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Sam's POV

"You should be ashamed of yourself! Why on earth would you do such a thing?"

"I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean too!"

"Well it's a little late for that, don't you think?"

"How was I supposed to know he would react that way?"

"Then why risk it on the first place? Damn it Tina, what the hell am I supposed to do now?" It all happened way too fast. As soon as Lady McBitch and I left Blaine's chamber per his request I went directly to my room. At merely twenty or so minutes I have this lunatic telling me she kissed Blaine and to make things worse he called out my name. He probably thinks I'm one of those crazy stackers who take advantage of the wounded. "The easy solution, at least for me, would be to just tell the truth."

"No, no, no! Please I beg of you, I can't loose my job. My family needs the money!"

"You'll be lucky if you only loose your job, you kissed the prince for crying out loud! If I had to guess I would assume you could get locked up on the dungeons for the rest of your days, or maybe get beheaded with the next pack of criminals in a public execution."

I'll admit I wasn't really going to tell on her, I couldn't really live with the guilt of knowing I screwed someone over but damn it was it hard to come up with a solution, if anything I was finding scaring Tina slightly amusing but as always everything's fun and games until someone starts crying. "Please Sam, I don't want to die! It was just an impulse, I wasn't thinking clearly!"

"Alright, alright. I won't tell on you, but you'll need to help me come up with a solution. Imagine if Blaine tells someone else about this? Or worse, imagine if his stupid fiancée knows, she'll probably kill me in my sleep."

Tina tried to gain control and wiped the tears off her eyes. "Thanks Sam, I a-aprreciate it."

"Don't get to comfortable though, we need to come up with an excuse for this if we both want to get out of this alive." Tina nodded; she was still trying to get over the scare. "But first off, why did you kiss him?"

She began to look nervous again, luckily this time there where no tears. "I've been working here for a few months now and to be honest with you… I've developed a crush on the prince. He's always been so nice to me and when I heard he got hurt and blinded it seemed like the perfect opportunity to give back all of the affection he had given me while at the same time not get busted."

"Well I'm sure getting me involved wasn't part of your clever plan, was it?" Tina shook her head. "But wait, you said you heard he got hurt? How could you do that? We didn't tell anyone about it?"

Tina once again looked nervous but this time she looked more ashamed than preoccupied. "I… I eavesdropped through the door. Once I hear Lady Rachel yelling curiosity took the best of me."

"You know, back at McKinley eavesdroppers got their ears sliced off…" Tina's skin turned pale and she placed both her hands over her ears. "Luckily for you we're not there."

"Please don't hate me for this, believe you where the last person I would have wanted to drag to this."

"Considering you went ahead and kissed an engaged man you make it pretty hard for anyone to feel sympathy for you."

Tina once again gave me a sad look. "Don't you know how hard it is to love someone but don't have that feeling returned back?"

I do, if you only knew. "Well life isn't fair, deal with it. Now help me think on an excuse before this gets out of hand."

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Brainstorming took a lot more than I expected it but on the bright side I got to know Tina a lot more. While the first few times I ran into her I thought she was a klutz it appears it was all an act. She's actually one of the smartest persons I've talked with. All this time she pretended she didn't knew the castle's rooms, which she actually memorized in five days, just to run into Blaine, even if that meant interrupting him from time to time. She also confessed me she had a reputation amongst the maids as the local gossip girl, not because she enjoyed the gossips themselves but because she actually had an uncannily great memory.

"Are you sure that's the best way to put it?"

"Trust me, Blaine's not one to punish anyone besides it was kind of an honest mistake."

"But you said his fiancée wasn't as forgiving."

"To be honest I don't know but I'll do all in my power to keep that from her, as long as you help me out with what I told you."

"Alright, I'll do my best but please try to keep everything as low profile as possible."

"You have my word."

Tina's nervous smile was probably the expression I've seen her do the most, well apart from the embarrassed one. Still Blaine was right, she's a good girl and she doesn't deserve half the stuff that's happening even if she brought it to herself. We both walked out and gave each other an encouraging look before parting ways. We're not friends but if she does her part of the bargain I'm pretty sure we could become more than just allies.

Still as much as I wanted her out of my way when she told me what she did I couldn't help but want her, or anyone really, to come with me. The whole walk to Blaine's room was nothing but me thinking of different situations and outcomes, in some Blaine was as calm as ever but in others he goes berserk and either Tina or I suffer the consequences. The thought of it alone made me sick. I continued walking until I ran into Blaine's door. It took me a few minutes to actually arm myself with courage and knock.

"Who is it?"

"Hey it's me, Sam. May I come in?"

He took a few seconds to answer back, I don't blame him. Damn, I wouldn't even need to be here explaining myself if it hadn't been for Tina but I gave her my word. "Sure, just close the door once you're inside."

His response was oddly calm; maybe the better scenario was the one that would occur? As I entered the room I closed the door behind me and walked towards Blaine's bed where he laid facing the celling as if he was thinking about something.

"Um… hi, I wanted to talk to you about something."

"So do I, would you mind if I start?"

Darn it, that was never a good sign but might as well let him start, don't want to get in his bad side. "Sure, if it works better for you go ahead, I'm all ears."

"I know you didn't kiss me and while I have a couple of suspects I won't say names or do anything about it." That was music to my ears, I really don't know what to think about it but what I'm sure is that at least that's a weight off my back. "But there's something I realized, you know how they say that when you kiss someone you actually make a connection with you can feel sparks and a whole other things?"

"Umm, sure I've heard some people say that before. Haven't experienced it myself but I've heard it alright."

Blaine rose and from his laid position and now sat on top of his bed. He didn't really tried looking my way. "Well I haven't experienced it myself either. While at first I thought the lips I felt a while ago where yours I know for a fact it wasn't you, the steps where too light to belong to you and the breathing seemed rushed and nervous, that while understandable, it didn't really gave me your vibe."

"I appreciate the concern but, what does this have to do with anything?"

Blaine sighed, his tone had remained serious since the moment I walked in and to be honest it was quite unsettling but seeing him sighing was a sign he was still himself, if that makes any sense. "This will sound completely ridiculous almost on the line of the absurd but I actually…" Blaine wasn't able to finish, he chuckled a bit, quite nervously if I say so myself. "I actually thought for a second about us being more than just friends and to be honest the idea didn't seem like a horrible one."

Alright, I wasn't expecting this at all. "You mean you thought we…?"

"I know it's a pretty silly idea, but where I'm trying to get is, I've never really kissed a boy before and after giving more thought to the idea of "us" it occurred to me that you might offer to be my first one."

"Blaine… I'm flattered really, and I would love to help but there's a little something. It might sound like a half-assed made-up excuse but I just… it's just too soon. Besides, trying these things with friends just makes further situations a bit more awkward. Believe me, I used to date my best friend at McKinley and after the break-up it took more time than I can count for us to get things to be almost as they where before it happened."

I really hate myself for doing this but it's true. If anything Blaine's the only family I have left and I don't want to get things between us to be awkward. Blaine still looked as calm as ever but I could feel something uneasy about him. "Sure, it was just a silly idea to begin with."

"Trust me Blaine it's for the better."

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A/N: I'll be honest, I think this last two chapters could have been better. Kind of a shorter one but still good enough to showcase and build up Tina's character a bit more as well as to keep things a bit less tense (in a way). I'm sorry if the story has been feeling slow but it's all for narrative purposes (I think) but the big news for this chapter is the fact that it will be the last one before a small hiatus (that's why I decided to get this two back to back). I'll try to get back as soon as it's humanly possible but as of now enjoy these two chapters. And for those waiting for the justice I teased at on the previous chapter it will happen sooner than what you think (it was supposed to start somewhere here but I decided to leave this as a build-up chapter). Once again, thanks everyone for their support and kind words either here or on Tumblr, you have no idea how much it means!

Hope you're enjoying the ride!