Love!!
Chapter Three.
Sam thought and thought that night, and the next three nights follwing. She was smart, funny and totally cute. Feisty too, when she wanted to be. Just the other day she had put Dean in his place about being like a bitch on heat and going for regular crab and flea checks. He didn't know what to come back at her with. Damn she was quick!
Sam wanted to ask her out, to the movies, bowling, swimming. Anything where he could just take her and call a date. Girls liked to be told they look pretty, so he told her most morings that she looked nice or complimented on her tan (Dean kept telling him to stop or she would assume he was gay) or her hair.
How could he just make his move? Dean suggested to going up to her, lifting her on to the kitched counter and giving her the kiss of a lifetime, but how could he do that? He had nevber had the chance to spend so much time with a girl or get this close to her. Dean had pleanty of experience under his hat (and his belt too!).
Sam was shy and reserved, blushed easily. He was a bookwaorm and techno wizz, not a Casanova or Lothario like Dean, nor was he and love 'em and leave 'em. He was just Sam, tall, quiet and akward Sam.
Dean let out a harsh snore from the top bunk. Sam glanced at the radio clock next to him. 03:17 Today He was going to do it. He was going to ask out Darcy Singer on a date. and he was going to hold her hand, and he was going to enjoy himself and he was going to make it perfect. He was going to kiss her too. He hoped.
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"Hey Sammy!" Darcy exclaimed from her seat at the breakfast table, giving him a radiating smile, her eyes sparkling at the sight of the boy infront of her.
"Hey. Where is everybody?!" He asked, scratching his head and walking over to the fridge to get himself the juice.
"Dean and John went out to town for some groceries and dad went to get some car parts and oil. You want me to get you some toast?"
"No, it's ok. I was thinking about going in to town. Just to see what's aorund and what's changed. Want to come?" He leaned his long body against the counter and looked at the girl infront of him. She was drinking coffee and reading a book on fairy tales and mythology.
"Sure, that would be great. I need to pick up a few things. Any chance you're going to the library?"
"Yea I could go. I'm not sure where it is though."
"I'll drive us and show you. It's easy to remember! It's not really a big town. Not easy to get lost!" She gave him that warm smile, her eyes not leaing his face once.
Damn that fringe was annoying! She wished he would get it cut, or invest in some hair gel!
"I'll go grab my wallet. When do you plan on going?"
"Well, any time now really. I'll grab my bag and shoes." Darcy got up and ran upstairs. She liked Sam, he was great to hang out with. She was glad she was spending her summer with him. Usually it was just her and her dear old dad. Not that she minded. She bought Vicky out here last summer. Her dad loved Vicky, she was funny and smart. The two of them were constantly up untill silly hours of the morning gossiping and giggling. Bobby didn't mind, he was glad Darcy had someone to do normal girl things with. Even though ther last school report said she needed to stop daydreaming and passing notes in class. He was just very releived and glad his daughter was doing normal things with normal people.
Sam strode upsatirs to get his wallet and walked straight in to Darcy, sending her crashing to the floor.
"SOrry! Sorry! Are you ok?" He leaned down and gave her his hand in order to help her up.
"Yea Sam, I'm ok. Good job I got a good ammount of padding on my ass or that would have hurt!" He stood up with his help and laughed off the embarassment of falling over.
Sam leant down and picked up her red and black punky fish bag and handed it to her. Darcy was very thankful the zipper was shut and her lipgloss and girly things hadn't fallen in to plain veiw.
"Padding? There's nothing to you Darce!" She smiled at hime.
"Thanks, I'm glad you think so!" They both blushed at what Sam had said.
"So, I'll drive!" Darcy motioned that she was ready to go.
"Be with you in a sec, get my wallet." He replied.
Ok, well I'll see you in the car." Sam watched as Darcy bounced down the stairs with elegance, still shocked at what he had said.
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Bobby drove quickly down the road to the church yard with his gardening equipment. He liked to keep Charlottes grave tidy, talk to her, feel close to her. Even more so when Darcy was around.
He only took Darcy to visit the headstone a handfull of times. All it was now was a marker and bones. Charlotte's life had lived on in Darcy and in memories.
He missed her so terribly much. It still hurt him to remember what he did to her. The way he ended her life.
Bobby still thought about what could have been if John had showed up a few minutes earlier. John could have done an exorcism, Charlotte would be alive and the two of them and Darcy could have been a family. They could have had more childre, grown old together.
Charlotte would have been so proud of Darcy. She was everything a mother could have hoped for. She tried her hardest at what ever she needed to do, volunteered to help others, accepted challanges and faced her troubles with a positive stance and cared deeply for her family friends and would never see any of her loved ones go with out basic human needs. Just like the time Vicky had just had enough of her home life last year.
Vicky had spent the previous winter sick with chest infections and by the time summer came, she was still recovering and felt exhausted. Darcy always took Vicky her favourite magazines, picked up her prescriptions and and helped her with her homework. Vicky had spent so much time at home she had a touch of cabin fever. So Darcy bought her friend to stay for the summer. The warm air and company did both the girls good and the winter just gone had seen a healthy Vicky with a new passion for parties (she HAD missed out on a lot!) and boys.
Bobby sighed to himself. His baby girl was growing up wouldn't be his baby for much longer. Darcy would be looking at colleges during the next school year. She insisted that she didn't want to go to an Ivy wanted Darcy to go to Princeton to study, they had a great archeology departmentand that's what she has seemed interested in doing. darcy insisted on community college though. Not wanting to burden any one with extreme costs or put too much distance between her family and friends.
Darcy had her eyes set on Ball State University, it had an anthropolgy, history and engligh department. She really wanted to study history and english an danthropology was a second choice along with juvenile rights and protection.
Always out to help people. One day it would get Darcy in to a tight spot and she won't be able to get out of it in one peice.
Bobby knew from the moment Darcy had started to mix in with different crowds that she saw something good in everyone. Another reason demons should be a well kept secret and thing of myth to his innocent daughter.
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"So Sammy, what sort of books are you looking for?" Darcy whispered as they slowly walked along the shelves of the huge book filled room, otherwise known as a library.
"Nothing in particular really. What ever catches my eye." Sam couldn't focus on books whe her arm was interlinked with his and their skin was touching. It was too much to take.
Darcy had picked out her favourite book of all time;"The Princess Bride." Sam remembered the movie but never gave the fact it was based in a book a second thought.
Sam's stomach rumbled in protest to not being fed yet.
"Maybe we should get something to eat and cime back later?" Sam suggested. He just wanted to get out of there. It was eerily silent and this fact made him want to put his arms around Darcy and let time pass by while he looked in ot her eyes and kissed those soft lips which always held a smile for him.
"Are you sure?" Darcy looked concerned, she had wanted Sam to have a good day. They had slwoly wondered around the various little stores and she had bought a new notepad and some some blank discs to save her school work on to and Sam had watched and follwed and they had talked and laughed about things Vciky and DArcy had said and done and some of the antics they had gotten up to at parties.
"Yea I'm sure. I really don't mind just rummaging through Bobby's books andreading what ever's there." He wasn't too picky with books, read pretty much anything which would transport him to a world free of travelling, motels and demons.
"ok, well I'll just check this out and we can go grab a burger?"
"Sure. I'll meet you outside ok?"
The two parted company and Sam watched the people on the street outside go about their daily lives.
A couple walking hand in hand with a cute little Westie dog following closely by. A group of kids riding bikes. A small toddler trying to get out of his stroller but not being able to fight the clutches of the restraints.
It was a beautiful warm summers day. And he was summoning up all the courage he could to ask her on a date.
He mentally kicked himself as he recalled the four different times he had spotted the oppourtunity to ask Darcy out but had just let the words dissolve on his tounge.
"You sure you're ok Sammy?" Darcy came up to where he was standing.
"Yea I'm fine. Hungry though." He just couldn't do it.
"ok, well TJ's across the street does good burgers. They have these awesome spiral fries too!"
"Alright, lead the way!"
Darcy walked across the street. Sam wished that girl would wear something other than denim short shorts and vests. It was getting too much for him.
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Darcy and Sam were washing one of the cars Bobby had fixed up and was selling to a woman from Texas who had moved to the local area to care for her mother. SHe would be picking up the beat up Ford any time within the next two days, so it was up to Sam and Darcy to make it shine.
It felt like they had been washing the damned thing for hours. When would it finally be clean? It was gettin boring. Sam was frustrated at himself for not asking about the date and Darcy was worried he wasn't happy spending the summer with here.
SPLAT!!!
The next thing Sam new, was that a wet spinge had hit him square on the chest.
Darcy was giggling to herself, the look on SAm's face had been priceless!
"What? What's that for?!" Sam was confused.
"Daydreaming away and not listening to what I had been saying!" She replied, smiling, but a tad annoyed she's been pretty much talking to herself for the last several minutes.
"Um, sorry. What did I miss?!" SAm picked up the sponge and soaked it in his bucket.
"I said that the cars now clean and I'm really bored." Darcy put her hands on her hips and started to tap her doot, just like the spoiled brats did in old movies.
"Oh, well I guess it's playtime then?" Sam gave her and evil grin as he pleted her back with the wet sponge.
"Sam!!! You got my hair wet!" Darcy cried in mock horror.
"OH no! What ever will we do?" Sam raised the back of his hand to his forehead as a sign of drama.
"Uch, thanks Sam. You'll pay for that. Bully!" She stuck out her tounge and got ready for her revenge.
"Oh yea? What are you going to do exactley short stuff?" He mocked, huge grin on his face.
Darcy moved closer to him unitl they were less that 8inches apart from eachother.
"I'm going to laugh at you."
"laugh at me? why? What have I d-" Just as he was finishing his sentence a bucket of soapy luke warm water had been thrown in the general direction of his head, leaving him soaked head to toe, and making his already shaggy hair plaster his face.
Darcy laughed so much she was doubled over. Sam looked hilarious. Like a drowned, darker version of cousin It from the Adam's Family.
Sam recovered from the shock, moved his wet hair from his eyes and quickly moved to grab her. Darcy sprinted away and ran as fast as she could, laughing the whole time.
Sam eaasily caught her with his long stride, put his arms around her waist and pucked her up and spund her around.
They fell on the ground and he started to tickle her ribs, he had abviously caught the right spot, she was hysterical with girlish sheirks of laughter and was kicking her legs and thrashing about like a fish out of water.
"Oh........My.........God!.......Can't.....Breath!" She eventually managed to get the words out.
"Give in?" Sam laughed so hard his ribs were hurting.
"Yes. Please, no more!"
Sam stopped and they loked at eachother. They were red faced, wet and crying from laughter.
"You want to go out with me tonight?" Sam blurted out.
Darcy's smile radiated joy.
"With dad and Dean and John?"
"No, on a date. With me." He can't beleive he had been so blunt.
"Sure! Absaloutley! I'd like that." Darcy smiled even more, and Sam was releived he had finally said it.
And about time too!! Thought Dean, who had been watching from the distance and heard the that boy needs a hair cut! he added to his thoughts, while wiping the oil and engine grease from his hands.
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