When You Tell the World That You Are Mine 1/3
Title: When You Tell the World That You Are Mine
Author: laotse4
Rating: pg-13
Length: +12 000 total
Spoilers: All episodes aired to be safe.
Summary: Sam and Rachel are going to sing a duet in Glee, and the winner will sing their song at Nationals.
When you tell the world that you are mine
[part 1/3]
“It’s time for a little competition,” Will said as he looked at the twelve members of New Directions. “You need this to get in the right mood for Nationals.” There was no one that was really excited for this they all wanted to move on and focus on Nationals.
“Mr. Schue if I may,” Rachel said as she stood up from her seat. “I think I speak for all of us when I say that I think that it would be better if we used this time to focus on nationals.” There was a collective groan from the rest of the group no one really felt like listening to Rachel. “We don’t even have a set list, and no one knows who is going to be singing the duet or have a solo.”
“Rachel,” Mr. Schuester said, he had really try and keep his temper in control, he knew that Rachel just wanted what was best for them but sometimes it was just a little bit too much. “I understand where you are coming from but please take a seat, and when you do I will tell you more about this competition that I have planned.” Rachel huffed but she took her seat again, and she crossed her arms over her chest.
“As I said before Rachel interrupted, I think that you need to get a little competition spirit and that is why I have decided that you will have a duets competition.”
“Mr. Schue…” Rachel said and was about to stand up again and say something.
“Berry, sit down.” Rachel looked around to see who it was that had said that but she couldn’t see who it was that said that, the small brunette huffed.
“Thank you, as I tried to say…” Mr. Schuester said as he took out the famous hat once again.
“I think that the duck’s in the hand this time,” Brittany whispered to whoever it was that sat next to her, and Rachel just shook her head. All of this was just ridiculous, so of course Mr. Schuester thought it was a great idea.
“…and the pair that wins this competition will be singing their duet at Nationals in New York," Mr. Schuester said and Rachel peaked up a little when she heard that, maybe this was a good idea after all, now everyone would feel like that had a chance to get a solo. That might be a good idea for Nationals.
“And who is going to decide on who will win this?”
“That is a valid question,” Will said as he put the notes in the hat. “You are all going to vote for which you think is the best.”
“But everyone will be voting for themselves so there for there is not going to be a winner.” Tina said, she had remembered who the voting went last time.
“I know that and that is why, you can’t vote for yourself,” Will answered.
“You do know that you can’t check that,” Puck said. “And everyone is still going to be voting for themselves.”
“There won’t be a problem with that because I will give you one at the time a formulary where all of the pairs that you can vote for on, and an envelope so that no one can see who you voted for and then I will count them and announce the winner.”
“That sounds fair,” Finn said even if he hadn’t really understood what it was that the teacher had said.
“So who are we going to sing with and I’m not singing with Man Hands.”
“Santana, no name calling,” Rachel had been surprised that Mr. Schue had said anything about that he almost never noticed when it happened.
“Rachel, why don’t you come up her and pick a name,” Mr. Schuester said and looked at Rachel, he knew that it was for the best to get this started and letting Rachel start would be the best thing for the group.
“It would be my honor to start this off,” Rachel said and skipped up to the piano where the hat was sitting and she took one of the notes.
"Please give me the note," he said as he reached out his hand for the nore that Rachel was holding, "I'm reading the name, so that I know that you didn't cheat." Rachel gave him thenote she didn’t really care if she was the one that read it or if it was her teacher, it would be a surprise for as it would for whoever it was that she was singing with.
“So Rachel you will be singing with Sam,” Mr. Schuester said as he read the name. Sam got up from his seat so that he could leave with Rachel that much did he know about the girl that she would want to start the song selection as soon as possible.
And Sam wanted to win this competition, he had loved it when he sang the duet with Quinn at Sectionals and now he had a chance to sing with Rachel, he knew that Rachel would challenge him in a way that he had never really been challenge when he was singing with Quinn.
“Good luck,” Sam turned around to see who it was that had said that but the only one he saw was Puck smirking, and he was pretty sure that it was the mohawked boy that had said it.
“I don’t need it,” Sam said before he was next to Rachel. “You do know that I was a part of the team that won the last duet competition and Rachel is the best singer in the room.” Rachel blinked she didn’t believe what she just had heard.
“Dude, the only reason that you can Quinn won that competition was because me and Rachel threw the competition,” Finn said and smiled is half smile.
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Sam had no idea on how he had gotten roped into this idea, well he knew that he was going to sing with Rachel but he had no idea on how he had agreed on doing a song from Broadway, he had to figure out a way to get Rachel to agree on another song but he had no idea on how he would do that.
“Rachel!” Sam heard someone yell as a door opened up and Rachel dropped whatever it was that she was holding and ran out the door of her room and down the stairs, halfway down the stairs she turned around.
“Sorry, Sam!”
“Sam?” Sam didn’t recognize the voice; it was probably one of her fathers that were home.
“Yeah, daddy,” Rachel said, Sam decided that it was probably for the best to walk down stairs and introduce himself to the man. “We are doing a duet together for Glee.”
San couldn’t help but so smile for himself when he heard Rachel talk to her father, she sounded so happy about. He had never really heard Rachel talk the way she was talking right now, as Sam walked in to the kitchen where he guessed that they were, he saw a tall African American man in the kitchen, he was probably not Rachel’s biological dad but he wasn’t going to say anything.
“And you must be Sam,” The man said as he looked at the blonde boy up and down.
“Yes, sir, Sam I am and I don’t eat green egg and ham,” Sam said, and he closed his eyes, why did he say that, he was after all trying to hide his dorkier side.
“You don’t have to call me sir.”
“Okay, then I won’t call you sir, Mr. Berry,” Sam said as she took the man’s hand and shook it, act like the young man that you are and show respect, Sam told himself.
Mr. Berry turned to Rachel before he said, “I like him,” And Sam could see a small blush slowly coming up Rachel’s neck before it reach her face, he had no idea on why Mr. Berry would say that. “So what are the songs that you are doing?”
“Well, we were thinking that we were going to do either 'All I ask of You' or 'Sun and Moon',” Rachel said with a big smile on her face, and Sam closed his eyes and counted slowly to ten, before he opened his mouth to say something but he didn’t have a
chance to say anything before Mr. Berry was talking.
“Rachel, I know how much you love the Broadway musicals and the songs from them but maybe…” he said and glanced at Sam to see if he was agreeing with Rachel or if he wanted to do some other song. “…you should do some other song that also would showcase your
partner’s talent and not yours.”
This was kind of awkward for Sam to be present, he had been pretty sure that Rachel’s father would agree with her and tell her what lovely songs she had chosen, but instead he asked her to think about songs that would also showcase Sam’s talent.
“Daddy, I am sure that Sam is okay with doing a song from a famous Broadway musical," Rachel said and turned to the blonde. “You are okay with that right?”
He was not ready for that at all and Rachel could tell from the look on the boy that she had put him on the spot. “Well…” He started out and ran his fingers through his hair. “…I’m not really that familiar with Broadway so I am not sure if I could pull it off but I think that I can give you a couple of songs that we can listen to and then decide.”
Rachel was about to protest to that when she was stopped by her own father. “I think that sounds like a great idea, so what are the songs that you are thinking of Sam.”
“Well, the first one is a Disney song…” Sam said and bit his lip, he was once again showing his dorkier side but Disney was kind of cool.
“Which song is it then, don’t keep me hanging?” Mr. Berry said and pointed to the table indicating that they should sit down. “Disney is a favorite of mine, I know them all and we have them all in our DVD collection, right Rach?” Sam could hear Rachel mutter something under her breath.
And from where Sam was it sounded something like, “Disney, is okay but not Broadway, who does he think he is.”
“So, I thought that we could do Can you feel the love tonight?” Sam said as he sat down at the table with Rachel’s dad.
“I love that song, and The Lion King, is one of my favorites,” Mr. Berry said. “You know the first time I saw it I cried more than I thought was possible when Mufasa died.”
“You want to hear my James Earl Jones impression?” Sam asked, he wasn’t going to hide his dorkier side around this man. Sam had forgotten that Rachel was in the room and it seemed like Mr. Berry had done the same, but Rachel sat down, at the table with them. She was surprised that they were talking; her daddy had never really liked anyone that he had met before from her friends from school.
He had thought that Finn was too stupid and Jesse was too much of a drama queen as he had put it, and she couldn’t mention Noah, the only good thing about him was that he was Jewish, but Sam who wasn’t even her friend, well he was the perfect boy, well
at least according to Leroy Berry from what Rachel could tell.
“You do impressions?” Leroy Berry asked as he looked impressed at Sam.
“I try to; I’m not that good if you ask the one that has heard them,” Sam said, he remembered what both Quinn and Santana had said about his impressions.
“I’m sorry to interrupt your banding session that you have.” Rachel said she had enough of this; of course she was happy that her dad was getting along with Sam but the needed the time to rehears their duet that they hadn’t even decided on.
“I apologize,” Mr. Berry said and smiled at his daughter. “I never meant to take time away from that but you hadn’t even decided on a song.”
“I know that, daddy, which is why I need to talk to Sam,.” Rachel said like it was the most obvious
thing in the world. “So Sam what was the next song that you had in mind, you said that you had two.”
“Oh,” Sam said, he never thought that Rachel was going to ask him about that, this was not a good thing to let on that he knew about the song. “It’s kind of even more embarrassing for me then the Disney song.”
“So why don’t you do the Disney one then,” Leroy said and looked at Rachel.
“I am not doing a Disney song; we are going to sing the song at Nationals, there for we need a great love song.”
“You said that it needed to be a great love song right?” Sam asked, he wanted to make sure that he had heard her right before she would suggest the second song that he had in mind for them and it was a really great song, he loved it, not that anyone knew that and he wasn’t going to say anything about that either, if she asked he could always blame his mother right.
“Yeah, a great love song, a duet, a ballad, a preferably a classic one too,” Rachel said and she had her armed crossed. Sam wasn’t sure if this was the best idea but he had nothing to lose right.
“The second song I was thinking of was ‘When you tell the world that you are mine’,” Sam said and looked at Rachel, waiting for her to yell at him at telling him that was a stupid song and that they would never win anything if they sang the song.
But she didn’t say a word; Sam wasn’t sure on what was going on. Why wasn’t Rachel saying anything, she always had an opinion on song choices, at least in Glee and now they had to choose their own song to sing at the duet competition and she didn’t say a
word.
“Rachel, can you please say something.” Sam said, looking at the small brunette that was sitting next
to her father and she seemed even smaller now.
“I, I, I…” Rachel started out; Sam was surprised to hear Rachel stutter. “I…” Rachel took a deep breath before she continued on. “…I don’t think that I have heard that song.” Sam sighed in relief when he heard Rachel saying that.
“I have it on my ipod if you want to hear it,” Sam said and smiled, “I think that it will be a great song for us to sing.”
“Is it okay if I listen to it before we decide?” Rachel asked as she looked down, she was a little embarrassed that she didn’t know the song that Sam had suggested.
“Sure, I’ll just go up and grab my ipod.” Sam said and left.
Leroy looked at Rachel before he asked, “Is he gay?”
“Daddy!” Rachel exclaimed. “You can’t ask me that.”
“It’s just a question; I mean what teenage boy would love Disney and know a song that was written specially for a royal wedding,” Leroy said with a laugh.
“What do you mean by royal wedding?” Rachel asked as she looked at her father.
“The last song that he suggested was a song written for a royal wedding,” Leroy explained.
“I have the song here,” Sam sat, a little out of breath he ran to get the player.
“Great,” Rachel said and grabbed him by his hand, “I think that we should hook it up to my dock in my room so we should be heading back there.”
“Sorry about that, Mr. Berry,” Sam tried to apologize to Rachel’s father, when Rachel dragged him away.
“Not a problem Sam,” Leroy said with a smile, “You can call me Leroy.”
“Thank you sir,” Sam said as Rachel continued to drag him up the stairs, the girl was stronger than
she looked.
“Sam!” Leroy yelled as the two teenagers had gone half way up the stairs. “I told you to call me Leroy.”
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The two teenagers were laying on Rachel’s bed as they listened to the song, and Rachel had to agree with Sam, the song would actually fit the competition pretty good, and if they won this was the kind of song that the judges would love if they could get
the chemistry between them right.
“We should do this song,” Rachel said as she had heard the whole song and she smiled at Sam. “Why didn’t you say anything earlier?”
“I kind of wanted you to choose a song that you would feel comfortable with," Sam said and he looked away from Rachel, something that happened as the had listened to the song, he couldn’t point to what it was.
But that wasn’t the best part the best part was the fact that Rachel was calm and didn’t really push him in any kind of way or act to bossy like she sometime tended to do during Glee hours.
“I have one question for you and you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to,” Rachel said and she bit her lip, she thought that she had a pretty good gaydar, and Sam hadn’t really made a blip on that but she had to know.
“You can ask me anything that you want.” Sam said and turned around so that he was facing Rachel, he locked his eyes with her, he had never really seen her eyes so close before, they were really expressive, he loved that.
“Are you gay?” Rachel asked, and Sam couldn’t help but to smile as he heard the question, it wasn’t the first time that someone had asked him that, since he started to attend William McKinely High School.
“No, I am not gay,.” Sam said, and Rachel closed her eyes, and she tried to hide her head, she had been right from the beginning, and this was not something that she wanted him to see. “And if you don’t mind me asking…” Sam put his hand under Rachel’s chin and lifted it up so that they were looking into the other ones eyes. “…what made you ask me that?”
“It was just something that my dad said.” Rachel confessed, she felt the blood starting to move faster and faster to her face and her heartbeat, quickened its pace, she knew this reaction.
In that moment she decide on that she wasn’t going to be the one that was going to act on this feeling that she had, Sam was the one that needed to make the first move, if he felt the same way, she was not going to put her heart on the line again.
“So should we find the lyrics and music to the song so that we can start rehears?” Sam asked, and started to sit up on the bed.
“Yeah…” Rachel said she had no idea why she couldn’t use more words.
“I can go and get my guitar,” Sam said as he stood up and Rachel had her computer up and was searching for the sheet music that she needed.
“You don’t have to do that, I have a guitar if you need one other wise I am pretty sure that there is some instrumental version on the song somewhere that we can use,” Rachel said and she grabbed the papers that she had printed out and she handed that ones that Sam needed to him.
“So how are we going to do this?” the blonde boy asked, scratching the side of his head, normally he just grabbed his guitar and started to play but this was different, this was Rachel Berry.
“I’ll start the music and you will start of the song,” Rachel said, and it was the most obvious thing in the world to her.
“Great,” Sam said and looked at the first page of the lyrics and he could hear that Rachel had started the music, he took a breath and listened, he needed to find the right cue to start at. “I'm standing by an angel. Tears well up inside feelings of belonging. Of gratitude and pride.”
Rachel looked at the blonde boy as the both stood on the floor in her room, she could tell that they would need to work on their stage present and the chemistry but she hoped that it would get better the more they sang together.
“I’m blinded by your presence. In this moment that we’re in. If god was to describe you. Where would he begin,” Sam sang and he looked at Rachel, and he knew that they had the perfect song, they were so going to win this. “Your colours blend together. And you become the light. If only you could see the way you shine,” Sam knew that he needed to wait a couple of seconds before he continued on with the next line of the song, he smiled at Rachel, he couldn’t wait to hear her voice in this. “Darling, when you tell the world you’re mine.”
Rachel gave Sam a smile, she was happy how they had started out with the song so far. “You’re the future I believe in,” Rachel took a couple of steps closer to Sam so that they were standing next to each other instead of on opposites ends in her room. “I know you, through and through,” Rachel sang and in the end of that Sam came in again building up the song a bit more.
Rachel looked down on the paper with the lyrics on it, she wasn’t sure on the lyrics yet but she knew that by the end of this week, she would know this song. “Your each and every heartbeat, every breath,” and once again Sam was backing her up make the lyrics even more powerful than it already was. She couldn’t help but to smile at the footballplayer, had shown much more interest in this assignment then Finn or Noah ever had done when she was singing with them, it had only been Jesse that had shown somewhat interest in this kind of singing with her. “Every time I look at you.”
The ran though the song a couple of times before Sam’s phone started to ring and he looked at the time and he saw that he should have been home a long time ago, he picked up the call and he had to listen to his own mother talking to him and telling him a lot of different things that he didn’t want to repeat to the brunette. “I’m sorry, Rachel but that was my mother and she wanted me home an hour ago or so.”
“I am so sorry,” Rachel said and looked down, she had forgotten about time, it had been so fun to sing with Sam and she couldn’t wait until they were going to sing together this Friday. “You can tell her that it was my fault and she can call my dad if she needs.”
“Rach, I will explain to her why I was late when I get home,” Sam said and smiled. “I’m sure that she will understand.”
The girl walked Sam out to his car, it felt like that was the only thing that she could do. “Once again I am so sorry about keeping you here.”
“Rach, as I said, it’s okay, it’s just as much my fault for not keeping track of the time and you couldn’t know that," Sam said and he was about to get in the car when he felt someone tugging on his arm and he turned around and he could see Rachel standing there with a smile on her face, it was a genuine smile and he had seen that a couple of times during the time that he had been in her home.
Before he could react he felt a couple arms around his neck and he moved his arms so that they were around her waist, it felt great holding the girl, he had never really understood the whole thing about hugging and every time she had hugged someone before he always felt awkward but hugging Rachel felt great, almost like they fit together, like two pieces to a puzzle.
As they broke the hug, Sam placed a small peck on Rachel’s cheek and he could see that she started to blush a little. “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow,” Rachel agreed and she turned around and walked back to the door and Sam climbed up his Jeep Wrangler, and as he looked in the direction that Rachel had walked he could see her skipping and he couldn’t help but to smile to himself. He had sure done the right thing, kissing Rachel’s cheek and he had just felt like that was something that he should do.
Author: laotse4
Rating: pg-13
Length: +12 000 total
Spoilers: All episodes aired to be safe.
Summary: Sam and Rachel are going to sing a duet in Glee, and the winner will sing their song at Nationals.
When you tell the world that you are mine
[part 1/3]
“It’s time for a little competition,” Will said as he looked at the twelve members of New Directions. “You need this to get in the right mood for Nationals.” There was no one that was really excited for this they all wanted to move on and focus on Nationals.
“Mr. Schue if I may,” Rachel said as she stood up from her seat. “I think I speak for all of us when I say that I think that it would be better if we used this time to focus on nationals.” There was a collective groan from the rest of the group no one really felt like listening to Rachel. “We don’t even have a set list, and no one knows who is going to be singing the duet or have a solo.”
“Rachel,” Mr. Schuester said, he had really try and keep his temper in control, he knew that Rachel just wanted what was best for them but sometimes it was just a little bit too much. “I understand where you are coming from but please take a seat, and when you do I will tell you more about this competition that I have planned.” Rachel huffed but she took her seat again, and she crossed her arms over her chest.
“As I said before Rachel interrupted, I think that you need to get a little competition spirit and that is why I have decided that you will have a duets competition.”
“Mr. Schue…” Rachel said and was about to stand up again and say something.
“Berry, sit down.” Rachel looked around to see who it was that had said that but she couldn’t see who it was that said that, the small brunette huffed.
“Thank you, as I tried to say…” Mr. Schuester said as he took out the famous hat once again.
“I think that the duck’s in the hand this time,” Brittany whispered to whoever it was that sat next to her, and Rachel just shook her head. All of this was just ridiculous, so of course Mr. Schuester thought it was a great idea.
“…and the pair that wins this competition will be singing their duet at Nationals in New York," Mr. Schuester said and Rachel peaked up a little when she heard that, maybe this was a good idea after all, now everyone would feel like that had a chance to get a solo. That might be a good idea for Nationals.
“And who is going to decide on who will win this?”
“That is a valid question,” Will said as he put the notes in the hat. “You are all going to vote for which you think is the best.”
“But everyone will be voting for themselves so there for there is not going to be a winner.” Tina said, she had remembered who the voting went last time.
“I know that and that is why, you can’t vote for yourself,” Will answered.
“You do know that you can’t check that,” Puck said. “And everyone is still going to be voting for themselves.”
“There won’t be a problem with that because I will give you one at the time a formulary where all of the pairs that you can vote for on, and an envelope so that no one can see who you voted for and then I will count them and announce the winner.”
“That sounds fair,” Finn said even if he hadn’t really understood what it was that the teacher had said.
“So who are we going to sing with and I’m not singing with Man Hands.”
“Santana, no name calling,” Rachel had been surprised that Mr. Schue had said anything about that he almost never noticed when it happened.
“Rachel, why don’t you come up her and pick a name,” Mr. Schuester said and looked at Rachel, he knew that it was for the best to get this started and letting Rachel start would be the best thing for the group.
“It would be my honor to start this off,” Rachel said and skipped up to the piano where the hat was sitting and she took one of the notes.
"Please give me the note," he said as he reached out his hand for the nore that Rachel was holding, "I'm reading the name, so that I know that you didn't cheat." Rachel gave him thenote she didn’t really care if she was the one that read it or if it was her teacher, it would be a surprise for as it would for whoever it was that she was singing with.
“So Rachel you will be singing with Sam,” Mr. Schuester said as he read the name. Sam got up from his seat so that he could leave with Rachel that much did he know about the girl that she would want to start the song selection as soon as possible.
And Sam wanted to win this competition, he had loved it when he sang the duet with Quinn at Sectionals and now he had a chance to sing with Rachel, he knew that Rachel would challenge him in a way that he had never really been challenge when he was singing with Quinn.
“Good luck,” Sam turned around to see who it was that had said that but the only one he saw was Puck smirking, and he was pretty sure that it was the mohawked boy that had said it.
“I don’t need it,” Sam said before he was next to Rachel. “You do know that I was a part of the team that won the last duet competition and Rachel is the best singer in the room.” Rachel blinked she didn’t believe what she just had heard.
“Dude, the only reason that you can Quinn won that competition was because me and Rachel threw the competition,” Finn said and smiled is half smile.
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Sam had no idea on how he had gotten roped into this idea, well he knew that he was going to sing with Rachel but he had no idea on how he had agreed on doing a song from Broadway, he had to figure out a way to get Rachel to agree on another song but he had no idea on how he would do that.
“Rachel!” Sam heard someone yell as a door opened up and Rachel dropped whatever it was that she was holding and ran out the door of her room and down the stairs, halfway down the stairs she turned around.
“Sorry, Sam!”
“Sam?” Sam didn’t recognize the voice; it was probably one of her fathers that were home.
“Yeah, daddy,” Rachel said, Sam decided that it was probably for the best to walk down stairs and introduce himself to the man. “We are doing a duet together for Glee.”
San couldn’t help but so smile for himself when he heard Rachel talk to her father, she sounded so happy about. He had never really heard Rachel talk the way she was talking right now, as Sam walked in to the kitchen where he guessed that they were, he saw a tall African American man in the kitchen, he was probably not Rachel’s biological dad but he wasn’t going to say anything.
“And you must be Sam,” The man said as he looked at the blonde boy up and down.
“Yes, sir, Sam I am and I don’t eat green egg and ham,” Sam said, and he closed his eyes, why did he say that, he was after all trying to hide his dorkier side.
“You don’t have to call me sir.”
“Okay, then I won’t call you sir, Mr. Berry,” Sam said as she took the man’s hand and shook it, act like the young man that you are and show respect, Sam told himself.
Mr. Berry turned to Rachel before he said, “I like him,” And Sam could see a small blush slowly coming up Rachel’s neck before it reach her face, he had no idea on why Mr. Berry would say that. “So what are the songs that you are doing?”
“Well, we were thinking that we were going to do either 'All I ask of You' or 'Sun and Moon',” Rachel said with a big smile on her face, and Sam closed his eyes and counted slowly to ten, before he opened his mouth to say something but he didn’t have a
chance to say anything before Mr. Berry was talking.
“Rachel, I know how much you love the Broadway musicals and the songs from them but maybe…” he said and glanced at Sam to see if he was agreeing with Rachel or if he wanted to do some other song. “…you should do some other song that also would showcase your
partner’s talent and not yours.”
This was kind of awkward for Sam to be present, he had been pretty sure that Rachel’s father would agree with her and tell her what lovely songs she had chosen, but instead he asked her to think about songs that would also showcase Sam’s talent.
“Daddy, I am sure that Sam is okay with doing a song from a famous Broadway musical," Rachel said and turned to the blonde. “You are okay with that right?”
He was not ready for that at all and Rachel could tell from the look on the boy that she had put him on the spot. “Well…” He started out and ran his fingers through his hair. “…I’m not really that familiar with Broadway so I am not sure if I could pull it off but I think that I can give you a couple of songs that we can listen to and then decide.”
Rachel was about to protest to that when she was stopped by her own father. “I think that sounds like a great idea, so what are the songs that you are thinking of Sam.”
“Well, the first one is a Disney song…” Sam said and bit his lip, he was once again showing his dorkier side but Disney was kind of cool.
“Which song is it then, don’t keep me hanging?” Mr. Berry said and pointed to the table indicating that they should sit down. “Disney is a favorite of mine, I know them all and we have them all in our DVD collection, right Rach?” Sam could hear Rachel mutter something under her breath.
And from where Sam was it sounded something like, “Disney, is okay but not Broadway, who does he think he is.”
“So, I thought that we could do Can you feel the love tonight?” Sam said as he sat down at the table with Rachel’s dad.
“I love that song, and The Lion King, is one of my favorites,” Mr. Berry said. “You know the first time I saw it I cried more than I thought was possible when Mufasa died.”
“You want to hear my James Earl Jones impression?” Sam asked, he wasn’t going to hide his dorkier side around this man. Sam had forgotten that Rachel was in the room and it seemed like Mr. Berry had done the same, but Rachel sat down, at the table with them. She was surprised that they were talking; her daddy had never really liked anyone that he had met before from her friends from school.
He had thought that Finn was too stupid and Jesse was too much of a drama queen as he had put it, and she couldn’t mention Noah, the only good thing about him was that he was Jewish, but Sam who wasn’t even her friend, well he was the perfect boy, well
at least according to Leroy Berry from what Rachel could tell.
“You do impressions?” Leroy Berry asked as he looked impressed at Sam.
“I try to; I’m not that good if you ask the one that has heard them,” Sam said, he remembered what both Quinn and Santana had said about his impressions.
“I’m sorry to interrupt your banding session that you have.” Rachel said she had enough of this; of course she was happy that her dad was getting along with Sam but the needed the time to rehears their duet that they hadn’t even decided on.
“I apologize,” Mr. Berry said and smiled at his daughter. “I never meant to take time away from that but you hadn’t even decided on a song.”
“I know that, daddy, which is why I need to talk to Sam,.” Rachel said like it was the most obvious
thing in the world. “So Sam what was the next song that you had in mind, you said that you had two.”
“Oh,” Sam said, he never thought that Rachel was going to ask him about that, this was not a good thing to let on that he knew about the song. “It’s kind of even more embarrassing for me then the Disney song.”
“So why don’t you do the Disney one then,” Leroy said and looked at Rachel.
“I am not doing a Disney song; we are going to sing the song at Nationals, there for we need a great love song.”
“You said that it needed to be a great love song right?” Sam asked, he wanted to make sure that he had heard her right before she would suggest the second song that he had in mind for them and it was a really great song, he loved it, not that anyone knew that and he wasn’t going to say anything about that either, if she asked he could always blame his mother right.
“Yeah, a great love song, a duet, a ballad, a preferably a classic one too,” Rachel said and she had her armed crossed. Sam wasn’t sure if this was the best idea but he had nothing to lose right.
“The second song I was thinking of was ‘When you tell the world that you are mine’,” Sam said and looked at Rachel, waiting for her to yell at him at telling him that was a stupid song and that they would never win anything if they sang the song.
But she didn’t say a word; Sam wasn’t sure on what was going on. Why wasn’t Rachel saying anything, she always had an opinion on song choices, at least in Glee and now they had to choose their own song to sing at the duet competition and she didn’t say a
word.
“Rachel, can you please say something.” Sam said, looking at the small brunette that was sitting next
to her father and she seemed even smaller now.
“I, I, I…” Rachel started out; Sam was surprised to hear Rachel stutter. “I…” Rachel took a deep breath before she continued on. “…I don’t think that I have heard that song.” Sam sighed in relief when he heard Rachel saying that.
“I have it on my ipod if you want to hear it,” Sam said and smiled, “I think that it will be a great song for us to sing.”
“Is it okay if I listen to it before we decide?” Rachel asked as she looked down, she was a little embarrassed that she didn’t know the song that Sam had suggested.
“Sure, I’ll just go up and grab my ipod.” Sam said and left.
Leroy looked at Rachel before he asked, “Is he gay?”
“Daddy!” Rachel exclaimed. “You can’t ask me that.”
“It’s just a question; I mean what teenage boy would love Disney and know a song that was written specially for a royal wedding,” Leroy said with a laugh.
“What do you mean by royal wedding?” Rachel asked as she looked at her father.
“The last song that he suggested was a song written for a royal wedding,” Leroy explained.
“I have the song here,” Sam sat, a little out of breath he ran to get the player.
“Great,” Rachel said and grabbed him by his hand, “I think that we should hook it up to my dock in my room so we should be heading back there.”
“Sorry about that, Mr. Berry,” Sam tried to apologize to Rachel’s father, when Rachel dragged him away.
“Not a problem Sam,” Leroy said with a smile, “You can call me Leroy.”
“Thank you sir,” Sam said as Rachel continued to drag him up the stairs, the girl was stronger than
she looked.
“Sam!” Leroy yelled as the two teenagers had gone half way up the stairs. “I told you to call me Leroy.”
WYTtWTYAM
The two teenagers were laying on Rachel’s bed as they listened to the song, and Rachel had to agree with Sam, the song would actually fit the competition pretty good, and if they won this was the kind of song that the judges would love if they could get
the chemistry between them right.
“We should do this song,” Rachel said as she had heard the whole song and she smiled at Sam. “Why didn’t you say anything earlier?”
“I kind of wanted you to choose a song that you would feel comfortable with," Sam said and he looked away from Rachel, something that happened as the had listened to the song, he couldn’t point to what it was.
But that wasn’t the best part the best part was the fact that Rachel was calm and didn’t really push him in any kind of way or act to bossy like she sometime tended to do during Glee hours.
“I have one question for you and you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to,” Rachel said and she bit her lip, she thought that she had a pretty good gaydar, and Sam hadn’t really made a blip on that but she had to know.
“You can ask me anything that you want.” Sam said and turned around so that he was facing Rachel, he locked his eyes with her, he had never really seen her eyes so close before, they were really expressive, he loved that.
“Are you gay?” Rachel asked, and Sam couldn’t help but to smile as he heard the question, it wasn’t the first time that someone had asked him that, since he started to attend William McKinely High School.
“No, I am not gay,.” Sam said, and Rachel closed her eyes, and she tried to hide her head, she had been right from the beginning, and this was not something that she wanted him to see. “And if you don’t mind me asking…” Sam put his hand under Rachel’s chin and lifted it up so that they were looking into the other ones eyes. “…what made you ask me that?”
“It was just something that my dad said.” Rachel confessed, she felt the blood starting to move faster and faster to her face and her heartbeat, quickened its pace, she knew this reaction.
In that moment she decide on that she wasn’t going to be the one that was going to act on this feeling that she had, Sam was the one that needed to make the first move, if he felt the same way, she was not going to put her heart on the line again.
“So should we find the lyrics and music to the song so that we can start rehears?” Sam asked, and started to sit up on the bed.
“Yeah…” Rachel said she had no idea why she couldn’t use more words.
“I can go and get my guitar,” Sam said as he stood up and Rachel had her computer up and was searching for the sheet music that she needed.
“You don’t have to do that, I have a guitar if you need one other wise I am pretty sure that there is some instrumental version on the song somewhere that we can use,” Rachel said and she grabbed the papers that she had printed out and she handed that ones that Sam needed to him.
“So how are we going to do this?” the blonde boy asked, scratching the side of his head, normally he just grabbed his guitar and started to play but this was different, this was Rachel Berry.
“I’ll start the music and you will start of the song,” Rachel said, and it was the most obvious thing in the world to her.
“Great,” Sam said and looked at the first page of the lyrics and he could hear that Rachel had started the music, he took a breath and listened, he needed to find the right cue to start at. “I'm standing by an angel. Tears well up inside feelings of belonging. Of gratitude and pride.”
Rachel looked at the blonde boy as the both stood on the floor in her room, she could tell that they would need to work on their stage present and the chemistry but she hoped that it would get better the more they sang together.
“I’m blinded by your presence. In this moment that we’re in. If god was to describe you. Where would he begin,” Sam sang and he looked at Rachel, and he knew that they had the perfect song, they were so going to win this. “Your colours blend together. And you become the light. If only you could see the way you shine,” Sam knew that he needed to wait a couple of seconds before he continued on with the next line of the song, he smiled at Rachel, he couldn’t wait to hear her voice in this. “Darling, when you tell the world you’re mine.”
Rachel gave Sam a smile, she was happy how they had started out with the song so far. “You’re the future I believe in,” Rachel took a couple of steps closer to Sam so that they were standing next to each other instead of on opposites ends in her room. “I know you, through and through,” Rachel sang and in the end of that Sam came in again building up the song a bit more.
Rachel looked down on the paper with the lyrics on it, she wasn’t sure on the lyrics yet but she knew that by the end of this week, she would know this song. “Your each and every heartbeat, every breath,” and once again Sam was backing her up make the lyrics even more powerful than it already was. She couldn’t help but to smile at the footballplayer, had shown much more interest in this assignment then Finn or Noah ever had done when she was singing with them, it had only been Jesse that had shown somewhat interest in this kind of singing with her. “Every time I look at you.”
The ran though the song a couple of times before Sam’s phone started to ring and he looked at the time and he saw that he should have been home a long time ago, he picked up the call and he had to listen to his own mother talking to him and telling him a lot of different things that he didn’t want to repeat to the brunette. “I’m sorry, Rachel but that was my mother and she wanted me home an hour ago or so.”
“I am so sorry,” Rachel said and looked down, she had forgotten about time, it had been so fun to sing with Sam and she couldn’t wait until they were going to sing together this Friday. “You can tell her that it was my fault and she can call my dad if she needs.”
“Rach, I will explain to her why I was late when I get home,” Sam said and smiled. “I’m sure that she will understand.”
The girl walked Sam out to his car, it felt like that was the only thing that she could do. “Once again I am so sorry about keeping you here.”
“Rach, as I said, it’s okay, it’s just as much my fault for not keeping track of the time and you couldn’t know that," Sam said and he was about to get in the car when he felt someone tugging on his arm and he turned around and he could see Rachel standing there with a smile on her face, it was a genuine smile and he had seen that a couple of times during the time that he had been in her home.
Before he could react he felt a couple arms around his neck and he moved his arms so that they were around her waist, it felt great holding the girl, he had never really understood the whole thing about hugging and every time she had hugged someone before he always felt awkward but hugging Rachel felt great, almost like they fit together, like two pieces to a puzzle.
As they broke the hug, Sam placed a small peck on Rachel’s cheek and he could see that she started to blush a little. “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow,” Rachel agreed and she turned around and walked back to the door and Sam climbed up his Jeep Wrangler, and as he looked in the direction that Rachel had walked he could see her skipping and he couldn’t help but to smile to himself. He had sure done the right thing, kissing Rachel’s cheek and he had just felt like that was something that he should do.