In the Words of... 11/18
Title: In the Words of
Author: laotse4
Rating: pg-13
Chapter 10
“You know that was kind of great.” Sam said as he and Rachel was sitting at the kitchen table in his house, his mother was away with his younger siblings, his brother had a soccer practice and his sister was with them.
“You do know that that song wasn’t really about friendship right?” Rachel asked as she tried to find some notes that she needed. “I still don’t understand why Mr. Schue didn’t say anything about it.”
“So maybe we should stop talking about that and you could maybe help me to figure out how to pass this math test that I have tomorrow.” Sam said and he was soon next to her, almost hovering over Rachel.
“I can help you but if you have problem with these kinds of things then maybe you should ask me a bit earlier.” Rachel said as she found her notes to the math class that they had together. “I will help you as long as you ask me.”
“So I’m asking you now.” Sam said as he went to the fridge to grab some water for them. “So will you please help me?”
“of course I will help you Samuel.” Rachel said and she turned around and she looked at him before she gave him a big smile.
The two of them were sitting close and Sam was almost leaning over Rachel as his mother and siblings got home, he hadn’t really noticed the time that had passed and he guessed that the same went for Rachel.
“Oh, hello Rachel, I didn’t know that you were here.” Rachel and Sam looked up and they saw that his mother had gotten home.
“Hello, Mrs. Evans.” Rachel said as she smiled at the woman, she could hear someone running up the stairs, and as Rachel looked next to the woman she saw a young girl, that was about seven years old or so, that was holding on to Mrs. Evans leg. Rachel got up from the chair as Sam was sitting down and trying to figure out the math problem.
“Hello.” Rachel said as she was kneeling next to the girl. “What’s your name?” The girl looked up at her mother almost asking her if it was okay for her to talk to the brunette, Mrs. Evans just nodded.
“My name is Grace.” The girl said and she looked at Rachel. “And what is your name?”
“My name is Rachel and I go to school with your brother.” Rachel said and smiled at the girl, she was kind of cute. “And I think that I saw you at the Regionals competition.” Grace just looked confused she had no idea what Rachel was talking about.
“The singing competition.” Mrs. Evans explained to her daughter. “Rachel was the girl that had the pretty singing voice.” Grace’s eyes got bigger as she realized who Rachel was, and then the younger girl’s cheeks started to turn red. “So why are you here Rachel, not that I mind but I think that maybe you should be starting to head home.”
“Oh, I was just helping Samuel with some math.” Rachel said, and Sam turned around when he heard his full name, there was just one person that called him that besides his grams, and he knew that she wasn’t here.
“Rach, what have I said about that.” Sam said and that was when he realized that his mother and sister also were in the room. “Oh, hi.”
“Sam, do you think that you might be able to give Rachel a ride home before dinner.” Mrs. Evans asked as she looked at her oldest son.
“Sure, I think that we were done here.” Sam said and Rachel nodded. As the two of them got Rachel’s things together and left the kitchen, Mrs. Evans turned to Grace before she said to the younger girl.
“Your brother really likes her, but he doesn’t even know it.”
“She is pretty.” Grace said and smiled, one of her two front teeth were missing.
“You should tell your brother that when he gets back, and you will see how red he can be.” Mrs. Evans said, and she laughed to herself.
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“Your sister is so cute.” Rachel said as she walked with Sam the next day, they were on their way to the Glee meeting.
“She can be cute sometimes at least she isn’t as bratty as Cody.” Sam said as he opened the door for her.
“Cody?” Rachel asked, she had a feeling that it was his brother but she wasn’t sure, she hadn’t really met the younger of the two Evans boys.
“My brother.” Sam said as the two of them sat down.
“Is there anyone that has a song for us today?” Mr. Schue asked as he looked at the Glee club members, that was sitting in front of him, no one was really listening to him, they were all talking among themselves and from what Rachel could tell most of them was still trying to figure out what song they were going to sing. “No one has a song for us, really?” Mr. Schuester looked at Rachel, “Rachel?”
“I do have a song in mind but I would like to hear something from some of the others before I decide on if I should sing even if I do believe that there is nothing that should be in the way of a performance.” Rachel said and she clasped her hands together and placed them in her lap, she could hear Sam snickering where he was sitting beside her
Most of the students that was a part of the Glee group had zoned out when Rachel had started her rant, and it almost looked like Mr. Schuester hadn’t been listening to what it was that she was saying.
“I’m sorry, I have to leave.” Mr. Schuester said as he looked at the door, where an angry Sue Sylvester was standing and pointing at him. “I think that we are done for today, I want to have at least a couple of you ready to sing tomorrow.”
“Rach, can you help me with some of my homework?” Sam asked as he walked the short brunette to her car.
“I’m sorry I can’t help you right now, maybe later I have ballet today maybe after that.” Rachel said as she opened the door to her car and she placed the bag in the passenger seat.
“Sure.” Sam said and he ran his finger through his hair as he tried to get it away from his eyes. He was somewhat disappointed in this, he had been hanging out a lot with Rachel but this would give him an opportunity to hang out with some of the boys, that meaning Puck and maybe Artie and Mike, he was avoiding Finn, it was something about that tall boy that was off.
“Puckerman.” Sam yelled after the football player as he was on his way to his truck, Puck turned around as he heard his name being called.
“Evans.” Puck said as he stopped so that Sam would have a chance to catch up with him. “You are not hanging with your girl today.”
“She is not my girl, as you put it.” Sam said as he was trying to walk and talk at the same time. “She is my friend and besides that she is busy.”
“You do know that you are whipped and you don’t even get to make out with her.” Puck said and smirked at the blonde boy. “And what do you want?”
“You do know that you are talking about Rachel, and she is supposed to be your friend?” Sam asked as he looked over at Puck, who had thrown his bag at the back of his truck.
“yep and she knows how I talk…” Puck said and almost jumped in the car and Sam did the same. “…and she accepts it. What do you want?”
“We should do a duet for that Glee thing tomorrow.” Sam said.
“I ain’t singing a duet with a dude.” Puck said and shook his head. “If you can get more of the guys then maybe.”
“But we agreed that we should do an iconic song because of the girls doing Spice Girls.” Sam said, he was sure that Puck had agreed to do that with him.
“That was no iconic song from them.” Puck said as he was driving the truck. “There are so many other and better Spice Girls songs out there.” Sam just looked at him, waiting for an explanation to why Noah Puckerman would know about that. “Dude, everyone that knows something about music knows the classic Spice Girls songs, even my mum knows them.”
“If you say so.” Sam said and raised his hands showing that he was backing off. “So are we doing the song or not?”
“We aren’t doing a duet.” Puck said as he stopped the car. “But if you can find a song by a Jewish artist then maybe.”
“Actually I was kind of thinking something in the lines of Beatles.” Sam said as he looked at Puck, and Sam knew that he had said something that might have gotten Puck to agree with him.
“They are kind of cool.” Puck said as they were sitting in the living room playing a videogame. “Do you think that we can get a hold of those kinds of guitars.”
“oooo.” Sam said as he looked at the screen and was pressing a few buttons. “They were kind of cool.”
“I know but there is one thing I won’t do and that is change my hair style, you can have that Bieber cut.” Puck said, Sam glared at his friend; he hated the fact that everyone called him out on his hair cut, it wasn’t his fault that that Bieber kid was copying Sam.
“So we are doing that tomorrow.”
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“There was a bird that told me that you two are up to something.” Santana said as she passed Sam and Puck as the two of them were on their way to Glee.
“You have a talking bird?” Brittany asked, she was after all with Santana, the Latina looked at her friend smiling. “Is it a parrot, I have always wanted a talking bird.”
“No, B, I don’t have a parrot.” Santana said as they two of them were leaving Puck and Sam behind, and the two boys were just looking at each other, shaking their heads.
“So what did Santana want?” Rachel asked as she was next to the two boys that just happened to be her best friends.
“I don’t know.” Sam said, he had yet to figure out what Santana had wanted.
“She heard something about someone doing a song today.” Puck said, he did understand Santana a bit better than the other two.
“Ooo, you two are doing something today?” Rachel asked, as the three of them walked inside the choir room together.
“There might be a chance that will happen.” Puck said and sat down on the back row as Rachel took her normal seat in the front, and Sam was next to her.
“We are doing a song.” Sam said as he gave Rachel a small smile. “It’s going to be great.”
“I don’t think it will be better then what I have planned for my solo for next week.” Rachel said and she patted him on his thigh. “But it might be better then what we did yesterday.” Rachel started to laugh when she heard Sam humming the chorus to Beatles yesterday.
“Mr. Schue.” Puck said as soon as the teacher walked in, “me and Sam have something that we have worked on, and it will kick ass.”
“That is great so why don’t the two of you go up and start the day of with your song.”
“Sure.” Puck said and almost jumped down and grabbed a couple of guitars and handed one of them to Sam and the two of them stood in front of the group and the opening accords to one of the Beatles songs that they had looked through and decided on started. The band was helping out with a bit of drums and Brad too with piano.
“There are places I’ll remember.” Sam sang and looked over at Rachel as he continued to play and sing. “All my life though some have changed. Some forever not for the better.”
Both Sam and Puck continued on playing, and Sam was singing. “Some have gone and some remain. All these places have their moments. With lovers and friends I still can recall.” Sam looked from Quinn to Finn and lastly at Rachel. “Some are dead and some are living. In my life I’ve loved them all.”
Puck was the next one to singing, and he was sure that this was a great way to get back at some of them and let them know what he was thinking of them, and Beatles was a great group. “But of all these friends and lovers. There is no one compares with you.” As he sang the last line he looked at Rachel, and so was Sam even if he wasn’t singing. “And these memories lose their meaning. When I think of love as something new. Though I know I’ll never lose affection” And now Puck was sitting next to Rachel and Sam was standing alone in front of the group.
“Rach, help us out here with some of the lyrics, Rachel was just smiling at them and she shook her head.
“You have to do this alone.” She said and Puck got up from the seat and walked so that he as standing next to Sam as the mohawked boy continued to sing.
“For people and things that went before. I know I’ll often stop and think about them. In my life I love you more.” Puck was looking at Rachel, and the brunette looked down and she shook her head, she could feel the blood starting to flow up her neck and reach her cheeks.
“Piano solo.” Sam said and pointed at Brad, who started to play a small solo. “please Rach, you can help us with this last part.” Sam was almost pouting and Rachel continued to shook her head in a negative way but Sam wouldn’t give up, he almost dragged her so that she was with the two boys as they started the last part of the song.
“Though I know I’ll never lose affection. For people and things that went before.” The three of them sang, it sounded pretty good and Rachel couldn’t help but to smile at her friends. “I know I’ll often stop and think about them.”
“In my life I love you more.” Puck sang as he held on to Rachel’s both hands almost kneeing in front of her, she was smiling and in the corner of her eye she could see the reaction from some of the Glee club members and she couldn’t help but to smile.
Sam walked up to where Puck and Rachel was and he shoved Puck away and he took the mohawked football player’s place before he sang. “In my life I love you more.”
Rachel could see how the minds of her teammates were turning, and she knew that there was going to be a few questions that she would have to answer as soon as the meeting was over, but she had to agree, Puck and Sam’s performance had been pretty great, and they played of each other really well.
“That was great you guys.” Mr. Schuester said as the performance was over. “And you did find a great song about friendship over the years and how things can change. So is there anyone else that have something that they want to say?”
“You should really think about who you are going after.” Quinn said as she looked at Rachel. “And once again you are picking up my left overs.”
“I’m doing what?” Rachel asked as she heard Quinn, she didn’t go after Quinn’s exes, there were more like they wanted her. “I don’t have a boyfriend and I am not dating anyone.” There was a snicker in the room and it was from a few of the girls and also a couple of the guys.
“You have Sam and Puck more or less professing their love for you, and they are doing it together.” Mercedes said, she had texted with Kurt during this whole performance as soon as she had realized what it was that was going on.
“You can tell your friends that you love them, you have told Kurt that you love him right?” Rachel asked, she didn’t like what Mercedes and probably the rest of them were trying to imply, she was just friends with Puck and Sam.
Author: laotse4
Rating: pg-13
Chapter 10
“You know that was kind of great.” Sam said as he and Rachel was sitting at the kitchen table in his house, his mother was away with his younger siblings, his brother had a soccer practice and his sister was with them.
“You do know that that song wasn’t really about friendship right?” Rachel asked as she tried to find some notes that she needed. “I still don’t understand why Mr. Schue didn’t say anything about it.”
“So maybe we should stop talking about that and you could maybe help me to figure out how to pass this math test that I have tomorrow.” Sam said and he was soon next to her, almost hovering over Rachel.
“I can help you but if you have problem with these kinds of things then maybe you should ask me a bit earlier.” Rachel said as she found her notes to the math class that they had together. “I will help you as long as you ask me.”
“So I’m asking you now.” Sam said as he went to the fridge to grab some water for them. “So will you please help me?”
“of course I will help you Samuel.” Rachel said and she turned around and she looked at him before she gave him a big smile.
The two of them were sitting close and Sam was almost leaning over Rachel as his mother and siblings got home, he hadn’t really noticed the time that had passed and he guessed that the same went for Rachel.
“Oh, hello Rachel, I didn’t know that you were here.” Rachel and Sam looked up and they saw that his mother had gotten home.
“Hello, Mrs. Evans.” Rachel said as she smiled at the woman, she could hear someone running up the stairs, and as Rachel looked next to the woman she saw a young girl, that was about seven years old or so, that was holding on to Mrs. Evans leg. Rachel got up from the chair as Sam was sitting down and trying to figure out the math problem.
“Hello.” Rachel said as she was kneeling next to the girl. “What’s your name?” The girl looked up at her mother almost asking her if it was okay for her to talk to the brunette, Mrs. Evans just nodded.
“My name is Grace.” The girl said and she looked at Rachel. “And what is your name?”
“My name is Rachel and I go to school with your brother.” Rachel said and smiled at the girl, she was kind of cute. “And I think that I saw you at the Regionals competition.” Grace just looked confused she had no idea what Rachel was talking about.
“The singing competition.” Mrs. Evans explained to her daughter. “Rachel was the girl that had the pretty singing voice.” Grace’s eyes got bigger as she realized who Rachel was, and then the younger girl’s cheeks started to turn red. “So why are you here Rachel, not that I mind but I think that maybe you should be starting to head home.”
“Oh, I was just helping Samuel with some math.” Rachel said, and Sam turned around when he heard his full name, there was just one person that called him that besides his grams, and he knew that she wasn’t here.
“Rach, what have I said about that.” Sam said and that was when he realized that his mother and sister also were in the room. “Oh, hi.”
“Sam, do you think that you might be able to give Rachel a ride home before dinner.” Mrs. Evans asked as she looked at her oldest son.
“Sure, I think that we were done here.” Sam said and Rachel nodded. As the two of them got Rachel’s things together and left the kitchen, Mrs. Evans turned to Grace before she said to the younger girl.
“Your brother really likes her, but he doesn’t even know it.”
“She is pretty.” Grace said and smiled, one of her two front teeth were missing.
“You should tell your brother that when he gets back, and you will see how red he can be.” Mrs. Evans said, and she laughed to herself.
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“Your sister is so cute.” Rachel said as she walked with Sam the next day, they were on their way to the Glee meeting.
“She can be cute sometimes at least she isn’t as bratty as Cody.” Sam said as he opened the door for her.
“Cody?” Rachel asked, she had a feeling that it was his brother but she wasn’t sure, she hadn’t really met the younger of the two Evans boys.
“My brother.” Sam said as the two of them sat down.
“Is there anyone that has a song for us today?” Mr. Schue asked as he looked at the Glee club members, that was sitting in front of him, no one was really listening to him, they were all talking among themselves and from what Rachel could tell most of them was still trying to figure out what song they were going to sing. “No one has a song for us, really?” Mr. Schuester looked at Rachel, “Rachel?”
“I do have a song in mind but I would like to hear something from some of the others before I decide on if I should sing even if I do believe that there is nothing that should be in the way of a performance.” Rachel said and she clasped her hands together and placed them in her lap, she could hear Sam snickering where he was sitting beside her
Most of the students that was a part of the Glee group had zoned out when Rachel had started her rant, and it almost looked like Mr. Schuester hadn’t been listening to what it was that she was saying.
“I’m sorry, I have to leave.” Mr. Schuester said as he looked at the door, where an angry Sue Sylvester was standing and pointing at him. “I think that we are done for today, I want to have at least a couple of you ready to sing tomorrow.”
“Rach, can you help me with some of my homework?” Sam asked as he walked the short brunette to her car.
“I’m sorry I can’t help you right now, maybe later I have ballet today maybe after that.” Rachel said as she opened the door to her car and she placed the bag in the passenger seat.
“Sure.” Sam said and he ran his finger through his hair as he tried to get it away from his eyes. He was somewhat disappointed in this, he had been hanging out a lot with Rachel but this would give him an opportunity to hang out with some of the boys, that meaning Puck and maybe Artie and Mike, he was avoiding Finn, it was something about that tall boy that was off.
“Puckerman.” Sam yelled after the football player as he was on his way to his truck, Puck turned around as he heard his name being called.
“Evans.” Puck said as he stopped so that Sam would have a chance to catch up with him. “You are not hanging with your girl today.”
“She is not my girl, as you put it.” Sam said as he was trying to walk and talk at the same time. “She is my friend and besides that she is busy.”
“You do know that you are whipped and you don’t even get to make out with her.” Puck said and smirked at the blonde boy. “And what do you want?”
“You do know that you are talking about Rachel, and she is supposed to be your friend?” Sam asked as he looked over at Puck, who had thrown his bag at the back of his truck.
“yep and she knows how I talk…” Puck said and almost jumped in the car and Sam did the same. “…and she accepts it. What do you want?”
“We should do a duet for that Glee thing tomorrow.” Sam said.
“I ain’t singing a duet with a dude.” Puck said and shook his head. “If you can get more of the guys then maybe.”
“But we agreed that we should do an iconic song because of the girls doing Spice Girls.” Sam said, he was sure that Puck had agreed to do that with him.
“That was no iconic song from them.” Puck said as he was driving the truck. “There are so many other and better Spice Girls songs out there.” Sam just looked at him, waiting for an explanation to why Noah Puckerman would know about that. “Dude, everyone that knows something about music knows the classic Spice Girls songs, even my mum knows them.”
“If you say so.” Sam said and raised his hands showing that he was backing off. “So are we doing the song or not?”
“We aren’t doing a duet.” Puck said as he stopped the car. “But if you can find a song by a Jewish artist then maybe.”
“Actually I was kind of thinking something in the lines of Beatles.” Sam said as he looked at Puck, and Sam knew that he had said something that might have gotten Puck to agree with him.
“They are kind of cool.” Puck said as they were sitting in the living room playing a videogame. “Do you think that we can get a hold of those kinds of guitars.”
“oooo.” Sam said as he looked at the screen and was pressing a few buttons. “They were kind of cool.”
“I know but there is one thing I won’t do and that is change my hair style, you can have that Bieber cut.” Puck said, Sam glared at his friend; he hated the fact that everyone called him out on his hair cut, it wasn’t his fault that that Bieber kid was copying Sam.
“So we are doing that tomorrow.”
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“There was a bird that told me that you two are up to something.” Santana said as she passed Sam and Puck as the two of them were on their way to Glee.
“You have a talking bird?” Brittany asked, she was after all with Santana, the Latina looked at her friend smiling. “Is it a parrot, I have always wanted a talking bird.”
“No, B, I don’t have a parrot.” Santana said as they two of them were leaving Puck and Sam behind, and the two boys were just looking at each other, shaking their heads.
“So what did Santana want?” Rachel asked as she was next to the two boys that just happened to be her best friends.
“I don’t know.” Sam said, he had yet to figure out what Santana had wanted.
“She heard something about someone doing a song today.” Puck said, he did understand Santana a bit better than the other two.
“Ooo, you two are doing something today?” Rachel asked, as the three of them walked inside the choir room together.
“There might be a chance that will happen.” Puck said and sat down on the back row as Rachel took her normal seat in the front, and Sam was next to her.
“We are doing a song.” Sam said as he gave Rachel a small smile. “It’s going to be great.”
“I don’t think it will be better then what I have planned for my solo for next week.” Rachel said and she patted him on his thigh. “But it might be better then what we did yesterday.” Rachel started to laugh when she heard Sam humming the chorus to Beatles yesterday.
“Mr. Schue.” Puck said as soon as the teacher walked in, “me and Sam have something that we have worked on, and it will kick ass.”
“That is great so why don’t the two of you go up and start the day of with your song.”
“Sure.” Puck said and almost jumped down and grabbed a couple of guitars and handed one of them to Sam and the two of them stood in front of the group and the opening accords to one of the Beatles songs that they had looked through and decided on started. The band was helping out with a bit of drums and Brad too with piano.
“There are places I’ll remember.” Sam sang and looked over at Rachel as he continued to play and sing. “All my life though some have changed. Some forever not for the better.”
Both Sam and Puck continued on playing, and Sam was singing. “Some have gone and some remain. All these places have their moments. With lovers and friends I still can recall.” Sam looked from Quinn to Finn and lastly at Rachel. “Some are dead and some are living. In my life I’ve loved them all.”
Puck was the next one to singing, and he was sure that this was a great way to get back at some of them and let them know what he was thinking of them, and Beatles was a great group. “But of all these friends and lovers. There is no one compares with you.” As he sang the last line he looked at Rachel, and so was Sam even if he wasn’t singing. “And these memories lose their meaning. When I think of love as something new. Though I know I’ll never lose affection” And now Puck was sitting next to Rachel and Sam was standing alone in front of the group.
“Rach, help us out here with some of the lyrics, Rachel was just smiling at them and she shook her head.
“You have to do this alone.” She said and Puck got up from the seat and walked so that he as standing next to Sam as the mohawked boy continued to sing.
“For people and things that went before. I know I’ll often stop and think about them. In my life I love you more.” Puck was looking at Rachel, and the brunette looked down and she shook her head, she could feel the blood starting to flow up her neck and reach her cheeks.
“Piano solo.” Sam said and pointed at Brad, who started to play a small solo. “please Rach, you can help us with this last part.” Sam was almost pouting and Rachel continued to shook her head in a negative way but Sam wouldn’t give up, he almost dragged her so that she was with the two boys as they started the last part of the song.
“Though I know I’ll never lose affection. For people and things that went before.” The three of them sang, it sounded pretty good and Rachel couldn’t help but to smile at her friends. “I know I’ll often stop and think about them.”
“In my life I love you more.” Puck sang as he held on to Rachel’s both hands almost kneeing in front of her, she was smiling and in the corner of her eye she could see the reaction from some of the Glee club members and she couldn’t help but to smile.
Sam walked up to where Puck and Rachel was and he shoved Puck away and he took the mohawked football player’s place before he sang. “In my life I love you more.”
Rachel could see how the minds of her teammates were turning, and she knew that there was going to be a few questions that she would have to answer as soon as the meeting was over, but she had to agree, Puck and Sam’s performance had been pretty great, and they played of each other really well.
“That was great you guys.” Mr. Schuester said as the performance was over. “And you did find a great song about friendship over the years and how things can change. So is there anyone else that have something that they want to say?”
“You should really think about who you are going after.” Quinn said as she looked at Rachel. “And once again you are picking up my left overs.”
“I’m doing what?” Rachel asked as she heard Quinn, she didn’t go after Quinn’s exes, there were more like they wanted her. “I don’t have a boyfriend and I am not dating anyone.” There was a snicker in the room and it was from a few of the girls and also a couple of the guys.
“You have Sam and Puck more or less professing their love for you, and they are doing it together.” Mercedes said, she had texted with Kurt during this whole performance as soon as she had realized what it was that was going on.
“You can tell your friends that you love them, you have told Kurt that you love him right?” Rachel asked, she didn’t like what Mercedes and probably the rest of them were trying to imply, she was just friends with Puck and Sam.