Have a guy who holds on as long as possible when giving hugs.
Rachel is having the day from hell and she knows without Mercedes help she'd have probably curled up in a ball and cried by now.
Even with the Glee club all being friends now and Santana's warnings to the footballers about the slushies, they still happen from time to time and Rachel just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time that morning and she's dripping with blue corn syrup.
The rest of the group have already headed towards lessons and Rachel had to run back to grab a book she'd forgotten to pick up. She grabs her change of clothes and heads for the girls bathroom and that's where Mercedes starts to become her lifeline for the day.
In her first lesson with Mercedes the two get lunch detention for being late and then in her second class she gets her last piece of homework back with a D on it. Break time she doesn't have time to find any of her friends because Mr Schue wants to speak to her and then she gets paired with Azimio for a project in her lesson before lunch.
Mercedes and Rachel are sat alone in a classroom half way through lunch, the teacher leaving them and it'd be so easy to escape, if the teacher hadn't locked the door.
"This is ridiculous" Rachel moans eyeing the lunch she's thrown in the bin because her drink had leaked over it in her locker. "I'm so hungry too, this has to be illegal"
Mercedes nods, hugging her friend tightly before looking at her lunch. "I wish I had something vegan you could have"
Rachel shakes her head, picking up her phone as Santana begins to phone her.
"Hey San"
"Where the hell are you and Aretha, Mike's moping because he hasn't seen you since this morning"
Rachel smiles, because she's missing him too. "I'm having the day from hell"
"Wait, let me put you on speaker" There's a small shuffle and Rachel puts her own phone onto speaker too so that Mercedes can hear too. "Okay, everyone can hear you, explain"
"Well Karofsky slushied me this morning when I headed back to my locker, so I had to go clean up, Mercedes helped me and then we got detention. Second lesson I got a D, a D and then Mr Schue wanted to speak to me, I got paired with Azimio in Science and to top things off, my drink leaked all over my lunch and whoever is supposed to be running this detention has gone for lunch and locked us in here so now I have nothing to eat"
"Surely she can't do that" She hears Tina argue.
"What the fuck, I'm going to kill Karofsky" Sam.
"Where are you, Mike and I are going to break you out" Noah.
"Room 45" Mercedes answered easily. "Hurry the hell up too, I'm busting for the loo"
Rachel laughs as she hears the two of them run off and Brittany calling after them to wait up. Not five minutes later, the door swings open to reveal Puck knealt down a grin on his face. Mercedes pushes past them, rushing for the nearest toilet and Brittany follows her.
"Now I'm going to go kill Karofsky" Puck smiles standing up and heading out of the building.
Rachel smiles as Mike makes his way to her, pulling her up from the seat. "I'm sorry, I should have text you or something"
"It's fine, sorry you've had such a sucky day" He replies, pulling her into his arms and hugging her tightly. She smiles, wrapping her own arms around him, head resting against his shoulder.
They stand there for a good 5 minutes in complete silence just hugging and Rachel's fine with it because she loves his hugs. He always hangs on for as long as he can and it makes her smile. It's her stomach that pulls them apart.
"We should get food in you"
She nods in agreement and finds herself in love with Quinn and Artie when they produce some vegan take out they've just rushed to get for her.