Author's Note: I just like to say that since he's come into Glee, I absolutely love Sam Evans! He's drop dead gorgeous, has a nice singing voice, and has a nice personality about him. And check out those plump lips! *nearly faints* Although I love Kurt, Quinn and Santana, Sam needs someone who's just as sexy, also smart, but can prove a little bit of challenge for the blonde stud to woo! That's why I've thought up Leo, who's just the right guy for the job!
Also I'd like to say that my OMC's based a little on myself, but most of him is purely from my varied imagination!
So please, read, review, tell me what u think and I'll be seeing u soon!
Chapter One
As he presses the button to shut off his alarm, Leo Holloway lets out a sleepy moan as he stretches, hearing a few cracks before sitting up. Climbing out of bed, he steps around the boxes that are still scattered around the bedroom and still need to be unpacked, and heads into the adjoining bathroom to relieve himself. Once done, he flushes and washes his hands afterwards before turning on the shower.
Slipping out of his boxers and chucking them into the laundry hamper, he steps into the shower, sighing in contentment the moment the hot, but not scolding, water caresses his lightly-tanned skin and soothes his muscles. It takes him another ten minutes to shampoo his hair and wash his body with the shower gel before he's climbing back out.
Grabbing a towel from the airing cupboard, Leo proceeds to dry himself from head to toe before he's taking another one out to wrap around his slender waist. The one he'd just used to dry himself with he folds and puts on the radiator to dry. He doesn't want his Mom to come in and start yelling for leaving wet towels lying around.
Back in his bedroom, he heads straight to his iPod, which's secured in its speaker dock he'd gotten from his parents for Christmas, and puts on the first song on his playlist. It immediately starts to play softly in the background and, while he's looking in his chest of drawers and his wardrobe for what he's going to wear for his first day at McKinley High, starts to sing along with the song…
'Make believe
If you're sick of everything
All the time before us
Doesn't taint my memory…' Opening one of the drawers beside his bed, he takes out a pair of white boxers and socks, and slips them on just as quickly. He then closes the drawer straight afterward.
'When the walls they put around us
Can't stop what we believe
When the love we share forgets us
This dream will set us free…' Now standing in front of his wardrobe, he opens it up, taking out a white t-shirt from one of the hangers and a pair of dark blue navy jeans from the shelf below. Pulling the t-shirt down from over his head, he pulls up his jeans and buttons them up, hanging just a little loose around his slim waist. O-kay, I've gotta ease up on my fitness regime or I've gotta get a size smaller, he mulls, closing the doors behind him.
(So please don't tell me)
'Deliver me, deliver me…'
(So please don't tell me)
'If it's up to me, if it's up to me…'
'I've had it once and now I want it again…'
(I've had it once and now I want it again)
'I've had it once and now I want it again…'
(I've had it once and now I want it again)
'When the walls they put around us
Can't stop what we believe
When the love we share forgets us
This dream will set us free…' Sitting on the side of his bed, he bends over, reaches under his bed, and pulls out a pair of white trainers with a red Niké logo on one side. Tugging them on, Leo ties them up nice and tight, but not enough to cut off his circulation.
(So please don't tell me)
'Deliver me, deliver me…'
(So please don't tell me)
'If it's up to me, if it's up to me
I've had it once and now I want it again…'
(I've had it once and now I want it again)
'I've had it once and now I want it again…'
(I've had it once and now I want it again)
Once the song's finished, he turns the speaker dock off, takes the iPod out and attaches his earphones to it before pocketing it in one of his jeans pockets.
Heading back into the bathroom, he takes one of his deodorants from off the shelf and sprays under his arms and chest area. Thankfully he's not one of these people who likes to drench himself in it, causing people to practically cough in your presence from the pungent aroma.
Once done, he turns and heads out through the other door, which leads into the hallway, proceeding down the stairs towards the gorgeous smells of pancakes, toast, and tea coming from the kitchen. Standing by the breakfast bar, his Mum's busy buttering the toast while the pancakes were cooking nicely in the pan.
"Morning sweetheart, I see that you're about ready for your first day at McKinley. Are you feeling alright?" She asks, leaving the buttering to attend to the pancakes, which she flips over so it cooks the other side. The delicious aroma's making Leo's stomach rumble.
"Yeah, I guess so. A little nervous, but isn't anybody on their first day at an entirely different school?" He answers, sitting on the stool on the other side of the breakfast bar, his plate and cutlery already set up for him. "Mum, has Dad left for work already?"
With the pancakes nicely cooked, she picks up the pan and saunters over to the breakfast bar, using the spatula to scoop it up and onto Leo's plate, "Yeah, I'm afraid you've just missed him. Working at the same company, but in an entirely different country, he wants to make a good first impression with his new colleagues and boss," she adds, returning the pan to the cooker and turning the gas off.
Picking up the maple syrup bottle, he squirts a little onto his pancakes before folding it over and squishing it. Taking up his knife and fork into his hands, he begins to dig into it, loving how it seems to melt in his mouth, causing his taste-buds to go into overdrive. His Mum's an excellent cook, if he does say so himself. It doesn't take him long to devour his pancakes and his two slices of buttered toast before he's packing them into the dishwasher, and heading back up the stairs to brush his teeth.
Once he's done that, he fetches his cellphone from his room, his schoolbag from his closet, and heads back downstairs. Settling his bag on the breakfast bar, he packs it with everything he needs for school before zipping it back up.
"You know, honey," his Mum starts, watching him swing his bag over his shoulder, her voice stopping him from saying, "See ya later," and leaving for school, "I heard you singing before you came down for breakfast. You truly have a wonderful voice, Leo. I'm not trying to force you into anything, but you really should try out for the Glee club."
Leo shakes his head, a sigh passing through his lips, "Thanks for the pep talk Mum, but we all remember what happened the last time I joined a Glee club."
She sighs heavily, mostly in frustration, knowing that it's going to be one of those talks again. Ones that mostly ends up with them screaming at each other and Leo hating her for bringing up such painful memories, "Look, Leo, I don't want this to lead to another fight, believe me I think we've both had enough of those to last a lifetime, but you know that I'm right. Singing was your passion Leo, you were extremely good at it, and people clearly saw that. Don't waste such a talent by throwing it away and letting the people who thought otherwise win."
There's a moment of silence, like Leo's pondering about it, before he's heading to the front door, "I've gotta go Mum or I'm gonna be late for school."
Before she can say anything more about it, she hears the front door slamming behind him, and sighs deeply again, afraid that she might be losing her son who used to be so full of life before they moved here from the UK. And before the incident which caused Leo to drop out of Glee club, swearing he'd never sing again.
(Song: Overdrive - "Deliverance")
As he's walking up one of the pathways that lead up to McKinley High, Leo takes a look at the vast structure and takes a deep breath, "Alright Leo, here goes nothing," he tells himself, watching all matter of student life passing him by. He can see the "Jocks" banded together wearing their jerseys dyed in the school's colours, their girlfriends, who are all wearing cheerleader outfits with the same colours, following behind them. They look to him like they're going to be trouble, but Leo isn't worried about that at the moment. He's too nervous to be. Being at a new school with no friends to accompany you, it's scary, but he'll get through it.
He just has to keep it to himself the fact that he's actually gay, and absolutely loves to sing. Which won't be very hard, seeing as he's the straight-acting type of gay, and not at all like the campy, flamboyant ones. Don't get him wrong, he's totally down with those who like to express themselves more effeminately, but he just isn't like that.
Hearing the school bell ring, it shakes him from his pondering, taking another deep breath, breathing back out a second later, and following the other students into McKinley. And so it begins…