My New Step-Sister Part 5

Again the next day I asked to go to McDonald’s as I had “woken up too late” and missed breakfast. Sam chastised my laziness and said I shouldn’t sleep in so late, kinda like calling the kettle black considering she only woke on the weekends when called for breakfast. I still had faith that my plan would work, I just needed to give it more time. Yet again I ate solo, but on Wednesday I finally had a breakthrough. Each day I had asked if she wanted anything, and this time I had to hold back a squeal of glee when I heard her say, “Well…I could really go for one of their hash browns, I used to love those when I was a kid.”

“One hash brown coming right up.” I said, trying to hold back my giddiness. I put the order in through my phone app, getting my normal meal, plus one hash brown. I was so proud of myself as I pressed that add to cart button. We picked up our meal, and Sam nibbled on her hash brown as she continued to drive to school. This time I was the one passing side eye. I drank in every moment as she took small bites out of the salty and greasy potato patty. Cloud nine here I come.

Things were even better the next day, when unprovoked Sam pulled right into the McDonalds drive thru without me saying anything. “What are you doing?” I playfully asked.

“Picking up your breakfast.” She said, sounding annoyed by my dumb question.

“I ate at home. I actually took your advice for once and got up earlier.” I threw some sass back her way for once. “But since we’re here, I might as well top off.” I said, knowing that would get her going. She was so focused on me that she didn’t notice she was getting her now signature hash brown too. Since I didn’t have time to order through the app, we just did things the old fashion way, I yelled over Sam’s chest and into the speaker that was probably a good five feet away from me. “Yeah, I’ll have the McGriddle meal, but instead of coffee can I have OJ?” I paused, making sure they got it right.

“Wait, they have coffee here?” Sam asked me while I was still partially leaned over her. Did she like live under a rock?

“Yeah, coffee comes with the sandwich and hash brown.” I quickly said, getting back to my order. “And can I get a second order of hash browns?”

“Wait, I want a coffee.” Sam interrupted. Sam was SO into coffee, she thought it made her cool that she was in high school and was mature enough to drink coffee. The stuff tasted like dirt to me, but hey I wasn’t going to stop her. “Just get me one of those meals, but not like the super fatty one like you get.” She told me, not wanting to put the effort into actually figuring out what she wanted.

“Actually can I also get a sausage mcmuffin meal?” I waited for the response and order to show on the screen. It still had that extra hash brown on it, but I just figured it was a bonus for me. We had just gone from a bowl of cereal, to a hash brown, to a meal from McDonalds every morning for Sam. I was totally winning right now.