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Artie had heard the rumors about the new girl. The things he'd gotten from them so far were this: she was British, she was hot and she was easy. Apparently, she'd already hooked up with Dave Jennings in the janitor's closet before fifth period. Before that, she had already been caught lighting up a joint underneath the bleachers with Jack something or other by Principal Figgins.

Artie listened to the conversation around him flourish around the new girl. He tried to focus on Puck's plan to invite her to "have a go at the Puckster" so that his eyes wouldn't stray to the corner of the chorus room… it wasn't working.

Artie didn't know why he was so upset. Brittany hadn't been as harsh as Tina was in breaking up with him… hell, she even cried. And that's what broke Artie's heart the most. It was hurting her to hurt him and that's when Artie knew he had to let her go. She was already so much happier with Santana. He could see that in something as simple as the two linking pinkies and talking. But still… it hurt. He loved her too.

"Yo, Artie,"

Artie quickly averted his eyes from the corner and instead to Puck's face. "Mhm, yeah,"

"You didn't hear a single word I said, did you?"

"Yeah, yeah sure I did. You're inviting that new girl to have a go at the Puckster."

"That was like five minutes ago, dude. I was saying, did you wanna try and pick up some chicks at that burger joint tonight?"

It sounded weird, but Puck had become one of Artie's best friends. He had helped him "win" Brittany back after he had stupidly left her the first time and he had helped him try and get over his losing Brittany again… or at least tried. "Dude, at least she left you for Santana. Just think about what they do in a bedroom!"

Artie knew it was perfect timing for Puck that Artie was suffering his heartbreak when he was as Lauren Zizes had recently broken up with him for that one kid with the Jew-fro. Puck was not happy and maybe even a little bit heartbroken.

"Um, yeah, sure." Artie nodded his appreciation to Puck and wheeled around just as Mr. Schuester walked into the room. He wasn't alone, however. Behind him, entered a girl with dark make-up under her eyes. Her hair was teased out and she wore an extremely short grey dress with a pair of black boots and knee high black and white striped socks.

"Hey guys, I'd like to introduce you to our new student. She's going to be joining us here in New Directions for the rest of the year. She comes all the way from the UK!" He had hoped from some excitement from the class, but it was obvious only the guys showed some kind of interest in the fact that the new girl was going to be joining them. He had cut a deal with Principal Figgins after the girl had been caught smoking a joint under the bleachers. He knew for a fact that that's where Sandy had sold his weed and sure enough, Figgins had found a "Chronic Lady" baggy on the student when searching through her bag. He didn't know what it was but he still felt kind of bad after the Josh Grobin incident with Sandy and so he decided to "remedy" the situation and instead of a punishment, she'd join New Directions and be reformed… he hoped. He turned to the new student. "Would you like to tell us a few things about yourself?"

She looked at him like he was a nutjob and said nothing.

"Um, right, okay. Well, guys, this is Effy Stonem. Do your best in making her feel welcome, yeah?"