You said you never met one boy
Who had as many James Taylor records as you
But I do
We tell stories and you don't know why
I'm coming off a little shy
But I do

"Are you mad at me?" Blaine whispered to Sam in the choir room while Mr. Schue was going on about something no one really understood.

Sam had been avoiding Blaine for the most part over the past few days. It was Friday afternoon and ever since their get together on Wednesday Blaine really hadn't heard much from his best friend. He wasn't responding to texts and barely looked at him when they walked past each other in the hall. Sam completely ignored him in Geography, pretending he didn't even exist.

"What? No."

"Well it kind of seems like it. Is it because of what I said on Wednesday? It was honestly a joke."

"I know, shhh." Sam tried his best to pretend like he was actually paying attention to Mr. Schue's lesson. When their teacher stopped talking everyone in the room started getting up, collecting their things, chatting each other up and leaving. Sam almost booked it out the door and Blaine followed him.

"Wait, Sam… wait." He caught up to Sam and put a hand on his shoulder to get him to stop. Sam looked back and forth between Blaine's hand and Blaine's face. "What's going on? Tell me honestly, did I do something?"

Sam shoulder rolled his hand off. "You didn't do anything."

"Then why-"

"Stop, just. You didn't do anything. Okay? Can we leave it at that?"

Blaine agreed by holding his hands up to surrender. They stood there for a moment in awkward silence, it was after school and almost all the students had left. Sam turned to leave and Blaine followed him.

"Did you want to do something tomorrow? Come over and we can watch some movies or something."

Sam thought for a moment, a part of him really wanted to but another part of him didn't. Yes, he was avoiding Blaine for a reason, but not the reason Blaine thought. Over the past few days Sam had come to realize that he felt things for Blaine he shouldn't feel. He felt things beyond friendship. It was confusing for him and he didn't know why it was happening. All he knew was that when he looked at Blaine's smile it made his heart happy and when he could smell Blaine's cologne he felt butterflies in his stomach and when he heard Blaine's voice he licked his lips without even realizing it. Sam knew he was straight, he always had been and he never really doubted it. There's was never a part of him that was attracted to another boy the way he felt an attraction to Blaine but something happened on Wednesday night that made him realize maybe there was a part of him that was able to feel those things. A part of him he didn't know existed.

"Yeah, okay," Sam gave into the temptation. "That sounds cool."

"6?"

Sam nodded and smiled cautiously before turning to leave.

Blaine's bedroom was dark, lit only with lamps and candles. "It's kind of the opposite of what you'd expect my room to be." Blaine said as he showed Sam's his room for the first time that day. "It's really comfortable, though. I promise." He smiled and patted Sam on the back who smiled back as a response.

He was wearing track pants and t-shirt he had had for years, Sam on the other hand was wearing jeans and button up shirt that was fancier than almost all of his other shirts. "Why would you wear that to a movie night?" Blaine sat on the bed, Sam in front of him. "I mean, you look good but it can't be comfortable."

'You look good.' Sam's face went a little red without him even noticing.

"Here," Blaine got up and walked over to his old, wooden dresses that he's had for ages. He opened the bottom drawer and pulled out a pair of blue and grey plaid pajamas and a much worn t-shirt he got for 50 cents at a yard sale last year. "Put these on, if you want…" Sam took them hesitantly. He knew he would be more comfortable in the clothes he was being handed but something about wearing Blaine's clothes seemed almost too intimate. "You don't have to, I just figure you'll be more comfortable in them. Did you want some popcorn?"

"Yeah, sure." Sam spoke quietly. He was still debating with whether he wanted to change. Blaine nodded and left Sam alone in his room. A few seconds stood between his debate and his decision to change into Blaine's pajamas. He stayed in his own shirt but he was sure that his jeans would be too tight to relax in. When he got dressed before coming over, he was focusing a little more on looking good than he was on comfort, which was something rare for Sam Evans.

When Blaine returned with a tray full of drinks and popcorn Sam was sitting on his bed. "I knew you'd be more comfortable." Blaine greeted Sam with a matter-of-fact comment.

All Sam did was smirk sarcastically. "What movie are we gonna watch?"

"Uhm," Blaine put the tray down on the bed and walked over to his DVD stand. "What kind of movies do you like?"

"Do you have star wars?"

"I don't… I'm sorry." Blaine had a playful tone in his voice. He thought it was cute how much Sam liked star wars.

"Why do you own this?" Sam had made his way over to the shelf of movies and reached from behind Blaine to grab Mean Girls from the pack.

"Are you kidding me? This movie," He grabbed the movie out of Sam's hand. "Is an important part of American film history."

Sam shrugged and joked, "That's really something, Blaine."

"Don't act like you don't love it."

"I've never seen it."

Blaine stood there silently, his mouth slightly a jar as Sam looked through the rest of his DVDs. It took a few moments before he realized Blaine was just standing there staring at him. "What?"

"We're watching this." He made his way over to the DVD player and popped it in before Sam could even have any say.

"Dude…"

"No. Don't even start." Blaine was laughing. "You've never seen it, you'll love it. If Kanye West loves it, you'll love it."

"Does Kanye really like it?"

"Loves it."

Blaine's bed was big enough for both of them to fit in comfortably without being uncomfortable. By the time the Jingle Bell Rock scene came along Sam was into the movie. He kept asking Blaine why things were happening or what things meant. He'd quietly repeat lines to himself and laugh 'she's fabulous but she's evil'. Blaine couldn't help but laugh at Sam's enthusiasm for the movie. They snacked away at the popcorn Blaine supplied and laughed for a solid 5 minutes when Damian yelled "I want my pink shirt back!' They both spent half the movie watching each other. Blaine wanted to see how Sam was reacting to some of his favourite moments and Sam wanted to watch Blaine. Whenever he got caught look at Blaine's he would shrug or laugh or roll his eyes to make it seem like he didn't mean to be looking at him.

When the movie was over and the credits started Blaine asked Sam what he thought. "So?"

"Okay… it wasn't awful."

"You're in denial." Blaine joked before he got up to turn the movie off. Without saying anything he returned to the bed Sam was still comfortably sitting in, his back against the headboard.

"Sam, why were you mad at me?"

"I wasn't mad at you. Dude, we already talked about this."

"I know we did, but if you weren't mad at me then why were you ignoring me?"

"It really doesn't matter, okay?"

"Well if it doesn't matter then will you just tell me?"

"Blaine…" There was a slight irritation in Sam's voice, but he wasn't mad at Blaine. He knew if he was being ignored by his best friend he would want to know why, too.

"At least tell me if it had anything to do with Wednesday." Blaine's eyes were deep, his honest curiosity was bubbling over.

Sam was getting a little upset. He wasn't ready to answer Blaine's question. It did have a lot to do with Wednesday but he was scared to admit that to anyone, especially his best friend because he was the reason behind it.

"I'm not…gay, Blaine."

Blaine ducked his head and then looked back up, nodding. "I made you feel uncomfortable."

"No… it's not that, I just… I don't know."

"I need you to tell me what I did, so I don't do it again. You're my best friend and the last thing I want is to make you feel uncomfortable. I don't even know what I did… so, please tell me so I can-"

"What do you feel when you think about me?"

Blaine was taken a little aback by Sam's question.

"Uhm… I don't know." He picked at the hem of his blanket. "I guess I just… Sam, I don't want to make you uncomfortable."

"Stop worrying about that, it's okay… I need to know the answer."

Blaine scoffed, not knowing exactly what to say. "I like talking to you and being around you. I like knowing that I have you in my life and seeing you makes me really happy. But I guess, more than that, I'm attracted to you, and I know I shouldn't be because you're my best friend, but I am."

Sam nodded his head and bit his upper lip, scared to say anything. He looked down for a beat before looking up at Blaine. "It's just that when you say those things, that's kind of how I feel… about you."

"Oh."

Sam contorted his face to say 'so, now what' without actually saying it.

"Are you sure?"

Sam was almost irritated that Blaine would doubt him. "Blaine, I know what I feel."

"Right. Uhm…" Blaine scrunched his eyebrows and rubbed his temple with his index and middle fingers. "Well, do you, d-do-" He was stuttering because he didn't know how to speak. If Sam had feelings for him that would be amazing, but he didn't want to act on his own feelings in case Sam was uncomfortable with that. He knew he would be unfamiliar with it.

Sam didn't know what he wanted either. "Blaine, when I look at your face it looks super kissable and delicious and stuff but I'm not, like, ready for that."

Blaine's face went beet red. The fact that Sam was feeling these things for Blaine made Blaine's spine tingle, he just really didn't want to take advantage of him. "Well, what are you ready for?"

He shrugged and shook his head.

"Okay, I'm just gonna shoot out some, you know, possibilities, okay?" Sam nodded before Blaine continued. "We could date, or you know, not date, uhm, we can ignore it or…forget it. If you want to wait and see how you feel in a few days or weeks, maybe we could do that. If you wanted to leave, you could leave, or…I could leave?" He got confused by his own proposition to leave his house. "Look, Sam, I've had these feelings for you for a long time now, but this is all new to you, you've made it clear that you're not… gay, so I don't want to make any assumptions or make any…moves. I just need you to tell me what you want."

Sam didn't answer right away. It was obvious on his face that he was thinking about how to answer. "I need you to promise me that we can take this really slow."

Blaine perked up a little, nodding, hoping he understood what his friend was saying. "Absolutely."

"I don't know what I'm doing or what I'm supposed to do but any other time I've liked someone I've been able to tell them and I've never felt these things for another dude before so, I don't know exactly what to do."

"Is there anything you want me to do?"

"You like me, right?"

Blaine couldn't help but let the soft smile sneak its way across his face. "Yes, Sam. I do."

"Okay, just… keep doing that, okay?"

Blaine looked at Sam with a sense of adventure in his eyes. "Wait, are you saying that you want to be…"

"God, Blaine, yes… just don't tell anyone okay? I'm not ready for that yet."

"I-I won't tell anyone."

"Okay…" Sam nodded and a sharp silence fell between them, neither knowing exactly what to do at this point. Sam has made it clear he wants to let his feelings exist and he wants to embrace them but he had no idea what that mean. Neither did Blaine. The two of them were starting something new and fresh and interesting that couldn't be explained by any words like boyfriends, dating, friends with benefits, the only thing they were both sure of was that they shared their feelings and they wanted to explore them. "Do you have The Wizard Of Oz?"

"I do." Their conversation lost all the tension and flowed back to its normal state.

"Can weeeee watch it?"

Blaine got up and grabbed it off the shelf as Sam sat on the bed throwing popcorn in the air and catching it in his mouth.

Thanks for the interest int he story from all of you! It's going to focus a lot on Sam becoming familiar and okay with what he feels. It's going to explore their relationship and how far it can go and what they both feel comfortable with.

Thanks again, you guys!