THE RACHEL BERRY TRAINWRECK EXTRAVAGANZA!

"YOU, FINN HUDSON, ARE A MASSIVE COCKBLOCK!" Tessa sighed out as she slumped against the lockers besides Finn, folding her arms across her chest.

Outraged, Finn gasped in pure betrayal and was quick to find out what he had done, "what? What did I do?"

"When you messaged me yesterday, Sam had just kissed me." She told him, watching as his eyes widened in excitement.

"Well did you kiss him back?" Finn quizzed her almost instantly, delighted that stuff was happening between Tessa and Sam.

Nodding, Tessa furrowed her eyebrows, "of course I kissed back!" She hissed, sighing out of frustration with herself and continuing as Finn gave her a nod to tell him everything, "it sounds all cheesy and that but we had a moment. But then a certain someone decided it was a good idea to spam my phone with texts and the moment was gone."

Finn was quick to defend himself, holding up his hands in surrender, "someone had to help me with my homework, dude! I forgot I took that class!"

"Why didn't you ask Quinn? Didn't want to cheat with her twice?"

Nervously rubbing the back of his neck under her steely glare, he let out an awkward laugh, "didn't think of that." He admitted, "look, I'm sorry, okay? I want you and Sam to get together more than anyone. — well maybe except Santana."

"And Puck."

"Puck?!" Finn yelled.

"And probably Blaine, and Kurt." Tessa continued to tease him, laughing loudly as he threw his hands up into the air out of frustration.

"Okay, okay, I get it." He rolled his eyes, playfully, "but I promise I'll help you in future. I'll redeem myself. Starting now: I heard you two had a date at colour me mine."

"Just as friends though." Tessa clarified, the small sad smile appearing on Finn's face making him cringe slightly, blaming his European geography teacher for giving him homework, "we haven't talked about the kiss together yet, so we've both been normal with each other."

Widening his eyes, Finn knew he had to do something about this, "well talk to him about it! You both obviously want to be together."

Going slightly red, Tessa found herself just shrugging her shoulders in response as she nodded her head. Crossing his arms across his chest, Finn stood up a bit straighter as he could see straight through her demeanor, "you're scared."

Tessa's head snapped upwards and she pushed her messy braids over her shoulders with a firm frown, "I'm not scared." She insisted, quickly.

"If you say so." Finn rolled his eyes, raising his eyebrows in disbelief as she continued to insist that she wasn't scared, "you're not scared of anything, I know." He mocked, quickly moving on as she gave him a glare, "just take my lead, do a kissing booth!"

"I'm not kissing every guy in this school. Besides, I doubt they'd wanna kiss me. Not even JBI thinks I'm attractive." She laughed, to hide the fact that she was feeling insecure about the way her body looked at the moment.

"Well I think you're beautiful." Finn smiled softly, holding onto her shoulders as she gave him a smile of thanks, "and Sam, he obviously thinks you're the most beautiful girl he's ever seen."

"You think so?"

Nodding, Finn ruffled up her hair with his hand and shrugged his shoulders, "I know so, dude. I may be oblivious most of the time but I know he likes you. So if he doesn't come talk to you first, go talk to him."

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DESPITE THE FACT IT WAS ALCOHOL AWARENESS WEEK, PUCK HAD PERSUADED RACHEL BERRY TO THROW A PARTY. It was not off to a great start, in fact, it was boring.

Going expecting Puck to break into Rachel's dads' liquor cabinet, two wine cooler tickets wasn't enough to get the party started. They could probably get more excited over laughing at Rachel's dress.

Watching as Sam nervously wrapped an arm over Tessa's shoulder, letting her cuddle up closer to him and absentmindedly play with the hem of his shirt, Santana smirked to herself, feeling pleased with how her job as Auntie Snixx was going and hoping that getting drunk in Rachel's basement would be the last push they needed to actually get together.

Strutting up towards Puck, she grabbed him by the back of his shirt and pulled him over to one side, "you need to get Berry to let us drink."

"Tell me about it!" Puck agreed, "I wanna see all you losers blackout drunk and that's not gonna happen on two wine coolers!" He exclaimed, holding up the two wine cooler tickets that were crushed in his hand.

Tutting loudly, Santana was clearly already fed up as she sank backwards, crossing her arms and pursing her lips, "not just that, those two nerds cuddled up over there need to get drunk and suck each other's faces off." The short silence in reply told Santana that he didn't entirely know what she meant, causing an irritated huff, "Sam and Tess."

"Right!" Puck agreed, his mouth forming an o shape as he began to walk backwards towards Rachel once again, "I'm on it."

Meanwhile, Tessa had let out a sigh of boredom, "what do you say we get out of here?" She suggested, sitting up slightly and just resting her head against Sam's shoulder.

"Great idea, this party kinda sucks." Sam agreed, "we'll go get Breadstix or something."

"You might finally be able to meet Blaine if we go to the Lima Bean." Tessa smiled, enthusiastically, getting a gentle nod from Sam.

Coming up next to them, Mike threw himself down on the couch next to Tessa, giving them both a questioning look, "you guys leaving? Come with Tina, Artie, Brittany and I! We're going for 'dinner reservations.'"

Looking at each other for approval, Sam and Tessa let the smiles come to their lips as they turned back to Mike and nodded, getting up from the couch and following them to the door. Making his way over, Sam felt Santana's eyes burning into the back of his skull and felt a sudden jolt of confidence, deciding to let his hand brush beside Tessa's until she interlaced his fingers with hers.

But almost as soon as they began holding hands, Tessa had let go to throw herself into the arms of Blaine Anderson as he walked in behind Kurt, "hey dude!" She yelled, excitedly, "I didn't know you were coming!"

"I blackmailed Finn with his browser history." Kurt muttered over to her, sending his friend a wink as she pulled him into her arms next. Pulling away from the hug, he took Blaine by the shoulders and walked him over towards Sam, "Blaine, this is the Sam Evans Tess has told you so much about."

Turning immediately to Tessa as she widened her eyes in embarrassment, Sam let his smirk grow, "you talk about me?"

"Let's just say, I pretty much know everything about you — in the least creepy way possible." Blaine chuckled, taking Sam's hand as he offered it to shake and nudging Tessa slightly as she hid her embarrassed expression with her hands, "for example, I know you do awesome impressions."

Lighting up, Sam immediately jumped into a string of impressions, unaware to the dreamy smile that had crept onto Tessa's lips as she watched him do something he enjoyed so much.

Poking an impressed Blaine in the side once Sam had finished, she shrugged her shoulders, "See, I told you Sam's impressions are the best in Ohio." She grinned back at him one last time before she was dragged away by Tina as they heard Rachel screaming out for them to party with all the alcohol they could ever want from her dads liquor cabinet.

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ONCE ALMOST EVERYONE WAS COMPLETELY DRUNK, RACHEL WANTED TO PLAY SPIN THE BOTTLE. Tessa laughed to herself as she plopped down between Rachel and Kurt, unsure whether not being fully drunk was a blessing or a curse.

After a while of laughing as everyone spun the bottle, Tessa leaned forward to spin the bottle herself as the glee club watched it intently, all of them desperate to find out who she was going to kiss. Biting onto his lip as the bottle slowed down, Sam's heart beat got faster and faster as it began to turn towards him. Unfortunately for him, it spun straight past and onto Brittany.

With a shy smile, each of the girls shuffled towards each other as the group stared on with eager eyes. Taking Brittany's cheek in her hand, she gave her one last look to make sure she was okay before leaning in for the kiss.

Breaking away, they giggled together, as Tessa's eyes flickered down to Brittany's lips once again before sitting back down.

Coming up behind her, Santana laughed and squeezed the back of Tessa's shoulders, "don't be so flustered!" She slurred, "you've kissed me before!"

"But you're not blonde." Tessa giggled, flicking Santana's hair over her shoulders with a giddy smile, taking another drink from her and sipping it from the straw.

As spin the bottle kept on going, Puck had began pushing Sam for his turn to spin, shaking his shoulders enthusiastically. Before he could lean forward to spin, Mike had already jumped in, pressing a kiss onto the bottle then leaning back to whisper into Sam's ear, "I gave it a good luck kiss."

"Thanks, Mike." Sam whispered back, grabbing him by both shoulders and pressing their foreheads together. Finally spinning the bottle, he watched eagerly as it spun round, keeping his eyes flickering between the bottle and Tessa, who had her eyes fixed on the game.

When it finally landed on Tina, Mike couldn't be more disappointed, "oh come on!" He yelled, throwing his hands up into the air, annoyed that his wish had backfired on him. Turning to the group with a pout, "my wish went wrong."

"They both begin with a T, I guess." Brittany shrugged, despite being completely drunk, knowing exactly what Mike Chang had wished for.

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WITH RACHEL FALLING IN LOVE WITH BLAINE, TESSA HAD GOTTEN HERSELF THE MOST DRUNK SHE'D EVER BEEN. After doing a body shot off of her, Tessa and Quinn were definitely friends and were dancing like maniacs together in a circle around Mercedes.

After a while, Finn had decided to step up his wingman game and took her by the hand twirling her across Rachel's basement until she stumbled into Sam's arms, "hello Sammy Evans." She slurred, wrapping her arms around his neck and letting his hands fall onto her hips.

"Hey there baby, ambition is a dream with a V-8 engine." He smiled in the best Elvis Presley impression he could do whilst drunk.

"I like it when you do impressions." Tessa whispered, giddily.

After dancing with each other for a while as Tina and Mike drunkenly sang on the stage in the background, Sam rubbed the back of his neck and began to talk over the noise, "I think we need to talk about our kiss." He suggested, awkwardly.

"I very much liked it a lot." Tessa hummed, swaying along to the music, "I'd give it a twelve point seventy."

"Out of what?" Sam asked, suddenly worried about his kissing ability.

"Out of ten." She assured him, still unaware about what was going on around her, "how about you?"

Thinking for a second, Sam looked down to let his eyes meet hers as he let go of her hips to entwine their fingers together, "yeah, I'd give it twelve point seventy too. Can I tell you a secret? I like kissing you a lot."

Leaning in towards him as well, giggles spilled from Tessa's lips, "I like kissing you a lot too. You're my favourite person I've ever kissed. And I've kissed some cool people."

"You maybe wanna kiss me again?" Sam asked, nervously, his eyes flickering down to Tessa's lips for a moment then back up to meet her eyes as she took a moment to hesitate then nodded, blushing.

Cupping Sam's cheek in her hand, she pushed her self up onto her tip toes, giggling as he pushed his lips against hers, gently pulling her in closer towards him as they deepened the kiss. Breaking apart for a breathe, Tessa suddenly became nervous, "we're not gonna mess things up by kissing drunk, are we?"

"I won't let us mess it up." Sam whispered, reassuringly, caressing her cheek with his hand. But before he could pull her back in for another kiss, they were both distracted by Rachel screaming excitedly for another duet with her newest crush, Blaine Anderson.

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THE NEW DIRECTIONS HAD BEEN HIT WITH THE WORST HANGOVERS IMAGINABLE. This came at a cost when they realised that they had to perform at the alcohol awareness assembly and after Mr Schue didn't approve of their first attempt at a song, they were stood backstage ready for perform 'Tik Tok', by Ke$ha.

After taking a cup each Rachel's strange alcohol mixture thing, Sam and Tessa lingered together at the back of the group, grimacing at the smell of the drink the group had insisted they take.

"You look cool in your beanie hat." Tessa commented through a laugh.

Absentmindedly throwing his hand up to his head to touch the hat, a smile broke out across Sam's face, "thanks, Tess, you look cool with glitter all across your face."

"You want some?" She laughed, using her finger to take a bit of glitter from her cheeks and wipe it on his as he batted her away, playfully. Rubbing her hand across her forehead, Tessa shook her head, "this is gonna suck so badly."

"So badly." He agreed, letting out a breathe of air and holding his cup up towards hers, "to alcohol awareness week."

Laughing, Tessa pushed her cup against his, "to alcohol awareness week."

Downing the mixture in one, Tessa immediately screwed her face up in disgust at the taste, quickly getting rid of the cup as she and Sam began to make their way towards the starting positions, "remind me to never let Rachel cook for me." She shuddered, resisting the urge to shield her eyes from the lights as the curtains opened and Brittany began singing.