Okay so once again I have to admit that I'm a sucker for Sam and Rory has really grown on my since writing the first chapter (although they have to actually use his character better in Glee!) I seriously appreciate the reviews and just knowing the people like the writing/pairing/storyline is what keeps me writing stories. Oh I'm not sure about the song part of the story but if you like it then yay but if you don't then I won't do it again. It's just that I promised a song in the last one and didn't do it and then I nearly didn't deliver again but had to reconsider it and decided to put it in.

Disclaimer - I do not own the characters and this is purely fictional. The right for the characters remains with the creator and I in no way suggest any sort of ownership of them. Fiction is just for fun.

Blonde and Green - Chapter 2

It wasn't like Sam had been ignoring him. Or had he? Rory's head drowned in the confusion of being in a relationship every time thought about Sam - and it had only been a week since they started dating. He hadn't seen Sam very much, apart from at glee club, although even that was very awkward between them.

Shortly after their first kiss they had decided they didn't want all the drama. It was bad enough with everyone dating everyone else in glee that they should just let people believe they were happy being single.

Rory entered the glee club practice room to find most of the participants already there; including his boyfriend. Sam was sat at the front of the room, slouched down in the chair slightly with his arms folded, as usual. He even managed to make slouching look sexy. Rory's eyes quickly surveyed the room and he had to find a spot near Sam but not close enough that it would be awkward for the two of them all class. After a couple of seconds of looking, Rory decided on a seat at the front of the room, a couple of chairs away from Sam. They had done this kind of seating before, when Rory and Sam weren't dating, and Rory always noticed Sam out of the corner of his eye so he was hoping for the same this time.

As Rory sat down, Sugar threw herself into the seat next to him, one of the ones between him and Sam. She was, as usual, bright and bubbly, wearing girly colours of pink and purples with hearts and sequins dotted around. Rory sat wearing brown pants and a dark green shirt; he always felt so dull next to Sugar.

"So Rory" Sugar began. She couldn't do anything by half and it always took Rory off balance when she turned to him and railed off a hyper sentence that almost knocked him off his chair. "You know you went as my date to my party on Valentine's Day?" She didn't wait for Rory to answer, of course he remembered, no one forgot the effect Sugar had on them. "Well, I had so much fun last time that I've decided we're going out again. Tonight. I'll meet you at Breadsticks and you can buy me dinner." Mr Schu entered the class at precisely the wrong moment. Now Rory couldn't turn down the date because otherwise he'd have to interrupt Mr Schu and draw attention to himself.

He glanced over at Sam who seemed to catch his look. Their eyes met and Sam smiled first. Sam had the most infectious smile - maybe it was because he seemed like the jock type until you got to know him and then you found out he was a real dork - but his smile always made Rory smile too.

"Okay, so we're going to be doing duets again, to see which pair are the best and should be our main singers at Nationals." Rachel and Finn paired up. Mike and Tina paired up. Blaine and Kurt paired up. Brittany and Santana paired up. "Guys, don't you think we should mix up the pairs a bit more? Who knows what chemistry you'll have with someone else in the room?"

"You're not going to suggest the hat again are you Mr Schu?" Mr Schu was busy ignoring Tina's comment and picked a small hat up from behind the piano.

"We're going to pick names out of the hat." The room groaned at the thought of this. Now people were going to get stuck with other people they didn't like. "This way you might be paired with someone that will surprise you. No changing partners though. What the hat says is final."

Everyone's name was written down onto individual pieces of paper and dropped into the hat. Mr Schu shuffled the names around and decided, instead of letting the student pick for themselves, that he would pick for them. This way no one could complain about not getting to pick their partner because no one was picking.

Rory prayed that he would get called out alongside Sam and they could do a duet together. He was also hoping for anyone apart from Sugar because then he could at least escape their date together.

Mr Schu reached into the hat and pulled out the first name. "Finn." Rory didn't mind Finn, he could live with having to sing with Finn. "And…" Mr Schu pulled out a second piece of paper. "Tina." Neither of them looked thrilled with the pairing but they got along so they couldn't really complain too much. "The next couple is…" Mr Schu's hand went back into the hat. "Rachel." Rachel was a bit shocked to hear her name considering her only choice of partner had now gone. "And…"

"Mr Schu, don't you think that pulling names out of a hat is a risky way of deciding who should partner who? I mean-"

"Kurt." Both Kurt and Rachel let out an ear piercing scream. They were arguably two of the best and most versatile singers in the whole club. With Kurt's voice they were able to do any duet they could think of, and most of the time they wouldn't even have to change the lyrics for Kurt.

"I'm sorry Blaine." Kurt apologised before running over to Rachel and the two of them began discussing songs. Rory couldn't help but think how understanding Blaine had to be to let his boyfriend just run off like that.

"Rory." Rory thought he was being told off for staring or daydreaming but then he realised his name had been pulled out of the hat.

Please be Sam. Please don't be Sugar. The thoughts rattled around in his head more than he could cope and it felt like a lifetime before Mr Schu actually pulled a name out of the hat again.

"And…" It was the same amount of time but it felt like Mr Schu was drawing it out; Rory wondered if he knew about him and Sam. Had he figured it out? Had they been that obvious? They couldn't have been; they hadn't spoken since they arrived at glee today. "Quinn."

The room fell silent. There couldn't have been a more awkward pairing to have come out of the hat. Not only did Quinn used to be head cheerleader, not only had she changed dramatically since coming back this year, but she was also Sam's ex-girlfriend. Rory looked over to Quinn at the back of the room. Her expression hadn't changed much. She didn't seem disgusted at having to deal with the exchange student, but she didn't look thrilled with it either.

Sam's partner had to be a good choice because Rory didn't think he could stand having another awkward pairing. Sam was paired with Blaine - the other gay guy in the class. Every inch of Rory's body wanted to stand up and complain to Mr Schuester. He wanted to explain what was going on with him and Sam and then maybe Mr Schu would change the pairings so that he could get to sing with his boyfriend. But he couldn't do that without drawing attention to himself which is the last thing he wanted.

The pairs were all finally set up although Rory couldn't remember anyone else apart from himself and Quinn and Sam and Blaine. After practice everyone decided to split off into their partners. Sam and Blaine went off somewhere down the hallway and all Rory could do was pray it wasn't the locker room. He didn't want to imagine the two of them 'practicing' in the place that they had their first kiss. Rory just followed Quinn.

She led him to an empty classroom. It was going to be empty because school was out and so everyone had gone home. Rory would've invited Quinn back to his apart from it looked too forward and he was living with Brittany. "So, Irish, got any songs in mind?" The way most people called him Irish was offensive, like they wanted him to go back home, but the glee clubbers never meant it that way. Not even Quinn. Rory assumed she'd called him it because she couldn't actually remember his real name.

"It has to be a duet?" Rory felt stupid for asking the question but his mind was somewhere else entirely. He couldn't be expected to keep one half of his mind on Sam and the other half on the duets project.

"It does help a duet's project if we choose a duet." Quinn said as she walked around the classroom admiring some of the work.

"Sorry. I guess I'm just a little bit distracted."

"He won't cheat on you." Rory was shocked to hear the words come out of Quinn's mouth. They weren't even looking at each other but he knew that she knew.

"I'm sorry?" He turned around and Quinn turned to face him. Her expression rarely changed but she had such a readable face that it didn't need to.

"Sam. He's a good guy." Rory had expected her to at least say something horrible about Sam, considering they used to date.

"I don't know what you mean." Quinn had to smile. She knew exactly what Rory was going through. She'd been in his position before, even with Sam, and so she knew that he was trying to deny everything.

"You're dating Sam Evans; the blonde guy that you keep giving stolen glances to across the practice room? There's a reason I sit at the back you know. I see everything that's going on." On the old Quinn that would have sounded creepy and manipulative but she wasn't that girl anymore. "So what's going on between you two?"

Rory gave up trying to argue and sat down in one of the classroom chairs. "I don't know. We started dating last week and I have all these feelings inside me. Whenever he's away from me I get really sad but then when he's near it's like my heart is trying to escape from my chest. I don't know what's wrong with me." Quinn had to laugh. Once again she knew everything he was saying and had been there with a few guys before. For Rory, Quinn was the best partner he could have found, he just didn't realise it immediately.

"You're in love." Rory shook his head as if the idea was ridiculous. "Does the idea of him holding your hand send shivers down your spine? Does the idea of him kissing you make you weak at the knees and you can't help but smile?" Rory wanted to deny everything she was saying but then he started to get flashbacks to their first kiss and the smile crept across his lips. "You're in love. It's okay, you can say it."

"We've barely spoken to each other all week. We have the occasional text message or phone call but other than that we don't talk much during school."

"It's a new relationship and you're both new at dating guys. Trust me, when you both get more comfortable with love then you'll be like Blaine and Kurt." Rory shuddered when he heard Blaine's name. Right now Blaine was right where Rory wanted to be. "Tell Sam how you feel."

"I can't."

The week passed by and Sam and Rory spent more time together, although Rory always wanted more. They had occasional stolen dates when they found themselves alone together in random places for an hour or so. They had a nice dinner at Breadsticks and a couple of minutes alone in a movie theatre before the others arrived. But everything always ended the same. It would always be a secret kiss and then they'd say goodbye. Rory wasn't sure if he could admit it but maybe he was in love. He couldn't have enough of Sam and even his flaws were endearing. There was nothing that Sam could do to annoy him. But he still didn't want to admit his feelings, not until he was sure that Sam felt the same way.

"And next up is the unlikely pairing of Rory and Quinn." Rory and Quinn took the centre of the room and before Mr Schuester sat down he turned to them and asked "I hope you found some common ground for a duet?"

Quinn smiled her usual smile, the kind that sometimes appeared fake but was often more genuine than she let on. "We found something." The music for "I Won't Say I'm In Love" from Disney's Hercules began to play and Rory began the singing.

[Rory]
If there's a prize for rotten judgement
I guess I've already won that
No man is worth the aggravation
That's ancient history
Been there, done that

[Quinn]
Who'd you think you're kiddin'?
He's the Earth and Heaven to you
Try to keep it hidden
Honey, we can see right through you
Now, you can't conceal it
We know how you feel and
Who you're thinking of

[Rory]
No chance, No way
I won't say it, no, no

[Quinn]
You swoon, you sigh,
Why deny it? uh-oh

[Rory]
It's too cliché
I won't say I'm in love

I thought my heart had learned its lesson
It feels so good when you start out
My head is screaming "Get a grip, now!"
Unless you're dying to cry your heart out
Oh

[Quinn]
You keep on denying
Who you are and how you're feeling
Baby, were not buying
Hon, we saw you hit the ceiling
Face it like a grown-up
When you gonna own up
That you got, got, got it bad?

[Rory]
No chance, no way,
I won't say it, no, no

[Quinn]
Give up, give in
Check the grin you're in love

[Rory]
This scene won't play,
I won't say I'm in love

[Quinn]
You're doin' flips, read our lips:
You're in love

[Rory]
You're way off base, I won't say it
Get off my case, I won't say it

[Quinn]
Now, don't be proud
It's ok you're in love

[Rory]
Oh
At least out loud,
I won't say I'm in love

The round of applause was staggered. No one had expected Rory and Quinn to be able to work together so well but somehow they'd managed to pull it off. Rory realised that he was getting a few strange looks from people and had to cast his mind back to the song. They had remembered to change all the genders in the song hadn't they? "no man is worth the aggravation" rang in Rory's mind as he realised what he'd done and wondered how many of the other glee clubbers had noticed. Had he been staring too much at Sam as well? Had he just completely blown their secret after two weeks?

Sam leaned across to Rory - only Quinn was sat between them - and whispered "I think I'm in love." Rory blushed, not really understanding what the future held for the two of them now that Sam had said it.

Remember that reviews are greatly appreciated and if you'd like to see any particular storyline develop from this then feel to say so. Also if you want to know what happened between Sam and Blaine then I could try writing that but you'll have to let me know, otherwise I have to guess at what people want. Oh and don't hate me for using Quinn so much, she is my favourite Glee character, and I wanted to give Sam and Rory a chapter of not being together. So yeah anyway, as always, let me know what you thought!