Secrets

[andrea]

Oh thanks everyone! geeko - I try to put some stuff that happen in the past in my story. I like to make them as true as possible to real life. X...Re-Arranged...X - Thanks for the compliant!

It's been awhile since the last update, well I don't have a excuse just being plan lazy, hehe.

I do want to let you all know that I'm starting my third semster in college next week (Monday). So update may not happen to much.

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Sam quickly walked to her car and got in. She sat there calming herself down before she started her car. Finally she started it after sitting there for awhile. She backed out of the drive way and drove back to her house. When she got there, she walked up to her door. She heard her son and his nanny talking and followed the voices walking to the living room. Stopping in the door way she saw Draven on the floor play with his car that he really loves. She saw that Leticia was watching him from the couch. Leticia turned to look at the doorway and saw her standing there. She got up and walked over to her.

“Sam are you okay?” she asked when she reach up to her. It took Sam a few seconds to respond to her. When she did Leticia could tell that she wanted to cry.

“No. Um, Leticia do you mind staying here longer?” Sam said turning her head to look at her.

“Sure Sam. I don’t mind staying longer”

“Thank you” she said. She turned around and walked to her room. When she got to her room she closed the door behind her and walked to her bed. She laid down on it turning on to her side. She buried her head into her pillow and cried as she thought about what just happen at Chester’s. ‘Why did he kiss me? We’re divorce. He should hate me since I’m the one who filed for it. I know he’s only with Talinda to make me jealous of her. There's no way he really loves her. I know he still loves me. Why would he have kissed me if he doesn’t? But then that means he was willing to cheat on her. He wanted to go further then just that kiss. If I do give in to him will he do the same thing to me he was willing to do on Talinda. Cheat?’ She thought that all to herself. Thinking of Talinda made her think of the invitation. She sat up and grabbed her purse at the end of the bed. She pulled both her’s and Talinda’s invitation out. She opened Talinda’s card up and looked at it when some handwriting on the top corner caught her eyes. Carries as to what it said Sam started reading it.

Sandra,


Hope you can come and check to


see what the old gang has been


up to. Don’t worry your secret


is safe with me.


Charlotte

“Sandra? Charlotte?” she said out loud to herself after she read the small note, “The only Sandra I knew would be my best friend Sandra Grace. Charlotte I knew was the captain of our cheerleading team. But why would this Charlotte call Talinda Sandra?” Sam set the invitation down and went to her closet to get her yearbook out. She found it and pulled it out walking back over to her bed. She sat back down and opened the yearbook up. She flipped through the pages going to the senior class section. She turned the page until she got to the G's. She looked for Sandra’s picture. When she found her friends picture she looked at it closely. She thought of Talinda trying to remember all the details of what she looked like. As she thought about Talinda, Sam looked back at Sandra's picture. She thought she was kind of seeing the same person. She dropped the yearbook in shock realizing what just happen. 'No this can't be happening Sandra's dead. She died in a car accident that was all my fault. If I would have listened to her then she would still be alive. But she's not dead after all, she’s Talinda’

(Flashback)

Two girls in cheerleading uniforms ran up to the bench laughing. “I'm so glad are schools football team won Sam" Sandra said really happy.

 


"Yeah. Me too Sandra" Sam said setting her pom-poms down on a bench that was next to them. Sam then grabbed her friends’ hands and they jump up and down excitedly.

 


"You’re still coming over aren't you" Sandra asked her after they stopped jumping.

 


"Yeah. Just let me go tell my mom were leaving"

 


"Okay I'll wait right here for you” she said as Sam walked off. When she came back to get Sandra she stopped walking. She saw Sandra and the captain of the football team, her crush, hugging looking like to her more than just friends. She just stood there feeling tears wanting to fall down. When Sandra turned she saw Sam and waved her hand for her to come over. Sam didn’t move a first but then turned around and ran to her car. Her parents had to come by themselves since Sam had to be there early. As she ran to her car she could hear Sandra calling her name. Once she got to her car she drove off to her house.

(End of Flashback)

After she thought about how her and Sandra's fight got started, she picked up her yearbook. She looked at Sandra's picture and all she could think of was Talinda's face. So she closed the yearbook thinking that she was just imagining things, but then she thought about how she never went and saw Sandra's grave site.

(Flashback)

A year after Sandra's death, Sam still hadn't gone to see her grave site. She didn't even go to her funeral since she was in the hospital right after her accident had happen. One day she asked her mom if she could go and see her grave site. She would have gone herself but she didn’t know where Sandra was buried at.


"Hey mom. Um, is it okay if I can go and visit Sandra's grave site?” she asked.

 


"No Sam. I don't want you getting hurt” Lily said.

 


"Why mom? Why don't you want me to go?”

 


"Because I said so. That's why”

(End of Flashback)

Thinking about that time, she realized why her mom never wanted her to go and visit her grave site. She didn’t want her to visit because there was no grave site. 'Why couldn’t my mom tell me that my best friend wasn’t dead when I woke up’ she thought to herself. ‘And why didn’t Sandra call me and tell me that she was alive? Why did she make me think that she was dead all these twelve years?’ She looked at her clock on her night stand and saw that it was late. She decided to forget about Sandra and let Draven’s baby sitter go home. Leaving the yearbook and the invitation on the bed, Sam got up and walked to the living room. When she reached the living room she saw neither Leticia nor Draven in there. She then walked into the kitchen/dinning room area and saw both of them were sitting at the table. As she walked further into the room, she saw Draven was eating something since his back was facing his mom. She could see him pick something up with a fork and putting in his mouth.

 

[andrea]

Continuing Chapter 11

Leticia got up and walked over to Sam, “Hey Sam. I didn’t know if you were going to come back out so I gave Draven something to eat” she said.

“Thanks Leticia for doing that” she said.

“Are you okay? You seem kind of down when you came back?” Leticia asked her.

“No. I’m not okay”

“Did something happen?”

“I guess you could say that. Actually when I called you I told you that I was going to do some errands, well I lied. I went to Chester’s”

“Chester’s?” she asked wondering why she would go there.

“Yeah. Before all this happen Mike came over to see how I was doing and saw an invitation to my high school reunion. He told me that he saw that Talinda had the same one as me”

“She went to the same school as you?”

“Not that I remember. Mike told me that she had left her purse at Chester’s and that the invitation was in there. I was wondering why she would have the same invitation as me. So then I called you so that I could go over to Chester’s and take it. While I was outside I called Chester to see if I could come over. I thought that maybe if I show him my invitation since we went to the same school that he would like to go with me. Once I got there he left the room getting me a drink and that’s when I took Talinda’s invitation. When he came back we talked and I asked him about coming with me. He told me that he wouldn’t want to go. He asked me if I still think about the first time we met. I told him that I always do. He then pulled me into a kiss”

“He kissed you?” she widened her eyes in shock, “Did you kiss him back?” she asked.

“Yeah I did”

“Do you still love him?”

“Yes”

“I shouldn’t be telling you this but he still loves you to”

“Then why he'd get with Talinda?” she asked more to herself.

“He just realized that he still loves you when you were in the hospital. He never said it but I could tell he still does when he was talking about you”

“Thanks for letting me talk to you about this”

“It’s no problem. I'm a really good listener. Have to be with Draven”

“Really?” she asked looking pass Leticia to see Draven sitting in his chair looking at them.

“Oh, yeah he’s a big talker. He’s always telling me how he thinks you and Chester will be together again”

“Yeah. He tells me that too” she said.

After Sam and Leticia talked about what happen between her and Chester, she left to go home. A couple minutes later after Leticia left, Sam put Draven down for the night. She walked into her room seeing the yearbook and invitation she left on her bed. Sam walked over to her bed and picked up the yearbook. She sat down on the floor leaning her back against the bed. She flipped through the yearbook stopping at the pages that had pictures of her and Sandra/Talinda. When she came to the last picture of her, she looked at it. It was a in memory page for her since her whole school thought she was dead too.

(Flashback)

“I can’t believe you did that to me Sandra. You knew I liked him why did you have to go and do that” Sam yelled at her.

 


“If you would listen to what I said in the first place, I wasn’t trying to take him away from you” she yelled back at her.

 


“I don’t want to hear it Sandra. I don’t want to be your friend again!” she said to her before slamming the door in her face.

 


After that happen that was the last time Sam saw Sandra alive. She got a call from her telling her that she didn’t know where she was at and then the line went dead…

(End of Flashback)

“I’m so sorry Sandra for everything. I hope that you could forgive me for what I did to you” she said to herself out loud as she held the yearbook closer to her, “What if Talinda is really Sandra and she never tells Chester or anyone? Especially me. Am I just going to go up to Chester and say to him, ‘Hey Chester? Your girlfriend is a liar and happens to be my presumed-dead best friend Sandra Grace.’ If I said that to him he’ll think I’m insane” she said out loud. Then she shook the thought out of her head and put everything away.

 

[X...Re-Arranged...X]

Hey! Just stopping in to tell you how great your story is! ^_^ Your stories are my favourite!

 

[geeko]

Nice.Now I'm slowly understanding the history of the fight. :thumbsup:

 

[andrea]

Chapter 12

So sorry about the wait. School has been crazy, especially with a night class. Good thing I have about a few chapter written out. I just have to fine time to post them. Hopefully I'll be posting some more, if I'm not to busy. Enjoy this update.

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The Next Day

For the date that Chester and Talinda agreed to go on, they ended up going to the movies. Chester couldn’t concentrate on the movie as all he could think about was Sam and when he kissed her. After the movie was over they went back to Chester’s place to enjoy each others company. This was something that they really didn’t get to do as much as they would of like to. As they were relaxing with each other, Chester could sense some hesitation from her. He leaned in and kissed her cheek, then moved to her neck to see if that would make her relax a little, which it did. When there lips met all Chester could think about was Sam and the kiss. He deepened the kiss a little more imagining that Talinda was Sam. He started to slide his hand under her shirt and Talinda pulled him closer her which made him call out Sam’s name instead of her’s.

“We can’t do this” she said pulling away from him as they tried to catch there breaths. Talinda then looked at him.

“Talinda I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to call her name out like that” he said feeling like an idiot that he just did that.

“Maybe what I’m about to tell you may change your mind about me” she said.

“Whatever it is that you have to tell me won’t change my mind about you”

“Before I started working on your custody case, I--I--I knew Sam” she said hesitating.

“What do you mean?” he asked.

“I’m not really who you think I am” she said taking a deep breath. She got up and walked behind the coffee table giving them some space. Maybe she was scared that he would hurt her after what she told him, “First of all, my name is it Talinda Bentley. My real name is Sandra Grace. I was Sam's best friend back in high school”

“There’s no way you can be Sandra Grace. Sam told me she died in a car accident” he said shocked at what she was telling him but he didn't show it.

“It’s true Chester. I was in that accident Sam told you about and I survived it. Everyone thought I died. My parents knew I didn’t die in the accident, but they weren’t sure if I was going to make it. When I did wake up, I begged my parents not to tell any one” she said as tears came down her face. Just telling Chester her biggest secret made her regret ever keeping to herself.

“Why didn’t you want to tell anyone?”

“Because I wanted a fresh start in life. I didn't want to worry about the people I had left behind” she said wiping her cheek with the back of her hand. This was a lie. She didn’t really know why she didn't tell anyone herself.

“What happen that cause your accident?” Chester asked.

“It all started because of a fight me and Sam got into over a guy she liked. He happened to be the same guy I was really good friends with. When she told me that she liked him I wanted to help her get with him. I never saw him more then just a friend. But she thought it the other way around”

“She thought you liked him when she saw you talking to him?” he guessed out, “But what was it that caused you to get hysterical and get behind the wheel of the car?” he asked.

“It was the last football game of the season, me and Sam were there cheering. The game happened to be on a Friday night and me and Sam plan to go over to my house after the game. Sam walked away for a little while, to tell her mom she was leaving. When she was away, Josh, the guys she liked came up to me and we started talking. I gave him a friendly hug congratulating him for winning the game. When I turn I saw Sam standing a little further away from us. I wanted her to come up to us so I could get Josh and her to talk but she run off” she said as more tears came down her face.

“Did you try to go after her?”

“Yes I did. I followed her all the way to her house. I stopped her before she went inside telling her that it wasn’t what it look liked and that I knew she liked him. I told her I was trying to help her get with him but she wouldn’t listen to me. She started yelling at me about how I could do that to her and that I knew she'd like him. I tried explaining myself to her again but she told me that she didn’t want to hear it. Then that’s when she told me she never wanted to see me again and that we weren’t friends anymore. Then she slammed the door on my face” she said pausing for a little bit.

“Once she slammed the door on my face I knew that there was no way in talking to her. So I walked back to my car. At that point, I was crying hysterically from the thought of losing our friendship over some guy. While I was driving I had my cell with me so I called Sam hoping that she had calm down. She had picked up and I started explaining to her that what happened wasn’t what she thought had happened. My vision was blurry from all the crying I was doing and I started to freak out. I heard her calling my name. I started telling her that I didn’t know where I was at and right after I said that I lost control of my car. I crashed it and everything went black” she moved so now she was sitting down on the second couch.

“What happen after you crashed your car?”

“That’s all blank. From what my mom told me, Sam was the one who found me. She ended up having to be in the hospital since she passed out after finding me. My mom ended up telling Lily that I survived. Lily never told Sam thinking that it was my place to tell Sam the truth”

“Since you survived the accident how come Sam and Lily didn’t recognize you?”

“They won’t because I don’t look like anything I did before my accident. I was in the hospital for a year recovering. I had a lot of work done to fix the damage that my accident cause me”

“Why didn’t you…” Chester started to say but didn’t finish as the door bell went off. Chester got up from the couch as Talinda wiped some more tears that fell down her face. He walked over to the door and opened it seeing Sam standing there, “Uh…Sam what are you doing here?” he asked her.

 

[andrea]

Continued Chapter 12

“I wanted to talk to you about yesterday” she said. ‘And also see my dead best friend’ she thought to herself.

“Talinda's here you know that, right?” he said.

“Yeah I know. I also want to talk to her too. I’m not looking for a fight” Sam said.

Chester sighed, “Sure. Come in” he said and moved out of the way. When she came in he closed the door behind her. He then walked back into the living room going over Talinda. She got up as he signaled for her to come with him. He walked with her into the kitchen, “Are you going to tell Sam your secret or are you going to pretend that you never told me?” he asked her.

“No. I should tell her and that's what I’m going to do” she said. They then walked back into the living room. Chester stood near the small steps that led up to the dining table as Talinda walked further into the living room, “Sam there something that I need to tell you” Talinda said.

“What is it?” She asked. Chester could sense a different tone in his ex-wife’s voice. It was like she knew already and that she wasn’t mad.

“Um…do you remember when we asked you if you remember calling me Sandra Grace your best friend?”

“Yeah”

Talinda took a deep breath before she continued, “My name is it Talinda….” she started out, “My name is Sandra Grace”

After Talinda said that Sam didn’t look shocked, all she said was, “I know”

Now Talinda was the one with the shock look instead of Sam, “You know? How did you find out?” Talinda asked.

“From you're reunion invitation” Sam said pulling it out of her purse. She then handed it back to Talinda, who took it.

Talinda looked down at the invitation. She opened it up when she noticed Charlotte’s hand writing. She closed the invitation and looked back up at Sam, “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry for everything Sam”

“You don’t need to be sorry. I’m the one who should be apologizing to you. I was the selfish ***** who…” Chester didn’t finish hearing what they had to say to each other. He walked up the small steps and made his way over to the stair case. He walked up a couple steps and sat down just in case they didn’t forgive each other and a fight broke out between them. Seemly an hour and a half later, Chester woke to someone shaking his shoulder. He opened his eyes and found Talinda standing in front of him, “Chester could I talk to you” she said.

“Yeah. Sure” he said getting up and walked up the rest of the stairs, going to his room incase Sam was still there she wouldn’t hear them talking. Once they got up his room, Chester sat down on his bed and waited for her to start talking.

“This is going to be hard for me to do but it's for the best, especially after lying to you. You should hate me for that. Chester, I really don’t think that were going to work out” she said.

“No. Don’t say that” he said getting up walking closer to her. He put both his hands on her shoulder looking into her eyes.

“It wouldn’t anyways. Why stay and get more attached when we both know it won’t work.”

“You’re not doing this because of your secret?” he asked.

“No. I’m doing this because of my husband”

“You’re married?” he asked shocked. ‘She had another secret as well? How many more is she keeping to herself?’ he thought to himself.

“I was. I’m a widow. My husband passed away from cancer”

“Sorry about that”

“It’s okay. It’s been a couple years since his passing”

“But why break it off? I mean you’ll have nobody to be with you” he asked/said.

“I will, soon” she said smiling “Anyways, Sam need’s you more than I do. I know you still love her Chester” she said and then paused, “We can still be friends right?”

“Of course so, Talinda. Did you guys forgive each other?”

“Sort of. It’s going to take awhile before were like we use to be. I’m going to go so you and Sam could talk” she said walking out of the room and out of his life leaving him to reconcile with Sam.

 

[andrea]

Chapter 13

Here's the next update date. Hopefully the next chapter will be out sooner.

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When Talinda broke it off with Chester, after telling him that she was doing this for her husband, which had Chester asking her if she was ending their relationship because she was married, but then found out that her husband passed away. Talinda left his house leaving him with Sam. Once Talinda was gone, Chester came back downstairs, since him and Talinda were talking in his room, to talk to Sam. He was hoping to reconcile with her since he still did love her after he kept telling himself that he didn’t. He walked into the living room and stopped, seeing Sam sitting on the couch.

“Why did you do it?” Sam asked. She turned her head to look at Chester.

“Do what?” he asked walking further into the room and sat down next to her.

“Kiss me yesterday”

“Because I still love you” he said.

“What?” even though Sam heard him she wanted him to say it again.

He got off the couch and kneeled down in front of her. He took a hold of her hands, “I said I still love you, Sam. I thought you would realized that when I kissed you. I still love you. I always have”

“What about you and Sandra?”

“There’s no more me and Talinda”

“Did you break up with her so you can try and get back with me?” she asked.

“No. I wasn’t the one who broke it off with her. She did”

“She probably did it to help us get back together”

“What if she did?” he asked.

“You really want to give us a second chance?”

“Yes, but only if you want us to have a second chance. Do you?”

Sam didn’t respond back to him. Instead, she leaned down and there lips met in a second kiss since there divorce. When Sam pulled away she said to him, “Does that now answer your question?”

“Yes, it does.” He then softly pulled her into another kiss. Sam wrapped her arms around his neck to deepen the kiss. After she wrapped her arms around him, Chester leaned up a little without breaking the kiss. He slowly lowered her down onto the couch. He moved his mouth away from her’s, moving down to her chin and then to her neck. Sam let out a low moan as he continued to kiss her neck. When he reached back to her mouth, he then pulled away.

“Why did you stop?” Sam said breathlessly as she slowly opened her eyes up to look up at Chester.

“I stopped because I want to make sure that you really want to do this Sam and not regret it later”

“I do. I do want to do this. But before we go any further I need to do something” she said and lightly pushed Chester off of her so that they were sitting up. She then reached into her purse pulling out her cell phone and dialed a number.

“Who are you calling?” Chester asked.

“Leticia. I’m going to tell her to take Draven over to my mom’s”

“Oh. Okay”

After Sam finished talking to Leticia, she put her phone away. Chester stood up and helped her up by grabbing her hand. They walked out of the room going up the small steps and then going over to the staircase. They then walked up them, going up to their room. When they reached the room they went in, closing the door.

A Couple Hours Later

Chester lay down next to Sam after he came back from the bathroom. Sam moved closer to him putting one arm across his stomach and laid her head on his shoulder. Chester then ran his fingers slowly up and down her arm.

“Your not going to regret this later are you?” he said lightly grabbing her wrist holding her hand up and slid his fingers in between hers.

“Not at all. Are you?” she asked him moving her head so she could see him better.

“No. What’s going to happen to us now?” he asked resting his chin on the top of her head as she moved her hand from his. She then started moving a finger up and down his chest slowly.

“What do you mean?”

“I do want this, to be with you again, but I don't want to rush into it. I want to...”

“Take it slow this time?” she asked as she stopped moving her finger. She pulled the bed sheet closer to her, holding it, as she leaned on her left arm to get a better look at Chester.

“Do you want to take it slow?”

“It would be better on us”

“How are we going to tell Draven?”

“Will just tell him that we’re not taking that break anymore, that we’re seeing if we still need that break or not”

“I still love you, Sam”

“And I still love you too” she said. Chester then pulled her down closer to him to kiss her. She let go of the sheet she was holding up to put her arm around Chester so she could hold herself up better. When Chester pulled away, Sam let go of holding herself up and lay back down next to Chester. She put her arm back around him again and laid her head on his shoulder soon closing her eyes.

The Next Day

When Sam woke up she was wondering why she wasn’t in her own bed. She then felt someone put there arm around her. She then realized that she wasn’t wearing anything under the covers. As she turned around to face whoever was next to her, she saw Chester sleeping away. She thought she was dreaming and then remembered that she and Chester had reconciled last night. Seeing Chester asleep she moved his arm from around her and softly got up so she could get dress.

After Sam got dress, she stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom when she saw something on her neck. She pulled back her hair and slightly curs to herself when she saw that it was a hickey. Letting go of her hair, she walked out of the bathroom turning off the lights. She walked out of the bedroom and went downstairs to get her purse. While walking back up the stairs, she opened her purse and pulled out her cell to get what she needed out of the purse. She was going to put her phone away when she noticed that there was a missed call.

As she was getting to her voicemail, she walked back into the bathroom to try and cover up the hickey when her moms voice came on to the phone, ‘Hey Sam, it's your mom. I just wanted to know if you were going to pick up Draven today since it's close to one or do you want me to call Leticia and have her take Draven to Chester's? Call me when you get this message.’ After hearing her mom’s message she saved the message and closed her phone. She put the phone down and went to try and cover up the hickey. While she was looking in the mirror, she saw Chester coming into the bathroom. He walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her waist.

“Thanks for the hickey” she said putting the cover-up down. Chester just laughed. She turned around to face him, “My mom left a message on my phone, asking me if I was going to come and pick up Draven or have Leticia bring him to you”

“Did you call you're mom back telling her that your coming?” he asked.

“Not yet, because I want you to come with me” after she said that she saw Chester's face looked panicky.

“Come with you? Your mom doesn’t even like me anymore. She’ll probably think that were getting back together just for Draven's sake”

“If she says anything about not wanting us to be together again then I’ll just tell her that we really want this. I don't care who my mom thinks I should be with. If I want to be with you again then she'll just have to deal with it.” Once she said that Chester lean down and gave her a kiss.

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Review's are appreciated

 

[X...Re-Arranged...X]

Awesomeness! Sorry I haven't replied in a while. I've been busy. Great job! I have to go rate them on Quizilla. It's been like years since I've been on there. ^_^

 

[geeko]

coool...cant wait for the next update...its really cool..

and todays october31,2006..regards to a relationship that would have lasted to its 10th year today.what could have happened to chaz and sam?

 

[andrea]

Chapter 14

geeko - You'll never know.

Here's the next updated. From now on, in the story, things are going to change dramicatally, I guess you would say, with other secret to be revealed.

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5 Months Later

It’s been 5 months since Sam and Chester had reconciled, giving each other another chance at being together. It’s also been the same amount of time since Talinda revealed her secret to Chester and Sam, that she was Sam's presumed-dead best friend Sandra Grace. When Talinda told Sam that she was Sandra, the both of them got to talking. She finally listened to what Talinda had to say about that day and what really happened. Sam found out she was only trying to help her get with Josh. She then told Talinda that after her ‘death’ that he dated someone else and ended up marrying the girl right out of high school. After talking about that, they both decided to try and give each other a chance at being friends again. They knew it would take a long time before they were like in high school.

When the high school reunion came up her and Talinda both went together. After the actual reunion, they remembered all the stupid stuff they did in high school. Sam even took her to the same Burger King she and Chester met at. After the reunion, they went back to the hotel they were staying at, which was only for a day. During the trip, Talinda shocked her with something that she wanted to do for awhile, move back to New York.

Once Sam and Chester reconcile, they decided to take it real slow. She didn’t move back in with him. So after 5 months of ‘dating’ he asked her to move back into the house they once share together. He wanted them to be a whole family again with Draven. Sam said yes. Draven was happy that his parents were getting back together. Before Sam was going to move back in with Chester she had her mom’s help selling her house. At first her mom wasn’t sure if she should get back with Chester but after Sam told her that she wanted this as much as Chester did; Lily decided to help her daughter.

“Are you ready Sam?” Sam turned around and saw Chester holding the last box in her now empty house.

“Yeah” she said walking up to him. He put down the box he was holding, giving her a kiss.

“I’ll put this last box in the car” he said when he pulled away. He picked the box up and walked out of the house going to his car.

As soon as Chester walked outside, Sam walked into the kitchen. She put the keys to the house on the kitchen counter so her mom could get them when she came over to check the house out. After setting the keys down, she walked over to the door, taking one last look at the house before closing the door behind her. She walked over to Chester, who was waiting for her. They got into the car and drove off. When they pulled up, they got out and grabbed a couple of the boxes out of the car bringing them into the house. Once they walked in, Sam was greeted by Draven running up to her.

“Mommy!” he yelled out excitedly grabbing onto her leg to give her a hug since she was standing up. He let go of Sam’s leg and she set the box she was holding down. She then reached and picked Draven up.

“Hey buddy, you must be happy”

“I am. My mommy and daddy is together again. We get to be a family again!”

“Yep we do” she said smiling. She put him down expecting him to run off but he didn't, “Hey! How come you don’t want to go back and play?” she asked him kneeling down.

“I wanna help put your stuff away mommy”

“Well, why don’t we all help mom out” she heard Chester suggest.

“Yeah, I could use you're guys help” she said getting up and picked up the box.

A Couple Hours Later

Once Sam put the last thing away she let out a sigh. Chester walked out of the closet and came up to Sam putting his arms around her waist. He then gave her a light kiss on the forehead.

“So were back to that?” she joked since it was something that he did often when they were first married.

“I would kiss you now, but with Draven in here I’m not sure if he'll wake up and be gross out by his parents kissing” he said looking at Draven who was fast asleep on their bed. When they were unpacking all he wanted to do was just flatten the empty boxes. Only after a couple boxes he started getting tired and fell asleep, “I’ll go and take him to his room” Chester said letting go of her. He walked over to the side of the bed and picked up his sleeping son. He carried him to his room as Sam followed stopping in the doorway of Draven’s room watching them.

After Chester put Draven down, he turned and walked towards Sam, grabbing the door handle. She moved backwards a little as he closed the door halfway. Once he got the door halfway closed, he put his arm around her and they started walking towards the stairs.

As soon as they got down the stairs, Chester moved his arm and walked off towards the kitchen, not saying anything to Sam. Not sure what he was doing, Sam walked into the living room and sat down on the couch. She grabbed the remote to the T.V. but before turning it on she looked to her left as she felt like someone was next to her. Chester was standing there holding a jacket and she also noticed that he was holding two beer bottles.

“Let’s go outside” he said handing her a bottle.

“What’s the special occasion?” she asked getting up as she set her bottle down on the coffee table. Chester then handed her the jacket he was holding.

“No special occasion" he said as she put the jacket on.

“Uh huh” she looked at him. She picked up her beer.

“No really -- there’s no special occasion” he said.

“I didn’t say I didn’t believe you.” Chester didn’t say anything back to her instead he took a hold of her hand and walked towards the sliding glass door. Reaching it, he let go of her hand only for a second to open the sliding glass door. After getting it open, he took a hold of her hand again as they walked out onto the patio. He let go of her hand again so they could sit down on the lounge chairs. They sat there in silence, drinking their beers slowly when Chester spoke up.

“There is a reason why I’m doing this” he said.

“What is it?” She asked raising an eyebrow.

“I want to spend a much time with you and Draven…” he paused for a little while, “The guys and I are going back into the studio to record our fourth album”

“Okay” was all she said but it shocked Chester.

“Really? You’re okay with that”

“Yeah. Why? You thought that I would be mad? I’m not going to. I’m actually glad that you guys are going back into the studio” after she said that Chester leaned across his chair and gave her a kiss. As he deepened the kiss, she could taste some of the beer in his mouth. She put one hand on the back of his neck, since she was holding her beer in the other hand. When they stopped kissing, Chester moved back so that he was sitting in his chair. They stayed out there for a little while until they both finished their beers. Once they finished their beers they got up and walked back into the house going into there room for the night.

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Chapter 15

Here's the next update sorry about the wait, school been crazy. Luckily it's end soon so in January there will be lost more updates. In enjoy the chapter...

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A Year Later

Tucson, Arizona

“You guys are ******* great! Thanks for coming out” Chester yelled out to the crowd once they finished “One Step Closer”. As the fans started to slowly leave, Chester started to walk off the stage. Before he got off he saw Mike walking his way so he stopped him, “Hey man, I want to talk to you later when we get into the dressing room”

“Yeah. Sure”

I guess you guess it by now that their on tour for their fourth album. If you’re wondering about Sam, well Chester and she are doing really great. I guess you could say even better then their first marriage, if that's possible. Chester had even brought Sam along with him. He also convinced Sam to bring Draven along with them in which she said ‘yes’. Leticia also came with them since she’s Draven's nanny.

Once Chester finished telling Mike that he wanted to talk to him later they both walked off the stage to where Anna and Sam were standing on the side. They got to watch the show. As soon as Mike saw Anna, they both walked off leaving Chester alone with Sam. Before he even got his arms wrapped around her, she stopped him.

“I don’t want your sweat on me” she said.

Chester leaned closer to her ear, “Oh! But you don’t mind it when we, you know” he smirked and stood up straight. He saw that she was blushing.

“No. Your right I don’t” she said and then leaned in to give him a quick kiss. After she pulled away, he grabbed her hand and they started walking down to the dressing room. Before they got close to the dressing room, Sam let go of Chester’s hand, “I’m going to walk back to the tour bus with Anna. I’ll see you later” she said. Chester gave her a kiss and then walked towards the dressing room.

The minute Chester got into the room he went up to his part of the wardrobe case. He did what he had to do and packed a bag to take to the tour bus. After he was finished, he turned to his right and saw Mike standing at his part.

“You want to talk to me, so what’s up?” he asked when he faced Chester.

Before responding back to him, he looked around to see who was still in the room. He only saw Phoenix as he walked up to Rob.

“Hey, you okay man?” Phoenix asked Rob.

“Uh? Oh yeah” he said and looked at Chester and then looked back at his stuff.

“Are you ever going to tell Chester what happen in New York? Like that you slept with Talinda” he whispered to him.

“No”

“Rob, Chester's not going to get mad at you. He’s not even dating her anymore. So you’re more than good to go ahead and date her. I don’t know why you didn’t tell him four months ago”

“Yeah I know. I should have told him” Rob said and turned his head to look at Chester who was talking to Mike.

“It's about Sam…” Chester started telling Mike but he interrupted him.

“You’re not breaking up with her again, are you?”

“No!”

“Well it something that you don’t want the guys to know. Wait! Are you guys having a kid?”

Chester looked at him like he was crazy, “Only if we get married again” he said to himself, but Mike heard him.

“I know now! You want to ask Sam to marry you again”

“What I was going to ask you was if you could help me pick out an engagement ring”

“Why do you need my help? You were able to pick out a wedding ring for her when you were able to get one” he said.

“Yeah well when I bought the wedding ring, Sam picked it out. And I didn’t get her an engagement ring last time. I just need your opinion. I mean you’ve picked out one for Anna. I want to surprise Sam”

“Yeah, sure I’ll help you. We could go looking tomorrow since were going to be in Tucson for a couple days” he said, “When are you going to pop the question?”

“At the end of the tour. During the party” he said.

“Hey did you ever get a hold of Talinda?”

“No. Jennifer told me she moved back to New York”

“Okay. Well, I’m going to head out to the tour bus. See you later” he said then he walked out.

After Mike left Chester then noticed that Rob and Phoenix were long gone, he then sat down on one of the chairs near the wardrobe case. He felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. So he took it out and looked at the number. A number with a 212 area code flashed across the screen. Not knowing who it was he still answered it.

“Hello?”

“Hey Chester! It’s me Talinda” she said.

“Oh hey! I didn’t recognize the number”

“It’s okay. Jennifer called me recently and told me that you’ve been trying to get a hold of me. I guess you didn’t know that I moved back to New York”

“Yeah, I didn’t. I’m actually on tour right now and at the end of the tour we’re going to have a party. I wanted to know if you want to come down to California for the party, maybe to see Sam again?” he asked her.

“Sure I’ll go. I’m glad you asked me because I’m going to be moving back to California again”

“That's good…I’ve got to go now but I’ll call you back”

“Okay, talk to you later” she said before he hung up.

When he ended the call he put his cell back in his pocket. He grabbed his bag and walked over to the door. Once he got it open he saw Bob Dallas standing there.

“Hey. I saw the guys and they told me you were still in here. I came to tell you were leaving in a little bit”

“Okay.” He walked out with Bob towards the tour bus. When he got closer he saw Mike and Phoenix standing outside of the bus.

 

[andrea]

Continued Chapter 15

“What took you so long?” Phoenix asked him.

“You guys know that I been trying to get a hold of Talinda right?”

“Yeah. What about her?” Mike asked.

“She just called me”

“Is she coming down?” Phoenix asked.

“She said she would but I’ll have to call her back later” he said. He then noticed that the tour bus he, Sam, Mike, Anna, Phoenix, and Linsey were using was the only one there. As you may know, when Chester and Sam were married and whenever he would take her on tour they would have there own tour bus. Since the guys brought there wives along on this tour Chester let Mike, Anna, Phoenix and Linsey use the same tour bus he and Sam were using, “Hey where’s the other bus?” he asked.

“They left ahead of us. So Bob going to riding with us” Mike said as they started getting on the bus.

When they got on, Chester saw that Sam, Anna, and Linsey were sitting on the couch, talking. Draven was sitting at the table coloring away with Leticia. ‘Looks like he found something new he likes’ he thought to himself. Once they got off the steps of the bus, he went and set his bag down on his bunk where he felt the bus start up. After setting his bag down, he walked back out to where everyone was sitting. Thirty minutes later, they arrived at the hotel and saw that the other tour bus was there. The guys grabbed their bags that where in there bunks and put them on the couches. When Chester set his bag down he watched Sam as she was getting Draven’s shoes on. As soon as they all got off the tour bus the other guys came off there’s. Bob came out of the hotel to give them the card key to there room’s.

“Okay guys listen up, were going to have three connecting rooms. Chester and Sam will have there room connecting with Draven and Leticia, so they could have there own room. Mike and Anna’s room will connect with Phoenix and Linsey. Brad and Monica along with Rob will connect rooms with Joe and Karen. Alright? So here the card keys to your rooms” Bob said handing Chester, Mike, Phoenix, Brad, and Joe the card keys to there room.

Once Chester got the card to his, Sam, Draven and Leticia’s room they went and got the rest of their bags. They then headed up to their room. When they got in, they set there stuff down and since it was late Sam took Draven from Leticia so she could get him ready for bed. After Sam finished, Draven and Leticia went into the other room leaving the door that connected to there room open.

Chester then went into the bathroom and changed. He thought, to himself, about taking Draven with him and Mike tomorrow. That way he could also help pick out a ring for his mom. Once he was finish changing, he came back out seeing that Sam was already on the bed watching T.V.

“Sam, tomorrow Mike and I are going to do something. I want to take Draven with me so you can have sometime to yourself” he told her when he joined her in bed.

“That’ll be great. That way you and Draven could spend more time together” she said looking at him, “What is it that you and Mike are doing anyways?”

‘Oh ****, think Chester! Come up with some excuse! Don’t tell her you’re going out to buy her an engagement ring!’ Was all that his brain kept shouting to himself, “Chester? What are you guys going to do tomorrow?” Sam asked him again.

“Oh, Mike’s looking for an anniversary ring for Anna” he said, ‘Great now she's going to think something really is up’

“But why would he do that now? They got married in May” she said.

“I think he said something about it being for when they started dating.” ‘Please drop it. Let’s not talk about it anymore’ he thought to himself.

“Okay” she said leaving the conversation alone.

 

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Chapter 16

So sorry about the long wait. Updates now will be coming regularly, now that the semester is over for me. I really hope that everyone enjoys this update and the new direction I'm taking the story too.

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Two Weeks Later

Los Angeles, California

It’s been two weeks since being in Tucson. After doing that show there, there were four more cities to go before the end of the tour. Since being in Tucson, the guys started planning for a party at the end of tour for their hard work on the tour. Ever since they left Tucson, Sam has been noticing Chester acting different, not in a way that he doesn’t love her anymore because he still does, but in a way like he was nervous about something and Sam didn’t know why he was acting like this.

“Hey Sam are you okay?” she heard Anna yell out to her as they were standing off the side of the stage watching the guys perform their last show.

“Yeah. I’m fine” she yelled back out to her.

Once “One Step Closer” was over they stayed on stage until most of the fans had left the arena. After some of the fans left, they walked off the stage going over to where Sam and Anna were at. When Chester saw Sam, he walked over to her without saying anything and grabbed her hand. He started walking with her as the rest of the guys started walking towards the dressing room. As soon as they reached the dressing room, everyone walked in. Walking into the dressing room, Sam saw that there was a cake on a table that was in the room and that there were more chairs. She then noticed that Draven was with Leticia and the rest of the road crew along with Bob Dallas was there too.

“Cake!” she heard one of the guys shout out.

“Is this the party that you and the guys have been planning?” she quietly asked Chester who was still holding her hand.

Letting go of her hand, he answered her question, “No, there’s going to be a bigger one after this one. This is just for us as a band with the road crew and Bob Dallas since the road crew leaving right after this.”

After Chester told her that, he then told her he would go and get some cake for them and told her to go sit down on one of the chairs. Once she sat down, she watched him walk over to the table and saw Draven stand next to him. She then felt someone sit next to her. Taking her eyes off of Chester, she saw that it was Anna. They then got to talking. Sam moved her eyes and saw Draven come over to give her a plate of cake.

“Here. This for you mommy!” Draven said giving her the plate.

“Thank you” she said taking it from him. Once she had it he ran off back to where Chester was. Sam turned back to Anna to finish what they were talking and found her not there. ‘Okay’ she thought. She picked up the fork that was on the plate, but before she got any of the cake on her fork she saw something silver on the cake. Knowing that it wasn’t apart of the cakes frosting she put the fork down. Not caring about getting any of the frosting on her fingers, she picked up what it was. What she found it to be was a ring, but it wasn’t just a normal ring, it was an engagement ring.

“Oh my ***” she let out in shock nearly dropping the plate. Luckily, she was able to save the plate by holding onto it tighter. She then set the plate down on the ground next to her. Still in shock about the engagement ring, she looked up at Chester. He slowly walked up closer to her. When he reached her, he got down on one knee.

“Sam, I know that our first time didn’t really work out. When we did separate I realized that I didn’t want to lose you and I knew that there might not be another chance in us being together again. When you were in the hospital a while ago I realized how much you really do mean to me. I was glad that we did give each other a chance at being together again, but what I’m trying to ask you is…” he paused for a little bit, “Samantha will you marry me again?”

Since she was still in shock that he was proposing, she just sat there not knowing what to say. She could hear some of the guys telling her to say something. Snapping out of her state of shock she shook her head, “Yes, yes I’ll marry you” she said.

After accepting the proposal, he took the ring she was holding and wiped the remaining frosting on a napkin that he had with him. Then he took her left hand and slipped the ring on her finger. Once he got the ring on, he leaned in and gave her a kiss. As she returned the kiss back, she could hear all the guys clapping. When they pulled away all Sam could do was smile.

“All right guys, I hate to break up the happy moment but it's time to go and show up to the other party” Bob Dallas said. After he said that Sam got up out of the chair with Chester’s help by holding onto Chester’s hand after she got up. Draven then came running up to Sam and grabbed onto her leg, hugging it.

“Mommy! I’m glad you and daddy are getting marries again” he said letting go of her leg. Letting go of Chester’s hand, she then picked Draven up.

“Mommy’s glad too” she said.

“Guess what mommy?” he asked.

“What?”

“I helped daddy pick the ring for you with Mike too” he said.

“Aw…you did? I love it” she said as she saw some of the guys walking out of the dressing room. Sam kept holding Draven in her arms as her and Chester walked out following the guys. When everyone got outside they all got onto one of the tour buses to take them down to the hotel where the other party was being held at.

As the tour bus pulled up to the hotel everyone started getting excited about the party before the tour bus even came to a complete stop. When the tour bus did stop, everyone then started getting off as fast as they could and started heading to the party. Sam handed Draven to Leticia so she could take him up to their hotel room since everyone was going to stay at the hotel for one night, so no one would have to worry about having to go get home tonight and that way they could drink all they wanted. After Leticia took Draven, Sam and Chester got off the tour bus and walked towards where the party was at inside the hotel. Once they walked into the room Sam saw that Chester was looking around the room like he was looking for someone.

 

[andrea]

Continued Chapter 16

“Sam there’s someone I want you to see” he said taking her to the person that he wanted her to meet. As she was about halfway close she was shocked to see that it was Talinda.

“Talinda what are you doing here?” she asked looking her up and down to see if anything changed about her. Her eyes then landed on her stomach. She could tell she was pregnant. ‘No please tell me that’s not Chester’s. He wouldn't do that to me, would he?’ she though to herself ‘Your wrong Sam. He would do something like that to you’ a voice said in her head.

“Sam are you okay?” someone asked.

Shaking her head she saw it was Talinda who asked her the question, “Yeah. I’m fine” she said in a calm voice, ‘No your not Sam and you know it.’ the same voice in her head said and she tried to ignore it, “It’s good seeing you again” she said giving her a hug, ‘No it isn’t Sam! She’s here to ruin your future with Chester again’ the voice said as she pulled away.

“Yeah. It’s good to see you too, Sam” Talinda said, ‘She's not glad to see you, she just wants Chester all to herself again’ the voice inside her head continued to say.

“Um, I’m starting to feel really tired all of the sudden. I think I’m going to go up to the room maybe I’ll see you some other time” she said, ‘Like I’m going to miss you at all’ she thought to herself when she turn to face Chester, “Chaz I’m going to head up to the room, could I have the card key?”

“Yeah. Sure” he said pulling it out of his pocket and handing it to her.

Once she got the card key, she walked out of the room and walked over to the elevators, waiting for it to open up so she could get to there floor. When it did open, she got in and pressed the button for the third floor since that’s were her and Chester’s room was on.

‘Samantha don’t you ignore me! You know that the baby Talinda, your so-called friend, is carrying is Chester’s.’ the voice said “No… no it isn’t” she said to herself out loud leaning back against the elevators walls “Chester would never cheat on me. She’s with someone else and there having a child together. She lives in New York there’s no way her and Chester could of…”she kept talking to herself stopping when she realized something, ‘Yes Sam you believe me now. They did it when you guys were in New York for a couple days’ the voice said. ‘And she's going to pay for having Chester cheat on me and that baby is going to be mine and Chester’s when I’m finish with her’ she thought to herself as the elevator came to a stop and the doors open.

Smiling about the plan, she walked out of the elevator and down the hallway to her and Chester’s room. When she reached the door, she slid the card in and opened the door walking into the room letting the door close behind her.

“Sam? Chester? Are you guys back?” she heard a voice ask coming from the joined room.

“It only Sam! I’m not feeling well Leticia just keep Draven in the room” she said walking over to the bed sitting down. She then took off her shoes and lay down on her side, facing away from the door.

Once her head hit the pillow she just stayed laying there without closing her eyes. She stared straight at the wall when a different voice filled her head, ‘Your so beautiful Samantha’. She didn’t say anything to herself but buried her head into her pillow trying to make that hunting voice go away. When it did, she moved her head from the pillow and went back to looking at the wall. She slowly moved her left hand up to see the engagement ring on her finger. Only looking at it for a little bit she drop her hand back down. She kept staring at the wall not even closing her eye when she heard the door open. She didn’t even turn around and just acted like she was asleep since her back was facing the door. A few minutes later after the door open, she felt Chester getting onto the bed.

“Sam, I hope you’re not mad about Talinda being pregnant because…” was all that she wanted to hear. ‘Oh I’m not mad at you, Chester, for you cheating on me and getting Talinda pregnant. I’m mad at Talinda, but don’t worry she wont even live to see her baby’ she thought to herself. She then closed her eyes settling into a deep sleep.

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