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Chapter 46 Four more chapters are left until these story is over! ****** January (Two Week Later) When the year 2008 rolled around, Chester and Sam talked about there future and what they wanted to happen. A wedding date hadn’t been decided yet or even anything about the wedding. They agreed on wanting to take things slowly because they didn’t want to rush into anything they weren’t quite ready for. Sam was getting back to being herself. She was starting to accept the changes that happened to her in the past. The only thing she wasn’t ready to face was talking to Talinda. But she knew she would have to do so eventually. As for Chester, the band was continuing to work on the album they’ve been working on for months. For the whole month of January, they would be working in the studio. Today, Chester was in the control room with Mike waiting to lay down some vocals. As he was waiting for Mike to let him do so, he was starting to get bored since Mike was messing around with the pro tools program. “Hey Mike, how’s Anna?” he asked him trying to strike up a conversation. Mike was silent for a few seconds as he clicked on something in the pro tools program before he replied, “She's good.” “Have you and Anna found out what you guys are having yet?” he questioned trying to keep the conversation going. “Actually, we found out yesterday” he replied with his back still towards Chester. “Really? What’s the sex?” “A girl” he stated, stopping what he was doing since he was losing concentration with Chester talking and turning around to face him. “Congratulation dude” Chester told him smiling a little. “Thanks” Mike replied smiling slightly. “When is she due again?” “Around May” Mike stated. After that there was a brief silence between the two men. Chester then spoke up asking Mike what he really wanted to say, “Um, are you ready for me to lay down some vocals?” he asked. Mike laughed in response. “Yeah, sorry about making you wait. You can go ahead into the vocal booth.” Chester nodded his head. He got up and walked into the vocal booth. After he was done laying down the vocals he needed to, he walked out of the control room joining the other guys who were playing a video game to pass time. “You like done recording?” Brad asked looking at Chester when he heard him come into the room. “For now” he told him as he looked around the room. “Cool. Want to like join us?” he asked. “No” Chester replied, “Is Rob practicing?” he added. “Yeah. You like know him. He’s like going to be at it like even more, now that like he’s getting some time off like after Talinda has like her baby” Brad stated going back to look at the game, making sure he’s gamer wasn’t dying. “I’ll be back” he told him. Brad just nodded. Chester walked out of the waiting area going to where Rob was at. Since Talinda’s fall out with Sam at Rose Lawn, he and Rob haven’t really talked. When he reached where Rob was at, he was coming out of his practice room, “Hey Rob” Chester said stopping him. “Chester” he let out, looking at him. Chester cleared his throat before speaking to Rob, “I know you’re mad at me for what happened between Sam and Talinda. And I just want to say that I’m sorry for what happen to her and anything that could have happened to the baby. I wasn’t thinking clearly at that time. I just hope that you can forgive me someday. I know I shouldn’t have asked Tal to go in my place” Chester stated to Rob, apologizing. “Chester, it’s not your fault. You didn’t know how Sam would react towards her. Tal didn’t know Sam would get a hold of a needle. Sam wasn’t thinking rational. Yeah I was mad at you, but I understand why you did it” Rob told him. Chester nodded his head, relieved to get that over with, “Are we cool?” “We’re cool” he responded nodding his head. After Rob said that, they did a truce handshake before parting ways. February When Talinda woke up in the morning, she moved her hand to the other side of the bed seeing if Rob was there. She felt nothing. Guessing that he was at the studio, she slowly raised herself up, getting out of bed. Being nine months pregnant made it more difficult, so she turned to her left side and pushed herself up into a sitting position. Slowly, she stood up and stretched a little. She was really tired of lying in bed through out her whole pregnancy. But she was kind of glad it was almost over. Walking to the bathroom, she did her thing and checked to see if there was any more discharge, since she lost her mucous plug a few days ago. After doing her bathroom routine, she made her way out into the living room. Slowly sitting down on the couch, she lowered herself to lie down. Once she was lying down on the couch she turned on the T.V. She wasn’t that tired, but after a few minutes of watching what was on the T.V. she started nodding off because she had trouble sleeping last night… Talinda’s Dream Talinda found herself in a hospital bed. She looked down at her stomach and noticed right away that she wasn’t pregnant. Curious filled her mind. She wanted to find her baby and see what he looked like. She pulled back the sheets of the hospital bed, and slowly got out. She walked out of the room and into the halls on the hospital, walking down them slowly. Something didn’t feel right to her because there were no doctor or nurses walking in the hall. The lights were out leaving a red glowing light that filled the halls. As Talinda slowly walked the hall she heard a baby’s cry. She continued walking down the hall trying to find were the crying was coming from. She suddenly stopped walking when the crying stopped. Turning to her side, she saw that she was in front of the hospital’s nursery room. Walking up to the windows, she looked through them and into the nursery. Seeing a light in the corner, she slowly walked to the door opening it. Going into the room, she was hoping to find her baby. She went up to one of the incubator and pulled the blanket up seeing that there was no newborn in it. She went over to the next one, doing the same thing and there wasn’t a newborn in it either. Looking over to the corner of the room she saw something that shocked her. “Matthew?” she asked wanting to make sure it was who she was seeing as she slowly walked over to the corner. He was holding a baby. “Yes. It’s me” he stated. He looked down at the newborn in his arms, “You did a great job Talinda. He’s a beautiful baby.” “I wish you could have been there” she responded back. “I am always with you. In your heart, your memories, and in Matthew” he said as he’s image started to faded. Then he was gone along with baby Matthew. “Matthew!” Talinda sat up quickly letting out his name. She was startled when a hand touched her shoulder. She looked up and saw that it was Rob, “Its okay Talinda. It was just a dream” he said as he sat next to her. “It felt very much real” she told him. “Do you want to tell me about it?” “I-I was at a hospital. I must of had the baby because I wasn’t pregnant. I went looking for the baby. The hospital lights where off except for this red glowing light that filled the hall. There were no doctors around. I just kept walking and found myself at the nursery. When I went inside, there were no infants. Matthew was in the room and he was holding our baby. He was telling me that the baby was beautiful. I couldn’t see the baby because he was holding him. Then he faded away with the baby before my eyes” she explained all most on the urge of crying. Rob wiped his thumb over her cheek wiping away a tear that fell down her cheek, “You know that's not going to happen right?” “I know” she said looking down. She paused before looking back up at Rob, “Did you get back from the studio?” “No. I didn’t leave to go to the studio. I have some time off until the baby is born.” And that was the end of that conversation. Later into the night, Talinda got up from the bed with the feeling of having to use the bathroom. Her stomach was fluttering a lot through out the night. After using the bathroom a sharp pain came over her, it almost sent her to her knees. As she was making her way back to the bed, she suddenly felt a rush of liquid run down her leg. Another contraction started up and that’s when she realized she was in labor. Slowly making her way over to the bed, she went to wake Rob. Waking up, Talinda told him what was happening and they quickly made there way to the hospital. The Bennington’s The sound of the phone ringing filled the house waking Sam up. She didn’t bother getting out of the bed to answer the ringing phone and tried to go back to sleep. When the phone stopped ringing, a relief watched over her and she settle back into the bed. A couple minutes later the phone started to ring again. Sam opened her eyes again and this time looked at the clock on her nightstand seeing it brightly shining 2 a.m. ‘Who could be calling this late at night?’ she thought to herself. She felt Chester move as he got up. The soft light of his lamp on his nightstand illumed the room. Picking up the phone, he answered it stopping the ringing, “Hello?” she heard him ask, “…she did? ....yeah we will come…okay, see you in a little bit” he continued. When Chester hung up the phone, Sam was sitting up in bed with her back leaning against the headboard, “Who was that Chester?” she asked him as he turned back around. Chester rubbed his hand over his face before telling her, “Rob -- Talinda went into labor and there already at the hospital. He wants us to come down, but that is only if you want to” he told her looking at her. Sam looked down before she responded, “Yeah. I do.” “Are you sure?” he questioned her, wanting to make sure she really wanted to. “Yeah” she said looking back at him, “I know things have been hard between the two of us, but she was my best friend. I know that it’s going to take a while before were friends again, but I want to start working on that now by being there for her” she explained to him. Chester nodded his head, “Alright, then lets go.” Sam moved the blankets back and got up. She walked into the closet and quickly put something on. After she dressed, she made her way to Draven’s room. Getting him up, she got him ready so that she could take her with them because it was too late to call Leticia or her mom. When they all were ready, they got into the car and drove to the hospital.

I'm so glad your continuing the story! But I've haven't read it yet, busy with school, but will this weekend and will give you a better review! Just wanted to let you know that I'm still here.

I doubt that, lol. On a side note, Mike was at the Blogging Expo check out his blog about it: http://www.mikeshinoda.com/blog/all/mike_at_blogworld_2008

I just only have two pets. One reddish/tan Doberman Pincher that we named Rusty and an African Gray Parrot that's named is Smoky.

Of course I saw him, but to bad he was too far away! I don't even remember what the played, check out LPLG to see the playlist.

Sebby! Your here! Yeah! Well, I was sick on that day, but I still went and even got sick in the parking lot :o. The people walking by must of thought I was drunk of something, lol.The show itself was kick ass. I'm glad I went even thought I felt bad. How about your?

To lazy to post the rest of the pictures, so go here to see them: http://mikeksonline.blogspot.com/2008/09/pr-pictures-older.html

I'm here. I apologize for not posting any pictures in a while, I've been sick and been working over the summer. I've wanted to post pictures but just couldn't find the time to do so. So here are the pictures you all been waiting for. Random: Professional: London Show (from winter tour): More tomorrow. It's late here and I have a class tomorrow morning.

Chapter 45 Christmas Day The morning of Christmas at the Bennington’s house was quite. Chester and Sam were still asleep soundly in their bed. Draven, who through decorating for Christmas was lame, couldn’t wait to open up his gifts that were tucked under the Christmas tree. He got up bright and early so that he could open up his gift, but since his parents weren’t up yet, he had to wait for them. Christmas Eve night, Draven didn’t want to go to sleep. As a matter of fact, he wanted to stay up and fall asleep out of the couch to wait for Santa to come down the chimney. But Sam and Chester wouldn’t let him, so they made sure that he was in bed before they went into there own room. Draven couldn’t take the wait anymore and decided to go wake his parents up. Walked up the stairs, he slowly opened the bedroom door. Quietly, he walked into the further into the bedroom and then ran and jumped onto the bed. His mom was the first to respond as she opened her eyes. She turned around to face Draven, “Hey buddy, what are you doing?” she asked Draven. To her surprise Chester was still sleeping. “It’s time to get up mom. Santa came and left presents. And I want to open them up” he told her, smiling widely. Sam yawned, “Okay. I’ll get up. Why don’t you go and wait downstairs for us? We’ll be down soon.” Draven nodded, “Okay. Just don’t take to long” he replied. He moved off the bed carefully and made his way out, closing the door behind him. Sam smiled to herself, shaking her head. Chester’s back was facing her, so Sam moved closer to him. She put her arm around him and rested her chin on his shoulder, “Chester” she let out softly. Chester moaned in response, lightly pulling her arm closer to him, “Hmm?” he replied. “Draven wants us to get up so he can open his gifts” she told him. Moving around, Chester turned to face Sam. He lightly gave her a kiss and then smiled, “Why don’t we just stay in bed and make him wait.” He moved his head to her neck, starting to give her kisses. Sam tried moving away when his lips touched her neck, but he stopped her from moving, “Chester!” she squealed out trying to get out of his hold again. Chester moved his lips from her neck bringing them up slowly to her lips. Pressing them against her’s, he quite her. She responded back with more force then him. Feeling his hand slid down her side, Sam grabbed his arm to stop him, breaking the kiss, “We can’t” was all she said. Frowning, Chester responded, “Why not?” “Draven is downstairs waiting. And it’s Christmas, you know my mom is coming over.” “But she won’t be over until a couple hours. Will have enough time” he smirked at her. Sam rolled her eyes, “No” she paused, “What if I promise that we can do it at a later time?” “Like tonight?” he questioned her. “Yes.” “Alright, but I hold you to the promise” he smiled. Moving off of her, Sam got up and was about to make her way into the closet. She stopped in the doorway. Flashbacks of what she did to the closet came back to her. Turned her head, she saw Chester sitting at the edge of the bed with his back facing her. She closed her eyes and shook her head from the memory. When she open them back up, her eyes traveled down to the floor where saw some small new pillows. Taking a deep breath, Sam continued into the closet. She grabbed her rope, putting it on and tied it around her waist. When she walked back out into the master bedroom she saw the bathroom closed. Knowing Chester was in there, she decided to go ahead downstairs and get some coffee made. Before she reached the second staircase, Sam turned around and went back up to the bedroom. She walked over to the dresser and picked up her camera so she could take picture of the activities of Christmas. Sam made her way back out of the bedroom and continued down the stairs. Reaching the last step, she turned left, going into the living. Draven was already there waiting patiently. He turned head when he heard Sam’s footsteps, “You took forever --where’s dad?” he asked his mom not seeing his dad around the room or dinning room. “He’s in the bathroom Draven. He’ll be down in a few minutes okay?” Sam told him as she sat next to him. She noticed that the T.V. wasn’t on, “You want me to turn the T.V. on for you?” “Please” he begged. She picked up the remote that was on the couch, turning on the T.V. A few minutes later, Sam got lost in what was on the T.V. that she didn’t feel Chester sit down next to her. He kissed her cheek. She turned to look at him and smiled. She reached the gesture by giving him a kiss on the lips. “Eewww” Both Chester and Sam heard. She pulled away from him and turned her head to look at Draven. “Hey buddy” she smiled. “That’s gross. Can we open the presents now?” he asked getting excited. “Will open them after we have breakfast, okay?” Chester told him. “Okay” Draven responded softly. Chester got up off the couch and walked out of the living room going into the kitchen. Sam then got up and followed him. Just before going into the kitchen, Draven ran passed her and went over to the small table and chairs in the kitchen. Getting onto one of the tall chair, he sat down so he could watch his parents. After breakfast was over, Draven went back out into the living waiting so that he could open his gifts up, but Chester and Sam where cleaning up the breakfast mess. As they were cleaning, Chester notice the look she had on the face when he looked over at her, “You okay?” he asked her. “Yeah. I’m just really glad to back home and spending Christmas with my family” she told him. He took a step closer to her and wrapped his arms around her. She wrapped her arm around his neck and rested her head on his shoulder. They stayed like that for a few minutes before separating. After completely finishing up, Chester and Sam walked into the living. Chester sat down on the couch as Sam sat on the floor near the gift so that she could pass them out. Looking at the gifts under the tree, Sam found one, “You’ll be next Draven. This one for dad” she said grabbing the gift and handing it Chester. “What could I have gotten?” he teased in question, slowly taking off the wrapping paper. “Ripe it open dad!” Draven told him. Chester took off the paper and opened the box. “All right, just what I wanted” he stated excitedly. “What is it?” Draven asked peaking over his shoulder. Chester should him that it was a shirt that he saw a couple days ago. Sam and Chester went out for late Christmas shopping. As they were shopping, Sam saw him looking at the shirt in one of the store they went into so Sam went back there the next day as she finishing the Christmas shopping alone and got it for him. Going back to opening the gifts, Draven got a lot of toys and outfits. He was really excited and couldn’t wait to play with them, especially the playstation system he got. What Sam and Chester ended up with was some little knit knacks and clothes. After all the gifts were opened only seven boxes were left under the tree. “Who’s next?” Draven asked seeing that there were still some gifts left. “Those boxes are for the guys and grandma” Sam replied. She was now sitting on the ledge of the fireplace picking up wrapping paper. One of the wrappings she made into a ball and threw it at Chester who was helping Draven get one of his new toys working. Sam laughed as Chester turned to face her, “Hey! What was that for?” he asked. He picked up the wrapping paper that she threw at him and threw right back at her. She picked it up and put it in her little pile of wrapping paper she was making and got up going into the kitchen where she grabbed the garage can. Bring it back into the living room, Sam recycled the papers. After all the papers where cleaned up, Sam and Chester sent Draven up to his room so that they could finish getting ready for the Christmas dinner that they started working on last night. As it started getting close to six, Sam went and got ready and made sure Draven was cleaned up. When six o’clock finally rolled around the doorbell went off. Sam answered it greeting her mom, “Hey mom. Come on in” she told her moving to the side to let her mother in. Closing the door, she noticed that her mom was holding a casserole dish and another bag in her other hand. “Did Draven get what he wanted?” she asked her daughter. “Oh, yeah. He’s in the living room now playing with his game set that he got” Sam explained. “That good. Glad he likes it.” “I can take the casserole dish off your hands and you can put whatever you have in the bag where ever you need to.” “Oh. Thanks, Sam” her mother stated and carefully handed her the casserole dish. Sam smiled at her mom. Taking the dish, she walked into the kitchen where Chester was still at cooking away, “My mom is here. She brought the Tamales” she told him as she setting on the kitchen table for the mean time. She walked closer to Chester, “Needed help?” “Yeah. You could help me” he said to her looking at her with a smiled. It didn’t take long for the rest of the Christmas meal to be finish and when it was everyone gathered around the table. The dinner was delicious and everyone went for seconds. After dinner, everyone sat around the Christmas tree and open the gift Sam’s mother brought over. And in exchange her mom opened the gift they got for her. Sam was just all smiles, watching her family enjoy themselves together. She was definitely glad that she was back where she’d belonged. She never went to go back to that dark place again. There where a lot of things to look forward to now. Her and Chester getting remarry. Trying for that second child they wanted to have. Chester noticed Sam’s decent as they were finished open the last of the gifts. He got up and moved closer, sitting next to her, wrapped his arm around her waist. She responded by resting her head on his shoulder, “You okay?” he softly whispered to her. She just nodded her head. After the celebration was over and Sam’s mom left to back home, Chester and Sam took Draven to bed. The two of them then head off to their room to finish what was started in the morning. ****** Anyone reading this story anymore? Reviews are really appreciated!

Lol. No I'm not. Surprisingly there was photos taken of them Glorious Excess Meet and Greet. Here they are: http://www.offtopic.forum/data/MetaMirrorCache/3f09fa5134bd4cd8fbbac0639141b80d.jpg Also here some picture of the show itself:

“Sure” she told him. She turned to look back at Chester, raising her eyebrow, “Why don’t we just look around for one until we find one that we both like?” she questioned. “Alright.” Chester agreed. The three of them got out of the car. As they walked into the lot, Draven ran off in front of them going to find a tree. Chester took a hold of Sam's hand as they made there way pass the gate of the tree lot. About a couple minutes of walking around, Draven stopped in front of a three. He turned to look back at his parents, “What about this one mom and dad?” Draven asked standing in front of the tree. Chester looked at Sam. She let go of Chester's hand since she had been holding it the hold time they’ve walked the tree lot. After letting go, she walked around the tree Draven picked out shaking her head, liking the tree, “What do you think Chester?” she asked him. “Let’s see how much it is first” he replied. He walked up closer to the tree and took a hold of the price tag that was on the tree, “Not a bad price” he said out loud to himself. “How much is it?” Sam asked him in question. “120.00” responded Chester. Sam nodded in agreement with Chester, “Well, what do you think?” Sam asked. “I want it!” Draven cried out. “It’s not a bad tree” Chester said taking a good look at the tree. “So, is this the tree?” Sam questioned. “Yeah” Both Draven and Chester said at the same time. After making the decision to buy that tree, Chester walked away to get a worker to clean and trim the tree a bit. When the workers of the tree lot came a picked the tree up, Sam and Draven followed Chester as he went and paid for the tree. The tree was then finished being trimmed up by the time Chester had finished paying for it. It was then tied to the roof of their car. As soon as the workers finished tied it down safely, Chester, Sam and Draven climbed back into the car and started the drive back home. Pulling up to the driveway, everyone got out of the car. Chester and Sam decided to leave the tree on top of the car for now since they weren’t sure where they where going to put it at. Getting inside the house, Sam and Chester made there way into the living room to figure out a spot. “Why don’t we put the tree right there” Chester stated pointing to where the sliding glass door were located at. Sam thought about it for a minute before speaking up, “Or we could put it right next to the second couch were the speaker is at” was Sam’s replied. Chester shook his head in disagreement, “It’ll block the T.V. if we put it there.” “But then wouldn’t the tree block us from going out on to the patio?” she remarked back. “We’ll just go out the front door to get outside.” “Okay. The tree can go there. But the trees pretty wide so will have to move the speaker in front of the CD rack. As your doing that I’ll go get the Christmas tree decorations and find that tree stand” Sam let out as she ran out of the room to go and find the decorations. “Thanks Sam!” Chester called out. “Your welcome!” she yelled back from where she was. While Sam was getting the Christmas tree decorations, Chester moved the speaker so that it was now in front of the CD rack. When Sam came back into the room she had a box with her. She set it down on the couch; “If I remember correctly the stand should be in this box” she said out loud taking some stuff out of the box and setting it down on the couch. “Here it is!” excitedly she turned around holding a small box that had the stand in it. She moved towards Chester and handed it to him. “Draven come out here and help us!” Sam yelled out as Chester opened the box and took all the parts out. He set the box down on the coffee table and started putting the stand together so that he could bring in the tree. Draven walked into the room. Chester just finished putting the stand together and set in on the floor where the tree would be going. After he did that, he walked back outside and went over to the car. Untying the string the held the tree down to the roof of the car, Chester groan and moaned as he lifted the heavy and huge tree into the house. With a little bit of Draven’s help, Chester managed to put the tree in the stand. Once it was tightened down in the stand, he looked back at Sam and saw that she had brought out more boxes. Sam was going through the boxes and pulled out a string of light, “You and Draven can put this strand around the tree” she stated handing the string to Chester. Chester looked at Sam then at the string of lights in his hand. Without question, Chester took the lights and strung them around the tree. As Sam was taking out the garland from the boxes she brought into the room, she looked at the tree. Frowning a little she noticed that the three was leaning a little, “It's leaning to the left. The tree is leaning to the left” she let out. Turning his head, Chester looked back at her, raising his eyebrows up. “Really. It is!” she stated. Chester leaned down to Draven who was looking through a box on the coffee table. He whispered something into his ear. Draven just shook his head to whatever he said. Standing up with his dad the both of them leaned there heads to the left, “Nope. It looks straight to me” Chester replied. “Very funny guys” was Sam’s response. She moved closer to them carrying the garland with her, “Come on guys. Look, the lights are all bunched up at the top Chester. It needs to be fixed.” “Well Draven, you want to fix the lights?” Chester asked him. Draven shook his head in agreement. “Well then and fix them for your mom” he stated to him. “I get to climb the latter?” he asked looking back at his mom. She shook her head, “Yes. You get to climb the latter. Just be careful not to fall.” “Don’t hold onto the top, okay? You’ll knock the tree over if you do” Chester told Draven as he carefully climbed the latter. Draven took a hold of the lights at the top and straighten them out as Chester helped him out to, “Okay. How does it look?” Draven asked his mom when he stopped after it was straightened out. “Perfect” Sam told them. Carefully getting down the latter, Draven walked over to his mom, “Alright, the tree ready for ornaments. Chester, you can start with the box on the coffee table” Sam told him. Draven followed his dad as Sam went back to the box on the couch. She picked up the first ornament her hand got on. Bringing up to her face, she laugh, “Draven, come look at this” she called out to him. Draven walked over to her. She handed him the ornament to look at. “You remember making this for me?” The ornament was of a hardened coffee filter painted with red, green, and white paint. A hand print was in the middle of the coffee filter, “Wow! This ornament is lame” Draven stated. “Hey! It’s not lame. But this one is my favorite” She said handing him another ornament. That one was a frame glued with glitter and beads. A picture of a young Draven was in the middle, “You made that in preschool.” Draven laughed and shook his head, “I can’t believe you found these.” Draven turned around and walked back to the tree. Sam laughed lightly and turned to face the tree. Chester walked over to her, “You all right? You’re usually never this cheerful about Christmas” he told her and wrapped his arms around her. She smiled in response, “I’m just glad that I got better to celebrate Christmas this year. I just want to make sure it’s perfect and a Christmas not to forget.” “It’s not” he replied. He then kissed her cheeked softly. They both watched Draven as he finished putting his ornaments on the tree. ****** Review's are appreciated!

Chapter 44 When Chester opened his eyes the following day, he turned his head a little to look at Sam who was still resting her head on his shoulder. He slowly moved his left hand up bringing it close to Sam's face, moving some of her hair that had fallen into her face. As he was moving a piece of her hair behind her ear, she slowly opened her eyes looking at him. Sam smiled when she saw that he was looking at her. “Good morning” Chester stated to her softly. “Morning” she replied in a whisper. Chester moved his hand away from her face bringing it back down to his side, “How are you feeling?” “Better, now that I’m home.” After Sam said that, Chester moved her a little more closely to him. He turned his head and kissed her forehead. Moving his lips from her forehead, Chester rested his cheek against her forehead. They both ended up staying a little bit more in bed before finally deciding to get up. When they finished getting dress, the both of them went downstairs. Sam was about to make her way into the kitchen as so was Chester when the door bell went off. Looking at the clock that was hung on the wall in the dining room, Chester noticed that it was 11:24. Wondering who it could be, Chester told Sam that he would get it and walked over to the door opening it. Who was standing on the other side of the door were Lily and Draven. Chester moved to the side a little and let them in. Draven got excited and ran further into the house. Chester turned his attention to Draven and saw Sam standing near the small steps. He smiled to himself and when Lily was inside, he closed the door behind her. The two of them then made there way over to Sam who was sitting down on the top step with Draven. Sam looked up at Chester and Lily and smiled at them. She turned her attention back to Draven who was showing her a piece of paper. It must have been something he drew over at Lily’s. She leaned down a little and gave him a light kiss on his forehead whispering something to him. After she did that, she got up off the step and made her way over to Chester and wrapped her arms around his waist. “Mom, I want to thank you for watching Draven for us last night” she told Lily. Lily just smiled, “It was no problem. I love to watch Draven anytime.” Sam turned her head to look at Chester. She raised an eyebrow seeing if they should ask her mother on what they talked about as they where getting ready this morning. Chester nodded his head. Sam turned her attention back to Lily, “Um mom? Are you doing anything for Christmas?” she asked her. “Nothing. Why?” she questioned. “Chester and I where wondering if you like to spend Christmas with us?” Lily looked at them before asking, “You guys are still having Christmas?” Chester and Sam just looked at each other. Lily continued on, “I’m just kidding. I know you guys haven’t had time to put anything up. And of course I would like to spend it with you guys.” “We will have the decoration up before Christmas is over. As a matter of fact where going to pick out a tree today” Chester told Lily. Draven heard that and asked excitedly, “We are?” Chester turned to look at him, “Yes. We are.” He quickly got up and walked over to Sam and Chester. He took a hold of both there hands and started pulling them towards to the door, “Let’s go then.” “Not at this minute buddy. Where not done talking with grandma yet, okay? After where finish will go” Sam told him. He stopped pulling them towards the door and turned to face them, “Okay. I’ll wait then” he said in a soft like sad voice. He let go of there hands and went over to the door to wait. Going back to the grown ups conversation, Lily spoke up, “Is there anything you guys want me to bring for the Christmas dinner?” “Well, were going to be having ham, mashed potatoes with gray, stuffing, carrots, and maybe a can of whole cranberries. That all I can think of right now” Chester replied. He was trying to remember what Sam and he made when they were able to have Christmas dinners. Lily nodded, “I still like to bring something.” Sam shook her head in disagreement, “You don’t have to do that mom. You’ve done enough for us already.” Lily smiled lightly, “Yes I have, but I still would like to bring something. How about I just bring one dish over?” Chester and Sam looked at each other wanting to see what they both thought. Sam shrugged her shoulders and nodded her head. Chester then looked back at Lily, “Sure. Just don’t go over board.” “Oh. I wont” Lily stated. Sam raised her eyebrows up at her mother. “I won’t!” Lily repeated seeing Sam's expression, “Actually I’ll just bring over your favorite Christmas dish, Sam.” Chester turned his head to look at Sam to see her expression, “You’re going to make homemade Tamales?” Lily laughed to herself before responded, “No. It’ll be too much for me to make them now. I’ll just go and buy store brought ones.” “I don’t care where you get them from. I haven’t have Tamales in a long time. Now all this talk about food is making me hungry” Sam said. Lily laughed, “Alright. I’ll bring them over on Christmas. But before I go, I need to give you the gifts you wanted me to get for you know who” Lily replied turning her head to look at Draven who was still standing near the front door. “Oh, yes. Thanks for being able to do this for me since I couldn’t, mom” Sam told her, “Draven, can you go to your room for just a little bit and go play one of your games” Sam told him. “But I don’t want to. You said we were going to get a Christmas tree” Draven responded back to his mom. “Draven, please do what your mother asked you to do. If you don’t behave you won’t be getting the gifts from Santa” Chester told Draven. Draven let out a sigh and walked to his room. Once Draven closed the door, Chester and Sam helped Lily get his Christmas gifts from her car. Since Lily took her time and wrapped the gifts up already, all Sam and Chester had to do was put them under the tree after they got one. So in the mean time, Sam took the bags to the master bedroom and put them in the closet. Sam then went and got Draven and when he was ready, Chester, Sam and Draven all piled up into the family car and left to pick out a Christmas tree. Christmas Tree Lot Pulling into the dirt patch for the Christmas tree lot customers, Chester parked the car and shut off the engine. “Okay. Were here” he stated to the other two people in the car with him. “Is there a pacific tree that we are going to look at?” Sam asked looking at Chester. He shrugged his shoulders, “Not really. But I know I don’t want to pick out a scrawny looking one.” Sam turned around in her seat to face Chester, “I don’t want a bushy one.” “And I don’t want a short one.” “Then I don’t want a real tall one.” “I don’t want one that cost too much.” Draven was still sitting in the back seat listen to his mom and dad going back and fourth with each other, “Mom. Dad” Draven spoke out. Chester and Sam stopped talking and Sam turned around to look at Draven, “Yes Draven?” “Can we go and pick a tree now?” he asked.

I can tell you what you've missed and that would be a lot of picture and craziness going on with the members of COS, lol. Well night Mike had his meet and greet for his art show that kicks off tomorrow. I'm hoping that I'll fine some pictures out of that event. Cross fingers. Besides that I've got a lot of picture to post that I've been holding back from posting because I've been a little busy and just plane lazy after getting home from working, lol. Hope you will enjoy the pictures (which I know you girls will, lol.) I don't know if I posted these two pictures before or not but it's wasn't in the MSO gallery but I'm sharing it anyways. Taken from the Perth show in 07: Hartford PR: These pictures where not taken by me. They were taken by someone name Iris. Same for the SOB pictures below: Older: Misc 08: Columbus: Meet and Greets: Mannheim: Dublin: New York: Dusseldorf: Milton Keynes: Munchen: Backstage at Graz:

Thanks but I'll pass, lol.