Chapter 8

May 23, 2010

The next morning, Sammy woke up at 6 am, ready and excited for the day. Brandon was still asleep, so he quietly opened the doors through the bathroom to the guest bedroom to crawl into bed with Kelly, since he normally is her alarm clock.

"Mommy," Sammy says really quietly next into Kelly's ear as he climbs into the bed beside her, so it's enough to fully wake her.

"Morning Sammy," Kelly says as she wraps her arms around her son, "did you sleep well?"

"Yeah, daddy is still asleep. When is he going to wake up?" Sammy asks.

"Well, I don't know, but we should let him sleep for awhile, he's still adjusting to the time change," Kelly explains.

As they are talking, Brandon starts to stir because he's hearing voices, plus he is still used to waking up extremely early to do the morning chores with the community. He walks over to the bathroom door, spying a bit on Kelly and Sammy, still wondering how this is still happening. He's thinking maybe if he had told Kelly about the assignment that morning in New Orleans, or if problems on the trip didn't occur, then he would've known his son sooner.

His thoughts are interrupted by Kelly catching him standing near the doorway.

"Morning," Kelly says to Brandon, so then Sammy turns his head quickly and jumps out of bed to Brandon.

"Morning Daddy, can we go to the beach today?" Sammy asks.

"Sure, anything you want, but first why don't you and I make your mother breakfast in bed today," Brandon asks Sammy, with a glance towards Kelly as he smiles at her.

"Brandon, thank you, but that's not necessary," Kelly tries to convince Brandon.

"Oh, yes it is, c'mon Sammy, lets go see what we can whip up," Brandon replies.

After breakfast, the three of them go to the beach, have a picnic lunch at the playground, take Brandon shopping for new clothes, and then finally head back to Kelly's so Sammy could open up all of his presents. Afterwards, Brandon's jet lag finally caught up to him after only a few hours at the house.

Sammy is distracted on the floor with one of his new toys, when Kelly comes back from the kitchen, "Hey, who's hungry? I got some sandwiches. Brandon, are you awake?" She asks.

"HmmMmm," is all Brandon moans. Sammy looks over asking, "Daddy, can you help me put this together?"

Before Brandon can respond, Kelly steps in, "Honey, I think your father's jet lag is finally catching up to him, how about we let him sleep for awhile and he can help you tomorrow after school, okay?" Kelly says trying to convince Sammy.

"No…no, Kel, that's alright, we can do it now," Brandon says with his eyes still closed and kind of mumbling his words together.

"Yeah, please Mommy," Sammy whines as Brandon starts to get up from the couch, but kind of falls back into the couch because he's so tired.

"Sammy, I'm sorry. Come on Brandon, let me help you to bed," Kelly says. As Brandon lets Kelly help him up he says, "No, I really should go back to my parents."

"Oh, I don't think you're driving anywhere right now, come on, let's go Mr. World traveler." Kelly finally gets him to the guest bedroom, after some trouble with the stairs. Brandon falls immediately onto the bed. Kelly go to grab him an extra blanket, when she gets back, she notice his shoes were still on, so she took them off and covered him with the blanket.

"Thank you," Brandon mumbles.

Kelly gives him a kiss on the check, "Your welcome, if you need anything my room is down the hall, sleep well, I'll see ya in the morning."

That night after Sammy goes to bed, Kelly calls Andrea and Donna, to let her know about Brandon and why they left their own party on Saturday.


Monday 24, 2010

In the morning after Kelly got Sammy ready for the day, Kelly peaked into the guest room and notices Brandon was still asleep. She left him a quick note, saying:

Morning Sleepyhead,

Hope you slept well, wish we could still be here, but I still have school for another three weeks. Sammy will be at kindergarten; Cindy will pick him up around noon. Call me on my cell or at work, the numbers are downstairs on the fridge.

Kelly


Later that day, Brandon finally wakes up after lunch. He couldn't figure out how long he had slept, he still feels like he could sleep for another day, but he knew he needed to stay awake until it got dark again. As Brandon reads the note a smile comes to his face, he heads downstairs to find a phone to call Kelly. She didn't answer her cell phone, since she is in the middle of a meeting with Naomi Clark.

Kelly's work phone starts to rang, in the middle of her sentence, "Naomi, I have received some…" she look at the phone, sees it her house number, "hold on, I need to answer this," Kelly says as Naomi rolls her eyes.

"Kelly Taylor speaking," Kelly says professionally since Naomi is in her office.

"Hey, it's Brandon, I found your note. I wish I didn't sleep so long, so I could've seen you and Sammy this morning. You could have waked me up," Brandon said.

"I wanted to make sure you got your rest, will you still be at the house in a bit so I can call you back, I'm with a student now," Kelly asks.

"I'm not for sure, I think I'm going to head over to my parents," Brandon says.

"Okay, that's good. I normally pick Sammy up around 4, so I'll see you later."

"Ok, bye," Brandon says.

Kelly hangs up, "Sorry about that."

"Miss Taylor, finally got a boyfriend," Naomi says trying to embarrass her and avoid the reason why she's there in the first place.

"If you must know, an old friend is in town and got jet lag last night," Kelly says annoyed, "Okay I'm just going to cut to the chase. Your behavior lately with some of the teachers and other students just hasn't been you. You have been over edge, such as yelling in the hall one minute, laughing the next, and then crying in the bathroom. Naomi, what is going on? You can talk to me anytime."

Kelly says, awhile watching Naomi's face going from feeling in control to not at all.

"I don't know what you're talking about, it's not like you know anything," Naomi accuses.

Kelly thinks for a second of the consequences of what she's about to say, but she knows she needs to share it with Naomi since she recognizes the symptoms.

"Naomi, I'm going to be honest and open with you, I have observed you lately, I've been noticing some of the same feelings I've felt once, and I know how it feels."

Naomi is shocked not believing the Ms. Taylor has been through what she is going through, "I…I…don't…I don't," she isn't able to finish her sentence wanting to denied it, but instead runs out of Kelly's office, while saying, "I don't have to put up with this and you know nothing!"

Kelly shouts, "Naomi, please wait," but not to loud so others wouldn't become curious. Kelly sits back into her chair, concern about Naomi's behavior, and refuses to think about her own memory.


Finally at about 4 o'clock, Kelly calls Cindy to inform her she will be late, but only to find out Sammy isn't there.

"What you do mean he isn't there?" Kelly says frantically.

"Kelly, calm down, Silver came over about an hour ago, he really wanted to go home, so I let her take my car," Cindy explains with smile, trying not to let out Brandon's surprise over the phone.