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Here is the in-between project to My side of the story and Only pretending. It's just their senior year with fluff. If you haven't read My side of the story, I suggest that. Or you could just read this plotless mini-series, I can't tell you what to do. This it the Epilogue or Prologue depending on how you look at it. Prologue to their senior year, or its the Epilogue to after they stared dating.

How did the rest of junior year go for Sam and Rachel?

Well, the day after the incident the two slept until noon, then Sam called her and they spent the whole weekend by eachothers side.

They found out the Quinn and Finn broke up from Puck, because Finn thought it was obvious the Quinn had feelings for Sam yet even though she said she didn't, and Quinn was positive Finn wasn't over Rachel, which he denied. With neither of them able to believe the other, they called it quits.

Rachel had to admit, she was scared that Quinn being single would cause Sam to leave her, but his response was, "That's sucks." with a shrug while the three were at Breadstix forty-eight hours into the relationship. He slid an arm around Rachels waist and pulled her closer. "Yeah, I never knew the day we won regionals there would be so much dang drama." Puck said.

"I know right." Sam said, drinking his soda.

"So, when are we spreading the news?" the couple gave him a confused look. "About you two dating?"

"We're not." Rachel answered.

"We aren't?" Sam asked, sitting up straighter and craning his head to look at her, confused. It wasn't something they had talked about yet, but Rachel knew that she didn't want to be telling people. If she had it her way, she wasn't sure if she would have told Noah. But if she hadn't, when he did find out, he would be ticked that they didn't tell him.

"No, Samuel, we aren't."

"Well why not?"

"Yeah, why not?" Rachel shot a look at Noah.

"Let's just talk about it later." Rachel said, grabbing her tea and taking a sip.

"I kind of want to know now why we have to keep it a secret." Sam said, pulling his arm away from her and turning his body towards her.

Rachel sighed. "Look, after that drama with Quinn and Finn, you being slushied constantly, I think we should just keep it quiet for a while. I mean, as soon as Azimo and Damien find out you're dating me it wont get any better. It would just be easier if we didn't."

"I want everyone to know we are dating though." Sam said. Noah looked uncomfortable in front of them. "I mean, I don't care about being slushied, as long as they don't touch you." she blushed. "And as for the glee club drama, I don't care about that either. What happened with Quinn and Finn isn't our fault, pretty much, and the rest of them always said we should date."

"Sam, please? Just for a little while." she pleaded, grabbing his hand.

"This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard." Noah muttered.

Sam stared at Rachels puppy dog eyes and sighed. "Fine. Only for a week."

When one week turned into two, Sam thought it was time. Rachel disagreed. So he had to do it his way, and his way was singing My Girls Ex-Boyfriend by Relient K in front of the glee club to Rachel. There were no hard feelings, but Sam felt it perfect.

Rachels, and everybody elses, jaw dropped but soon everyone else joined in, save Finn.

"If it wasn't for him, I would still be searchin'

If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't know my best friend,

If it wasn't for him, he'd be as happy as me.

If it wasn't for him, he would be able to see that if it wasn't for him, he'd be as happy as me."

Sam stood breathless as he wrapped the song up, everyone started clapping, rather for the song or for the confirmation that they were dating Sam didn't know. All he knew is that after class, he would be able to hold his girlfriends hand down the hall finally.

The next day after Sam musically informed everyone that him and Rachel were dating, and Finn came up to him in the hallway, Sam was sure there was about to be a fight. Sam shut his locker and the two boys stared at each other until Finn said, "So, you punched me."

There was a faint bruise outlined around his eye. "Yeah, sorry about that."

"Dude, why did you punch me?"

"You got in my face an it seemed like you were about to accuse me of doing something to Rachel and she was out the door and you were kind of-..." he paused. The more he talked about the more he realized that maybe punching Finn wasn't the best idea. "-In the way. I'm sorry." Finn didn't say anything. "You can punch me back if it makes you feel better."

Finn looked around, seeing no teachers around and unexpectedly socked Sam in the arm. Sam wasn't expecting Finn to be a strong puncher, but he almost fell to the ground in pain. "Dude!"

"You said I could!" Finn defended, looking worried. It was probably a stange sight, Finn being worried about Sam after he hit him in retaliation to being punched in the face.

"I didn't think you hit hard!" Sam said, holding onto his arm.

"At least I didn't punch you in the face." Finn said, smiling.

Sam groaned. "Ugh, does this mean we're cool? For real this time."

"Yeah, we're cool."

"I'm sorry I punched you." Finn shrugged. "I'm sorry about you and Quinn."

"Its not your fault." Finn said thoughtfully. "Stuff is confusing right now."

"Sorry." Sam offered, the pain hardly letting up.

"I'll catch you later man." Finn said, giving a small wave and walking off. Suddenly, someone came up behind him.

"Were you talking to Finn?" Rachel asked. Before he could answer, she went on. "Why are you holding your arm?"

"Finn punched me." she gasped, and he rushed on to say, "Because I told him to for punching him in the face!"

Rachels lips parted and she stared at Sam like the times she would look at Brittany whenever she made a notable dumb comment. "I'm not even sure how to respond to that." Sam offered his hand, and she took it.

The rest of their junior year went by without drama.

Sam and Finn were friends again, and Finn and Rachel even got along. Quinn kept her distance, but Rachel constantly told him she would come around.

They never went anywhere past light making out, because Rachel would start to pull away or get embarassed. It didn't bother him. He had to take a lot of cold showers, but it didn't bother him.

He dealt with what she called 'random spouts of crazy', when she acted like...herself. When she wanted to get a nosejob, Sam was desperately against it. In fact, it caused their first fight. Because apparently Rachel was an 'independant women' and dam couldn't tell her what to do with her body. Sam thought she was over reacting, which Rachel was offended by, and told her a nose job was a stupid idea. Then Rachel gave the low blow of him only learning how to tie his shoes a couple of months earlier, and it went on from their and they didn't talk to each other for days until after her Barbra-vention. She apologized first, and he apologized back.

They went to prom together, even though Sam felt like crap because he could hardly afford it and he felt that as a man he should have been able to. But they had a small budget, and Rachels five dollar dress looked beautiful and she liked his borrowed tux. During a slow song, he told her he loved her. She said it back.

While they were getting the rest of the money for Nationals, Quinn and Finn tip-toed around each other. Sam didn't get why they just wouldn't start dating again, Rachel reminded him its never that easy.

At Sue's sisters funeral, Sam held Rachels hand while she cried, trying not to cry himself.

When they got to New York, Rachel held Sams hand and dragged him from place to place, pointing and talking excitedly. He just laughed while she dragged him around. She told him over and over, "I'm going to live here someday, you know."

To which Sam would smile and say, "I know."

They wrote their songs last minute, A song called Light up the world and o Finn wrote called Carry on. They opened with Carry on, Sam having to fight the jealous monster while he sang 'to' Rachel. Then in Light up the world, Quinn and Finn had a part together and right at the end they kissed. While waiting for them to post the list later, Rachel said how romantic it was, and Sam only half smiled, because he heard the other glee coaches talking about how stupid that was, and how it could cost them the whole contest.

That was confirmed when the list was posted. Back at the hotel, Sam, Mike Chang, and even Kurt had to hold Santana back while she tried to kill Quinn. She was screaming in Spanish, so no one had any idea what she was saying.

When they got back to Lima, Sam found out he would be going away for the whole summer to meet his family with Jean, and his siblings. It was sad, because he wouldn't be able to see Rachel for months but she said it was alright, she would miss him.

They spent the summer with late night phone calls and flirting on Facebook. After three months, the day before school, Rachel waited for the knock at the door was was waiting for all summer. Tomorrow they would start their senior year, but tonight they would just be together.

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Lame ending is lame. Sorry, rate my lovelies! Notice how they didn't sing Pretending for Nationals...