A/N: this idea came to me a couple of weeks ago. Tell me how you like it. I know it's short. But it's an opener :D Cheers! X Rose


A Life Less Travelled

Daniel Azimo looked at Mercedes Jones. She was all the woman that he needed and more. She was beautiful, talented and very, very sexy. And when he heard her sing for the very first time, he had almost choked on his own breathe. But he couldn't admit that to anyone now could he?

He just had to come up with a plan that would change her mind about him. He wasn't really that threating bully that she saw at school, who pushed people around that was smaller than him. It was just all a front because he didn't want to be hurt by anyone again.

Azimo had spent most of his life being beaten up by his father Davit and three older brothers; nineteen year old Daxton (Dax), seventeen year old twins: Senson (Sen), and Wilbet (Bet). His mother had run off with his father's brother Farley, which had made his father and brother so angry with him because he's face was the spitting image of their mother. So after she had left, he had become their daily punching bag for whatever reason they could come up with.

So he hit out his aggression and pain on the less fortunate, or the people who seemed to have it better than he did.

He remembered seeing his mother on the street one time, she had looked straight through him, like he didn't exist, and that had really broken him in half, and had turned him into someone as mean as the people he had at home. Whatever he received at home, he dished it twice as worse to whoever was in his path.


Mercedes Jones looked on in horrified shock, as she saw Azimo and Dave Karovsky headed her direction. She KNEW it was her turn this time. Argg! She forgot to bring a change of clothes to school with her today! She had been in such a hurry, she didn't have time to pack a single thing, and there was NO way she would fit into any of her friends clothes! She cursed herself.

Dave held the red liquid ready to aim it at her; she braced herself for the cold impact, only to open her eyes, and hear Dave Karovsky curse profanity at his team player, as the red cold liquid now lay all over his new sneakers!

"You asshole!" Dave pushed his friend against the lockers. "Why the Fuck would you do that!" he yelled at his friend.

'Yeah why did he do that?' she wondered to herself, and made the quick getaway before any of that back lash would end up anywhere near her. She had news to tell her fellow glee members. Like wow!