Fuzzy Wuzzy: Tina & Sam
"This has to be the most messed up wedding party of all time."
Tina laughed loudly when Sam said that, the two of them tucked in the corner of the restaurant's dance floor while the two grooms danced happily beneath the spotlight. It was a small, intimate crowd made up mostly of immediate family and close friends. She could make out Burt and Carole sitting at their table, the two of them tucked into deep conversation with Rachel's fathers. Blaine's parents were talking with Cooper next to the sparse cake table. The only other guests - Rachel, Santana and strangely, Puck - were laughing and dancing together by the bar.
"You know that Blaine's been trying to hook us up all week, right?"
It was Sam's turn to laugh. It was the middle of July the summer after their first year of college, and the three of them haven't gotten to see each other much all semester. However, in the midst of the wedding plans and coordination of schedules, Blaine had begun to not-so-subtly hint how happy he'd be if his two best friends were to end up together. As nice as that dream was, neither Sam nor Tina had any real romantic feelings toward each other. He was happy to single, and she was still hung up on Mike Chang.
"I'm just glad that we're such good friends," he told her warmly. He tried to imagine sometimes what it would be like to be with Tina, but she was too much like his sister. She didn't change the way his heart beat like Quinn or Brittany had. "And I'm glad that I got to share co-best man duties with you. Can you imagine if he stuck me with Santana?"
"Poor Rachel," Tina giggled she watched the unlikely trio bopping around across the floor from them. "Then again, I sorta feel sorry for Santana too. Can you imagine living with those two while Rach was doing the first run of the show and Kurt was planning the wedding? I'm just thankful that Blaine didn't have to do more of it because Kurt drove me insane with the thirteen phone calls it took before he could decide on which shade of black my shoes should be."
"And Puck was there to kind of balance them out so there's that," Sam sighed. His mind drifted toward the one person who should be there but couldn't. It had been a year since they had lost Finn, and when it had come time for Kurt to get married, everyone had been surprised when Puck had stepped into the brotherly role for his late best friend. Kurt had been skeptical at first, but now they had an unexpected closeness that Sam knew Finn had a hand in somehow. He also couldn't help but wonder if the quarterback was also behind the way Puck and Rachel had been circling each other all week while getting ready for the wedding. "Just think, we're going to get to see it all up close and in person when we're both in New York next year."
"I am so glad you decided to transfer and take that modeling gig on the side," she smiled at him. "With everyone else busy with their own stuff, it'll be nice to have one of my best friends around again."
"I'll be right down the hall," he promised to his new roommate. "And I'll even stay at Puck's or get really good earplugs for when Chang comes to town."
Tina blushed prettily under his insinuation. "Shut up."
"You look really beautiful tonight, Tina," he complimented her. It was full of that particular type of fuzzy affection that only came after years of true friendship. He had missed that, missed her, this year. "What do you say we go steal away our best friend for a dance? Kurt gets to hog him for the rest of his life, but I think we should get one last moment."
"One last moment for what?" Blaine asked as he appeared magically at their side.
Tina and Sam laughed in unison. "One last moment with your best friends."
"Aw, you guys, you'll always be my best friends," he promised as he threw one arm around Sam's shoulders and then wrapped the other around Tina's waist. "Besides, when you two finally fall in love, we can buy houses side by side in the suburbs so our kids can grow up together."
Tina hip checked Blaine playfully while Sam replied, "Dream on, dude."
Sam wasn't in love with Tina and he wasn't in love with Blaine but he was in love with the family that the three of them had built together during a year when they really hadn't had anyone else.
Blaine reminded them of that moment ten years later when Mike and Tina closed on a house next to Kurt and Blaine's in Westchester. Sam had moved into the neighborhood first with his wife, a pretty nurse named Katie he met on the subway his last year of college. Blaine and Tina had been the best men at his wedding, just as Blaine and Sam had stood up with Tina. They even raised their children together just like the three best friends always said that they would. And when Sam and Tina danced together years later as Sydney Evans and Henry Chang celebrated their brand new marriage, they decided that maybe that first wedding party hadn't been so messed up after all.