chapter 14

On the way home, me, Marissa, and Danny just talked. We didn't talk about what happened at Casey's house. We just talked about random things.

We turned on Marissa's street and she left to go to her house. Me and Danny just kept walking.

We were silent for a few minutes and then I asked "Danny, why didn't you tell me that you liked me before?"

He looked at me and then hesitated before saying, "Because I thought you remembered 2nd grade by now and I didn't want to ruin anything if you did remember... and also cause Marissa liked me and I didn't want to hurt her feelings by telling you."

"Oh. But..." I wanted to ask him about my father and what happened to him after my 'incident'.

"What?"

"What about my father? What happened to him?"

"Sammy, I don't think I should tell you..."

"Danny, please tell me! I wanna know about my father. What happened to him?" I gave him a puppy-dog look.

He hesitated again. "Fine. After the incident... you didn't know who he was and you would always cry whenever you were with him. He didn't want people to think that he was hurting you or something so he left." He said it so fast that I barely knew what he said.

"But why didn't he come back?"

"Sammy, I don't know. I wasn't even supposed to tell you anything about your father." He laughed and said "But, you can be very persuasive."

I laughed too. But I didn't see where I was going and I bumped into someone.

"Oh, sorry." I said.

"It's okay Sa-." He started to say but then he looked at Danny and shook his head and walked away.

"Sammy..." Danny said. I looked at him, he looked worried.

"What?" I asked.

"Nothing, forget it. I have to go. Bye." And with that he walked away.

I just shrugged and kept walking around. What was that all about? That man looked like he knew Danny. I recognized his voice too... but I can't quite remember where.

Somehow, I ended up back at Casey's house. I'll just go home later, I thought. I knocked on the door, and immediately Casey opened it and smiled.

"Sammy, your back!"

I laughed. He seemed so happy that I came back. "Yeah, I'm back..."

"Come in."

So I went in. "So what brings you back here?"

I told him what happened and his face changed completely.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing." But I could tell something was wrong.

"Casey, seriously what's wrong?"

"Sammy... really nothing's wrong! Let's go upstairs."

When we got to his room, he grabbed his cell phone and said that he needed to make a quick call. I said okay.

Casey's POV

I went downstairs and went outside. This was not good, I thought. I quickly called Marissa.

"Hello?" She answered on the first ring.

"Marissa, we have a huge problem." I said frantically.

"What?"

"I think Sammy's dad is in town."

"How do you know?"

"Because Sammy and Danny just ran into him half an hour ago. Sammy didn't remember him though, but I'm worried about Danny. I'm pretty sure he told her something about him. Danny knows who he is and what he looks like. If he tells Sammy she's gonna be super mad."

"Okay, okay. I'll call Danny and make sure that he won't tell Sammy anything. That if she brings him up to just say that he doesn't remember much about him."

"Okay Marissa. Bye."

"Bye."

I pressed the end button on my phone. What am I gonna do? Sammy isn't ready to meet him. He'll try to take her back with him.

I'm gonna have to deal with that later, I thought. Right now, I have to take her mind off of that man.

Sammy's POV

Casey was gone for 8 minutes. Whatever happened to a quick 3 minute phone call?

When he finally came back, we went to the mall.

We went into every store, just to browse and we went to the arcade. They have one of those big roller coaster simulator things. It's so awesome. You go into the simulator thing, close the curtain thing, put on the simulator glasses and choose a location. Then you just sit back and enjoy the ride.

We were at the mall for about 2 hours and then Casey walked me back to the Senior Highrise. When we got there, we kissed for a few minutes. I said thanks for an awesome day and then I went upstairs. It was 7 when I got in the apartment.

"Grams?" I called.

"In the kitchen! I have a surprise for you." She called.

Gram's surprises are always the best. I went into the kitchen and then walked out again.

That surprise can go back to wherever she got it from.