The Way We Were

The Way We Get Jealous

Mercedes slammed her locker shut and stomped off to cheerleading practice. She went to her friends to wait for her coach with crossed arms.

"Mercy, what's wrong?" Kurt asked.

"Rebecca Stanley!" She spat.

Quinn's lip curled in disgust. "What's she done now?"

"She's going around saying that she's glad she and Mikey are science partners and that she's going to try to catch his eye! Like really?!"

"Ugh!" Marcy frowned. "What a scad!"

"She's about to get beat down!"

"I'll hold her down." Santana grinned.

"I say we pay her a visit." Quinn crossed her arms. "I'm sick of her trying to get with Mikey. We're married and she doesn't respect that."

"I've got to be there for that." Daisy grinned.

Karen smirked. "It's going to be good."

W.W.W.

Mal put his backpack on and shut his locker. He jumped when he noticed Eliza standing next to him. "Eliza!"

"Hi, Mal." She smiled.

"What are you doing here?" He took a step back.

"Can't we talk?" She lifted a shoulder.

"No."

"Come on." She pouted. "We can be friends, can't we?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"I'm married. My wife almost left me once because of you. I'm not giving her another reason."

"Hey! You invited me over!"

"Yeah and it was a mistake! I shouldn't have done that."

"But you did. Now I really like you and I think we could be good together-"

"No! No, we couldn't! I have a wife!"

"You'd think you'd remember that." Marcy's voice sounded.

Mal turned around and jumped back. "She was talking to me! I told her to go away! It's not my fault!"

Marcy barely looked at him as she approached Eliza slowly. Eliza backed up. "What did I tell you about stepping to my man?"

"You don't own him!" Eliza watched her warily.

"Actually I do." Marcy pushed Eliza's head back. "Stay away from him." She did it again. "Or I'm going to forget my manners and have to fuck. you. up." She did it again.

Eliza pushed her hand away when she went to do it again. Marcy used both hands to push her back into the lockers and stepped really close. Eliza gulped but kept her eyes on her.

"Keep playing." Marcy spoke slowly. "I won't be pregnant forever."

Mal pulled on her hand. "Let's just go. We have Rye to think about."

Marcy let him take her away but stared at Eliza the whole time.

Eliza took a breath when they were out of eyesight. She didn't care what Marcy said. She was going to get Mal if it was the last thing she did.

W.W.W.

Santana bit her lip as she went through the things in her locker. "Britt?"

Brittany looked over from applying lip gloss in her locker's mirror. "Yeah?"

"I know we're just getting back to us and everything but I'm thinking of asking Jimi out. On a date. With me."

"Jimi?"

"Abrams. I figured he was as good a guitarist as Jimi Hendrix."

Brittany smiled as she remembered Artie played the bass guitar. Then she frowned as her words sank in. "You want to date him?"

"He's just got my attention right now." Meaning she was jealous over all the female attention he was getting. The school found out about them hooking up and all the girls wanted a piece of him.

Brittany felt terrible about that idea. Truthfully she felt something for both Santana and Artie. She just couldn't pick one and didn't want them to be together. "It's fine with me. As long as you're fine with me going after Finn."

Santana smiled. A weight lifted off her heart. "Cool."

Brittany smiled, too but a weight settled on her heart. "Cool."

W.W.W.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Mal asked.

"I'm fine." Marcy climbed in the bed and arranged the covers over herself.

He climbed in beside her. "I wish you wouldn't get so riled up in your state. I don't want anything to happen to you or Rye."

"Nothing's going to happen to me or Riley." She rubbed her stomach.

His phone went off before he could say anything. He reached for it. "It might be Dex. He said he was going to call after his date with Jackie. Did she tell you they were dating?"

Marcy frowned. "No." Jackie hadn't said a word about telling Dexter about the baby and it had been a week since they came up with a plan.

Mal checked his phone. "It's Dex. And holy crap! Jackie's pregnant!"

Marcy nodded. She told him.

"Did you know about this?!"

"Yeah." She nodded again.

"I can't believe Jackie's pregnant! Do her parents know?!"

"No."

"When did she find out?"

"Last week. I was with her."

Mal's mind was blown. "Whoa! At least you have a baby buddy."

She smiled. "That's what I said."

He quickly texted Dexter back then put away his phone. He laid back and pulled his wife into his arms. "This is crazy! But at least we won't be teen parents by ourselves anymore."

"There's that."