Old Friend Book 3

Chapter #97

Chapter #97
Sam’s POV
It’s been a week since we offered Liz and Robbie the guest house which they are moving into now so it’s their place now, not a guest house. Robbie kept trying to get me to take money for rent and I kept telling him no. I told him that being able to take the kids when Scarlett and I need time alone can be their rent. Right now I am renting a backhoe so I can start building Liz’s garden and I see a notification that Sarah posted something so I pull it up.

“Aunt Lizzie working hard on moving in her new house”
[ElizabethOlsen: I was resting]
[RobbieArnett: Nice picture]
[SamMily: Lazy]
[ScarlettJohansson: Liz is chasing Sam]
[BenjiMily: Get her Liz]

“Ah Liz I’m sorry!” I yell as she chases me around the back yard. “Liz, leave my wife alone! Oh shit.” Scarlett says before throwing up in a trash can I run onto the back porch and rub her back. “I’ll get you some ginger ale and your nausea meds.” I tell her and she nods. I love having kids but I hate seeing Scarlett miserable. “Here you go Penguin.” I say handing her the ginger ale and nausea meds the doctor gave her. “Thank you Babe.” She says sitting on one of the patio chairs. “Are you still recording today?” She asks. “I was going to but if you don’t feel good I’d rather take care of you.” I tell her. “I’ll go with you to the studio. It’ll be a good distraction.” She says. “Ok let’s go then.” I say. “What song are you going to do?” She asks. “No Name.” I say. “Oh is that one of the rap ones?” She asks. “Yeah I guess you could call it that.” I say. “Ok, here's a trash can if you need to throw up again.” I tell her before kissing her forehead and leaving the soundbooth.

“Look, people ask me what the future is”
“All I know is I'll be doin' this”
“All I know is things are moving quick”
“That's convenient for me 'cause that's how I live”
“Now they see me out here movin' up”
“You don't like me, that makes two of us”
“Time change, yeah, I can't adjust”
“Yo, it's who you are not who you was, oh my”
“Yeah, just went to Europe, they said the single is working”
“I think I'm learning, I am way more than people might think when they look on the surface”
“What is my purpose? Yeah”
“That is a question that I have been asking myself and it hurts”
“'Cause it's prolly something I should already know but I don't know it yet”
“I'm tryna grow as a person, woo!”
“I'm sick of people tellin' people I'm here 'cause of marketing dollars, oh”
“You think that everything is gonna blow just 'cause you market it harder? No”
“I got my hands in everything, now they out here tryna get to me”
“Stop tryna lecture me”
“You don't compare to my level of thinking, so why do you think you compare to my energy, huh?”
“Small circle, but the number's growin'”
“Fame called me, I'm like, "How you doin'?"
“Hung up on him, I ain't ready for it”
“I'll get back to that when I make album four”
“Less talking, I've been workin' more”
“Better me is what I'm workin' towards”
“Y'all judgin', but we not in court, no, we not in court, oh Lord!”
“Last couple years, let's recap”
“I make a livin' off of writin' out my regrets”
“I'm doin' me, I don't care where the scene's at”
“Try to give me feedback, I don't really need that”
“I used to walk on stage in a V-neck”
“I used to wear a lil' tie with a black vest”
“I came a long way, why you lookin' upset?”
“I'm tryna paint a picture, get the vision, you ain't hear it yet, woo!”
“Look, hold up, hold up, wait a minute, please”
“Flow's switchin', I got ADD”
“Brain scatters when you play the beat”
“It don't matter what you say to me”
“I'll be doin' this at 83”
“I've been doin' this since ABC's”
“In the major leagues doin' major things, don't play with me, woo!”
“I'm livin' life in the fast lane”
“Wake up every morning thinkin' I'ma have a bad day”
“Drive my own car, I don't like the valet”
“Parked, then I go into my mind with an AK”
“Shoot every thought in my head then it rotates”
“Losin' it all, but I think that I'm okay”
“Who is involved? I don't know, but I'm insane”
“Poof! And I'm gone, wanna call me a no name, what!?”
“I'm prolly not what you thought”
“I'm prolly not what you thought”
“I used to judge everybody that wasn't like me 'til I learned it was wrong”
“Girl told me I should get it together and get out the dark”
“I'm tryna give her my heart”
“That's when I sit in my car, writin' for hours until I can barely talk”
“I mean, where do I start?”
“Feels like I'm fallin' apart”
“Act like my image is hard”
“I always put up my guard”
“Even when talkin' to God”
“Sit in my room and I plot”
“Everything that I'm not”
“Comes out in the music I jot”
“I give it all that I got”
“I give it all that I got!”
“I'm tryna think out the box, no!”
“Yeah, I got people standing outside a bus screaming my name”
“I don't come out and take pictures, they tell me I changed”
“I don't smile in VIPs, you get mad like, "You know what I paid?"
“Guess I don't know what to say”
“Guess I don't know what to say”
“I leave it all on the stage”
“I leave it all on the stage”

I finish the song and go to the soundbooth I’m going to edit and then release it on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and others like I normally do. “That was good Babe.” Scarlett says. “Thank you, I do my best. You look like you could use some rest. It's been a long day with Liz and Robbie moving in.” I say and she crawls into my lap. “I am kinda tired.” She says. “Ok let me do some last minute edits before I release it on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and the other sites then I will carry you to bed ok.” I say resting my chin on her head as she nuzzles her face into my neck. “Ok.” She says tiredly. I finish up the edits I need to do and then upload it to Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and all the other sites people mainly use. As I carry Scarlett upstairs I get a chorus of ‘awes’ from  Robbie, Liz, Sarah, and Benny who helped Liz and Robbie move. “Shh you’ll wake her.” I whisper. I get to our room and just lay down with Scarlett on top of me and grab my glasses and book from my nightstand. “Read to me.” Scarlett says, tightening her grip on me. “Ok, I'm just reading Maya Angelou’s poetry. What poem do you want to hear?” I ask. “Oh Phenomenal Woman, that’s my favorite.” She says. “Ok then that’s what I’ll read to you.” I tell her, turning the page.

A/N
Awe Sam reading poetry to Scarlett. Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou is absolutely beautiful and I will put it in here at some point. This chapter’s question is what do you use most to listen to music? I mainly use Spotify. Anygays see you in the next one.