In the Words of... 17/18
Title: In the Words of
Author: laotse4
Rating: pg-13
Chapter 16
The weekend had been great for both Sam and Rachel, he had called her around lunch on Saturday, it had leaded them to decide to go and see a movie together and after that they had gone for some coffee at the Lima Bean.
It had been just as good as the previous night’s date, that just made the decision so much easier for Sam, he was going to make it official during Glee the coming Monday.
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Sam had been looked up all Sunday in his room, it had really started after he had gotten home from the movie and coffee, he just needed to learn the song that he was going to sing and play for Rachel on Monday.
He was brought back to reality when he heard a timid knock on the door, “Come in,” he said to whomever it was that was on the other side of the door.
“I was just going to remind you that it was time for dinner,” Lydia said as she stood in the doorway, “And I would say that your dates with Rachel has been going well,” Sam nodded and smiled at her.
“They have been perfect, and now it’s my turn to show her how perfect that have been for me at least,” Sam said and he laid down the guitar on the bed next to him, “All I have to do is perfect the song.”
“Sam, from what I have heard,” she said and drew him closer and gave him a hug, “You know the song, and it sounds perfect and Rachel will agree with me.”
“I don’t know,” Sam sighed as he broke away from the hug, “You haven’t see Rachel when it comes to Glee.”
“Then you haven’t seen her when she is looking at you,” Lydia said and ushered her son down the stairs, “she will love whatever it is that you do, and you should spend some time with us tonight.”
“I can do that for a while,” Sam said as he sat down with them at the table.
“So, you did manage for him to spend some time with the family,” his dad said and looked at his oldest son, he had never seen him this determined when it come to a girl.
“According to mum, I needed to get away from the song,” Sam said and took a fork with food.
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Rachel had spent her Sunday with Kurt, who somehow had gotten the information about her two dates with Sam, all she knew was that he had an idea about the date that had been on Friday but she didn’t think that he would know about the date yesterday.
If she was going to be honest with herself, then a part of the day had been spent texting back and forth with Sam, you do need to communicate in any kind of relationship, even if just had been short messages and a lot of smiley faces even if Rachel wasn’t the biggest fan of those.
“You need to tell me everything that is going on with you and Sam,” Kurt said as he had been pushing her in to his own room, the boy knew that this was the best time for this Finn had left to hang out with Puck so he wouldn’t be a problem.
“I don’t know why I have to tell you about Sam,” Rachel said as the two of them sat down in Kurt’s room.
“Well, you are the one with a boyfriend,” Kurt said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“But what about you and Blaine?” Rachel asked and she grabbed a magazine, she wasn’t sure why she did just that.
“I don’t really know about that,” Kurt said and he took the magazine away from the brunette, “And there for I have to live through you.”
Rachel shook her head, this was just too much, maybe she should leave before this took all the wrong directions, well even more might be a better word to use. “I can tell you this,” Rachel said and she clapped her hands together.
“I take whatever I can,” Kurt said with a huge grin on his face, he was getting some gossip, just what he needed to make his weekend better.
“He took me to a restaurant, Friday, after that we went to the park,” Rachel said, she was just making a list of the things that they had done, no details, those were something that she was going to keep to herself, “yesterday he called and asked me if we could go to a movie, which we did and after that we took a coffee together at the Lima Bean.”
“Okay,” Kurt said and drummed his fingers against his own chin, like he was thinking about something, “That sounds really nice but there must have been more things happening during the Friday date.”
“Of course there were more things that happened,” Rachel said and she got up and paced the floor on Kurt’s room, “but that doesn’t mean that you have the right to know about them,” Rachel said and she pushed a finger against Kurt’s chest when she was in front of him.
“I understand but I am trying to figure out what is going on,” Kurt said and he took Rachel’s hand and he dragged her down next to himself on the bed, “and for me to really know what is going on then I need more information.”
Rachel was torn at the moment, she wanted to tell someone about what had happened but at the same time she knew that if she told Kurt then all of the Glee group would know by the Glee meeting tomorrow and she wasn’t sure if she wanted them all to know what she and Sam had been doing during the weekend before she even knew where they were standing with each other.
“Kurt, as much as I love you,” Rachel said as she looked at him, “I can’t tell you more than I already have, but you can tell Mercedes and she can tell the others because I know that will happen that Sam was a perfect gentleman, opening doors, paying loaning me his jacket and so on, and he didn’t want to kiss me when we got back to my house in respect for my dads.”
“So he didn’t kiss you?” Kurt as shocked, he had been sure that Sam had kissed Rachel.
“Of course he kissed me,” Rachel exclaimed, “he kissed me in the park during our walk; he didn’t want to kiss me at porch in front of dad and daddy.” Rachel had told him more than she had planned to but she had to defend Sam, “Besides that I kissed him at the porch, so my dads can’t say anything.”
“I’m happy that you had such a great time,” Kurt said and smiled, he was happy for her after all that she had been through since Christmas, “If anyone deserved that it was you.”
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Sam realized that he was going to be late for the Glee meeting that afternoon, he hated when his teachers were keeping him after class, he had tried to explain that he could come back later, after Glee.
He knew that there were a few teachers on this school that didn’t really like the Glee Club and this seemed to be one of those teachers, he had no idea what it was that had made the teacher dislike the Glee club and he didn’t really want to find out about it either right now, all he wanted was for this talk to go a bit faster so that he could get to Glee.
“mr. Evans, I don’t know where to start,” the teacher said as she looked at Sam.
“I don’t know that either Ms. Taylor,” Sam said as he looked at his civic teacher.
The two of them talked for a bit, well it was more like Ms. Taylor talked and Sam listened and he sighed of relief when he saw that there was still time for him to make it to Glee and perform the song that he had chosen.
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Rachel was sitting in the choir room with the rest of the Glee club, at first they waited for Mr. Schue, he somehow almost always managed to be late, her leg was moving up and down as she was sitting, and she wasn’t just waiting for Mr. Schue she was also waiting for Sam. To her surprise Mr. Schue arrived before Sam.
“Great, all of you are here,” Mr. Schue said as he looked out over the group of 11 teenagers, they weren’t that many in the group; he should be able to tell if someone was missing.
“Mr. Schue,” Rachel said and she raised her hand, the teacher looked at her and he nodded, “Sam isn’t here yet maybe we should be waiting for him?”
“Rachel, we missed our practice during Friday,” Mr. Schue said and he looked at her, “we don’t have to wait for Sam, he will come when he comes.”
“I don’t think that is fair, we normally wait for the last one to arrive,” Rachel said and looked at him, hoping that there would be someone that would agree with her but no one said anything.
“Look Rachel, we have still some performance from last week’s assignment to see,” Mr. Schue said and looked at her, “what about if start off with them.”
“Sam is one of them,” Rachel said and looked at the teacher, “So I can agree to that if he will have the chance to perform when he comes.”
The teacher was about to say something when the rest of the Glee club said something, well a couple of them at least, and they were agreeing with Rachel, and she had a feeling that they were saying it just so that she would stop talking and so that they could move on.
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Sam finally arrived at Glee, he felt out of breath but he had to be here today, he had a feeling that this would be the last chance that he would have to perform this song, well he knew that the chance would come again, but he didn’t feel like waiting.
“Sorry, I’m late,” Sam said as she walked inside the door, he sneaked to an empty seat, somehow there was one next to Rachel, so he sat down, next to her and he took one of her hands in his own and linked their fingers together, “I don’t really like my civic teacher right now,” Rachel smiled when she heard his whisper.
“Sam, do you have a song prepared to perform for us,” Mr. Schue asked as he looked at Sam, Sam turned to the teacher, “You are the only one left to perform, if you don’t count the duet that you did with Rachel as a performance.”
“I do have a song that I would like to sing,” Sam said and he got up, he walked to the side and grabbed one of the guitars, he had heard a cover with just the guitar of the song that he was going to do and it had sounded pretty good so he had decided to use the instrument that he felt safer with instead of the piano.
“The floor is all yours,” Mr. Schue said and took a seat with the rest of the students.
Sam placed the guitar strap over his shoulder, and he strummed it a little just to hear of it was tuned and when he was sure that it was tuned right he looked at Rachel, “I would like to dedicate this song to someone that means a lot to me,” Rachel smiled at him when she was sure that he was talking about her and to her.
This was going to be Sam’s way to ask her to be his, his for real. He started to strum the guitar and there were a few of them that recognized the song even before he had started to sing. “It’s a little but funny this feeling inside, I’m not one of those who can easily hide.” He looked at Rachel, he could tell that she liked the song, even with just two lines of the song being sung, he was proud of himself, “I don’t have much money but boy if I did, I’d buy a big house where we both could live.”
Sam looked to where Brad was sitting at the piano, asking him if he could play the rest of song with the piano while he himself was singing. “If I was a sculptor, but then again, no, or a man who makes potions in a travelling show.” And he was now standing in front of Rachel, he gave her a small smile before he took of the guitar and laid it on an empty chair. “I know it’s not much but it’s the best I can do, my gift is my song and this one is for you.”
Sam fell on his knees in front of Rachel and took both of her hands in his own, as he continued to sing, “And you can tell everybody this is your song. It may be quite simple but now that it’s done. I hope that you don’t mind.” As he looked up at Rachel, he could see some small tears forming in her eyes, he hadn’t meant for her to cry, he just wanted her to know how much he liked her. I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words, how wonderful life is while you’re in the world.” He was still holding on to her hands, as he got up from the kneeling position that he had been in.
When Sam looked at the rest of the Glee club he could see some of the others sitting there with smiles on their faces and there were a couple of the girls that were tearing up, but he wasn’t going to be outing them, this was all for Rachel, she was special and she deserved whatever it was that he was doing, hell, she deserved the world and he was going to the best he could to be able to giver he just that.
“I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss, well a few of the verses well they’ve got me quite cross.” Sam had taken the guitar again he was going to play some more of the song but then he was going to end the song in the best way possibly that he could think of. “But the sun’s been quite kind while I wrote this song, it’s for people like you that keep it turned on.” Rachel was like a sun, every time she smiled one of those real smiles, he had seen a fair share of those and they did really lighten up the world.
Once again he got rid of the guitar, and he kneeled in front of Rachel, who now was looking down, he put his hand under her chin before he lifted it up and he looked her in the eyes while he was singing, “So excuse me forgetting but these thing I do, you see I’ve forgotten if they’re green or they’re blue.” He was looking her straight in the eyes and he was smiling at her and she was smiling back at her, “Anyway the thing is what I really mean, yours are the sweetest eyes I’ve ever seen.”
He knew that there were a couple of more choruses left of the song but this was where he was going to end this, he just wanted her to know what she meant to him. “I know that your eyes are brown, and they shine when you smile,” he whispered as her lips were moving closer to his, and he couldn’t help but to smile.
Rachel placed both of her hands on Sam’s shoulders, he had been really sweet, and she had never thought that he would be serenading her already, she had thought that she had to wait for him to realize what she wanted from him and the song choice had been great. She leaned closer to him and she let her lips connect with his, and she could feel how he was smiling in to the kiss. Rachel had forgotten all about where they were.
“That was great,” Mr. Schue said, that was all that was needed for the two of them to break apart, this kiss had been sweet and nothing to passionate but she knew what was coming.
Before Sam got back to his seat he took her hand, and held it against his own heart so that she could feel the beats of it and it was a bit faster than normal, “This is what happens when I am around you every time,” He looked at her hoping that she was understanding what he was trying to say, “and I want it, so there for I am trying to ask you if you would want to be my girlfriend.”
Rachel looked at him, the tears that he had seen forming earlier in her eyes were now falling down her cheeks, they were slow, and from what he could tell and the giant smile on her face pretty much gave it away, was that she was agreeing to it.
“Yes!” Rachel screamed, “Yes!”
“Okay,” Puck said and looked around, “Who here had Glee practice Monday.” Rachel turned to her friend and glared at him, “I think we need to fix this later,” there was a collective laugh after that.
“Noah,” Rachel was about to school him when she felt Sam’s hands around her waist and she leaned back and rested against him, “you don’t places bets on people’s relationship or how they will turn out.”
“I know that now Berry,” Puck said and looked at her, and Sam could see the glint in his eyes, there were going to be some more bets coming along, but Sam hope that Puck would be a bit more discrete this time around and maybe he was going to take part of it the next time and if he won then he could take Rachel out to celebrate.
Author: laotse4
Rating: pg-13
Chapter 16
The weekend had been great for both Sam and Rachel, he had called her around lunch on Saturday, it had leaded them to decide to go and see a movie together and after that they had gone for some coffee at the Lima Bean.
It had been just as good as the previous night’s date, that just made the decision so much easier for Sam, he was going to make it official during Glee the coming Monday.
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Sam had been looked up all Sunday in his room, it had really started after he had gotten home from the movie and coffee, he just needed to learn the song that he was going to sing and play for Rachel on Monday.
He was brought back to reality when he heard a timid knock on the door, “Come in,” he said to whomever it was that was on the other side of the door.
“I was just going to remind you that it was time for dinner,” Lydia said as she stood in the doorway, “And I would say that your dates with Rachel has been going well,” Sam nodded and smiled at her.
“They have been perfect, and now it’s my turn to show her how perfect that have been for me at least,” Sam said and he laid down the guitar on the bed next to him, “All I have to do is perfect the song.”
“Sam, from what I have heard,” she said and drew him closer and gave him a hug, “You know the song, and it sounds perfect and Rachel will agree with me.”
“I don’t know,” Sam sighed as he broke away from the hug, “You haven’t see Rachel when it comes to Glee.”
“Then you haven’t seen her when she is looking at you,” Lydia said and ushered her son down the stairs, “she will love whatever it is that you do, and you should spend some time with us tonight.”
“I can do that for a while,” Sam said as he sat down with them at the table.
“So, you did manage for him to spend some time with the family,” his dad said and looked at his oldest son, he had never seen him this determined when it come to a girl.
“According to mum, I needed to get away from the song,” Sam said and took a fork with food.
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Rachel had spent her Sunday with Kurt, who somehow had gotten the information about her two dates with Sam, all she knew was that he had an idea about the date that had been on Friday but she didn’t think that he would know about the date yesterday.
If she was going to be honest with herself, then a part of the day had been spent texting back and forth with Sam, you do need to communicate in any kind of relationship, even if just had been short messages and a lot of smiley faces even if Rachel wasn’t the biggest fan of those.
“You need to tell me everything that is going on with you and Sam,” Kurt said as he had been pushing her in to his own room, the boy knew that this was the best time for this Finn had left to hang out with Puck so he wouldn’t be a problem.
“I don’t know why I have to tell you about Sam,” Rachel said as the two of them sat down in Kurt’s room.
“Well, you are the one with a boyfriend,” Kurt said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“But what about you and Blaine?” Rachel asked and she grabbed a magazine, she wasn’t sure why she did just that.
“I don’t really know about that,” Kurt said and he took the magazine away from the brunette, “And there for I have to live through you.”
Rachel shook her head, this was just too much, maybe she should leave before this took all the wrong directions, well even more might be a better word to use. “I can tell you this,” Rachel said and she clapped her hands together.
“I take whatever I can,” Kurt said with a huge grin on his face, he was getting some gossip, just what he needed to make his weekend better.
“He took me to a restaurant, Friday, after that we went to the park,” Rachel said, she was just making a list of the things that they had done, no details, those were something that she was going to keep to herself, “yesterday he called and asked me if we could go to a movie, which we did and after that we took a coffee together at the Lima Bean.”
“Okay,” Kurt said and drummed his fingers against his own chin, like he was thinking about something, “That sounds really nice but there must have been more things happening during the Friday date.”
“Of course there were more things that happened,” Rachel said and she got up and paced the floor on Kurt’s room, “but that doesn’t mean that you have the right to know about them,” Rachel said and she pushed a finger against Kurt’s chest when she was in front of him.
“I understand but I am trying to figure out what is going on,” Kurt said and he took Rachel’s hand and he dragged her down next to himself on the bed, “and for me to really know what is going on then I need more information.”
Rachel was torn at the moment, she wanted to tell someone about what had happened but at the same time she knew that if she told Kurt then all of the Glee group would know by the Glee meeting tomorrow and she wasn’t sure if she wanted them all to know what she and Sam had been doing during the weekend before she even knew where they were standing with each other.
“Kurt, as much as I love you,” Rachel said as she looked at him, “I can’t tell you more than I already have, but you can tell Mercedes and she can tell the others because I know that will happen that Sam was a perfect gentleman, opening doors, paying loaning me his jacket and so on, and he didn’t want to kiss me when we got back to my house in respect for my dads.”
“So he didn’t kiss you?” Kurt as shocked, he had been sure that Sam had kissed Rachel.
“Of course he kissed me,” Rachel exclaimed, “he kissed me in the park during our walk; he didn’t want to kiss me at porch in front of dad and daddy.” Rachel had told him more than she had planned to but she had to defend Sam, “Besides that I kissed him at the porch, so my dads can’t say anything.”
“I’m happy that you had such a great time,” Kurt said and smiled, he was happy for her after all that she had been through since Christmas, “If anyone deserved that it was you.”
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Sam realized that he was going to be late for the Glee meeting that afternoon, he hated when his teachers were keeping him after class, he had tried to explain that he could come back later, after Glee.
He knew that there were a few teachers on this school that didn’t really like the Glee Club and this seemed to be one of those teachers, he had no idea what it was that had made the teacher dislike the Glee club and he didn’t really want to find out about it either right now, all he wanted was for this talk to go a bit faster so that he could get to Glee.
“mr. Evans, I don’t know where to start,” the teacher said as she looked at Sam.
“I don’t know that either Ms. Taylor,” Sam said as he looked at his civic teacher.
The two of them talked for a bit, well it was more like Ms. Taylor talked and Sam listened and he sighed of relief when he saw that there was still time for him to make it to Glee and perform the song that he had chosen.
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Rachel was sitting in the choir room with the rest of the Glee club, at first they waited for Mr. Schue, he somehow almost always managed to be late, her leg was moving up and down as she was sitting, and she wasn’t just waiting for Mr. Schue she was also waiting for Sam. To her surprise Mr. Schue arrived before Sam.
“Great, all of you are here,” Mr. Schue said as he looked out over the group of 11 teenagers, they weren’t that many in the group; he should be able to tell if someone was missing.
“Mr. Schue,” Rachel said and she raised her hand, the teacher looked at her and he nodded, “Sam isn’t here yet maybe we should be waiting for him?”
“Rachel, we missed our practice during Friday,” Mr. Schue said and he looked at her, “we don’t have to wait for Sam, he will come when he comes.”
“I don’t think that is fair, we normally wait for the last one to arrive,” Rachel said and looked at him, hoping that there would be someone that would agree with her but no one said anything.
“Look Rachel, we have still some performance from last week’s assignment to see,” Mr. Schue said and looked at her, “what about if start off with them.”
“Sam is one of them,” Rachel said and looked at the teacher, “So I can agree to that if he will have the chance to perform when he comes.”
The teacher was about to say something when the rest of the Glee club said something, well a couple of them at least, and they were agreeing with Rachel, and she had a feeling that they were saying it just so that she would stop talking and so that they could move on.
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Sam finally arrived at Glee, he felt out of breath but he had to be here today, he had a feeling that this would be the last chance that he would have to perform this song, well he knew that the chance would come again, but he didn’t feel like waiting.
“Sorry, I’m late,” Sam said as she walked inside the door, he sneaked to an empty seat, somehow there was one next to Rachel, so he sat down, next to her and he took one of her hands in his own and linked their fingers together, “I don’t really like my civic teacher right now,” Rachel smiled when she heard his whisper.
“Sam, do you have a song prepared to perform for us,” Mr. Schue asked as he looked at Sam, Sam turned to the teacher, “You are the only one left to perform, if you don’t count the duet that you did with Rachel as a performance.”
“I do have a song that I would like to sing,” Sam said and he got up, he walked to the side and grabbed one of the guitars, he had heard a cover with just the guitar of the song that he was going to do and it had sounded pretty good so he had decided to use the instrument that he felt safer with instead of the piano.
“The floor is all yours,” Mr. Schue said and took a seat with the rest of the students.
Sam placed the guitar strap over his shoulder, and he strummed it a little just to hear of it was tuned and when he was sure that it was tuned right he looked at Rachel, “I would like to dedicate this song to someone that means a lot to me,” Rachel smiled at him when she was sure that he was talking about her and to her.
This was going to be Sam’s way to ask her to be his, his for real. He started to strum the guitar and there were a few of them that recognized the song even before he had started to sing. “It’s a little but funny this feeling inside, I’m not one of those who can easily hide.” He looked at Rachel, he could tell that she liked the song, even with just two lines of the song being sung, he was proud of himself, “I don’t have much money but boy if I did, I’d buy a big house where we both could live.”
Sam looked to where Brad was sitting at the piano, asking him if he could play the rest of song with the piano while he himself was singing. “If I was a sculptor, but then again, no, or a man who makes potions in a travelling show.” And he was now standing in front of Rachel, he gave her a small smile before he took of the guitar and laid it on an empty chair. “I know it’s not much but it’s the best I can do, my gift is my song and this one is for you.”
Sam fell on his knees in front of Rachel and took both of her hands in his own, as he continued to sing, “And you can tell everybody this is your song. It may be quite simple but now that it’s done. I hope that you don’t mind.” As he looked up at Rachel, he could see some small tears forming in her eyes, he hadn’t meant for her to cry, he just wanted her to know how much he liked her. I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words, how wonderful life is while you’re in the world.” He was still holding on to her hands, as he got up from the kneeling position that he had been in.
When Sam looked at the rest of the Glee club he could see some of the others sitting there with smiles on their faces and there were a couple of the girls that were tearing up, but he wasn’t going to be outing them, this was all for Rachel, she was special and she deserved whatever it was that he was doing, hell, she deserved the world and he was going to the best he could to be able to giver he just that.
“I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss, well a few of the verses well they’ve got me quite cross.” Sam had taken the guitar again he was going to play some more of the song but then he was going to end the song in the best way possibly that he could think of. “But the sun’s been quite kind while I wrote this song, it’s for people like you that keep it turned on.” Rachel was like a sun, every time she smiled one of those real smiles, he had seen a fair share of those and they did really lighten up the world.
Once again he got rid of the guitar, and he kneeled in front of Rachel, who now was looking down, he put his hand under her chin before he lifted it up and he looked her in the eyes while he was singing, “So excuse me forgetting but these thing I do, you see I’ve forgotten if they’re green or they’re blue.” He was looking her straight in the eyes and he was smiling at her and she was smiling back at her, “Anyway the thing is what I really mean, yours are the sweetest eyes I’ve ever seen.”
He knew that there were a couple of more choruses left of the song but this was where he was going to end this, he just wanted her to know what she meant to him. “I know that your eyes are brown, and they shine when you smile,” he whispered as her lips were moving closer to his, and he couldn’t help but to smile.
Rachel placed both of her hands on Sam’s shoulders, he had been really sweet, and she had never thought that he would be serenading her already, she had thought that she had to wait for him to realize what she wanted from him and the song choice had been great. She leaned closer to him and she let her lips connect with his, and she could feel how he was smiling in to the kiss. Rachel had forgotten all about where they were.
“That was great,” Mr. Schue said, that was all that was needed for the two of them to break apart, this kiss had been sweet and nothing to passionate but she knew what was coming.
Before Sam got back to his seat he took her hand, and held it against his own heart so that she could feel the beats of it and it was a bit faster than normal, “This is what happens when I am around you every time,” He looked at her hoping that she was understanding what he was trying to say, “and I want it, so there for I am trying to ask you if you would want to be my girlfriend.”
Rachel looked at him, the tears that he had seen forming earlier in her eyes were now falling down her cheeks, they were slow, and from what he could tell and the giant smile on her face pretty much gave it away, was that she was agreeing to it.
“Yes!” Rachel screamed, “Yes!”
“Okay,” Puck said and looked around, “Who here had Glee practice Monday.” Rachel turned to her friend and glared at him, “I think we need to fix this later,” there was a collective laugh after that.
“Noah,” Rachel was about to school him when she felt Sam’s hands around her waist and she leaned back and rested against him, “you don’t places bets on people’s relationship or how they will turn out.”
“I know that now Berry,” Puck said and looked at her, and Sam could see the glint in his eyes, there were going to be some more bets coming along, but Sam hope that Puck would be a bit more discrete this time around and maybe he was going to take part of it the next time and if he won then he could take Rachel out to celebrate.