Alright here's the next part...I still don't own Glee and thanks again for reading my crap and excuse my typos.

Once inside Mercedes followed Sam around as he mingled. She shyly drank her champagne as he worked the floor. He held her hand as she mentally told her self to stop being start struck. Every time someone would ask if she was his girlfriend she'd cut him off and say:

"I'm his plus one!" Sam would look at her quizzically. Finally he excused himself and spoke with a guy that sported a Mohawk. She walked the room alone then stood to the side, trying to figure out who she needed to speak to. "Girl get it together!" She said to herself.

"Excuse me?" She turned to see herself staring at one of the biggest movie producers she's ever known looking at her.
"I'm sorry… I was talking to myself." She confessed as he smiled at her. "I mean…I don't do it a lot… just when I need a good pep…" She rambled then stopped when he sipped his drink. "I'm sorry I'm rambling… I'm Mercedes Jones. I came here with Sam Evans!" She extended her hand and he shook it giving her a once over.

"Nice to meet you! I'm Will Schuester… are you and Sam…" He let the question linger as her eyes grew wide.

"Oh no… no… I'm just his plus one!" She said and immediately wished she hadn't.

"Never introduce yourself as anybody's plus one! This could be your moment." He advised her. She sighed cursing herself internally because she'd said that more than once tonight. "Let's try something different, okay?"

"Okay!" Mercedes nodded and smiled at him.

"Tell me about yourself." He said. She took a deep breath and looked across the room where Sam was looking around for her.

"Well… I'm trying to make it in this music business… moved here from Lima…"

"So you do sing? Great!" He said cutting her off and pulling out a card from his coat and handing it to her. "We've actually been looking for singers for this new movie we're working on. I would like for you to come and audition on Monday." Mercedes looked at the card in shock. "Sam told us he knew someone that would be great for the part. We'd like to see if you are."

"I've never acted before." She confessed thinking about the time she auditioned to be a part of a musical but Rachel was honored the part instead.

"You won't have a big role in the movie. You will be a back up singer." He said shrugging off her confession. "I'll see you then."

"Thank you!" She stated smiling as he walked away. She watched as Will stopped to talk to Sam before Sam made his way over to her smiling. "Sam, I'm really speechless." She said.

"Hey… they needed someone that can sing with soul and I felt you'd be great for the part." He admitted. "It's a small role…" She cut him off jumping into his arms hugging him. No one had ever done anything like that for her. She promoted herself. She got her the record deal she had after working really hard to get it.

"This means a lot to me!" She told him as she pulled away and looked into his eyes. He gave her a lopsided smile as she narrowed her own. "Oh wow your eyes are green!"

"Uhhhh yeah… they are!" He confirmed and stared at her eyes before she pulled away. She suddenly felt butterflies in her tummy. "Are you ready to go home yet?" He asked holding her hand. She looked down then back at him and nodded as they made way for the door.

When they got home they both went down the hall to their door. Mercedes held her doorknob silently telling herself to get inside and close her door before she did something she'd regret. She turned instead to see Sam right behind her still. He turned and pulled her close inching closer to kiss her when she stopped him.

"Sam… I…I have… a boyfriend." She said as he stepped back, shook his head then walked into his bedroom closing his door behind him.

The next morning Mercedes woke up to Rachel screaming her name. She looked over at the clock and rubbed her eyes. What the hell could she want at 7 in the morning?

"Mercedes?" Rachel barged into her bedroom. "Why is there a picture of you and Sam all over the internet, saying you're a couple?" She asked. "Look at my tumblr. Pictures of you both last night!" Mercedes sat up in shock covering her face. This could not be good. Why would his pictures even make a splash on anyone's radar? What's going to happen when Aaron sees this?

"What's going on between you and Sam?" Rachel asked again. Mercedes looked up and shook her head. "One minute you think he's a gigolo and now you're plastered all over the internet with him as your boyfriend!"

"Nothing… it's not like that!" Mercedes said getting out of bed and walking to the bathroom to brush her teeth. "And if memory serves me well… you thought he was a drug dealer and a stripper!" Mercedes shot back as she brushed her teeth.

"Well now that we know he's not… it's only shows how much more we have in common." Rachel added following her into the bathroom. Mercedes rolled her eyes as Rachel continued. "What are you going to tell Aaron when he sees this?" She asked as Mercedes gargled and then spat.

"Like I said nothing happened, so there's nothing to explain!" She replied walking back to her room just as her phone rang. "I need to take this call." She stated. Rachel shook her head and stomped away. "Aaron! You finally remembered you have a girlfriend?"

"Apparently you forgot you had a boyfriend last night too!" He replied. She rolled her eyes waiting on him to be immature about the entire thing. "I jokingly told you to go spend time with him and you go and do this!"

"Aaron… you were not joking! You just didn't know that I'd actually go and hang with him because you know there's nothing going on!"

"Naw what I know is that you have a new boyfriend so I'm going to fall back and let y'all do y'all!" He stated shocking her. She stood up on disbelief that he was actually that upset with her hanging with a friend.

"Say what now?"

"I don't have time for this."

"Aaron… nothing is going on! Sam's just a roommate nothing else!" Mercedes said just as Sam came back from his morning jog. She closed her door so that he wouldn't hear their conversation and continued to talk some sense into her boyfriend. "You can't possibly believe I'm seeing him!"

"Mercedes, it's all over the internet that you're seeing him! So you have fun with that!" He said before hanging up. She looked at her cellphone and threw it on her bed.

"He hung up on me!" She stated. "He actually broke up with me and hung up in my face." She stared at her phone wondering if it would ring again but it didn't. She decided she wouldn't mope around the house dealing with that and got herself ready and left for the studio.

When she got back from the studio she bumped into Rachel coming out of Sam's bedroom.

"Rachel? What were you doing?"

"Sam and I were just… getting to know each other better!" She smiled before walking off towards her own room. Mercedes stared at Rachel then at his door. Before she could stop herself she knocked on his door.

"Come in!" He replied. She stepped in and noticed he was drawing. He stopped and looked over at her seeming shocked that she was the one knocking. "Hey!" He said smiling at her turning completely her way.

"Hey!" She replied she paused noticing he was shirtless. "Um… so you and Rachel?" She wasn't sure what she was asking. She wasn't even sure why she was asking but if the butterflies in her stomach were any indication it was pretty obvious.

"What are you talking about?" He asked getting up and searching through his dresser.

"I mean… it makes sense you both have a lot in common and…"

"I don't like Rachel like that." He admitted cutting her off. "She's cool and all but…" He paused and looked at Mercedes. "She's not my type." He confessed, finding what he was searching and returned to his drawing.

"Oh… well I think you should at least give her a chance… you never know u might end up liking…" She stopped when he glared at her.

"She's not my type!" He repeated before getting up and walking towards her. Mercedes felt her stomach filling up with those pesky butterflies again as he got closer. "I think… you're more my type anyway." He added.

"Have you even dated…my type before?" She asked stepping back.

"Um yeah…" He replied looking at her as if she was asking a dumb question. "I've dated smart, driven and beautiful women before." He leaned back on his dresser and crossed his arms looking her way. Mercedes laughed and looked his way shaking her head.

"You know what I meant!"

"No…I don't!"

"Well if that's the case, Rachel should be your type." She replied.

"But I like you tho… so…" He walked over to her as she stepped back till she fell back on his bed. He laid on top of her inching closer to her lips. "Are you going to deny that we connected last night?" He asked. She thought back to when they almost kissed.

"I… have… a…had…" She stuttered as he lowered his head towards her. She closed her eyes preparing to kiss him.

"Mercedes, can I borrow your purple scarf?" Rachel shouted. Mercedes eyes flew opened and pushed Sam away jumping off his bed and out if his room.

"Um… yeah sure!" Mercedes said closing Sam's door behind her. Rachel looked at her suspiciously then at Sam's door.

"What were you doing in there?" She asked. Mercedes stood and tried to think of what she could say that wouldn't make her a backstabbing, man stealing friend.

"She came in to borrow my phone charger." Sam said coming out of his room and handing her his charger. She smiled at him then at Rachel.

"Let me get you that scarf!" Mercedes said walking to her room. Rachel eyed the two skeptically but stopped when Sam spoke again.

"So what do you have planned tonight, Rache?" Mercedes heard him ask. She continued to look for the scarf but listened carefully.

"I was going to check out this new bar that just opened across town. Do you want to come with me?" Mercedes heard Rachel ask. She could hear Rachel's eyelashes fluttering flirtatiously from her room.

"Sure… let me get ready and we'll check it out!" He replied just as Mercedes came back with the scarf.

"Here Rachel…"she handed her the scarf. "And thanks for the charger Sam!" She said stiffly handing him the charger. He smiled and took it from her letting his hands graze hers softly.

"Well Sam and I are going out… are you and Aaron doing anything?" She asked looking between Mercedes and Sam as he took the charger from her.

"Um… maybe!" She lied.

"Alright… well let me go finish getting dressed." She turned and smiled at Sam. "Be ready in an hour!" Sam nodded as she walked away then turned back in his room. Mercedes charged in behind him.

"What are you doing?"

"Going out with Rachel like you suggested" he replied looking through his closet. "She's single… I'm single… who knows what can happen?"

"You just said you didn't like her!" She reminded him. Sam turned to her and smiled shaking his head.

"You sound a little jealous, Mercedes."

"This is me being concerned for my friend! I don't want you playing with her heart when you don't even like her." She added. She was definitely concerned but she was also feeling like she just made things worse.

"That's bull and you know it!" He said walking up to her and pushing her up against the wall again. He didn't give her a chance to object or move away as he pressed his lips into hers. Her lips betrayed her as she felt herself kissing him back. Her hands betrayed her as well as they held on to him. He cupped her face as they deepened the kiss.

"Mercedes! Can you help me in here?" She heard Rachel shout causing her to breakaway from him. He rolled his eyes in frustration as Mercedes pulled away.

"Stay!" He plead holding on to her hand. She removed her hand from his and shook her head.

"No… this was wrong." She replied before walking out of his room.