Life Changing

Chapter 3

Penelope and Sam had a fun week. He'd taken her shopping for new clothes and toys. It was still all very new to him. He would wonder every night if he had it in him to make the right choices for her. He dreaded making the wrong choices. It was Monday morning. Penelope had just woken up. She and Sam went into the kitchen.

"What do you want for breakfast?" Sam asked.

"Pancakes."

"Ok." He started to make them. "Remember what I told you we were doing tomorrow?"

"We're going on the road."

"That's right."

"I get to see you wrestle right."

"Yes." "I'll need you to be a good girl while I'm out there."

"I will." "I promise."

"What do you want to do after breakfast today?"

"I wanna learn how to skateboard."

"Ok."

The next morning they were in Texas. Sam was leaving Penelope with Britt Baker while he went to do an interview for a magazine. He was giving an exclusive about finding out about Penelope. He knocked on the hotel room door.

"Who is she again?" Penelope asked.

"My friends" "I work with her."

Britt answered the door.

"Hi Sam." She said.

"Hi."

"This must be Penelope." "Hi."

"Hi." Penelope said.

"Come inside with me." "I have games and coloring books and puzzles."

Sam knelt down by Penelope.

"I'm only going to be gone for about two hours." He said looking at Penelope. She hugged him. "You're gonna have fun." She went inside with Britt.

Later that night they were at the arena. Everyone who met Penelope thought she was a sweetie. She and Sam were in catering. Austin Jenkins came up to them.

"You must be Penelope." He said looking at her. "I'm a friend of Sam's." "My name is Austin."

"Hi." Penelope said.

"You're even prettier then your daddy said." "I can watch her for you during your match tonight." He said looking at Sam.

Sam looked at Penelope. "Do you wanna hang out with Austin while I have my match?"

"Ok." Penelope said. "We can still watch the match right?"

"Absolutely." Austin said.

After the show Austin went back to Sam's hotel room so they could hang out. Sam had put Penelope to bed fifteen minutes ago.

"So how are you doing with everything?" Austin asked.

"I'm still getting used to it." "Penelope's great I love her but having a kid puts a serious damper on how I used to do things." "I've already had to cancel several appearances because I have nobody to watch her." "I know it's not all about me anymore but just hard to always live my life one way, then suddenly I can't anymore." "Then there's times I'll watch her sleep and I just get this feeling of pride." "I'm sorry Audrey died but if I had one question for her it would be, why?" "Why didn't she tell me she got pregnant?" "I would've supported her."