Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Glee.

"This is not happening!" She found herself screaming out loud. Who in the hell thought this would be a great idea. She glanced over to her soon to be ex-best friend Kurt. He smiled at her sweetly and she wanted to smack the smile off his face. He knew the moment he agreed to this she would flip out and he went along anyways. Mercedes smiled sweetly and excused herself to a room of surprised looks and grabbed Kurt with her. She was so angry she didn't see him grab Rachel with him. She let him go in the bathroom and sighed angrily.

"What did you do?"

Kurt lifted his hands up and exhale, "Now hold on Cedes you need to calm down."

"Yeah we were just trying to do something nice." Rachel said sweetly.

"Can it Berry you are next. I can't believe you two. If I wanted a party to celebrate this day I would have thrown it myself. I cannot believe you two went behind my back like this. You guys have known me for ten years and now you want to do this."

Someone knocked on the door and they all Blaine walked into the room. "Uh guys the natives are growing restless are we celebrating or not?"

"Well?" Kurt said looking at Mercedes, "are we celebrating or not?"

Rachel smiled, "Come on almost the whole glee club is here. And our friends from New York and LA. Even Mr. Shue and Coach Sue came to celebrate. You are going to go out there and tell them that because of your pride you don't want to spend this time with your friends."

Mercedes rolled her eyes. Damn her for being right. When Kurt called her this morning telling her he was picking her up she had no idea that six hours later along with a body wrap, massage, shopping for the perfect outfit and getting her hair and makeup done she would be attending a celebration in her honor. She didn't have the heart to turn them down, they were just so excited about the Grammy nomination. She was too but fear soon crept back in as she wondered if she would even win. She was up against some of the biggest name in the industry. She knew she wouldn't win and should be happy just to be nominated but she wanted it. She wanted that Grammy so bad.

She rolled her eyes looking at her three friends and knowing this meant a lot to them.

"Ok fine lets go party."

Kurt let out a sigh of relief. "Ok good because I told everyone you would sing for us too." He was already halfway out the room so her grab for him was in vain. Rachel and Blaine followed after Kurt and Mercedes glanced at herself once more in the mirror. She straightened out the Lace filled drop waist open back red slitted chiffon floor length dress. She reached in her matching bag and re touched her lip gloss. She fluffed her long wavy hair and gave herself one last look over. She sighed walking out of the restroom when a voice stopped her in her heeled tracks.

"I always knew you could do it."

Mercedes turned towards the voice feeling the pit of her stomach sink to her toes. Butterflies ran rampant inside her as he moved closer to her.

"You look beautiful."

She stared at his gorgeous Jade eyes and thick full lips. His Blonde hair was shorter than the last time she had seen him. As got closer to her she felt he was walking in slow motion. His moves slow and sexy like a lion circling his prey. His gaze was doing things to her like it always did. Seeing him should have sent her on a tailspin. It should have made her feel like the most beautiful woman in the world because his glares did that to her but this time all she felt was the sting of his words and the hurt of his actions.

Anger soon overtook her happiness to see him and she lifted her hand to him. Unaware of her actions she slapped him across the face. She then did an about face and clicked her heels out of the hallway and into the reception hall.

Sam rubbed his throbbing face. When his best friend Blaine called him about Mercedes's Grammy nomination he knew he wanted to be there to celebrate with her, but he also knew after the way they left things she would be upset to see him, but there was no way he was going to let all his friends celebrate without him. He cared too much about her to let that happen. He bit down on his bottom lip. He smiled saying the one thing he knew would make her mad and turned on. "Aww Cedes I hate to for you to leave but I love to see you walk away."

Her steps falter for a second which let him know he still had a hold on her.