Thank you so much for your reviews, I could not believe to see 5 reviews, that definitely made my day and I wanna say THANK YOU with a longer update!
OTHangles: No, right now I have no intention of adding a car accident. But you'll never know with me ;).
haleydavisbaker: Lol. I hope for a season 9 and a flashforward in the end to see them as parents with older kids.
A.R2914: I am happy that you like how Phoebe behaved!
Katie: I still have some chapters coming up till I end this story. I am glad it made your day and you like reading it!
may92: I hope you like the following Ben-Sam scenes. Yeah, I wanted Phoebe to act like a kid again. Finally she got the family that supports her and she does not have to pretend to be anything else than Phoebe, an eleven year old one! I am happy that you like her change!
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Ben greeted everyone downstairs and started dancing with Sam. Somehow it was not weird between them. Although they had not seen each other for a long time and they had only skyped every day and even at night, it felt totally normal to hug each other now, "No beer?", he whispered into her ear and was amazed by her beauty.
Sam smiled up at him, "Tree Hill you know.", he took his arms around her when a slow dance started and they held each other very tight. Sam definitely liked her present. She could not believe that Phoebe had managed to hide that from her but she bet that it had been very hard for her little sister.
"I am so happy that you are here.", Sam said and made him blush a little. She felt very safe in his arms and could not believe how much feelings one could have for another person.
"Well, me too. I missed you.", he went through her hair and whispered, "You look beautiful." Of course that made Sam blush immediately, she wanted to answer but Rachel came over to them.
"Oh Sammy. Good taste.", Rachel whispered into Sam's ear and looked up at Ben.
"You must be Rachel, right?", Ben immediately asked with a smile on his gorgeous face.
"That's me. Nice to meet you handsome.", she went over to the others again and started dancing.
"Your friends are really nice.", Sam nodded and was glad that he liked them.
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Phoebe ran downstairs. She was totally excited to see what Ben and Sam were doing. She hoped that they were kissing; somehow she really liked the idea of Sam and Ben being a couple. She loved both of them and seeing them so happy made her happy as well. She saw them hugging each other tightly and ran towards them and showed them her letter, "I gave you this with a reason. So could you two stop dancing please and K-I-S-S-I-N-G?", she laughed and looked up at Sam and Ben. The teenagers looked down at Phoebe and could not believe her comment; they looked at each other and then nodded. They had the same idea and Sam took Phoebe's legs and Ben her arms and they started carrying her upstairs.
"Heeeeey. Let me goooo", Phoebe protested and tried to get free but the teenagers were stronger and took her out to the grown-ups.
"Could you take care of her for at least an hour? Please.", Sam pushed Phoebe onto Julian's lap and Julian immediately took his arms around his youngest girl although he definitely wanted her to spy a little more on Sam. He just did not like the thought of Sam and Ben in the same room without any grown-ups. If someone asked him, he would sit downstairs with the teenagers and take care that nothing would happen.
"Um…okay.", he answered and held Phoebe tight while she protested and tried to get free.
"Hey. That's not fair.", somehow Phoebe managed to get free but Ben started a tickling attack and Phoebe fell to the ground.
"Stoooooop.", she laughed but he was merciless and tickled her even a little more, until he picked her over his shoulders and then put her onto Brooke's lap this time.
"Mrs. Baker. Could you maybe take care of this kid for an hour, please?", he knew that he had to have some time with Sam alone and without Phoebe interrupting them all the time by singing her little rhymes.
"Umm… sure.", Brooke said and covered Phoebe's mouth when Phoebe started rhyming, "K-I-S-S-I…."
All of them were confused of Phoebe's behavior. She was acting so free around this Ben and he obviously knew her as well. Lately Phoebe had been more a shy version around Sam's older friends. Especially around boys. Sometimes all of them looked back at her behavior in the past and could tell that Phoebe had changed a lot. She was starting to behave like a normal kid. And it was really great to see that and it emphasized the age gap between Phoebe and Sam.
Brooke, Julian, Nathan and Haley had talked to each other some days ago, that they needed to point out more rules to them. Although Phoebe was four years younger, she somehow managed to convince them very often that she could stay up as long as Sam or watch the same movies. Brooke and Julian knew that they were not the most consistent persons but wanted to change that. Unfortunately it was not that easy. Phoebe had skipped three classes and all her classmates were three years older and therefore they were allowed to do some things, they wanted to forbid Phoebe.
Haley had told them that Phoebe's grades kind of went down and that her classmates were nice to her and accepted her but that her place was being the baby of the class.
Phoebe had started to show some weird behavior in class, she started playing the clown at school. Haley thought that Phoebe was just not ready to talk about all the stuff her classmates were talking about and therefore she acted that way. While her friends at school were talking about boys, their period, the first party and so on; Phoebe could not really add anything to these conversations. It started to worry them a little bit.
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Ben and Sam went downstairs hand in hand while Phoebe tried to get free but Brooke held her tight, "Moooom! Let me go.", Phoebe was shocked that she had called Brooke her mom and stopped talking further. She did not know why she had said it, it just came out of her mouth without thinking.
Brooke on the other hand could not feel better. Of course she knew that Phoebe was her baby sister but hearing her calling her "mom" was definitely something that made her very happy.
"Nope. It's Sam's birthday and she can decide.", she answered and continued holding her youngest girl tight and kissed her cheek over and over again.
"Stoooop.", Phoebe tried to get free while Haley, Nathan and Julian laughed at the cute scene and realized again how similar the two of them looked.
In fact Brooke really had motherly feelings for Phoebe and saw her more as her youngest daughter than her sister. Brooke wanted to ask her more about Ben but Phoebe spoke first, "I want to spend time with my cousin too.", Phoebe covered her mouth in shock and all grown-ups looked at her with wide eyes and Brooke stopped kissing her. Cousin?
"Your what?", Julian looked shocked at Phoebe who was still covering her mouth with her small hand. Why did she always reveal every secret? "Oooops.", she smiled at him and hoped that she would not have to explain more but of course they started questioning her immediately.
"Is he really your cousin?", Brooke asked confused and Phoebe nodded with a wide smile. "Yeah and he is the greatest cousin ever.", Phoebe tried to get free but Brooke did not let her get out of her embrace. Especially not now. Of course all of them wanted to know more about Ben.
"How come Sam knows him and where is he from and…?"
"Can I tell you another time? Pleeeeeaaase. I wanna celebrate with them.", Phoebe pleaded.
"No way Phoebe. Where do you…?", Julian said but Phoebe interrupted him and rolled her eyes.
"Fine. But just the fast and short version. Then I can go downstairs again, right?", she looked back at Brooke who still had her arms around her. Brooke nodded; all of them were excited to hear what Phoebe would tell them.
"Well, when I ran away I drove to my Aunt Macy and Uncle Jim. You know that Sam followed me but I did not know it. Ben is their son and therefore my cousin. Can I go downstairs now, pleeeeeaaaase?", but Brooke was still holding her tight and shook her head.
"You have an aunt and an uncle? Why didn't you tell us?", she was shocked to hear that and she definitely wanted to meet them one day. Of course she knew that Phoebe did not really like to talk about her past but she could not believe that Phoebe had hidden such an important detail: That out there, there were people who were related to her.
"I wanna be with them now! I did not tell you because it's not important. And they are totally different than you. You would not like them."
"Why do you think that?", Julian asked shocked and a little hurt.
"Pleeeeeeeeease stop! I wanna go to Sammy and Ben.", Phoebe whined again and Brooke thought for a moment and then answered.
"Oookay. But you will explain everything later. You can go now.", Brooke let go of her, "But don't embarrass Sam." Phoebe rolled her eyes but Brooke took her hand again and pulled her towards her, so that Phoebe had to look at her.
"I mean it Phoebe.", she knew that Phoebe could be a pain in the neck sometimes. Although she could find it kind of cute at times, it drove Sam crazy.
"Okay, Okay. I won't sing K-I-S-S-I-N-G. I will just…"
"Phoebe.", Brooke was still holding her hand, this time a little tighter.
"Jeez. Calm down. I promise not to embarrass them.", Phoebe ran downstairs while Julian looked at his beautiful wife.
"It was not a good idea letting her go.", he smiled.
"She called you mom.", Haley was the first one to mention that. All of them were smiling.
"Yeah. I know.", Brooke answered and was very proud, "But I cannot believe that she never told us.", Brooke looked shocked at all of them, "I mean it's an important detail and I want to meet them. Look how important Ben seems to be for Phoebe. Why didn't she mention all of them to us?"
Julian shook his head; he had no clue "I think we will know the answers this evening."
"I hope they were nice to her. Because what you told me about her father was not really great.", Nathan looked at Julian. Julian felt a little jealous. He thought that such a person should not deserve to be called a father and he wished that Phoebe would start calling him dad.
"Did you contact Victoria?", Nathan asked them and changed the theme for a minute; they had been talking about it some times.
"Yes but at the moment she disagrees but if I have to, I'll ask her every day.", Brooke squeezed Julian's hand and he nodded and continued, "we will ask Sam soon. We really hope that that's what she wants too."
"Oh trust me, she wants it.", Haley answered immediately. The grown-ups continued talking while the kids were having fun.
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Sam and Ben were sitting on the couch and laughed, "So are you staying in Tree Hill for the weekend?"
"Yeah. Phoebe booked me a hotel."
"Oooh. Now I understand. That's why she has no money left."
He took his arms around her and she cuddled closer to him, "I missed you so much.", she whispered and he smiled down at her. She loved his cute dimples.
"I missed you too.", Ben whispered and then they went closer to each other. Their hearts were beating very fast when they almost kissed. Finally their lips started touching for the first time. It was perfect.
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Phoebe was running down the stairs and smiled happily when she saw them kissing. Her plan had succeeded. She took out her camera and wanted to run to them but the captain of the basketball team took her hand, "C'mon Furby. Dance with me."
"But…", Phoebe really wanted to make a photo of them but he spun her around and they started dancing funnily. Rachel and Jamie laughed hard when he break danced and tried to show Phoebe some moves. He was definitely the most popular boy in school and although he could be kind of a macho to some girls, he definitely was not to Phoebe. He treated her like his own baby sister and since the incident with Zoey he protected her whenever he could.
"You're really good.", he laughed at Phoebe and all of them kept on dancing while Sam and Ben were still hugging each other on the couch and the soft kiss turned into a kiss with lots of passion. Their tongues met and Sam almost sat on his lap. This was definitely the best birthday ever!
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"Maybe we should check on them again?", Brooke asked Julian. Both of them had been very nervous since Ben had come. Sam was sixteen and of course she would be kissing Ben. They just knew it but they did not really like it.
"Yeah. Probably. It's 11pm and we know how teenagers are.", they went downstairs and laughed when they saw how Phoebe was making break-dance moves with other boys and laughed happily while Ben and Sam were dancing as well. Jamie danced with Rachel and everything seemed to be fine. Of course they hid more or less, so that the kids would not see them. Brooke would have hated someone spying on her as a teenager but now she was the grown-up and needed to know that her girls were not doing stuff she had done.
The party ended a little later. Phoebe was so tired that she fell asleep on the couch and did not even realize that all the others were upstairs.
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Meanwhile Brooke, Julian, Haley, Nathan, Sam, Ben and Jamie sat outside and just talked. "So you are Phoebe's cousin?", Brooke asked curiously. All of them had been waiting for this moment to arrive, to interrogate Ben. "Yes mam. My mother is her father's sister.", Ben answered politely, he had already presumed that they would ask him every detail and felt a little uncomfortable.
All of them listened carefully to every word Ben was saying, "Where do you live?", Julian then asked but Sam interrupted.
"Don't question him so much. Phoebe can answer all of this to you. He has to go to the hotel now."
"Hotel?", Julian asked confused.
"Phoebe booked me a hotel in your city so I could stay the weekend."
"No way. You are going to stay with us."
"Um…you don't really have to do this…I…", Ben started to stutter. Of course he would love to get to know them as well and to see how they treated Sam and Phoebe but he could already tell that they were definitely nice people and cared for both of them.
"I don't accept a no.", Brooke said again and smiled. Of course she needed him at home to interrogate him further and she really wanted to get to know her sister's cousin and obviously Sam's new boyfriend.
"She means it buddy.", Julian laughed and all of them turned around when Phoebe came screaming and running outside as if someone was chasing her. She ran into Julian's arms and hid her face and then looked mad at everyone.
"You must not leave me alone in a dark cellar you idiots."
All of them laughed and Ben squeezed her cheek, "Yeah. She hates cellars." He remembered how Phoebe's father had locked her in the cellar very often when she had misbehaved. He had always turned off the lights and left her crying in the dark. Of course she had pretended not to care but it was the other way around.
Brooke looked at Julian and although he did not like how Sam was looking at Ben, he was happy for her too but nevertheless he wished that Sam would not be interested in any boys. Fortunately Phoebe had changed and was not interested in any boy any more.
All of them were really curious to know more about Phoebe's past and Ben. Why hadn't they ever asked her whether she had an aunt or an uncle? Was Ben good enough for Sam?
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Sam, Ben, Phoebe, Julian and Brooke were sitting on the couch in their house and laughing, "Thank you so much.", Sam said again to all of them and kissed Phoebe on the cheek, "Especially to you." Phoebe smiled proudly; she was sitting totally tired besides her cousin.
"I am glad you like your present but leave me a piece of it too, will ya.", Sam and Ben blushed hard and Brooke pulled Phoebe away from Ben and into her lap. She could see that Phoebe was embarrassing them a little. Not intentionally but nevertheless she made the two teenagers blush with all her little comments.
"I don't want this day to end.", Sam smiled at all of them. Phoebe was leaning against Brooke and tried to stay awake. But it was definitely a fight. She had not slept the other night because of excitement.
"I am glad you liked your birthday.", Julian said and Brooke nodded. They loved seeing Sam that happy and free. And the boy besides her seemed to be very nice to her a adding a good portion to her happiness. "Liked? I loved it. It was the best birthday ever.", she looked shyly at Ben, who smiled back. Of course he wanted to take his arm around her but he felt Julian looking at him all the time.
"How old are you Ben?", Julian just had to know it.
Ben smiled at him "Sixteen sir, soon seventeen."
"Stop calling them sir and mam. You don't do that here.", Ben blushed immediately when Phoebe said it. It was funny to see such a big and muscular young man blushing because of a small girl's comment.
"Oh. Um…sorry sir."
"Why are you so shy? You are never shy.", Phoebe looked at Ben and Sam pinched her a little. Sometimes she hated that Phoebe could not leave a thought for herself.
"Owww."
"Stop embarrassing him."
"I do not. Fine. Aaaaaaaaaa. I am so tired.", she whined and cuddled closer to Brooke. Ben and Sam answered back at the same time "Then go to bed."
"Nooo. I wanna hear what you are talking about.", Brooke took her arms around Phoebe and held her tight; when she looked down a minute later Phoebe was already sleeping peacefully in her arms. She kissed her forehead and then looked at her oldest girl. It was nice to see Sam that happy and Ben was definitely a nice guy. Brooke thought that she had to talk to Sam again about the sex theme. It had been too early to talk about it with Phoebe. She could definitely see that now. Phoebe was just a kid. Lately she even appeared way younger than eleven. Julian and Brooke liked that change in her. Sam on the other hand was definitely a young woman and she knew that sooner or later sex would be a topic. Brooke guessed that it would be sooner than later. She could see how Sam and Ben looked at each other.
"So, did you and Phoebe spend a lot of time together in the past?", Julian asked curiously.
"Yes. We grew up together. Her mother…I mean your mother", he looked at Brooke "gave her to my uncle when she was three years old and since then I saw her almost every day. She lived with us for some time as well."
Brooke and Julian looked confused at him. "Why?"
"Um…well…I…I…", he started to stutter. He thought that Phoebe should be the one telling them everything and looked at his sleeping cousin.
"How about we all go to bed?", Brooke suggested and showed Ben a room where he could sleep. They could sense that he did not feel comfortable being interrogated by them and they should really ask Phoebe those questions. There must be a reason why she had not mentioned her family to them.
"Thanks maa…Mrs. Baker.", Ben said and Brooke smiled at him with Phoebe sleeping in her arms. Luckily Phoebe was smaller for her age and not heavy.
"Just call me Brooke."
"Okay. Thanks Brooke.", Ben looked at Brooke again "thanks for taking care of her.", he added and then went into the room. He could tell that Phoebe had found a perfect family and he was relieved. But he wondered that Phoebe had not told them anything about her past but guessed that she still was not ready to talk about it. But she knew that this family would open her up sooner or later.
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"I come in a minute Julian. I just tuck her in.", Brooke kissed him on the mouth and he nodded. He loved seeing his wife as a mom. She was so caring and lovable. She went into Phoebe's room and took off her clothes, "C'mon Phoebe help me a little.", Brooke laughed when Phoebe put her arms up and she had to undress her.
"I am so tired.", Phoebe whined when Brooke almost had to carry her into the bathroom to brush her teeth.
"I know. You can sleep in a minute.", Phoebe nodded and brushed her teeth and then ran back into the room and jumped onto the bed to fall asleep. Brooke kissed her a good night and closed the door.
Phoebe opened her eyes a little and then asked, "Are you mad at me?". It was more like a whisper but Brooke heard it and sat down on the bed.
"No. Why should I be honey? You obviously made the most important present for Sam and all of us had a great day.", Brooke went through Phoebe's hair and suddenly she saw the tears in Phoebe's eyes.
"I did not tell you about them because I...", Brooke saw the troubles Phoebe was having talking about her past.
"It's okay. Step by step. And you tell us when you are ready, ok?", Phoebe nodded and immediately fell asleep. Brooke stayed besides her bed for a while and just looked down at the young girl. Sometimes Brooke woke up at night and wondered whether all of this was just a dream. She just could not believe it that suddenly her life was so fulfilled. Phoebe and Sam had filled the gap in her life and they were one of the most important things for her.
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Brooke was lying in Julian's arms. Both of them could not believe that they had not known such an important detail in Phoebe's life. "I am afraid Julian."
"Of what?"
"I think that there is a reason why she did not tell us anything. And I…", Julian interrupted her and kissed her forehead.
"She'll tell us when she's ready and Ben seems to be a great cousin although I don't want Sam to have a boyfriend. But have you seen our girls today? They were so happy!"
Brooke nodded, "Our girls.", she repeated and cuddled closer to her husband, "I love hearing that."
"Yeah and I love saying it.", Julian kissed her softly and then jumped out of the bed.
"Where are you going?", Brooke asked but she already knew the answer.
"Um…I am just a little hungry.", he lied and went out of the room and over to Sam's door. He listened at the door and opened it softly. He was happy to see Sam sleeping in her bed. Alone.
He went over to Phoebe's room and went inside. Phoebe had fallen out of her bed again and he put her into it again and smiled down at her.
"Julian?", Phoebe woke up and asked confused and looked up at him.
"Just close your eyes again Phoebe.", Julian went through her hair and kissed her cheek.
"Okay, daddy.", she whispered and closed her eyes.
Julian tiptoed back into his bedroom and jumped into the bed happily.
"So, what did you eat?", Brooke laughed at him. Of course she knew that he was spying on Sam.
"She called me daddy.", he whispered happily, "She called me daddy.", Brooke loved seeing his reaction to one word. He went under her shirt and touched her naked breasts.
"Now?", she asked confused "It's like 4am."
"And?", he smiled at her and went down kissing her stomach.
"Well, I am tired and…", he went under the blanket and just knew what to do.
A little later both of them were lying in bed sweating and exhausted, "Oh my god. We should start having sex more often when you're tired. That was amazing.", Julian breathed heavily and made her laugh.
Brooke nodded and went on top of Julian again and grinned down at him.
"Again? I am exhausted.", Julian whispered but she kissed him on the mouth and stopped him from talking. "Well, I'll wake you up and we have to take the chance that Phoebe is sleeping in her own room this night and does not want to cuddle with her daddy and mom.", Phoebe had come into their room a lot lately, whether sleepwalking or not.
"Daddy and mom. I love these words.", Julian grinned, "I hope that our girls will start calling us like that every time."
"Well, I am sure they will. But first we can play naughty mommy and daddy.", Julian laughed at his comment and moaned when she started touching him. Brooke was happy that she did not see the attacker any more when she was having sex with her husband. Everything had turned out great. Of course they knew that there was something that was bothering Phoebe a lot and they just wished that they could do anything to help her but they were sure that sooner or later they would get the chance to help.
"Maybe we should check on Sam.", Julian jumped up a little later but Brooke put her arms around his waist.
"Oh noo. You stay here. You've already checked on her three times", she pushed him back into bed and giggled when he started kissing her neck again.
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In the meantime Sam was lying in her bed and could not believe how great her day had been. It was the first time that so many people surrounded her that loved and cared for her. She was thinking of Ben. He was sleeping in the room besides her but she just needed his strong arms around her, so she jumped up and carefully opened her door and then tiptoed into his room. She hoped that Julian finally stopped checking on her every minute. God, he was definitely annoying her. Right now she just wanted to kiss Ben again. Just one more time.
"Ben?", she whispered.
Ben immediately looked up and she went into the room, "Sam, they will kill me if they see us in one room.", he wanted to push her out again but Sam started kissing his soft lips.
"I don't care."
"But I do.", Ben said but Sam pushed him onto the bed and lay on top of him and went with her hands under his shirt. She was still a virgin but this young man definitely showed some effects on her.
"Sam. Isn't umm…this a bit fast?", Of course they've know each other for a while now but they had not really seen each other.
"Shouldn't a girl ask that question?", Sam asked and smiled down at him, "I just want to cuddle, ok?" It was true. She did not want to loose her virginity now but she knew that she wanted to loose it to him. She had never felt this way before, it was scary but on the other hand, she loved that feeling.
Ben smiled at her and nodded and then hugged her tight and switched positions, "I like it better this way.", he looked down at her and started kissing her neck and then her mouth. Sam giggled and took her hand under his shirt, which made him jump out of the bed immediately. Sam had to laugh at this behavior. She found it kind of cute how nervous he was with Julian watching him all the time.
"Sam. You cannot do that to me.", he whispered and Sam burst out into laughing.
"Why? I like it.", she said back and wanted to kiss him again but he pulled away.
"No, we just kiss and cuddle a little. Not more.", he pointed at her and she looked a little sad at him and just stayed mute. She could not believe that she was looking at a boy that made her that happy and whom she trusted totally.
"I want you. But…um…I think it's too fast. And your birthday was that perfect. We should just let it stay this way and…oh come here.", he pulled her into his arms and held her tight. Sam felt safe and protected; she closed her eyes and a little later both of them were asleep. Peacefully.
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The next morning Phoebe was the first one who woke up. As usual she was lying crossways in bed. Her head was on Brooke's stomach and her legs over Julian. She could not even remember walking over to their room. Sometimes she wondered why she always woke up like this, crossways. Sam always complained that Phoebe was always tossing around that much in her sleep but somehow Brooke and Julian did not mind at all.
Sometimes it still was like a dream. Her life had changed drastically in the past months. She had never had two parental figures that cared for her that much. And she had never cuddled that much in her past. Maybe with Rebecca a little, but that was different. She loved it between Brooke and Julian. She thought about Ben and a smile appeared on her face.
Carefully Phoebe crawled out of her bed and wondered why there was no sheet on the bed but then went outside and knocked at Sam's door. When Sam didn't answer, she jumped on the bed and screamed, "How is it to be 16?" but her smile disappeared when Sam wasn't in her room, "What?", she looked shocked at the empty bed and knew the reason why Sam was not in her room.
"Oh my god.", she whispered and ran out of the room again but stopped when she heard that Brooke and Julian were waking up, "Shit. Shit. Shit.", she whispered to herself and ran into Ben's room.
"Are you two crazy?", she pushed the blanket down and could see how close the two teenagers were. Sam's leg was over his body and her head on his chest. He was just wearing his boxer short but no shirt and one could see his perfect body. His arms were around Sam, as if he wanted to protect her and their hair was a total mess. "Eeeww…", Phoebe said and shook them awake merciless.
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