First part of Samchel week, hope you like it. More to come during the week.

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First Date

It was a first date, a first date between them, and Sam just shook his head, normally a first date didn't mean you senior prom, but he hadn't wanted to go alone, and he knew that Rachel wasn't going to alone, and that meant that their first date would be their senior prom. Sam almost laughed to himself when he thought about it.. Rachel had more or less asked him to go out with her, when she had suggested that they would go together, and Sam had turned her down at first because he didn't want a pity date but as soon as he had said no, well it was a couple of days after that he had bought to tickets to prom and he had walked up to Rachel and asked her to go to prom with him as a his date, and she had agreed.

Sam ran a hand over his hair and he looked down on the corsage that he had gotten for her, it looked okay, he let out a small breath as he raised his hand and knocked on the door, he smiled at her dad, the one with the glasses, Hiram, or that was what Sam thought his name was, Rachel had told him but in this moment he had forgotten about it, "Hello, Mr. Berry," Sam greeted him and smiled at him, "I'm here to escort Rachel to prom."

"Ah, so you are Sam," Hiram said and smiled back at him, and Sam let out a small breath so far so good.

"Yes, I am, Sir," Sam replied, "I'm Sam, Sam I am," he stopped himself before he started the whole Dr. Seuss rant, he needed to learn, not to refer to Dr. Seuss when he was getting nervous.

"Don't be nervous," her dad said and looked at Sam, "Rachel should be ready any second, why don't you come in."

Sam took a couple of steps so that he was standing inside the hall, waiting for Rachel to come down the stairs. He smiled when he saw Rachel walking down the stairs, she looked beautiful, Sam took the steps he needed so that he could meet up with her at the bottom of the stairs. "You look beautiful," he breathed out as he smiled at her.

"Thank you," he could hear Rachel say.

"So are you ready for the night?" he asked, and he bit his lip a little, and he saw Rachel nodded her head, "I bought you this," he opened up the box with the corsage in, "I hope you like it."

"it looks beautiful, Sam." He could feel a small blush slowly settling on his cheeks, he put the flower on around her wrist.

"Ready, my lady?" he asked and held out his arm for Rachel to take.

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"Let me have this dance?" Sam asked and held out his hand as he stood in front of Rachel, and the band was playing a slow song.

"Of course," Rachel replied and Sam smiled at her, this night was going pretty great so far, and Sam hadn't thought that a first date at prom actually would be something fun, it would just be too much pressure but maybe a first date on prom was a good thing in the end.

"I hope you are having a good time," Sam said as they swayed to the music.

"I am," Rachel said and Sam noticed the smile on her face, "I'm glad that you asked me again, even if you turned me down at first," Sam noticed how Rachel bit her lip.

"What is on your mind?" Sam asked and he spun Rachel a round.

"I was actually going to say no at first," Rachel confessed and Sam just smiled at her, he would have understood if she had done just that, "But then I realized that I didn't want to go alone to the prom." He laughed, he had had the same thought but it did end up pretty great, well it looked that way at least.

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The night had been pretty good, who was he kidding, the night had been amazing, Sam was sure that he had done the right thing when he had asked Rachel even if he had been kind of a moron at fist turning her down, but had kind of wanted to go with her from the start, Sam just wanted to be the one that asked her out.

He held out his hand for Rachel to take, as he led her to the door, and he smiled at her, "I had a great night tonight," he said with a smile over his lips, "I hope you had fun too."

"I did," Rachel said and Sam noticed the small blush on her cheeks, and he couldn't help but to smile.

"You're looking cute right now," he said and he leaned down and he pressed his lips against her cheek, and as he pulled away he smiled at her, "maybe we could do this again." Sam took his lower lip between his teeth as he waited for Rachel's response.

Rachel nodded her head, and Sam smiled at her, "Awesome," as soon as he had said it, his whole face lit up in a big smile.

"There is just one thing that's missing from this night that would make it perfect," Rachel said and Sam looked at her trying to figure out what it could be, but he just shook his head.

"Rachel I have no idea on what you are talking about," he confessed.

"Sam, kiss me," Rachel more or less demanded as she looked him in the eyes, and Sam smiled at her, and he leaned down, his heart was speeding up as he cupped her cheek with one of his hands, his other hand was placed on her waist and he closed the small distance between them, and his lips brushed against hers in a soft kiss, he pulled away and smiled at Rachel.

"Was that better?" he asked, and the smile on Rachel's face was all that he needed to see, it had been better, and to Sam a first date at prom wasn't as bad as he first had thought it would be, it had been a lot better, and this was something that he could tell his friends about, in college.

The End!