"Happy Birthday!" He heard a soft, sweet voice whisper in his ear. At first he tried to ignore it but the moment he turned to the other side of the bed, the sun nearly burned his eyes, even though they were closed. He then returned to his initial position and opened his eyes to find a smiling Quinn. He couldn't help but smile too. She looked flawless.

"I'm sorry I woke you up." She said, running her hands on his hair to prevent it from falling on his eyes. "I wanted to be the first one to wish you a happy birthday."

He didn't mind. If he could, he'd want to be awaken everyday by her voice, her lips and her touch. It would be heaven for him, to be honest.

He actually didn't expect Quinn to do this since the last time she brought up his birthday was two weeks ago, when she asked what he wanted for his birthday gift.

"It's okay." He said, getting up, smiling. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." She said, looking at his eyes and smiling largely. She watched him as he made his way to the bathroom, which thank God was in his room. He was now staying at Rachel's place and the guest room looked like the room he wouldn't ever get not even in his own house.

He washed his face and brushed his teeth as fast as he could. He wanted to enjoy Quinn's presence before breakfast and school time, so he didn't even mind putting a shirt on - he sleeps shirtless -, he just wanted to be with her.

She couldn't help but look at his well-defined abs. In the way he was dressed right now, he looked like one of those greek Gods paintings. He was perfect.

Sam left the bathroom and couldn't help but notice the way Quinn looked at him. The minute he looked at her she tried to disguise it and look at somewhere else, but it didn't work out very well.

"I can put a shirt on if you're too distracted." He said, making his way to his bed. "I don't wanna loose my girlfriend for my abs."

She playfully hit him in the arm, smiling and actually mentally jumping at the words my girlfriend.

"No, it's fine." She said, while he sat beside her on his bed. "I love you and I wouldn't do that to you on your birthday, for God's sake!"

"I know." He pecked her on the lips. "And I love you too."

She smiled and locked her lips with his. It was a sweet kiss, not too fast, not too slow. Just one of their ways to show how much they loved and needed each other. Quinn was close to laying on his bed and just spend the rest of the morning making out with him when they heard someone clear their throat.

"Am I interrupting something?" Quinn turned her head to see who that was and sighed in relief when she recognized the person.

"No, Rachel. We were just talking."

"Yeah, mhmm, talking." She smiled playfully at Quinn, and then turned her attention to Sam. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM!" She yelled, excited, running to his bed and gesturing her hands for Sam to get up.

"Thanks, Rach." He said, getting up and hugging her.

It almost bothered Quinn to see her former enemy, er, her friend hugging her shirtless boyfriend, especially because of their past history in "sharing" boyfriends, but she then realized Sam was different. He wouldn't cheat on her, never, so she shook of these thoughts and smiled.

"It's so not cool that we don't have Glee Club today." She said, parting the hug. "I wanted to sing a song for your birthday!"

"Nahh, you don't need to Rach."

"Anyway." She said, showing him something wrapped up in a blue wrapping paper. "This is something from me and my dads to you. We hope you like it!" She smiled, handing the gift to Sam. "They had to leave earlier today for work so they told me to give this to you by myself."

"Thank you!" He said, smiling, while he opened his gift.

It was a blu-ray with 2 disks special edition from Avatar, signed by James Cameron. He just stared at the dvd case for 5 seconds before finally saying.

"Oh my God!" He said, looking at Quinn and then at Rachel. "This is amazing! Thank you so much!" He said, hugging Rachel again.

"I'm glad you liked it." She smiled. "Well, now I'm gonna leave you two alone." She said, looking at Quinn this time. She walked through the door and closed it, and screamed "The walls are not sound-proofed!" once she was out of the room.

Quinn mentally thanked God Sam didn't listen to it - or was too embarrassed to say something about it.

Sam was till dumbfounded and slowly sat beside Quinn.

"Great, I can't cheat on you with your abs but you can cheat on me with this Avatar copy?" She said, trying to look as serious as possible.

"Okay, okay, I'm done." He said, placing the dvd case carefully on his side table and then looking at Quinn again.

"I was just kidding Sam." She said, smiling.

"But you were still right." He said, cupping her face. "That's just a gift from Rachel and her dads, and you are my girlfriend. I'm sorry."

"Oh, shut up." She said, kissing him again.

She put her arms around Sam's neck and pulled him to the bed, in a way he was completely on top of her now. The fact that he was only wearing shorts made that even hotter for Quinn, but she tried to keep her mind off of these thoughts.

They stayed like that for a good 5 minutes, only breaking apart to breathe, when she realized she had to talk to him too and not only make-out like a horny teenage girl.

"Sam." She said, trying to stop him from kissing her, which only made him kiss her harder. She giggled, trying to make him stop. "We have to go to school."

"I know. Ew." He said, releasing her finally and getting up from his bed.

"Go get ready. I'll just brush my hair because look at what you did to it!" She pointed to her messy hair. "I'll use your hairbrush by the way."

"Okay." He said, entering his bathroom again.

The school day went smooth and surprisingly easy for both Quinn and Sam. That day instead of the Glee Club they had a free period, in which Sam and Quinn left school.

"So, I haven't yet given you your birthday gift..." She said, looking at him with googly eyes.

"I told you I don't want anything. I have you!"

"That's why I am taking you out for dinner. You don't want anything material, I get it, so we'll have a special night. It's a really good restaurant, I'm not telling you where it is, though."

"I hate surprises, and you know that." He said, locking eyes with her.

"You'll love this one, I promise." She said, pecking him on the lips. "I have to go home to get ready. You should do the same. I'll pick you up at 8pm, okay?"

"Wow, you sound like the man of this relationship right now." He giggled, but stopped when Quinn stared at him with i'm-going-to-slowly-kill-you eyes. "Okay, I'm going."

She giggled, and kissed him deeply, running her hands through his hair while he held her waist tightly. They broke apart and she smiled, not losing eye contact with him until she opened her car's door.

"I love you." She said, sitting and putting the key on her car's ignition.

"I love you too." He said, shutting her car's door.

She smiled and turned on the car, driving off the driveway while Sam walked over to his car.

"Mom, I'm home." She said, opening the door to her house. "Are you here?"

"Yes, sweetie, I'm on the kitchen." Her mom answered.

She dropped her bag and keys on the small sofa of the living room. Quinn lived alone with her mom, so there wasn't really a need for anything to big on their house. The house was good enough for 3 people to live, since sometimes Quinn's sister would spend her weekends with them.

"How was your day?" Judy asked, smiling when Quinn kissed her cheek softly.

"It was great." She said, sitting on one of the chairs of her kitchen. "It's Sam's birthday today."

"I know." Quinn shot a confused glance at Judy. "I went to your bedroom today but you weren't there and there was a circle around today on your calendar with "Sam's Birthday" written around it."

She giggled. "Oh yeah, that."

Judy finished washing the last plate on the sink, taking off her rubber gloves.

"Are you doing something tonight?" Judy glanced at her, confused. "I mean, are you going to the church? Or to a friend's house? Or anything..."

"I get it." Judy sit beside her daughter. "You want to be alone with Sam tonight, right?" Judy smiled.

"Mom, no, it's not what you're thinking." Judy kept glancing at her. "I just want to do something special for him. His far away from his family, he's staying at Rachel's and he told me he doesn't want anything material! What am I supposed to do?"

"Sweetie, sex wouldn't be a good gift." Her mom said, as she noticed the red rising on her daughter's cheeks. "And don't be ashamed of talking about this with me because honey, I saw you deliver a baby already."

Quinn giggled. "I was not thinking about sex."

"But now you are."

"NO!" Quinn breathed deeply. "Okay, maybe." She blushed again. "Oh my God it's so weird talking to you about these things."

"I will make myself very busy tonight, don't worry about that." Judy said. "Okay, so, let's say that I know a girl, who is not you, that wants to do something special for her boyfriend's birthday, who is not Sam."

Quinn laughed. "This is not gonna work."

"And by something special the girl means sex. But the girl's mom thinks it won't be that special because they're dating, that's something normal."

"The girl says she and her boyfriend still didn't have sex" She said, trying to overcome her shyness and embarrassment of talking about sex with her mother.

"Oh." Judy said, surprised. "But the girl's mom thought she loved him. And that they were serious."

"The girl loves him." Quinn smiled at the thought of Sam. "A lot. But the girl..." Screw that, she's my mom for God's sakes. "... I was afraid. When we first started dating it had been less than 5 months since I had Beth. I was afraid. And he was kind, he didn't pressure me, so we kept it up. No sex. And now we're together again and we didn't even talk about it and I love him, and I trust him too."

Judy place her hand over her daughter's. "Oh, sweetie. I'm happy for you. Sam is a great guy, and I'm glad you waited this long to take the next step. I'm glad you learnt from past experiences, that's what growning up is about. So if you feel ready to give yourself to him, then do it. You're turning eighteen this year and know I'm nothing but your friend, I can't control you anymore and tell you what you'll do and what you won't." Quinn smiled. "But if it's any of your interest, I say go for it."

"Thanks mom." She got up and Judy did the same, hugging her daughter, almost tearing up at the realization of the strong and intelligent woman she raised.

"Don't forget about protection."

"Oh my God, mom." She parted the hug. "I'm gonna blush again. Let's stop talking about this please. Oh my God."

Judy just giggled, turning her attention back to her household tasks. Maybe her sweet baby girl wasn't a baby anymore after all.

Sam was nervous. Mostly because he was used to be the one picking up Quinn, the one taking her to special places, the one making everything for her. Now, he was feeling what she probably feels every time he decides to surprise her, and he had to be honest, it was not the best feeling in the world.

Quinn rang the doorbell at exactly 8pm, which left Sam quite surprised towards her pontuality. He walked towards the door, opening, only to be amazed one more time by Quinn's beauty. It didn't matter how many times he saw her, she always managed to make his jaw drop every single time they saw each other.

"You look stunning." He said, smiling at her.

She ran her hand through the tight white dress she was wearing, along with white heels and her straight hair, falling just above her shoulder.

"Thank you." She smiled, her cheeks getting hotter right now. Damn Sam and his ability to make me blush all the time, she thought. "You look handsome too."

He wasn't wearing anything as fancy as her, though. He had jeans and sneakers on, and coincidentally he was wearing a white t-shirt. He actually mentally giggled at the realization they both were wearing white.

"So, shall we go?" Quinn said, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes." He said, grabbing Quinn's head.

They walked towards Quinn's car, in which Quinn made sure to open the door for Sam. "As I said, man of the relationship." Sam whispered, loud enough for her to hear.

"Sam Evans, shut up. This is your night and I'll treat you the way you deserve to be treated."

"Fine then." He said, adjusting himself on the passenger's seat while Quinn got ready to turn on the car.

They exchanged a look for a moment, smiling.

When they got to the restaurant, Sam as pretty much taken aback by is current outfit. It was too simple for the Bon Chic Restaurant he was about to enter. "Is the name in French or in Spanish?" He thought, trying to keep his gaze out of the couples and families sitting on tables with gold coloured table clothes.

"You could've warned me we were coming to a high society restaurant." He said, while one of the waiters lead them to their table. He wasn't even sure the man was a waiter, because he didn't even know if the people serving tables in one of these restaurant were called waiters and waitresses

"This is not a high society restaurant, Sam." She said, sitting on the chair the waiter had pulled out for her. "It's just something a little better than Breadstix."

"A little? Quinn, this is like the fanciest restaurant I've been to!"

Quinn smiled. "Glad to know you like it."

Sam felt defeated. Just Quinn's smile and eyes would make him shut up, but the way her voice sounded when she said that melted his heart. She planned all of this for him, just because it's his 17th birthday. It made him feel special, loved. And how could he ask for anything else when the girl he loved was sitting right in front of him?

He was right. He didn't need anything material if it meant having Quinn by his side. That was more than enough and he felt like that night would be a very special one.

Longest chapter so far!

The next chapter is going to be smutty smut and it's written already, so it will probably be up once I get some reviews for this chapter.

I'm half sad and half happy to announce that this fic is almost over! It will probably have two or three more chapters, flashing forward a bit to their graduation and then probably to a xx years after prologue.

I already have an idea for another fanfic in which I already started writing (chapter 1 is ready!) and I plan on publishing it maybe before I post the prologue of this one, we never know.

So yeah, read, review, favorite this story! It means a lot to me 3

I also wanna apologize for any typo. I usually read the chapter a second time to make sure nothing is wrong but I'm very lazy right now so I didn't really check it that well. That's it! Review please.