Mercy grabbed Sam's hand and went out to the lounge as advised "Did you want a cool drink?" she asked him as they got outside
"Do you want me to go get them Babe?" he asked going to turn back towards the kitchen
"No I just asked if you wanted one"
"Yes please" he replied as they walked through the lounge to the garden and turned right on the veranda which went around the side and back of the house "There's a machine here" she said stopping at a full sized cool drinks machine with coin slot and everything
"How cool" he said looking at the machine
"Aunt Janet is a bit tactile apologies for her and me if I have to kick her down" she said laughing
"Aunt Janet?" he confirmed nodding his head
"Here we go" she said losing his hand and grabbing the second drink giving it to him before linking hands again
"Baptism by fire Sammy let's face the wolves" she said pulling him towards the noise coming from around the corner on the balcony
"Well hello Miss brave I'm sure Grandma would have told you to stay in the lounge but no Miss Thing needs to be upfront about everything she does. Heard you were walking around with your little cup of milk ready for bed and everything for the Massa" Cousin Turdy said all spiteful
"I am not walking with a cup of mi …"
"Hi all I'm Sam; Sam Evans Mercy's Boyfriend" Sam said walking into the Ladies all four sitting and the one that just spoke to Mercy that way standing on the corner of the door. "Pleased to meet you all I'm sure Auntie?" He stood with his hand out to the first woman waiting for a response and a hand shake
"Aunt Hyacinth; nice to meet you Sam" She said holding her hand out and he kissed it
"Pleasure is all mine" he said cocking his eye looking gorgeous
"And you lovely are?"
"Aunt Madge; nice to meet you Mr. Evans" she said staring into his eyes as he gave her the look too and kissed her hand
"Sam please Aunt Madge"
"Oh and by the look of you, you must be Aunt Janet?" Sam asked stretching his hand out to her
"I am indeed" she said holding her hand out for her kiss only Sam pulled her up and hugged her before kissing her hand "I know you're the more tactile one so let's start as we mean to go on" he said making sure she sat back down safely
"And you're Aunt?"
"Aunt Shirley the pretty one" she said as Sam took her hand and kissed it making her laugh
"Pleased to meet you I'm sure" he said
"And you are?" Sam asked the young lady standing up
"I'm Trudy Jones Mercy's prettier cousin white boy"
"Well hello Black girl I'm sure you heard my name was Sam and, as Mercy started to say earlier, for your information she actually drinks a tall glass of milk every day, I'm good stuff" he said making everyone laugh.
"I drink milk every day too and I know it's good for me"
"Well you keep drinking that milk and you may someday be as fit as Mercy over there" Sam said pointing to Mercy as he made his way back to where she was and hugging her
Sam and Mercy stayed out talking and bantering with the Aunts and Trudy for a short while before Mercy brought Sam round to enjoy some male company so she could have a proper catch up "Uncle" she shouted and they all looked round
"Baby Girl" Uncle Calvin answered
"I've brought Sam round for you to look after and remember whatever he comes at you with I'm going to defend him and eat your asses so take care of my man" she said laughing and grabbing him a cold beer, showing him a seat then standing by him for a while before kissing him and leaving him to it with the men
"Babe you know yeah?" he shouted after her
"What do I know Sammy?" she laughed asking
"That I love you yeah? he replied getting a glazed look from her Uncles
"I love you more babe" she said walking way "Watch me walk away" she said laughing making Sam laugh too
"Baby Girl got you like that yeah" Uncle Tony asked Sam
"She' got me Uncle I can't lie" he said laughing as he watched them play dominos and even tried his hand himself losing every game, 2 hours later they all met up for dinner which was served by the maid and butler
"You so are money Mercy Jones you got me" he said as he saw the maids come out
Yeah but their like family" she said laughing as they ate, talked, laughed and joked through the meal he felt at home
After the meal they went onto the back veranda where Grandma sat rocking in her chair while the men went back to Dominos and the Ladies were discussing going for a walk "Let's go tease sisters mind, come on Baby Girl let's walk" Aunt Janet said smiling at Sam as Mercy looked at him almost begging him to find her an excuse
"Its fine Babe you go I'll sit and talk to Grandma for a bit" he said smiling back at her
"So Mercy no black guys in LA then?" Trudy said as they walked
"Lots of black guys in LA Trudy" she replied with attitude "Only the only one I got eyes for happens to be white and just fine for me thank you very much" she said waving her hand in the air
"Is it like some sort of fantasy that you're living out?" Trudy asked
"The only fantasy I'm living girl is hoping you'd be happy for me on any level" she snapped
"Jealousy is a bitch" Aunt Hyacinth snapped back at Trudy
"I ain't jealous I just don't understand why you would go all the way to LA to pick up a white guy"
"For the same reason you would sit here and pick up one of them every day Joe's you always messing with" Mercy replied "Leave Sam alone anyway he ain't up for discussion" she finished
"That told us" Aunt Madge said as they carried on walking in silence for a while
"So Mercy I'm getting on your guy again but for a different reason, he's absolutely smashing looking, so what's he doing with you?" Aunt Shirley asked
"He's loving me Auntie I don't know what it is but we can't lie to each other about anything, we clicked the first time I saw him and he apparently saw me way before I saw him and sex isn't an issue even though he's not a virgin and I just totally love him with everything I am. We plan to marry and soon" she said looking around her Aunts for a response
"Well as soon as he gets on the same page I suppose we can expect wedding bells then" Aunt Janet said romantically
"You mean as soon as he comes to his senses there will be tears" Trudy said pointing at Mercy again who pushed her for pointing and being negative about her relationship then they all went quiet again, eventually the conversation left Sam and they started catching up on all things music
Sam's conversation with Grandma took the usual where are your family from, what do they do, what were his intentions and things like that ending with Grandma asking for a hug and giving her blessing after reminding him that there should be "No sex until after marriage right"
"We know this Grandma we have clear boundaries" he said
"Come wonder around the house get used to it, you're not here that long it's sad not to see it all" Danny said walking away from Grandma with his arm manoeuvring Sam through the lounge.
Mercy and Sam got back to the veranda around the same time "You Okay babe?" he asked as Mercy came towards him pushing herself under his arm
"What about a song, do you sing Sam?" Tony asked
"Yeah I sing a bit I've been told I do it quite well actually but I'm a writer by trade really I guess" he replied looking at Mercy wondering why she was being the way she was "You alright babe?" he asked as she smiled up at him
"You know any reggae" Danny asked "We love reggae, you might have guessed that as we're all dreads" he laughed
"Listened to it but never sung it not my genre"
"Come jam with us?" Calvin asked "We just messing anyway there's no audience here he said as the guys started singing 'Call On Me' by Jah Cure grabbing Sam to join in dancing
"I like it" Sam said when the music finished "So does Uncle Tony by the look on his face" he said laughing
"Yea I know" Hyacinth said to her husband Tony who was standing smiling like he was about to get up to some sort of mischief
"Some of us need to wear ear plugs tonight" Grandma said laughing
"You know there's a comeback right?" Shirley said to her husband Calvin and the boys "Come on Girls lets hit them with a classic" she said calling them forward with her hands as Trudy started playing the tune to "That's What Friends Are For' by Janet Kay with Mercy joining in.
"Love it" Sam said hugging Mercy "Was that a cover of Dionne Warwick's song?" he asked
"No Sam nothing like it" Aunt Madge said laughing
"Well I'll give you all a B for trying but you all know who's the best when it comes to singing round here pass please" Grandma said pushing past Janet and Danny as they hugged
"That was the bomb grandma you know that" Mercy said laughing "Come on then Ma give it to us show us how it's done" she said through her laugh
Grandma started to sing "It Had To Be You" by Billy Holiday and Sam swore if he closed his eyes and just listened it could have been Billy herself sitting there singing
"Ma your voice gets better with age that was spot on" Jim said picking her up, she hated when he did that, but it still made her smile
"I'll do mine now, if you guys don't mind" Sam asked "I need to get to bed I promised Grandma I'd go Church in the morning" he said surprising Mercy "I'm gonna sing "Lullaby' by Lemar because this is how I felt when I first met Mercy, it was literally my prayer but feel free to join in" he said "I want you to know that I am and this is" he told her before getting the tune up and singing the song to her, while she watched him agreeing, everyone joining in the chorus dancing about and having fun.
"Sam that was the bomb" Mercy said "I feel like I keep saying the same thing to stop myself from swearing" she said laughingly as she kissed him
"I got to give it to you Sam you can sing" Trudy said smiling
"Was that a smile Trudy, is that what that was?" he asked, touching her arm
"A bit of a smile don't spoil it" she replied
"I'm tired and I have to get up for church in the morning I'm going to bed babe" Sam said
"I'll take you" she said quickly grabbing his hand and walking off before anyone could say anything different
"Verdict?" she asked as they walked
"Grandma great, Uncle's cool, Aunt's Sassy and Trudy well is Trudy but she's warming to us and the house is beautiful and Quirky and you have kept your hands off me long enough" he said pushing her up the wall kissing her "I've missed you today" he said when he came up for air before going back in "And I'm going to miss you tonight, come sit with me for a bit" he said pulling her into the bedroom and shutting the door
"Sam Grandma is not going to be happy about… Hooo" Mercy said as Sam's hands started searching her body "Sam stop" she said making him move away from her
"I'm sorry Mercy my hormones are raging and…" he started to say but she dragged him back in again and they fell on the bed
"We really need to stop now" they both said together laughing into their kiss
"Good night Sam" she said straightening up her clothes "I'm going to bed after I say goodnight myself I'll see you in the morning
"Goodnight Mercy" he sulked watching her get off his bed walking towards the door
"By the way what did you mean I am and it is?" she turned to ask
"I'm gonna love you for life and this is love, weren't you listening to your song?" he asked laughing
"I was, I was just, never mind, Goodnight Sammy" she said giggling
"Mercy triggers" he laughed "Goodnight" she went back to join the family
"He's a nice man Mercy, I like him" Uncle Danny said as she returned too the porch and everyone nodded in agreement
"He is" Mercy confirmed "What do you think Grandma?"
"I think you love him and I know he loves you so I think he's a good catch but watch those girls with him" she said
"I don't have to worry about girls with him, I trust him"
"It's okay you trusting him but can he be trusted?" Trudy said as Mercy cut her eye at her
"On that note I'll bid you all good night" Mercy said kissing her grandma before leaving the porch
SUNDAY
Sunday morning came round super quick and Sam was up with the birds mainly brought about from waking up and not finding Mercy in his arms considering they had only been together for like nearly 4 weeks he sat thinking he'd become used to their bedtime routine quickly. He got the cups out prepared the drinks and boiled the kettle before he'd noticed that Trudy was in the corner
"Hey Morning what are you doing down there?" he asked, she seemed to be shielding something
"Morning, nothing much just doodling" she said not looking up from her work
"You're a doodler?" he asked "I doodle a bit myself and sold a few pieces" Trudy's head popped up from her work
"Sold?" she asked
"Yeah they say I'm good, can I have a look at yours?" he asked "maybe a strange eye can see different things" he walked up to her saying
"Well not this one I've just started it but you can see these" she said pulling out a sketch book with loose pages inside as well as in the actual book. Sam was impressed to say the least he looked through her portfolio and saw some very imaginative work
"These are really good Trudy you need exposure"
"Yeah I think that's why I didn't get the singing gift you know" she said sadly
"You have a gift never the less and God never gives us more than we can handle you know that so if you had singing all this beautiful art would have gone to pot" he said laughing
"Can you do anything with it, I mean get it noticed or anything where do you send your stuff?" she asked
"If you let me take some with me I'll see what I can do"
"Really?"
"Hey but you got to let up off my girlfriend or I'm going to have to fight you, she means the world to me, I won't let anyone hurt her, even you"
"Really, what do you see in Mercy, she ain't all that?" she asked
"She is all that, and everything else for me, I love her"
"You're serious aren't you?"
"Yes I am"
"Okay but look after her she's special"
"I know" he said "Get the doodles ready for when we leave yeah?" he told her, going to check on the boiled kettle
"Will do" Trudy said going back to her doodling
Sam had just made the hot drinks and was on his way out the kitchen to go wake up Mercy when Grandma came into the kitchen "Morning Sam" she said holding the door for him to go out "Mercy gets breakfast in bed"
"It's a first Grandma" Sam said going past her and through to Mercy's room "Morning Mercy" he said walking into her room without knocking "I didn't expect you to be up" he said searching the room and noticing her sitting at her dresser
"I've been up a while babe, got to get ready for church, and I missed you"
"I missed you too, and church is like about 90 minutes away"
"Everybody dresses for church Sam get your Sunday best on, you're meeting the whole community this morning so be ready"
"What do you mean Sunday best I didn't bring a suit" he said horrified passing her hot drink
"Thanks, you did I packed it Donald would have hung it for you when he unpacked look in your wardrobe" she said before she took a sip
"I don't know whether that's sexy or intrusive" he said with a smirk
"You'd better opt for organised" she said not very amused
"Breakfast?" he asked changing the subject
"Once I've done my hair" she said pinning her last curl then getting up and going to him for a kiss "Sorry I snapped I'm a bit nervous about being judged by the community"
"I've got your back babe" he hugged her for a while saying "Come on Breakfast first" grabbing her hand and leading her to the kitchen with their cups in hand
Soon after, everyone was fed and dressed, Mercy had taken out Sam's Ermenegildo Zegna Bespoke suit "Boy you look hot" Grandma said as Sam walked into the lounge where everyone except Mercy and Trudy were waiting "Scrub up real nice and that suit is a pretty penny I know" Grandma continued as everyone else joined in with their comments
"You all look amazing too" Sam said trying to deflect from himself just then Trudy walked in with a trouser suit on in white with shoes and bag to match and a black hat that went only with her hair carrying a large folder
"Sam I showed these to Mercy and we agreed these could go but have a look and let me know" Trudy said passing the large folder over to Sam "You look dappa" she commented
"You going with the art thing again Tru" Uncle Jim asked
"Yes Uncle you know try and try" she said smiling
"You need to get your Dad to put some money behind your efforts" Aunt Madge said
"I put nothing but money in that girls hand thank you very much" Danny walked in saying "her Mother needs to make an appearance and do girl stuff with her instead of depending on Jan to do everything it's not right"
"We work with what we get" Grandma said closing the conversation as Mercy walked in
"About time" Trudy said before she remembered the conversation with Sam earlier and said "You look nice"
Sam was still dazed by the entrance of Mercy wearing a sky blue Oscar De La Renta strapless dress gathered at the right side with Black accessories and the same colour blue bows in her fabulous hair do "Mercy you …" Sam wondered off for a short while and everyone noticed and giggled a bit
"Drooling Sam" Aunt Janet said still laughing
"What?" Sam asked "I mean pardon" he quickly caught himself "I was caught off guard" he said still looking at Mercy "Wow" he finally let out making Mercy laugh
"Sam" she said getting shy
"Girl I am so darn lucky you don't know, I love you; you know that right?" he asked lifting her up and kissing her
"I know that babe and I love you too now put me down please" she asked
"Church don't wait on man you know" Grandma said and everyone shuffled towards the door
"I got your back Sam" Calvin said as they went through the door
"Yeah I'm up too" Danny said
"In" Tony and Jim said together
"Stop scaring him you lot" Mercy laughed "We're going in the rental because I want to show Sam around after church" she said, so everyone else went in the mini bus and Sam and Mercy followed behind. The journey was short and quiet as Mercy wondered what was going to happen and nerves started kicking in for Sam.
So they got to church in ample time before the service started Sam spotted quickly that he was being guarded, the family seemed to surround him as they walked into the church and they all found seats together.
Mercy introduced Sam to her friends from church Biff & Dianna who were recently married, Jenna and Kevin and their two year old Mason, Lea & Cory engaged for two years and seemed a bit distant but friendly anyway "They're in the choir it's the place to be in this town" Mercy said
"Unless you're lucky enough to break away like our Mercy here" Kevin blurted
"Good Morning congregation" Pastor Johnson said and everyone responded by moving back to their seats
"Good Morning Pastor" rang around the large hall
"I see we have a visitor in our congregation this morning and we thank the lord for his safe journey here and if he chooses back to where he's from. May I ask although it seems obvious who you are visiting this fine day Sir and what is your name?"
Sam got up "You may ask" he said "My name is Sam Evans and I'm from LA I'm visiting Grandma Jones and the family" Sam said waving to the congregation and sitting back down "I didn't expect that" he whispered to Mercy who chuckled
"Thank you Sam, may I enquire further how did you come upon the family Jones they don't frequent LA to my knowledge?" Pastor asked
Sam jumped back up out of his seat "Oh sorry I didn't make myself clear I'm Sam Evans visiting the Jones family and I'm Mercy's boyfriend soon to be fiancé / husband" Sam finished sitting down
"And" Grandma Jones got up saying "Yes we know he's white but he loves our Mercy and she loves him and God don't mind what colour that comes in" she finished
"Amen" the congregation said while others just looked at each other in shock
"Thank you Sam" the Pastor said with a smile "And I see we have Mercy back with us for a flying" he said looking at her for confirmation and she nodded "visit"
"Yes Pastor" she said and everyone echoed "Amen"
The service went on and on as usual Sam moaned about his bum being numb and Mercy made some comment about him needing a cushion and suddenly she was called up to sing "Sing what, Sam were you listening?" she asked getting up
"No babe sorry" he said as she walked out to music playing wondering what was being sung, suddenly the choir started singing the chorus before she got to the stage and she breathed a breath of relief as she recognised the song and was able to start singing "I Look to You" by Amber Riley
Sam was up clapping like he was at a concert making everyone look but in all honesty he didn't care she's done good and he was letting her know, and it wouldn't do any harm for everyone to know he was her biggest fan. Soon after that service finished and they were met with a barrage of questions by various people of all ages who were curious and Sam stood answering them all until Mercy declared that was enough and dragged him away
They drove around the small town while Mercy talked about events and places they passed and filled Sam in on her life in Richmond. Sam had mixed feeling, he was happy that he was getting to see where Mercy came from but he was mega sad that he hadn't shared all those childhood things with her and jealous of the people that did. Mercy must have sensed all these different feeling going on for him because she kept hugging him and kissing him for reassurance "I wish you had been there too Sammy" she said as he stood between her legs while she sat on the wall.
"It's just that I feel like I hate all those people you've called your friends, and that's just wrong isn't it?" he asked as they started to walk towards the school
"If I'm honest I was jealous of some of your friends and I would have been super jealous of Blaine had he not been Kurt's other half"
"You never said and Blaine's no one to be jealous about he's gay" Sam said watching Mercy remove the small latch on the school gate
"I know I can see that now because my old friends are just friends I've never been intimate with anyone before you" she said opening the great hall door and walking in, with Sam following
"So no one fancied you at school then?" Sam asked looking around the room they had just entered
"Well there was Shane he fancied me but I blew him off just before senior prom and he went ape on me accused me of being a tease and everything all over the school my name was mud" Right here in this room I danced alone at my senior prom
"So what happened to Shane?"
"Shane never even got a kiss and he went off to super bowl I heard" she said looking into Sam's eyes "it's nearly 12 we need to get back have dinner pack and be on our way by 2.30 to get our flight back"
"Hold up Mercy I need to ask you something, first off I need to tell you, I asked your family to be here for this so I hope I don't get egg on my face" he said his face getting red and he started rubbing the back of his neck nervously
"What's up babe?" she asked looking up to see her family coming through the side door "When did you plan this?"
"Just before Church all this but yesterday everything else and everyone's in on it except Trudy" he said still red faced
"So what we going to sing, dance what?"
"Well I'm going to sing with the help of you Uncles and you ladies are going to watch and I'll prompt you if I need you to join in" he said nodding at Jim "Start it I'm going to be in a puddle if I wait any longer" he said with a nervous laugh as the music started and the men came out behind him while the ladies took Mercy to the middle of the hall where they all stood watching
"Do you know what song he's going to sing Grandma?" Mercy asked but the answer was drowned out by the music
"Just from the second verse how many girls, we've run out of time" he said before he started singing "Marry Me" by Jason Derulo "Will you marry me?" he asked her when they finished singing, he'd stopped a Wow and knelt in front of her while the others carried on
"There's that damn Wow again" Mercy said through cries "You all knew about this?" she asked looking around
"Honey the boys still on his knee" Her Grandma said
"Sam, yes I will marry you, oh my God I'm getting married" she ranted over and over again
At some point he heard her say she was getting married, jumped up, grabbed her and kissed her they both forgot there were people around for a while "The ring young man" Grandma said tapping him on the shoulder
"Oh yeah the ring" he said feeling in his pocket
"When did you get to buy a ring?"
He said nothing he just looked at her and carried on searching for the box and found it in his trouser pocket opening it up he kneeled back down and opened the box "Will you marry me oh you said yes already" he said opening the box looking at her face
Tears immediately came to Mercy's eyes as she looked in Sam's hand and saw her mother's engagement ring sitting in the box "Sam" she said going down to hug him for a short while until when she was satisfied, leaving him to give her Grandma a hug too
"Sorry to break this up but its way past my dinner time" Grandma said making everyone rush around to get sorted and get on the van to get back home Sam and Mercy went in their car. They had lunch, loaded the car said bye and headed for the airport.
Once they got to the airport he took a picture of the ring on her finger and sent it to his family with a message saying 'Wedding in LA buy your new hat Mom' he got a call about 60 seconds after sending it, with his Mom screaming down the phone about dates, times, colours and venues while they just listened. 6 hours later they were sitting on the sofa in their living room entangled in each other "I can't believe you and my family got together and done that they supposed to love me" she said laughing, looking at the ring
"Well they love me too now" he bragging
"I'd be jealous but I know your family love me so we both gain" she laughed "Hot drink?" she asked getting up
"Please" he grabbed the mail saying "Mercy did you tell the Troublemakers our address?"
"Well I told them mine"
"You have a letter, and you need to get use to saying ours it's going to happen"
"I am used to saying it I just didn't tell them to come visit you" she told him putting the cups on the coffee table "And now I'm going to do something for our benefit" she said kneeling down in front of him he didn't take his eyes off her once she started talking "I know your tired babe I am too but I need to do this call it a celebration" she said holding the back of his neck and bringing him in for a kiss "why are you fighting me?" she asked when he pulled back
"I'm not, I just don't want to get out of hand again"
"Relax I got this" she said pulling him towards her again this time he came with ease
"I love you Sam and I want you to know that" she said before kissing him fiercely making him grab hold of her and pull her into him he wanted to put her inside him so he could feel this way always so she could be in his life and she pulled at him like she wanted to be inside him
"Babe" he said when she finally let go for air "I love you more" he gasped holding her face as her hands went elsewhere "What are you doing?" he asked as she pulled his trousers belt and unzipped his trousers
"Shh" she said followed by "Do you want me to stop?"
"No I don't think I do" he said watching her hands move over him pulling his trouser down and then his boxers exposing his nakedness in the living room. she looked at him, a longing in her eyes he felt he needed to do something about that, "Can I touch you?" he asked
"No" she said taking him in her mouth making his head hit the back of the sofa hard at the feel of her mouth around him as she worked him like an expert he was oblivious to anyone's needs but his own for those 15 minutes as she stroked, licked and sucked him in all different rhythms before settling on one they both liked his body reacted to everything so it was difficult to pick which specific action he liked above any other. Noises from both of them signalled that enjoyment was being had by both, his movement got quickly got rigid, his body stiffened and jerked uncontrollably
"Mercy I'm going to …." he said pushing her head up trying to come out of her mouth "Mercy I'm gonna ... stop please" he said she stopped and look at him
"What's up?"
"I said I want to … I'm ready"
"Yeah and"
"I'm not doing that in your mouth"
"Why not?"
"I just don't want you doing that to me"
"What sucking your dick?" Mercy asked "Jesus tell me we are not in some friend zone" she said getting up and heading to her room "I'm in my room tonight" she said slamming the door
'No we're not, I just don't want you doing that you're going to be my fucking wife' he said to himself through clenched teeth before getting up off the sofa and going to her door knocking it, getting no answer he opened the door to see her sitting on her bed with her head in her hands "Babe please listen to me before you blank me and I'm not going to bed with us like this so you can forget sleep until we sort it"
"You don't want sex with me what's to sort?"
"I didn't say that and it's not true" he said going to sit by her
"Sam you said you didn't want me to do that, at that time I had your dick in my mouth I can only assume you wanted me to stop"
"And babe I can totally see where you would have thought that in that conversation but it came out wrong and I'm sorry about that. What I was trying to get across which wasn't appropriate to say at that moment was I don't want you drinking me, I don't need to be doing that in your mouth you're going to be my wife and I won't, actually I refuse, to treat you like the tricks I used to be with"
"I don't understand Sam"
"Babe I can't think of a time when I've ever thought I'd have to have this conversation with you it's difficult for me because it's not something I'm reliving it's something I never want to go back to. I treated women wrong before I met you, you know this, and I've never gotten any of the pregnant or anything because I mostly got off in their mouths. I suppose in my head I see that as something degrading I make women do to me and, I'm not saying I won't unlearn that feeling but, right now babe while we're not having sex it makes me feel like I'm treating you the same as I treated them, I don't know if I'm making sense here I'm just saying what I feel"
"Sam you didn't make me do anything, I did that because I wanted to"
"And you don't think they wanted to too, I never forced anybody to do anything to or with me, I'm sorry it just felt like I was back there doing the same old thing but this time with someone I love and it didn't feel right
"So how are we going to get around this?"
"I don't want to cum in your mouth babe that's all I'm asking"
"For now yeah"
"Yes, but I'm not adverse to you doing that in mine I've never done that before"
"Neither have I" she said wiggling her eyebrows at him "Can we take a rain check on that, we kind of killed the mood tonight"
"Blue balls"
"What?"
"It's painful I need release can I" he said taking his dick in his hand
"Yes you can" she said settling in to watch him bring himself off. At one point she was so turned on by his noises that she went down on him again for a while but got up when he told her to and watched as he spurted all over the sheets "We're sleeping in your bed" she said when he'd relaxed enough to move "But that was an absolute turn on" she giggled
4 WEEKS LATER
"Everyone is in their place the wedding breakfast will be at 8.30 in the morning and the ceremony is set to happen at 2.30 family and guests will be at the restaurant at 8 this evening for wedding dinner" Kurt told them via skype
"Thanks Kurt" they said, Kurt had demanded to be the wedding planner the day they called him and Blaine to tell them they had agreed a date finally. Mercy's two songs were hitting the big time and she was about to start getting busy on her tour, Sam's songs were off the scale at the moment everyone wanted his songs mainly because Mercy's first hit was one of his songs and he could write anywhere so while she was still stable in LA they decided to get married and treat the tour as their honeymoon before coming back in about a year or so to start their family.
"Mercy did the final fitting go alright?" Kurt asked
"It went fine Kurt I wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't"
They'd given up on the traditional wedding, they were not having a church because Pastor Johnson wasn't able to come out to do the ceremony, they weren't having white because they weren't getting married in a church, they didn't look into the something old something new thing because they weren't superstitious, they were staying together regardless of what anyone told them the day and night before the wedding and the reception was finishing for them at 7 because they were due up for 2am to go on tour, the wedding party had other ideas
"Okay I'll take your word for it I'll pick you up at 7pm" Kurt said
"7.30 you mean" Sam said
"Okay 7.30 and the next communication is by phone I don't need to the watching all that" Kurt said with a look of disgust as they went back to kissing waving bye and clicking him off
"We need to sing tomorrow could you try and put some thought into what that's going to look like please?" he asked her, they were as bad as each other really from the day they set the date they've been on countdown to V day he'd had his first taste of her and was instantly addicted, she wanted the dynamics to change because she wanted him to think of her as everything sexy
"Everyone's around tonight shall we tell them all to go home?" she said seriously
"I'll leave that one with you" he said forcing himself to get up, he found himself doing a lot lately, things got heated quickly nowadays
"Babe you do know it's not guaranteed their all going back to the hotel tonight don't you?" he said walking into the kitchen rolling his eyes knowing what the comeback was going to be
"You're shitting me right?" she shouted
"No babe Trudy might want to stay she has nobody else her age here"
"And that's my problem because?"
"Didn't say it was a problem babe just said she might want to stay for the company" he said walking back in with the hot drinks
"That was quick"
"I'd put the kettle on before"
"I might have won this conversation if you'd have stayed in the kitchen, I see those freaking eyes and you get what you want all the time" she laughed "She can stay if she wants"
"You might have won it had you waited until I sat back in front of you" he laughed
"We need to be able to argue Sam, they say it's healthy in a relationship"
"I guess it is and when the time comes I know we will but let's promise some things now shall we? We can call them unwritten laws or something" he said making her laugh
"Unwritten; you know what they say about if things are not written down" she waited for him to finish her sentence
"Yeah I know it never happened but, this is between us about us so we'll know if we break them and then we're not respecting the other person are we?"
"Okay let's hear it" she said sitting up
"Feel free to add to the list if you want though and, we must negotiate if we don't agree" he said looking into her eyes before carrying on "I want us to promise to never go to bed angry at each other"
"That's an easy one I want that too, so yes"
"Your turn"
"I don't know like I would hate it if we ever started lying to each other, no matter what, if you want to sleep with someone else just tell me or ask or something, I might be in the mood to watch or something I don't know yeah, just never lie"
"You are so random sometimes I love that about you and, yes I totally agree with that one so if you ever want to sleep out with anyone or anything ask my permission first, and for the record the answer is going to be no" he told her "Never curse at each other, we swear anyway but, I mean never call each other a swear word in anger"
"So Dork's alright then?"
"What you think I'm a dork?"
"Totally but your my dork and I love you and that's all that matters" she said grabbing hold of him
"If I'm your Dork your my Diva" he said looking up at her from his new position, his head in her lap "We're getting married tomorrow"
"I know I feel like the luckiest girl in the world"
"Rubbish I'm the luckiest man; note what I did there"
"What did you do?"
"I moved myself out of the boy zone pardon the pun" he said laughing obviously finding his joke more hilarious than she did
"I know I sort of said I wanted to sing on my own tomorrow and everything but I've kind of changed my mind will you sing with me tomorrow?" she asked
"For tomorrow you can have anything you want" he said reaching up to kiss her as the door knocked "It's not that time already is it?" he asked getting up to answer the door
"More or less"
"I knew you two wouldn't be ready lucky I paid no attention to your 7.30 call and came earlier otherwise your guests would be walking into the venue to no one" Kurt said "Snap it get dressed come on Diva"
"Okay" she said jumping up and running to her room "Can I have the shower first Sam?" she asked
"Go for it babe"
"I like what you've done with the place" Kurt shouted from the living room
"Thanks" she shouted back
When they'd decided they were definitely going to live there, she'd gone all out on the feminine touches around the place their favourite colours purple and teal subtly mixed to adorn the place throughout with black carpets and white walls to add to the mix except in the kitchen where they had placed black electricals and white walls with a specially mixed marble incorporating teal and purple mix and black tiling on the floor with splash backs to match.
Thirty minutes later they emerged from the bedrooms Mercy in her Maria Grachovogel Bispoke dress with a very low back hugging her figure at every angle and feather tailed from the calf to just below the knee in red "Mercy Mercy me" Kurt said when she came out of the room looking at him for a reaction "Girl Sam is a lucky man" he said laughing
Sam stood in his doorway stuck just watching his woman walk through the lounge towards Kurt "Put the brakes on that" he finally said walking over to a frozen Mercy "That first one belongs to me" he said hugging her tight and kissing her before holding her away to say "Wow" and they both laughed
She looked him up and down as he stood there professing she was wow while he was standing there in a Brioni Vanquish 11 bespoke Black suit with a red inner lining that matched her dress "Ohhh yourself Mr. Evans" she said kissing him again
"I can only say I feel so proud right now" Kurt said leading them out to the car
They got to the venue in good time as the guests started to arrive, five minutes after Bigga, Puck, Brittany, Santana, Rachel and Quinn who were all invited as friends from LA along with all Sam's family and friends they'd met in Texas. Mercy's friends and family from Richmond, that brought the numbers up to about 60 people in total. Kurt had mixed the seating up so that everyone had an opportunity to meet someone new.
"Okay Ladies and Gentlemen we all know why we're here it's the day before the wedding and as it's an unconventional wedding we're having an unconventional wedding dinner the night before. So along with everything else untraditional I'm doing my best man speech tonight we're all going to remember our favourite bits of this upside down wedding I'm sure" he said making everyone laugh or nod. When I used to ask him what he wanted in life he'd say he wanted to just be someone else that nobody knew and, try as I might, I could get nothing else" he said looking at Sam for a short while "So after hearing that story for like nearly 15 years on and off imagine my shock when Sam shows up at his family home with Mercy, I can't lie I was impressed at that, but then to find out that Mercy was my husband's best friend I instantly knew she was something special because I know my husband" he said looking at Mercy "and after watching them for only 10 minutes I knew that my best friend was whipped in fact he told me himself he was whipped. I was too, if I'm honest, Mercy is amazing and I know they'll have many happy years together, I love you both, to Mercy and Sam" he said holding his glass up for a toast "Kurt you're next" he said handing the mic over as everyone clapped
"Good evening everyone I'm Kurt and as Blaine said I've known Mercy all my life, Sam is a good guy he has to be I've threatened him" he said and everyone laughed "No really I did" Kurt said looking at Sam who was laughing and nodding at the same time. "Mercy's always been bossy and every why was always met with a because Grandma said so, family have always been important to Mercy they are who she is a strong black woman, intelligent, honest, loving, loyal, trustworthy, passionate, truthful and God fearing with a killer voice to match for one man to get all of that is truly a gift so Sam I hope you know how to look after gifts and if you don't Grandma will have the answer; if you know what I mean" Kurt said with a smile "I love you both all the very best in your new life together to Sam and Mercy" he said lifting his glass as everyone else did to cheer for them "Sam it's back to you" Kurt said giving him the mic
"Thank you Kurt and Blaine for those; were they kind words I don't know, Mercy would you say they were kind?" he asked looking at her "Mercy and I we ain't going to talk we are going to?" he asked the guests
"Sing" they shouted back at him
"Okay this is soft and easy for you all" he said as the music started "Mercy" he said calling her to go to him for the song "Join in if you know it folks" he said as everyone started swaying in their chairs to the beat and he started singing "So in Love"by Jill Scott ft. Anthony Hamilton soon everyone was up dancing and greeting to the music as they sang, the crowd joined in with the chorus, as the song ended Kurt brought everything back to order
"Dinner is served" they heard in the background getting everyone's attention
They ate their meal looking around the room just watching the two families getting to know each other "We did this babe" she said watching him look around the room "Who's that man there" Mercy asked pointing to a man with hair just starting to grey
"Uncle Dave I don't really know him that well he wasn't around much but, his daughter's pregnant and apparently he hates it, says the daddy's a no good waster or something I don't know how he knows that when Mom says he hasn't even met him" he said shaking his head
By dessert time everyone had more or less spoken to everyone and the party was in full swing, those that wanted to dance were on the dance floor at the far end of the room and those that wanted to watch stayed at the tables. The men were up the free bar and the women were catching up on life, Sam and Mercy were wrapped up in each other for most of the night
"Come on Mercy let's find something to sing" Babs said dragging her away from Sam giving no room for protest
"Okay" she said unsure this was what she wanted. as Babs dragged her away Sam smiling at the natural familiarity his friends wives had taken to Mercy, he knew she was love and he felt great that everyone else was feeling that too.
"We'll sing "Every Day Of The Week" by Jade shall we?" Hyacinth said as they all huddled together making the decision
"Sounds good to me" Santana said "Everyone just join in when you want" she finished as Jan took the song to the band
"I'll just do all the back bits then" Mercy said smiling
"Whatever you do will make us sound good baby girl" Madge said laughing as the music started, Mercy looked at Sam at one point and he was deep in conversation with the guys 'They're coming back with something' she thought and started moving harder.
"Oh you all know we're coming back on that right" Sam announced as everyone clapped their efforts "90s R&B here we come" he said
"Go for it Evans" Mercy shouted
"You're going to be one tomorrow" he shouted back as everyone clapped, the music started and the guys got to singing "Can't Let Her Go" by Boyz 2 Men all the guys sang at first and then Sam started the verse off, the impromptu sing off was declared a draw
End of the night and Mercy shared one of her album songs with a very drunk group of guests before they retired everyone got to formation dancing in some fashion hugging around and wishing everyone well until they saw them 9 hours later "And that was good night from us see you all in the morning" Sam announced
"See you all in the morning" she said blowing kisses around the room as the DJ played Party hard and everyone started dancing and jumping
They went home, did their night time rituals and fell into bed and asleep after saying goodnight wrapped up in each other's arms and happy
THE WEDDING DAY
"Good morning wife to be" he smiled when he saw her stir in their bed
"Watching me sleep that's romantic not, was I dribbling?" she asked "Good morning husband to be" laughing "It's today" she said jumping out of bed to sit on the side "What's all this?" she said looking down on the floor to see Rose petals all over it
"There's no point in me being here if I'm not making today special for you, we have our wedding breakfast and two more speeches before we can get ready for the actual event so let's jump to it I can't wait for you to be Mrs. Evans" he said kissing her before leaving the room to get dressed "Your hot drink is on the side" he turned to say as he left, they were dressed and in the car on their way to McCabees for their wedding breakfast with all the guests that wanted to make it
"Ladies and Gentlemen Sam and Mercedes are in the room" Puck shouted and every one clapped"
"About time son we're starving" Dan shouted from the top table
"Sorry we thought it was 7.30 prompt" Sam said laughing pulling a chair out for Mercy to sit in
"Okay can we get straight to eating coz I've saved myself" Grandma said making everyone laugh as Sam signalled for Kurt to get the food started, in the middle of breakfast Kurt interrupted again to get the speeches started
"So we'd like to hear from the Matron of Honor please" he said passing the mic to Jenna who came up with her hubby Kevin
"Hi Everyone hope you've all had enough to eat already" she said waving a large double sided A4 sheet of written paper around for everyone to see "I had it all written down but those who know me know I won't get through it I'm a crier so here goes Kevin will step in when I lose it and I will" she said and everyone started laughing with her
"She's not joking" Mercy turned to Sam to say
"There's this elite group of us call ourselves a choir, all through school we did well we did very well actually and although we had power houses in the group our main weapon with Mercy, her voice just does it every time. She was the quiet one, never got into it with anyone just always had the right information or advise at the right time to get us out of our bind. She's a true friend and, I don't think anyone who meets her for the first time can say any different to those of us that have known her all our lives" Jenna said looking at Mercy just as a tear surfaced and Mercy mouthed a thank you "I know I speak for everyone when I say this but Mercy I love you, you deserve this and you look so happy and thank you Sam for finding her and bringing her this happiness all the very best to you both" she said holding up her orange juice for cheers
"So you know in glee club tradition we're going to sing our tribute yeah" Kevin said coming forward "So this is from us guys" he said as her friends came forward and started singing "Every Time I Close My Eyes" By Baby Face as Sam wrapped Mercy in his arms and closed his eyes listening to the beautiful harmonies
"Beautiful" he said getting up to clap Mercy's friends performance "We need to get that sound on vinyl" he said to Mercy
"And that's how we do it in Richmond" Mercy said blowing kisses to her friends as they moved from the centre of the room
"The Chief Bridesmaid please" Kurt requested
"Morning everyone I suppose it's best to get this all out before the wedding rather than leaving it till after when everyone might choke on their food" Santana said walking to the centre of the room. Sam went a bit green but Mercy held onto him and he knew she had his back which settled him a bit but he was still waiting for the shit to hit because Mercy had told him it was going to
"We've known Amber for about 3 months..." that was all he heard as he couldn't imagine what his family, friends, Mercy's family were thinking about him as Santana stood there telling them all about his nasty self "... so here's to you two hope you have a long life together, when you tie the knot later cheers"
"We have a song" Rachel said as Bigga, Puck and the others joined them
"So here goes from both of you to both of you from us" Brittany said as the music started and Puck started them off singing "That's my Dream" By Jamie Fox & Beyoncé they all took lines of the song and finished the last line together.
"Yes" Sam said with a fist "that said it all for me" he said sitting back down to look into Mercy's eyes "I love you babe" he said kissing her till breath was needed
"I love you more babe"
"Folks that brings the morning to a close and gives us four hours to get prettied up Sam, Mercy I know you don't want traditional but Sam you are not seeing the bride before she walks down the aisle and that's not tradition it's surprise" Kurt said almost dragging Mercy out of the chair and out of the venue