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Sam's Choice

Sam walked as slowly as he could into the hotel his parents were staying at; it was freezing outside but standing in below freezing Alberta temp. was better then facing his parents. Finally he took a deep breath and walked into the hotel lobby immediately spotting his parents and walking towards them.

"Samuel;" His mother sprang towards him and hit him over the head. "Why didn't you invite me to your wedding?" She demanded to know.

"It wasn't really planned." Sam tried to explain; but to no avail his mother was still upset.

"Tell me when my grandchild is born." She looked him straight in the eyes.

"Yes ma'am;" Sam promised.

"I told you she wouldn't be very happy;" General Braddock justified his wife's behavior.

"I'm sorry Mom; if it makes you feel any better her father didn't go either."

"Well-" Maggie Braddock thought about her son's answer. "Your father told me she was in the hospital is she okay?"

"What? Oh yeah she's fine, she just fell, hit her head she had a concussion; but she's fine now; she'll be out of the hospital by tomorrow and back at her fathers house."

Maggie smiled obviously satisfied by her son's answer "In that case I think it would be a good idea if we went and met her and her family."

Sam mumbled something inedible his eyes diverting towards the floor. He loved his mother she had always tried to make sure he lived a normal life and tried to pretend their family wasn't broken; sometimes however she got mixed up in her own lies; and this was one of those times.

"Samuel, answer your mother." General Braddock instructed.

"Uh I'm not so sure that's a good idea;" Sam gulped as he slowly raised his head refusing to meet his mother's eyes.

"Why not?" Maggie demanded to know. "We have a right to meet our daughter in-law."

"Well-" Sam didn't want to imagine what would happen if Martin saw his father and the stress it would cause everybody else because of it. "Jules brother and sister in-law recently lost a son and I don' think they'd be in the mood for visitors."

"Oh! Well in that case we'll just have dinner with you and Jules then. What's the Jules short for again?"

"It's short for Juliana but not even her father calls her that; she hates it and she's still recovering and-"

"Stop making up excuses Samuel!" His father looked up from his Blackberry and stared his son right in the eyes not letting his eyes divert away. "If you don't want your mother and I meeting your wife and her family you should be man enough to say it to our faces."

"Well-I-its-not that." Sam really wished his father wasn't staring him down. "I just don't think it's a good idea."

"Why not?" Maggie asked her son the hurt evident in her voice "Are you ashamed of us?"

"I just don't think Jules would fit in she's kind of- well-I'll let Dad fill you in on why he hates her; and I'm still getting to know her family and so fair its really great, for the most part its been-well Mom to tell you the truth its been everything I've wanted in a family since I was little."

"So you are ashamed of us." She concluded tears welling up in her eyes. "We're not good enough is that it?"

"No Mom it's not that!" Sam tried to explain but his mother had hit it spot on and he couldn't lie to her again. "I-just;"

"Samuel Christopher Martin Jason Braddock!" His mother used his full name; he hated it when she used his full name. "I'd never think you'd do this but you leave be no choice you pick right now young man; you either introduce us to Jules and suck up that self righteous pride of us or you don't and-and you won't be part of this family anymore and I mean it. You've done some horrible things I'm not going to lie but-" Maggie's voice trailed off.

"Then I'm sorry;" Sam his feet on the ground as he gulped back tears took one last look at his parents and disappeared out of sight.

TBC

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