***Alright y'all, I wanna say thanks for all the great reviews. I appreciate them all. This chapter is the next day. Sam and Mercedes meet up on Tuesdays for the project so this is their first day. The next chapter will have a slight time jump to the night of the party. I'm so excited to get that party started. Anyways hope you all enjoy this update. Ohhhhhhhhh yeah I don't own glee or it's characters. Leave a review if you want. Thank you!***
It was Tuesday and Sam spent all night drawing for the project for Marine biology. He continued drawing it in all his morning classes as well. He brought it with him to lunch assuming that Mercedes would be there. He ended up eating alone because even Brittany didn't show up. After the bell rang he went to his locker. He wanted to text Mercedes to see where she was but just as he got to his locker he saw her at hers. She was smiling and talking to Matt.
"You like her don't you?"he heard someone say. He moved his locker door to see it was Brittany. "You should ask her out on a date."
"Brit, she has a boyfriend!" Sam said shaking his head pulling out his Marine biology book. He looked over at Mercedes who was hugging Matt at this point.
"Well at least kiss her. I know you want to..."
"Brittany, she has a boyfriend!" Sam said slamming his locker shut. "She's not the type to cheat either. Another thing I like about her." Sam said shaking his head. "Where were you anyway? I had to eat alone."
"Santana took me off campus for lunch. Why didn't you text me?"
"I guess I was busy worrying about someone else." Sam said looking over at Mercedes again. Brittany smiled and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"I can tell she likes you though, so I don't know how long she's going to keep up with that and I can tell you're never giving up on her either." Brittany said. "I gotta go to class though, see ya later loser!" Brittany said hitting him playfully behind the head. She past by Mercedes and spoke to her quickly and walked away. Sam glanced over as Matt kissed Mercedes.
"I can't stand him!" Sam said to himself and turned in the direction of his class. He thought about what Brittany said and wondered if it would be wrong to pursue Mercedes. She was taken but he felt she deserved better. Even if it wasn't him but anyone would be better than Matt. He barely knew the guy but his instincts told him he was not the one for Mercedes. He had to find a way to make her see that and dump Matt. He sat down and within minutes she was at the door way hugging Matt before entering the class.
"Hey Sam!" She said smiling at him as she approached their table. "How was lunch?" She asked. He wanted to say it was horrible without her there but instead he kept his response vague. Last thing he wanted was for to think he had waited for her at lunch.
"It was okay. How was yours?" He asked hoping she would keep it vague and not mention Matt. He watched as she pulled out her lip gloss and reapplied it. She responded but he wasn't able to pay attention when his focus was on her lips. The bell rang snapping him back to reality. "What?"
"I asked if you had a chance to work on the project?" Mercedes asked putting away her lip gloss and smiling at him.
"Oh yeah, wait!"he said pulling out the drawing and showing it to her. He smiled as she took in the picture.
"Alright class, we will continue the research for the project today so talk quietly with your partner." Ms. Washington said before sitting down. Sam was starting to think she just didn't want to teach.
"I worked on it all morning. What do you think?" He asked watching her look it over. "I was thinking we can make like a makeshift 3D aquarium. I bought the paint and plaster and clay that we will use to build it." Sam said smiling.
"This is incredible, Sam! You're really talented!"she said looking over at him. "Have you decided what you will be doing when you graduate? What college you'll go to?"
"Art is something I do as a hobby I've never thought of it as a career path. I was planning on using this football thing till I can't use it no more." He said laughing nervously. This was his senior year and he really hadn't put much thought into it like most seniors have. "Art is fun but I just don't see myself making a decent living as an artist like I would with football. I think I need to start thinking about college and applying, maybe I can get recruited."
"You have a talent that people pay for, you should definitely do something with it. I'm sure football is great but art is your passion."she said smiling. "Look at this drawing, you can be an architect, painter, cartoonist, you name it! Don't sleep on your talent!"
"Like the way you sleep on yours?" Sam said causing Mercedes to stop smiling. "You have a great talent as well, but you're choosing to set it aside to please everybody else. How is that right?"
"It's more complicated for me. You know that!" Mercedes said putting the drawing down. "Look let's just drop it okay. Let's focus on this project."
"Okay, I'll drop it. For now." He said taking his drawing and placing it in his folder. "So you're coming over today, with Santana?"
"Yeah she rides with me so wherever I go she has to go." Mercedes replied smiling again. Sam was looking forward to it. He couldn't wait to be alone with her again.
Once school was out the gang all piled into Mercedes car to head over to the Evans' home. She was doing a great job keeping the project away from Matt so far, he had no idea. She would make sure to meet up with him after school and see him off to make sure he never noticed Sam getting in get car.
As they all got into the car this time Santana chose to sit in the back with Brittany and Sam sat next to her. Almost as if they created a routine, they all sang with the radio. To her surprise she heard that Sam and Brit also were good singers. She looked over at Santana with a raise brow. Santana smiled as if to say she was shocked as well.
"We sound great together!" Mercedes said as she pulled into the driveway. They all got out of the car with their bags in hand.
"I'd have to agree with my girl Mercedes here!" Santana said as they marched up the steps. "Then again we were just singing with the radio. People always sound good in the car." Santana said laughing.
"Yeah we don't sound as good as the two of you do." Brit said opening the door. Mercedes held the door for Sam since he had the project items in his hands. "We're going to check on Lord Tubbington." Brit said dropping her bag and grabbing Santana's hand. Santana smiled and looked back at Mercedes. Mercedes winked at her. She could see how happy Santana was with Brit and it was so cute to her. She couldn't wait till Santana was able to openly just be herself and happy like this for the world to see.
"Well let's go on up!" Sam said. "Ladies first!" He said allowing her to go up before him. She nervously walked up the steps wondering if he was looking at her butt. She turned around to see and, yup his eyes were definitely on her butt. "Gotta make sure I don't trip on these steps with all this in my hands."
"Do you want me to help?" Mercedes turned to grab a few. Sam was a really tall guy and Mercedes was relatively short being on the steps brought them to eye level. Instead of answering they just looked at each other. She noticed his blonde hair was all over the place due to the wind. She reached up and combed his hair with her fingers. "Your hair looks a hot ass mess!"
"Thanks!" Sam said closing his eyes as she continued to run her fingers through his hair. She stopped suddenly and grabbed the first two items and proceeded up the stairs. Mercedes knew had to stop because being that close to him made her want to kiss him badly. "Umm, well let's get started." He said dropping the items on the desk.
Mercedes and Sam began building the aquarium, occasionally smiling at each other every time they heard Santana and Brit laughing. The silence in the room was killing her because all she kept thinking about was him. Wondering what was he thinking. If he was looking at her and whenever she checked she would see that he was, and blushed.
"I don't know why mine doesn't look like yours. They aren't sticking together the way yours are." Mercedes admitted looking over at Sam. Sam gave her that sexy side smirk getting up from the floor and heading over to her at the desk.
"Let me help you with that." He said standing behind her. He took her hands in his and placed them inside the bucket. "It's because you're not getting them wet enough like I am." He said to her. Mercedes felt chills run down her spine as her mind drifted to the gutter. "You got to make sure to make long strong strokes, like this." Sam said softly in her ear. Mercedes felt her eyes close as she enjoyed the way his hands felt on hers.
"Like this?"
"Yes, just like that!" Sam responded coming closer to her. She felt him press himself on her ass and almost instantly she pressed herself against him. With their hands intertwined and body pressed up against each other, Mercedes turned slightly. "I think you're getting it!" Sam said lowering his head to kiss her. Mercedes closed her eyes, her brain telling her to stop but her body telling her to let it happen. His hands were still stroking hers as he inched closer to her lips.
"Hey we're ordering pizza-" Santana started to say then stopped when she saw their compromising position. Mercedes and Sam both jumped away from each other. "Well excuse the fuck out of me. Sorry for interrupting just wanted to know if you two wanted pizza. Let me let you two continue!" Santana said winking at Sam.
"Yeah sure I'll take whatever!" Sam responded smiling and looking down at his hands. Mercedes tried not to look at him feeling embarrassed.
"Yes thanks, Santana!" Mercedes said not looking at them.
"Alright, we're ordering cheese and pepperoni. Y'all can come down and enjoy it with us or stay here being naughty." Santana said with a naughty smirk on her lips.
"Excuse me I need to use the bathroom." She said walking out of the room. She needed to go regroup. It was obvious now that she couldn't be alone in a room with Sam without wanting to kiss him. The last thing she wanted to do was cheat on Matt. "What am I going to do?" Mercedes asked her reflection in the mirror once she was in the bathroom alone. She needed to figure that out quick before shit hit the fan.