*Above is Taron Egerton who I chose to play Samuel Andrews.
Sammy- The End Or The Beginning?
22years later.
"Sammy! Hey dude, you need to get a move on it," my dad's voice was shouting from the down the stairs. I knew how important this trip was to him. It was important to all of us.
"Samuel James Andrews! Get a damn move on it already! Before you know it Aunt Venise and Uncle Patrick will be here. If you don't move, you can incur the wrath of Chicken Little and she hates being late. We still need to pick your sister up and that's another woman I don't need pissed at me!"
He tapped his foot and rubbed his thumb over the face of his watch that he always wore. He stood at the base of the steps to the upstairs, in his famous Saturday ensemble: his khaki cargo shorts, white Adidas sneakers and black tank top, which showed off his muscular physique and the tattoo of my mom's name above his heart.
It simply said Arina, Always & Terribly in elegant script.
He ran his thumb over the watch face several times, lost in thought. I just looked at him from the upstairs hallway, not wanting to disturb him while he was in his moment. He rubbed it a lot more frequently, ever since mom left. It had been six months since she died in her sleep, next to him, and I knew that his heart broke every single day without her.
His once vibrant sandy gold hair had started to go grayer in places, but I thought it made him have a more distinguished and powerful appearance. Deep down in my heart though, I knew it changed because she was no longer around to light the fire within him. I also knew that my dad would never love another woman again, because his heart was forever hers.
I heard another car coming up the driveway, which triggered the ding on the driveway alarm. More than likely it was my aunt and uncle.
"Alright, dad, just give me a second to say goodbye to mom," I hollered to him as I went back in my room.
I picked up my mom's picture and kissed it before setting it back on my dresser. It was a picture of her and I together on my graduation day. Her long dark brown hair was pinned up in an elegant bun and her blue-grey eyes stood out amongst the throngs of people that milled about. She had the brightest smile on her face as she looked at me with pride. She was always my biggest cheerleader in anything I did.
I missed my mom every day that she was gone. She was everything to me, probably the best mom in the whole entire world. Every night before I went to bed, she would tuck me in, kiss me on the forehead, and tell me that I was a miracle that was born out of true love.
She would tell me how I looked exactly like my grandpa, James, and that's why I held his name as my middle name. Then she would tell me all of the stories that her dad used to tell her. She would then tell me great tales that my dad used to tell her about my other grandpa, Samuel, and about the adventures they would take up at the lake when my dad was little. As I got older, she told me and my sister stories about how she fell in love with my dad.
Those always were funny stories.
I knew she loved my dad, because in the twenty-eight years they were married, her eyes always lit up when he walked into a room. That was a love that I wanted for myself, someday.
My dad had taken some time off work for our upcoming trip. I knew it killed my great-grandma Milly, because of how important the company was to her, but my dad had a ton of trusted friends who promised to look over things while we were gone. The life of being the kid of a multi-billion dollar company owner, hadn't always been easy, but one day I knew that I would step into my dad's footsteps and take the empire for myself—unless of course my sister Addy, swept it out from under my feet.
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