Something Old...Something New

Chapter 4: The Final Decision

Chapter 4: The Final Decision 

Raymond stood at the door anxious to hear and answer, he was damn near sweating. She looked at him and smiled  

“I’m choosing you.” She said as she ran into his arms. “Oh  Sam… come on you can stay at my place tonight.” He said  hugging her close. “I didn’t pack any clothes…” she began to say but as if she was reading her mind Sandy came out of Sam’s room with a big suitcase with all of her clothes. “What? I had a feeling you were gonna choose him so I packed all your clothes.” She said pulling the suitcase to  

the door.

They all got to the door and looked at the apartment one  last time, Raymond found himself asking her “are you sure this is what you want?” She looked up at him and hugged  him close “yes I’d rather be with good friends than getting 

the life beaten out of me, to be honest I couldn’t take it  anymore.” She said and both Sandy and Ray were proud  of her. They left the apartment and made their way to  Ray’s house to put Sam’s clothes away. “You know this is  the first time I’ve been to your place… it really is nice.” Samantha said looking it over. She couldn’t believe he could afford this place with the salary she’s paying him. 

“Here is some of the new information on that night that  Harry was talking about, the story he was telling is true  we did a background check on the guy that wants to press  charges and he was in Belleview for 5 years then when he was released he never took his medication.” He said, “Does Michael have a copy of this?” she asked getting  right to the point. “That we don’t know but we can talk to Harry and tell him the little ray of light we’ve found  today.” He said smiling “we could win this Sam.” He said  standing behind her. 

Back at Sam’s apartment, Michael came in to check up on  her like he promised but to his surprise she wasn’t there.  He found a note in her handwriting on the counter in the kitchen. “Dear Michael I’m sorry I had to do it this way but  there was no other choice. We can’t be together anymore,  I realized that what you do to me… I don’t deserve it at all and I can do better. I hope you understand that I’m doing  this for my own good and that I forgive you for everything  but it’s time for me to move on. I hope you have a good  Life Michael…. Love Sam