[Glee belongs to Ryan Murphy and FOX, not me]

"I'm sorry" that's all he said.

The sound of silence was deafening since her best friend had walked out of the choir room without even looking back.

Mercedes looked at the rest of the glee club and then she caught Finn's eye and saw that he, like her, was trying not to show any emotion; she walked over to him and tried to comfort him, and secretly herself too, he looked up at her and simply said

"I promised him..."

"Didn't we all?" she sighed back.

Rachel then stood up at the front and said something about picking good songs to beat the Warblers with but instead of listening Finn grabbed Mercedes' hand and pulled her from the room.

"Finn? What are you doing?" she hissed through gritted teeth.

"Kurt won't have emptied his locker yet; which gives us enough time to talk to him. I know he's hiding something major here; I don't have to be blood related to work that out..." he replied.

Mercedes sighed and looked floor "He's my best friend and he never even came to me about it, why?"

Finn simply shrugged "He'll have his reasons"

Mercedes simply glared at him "Not good enough, white boy."

Finn hung his head and continued to walk down the hall hands in his pockets.

Mercedes then let out a high pitched squeal as she saw Kurt emptying his locker into his bag and then picking up his text books to return them to teachers. She ran over to him and was about to tap him on the shoulder when her eyes fell onto the photograph he was holding in his hands.

So with that she walked over to him and put an arm around his shoulder and rested her hand on it "What you got there then, Kurty?" she enquired, even though she already knew

the answer.

He turned his head to take in her in and sighed "The photograph of us two outside the theatre that Friday we went to see the 'Sing-a-long Sound of Music', remember?" he absent-mindedly wiped away a tear from his cheek and then stuck the photograph back into the album and finally faced Mercedes fully and put his arms out for a hug, which gratefully she gave him.

He mumbled into her shoulder "I'm going to miss you the most, just remember that OK?" he then broke away from her with tear tracks still visible on his face.

She gave him a watery smile and was about to open her mouth to rebuttal him when Finn stepped in and taking his hands out of his pockets picked up some of the heavier looking bags and turned to leave to take them outside to Kurt's car when he stopped him

"Where do you think you're going with those?"

Finn turned back around and looked a little confused

"I was going to take them outside to your car so that you wouldn't have to keep coming back to pick them up one-by-one..."

Kurt gave him a warm smile

"Thank you, that would be most helpful"

He then turned back to Mercedes and smiled at her

"What are you doing after rehearsal?"

She quirked an eyebrow at him

"Why? I thought you'd be straight on IM to tell your new best friend about transferring to his posh school" she huffed slightly, still hurt by the whole thing.

Kurt hung his head

"No, no I won't. I was thinking, OK hoping, you'd want to come round to ours for dinner tonight... As a celebration type thing"

She took one look at him, with wide eyes filled with tears, and turning on her heel walked back to the choir room muttering profanities under her breath.

Kurt was left standing there willing himself not to cry and when Finn walked back into the hallway a few minutes he said, to the floor mainly, "take me home, please"

Finn obliged and didn't ask any questions as he opened the passenger side of the car for Kurt nor on the drive home.

Mercedes however, was being comforted by the rest of the shocked glee club members

"I'm going to win my boy back."

And in from that one sentence everybody knew she was a girl on a mission.

A/N: Please do read and review, I'd love to know what you all think.