Unrequited In C Sharp
by vexatively
Cheerleaders.
All teenagers are inherently different. Actually, all humans are different but all teenagers are inherently self-centered, too. Thus, they are all losers. Quinn knows this. She's seen first-hand how they try to fight this realization, all their focus centered on how they were so obviously different and how to make them look better. Of course, they don't realize that all of them focus so hard on themselves that no one really has time to look at anyone else.
It's a concept that Ms. Pillsbury has learnt, Coach Sylvester has exploited and Coach Tanaka has scoffed at. Yet it's only Mr. Schue who's really understood them… understood her.
That it's hard cheering for losers.
That it's hard, hard, hard being the cheerleader in the sidelines— in the spotlight but no one ever sees you, like a twisted parody of a backup singer— and when you have your own inner demons, the hardest thing isn't coping with them. It's smiling while doing a double backflip like there's nothing wrong in the world.
Only there is.
And it must be hard when Mr. Schue is forever the cheerleader, because right now he has the biggest demons of them all. But no one in Glee club would sing Keep Holding On… not to their cheerleader. And it must be even harder when some of the most observant people in the school, all clumped in the lamest club in school, stay so damned oblivious in their perfect, slightly troubled little bubbles.
In the end, they are the cheerleaders with perfect little smiles for losers that never see them.
Disclaimer: Glee belongs to Fox, not me.
Author's Note: Pshh. Like I need something else to update. But I adore the idea of Quinn/Will (Quill! 3). But anyway, this is an anthology of oneshots and drabbles featuring... what else? Unrequited love. And since I need a theme to tie it all together, we have words beginning with the letter 'C'. These drabbles are probably really incoherent and stuff. But it's really late, I'm procrastinating on math and it's a Thursday.
The Gleeks will inherit the Earth!
