AN: To the worried guest - Have I ever said anything about this story ending? Nop! To me, right now, there is no end for the story in my mind. Right now, my goal is to reach 100 and then I will see what happens next :)
Stef POV
September 27th
As I was walking up the few steps that lead up to the Scott's residence, front doors were opened by Callie, who walked out with a backpack over her shoulder and keys and phone in her hands.
"Oh, hey Stef!" Callie says cheerfully when she sees me
"Hi! Where are you off to?" I ask taking the last step up to the porch
"To the park. I'm meeting Mackenzie there. We are going to try and fly a kite"
"A kite?" I ask pleasantly surprised "Haven't heard that word in a long time" I add laughing softly
"Mackenzie found it in their attic few days ago. We want to see if we can actually fly it!" She sounded excited about this event
"Sounds fun" I reply with a smile "Is your mom up?" I ask and look down to the small shopping bag in my right hand that was filled with junk food for Amy
"Yeah...I just brought breakfast up to her" Callie said partly turning back to the house and pointing in it
"You still doing that?" I ask with a smirk. It amazed me how much Callie was spoiling and helping her mom. Callie blushed and shyly smiled at me.
"Can I see her?" I ask nodding to the house
"Of course. Why do you even ask?" Callie straighten her stance "You already know the answer" I shrug back and a small smile forms on my lips
I have been an often guest the last few days at their home. Almost every day that Amy has been home, I have been coming to visit her to just hung out to make the time go by faster. I know how boring it can get to just lay in the bed (healing) all day.
"I need to go...Mackenzie is already waiting for me" Callie said after looking at the time on her phone
"Oh...yeah, sure. Run along" I smile at her and step aside
"I will be back in few hours...probably around 2-3 PM" Callie informs me as she walks down the few steps
"Don't worry about your mom. I will keep a close eye on her and keep her company"
"I know" Callie smiles at me genuinely when she briefly turned back to face me "If you hadn't come, I would be back in hour"
Next minute Callie is in the car and drives away. I tighten the grip on the small shopping bag and walk in the house. With my leg I kick the front doors close. As I walk up the stairs I call out to Amy to announce myself and so she doesn't think I'm a thief "I'm friendly...and I have goods with me!"
When I entered her room, Amy was stuffing her face with pancakes. She was sitting up in her bed. Her legs were stretched out. There was a bed table placed over her legs, tray of food was on it. Amy's back was rested against the headboard. She was in her sweatpants and what looked like one of Cooper's big t-shirts. Her hair was up in a messy bun. Amy's laptop was on the bed next to her.
She raised her right hand up, sort of like waving at me, while still holding on to the knife. She then pointed down to the pancake "This is like the best blueberry pancake I have ever eaten"
"I think you say that about every food that is placed in front of you after the tasteless stuff you got at hospital. I know I do!" I said setting placing bag down on the bed side. I dig in the bag and take out a pack of gummy bears.
"Like you ordered" I tossed the bag of gummy bears to the bed next to her. Yesterday she had desire for gummy bears, but she didn't have any in the house, so, I decided to cheer her up and bough two packs for her.
"Sweet! Thanks!" Amy grinned looking at the gummy bears
"Ready for season 2?" Amy ask as she was cutting the last pancake up
"Hell yeah!" I said sitting on the bed and kicking off my shoes "Give me some more of that Lagertha and Ragnar!"
Few days ago Amy discovered this TV show that was on the History channel. She only saw a glimpse at the end of the episode, but after that she Googled the show. It was called Vikings. And just like the title suggests, it was about Vikings. Amazing scenery, actors and characters. It had tremendous plot lines, fight scenes, yet it was also partly of based on real events. It has everything you could ever want in a TV show.
Yesterday, we watch the first season. Basically, we sat down and watched all of it in one sitting. It was an amazing show. Now, it was time for season 2. As Amy put it, we are preparing for the season 3 that was about to come out sometime next year around March.
"I will just finish this and then we can start" She pointed with her knife down to the plate and then to the glass of juice. Meanwhile, I opened the first episode of season 2.
After the first episode Amy turned to me "Hey, Stef..."
"Yeah?" I ask as I move my finger over the touch-pad to open the next episode
"Can you do me a favor?"
"What kind?" I ask raising my eyebrow at her
"Don't worry, you will gain from it as well. Callie said she made brownies this morning. Would you mind go fetch them from the kitchen and bring them up?" Amy said with a smirk and pleading look
"How can you be sure they are for you?" I ask with a smirk as scoot to the side of the bed
"Oh, please...everything that girl does in the last few weeks is for me! Besides, she said I will get them as a dessert after dinner!" Amy said as I stood and turned to look at her
"It's not dinner" I point it out for her "It's barely 11"
"Then she shouldn't have told me about it. It's her own fault! I have been thinking about the brownies ever since she told me. I just want to taste one! We won't eat all" Amy sounded like a kid
"So I should take just two?" I ask to clarify when I was by the doors. I look over my shoulder and see Amy nod back to me.
"Don't start it without me!" I remind her as I walk out of the room
Indeed, I find a plate with brownies on the window sill in the were cooling off there, I assume. I sniff them before I take the top two off the plate. They smelled delicious and they looked delicious as well.
When I am back in Amy's room, I hand the two brownies to her. She only takes one of it and leaves the other for me. Amy takes a bite as I sit back on the bed.
"How is it?" I ask as she tastes it. Her eyes closes and you can tell she is enjoining the taste of it.
"Try it...it's worth dying for!" Amy said before taking another bite
I squint my eyes at her for that expression. Amy swallows the bite and asks "Too soon?"
"Little bit" I nod back and taste the brownie myself
I felt weird. I don't know what it is, but I didn't feel quite myself. Slowly I raised my right hand up and looked to my fingers. When I wiggle my fingers slowly, I don't really feel it. They felt numb. Everything seemed in this slow motion or something. I felt so relaxed, so carefree. All my worries are gone!
I glance to Amy who was gazing at the wall opposite the bed. There was a canvas of hills and she was just staring at it, like trying to see something in it. The laptop was still open and stood on the bed between us. The 3rd episode of the show was running, but neither one of us paid any attention to what was happening on the show.
"Do you feel strange?" I ask her, the words got over my lips slowly. Amy turned to look at me and for a moment she just stared at me.
I wave my right hand in front of her face. It was like she was looking through me or something "Earth to Amy" I keep waving my hand in front of her face until she snaps out of it.
"I want to have sex" Amy stated gazing at me
My hand falls down to the space on the bed between us. I blink back at her for a while, astonished, till I realized that I needed to reply "With me?" I stutter back
There was no head shake, no head nod, no shrug, no yes or no. Amy just repeated it, this time louder and she sounded more certain "I want to have sex!"
"I may be gay" I started and placed a hand on my chest "but that doesn't mean I want to sleep with you!" Amy suddenly looked like she as about to cry. I quickly reached for her hand and gave it a squeeze.
"I'm not saying you aren't hot...you are smoking hot!" I reassure her "If I wasn't with Lena, I would have probably tried my luck with you. But...I love my wife" I said and chuckled. Amy looked confused at me as I started to laugh more sincerely.
"I have a wife" I laughed some more and Amy joined in the laughing. I have no doubt in my mind, that Amy wasn't sure what she was laughing about. She was just laughing because I was. But I wasn't exactly sure what I was laughing about either. The word – wife – seemed funny to me all of a sudden. As I started to repeat the word in my mind I started to wonder why it reminded me so much of the word WiFi. Then confusion took over as I started to probe into the topic.
Amy squint her eyes at me. At first she tried to snap her fingers in front of me to get my attention, but after she failed to do that, she waves her hand in front of my face "No! With Cooper! I want sex with Cooper!"
"Oooh" I drag slowly and then silence came over us. We sat silently for a while, till I got curious "Have you ever been with a woman?"
"No...Have you?" Amy asked back and turned to me in the bed
"I'm gay!" I remind her and place a hand on my chest "I…I have a wife, who calls me – woman!" I chuckle again
"Right, right…I forgot" Amy said very slowly and thoughtful "He's not touching me, like touching-touching me. He touches me, but he doesn't touch me. He hasn't touched me since the shooting. You understand what I am saying right?" Amy blurred it out in one long breath
I nod my head back vigorously and realize that I was in the same boat, Lena hadn't touched me as well "Heey...Lena has been pretty dry with me as well!" I sat up straighter in the bed
"We should go tell them how we feel!" Amy stated loudly out of nowhere and tapped her hand to my leg
"W-what?"
"You will tell your wife" I chuckle at the word again when Amy uses it "And I will tell my man!" Amy said with certainty, she spoke faster than she usually does
"...How...are we getting there?" I question when Amy was starting to scoot to the side of the bed
"Where?" Amy asked back looking over her shoulder
"To your man and my woman?" I ask standing up as well. I wanted to get to my woman, I just didn't know how to.
"Don't you have that...that...um..you know, the four wheelie thing?" Amy asked as she stood up, mostly balancing on only one of her legs
I squint my eyes at her "You know the..." Amy was at loss with her words "It has the honkie thing...it can honk and stuff!"
For the love of god, I did not know what she was talking about. But then an idea appeared.
"Oh! Oh...we can...call the taxi thing!" I almost shouted out
Amy clapped her hands "Great idea!" She said as she limped around the bed. But she stopped at the middle in the room and pointed to the canvas on the wall, in a frame.
"This is creepy right?" she pointed to the canvas "Tell me it's not only freaking me out. The colors and the hills and…and how the colors spin together...it's creepy right?"
I walked closer to the frame and stood next to Amy. Closely I examined the image. Sadly, I didn't see the colors spinning together. I wish I could see it.
"Well?" Amy asked tilting the frame a bit to the right
"Can I have it? I kind of like it..." I glance to Amy, who looks surprised at me
"Really?" Amy asked shocked. I nod back quickly and vigorously.
"You can have it" She took it off the wall and handed me the picture frame to carry myself
"Cool! I will hang this…" Where was I going to hang this? I had no idea. As I was thinking over the planning of my house, I remember that almost all of the free space on the wall was covered with picture frames of my family "My woman will know where to hang this"
"Your woman is awesome!" Amy said limping after me as we headed to the stairs. "I wish I had a woman like your woman. I would snuggle up to her forever...she looks like a good snuggle buddy"
"She's the best of the best...she's the best-est? Yeah...Bestest!" I repeated the word again, as I was sure it was the right way to say what I meant. That word best described my woman! I will use that word whenever I will speak about her. Yeah, that's the right word!
Cooper POV
When I arrive at Amy's place I see Stef's car parked right up to the house. Amy's car wasn't in the driveway. Probably Callie took it to go to a mall or something. I park my car next to Stef's car and head to the house. I walked up to the house and turn the door nub.
"Amy! It's me!" I call out as I enter. I didn't want her to think I was a burglar or something. It still felt weird just walking in her house, without knocking or ringing the bell. I had a key and all, but it was still strange. I still had to get used to it.
There was no response. Usually Amy would call back at me. I jiggled the car keys in my hand and walked up to the stairs "Amy!?"
When there was no response I peaked a look in living and then headed to check the kitchen and backyard. There was no sign of Amy on the first floor.
"Amy! It's me Cooper!" I called out once again as I walked upstairs. Callie's room was empty as well. The doors to Markus room were intact as they always have been.
"Are you sleeping?" I ask quietly to myself as I peak a look in the bedroom. The bed was a mess. She clearly has slept in here. There were bunch of empty snack bags on the bed. But at the first sight in the room, I saw no sign of Amy or Stef. I walk deeper in the room to make sure she was really not there. Amy's crutches were placed at the side wall. Her phone stood on the nightstand. But her laptop was on bed and something was still playing on it. I leaned to check what it was.
Vikings: Episode 4 – I read the title. I pause the show and close the laptop.
"Amy?" I call out once again, now starting to get worried. As I look around the room one more time, I notice that the canvas with the hills, that used to be on the wall, was no longer there. The room looked so different without the picture on the wall.
"Stef? Amy?! Where are you!?" I call and head to the only room in the house I haven't checked - the bathroom. I push the doors open and see an empty room. They are not here. They are not in the house.
"Where the heck are they?" I mutter to myself as I try to think of place where they could be
"The garage!" I say to myself and run down the stairs to check it out. The garage doors for cars was locked so I head around to see if the back doors were open. They weren't. I pull them few times and then bang on the doors calling out their names one last time
"Amy!? Stef! Are you in there!? Call back if you are there!"
When I get no response, I walk back in the house and dial Stef's number. They had to be together. I doubt they would have wondered off each their own direction. As the phone is ringing I hear a faint sound coming from upstairs.
"You have got to be kidding me" I mutter as I hurry upstairs. I find Stef's phone on the bed bed under the blanket. Angrily I toss it back to the bed and run my hand over my face. I lift my phone up to my ear again this time calling Callie.
"Hey, what's up?" I get a quick response from her
"Where's your mom?"
"What do you mean?" she sounded surprised by that question
"I mean...I'm here. Stef's car is up front. Amy's crutches are here. The front doors are open. The bed is empty. The house is empty. Both of their phones are at home. There is no sign of your mom...or Stef!"
"...When I left, Stef had just come over, mom was having breakfast. Did you check the backyard...maybe mom is just walking, getting fresh air?" I heard the worry in Callie's voice grown
"I did...twice. And the garage. And I checked the whole house. They are not here!"
There was a long pause from her after that. When she spoke up, I could tell she was close to freaking out "I have no idea...they were home, when I left"
AN2: So yeah...they took pot-brownies. Hmm...where do you think Callie got the ingredients?
I read that it can have very different effect on people. I have never had one, nor I have ever taken any kind of drugs. So I'm just going with what is on my mind. If anyone has some experience with pot-brownies...maybe you can write what kind off effect it left on you (so I know I'm not completely off track)
DRUGS ARE BAD! DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!