The New Girl

Chapter 15

Brenda's POV

After school

I got all of the bowls and materials out, then I got the ingredients to make brownies and cookies. I wrote down the recipes and gave Melody the cookie recipe. She got started on it while I started talking to Sam.

"Okay, we need,"

10 tablespoons (145 g) unsalted butter

1 1/4 cups (250 g) granulated sugar

3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons (65 g) unsweetened cocoa powder 

1/4 rounded teaspoon Kosher salt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 large eggs, cold

"...1/2 cup (70 g) all-purpose flour." He nodded and grabbed all of the stuff. I put the cocoa powder in the mixer first, then the sugar, salt and flour. I mixed it together then Sam added the eggs and butter. I mixed it, then put the vanilla in it. I turned the mixer off and tasted the mixture. It was good. Sam did too, and looked like he was in love. I smiled. Melody had just finished the cookie batter and brought it over. I picked up the muffin tray and sprayed the cooking oil on it.

"Okay, you put the cookie batter on the bottom, then the brownie on top." The two nodded and started putting the cookie and brownie. I walked over to the oven and preheated it. When they finished it, I put it in the oven and turned the timer on. I sat at the island. I sighed and ran a hand through my hair.

"What's wrong bae?" Melody asked, as her and Sam sat on either side of me.

"One, I'm tired. I stayed up all night on my lap top trying to find the perfect birthday present for my mom. And two I'm just, uhh." I put my head in my hands.

"Oh, okay. So, what does your mom like?" Sam asked and started rubbing my back.

"Well, she likes Elvis of course. She is in love with you, for some reason." I winked at him, "She uh, likes the color pink, sleep, when me, Chris and Kevin sing for her, guitars, the old T.V. show 'Lost'. She told me that she's been wanting to spend a day with just you, Sam. Not me or anyone else "

"Huh, well. I'll tell ya what, me and her can go do whatever she wants together, you can stay here and bake the cake and get everything else ready. I'll sing her a song, then when we come back, you, Chris and Kevin can sing her a song." Sam said.

"Wow, Sam. That was actually smart!" Melody exclaimed. He glared at her.

"That is a good idea Sam." I yawned.

"Okay, go lay on the couch and take a nap." Sam said. I got up and started walking toward the living room. Then I stopped.

"I need my pillow!"

"Here, I'll go get it for you." He said about to go up the stairs.

"I'm talking about you Sam. Come here."

"Um, okay." When we first got together, I fell asleep on him after crying so much, and it was the most comfortable sleep I've ever had.

"You are really comfortable." I said as I snuggled into his side.

"Thanks I guess." He chuckled. A few minutes later I fell asleep.

TIME SKIP

I woke up when I heard someone yelling, and I realized Sam wasn't with me.

"What happened Mel?"

"Sam just burned the shit out of his hand!" She yelled back. I ran into the kitchen, and nearly slid.

"How? Let me see it." He showed me his hand and I cringed. It was bright red and bumps were all over his hand. There was a little bit of black on his hand, too. "How did you burn yourself so bad." He glared at Melody.

"We were messing around and she bumped the tray of brownies and I had to catch it, so she wouldn't get burned."

"Oh, well it's a good thing that you didn't get burned even more. Come on, lets go fix your hand up. And it's a good thing mama is on the way home, because all I know to do is put your hand in cold water to stop the pain." He nodded and followed me to the sink. I filled up one of our big bowls with cold water, then I put some ice in it and told him to put his hand in it. He did and you could tell it felt a bit better. "Mama has something that you can put on burns, I just don't know where it's at. "He nodded and wrapped his arm around me.

"I'm sorry Sam." Melody said and looked down.

"It's okay, Mel. I would have done anything else, if it meant you weren't getting hurt, you too Brenda." I smiled and kissed him. Melody hugged him. I took my phone out and texted mama.

Hey, where are you?~Brenda

I just left the shop with Pa, why?~Mama

Well, you need to hurry up. Sam is about to die over here.~Brenda

What!?!?!? What happened?~Mama

He burned the crap out of his hand and you can tell it hurts. I made him put his hand in cold water but Idk what else to do.~Brenda

Okay, just make him keep his hand in the water until I get home. I'm like 5 mins away~Mama

Okay, be careful~Brenda

I will~Mama

I locked my phone and put it in my back pocket.

"I texted mama. She said she's about five minutes away and she said to keep your hand in the water."

"No problem." I laughed and gave him a brownie. As soon as he bit into it, it looked like he fell in love.

"I see you like it?" He nodded enthusiastically.

"Yeah, you should make some more and take 'em to Glee tomorrow."

"I am, as soon as you get your hand fixed up." I heard mama walk in the door with Pa following her. That was fast, I thought. She came into the kitchen and looked at Sam's hand.

"That is bad. Sit at the table. I'll be right back." We did as we were told, and Sam took his hand out of the water. She came back in with a towel, and one of those hand braces things. I don't know what they're called. She put even colder water in the water and put some ice in it. Then she put the towel in the water for a few seconds until it was completely wet. Then, as gently as possible, she wrapped it around his hand. Then she put the brace over it to keep it on. Then she tucked the pieces of the towel into the brace.

"Thanks." Sam said smiling. He got up and hugged her. She hugged him back.

"No problem. Oh, and by the way. You smell good."

"Uh, thank you?" I giggled and then messed his hair up.

"Come on Sam, Mel. Lets start baking."

Time skip

When we finally finished baking, we had about 72 brownies. We used some old moving boxes with tin foil in it to put them in. I sealed up 48 of em and put the other ones in two separate bowls.

"Finally. That took forever!" Melody complained and picked up her 4th brownie. I rolled my eyes.

"All you did was sit there and eat chocolate chips!" Sam exclaimed. I nodded.

"Sorry?" She said, but it came out like a question. I watched as Sam picked up a handful of flower when she wasn't looking and threw it at her.

"Oops." He grinned. She glared at him and got a handful of sugar. She threw it at him, but missed and hit me. I gasped. Then all three of us were throwing either flower or sugar. We stopped when mama came in.

"Y'all are so cleaning this up." And she walked back into the living room after getting a can of diet Pepsi out of the fridge. We looked at each other, started laughing, then we started cleaning it up. We were covered in the stuff. I groaned as I was handed a broom.