Here is the fourth chapter of this story and chapter wise we will soon be half way done but that doesn't mean that the story is coming to an ending.
I wanted to say thank you for your feedback so far, and I would love to know what you think of this, and I know that this is kind of an angsty story but there are fluff in it so give it a read.
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This time it a country song by one of the biggest artist ever, Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That by Dolly Parton.
Chapter 4: Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That
~ Who says love is blind. ~
Sam had asked Rachel out and he was nervous, he knew that she had agreed, it wasn't until tomorrow that they were actually going out.
He sat in the choir room and he was alone, he was waiting for the rest of the New Direction to make their way for the last practice of the week, he had his guitar resting over his lap and he was strumming on it and he had a smile on his face, his eyes were closed and he was humming to the song that he was playing.
"You seem happy," Sam was startled from what he was doing, and he saw his closes friend besides Rachel standing in front of him, with his girlfriend next to him.
"Rachel is on her way home," Sam said and his mind started to think about the brunette, that was coming home today.
The three of them didn't get a chance to talk until the rest of the group started to slowly enter the room, and as always Mr. Schuester was the last one to arrive and he seemed like he was out of breath as he looked at the group.
"We have to cut this one short," he said and looked at them, "I have an important meeting that I need to attend."
The all sat and listened to what their teacher was telling them, when Sam noticed that there was a faint knock on the door, and he looked at the direction of the door, and his face broke in to a big smile, and he stood up and walked to the door.
"I thought you would home later," Sam said and pulled the person in for a hug.
"I was just going to surprise you."
"I can't believe that you are here," Sam said and he held on to the person, "You should come in and say hi to everyone before we leave."
"Samuel Evans."
"Rachel Berry," he said and his eyes lit up when he saw her, and even if he ahd been smiling most of the day knowing that Rachel was coming home today and that meant that he would be able to see her again.
"Fine," Rachel said and she let Sam interlock their hands as they walked over to where he had been sitting, the group saw Rachel, and almost everyone gave her a smile.
"It's nice to see you again Rachel," Mr. Schue said before he continued on with the lesson, Rachel leaned her head against Sam's shoulder, Sam placed one of his arms around her waist and pulled her closer, and the two of them were of in their own world, neither one of them noticed the conversation that was going on around them.
"Couple? Yes? No?" Santana asked and looked around the rest of the group, both Mike and Tina avoided the look from Santana, the rest of the group were pretty dived on if they were actually together or not.
"So next question," the Latina said and looked at both Sam and Rachel before she turned to the rest of them, "Who made the first move?"
"Sam!" Brittany almost yelled as she looked at them and then she turned back to Santana, "Rachel wouldn't do that."
And that was how New Directions started to place their bets on the development of Sam Evans and Rachel Berry's relationship, even when they didn't have one right now besides their friendship.
/
The rest of the Friday was spent at the Berry house for Sam, Rachel had ridden with the blonde haired boy but before they had landed at the Berry house, they two of them had stopped by Sam's house so that Rachel would be able to say hello to both Stevie and Stacey, the younger of the two girls had jumped in to Rachel's arms as soon as she had seen that they two of them were on their way in to the house.
Stacey had ran out the door with just her socks on her feet and Sam had to carry her inside as soon as Stacey had given Rachel her hug, and the two girls had been having quite the talk when they had sat down on the couch in the livingroom, Sam had taken that time to put away some things that Rachel didn't need to see.
"Sam," Sam looked up and he saw his father standing in the doorway to his room, "are you okay?"
"Yeah," Sam said and he didn't look at his father, "you know it has just been a lot to take in and process."
"I understand that but she looks like she is doing great," Dwight said and looked at Sam with a smile.
"That is kind of what scares me," Sam confessed, he had this façade up when it came to what Rachel was going through, he wanted to be the rock that she needed in her life.
"I understand that but maybe you should tell her," he said and looked at Sam.
"She needs me to be strong," Sam said and put something down in a one of the drawers, "I can't be weak around her."
"Sam," Dwight sighed and looked at him, "you are strong but she needs know what you are going through too."
"But she isn't my girl," Sam almost yelled as he shut a door to the closet that had been open, "and she doesn't have anyone that is there for her besides her own parents."
"I know that you like her and she likes you too," his father said and the older of the two Evans men sat down on the bed, "but you have to be honest with her."
"I will be when I feel the time is right," Sam said and looked at his father, "But right now I need to rescue her from Stace."
"There isn't a right time," his father called after her, "and don't wait to long."
Sam had gone down stairs and he looked at Rachel and Stacey sitting on the couch, well Rachel was sitting and she had a grip in his sister and she was tickling her, he couldn't help to smile to what he was seeing, and right now was one of those times that if you didn't know that Rachel was really sick you wouldn't know.
"Hey," Sam said and he sat down on the floor in front of Rachel and he leaned his back against her and he ran his hand through his hair, "I was kind of hoping that we would leave."
"You can't leave."
"I have to get back home," Rachel said and Stacey crawled up and snuggled up with the brunette, "but I think that I can stop by later this weekend maybe Sunday?"
"You can leave if you come here on Sunday," Stacey said and she pulled her arms around Rachel's neck and held her for a long hug.
"Then I will be here with you on Sunday," Rachel said and Stacey let go of her but not willingly.
The time at the Berry house had been spent snuggled up at the couch in the livingroom, with Sma holding Rachel in his arms as they were watching movies.
Sam ran his fingers through her hair and as he did, some parts of her hair were coming of more than the other times that he had done what he was doing. Sam knew that the chemo would have effects on Rachel but he wasn't ready to really see what does effects were, and right now he was holding one of them in his hand, she was losing her hair.
He closed his eyes hard, he did everything he could think of so that he would be crying in front of Rachel, this was not the time to have a minor breakdown, he had to wait until he got home, if he did breakdown right now in front of her he would make everything a mess for tomorrows date.
Sam let go of the hair that he had been holding in his hand, he used one of his fingers and his thumb to press on to his tear ducks, as he tried to hold back the tears.
"You okay?" Rachel asked and she turned around so that they were laying face to face on the couch, Sam nodded his head.
"Yeah, I think I just got something in my eye," Sam said and he put a lock of loose hair behind her ear, "but I think that I should be heading home, but I will see you tomorrow." Sam sat up on the couch and Rachel moved to sit up to but Sam stopped her.
"I can find my way out on my own you know," Sam said and he was almost pushing Rachel down on the couch, and as he did Rachel managed to sneak one of her hands up to take a hold of his shirt and as he was holding her down gently she pulled him down, and he landed on top of her.
The two teenagers looked deep in to the other ones eyes, it was like their eyes were locked together, if Rachel moved her head to her right Sam moved his head to his left, it was like an invisible band was holding their heads together.
Sam licked his lips, Rachel did the same thing. The blonde haired boy leaned down slowly, he was just about to give Rachel a kiss again, well a real kiss again, the first one had been amazing and this one would be just as great. Every situation that would have led Sam to kiss Rachel or the other way around had all been natural; it was just the next step.
Rachel leaned her head up against Sam, and just as their lips were about to touch, a bang was heard, and the moment was gone, the two teenagers looked at each other with smiles on their faces.
Sam leaned down and placed a kiss on Rachel's cheek and as he did, Rachel ran her hand through his hair, he shook his head and smiled at her, "I will see you tomorrow and take it easy."
Sam walked pass the kitchen where the bang had come from, he said his good byes to both of Rachel's fathers, "good bye."
"Good bye Sam," Hiram said as he looked up from the dishes that he had been doing.
"Rachel told us about tomorrow," Leroy said and looked at Sam, the blonde boy nodded his head in her fathers' directions, "you better treat her right."
"I will do the best I can," Sam said and licked his lips, and he had a feeling that there might be more to it than what they were saying and the bang had come in a bad time for him, it was like they knew what was about to happen.
"That is all that we can ask for," Hiram said and looked at Sam.
/
Saturday afternoon had been spent trying to figure out what kind of clothes he should be wearing, he had been running around in a pair of basketball shorts and a wifebeater most of the day when he wasn't trying on clothes, and he had to leave to pick Rachel up in less than thirty minutes and he still wasn't sure on what shirt to wear.
He had just gotten out from the shower and he had his pants on, not buttoned up just yet the belt were in the loops, he had no shirt on, no wifebeater, nothing but his pants.
"Sam!" he heard his name, this was so not the time to have to do something for his mother, Mary came walking up the stairs and looked inside his room, Sam half-dressed standing in front of the mirror putting wax in to his hair.
"You are going to be late," Mary said and she handed him a white V-neck t-shirt to put on before handing him a light blue shirt that he should wear and she pulled out one of his sports jackets and handed it to him.
Sam looked himself in the mirror this had been one of the first things that he had tried on earlier today but he didn't think that Rachel would like it, but here he was dressed in a sport jacket a pair of dark jeans and a light blue dress-shirt, that his mother more or less had forced him to wear.
"You need to be more confident," Mary said as she looked at him, "you know what she likes and you like her."
Sam nodded his head as he listened to what his mother was telling him, and that was when he noticed the time, "I'm going to be late," he almost yelled as he ran out from his room down the stairs and out the door, not even a minute later was Sam back inside and grabbed his wallet the keys to the car, and most importantly the flowers he had bought earlier today.
"Take a deep breath and everything will be fine," Mary said and she fixed the collar on Sam's shirt.
/
Sam stood on the front porch to the Berry house, he had been here before but he had never been this nervous, he wetted his lips as he raised his right hand so that he could push the doorbell, he closed his eyes let out a breath and pushed the doorbell.
"Hey," Sam managed to get out when he saw that Leroy Berry stood on the other side of the door, Sam heard Hiram from the inside telling his husband that he should let Sam in.
"Everything going good?" Hiram asked as he had walked up to both Sam and Leroy, the teenager nodded his head, "you look good."
"Thank you," Sam managed to say, and just as he had said those words, he saw Rachel coming walking down the stairs, he first he saw was her bare legs, the dress that she was wearing was super short, it cut of a couple of inches above her knees, Sam smiled at her.
"uh… um…," Sam said, he didn't know what to say, Rachel looked at him, Sam saw that tear were something in her eyes, it looked like she was about to cry.
"Rachel," Hiram said and looked up at his daughter, "What Sam is trying to say is that you look beautiful." Sam nodded his head up and down fast and looked at Rachel, and he stretched his left hand out and handed her the flowers that he had been holding.
"These are for you," Sam said and looked at Rachel, "and I you do look really beautiful." Sam smiled at her.
"Thank you," Rachel said as she handed the flowers over to her father, Hiram, to put in water when they left, "and you look pretty handsome yourself."
"Actually you took my breath away," Sam said as he opened the door for the girl and held it open and he held his free hand out so that she could take it, he saw the look from Hiram, who also nodded his head in agreement with what Sam was doing. Sam could tell that the Hiram was telling Leroy something but he had no idea on what it was that the man was telling his husband and right now he didn't care about that. Sam had his focus on Rachel and their date.
/
Sam stopped outside on of the other restaurants besides Breadstix that he would be able to pay for both of their meals that were what he was going to do, this was their first date and he was going to act like the gentleman that he could be if he was given the chance.
"Sam?" Rachel asked as the boy opened the door to the restaurant and smile at her.
"You deserve to whined and dinned," Sam said and looked at Rachel he couldn't keep his smile of his face, this was going to be a great date, and he was going to show her that Sam Evans was a lot more than your best friend, Sam Evans was going to show Rachel B. Berry that he could be the best boyfriend she would ask for and at the same time be her best friend and the one that she turned to when she needed someone by her side.
"Sam Evans, you are one of a kind," Rachel said as he had pulled her chair out for her and helped her sit down.
"I like to think that I know how to treat a girl," Sam said and he looked for a waiter to come and take their orders, "and this was the only vegan restaurant that I could find."
"You know that I'm vegan?" Rachel asked surprised, she had never mentioned it to him and she had to cut back on that kind of diet and she had to add animal products in her food since she got sick but she was allowed to eat vegan sometimes but not as she had done before she got sick.
"I might have done some research," Sam said as he gave his order to the waiter, "and it appeared that almost everyone said that I should take you to some place that served vegan food."
"No one has really done something like that for me before," Rachel said and she looked down on the plate in front of her.
"But you have had boyfriends before," Sam said and looked at her, "they must have done something for you, I mean you and Finn were together for a long time."
"Yeah," Rachel said but she didn't look up at the blonde in front of her, "but he bailed as soon as things got hard for him."
"I'm not Finn," Sam said and he reached for her hand so that he could link their fingers together, "I wouldn't do that."
"That is why you are my best friend," Rachel said, and it stung when she said it, both in her own heart and she saw the look on Sam's face as she said, she knew in that moment that he had meant it, he would be there for even if things changes between them if they got together and broke up, "but that might change."
Sam had almost had his heart broken when Rachel had called him his best friend, but it skipped a beat or maybe more as soon as she had said that it might change, that meant that there was still a chance for him, and he was going to take it.
The rest of the dinner between them went great, and Sam knew at the end of it, that one date was all that he would need before he was going to ask her the question that he had wanted to ask her ever since she had agreed to go on this date with me, and he had been acting a lot like her boyfriend at least that was what people around them had said to him, and from what Rachel had told him she had heard the same thing.
Making it official between them was the only thing left that needed to be done; no one besides the two of them would need to know until they were ready for them to know, as long as they weren't outed by someone that didn't know where to stick their nose or not to stick it.
/
Sam stood with Rachel on the porch to the Berry house, he had seen someone standing behind a curtain in the kitchen window looking at them, but right now Sam didn't really care about who was looking at them. He moved closer to Rachel, he placed his arms around her waist and pulled her closer, their toes were touching, Sam ran his hands through her hair, he was now aware of the fact that the chemo was effecting her and he was gentle with was he was doing.
He moved his hand slowly and placed it on one of Rachel's cheeks and the girl leaned in to his and she closed her eyes as Sam ran his thumb over her cheek.
Sam slowly moved his hand so that he could place a couple of his fingers under her chin so that he could tilt her head up a little. Their eyes connected as they had done before, Sam leaned his head down a little, Rachel moved her head upwards and that was the second time that their lips met in a kiss, and it was a great as the first time.
When Sam slowly was about to break the kiss he noticed he small grip that Rachel had on his lower lips as he slowly pulled back but he still held his hands around her waist, he pulled her closer and rested his head against hers as Rachel had her head placed against his chest.
Sam was about to open the door for Rachel to walk inside when he felt her hand over his, and Sam turned around and looked at Rachel who shook her head.
"I don't want this night to be over," Rachel confessed and Sam smiled at her, and let Rachel pull herself closer to him, and as she did he held on to her.
"I don't want it to end," Sam confessed and he had moved them over to the hammock that was in the side, and the two of them sat down in it, and as they sat down Sam saw a blanket that laid beside Rachel, he reached for it and placed it over the two of them and he snuggled up with Rachel holding her close so that they wouldn't fall down, and he moved the slowly back and forth.
Sam leaned down and placed a kiss on the top of Rachel's head, and he saw that her eyes were closed and her breathing had evened out, Sam smiled to himself, Rachel had fallen asleep and he was holding on to her, he had no idea on how to get her in without waking her.
/
Rachel was starting this week to come back to school, her days wasn't as long as the other's she had about half a day, she either started at lunch or ended her day after lunch.
She had told her fathers that she was going to be attending Glee, during the Wednesday practice; she would probably just sit in and watch them, listen to them and maybe sing a song. She wouldn't be a part of any dance rehearsals, she would just watch them.
"Berry nice to see your face," Puck said when he saw her walking in with Sam in tow, their hands were linked together.
"it's great to be back even if I will just sit and watch you all," Rachel said and sat down on a seat and Sam sat down next to her, he placed his arm around her shoulders and Rachel leaned in to him, they knew that the rest of the Glee Club were watching them.
The club started to rehears some dance steps, it was great to see the flow of movements that came from both Mike and Brittany, there were some of the others that could dance pretty good too, Rachel was about to start laugh when she saw Finn trying to dance, she remembered what someone had told him once, about his dance abilities, and looking over at Sam, he might not be the best dancer but he wasn't the worst.
"It's kind of boring just watching them," Rachel turned her head and she noticed that Artie had wheel him up next to him.
"I kind of miss it," Rachel confessed when she saw a step, "but it's better to sit here and miss it than be home with my dads. Shouldn't you be out there too with them?"
"I'll start when they know what they are doing," he replied and looked at her, "I know that we don't talk that much but you could have told us before Finn said what he said."
"I know," Rachel said and gave him a small smile, "but when Finn left when he found out, I didn't want anyone else to leave me."
"We will be there for you," the boy in the wheel chair said and he placed one of his hands on her leg, "and you can still walk." Rachel couldn't help but to laugh at what he said.
"That's kind not so fun when you think about it," Rachel said and she saw how Artie fixed his glasses.
"But it made you laugh, you need to see everything from the bright side of life," he replied and looked at her.
Rachel started to sing the first lines of Always Look On the Bright Side of Life, from Monte Python.
"You like Monet Python?" Artie asked and looked a bit surprised, Rachel watching British humor and liking it wasn't something that he had expected from her.
"I kind of checked it out after I saw Spamalot the first time," Rachel confessed, "and there are some songs that are kind of catchy."
"Rachel!" Rachel looked up when she heard her name and she saw that Sam had moved a bit so that he had grabbed a guitar and the blonde was trying to tune it so that he could play.
"I think that Sam wants something, but it was nice talking to you, Artie," the brunette said and she walked over to her now boyfriend.
Sam had woken up Sunday morning, on the hammock, with a couple of more blankets and a couple of pillows, he smiled to himself when he saw Rachel laying with her head on his chest, his heart speeded up a little when he watch her laying there, her hair was splashed around her face, he moved a couple of locks out of the way.
He saw how Rachel started to stir around, she was slowly waking up, "good morning, beautiful," Sam said when he saw that Rachel was fully awake, he leaned down to kiss her but Rachel placed a hand over her own mouth, he looked surprised when he saw her action.
"Morning breath," Rachel said as she tried to explain why she wouldn't let him kiss her.
"I don't care," Sam said and smiled as he locked his eyes with hers, "I want to kiss my girlfriend good morning when I spend the night snuggled up with her."
"Your girlfriend?" Rachel asked and Sam heard the surprise in her voice as she asked him that, he nodded his head.
"You, Rachel Berry, are my girlfriend," Sam said and he placed a hand under her chin and lifted her head up a little, "and I am going to kiss you know." Rachel nodded her head as she looked at him.
"And you, Sam Evans, are my boyfriend," Rachel said and she smiled at him, and she felt the small pressure from his lips against her own, and she knew that this was the right thing and this was how things should always be.
"I see you are awake now," both Rachel and Sam turned their heads and the two of them saw Hiram standing at the end of the hammock looking at them, "I would suggest that they two of you go inside for some breakfast before heading back to the Evans family."
Sam placed on of his hands over his mouth as he was about to let out a word that he knew that Rachel would hate to hear, "I forgot to call my parents."
"I called them and told them that you and Rachel fell asleep on the couch watching a movie."
"Thank you, Mr. Berry," Sam said as he moved the two of them of the hammock, he placed his sports jacket over Rachel's shoulders as he led her and himself in to the house.
"You wanted to tell me something."
"I was hoping that we could sing a song together," Sam said and looked up at her.
"I think that is something that we can do," Rachel said as she walked closer to him, she placed her arms around his neck and leaned up and kissed his cheek, "do you have anything in mind?"
"Actually I do," Sam said and smiled at her, "I'll start and then you can follow if you know the song."
"Sure," Rachel said, and the two of them moved so that they were in the middle of the room. Sam started to play his guitar and it didn't take long until the jazzband was there with him, and Rachel had recognized the song almost right away.
"Why'd you come in here looking like that," Sam sang as he continued on to play the guitar, "In your cowboy boots and painted on jeans." Sam had found a cowboy hat somewhere in the room, and Rachel realized that it must have been left here since their sophomore year when they had done a country song. Sam tipped the hat when he looked at her, Rachel was smiling and they continued to sing.
"Here comes my baby. Draggin' my heart behind," Rachel sang and she was smiling and the beat of the song was something that she was tapping with her foot, the room had stopped with what they were doing and they were watching Rachel and Sam singing together.
The two of them finished the song together, "Why' do you come in here lookin' like that." They were smiling at each other, "When you could stop traffic in a gunny sack." Rachel held her hand over her heart as the two of them sang together, "Why you are almost giving me a heart attack. When you waltz in here lookin' like that."
And the song was over, the room broke out in an applause, neither one of the had noticed that the room had been looking and listening to them singing, and this had just been improvising.
"You were great," Mr. Schue said as he walked up to them, placing one hand on Sam's shoulder and the other one on one of Rachel's shoulders, "You should do some song for sectionals next month."
"I don't know," Rachel said and looked down.
"We'll thin about it," Sam said and placed the guitar leaning against the chair he had been sitting on and he reached for Rachel, "We could do a ballad just sitting on a stool or something like that." Rachel nodded her head.