Living Without a Mom ~ Chapter 17: Family
So, this is the final chapter for this story. Yeah.
A couple of weeks later, Sam was sat in school with a huge smile plastered on his face. Ever since his parents were back together again, he'd always be in a permanently happy mood. His childhood dreams were finally coming true.
Thanks to his happiness, Sam's grades were going right up. All of his teachers were impressed at how much he'd improved. His friends were all pleased for him. Yes, this was the happiest that Sam had felt in his entire life.
After school, all that Sam had to do was pick Felicity up from the elementary before returning home. His mother and sister had already moved in with him and his father. As he saw the seven-year-old leave the doors of the recently built Sunset Valley Elementary, a group of boys that looked around nine, ten years old crowded around her. Sam narrowed his eyes. What exactly were they doing?
Sam found his feet walking over to the group of children and peered over their shoulders to find his little sister right in the middle, crying her eyes out. What the hell?! He stepped into action, barging right through the group and pulling Felicity close to him.
'Now would you like to explain what you are doing to make my little sister cry?! Huh?!' Sam demanded. Nobody made Felicity upset whilst he was around. Nobody.
None of the kids spoke a word and awkwardly shuffled their feet about.
'I'll wait for an answer all day if I have to. So it's best if you just explained yourselves.'
One of the young boys eventually stepped forward.
'We... we've been ganging up on her ever since she started going to this school. She seemed like an easy target.' he awkwardly admitted.
'Well, I think that you should stop doing that right now! Imagine if you were in her position? How would you feel? And for the record, I will be telling the school about this. Who is your teacher?' Sam felt as if he was going to explode with rage. How DARE they gang up on his little sister!
'It's... uh.. Mr Bates.'
Without another word, Sam frogmarched Felicity into the Elementary school building. A couple of the boys sheepishly followed.
'Now, where's Mr Bates' room?' Sam asked.
'Down the corridor, third right.' said a boy who wore a blue and black baseball cap.
Opening the door that apparently led into Mr Bates' room, Sam saw a middle-aged man whose obviously dyed brown hair was balding. He wore circle-rimmed glasses and his light blue shirt was tucked into his grey trousers. He looked up as the group entered the room.
'May I help you?' he asked.
'Yes. This is Felicity, my little sister. These boys here, who I believe are in your class, have been ganging up on her ever since she started attending this school a few months ago.'
Mr Bates looked furious.
'They'd better not have! We here at Sunset Valley Elementary have a strict anti-bullying policy!' he boomed, causing even Sam to be taken aback. Felicity actually grabbed hold of her brother's hand.
'We're really sorry, Mr Bates...' apologized the boy with the baseball cap.
'And so you should be. I'm disappointed in you lot. Thank you for bringing this to my attention, Felicity's older brother.'
'Sam.'
'Alright. I'll let their parents know and I will also make this lot explain everything.'
'Okay, thank you. Bye.' Sam then quickly led Felicity out of the school and took her back home. He had to move into his father's old room, Opal and Leighton moved into his Grandma Yumi's old room so that left Felicity with Sam's old room. Opening the front door to his house, he found Opal in the kitchen, making some food.
'Hey mom. The food smells nice.' Sam greeted.
'Hello you two. Thanks, it's a pasta bake. Sound nice?'
Both of Opal's children nodded their heads eagerly. Sam then retreated to his room to get started on his homework.
A few hours later, Leighton returned home from work. The family decided to all to out to the movies together. They watched a film called Finding Bella. It reminded Sam of his friend Bella Bachelor.
Once they were all home after the movie, it was way past Felicity's bedtime. Sam needed to tell Opal about the entire bullying situation that he'd caught her in.
After Opal had kissed Felicity goodnight, she made her way back into the living room. But Sam stopped her before she could sit down again. He decided to just tell it straight out.
'Mom, Felicity has been bullied at school and I saw it happen.'
That comment made Leighton take his eyes away from the TV to listen into the conversation that was about to happen. Sure Felicity wasn't his own daughter, but she may as well have been.
'Well, I've had my suspicions for a while now. But what exactly went on?'
'I was waiting outside the Elementary for Felicity and as she was leaving, a group of boys all crowded around her. I went over to see what was going on and I found her in the middle, crying her eyes out. I confronted the boys and they owned up that they'd been ganging up on her ever since she started at that school. I then took them to their extremely strict teacher, and looks like they're gonna be in massive trouble.' Sam explained as both his parents listened intently.
'Well Sam, I'm proud of you for stepping in and helping out your sister. I'm sure your dad agrees...?' Opal praised, looking back at Leighton. He gave an approving nod.
'Anything for Feli.' Sam smiled.
Three years later, Sam was walking through the corridor at school, attempting to avoid the fact that Bella Bachelor and Mortimer Goth were acting all lovey-dovey right in front of his locker. He eventually had to cough to get them to move away otherwise he'd be late to class.
'Hey Sam, is your mom pregnant again?' asked Mortimer as Bella grabbed his hand and started leading him away.
'...what?!' Sam exclaimed. By this point, the two lovebirds were already running off. It was obvious that they were skipping class.
But surely his mother couldn't be pregnant?! She would've told him by now! Frowning, Sam gathered his things from his locker and headed to class.
After school, Sam made his way home. He couldn't stop thinking about the question that Mortimer had asked him. Could it be true? Could his mother be pregnant? Stepping through the front door, Opal was beaming at him.
'Sam, I have two things to tell you. And they're both two pretty big and life-changing things. The first thing is, you're going to have a little brother or sister in seven months! The second is, your father and I are getting married! Isn't it all exciting?!' she announced. Sam stared in a shocked silence, processing all the information that he'd just heard. So it turned out that Mortimer was right. But sixteen years after his birth, his parents were FINALLY tying the knot? HELL YES!
So it may have taken seven years since the events of meeting his real mother and his sister, but in the end it was all worth it. Sam could finally take pride in saying that his family was complete.
And CUT. Woop! Yeah, some of you will probably think that that was a bad place to end it, but it'll no doubt leave you all imagining what happens next. Thank you for all the reviews, follows and favourites, I know literally everyone says this but they really do mean the world to me and I really appreciate them. It makes me just that little bit more motivated to continue writing, knowing that there's people who are waiting for the next update. So thanks again. And until my next story update, see you around!