela: yes I got the invitation. What is the meaning of this? Samantha you haven't contacted me or your father since you left for college. I have no idea where you live or how you're doing and I don't even know if you're alive. Then out of nowhere you invite me to your wedding.
Sam: Mom … I couldn't let you come visit.
Pamela: why? Why could a mother not visit her own daughter?
Sam: are you sitting down
Pamela: yes
Sam: I was pregnant
The line was silent.
Pamela: you're-you're pregnant? Is that why you're getting married
Sam: what? No mom … when I left for college I was pregnant.
There was another long uneasy pause. She heard her mom give the phone to her dad.
Pamela: (to Jeremy) h-here you're daughter has something to tell you
Jeremy: Samantha, what is it? Why does your mom looked so shocked? What do you have to tell me?
Sam: uh Dad … when I uh … um left for college … I didn't contact you because uh … well I didn't want you to know
Jeremy: know what?
Sam: I found out a week before I left and I didn't tell anyone.
Jeremy: Samantha what is it?
Sam: I was pregnant
Sam then heard that familiar dead silence.
Sam: Dad?
Jeremy: I swear I am going to kill that Fenton kid, then I'm going to kill his parents, then I am going to kill you for putting this hole in my head.
Sam: okay, but there is one problem with that plan
Jeremy: what?
Sam: it wasn't Danny
There was that silence again.
Jeremy: but, I thought … weren't you dating him.
Sam: uh it's a really long story.
Jeremy: your mother and I will meet you for lunch then. When can you be here?
Sam: I'm coming once uh … once I finish some stuff at work. It could be tomorrow or the next day or maybe even the day after, but I'll be there once I'm done. I was coming up then for the wedding.
Jeremy: you don't live here?
Sam: no … I live in New Haven.
There was yet again another silence.
Jeremy: Samantha please give us a call then when you know you're heading out. It is rude to just show up and not be expected.
Sam: does this mean you're coming to the wedding?
Jeremy: I don't know Samantha we have to think about it.
No, goodbyes, no I love you, no good lucks they both just hung up. Sam sighed as stood up and walked into the kitchen. Sam had no idea what to do. She had never been alone in her house. Not since … ever. She has never had to time alone, not at least longer than a day or two. John used to never keep Lea longer than that. Now Lea had asked to move in with John. Sam had absolutely no idea why and she hated to admit, but she was actually jealous. She was hoping her daughter would live with her. Of course Sam had no idea where she was even going to live or even if he would be okay with Lea living with them. She didn't know if Danny would be able to leave his duty as hero and move in with her, or if she would have to move back to Amity and find a house for them to live in. The thing that has really been bothering lately though, was that she has been getting cold feet. Sure she loved Danny and she could spend the rest of her life with him, but lately she just has been getting worried and unsure if she wanted to get married. What was wrong with where they were now in their relationship? It was all moving so fast for her. She needed to hear it. She needed to hear it was all going to be okay and nothing was going to happen between them.
Sam: (to herself) it's all Johns fault. If he hadn't told me marriage ruins everything then I wouldn't be worried.
Casey told John that she didn't want to get married to him because marriage would ruin everything. Sam took a deep sigh. She walked back into the office deciding to get some work done so she wouldn't feel guilty for lying to her parents. Like she even felt any guilt for lying to them, she knew not telling them that she was pregnant was the right choice and she knew that telling them that their granddaughter was pregnant.
Sam sat on the couch reading and thinking. She couldn't sleep so she decided to get some reading in. It was two-o-click in the morning and Sam still had not gotten any sleep. She glanced up when she heard her phone ring. She thought about getting up and answering, but she just decided to ignore it. It stopped and then started again. Sam sighed and got up.
Sam: hello?
Danny: I knew you were there
Sam: (Laughing) what are you up to?
Danny: what makes you think I'm up to something?
Sam: because there would be no other reason for you calling me at this hour
Danny laughed.
Sam: so what are you up to Fenton?
Danny: will you dance with me
Sam: what? Danny we're on the phone … how can we dance together?
Danny: please
Sam: okay, but if you are trying to make me look like an idiot- its working
Danny: aw I just wanted to dance with you, and this is the best I can do since I'm all the way here and you're all the way there.
Sam: I miss you too.
Sam danced alone pretending to feel his strong arms around her thin pale body. She pretended to be able to smell him. Sam stopped with her thoughts interrupted when she heard a knock at the door.
Sam: someone is as crazy as you are
Danny: what do you mean?
Sam: someone is at the door
Danny: who is it?
Sam: I don't know, I can't see through walls or doors.
Danny: answer it
Sam: why what kind of crazy person comes to the door at two in the morning?
Sam then heard the doorbell and more knocking
Danny: I don't think they are going away
Sam: ugh
Sam then went to answer the door and she saw Danny smiling holding flowers and his phone to his ear. Sam's phone slipped out her hand. Danny closed his and grinned at her.
Sam: what? What are you doing here … I thought you were in-
Danny: Happy Birthday
Sam then looked at him awestruck with a smile and teary eyed.
Danny: Sam, you okay?
Sam: I'm sorry I'm just-I-
Danny: what?
Sam: thank you
Danny pulled her closer. Sam laid her head on his chest.
Danny: you're special you know that?
Sam: like "stop-eating-the-paste" special
Danny laughed and kissed her tenderly, pulling her closer. Sam pulled him in more for a more intense passionate kiss. When she pulled back he looked dazed. Sam laughed a little.
Sam: Danny?
Danny: (squeaky) you're welcome
Sam then began to laugh a little harder while Danny cleared his throat.
Sam: I have an idea
Danny: oh really, what kind of idea?
Sam: why don't you follow me and see
Sam lied there wrapped in Danny's arms. She danced her fingers across his muscles then looked up at him. He fallen asleep and seemed comfortable. She sighed and placed her head on his bare chest. She could feel his chest slowly rise up and down with his even breathing. She could hear the words said in her head "Marriage ruins everything" Sam was never one to picture herself married. Sure she thought she would be married by now and that someday she would, but for some reason she couldn't see herself as a wife. She also couldn't picture herself as a bride.
Danny peeked his eyes open as he felt her fingers on his chest.
Danny: hmmm
Sam looked up and saw his eyes still shut. She wondered if he was sleep talking like he used to do.
Sam: Danny?
Danny: that feels so good
Sam: are you awake
Danny: Shhh... Paulina, Sam's not going to find us here or find out.
Sam went to smack him, but Danny caught her hand laughing
Sam: what's so funny Daniel Fenton!
Danny: ohhoho my full name, you're really mad. Calm down Sammy I was only kidding, I was awake the whole time. I just wanted to see your face.
Sam looked at him playfully pretending to be a little hurt.
Sam: and after everything I did for you tonight
Danny: really, that was all for me?
Sam: well also my gift but don't deny not enjoying it.
Danny: I wasn't gonna, but what did you really want this year?
Sam laid her head back down. Danny softly stroked her shoulder with his thumb as she thought.
Sam: I dunno, I haven't thought about it. To be honest I think I forgot my own birthday this year.
Danny: that's because you're not getting any sleep. Have you even slept a little tonight?
Sam: no
Danny: have you planned on getting any sleep?
Sam: no
Danny: well what's up … Is something on your mind?
Sam took his hand in hers and started to trace the lines on his palm with her soft fingers. She mumbled out softly what each line meant. She then looked up at him.
Sam: my parents called today
Danny: oh
Sam: yeah I invited them to the wedding,
Danny: why didn't you tell me?
Sam: I didn't think they would reply or even come.
Danny at first waited for her to continue thinking there was more, well knowing there was more, but when she didn't share it he finally spoke up.
Danny: …. Is that all that's bothering you?
Sam: I told them I was pregnant. They want me to have lunch with them
Danny: well promise me we won't end up on the run for a murder.
Sam: well you better start running because my Dad said he was going to kill you, at least that was before I told them it wasn't you.
Danny tiredly laughed a little.
Sam: I didn't tell them Lea's pregnant … and I don't want them to find out.
Danny: okay, I won't say anything
There was another short silence between them, but it wasn't like the silence had on the phone with her parents, it wasn't that silence you couldn't cut through with a butcher's knife. This silence was more comfortable and content, where nothing needed to be said.
Danny: does Lea know about your parents?
Sam: no
Danny: what did you tell her … they didn't know about her?
Sam: well she was too young for me to tell her that so I told her something a little untrue
Danny: how little
Sam: big little … I told her they died.
Danny: did you think that you were always going to get away with that lie?
Sam let out a smile with a chuckle.
Sam: no, but I made it four years longer with it than I thought I would.
Danny laughed a little. Sam snuggled closer and closed her eyes as Danny held her close. He slowly closed his eyes hoping that she would finally get some sleep. They both opened their eyes when they heard the phone ring.
Sam: ugh how many times is this phone going to go off?
Danny smiled at her as she rolled over on top of him to reach it. He placed his arms tightly around her waist as she answered.
Sam: hello?
John: oh thank god that you answered.
Sam: what's wrong?
John: Lea went into labor.
Sam: where are you?
John: the hospital
Sam: I'll be right there.
Sam then hung up and jumped out of bed running into her closet.
Danny: what happened?
Sam: Lea went into labor. I have to get to the hospital.
Sam walked into the closet and got dressed quickly. She then walked into the bathroom and stood holding her wig. She looked in the mirror. Her hair was beginning to grow back. She touched the top of her head and shook herself back to reality and placed the wig on. Sam walked out of the bathroom and almost headed out of the bedroom when Danny stopped her.
Sam: what?
Danny: you need to take a breather and calm down
He put his hands on his on her shoulders forcing her to look him in the eye.
Sam: why
Danny: because you were about leave topless
Sam looked down and saw her bare chest, she sighed and gave a nervous smile as she walked over to her dresser and pulled out a bra and shirt. Sam then walked back over to Danny and kissed him on the cheek before walking out the door.
Sam: I'll call you
Danny: good luck
Sam ran down the halls in a frantic, she was calm when she left the house, but once she got on the highway she was a nervous wreck.
Nurse: Miss can I help you?
Sam: my daughter –my daughter!
Nurse: okay what is her name?
Sam: Lea Manson … oh no wait uh Lea Stravinsky.
She rummaged through some files when Sam heard a scream.
Lea: OW! OH Damn it that hurts!
Sam then shouted down the hallway and started walking towards the voice ignoring the nurse's protests.
Sam: Lea!
Lea: Mom?
Sam then ran into the room and saw her daughter on the bed and John looking like a deer in headlights.
John: Sam thank god you're here.
Lea: Mom it hurts and the ice isn't working and why can't they just give me the damn spinal block already?
Sam: don't worry I'm here …
Lea: Mom I am never having sex again
Sam laughed and hugged her daughter. Then a nurse walked in and smiled. John wished his daughter luck and then walked out.
Nurse: Lea are you ready to have your baby?
Lea: I-I don't think I can do this, I'm not as brave as you mom. I'll just have to keep this baby inside me forever.
Sam: listen to me, Lea you can do this because you can do anything, I have never seen anyone who can do as much as you can and you are going to have this baby because you are strong and you can do it.
Lea: okay-okay I'm ready
Nurse: okay you're fully dilated and ready to push so when I say so push
Lea took her mother's hand into hers and gripped it.
Nurse: and three … two … one push!
Lea may have been screaming and the nurse and her mother were motivating her along and encouraging her, but sound was unheard to her. Everything was moving so slow yet so fast at the same time. Then she heard it a baby's cry, a baby's cry from coming into this world as if saying I'm here. Lea smiled at her baby, and her mom smiled at her.
Her mom lied with Lea as she stroked her sweaty hair out of the way. Lea decided she didn't want to hold the baby because it wasn't hers. Sure she brought into this world, but she decided it would be better to give the baby up for adopt and the mother was holding the baby as the very moment. It was always for her.
Sam: you know Lea you are a lot braver than I am
Lea: really?
Sam: I was going to put you up for adoption, but once I held you in my arms and you opened those beautiful eyes and looked at me I couldn't. I am so proud of you. And you know what else
Lea: what?
Sam: I was scared shitless.
Lea smiled at her mom.
Sam: so what would you have named the baby?
Lea: … whether it was a boy or girl I would have named it after my hero
Sam: who's that?
Lea: you…. Mom I want you to marry Mr. Fenton … if he makes you happy and you make him happy then go ahead, don't let me stand in your way.
Sam: you know … I could still use a maid of honor and I would love my daughter to be her.
Lea: what about all your girlfriends from college
Sam: who Ashley and Liz … they are just friends … my daughter would make the perfect maid of honor.
Lea: thanks mom
Sam: and you know that just because I am getting married doesn't mean you can't live with me.
Lea: no … I know … I want to live with dad. Get a fresh start in a new place … but you'll always be my mom.
Sam: and I am going to miss you so much … you know that?
Lea: yeah I know that.
Sam: okay well you rest up … I better go track down your father. '\
Lea: mom …
Sam: mmh
Lea: I love you
Sam: I love you too
Sam walked out of the room and down the hall to the cafeteria. She saw John pacing the room with a cup of coffee. Sam walked over to him.
Sam: hey grandpa
John: okay I decided I want to Lito or Pappy, what do you want to be called?
Sam: okay first of all this is not the body of a grandma, and second she put the baby up for adoption.
John: she did?
Sam: yeah … it's what's best … she has her whole life ahead of her; she doesn't need to a baby in her life to worry about.
John: yeah you're right
Sam: and soon she'll be back here on her own terms and then I want to be called GiGi or Bube.
John let out a smile and looked at her. Sam began to think about what happened before she came to the hospital, before she had gotten the call.
John: oh my god.
Sam: what?
John: you had sex
Sam: what?
John: you got that look on your face
Sam: I'm just proud of Lea and happy from the talk we just had.
John: yeah that when you walked in. You were thinking about it and you have the stupid smile on your face that just says "I did something slutty"
Sam: fine sue me, what if I had sex. I am I am an adult I can have sex whenever I well please, can't I?
John: who do I have to warn?
Sam playfully hit him.
Sam: oh you think you're so funny
John: is it mister fiancé?
Sam: for your information-yes it is.
Sam smiled as John chuckled. He then sighed at looked at her again.
John: you want to go dancing?
Sam: what?
John: should I have not asked
Sam: no it was so quick and sudden and unexpected.
John: sorry
Sam: it's okay
John: so do you … as you know friends
Sam: John, I'm engaged
John: calm down, look I got these reservations for Casey and I to go dancing, and I had to pay in advanced. I was just thinking maybe before you leave to go to the wedding we could go out together as two adult friends.
Sam: I don't know.
John: Sam I just want us to be friends again
Sam looked down and put her hands in her pockets.
Sam: I know … I'm just afraid
John: of what?
Sam: what if it becomes more… and we screw everything up. Isn't there a law somewhere that you are supposed to date your ex?
John: well I can I say one thing and not get smacked
Sam: maybe
John: you are marrying your ex.
Sam snorted and looked at him, she then sighed.
Sam: you ever wonder if you did everything over another way what your life would be like in the end.
John: every damn day
Sam: what would you have done differently?
John: honestly?
Sam: yeah
John: I should say that I wouldn't have gotten you pregnant, but I wouldn't have broken up with you or I would have been in that delivery room with you.
Sam smiled.
-FLASHBACK-
Sam stood in front of the school. She gulped and looked down at her stomach hoping no one would notice. She had to switch over to a flowing blouse to cover her slight bump that showed with her usual tank top. Danny looked over from the table he was sitting at and halfway sadly waved at her. When he went to her house the other day to comfort her about her breakup he asked if they could be friends again, Sam responded with that they had never really been friends. "Either I liked you or couldn't say anything or you like me and didn't say anything." Danny then told her they should still try. Tucker tuned around almost shocked to see he was waving at Sam.
Tucker: you guys are cool now?
Danny: I have no idea
He turned back around and saw Sam slowly walking over. She sat down silently. There was this awkward silence that hung over the table.
Tucker: so …. You're going to Yale
Sam: yeah … I'm leaving the morning after graduation
Danny: Tuck and I are going to miss you
Sam: no you won't. You'll meet other people and forgot about me, just like everyone does.
Danny: I could never forget you
Tucker: me either and we'll still keep in touch. We'll send photos and we'll all be meeting over the holiday breaks and then we'll be at each other's weddings and someone is going to have to get Sam's husband or whoever's in the room with her drunk when she has her child.
Sam: (alarmed) I'm not pregnant!
They both looked at her funny.
Danny: no one said you were.
Sam looked down a little embarrassed and worried. She picked at her fingernails trying to study if you could really notice a difference in her. She was always trying to hear what everyone was saying about her. She was hoping that they were talking about sitting with Danny and Tucker again, but she really couldn't catch it.
Danny: you alright Sam?
Sam: yeah I'm fine, why wouldn't I be
Danny: because of yesterday because you're sitting with us or something else.
Sam: I'm fine really
Tucker: I'll take lying through her teeth, Alex. Come on Sam you are going to have to do way better than that to fool us. We have known each other since forever you think that we don't know when something is up.
Sam then stood up angrily.
Sam: FOR THE LAST TIME NOTHING IS BOTHERING ME AND IF YOU ASK ME ONE MORE TIME I SWEAR I WILL SHAVE YOU BOTH BALD AND PUSH YOU OUT A WINDOW
Just then Lancer walked by and paused writing up a detention on a little slip of paper
Mr. Lancer: Miss Manson glad you see you threatening people again and making a scene. I'll be seeing you
Sam: (with an attitude) yeah I know after school.
Sam then grabbed the little white slip of paper and her bag and huffed off. Danny and Tucker shared confused glances.
Sam walked in her house and found her parents staring at her. She initially thought the worst but decided to play dumb just in case.
Sam: what?
Jeremy: you were supposed to be home an hour ago
Sam: sorry
Pamela: you were supposed to watch Lucy
Just then a little girl with strawberry blonde hair in a bow and orange dress came running up. She poked Sam's belly.
Lucy: baby
Her parents gave the little girl a quizzed look then glanced up at Sam.
Sam: what? No!
Maria: don't worry honey, she's been a little obsessed with babies lately.
Sam turned her head and saw a very pregnant Maria. Maria was an old friend of the family, she used to be Sam's first nanny. Maria was the only nanny that Sam had ever loved and respected.
Maria: Lucy honey there is no baby in there. The baby is in here
Maria placed the small girl's finger on her belly. She wondered if it was possible she would get that big. Her father started talking but Sam couldn't hear him over her thoughts. 'Could I possibly be ready to have a baby? I hate kids. They cry, and are selfish and dirty and … I am not ready to have a child. I am not ready to look like that or waddle or have those cravings.' She was snapped out of her thoughts when her mother was saying something to her.
Pamela: Samantha are you listening to your father?
Sam: huh … oh I'm sorry Maria I would love to babysit but I have uh plans
Pamela: doing what?
Sam then saw Danny and Tucker being let in by the butler.
Sam: with my friends I'm hanging out with Danny and Tucker, you know before we all leave
Maria: aw it's okay Sam, I told your parents that you would want to be having fun before you go off to college.
Sam: Thanks Maria I knew you'd understand
Sam took no time for her parents to protest she walked over to Danny and Tucker and pulled them out the door. She sighed and slowed down when they came to the corner.
Sam: since when do you use the door?
Tucker: we checked the window and by we, I mean Danny but you weren't there, and we knew that you were home. Because you weren't anywhere else
Danny: so where were or are you really heading?
Sam: where I go to clear my head
Danny: where's that
Sam gave a small smile.
Sam: why don't you come find out?
Sam sat on top of the jungle gym while Danny and Tucker stood at the bottom.
Tucker: a playground
Danny: where we met.
Sam: If I remember correctly I rescued you boys from Dash.
Tucker: no way
Sam: he was trying to kick you off of the jungle gym
Danny: so you climbed up here and pushed him off saying to never mess with us again or he'd get a fat lip.
Sam: okay I still maintain to my parents that he fell, but yeah I pushed him. You remember that?
Danny: I remember everything about the three of us.
Tucker: (mumbled) and you and her
Danny: shut up
Tucker: tell her
Sam: just so you guys know I can hear everything you're saying.
It was silent for a moment or two.
Danny: so much has happened here
Tucker: Sam pushed Dash off the jungle gym, she pushed Ricky Marshall off the monkey bars, and she pushed Paulina off the swing-
Danny: you were a violent child.
Sam laughed a little and threw her head down.
Sam: okay but it's not like they don't deserve it.
Tucker: and I got my first kiss here too
Sam: a girl being dared to kiss you in second grade does not count as your first kiss
Tucker: why not?
Sam: because it's like kissing your grandma
Danny: besides she kicked you after that.
Tucker: yeah but look what she's missing out on now.
Sam and Danny looked at each other and laughed.
Danny: what is she missing out on exactly? You paid a girl to go to prom with you.
Tucker: you wait someday she'll be missing out on something
Sam: where do you guys think you'll be after college?
Danny: here
Tucker: hopefully rich living in a mansion, having a beautiful wife.
Sam: seriously
Danny: I hope in space or something, but I really think I am going to be stuck here my whole life.
Tucker: I dunno I wish I had my own tech company, but if Danny's staying here someone has to be his sidekick right?
Danny: thanks man
Sam looked ahead thinking.
Danny: what about you Sam?
Sam: (mumbled) stuck in some rundown apartment with a whiny kid barely getting by.
Danny: what?
Sam: I want to be a travel journalist.
Danny: that's cool
Sam: I probably won't get there though
Danny: what makes you say that?
Sam: just instinct, but I am not going to be stuck here the rest of my life. I know that.
Tucker: this is so freaky
Sam: what
Tucker: that the fact that we met right here at this spot twelve years ago.
Sam: I feel so old
Danny: wait till we're fifty then we'll feel old.
Sam: are you sure you're going to make it fifty
Danny: I may have had some close calls, but I've made it.
Tucker: are we really ever going to see each other again, or is this it?
Danny: of course we are
Sam: probably not
Danny: why do you do that?
Sam: do what?
Danny: always put a downer on things and be depressing about it. If we really want to be friends for the rest of our lives what's going to stop us.
Sam: first of all I'm a realist and second life is gonna stop us.
Tucker: is there a word for everything that you
Danny: (mumbled) I can think of a couple more
Sam: hey I didn't bring you here to be a jackass
Danny: right I'm the jackass because you saying that we're done being friends and we are never going to see each other again and this is our last moment together and we are never going to be friends or get back together.
Sam's eyes kind of widened when she heard this. She really did think these were there last moments as friends, in fact she knew, because once graduation came she was running away. She didn't want anyone to know about her pregnancy no matter how badly she wanted to tell Danny and Tucker.
Sam: get back together?
Danny looked away from her a little embarrassed, he did it again, he started talking before thinking and then he blurted out something he had wanted ever since the last scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Sam: Danny … you broke up with me remember ….You moved on right away, not to mention with the girl I hate…You never came after me. ….. You broke my heart.
Danny: well you broke my heart too; god is it always going to have to be about your heart?
Sam: I never wanted to break up with you.
Tucker knew he shouldn't get in the middle of this, but it was getting a bit weird.
Danny: Sam when I asked you to marry me I was serious, it was never a thing I came up with spur of the moment to end a fight. Can't we just try this again? Start over?
Sam sighed and hid her face from him holding back her tears, she wanted to try again so badly, she wanted nothing else but to be with him; she loved him, she always has. But she knew she could not because she would only take away everything he had and her pregnancy would only cause problems for him, he didn't deserve that.
Sam: Danny, we can't start over. Okay we can't do this again.
Danny: why not? Why can't we? What will stop us? Life can't stop us, college can't stop us. Sam, love doesn't know distance or any of the bullshit. Love is just love and nothing can get in its way.
Sam then felt a tear slide down her cheek.
Sam: you don't understand
Danny: what don't I understand?
Sam: you would give up everything for me, and I can't let you throw everything away for me. You deserve better, you deserve to live, not to pay for something that isn't even your fault.
Danny: Sam, what are you talking about?
Sam: just forget it
Danny: no! Tell me
Sam: I can't okay. I can't and I won't because trust me when I say you will not get anywhere in your life if you found out and please just please don't ask me to tell you.
Danny was silent for a little bit. Tucker could tell he was thinking and trying to figure out what was going on with their friend.
Danny: you're not getting hurt are you? No one is hurting you right?
Sam looked down teary eyed and tired.
Sam: I promise you that no one is hurting me, and I am not hurt.
Sam then gently climbed down off the jungle gym and walked back slowly.
-End Flashback-
Sam pulled her dress up and tried to zip it up, but was having trouble and looked kind of funny trying to do it. Danny walked in and tried not to laugh.
Danny: you know if you bend a little more you might pop a limb off.
Sam: instead of making fun of me you should help, your incompetent fiancé
Danny chuckled and walked over slowly slipping the zipper up and down.
Danny: uh oh Sam … I think it won't fit, trying sucking you gut in
Sam: I am sucking my gut
Danny: (teasingly) I think you got too fat, I think I just have to pull the zipper down, I guess you can't go now, but I know what we can do instead.
Sam smacked him playfully.
Sam: you rotten man, all you want is sex besides I am going to be late if we end up dancing in the sheets, so zip up the dress so I can go to dinner, and then have Lea meet the her granddaughter.
Danny smiled and zipped the dress up smoothly.
Danny: and you're sure you don't want me to come.
Sam: Danny I want you to come, but it's just best that I go alone, that is until they told me to have John bring Lea over for dessert. Danny trust me everything is going to be fine.
Danny: Sam, I love you
Sam: I love you too, and please don't mope around the house missing me. Go out with Tuck or something. You know you only have a week left of being free from the confinements of marriage.
Danny: what do you suggest I do then?
Sam smile turned seductive.
Sam: well if a girl knocks on your door let's say after I call you and tell you I am leaving, I would let her in, for any lame excuse she may have. Like I don't know um saying that she is locked out of her apartment and she is so drunk that she has come in and make out on the first surface she comes to
Sam walked up still playing around and kissed him, which felt kind of funny because Danny was half laughing during it.
Sam parked her car in the familiar driveway and walked up the pathway onto the porch. She rang the bell not feeling quit at home, sure it was her house and she lived there for eighteen years, but to her it was a stranger's house. A maid answered the door. She held a thick heavy Spanish accent.
Sam: oh hello … I'm Sam, uh the Manson's daughter.
Maid: Samantha?
Sam: uh yeah
Maid: you wait in lounge
Sam: right
Sam walked into the lounge and found her parents sitting there already waiting for her.
Jeremy: Samantha glad to see you again.
Sam: hi dad
Pamela: I see that you're wearing black
Sam was indeed wearing a black cocktail dress, but she toned down her Gothness so she could look more professional when she needed and more relaxed in jeans for weekend events.
Sam: hi mom
Pamela: dinner will be ready in an hour, would you like something to drink
Sam: uh yeah I'll have a scotch
Jeremy: I almost forgot you can drink now.
Jeremy got up and made the drinks for them, he handed Sam hers before he sat back down and handed his wife her drink.
Sam: heh yeah … so uh I guess nothing new around here. It doesn't seem like anything has changed
Pamela: well actually we just got new carpeting and new curtains, oh and your room is now another guest room.
Sam: oh
Pamela: well what did you expect Samantha that we were just going to keep your room as it is, after we had not heard from you in years.
Sam: no mom, I was just saying oh to respond. It was not a sad oh. I mean I kept everything I needed and wanted when I left.
Jeremy: okay well you didn't come here to fight
Pamela: you did tell your ex-husband and daughter that dessert was eight –o-clock sharp?
Sam: he's not my ex husband, we were never married and yes I told them, they'll be here.
Jeremy: well Samantha we are sorry, but you have not even told us the story.
Sam: okay I went to prom I had sex after prom
Pamela: Samantha could you be any more vulgar
Jeremy: and this is why you don't have sex, because you get pregnant
Sam: well heh yeah I have had sex before prom and I didn't get pregnant.
Her parents gave her a look, which Sam responded by rolling her eyes, she has only spent fifteen minutes with them and she was already ready to scream.
Sam: Me and Danny broke up after our Senior Trip to Italy then a few weeks later I met John and we eventually went out and- Anyway the point is I found out that I was pregnant and I knew that you would freak, and cut me off of my college fund and the family and so I couldn't tell you and become your disappointment. So I fled. …. And you're not the only who was cut off here. Lea could not know who her grandparents were because I couldn't come to them with a problem I had.
Pamela: Samantha we respect your wishes of not wanting an abortion, but you were a freshman in college, you had everything in front of you, you could have been so successful, why did you not just put her up for adoption?
Sam: That was the plan … until I held her and I saw her eyes looking up at me.
Sam ran to the door when she heard the bell at eight. She told her parents to wait in the other room, and she would bring them in. Lea and John showed up and were handing their coats over to the maid.
Lea: hey mom
Sam: are you sure you want to do this, honey my parents-your grandparents aren't the most fun people you will meet.
Lea: Mom, I'll be fine
Sam: okay well they know nothing about your pregnancy or marriage and will continue to know nothing.
Lea: okay
John: right
Sam: John … focus on your moral successes no details, no band stuff … you remember?
John: yeah I remember the drill
Sam took a deep breath.
Sam: so are you ready to meet your grandparents?
Lea smiled and walked in behind her mom. She looked at the red haired woman and the blonde man. Neither of them looked like her mother.
Sam: Lea these are your grandparents Jeremy Manson and Pamela Manson. Mom, Dad this is your granddaughter Lea.
