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Chapter 11

It has been a week since Mercedes broke things off with Sam and seeing their miserable facial expression was simply hurtful. Their friends were as hurt as well because the amazing connection they all once had got lost and they did not have an idea of how to fix it, more importantly they did not have an idea of how to get Sam and Mercedes together. Santana and Mike went to the newspaper's office in hopes of finding who ran the horrible article about Sam and Mercedes but the only thing that they found was that some guy named Jacob Ben Israel published it as a favor. Sam looked for Jacob only to find out that he dropped out of Yale and moved back home.

Things between Sam and his parents also got tense because they got a copy of the newspaper. Sam explained them what happened and saying that his parents were disappointed was an understatement. Also during that time, Sam's father, Dwight, revealed that he was sick bringing in more reasons for Sam to worry. In simple words, Sam's life went from perfect to a giant piece of shit in less than a week.

Mercedes was having her own piece of sorrows. In addition of having to deal with people's stares and gossip, the day Sam quit the café to give her space; she felt like a piece of her heart was ripped from her insides. She felt so sad and incomplete without him; she drowned herself in schoolwork but avoided her literature coursework like a plague. In addition, talking to her friends became such a burden to her that she stopped hanging out with the majority of them; she only spoke to Santana and it was because she threatened to cut her with one of her hidden razor blades.

Definitely, these two were having the shittiest days of their lives and they have a duet to thank for that. After finding out about the break-up, Rachel thought she did the good deed to Sam and that after a couple of days he was going to find his way back to his first circle of friends but especially back to her. Rachel was infatuated with Sam; actually, she was obsessed with his wealth. Rachel always had delusions of grandeur and she thought that her perfect way to keep her status was to catch someone like Sam. During summertime, Sam and she had a secret fling but after her constant insistences, Sam allowed her to make their unofficial relationship public. During a weekend getaway in Miami, Sam called things off between them because he got bored of her and she became obsessed with the idea of making him pay for her alleged distress. Rachel Berry was simple the queen of the drama queens. Rachel enlisted Quinn, another girl who confused her obsession with Sam with love, to help her break Sam and Mercedes apart and in exchange, Rachel was going to help Quinn to finally hook up with Sam. What Quinn did not know is that Rachel was going to betray her as soon as Sam came back to the 'safe haven' like Rachel called her social circle.

"Rachel, have you heard anything from Sam?" A very impatient Quinn asked while they were at one of the college restrooms. "Because every time I try to talk to him or something, he avoids me as if I had leprosy and you said that as soon as he became a single guy you were going to help me and I see a lot of talking but no action." The pretty but confused blonde added frustrated.

"Quinny, I spoke to Sam." Rachel lied. "I tried my best but he is simply not interested."

"What? But… But, you said that I had fair shot with him." Quinn recalled.

"I know but, I never said that it was a definitive shot. You know, Sam is more interested in girls of his social strata not some 'fake rich' girl like you or 'social climbers' like that waitress he used to date. He's into a more sophisticated type of girl; a girl with class, culture and good presence." Rachel explained.

Quinn was fuming; she finally understood that Rachel played her into helping her only manage the situation on her favor and win Sam back. "Oh! So you mean… Sam only likes girls like you?"

"Something like that." Rachel said maliciously.

"You little bitch."

"Hey, be careful how you speak to me! I own you, dumb blonde." Rachel said in her 'HBIC' tone.

"No. No, you don't and I am going to find Sam this instance and I am going to tell him exactly what happened. I am going to tell him how you seduced Finn to get all the information he knew about the Mercedes' deal, how you coaxed me into helping you out and how with my help, unfortunately, you convinced Jacob to run the article for us. I am going to tell him that you did because you have a sickening obsession with him and you were mortified that he chose Mercedes over you." Quinn said almost in tears.

"I want to see you try. Sam is not going to believe a word you say."

"Maybe he won't at the beginning but a doubt will be sown." Quinn said while she rapidly ran out of the restroom with a desperate Rachel following her tracks. But, little did these two know that they were not alone in that restroom. The person called the only person she thought it could do something smarted than her in a situation like this one.

"Santana, I think I found a way to get our friends back together."

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After taking his last final, Sam and Mike went back to Mike's place to 'celebrate' the end of another semester at Yale. They were so immersed in their videogame war, they almost missed the fact that Sam's cellphone was vibrating.

"Hello?" Mike said picking up the phone call.

"Mike, put Sam on the line."

"One moment, Mrs. Evans." Mike handed the phone to Sam.

"Hello?"

"Sam."

"Hello, mom!" Sam said thinking that it was going to be one of those phone calls where his mother tries to tell him on how to run his life.

"Sam, you have to come home now. For your father's sake. How fast can you get here?"

It took him a few seconds to digest what his mother was asking him. Is my father gravely ill? He thought. After a minute, he replied, "I'll be there as soon as I can. Let me sort a few things out and I'll be on my way."

"Thank you, son."

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On her way to her literature final, Mercedes was a nervous because the grade of this exam was the deciding grade that could keep her scholarship alive. Lost in her thoughts, she could not hear that Santana and Brittany were trying to get her attention.

"Mercedes!" Santana yelled. "Wait up!"

Brittany reached her first and stopped her, "Mercedes, there's something you need to know."

Mercedes looked at them confused. "Girls, I don't have time for gossip. I have a final in five minutes."

"Yeah, I know but you need to listen to this. Brittany casually found out who are the people responsible for the newspaper article." Santana explained.

"Santana, that's a closed chapter in my life. I don't wanna talk about it. I gotta go. I need a couple of minutes before my exam because for my luck, it is an oral exam. See you guys later."

"But… Mercedes!" Brittany said miserably.

"Brittany, please! Not now." Mercedes emphasized and walked towards her classroom.

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"Lady Macbeth may have convinced him to kill Duncan, but he knew it was his fate before she even tried. Destiny is not something that we can easily fight against." Mercedes explained to her professor and a few others of his colleagues.

"But, what about circumstances, Miss Jones? Take Othello, for instance. Was Othello fated to kill Desdemona or did Iago create the circumstance?"

Mercedes wiped her hands on her jeans silently pray the heavens for an answer. After few seconds, she proceeded. "I think it's both. On the surface, Iago is the bad guy. But, if we look closer, we see that the crack Iago exploited was of Othello's own making."

"But still, Othello made his choices." The professor countered.

"Bad ones! In my opinion, Othello had love but chose not to listen to his heart." In that moment, flashbacks of her happy times with Sam came back to her mind. "Love doesn't come around every day, and when it does, you gotta grab it and hold on to it. I mean they could've lived happily ever after and I know this is some cheesy fantansy…" More and more memories invaded her thoughts and Mercedes could not help but to tangle her own experiences into her answer. "…but what if the fantasy actually became true. What if there is a handsome guy, who happens to be a really good kisser…"

"Miss Jones…" Her professor said trying to stop her line of thought.

"What if you know you're in love? What if you realized that not all the things you thought were important matter anymore? Because the most important thing is to be with him. Then it's not some fantasy. It is something real. I mean, don't you think those two people should be together?"

After finishing her speech, Mercedes could not believe what her emotions made her say but everything was said and done. After a few seconds of silence, three of the professor's colleagues answered Mercedes' question in unison.

"Yes."

Mercedes smiled. "I do too."

In a blink of an eye, Mercedes left the classroom and went to look for Sam, not knowing that she was just a little too late to find him.

A/N: Oh Rachel Berry! You are going to be in serious trouble and I should keep my eyes on Santana and Brittany. They are going to come up with an interesting idea to make you pay. Quinn, I feel sorry for you because you are going to get into some trouble as well but you might get a better ending than Rachel.

Sam's dad is sick and he's requiring Sam's presence back home. For what? Is Mercedes going to be able to stop or is she going to have to live with the fact that she lost him forever?

Stay tuned!

XOXO