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Title: Perfect
Fandom: Glee
Main Character: Sam
Chapter: Three
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.
There really, really need to be more hours in the day, Sam thinks. It took everything he had not to fall asleep in the middle of Science class and it was a lot harder then usual to concentrate. It's only lunch time and he has no clue how he's going to make it the rest of the day. Something needs to give, but the problem is that he can't of anything that can today.
He sees Quinn coming and smiles. He pushes all his problems out of his mind. For now, he's all about her. He takes a bite of the mashed potatoes on his plate before he starts his routine of simply pushing his food around his plate for the most part. There's an apple, he'll eat that. He's hungry, but he knows he doesn't need to eat much. He'll eat at supper. It's not like he can ever avoid that.
Quinn complains about a test coming up for a few minutes before she turns the conversation to songs for Glee. She starts listing songs she's thinking of and he makes a mental note to look them up at some point that night before he replies.
"I like all of those." he says with a smile.
"What are you going to suggest?" she replies, flashing a perfect smile back at him.
"I'm not sure yet." He admits, blushing as he expertly stirs his mashed potatoes with his fork.
"You have to hurry up, Sam! It's Thursday!" she says with a laugh.
"I know, I know." he says while grinning at her. "I've just been busy."
"Well, you won't have much time to think about it tomorrow, so you better start tonight, Mr. Evans." she teases.
"You still ok to meet at Breadstiks after the game?" he asks, avoiding the rest of the comment deciding to ponder song ideas while he's working out that night.
"Of course, I am! That's the best part of Friday nights." she says a with smirk.
"What, you don't enjoy the football games?" he teases.
"Of course, I do. But I don't have my Most Valuable Boyfriend to myself during the game." she flirts back.
Quinn laughs at her silly comment and Sam laughs at the absurdity of the idea that he's the "most valuable" anything.
"Plus, I don't have to fear for my life at the resteraunt." She jokes once she calms down. "I still can't believe she had Ashley and Brooke to learn that fire-breathing-whatever for the this routine!"
Sam smiles and begins to quickly finish his apple as she starts another mini-rant about the routine Sue's had them working on. Tomorrow is the last game of the season and Sue has decided that they should go out with a bang. He knows that most of the other guys will be doing something together after the game, but insanely-late dinner dates after the game are a tradition for him and his girlfriend and going out with her instead will certainly help the Perfect Boyfriend aspect of his plan. Plus, he really does enjoy those dates.
Quinn continues telling him all about the routine they have planned for game and Sam wonders how far Sue will go before somebody insists on psychiatric testing. The bell cuts Quinn off mid-sentence and he kisses her good-bye before getting up to throw away his tray and head for the next class.
He's fairly certain it was a miracle that he managed to stay awake for the rest of his classes. He knows it's bad when he hears people whispering something about Harry Potter in the back of the classroom and his first thought is that he really wishes time turners were real, because he would use one to take a nap right now if they were. He's finding himself much to happy that tomorrow is the last game of the season. He's already rearanged his schedule and figured out that no football gives him more time for homework and an extra hour of sleep. He's really looking forward to that extra hour of sleep.
He heads to the choir room and catches sight of Finn just in time to see him get slammed into a locker by Karofsky. The flash of anger gets worse when he looks close and realizes that his friend is wearing a different shirt then he had been that morning. Again. It drives him crazy that the principal doesn't see the locker slams and slushies as "enough" for anything to be done. He has somehow avoided being slushied all day and he's rather happy about that - it means no wet clothes to hide when he gets home.
Experience has taught him that if he doesn't want his foster parents to realize what's going on, he has to change shirts as soon as he gets to school and change back after Glee. Usually that keeps them from finding out, he's only been slushied on the way to the bus once before. The slushie attacks are becoming even more of a regular occurrence lately though and he's starting to notice that out of all of them, it's Finn who never goes a day without being slushied at least once. He somehow has a feeling it's not a coincidence that Kurt's stepbrother is getting the worst of the bullying now.
"You ok, Finn?" Sam asked as the walked into the choir room together.
"Yeah, I'm fine. They think they're a lot stronger then they are. I'm a lot bigger then ... then the people they usually mess with." he says, shrugging it off.
"They're jerks." Sam comments as they sit down.
"What's new?" his friend quips.
Sam can't help but grin at that.
"Hey! We're all gonna meet at my house Saturday to practice that song, you cool with that?" Finn asks.
"Sure! When should I come over?" he replies.
"The other guys are coming over around one." the other says,
"Ok, cool." Sam says as Finn gets up to hug Rachel, who's just walked in.
Sam sits back to wait for Quinn while Rachel tells Finn that she has narrowed down her list of song ideas to twenty. While Sam knows that Finn is bigger then Kurt - because he knows that's what the other boy had almost said - he also knows that being slammed into a hard surface is never a pleasant experience. He just hopes that something can be done about Karofsky and his goons before things end up going way to far.
Mr. Shoue walks in just behind Quinn and immediately announces that he wants them to run through their previous performance numbers to help them come up with things they can improve on when they start planning the Regionals numbers the next week. He already knows Don't Stop Believing as the group still has a tendency to break into that one at times, but he ends up getting a crash course in last years performance numbers for the rest of the class.
He knows that this practice will be intense with the last game of the season being tomorrow. Artie (who Sam realizes he has also seen in two different outfits that day) seems to have decided to start things on a light note for his friends. Sam notices Artie quickly glance behind him before, in a moment of brilliance, rolling backwards over Karofsky's foot and then rolling back over it while "apologising". The Glee guys frantically try to hide smirks as Coach Beiste calmly tells Artie that he really needs to be more careful and then shoots a look at the still-hopping Karofsky that implies he's being much too dramatic.
When Karofsky's even rougher with Sam and his friends during practice, Sam realizes that the guy has finally clued in that Artie's little "accidents" aren't accidents. He decides to warn his friend, but there's only one day left of football for the year so if Artie has something planned for tomorrow, the guy certainly deserves it. After practice he waits until Karofsky and his friends have left the locker room before saying anything to Artie, who confirms that does have a plan for the next day and he's prepared to face the consequences.
"I hope you have enough room in your locker for all the changes of clothes your gonna need." he tells his friend.
"It's worth it. He chased Kurt out of the school and he's still tormenting the rest of us. This is the last chance I'll have for a while to do anything to get back at him. It's definitely worth it." Artie states before rolling out of the room with Sam following behind him.
Sam can't help but be both a little worried and a little amused. Artie using his wheelchair as a weapon is certainly always interesting. He makes a mental note to warn the guys that they may need to put Puck's "secret service" plan into action to protect Artie for a couple weeks.
Author's Note: I know, I know ... but I told you I was bad at updating. I have many excuse, one being a flu outbreak and another being that it took me a bit to stop being really, really mad at Finn and Quinn. This story is obviously very AU now and I have just realized that I forgot Sam's supposed to be dyslexic but, well ... it's AU. Also, I realize I likely need a beta but ... all I have is spell-check and my eleven year old sister at the moment, so hopefully this is ok.