Mercedes's Prov:
No, there's no way I like Sam, I couldn't like him. I mean this is the man who I have been fighting with since I was six. How could I possibly have feelings for him? But then why would him inviting Brittany bug me so much? Why would them touching and flirting bug me if I didn't like him?
"Are you okay Mercy? You look like your going to be sick?" Quinn asked me causing me to turn my head and look at her.
"What?" I questioned still feeling like I was in a daydream.
"I asked if you were feeling okay. You looked like you were going to barf all over the place." She said to me as she rubbed my arm. I nodded my head at her words.
"Yeah I'm okay." She gave me a look as if to say are you sure? I nodded and smiled at her. She smiled back at me.
"Quinn how have you been?" Brittany asked as she walked over to where we were.
"I've been great Brittany, how about you?" Quinn said to Brittany as she engulfed her into a hug.
"I've been great as well." They let go of one another, and Brittany turned to look at me.
"Mercedes, it's nice to see you , your looking as beautiful as ever." She said. It was really hard to dislike a girl like Brittany. Not only was she beyond beautiful, but she was actually sweet and nice. It made me want to dislike her even more. She was perfect in every way, no wonder why Sam liked her.
"Thanks." I replied to her quickly. I didn't really feel like talking to her.
"Have you been settling in nicely?" She asked me. Trying to start a conversation with me again.
"It's not my first time here. I have been here before." I said to her in a snarky voice. I then turned around to finish setting up my blanket. When I was done I sat down and started to put tanning lotion on. Hoping she would understand that I wasn't in the mood for talking to her. Apparently she took the hint because her and Quinn started to talk again. But not before Quinn sent me a look as if to say what the fuck. I just tolled my eyes and continued to out lotion on.
"What's your problem?" Santana asked me as she sat down next to me, followed by Tina sitting next to her,
"I don't know what you mean."
"She means you just put on your bitchy attitude when you were talking to Brittany." Tina said to me. She was going to say more to me, but Mike went over to her and started to put his stuff down.
"Mind if I sit next to you?" He asked her as he gave her a smile. She shock her head no, and smile at him.
"Of course I don't mind. I would love for you to sit next to me." She said to him as she started to blush. I couldn't help but smile at how cute they were. I was done doing my front and only needed my back done.
" Can you get my back?" I asked Santana. She nodded her head and scooted closer to me. She grabbed the lotion from my hands and put some into hers.
"You know damn well what we're talking about Mercy. You were just a bitch to that Brittany girl. And that's not like you at all." Santana's words caused me to look up at where the rest of the gang was. They were all standing there and joking around.
I knew I must have been being really mean if Santana said so. She was the queen of mean. Some would even say she invited the word. I sighed at her words and nodded my head. I now felt like shit, I never was mean to anyone. I turned to look back at Santana
"Was I really that bad?" I asked her.
"Well in my world you were nice, but in your world and everyone else you were definitely mean. I've never seen you act like that before." She said as she rubbed tanning lotion on herself.
"I don't know why I acted that." I said to her as I put my head down. I was ashamed of my actions. I had never been so mean to anyone. The worst part was I was mean to her for no reason. She hasn't ever done anything to me.
"Well I know why." Santana said to me, causing me to pick my head up to look at her. "You like Sam. And your pissed that he invited another girl here to hang out with." I was going to interrupt her, but she put her hand up to stop me. "Before you say anything you should know I don't want to hear it. You don't have to admit that you like him mercy, but know that I know you do. Sam may be an asshole and has done some fucked up things, but he's not the one who is hidden hiding their feelings, he never has."
"What the heck do you mean?" I asked her, generally confused.
"God your so blind Mercy, you know that right? Do you know how many times Sam has tried to end this feud with you? He even went as far as to get you apology gifts. But you always shut him down and assumed he was just being an ass, or messing with you. You never took the time to realize that he really just being nice. So really you have no reason to be pissed off at him, you should be mad at yourself." She said to me as she motioned for me to do her back.
I nodded my head and took the bottle out of her hand. As I put lotion on her back I thought about her words, when I truly thought about it Sam did try to apologize more then once. One year for my birthday he got me with necklace that had my name on it, with a note saying he wanted to end the fighting we did. But I thought it was just a prank of something. I never thought he was actually sorry about it.
"All done." I said to her as I wiped the rest of the lotion on the towel I had.
"Thanks girl." She said to me as she turned back around. "I don't want you to be mad at me Mercy, but I couldn't hold it in anymore."
"Nah it's cool San. You just gave me a little reality check. I love you, that will never change." She smiled at my words.
"Good because you'll never going to get rid of me." I laughed at her words.
"Who wants to play volleyball?" Puck said to us as he walked over to where we were. I noticed him and the others had set up a net.
"I do." I said as I got up from my blanket. I reached my hands out to Santana. "Come one San your going to play." She reached out to grab my hand.
"Of course I am, you should know that whatever team I am on, is going to win." I laughed at her words. She has always been very competitive and loved to win.
"Tina are you going to play?" Mike asked her as he got up of his towel.
"I'm not very good at sports." She confessed.
"Don't worry, I'll help you." He said to her as he reached his hand out for her. She grabbed his hands and smiled back at him.
"Okay, only if I get your help."
"So who's going to be captains?" I asked them.
"Sam and I." Puck said to me.
"Why you and Sam?" Santana asked him.
"Because we were the ones who set up the net." He said back to her. Santana rolled her eyes at his words.
"Okay then picks you teams." She said to him.
"Damn your feisty today. Okay I'll go first. I pick hot mama." Puck said to me as he winked at me and motioned for me to walk over to his side. I smiled at him and walked over to where he was.
I heard laughing coming from Brittany. I looked over to see her smiling at Sam, who looked like he wanted to punch something. She said something causing him to smile. He nodded his head at her words.
"Okay I pick Brittany." Sam said. Ughhh Why did he have to pick her. I hated how much it bugged me.
"Okay I pick Quinn." Puck said.
"Mike."
"Santana."
"Tina."
We ended up on the right side of the net. On my team was m Quinn, Puck, Santana, and I. One Sam's was Brittany, Tina, and Mike. I was actually really excited about this game. Plus the odd looked like they were in our favor. Not trying to pick on my girl Tina, but she doesn't have one athletic bone in her body.
We were playing till someone reached twenty one points. So far the game was really close. We had elven points and they had nine. To my surprise Tina was actually doing okay. I think it's because she wanted to impress Mike. Either way I was proud of her. It was our turn to start. Santana hit it and it went over the net. Mike hit it back causing it to come one our side. Quinn dived making sure it didn't hit the sand and caused it to go back onto their side. Brittany hit it causing it to come back to us. I jumped up and spiked it. It went back onto their side and hit the ground before Sam could save it.
"Nice job Mama, damn your good at this." Puck said to me as he gave me a side hug.
"Well I like to win." I said to him.
"Haha it seems like you all do. Nice freaking dive there Princess. I like a girl who can get dirty." He said to her as he winked at her. Quinn blushed and smiled back at him.
"Like Mercedes said, we like to win." Quinn said to him shyly.
"I already told you we would be the winning team, because you had me." Santana said causing us all to laugh.
We played some more and the score was now us sixteen, them thirteen. It was there turn to hit it over, and Tina was the one doing it. She had avoided doing it for so long, but Mike convinced her to try. Tina swung her arm back and brought it back up hitting the ball. Causing it to go over the net and over our heads. She hit it hard making it travel far away from us and hit a guy in the back of the head.
I immediately ran over to the guy. "I am so sorry. My friend isn't that good at playing volleyball." I said to him as I reached were he was, the guy rubbed his head some and looked up at me.
He got up and handed me the ball. "It's no problem beautiful. No harm done, I'll live." He said to me as he winked at me. I couldn't help but smile at his words.
"Are you sure your okay?"
"I am. But if you want you could give me a kiss to make me feel better." He said to me causing me to laugh.
I did something I would have never thought I would. I dropped the volley ball, reached up and pulled his head down, and kissed the back of his head. When I let go of his head he pulled back up and smiled.
"Remind me to get hit on the lips next time." I laughed again at his words, he was definitely flirting with me. And I can't say that I minded. He was really cute and had a nice body.
"I'll keep that in mind. My name is Mercedes Jones. But everyone calls me Mercy." I said to him as I stuck my hand out to shake his.
He grabbed my hand and turned it so he could kiss it. "My name is Arthur Abrams, but everyone calls me Artie. But you my dear can call me anything." I giggled at his words some.
"Damn Artie we were only gone for like two minutes. How did you already get a beautiful girl over here."
" Hahaha I have my ways." He said as he winked at me. I turned around and almost wanted to pinch myself. The guy that I didn't know kept walking, but the one I did stopped in his tracks. I think he was just as shocked as I was.
The other guy noticed that he was walking alone and turned around. "Kurt, babe, are you coming?" He questioned.
"Is that really you Kurty? I'm not dreaming?" I asked as I walked closer. Kurt walked closer as well.
"It's me Cedes." He said as he walked closer and wrapped his arms around me. I couldn't help the tears that started to flow, so many emotions were going threw my mind at once. I felt happiness the most.
"Oh Kurt I have missed you so much. I can't believe your here right now." I said to him as I squeezed him closer to my body.
"I'm so sorry Cedes. I'm so sorry." He said as he started to cry as well. I pulled back to look at him.
"I have missed you more then I can convey in words."
Before he could respond to my words Quinn's voice was heard. "What is going on here. You did know we were playing a ..." Her words were cut short as she saw Kurt. "OMG Kurt!" She screamed as she ran over to him and hugged him. When Santana and Tina realized it was Kurt they ran over as well and hugged him. Sam smiled at Kurt and nodded in his direction. While Mike, Brittany, and Puck stood there looking confused.
"Girls I do need to breath." He said to them causing them to laugh and let go.
"Kurt I have missed you." Tina said to him as she started to cry.
"Don't cry Tina, I'm here." He said to her as he hugged her some.
"Okay can someone please tell me what's going on here?" The guy who was walking with Kurt asked.
"Yeah it would be nice to know how you know this beautiful creature." Artie said as he looked at me. I smiled at his words.
"Wow where are my manners. Guys this is my amazing boyfriend Blaine Anderson. The love of my life. And our good friend Artie." He said as he kissed Blaine and pointed over to Artie. "Boys this gorgeous girl here is Mercedes. My best friend in this whole entire world." He said as he pointed to me. "And the equally gorgeous girls with her are Quinn, Santana, and Tina. My other best friends." He said as he pointed to them as well. "Oh and that hot guy over there is Sam. Quinn's older brother. I don't know the rest of them."
Sam laughed at Kurt's words. He walked over and gave Kurt a short hug. "It's been a long time Kurt. And these are my good friends, Puck, Mike, and Brittany." He said to him introducing everyone. Everyone greeted each other.
"So you guys went to school with Kurt?" Blaine asked us.
"Yeah we were all inseparable, that was until Dave Karofsky came along." Quinn said. Then she put a hand over her mouth.
"No you did not just say his name." Santana said to her as she gave her and evil glare.
"Why can't you say his name?" Brittany asked.
"Well for one he is the one who bullied Kurt. It got so bad that Kurt had to move away from us. And secondly whenever Mercedes hears his name she goes on a long as rant over how she hates the guy." Santana said as she turned to look at me. Causing everyone to look as well.
"No I am not going to go on a rant about how much I hate him. I actually feel bad for the guy. Back then I didn't know he was gay. But now that I do and I know the reason as to why he bullied Kurt, I can't hate him. He was just a sad guy who felt like he had to hide who he truly was. He even tried to kill himself. I don't feel hate anymore, I feel sympathy. Although I still hate that he took my best friend away." I said to them as I smiled at Kurt.
Kurt smiled back at me. "Well I am back. I'm staying here for the summer." He said as he looked at everyone. "We all are." He said as he looked at Blaine and Artie. "Arties parents own that house up there." Kurt said as he pointed to the house above us.
"Wait your here all summer?" I said completely shocked at his words. "We are too. At the Febray's beach house." I said to him excitedly. He smiled brightly at me.
"Yes I get my best friends back." He said to us as she grabbed us girls into a hug.
"Listen as liberating and sweet this has been. We were playing a game before this little reunion went down. And I would like to get back to that game." Puck said to us.
"Yeah I have to get some points so we can win." Mike said.
"Do you guys want to join us?" I asked them.
"Well I don't know about these two, but I would love to." Artie said as he got up and started to grab his stuff.
"Of course we will join you guys. I haven't played volleyball in a long time." Blaine said to us.
"I will definitely come over, but you know I hate playing sports. I will get my tan on." Kurt said with a smile. I nodded my head at his words. We helped them grab their stuff and move over to where we were. Then we helped them set up there stuff where we were.
"Okay so what are the teams?" Blaine asked as he clapped his hands together.
"Wait were not starting all over, are we?" Puck asked.
"Yes were starting over. It's only fare." I said to Puck.
"WHAT!" Santana screamed. "But we were winning." She whined as she started to pout.
"We can win again, San. No need to freak out." I said to her as I rubbed her arm some.
"Fine if were going to start over we keep the same teams." Puck said as he walked over to our side of the net.
"Okay so where does that leave me and Artie? Which team do we join. " Blaine asked again.
"Speak for yourself Blaine, I already know I want to be on the team that has that gorgeous girl on it." He said as he pointed over to where I was. "If that's okay with you guys?" He questioned.
"Man it's okay with me. A guy who can appreciate girls beauty just as much as I do, is always welcomed on my team." Puck said to him with a smile as they slapped hands, and high hiving one another.
"Okay then Blaine your on our team buddy." Sam said to him as he welcomed him over to their side.
"This is so not fair. Now I don't know what team to go for. My boyfriend is on one team, and my three best friends are on the other." Kurt said with a whine.
"Go for Blaine's team Kurt, he's gonna needs some cheering cause were going to kick his ass." I couldn't help but laugh at Santana's words. I high fived her and smiled.
"Okay guys lets get this game going." I said to everyone.
In the end we ended up winning. But it wasn't an easy win. We were tied most of the game and when we weren't we only were ahead by one point. But in the end the score was twenty one us, nineteen them.
"Ha I told you we would win!" Santana shouted as she and Quinn did a happy dance.
"Whatever, next time I am so going to be on the side that has mostly girls. You guys distracted the other guys." Blaine said with a smile.
"What's your excuse then? Because I know your strictly dickey." Santana said as she continued to dance. We all went to sit down on our blankets and grab something to drink.
"I am seriously starving." Sam said as he sat down on his blanket.
"Ughhh why where we so lazy yesterday. Why didn't we get food." Quinn asked as she sat down next to me. "Mercy, I think I might die from hunger." She said as she laid her head down on my legs. I laughed at her words.
"We'll go and shop for food this evening. But for now how about Subway?" I asked as I looked down at her then up at the rest of the group.
"Mercedes, just marry me now. I love Subway." Artie said to me as he gave me a wink.
"Hey, get in line buddy. I already asked her to marry me. Get in line." Puck said to him and they both laughed
"You guys will both have to find a new girl to chase. Because Sam's been after Mercedes since like kindergarten." Santana said. I gave her a look as if to say what the fuck. She just shrugged her shoulders like it was no big deal. I decided to ignore her words.
"Okay well I have a piece of paper. Everyone right down there orders and I'll go pick them up." I said to everyone. Their smiles grew.
"Your the absolute best Mercy." Quinn said as she got off my lap and grabbed the paper from me.
Everyone wrote down their orders. I picked up my purse and grabbed everyone's money.
"I would hate to be the one working at Subway right now. That's eleven orders right there." Kurt said to me with a look of sympathy.
"Ehhh it's there job to make sandwiches. I will just hand them the piece of paper instead of telling them everything anyway. That should make it easier." I said as I put on my beach dress to cover myself up some, then put on my sandals.
"That's a lot to carry. Are you going to be okay?" Blaine asked with concern. I nodded my head at him and smiled.
"I'll come if you` want some help or company." Artie said to me with a smile. I was about to tell him sure. But I was interrupted by Sam.
"Actually I'll go with you. I mean last time they really messed up my sandwich. Plus you don't know where the new one is yet, and that ones closer." He said as he got up from his towel, he put on his shirt and sandals as well, and walked over to me. Artie just shrugged and smile at me.
"Another time beautiful." I smiled at his words and nodded my head.
"Okay let's get going." Sam said to me as he started to usher me to his truck.
"Damn Sam what is the rush." I asked him as I pulled my arm out of his grasp. He just shrugged his shoulders and opened my door for me. Which wasn't something Sam would usually do. I gave him a questionable look, but climbed into the truck anyway. He shut the door and walked around to his side of the truck. We both buckled up and he drove off.
No one said anything for a while. We were just sitting in a comfortable silence. The music was playing slightly. One of my favorite songs came on. It was Meghan Trainor's song, Dear Future husband. I smiled as I nodded my head to the beat. Before I knew it I was singing along.
You gotta know how to treat me like a lady
Even if I'm acting crazy
Tell me everything's alright
Dear future husband,
Here's a few things you'll need to know if you
wanna be
My one and only all my life
Dear future husband,
If you wanna get that special lovin'
Tell me that I'm beautiful each and every night
"Damn Cupcake I forgot how amazing of a singer you are. Why aren't you trying to make a career out of it?" He asked me as he turned the music down some.
"Well I am doing some courses in college, it's my major, journalism in my minor." I said to him.
"I didn't know you liked that kinda stuff."
"You never asked." I said to him, causing him to nod his head in agreement. He was silent for a second before he finally spoke again.
"Mercedes?"
I sighed. "Yes Sam." I said to him as I turned to look at him.
"I'm sorry about everything. I know I have never really said it, only wrote it. And maybe that's why you didn't take me seriously, but I am sorry. For being an ass when we were younger, for continuing this feud, for telling all those guys to leave you alone. It was wrong of me, and I am really sorry."
I sat there in silence for a moment. Did Sam really just apologize to me? I never thought I would hear him say sorry to me, for anything. I looked at him and for the first time in a really long time smiled at him
"Thank you Sam. It means a lot. And I'm sorry for not trying to end the feud as well, and for not believing that you wanted to end the feud." He nodded his head at my words. "So can we be friends?" I asked him causing him to stiffen some. But he nodded his head again.
I smiled to myself and turned the radio back up some. But as I did so I could have sworn I heard Sam say. Friends for now. But that was probably just my mind messing with me, right?
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So first of all I want to thank everyone who has been reading and reviewing on this story so far. I love reading all of your reviews and take them into consideration, so keep them coming. Some people wanted longer chapters well here you go. This one is pretty long, over 4,000 words, lol. But not all of them will be like that. This one just happened to work out that way. So how do we feel about the added characters? Do we like how flirtatious Artie is with Mercedes? Are we happy Sam finally apologized? Do you guys like Sam a little more now? Leave me a review to let me know what your thinking.
Me just telling you how I feel about things in this chapter, so you know why I write the way I do.
1. I love volleyball and I am really good at it, so I made Mercedes be good at it as well!
2. I wanted to have some jealousy between Mercedes and Brittany. And for those of you who think Sam shouldn't flirt with Brittany. Well Mercedes shouldn't flirt with other guys like Puck and Artie. Don't be sexist, lol.
3. I truly believe girls and guys can be best friends. That's what Sam and Brittany are, just friends. And Mercedes and Kurt are.
4. I wanted to bring Kurt and Blaine into this story because a glee story in my opinion is not complete without them. I love their relationship! I wish I had friends like them.
5. I brought Artie in as well to be another one who is interested in Mercedes. Because I truly believe that they would have made a cute couple. But Glee never gave them the chance to be.