Hi! Well as I promised this is the start of my Mercedes Scrapbook. This is a bunch of One-Shots that will make out the story of Mercedes from her senior year and beyond. Think of it as opening a Scrapbook on a different page ramdomly (I hope that makes a bit of sense lol). It is based on the AU I created in my first FF The Path Taken. Not ALL of them will refere back to the original story but some of them will.
So these stories will not be in order. BUT I wanted to open it up with what happened right after their Sectionals performance that I ended TPT on. My reviewers asked that Mercedes handle a little situation between she and Sugar ;0)
And I want to throw in a hardy thanks to all who read All I Want (my in canon One Shot).
Okay so As always Read, Enjoy, and comment if you've got the time :0*
Loose Ends:
Mercedes parked in her usual parking space and turned off her car engine. She took a deep breath. "Okay, this won't be weird at all" she said to herself in an attempt to convince herself. She had a boyfriend for a year. She should be use to walking into McKinley with a significant other. However, for some reason this would be different for her. Sam was not Shane. Sam was… well he was Sam. He was the man she should have been with. However, due to some uncontrollable (and some controllable) circumstances, this would be the first morning she and Sam would be know as a couple. It was like a coming out day, where they would present to the school that they belonged to the other.
A knock on her passenger side window woke her out of her thoughts. She smiled and unlocked her door.
"Good morning" Sam grinned widely as he took a seat in her passenger seat.
"Why good morning" she smiled back
He reached over to her, planting a passionate kiss on her lips. When she pulled away, and looked into his eyes, she knew that no one else mattered, and what anyone had to say about her and her man, would be met with a large helping of 'divatude'. "Let's go in" she smiled.
"Okay" he shrugged. To Sam, to day was just another day with one sweet exception: he would be walking in with the girl he was suppose to be with. The one who made him feel amazing about himself. The one who thinks that although he is dorky, he was also adorable, and wouldn't mind sitting through the extended version of Avatar. He was walking in with his girlfriend Mercedes Jones.
As they got out and walked through the parking lot and into the school, they linked hands, intertwining their fingers, showing a united front.
He escorted her to her locker, and stood patiently by it, waiting for her to get her books out. "So you excited about your new job?" She questioned Sam as she grabbed her supplies. Sam was beginning a new job at a local electronic store.
"Yeah. I mean I guess" Sam shrugged nonchalantly. "I mean it will give me extra money, so I can take my girl out on a proper date" he smiled.
Mercedes pressed her lips together. "Sam" she sighed "You know I'm fine with the dates we went on before" she sighed. Although she expected elaborate dates before she had a boyfriend, his simple picnics, movie nights, and long walks, gave her a chance to appreciate simplicity in romance. That it was the little things that he would do for her, that would make her smile the widest. "I don't need anything extra but you" she smiled.
"I know" Sam sighed. "But you know that I'm a southern gentleman and we have a tendency of wooing our women. I now have the chance to do all of the things I wanted to do for you" he smiled. "And trust me their awesome"
"Well now I'm intrigued" she turned to him raising an eyebrow. "Like what?"
"Aww but then they wouldn't be a surprise" he said in his James Earl Jones impression. He reached up and caressed her face. At that moment, Shane walked by on the way to his homeroom. He gave both an icy glare as he passed. Mercedes heart sank. Although she was over the moon for Sam, she didn't like the fact that Shane could still be mad at her for breaking up with him.
Sam noticed Shane's glare, and looked back at Mercedes whose smile faded. "Hey" he sighed getting her attention. "its okay" he reassured her.
"I know" she sighed. "I just don't want him to be hurt, or mad you know"
"I know" Sam sighed. One thing about his girl was that she hated to see people hurt due to her actions. He adored that the most about her. "But he'll get over it. He has to get use to it because that would mean I couldn't kiss you at you locker in the hall way" Sam smiled.
"You've never kissed me in the hallway, at my locker before" she giggled.
"You know what your right" Sam agreed. And with that he stepped in front of her, lowered his head and kissed her again. This time for the school, or for anyone walking down their hall, to see. If there was any question if they were together, that kiss would put all doubt to rest. He deepened his kiss, as he placed his hand to her cheek.
"Ahem!"
They turned their head to find Santana stand in front of them leaning on the lockers next to Mercedes. "I see your enjoying each other's breakfasts this morning, but scram Evans, I gotta talk to my girl" she sighed.
Sam eyed the Latina. "Um well you girl is busy" he shot back. "So you can talk to her another time"
"Look Evans" Santana sighed as she crossed her arms in front of her chest and huffed "I understand you enjoy our resident diva here spelunking in that large cavernous hole you call your mouth, but I needs to talk to my girl before she goes too far and gets trapped between two of your massive molars and has to cut a limb off all 27 hours style. So beat it"
Sam shot Santana a death glare as Mercedes just sighed. "Look babe" Mercedes cut in before it got any uglier "Let me and San talk and I'll meet up with you at lunch, okay?"
"Okay" Sam agreed while maintaining his glare at his ex. He kissed Mercedes gently and walked away.
"Wow San, what happened to a nicer, kinder you?" Mercedes questioned.
"Look, he couldn't take a hint" she sighed "And you asked me for my help, so do you still want it? Because I'm missing out on a pretty intense make out session with Brit for this" she huffed.
"Yes San, I still want your help" Mercedes smiled
"Okay good cause I spotted her walking into school" Santana reported. "You ready for this?" she questioned.
"Yep" Mercedes answered confidently while shutting her locker "Let's do this"
Sugar Motta was walking down the hallway, while tweeting. Although she didn't have the gang of followers she use to have when she was dating Sam, she still maintained some of her popularity she found as his girlfriend. She was so into her timeline that she was in total shock when she was snatched from the hallway, and tossed into an empty classroom. When she found her bearings, she turned to find herself in an empty classroom with Santana at the door.
"Wha- what do you want?" Sugar questioned becoming nervous when the Latina closed the door them.
"Oh I don't want anything" Santana smiled her evil sneer.
"I want to talk to you" Mercedes said as she stepped into Sugar's field of vision. Sugar was shocked to she her, and looked around the room to make sure no one else was going to pop out.
"What do you want?" she asked Mercedes, becoming even more nervous from her tone.
"I want to have a talk to you about Sam" Mercedes said calmly as she took small and slow steps closing in on the tiny teen.
"Wha- What about him?"
"Look I know about everything Sugar. I know that you blackmailed him to be your boyfriend. I know you threatened him, and I know he was basically your errand boy. Normally, finding out this kind of information would put you at the top of my Diva Beat Down list. But he has reassured me that he is fine. So when he is fine, I'm fine. And you know what that means for you Sugar? " She questioned as she inched closer to the now frightened girl.
Sugar quickly shook her head no, nervous what it meant.
"I'll tell you then. That means your fine. So I won't give you the wrath of Chocolate Thunder, on one condition"
"Wha- What condition?" Sugar questioned beginning to shake with fear.
"You don't see Chocolate Thunder as long as you stay away from him. Yep, you stay way from my man."
Sugar looked at her shocked
"YEP I will repeat it again, Sam is now MY man so that mean you are not allowed to talk to him, not allowed to look at him, your not even allowed to say his name. And I mean at all, I don't care if you're reading Green Eggs and Ham to sick children or watching a charming movie with a mentally challenged Sean Penn raising an adorable child Dakota Fanning. You are not to have ANY thing to do with him" Mercedes was so close to her, Sugar felt her breath on her face.
"Bu- bu- but what about Glee?" Sugar questioned as she quaked.
"In glee you have to look to ME to give YOU permission to talk to him and that is ONLY when needed. Other than that MY law still stands. Follow it and your okay. But if you don't Sugar Motta I will skull drag you up and down these hallways. And then when I'm done with you I will allow Santana here to show how they do it in Lima Heights Adjacent" Mercedes moved out of Sugar's eye line enough for her to look at Santana crack her knuckles in a menacing fashion. This caused Sugar to gulp loudly.
"Now get" Mercedes growled through grit teeth.
With that Sugar jumped and walked briskly to the door. Santana opened it for the scared teen. Sugar turned in hopes to smooth the situation a bit. She added "I- I- I'm sorry". Santana barked at her "GET!" Sugar jumped, with a loud pitched squeal and took off down the hall.
Mercedes closed her eyes and took a deep breath in her nose and out of her mouth, in an attempt to calm her self down. When she opened her eyes she was greeted by Santana's grinning face.
"Thanks for your help San" Mercedes sighed as she walked over to gather her bag for class.
"Oh no problem" Santana grinned "I live for things like this. Plus seeing you all authoritative like that gave me lady wood. Sure you don't want to join me and Brit?"
Mercedes laughed at her friend as she laced her arm into hers. And arm and arm they walked to homeroom.
"Okay" Sam reassured "this will only take three minutes, five tops. And when I'm done we can grab coffee for an hour before I go into work"
"Okay" Mercedes sighed. She positioned her self on the wall across the hall from the boy's locker room door. "I'll be waiting here while you clean out your locker."
Sam smiled as he backed into the locker room door. He figured everyone on the team had already cleaned out their lockers, so he would quickly clean his after school, with no distractions. However, when he walked in, he saw that Shane had the same idea. Sam froze for a second right inside of the room. He was shocked to find him here. Shane looked at him for a quick second and returned to his previous task.
"Uh hey" Sam said awkwardly.
Shane scoffed as he looked down at his bag.
Sam walked over to his locker and opened it. He figured the faster he cleaned his locker the better. Then he thought about Mercedes outside waiting for him. He knew that she was upset that Shane was still so angry at her, although she attempted to hide it. He figured that the air needed to be cleared.
"Hey man" Sam sighed "Uh I know your up set"
Shane remained quite, refusing to look at his teammate.
"But Mercedes and I never… we never you know" Sam struggled to find the words. "We never did anything while you two were together. She was faithful to you, and never wanted to hurt you." He figured Shane would assume that they had some type of elicit affair while they were together. He knows if the shoe was on the other foot, he would have assumed the worst.
Shane huffed as he gathered his bag on his shoulder. He began to walk to the door, not even acknowledging Sam, or his words. Sam sighed as he turned back to his locker. A small part of him did feel bad for Shane. He understood what it meant to see the girl you care about with another guy. He sighed as he waited to hear the door open and close.
"I knew from her eyes"
Sam's head snapped up and towards the door to see the large teens back turned towards him, his bag firmly in his hand. "Wha- what?" Sam questioned.
"That she and I would be over soon" Shane clarified "I knew that she was going to leave me from the way she looked at you. Even when we were at our happiest, she never looked at me the way she looked at you." He admitted.
"Oh" Sam whispered.
"Is she happy?" Shane questioned
"Yes, yes she is" Sam answered confidently.
"Good" Shane huffed. "Keep her that way. She deserves it"
And with that Shane opened the door and disappeared on the other side of it into the hallway. Sam sat stunned for a second, quite from Shane's words. He then smiled quietly to himself, as he finished cleaning out his locker.
When he walked out with his bag in hand Mercedes rushed up to him. She had a slightly panicked look on her face.
"Are you okay" she questioned as she looked into his eyes.
Sam smiled widely "Yeah, of course I'm okay" he placed a gentle kiss on her forehead, in an attempt to clam her.
"I mean I saw Shane walk out of the locker room and I got scared you two fought or argued or something. I mean he only looked at me and walked down the hall without a word."
"It's okay. We talked" Sam sighed.
"Really?" she asked in a confused toned "about what?"
"Oddly enough, he kina gave us his blessing, in a weird round about way" Sam said, still attempting to figure out what had just happened between he and Shane.
"Oh, wow" Mercedes said shocked.
"See" Sam smiled "everything's going to be epic with us. I told ya"
"I guess your right" Mercedes agreed. "Its like the world is finally allowing us to be together"
"Yeah I know" He said placing his arm around her shoulder, pulling her close, as they made their way to the door. "Like earlier, I saw Sugar today, and when she saw me she stopped and basically ran the other way" Sam recalled. "I wonder what that was about"
"I have no clue" Mercedes shrugged
"Well whatever" Sam sighed. "Let me get my lady some coffee before I head to work" he smiled
"I'd like that" Mercedes smiled, happy that their first day went so smoothly.
If you read my previous story you know what Sugar did and you KNOW Mercedes couldn't let that crap go without addressing it (I know I wouldn't lol)
The Movie refernce with Sean Penn was I am Sam (Loved that movie! makes me ugly cry somthing terrible)
As for Shane, I never hated him. He was put on the show as a sub but had not found a place on it (sorry) and I would rather him be on Cougar Town playing off the son because he was funny in that role. I just wanted him to have more line on there (Cougar Town).