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Title: Perfect
Fandom: Glee
Main Character: Sam
Chapter: One (First part was the prologue)
Warnings: None yet! (Nothing is major yet and they would spoil)
Summary: He's going to be the perfect student, the perfect football player, the perfect singer, the perfect brother, the perfect boyfriend and he will have the perfect body. He will be the perfect teenager. The perfect son.
Chapter One:
It's five in the morning when Sam begins to beat at his alarm clock so it doesn't wake anyone else. He hadn't quite finished his homework last night. Luckily, he had long ago learned to start with the work he found the hardest and all he had left was his English homework. He sighs before fishing through his backpack and starting the assignment.
By five thirty his homework is done and he's dressed and ready for the day. He quickly sets about putting a load of clothes in the washing machine and loading the dishwasher. After looking around the house, he ends up straightening up the living room and sweeping the kitchen before he starts to cook. The best thing about being the one to cook breakfast is that if he starts eating when he hears his foster mom coming out of her bedroom, he can convince her that he's almost done eating - and really, he's full.
As usual, she smiles and thanks him, reminding him again that he doesn't have to cook before she heads off to wake the younger children. He finishes the blueberry muffin he's holding just as four sleepy children stumble into the kitchen. As they start piling muffins on plates, he grabs the toys he had found in the living room and heads for their bedrooms. He shakes his head as soon as walks into the girls room. He quickly throws stuffed animals back in the pet-net and Barbie's back in the toy box before making the beds. Ellie might be twelve, but Anna seemed to have no trouble getting the older girl to play with her.
He's going through the same routine in the boy's room when his foster father walks by and tells him it's really the kids jobs to keep their rooms clean.
"I like cleaning." Sam lies with a shrug.
He hears the washing machine stop a minute later and quickly transfers the clothes into the drier before someone else does. He nearly laughs when he makes it back into the main living area. His foster father is shoving muffins into his mouth because he's late, his foster mother is trying to brush a squirming Anna's hair, Ellie's almost in tears because she can't find her favorite shirt, Seth can't find his shoes and Aiden's sitting in the floor just trying to get his shoes on. After assessing the situation, he ends up sitting in the floor beside Aiden and calmly putting the little boys shoes on the right feet before tying the laces.
"Thank you, Sam!" the little boy yells, hugging him and then running off.
Sam then informs Ellie that he's fairly sure her shirt is still the drier and she gives a dramatic half-wail before heading to her room to find something else suitable to wear.
'Well, two down...' he thinks as he joins Seth in the hunt for his shoes.
Ten minutes later and they've found one shoe under Seth's bed and the other on the porch. As soon as the boy pulls on his shoes everyone is running for the door to head for school. Sam gets in the van still wondering how on earth Seth's shoes ended up that far apart.
Sam doesn't mind that he and Ellie get dropped off right after the younger kids. Having extra time before school is a good thing. He general either spends it working out or practicing for Glee, whichever he feels he needs more. Usually, he's working out. It's not that he thinks he's such a great singer that he doesn't need practice, he just thinks he needs to work out more. His muscles are nothing compared to some of the other guys, and he knows he must weigh a lot more then some of them too. How can he expect to be a good football player if he looks like this? How can he keep Quinn if he looks like this?
Finn wanders in a few minutes later and starts talking at Sam. Sam tries to listen, he really does. There's not many places for him to respond anyway. Finn has a tendency to babble at times. He's managed to gather that it's something about Rachel and that Kurt would totally know what to do if he were here, but Finn's talking a mile a minute.
"And Kurt just gets her for some reason but he's not here so he hasn't seen everything and it's hard to explain everything on the phone and I'm not sure he gets it but I told him to call back and ... boarding school sucks!" Finn says, finally ending his rant.
"Doesn't Kurt come home on the weekends?" Sam asked after attempting to sort through everything Finn had just said.
"Well, yeah." Finn replied, looking puzzled.
"Then why don't you just wait until he comes home this weekend and explain it then and see what he thinks you should do?" he asked his friend.
"Oh. Ok. That might work. Thanks, man!" Finn says, grinning as he heads out of the room.
He doesn't have many classes with the other Glee kids, but that really doesn't matter. Once he enters a classroom he keeps his focus totally on that subject. He has to. He doesn't have time for things to not make sense later because he wasn't paying attention.
He jumps when Quinn comes up behind in the hallway between Math and Science. He quickly covers it with a laugh and kisses her after checking for teachers. Once he assures her that they're still going to dinner on Friday, they both go their seperate ways to their classes.
It still amazes him that he has money to things like take his girlfriend out to dinner. His foster parents give him an allowence that's a lot more then he thinks he deserves. This is one of the best homes he's been in and that's a big reason he's trying so hard to be perfect. It's not just that he doesn't want to leave again, it's that he really likes it here.
He makes it through the next class and leaves worried that if he gets much more homework he won't have time to finish it tonight. He's already tired. He shakes himself out of it and heads for the cafateria. Luckily, he has lunch with Quinn and she starts where she left off last night, telling him about Sue's latest plans for the Cheerios. Sam smiles as he listens to his girlfriend talk while he pushes the food around his tray. He's begining to question the sanity of the cheerleading coach even more.
Glee's the last class of the day and Sam's quite happy about it. He keeps hoping for a snow day or something soon just so he can get a little more sleep. Mr. Shoue informs them all again that they really need to start pondering a set list for regionals and that he'll start taking suggestions on Monday. Rachel completely ignores the last part and starts giving suggestions right then. Mr. Shoue gently repeats that everyone gets a say this time and that he'll take suggestions on Monday.
They run through the song a few times before Mr. Shoue starts adding dance steps and everyone tries not to laugh at Finn. As the guys head out for football practice, Sam hears Mike telling Finn that he can come practice the dance at his house later. All the Glee boys tense when Karofsky walks in the room. It doesn't take much more then the sight of him anymore for all of them to wish he'd give them a reason to punch him.
In the slightly cramped locker room, Artie "accidently" runs over Karofsky's foot, something that's started to happen on an oddly regular basis. Artie quickly appologises and when Karofsky complains, Coach Beiste insists that it had to have been an accident. She always does. A lot of the teachers have been more then slightly cold with Karofsky since he showed back up. They've been rather covert about it though, so he hasn't had a way to complain.
The Glee club has been watching him as close as possible, determined that next time he crosses a line, there will be witnesses and he will be reported again. They've decided that surely if they report him enough times, something will have to be done. Sam makes a mental note of every remark the guys makes in case it comes in handy in the future. He may not have known Kurt well, but he seemed nice and he was family to the other Glee kids. Even without the Kurt issue, Karofsky's a bully and something needs to be done.
Sam heads back to the locker room with his friends, grumbling along with them about how much he'd like to strangle Karofsky and his goons. When his foster father picks him and asks how his day was, Sam tells him everything was great. They keep up small talk in the car as Phil discusses his job and and laughes as Sam tells him Quinn's stories of Sue. It should be a relaxing car ride, but Sam still doesn't quite feel comfortable. He spent a long three years in his last home.
It's not long before he's surounded by trees, singing the same song over and over again and trying to dance along with it. He thinks he's really starting to get it fully memorized when Seth comes running to tell him that supper is ready and laughs at his dancing. He chases the younger boy for a minute before he catches him and tickles him and before they head inside to eat.
He bites back a sigh when Jessica, his foster mother, insists that he's a growing boy and he needs to finish everything on his plate. She always does that. He laughs at the younger kids chatter and wishes life at his school was as simple as it seems to be at theirs. Jessica shoos him away when he tries to clean off the table and he heads into the living room. Anna and Seth are fighting but before he can step in he hears Seth say "Fine!" and Anna proudly heads towards him holding a math book.
He's just finished helping Anna with her math when his cell phone rings and Quinn instantly starts ranting as soon he picks it up. He listens to her for five minutes before she stops, and he comments that it really doesn't sound like Sue's latest plans are totally legal. That makes Quinn laugh and she says that the legality of things has never stopped Sue before. He loves hearing her laugh. They talk about anything and everything until he says that he has to go.
He starts on his homework and when the hour is up he's no where near done. He gets a glass of water and heads to his room. He turns on the little TV and picks up his weights. He doesn't let himself stop working out for the next two hours and he nearly falls asleep in the shower. Then he colapses into bed so he can start the whole routine again in five hours.
Author's Note: I decided to give you a bit more a taste of Sam's day-to-day life, hence this "A Day In The Life Of Sam Evans" type chapter. There's much more to come!
Fandom: Glee
Main Character: Sam
Chapter: One (First part was the prologue)
Warnings: None yet! (Nothing is major yet and they would spoil)
Summary: He's going to be the perfect student, the perfect football player, the perfect singer, the perfect brother, the perfect boyfriend and he will have the perfect body. He will be the perfect teenager. The perfect son.
Chapter One:
It's five in the morning when Sam begins to beat at his alarm clock so it doesn't wake anyone else. He hadn't quite finished his homework last night. Luckily, he had long ago learned to start with the work he found the hardest and all he had left was his English homework. He sighs before fishing through his backpack and starting the assignment.
By five thirty his homework is done and he's dressed and ready for the day. He quickly sets about putting a load of clothes in the washing machine and loading the dishwasher. After looking around the house, he ends up straightening up the living room and sweeping the kitchen before he starts to cook. The best thing about being the one to cook breakfast is that if he starts eating when he hears his foster mom coming out of her bedroom, he can convince her that he's almost done eating - and really, he's full.
As usual, she smiles and thanks him, reminding him again that he doesn't have to cook before she heads off to wake the younger children. He finishes the blueberry muffin he's holding just as four sleepy children stumble into the kitchen. As they start piling muffins on plates, he grabs the toys he had found in the living room and heads for their bedrooms. He shakes his head as soon as walks into the girls room. He quickly throws stuffed animals back in the pet-net and Barbie's back in the toy box before making the beds. Ellie might be twelve, but Anna seemed to have no trouble getting the older girl to play with her.
He's going through the same routine in the boy's room when his foster father walks by and tells him it's really the kids jobs to keep their rooms clean.
"I like cleaning." Sam lies with a shrug.
He hears the washing machine stop a minute later and quickly transfers the clothes into the drier before someone else does. He nearly laughs when he makes it back into the main living area. His foster father is shoving muffins into his mouth because he's late, his foster mother is trying to brush a squirming Anna's hair, Ellie's almost in tears because she can't find her favorite shirt, Seth can't find his shoes and Aiden's sitting in the floor just trying to get his shoes on. After assessing the situation, he ends up sitting in the floor beside Aiden and calmly putting the little boys shoes on the right feet before tying the laces.
"Thank you, Sam!" the little boy yells, hugging him and then running off.
Sam then informs Ellie that he's fairly sure her shirt is still the drier and she gives a dramatic half-wail before heading to her room to find something else suitable to wear.
'Well, two down...' he thinks as he joins Seth in the hunt for his shoes.
Ten minutes later and they've found one shoe under Seth's bed and the other on the porch. As soon as the boy pulls on his shoes everyone is running for the door to head for school. Sam gets in the van still wondering how on earth Seth's shoes ended up that far apart.
Sam doesn't mind that he and Ellie get dropped off right after the younger kids. Having extra time before school is a good thing. He general either spends it working out or practicing for Glee, whichever he feels he needs more. Usually, he's working out. It's not that he thinks he's such a great singer that he doesn't need practice, he just thinks he needs to work out more. His muscles are nothing compared to some of the other guys, and he knows he must weigh a lot more then some of them too. How can he expect to be a good football player if he looks like this? How can he keep Quinn if he looks like this?
Finn wanders in a few minutes later and starts talking at Sam. Sam tries to listen, he really does. There's not many places for him to respond anyway. Finn has a tendency to babble at times. He's managed to gather that it's something about Rachel and that Kurt would totally know what to do if he were here, but Finn's talking a mile a minute.
"And Kurt just gets her for some reason but he's not here so he hasn't seen everything and it's hard to explain everything on the phone and I'm not sure he gets it but I told him to call back and ... boarding school sucks!" Finn says, finally ending his rant.
"Doesn't Kurt come home on the weekends?" Sam asked after attempting to sort through everything Finn had just said.
"Well, yeah." Finn replied, looking puzzled.
"Then why don't you just wait until he comes home this weekend and explain it then and see what he thinks you should do?" he asked his friend.
"Oh. Ok. That might work. Thanks, man!" Finn says, grinning as he heads out of the room.
He doesn't have many classes with the other Glee kids, but that really doesn't matter. Once he enters a classroom he keeps his focus totally on that subject. He has to. He doesn't have time for things to not make sense later because he wasn't paying attention.
He jumps when Quinn comes up behind in the hallway between Math and Science. He quickly covers it with a laugh and kisses her after checking for teachers. Once he assures her that they're still going to dinner on Friday, they both go their seperate ways to their classes.
It still amazes him that he has money to things like take his girlfriend out to dinner. His foster parents give him an allowence that's a lot more then he thinks he deserves. This is one of the best homes he's been in and that's a big reason he's trying so hard to be perfect. It's not just that he doesn't want to leave again, it's that he really likes it here.
He makes it through the next class and leaves worried that if he gets much more homework he won't have time to finish it tonight. He's already tired. He shakes himself out of it and heads for the cafateria. Luckily, he has lunch with Quinn and she starts where she left off last night, telling him about Sue's latest plans for the Cheerios. Sam smiles as he listens to his girlfriend talk while he pushes the food around his tray. He's begining to question the sanity of the cheerleading coach even more.
Glee's the last class of the day and Sam's quite happy about it. He keeps hoping for a snow day or something soon just so he can get a little more sleep. Mr. Shoue informs them all again that they really need to start pondering a set list for regionals and that he'll start taking suggestions on Monday. Rachel completely ignores the last part and starts giving suggestions right then. Mr. Shoue gently repeats that everyone gets a say this time and that he'll take suggestions on Monday.
They run through the song a few times before Mr. Shoue starts adding dance steps and everyone tries not to laugh at Finn. As the guys head out for football practice, Sam hears Mike telling Finn that he can come practice the dance at his house later. All the Glee boys tense when Karofsky walks in the room. It doesn't take much more then the sight of him anymore for all of them to wish he'd give them a reason to punch him.
In the slightly cramped locker room, Artie "accidently" runs over Karofsky's foot, something that's started to happen on an oddly regular basis. Artie quickly appologises and when Karofsky complains, Coach Beiste insists that it had to have been an accident. She always does. A lot of the teachers have been more then slightly cold with Karofsky since he showed back up. They've been rather covert about it though, so he hasn't had a way to complain.
The Glee club has been watching him as close as possible, determined that next time he crosses a line, there will be witnesses and he will be reported again. They've decided that surely if they report him enough times, something will have to be done. Sam makes a mental note of every remark the guys makes in case it comes in handy in the future. He may not have known Kurt well, but he seemed nice and he was family to the other Glee kids. Even without the Kurt issue, Karofsky's a bully and something needs to be done.
Sam heads back to the locker room with his friends, grumbling along with them about how much he'd like to strangle Karofsky and his goons. When his foster father picks him and asks how his day was, Sam tells him everything was great. They keep up small talk in the car as Phil discusses his job and and laughes as Sam tells him Quinn's stories of Sue. It should be a relaxing car ride, but Sam still doesn't quite feel comfortable. He spent a long three years in his last home.
It's not long before he's surounded by trees, singing the same song over and over again and trying to dance along with it. He thinks he's really starting to get it fully memorized when Seth comes running to tell him that supper is ready and laughs at his dancing. He chases the younger boy for a minute before he catches him and tickles him and before they head inside to eat.
He bites back a sigh when Jessica, his foster mother, insists that he's a growing boy and he needs to finish everything on his plate. She always does that. He laughs at the younger kids chatter and wishes life at his school was as simple as it seems to be at theirs. Jessica shoos him away when he tries to clean off the table and he heads into the living room. Anna and Seth are fighting but before he can step in he hears Seth say "Fine!" and Anna proudly heads towards him holding a math book.
He's just finished helping Anna with her math when his cell phone rings and Quinn instantly starts ranting as soon he picks it up. He listens to her for five minutes before she stops, and he comments that it really doesn't sound like Sue's latest plans are totally legal. That makes Quinn laugh and she says that the legality of things has never stopped Sue before. He loves hearing her laugh. They talk about anything and everything until he says that he has to go.
He starts on his homework and when the hour is up he's no where near done. He gets a glass of water and heads to his room. He turns on the little TV and picks up his weights. He doesn't let himself stop working out for the next two hours and he nearly falls asleep in the shower. Then he colapses into bed so he can start the whole routine again in five hours.
Author's Note: I decided to give you a bit more a taste of Sam's day-to-day life, hence this "A Day In The Life Of Sam Evans" type chapter. There's much more to come!