***Hey yall...are yall still out there? I hope yall not watching glee and losing hope in our OTP. LOL. Anyway I know things aren't looking too good for Samcedes in my fic right now either but the difference is that I can definitely confirm they are endgame here lol...you can bet ur ass they are endgame and bound for fluffiness. Anyway here's the shout outs received on the last chap:

Zeejack: awww don't do my girl like that...their love is relatively new...hell they haven't really said it to each other. And if I am staying true to canon Mercedes she is selfless and wouldn't want to jeopardize Sam's career but anyway read on...lol

Kayah: lol now you know it wouldn't be the last of Finn Hudson

Guest: Take the earrings off and grease your face lmfaooooo but naw she doesn't deserve to lose Sam forever.

Zini & Dippingthechips:I know this is supposed to be a Romcom lol I hate angst too...I am sooooo sorry guys lol

Jujubee: read on...

Quickit: BEST REVIEW EVERRRRR! lol thanks for taking the time to read this and complimenting my samcex lol

Dayja: Mercedes Mom is a plethora of moms. Trust me many think the way she does.

That was the last shout out is for those of you ghost readers. I really appreciate it!

Sam pulled into the driveway of his parent's house and debated on if he should just even go in or just pull out and leave. As far as his life went only one side was doing great. He was already in works with Artie on creating new software and hardware to sell since Sig2 was going to Microsoft. He'd thrown himself head first into the business to keep his mind off of Mercedes. It had been weeks since Mercedes had decided to return to Finn and Sam still hadn't told his family exactly what happened. He just told them that things just didn't work out. His mother was the one that took time convincing. She just wouldn't let it go and still kept asking for her and placed her name on the invitational for Stacy's reception. His mother claimed that she knew in her heart that Mercedes was going to be there and would even grace them with her voice as a wedding gift to Stacy and Ryder. Sam knew he was going to have to tell his mother the truth about Mercedes or else he'd never hear the end of it.

"Sammy, why are you just sitting out there in your car?" Sam smiled as he heard the voice of his mother. She walked over and opened the door and smiled back at him then frowned. She was happy to see her son but she was sad to see that Mercedes wasn't sitting next to him. She thought that Sam would have gotten her back by then.

"Hey mom…I was getting around to it." He lied. In reality he was hoping to back out and disappear into the night, but running away from his issues wasn't going to change anything.

"I bet you were…" she looked over at the empty seat next to him and then back at him and shook her head. "So…I'm guessing Mercedes is running a little behind?"

"Mom, don't start…can I get inside first before you start?" he asked as he removed the key from the ignition and getting out of his car.

"Sammy, you promised me you would bring Mercedes with you. So what's going on?" She asked following him to the back as he pulled his luggage out. "Did you even try at all?" he walked over and dragged the luggage behind him. "You let her go, didn't you?"

"No Mom!" he stopped at the entrance of the door and turned to face her. "I didn't let her go, okay!" he threw his hands up in the air and shook his head in frustration. "I…I...I tried, okay! I went to her house and practically begged her not to leave, okay? But you know what she said to me?"

"Sammy." Joan said placing a hand over her heart.

"She told me none of it was real! Are you happy? She never loved me and you know what, mom? She was right." Sam took a deep breath and looked over at his mother. "I lied about our relationship, alright! She wasn't really my girlfriend. She was just acting like she was my girlfriend to please you. I brought her here to meet you because I thought it would make you happy to see me with someone."

"I was happy to see you in love, Sammy. Love made you a different person. She made you a different person." Joan replied walking over to him. Sam stepped back and shook his head. He felt relieved that he no longer had to lie about his relationship with Mercedes but it didn't make him feel any better knowing he was hurting his mother again.

"Mom, love left me for Finn Hudson, again."

"Sam, she is not Quinn! I know what I saw and that girl loves you Sam, she does. You just need to tell her how you feel." Joan continued. There was no way she was going to accept that Mercedes was faking how she felt. That was not the vibe she got from Mercedes at all.

"Mom, it wasn't real okay. She was only my therapist and she was helping me deal with my issues with love. And you know what? I learned something though…love just isn't for everybody, okay." Sam replied before turning and making his way inside the house. His father noticed him coming in and smiled at him then paused when he noticed Sam wasn't smiling. "Hey dad, I'll be upstairs." Dwight looked up at Sam as he went up the stairs then looked over at his wife as she closed the door behind her.

"What did you say to Sam?" he asked her as she walked into the hall closet and grabbed her coat and her purse. She was not going to sit idly by while Sam was choosing to do nothing to get Mercedes back. "And where are you going?"

"I didn't say or do anything to Sam." She replied and walked into the living room and shuffled through a couple drawers before walking over to dining room and writing down a couple notes. "I need you to call the caterers and make sure they arrive on time. I need you to be on time to pick up Stacy from the beaty salon and take her to get fitting."

"Wait!"

"I am writing down these emergency numbers, if you need me, but you won't." she continued to jot down instructions. "I have included detailed instructions that were meant for me but now you will need to handle this until I get back. Ryder and Stevie are out getting their suits. The first instruction on here is for the cake that needs to be picked up." Joan stated as she handed him the sheets she was just writing on. "Guest will be arriving promptly at 8 pm. Make sure Stacy and Ryder are back here on time for the ceremony."

"Honey, can you tell me what's going on? Where are you going?" Dwight asked again as he looked at the papers then back at his wife as she put her coat on and grabbed the car keys.

"I'm going to go get Mercedes." She replied calmly. "She needs to be here. Sam needs to see her and that will fix everything."

"Joan, are you crazy? Just stop meddlin' in Sam's love life. All your meddlin' is what got Sam so confused and running around crazy." Dwight said as he followed behind his wife. "You don't even know where she lives."

"Dwight, how long have you known me, huh?" she asked as she placed her cellphone in her purse and then looked his way. Dwight looked around as if he was trying to do the math as she continued. "Exactly, a long time. You can't even calculate it anymore. In all that time that you have known me, you have to have known I was crazy. And you married me anyway, right?"

"Well…"

"I make it my business to know about the people my children choose to be with, okay? I know exactly where Ryder lives and what he does for a living…and I am happy Stacy is married to him." she smiled and continued. "I know exactly where Dani lives…" she walked over to the door and opened it turning over to her husband. "…and what she does for a living and she was brought up well. Can't wait to see our grandchild." She smiled and looked down before taking a deep breath. "And you can bet your bottom dollar that I know exactly where to find Dr. Mercedes Jones, soon to be Evans!" she finished and slammed the door behind her. Dwight sighed and shook his head just as Sam was making his way back down the steps.

"Did I just see Mom leave?" he asked and walked into the kitchen to get something to drink. His father followed him and tried to think of a quick lie to cover what his wife was actually going to do.

"She went to blow off some steam and get some milk." He lied. Sam paused as he pulled a beer out of the fridge and then looked back at his father before pointing to the gallon of milk that was in the fridge. "She said she needed soy milk for Dani." He added smiling at his quick thinking. "In the meantime, she left us in charge and we have to get everything started."

"What? Why? Does she plan on going to the farm and milking the cow herself?" he asked before taking a swig of his beer.

"Look, we don't have time for questions. We need to get things started for tonight." Dwight replied realizing he was running out of lies to cover the lame lies he was telling. He secretly prayed that his wife was able to come back with Mercedes. "Let's go we need to go pick up the cake." He stated as he looked at the instructions on the paper. Sam grabbed his coat then noticed his tablet lighting up.

"Let me check my emails first." Sam replied placing his beer down and walking over to the tablet as he placed his coat on.

"Sam, we don't have time. The email will be there when we get back." Dwight pulled Sam out the door. "If it's important they will call you."

Mercedes rolled her eyes as she watched Finn showboat in front of the cameras as she pretended to do work on her laptop. Finn turned and looked over at her and smiled before winking her way. She gave him a forced smile and continued to type on her laptop. Production started that weekend and she had given Finn a hard time since it started. She argued with him about everything. He wasn't allowed to kiss her anywhere near her lips. He slept in her bed but she made sure he stayed on his side of the bed. They argued about the fact that she was forced to spend time with the airhead wives from the show. They ultimately argued about the fact that they wanted to film from her house instead of his.

"They are drilling all over my house and this was not what I signed up for, why aren't we at your house?" Mercedes asked him. Finn pulled her over to him away from the cameramen that were working on placing cameras in various places of the house.

"Mercedes, we already discussed this. My house looks way too manly and yours seems more like the home of a couple than my bachelor pad." He had explained. Mercedes remembered they argued back and forth before she finally just gave in. And now she was sitting there watching Finn pretend to be down for the cameras.

"Bae, let's go to the club and make it rain tonight!" Finn shouted gleefully as he walked over to where she was working on her computer. "We'll be poppin' bottles all night long! We can get our grind on!" She looked up at him and rolled her eyes shaking her heads. She'd rolled her eyes so much since all this started that she thought her eyes would get stuck in her lids. "Come on, Tenderoni!"

"Finn, please stop talking like that."

"Like what? I'm just chilaxin'!" he stated laughing and looking at the camera and then back at her as if she were making a big deal out of nothing. Mercedes closed her eyes and mentally prayed she could just vanish from her own home. "Bitches be trippin'! Right fellas?"

"Oh hell to the no, Finn, what did you just call me?" Mercedes asked getting up and walking up to him. Finn nervously looked around and then lightly pushed her towards the guest room. "I know you did not just call me a bitch!"

"Mercedes, just chill, okay?"

"Chill? Finn, call me a bitch one more time and you won't live to see this show on air." She threatened him.

"Mercedes, I'm just trying to get in touch with my black side, ya nah mean?" he said bobbing his head from side to side and moving his hands back and forth as if he were an extra for 90's rap music video. She tried really hard not to laugh at him because she really wanted to kick his tall ass down a peg.

"Finn, being black has nothing to do with talking like that. I am black and I don't even say 'Ya nah mean'! In fact, no one I know says that." she explained to him. "And yo ass ain't black!" she added hitting him lightly on the forehead.

"Owww!" he whined touching his forehead and frowning her way. "Sue says I'm 1/16th black. This is all new to me, Mercedes."

"Sue lied to get you on the show. You know she was lying, right?" She rolled her eyes at him and tried to go back out of the room.

"Why are you being so mean to me? I'm only trying to make things work and you're giving me a hard time. How are we supposed to make this relationship believable if you keep acting like this?"

"I don't want to make this work. I don't want this relationship. I don't want you or those cameramen in my house. I don't want no part of this. And I will never forgive you for going along with this stupid ass plan." She replied brushing past him. He grabbed her hand and pulled her back into the room and closed the door behind her. She looked down at his hand on her arm and then back at him before snatching her arm away. "Get your hands off of me!"

"Mercedes, I'm sorry things had to go this way but I really had no choice. I needed you in order for me to be on the show. Especially since I am only 1/16th black." He explained. "I didn't plan any of this, okay!"

"Of course you didn't, Sue did. You're not smart enough to pull any of this off." Mercedes replied.

"What's that supposed to mean? Are you calling me dumb?"

"Well if you have to ask that question then you already know what I mean, right?" she asked and sighed when she realized that he really had no clue. She was starting to wonder why she had dated Finn all this time. What exactly did they have in common? "Finn we all know you're not the smartest guy out there, hell, you thought you got Quinn pregnant without even having sex with her."

"She tricked me. She could have fooled anybody." He added feeling hurt that she was calling him stupid. Mercedes really couldn't understand or remember why she was with Finn. Sure he was sweetheart but he was so clueless and he had the worst temper when he didn't get his way. "And then you left me because of it."

"No I left you because you lied too many times…that's why I left you!"

"I wasn't lying then." He replied as if that made things better. If she recited all the lies he's told her since they had started dating she would be talking well into the night. Then she remembered that he wasn't always like this; although he was always clueless he used to be a sweetheart.

"What happened to you Finn? Where's the Finn I fell in love with? The Finn I knew wouldn't agree with whatever Sue has put you up to here. You stood for something and you never allowed anyone to pimp you around. Where is that Finn?" She asked him sincerely. Finn shifted nervously and shrugged before responding.

"Look, Mercedes, like I said I really need this TV show. I've been benched and who knows how much longer I will be playing at all. Most of the other guys on the show are already black and they needed someone with a black woman as a wife, which was hard to find I heard." He explained. Mercedes sighed almost feeling sorry for him but she was not going to put her life on hold just to help him get on a show like this one.

"Finn, you don't need this show. And since you're "1/16th black" you really don't need me at all. You can go be with Quinn or Berry." She watched as Finn thought over what she said thinking she could convince him to call Sue and call off everything.

"Nah…I can't chance it. Plus, Quinn told me she's seeing some girl from our past now and I haven't heard from Rachel since the whole Mexico debacle." He paused and looked up at her apologetically. "For what it's worth, I am sorry about you and Sam." He walked up and kissed her on the forehead before walking out of the room. Shaking her head, upset that she couldn't get him to help her get out of this crazy deal with Sue, she walked back out to finish her letter.

She had been on her laptop all weekend looking up Sam and how things went with Sig2. After she told Unique what happened they had discussed ways that she could get out of the deal. Ultimately, Unique felt Sam had the right to know what was going on and that he was capable of making up his own mind on the matter. Mercedes just couldn't get herself to jeopardize his business like that. Instead she went on with the deal and kept her eye out on Sam till she found a good time to tell him. She wasn't sure what would happen when Sam got the letter but she was hoping that he would forgive her for the decision she made. She did it to help him because he worked way too hard for him to lose everything just because of her. But, she truly missed him and wanted to let him know that he was right, she did love him like he said she did. She smiled as she typed the letter, telling him about everything Sue did before hitting send.