Mrs Carmichael: Thanks for the review. Indeed you did know that she was going to Phil, but who else would of it been ;) This is me, your Huxon/Mamma Mia Twin after all. Glad that you liked Alfie being in there, I thought I wanted to show that Phil has sort of grown up since he left Sun Hill. Not sure if that has a reason for later on in the story, haven't decided yet. The muse will have to decide.
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Thanks for all of the reviews, enjoy this chapter. A little heavier than the previous.

Time To Tell.

SaMaNdPhiL4eVeR.

.THREE.

Phil looked down at what Sam had dropped, before he reached out for the tatty piece of paper, unfolding it between his fingers. He stared at the photo in front of him, two young girls, each of them beaming. One small and blonde, the other taller and brunette, the brunette had her arm over the blonde's shoulder, and as he glanced at the face of the blonde, all of a sudden he realised that this was a photo of the woman sitting next to him.

"So this is you?" Phil asked cautiously.

Sam didn't say anything, she just nodded. She turned back to look towards Phil, "You should know that I wanted to tell you this long ago. It might have explained my behaviour over the years. But," she began, before pausing, "I just didn't know how to."

"Okay." Phil replied cautiously, he thought that he knew Sam quite well, but obviously there had been something that she had kept hidden. He sighed quietly, perhaps he should have expected that.

Sam took another deep breath, she wanted to tell someone, and she had shown him the photo, now all that remained was the story. "The girl with me is Melanie Thomas, my high school best friend."

Phil nodded, "When was this?" he asked, pointing back to the photo.

Sam sighed, and closed her eyes, and leant back into the back of the sofa, before speaking of the night that changed her life.

"It was February 22nd 1983, the night of Melanie's seventeenth birthday. Both of us had planned for weeks, planned the location, planned how to get there, planned what we were telling our parents and planned what we would do to our hair, what colour eye shadow we would wear, what colour lipstick we would wear and even right down to what colour our toenails would be painted. Melanie was to wear a yellow ribbon in her hair, and I was to wear a red one, my toenails were to be pink, and hers were to be red, and both of us were to wear a scarlet lipstick. We were going to the 776 Club, we knew the bouncer, he was going to let us in, my parents thought we were at Melanie's and her parents thought we were at mine. We got a lift with my neighbour from down the street, he drove us in to the city, and we parked a few streets away. He had given me the keys so that if we needed to we could wait in the car, or if we went home early we could leave stuff in his car, or get changed so that our plan wasn't to be spoiled. Our significant others, Glen for me, and Joel for Melanie thought that we were seeing one of those chick flicks, and promised to meet us later," Sam explained, her eyes still closed. "But there was no later."

"Sam, what happened?" Phil asked, staring down at the photo once more.

"Everything was great for awhile, Melanie and I danced for hours, occasionally scamming drinks from the bar, and we were both laughing and enjoying ourselves. After a little while though, I felt sick, and needed to go to the bathroom, and when I got back, Melanie was being chatted up by this man," Sam said, her body shuddering at the thought of him once more. "He was older, and he had bought Melanie another drink, she was giggling away, whispering to him and pressing up against him. I didn't know what was going on, as far as I was concerned, she and Joel were really happy. I knew that he had bought her a stunning bracelet for her birthday, I'd helped him pick it out the week before. But here she was, all over this other guy. I watched for awhile from the other side of the bar, and when he finally left her to get more drinks, I headed over to her, and told her that she was acting stupid. I told her that she had Joel and what did she think she was doing. I still remember what she said to me, she said 'Sam, you ain't my mother. You hold me back, Joel holds me back, it's my birthday,' she slurred it at me, and I was stunned. She'd never even spoken one cross word to me, in all the times I had known her, and now here she was, on the night we had organised together, throwing six years of friendship back at me as if it was nothing." Sam explained, a tear escaping and trickling down her cheek. "Eventually he came back, and I snuck back and hid near the two of them, she continued making a fool of herself, giggling and laughing, and sipping her drinks. Not long after I heard him suggest that the two of them get out of there and go somewhere more friendly, I was shocked at first, but became pleased when she told him that she had to go and find me. I immediately made my way away from them and pretended I had been sitting on one of the barstools all night. She stumbled towards me and told me that she was leaving with him, they were going somewhere more friendly. I couldn't believe it, and I begged her not to go," Sam explained before pausing, her eyes springing open as more tears fell and she turned to glance at Phil.

"Here." Phil said, as he leant back behind him and pulled a tissue from the box on the side table.

"Thanks Phil," Sam replied quietly, as she took the tissue and blew her nose, before sniffling and continuing, "I told her that this night was what we had planned for the two of us, from our hair to our toenails, and she told me that even though I was older than her, I was more of a child than she had ever been. I ignore that comment and instead I told her that Glen and Joel would be here soon, and she told me she didn't care. She was over Joel, he was boring, he was dull, he wasn't exciting, and this guy that she had been talking to all night was so much better. She didn't even know him, I lost my temper with her in seconds, I screamed at her, telling her that she was acting like a slut, like the girls at school we hated, and she told me she didn't care. She was sick of everything being the same, she was sick of Joel, sick of her family and sick of me. And it was the fact that she was sick of me that stung, it felt like a slap in the face. So I told her that she was a slut, and that if she was going to act like that then I didn't want to know her. She never said anything back, she just stuck her finger up at me, and then stormed back to him, and I watched as the two of them headed outside together." Sam paused again, blowing her nose once again. "And that was the last time I saw her."

"And that makes you who you are?" Phil asked, confused, staring back towards Sam.

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