Chapter 8

I was on cloud nine for days after that, school was going great. Wendy and John both teased me but that was okay since I had teased them when they started dating. They had actually managed to get a hotel room after the dance at our school, John was all blushes when Wendy said he had been worth every penny. Of course, I knew that she hadn’t paid for everything John made money from Control as a consultant in the R&D dept.

I changed up my patrol routine to end at Sandy’s building. When I was on my night patrol’s, I would walk her to Ray’s and we would have hot chocolate and pie. The first Saturday after the dance I had a surprise for her, I invited Wendy and John to join us.

I could see Sandy waiting for me, walking up to her I picked her up and spun around before giving her a kiss. Putting her down I looked around finally spotting Wendy’s new car, “I hope you don’t mind but I invited some people that I really want you to meet here today,” I told her a bit hesitantly.

She beamed at me before saying, “If they are friends of yours I’ll be glad to meet them.”

I looked at Wendy and once I saw she was looking at me I motioned her over. John and her got out of the car and started toward us, Sandy was watching them approach once they got closer she took my hand. They both smiled when they saw that.

Once they got to us I made introductions, “Sandy this is Wendy and John my best friend’s from school, Wendy John this is my girlfriend Sandy.”

After everyone said hi and nice to meet you, I told them, “I promised to feed you today so off to the local greasy spoon for lunch.”

Sandy giggled but Wendy and John both got a funny look on their faces. I had never told them about Ray’s or that his cook had been a fine dining michelin star chef before the NOM. They fired him before the mutants right’s bill had been passed. Ray snapped him up as soon as he applied.

Wendy was tickled by the name of the place, John just about bust a gut he was laughing so hard. Once they tasted the food they were as hooked as I was on the place. Sandy just giggled at their reactions, she understood them but had to giggle anyways.

My second patrol that week, Sandy had a surprise for me though. When I got to her steps she had an older woman and a younger girl with her.

Shyly she introduced me, “Angel, this is my mom Milly, and my little sister Victoria. Mom Vicky, this is my girlfriend Angel.”

I nodded and shook hands with both of them, “Hello Milly, Hi Victoria, I’m very glad to finally meet you,” I said to them smiling.

Milly looked me over before saying to me, “I had to meet the girl that stole my oldest daughter’s heart. But aren’t you a little old for her? You’re what 21, 22.”

I looked around before answering her, “I don’t know if you have noticed but I always patrol with an older Paladin never alone, That is a rule Control has for people under eighteen. Which means I’m not that old yet actually until next week I’m the same age as your daughter,” I finished with a blush.

Sandy just looked at me then demanded, “When were you going to tell me that your birthday was next week.”

I hugged her before replying chuckling, “I was actually going to tell you today and invite you and your family to my party next Saturday. But you kinda sidetracked me when I got here,”

After looking at her Mom Sandy happily accepted my invitation, Victoria just looked bored. Milly grinned before telling me with a look at Victoria, “Vicky is just practicing her only super power until or if she emerges, that of being a bored put upon 13 year old.”

“Mom, I told you I’m Victoria not Vicky,” she declared with a pout before storming inside. Sandy and her Mom both started laughing, apparently this was a common thing.

I spent an hour or so talking to the two of them. Before I left I made sure Milly had my parent’s number and our address. After promising to see Sandy Tuesday after my patrol I headed home. I had something to ask Mom and Dad once I got there, and Saturday was one of two day’s I could talk to both at once.

As I walked in the door I hollered, “Mom, Dad, I need to talk to y’all.”

Mom and Dad both walked in and sat on the couch, before looking at me waiting for me to speak. I paced back and forth getting my thoughts in order before I asked, “I have a serious question for you, I want to know what you think of asking Sandy and her family to go with us on spring break?”

You could tell my request had caught them by surprise, they whispered between them for a minute before Dad spoke for them, “We want to meet and talk to her parents before we can agree to this. Have you even met her parent’s?” he finished with a question.

“I only just met her Mom and little sister today actually, I’m not sure her Dad is even in the picture since I have never heard her talk about him,” I admitted to them.

Mom nodded and went to get lunch ready. Dad just sat there grinning at me, while shaking his head. “What you don’t think I was young and in love once myself,” he said with a smirk when I gave him a look. I decided to pull a Vicky and pouted before going to my room, of course I spoiled it by giggling halfway there.

The rest of the week passed quietly, Wendy and John met us one night for our chocolate and pie. My birthday was actually Friday, but we were having the party Saturday so everyone could be there. I got an extra surprise Saturday morning while I was still asleep. I felt my bed move and a sudden weight on my chest right before, “WANNA FLY SAM, WANNA FLY,” I heard in Bella’s high pitched little girl voice as the weight on my chest started bouncing.

I grabbed her, starting to tickle her before giving her a raspberry. You could hear her shrieks and giggles through the whole house. Picking her up I flew down for breakfast, when I put her down she ran to her Mom hollering, “Mama, I flewed again.”

Apparently, Uncle James and his brood had come for my birthday. I followed Bella into the kitchen seeing the rest of the brood there. Grabbing Uncle James I spun him in a circle before putting him back down and asking him, “How did you get this bunch in here without waking me up?”

He laughed before he answered, “Your Mom opened the door as we were walking up to it, so no knock or door bell. We had actually planned on yelling surprise when you came down for breakfast, but Bella the little scamp sneaked off on us and surprised you herself.”

Looking around I noticed we were one short, “Where is James Jr. did he not want to come?” I asked uncle James, feeling a bit hurt, that my one cousin my age hadn’t come to see me.

“He wanted to come and did send you a gift, but he has a job now and had to work today,” my aunt Sarah answered.

That made me happy at least he had a good reason for not being here. After breakfast my three youngest cousins wanted to play outside, the older two were doing that bored teen thing so I cranked up the game console for them. Before taking Johanna, Jimmy, and Bella out in the backyard. On the way out I reminded Mom, “Don’t forget we have to pick up Sandy and her family at 10:00.”

I got to watch Johanna get a case of hero worship when Wendy arrived. It was funny watching her follow Wendy around, she was too shy to talk to her first. Wendy noticed this and sat down pulling Johanna into her lap and held her while talking. Johanna’s whole face just lit up. She was so happy. John was sitting beside them and you could tell the sight of Wendy with a child on her lap was a happy thought for him.

At 9:15 Mom opened the backdoor and hollered at me, “Sam time to go get Sandy, see if Wendy can watch the little one’s.”

Well I could tell it would take a baseball bat to get Johanna away from Wendy, and John and Jimmy were talking about a rocket ship. I caught Wendy’s eye. She just nodded and motioned for me to go, I passed Bella off to Aunt Sarah as I went through the kitchen. I had to promise her a flight when I got back before she settled down. Hitting the driveway I hopped into the back of the truck.

Mom has a slight problem when I’m riding in the back of the truck, she starts driving like she is eighty years old. By the time we got to Sandy’s I could have flown there and back twice. I eagerly jumped out of the truck and pushed the buzzer for their apartment. I heard Sandy’s voice, “Angel, we will be right down.” I stood on the steps and waited for them.

Sandy took my breath away. She was wearing a pine green sundress, it went perfectly with her red hair and green eyes. I swirled her around kissing her before putting her down. I noticed then that Milly and Victoria both were also dressed nice. I walked them to the truck and helped them in before climbing into the back of the truck again.

Sandy managed to open the sliding rear window and held my hand through it all the way to the house. When we got there I helped them out. Sandy and her family were staring at my house, “It’s not ours it’s a loaner from Control until I graduate High School. It’s big but it had to be in order for me to get inside, come in and meet my family,” I said, hoping to put them at ease.

As soon as I got them inside, I got hit by a human missile named Bella, “Fly now you promised,” she was pouting so cute when she said it.

“Bella let me introduce everyone and then I’ll take you flying,” I told her before tickling her.

I directed everyone into the kitchen where I made introductions all around. Sandy thought Bella was cute and agreed with Bella, I had promised so I took Bella for a quick flight. Lunch was full of laughter as Mom, Dad, and my uncle all told stories about me growing up.

Everyone got a big laugh out of the windmill story, when I was about seven I came in the back door covered in mud from head to toe. I informed Dad that the windmill was leaking and had made a puddle, when Mom asked why I was covered in mud. I apparently told her with a very solemn look on my face, that I just had to see how deep the mud was to make sure it wasn’t too deep for Daddy when he was fixing the windmill.

After everyone finished laughing, we finished lunch off with cake and ice cream. Sandy got me an eagle feather with beads on a leather loop to hang in my hair, that showed me she actually paid attention to the thing’s I had told her. Mom and Dad gave me a new pair of house shoes, Uncle James and Sarah gave me a new recurve bow handmade for someone my size. Bella gave me the cutest thing, it was an angel teddy bear but with black wings, she squealed when I scooped her up telling her, “Bella, it’s the cutest thing I love it.”

I took Bella and Sandy upstairs to my room, placing the bear right in the center of my pillows. I assured her it would always have a place there. Sandy looked around my room, she had a shy grin on her face when she sat on the edge of my bed. Bella had a full belly and started nodding off, so I laid on my side laying her on my lower wing before curling around her. Sandy laid down facing me, I spread my other wing over the two of them as we silently lay there.

We must have fallen asleep ourselves, the next thing I heard was my mom and someone else giggling. Peeking out from under my wing I saw Mom and Milly both standing there. I pulled my wing back exposing Sandy and Bella still sleeping, they both looked so cute Bella laying on my wing and Sandy had moved over and was using it as a pillow. I reached across and gently shook Sandy. She woke up with a start then heard the giggling, she blushed so pretty when she saw it was her Mom and mine.

Sandy set up but not before I got paid back for the show I had given her at Ray’s before the dance, she was wearing a tiny pair of ruby red panties. She blushed some more before reaching to try and pick up Bella, when she did Bella we found Bella was holding onto my feather’s in her sleep and wasn’t letting go. Mom finally managed to work her little hand loose without waking her up, before moving her off me and onto the bed.

We eased out of the bed and all of us tiptoed down stairs, Mom and Milly both cracked up as soon as we hit the kitchen. Aunt Sarah looked up at the noise they were making, “I see you found them. What about Bella?” she asked during a break in the laughter.

Mom just grinned, “It was so cute, all you could see on the bed was Sam’s wings. Until she lifted one of them and Bella and Sandy were both cuddled up on her other one asleep, Bella is still asleep on the bed,” she told Sarah.

Sandy decided to chime in, “It’s odd I don’t take naps anymore, but when Sam’s wing covered me and Bella it was just so comforting I just dozed right off. It was like I knew nothing could hurt me.”

I eventually got a chance to pull Mom aside and ask her, “Have you and Dad made a decision about what I asked before?”

Mom got a thoughtful look before nodding. “Let me go talk to your Dad about it and I’ll let you know our decision,” she responded before heading outside towards Dad and Uncle James.

I could see them talking through the window, but couldn’t hear them. They seemed calm though so that was a good thing. I decided to wait with Sandy while they talked, I found her in the living room watching my cousins play a game. Sitting beside her I relaxed, Victoria was trying to get my cousin John’s attention but he was absorbed in the game. It was kinda funny to watch her try and flirt with him.

Mom and Dad soon came back in and asked Milly to join them in Dad’s home office. They were in there for awhile, Sandy could tell I was getting nervous about it so she kissed me. Well, at least I wasn’t nervous anymore, but now I had another reason for my heart to race. Our parent’s came out right as the kiss ended, they joined us sitting around the living room.

Milly got the ball rolling, “Sandy, I just had an interesting talk with Sam’s parent’s. Did you know that Sam had plans to ask all of us to join her family when they go home for spring break?”

Sandy looked at me in surprise before answering, “No Mama, I had no idea she hasn’t said anything to me about it.”

I felt I needed to explain myself, “Sandy, I asked my parents the Tuesday after I met your family, but they wanted to meet your mom before they made a decision. I didn’t want to get your hopes up so I was waiting to find out before asking you.” Sandy smiled at me and squeezed my hand before looking back at our parents.

Dad took over at that point, “The two of you asleep in the bed earlier, would have been a deal breaker but both Mom’s explained what happened. So I’ll give it a pass, as long as nothing happens between now and spring break. If Sandy wants to go Milly has agreed they will join us.”

Sandy didn’t even give me a chance to ask before she squealed, “Yes I would love to go.” The three of them laughed at her reaction, then they started making plans.

The rest of the day passed in a happy whirlwind, Victoria finally got John to notice her. At supper Johanna sat between Wendy and John to everyone’s amusement Bella demanded to sit in Sandy’s lap to eat. I now understood the look on John’s face earlier when Wendy was holding Johanna.

After supper Uncle James left with his bunch, followed by Wendy and John though they were going to meet me and Sandy at Ray’s shortly. Mom finally took Milly and Victoria home, while I flew to Ray’s with Sandy. When we arrived I was surprised to see Clint, Bo, and Di all there with Wendy and John. Apparently, the fact that Ray’s cook was making me lava cake for my birthday present from Ray had gotten out.

We all sat down to chocolate lava cake and the staff sang happy birthday. I explained my spring break plans to the Paladins in the group. Wendy offered to take my patrols while I was gone. Di and the others thought that was a great idea since it would give her more training.

John asked me a question out of the blue, “If I could design a collapsible recurve bow for you, would you prefer that to the compound you have now. I saw the way your eyes lit up when you got that recurve from your uncle?”

“I have always preferred a recurve over a compound bow but I’m not sure how that would work,” I responded to him, he nodded and appeared deep in thought.

I walked Sandy home giving her a good night kiss before whispering in her ear, “You gave me the best present today and I don’t mean the feather though I love it, I mean the sight of your tiny ruby red panties,” I pulled back and grinned at her blush. She started up the steps before stopping and looking around, she gave me a sly grin and then flipped up the back of her dress. What I saw will be branded in my brain the rest of my life, the perfect ass wearing only a tiny red g string and tattooed right in the center above it was a tiny angel with black wings.

I managed to stumble back far enough to take off, but I was on autopilot all the way home. I had to take an extra long shower before bed that night, I slept really good that night dreaming of tiny angels.

The next two weeks before spring break flew by, only two noteworthy things happened. First, on a tip from a prostitute Di and me managed to rescue two girl’s both about 12 years old from a pedophile. He had them in his basement since I couldn’t get in there easily, I stood watch on the door while Di went in. The pedophile apparently decided running was his best bet when confronted by Di and Fang, he was at a full sprint when he burst through the door and literally ran into me. He then proceeded to fall down multiple times as I cuffed him, Di just shook her head when I explained how he kept falling down until I zip tied his legs. Fang just grinned at me. I personally flew the girl’s to Sister Clarrisa’s, leaving them with the Sister’s after explaining how we found them.