I told myself that I was going to sleep tonight, but I had even more inspiration for this. I pretty much know exactly what I'm going to do with it now, although I am always open to suggestions.

I wrote this chapter in both Quinn and Mercedes' POVs and I published ended up publishing Mercedes' kind of just as a filler. Quinn's will be up soon as I suppose you are all dying to know what's going on with her and Sam.

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Mercedes' POV

Mercedes was snuggled up on the sofa with Shane. The lights in Santana's basement were dimmed but she could make out most of the other figures in the room, especially the one she wanted to see. With his golden hair and toned body, Sam seemed to stand out from the crowd. Or perhaps that was just to her.

Ever since their kiss in the choir room, Mercedes hadn't been able to get the boy out of her mind. In that moment, it had felt right, as though it was meant to be. But what about Shane? She loved him, definitely, was it possible to love two people at once? Whether it was or not didn't really matter, Mercedes was stringing two boys along and it just wasn't fair. Also, she couldn't help but feel that she and Sam were just unfinished business- their summer fling had come to an abrupt end when Sam found that he was moving out of state for his father's job.

There had been kisses and empty, or maybe not so empty 'I love yous'. But the one thing that Mercedes and Sam didn't have was closure. Perhaps that's what they needed. So then why didn't Mercedes want it to end?

She remembered in her sophomore year, how insecure she was and how desperate she was for attention from a boy, even resorting to thinking she had a relationship with Kurt. But now she was confident and beautiful and had two boys after her, both of which had helped her blossom into her true potential. Now she had to choose one before she ruined it all.

Shane was stroking Mercedes' hand and smiled at her when she looked at him. "Have a drink, baby" he said, passing her a red plastic cup filled with beer.

"Thanks" she smiled, leaning into him further. Guilt was clawing away at her insides, she knew that she should tell Shane about the kiss with Sam but was too afraid to. Afterwards, she had given herself a week. A week to make up her mind, then that was that. She had five days left.

Her eyes glanced slyly upwards, scanning the room as she had been doing so every five minutes for the entire duration of the party, looking for the beautiful blonde boy who had consumed both her heart and her mind. She saw him laughing with Kurt and Blaine and smiled, wishing that she could go and join her friends but knowing that having both Sam and Shane within a couple of metres of each other wasn't a good idea.

Drowned with guilt, Mercedes turned back towards Shane and pressed her lips softly against his.

They only broke away from their embrace when loud, rowdy shouts could be heard from the crowd. Looking towards the middle of the room, Mercedes could see a circle beginning to form, obstructing her view of the event.

"What's going on?" she asked Shane who only shook his head. Of course he didn't know, he had been with her the entire night.

They both sat limply, waiting for the crowd to clear, knowing that trying to push their way in would be counter productive and may only get them injured in the process.

When the crowd finally diffused, Mercedes' eyes latched on to Sam lying weakly on the ground.

"Sam!" she gasped, jumping up from the sofa and stumbling her way over to him in the dark. She had almost made it to him when a blonde girl had thrown herself in between them wielding a bag full of frozen peas and gently pressed them against his already bruising eye.

"Baby!" came a voice from behind her "What are you doing? He's okay, Quinn's got him; come back over to me"

Mercedes tore her tear filled eyes away from the blonde pair on the ground and walked slowly back to Shane, trying to compose himself before he saw her red eyes, but what she wouldn't give to be the one cleaning up his face, taking care of him.

"Come on, let's dance!" she smiled, when she approached him, hoping that the disctraction would prevent Shane from seeing how truly upset she was.

They found themselves in the middle of the dance floor and Mercedes had cleverly positioned herself so that Shane had his back to Sam and Quinn and she had a perfect, unobstructed view of them. This way, she could watch them without Shane knowing.

She could feel herself turning more and more green with jealousy, watching the pair laughing intimately together.

Her eyes widened at the sight of Sam's golden chest and she was unable to rip her gaze away from him. Until he kissed her. The kiss was passionate and sweet at the same time, and it filled Mercedes with possessive rivalry.

Wincing, she tore her eyes away, unable to watch them anymore. "I need another drink" she sighed, grabbing Shane by the wrist and pulling him towards the makeshift bar.

In a drunken haze, the noise in the room made it difficult for Mercedes to distinguish one person's voice from another, but a particularly shrill conversation rang through the air.

"Let's play spin the bottle!" Rachel shouted.

"Oh no you don't." Santana retorted "We're not having another repeat of your party, Berry. And we aren't all five"

"Spin the bottle, spin the bottle!" Rachel laughed, clapping her hands together excitedly.

"Really?" Santana raised her eyebrows and remained silent for a long time. "Fine, but me first, this girl wants to get her mack on"

Shane turned towards Mercedes, "You want to go baby?"

"I don't mind" she shrugged guiltily, the thought of spin the bottle only reminded her of the kiss with Sam in the auditorium.

"Come on, it'll be fun" he said, taking her hand and guiding her over to where a circle was forming. "Anyways, it's just a game, it doesn't count as cheating"

Cheating, the word rang through Mercedes' mind, deafening her, but she couldn't think about it here. She would have to ponder her life decisions somewhere else, as she certainly couldn't do it at a party in front of all her friends. "Okay" she replied weakly, allowing Shane to guide her.

"Hey, where's Quinn?" Mercedes frowned as she approached the crowd. Truly, she wanted to ask where Sam was, but realised that asking about Quinn was a much safer bet. No one knew what was going on with Sam, or at least, she hoped they didn't, but she felt as though the word 'cheater' was branded across her forehead.

"Q's getting a special congratulatory present from Trouty Mouth" Santana winked at Mercedes. "If you know what I mean"

"What a man!" shouted Puck excitedly.

Mercedes' mouth went dry, so Sam had one upstairs with Quinn.. to have sex? Was he doing it because he liked her, or perhaps it was to get Mercedes back for going to the party with Shane. She didn't like the idea of Sam using Quinn and he definitely wasn't like that. But, the way he had kissed her just two days before and the influence of alcohol certainly weren't making the former option seem viable.

"I, er- need some water" she croaked, moving towards the stairs. She wondered where she would go. Would she just go and get a glass of water and come back, or would she go to find Sam and Quinn; and, if she did search for them, would it be to protect her friend, or for selfish reasons? She didn't know the answer to any of these questions, and was prevented from finding out by Shane offering to get her a drink.

"Alrights then!" Santana rasped loudly "While Mr Mercedes over here gets her some water, and ken and Barbie are getting it on upstairs, let's play a game of spin the bottle!"

There were cheers and claps from the circle as Santana downed the rest of her bottle and promptly placed it in the middle of the floor, flicking with her wrist so that it span around, the head pointing at everyone in turn.

"Alright! I have an announcement!" Yelled a very drunk Rachel Berry.

The game of spin the bottle was over. It hadn't really led to anything interesting, and Mercedes' mind was away with thoughts of Sam anyway so she hadn't really been paying attention to what had happened. She had then gone on to having shots with all of the glee club members bar Sam and Quinn, and Shane had wandered off to chat with some of his other friends.

"Come on then!" laughed Kurt, who was leaning heavily against Blaine. The pair seemed to be having difficulty standing up.

"Alright, alright" called Rachel; and, just as there was a gap in the music due to one song switching to another, she shouted "See this!" grabbing at a silver wring on a thin chain around her neck "It's an engagement ring! Finn and I are engaged!"

Silence filled the entire room.

Mercedes opened her mouth in a large 'O' shape, shock preventing her from saying anything. She was engaged? How did she know what she wanted at eighteen? To be with Finn for the rest of her life.. Mercedes couldn't imagine being with Shane forever, in fact, she could barely see it lasting a week longer, especially with thoughts of Sam rushing into her mind every time there was a gap in her thoughts.

The pregnant pause was ended when Brittany started bouncing up and down and clapping. In a drunken state of semi awareness, everyone in the room but Kurt slowly joined in, raising their glasses to Rachel and Finn.

"Wow" Mercedes breathed, pure shock was running through her veins and she didn't know how to react. She made her way over to Shane "I- er, I want to go home now"

"Are you okay baby?" he asked, brown eyes filled with concern.

"Just tired" she said, nodding slightly, as though she was trying to convince herself of it.

"Alright, I'll go and get your coat"

They quickly made their rounds, saying goodbye to each of their friends and walked out of the door. Mercedes looked back up at the house quickly, noticing that one of the upstairs lights was turned on, seeping through the tightly drawn curtains. Bitter jealousy filled her mouth at the thought of what Sam and Quinn might be doing up there.

A/N: this was a little shorter but, as aways, any comments, constructive criticism are always welcome? Thanks for reading!

I included the Finchel engagement to try and stick to Glee's story lines a little bit, also just for an added bit of drama but I probably won't do any more canon story lines as it will probably get too much.

I've written the rest of the party in Quinn's POV already and will be updating soon!