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He's Nothing Like Me

Sam doesn't bother to ask anyone else to Homecoming after Rachel rejects him, ever since Quinn pointed out how he feels about her, it's sort of like she's the only girl he can actually see. He hates that she turned him down, but he loves that she's not ignoring him anymore.

The Friday before Homecoming, he formulates a plan.

"You're starting to be creepy." Quinn tells him at lunch.

"I'm not." He grumbles. "Seriously though. She's going with that guy?" Sam bites his sandwich angrily as he watches her table.

"She's not going with him, she's just going with him."

"Who are you going with? Wanna go as friends?" He says, still not even bothering to look at her.

Quinn rolls her eyes. "Earth to stupid. Taking me anywhere that we might be perceived as a couple is not the best way to win her over, jackass." He finally rips his gaze away from brunette locks when Quinn's tone turns condescending.

"So I gotta be the one to suffer and go alone? Can I talk to you while we're there? Or should I sit in the corner all night?" Sam's starting to sound a little irritated, even if he thinks the way Rachel organizes her food just right before she eats it, is adorable.

"Look, I'm not telling you what to do, she'll be jealous no matter who you bring, but if it's me you'll lose all the ground you've gained." Quinn pauses. "She's been hurt a lot, Sam." Sam watches Quinn go quiet and he knows she has more to say. "You're still new. You don't know everything that's happened to her. We've all been in the same classes since we learned to walk and we started young. In grade school she got teased for dressing funny, in junior high for having two dads, not to mention being told to shut it twenty times a day since she turned ten." Quinn blushes in shame as she continues. "The slushies have died down, but I made sure Rachel got one everyday when we started high school, you know what they feel like. And that's just everyday school stuff. Add what happened with Finn and Jesse...and Finn again, and I'm sure you can realize why she's not jumping at the chance to date anyone right now. Plus last year, when you came back to me, it really hurt her."

Sam sighs because he knows his annoying blonde headed friend is right. Rachel has every right to be gun shy. "There's gotta be something I can do." He mumbles as he turns his gaze back to the tiny singer. When she looks up and catches his eye he smiles at her and he pretty much loves the way her cheeks color as she smiles back.

"You should sing her something in Glee." Quinn says around her salad.

"Huh?" Sam doesn't look back toward his lunch companion until Rachel drops his gaze.

"I was saying that you should sing her a song today in Glee." Quinn hates repeating herself and Sam hears it in her voice.

"Like what?"

"Anything that doesn't start with Justin and end with experience." Sam and Quinn turn their attention to the voice behind them. "Last year when Finn decided he wanted Rachel back and walked two steps behind her and Jesse in the halls, I thought it was creepy. Like serial killer creepy. Watching you stare at her is giving me flashbacks." Sam rolls his eyes as Quinn giggles at Kurt when he joins their table.

"I'm not staring at her, dude."

"Please. Tell me again how you never dye your hair?" Kurt waves him off and turns to Quinn. "Rachel is insisting on the blue. We need to intervene."

Sam watches Quinn shrug. "I thought the blue looked fine."

"Yes, but the pink, looked heavenly." Kurt says dreamily. "Talk to your girl." He tells her.

"What are you guys talking about?" Sam is a little confused.

"Her dress." Kurt tells him as if it's the most obvious thing in the room.

Sam rolls his eyes and finishes his milk. "I'm sure whatever Rachel puts on, she'll look great."

Kurt sighs. "Of course you think so, you're a lovesick puppy. And by the way, my little diva does love grand gestures, and no one sings a lovesick puppy song, like a good boy band."

Sam frowns, "I can't put anything together by the time Glee club starts." He's been thinking about singing her a song for a while now, he just never finds one that feels right. He wishes he would have thought of the boy band thing sooner, or, you know, on his own. Sam continues to frown as he searches boy band lyrics on his phone, drowning out Quinn and Kurt as they chatter about Rachel's dresses.

He spends the rest of lunch and all of study hall searching before he finds what he hopes will be a perfect song, but to both Quinn and Kurt's surprise he doesn't serenade her in Glee. Instead he calls Puck, Mike, Kurt and Santana to his house after school. They work past midnight, and Sam finds himself pleased when Kurt gives him an impressed nod of approval on his way out.

On Saturday, he's extremely pleased, at the flushed happiness in Rachel's eyes as he takes the stage at Homecoming and sings to her in front of the entire school.

Backstreet Boys-I'll Never Break Your Heart