A/N: Hey guys! I hope everyone is doing well. So, here is the 9th chapter of Gleelight. I hope you all enjoy it.
In the next chapter is an important first for out star-crossed couple and a run in with vampires that have been killing people around town like Gordon's friend.
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THIS FANFICTION IS UNBETA'D. ALL MISTAKES ARE UNINTENTIONAL. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.
Sam and I climbed the stairs and joined his family in the large wood paneled dinner room. It was the only room in the whole house that didn't have large windows. There were all kinds of amazing paintings covering the walls and soft music playing. Emma fixed everyone a plate, mine had the most because I need food to live.
"So Mercedes, how is Gordon?" Emma asked politely.
"He's great." I said smiling. She smiled brightly back at me. Her red hair framed her face and showed off her beautiful features.
"Sam tells me that your step-father is in a band." Will said.
"Yeah. It's called Grand Funk Connection." I said. "They're not really famous but they're good." Will nodded as he put some food in his mouth. "Um, I hope that I'm not overstepping, but would it be wrong to ask how you guys became vampire?" I asked. The room grew quiet and the Schuesters just glanced at each other until Will cleared his throat. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked. I was just...curious."
"It's ok." Will smiled. "It's still odd that you're not afraid of us."
"Oh." I said looking down at my plate hiding my reddening cheeks. The room was silent again.
"I don't know who changed me." Tina spoke up. She gave me a gentle smile before continuing. "See, I've always had my visions but in 1899, people didn't necessarily know that's what they were and I was sent to the asylum. At the time, I didn't remember much about my experience there, day to day, but now as a vampire, I remember everything but the faceless person that changed me remains a mystery."
"Have you tried to find out who it was?" I asked.
"No. It doesn't matter in the long run. Plus, I look at it as sort of a blessing. I got Mike and my family out of it." Tina said gazing into Mike's eyes. I smiled at them. They were so in love. You could feel it in the room.
"I um," Emma began. "Will saved me." she said her eyes welling with tears. "I was married once before. As a human. My husband and I had tried several times to get pregnant. Each time had been successful but all ended in horror. I had two miscarriages and a stillborn." she explained as Will wiped away a tear that had fallen. "But we were determine." Emma said with a weak smile. "I became pregnant once again. We were very happy and excited but it was the summer of 1914 and the first world war had begun. I got word that my husband had died and a few weeks later, I miscarried. I was heartbroken on all sides, I wanted to end it all." she said crying now. "So, that's what I set out to do. I walked to the cliffs near my home and...jumped." I gasped, my eyes wide. "But then, when I woke up, this beautiful face was above me. He was there everyday when I woke up." Emma caressed Will's face. "One day, when the doctors determined I wasn't going to make it, he asked me if I wished to live and stay with him forever in his care. I told him I wanted children but there was something wrong with me."
"I assured her that she would have children if she would only join me." Will said nuzzling into her hand.
"I believed him and here we are." she told me with a warm smile.
"I'm very sorry all of that happened to you." I said, wiping away my own tears.
"Oh sweetie, it's in the past. I'm happy now and I have all my beautiful children." Emma stated as she gazed around the table at all of her children.
"Puck and I were vampires when we found the Schuesters." Lauren chimed in.
"Yeah, some crazy guy changed me and Zizes as me to change her." Puck explained. "It was hard for me. I had never even bit anyone before."
"Yeah but here I am baby." she said kissing his lips gently.
"I am a bad ass." he whispered. She smiled at him and kissed him again. "But yeah, we were tearing up the midwest when Will found us and told us there was a better way." Will smiled at his mention.
"It's so amazing. You guys are such a family to not be blood relatives." I said. "Some people hate the people they're actually related to." They all laughed.
"Vampires feel things differently." Sam explained. "More intense."
"Oh, so if you like someone or love someone it's a thousand times greater than anything I can feel?" I asked, looking into his green eyes.
"Something like that." he grinned.
"Good to know." I said, slightly blushing. No one else chose to share how they became vampires but I wasn't trying to push them. I was just interested. They were interesting. I enjoyed getting to know Sam's family. It made me feel closer to him and in my opinion, that couldn't be bad.
After dinner, I said my goodbyes and Sam drove me home. He opened my door and walked me to the front door.
"I had fun today." I said smiling up at him.
"I'm glad." he smiled back.
"I hope we do it again soon."
"We'll see."
"Thank you for inviting me." I whispered.
"You're welcome." he whispered back, his eyes locked on mine. I held my breath as he leaned in, closer and closer to my face. His cold lips pressed against my forehead for a long moment before he pulled away. I exhaled. "Goodnight." he said as I unlocked the door.
"Goodnight." I said as I stepped inside. Sam gave me a crooked smile that melted my insides before he turned and headed back to his car. I closed the front door and headed up to my bedroom.
"Did you have a good time?" Gordon's voice said from his bedroom. I screamed at the sound breaking into the silence of the house.
"What?"
"Did you have a good time?" he asked again. "Dr. Schuester told me that you were going over there for a visit."
"Oh, yeah it was fun." I said as he came into the hallway.
"Good. I got your note."
"I wanted you know where I went."
"I know. I'm not accusing you of anything." he said.
"It doesn't feel that way." I said walking toward my room.
"I promise I'm not." Gordon replied. "I'm just glad you had fun and you're making friends." he said with a gentle smile. I smiled back.
"I'm sorry, Dad."
"It's alright. Go to bed. I'll see ya tomorrow." he said before returning to his room and shutting the door.
"Shit." I muttered. I hadn't meant to make him feel bad. I just...opened my mouth before I knew everything. I'll make him an awesome breakfast before church. I entered my room and turned on my love songs. I got undressed and put on my pajamas before laying down. The smooth vocals filled the room and swayed me to sleep.
I got up the next morning feeling awesome. That probably had a lot to do with the sin worthy dream I had about Sam. Goosebumps covered my skin as my thoughts drifted back to my dream world. My toes touched the cold tile of the kitchen and I closed my eyes. Sam. I couldn't stop thinking about him. That dream had rocked me in more ways than one. As I moved around the kitchen I could hear his sexy voice in I head.
"Your body is so beautiful." he said, his fingertips moving ever so slowly down my unclothed body. I inhaled sharply as his index finger traced my nipple. The icy touch of his skin sent tingles all over my body, straight to my core. I watched him as his ice-cold fingers traveled down my body finding my warm center. Sam didn't hesitate. He didn't slow down. He touched me the way I wanted to be touched without me having to ask. I hissed as his fingers dipped into my wet folds. I rode his hand until I found my ecstasy.
"That smells good." Gordon said breaking me from the memory of my dream.
"Oh. Thanks." I blushed. It was more than embarrassing to be remembering a sex dream with your parent in the same room.
"You not coming to church today?" he asked looking at me in my Barbie pjs.
"No. I think I'm gonna do some job hunting." I said serving him his breakfast. "I don't want to have to rely on you for money."
"Didn't you mother send you with some money?" he questioned, squeezing syrup onto his pancakes.
"Yeah but I have a car now. Gas isn't cheap."
"I heard that the Daniels are hiring at their music store."
"Where is it?" I asked, grabbing the magnetic notepad from the refrigerator door.
"2402 Winchester Avenue." Gordon informed me. "They're open on Sundays because Mr. Daniels doesn't do church." he said rolling his eyes. I'm sure there was some small town gossip in there somewhere but I didn't care enough to dig it out. "I'm going out to the rez after church today; you coming?"
"Yeah. I haven't seem Mav in a little while." I said smiling.
"Alright, we'll go to Breadstix after we leave there." Gordon said returning my smile. "Do you want to meet me on the rez or do you want me to pick you up?"
"I'm out of the way. I probably won't be home anyway. I'll meet you there." I said taking the piece of paper with the address on it with me to my room. By the time I showered, dressed and came back downstairs, Gordon was gone. I walked carefully to my car, there were still remnants of ice all over the place. I popped a cassette in the deck and took off toward the music store.
The Daniels Music Emporium was huge. It was like a warehouse full of CDs, vinyls, cassettes, 8-tracks and any other manner of listening to music there was. It smelled like winter and vintage.
"May I help you?" a tall balding man asked me as he carried a box to the floor. "Drake is in the hip-hop section, One Direction is in the pop section and Hot Chelle Rae is in the pop-rock section, unless you like the band without Ian, not that anyone does, but that's located in the pop section. In my opinion they kind of lost their edge." he said as he cut open the box and started stocking the shelves.
"Uh, no. I'm here about the job." I said and what was it about the adults in this town and Drake?
"Oh great. Well, I'm Bret Daniels; call me Bret. Follow me to the back." he said shaking my hand. "Do you go to school with Jerry?" he asked as we entered into the office.
"Yeah. I'm Mercedes Jones." I said sitting in a chair on the opposite side of the desk.
"Oh, right. Gordy's kid." he said smiling. "I'm Jer's dad. He talks about you a lot. I'm surprised you haven't stopped by sooner. All his friends do." I smiled uneasily. What the hell was Jerry telling his parents? He and I were friends but not like best friends. Awesome. I hoped I wasn't required to know things about him, because I knew two things about Jerry Daniels. He likes me and he's into sports. "Just fill this out, please." he said handing me a clipboard.
It was a straight forward application. Nothing to taxing. He looked it over and then stood up and went to the filing cabinet.
"So, do I have a job?" I asked as I watched him rummage in the drawer.
"Yep, here you go." Bret said handing me a black t-shirt that read, DANIELS MUSIC EMPORIUM on the front in white letter and on the back it read, MUSIC EXPERT. "You can start tomorrow. You'll be added to the schedule by then."
"Thank you." I smiled.
"You're welcome. You'll meet the wife and the other employees tomorrow." Bret beamed as he walked me to the door. I smiled again before I got in the car. I held the shirt up in front of me.
"That's not embarrassing at all." I said aloud to myself in the car. I tossed the shirt to side and made my way toward the Daculette reservation.
When I got to the rez, Maverick and Travis were just getting there as well. There was another truck behind theirs that I didn't recognize but I don't know everyone they know.
"Hey, Mercy." Maverick said as I approached them. Standing with them was an older man, with jowls and long silver hair.
"Mercedes, this is Winston Littleleaf." Travis said introducing us. I was a little nervous because Winston had such a severe face.
"How you doing?" he asked with a bright boyish grin. I eased and smiled back.
"I'm good. How are you?"
"Wonderful." he said. "You're dad'll be here soon. Hope you guys are staying for dinner." Winston said as he pushed Travis inside the house.
"Sorry about that." Mav said. "He gets excited when we get visitors." we laughed. "So, you wanna take a walk?"
"Sure." I smiled. We walked in silence for a while before he cleared his throat.
"Where were you on Saturday?" he blurted out, avoiding my eyes.
"I was..." I stopped. I wasn't sure how to proceed with the rest of the sentence. "I was with my boyfriend."
"What? Oh. Who? Schuester?" Maverick asked. I felt his body tense beside me. I didn't know what else to do but answer honestly.
"Yes. He wanted me to meet his family."
"Oh." he said coolly. "Cool." We continued to walk, the silence threatening to choke us. I decided my best bet would be to change the topic.
"Do you know what's going on with those animal attacks?" I asked. He shook his long hair.
"Nah. Dad and Win said that it got somebody else on their way into the Lima but that's it." he said plainly with a glance in my direction.
"It's getting really close to town." I murmured. I knew that it was other vampires but I couldn't say that. It was clear that Maverick had a crush on me so saying that the stuff that legends are made of were killing people, was out of the question. He'd never believe me and he'd think I was crazy. Hell, I would think I was crazy if I didn't know the truth about what's out there. "Has the search party gotten any closer to finding it?" I hope not.
"No. Dad said that Chief Mason said that he and Sheriff Turner were leading the two teams themselves along with Officer Sidney of the Animal Control and they've all got nothing." he said kicking rocks along the rode. "I head Gordy found a human footprint." My eyes grew huge. The vampires was close. Close to my dad. As Maverick and I made our way back toward his house I saw my dad pulling up behind my car. He had taken off his suit jacket and tie and had his sleeves rolled up.
"Hey, Merc." he called with a wave. I ran over and hugged him tightly. "You ok?" he murmured. I just nodded. Yes, I lied. Again, Sam's secret is just that, Sam's secret. I'm not going to tell; but I am going to tell Sam about how close that other vampires are town. I don't know if they can do anything about it but, it'll make me feel safe just knowing that he knows.
"Oh, um are we staying for dinner?" I asked as I walked with my arm in Gordon's toward the house.
"Nah. I'm in the mood for alfredo." he said with a wink. "Did you get that job?"
"I did. Mr...I mean Bret seems cool."
"He's a hippy." he said holding the door for me. I laughed as we joined everyone in the living room.
The afternoon drug by. Maverick and I spent it online shopping for classic cars and vintage boots we'll never have. When it was time to go, I hugged him and told him to stay out of trouble.
"I'm not the one with the boyfriend." he teased. I playfully slapped his arm before heading toward the front door to meet Gordon. He was saying his goodbyes to Winston and Travis when I got there.
"I'll see you fellas this Saturday." he said shaking their hands.
"What's Saturday?" I asked.
"Fish-off." Winston said smiling. "Person with the biggest catch gets the whole haul."
"I can't lose." Gordon said. "I'm a natural."
"Yeah right, Doc and I can walk." Travis said causing all of us to laugh.
"Well, don't come crying to me when I'm hauling all that fish back to my house." my dad said with a smirk. Travis and Winston rolled their eyes.
"Get outta here." Travis said opening the door for us. "You just be ready to throw that haul on the back of my truck." he called.
"That's so nice of you to offer to bring it out to my house but my truck will work just fine." Gordon said before getting into his car, laughing. I waved and got into my car. I followed him off the rez but he picked up speed. I was enjoying the scenery and I just wanted to think. When I pulled up Breadstix, Jerry, Greg, Robbie and few of their other guy friends were hanging out. I hadn't really talked to them this past week but oh well.
"Hey." Jerry said running up to me, Greg behind him. "My dad said you work at the store now."
"Yeah, I start tomorrow."
"Awesome. I'll train you." he smiled. I smiled back and nodded before he ran off and jumped on Robbie's back.
"Hey, L.A., how you doing?" Greg asked stepping in front of me. I nodded and he continued. "So, you and Evans, huh? That's...I don't like it." I cocked my head to the side and looked at him. Was he for real? "I mean, I don't know, he just looks at you like you're something to eat." I rolled my eyes.
"Thank you for your concern, Greg but Sam is a great guy and from what I can tell you don't really know him. He's just...intense." I said before going inside the restaurant. So, yes, Greg Smith was right on the money. Sam did look at me like I was something to eat but he couldn't help that and I didn't blame him. "Sorry, I got behind. I was enjoying the scenery." I said joining Gordon in our regular booth.
"I ordered you the alfredo with broccoli. I hope that's ok." he said. I nodded as Merna approached.
"Hey Gordy, the boys want to know..." she began as my dad looked around her at the booth behind her filled with older men. "did you find anything by Mystic River yesterday?" Gordon sighed.
"Yeah, we found a bare human footprint." he said. Maverick had been right. I was right. The vampires were close. "But Chief Mason said it looks like whoever it is, is headed East, so Newbury County sheriff is gonna take over from here." he informed them.
"Ok." she said sadly.
"Ok?" Gordon said looking down at his plate.
"I just hope they catch him fast." Merna said before she moved away from our table. I touched Gordon's arm and gave him a warm smile. He smiled back and began to twirl his fork in his pasta silently. Gordon looked out the window and smirked.
"It looks like your friends are flagging ya." he chuckled. I looked over my shoulder to see Greg shaking his ass in the window. Gross. "It's ok if you wanna go and join 'em. I'm just gonna turn in early anyway."
"Me too." I said, taking a sip of water.
"Mercy, I know it's Sunday but you can hang out with your friends. Looks like the Smith boy's got a big smile for you." he said twirling his pasta again.
"Yeah, he's a good buddy." I said chomping on a broccoli floret.
"What about any of these other yahoos in town?" he asked eying the boys outside the restaurant. "Anybody interest you?"
"Dad, we're gonna talk about boys?" I asked blushing slightly. Hell to the no!
"Yeah...I guess not." he chuckled nervously. "I just feel like I leave you alone too much. You should be around people."
"I don't really mind being alone." I stated truthfully. "I guess I'm kinda like my dad in that way." I smiled. He returned to my smile and we finished out dinner in a relative but comfortable silence.
A/N: By the way, to my knowledge there is no Newbury county in or around Lima, Ohio.
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