In the Words of... 13/18
Title: In the Words of
Author: laotse4
Rating: pg-13
Chapter 12
Rachel, Sam and Puck were all three hanging out at Sam’s house there was a movie that they wanted to watch, well it was more like a movie that Puck and Sam wanted to watch and Rachel kind of tagged along. Neither Sam nor Puck wanted Rachel to be alone, not after the song that she had more or less dedicated to them yesterday during Glee.
“Oh this is so good.” Puck almost yelled as he saw one of the car chases on the screen, Sam had Rachel curled up against him and at he wasn’t that focused on the movie, there was after all a pretty hot and a really cute girl, that was snuggled against him and she was playing with his fingers, and traced the lines in his hands with her finger.
If you were in this position you would do the same. Puck looked over at the two of them, and he just shook his head, he had no idea what he could do to make them understand what was happening between them, they were almost always acting like a couple when they were together, and from what Puck had understood this was how it always was when the two of them were watching a movie.
“You do know that I can leave if you want to be alone.” He said as he looked at them, and he could see how Rachel slowly moved away from Sam but as she moved, Sam reached to her hand so that they still were in some kind of contact with each other. If he was going to be honest, Sam and Rachel was almost like Brittany and Santana, all that was different between them was that Sam and Rachel had yet to acknowledge that they were attracted to each other, it was after all something that was pretty obvious for everyone that was around them.
“Noah, you should stay and watch the movie.” Rachel said and gave him a smiled, and Puck just nodded his head, Rachel was right.
When the movie was over he turned to his friends. “I should be heading home, my mum has the late shift and the brat needs someone to be home with her.”
Both Rachel and Sam knew that Puck loved his sister more than he would let on, it was something that they had seen first handed a couple of times. “Tell your mother I said hello.” Rachel told her friend, and he just nodded, and she knew that he would do that.
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“You are leaving so soon?” Mrs. Evans asked as Puck was about go out the door.
“Yeah, there is just a certain amount of time that I can spend with them all snuggled up, just claiming to be friends.” Puck said as he looked at Sam’s mother. “I don’t know what to do, I mean, Rachel sang a song yesterday in Glee, it was from some movie.”
“She has a great voice.” Sam’s mother said. “Do you have any idea on what movie it was?”
“Sam said something about Beaches.” Puck said and shook his head. “I haven’t seen the movie so I don’t really know but it’s probably a musical or something.”
“Sam knows about beaches?” She asked surprised, Puck nodded.
“He said that Rachel had been watching it when he came by one day and they were watching it together.”
“Okay, I’m going to call her parents.” Sam’s mother said and looked at Puck. “And you need to figure something out, no boy, well no straight boy will watch Beaches with just a girl that is a friend.”
“I wouldn’t know I haven’t seen the movie.” Puck said and he shrugged his shoulders. “But I have to go.”
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Puck was about to go through the door when he heard someone call his name and he turned around and he was surprised to see Kurt and Mercedes and almost all of the Glee members there.
“What do you want?” he asked, he didn’t feel like wasting time with them right now.
“You are friends with both Rachel and Sam, right?” Kurt asked as he eyes Puck up and down.
“Yeah…” he answered and looked at them.
“They are more than friends.” Mercedes said and Puck just laughed, he had to sit down otherwise he knew that he would fall down, he had no idea on how to explain this to all of them.
“No, they are just friends...” Puck said, and ten pairs of eyes were just looking at him, and he understood them. “…but I know that there is more there but they don’t want to admit that to anyone and definitively not themselves.”
“You know what that means right.” Kurt said and got a big smile on his face.
“No, don’t do anything about it.” Puck said and hid his face in his hands, he knew what Kurt was thinking and Puck didn’t really think about what it was that he was saying. “It’s enough that the Evans and the Berrys are trying to get them to confess.”
“That is just great.” Kurt said and clapped his hand together. “I have the best idea.”
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Rachel was walking alone down the hallways of William McKinley High School, and as soon as she was looking forward she felt like there was someone that was watching her. But when she turned around to see if she could spot whoever it was that was following her she couldn’t see anyone.
“Do you feel like you are being watch?” Rachel asked when she sat down next to Sam during a math class.
“Now that you say it, I do feel watch.” Sam said and he scratched the back of his head. “Do you think that you could explain this to me later?”
“Of course I can help you with that.” Rachel said as she started to take some more notes just to be sure that it would be as good as possibly. “So you want to do that this afternoon?”
“Sure.”
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“We have gotten confirmation that they will be hanging out this afternoon.” Quinn said as she looked at the rest of the Glee club members with the exception of Sam and Rachel. “There was some kind of tutoring.”
“That is great.” Mercedes said. “I just need to text Kurt to make sure that everything is a go.”
“What does he have to do with this?” Tina asked as she looked at them, it didn’t feel right to interfere with someone else’s relationship like this but then again it was pretty obvious what was going on between them and it seemed like they needed some help from their friends.
“That is why we are doing the song for the tomorrow.” Puck said and laughed. “I can bet that they won’t understand what is going on and we will use this time for rehearsal.”
“What song is it that we are doing?” Finn asked as he looked at them he wasn’t sure of he wanted to be a part of this.
“A song that we all agreed on doing, we need someone to take Rachel’s part and someone to take Sam’s parts too.” Puck said and he could see that Finn was about to say something. “And I think that it would be better if someone that didn’t have some kind of interest in how this turns out takes the solo’s, so it won’t be messed up.”
“I can take Sam’s.” Artie said and Puck nodded, Finn was about to protest, but before he had a chance to do so Puck cut him off.
“You dumped her, you don’t have a say in this.” Puck said and glared at his former best friend. “Sam is the one that has been building Rachel up from the bottom where you left her.”
“So we still have Rachel’s parts left to decide on.” Artie said as he looked at the lyrics. “Is there anyone that can do this, and if we are doing the same thing between male and female then there is just one person that can do this.”
“I agree with you.” Puck said. “Tina.” The Goth girl just looked at them.
“You want me to take Rachel’s parts.” She said and looked skeptical at all of them. “She will kill me when this is over.”
“She won’t kill you when this is over, she will have a boyfriend, so she will be busy with him.” Puck said. “And if it doesn’t work out then you will have Mike to protect you.” The group continued on with what they were doing and it had turned out pretty good.
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“Rach, there is one thing that I would like to talk to you about and you have to promise me that you won’t freak out and start to scream at me.” Sam said as the two of them sat opposite each other at the Berry kitchen table. “Because you can be kind of scary when you are doing that.”
“I promise that I will behave accordingly to what is expected of me in the kind of situation that will occur when you tell me what you are thinking about.” Rachel said, and she thought that it was an okay way of say that she wouldn’t freak out on him.
“Thanks.” Sam said and he looked down on his hands, he had no idea where he should start. Maybe the best way of doing this was just to rip it of as a band aid.
“You can tell me anything.” Rachel said but Sam still didn’t say anything. “You are still in love with Quinn?” Sam shook his head. “Santana?” Once again he shook his head in a negative reply. “Oh, you are gay.”
“How come that everyone thinks that I am gay!?” he almost yelled ash Rachel said that. “I’m not gay, not that it’s anything wrong with that, I kind of like you.”
“And I like you too Sam, otherwise I wouldn’t be friends with you.” Rachel said and reached for his hands and she tried to intertwine their fingers. Sam sighed and threw his head back, this was not going the way he had hoped.
“I didn’t mean like that.” Sam said as he moved his left hand over his face, almost like he was trying wipe something of his face. “I like, like you.”
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“Mr. Schue we have been working on a song that we would like to sing for Sam and Rachel.” Mercedes said, and both Sam and Rachel was surprised to hear what they were saying.
“And it is kind of about friendship.” Artie supplied.
“Mr. Schuester, we all know that there is one song that we all are going to perform together.” Rachel said and looked at the group and then at the teacher.
“I am aware of that but maybe it would be a great idea to let them sing this song for you and Sam.” The teacher said and looked at Rachel before he turned to Sam who just shrugged his shoulder, it would be kind of cool to have a song being sung just for you and your friend.
“you guys can start if you want to.”
“thanks.” Puck said, and he grabbed a guitar and Finn was behind the drums.
”What would you think if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and walk out on me” Tina sang, Rachel didn’t really look at anyone, this was the song that they were supposed to do as a group and now they were all high jacking the song.
“lend me your ears and I’ll sig you a sing, and I’ll try not to sing out of key.” Puck sang as he was playing the guitar, smiling at Rachel and Sam. And it that was all it took for Sam to understand what they had done, and Sam just nodded.
“Oh I get by with a little help from my friends, mmm, I get high with a little help from my friends, mmm, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.” The whole group sang together and smiled at the two members that was sitting at the bleachers.
“Do you need anybody?” Artie sang and he rolled in front of Sam, and then he rolled back.
“I need somebody to love.” The rest of the group sang and smiled at Sam.
“Could it be anybody?” Artie sang and he was still looking at Sam
“I want somebody to love.” The rest of the group sang.
“What do I do when my love is away?”
“Does it worry you to be alone?” Mercedes sang and she looked from Sam to Rachel, she had gotten somewhat closer to Rachel but they weren’t friends exactly.
“How do I feel by the end of the day.” The all sang together, well everyone besides Mercedes.
“Are you sad because you’re on your own.” She was looking at Rachel, and the brunette gave her a small smile.
“No, I get by with a little help from my friends, mmm, get high with a little help from my friends, mmm, gonna to try with a little help from my friends.”
They were now swaying together and humming together and nodding their heads.
“Do you need anybody?” Artie sang as he rolled in front of Rachel, giving her a smile and she was smiling back at him, it was kind of cute what they were doing.
“I need somebody to love.” The glee club sang nodding their heads together.
“Could it be anybody.” Artie sang as he backed away from Rachel, Rachel was starting to have a small idea on what was going on but she couldn’t be sure.
“I want somebody to love.”
“Would you believe in a love at first sight? Yes I’m certain that it happens all the time.” Mercedes sang as she looked from Rachel to Sam.
“What can you see when you turn out the light? I can’t tell you but I know it’s mine.” Artie sang and everyone was moving their heads from left to right and from right to left.
“Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends, mmm I get high with a little help from my friends, oh, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.”
“Do you need anybody?” Puck sang as he looked at Sam pointing at him to get up with them, as Sam walked with him, puck asked if Sam knew the rest of the song and he nodded.
“I just need somebody to love.” They pointed at Sam, telling him that he was going to take the next line.
“Could it be anybody?” Sam sang as he looked at Rachel, waiting for her to answer him and so were the rest of them doing.
“I want somebody to love.” Rachel sang and looked at Sam, shaking her head, she had been played, and they had all done a great job.
The whole group was together and somewhere along the time Kurt somehow had joined in with them. “Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends, mmm, gonna try with a little help from my friends. Ooh, I get high with a little help from my friends, yes I get by with a little help from my friends, with a little help from my friends.”
Mr. Schuester clapped his hands when he had seen all of it, they were getting along much better now than they had done before and he smiled at them. He had no idea on where this idea had come from. “As you all can see when you are all working in the same direction you will reach the goal so much faster and it will feel better too. So why did you guys do this?”
“Sam has been a great friend to Rachel.” Artie started and then someone else took over.
“And we wanted both of them to understand that they can count on us when they will need us.”
“And the main reason.” Puck said and looked at his two friends. “So that they would get their heads out of their own asses so that they can see what it is right in front of them.” Rachel was blushing when she heard Noah speak and she turned to Sam who was shaking his head.
He had almost directly figured out what they were ding, Sam was supposed to comfort Rachel for being upset for them taking the song but as it turned out Rachel didn’t get upset, but he hoped that this had made Rachel see what it was that Sam had tried to tell her the day before.
Okay the reason for him telling her was that his mother had more or less forced him to face what was going on if he wanted to have somewhat of a freedom for the next couple of months or so. His mum could be scary if she needed, and then again, he knew what she had been talking about but until yesterday he hadn’t really been ready to admit it to himself, and now he had to hope that Rachel could do the same.
Songs used in the second part of the story (chapter 7-12)
Get it right - Lea Michele/Glee (Rachel, chapter 8)
Headlines (Friendship never ends) - Spice Girls (girls, chapter 9)
In my life - Beatles (Puck and Sam, chapter 10)
Wind beneath my wings - Bette Middler (Rachel, chapter 11)
With a little help from my friends - Beatles (Group, chapter 12)
Author: laotse4
Rating: pg-13
Chapter 12
Rachel, Sam and Puck were all three hanging out at Sam’s house there was a movie that they wanted to watch, well it was more like a movie that Puck and Sam wanted to watch and Rachel kind of tagged along. Neither Sam nor Puck wanted Rachel to be alone, not after the song that she had more or less dedicated to them yesterday during Glee.
“Oh this is so good.” Puck almost yelled as he saw one of the car chases on the screen, Sam had Rachel curled up against him and at he wasn’t that focused on the movie, there was after all a pretty hot and a really cute girl, that was snuggled against him and she was playing with his fingers, and traced the lines in his hands with her finger.
If you were in this position you would do the same. Puck looked over at the two of them, and he just shook his head, he had no idea what he could do to make them understand what was happening between them, they were almost always acting like a couple when they were together, and from what Puck had understood this was how it always was when the two of them were watching a movie.
“You do know that I can leave if you want to be alone.” He said as he looked at them, and he could see how Rachel slowly moved away from Sam but as she moved, Sam reached to her hand so that they still were in some kind of contact with each other. If he was going to be honest, Sam and Rachel was almost like Brittany and Santana, all that was different between them was that Sam and Rachel had yet to acknowledge that they were attracted to each other, it was after all something that was pretty obvious for everyone that was around them.
“Noah, you should stay and watch the movie.” Rachel said and gave him a smiled, and Puck just nodded his head, Rachel was right.
When the movie was over he turned to his friends. “I should be heading home, my mum has the late shift and the brat needs someone to be home with her.”
Both Rachel and Sam knew that Puck loved his sister more than he would let on, it was something that they had seen first handed a couple of times. “Tell your mother I said hello.” Rachel told her friend, and he just nodded, and she knew that he would do that.
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“You are leaving so soon?” Mrs. Evans asked as Puck was about go out the door.
“Yeah, there is just a certain amount of time that I can spend with them all snuggled up, just claiming to be friends.” Puck said as he looked at Sam’s mother. “I don’t know what to do, I mean, Rachel sang a song yesterday in Glee, it was from some movie.”
“She has a great voice.” Sam’s mother said. “Do you have any idea on what movie it was?”
“Sam said something about Beaches.” Puck said and shook his head. “I haven’t seen the movie so I don’t really know but it’s probably a musical or something.”
“Sam knows about beaches?” She asked surprised, Puck nodded.
“He said that Rachel had been watching it when he came by one day and they were watching it together.”
“Okay, I’m going to call her parents.” Sam’s mother said and looked at Puck. “And you need to figure something out, no boy, well no straight boy will watch Beaches with just a girl that is a friend.”
“I wouldn’t know I haven’t seen the movie.” Puck said and he shrugged his shoulders. “But I have to go.”
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Puck was about to go through the door when he heard someone call his name and he turned around and he was surprised to see Kurt and Mercedes and almost all of the Glee members there.
“What do you want?” he asked, he didn’t feel like wasting time with them right now.
“You are friends with both Rachel and Sam, right?” Kurt asked as he eyes Puck up and down.
“Yeah…” he answered and looked at them.
“They are more than friends.” Mercedes said and Puck just laughed, he had to sit down otherwise he knew that he would fall down, he had no idea on how to explain this to all of them.
“No, they are just friends...” Puck said, and ten pairs of eyes were just looking at him, and he understood them. “…but I know that there is more there but they don’t want to admit that to anyone and definitively not themselves.”
“You know what that means right.” Kurt said and got a big smile on his face.
“No, don’t do anything about it.” Puck said and hid his face in his hands, he knew what Kurt was thinking and Puck didn’t really think about what it was that he was saying. “It’s enough that the Evans and the Berrys are trying to get them to confess.”
“That is just great.” Kurt said and clapped his hand together. “I have the best idea.”
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Rachel was walking alone down the hallways of William McKinley High School, and as soon as she was looking forward she felt like there was someone that was watching her. But when she turned around to see if she could spot whoever it was that was following her she couldn’t see anyone.
“Do you feel like you are being watch?” Rachel asked when she sat down next to Sam during a math class.
“Now that you say it, I do feel watch.” Sam said and he scratched the back of his head. “Do you think that you could explain this to me later?”
“Of course I can help you with that.” Rachel said as she started to take some more notes just to be sure that it would be as good as possibly. “So you want to do that this afternoon?”
“Sure.”
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“We have gotten confirmation that they will be hanging out this afternoon.” Quinn said as she looked at the rest of the Glee club members with the exception of Sam and Rachel. “There was some kind of tutoring.”
“That is great.” Mercedes said. “I just need to text Kurt to make sure that everything is a go.”
“What does he have to do with this?” Tina asked as she looked at them, it didn’t feel right to interfere with someone else’s relationship like this but then again it was pretty obvious what was going on between them and it seemed like they needed some help from their friends.
“That is why we are doing the song for the tomorrow.” Puck said and laughed. “I can bet that they won’t understand what is going on and we will use this time for rehearsal.”
“What song is it that we are doing?” Finn asked as he looked at them he wasn’t sure of he wanted to be a part of this.
“A song that we all agreed on doing, we need someone to take Rachel’s part and someone to take Sam’s parts too.” Puck said and he could see that Finn was about to say something. “And I think that it would be better if someone that didn’t have some kind of interest in how this turns out takes the solo’s, so it won’t be messed up.”
“I can take Sam’s.” Artie said and Puck nodded, Finn was about to protest, but before he had a chance to do so Puck cut him off.
“You dumped her, you don’t have a say in this.” Puck said and glared at his former best friend. “Sam is the one that has been building Rachel up from the bottom where you left her.”
“So we still have Rachel’s parts left to decide on.” Artie said as he looked at the lyrics. “Is there anyone that can do this, and if we are doing the same thing between male and female then there is just one person that can do this.”
“I agree with you.” Puck said. “Tina.” The Goth girl just looked at them.
“You want me to take Rachel’s parts.” She said and looked skeptical at all of them. “She will kill me when this is over.”
“She won’t kill you when this is over, she will have a boyfriend, so she will be busy with him.” Puck said. “And if it doesn’t work out then you will have Mike to protect you.” The group continued on with what they were doing and it had turned out pretty good.
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“Rach, there is one thing that I would like to talk to you about and you have to promise me that you won’t freak out and start to scream at me.” Sam said as the two of them sat opposite each other at the Berry kitchen table. “Because you can be kind of scary when you are doing that.”
“I promise that I will behave accordingly to what is expected of me in the kind of situation that will occur when you tell me what you are thinking about.” Rachel said, and she thought that it was an okay way of say that she wouldn’t freak out on him.
“Thanks.” Sam said and he looked down on his hands, he had no idea where he should start. Maybe the best way of doing this was just to rip it of as a band aid.
“You can tell me anything.” Rachel said but Sam still didn’t say anything. “You are still in love with Quinn?” Sam shook his head. “Santana?” Once again he shook his head in a negative reply. “Oh, you are gay.”
“How come that everyone thinks that I am gay!?” he almost yelled ash Rachel said that. “I’m not gay, not that it’s anything wrong with that, I kind of like you.”
“And I like you too Sam, otherwise I wouldn’t be friends with you.” Rachel said and reached for his hands and she tried to intertwine their fingers. Sam sighed and threw his head back, this was not going the way he had hoped.
“I didn’t mean like that.” Sam said as he moved his left hand over his face, almost like he was trying wipe something of his face. “I like, like you.”
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“Mr. Schue we have been working on a song that we would like to sing for Sam and Rachel.” Mercedes said, and both Sam and Rachel was surprised to hear what they were saying.
“And it is kind of about friendship.” Artie supplied.
“Mr. Schuester, we all know that there is one song that we all are going to perform together.” Rachel said and looked at the group and then at the teacher.
“I am aware of that but maybe it would be a great idea to let them sing this song for you and Sam.” The teacher said and looked at Rachel before he turned to Sam who just shrugged his shoulder, it would be kind of cool to have a song being sung just for you and your friend.
“you guys can start if you want to.”
“thanks.” Puck said, and he grabbed a guitar and Finn was behind the drums.
”What would you think if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and walk out on me” Tina sang, Rachel didn’t really look at anyone, this was the song that they were supposed to do as a group and now they were all high jacking the song.
“lend me your ears and I’ll sig you a sing, and I’ll try not to sing out of key.” Puck sang as he was playing the guitar, smiling at Rachel and Sam. And it that was all it took for Sam to understand what they had done, and Sam just nodded.
“Oh I get by with a little help from my friends, mmm, I get high with a little help from my friends, mmm, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.” The whole group sang together and smiled at the two members that was sitting at the bleachers.
“Do you need anybody?” Artie sang and he rolled in front of Sam, and then he rolled back.
“I need somebody to love.” The rest of the group sang and smiled at Sam.
“Could it be anybody?” Artie sang and he was still looking at Sam
“I want somebody to love.” The rest of the group sang.
“What do I do when my love is away?”
“Does it worry you to be alone?” Mercedes sang and she looked from Sam to Rachel, she had gotten somewhat closer to Rachel but they weren’t friends exactly.
“How do I feel by the end of the day.” The all sang together, well everyone besides Mercedes.
“Are you sad because you’re on your own.” She was looking at Rachel, and the brunette gave her a small smile.
“No, I get by with a little help from my friends, mmm, get high with a little help from my friends, mmm, gonna to try with a little help from my friends.”
They were now swaying together and humming together and nodding their heads.
“Do you need anybody?” Artie sang as he rolled in front of Rachel, giving her a smile and she was smiling back at him, it was kind of cute what they were doing.
“I need somebody to love.” The glee club sang nodding their heads together.
“Could it be anybody.” Artie sang as he backed away from Rachel, Rachel was starting to have a small idea on what was going on but she couldn’t be sure.
“I want somebody to love.”
“Would you believe in a love at first sight? Yes I’m certain that it happens all the time.” Mercedes sang as she looked from Rachel to Sam.
“What can you see when you turn out the light? I can’t tell you but I know it’s mine.” Artie sang and everyone was moving their heads from left to right and from right to left.
“Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends, mmm I get high with a little help from my friends, oh, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.”
“Do you need anybody?” Puck sang as he looked at Sam pointing at him to get up with them, as Sam walked with him, puck asked if Sam knew the rest of the song and he nodded.
“I just need somebody to love.” They pointed at Sam, telling him that he was going to take the next line.
“Could it be anybody?” Sam sang as he looked at Rachel, waiting for her to answer him and so were the rest of them doing.
“I want somebody to love.” Rachel sang and looked at Sam, shaking her head, she had been played, and they had all done a great job.
The whole group was together and somewhere along the time Kurt somehow had joined in with them. “Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends, mmm, gonna try with a little help from my friends. Ooh, I get high with a little help from my friends, yes I get by with a little help from my friends, with a little help from my friends.”
Mr. Schuester clapped his hands when he had seen all of it, they were getting along much better now than they had done before and he smiled at them. He had no idea on where this idea had come from. “As you all can see when you are all working in the same direction you will reach the goal so much faster and it will feel better too. So why did you guys do this?”
“Sam has been a great friend to Rachel.” Artie started and then someone else took over.
“And we wanted both of them to understand that they can count on us when they will need us.”
“And the main reason.” Puck said and looked at his two friends. “So that they would get their heads out of their own asses so that they can see what it is right in front of them.” Rachel was blushing when she heard Noah speak and she turned to Sam who was shaking his head.
He had almost directly figured out what they were ding, Sam was supposed to comfort Rachel for being upset for them taking the song but as it turned out Rachel didn’t get upset, but he hoped that this had made Rachel see what it was that Sam had tried to tell her the day before.
Okay the reason for him telling her was that his mother had more or less forced him to face what was going on if he wanted to have somewhat of a freedom for the next couple of months or so. His mum could be scary if she needed, and then again, he knew what she had been talking about but until yesterday he hadn’t really been ready to admit it to himself, and now he had to hope that Rachel could do the same.
Songs used in the second part of the story (chapter 7-12)
Get it right - Lea Michele/Glee (Rachel, chapter 8)
Headlines (Friendship never ends) - Spice Girls (girls, chapter 9)
In my life - Beatles (Puck and Sam, chapter 10)
Wind beneath my wings - Bette Middler (Rachel, chapter 11)
With a little help from my friends - Beatles (Group, chapter 12)