Chapter Six

Mercedes Jones

Finn woke up to the sunshine pouring out his small window. He rubbed his face and sat up. The tapes were scattered all about his bed and he pulled his covers off of himself and over the tapes.

"Finn!" his mom called. "Come join the family for breakfast."

"I'll eat later," he said, standing up and starting to push the tapes into the shoebox.

The door burst open, and Finn threw the box under his covers.

"Finn, I want you to join the family now," his mom said, leaning into his room.

"Mom, I'm not hungry and I just woke up so I'm fine."

"Finn... Get down here now! I made a good breakfast that we all can enjoy, now come down here and join us. That's an order."

Finn didn't want to see Kurt, or even Blaine for that matter. All he really wanted to do was sneak out of the house and go talk to Sam.

"There's my brother!" Kurt sang out.

"Hey Finn," Blaine said.

"Do you ever leave?" was all Finn said to Blaine.

"Excuse me?" Blaine asked.

"Nothin'."

Finn put on his shoes and pulled his backpack over his shoulders. "Mom, I'm going to Sam's house." he called. Kurt and Blaine were snuggled together on the couch, watching My Fair Lady. Finn just left before his mother could answer.

As Finn walked, he got out the tape player he had in his backpack. Tape Six was already in.

"Reason Six why I killed myself, Mercedes Jones. After Sam came back with us, after we won Sectionals, he sang, The One That Got Away by Katy Perry, to Mercedes. Long story short, Mercedes broke up with her football boy and got back with Sam. This happened after I sang, "Jar of Hearts". That next day, Mercedes had pulled me aside at my locker.

'You had better leave my man alone, whore.'

'W-what?'

'Sam, is mine, and I don't know who you think you are if you think you can take him away from me.'

'I'm not trying to take him away from you! I just simply talk to him,' I argued.

'I don't want you to talk to him anymore, or I will take you to the carpet, slut-stuff. Oh, and Sam is not gonna talk to you either. I told him about you and Jesse.' Mercedes sneered.'

I wiped away a tear, and left school that day.

The next day, I waved at Sam in the hallway, but he just ignored me. I saw him later that day with Mercedes, he gave me a sad smile, but kept walking. Finn, he was the only person that talked to me. I don't know why you didn't, you were still my boyfriend but, it was Sam who was the only one that cared enough about me. He cared about me more than you did... Until Mercedes said that we couldn't talk anymore."

Finn stopped walking and looked up at where Sam was staying. He had finally reached his place. He stood behind a tree and finished listening to Tape Six before going up to Sam's door.

"Now Finn, I don't mean to make you feel guilty. You are not the main reason why I killed myself. But you are-"

The tape was suddenly cut off. Finn bit his lip and put it in his pocket. He walked up to Sam's door and knocked.

"Hey Finn!" Sam said, opening the door. "Come on in."

Finn stepped in and then hugged Sam.

"Whoa, dude, are you okay?" Sam asked, confused.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you..." Finn said, almost sobbing.

"What'd I do?" Sam asked.

Finn pulled back from the hug. "Rachel... Rachel, you were there for her when no one else was back when she was alive."

"Ohhh... yeah, um, yeah I guess. But how do you know about that?"

"I just know. And I want to thank you, Sam. I was so stupid... I now know that I could have prevented it in some way. Just, thank you for being there for her." Finn said, wiping his eyes.

"Hey, no problem man. And I'm sure that you were there, I mean you were her boyfriend at the time. But, wait... Wasn't she dating Jesse or something?"

Finn shook his head, "He took advantage of her. Whatever Mercedes told you about her was a lie."

"So.. He raped her?" Sam asked, his eyes wide. Finn nodded. "But Mercedes... so Mercedes lied to me?" Finn nodded.

"I don't know what she said to you, but that it the truth." Finn said. Sam sat down on his couch.

"Hey, I better go. Just, thank you so much Sam."

"No problem. See you at school tomorrow." Sam said as Finn walked out.

The weekend was almost over. It being noon on Sunday. Finn wanted to finished the tapes before school the next day.

On the way home he put in tape seven and stuck his earphones in. His ears were soon filled with Rachel's voice.

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