Chapter 31

“Sam.. going somewhere?” asked Jake, “You cut your hair…”

“Yeah ya like it…” said Samantha.

“Not really, no I don’t. What’s the bags for, going somewhere?” asked Jake.

“Umm yeah kind of.. Uhh I’m gonna be late.” Said Samantha as she started to walk over in front of the door and Jake stood in front of her.

“Late for what?” asked Jake as he looked to see her having a backpack on and another bag, “Where are you going?”

“My parents.. my dad called and he wants to see us so I’m gonna fly down there.” Said Samantha.

“You’re parents?” asked Jake.

“Uh huh…” said Samantha, “I’m just gonna be gone a day or so…”

“I don’t think so…” said Jake.

“Yeah I’m gonna go Jake so kiss Megan goodbye and we’ll be back the day after tomorrow…” said Samantha as Jake took the carrier with Megan in it from her.

“No.. I’m not kissing her goodbye Sam, you’re not going anywhere.” Said Jake.

“Jake, he’s expecting us.” Said Samantha.

“You’re father, well call him, there’s the phone. Tell him if he wants to see you two then he came come up here.” Said Jake, “There’s the phone Sam, call him.” As Samantha stood there.

“I can’t..” said Samantha.

“Why not?” asked Jake.

“I wasn’t going to go see my parents alright. Megan and I are flying to New York City to see Nick and be there for the album release party tomorrow night Jake, that’s all. I haven’t seen him since Thanksgiving and he’s never seen Megan.” Said Samantha.

“So.. let me get this straight…” said Jake as he walked over and sat Megan’s carrier on the coffee table, “You were going to take my daughter and sneak off to New York City without telling me?”

“Basically yeah…” said Samantha as Jake started to laugh and Samantha smiled, “So.. I’ll be back the day after tomorrow…”

“No.. you’re not.” Said Jake.

“Yes.. I will…” said Samantha as she started to walk over to get Megan and Jake grabbed her arm and pulled her up to him.

“No you’re not going anywhere Sam.” Said Jake as Samantha tried to push him off.

“Don’t do this Jake, you’ll regret it.” Said Samantha.

“Why so you can go to fly to New York City with you’re little boyfriend and fuck up my life?” asked Jake.

“Fuck up your life?” asked Samantha, “You know what, you’ve fucked up mine.” As he hit her and she looked back at him.

“Oh really how?” asked Jake as he had his hand around Samantha’s other arm in a deadlock grip.

“First off.. you raped me and got me pregnant… that lead to my father disowning me, I couldn’t go to college and be a doctor like I wanted…” said Samantha as Jake interrupted her.

“Boo.. fucking whoo.. You’re not going to New York.” Said Jake, “And I haven’t fucked up anything.”

“You know what, you don’t trust me. If you trusted me, you would let me go to New York to see Nick and be there for him when their album is released, but you don’t. Hell if you trusted me, I wouldn’t had to of lied to your ass New Year’s Eve and then maybe just maybe Megan wouldn’t have died because we could have stayed in Orlando that night and not been in such a rush to get back before you found out so you know what you’ve totally fucked up my life and you fucked up Megan’s too because you’re the damn reason she’s dead you asshole!” yelled Samantha as Jake moved his hand, bawling it up in a fight and hitting her and she fell to the floor.

“Don’t you ever say that again, do you hear me?” asked Jake as he stood over her, shaking her and hitting her until he realized that she was unconscious, “Shit…” said Jake as he stood up over her and looked over at Megan, then looked back at Samantha.

“Sam…” said Jake as he nudged her a little and saw that she wouldn’t respond, “Oh fuck what did I do now?”

Nick and Kevin stood there dressed in disguise at the airport in New York City, holding up a sign saying Samantha and Megan while all of the passengers walked off out of the terminal and finally the lady shut the door.

“What the fuck?” said Nick as he walked up to the lady, “You forgot somebody in there didn’t you?”

“No sir all of the passengers are out of the plane and left.” Said the lady as she walked off and Kevin walked over to them.

“Well can you tell us if a Samantha Morgan was on this flight. She would have had a baby girl with her, she had a ticket in first class.” Said Kevin as the lady looked at the list.

“She didn’t show up.” Said the lady, “Sorry.”

“That’s not right…” said Nick as he looked around.

“Call her..” said Kevin as he handed Nick his cell phone and Nick dialed her number, but nobody answered.

“Nobody’s answering.” Said Nick, “Maybe Jake came home and she couldn’t leave.. damn asshole. I hate him I swear I do.”

“That’s probably it, either that or maybe Megan got a cold and couldn’t come or something came up at work.” Said Kevin.

“Yeah well… we got that damn interview in a hour so let’s go on back. She’s not coming I don’t guess…” said Nick as he threw the sign in the trash as him and Kevin walked out.

Two days later, Nick arrived home in Tampa to a empty house. He was afraid to go to Samantha and Jake’s because he knew that he was probably the reason that Samantha didn’t come to New York City.

He looked through some of his mail to see old junk mail that had been adding up since November and just threw it in the trash when he saw the phone book.

“Shit wouldn’t hurt to call I don’t guess..” Nick thought as he picked up the phone and dialed Samantha’s number only to get the answering machine again, “Shit…” as he grabbed the phone book and looked through until he found Jake’s mother’s number and he dialed it.

“Hello?” asked Mrs. Simpson answering the phone.

“Hi, is this Jake’s mother?” asked Nick.

“Yes it is, who’s this?” asked Mrs. Simpson.

“This is Nick, I’m friends with Samantha. She was suppose to come to New York to see me two days ago and she didn’t, and I haven’t been able to get in touch with her or Jake. Do you know where they are or anything?” asked Nick.

“Yes, Samantha was attacked Monday after lunch. Someone broke into the apartment, she’s at the hospital.” Said Mrs. Simpson.

“Attacked her?” asked Nick as he started to turn white.

“Yes, Jake said he came home from work early and he walked in and there was a guy with a mask over his face in there and he was attacking Samantha and Megan was in there also but he got him out and he called 911 and they took her to the hospital. She just came to this morning.” Said Mrs. Simpson.

“Shit.. okay thanks.” Said Nick as he grabbed his car keys and ran out the door and got in his truck, “That son of a bitch isn’t going to get away with it this time.” Nick thought as he squalled tires out of the driveway and left.