Three Times Table: Sam

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Title: Three Times Table: Sam

Author: Carla

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*** All the usual rhetoric can be found in the previous post Brooke. ***

A/N: Okay this took exactly 22 minutes from start to finish so if and when you decide to stone me you can find me in the greater Seattle area looking forlorn and lost. I say this because I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing here that's how much this ficlet "came" to me. So I apologize in advance.

"Sam"

Someone, Brooke, kicks me under the table effectively snapping me back to reality. Unfortunately reality is my mother calling my name in that sickeningly cloying voice parents use when they think their children are coming down with something.

"Sam honey are you alright?"

"Yeah Mom I’m fine. Just thinking about an article I’m working on. I’m sorry what were you saying?"

"Nevermind you’re like your father that way."

"May I be excused?"

"Sam we have company." Mike’s always hung up on that sort of thing, whenever he has business associates over we’re not allowed to leave until he says so.

"Oh that’s okay Mr. McQueen" April chirps as she throws me a conspiratorial wink across the table. "I see Sam at school every day."

"Please Mike? Sudden insight you know."

"Okay."

I stand up and take my plate into the kitchen. I’m still standing at the kitchen sink when Mom and Brooke come in with the rest of the dishes.

"Sam?" Brooke’s voice sounds really tense and I hear all sorts of unvoiced questions in the way she says my name. I quickly finish scraping the remains of my dinner into the disposal. Leaving the plate in the sink I head out of the kitchen and up the stairs just in time to hear April say that they planned on going to the movies.

I think Brooke just brought her girlfriend home to meet the parents only they don’t know it yet. I wonder who else knows. How long – I try to think of anything, something that could have tipped me off but nothing really comes to mind. Except maybe the fact that she hasn’t had a boyfriend in over five months. Five months? NAH no way I would have noticed something. I bet that’s who she’s always on the phone with late at night and here I always thought it was Nic. Whoa! No way, no way Satan knows about this. Wonder how Brooke’s gonna break the news to her. God I’d kill to be a fly on that wall. – I have a brief fantasy of Nicole fainting dead away on the spot and then another one where she sorta explodes. Literally. – Oh yeah that’s not gonna be pretty. Brooke and April. April and Brooke. The Princess and the Dork. How did this happen? Shit I can’t tell any one about this I’m sure, gotta talk to Brooke first and get the okay. But damn I wish I could tell Carmen and Lily they’d piss, first Stone Cold and now Brooke. Makes a girl wonder though obviously there’s something about the girl. April Tuna: Queen of the Geeks. Who’d have thought it, certainly not me.

Carla

It's a one time thing...it just happens a lot (Suzanne Vega, Cracking)