Finn slammed the door of his room as loud as he could. He didn't really mean to be dramatic. He figured he learned that a little from Rachel. He threw himself on his bed and pounded the pillow with his fist. Secretly he imagined the pillow was Sam Evans.

His brother was also of the dramatic variety and he flung Finn's door open.

"No! I do not knock so don't even ask!" Kurt said standing before his brother looking slightly disappointed "What the hell, was that?" Kurt asked

"Kurt, please I don't want to talk right now. Just leave me alone. I need to crawl away in a hole and rot." Finn buried his head in the Sam Evans pillow. "I'm so pissed!" He screamed grasping the pillow tightly and turning all shades of red.

Kurt looked on and he swore Finn was actually crying.

"Finn Hudson, stop that right now" Kurt yelled. "Rachel is freaking out downstairs and I personally do not have the patience to sit through another talk"

Kurt walked over to his brother and massaged his head "you're doing the right thing. Mercedes is happy with Sam"

Finn groaned into the pillow "THEY'RE NOT EVEN TOGETHER!"

"This is true but those two are in love and if you've learned anything from high school thus far, you won't get in the way of that. Come on, you're my brother and I love and I won't sit here and watch you go crazy over Mercedes anymore. She's not into you Finn and you need to be a man and face your demons. Tell Rachel you asked her to marry you so you can bury Mercedes deep deep somewhere in your brain where you will never think of her and how you feel awful but your relationship with her has become toxic and that you need time to breathe." Kurt breathed in. That was months of venting he needed to do. He needed to slap his brother with reality. His feelings for Mercedes Jones would never be relevant and he needed to accept it.

Finn looked up to his brother, his eyes blood shot from crying.

"I'm so stupid, Kurt. I should have just told her when I had the chance. I should have never tried to work things out with Rachel. I should have never let Sam steal her away from me." he was sobbing now.

usually this would make anyone uncomfortable but Kurt had grown used to Finn's impure thoughts of Mercedes. How he talked about her everyday, how he stared at her when no one was looking, how the two talked almost every night about their day as if it were a necessity. Mercedes and Finn were great friends but sometime last summer, Mercedes and Finn ended up spending more time together, igniting a fire in Finn's heart that he had never felt before. As months passed, Finn kept digging the hole he made for himself deeper, acting like a complete asshole in school to Santana about her sexuality, and trying to convince himself that Rachel was the one for him. Mercedes was Shane's and Finn thought Shane was pretty cool. He wasn't going to ruin anything between them. And then Sam Evans came back. Finn thought Sam was his friend and although he never really told him, Finn thought he had made it clear at some point that he saw Mercedes romantically. Kurt had told Finn Mercedes was fair game and he needed to jump off his high horse. Especially if he insisted sticking with Rachel.

"he didn't steal her away from you because she was never yours" Kurt dropped a truth bomb that exploded in Finn's heart.

"you need to get over this, Finn. Stop torturing yourself. Listen, I'm already too knee deep into this mess. I hate that I chose my brotherly love for you over my friendship with Mercy. I miss her too you know! I hate that I stopped being her friend as if we never existed because you couldn't stand having her in the same house. That's not fair, Finn." Kurt kept going…like word vomit.

Finn's phone started ringing and both him and Kurt looked in the direction of the phone. It was on the carpeted floor. Finn must have chucked it when he burst into his bedroom.

Kurt ran to get it and Finn wrestled him to the floor.

"Kurt! please! it's Mercedes! I need to speak to her! Please!" Finn pleaded as the phone kept ringing to "At Last" By Etta James. It was the ringtone he had used for Mercedes' number.

Kurt saw the hurt in his brother's eyes and he handed the phone to him.

He made his way out the door and looked at Finn before leaving "five minutes. that's all I'll give you. I'll go talk to Rachel" kurt smiled at his brother and made his way to the friend he was practically forced to keep. Still, till this day he couldn't help but think of how things would have been different if Finn just told Mercedes how he felt. They would be together and Blaine and him would go on double dates with them. But Kurt was good friends with Sam and he knew how Sam felt about his diva. He sighed and made his way to the living room where a distraught Rachel Berry sat.

Rachel stood up and looked at Kurt.

"Does he hate me?" Rachel asked softly. Leave it to Rachel to make this about her, Kurt thought.

"He doesn't hate you Rachel. He's got a lot to think about. You didn't have to go call Jesse! I mean, what's wrong with you? you know how much Finn hates him!" Kurt yelled at his "bestie"

Rachel looked visibly hurt and started crying "I apologized for that! I don't love Jesse but I just can't help it, when he's around, everything kind of shifts. We have all these things in common…you understand, don't you?"

"No, I don't" Kurt said bluntly.

"So wait, I can't go call Jesse and make plans but the minute I mention his name, Finn can make up stories about how he's in love with Mercedes to spite me? I mean that's ridiculous! Mercedes?" Rachel said fighting a chuckle. "It's comical"

Kurt's eyes opened wide and he felt his heart tear into pieces. She was not insulting his soul mate.

"what is so ridiculous about My brother being in love with Mercedes? She is amazing and I'm sure she doesn't have Jesse St. James on speed dial!" Kurt was really letting it all out now.

Rachel gasped and Kurt covered his mouth.

Finn picked up the phone and before he could even speak, Mercedes was already yelling

"What the ever living hell was that? FINN HUDSON! I'm so pissed right now I could march over there and strangle you! How dare you use me as a ploy to get back at Rachel? What if Sam was there?"

Finn closed his eyes. he was fucked. Why did it always go back to Sam.

He was so enraged he was bitten by the Kurt bug and he wasn't holding back.

" Why do we always have to mention him? Sam? Sam left you Mercedes. He left you when you needed him the most. Who was there to pick up the pieces? It was me! you cried on my shoulder! You called ME every night. IT WAS ME! I didn't use you as a fucking ploy Mercedes. The truth is you drive me crazy! I can't stop thinking about you and I'm only with Rachel so I could cover up my feelings for you! I'm sick and tired of lying! I FUCKING LOVE YOU! there! are you happy! I'm eternally fucked anyway so why not keep digging this damn hole for myself. WHO THE FUCK CARES ANYMORE? you're going to run to Sam anyway and I have to hang up this phone and play nice with Rachel. And let her fuck around with Jesse behind my back because I deserve to torture myself for never telling you how I felt when I had the damn chance"

Finn was out of breathe and the phone fell silent.

he was about to call out her name when she spoke again

Finn, we can't talk about this right now but whatever you do, do not go downstairs and go back with Rachel. you deserve to be happy.

Finn's brain stopped working. Did she just completely ignore his confession?

When you're done talking to her, come over. We need to talk about everything you just said. I can't do this over the phone. Bye Finnie.

Mercedes hung up and Finn was more confused than ever. He got up and made his way to face the inevitable