1 Sammy Girl Chapter 8

When Sam walked into the cafeteria, she spotted Jen talking to Jake and Darrell. Sam was watching, them trying to figure out what they were talking about when Jake spotted her and nudged Darrell. When he looked up he saw Sam and smiled at her, then motioned for her to come sit with them.

Sam started to sit by Jen when she saw Darrell, looking at her with mock horror. " Do I smell so bad that my girlfriend can't even sit next to me?" Sam looked at Jen who shrugged, so she went to his side of the table. Instead of sitting next to him like he thought she was, she plopped down on his lap, smiling. " Close enough, Honey?" she asked smiling at him. He just looked at Darrell and rolled his eyes. Jen, Sam could see was enjoying this and smiling.

" So where were you?" Jen asked Sam. "In the office," she replied. " For laughing," she added when she noticed their questioning looks.

"You went to the office for laughing?" Jake asked with disbelief in his voice. " Sam nodded, " I laughed at Rachel." she explained.

"So immature," she heard Darrell mutter. She wasn't sure if he was talking about her or about the teacher sending her to the office, but she was in the joking mood and she wanted to find out.

" What did you say? I'm immature?" she paused but only long enough to wink at Jen who smiled. " Some boyfriend you are, calling your new girlfriend immature, just because she is a little younger," by now she was standing and people were starting to look over at their table. Jake, she could tell was getting embarrassed, and Darrell, by the look on his face was shocked. " Well its over for us mister!" and with that she turned and walked slowly out of the cafeteria with Jen following her close behind.

"Sam, wait! I didn't mean it like that!" he said as he hurried after her with Jake slowly following, rolling his eyes. Sam ran down the hall and turned the corner, waiting for Darrell to come get her. When Darrell, turned the corner he was shocked to see Sam standing there, smiling at him. " You knew I didn't mean that right, Sammy?" he asked just to be sure. Sam nodded smiling, and reached up to give him a kiss, which returned, after figuring out she wasn't mad. Darrell was starting to press his tongue against her lips when he heard clapping from behind him. They quickly turned around to see two of Jake's brothers, Quinn and Nate (If these aren't the right names, pretend they are!) and a couple of Jake and Darrell's friends laughing and smiling at them in a friendly way. Sam's face turned a vivid red when she recongize some of her friends and Jake's brothers.

When Sam turned to Jen and Jake for help, she realized that they had left during her kiss. Not quite sure what to do, she turned to Darrell, who she knew was also embarrassed. He was talking to ones his friends, becoming more embarrassed until his ears become red.

Sam was about to say something when someone tapped her on the shoulder. She spun around and came face to face with Nate. "So you've finally got a boyfriend, Sam? It isn't who I would've expected, though." She knew he was picking but, still she wanted to know who she was supposed to go out with. "Oh and who would that be Nate Ely?"

"I don't know just someone who you've known a lot longer than Darrell," he said casually. Sam was still confused by his answer, but when he was her questioning look he just shrugged his shoulders and said " You'll find out who it is soon enough, Sam," Then he turned and left, but when he walked past Darrell he added " You better not hurt her, or you will have to deal with me." Darrell opened his mouth to say something but he had already walked out of the school with Quinn.

Great, Sam thought, now I have two Elys who think they have to protect me! This is just wonderful! How are we ever going to go out on a date? Wait, why were they even their? They aren't even in high school any more!

"Hey, Sammy wanna go on a date Friday night?" Darrell asked as Sam was walking to Jake's car. Sam was surprised, but happy "Sure," she answered before climbing into Jake's car.

All week Sam prepared for her date with Darrell. Her dad said she could go as long as she was home by 12 and would be able to get up and the morning and if she did all of her chores before hand.

When Jake dropped her off at Riverbend Friday she didn't even bother changing clothes before doing her chores. She finished her chores in no time and decided that she had time to spend a couple with minutes with Ace, who nickered to her from his pasture. "I'm coming," she called.

Ace stuck his head over the fence so Sam could reach while he looked for his treat. " I can't fool you, can I you greedy horse!" she said as she pulled a carrot from her back pocket. She stood there with Ace and told him about where she was going tonight and about how embarrassed she had been at school, when she realized she had said all that aloud, she gasped and looked at her watch. "Its already 5:30! Darrell is picking me up at 7! I have to go get ready!" She raced upstairs to get ready.

She emerged sometime later just as Darrell drove across the bridge. "Bye Gram, Bye Dad, be back later!" she called as she rushed out the door.

Darrell met her halfway and when he got his first good look of her his mouth dropped open. "You look...WOW," was all he managed to say. Sam was wearing a small denim skirt and a white halter top with embroidered flowers around the hem. She was also wearing small silver dangling horse earrings and a plain silver necklace. On anyone else it would have looked awful and like what someone would wear everyday, but on Sam it brought out all of her special features. As if this wasn't enough for Darrell, her hair was slightly curled and half of it was up on her head, draping over the sides. "Sam you look so... so beautiful!" he was still at loss for words.

"You don't look to bad yourself! Now come on or I will have to be home before we leave!" Darrell nodded and walked with her towards his car.

" That was good," Sam commented as she and Darrell walked out of some fancy restaurant where Darrell had took her for dinner. When the cold air hit Sam's bare arms she shivered and Darrell pulled her closer. She just looked up and smiled at him. " Want to go see a movie?" he asked as they headed down the street. Sam nodded

A couple hours later they woke up to violent shaking, Sam looked up and saw Jake shaking Darrell awake. "Jake what are you doing here?"

"I came because you father was about ready to send out a search party! I told him I knew where you were because I figured that you would rather have me find you than your father,"

Sam nodded trying, to take all of it in, " Uh, but Jake where are we and what happened?" She looked all around but she couldn't remember what happened nor did she understand where she was.

Authors Note: I will explain more in the next chapter which will be posted as soon as I get 3 or more reviews! And PLEASE DSA do not brag because I said you were the most faithful reviewer! LOL

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AN2: I just realized that none of Jake's brothers are still in high school so I had to go back and make her wonder why they were their. Sorry for any confusion!