Brittany had just woken up the next morning when her phone began to ring. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the clock on her bedside table which showed glowing numbers saying 9.30.

"Hello?" she asked, her barely awake state clear in her voice.

"Hi, Brittany. It's Sam, from the café yesterday. I'm sorry if I woke you I can call back later." Sam was apologetic and Brittany rushed to stop him from hanging up.

"No, no it's okay. I was awake, I'm just tired that's all. How are you?"

"Not bad. Nursing a slight hangover but otherwise alright." Brittany laughed.

"Go out to celebrate the divorce last night?" she asked. Sam grimaced on his end of the phone.

"Yeah. It's been ages since I caught up with my buddies so I thought it would be a good excuse." He sheepishly admitted.

"Don't worry, I did the same thing when I divorced Finn, the abusive bastard." she told him. He gasped.

"You don't mean Finn Hudson, do you?" he asked

"Yeah. Do you know him?" Brittany asked, surprised.

"I, uh, went to high school with him. Not the sharpest tool in the shed. His girlfriend cheated on him in sophomore year and got knocked up. She told Finn it was his even though they'd never actually done the deed. Big drama after he found out she was lying." Sam laughed at the memory of Tina telling him one night just after he arrived at McKinley.

"Wow. What'd she tell him?"

"Told him that his early release in the hot tub got her knocked up. After the baby was born, she was going to put it up for adoption but she took one look at it and fell in love. She kept it and I eventually thought of little Isabella as my daughter once I started dating Quinn. Then Finn started dating a girl named Rachel who eventually cheated on him with Puck who was the one that got Quinn knocked up" he explained.

"So Finn went out with your ex-wife, who cheated on him and got knocked up by Puck. When he broke up with Quinn, he started dating Rachel who then cheated on him with Puck and you dated Quinn. Wow, looks like your high school life was full of drama and triangles." she said.

"Yeah, and trust me, that was only the icing on the cake. There was more love triangle shit going on underneath all that as well." he laughed.

"I'm so glad I went to The Academy."

"Wow, you went there? How are you so nice? Every other person I've met from there is so stuck-up." he cried.

"I had friends outside of the academy who kinda kept me grounded. I got out of my parents house as soon as I could. They didn't like it but couldn't afford to look bad in front of their friends so they set me up with my own apartment and paid for me to go to law school."

"Wow, looks like we both lead a hell of a life. Well, I've got to be heading into work soon, so do you want to meet up for dinner tonight?" Sam changed the topic

"Oh, uh, yeah sure. Um, what time?" Brittany was a bit taken aback by the sudden change in topic.

"How about eight? I'll pick you up?"

"Great , I'll probably be at work till 7.30 but I can get changed there and you can pick me up from there. I work at the law office near the café we were at yesterday." she told him, checking her clock again. 10am. She had to be at work in an hour.

"Okay. I'll see you tonight then. Bye"

"Bye, Sam." Brittany threw her phone onto the bedside table and lay back down. Five more minutes of shut-eye and she'd get up for work