Come Back to Me

Intro Cassidiey/Sam's PoV

"You've got to be kidding me?!" I shrieked at Sam.

He smiled broadly, "I am so serious! Me and the guys got our first tour! Opening act but who cares?!"

I smiled, I couldn't be happier for my new friend.

Me and Sam have been friends since highschool when the band had gotten together. And now I'm out of high school, taking online college and living in a cramped apartment in Vermillion.

And I loved him and he didn't even know.

I giggled and squeezed his arm, "when do you guys leave?"

He thought for a moment, "a week."

I smiled and turned back to what I had been doing when he came in, chopping onions for the spaghetti I was making. His favorite and it was a big night after all.

"Hey, Cass, I know I'm gonna miss your birthday. I'm so sorry." His voice was pleading with me, begging me to look at him.

"I'm not mad. I promise." I chopped a few more slices on the onions, "just disappointed. But it's okay, its your first tour!" I spun around fast and looked at him with a big smile on my face.

"You're gonna be turning 20, thats big." He said looking away from me.

I didn't mind that my kitchen was so cramped because it meant Sam had to stand close to me. He was wearing his glasses tonight and a white shirt with a red, black, and white plaid shirt over the white T-shirt and blue jeans.

He looked gorgeous. In a boy-next-door sort of way.

"We'll skype every night and twice on my birthday. And we'll text constantly. And you better believe I'm gonna be expecting a gift from each place you go to on tour." I tried to get him to look at me, I was smiling my biggest.

He nodded but didn't look at me. I signed and turned him and pushed him out to the living room, "...and I thought I would take this badly."

I sauntered back into the kitchen and finished up the spaghetti humming one of the songs that he wrote.

1 week later

We were at Sam's house I was helping pack the guys up, like a rody that didn't get to go on the tour. I was saying goodbye to everyone and I saved my hardest goodbye till the last and when I saw him exit the house I threw my arms around Sam's neck and he wrapped his arms around my waist and lifted me off the ground spinning me slightly.

"I can't believe I'm leaving you a week before you birthday." He kissed me on the forehead and I looked down letting my fiery hair fall over my face.
He pushed it back and made me look him in the eyes.

"Cass I have something I need to tell you" He looked at me expectantly, his brown eyes, without their glasses, dancing happily.

I chewed my lip, sensing a nervous air about us, "Yeah, Sam?"

He grabbed my hand and led me down a gravel pathway at the side of his parents house, a place we used to go to get away from the world on stressful days, the pathway led to an old oak tree with a tire swing tied around a thick branch. I swung my legs through it and Sam moved to my back and gently pushed me forward.

"So...uh...Cass..."He kept pausing, a clear sign he was nervous,"Cassidiey, we have been friends for awhile...and I..."

I planted my feet on the ground and got up and faced him,"Sam, I love you." I looked down, here comes my ridiculous babbling, "I never wanted to tell you, because we are such good friends. And you were there when my parents abandoned me and when my aunt died. And your parents have basically adopted me. And I just think you're so perfect..." I didn't get to finish before his arms were around me and he kissed me.

For the second time today I threw my arms around his neck, but this time I kissed him. Really kissed him. Before I could even think of what I was doing I had kissed him back.

This was bad, so bad.

We heard Cole calling Sam from the beginning of the pathway and we instantly separated, I don't think either of us wanted anyone to know yet.

We walked up the pathway in silence and when we got to the van I gave Sam a tight hug and kissed him on the cheek.

"Don't forget me, Kay?" I smiled at him sweetly.

Sam rolled his eyes, "knowing I have someone as amazing as you waiting for me when I get back makes it all worth it." He squeezed my hand and got into the van shutting the door.

I chewed on my lip and hid the tears that were starting to brim on the edges of my vision. Don't cry, I thought, not at a time like this. Sam need to know you're happy for him. That you will be okay.

The van started up and with one last little wave they were gone.

Sam's POV

I watched her even from inside the tinted windows of our van I could tell she was holding back tears. I was the only family she had really. So I understood why she was sad.

It still hurt though. So much. To see her gorgeous eyes so full of sadness and love at the same time.

I was nervous though. Butterflies...No scratch that bricks were being hurled around in my stomach because I know how Cass is. She falls for someone and the next thing you know she's scared and gone. No warning or anything. I didn't want to leave her I was scared of what would happen.

But its not like she would let me pass up a chance like this. I felt a pat on my shoulder and a quick squeeze

"Keep your hopes up high, okay?" Lucas said to me as cheerfully as he could.

I nodded and sat back. Looking out the window I watched the streets of Vermillion flow away and the only thing I saw out the window was Cassidiey. I have to mentally prepare myself, I thought, if she's there when I get back then that's amazing and I'll never pass a chance up again to be with her...if she's not...I'll be heart broken. It will be all my fault she lost another family. I shouldn't have said anything. "I love you, Cass. Please be there when I come home."