Mercedes's POV
Rachel, Kurt, Quinn, Blaine, and Brittany finally after spending another two days decided that they were going home. I thought they were going to stay another night but since Sam had everything under control they felt safe knowing I was staying with him. Once they left Sam said we were going for a drive, what a shocking surprise to me when we pulled up to our destination of which I wasn't too thrilled about.
"The police station?! Why are we here?" I asked he turned off the engine.
"We're going inside to press charges."
"No, Sam."
"What you mean no?"
"Exactly, what I mean. No."
"Why?"
"I just don't, Sam. You didn't even ask me. You just said we're going for a ride and you take me here! I'm not going in there. You can't make me."
We sat in the parking lot for a good 20 minutes until Sam to head back home. After we returned back from the police station Sam didn't talk to me for a good two hours. Reason why? I didn't want to talk to the police about what was going on and he didn't even ask me if I wanted to press charges he took it upon himself to do that. Since he had put me somewhat on mute I decided I would cook dinner. I looked up and there was Sam standing in on the side of the island.
"It smells good in here. Made enough for me?" He asked as I ignored him. "Not talking to me. I deserve it. I'm sorry for earlier. I should have asked you first if you wanted to go to the police station. I was overstepping my boundaries when I didn't tell you where we were going."
"You did."
"I just want to make sure you'd be safe."
"I'll be safe, Sam. You don't have to worry about me."
"I do have to worry about you. Oh, here is your new phone. You want it or am I still overstepping my boundaries by getting you this?" He set the phone on the counter.
"No. Not with the phone. Thank you."
"No problem."
He sat down at the island and watched me finish cooking dinner. I made him a plate and set it in front of him.
"I could have made my own plate. You didn't have to."
"I wanted to." I made my plate and sat beside him.
We ate in silence with the clinking of the cutlery being the only sound coming from us after we were done I was going to wash the dishes but Sam, said he'd handle it that I should go upstairs and take my pills of which I'm taking now without Sam watching me. I got in bed and hit play and the Facts of Life started playing.
Sam's POV
I washed the dishes and put away the leftovers. I headed upstairs to my bedroom and she was playing with the remote. I joined her in bed.
"You take your pills?"
"Yes, Sam."
"Okay." I looked over at her and her thoughts were elsewhere she wasn't paying any attention to the show. "You over there quiet. You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm just thinking about something."
"You want to talk about it?"
"I don't want to talk about it right now."
"Okay. We don't have to talk about it. We can just sit here and watch the lesbian show."
"I'd wish you stop calling it that. It's called The Facts of Life."
"Okay. Facts of Life. Happy? I said it right."
"Yeah." She laid her head on my chest. A few hours later I heard her lightly snoring. It was round eleven o'clock and I thought about Jacob. I programmed his number in my phone when I left the store. I reached over and found his name and hit call. First ring he picked up.
"Is it late to be calling you at this hour?"
"No, I'm up all night. What's up?"
"Can you come over now and set up that for me?"
"Sure. What's your address?" He asked as I told him.
"Okay, I'll be there in 20 minutes."
"Great just when you get here. Don't ring the doorbell just call me." I ended the call and watched Mercedes sleep. I can watch her sleep all the time. I was interrupted from my thoughts when my phone started buzzing.
"Hello. Hey. You're here. Okay. I'll be down." I slipped out of bed and went downstairs to let Jacob in. "What's up man? You said 20 minutes. You like 15 minutes late." I closed the door and led him to my office.
"Traffic, who knew everyone we'd be out at night?"
"It's good. Let me turn this on for you." I turned on the computer and waited for it to load I put in my password then I gave him my seat.
"Got the phones?"
"Right here." I placed both phones on the desk.
"You want the 12 month one right."
"How much is that?"
"$100 and you can have automated yearly subscription. Want that?"
"Yeah"
"Okay. This is all you get right here. So here is how it works. Every time she takes a photo, a text it will come to your computer. Any computer you don't even have to be at your main one. Also this is GPS you can see where she's at. Real Time, Location Logs, and SMS Command. Alright. You can even see what YouTube video she watches. Gmail. Kik. You get my point."
"I understand."
"Not to mention her planner for the week, month and year. Contacts Alert you can select the contacts you want to know she's texting even you can have phrases or keywords put in there to alert you.
"So, what if she deletes a picture? Will it delete from here too?"
"That's a good question. Probably not but to be on the safe side you can download a picture and it just saves to your picture gallery."
"Great."
Jacob set up everything and we messed around with a few of the settings and tweaked it to what I liked. "I want to thank you again. I know I've been thanking you a lot since you came and did this but this is really going to keep me sane."
"You're good man. She's a lucky lady to have a friend like you. Well, I got to get back to the house. I'm sleepy."
"Thanks Jacob. Be safe driving back."
"I will!" He yelled as he got in his car drove off. I closed the door and returned back to my room. Mercedes was still sleep so I slipped back in bed and dosed off.
Mercedes POV
I looked over at the clock and it was a little after 4 in the morning. Sam was sleep so this would be the perfect time for me to slip out without him knowing I was leaving. I slipped out of bed and changed my clothes went into the bathroom and took a quick shower changed my clothes. I peeked out of cracked open the bathroom door to make sure he was still knocked out and he was. I walked gingerly over to my shoes and picked them up and went to the kitchen. I found a pen and some paper and sat at the table and began writing my note.
"So you're just going to sneak out on me?" I looked up at him.
"I thought you were still sleep."
"When I reached out for you, you weren't there so I came looking for you. So you just going to up and leave early in the morning and not leave me a note or nothing."
"That's what I was doing but you're here." I crumbled up the paper and tossed it in the trash.
"Sam. I'm going back." I told him biting my lip and avoiding looking him in the eyes.
"Why?"
"Sam, it's a lot you don't understand it's a lot I haven't told you but I can't stay here another night with you. I have to go back. Thank you for everything that you done but I gotta go."
"Mercedes stay I can't let you go back there."
"Sam. I have to go." I kissed him on the cheek and left without looking back at him.
Sam's POV
It's been 8 hours since Mercedes left I dosed off but I was awakened by someone yelling my name and hitting me.
"Sam, wake up. Sam. Sam!" I opened my eyes and there was Sarah. I closed them again shaking my head wishing that this was a dream. I opened them again to see this was reality.
"How'd you get up in here?" She held up the keys and jangled them in my face.
"Oh, let me see them." She tossed them to me and I took her key to my house off the key ring and tossed them back. "Okay, why are you here?"
"To get my stuff where is it?"
"Oh, by the dumpster like I said it would be." I got up and walked into the kitchen and she followed me.
"Why would you do that? It rained over the last couple of days my stuff is probably all wet because of you!"
"That's not my fault. I can't tell Mother Nature don't rain today because you didn't get your stuff besides it's in bins so I highly doubt your stuff is wet. Be thankful they were just lying around I put them to get use." I flashed her quick smile and went back to my annoyed look.
"She's still here?" She asked as I down two pills.
"No. I was busy."
"I don't call being busy being knocked out on the couch."
"Can you get your stuff and leave?"
"Can you help put them in my car? I mean you did kick me out."
"It will be my pleasure if this will get you up out of my sight faster." Once outside I had to wait until she backed her car up to the dumpster which she was lucky because today was trash day and her stuff would have been garbage. "Well that's the last of it. You have a good one." My phone rang and I didn't even look at the caller ID I just knew it was Kurt. "What Kurt?"
"Is that how you answer the phone when a friend is calling to check up on Mercedes? Where is my girl?"
"She left."
"What? You didn't stop her! Sam, how could you?! You should have made her stay!"
"Kurt..."
"...I'm shocked he's going to hit her again. She left? I know..."
"Kurt..." He's still talking. "KURT!" Finally he stopped talking.
"Geez you don't have to yell."
"I wanted her to stay but she went back. She's a grown woman with a mind of her own. I couldn't have made her stay if I beg and pleaded her to not go back. When did she leave? Um...Like 4 this morning."
"What now?"
"I don't know but I'll keep you to date if she calls me or comes back."
"Better." After I hung up the phone and looked out the window seeing Sarah finally pulling off. It dawned on me that I need to change the locks. So I called my brother.
"Bro, what's going on?"
"A lot I need you to do something for me."
"What is it?"
"Change the locks to my house."
"Again? Sam, you kicked another girl out. How many this make this year?"
"5 I think. I lost count." I answered standing in front of my temporary bed the couch.
"Make this the last one okay and stop giving them keys."
"I will. I will. So can you come by tomorrow and make the changes."
"Yeah, I'll be there."
"Thanks I'll see you then."
I flopped back onto the couch and went to sleep. I was awaken by a voice and a figure coming out of my kitchen with a beverage in hand flopping down on the couch hitting me. "Sam. Bro get up."
"I thought you were supposed to come tomorrow."
"It is tomorrow."
"Damn...I was knocked out good." I set up and looked over at him and he was eating some pizza too. "You were supposed to be changing the locks not helping yourself to a meal."
"Hey, I'm hungry. I'll get around to it. Sarah was her name right? What she do?"
"Shit I didn't like and she talked bad about Mercedes."
"Well you and Mercedes aren't together no more. Soo..." I cut him a look. "Well, she can say what she wants right?"
"Yeah, in her house but you can't bad mouth Mercedes in my house. That's a rule. Don't talk bad about my girl."
"Sam, she's not your girl. You're still waiting for Mercedes? She has a guy."
"And he beats her."
"How you know? The last time you saw her was what last year?"
"A few days ago she was at my door, came in with sunglasses on and a scarf. 2 black eyes and busted lip. I took her to the hospital she broken ribs and a concussion too."
"So, that's why her show got canceled."
"Yup. I canceled it."
"Why is she staying? You let her go back?! Why?"
"You know what. You sound like Kurt right now. He asked me the same. She's a grown woman and she made her decision. I couldn't hold her back."
"Aren't you upset? Doesn't it hurt you that she's in that place with him?"
"It does but I'm watching out for her."
"How are you watching out for her Sam? You're here and she's over there."
"Come with me." We went to my office I moved the mouse and logged into the website.
"What's that?"
"This is all of Mercedes info." I told him as he looked at me and then back at the screen. He clicked on one of the features and whatever she was doing popped up.
"How you get this?"
"It's a spy app. I got it put on yesterday. Everything she does. I know and see this will keep me somewhat sane knowing that I can follow her every move." He clicked around to some other features.
"This is GPS?!"
"Yeah."
"Sam, a picture just popped up of a little kid."
"Mercedes don't have any kids not to my knowledge anyway." I laid back on the couch and closed my eyes.
"Woaw...have you checked her IG."
"No. Why? I haven't had time to play around with it."
"She has a kid!"
"What?" Quickly I jumped off the couch and ran over to the monitor pushing Stevie out the way.
"Damn bro you could of just said move." He got up and I sat down scrolling through her page. "He looks to be around 4 or 5."
"That's why she went back. Dammit."
Mercedes POV
After I left Sam's I didn't go directly home. I went to the studio and crashed there for a while and finally I decided that I would head home. I turned onto my block and at the end of the street is my home and I pulled and Tank's car wasn't there I was happy about that but his mother car was there. I put on my glasses on and sat in the car and looked at the house until I got the urge to open the door and walk up and let myself in.
"No, I want apple juice." I heard his little voice say.
"No apple juice water. Don't want you jumping off the walls."
"Ughh..."
"Hey."
"Mommy!" TJ yelled as he jumped off the stool and ran over to me. I picked him up and hugged him tightly.
"Oohhh I've missed you." I planted multiple kisses on him. "You finally came back after 4 day damn days of being away. You could have called and checked up on your son. You know Tank's been trying to reach you. Mercedes you got to stop leaving. What's your problem?!" Tank's mother asked.
"TJ, baby go upstairs to your room and close your door okay. Play some music on your little keyboard."
"Okay. Use my headphones?"
"Yes, use your headphones." I waited until I heard the closing of TJ's door before I went off on his mother.
"First off don't you ever yell at me in front of my son, two your son is the reason I keep leaving he's abusing me. Don't you ever pay attention to me? I've been wearing sunglasses for a while now. This isn't an accessory this is a cover-up. You know he broke two ribs, I had black eyes not one but two, and a concussion. I don't even know why I even shared that with you because you're going to run and tell him."
"Well you are causing him to do it!"
"Huh? How do I cause him to do this shit to me?! You don't know your son as well as you think you know him."
"Well maybe if you did what you are supposed to he wouldn't hit you."
"If he hits me again, I'm taking TJ and I'm leaving." I told her as the front door opened and in walks Tank with bags of groceries.
"Baby, you're home! Where have you been? I missed you." A front for his mother as he pulled me into a tight hug and kissing me like there wasn't no tomorrow.
"Yeah, I missed you too." I said just an automated response. He pulled back and smiled. "Ooh, I do love you. Hey Ma. When you get here?" He gave her a hug.
"A couple of hours ago TJ wanted to come home. So here we are."
"Where's TJ?"
"He's in his room." I said unloading the groceries.
"Son I got a question for you. Are you hitting Mercedes?" She would ask him knowing he's going to deny it.
"No. Why would you ask me that? I love her." He walked over to me kissed me. "I'd never hurt her." He leaned down and whispered in my ear. "You're going to get it." He kissed me again. "So mom, you're staying for dinner?"
"Yeah, I thought I'd make your favorite. Also I'm going to be stay for a while just want to make sure my grandson is taken care of with her slipping out don't know what she's up to." They went into kitchen and I went upstairs to see what TJ was doing. I got to his room and he was asleep on the floor surrounded by his toys.
Tank's POV
"No, Ma. I'm not hitting her. She keeps making that shit up."
"How long has she been slipping out and disappearing?"
"This has been going on for like 6 to 8 months. I mean she was doing it early in our relationship before we had TJ but she stopped once we had TJ and then it just started again.
"Think she's doing drugs?"
"Nah. She's an artist besides she doesn't do drugs."
"That's what she's telling you besides artist do drugs. Whitney Houston."
"Yeah, but Mercedes isn't like that. Something else is getting to her. I'll get to the bottom of it."
"Please do. I worry about my grandson and you." I know why she's leaving for damn sure I'm not going to tell my mom besides she believes me anyway. Leave it to my son wanting to come home he's saving his mother right now from another beat down but I'm still going to get her whenever my mother leaves.