I woke up about noon. Samuel was going to pick me up around three.
I wasn't sure where he was taking me so I put on a black crop top with Jean high wasted shorts and my white converse. I curled my hair and applied makeup. Making sure to hide the curler in one of my drawers. It was 2:50 so I walked outside the front door and waited on the small bench pulling out a smoke.
Samuel drives up in a old beat up truck and parks it in front of my house. Smoke floats in the air around me. I begin coughing hardly dropping my smoke onto the floor and putting my hand up to my chest.
Samuel comes running up after me putting one hand on my back.
"Stella are you okay?" Do you need a aspirin?" He grabs my hand helping me stand up.
"No I'm okay" I smile fighting through my chest pain.
He doesn't let go of my hand walking me to the truck. I blush getting in.
Cmon Stella you can't catch feelings for someone you just met. I pull my hand away closing the door. Clenching my fists tightly turning my head the opposite way.
Samuel starts the truck and drives away. He puts his hand on mine. I loosen my grip smiling. He looks at me and leans in.
"Samuel I can't." I back away.
Theirs silence throughout the truck.
Samuel keeps his eyes on the road not glancing over at me.
"Sammy." He says.
"Call me Sammy"
He stops the truck in front of a smallish frat house.
We both get out of the car and he walks in front of me with his hands in his pockets.
He grabs a key out of his pocket unlocking the door and putting the key under the potted plant.
The squeaky door slowly opens and theirs a small beat up couch with a small kitchen. Sammy opens a mini fridge and grabs two cokes. He hands me one and I open it taking a sip then setting it on the coffee table.
He sits down on the couch which is my clue to sit too.
"So Stella I wanna get to know you, your family, your life, your tattoos." I shift in my seat.
"My full name is Stella Dawn Coats" "My dad died as a small child and I have a older sister named Ruby who I live with." "I am going into my senior year of high school and am finding a job for the summer" "and I love ice cream", I smile after I say this, then I pause.
"Now you tell me about you... Sammy"
"Okay, well my full name is Samuel Howard Wilkinson" "I live away from my family, I don't have a connection with them." "I live here with my best friend Jack." "Jacks girlfriend emerald comes over all the time. It seems like she lives here." But what I really want to know about you is your tattoos."
"I don't tell people about my tattoos until I know I can trust them." I finish my soda and throw it away. And go sit back on the couch.
"What about your love life?" Sammy asks me concerned.
"You tell me first" I smirk and he lets out a loud breath.
"When I was 17 I got a girl pregnant. She ended up getting an abortion. She moved to Arizona and I never saw her again."
"Wow. Well I had a boyfriend freshman year but nothing serious. It was a low down break up. Many people didn't even know we were dating."
I look down avoiding eye contact when someone opens the door. It was Jack (gilinsky), he walked over to me looking me in the eyes and puffed out a black smoke cloud in front of my face. My chest hardens with a hard pressure. I start coughing out and the pain gets worse.
Sammy stands up turning Jack's shoulders. Sammy points a finger at Jack "If you hurt her i will make sure emerald wished she was never born."
Jack walks upstairs disappearing. My coughing slows down and I stand up. My legs become wobbly and my knees buckle. I start falling to the floor but Sammy catches me from behind. He takes my hand and slowly walk me out the door to his truck.
He opens the door for me and I sit inside laying my head back closing my eyes. Sammy gets in the drivers side and starts the engine cranking up the windows making sure no smoke came in.
I smiled at his kindness slowly opening my eyes to catch Sammy staring at me. He looks back at the road and turns down a unfamiliar street. He turns into a food center pulling up to the ordering window for Dairy Queen.
"Can I have 2 small chocolate Oreo blizzards please"
A muffled voice says something back and Sammy pulls the truck up to the window and grabs the cup holder with the desserts. He hands me one and I grab 2 spoons putting them in the blizzards. I take a bite out of the cold ice cream smiling. Sammy parks underneath a big tree in front of a field of grass.
We both get out of the truck and I follow him sitting on a bench under the tree.
"Thank you, Sammy" I lay my head on his chest. He kisses my forehead and we watch the kids play on the playground. For a second I remember i was that young. Full of joy and happiness and forgiveness. Until I remember my 15th birthday. The first time I touched a smoke. I was taken to the emergency room where the doctor said if I ever smoked again it could be extremely dangerous with a risk of death.
I didn't listen to the doctor. Everyday since then, I smoke, with no regrets. "Stella, I'm gonna take you home now." He takes my empty cup and throws it in the nearby trash. I grab his hand and we walk to the truck together.
Many thoughts are in my head, do I like Sammy? yes.. no.. maybe.. I don't know. But you know who will - Michelle.
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I haven't updated in like 5ever omg.
Go check out my update of Memory Loss. I've had this draft for ever but never published it
