Saturday comes around quickly and the Homecoming parade has started through the streets of Lima. Sam's parents were in town for it and the parade, leaving Sam with his little brother and sister for the parade mostly. The horses go by with their owners riding and waving to the people of Lima, police and firetrucks slowly cruised by hitting their sirens for the kids. Stacy and Stevie Evans cheer on with their older brother, and are eating candy. The football team is now walking through getting cheered on loudly by their town. Coach Beiste leads them through and spots Sam, quickly walking over to him for something urgent.
Sam smiles and greets Beiste. 'Hey coach, team's looking pretty stacked for today. Good luck out there.' Shannon nods but speaks up about it. 'Actually Sam, there's a problem. Anthony Rogers, our second string quarterback, left earlier today with his family for his grandpa's funeral.' She sighs, looks back at the team then back at Sam. 'I know this is short notice, but it's the only idea I have. You're the former second string from last year, is there any way you could be it again just for the Homecoming game? It's not against the rules if it's a former player, I checked.'
Sam looks at both his little brother and sister. 'Are you going to play football, Sammy?' Stacy asks, and Sam smiles before looking back to Beiste with a determined look. 'Count me in, Coach!' Shannon smiles and slowly starts to walk back to the team before adding 'You're a lifesaver, Evans. Listen I have to get back to the parade. Go home and get your jersey after it's over, and meet us at the field for a quick warm up. See ya later.' She walks away, and Sam takes a deep breath hoping he made the right decision.
He looks up and the Cheerios are cheering and handing out candy. Kitty is leading the group and she spots Sam with his siblings. She gives him a quick smile before taking a handful of candy from the basket the cheerleader next to her has, and tosses it towards them. Stacy and Stevie races towards it all to pick it up with huge smiles, meanwhile Sam gives Kitty a quick smile and nod before she has to direct her squad for the of the parade.
Sam gets home and drops Stevie and Stacy off with his parents, telling them he's playing in the game and has to get to the field for the warm up. They agree, saying that they're going to go out for lunch and then head over for the game.
He gets to his room, brushing his hair back slowly and takes another deep breath. 'Did I make the right choice doing this? I'm average at best when it comes to being a quarterback. I really only did this to impress Kitty more.' These thoughts keep playing in his head while he tosses his phone on the bed and goes through his closet for his jersey.
Pulling it out of the closet, he starts to change into it quickly when he hears his phone vibrate. 'Oh shit, what if it's Kitty and she found out about me playing? Would she be mad at me for doing this?' He thinks to himself and walks over to it, and looking at the sender's name. Quinn Fabray.
Quinn: Hey Sam! Got a minute? (:
Sam smiles at the text before replying back to her.
Sam: Yeah, I think I can spare one haha. What's up?
Quinn: Well, a few of our friends are getting together. Finn, Puck, Santana, basically our whole Glee Club, and we're all going to the Homecoming game to show our support. We wanted to know if you wanted to tag along?
Sam: I wish I could. But actually, I'm in the game as the backup quarterback and I'm headed over for a warm up right now.
Quinn: Really? That's awesome, Sam! Well, I guess we'll see you there. By the way, I really miss you (:
Sam: I miss you too Quinn. Catch ya later at the game (:
He ends the conversation there and starts to head out. Was Quinn flirting with me? Nah, couldn't be. But maybe...
Halfway through the game, the McKinley High Titans are down two touchdowns to the Athens High Wingers, and Coach Beiste is not happy about it. She yells over to her team to come over and points at Sam as well. Sam gulps, knowing he's probably going to be put it.
'Is this how you want tonight to end? Huh!? You want to lose your Homecoming game in front of everyone!?' Beiste roars at her team before looking at Sam. 'Evans, you're quarterback for the rest of the game. Gunther, you're out before you throw another interception and cost us a touchdown.'
Sam runs over to get his helmet, and spots his family with Quinn sitting next to Stacie and Stevie, cheering him on. He throws them a smile and nod, before looking over to the Cheerios, specifically finding Kitty. They locks eyes for a few seconds before Sam winks at her and shoves his helmet on. She rolls her eyes and smiles. Go get em', fish lips! Above in the stands, Quinn sees the wink to Kitty given by Sam, and glares at her for a few seconds before watching the game.
The Titans struggle the first two plays back with Sam in, only gaining a few yards. Come on Sam. He thinks to himself. Time's running out here. The third play, Sam goes in shotgun formation, his teammate snaps the ball to him, and Sam looks down the field before spotting an open man and bombing it to him. Touchdown Titans! Kitty and the Cheerios cheer on loudly as they score as well as the crowd. In Kitty's eyes, she looks at Sam and her heart warms up a little bit from the cold, fall weather. Can't wait for the dance later tonight. He better clean up nice, not that it matters all to much anyway. She shakes her head trying not to let things distract her from remaining the way she is, or even from cheering.
Fourth quarter with only two minutes remaining, the McKinley High Titans are still only down by one touchdown with 2 minutes left in the game. Sam leads his team halfway down the field. The first two plays they gain 20 yards, even though they fumbled the ball but quickly recovered it, almost giving Coach Beiste a heart attack. 'Hold on to the ball guys! We're almost there we only need one more to win it!' She yells to her team on the field, who are clearly tired. Sam looks at the scoreboard 'Home: 21 Away: 27' with 30 seconds left on the clock and it's third down.
Gulping, Sam throws a 10 yard pass only with 5 yards short of the first down, and his teammate runs out of bounds to stop the clock at 15 seconds. In the huddle, they call a shotgun play. Slowly walking to the line, Sam looks into the audience, at his friends and family all on their feet cheering them on. Again, he looks to the Cheerios spotting Kitty, and he points her and then at the scoreboard. This one is for you, Kitty. She smiles while Sam smiles and he hikes the ball. He drops back more from the snap, looking around and finding nobody open for the pass. About to be sacked, Sam runs to the left and keeps going. Almost there! Sam Evans is running the dodging Wingers players coming at him and dives at the touchdown as he's getting hit in mid air. Landing to the ground and looking up, the ball is past the line. TOUCHDOWN MCKINLEY HIGH TITANS!
The crowd roars loudly as the final field goal is kicked in allowing the Titans to win their Homecoming game 28-27. The entire team and cheerleaders flood the field to hold Sam Evans up high on their shoulders, clearly stating he is the MVP of the game. Sam looks down and spotting Kitty, with a huge smile on his face.
'That touchdown was for you, Kitty! Yeah!' He says, throwing his hands in the air cheering, as she blushes and cheers with everyone else. She pulls his head down to give him a kiss on the cheek. 'You did amazing, Sam. I'll see you later at the dance. I'm going to get ready.' She cups his cheek before walking away with some of her friends. He watches her as she leaves, and walks over to his family and his friends into a pile of hugs.
'Way to go, Trouty!' Santana says with a smile while wrapping her arm around Brittany's waist.
'Dude you're like freakin' king!' Puck says to him. 'Yeah dude, that was like play of the year right there. Congrats!' Finn adds.
Quinn walks up to him and kisses his cheek. 'That really was amazing, Sam. You should text me after the dance and we can catch up on things.' She says with a huge smile and a wink, catching Sam off guard. Whoa, I think she is flirting with me...like again.
He smiles stupidly at her. 'Alright, will do Quinn. Well, thank you so much everyone for coming. But I need to get out of here and get ready for the dance. I'm sure they'll plan something for me after all of this.' Or maybe more like I'm planning on making this a great night for Kitty. They all nod adding they're all going to enjoy Lima all together before they have to leave, and tell him goodbye. He heads home with his family, getting ready for the Homecoming dance.
Kitty is home in her room calmly going through her closet for something really nice to wear. The Homecoming dance isn't really formal, but she figures maybe a dress would do for the night. Yes, a dress is just fine for a dance. Like hello, do I want to look all trashy like girls nowadays? I have class and respect for myself. Besides, Guppy should be be fine with it, or with me even going with him at all. Ugh, he's really cute though. Focus Kitty! She puts on a beautiful blue dress that stops just a little past her knees. It's comfortable since she's used to her Cheerios uniform. She lets her hair down and is sitting at her small make-up desk, brushing her hair in the mirror. Straight hair for one night? Pfft no problem.
After applying small portions of make-up on her face and a low shade of lipstick, she hears the doorbell ring to her house. A smile rises up to her face as she heads downstairs. 'I got it, Mom!' She calls out and is replied with an 'Okay sweetie!'. Kitty takes a deep breath and clears her throat before opening the door, seeing one Sam Evans on her porch steps. Oh. My. God. Her haw drops a little, seeing Sam dressed in a white T with a black dress shirt with white stripes, and dark blue jeans that could possibly pass off as black. He looks at her with a huge smile, looking at her from her feet up to her face.
'Wow Kitty, you look really...beautiful' He says looking at how nice she looks in the dress, how long her hair actually is without it being in a high pony for Cheerios. She smiles back at him before speaking. 'Thanks, Sam. You um, actually don't look too bad yourself. You should always ditch those loser clothes you usually wear.' Sam chuckles at the comment knowing she would say something about it. That didn't take long, but I can tell she's speechless by it. Easily.
He then nods before offering his hand to her, in which she takes and follows out the door. 'I don't usually dress up this good for anything, but I did promise you that you wouldn't regret it. This is the nicest pair of clothes I own that I wear on rare occasions. Like this, Homecoming slash our first date.'
His words light her ears up. 'Uh, first date?' She asks strongly, while raising her eyebrow at him. 'This is just for Homecoming, Guppy. Remember that.' He nods again before opening the passenger door for her and closing it and takes a deep breath before getting in himself. 'Right, right. Uh yeah, my dad let me borrow his car for tonight so we wouldn't have to walk all the way there.' Come on Sam, play it cool. I don't want this to be my only date with Kitty. He snaps on his seat belt along with Kitty, starts the car and pulls away heading for McKinley High. Kitty sits comfortably in the passenger with her phone as she texts her friends she'll be there shortly. She looks up and stares out the window before looking back at Sam, not wanting the whole car ride to be awkwardly silent.
'So Sam, you actually ran that entire play and scored the game winning touchdown..just for me?' She stares at him before he smiles widely and quickly glances over to her. 'Aheh, yep. No regrets either. How I saw you basically just glow to me, you were..' He pauses for a second while stopping at a light and looks at her again. 'You were my motivation today to win that game. You were actually the reason I decided to say yes to Coach's offer to play today because I wanted to impress you, so you wouldn't think of me as such a loser as your date tonight. He sighs and hit the acceleration as the light turns green, leaving Kitty almost speechless in her seat.
'I...Well-' Her loss of words make her shake her head. The entire game was for me? To get me to notice him more than I strangely already do? He isn't a total loser anyway. She sighs before putting on her smile as they pull into the school parking lot.
'Thank you, Sam. I'm sorry for not giving you the reaction you wanted. I'm not used to people doing things for me. Well I am obviously because I'm that awesome and popular, but not in the way that you did.' She leans over and gives him a kiss on the cheek, showing more of her softer side. 'Hey, don't be sorry for anything. Just enjoy it because I'm having an amazing time just being with you right now, the girl I WON the game for.' He grins at her while he gets out of the car to get her door as well and locking it. They both meet their group of friends and decide to go in together.
'I'll just be a sec, okay?' Kitty walks off with her friends who include some of the other football players and a few other Cheerio girls, who keep whispering how cute Sam looks. Sam nods as he watches her walk off with her friends while he looks around the dance. He sees Blaine and Kurt dancing with each other to the party pumping music, also spotting Artie and Sugar laughing off to the side with googly eyes for each other, and chuckles when she sits in his lap. Sighing, he turns around and spots Quinn talking to Sue Sylvester at the punch. She locks eyes with his, and says goodbye to Sue for a sec and walks over to Sam with a cute smile on her face.
'Hey Sam! Pretty nice dance, isn't it?' She looks into his eyes, and she senses something inside of her like an old spark she used to have with him. He nods in return and smiles back at her. 'Yeah, seems a bit crazier than last year's and such. What's going on with you though? Yale not as cracked up as you thought it was?' They chuckles together and Quinn hits his shoulder jokingly. 'Nooo, I just miss some things and a few people. Coach Sue, Mr. Schue..' She pauses for a quick second before adding. 'You.'
Sam sighs but nods, not understanding why Quinn is really here. 'Quinn, what's up with you? The text, the football game, the-' He is cut off by her who seems very serious towards him. 'Sam, I really do miss you. More importantly, I miss us. I want you back, Sam. And I'm going to do what it takes so that I can get you back and...wear your ring again.' They stare into each other's eyes before Sam looks away to the ground.
Kitty spots them from across the gym and she starts seeing red in her eyes which only comes when she's really infuriated. No. Effing. Way. She ignores her friends talking to her and makes a B line towards them. She approaches them, linking her arm with Sam's and glaring straight at Quinn. 'Excuse me, but Sam and I are here together, as DATES.' Sam looks at Kitty and is nervous inside, then looks back to Quinn. 'Kitty, Kitty. It's okay. She's fine, we're just catching up with each other as friends.' Quinn glares back at Kitty before taking a few steps back.
'I'll see you around sometime, Sam. It was great seeing you again though.' She looks back to Kitty. 'Nice meeting you too, Kitty.' Quinn gives one more quick snarling look towards Kitty before nodding at Sam and walking away.
Kitty makes sure she's out of sight before looking back towards Sam, who looks back at her with a worried look. 'Sam, I gave you one chance and now it's very slim. I understand you're both friends but keep it that way, especially tonight.' Sam brushes her hair over her ear and puts his hands on her shoulders. 'Listen to me, we're just friends and nothing was going on. I'm here with you and you only, okay?'
Principal Figgins takes the mic to announce this year's Homecoming King and Queen. 'Quiet please, children. Quiet. It's time to announce this year's Homecoming King and Queen. First up is the Homecoming King.' Everyone whispers things to each other before Figgins announces it. 'Ladies and gentlemen, your Homecoming King...and also the MVP of the Homecoming game, Samuel Evans!' Everyone begins to cheer loudly as Sam smiles at Kitty and cheering along as he takes the stage and the crown is presented upon his head. He looks at Kitty who is clapping and smiling at him which makes him smile more.
Figgins clears his throat before putting the mic to his mouth again. 'And this year's Homecoming Queen is...the head cheerleader of the Cheerios, Kitty Bennett.' Kitty confidently walks up to the stage smiling past everyone, and the crown is placed upon her head. She and Sam then face each other, smiling and looking each other in the eye before walking off the stage to have their first dance as King and Queen, and Blaine takes the microphone to sing the next song.
'Good evening everyone. This next song goes out to my boyfriend who I love very much, Kurt Hummel.' Blaine smiles over to Kurt who mouths 'I love you' to him, and Blaine begins to sing Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You by Frank Valli. Sam puts his hands on Kitty's hips and she puts hers on his shoulders. The anger seems to have left her as she looks into his eyes. What the hell is wrong with me? I'm forgiving him that easily? Ugh, he's been so good this far that I'll let him have the rest of tonight. They look each other in the eyes as they slow dance to the song. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you. Blaine sings pointing to Kurt as Sam and Kitty lock their eyes and body close together.
'Well done, Sam.' Kitty says wrapping her arms around Sam's neck. 'This really has been an amazing Homecoming weekend. You're the MVP, the Homecoming, and the prettiest looking girl as your queen. What now?' Sam smiles and leans his forehead onto hers and kisses Kitty softly on her lips catching her by surprise. She kisses him back holding his neck in closer to deepen it before pulling away. Whoa, that kiss. Were those...fireworks? Kitty loses her breath after what she thinks was the best kiss of her life. She leans her head into his chest as he wraps his arms her more and whispers into her ear. 'Hey um, I've been wondering for a while now..' She looks at him to look at him as he's talking so she can hear him better. 'I asked to Homecoming because I really, really like you Kitty. And this date was one of the best ones I've been, even though I haven't been on too many.' She chuckles at him. 'Spit it out, guppy.' He laughs softly and looks into her eyes. 'Kitty this was just one of the many dates I would love to take you on. I want to ask if you'll be my girlfriend.' In an instant, she plants a kiss on his and looks at him, with another one of those rare real smiles she gives. 'Yes I will, Sam Evans.' She leans her head back into his chest and giggles, knowing he air pumped the sky again for succeeding with her yet again. I'm starting to really like him back, I think... Without any thought, this was by far the best Homecoming that McKinley High has had yet.
A/N: Here is Chapter 2 of Falling In Deep! This was sort of tough to write since I was trying to not make it too long and not boring at the same time. Other than that, hope you all enjoy it, feel free to leave a review if you'd like or message me your thoughts/concerns. Chapter 3 might take a bit to write, but it will involve more Fabrevans hopefully with Sam/Kitty (Kittam I guess is their ship name?). Thank you (: