Hi readers, I give you chapter 21 (the actual Samcedes chapter). I hope you enjoy it and don't forget to leave me some love.

Disclaimer: I do not own Glee. The only thing I own is the story idea for Stranded.

On the previous chapter

"What's with him?" Sam asked looking confused.

"Let him be. He needs to mend things with Sugar." Mercedes stated sitting on Sam's lap. "Don't worry about them. I'm sure they'll be just fine." She shifted Sam's face so that he was looking at her and said, "Now, why don't you give your girlfriend a kiss."

Sam flashed her a knee weakening smile before pulling her closer and attacking her lips with hands were all over each other's bodies and their tongues tangled and swirled around lustfully. Oh yeah, they had definitely forgotten about Sugar and Finn.

After Finn and Sugar left the club that night, Mercedes and Sam made their exit. They went home and spent the rest of the night making love. Mercedes had just fallen asleep when she felt Sam kissing her on the neck.

"Sam…Haven't you had enough?" She whined keeping her eyes closed. Maybe if she pretended to be tired Sam would eventually give up and go back to sleep.

"It's your fault, you know. You got me drunk and now I can't keep my hands off you." Sam was now lying on top of her—lips sucking on the sensitive spot of her neck, hands massaging her breasts and nipples.

Her body responded to his touches right away—her nipples hard and her pussy wet. "I didn't get you drunk last night…" She almost moaned. Trying her best to keep her thoughts off of sex was difficult when she had a delicious man showing attention to her body.

"Yes, you did. You sat on my lap and started making out with me. You got me drunk on you. I'm hungover now and I've heard that the only way to get past a hangover is to consume whatever it is that got you drunk in the first place." Her eyes rolled back when he grounded his erection onto her wet slit. "And since I'm hungover from your body, I figured that I should just have sex with you until I'm all better."

"Sam…" Mercedes half protested. She tried to push Sam away to no avail.

"Don't even try to stop me, Mercy. You know I'll still get what I want and no matter how much you try to resist me, you know that within a few minutes I'll be balls deep in your pussy, fucking you so good that you scream my name in ecstasy. Don't tell me that you don't want this. Your pussy is wet already, baby. I can practically feel you squirting on my cock." To prove his point he fingered her pussy and showed her the evidence of her arousal, his fingers glistened with her juices. Sam was about to suck on his fingers when she stopped him—licking her nectar off his fingers for him. "Fuck, you're so sexy…" He kissed her then—their tongues dueled in a battle of dominance.

He moved down to suck on her breasts after that, making her nipples hard. Sam was right, she did want him. It was crazy how much she wanted him. They had been back together for nearly four months now and she thought that the part where they wanted to rip each other's clothes off and have wild sex together all the time, was over but it wasn't. The more time they spent together the more their need for each other grew. Mercedes had no interest in other men, and it was the same way for him. They only had eyes for each other.

Mercedes was almost ready to explode when his lips descended on her sensitive slit. He tried teasing her with his licks but she wouldn't have that. Grabbing his thick blond locks, she pushed his head onto her pussy. Sam seemed to get the message that she wanted him to finish the job—he went to town on her after that. Just as she was about to reach her peak, her cell phone rang.

She tried to ignore it at first but got really frustrated when Sam stopped and told her. "Answer the phone, Mercy." Then he went back to his ministration.

"I can call whoever it is back later." Mercedes could care less about the caller, right now all she cared about was to get her satisfaction.

"Answer it or I'll stop!" Sam growled.

Knowing that he was dead serious about his threat, she picked up the phone. "Hello." She rasped.

"Good morning, Mercedes." Came Sugar's perky voice.

"Good morning, Sugar!" She squealed, Sam had latched onto her clit and was going to town on it.

"Are you ok? You sound different this morning."

"Yes! I'm alright." Mercedes tried to get her breathing and voice under control but it was hard to do when she was at the brink of climaxing. She tried her best to push Sam off but he would not budge—he just looked at her with mischief in his eyes. God, I hate you! She glared at him. Sam answered with a suck on her clit, earning a moan from her.

"Are you still there, Cedes?"

Mercedes almost forgot about Sugar from everything that was going on with her body. "Ye-yeah, I'm still here. So what's up?" She said her voice high pitched. Meanwhile, Sam was eating her out like there was no tomorrow. Mercedes was trying her best to keep cool but as her climax approached the moans became louder.

Thankfully, Sugar didn't seem to notice. "I wanted to invite you and Sam to lunch with me and Finn today. Could you two make it?"

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" She screamed as she came undone—the phone that she was holding fell to the floor. She bucked, shivered and moaned as the orgasm over took her. A kaleidoscope of feelings rushed through her. She felt sexy, wanted, and most importantly loved by the man that was still between her thighs, loving her most intimate parts with his tongue.

When her shuddering subsided, Sam came to lie next to her. "You dropped your phone." He said, kissing her neck.

"Oh my god, Sugar!" Mercedes squealed. She picked up her phone from the floor and noticed that Sugar had already hung up. "I can't believe you did that!"

"What did I do?" Sam asked innocently.

"You know what you did. You embarrassed me by making me cum while I was on the phone. I hate you right now." She grumbled truly pissed off at Sam.

"Oh come on, baby, you know you love me. I'm sorry…" Sam looked so pathetic that she didn't have the heart to stay angry at him.

Just then her cell phone rang again, before she answered, she looked Sam dead in the eyes and said, "If you don't behave this time I'm not going to fuck you for a month." He gave her a skeptical look and she continued, "I'm serious Sam. I will wear a chastity belt for a month if you don't behave." Sam kept quiet and stuck out his lower lip. He looked liked a wounded puppy but Mercedes didn't have time to play nice with him right now.

"Hey Cedes, I'm sorry about hanging up on you just now. Finn sidetracked me." She giggled. Mercedes could hear Finn say 'hello, Cedes.'Looks like I'm not the only one being naughty just now. Mercedes almost laughed at the thought.

"It's ok, Sugar. These things happen to the best of us." Mercedes glanced at Sam and saw that he was still upset. It hurt her heart to see him like that so she leaned down gave him a chaste kiss on the lips. He perked up right away, flashing her his infamous lopsided grin. God, I love this man.

"So you guys still up to meet us for lunch?"

"Yeah, sure, Sam and I would love to have lunch with you. What time should we meet?"

"It's 11 now. Can you guys get ready by 1?" Sugar asked.

"1 o'clock it is. So you want to meet at the usual place?"

"Sure, I'll see you guys at Giovanni's at 1 alright. Bye, Cedes."

Mercedes smiled and said, "Bye, Sugar, see you in a little bit."

"Still angry at me?" Sam asked after Mercedes placed her phone down on the nightstand.

Mercedes turned to look at him and gave him a little smile. "A little…But you can make it up to me later. Right now we have to get ready for lunch." She kissed him on the cheek then got up from the bed in all her naked glory.

His cock was already rising to attention—he couldn't help it, his girlfriend was sexy—what red blooded man wouldn't be turned on by such a sexy woman? "It's only 11 in the morning Mercy, and we're meeting them at 1. Why don't you come back to bed and cuddle up with me." He patted the spot next to him and waited for her to lie down.

"How about we both get ready instead, maybe have a cup of coffee while we wait to meet Sugar and Finn."

"Oh come on, babe. It's too early to get ready, let's just cuddle up for a little while." Sam pouted. He knew that he would always get his way when he did that so he's milking for all his worth.

Mercedes hesitated for a little bit then conceded. "Fine…but we have to get up by noon which gives us—forty minutes to lie around."

"Come here." Sam stretched out his hand for her and when she took it he pulled her towards him where she landed with a thud.

"You could be a little gentler, you know." Mercedes chided.

"I'm sorry. Let me make it up to you." He kissed her then, not allowing any protest to escape from her.

They kissed fiercely, lips biting and licking, tongues tangled together lustfully. Sam thought that his cock was about to explode from the way Mercedes was grounding her wet pussy on him. He couldn't wait any longer, he had to have her and he had to have her now. Moving down slowly, he focused his attention on her mouth watering breasts. Sam had always been amazed at the size and shape of them—although big, they were unbelievably perky. Having been the only man Mercedes had ever slept with, he was very in tuned with her body. He knew just where to touch or kiss to get her to go wild. For her breasts, she loved it when he would swirl his tongue around her areolas—which was exactly what he was doing now. Mercedes was moaning and groaning while he sucked her breasts. The sounds that were coming out of her made him harder. The urge to fuck her hard intensified.

As if Mercedes knew what he was thinking she pushed him off and straddled his lap—her hips moved which made her wet heat rub against his turgid cock. "Don't tease, Mercy…" He growled through gritted teeth.

"I'm not teasing, darlin'. I'm only paying you back for what you did just now." Mercedes said with a southern twang. Sam didn't know why but that just pushed him over the limit.

He flipped them so that he was now hovering over Mercedes and was entering her before she could even protest. He entered her slowly—it took a patience of the gods to do so but the pleasure that he was getting from the act was worth it. Their eyes met as he moved in and out of her like they had all the time in the world. As he stared into his Mercy's beautiful brown doe eyes, he fell more in love with her. Sam had never felt this connected to another girl before. Mercedes was truly his everything, they matched in every way. His heart only wanted her. His body only craved for hers. Mercedes Jones was his soul mate and the love of his life. No one could ever love him as much she loves him and no one could ever love her as fiercely as he loved her. The only thing to do now was to cement their love—he had to make her his forever.

"What are you thinking of?" Mercedes asked as they slowly moved within each other—their eyes never leaving the other.

"I was thinking that I love you and I can't believe that I have you back with me."

Mercedes pulled his head down towards hers, their lips locked in a domineering kiss. The lazy movements of their hips suddenly turned hard and forceful. Like him, Mercedes knew exactly how to move to hit just the right spot to drive him crazy. Sam could feel his climax approaching as their love making intensified. He wanted Mercedes to release with him so he moved his hand down and began to fondle her clit.

Mercedes hissed, her eyes rolling back. "Oh god, Sam…"

"Open your eyes, and look at me, baby. I want us to look into each other's eyes when we climax."

Slowly her eyes opened—with his eyes still trained on hers, he slammed into her harder and rubbed her clit faster. It was hard not to break eye contact but they both managed to keep their vision on each other. The anticipation of their release kept building and building until they both let go and fell into ecstasy together. Sam could not explain how mind blowing that climax was. It was like he could see and touch her soul, and her soul had his name etched on it. Her soul belonged to him just like his belonged to her.

"I love you so much, Mercy…" Sam said pulling Mercedes closer to him after they had caught their breaths.

"I love you too, Sam."

They cuddled up, enjoying the warmth of each other's bodies until it was time to get ready for lunch with Finn and Sugar. When there was silence between them, Sam's mind wondered back at the one question that had been planted in his head since earlier that morning. How could he make Mercedes agree to marry him?

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During lunch that day, Sam managed to have some alone time with Finn when the girls went to the ladies room. He wanted someone to talk to about his plan to propose to Mercedes and Finn was the perfect person to have the talk with. He was after all Mercedes' best friend.

"So you and Sugar are moving in together... That's a big step." Sam said nonchalantly, trying to find the courage to talk to the other man about his plan.

"Yeah, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I love her and all I want is to be able to be with her." Finn answered with a love sick look on his face.

"Listen, I need to ask your advice about something."

"Go for it, I'm listening."

When Finn gave him a reassuring smile, he said, "I want to propose to Mercedes soon but I don't know if she's ready to accept me yet. I just want to know if proposing right now would be a great idea."

"Do you love her?" Finn asked.

"I do."

"Do you think she loves you as much as you love her?" Finn asked again.

"I know she does." Sam might be uncertain about a lot of things—Mercedes' love for him on the other hand, he was very certain of. He knew that she loved him just as strongly as he loved her. That was the reason why he wanted to marry her. He didn't want to have to wait any longer. Why should he wait when he had already found the love of his life?

"Since you both love each other equally, I say go for it. Propose to her. She won't reject you and if she does just keep asking her until she gives in." The last part of Finn's statement unnerved Sam. Finn could probably see his discomfort because he was patting Sam's back before he continued to say. "Don't worry Sam, she won't reject you. Cedes loves you too much to reject your proposal."

"Thanks, man."

"No problem, glad to help. But…if you ever hurt my Cedes, I will kill you." Finn said seriously, his eyes suddenly dark.

"You don't ever have to worry about that. I would rather cut off my left ear then hurt Mercy." Sam promised.

"Good. Let's change the subject the girls are coming back." Finn stated looking towards the general direction of the ladies room.

Like the previous day, Mercedes woke up early the next morning—except this time she did not wake up to Sam's sexual advances. This time around, she woke up to the smell of coffee and breakfast food. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she slowly opened them. The sun was just coming up in the sky, filling the room with an orange tint of morning rays. After her vision had cleared, she glanced to the left side of the bed where Sam normally slept, but her boyfriend was not there instead she saw a tray with a mug of coffee and a plate full of breakfast food consisting of scrambled eggs, pancakes and hash browns. She smiled at the fact that Sam had made her breakfast in bed, then she picked up the tray and sat it on her lap.

As she sipped on her morning coffee, she heard a buzz coming from her cell phone. There was a text message from Sam that said, "Good morning my beautiful Mercy. I hope you are enjoying your breakfast."

Mercedes smiled when she read the message and replied, "Where are you? You should be here enjoying breakfast with me."

A few seconds later she received a reply from Sam. "I had some errands to run. I'll be back in a few minutes. I love you, baby."

"Hurry back, I miss you already and I love you too, Sam."

Mercedes continued to enjoy her breakfast after that but in the back of her mind she felt like there was something not right with the situation. Things felt a little off somehow. The room looked the same when she scanned the area to see if there was anything different in her surroundings. Mercedes chalked her uneasiness to being tired and finished off her food. Right after she placed the tray to the side, her phone rang—it was Sam.

"Are you home yet?" Mercedes immediately asked after hitting the answer button.

"Almost. Did you finish your breakfast?"

"Yes, I did. Thank you for the breakfast in bed, Sam."

"You're welcome, Mercy. Why don't you open the nightstand drawer, I got something for you."

Mercedes shook her head in disapproval, knowing that Sam had spent money on her yet again. "Baby, how many times do I have to tell you not to waste your money on me?"

"You know I love spoiling you, Mercy." Sam answered almost laughing. "Now why don't you humor me and open the nightstand drawer."

"Fine. But just so you know, I'm not too happy with you right now," Mercedes chided. Then she opened the drawer and reached in—that was when she felt it, a velvet square box. Trying not to roll her eyes at the thought of Sam spending more money on her, she lifted the box from the drawer and said, "I got it. More jewelry Sam…Really?"

Sam seemed to ignore her comment—which was just like him and said, "Open the box, Mercy."

Not wanting to waste anymore time by arguing, she opened the box. What she saw inside made her gasp. Inside the box laid an antique style asscher cut diamond engagement ring. The center diamond was sounded by smaller diamonds, giving the ring a magnificently expensive look. Mercedes couldn't believe that Sam had bought this ring for her. She always knew that he wanted to marry her but she would have never guessed the proposal would come so soon. Sitting up with her legs hanging on the side of the bed, Mercedes tried to think of what to say to Sam but the words never came.

"Did you like the ring?" Sam finally said on the other side of the line.

Mercedes was simply too speechless to answer—what could she say to him after seeing the ring? Lost in thought, she never saw Sam climb up the stairs to their bedroom. She only noticed that he was in her presence when he was on his knees in front of her.

"Mercedes Jones, will you marry me?" Sam asked with a wide grin on his face.

"Sam…" was all that came out from her mouth.

"That's good…at least you know my name." Sam joked laughing a little.

She giggled but still didn't have the answer to his question. "I don't know what to say to this."

"You could say yes." He suggested.

"I need time to think, Sam. It's too early to give you an answer. We've only been back together for three and half months. Don't you think that you're rushing into this?" She answered honestly.

"I love you, Mercedes Jones, and you're the only woman I ever want to be with, so no, I don't think I'm making a rash decision by proposing. The ball is in your court now. So…will you marry me or not? And please make a decision soon because I don't want to spend days on my knees waiting for your answer—although I would, if I had to." He was laughing again by the end of his statement.

This should be every woman's dream, to have the man they love propose to them in such a romantic way but Mercedes was still apprehensive. She loves Sam with all her heart but she also knew that they were still very young. There were still a lot of things that they should be able to experience before getting engaged—like getting their careers on the ground. As it was, Mercedes was still very much unemployed, she didn't want to have to mooch on Sam forever, she wanted to put her degree into good use and become a teacher. Getting engaged right now could become a complication for the both of them. What if somewhere in the not so distant future, Sam changed his mind and decided that he didn't want to be engaged to her? The heartbreak of losing him would kill her. With all these things on her mind, Mercedes decided that the best thing for her to do was to have a heart to heart with Sam.

"We need to have a talk before I can give you my decision, Sam," He looked so disappointed when she said this but she had to do it. Mercedes did not want him to end up regretting his choice in proposing to her. "Why don't you come sit next to me so we can talk," She smiled weakly and took of his hand in hers.

Once Sam was settled next to her, he spoke. "I know that you must think that I'm crazy for proposing like this and I want you to know that I understand if you don't want to accept my proposal right now. But know this, your rejection is not going to stop me from asking you again and again until you finally say yes."

Mercedes was proud to have such a determined man as her boyfriend but there were still a lot of things that she wanted to get off her chest, so she said, "I understand what you mean, Sam, but you have to understand my fear in this whole situation. We just got back together and are still trying to get reacquainted, not to mention that I don't have a job yet. I want a career Sam, I don't want to have to depend on you for the rest of my life. I want us to be equal partners."

Sam cupped both of her cheeks, caressing them, before saying, "I know you want a career. Of course you do and I'm not trying to stop you from having one. I just want you to be mine, Mercy, really mine. You could still have everything your heart desires after we marry. I would support you in all your choices in life—granted they are the right choices, that is."

She chuckled at his words, it was just like Sam to make her laugh during a serious conversation but then again that was one of the reasons she loved him so much. At that moment, she knew what her answer was going to be. Her heart felt light again and she felt freer. Without hesitation Mercedes said, "Alright. I'll marry you."

Sam's mouth hung open as he blinked rapidly. He was so cute like that—like a deer caught in headlights. "What did you say?"

Moving closer to him, she pecked his lips and answered, "I said, I will marry you."

Sam acted quickly after that, he was kissing her lips passionately then peppering kisses all over her face. Mercedes giggled at his eagerness, completely happy with her choice to accept his proposal. She knew that she had made the right choice just by the way he was reacting. After a while, Sam took the ring box from her, took the ring out and slipped the engagement ring on her ring finger.

Contented with the sight of the beautiful ring on her finger, Mercedes smiled at her fiancé, "I love you, Sam Evans."

"I love you too, Mercedes Jones-Evans. I love you so much."

And then they kissed and consummated their engagement for the rest of the morning.

I really hope I did this chapter justice. Let me know your thoughts on the chapter.

We have one more chapter before I finally wrap this up. I'm sad but at the same time happy that this fic is coming to an end. You my gentle readers/reviewers have made this journey memorable and for that I thank you.

Well that's all I have for tonight. Until next time…

xoxo,

Lovessamcedes