You're My Only Obsession

Chapter Nine - Scarlet

It was spring break now its been a couple months since the night Aaron broke in. Luckily enough we haven’t heard anything from him. He’s not even been in class.

Instead of going home to see my mum and dad. Sam is taking me to meet his mum and younger brother.

He smiled as he took my hand, leading me towards his car.

“They are so excited to see you. Especially my mum, she’s never met one of my girlfriends,” he rambled out. It made me laugh at how excited he was.

We have been dating for two months now, and it’s been the best time of my life.

“I can’t wait,” I cheered.

The drive was an hour long, from the collage to Southampton. Sam held my hand the whole way. I started to sing to ‘A little bit of love’, without any music in the background. Sam tried looking at me, but then he started singing with me. His voice out of tune, made me laugh and then he started screaming the lyrics, in the end I was crying with laughter.

“That’s not how you do it” I called at him, wiping a tear away from my face. He looked at me.

He then changed the song into a low, sad sounding song. His voice was soft and haunting, I had never heard a voice like it. I smiled at him, listening to his voice curve perfectly around each note.

“So you can sing?” I said finally

“Hardly. My mum wanted me to take it further, but i preferred art,” he teased. How talented was he, he could literally do anything.

“What can’t you do?” I laughed out.

“Sow” he snored. “My mum made me do it once, and oh god she went crazy because I sowed her favorite dress and top together”

When we got to his mum house, a little hyperactive boy ran down the path to us. I could tell it was Sam’s brother straight away, the Colour of his hair and eyes were exactly the same. But Danny had baby curls caressing his face. Danny ran right into Sam’s outstretched arms and laughed.

“SAMMY! I missed you Sammy.” His baby voice called to him. I smiled at the look of Sam holding his brother in his arms.

“She is pretty” I heard Danny whisper loudly into Sam’s ear, which made him laugh.

“I know she is. She’s beautiful” he looked down at me. “Danny this is Scarlet and Scarlet this is Danny”. The small child in his arms wriggled and stretched his arms out to me. He wanted to hug me?

Danny then jumped into my arms, wrapping his legs around my waist squeezing me tightly. “Hello Scarlet, are you Sammy’s girlfriend?” he asked with a wide grin at me.

“Yep” I grinned at him. I looked at him then; up close I noticed the difference between him and Sam. Danny cheek bones were higher and had his jaw was wider. But everything else was the same.

Danny didn’t let go of me for a while, his little arms wrapped around my neck and his head leaned on my shoulder. Sam couldn’t stop looking at us.

“Hello sweetie, god we have missed you. Where is Danny?” A woman’s voice filled the room, high and sweet.

“Hey mum, I missed you too. He’s with Scarlet” he leaned down and kissed her cheek. Then she stepped around Sam, and looked at me. A grin spread across her face. She was beautiful, blonde curly hair down to her shoulders, high cheekbones and deep blue eyes. She was small compare to Sam, she was my height but skinny.

“Oh isn’t she beautiful” she said looking up at Sam, then back at me. Leaning into me and hugging Danny and me.

“Hello Scarlet, it’s lovely to meet you. Sam has told me so much about you.” her voice rang in my ear.

“It’s lovely to meet you to Miss Micheal.” I said happily

“Oh darling, call me Beth.” She looked me in the eyes and smiled.

We all walked into the kitchen, Danny jumped out of my arms and ran into the living room. I watch as he did, his hair bouncing along. Sam was then holding my hand, looking down at me.

Something smelt lovely in the kitchen but I didn’t know what it was.

“Mm mum what are you making?” Sam moaned. My body tingled at the sound of the moan.

“Your favorite, spag bowl.” she said sweetly

“Can I help?” I asked her shyly. Sam looked down at me shocked, I laughed.

“I do know how to cook Sam” I stuck my tongue out at him.

“That would be really helpful scarlet, would you be able to chop all those vegetables?”

“Yea sure.” I skipped around the island in the middle of the kitchen and started chopping the vegetables.

“Sam why you don’t go play with Danny, he’s really missed you” Beth looked up at her son and smiled. He gave one nod and walked out the room. I felt nervous being on my own with his mum.

“Sam really looks happy, I haven’t seen him this happy in ages” she began. “Not since Jason. I can tell by the way he looks at you that he loves you. I’m glad he’s met someone, been telling him to find a girl to make him happy. Took his time but I’m glad he has,” she signed happily. I felt myself freeze when she said she could tell he loves me. We haven’t said this to each other yet and it makes me nervous thinking about.

“You brought up a wonderful son Beth, and I’m lucky to have met him.” I looked at her smiling.

“Thank you sweetie, he really needs you, I can see it. He might be hard work because he is overly protective with people he loves. But we all understand why, losing Jason changed him. He doesn’t want to get hurt again” she looked up at the door that he walked through.

“Your son has saved my life, a few times. And I hope I’ve saved his”

“You have Scarlet. It’s a mother’s instinct to notice these things. Thank you so much”

Suddenly Danny came running through the doors, jumping up and down. Beth and me jumped then looked at each other laughing. Danny ran right up to me screaming “COME PLAY SCARLET, ITS SO MUCH FUN!”

I looked at his mum and she nodded. So I picked Danny up and he pointed where to go. Sam was there leaning up against the wall near the front door.

“He wants to play hide and sneak.” He laughed

“Okay, but you’re up” I winked at him.

“Count to 100 Sammy” Danny called from my arms.

“60” Sam called back.

Danny had run off to another part of the house as I ran upstairs. I opened the door closet to me. It was dark green, the bed was made neatly, and a guitar hung on the wall. I knew it was Sam's room when I looked at a picture of him, he was wearing an army outfit, and his arm was wrapped around another boy’s shoulders. The boy looked about 6 feet 2, he was bit bigger then Sam in the picture and he was a vibrant blonde. I knew it was Jason; Sam’s arm was around. Sam looked skinny, and young in the picture. I couldn’t help to notice at how happy he looked.

“READY OR NOT HERE I COME!” I heard him call; I put the picture down and ran into the closet.

I heard him come into the room, and he walked towards the closet, and I moved into the corner of it. He flung the door open, and walked to me.

“Found you,” he purred in my ear. I stepped forwards, pressing myself against him. He looked down at me, his hands curving around my hips. When his lips met mine, it felt like my heart stopped. Everything seemed to stop. The only thing that mattered was he and I. The feel of him, the smell of him… I couldn’t get enough of him.

He lifted me onto his hips, pressing my back against the wall behind me. He kissed me down my neck. I reached out, my fingers running through his silky hair as his mouth met mine. I moaned, grinding against his hips, I could feel his erection against my thigh, which made my whole body tingle.

“We can’t do this here” he whispered in between kisses, his hands roaming under my shirt, cupping my breasts. He then put me down, taking his hand out of my top, and kissing me softly. “Let’s go find Danny”. He took my hand leading me down stairs and into a playroom.

We found Danny under the table, just like Sam thought. Danny ran out and wrapped his arms around my waist. I hugged him back, and then tickled him. Watching him squirm and giggle. It was adorable. I could hear Sam laughing at us.

“Dinner is ready” their mum called from the hallway. Danny jumped out of my lap and ran towards the kitchen. Then Sam’s arms were around me.

“You are going to be an amazing mum. Danny loves you so much. You both get along so well. I love seeing you with him,” he whispered in my ear. I blushed and kissed him lightly.

At dinner, Danny couldn’t keep still. He was like a bundle of joy. His mum loved both of her sons so much. As I looked around the room I saw loads of pictures of them. I then noticed one that looked like Danny, but it looked old.

“That’s Sam when he was six” Beth said. I chuckled and looked at Sam who was blushing. “Could I have one of you and Scarlet?” his mum asked. Sam smiled at me and I nodded,

“Yea sure thing mum”

It was 8:15pm when Danny ran up to me, in his pj’s holding a book in his hands. The book looked huge in his small hands. I looked at it and it was a battered copy of ‘Harry Potter’.

“Can you read to me?” he said shyly, I nodded and patted the side of the sofa.

Sam and his mum were in the kitchen cleaning up. When I started to read, I felt his small body climb onto my lap and curl into my side. I smiled at him and carried on reading. Before I realized, he was asleep and suddenly I felt my eyes drooping as well. So I lent my head on my hand and closed my eyes. Letting sleep take me.

I heard the door open but I was too far into my sleep to wake.

“Oh look at them” Sam's mum cooed. “They look so cute, get my phone Sam”

“Aw Danny really loves her, and here. Send it to me after” I heard him say.

“She’s a lovely girl Sam. A keeper may I say.”

“Yea she is. Mum?” he said quietly and I heard him shuffle around a bit.

“Yes Sam?” she sounded confused.

“Is it too soon?”

“Too soon for what?” she whispered even more confused.

“To be fully in love with her, like seeing us married and with kids?” his voice broke when he said it, and I knew his mum was hugging him because the next words were muffed. “I love her mum. I don’t want her to get hurt. But people seem to get hurt around Me.” my heart sank at him saying it. I wanted to hug and kiss him.

“Sam it’s never too soon to love someone like that. I know this is hard for you, but you have to let her in. Jason would be proud of you. He will always be part of you. And you will be scared of getting hurt but that beautiful girl right there loves you. She knows you won’t hurt her or allow anyone to hurt her, okay?” she said sternly.

“Okay”

Then I felt his warm arms around me, carrying me upstairs. I felt his body against mine, breathing heavily. Then I heard him snoring. Right there and then I knew I wanted to spend every moment of my life with him.