Quinn still didn't know what song she was going to perform for this week's lesson. She wanted to put every single love song together and just sing it, but only for Sam. Although she was trying to change, she still didn't want to seem weak.
It was Monday afternoon when she decided to go to the Mall. She told her mom she was visiting some cd store so she could go through cds and lyrics to find a song she was comfortable with.
She dressed comfortably, putting on a light pink dress. As usual, the dress fit perfectly on her. Then, she went for ballerina flats this time, and she left her hair straightened and put on a headband with a black flower on the left side. She was ready.
She picked up her keys from her bedside table, shouted bye to her mom and left the house. She then entered her car, putting the keys on the ignition and starting the car.
The Mall wasn't far away. She drove for about 5 minutes and she was already there. Locking the car doors and making sure the alarm was on, she entered the Mall, and she made sure her first stop was the cd store.
She entered the store and made her way to the pop section. She went through some cds, looking for songs that would interest her just by the title, but nothing. She even gave a couple of songs a listen, but none of them captured what she wanted to sing. Singing, for her, was one of the few ways of expressing her feelings – being them sadness or happiness, love or hatred -, but she found it particularly hard to find the right song for this lesson.
Then, she went through another line full of cds, when she picked one randomly and read the soundtrack on the back of the cd case.
She found it.
The title of the song fit her like a glove. It meant exactly what she wanted to sing about, what she was feeling.
Even then, she listened to the 30 seconds preview.
"It's definitely this one." She said, listening to the last seconds of the song.
And that's when she saw him. She didn't believe it for a second. She found the song and him? She was sure the universe was trying, again, to tell her something. But this time, it wasn't a bad thing.
"Hey, Q!" She heard someone shout from the other side of the store.
Pretending to be surprised to see him, she turned around and mustered up the brightest smile she had ever smiled since the beginning of the years. At first, she was faking it, but when her eyes met his, the faking was gone. His eyes were that powerful.
"Hello, Sam! I didn't see you here." Liar. "I suppose what brings you here is this week's lesson, right?"
He smiled. "Exactly. Same for you?" He said while going through the cds.
"Yes!" She smiled again. Twice already since she saw him. "I found it already, though." She said putting the cd up and then down quickly so he couldn't really see it.
"Good for you, I'm still stuck in this pile of cds. I can't seem to find one good song, it's unbelievable."
She smiled again. "Why is he doing this to me?" She asked herself. It was not really normal for her to smile three times in the same conversation.
"Found it!" He said, quite loudly, taking her back to reality. "Ahh, this song is great." He said, proud of himself.
"Let me see it." She said, approaching him, but he put the cd behind his back.
"I wanna see yours too, then." He said, smiling.
She was this close to giving up and showing him the song because of that smile. "Stupid, stupid smile." She thought.
But she composed herself. "Nope. It's a surprise, it's not fair for you to know the song before everyone else!" She said, firmly. Liar. She just didn't want him to realize the song was for him, at least not in that moment.
"Fine then." He said, almost hiding the small cd case with his two hands. "Mine is a surprise too."
"Fine." She said, smiling again. "Holy shit." She thought, when she realized what she just did.
They both headed to the closest cashier in the store.
"So, what are you doing after this?" He asked while handing the money to the cashier.
"Don't freak out. Do. Not. Freak. Out." She thought when she felt her heartbeat getting stronger.
"Um, nothing. I thought about grabbing ice-cream at the Food Court, actually." She said, waiting for the cashier to scan her cd on the cash register. She thanked God on her mind for keeping Sam busy putting his cd on a plastic bag while the cd was really visible.
"Well then" He said, looking at her. "Let's go grab an ice-cream." He said, smiling. "That is of course if you want me to join you."
"Okay." "Of course I want you to join me you stupid dumbass" She thought, actually happy for the first time this year.
"I want half Chocolate half Vanilla, please." She asked, already paying for the ice-cream.
"You never change, do you?" Sam said, smiling.
"Excuse me?" She faced him with a confused look now.
"Your ice-cream order." He said. "You always ask for half Chocolate half Vanilla."
She smiled. "And you always ask for-"
"Strawberry." He said cutting her and making his order already, still facing her. "I'd like Strawberry." He now turned to the man standing beside the ice-cream machine.
He looked at her again and they both giggled. Then the giggling stopped and they were left just staring at each other's eyes. For a brief moment Quinn thought she had saw something in his look. Something almost screaming he missed her, but she wasn't sure because the man pulled them back to reality when he said "Here." And handed her the ice-cream.
She immediately looked at the man, that turned around to prepare Sam's ice-cream. Sam then cleared his throat to take away the embarrassment a bit, and grabbed the ice-cream when the man handed it to him. He thanked the man, gave him the money and put the ice-cream on the closest table.
Quinn was ready to put the ice-cream on the same table in order to pull out her chair, but Sam was faster. She could feel her cheeks getting redder but she couldn't let herself blush. Not when he was doing nothing but being friendly. So she quickly sat down and took off the little spoon from the ice-cream, licking it to take her mind off of the whole blushing thing.
He then sit down, put ice-cream on his spoon and brought it to his mouth. From the corner of his eye he could see Quinn doing the same. They were silent for a brief moment, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Both of them were just glad to be on each other's presence, that was it.
"So, how's your mother going?" He asked, breaking the silence.
"She's good." She said, bringing the spoon to her mouth again. "She's been a lot easier to like since my dad left the house actually. Before, he'd tell her everything she had to do. He controlled her, to be honest. But now she's herself. Though you knew that already. Anyway, she's the same person she was last time you saw her, basically."
"That's good." He said. "I like your mom."
She smiled.
Then, they started talking about random stuff. School, how was Sam while he was in Kentucky, and then once he asked how was she while he was gone. She lied, of course, telling him about all of the Beth-Shelby-Puck story, avoiding as much as she could to talk about herself.
When they were done with their ice-creams, they both got up.
"Well, I should go now." She said. "I had a lovely time!"
"Do you want me to drive you home or something? I got a car too once I started, um, working as, you know…" He was visibly ashamed to say the word, so she helped him.
"No, Sam, it's fine. I came here with my car actually."
"Oh, okay." He seemed quite disappointed. "Well then, see you tomorrow at school."
"See ya." She said.
And when she thought this is all that was going to happen, he kissed her cheek softly. She felt her body tremble at his touch, but she simply ignored it and when Sam pulled back, she smiled and walked away.
"Oh well" She thought while reaching for her car. "That was a hell of a coincidence."
And smiling like a fool, she left the driveway, thinking about Sam and his sweet, beautiful eyes.
So yeah, second Fabrevans moment we have here, uh? As I've said before, I'm terrible in writing details and creating plots and stuff like that, but I surprised myself with this chapter, I guess I was able to write the whole scene I had in mind.
So, I'm not getting much reviews :( That's bad ok I like reviews. But it's okay. Just remember: the more reviews, the faster I'll update!
RJRRAA: Um, probably not. I already have the song in my mind but the chapter isn't written yet so I'm not sure, but 99% of me says she's gonna end up singing the song I have in my mind right now.
Talking about the song, hopefully I'll keep it a secret until the day she's singing it. But when you guys find out, you'll all be mad at me cause it's just so predictable lol Anyway, hope you liked it! Oh and btw, next chapter the performances will start. I'm not gonna give the details of every performance, just the important ones that have effects on the plot itself.
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