a/n: I love this pairing and I literally cannot explain why at all.
Warnings & Disclaimers: I don't own Glee, and I doubt I'd admit if I did. Nor do I own the song that inspired it.
For Sara, I am SO sorry it's so late today, but I did get it done.
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you always really knew:
I just wanna be with you.
"But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you.
You got me wrapped around your finger,
Do you have to let it linger?"
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one.
Their hands brush in Chemistry and it's the first time in months she's touched him, but she's not surprised to still feel the rush of adrenaline his warm hand shoots through her. He doesn't look up, like touching her must be the most natural thing in the world that it doesn't even phase him.
She knows it's wrong- this emotional warfare she has in her heart over Sam when Marcus is waiting outside the door. She knows that, but sometimes all girls really want is to feel beautiful and it's the first time in her life she's really ever had two boys fight over her.
It gets tiring watching Rachel or Quinn crying over Finn or Puck, or whoever the hell it may be that week, when Mercedes could hardly count her kisses on one hand. Then Sam came along and took her dark hand in his warm fingers and she finally understood what everyone meant about love.
Sam is beautiful and goofy and honest, but most of all, Sam is love.
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two.
Marcus tells her he's transferring for a better chance at a scholarship and she's feels like the worst person in the whole world at the relief that pools in her stomach. He suggests trying to stay together but she dodges it easily because she's so, so very tired of kisses that mean nothing.
She waits and waits for signs from the blond haired boy who stole so many kisses in quiet corners and behind library shelves. She doesn't realize how she holds her breath with he's around or the way she absentmindedly traces his name on her desks.
Sam is usually predictable for her, but she's kind of always just got him in ways other people don't. He does none of the things that she thinks he will, like buying her flowers or elaborately proposing to her in the cafeteria. In fact, he just smiles at her in the halls and goes about his business.
For the first time, Mercedes feels like she's lost a piece of herself and she's pretty sure that she's never going to get it back.
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three.
"Why didn't you ask me out when Marcus and I broke up?" She finds the courage to ask the burning question right after glee practice on Thursday. He looks up at her in surprise, because really this is the last thing he is expecting. "I thought you liked me?" Her pride only allows her voice to waver once before she looks at the ground.
He sighs, "I thought you missed him, and I'm not gonna be the rebound guy again." His words trap her heart and she knows, she knows, that this boy is the one. "Why didn't you date me when I came back, I thought you liked me?" He throws her own question back at her and she winces, knowing he won't accept anything less than the truth this time.
"Because when I was with him I felt powerful, but it was empty power." She twists her fingers around the ends of her book bag straps and takes in a deep breath before raising her gaze to meet his bright blue eyes.
"You make me vulnerable, Sam, and as a girl who has always been as fierce as a tiger, I'm not used to acting like some sort of, I don't know, koala bear or something." She breathes quickly, the words falling out faster than she means them to.
But he's Sam, so he cracks a crooked smile and takes a step closer to her.
"Did you know that koala bears are my favorite animal?" He asks and she rolls her eyes, trying to hide her wide grin.
"Oh just shut up and kiss me, white boy." She laughs, pulling him closer to her.