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Here is chapter 16.

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Chapter 16: Past comes back to haunt you

Tammy woke up early on Monday morning. She sat up in her new room and smiled. She finally had a room that she could truly call her own. She didn't have to worry about being scared someone would break the door down or go into her room at night to hurt her. She could be a normal teenager with walls covered in posters of Taylor Lautner and Paramore. She could just be like everyone else for once. Even it only was on the outside.

She stretched and turned off her alarm clock so it wouldn't go off in an hour when she was supposed to be up. She didn't feel like getting dressed and she didn't want to wake Ace so she got up and left her room. She walked across the hall and opened Sam's door. Sam was sleeping of course so Tammy decided to lay next to her on her bed. Sam muxt have felt the bed move because she began to wake up. She turned over and saw Tammy laying beside her.

"It's only five thirty. Why are you awake so early?" asked Sam.

"Couldn't sleep anymore." said Tammy.

"Next time don't go to bed at freakin seven in the afternoon." stated Sam before closing her eyes again and puting the covers over her head turning back around.

Tammy sighed. She began to shake Sam.

"Sammy c'mon I don't want to be up alone. Besides it wasn't my fault I had a stomach ache. It was Brooke's cooking." said Tammy whispering the last part just in case Brooke was awake in the next room.

Sam smiled.

"I told you to go with the soup but you never listen to me." teased Sam.

"I was tryin to be nice to Brooke. Next time I won't spare her feelings as much"

Sam groaned. She really wanted to go back to sleep. It was way too early to be up.

"I should've asked to share a room with you." stated Tammy out of the blue.

Tammy never liked being by herself no matter how much older she got or how much she tried to hide it. She was even still scared of the dark. Sam thought it was cute even though she knew the reason why she was scared of the dark was anything but cute. Sam decided that she would just give in to her little sisters demands. She took the covers off of her head and sat up.

"Why didn't you ask Brooke?" asked Sam.

"I'm fourteen. I'm not a baby anymore Sam. We both need our privacy and its just a little fear." answered Tammy.

"You know you have to talk eventually." said Sam, "I mean I know that you have delt with it well I guess but..."

"Sam I don't do that anymore okay." said Tammy cutting Sam off.

"So then you..." started Sam only to get cut off again.

"No Sam. It was nothing okay. It was just some thing. It's done." added Tammy.

Tammy hated talking about this particular subject. She didn't understand why it was so hard to tell Sam the truth. She hadn't stopped and it didn't go away but she was scared. Sam would tell Brooke if she found out and things would go so wrong. Brooke would be so mad and even worse disapointed in her. She couldn't have that. So she had decided that she would just keep it all to herself. She wasn't technically hurting anyone.

Sam just looked at Tammy. She knew that her sister was hiding something but she wasn't going to push it. All that would do was make Tammy mad.

Tammy and Sam both looked up to the sight of the door opening. A tired Brooke stepped into Sam's room. She crossed her arms and stood in the middle of the room starring at her two foster daughters.

"What are you two doing up so early? You don't have school for another hour." said Brooke.

"I couldn't sleep so I woke up Sam." answered Tammy honestly.

Brooke walked over and sat on the bed.

"You okay?" asked Brooke, "Nightmares?"

"No. I mean no nightmares. I'm fine I just went to bed too early." said Tammy, "Um I'm going to take a shower okay. I wanna start getting ready."

"UH...okay." said Brooke.

Tammy hugged Brooke and walked out of Sam's room leaving her and Brooke alone and confused.

"What was that?" asked Brooke.

"I don't know." said Sam.

Suddenly Sam's cell phone rang. She scrambled through her covers and finally found it. She answered it forgetting that Brooke was still in her room for a second.

"Hey hun. No you didn't wake me up I was up talking to Tammy and my Mom. No not Rebecca, Brooke." said Sam.

"Uh Sam." said Brooke.

Sam looked at Brooke and suddenly she realized that she wasn't at Rebecca's anymore and that Brooke didn't know about the person who was on the other line of her cellphone.

"Hey um I have to call you back." said Sam, "I'll see you at school."

Sam hungup her phone and looked at her mother nervously.

"Who was that Samantha?" asked Brooke curiously.

"My boyfriend.." whispered Sam.

"Excuse me." said Brooke not quite hearing Sam correctly.

"My boyfriend." said Sam a little louder.

Brooke was kind of caught off guard. She knew that since Sam had gone to live with Rebecca that there had been some changes but it had never crossed her mind that having a boyfriend would be one of them.

"When did this happen?" asked Brooke.

"A few months ago." confessed Sam, "Mom I'm sorry I didn't tell you okay. I just kinda forgot with all the things going on now. He's a really good guy though."

Brooke was silent.

"Mom please don't be mad at me. I know I'm just 17 but I mean I like him...a lot." said Sam worried that Brooke was really angry with her.

"I'm not mad." said Brooke finally, "I'm just surprised okay. I mean no matter what you are my baby and its hard to think of my baby dating someone. I always pictured you coming to me first but I guess I kind of messed that up."

Sam could see that Brooke was guilty. She moved so that she was sitting right beside Brooke. She took Brooke's hand in hers and leaned onto Brooke's shoulder.

"It's not your fault Mom. Things just happened. I don't blame you okay. I love you. You are my mother not Rebecca. She never ever was. She was just some woman who carried me for nine months and then gave me up. You gave me food and clothes and a home. She never met him, Joey I mean." said Sam, "I told him that I wanted him to meet you. I talked about you all the time. And I even told him that you were going to give him the fifth degree even though I would ask you not to."

Brooke smiled a little and kissed Sam's forehead.

"I want you to adopt me for real." said Sam suddenly.

Brooke didn't know how to respond. She had waited so long to hear those words but she didn't think that it would ever be under these circumstances. The adoption papers were still in the kitchen drawer by the sink where they had always been. She had never been able to get rid of tem because she always hoped that Sam would come home one day soon and now it was happening. She had her daughter back.

"Really?" asked Brooke in disbelief.

"Yea mom. Really." assured Sam.

Brooke smiled and hugged Sam. Suddenly Ace ran into Sam's room and jumped on her bed. He licked her face and curled up in Sam's lap. Sam laughed.

"Do you think I should ask Tammy too?" asked Brooke.

"Give her time." said Sam

An hour later Sam and Tammy were being dropped off at the high school. They said their goodbies and walked into the bulding.

"So what's this about a boyfriend?" asked Tammy.

"You heard that?"

Tammy shook her head proudly. She had always been good at eavesdropping on Sam.

"So what's his name?" asked Tammy.

"See you didn't hear everything." laughed Sam, "HIs name is Joey. He goes here and he is coming over for dinner so you will be able to meet him later."

"Cool. Is he nice to you?" asked Tammy.

"Yes he is very nice to me. I wouldn't date another douchebag like Brian again." said Sam.

Tammy just shook her head. Sam had gone out with a guy named Brian when she was thirteen. It had started out like any normal relationship: kissing and holding hands. They were both young so it never got to the extremes but soon Briane became to obsessive. He wanted to know where she was always and who she was with. If she talked to a guy Brian atomatically thought she was cheating. One day Brian got so mad that he slapped Sam and pushed her down the stairs in school. That was the end of their relationship. Sam broke up with him and he got sent to a boarding school far away.

"That's good." said

Tammy spotted Alex and Layden from far away. She stood still and just looked over at them.

"What's wrong?" asked Sam.

"Nothing." said Tammy quickly not wanting Sam to suspect anything.

Sam looked at her skeptically but she managed to put on a smile.

"I'm gana go wit my friends." said Tammy, "I'll see you later."

Sam shook her head and Tammy began to walk towards Layden and Alex. Alex spotted her first and smiled widely and waived. When She got over to them Alex hugged her.

"Damn Tammy where have you been. I thought that you were going to come with me and Layden to the movies." said Alex.

"Yeah. We felt kind of abandoned." said Layden.

"I'm sorry. I ended up having to fix my new room. No more sofa. And I got a dog." explained Tammy.

"I guess that's a good excuse." said Layden with a smile, "You are forgiven."

Suddenly the bell rang.

"C'mon were gana be late." said Alex grabbing Tammy's hand.

Tammy pulled her hand away from Alex who stopped and looked at her confused.

"Sorry I have to go talk to Mrs. James-Scott first." said Tammy.

"Okay. I guess we will see you in class then." Layden pulling Alex along who was still confused about what had just happened.

Tammy walked to the bathroom and locked herself in a stall. She opened her bookbag and pulled a bottle out of her bag. It was vodka. She had gotten it out of Brooke's cabinet a few days ago but hadn't really thought about drinking it until now. She sighed knowing that things were going to be just like before. She unscrewed the cap and put the bottle to her mouth taking a big gip. She cringed at the burning sensation when she swallowed. It had been a while. Soon she got to the point where she wanted. She wasn't thinking about anything anymore. It was just her and the bottle.

There you go.

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