Across town, Brody smiled as he watched TMZ discuss how amazing his plan to ruin things for Mercedes. After she left him, he decided to try to replace her completely with Rachel. This was an automatic disaster because Rachel was a control freak and last thing Brody wanted was a woman to control him. He wanted Mercedes back and he knew the only way he could get her back was if he ruined her career. He immediately looked into finding where she went after she left and assumed she would return to the show. When he found out that she ran home to daddy, he knew she wasn't happy. When he first met her, she threw herself at him every chance she got just to get away from her father.

"There's a chance for me still." he thought to himself as he devised a plan to get her back. He started making calls around to see if he can get her album out there finally. If he can show her that he could give her what she'd always wanted, there's no way that she wouldn't take him back. He felt he had her in the bag until one night he saw her back on the show and Finn had Mercedes and Sam flirting with each other on his screen. "Are you fucking kidding me?" he shouted as he slammed the remote in his hand on the ground.

He watched with rage in his eyes as Mercedes and Sam flirted on screen. He knew that this was not acting. He'd seen the both of them act and they were never convincing. He also knew that the writing on that shit show wasn't good enough to convey that much emotion from them. He knew he was right to worry about Mercedes having any kind of romantic interest or romantic scenes. It was only a matter of time before she developed feelings for whoever her co-star would be. Now, with him out of the picture she had all the rights to be with Sam.

"Over my dead body!" Brody said out loud to no one at all.

The following week, Brody looked into Sam and Mercedes. He tried to find out any and everything on both of them. He was happy to find out that Sam was in a relationship, so he knew he had to tell the poor simple girl that they were having an affair. He knew if she came back to be with Sam, she would feel extra lonely seeing him with his new girlfriend. Although it was late one night, he decided to call her and see if things could be worked out. Instead of talking to him, she hung up on him causing his rage to intensify. He wasn't sure how he was going to ruin things for the two of them till he ran into them eating at that restaurant.

"Ain't this about a bitch!" he exclaimed as he sat down at the table with his date. He smiled when Mercedes locked eyes with him. He could tell she was not happy to see him inside the restaurant, especially since he had new sexy young thing with him. He knew he had to go over there and show off his date. "Sweetie come with me...and just go along with whatever I say." he said as he took her by the hand and dragged her to the back section where Mercedes was seated with Sam. They were tucked away as if they were on a romantic date. As they approached them Brody caught her slipping her hand away and felt the rage surging through him again.

"Can we help you?" she asked. Brody couldn't help but smile at her. He missed her and her sassy ways. Something about the way she said things always made him smile. She looked good and not at all as bad as he was hoping she'd be without him. Then he remembered that she was there with Sam and the smile that was on his face faded away.

"Hey Mercedes, what a shocker to find you here on a date...with the one guy that you told me not to worry about." he looked over at his date and forced a smile as she smiled back at him. "Babe, this is my ex, the one I told you about." Brody lied. He'd never told the girl anything about Mercedes. Sure she did a lot of talking during their many dates but he never paid attention. He spent most of his time looking up Mercedes and trying find anything on her that he could use to get her back.

"We're not on a date." Mercedes responded. Brody didn't care to hear it because even he could see the chemistry between the two of them. Something was happening there and if he didn't do something to stop it then he would most definitely lose Mercedes to Sam. He decided to play into her insecurities and he could see from her reaction that it worked but Sam decided to get macho with him. Brody wished they were anywhere else so that he could punch Sam. He'd thought about punching Sam since the night he came home to find him on their couch and he was trying to hold himself away from doing it right then.

"Gentlemen, we cannot behave like this here." the restaurant manager came just in time to stop Brody from possibly embarrassing himself there.

"Me and my date will leave." Brody elected to say as he smiled at Sam. He said a few more things just to show he was better than the both of them before leaving with his date. As he waited for his car to be brought around, he noticed paparazzi was there snapping pictures. He wasn't too sure if Sam and Mercedes were famous enough for paparazzi to care but he went for it anyway. "Be right back, babe." Brody said to his date as he walked over to the paparazzi and pointed him in the direction where he can snap a clear picture of Mercedes and Sam. He knew this would be enough to make things complicated for their friendship and Sam's relationship but he needed more to ruin their careers.

Two days later, Brody was blessed with exactly what he needed to hurt Sam. He was waiting on a new potential client for brunch on a table outside a small cafe, when he over heard a conversation that he couldn't believe was falling in his lap. It was almost as if the world wanted him to ruin Sam and Mercedes collectively. He leaned back to get more into the conversation as he he was positive that he heard Sam's name being said numerous times.

"Can you believe I'm still grounded for inviting him to the house to meet her? She took away my chauffeur and black card. My freaking black card! My mom is such a bitch! How does she expect me to live without my black card." he heard the girl say. "Like seriously, tell me, if this were you and you found your mother put up Sam Evans from Gleek up for adoption...wouldn't you try to use the fame for a party and get to know your brother at the same time."

"Honestly Kitty, if it were me I would've tried to be his girlfriend." her friend responded.

"That's nasty, Sam's my brother." the girl responded with disgust. "And he has a girlfriend."

"Oh yeah...well maybe he can hook us up with Jake."

"He has a girlfriend too. He's with Marley." Kitty responded. "I'm starting to think that we might need to audition to be on one of these shows just to get a boyfriend."

"Maybe Sam can give us a hook up?"

"Have you not been listening? We can't get any hook ups. My mom says I can't contact Sam ever. You should have seen how he left. I doubt he'd ever want to see me again." she added as Brody turned back slightly to see which one of the girls was speaking so that he knew who to approach. He knew this was an opportunity that he had to take advantage of as he watched her excuse herself to go back into the cafe. Brody looked at his watch and noticed that his client was running late, so he got up and followed her into the cafe. "Thank you." Kitty responded as she received what she ordered. Brody walked up to her and smiled as she glared at him. "Uh...excuse you." she said as Brody reached for his business card to hand to her.

"Uh my name is Brody Wes..."

"I don't care." she replied cutting him off as she walked away from him. He normally would have said something about her rudeness but instead he pushed it aside because she had something he wanted.

"You will care...especially if you want to see your brother." he responded behind her. She was practically at the door when she paused and turned back to look at him. "Yeah, I overheard you out there with your friend."

"Eavesdrop much?" she asked as she walked towards him.

"You're going to thank your lucky stars that I did in a minute." he smiled as he explained that he knew Sam very well. Of course he lied and said that they were friends but she was ready and willing to give him the details. Especially when he promised her that he would arrange a meeting between her and Sam. "So, what's this thing about him being adopted?" Brody never knew that Kitty would spill so much information in such a short time.

"Apparently, when my mother was in high school she got pregnant by her high school boyfriend. She refuses to tell anyone who he is but that doesn't even matter because she didn't want him apparently. I guess he got lucky because he's all famous now. Its crazy because when I invited him over he was practically sleeping on friends living room floor." Kitty added. Brody was trying his hardest to hold in the smile that he wanted to spread on his face as he listened to all the details.

"You don't say."

"Look, I just want to have some kind of relationship with him. I know I used him for fame and he's like mad about it. If you can tell him that I am sorry and I want to...I guess start over, ya know?"

"I know exactly what you mean. And I will talk to Sam and see if he can work on starting things over with you all." Brody lied. He had no intention of reconciling Sam with his long lost mother. At the time, Brody thought it was only going to cause a blip on twitter but TMZ took the story and flipped it. He never knew that the internet would take the story the way they did. Now all he needed to do was wait for Mercedes to realize that Sam was not good enough for her future and find her way back to him.

Two weeks had gone by since all hell broke loose. Mercedes wanted to be there for Sam as he dealt with the drama in his life but Holly kept her really busy. She'd been at the recording studio and running around with Holly. She'd met with so many producers and song writers that they were all lumping into one. She was trying to stay focus but she couldn't keep her mind off of Sam. She was excited that she would finally see Sam because this would be her first time returning back on set.

"Brittany, we're going to miss you here on set." she heard Finn saying as Brittany walked out of his office."What do you have plans to do next?"

"I have a couple auditions lined up and I'm thinking of trying to get on Dancing with the Stars. I think I can dance circles on there." Brittany responded with a smile.

"I think you can as well. Don't be afraid to hit me up if you need help finding anything out there." Finn responded as they hugged briefly before he walked back on set.

Mercedes hadn't had a chance to speak to her as well and she wasn't sure what she'd say when she finally did. She tried to quickly turn in a different direction to avoid Brittany, but it was too late she already locked eyes with Brittany. They slowly walked towards each other and stood in silence for a brief second.

"Hey Brittany." Mercedes said as she broke the silence between them. She tried to read the expression on her face to gauge how to approach her apology but couldn't figure out if she was angry or not.

"Mercedes." she replied as she swung her bag over her shoulder then looked at her phone for the time then back at Mercedes.

"Uh...I don't want to keep you." Mercedes stated before taking a deep breath in. "I...uh...just wanna apologize about what happened the last time we...uh..."

"Yeah."

"I know that things have been kind of crazy on set and I wasn't around because of my schedule and yours just not matching."

"Yeah I heard you're finally working on your album." Brittany added with a slight nod.

"Yes, I thought I was busy before but now with this album and things looking like it is actually going to happen soon for me..."

"I'm...happy for you." Brittany responded before looking at her phone again. Mercedes was never one not to notice queues as she took one more deep breath in.

"Look, I'm sorry about the way things went down between you and Sam. I truly liked the two of you together and hate that my ex ruined what you two had." Mercedes said as Brittany just looked at her then smiled for the first time before chuckling for a second. "What? Did I say something wrong?"

"No...well yes...kind of yes." she responded as she shook her head. "I don't believe anything you just said." she added then continued. "Well, I believe you're sorry that your ex was putting everything out but I don't think you liked seeing me with Sam."

"I did."

"No, you didn't Mercedes. You tolerated it." Brittany replied. "I know I play a dumb person on the show and I do it so well that people are treating me like I'm as dumb as she is."

"I don't think you're dumb." Mercedes quickly interjected as Brittany continued.

"But, I'm not dumb and I know you have had feelings for Sam for quite some time."

"We're just friends." Mercedes responded.

"Mercedes, I've seen the way you look at Sam when you think no one else is looking. For a while, I thought it was one sided and that you were just his best friend that just happened to be a girl, but that day...I saw the way he looked at you. Sure I was upset that he told you before he even told me but...the way he hugged you was nowhere near how he hugged me."

"Brittany..."

"It's fine." she forced a smile on her face. "I just filmed my last scene with Sam, so I am done with this show. You can be with Sam, now."

"Brittany, we really are just friends." Mercedes responded as she looked away briefly. Brittany chuckled and placed her hand on her shoulder then gave it a quick pat.

"You don't have to keep lying to yourself about this. No one is standing in your way anymore." Brittany said before pulling her in for a hug. "Call me if you need a back up dancer for any of your videos...just give me a month to get over all of this first."

"Bye Brittany." Mercedes said softly as she watched her walk off set. She had to say that this went in a way that she never thought it would. She knew if the shoe was on the other foot that she would never hand her man over to the next woman or be okay with another woman having feelings for him. Let alone be as chill as Brittany was with the whole situation. When she caught Brody with Rachel she quit a tour and sang a break up song in front of the audience that paid to see her sing. She couldn't see how she would be okay with handing the man she cared about on a platter to the next woman. But even with that she had to admit that Brittany was right about one thing. There was nothing standing in her way of being with Sam now.

She took a deep breath then slowly made her way towards his dressing room. As she made her way to his dressing room she tried to think of every scenario but each time she just saw them finally kissing. Each step towards his room, she felt and heard the vibration of her heels hitting the ground. Her heartbeat intensifying the closer she got to his dressing room. Once she made it to his door she mentally told herself that Brittany was right. She had feelings for Sam and Sam had feelings for her and they were both single now. "The timing is perfect." she said to herself as she knocked on the door. She could hear him talking to someone on the phone as he made his way to the door. She quickly thought of how amazing it would be to be with him and tell him about the baby pictures her father gave her. She wiped her hands nervously and smiled when Sam opened the door.

"Mercedes."

uh yeah...howdy y'all...Don't be mad at the cliffhanger...I will make it up to y'all. Some thing big happens in the next chapter...some thing that some have been waiting for...I won't say what lol.

Review time:

Whoknows-It sucks that I cut my chapters where I cut them then you ended wondering things that will soon be answered. Either way, I am sure I didn't answer all of your questions but hopefully the following chapters will...I just want Samcedes to be together but the evil person named Mango keeps putting em thru hell.

Lamia- Yes ur an A-hole.

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