It's Called Being Sassy

I Know Who You Loved Last Summer

"So today is just me and you? No Puck?" Sam reaffirms.

"Yes!" Mercedes closes her locker. "I won't even talk to him in class. I'll be with you between classes. Sit next to you in glee. All day."

"Even lunch?"

"No."

"I thought you said it was my day?" Sam pouts.

She laughs. "I eat lunch with Quinn in the library."

"So that's where you've been disappearing to! I'll come, too." He leans into her personal space.

She puts a hand to his chest, halting his lustful advances. "No. It's a sister thing."

"I could have sworn your sister was in England."

"Scotland. And you know what I mean." She giggles. What is it about him that makes me giggle?! "Be nice."

"Fine." He kisses her neck. "So I have time at school excluding lunch. What about after?"

"Glee." Her face is a mask of confusion.

"After glee."

"Oh! Don't you have practice or something?"

He shakes his head.

"Well come over."

He grins his lopsided grin.

"No! No monkey business!" I've learned my lesson!

He pouts and presses another kiss to her soft skin. "Aww, Mercy! You can't tell me you didn't enjoy last week."

She blushes hotly. "Stop that, Sammy! We should have talked about that sooner but things have been... hectic to say the least."

"We'll talk tonight." He threads his fingers through hers and ambles to the choir room. "We can put on The Bodyguard, eat Chinese and talk about us. At least before your dad barges in wanting to skin me alive."

"Daddy's not in Lima." She snaps her mouth shut. I really have to quit doing that.

"Well your mom must have questions. At least I do. I found a cookie that said "no means no" in that bag of cookies she made me."

She really did that?! Mercedes laughs. "She won't be home until at least eleven. She has another wedding. I told you; February is her busy month. Well after June."

Sam waggles his eyebrows and says in his best James Earl Jones voice, "I think I've won the lottery!"

She bites her lip to keep from laughing. "You haven't. It's a school night and you'll be gone by ten."

"Yes, ma'am!" He lets her enter the choir room ahead of him. He immediately spots Puck and steers her in the opposite direction.

"Sam?"

"Yes?"

"What are you doing?"

"I don't want to sit by him!"

Mercedes can't even pretend that isn't funny and laughs. "Jealousy isn't an attractive quality, Evans." She takes his face in her hands and kisses him chastely. "But you are too adorable!"

They sit on the other side of the room, leaving plenty of seats between them and Puck.

Mr. Shue walks in, looking especially tired this morning. "I hate Mondays!" The class laughs at their normally chipper teacher's dour face. "Garfield was right; Mondays are just plain awful!"

The class laughs.

"Anyone have a song to share?" He sets his satchel on a chair and sits next to it, taking a sip from his coffee mug.