Honey and Glass

8. Hold On to Sixteen

Blaire rolled over in her bed to face Alonzo as he smiled at her. "Good morning," he smiled at her and she smiled back.

"No time for laziness, we have to get up. We need to make a new set list for sectionals," Blaire reminded him as she got out of bed and he groaned.

"Really, now?"

She laughed at him, "yes now." All of a sudden, he wrapped his arms around her waist, making her sit back down on the bed.

"What are we?" He asked her, the thought had been plaguing his mind for a few weeks now, but he was too scared to ask.

Blaire shook her head, "we will talk after sectionals, love." He smiled at her and gave her a kiss.

"Fine. Just until after sectionals," he smiled at her. He grabbed her hand and everything felt okay. Something about her calmed everything in his mind. Made him feel normal, loved.

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Finn and Mr. Schue were in the choir room, trying to look for songs for sectionals. "Sectionals is in our auditorium for the first time since 1963–" Finn said, getting up from his seat and walking over to where Schue kept his music.

"Too much talking, not enough looking for songs for Sectionals. We need to do something upbeat," he explained to Finn, trying to see what would not only be that, but also go well with only having three girls.

"Mr. Shue, maybe we need to concentrate on our performer problem before we set a set list. I mean, at least the Cheerios can dance. We need star power. We need Sam Evans," Finn settled on as he sat down three books of music and Mr. Schue looked at him confused.

"Sam transferred. His whole family moved. We don't even know where he is," Mr. Schue reasoned as he flipped through a book in front of him.

"We don't, but his ex-girlfriend might," Finn smirked. Mr. Schue smiled at him and nodded, he might've just solved their problem.

That's what led Finn straight to Blaire's locker not even 5 minutes after she got to school with Alonzo.

"Hey, Blaire," he greeted with a large, suspicious smile.

She glanced at him as Alonzo and her looked at him, curious, "hey, Finn, you good?"

"Perfect, actually. I had a question I needed to ask you," he laughed and glanced at Alonzo. "Look I know you two are together or whatever and this may be a little awkward–"

Blaire rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, "spit it out, Finn."

"We need Sam."

Both teens looked at him confused, "he transferred with his family."

Alonzo looked between the two of them, still confused on who Sam was. "Yeah, but I mean, you two were really close, I assumed you knew where he was."

Blaire bit her lip and looked over at her soon-to-be boyfriend, before sighing, "yeah, he lives outside of Cincinnati, about 4 hours from here, you want to pick him up today?" Finn nodded ecstatically.

"Thank you, you won't regret this B!" He yelled before running down the hall. Blaire looked over to Alonzo who was waiting for answers.

"Who's Sam?"

She smiled at him, "You're pretty."

He leaned against the locker and shut hers so that she would look at him, "you're avoiding the question."

She sighed and gave him a smile, playing with the end of his jacket, "we dated last year. Nothing big, but he was nice and I don't want it to be weird."