Chapter 21

“Are you for real?” asked Samantha.

“Yeah, get ya away from home, you been there going on 18 years, time to get the hell out.” Said Nick.

“Yeah… do what you have to do, what do I need to pack?” asked Samantha.

“Just regular clothes, bring some nice little dresses cuz we have to go to these parties and you can be my chaperon.” Said Nick as Samantha started to laugh.

“Okay… do it…. I’ll be there.” Said Samantha as she smiled.

“Alright, go to the airport, ask for your ticket and you’ll be set.” Said Nick.

“Thanks..” said Samantha.

“No problem, see ya soon.” Said Nick as he smiled, “Bye.

“Bye.” Said Samantha as she hung up the phone and opened her door, “Mom!!”

“Yeah?” asked Maggie as she walked to the bottom of the stairs.

“I’m flying to Jacksonville to go on the road with Nick for a few days, take me to the airport!” yelled Samantha as she started to pack.

“Yeah, you’ll find out now won’t you Jake..” Samantha thought as she packed the picture of her and Megan in her suitcase and smiled.

Samantha sat there on the plane to Jacksonville as she looked out the window after they had taken off. She kept looking out the window when she finally looked down at her stomach and looked up, and then around.

“I’m not going to be going to FSU now…” she thought as she laid her head back, “I’m gonna have a baby… and I’ve never been with anybody… willingly. I could kill him.” As she looked over at the seat in the isle across from her to see a little girl with brown hair in pig tails waving at her and she waved back. She just sat there looking at the little girl until she looked back out the window.

That afternoon a taxi put Samantha out at the Coliseum where the Backstreet Boys were going to be performing that night and she tried to walk back to where the buses were.

“You can’t go back there..” said a guard.

“Nick’s expecting me.” Said Samantha.

“Name? Full name.” She the guard.

“Samantha Morgan.” Said Samantha as the guard moved the rope and she walked through.

“1st bus next to the door.” Said the guard as Samantha walked across the parking lot where the buses were sitting as she knocked on the bus door and nobody answered it. She pulled on the handle and it opened and she started on the bus to hear someone singing in the back. She looked around as she walked through and opened the back curtain to see Nick laying there on the big bed in the back singing with a pair of earphones on.

“Nick..” said Samantha as she threw one of her bags on the bed and looked around wondering where she was going to sleep.

“Sam.. hey!” said Nick as he got up and they hugged, “You get here okay?” asked Nick as Samantha moved her bangs that she was trying to grow out out of face, “You’re arms…”

“Yeah I got here okay.” Said Samantha as Nick took her arm and turned it around to see some bruises on it.

“What the hell have you been doing?” asked Nick as Samantha looked at her arms and then at him.

“Riding 4-wheelers with Jake and my brother and all… we’ve been doing that this whole past week.” Said Samantha.

“Funny.. you didn’t mention it..” said Nick as Samantha looked around.

“So this is your bus?” asked Samantha as she looked back at him.

“Well usually three of us stay on here, but since you’re gonna be here the other three will stay on the other bus and me, you, and Brian will stay on here.” Said Nick.

“Who gets the bed?” asked Samantha as Nick laughed.

“You can if you want it….. nobody usually sleeps on it. We always take the bunks…” said Nick as he smiled and looked at her arms, “You didn’t say anything about goin’ ridin’.”

“Must have slipped my mind.” Said Samantha, “So where can I put my bags?” as Nick pointed over in the corner.

“In the corner there if you want … wherever..” said Nick, “We just usually come back here on this bed and the sofa and all and chill…”

“That’s cool.” Said Nick as Samantha sat her purse down on the bed and it fell over, “Let me get that.” As he leaned over to pick it up and the bottle of pills fell out of her purse and he looked at him.

“Let me see those…” said Samantha as Nick looked at the bottle and looked at her.

“What are you doing with prenatal vitamins… that’s stuff that pregnant women take… I remember my mom taking then with Aaron and Angel.” Said Nick as Samantha looked down and looked back up at him.

“Yeah..” said Samantha as Nick looked at the bottle to see her name on it.

“You’re pregnant?” asked Nick as Samantha looked away, “You are… you’re pregnant.”

“Yeah…” said Samantha as she started to cry, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to.. I mean I didn’t know, I went earlier today to get a physical because I was going to try out for basketball at FSU and she came back and told me that…” as she hugged Nick, “I haven’t told anybody.. I knew I just had to get away I was going to go to my grandparents and then you said come out here with you and I just left…”

“Jake know?” asked Nick as he was hugging her.

“No.. I went there to try to tell him and…. I just couldn’t.” said Samantha.

“Why not?” asked Nick as they stopped hugging and stood there face to face.

“I just couldn’t.. if I tell him I’m pregnant our parents will make us get married and then neither one of us will go to FSU and… well we haven’t really been the same in a while. We aren’t as close as we used to be.” Said Samantha.

“I can’t believe this…..” said Nick as he looked her in the eyes, “You’re gonna have a baby…..” as Samantha barely nodded her head, “I can’t believe this…. What about school?”

“I guess I won’t be going to FSU.” Said Samantha, “I guess I’ll live at home…”

“But you’re gonna have Jake’s baby Sam…. You can’t like ya know what I mean. You should be with him.” Said Nick as he heard a knock on the side of the bus, “Stay here, rest or whatever it is pregnant women do, there’s like snack foods in the little kitchen part cuz pregnant women like eat.. I gotta go get ready and I’ll be back okay.” Said Nick as he hugged Samantha and walked off the bus as Samantha stood there looking confused.

“Okay.” Samantha thought as she sat down on the bed and looked at the bottle of pills, “You shouldn’t have fell out.. I was gonna tell him.” As she put the pills back in her purse.