Lucky Charms

Part 3

For all of Sami's misgivings that today would be a long day for her, time flew by while she worked at the shop. She guessed the workday had went so quickly was due to the fact she was still dreading taking EJ to the Brady Pub tonight to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with her quirky family.

Well in all fairness she might be the quirkiest member of her family with the possible exception of her twin brother Eric, who had just completed all the prerequisite work and had been ordained as a priest of the Catholic Church. Thinking of her saintly brother as being even stranger than her made her instantly feel bad for having such thoughts because the family would surely deign her as being close to borderline blasphemous.

Yet she knew most of her twin brother's secrets and even he had been sexually active before he made his decision to join the priesthood. Even worse though was the fact Eric's first and only was none other than that skanky ho Nicole Walker, whom had bedded most of the eligible and not so eligible men in Salem and possibly even some of the women too.

Sami wasn't naïve enough to believe EJ hadn't slept with Nicole during the time they had dated before EJ had stated his intentions of wanting to date her instead. Personally Sami enjoyed referring to the gold digger as Nicho because sometimes if she had her inflections correctly she could make it sound almost as if she said Nicole and then claim innocence of what she had actually said.

Yes, it was petty, but ever since the time Nicho had hurt Eric Sami had disliked her. The only good thing about Eric ever dating the ho was it directed him into another life pathway which would never include him ever being with her in a relationship ever again.

While Sami was glad she wasn't a whore, she also wished she had a bit more experience especially now since she and EJ had been dating this past month. The sad thing though was every time she got close to being more intimate with EJ all the taunts guys in the past had labeled her as frigid would come sweeping into her mind and then her confidence was shot. When her confidence level dropped she retreated back into her shell and she feared EJ would tire of dating her soon.

What sexy and virile man would want to date someone as inept in the ways of lovemaking as her? She was thinking the list wouldn't be a very long one at all. Add in the factor that she truly believed EJ could have anyone he chose without much effort on his part because she would have to be blind not the notice all the appreciative stares women gave him whenever they went out somewhere together. Thus the reason she was beginning to consider ending things with EJ before he ended up breaking her heart.

Better to stop it now before she turned into one of those weepy girls she used to make fun of that cried over her brothers. Why in the past month since it had become official Eric was now an ordained priest it seemed to bring out even more women who were determined to hopefully sway him away from the priesthood.

Personally Sami thought if a person tried to lure a priest into the temptation of having a sexual relationship they would surely be in the running to win a one way ticket to hell. Instantly an uncharitable vision of this happening to Nicho somehow didn't bother her conscience too badly.

Then an unwanted vision occurred of what in the world would EJ think when he received the basket Chloe had sent him that was supposedly from her. No matter how many times Sami had try to wheedle the information out from Chloe about the contents of the basket her best friend had remained silent.

Sami thought Chloe may be spending too much time with her brother Brady because it was apparent some of his annoying traits were rubbing off on her. Big Mouth Brady was the reason she had to take EJ to the pub tonight, add in Chloe being so mischievous by sending EJ a basket full of love shack supplies of god only knew what it contained and Sami was on the verge of having a migraine.

That was it; she could claim she felt awful, that she needed to go home and rest before she had a full blown migraine. She would just ring EJ to tell him they would have to reschedule for another night instead.

She felt a smile forming on her face, but quickly changed her countenance to one of being in terrible pain. She would really have to work hard to fool Chloe especially since they were best friends and roommates, but desperate times called for desperate measures.

Sami made out like she was walking into Chloe's office, but slightly stumbled before she reached the doorway causing her to reach out an unsteady hand to grasp the edge of the doorframe.

"Chloe," Sami called her name out weakly which immediately got her attention. Chloe got up from her desk to keep her best friend from falling into the floor.

"Oh my god Sami, what is wrong?" Chloe asked worriedly as she directed Sami to a chair so that she could sit down.

Sami took her right hand making sure it shook and placed it on her forehead, "Chloe I feel like I'm going to be sick."

Chloe put her hands on her hips, "Sami did you not tell me the truth?"

Sami kept looking down at the floor so as not to give into the giggles and blow her entire cover story before it even actually began. "What are you talking about?"

"Are you pregnant? Did you go ahead and have sex with EJ and just not tell your best friend that you had given up your V card to him?"

Sami had to look up at Chloe, "One I'm definitely not pregnant because I'm pretty sure there was only one immaculate conception ever, two while I may still be a virgin I don't rank up there as being holy since my twin brother has that market cornered and thirdly you would be the first person I would tell if I traded in my V membership card by having sex with EJ."

Chloe moved over directly beside her best friend and looked at Sami closely, her friend did look pale. She reached out a hand to touch her forehead for any signs of fever, but Sami pulled back away before Chloe could try to gauge her temperature.

"Sami, let me check your temperature," Chloe was talking to her like she was a child instead of a grown woman.

"No, I'm just going to go home and try to rest. Can you handle the store by yourself?"

"Are you sure you aren't faking being sick so that you won't have to go to the pub tonight with EJ or is it that you are worried about the gift basket I told you I sent to EJ?"

Sami hated lying to Chloe, while she wasn't hesitant to lie to almost anyone else; she always told Chloe the truth. With an overly dramatic sigh she confessed, "It may be a little bit of both of those reasons."

"Sami, I was just joking with you. I didn't send EJ a basket."

Sami felt instant relief flood over her, "You didn't?"

Chloe shook her head, "I thought about it, but before I actually went through with it I didn't want to push you into something you may not be ready for yet. For all my outrageous remarks about sex, it is a big deal and for you to have waited this long the first time should be special."

"I may go join the convent," Sami offered up seriously.

"Sami, you are not nun material."

"I still have my V card."

"Has EJ been pressuring you to have sex with him?"

Sami looked back down at the floor. "No, quite the opposite, maybe he just isn't that into me like I thought he was at first."

Chloe bent down on the floor where she could look Sami in the eye since her best friend, "Sami have you ever considered the fact that EJ respects you and wants to take things slow because he really cares you?"

"I'm not sure he has these feelings for me like you claim," Sami stated sadly.

Chloe wanted to tell Sami that EJ was head over heels in love with her, no man dropped that much money down on a bracelet for someone he wasn't serious about especially after he explained what the reasons where behind the charms he had already had placed on the bracelet. But she had promised him she wouldn't ruin his surprise.

Sami's head was really starting to hurt. She guessed it was karma for her trying to fake being sick, now it seemed like she really was getting a migraine headache. "I'm going to go home, crawl into the bed and try to sleep this off before I have a full blown migraine."

Chloe asked hopefully, "Do you think you will be able to go to the pub tonight if you go rest for a while?"

"I don't know. I think I'll call EJ and cancel our date tonight."

"Sami, your family wants to meet him."

"They want to have an inquisition for me instead because they can't fathom anyone with the surname of DiMera could be a good guy."

"Sami please reconsider going."

Sami shook her head, "I just can't. I won't put EJ through it. He deserves better than me anyway."

"Sami please…"

"I'll see you later or are you coming home to change before you go to the party?"

"I'll come home first," Chloe replied.

"Okay, I'm going home," Sami got up from the chair and left the room.

Chloe felt guilty now for even kidding Sami that she had sent EJ a basket full of love shack supplies. She was only trying to get Sami to loosen up and just go with it instead of overanalyzing all the possible scenarios where things would go wrong. Chloe shook her head; she didn't want her best friend to throw away her happiness.

So after Sami had left the shop, Chloe made a decision that her best friend might get upset with her choosing to do, but she'd gladly take the blame if everything backfired. She picked up her cell phone to call EJ. She had to tell him of Sami's intentions of breaking off the date tonight and possibly breaking things off with him entirely.

She picked up her cell phone and dialed EJ's number. She was playing matchmaker again, but she had to do it before Sami and EJ had terrible misunderstandings with one another. She guessed sometimes love needed a little push or even a big one like the one she was going to give.

She heard EJ's voice on the line and began, "EJ, hey it's Chloe. I really need to talk to you about something…."