~ Chapter 6: Sam. ~

        I was woken up by my ring tone, taking me off my dreams. God, there was nothing that I hated more than to be woken up by a ringing sound! I grabbed my phone anyway and tapped the answer button, already eager to close my eyes back.

“Hello?”

“Look, if you didn’t want to come, then you should have said so but standing me up is really not cool!”

Oh my god! I looked at my clock and realized it was already eight.

“I’m so sorry! I fell asleep!”

“Is that your best excuse?”

“I swear! I had a Harry Potter marathon last night and day and I was exhausted so I fell asleep. I’m sorry.”

“Well, I’m still in the park. You’re coming?”

I was about to say I couldn’t but thought it was already wrong to have stood him up so I agreed to meet him and got dressed in less than a minute before getting going. The park wasn’t too far away so I met him about ten minutes later. He was playing on his phone or texting someone, but stopped when he saw me.

“Hi”. I said. “Again, I’m sorry.”

“I guess we’re even now. I scared you, you stood me up…”

I shrugged. It was really cold and I hadn’t thought about taking a jacket with me. The guy (whose name I didn’t remember) saw it and lent me his coat that he passed on my shoulder. I thanked him and sat next to him. I tried really hard to remember his name and finally had the brilliant idea to look into my phone. He had written his phone number so he was obviously in my contact list. Why hadn’t I think of that before?! I was probably too exhausted to think. Hurray! Sam. His name was Sam. Relived, I spoke a little and asked him to tell me a little more about himself. We got to know each other and I noted that we hit it off pretty good. And I regretted having been a little aggressive earlier cause he was… really hot. The kind of guy you’d sure want in your bed. And it wasn’t like I was playing the difficult or anything. You couldn’t do that if you were me. I mean, I wasn’t completely ugly but I wasn’t as beautiful as Katie or as hot as Jenny. I guess I was kind of an average girl. So I didn’t get to be really picky, and certainly not when the guy standing next to me was hot as hell and trying to know more about me. It was pretty rare that I had the attention of a guy. I had always made the first move. But Sam was trying to take an interest in me. And I had to admit that it felt pretty good.

It’s only when my phone buzzed that I realized it was already almost midnight. We had been talking for hours! Sam insisted on walking me home and I let him cause I liked his laugh and because I didn’t want this night to end. When we got in front of my house, I was about to say goodbye to Sam but he didn’t leave me enough time to talk that he was already kissing me. My heart skipped a beat. I kissed him back and it lasted for a pretty long time. It was a very very good first kiss. I mean, not my first ever kiss, but my first kiss with Sam. When he eventually pulled back, I tried to calm my heart, beating really fast and I was glad he had kissed me during night cause I know I was blushing a lot right now. Luckily, there wasn’t enough light for him to see it.

“Well…” I said, a little shook up.

“Well…”

“I’ll see you…”

“I’ll call you.” Sam said in the same time.

“Good. Ok.”

He laughed and put a strand of my hair behind my ear. I felt electrifying vibes all around my body.

“Again, I’m sorry for earlier, for sort of standing you up.”

“I had already forgotten.”

We smiled.

“Good night.” He said, eventually.

“You too.”

He kissed me again, but just a little kiss this time, and waited for me to go inside before leaving. Well… This night turned out to be a huge surprise. Sam was really, really cool. I was glad he had scared me earlier cause this kiss was worth a hundred of those scares if you ask me.

The next day, I got a text from Sam asking me if I wanted to meet him later. I didn’t answer right away cause I needed to see Damon first and check something off his list like promised. So I got dressed up with some music and put on some makeup before going out to see if Damon was home and if he wanted to do something. I rang at the doorbell and waited. This time luckily he was the one to open. He was shirtless and I could see that he had just woken up. I asked him if he wanted to do something from his list later and he told me he’d pass by at four in the afternoon cause he had to go to the hospital for a check-up first. So I went back home and crawled on the couch. I already missed Jenny. I wanted to see the look on her face when I would tell her a hot guy had kissed me. But I had to tell her by a text. I could almost hear her laugh when she answered “Just a little kiss ? What are you? Five? =P”. I wanted to call her but I knew she had classes at this hour so I couldn’t. Maybe later in the day.

I met Sam an hour later and we went in a restaurant to eat lunch. We sat at the table and looked at the menu in silence.

“ You know, I don’t usually kiss on the first date.” I informed him still looking at the menu.

“Me neither” Sam admitted. “But I wanted to yesterday so I did.”

I smiled and we ordered our dishes. Sam started off the conversation and we laughed. It cooled off the atmosphere and I relaxed a little. I was pretty nervous before meeting him today cause I didn’t know if he really meant to kiss me the other night and if we were dating or if it was just a kiss and I was making stuff up in my head.

When we finished eating, we walked around town and sat on a bench to talk just like last night. I had learned a lot about Sam in just two dates. He didn’t have trouble speaking about himself and I really liked hearing his stories. Like this one time, when his little brothers Adam and Riley had put really sticky scotch tape on his bed and he lay down so when he pulled it out he cried of pain cause it ripped off some hair. Anyway, he had a lot to say which was fine with me. I wasn’t much of a talker when I didn’t know the person in front of me really well. Now that I was getting to know Sam a little more I was able to tell personal stories that were funny or not. Sometimes, Sam would just kiss me and I would let him cause it was just too good to stop. Jenny was right. I was young and I had the right to do what I wanted. I was allowed to have fun.

Sam drove me home a little before four o’clock and stopped in front of my house.

“I’ll walk you to your door.” He said.

“You don’t have to.”

“I know. But I want to. Do you have plans tomorrow?”

I smiled and shook my head.

“Good” Sam said.

We got off the car and he walked me to my door then pushed me against it to kiss me passionately. Well, that was new! And enjoyable. He only pulled back when he saw Damon looking at us, frowning.  Sam asked me who he was and he explained to him he was my old best friend who had just moved into the house next to mine. Sam relaxed and kissed me again then said he had to go. He drove off and Damon came closer.

“ Sorry, I didn’t want to interrupt you guys.” He said. “I didn’t know you had a boyfriend”.

“Oh um… I just met Sam, it’s nothing serious”.

We went in and Damon took the list out of his pocket. We looked at all the things he had written and couldn’t pick one. So Damon decided he would close his eyes and put the pen on it randomly. So he did and the pen pointed on Do the scariest attraction of an amusement park.

“I can’t do that one with you”. I warned.

“Why not?”

“I’m too scared.”

“Me too. But I have to do it before I die. Come on, it’ll be fun.”

“Why don’t you go with Katie?”

“Oh come on, you said you would do everything even play hopscotch! So let’s go!”

I surrendered and followed him out. He told him he knew an amusement park not to far away from here so we jumped in the car and got going. On the way, we sang and laughed, excited and also stressed out with the idea that we would have to do the scariest attraction of the park. I had never done it before and, though I liked the roller coaster, I didn’t really enjoy looping the loop or whatever. But I would have to be strong and brave and face this one with Damon. Gosh, where was Katie when you needed her!?