Sam gulped as he sat down at the dinner table. This was it; he was meeting Mercedes' boyfriend tonight. Fiancé, he bitterly reminded himself.

Mercedes had a planned a nice dinner at one of the fancier resteraunts in North Lake. Everyone was invited to the dinner, and Trey was paying for all of it. This of course made Sam conflicted, he hated Trey but loved free food. What was he supposed to do?

"How long is going to take Mercedes and her boytoy to get here, I'm hungrier than little children that work on factories." Santana complained.

Santana and Brittany were one of the first ones to arrive, and although Santana was tempted to order a cheeseburger, she listened to her wife's insistence that they wait for everyone to arrive before they order.

"The traffic in Altana is awful." Quinn complained.

Puck nodded in agreement. "I'll say, we didn't even have time for Quinn to give me road head."

Quinn's eyes widened in shock and disgust before she elbowed Puck.

"Shut up Puckerman!" She hissed.

"Are you guys back together?" Brittany asked.

"No of course not, I was just picking him up from the airport. I'm never ever getting back together with Noah Puckerman." Quinn declared.

Puck smirked. "Are you sure about that baby?"

"Puck is a stallion, I'm a lesbian and even I enjoyed sex with him." Santana said as she sipped on her wine.

Kurt rolled his eyes. "Can we please talk about something other than sex?"

"Kurt is right, I wanted to tell you guys about this new Broadway show I'm auditioning for." Rachel smiled.

Santana turned to Quinn and smirked. "You owe me five dollars."

Quinn sighed and dug into her purse fishing for cash before she handed Santana a five. Rachel frowned.

"Why are you paying her?" Rachel asked.

"We bet how long it would take you to make the conversation all about you. I said you could make it five minutes, but Santana didn't believe in you." Quinn sighed in defeat.

Rachel huffed while dramatically crossing her arms. "I don't make everything about me."

As soon as those words exited her mouth, Santana let loose a loud sneeze.

"Bless you." Rachel said.

"Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit." Santana said.

Everyone but Rachel burst out into laughter. Rachel frowned, as much as she was used to be the butt of the joke, she didn't necessarily appreciate it. Of course, it was great to be around her friends again. She turned to see that Sam wasn't joining in on the laughter.

"So, Sam, how's Lima?" She asked.

Sam forced a smile. "Really good, the New Directions won Nationals again."

"That's great!" Tina cheered.

"Well they learned from the best." Puck said cockily.

"Damn right they did." Mercedes said.

They all turned around to see Mercedes and Trey standing by the table. Everyone jumped and cheered in excitement.

"Mercedes!" Kurt yelled.

He ran to hug the girl, looking as excited as Sam felt. She looked good. Really good. Sam stopped himself when he realized he was staring. Everyone ran to hug Mercedes, almost tripping over each other for a chance to do it.

As soon as they crowd cleared, an open path was between Sam and Mercedes. Mercedes turned to look at Sam and smiled. A smile that made his heart melt and his soul fly.

"Hi Sam." She said.

Her voice sounded like honey. Sam smiled and held out his arms and pulled Mercedes in for a hug.

"Hey Cedes." He smiled.

She hugged him tightly, which made Sam wonder if she did that just for him or if she was just good at hugs. He wanted to hold her in his arms forever. And just like that it was over, she pulled away keeping that warm smile on her face.

"You must be Sam." Trey said.

Sam turned to see Trey standing in front of him. Trey was a handsome man with umber colored skin and light brown eyes. He had shoulder length dreadlocks that would have rivaled Joe's.

"Nice to meet you." He said holding out his hand.

Sam forced a smile. A smile that he hoped that hid how jealous he was of Trey. How angry the man made him feel. He held out his hand and shook it.

"Nice to meet you." He said.

"Enough with the formalities, let's eat!" Santana cheered.

Everyone laughed in agreement and took a seat. Sam was in between Artie and Blaine; he would need his two best friends by his side to deal with this. Sam looked up at Mercedes and Trey, they seemed happy. Like a real couple. It made his heart sting.

"So how did you two meet? I feel like we know nothing about you." Quinn smiled.

"Well I'm a lawyer, I work for Kaplan and Myers." He smiled.

Brittany raised an eyebrow. "You build houses."

Santana sighed. "No sweetie, he keeps thugs like Puck out of jail." She said as she patted Brittany on the back.

Trey chuckled. "Your wife is funny."

"Well they teach a lot of humor at MIT." Santana chuckled.

Mercedes paused. "Wait Brittany went to MIT."

"You didn't know that?" Tina asked.

"I thought that was a joke." Mercedes gasped.

"You literally were at her graduation." Santana said.

Brittany paused. "Actually, if I remember correctly you disappeared during the ceremony didn't you?"

Mercedes gulped and slowly looked at Sam. Suddenly she remembered what she was doing that day.


Flashback

A few years ago

"You have really soft lips." Mercedes moaned as Sam sucked on her neck.

Sam smiled. "I know."

The two snuck off before the ceremony started, Rachel was distracting everyone by talking about how Hamilton redefined Broadway, giving the two about twenty minutes where they could be alone.

"You know this doesn't mean we're together right." Mercedes gasped.

Sam stopped kissing on her neck and pouted. "I miss you, Mercedes."

"We've been over this, I'm traveling all the time, since I'm opening for Beyoncé. I don't have time for romance." Mercedes said.

"I can wait." Sam said.

Mercedes smiled trailed her fingers on the outline of his jaw. "I know you can Sam, but that isn't right."

"Are you sure this about you traveling, and not about the…the virginity thing." Sam said.

Mercedes paused. She wasn't sure exactly what was stopping her from being with Sam.

"Just shut up and kiss me." Mercedes said, before pulling the blond man in for another kiss.

End Flashback


"Yep, no clue what I was doing that day." Mercedes chuckled awkwardly.

Overall dinner was life. Everyone was laughing and catching up on old times. Occasionally Sam would steal a look at Mercedes to see if was looking at him at him too. Unfortunately she seemed to be really interested in hearing about whatever Santana was talking about.

Sam frowned. "I need to go take a phone call outside." He coughed.

Rachel frowned. "At night?"

"He's proably calling one of his hoes back in Lima, right Sammy Boy." Puck said.

"God you are so obnoxious." Quinn scoffed as she rolled her eyes.

Sam ignored them and made his way outside. Blaine and Kurt exchanged a look. Blaine could tell Sam was feeling off.

"I think he might have a stomachache, I'll go check on him." Blaine said as he dabbed a napkin to the corners of his mouth.


Sam stood outside the restaurant and looked up at the stars. How did this happen? He lost interest in teaching, he didn't have Mercedes, and it seemed like all his friends were having fun as adults. Doing the most with their lives.

Sam took another step, his thoughts of Mercedes were still strong.

Sam:

Darlin', you complete me

But you make a lot of assumptions

And when you assume things you make an ass out of you and me

Don't make an ass out of me

We belong together

And you that I'm right

Why do you play with my heart?

Why do you play with my mind?

Said we'd be forever

Said it'd never die

How could you love me and leave me

And never say goodbye?

Sam kept singing, pouring his emotions into the lyrics of the song.

Sam:

When I can't sleep at night without holding you tight

Girl, each time I try I just break down and cry

Pain in my head oh I'd rather be dead

Spinnin' around and around

Although we've come to the end of the road

Still I can't let go

It's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you

Girl, I know you love me

You just don't realize

You've never been there before

It's only your first time

Maybe I'll forgive you

One day maybe you'll try

We should be happy together

Forever you and I

Will you love me again like you loved me before

This time I want you to love me much more

This time instead just come to my bed

And baby just don't let me down

Hey babe remember when we walked down to the beach

And drank the 12er?

We were so wasted we passed out

I got that gnarly sunburn, it was so ghetto

But ever since then you totally backin' me

Your bitchin' fully blazed obviously

We've got a radical future in front of us, I'm so stoked

Come to the end of the road

Still I can't let go

It's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you

Come yes we've come to the end of the road

Still I can't, I can't let go

It's unnatural, you belong to me, but we've come to the end of the road.

"Sam?" A voice called.

Sam turned to see Blaine looking at him with concerned expression. Sam forced a smile.

"Hey Blaine." He said.

"Are you crying?" Blaine asked.

Sam chuckled. "Just allergies, I'm perfectly fine."

"Nobody who sings like that, with so much pain in their voice is perfectly fine. What's going on man you can talk to me." Blaine said.

Sam sighed. "Well it's just…I don't know. Do you ever just feel numb?"

"Numb? You mean like depression?" Blaine asked.

Sam shook his head. "I wouldn't call it depression. I just feel lost and confused. I'm searching for something and I don't know what it is. And on top of that, I'm losing Mercedes."

"You're not losing Mercedes; you guys are great friends." Blaine assured.

"But now I have to face the fact that's all we will ever be. Sometimes I think about it you know, settling down with somebody. And every time my mind always goes back to her. I don't know how to stop loving her." Sam sobbed softly.

Blaine pulled his best friend into a hug. He held him softly as he wept into his shoulder.

"It's okay Sam, I'll help you threw this." Blaine said.

"What you need is to find a new spark in your life." Blaine said.

Sam frowned. "I don't follow."

"Well you're unhappy with your old life, so maybe you need to rebuild. Try and find a new avenue to express your emotions." Blaine said.

Sam stopped. The first time he felt lost in life was his first year at McKinley. When his family had nothing. Glee club helped him. Being apart of a team helped him. Somewhere along the line he lost that feeling of unity. He needed a change of scenery.

"I'm going to become a Glee director." Sam realized.

Blaine frowned. "You already are a Glee club director."

"No, I mean here. While we're here for the next month I can help coach the North Lake High School team." Sam smiled.

Blaine smirked. "If you think that will make you happy."

"You don't think I'm going to do this alone right? I can't coach a new club to victory without the full power of Blam." Sam said.

Blaine smiled and held out his hand. "Blam forever?"

Sam excitedly high fived his hand. "BLAM FOREVER!"

"That is the gayest thing I have ever seen in my life." Kurt said as he watched the two men from the restaurant window.

"I'm not saying Blaine has a mistress, but if he did it would totally be Sam." Santana said as she munched on a burger.

"Honey, I accepted that on our wedding day." Kurt shrugged.


Gordy sighed as he looked at the empty choir room. No one bothered to show up to Glee club. It was official his new dream of starting the club back up was over. He needed twelve members to qualify. He had one. And on top of that no coach. He sighed.

"Just my luck." Gordy sighed.

He looked at the piano and sighed. It was over before it started.

Gordy:

I've never seen a diamond in the flesh

I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies

And I'm not proud of my address, in the torn up town

No post code envy

But every song's like gold teeth, Grey Goose, trippin' in the bathroom

Bloodstains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room

We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams

But everybody's like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece

Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash

We don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair

And we'll never be royals

It don't run in our blood

That kind of lux just ain't for us

We crave a different kind of buzz

Let me be your ruler, you can call me Queen B

And baby I'll rule (I'll rule I'll rule I'll rule)

Let me live that fantasy

My friends and I we've cracked the code

We count our dollars on the train to the party

And everyone who knows us knows that we're fine with this

We didn't come from money

But every song's like gold teeth, Grey Goose, trippin' in the bathroom

Bloodstains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room

We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams

But everybody's like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece

Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash

We don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair

And we'll never be royals

It don't run in our blood

That kind of lux just ain't for us

We crave a different kind of buzz

Let me be your ruler, you can call me Queen B

And baby I'll rule (I'll rule I'll rule I'll rule)

Let me live that fantasy

We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen

(Ooh ooh oh)

Life is great without a care

We aren't caught up in your love affair

And we'll never be royals

It don't run in our blood

That kind of lux just ain't for us

We crave a different kind of buzz

Let me be your ruler, you can call me Queen B

And baby I'll rule (I'll rule I'll rule I'll rule)

Let me live that fantasy

Gordy spun around as he sang, putting how hopeless he felt into his voice.

"Impressive." A voice said.

Gordy jumped and turned to look at who was speaking to him. His jaw dropped when he saw Sam standing in the doorway. Gordy's face was redder than a tomato.

"Did you hear me singing?" He gasped.

"I did, and you're pretty damn good kid. We might have to train your voice up a little bit, but you have star potential." Sam assured.

Gordy blushed. "Really? Why are you here?"

"I thought about your offer, and I want to coach your Glee Club. I need a change, and I feel like this is just the thing I need." Sam smiled.

Sam looked around. "Where is everybody?"

"All the former Glee Club members quit, and I haven't been able to find anyone to join." Gordy frowned.

Sam smiled. "So, we're starting this club from the ground up."

Gordy blushed. This was so embarrassing, he begged for Sam to come to North Lake, but there wasn't a club for him to teach.

"Is that a problem?" Gordy asked.

Sam laughed. "Well my teacher started off with five kids, but I guess one is better than none."

Sam looked at Gordy and smiled. He felt something he hadn't felt in a long time. A spark.

"Alright kid let's get us some recruits." Sam smiled.


Next Time: Gordy and Sam try to recruit more members for the new Glee club only they might be surprised by what they find.

So what do you guys think? In the next chapter we'll start to see the formation of the club.

Playlist of this episode

1. End Of The Road by Boyz 2 Men

2. Royals by Lorde