Mercedes wasn’t quite sure how it happened or when-only that it was after the whole business about his family’s situation came out-but she was suddenly “hanging out” with Sam Evans…and his siblings. It was completely her doing, a one afternoon hankering for chocolate chip cookies and the realization that her eyes had been too big for her stomach to handle the thirty-six she’d baked. Even after setting aside half left too many for just her and her parents, so, on a whim and a wholly unexpected case of nerves, she’d gotten in her car and driven to American Family Motel, only for those nerves to turn to goo when Sam opened the door with a gleefully squeeing Stacy riding on his back and Stevie squeezing between his siblings in the door to wave hello.
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