Chapter 5: Always by Yinx1
They had lost. Coming in twelfth in the competition was even more heart breaking. Back in the room they all sat quietly.
"All right if none of you are going to say it then I will," Santana said hotly, "Hobbit you and Man Boobs cost us the competition."
"I'm very sorry about what happened, everyone," Finn said quietly.
"Sorry. SORRY! Oh no when you went out of protocol you crossed the line." Santana continued towards Rachel, "And you Shire Person, we didn't get Sunshine because of you and now we lost Nationals because of you"!
The tension was very thick in the room. "Look, Santana, we placed twelfth, but we got farther than last year." Finn said.
"Twelfth, TWENLTH! Ohh no it is on like Lima Heights Adjacent." The Latina took off her earrings and started across the room toward Rachel calling her out in Spanish. Quinn, Mike, and Sam held her back though they were having much trouble.
This is too much drama for a Diva to take Mercedes thought to herself, and she sneaked out the door. She caught the elevator and left the hotel. She started to walk reaching her destination she looked around and spotted the subway. Her mother had told her about a jazzy swing club in Harlem, and Mercedes would be damn if she didn't visit it.
The hotel room was silent once more. Santana glowering in the corner announce that she was going to bed. The girls began to file out of the room. That was when Sam realized that Mercedes was missing.
"Hey where is Mercedes"? He asked.
The group looked around the room then at Kurt.
"For once I don't know where she is," Kurt said with a worried expression on his face. "I'll call her". He dug in his bag and found his phone a dial her number. They waited in silence. "She's not picking up," he said and began texting.
"We should go looking for her" Quinn said. They agreed to change out of their clothes a meet in the lobby in ten.
Sam texted her, but she didn't answer him either. Where was she…he sent up a slight prayer and hoped that God would keep her safe because if she was safe he would need the strength of God to hold him back from clobbering her for doing this to him.
Mercedes felt her phone buzz as she was dancing on the floor with one of the professional dancers. Once the song ended she thanked him for the dance and walked off the floor looking at her phone. She had twelve miss calls and twenty text messages five of them from Sam ordering her to answer. She mass text them all: "I'm fine guys…in Harlem…at the Dancing Kat club. I'll be back soon." No sooner did she close her phone did she get another text message from Kurt and Sam.
Kurt: "We are coming to get you."
Sam: "I'm coming to get you."
She rolled her eyes and looked at the time on her phone, she had only been gone a couple of hours. They need to ease up a bit and stop keeping tabs on her like she was a child. She was going to enjoy her last night in New York and be damned if anyone would take it away.
Thirty minutes, later Kurt led the throng of the glee club in to the club. Mercedes was on the dance saw them and rushed over.
"Hey guys" she smiled out of breath.
"Don't you dare 'hey guys' us Mercedes Jones we were worried sick. You didn't even say where the hell you were going," Kurt said angrily tears in his eyes.
"I was coming back there was no need to send the mob after me," she replied hugging Kurt, looking at the rest of them.
"You better be glad we didn't tell Mr. Schue," Rachel said annoyed.
"Okay, okay I'm sorry. Since you are all here we might as well have a good time right"? She asked hopefully… "Isn't this place cool"?
"Fine" Santana said leading the way into the club "I might as well get my dance on." Everyone filed passed Mercedes and seemed to begin to enjoy their time.
Mercedes felt a strong hand grab her wrist. She looked up to see Sam.
"That stunt you just pulled Mercedes Jones isn't funny not funny at all." Sam said clinching his teeth looking down at her.
"It was only a few hours, Sam, and honestly I needed a break from the room it was too much drama. I'm sorry I didn't say something," she replied.
"Come with me," he said pulling her into dark lounge area. He pick and area away from all the other glee kids. Once alone he pulled her into a tight hug. "Please don't do that ever again," he whispered in her ear.
"Why, were you worried," she asked sarcastically.
"Of course Mercedes," he whispered drawing back and looking at her. "I would have come with you".
"I know you would have, but I don't want anyone to know about this…about us," she said laying her head on his chest. "You know our friends, Sam once they got wind of us it would probably be the end of this and I don't want that to happen".
Sam nodded. "So you want to keep us a secret? Does this mean that we are official"? He asked quietly.
Mercedes looked up at him and smiled, "Only if you want too. I'm game to see wherever this goes"
Sam bent down and met her lips with his. The butterflies in his stomach were no match for the fireworks in his mind and the love in his heart. He broke the kiss reluctantly "As your boyfriend I believe this 'game' will last longer than you think," he breathed.
"And as your girlfriend, I'm hoping you are right," she said getting up on her tiptoes and pecked his lips.
Sam smiled at her. "I am right," he gave her an Eskimo kiss.
"We should get back," she said pulling out of his warm embrace.
Sam pulled her back and kissed her so deeply that it left both of them dizzy. "One for the road," he smiled letting her go out of the lounge first.
He watched her go out "'Secret Lovers"' he mumbled to himself. Walking out the room a few minutes later he saw Mercedes a few feet away talking to Santana and Brittany. She smiled and gave him a friendly wave. He nodded her way and started toward the bar ordering himself a coke. Puck and Lauren came up and started talking about who cool the place was. Sam made small talk back all the while keeping an eye on his girlfriend dancing with Santana, Brittany, and Rachel.
Mercedes stood linked arms with Kurt both looking up at the Congratulations 12th place.
"I wished we would have won," Mercedes said
"Me too, but there is always next year, plus I'm thinking about getting Blaine to come to McKinley," Kurt said.
"That's great he would the best edition to glee club, what are you doing this summer"? She asked as the turned to walk to class.
"Well, I'm thinking on composing a musical," he said sitting in the desk in front her.
"I think that's awesome, Kurt," she said cheerily.
"What's awesome, Kurt," Sam said sitting behind Mercedes. He lend closer hoping it would seem that he was really interesting in what Kurt was saying but just to be near to his girlfriend without notice.
"The musical I'm going to write this summer," Kurt said as the class started and he turned to face the front.
"Trying out a new perfume, Cede" he whispered in her ear.
"You're a guy, you're not supposed to notice these kinds of things, Sam" she said.
"I will always notice those things about you, Mercedes," Sam whispered back smiling.