Life Changing

Chapter 38

Three weeks later they were in Las Vegas. It was early in the morning. Emily had just gotten out of the shower. She was wrapped in a towel and her hair was wet. She wiped the steam off the bathroom mirror with her hand. She saw Sam in the mirror's reflection wearing nothing but boxers. He wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Morning." He said.

"Morning."

"Do you know who damn beautiful you are?"

"Stop it." She said smiling.

"What?"

"I just got out of the shower Sam."

"Take another one, with me."

"We can't."

"Why?"

"Penelope."

"She's sleeping."

"Mmmmm." She moaned as he continued to kiss her neck.

"Daddy." They heard Penelope say from the living room. "Daddy?" "Emily?" "Where are you?"

Sam stopped kissing Emily's neck.

"What is it Penelope?" Sam said

"I'm hungry." She said.

"You go ahead and take a shower." Emily said turning and facing Sam. "I'll make her breakfast."

"You sure?"

"Yeah." They kissed.

Emily opened the bathroom door and went out.

"Hi Penelope." Emily said. "Your daddy's taking a shower." "I'll make you breakfast as soon as I get dressed."

"Ok." Penelope said.

Later that night Emily was at the arena. She'd just gotten there. Sam hadn't brought Penelope by yet.

"Emily." Travis said coming up to her.

"What are you doing here?" She said surprised.

"I live here remember."

"I mean here." "What are you doing here and how did you get back here?"

"Someone I know hooked me up."

"You have to leave."

"Why?"

"My boyfriend's coming."

"I wanna talk to you." "I know if you just give me another chance we can make it work."

"Travis." She sighed. "Please stop." "I'm very happy in my relationship."

"Look into my eyes and tell me you don't feel anything for me anymore then."

Five seconds later Sam came walking up with Penelope. "Hi sweetheart."

"Hi." Sam said. He saw Travis. "Oh, Travis right?"

"Yeah." Travis said. "I was just in the area and heard you guys were here." "I thought I'd come say hi to Emily." "Well I'd better be going." He left.

After the show Sam had just put Penelope to bed. She and John were sitting on the couch.

"It was kind of weird running into Travis tonight huh?" John said.

"Yeah." "I wish he would leave me alone." She only meant to think that sentence and didn't realize that she said out loud for a few seconds.

"What?" "You've seen him other than night?"

"Yes."

"When?"

"A few weeks after Christmas." "I was packing up to come move into your house." "He showed up." "He said that he still loved me and that we wanted me back." "Remember a couple weeks ago when there was lilies on the make-up table?"

"Yeah."

"There was a card." "It had my name on it." "It wasn't signed." "All it said inside was." "Remember our first date?" "I threw the card in the trash."

"You lied to me?"

"Yes."

"You lied to me."

"I'm sorry."

He stood up. "Are you sleeping with him?"

"What?"

"Are you?"

"No."

"This is exactly how it started with Priscilla." "Little lies."

"I swear there's nothing going on."

"I'm leaving."

"Sweetheart."

"Don't call me that." He left.

After a few hours of driving around Sam went back to the hotel. He went to Austin's room and knocked on the door. He answered.

"Hey." Austin said.

"Hey." "Can I crash on your couch tonight?"

"Sure."

Sam told Austin about the fight he had with Emily.

"I think she's cheating on me." Sam said holding back tears.

"I don't think she would do that."

"Neither did I until today." "I don't want to lose her to." "I love her."

"I know."