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Saturday to Mercedes was one of the best days for her, because she got to spend it with her technically step sister, but sister and best friend Quinn. When she was 4 and Quinn was 6 her dad and Quinn's mom fell in love. They married shortly and adopted the girls making them officially sisters. Sisters who did everything together. So it only seemed right that the two became even closer as adults. Mercedes introduced Quinn to Mike, her now husband of four years. And now they were expecting their own little boy in a few months.
Mercedes carried the two treats, a banana split for herself, and a double hot fudge sundae, for Quinn, to the table as Quinn sat next to the life size bear, Mercedes just had to buy for the baby.
Handing Quinn the ice cream sundae she rolled her eyes. "Don't even start with me Q, my nephew is gonna love Beary T. Bear."
"Beary T. Bear? What the hell kinda name is that? My son will not be associated with anything named "Beary."
Mercedes laughed placing her hair behind her ears and taking a spoonful of her ice cream in her mouth when someone called her name. She froze, she would know that voice anywhere.
Swallowing she sighed turning to the familiar green eyes. "Sam? What are you doing here?"
He gave a sincere smile and she had to look away before she showed how much he got to her. "I was just picking up some ice cream to go, what are you doing here?"
He looked over to Quinn and extended his hand. "Hi I am Samuel Evans, I work with Mercedes."
"Work with me? Seriously?" Mercedes said under her breath.
Smiling Quinn took his hands. "Quinn, I am Mercedes sister. Why don't you join us?"
"Quinn!" mercedes said eyeing her. "Sam is my boss and owner of several companies I am sure he is too busy to sit down and join us."
"Actually…" Sam said moving closer to them. "I would love to join you, I have a few minutes that I can spare, just let me order."
Sam smiled before walking to the counter and Mercedes looked at Quinn. "Girl I swear if you weren't pregnant i would kick you!"
"What I do?" Quinn asked innocently.
"Oh why don't you join us?" she said mocking Quinn's tone. "How could you invite him to eat with us, I told you he is a jerk."
"A hot jerk! And you know I can tell the good ones."
"Good one? He thinks I am some tramp who sleeps her way to the top."
"Okay, so let him have ice cream with us and show him that Teddy was wrong."
Mercedes was about to speak but Sam came back into the booth and sat next to Quinn. He smiled at Mercedes then looked at the bear.
"Wow, that is a great big bear, its about as big as me."
Quinn laughed, "I told you it was too big Merce!"
Mercedes rolled her eye. "No its not! He can grow into it."
Sam smirked. "When? When he's a full grown man?"
Mercedes huffed. "Haters! I swear he is gonna love it."
Quinn laughed. "I think she bought it moreso for herself."
"Why you gotta hurt me like that Q, you know that Beary T. Bear is only staying with me until he is big enough for the baby."
"SEE!" Quinn sqeauled. "All for her."
Sam laughed.. "Beary T, Bear? No please tell me that is not the name."
Mercedes jaw dropped. "What! He needs a name."
Sam grinned. "He needs a better name."
Quinn smirked sticking out her tongue. "Told you so!"
Mercedes sighed. "Fine then you guys pick a name."
"Mr. Whipple, he looks like a Mr." Sam said after moment of looking at the bear.
Mercedes and Quinn both shook their head. "No."
Mercedes sighed. "I see now that finding a name for the Bear is going to be a lot of work…"
"Almost as much as finding a name for the baby. I swear Sam, she is spoiling him and he isn't even here yet."
"He is my nephew I am allowed to spoil him!"
Quinn took a spoonful of her ice cream and smiled. "So Sam, how did you get into the cosmetics game?"
"Oh its a family business, my dad started M & D for my mother before she got sick. She passed and he just couldn't bare to deal with it, so he focused on our other venues and basically outsourced it to a management firm. He remarried when I was 7 and then Theodore was born and while M & D Cosmetics flourished, he still wasn't that worried about it. My dad was a proud man but when he lost my mom it killed him."
Mercedes didn't even realize that she had reached out and touched his hand, she knew how it felt to lose someone close to you. Sam smiled softly at her gesture.
"Once I graduated from college dad wanted me to take over everything and for a while I had a hand in some way shape or form of M&D. When Theodore finally graduated from College, Holly went on and on about how my dad never gave him anything and my dad finally gave him the Cosmetic Company. It was already a well oiled machine and all he had to do was make sure that things stayed that way. But as you know Mercedes, even that task has seemed to fail him."
Mercedes nodded looking down to her banana split. "Yeah Teddy seemed more into the title then the actual job."
Quinn sighed. "I told you Merce, Teddy was bad news. Thank God you never slept with him, who knows what that bastard would have given you." She looked to Sam. "No offense."
Mercedes could feel Sam's eyes staring at her, she knew he thought that she and Teddy had slept together, well played Q, she thought. Sam sighed looking back to Quinn.
"None taken. Theodore was spoiled by his mother, she married a man who never truly loved her because he was still very much in love with his wife. And my dad was all about work, he didn't have time for family or to be a dad to Theodore and so she gave him anything and everything he wanted."
Mercy shook her head. "That is no way to raise a child."
Sam sighed looking at his watch. "Well if you will excuse me, I have to go. But it was a true pleasure."
He stood grabbing his glass and finishing the last bit of his float. "Mercedes I will see you Monday, and please keep me updated on the bear names, I am invested now so I want to see how it turns out."
He smiled with a nod and walked away, Quinn looked at Mercedes.
"Girl, he is nothing like his brother."
"I know. But that doesn't change anything I am not interested in him."
"Quinn laughed. "Yeah, and I am not interested in finishing this Sundae."
