Sorry for the very very late update, I was busy preparing to graduate and fill out my university application and their conditions. The results leads to that I'm going to UCI for university! I'm happy that I got in and happy to finally have the time to redo the story since I think the original has no substance, so please bear with me as I rewrite the chapters and create new one. Thank you all for reading and reviewing my stories and I hope you continue to support me
Sign,
WhiteCherryBlossom99
NOW ONWARD TO THE NEW IMAGINATION!
_
GLEE: Smile for Me
Name: Iris Lee
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Grade: Sophomore
Chapter 1: Welcome McKinley High
Iris was in front of her new school; she couldn't help but rub her hands together to try to get rid of her unease feelings. She knows what it feels like being someone trying to look in; she doesn't want to be an outcast on her first day. Iris wouldn't call this the greatest idea since in her old school she's been usually ignored by her peers in her old school due to her sickness so her parents believes it a good idea for her to be in a different environment or to at least have at least one friend.
She sighs at herself knowing that it isn't easy for her since she's too shy to speak to anyone and being the center of attention. Apparently to her parents if she continues to be this way then she'll never get married or something like that but she can't help it… she can admit that she's different from the others but she just hope she doesn't look like a freak just on her first day. She wore a hooded jacket that covers most of her face with baggy shirt that looked too big on her with ripped jeans with patches sewn on it also she had lots of bracelets she made herself hidden under the sleeves. She had long straight black hair that reaches below her lower back with bangs that is cut above her eyelashes and dark aquamarine eyes (appearance like Alice from Heaven's Memo Pad 神様のメモ帳).
To stranger's eyes, she looks like a poor kid off the streets. She was no taller than 158cm and she was of Asian descent. She fiddles with her violin case that her father gotten for her on her 8th birthday, she fell in love with music ever since her father used to play the guitar for her when she was young; so she started playing the violin, guitar, cello and the piano from electrical instruments to classical; to her playing these instruments made her feel at peace, so in case if the first day went bad she brought her violin just in case she feels alone.
She takes a deep breath and walks inside the hall. She looked around and the hall alone was huge and she saw hundreds of kids shoving each other to get to their class. She clenched her fists in reluctance and made her way past the crowd. She was so much smaller than everybody there she had a hard time pushing her way through the crowd. She looked at her schedule to see which locker was hers. Locker 189 was hers, but where is it? She looked around nervously and only saw lockers 120 - 160, but nothing close to 180.
She past by this person with a strange puff hair announcing something to the camera and holding a board saying something about gay summer, she shook her head and wondered 'what a strange school' after that comment he made, he was walking up to this couple and started interviewing them. Iris tried paying no mind into it and walked past them.
Suddenly a hard push came from behind her back and slams into the locker face first and causing a rip in her patched up bag which dropped all of her books and papers. She looked up and an older student was glaring down at her,
"Watch where you're going, freak."
The student said angrily and kept walking. Iris just sighed and reached for her books. What a horrible way to start the day off. She looked around for her math book, but she couldn't find it anywhere. Suddenly it appeared in front of her. She looked up and saw a boy standing there with her book.
"T-hank you.. sir…", she stutters
"No problem." He said with a smile. She seemed scared by everything around her just like a lost kitten. She gently took the book from the boy's hand and placed it back in her arms. The boy was Asian and he was wearing a football jersey. She got up from the floor and almost sprinted the other way grabbing her rip bag along the way.
"Bye." She said as she took off without another glance at the boy who had helped her. The boy looked after her. She must have been new or she might not be so scared. He looked down at the ground and saw a wallet. He picked it up and read the name,
Iris Lee
1981 Olivia Avenue at Sweet Delights
He looked around, but the girl was pretty fast. She was nowhere in sight. He put the wallet in his bag and decided to find her after school to give it back to her. He had to admit she had a different sense of style, but she had one she knew she liked so at least she knows what she wants even though she does look strange.
What a disaster to start the first day of school. First she got plowed over by an upper class man which cause her bag to rip apart and causing her to carry all her books, but then she totally embarrassed herself in front of that other boy. She was blushing in embarrassment that she wished she could get rid of. Suddenly she reached locker 189. She tried the combination but it was stuck.
She tried it again and it failed one more. She knew she only had a few minutes until class, so she kicks the door with all her might, and it flew open. Only it flew open and hit her in the face making her stumble backwards and trip on her books causing her to fall down and landed on her butt. She rubbed her butt gently to try to make it feel better.
That hurt more than expected. She took her hand down from where she was holding her face and sigh in relief that she saw no blood all over it. She took out her locker mirror and saw she had a bruise forming instead. How could a locker do this? She also feels her butt aching. This was definitely the worse way to start high school.
Iris walked in to the principle office to get her schedule, the secretary told her to wait for Principle Figgins to finish his meeting. Iris sat down on the seat and waited for the teacher to finish their conversation, but too bad she could overhear their conversation.
"Coach Bieste, I think you understand our frustration here, our budget has just been cut by 10%" A teacher said with a lot of curly hair standing behind a blond tall woman wearing a track suit.
"It should have been more" Coach Bieste said causing the curly hair to become shocked "You think that there's not something wrong in a cheerleader's budget is higher than the people who they are cheering for?"
"Well…sure, but the glee club is-" he started off the but the large women interrupted him,
"The GLEE club? You came in third last year and your asking for more money?" she scoff and continues "that's a steer with six teeth and no white" then imitated a sound of a squealing pig. Iris was confused, what is a steer with six teeth and no white? 'must be some strange American slang or something'
Coach Bieste then walked out of door, as Iris continues to ponder what Coach Bieste said. Later on the two teacher left the room as Iris was called inside Principle Figgins office,
"Welcome McKinley High, now here's your books and your schedule, now off you go and enjoy your time here" he shooed her out of the room. Once the door closed, Iris stands in the corridor bewildered that it just happened so fast compare to waiting.
The bell rings as she tries to find her way around the school.
Glee Club P.O.V
Everyone was sitting down watching Mr. Shue as he spoke, "These are comments on Jacob Israel on his most recent glee club blog, Glee is a giant ball of suck"
Kurt interrupted him, "We get it Mr. Shue, everyone still hates us; so what, so we're plankton on the high school food chain, the only difference now is that none of us really cares" Everyone smiled at that comment
"Kurt's right, we're a family they can bring it all they want and none of it is going to break us" Mercedes support Kurt
"I'm really happy that you guys all bonded, the problem… is that all this negative stuff is keeping other students from auditioning" Mr. Shue said trying to let them see what's wrong.
"Well, good why do we even need new members?" Tina asked
"Well since Matt transferred we only have 11 members and if we want to go to Nationals, if we want to beat Vocal Adrenaline, we have to go from a small rebel force to a giant wall of sound"
Rachel nodded and stood up, "Yeah Mr. Shue is right, you guys. You didn't see Vocal Adrenaline at regional's they were epic, we're going to need more voices in order to beat them"
Finn followed Rachel and said, "Yeah, I'm with Rachel on this one"
"Gross" Brittany whispered to Santana,
"You're going to have to trust me on this guys; now here the plan Nationals are in New York this year" Everyone was gasp in excitement "and we are GOING…" Everyone smiled at that, "Now let's go show everyone in school how cool it's going to be, how cool we can be. If they are not coming to us, let's come to them; they say we only sing show tunes and 80's pop, LET'S show them how down we are, let's give them a song of the year" Mr. Shue folded his arm gangsta' style "New Direction style"
Everyone cheered at that.
FF Lunch
Iris didn't know where to sit in the cafeteria so she decided to sit outside, she found a spot open for a table so she came up to them and asked
"Excuse me, can I sit here?" the blond boy answered,
"Sure, it's no problem, the name is Sam Evan"
"I'm Iris Lee"
"Chinese?"
"Half"
"That's cool"
Iris noticed that there were some students dressed up in the in a black shirt saying New York wearing black pants and some were wearing hats with chains, some of them carried a boom box, she recognized one of them as the person she bumped into and then they started
Yeah, I'm ma up at Brooklyn, I used to cop in Harlem, Cruising down 8th street, Say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping Mai-tai [Chorus] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game, Welcome to the melting pot, [Chorus] Lights is blinding, Caught up in the in crowd, Mami took a bus trip and now she got her bust out, Came here for school, graduated to the high life, [Chorus] One hand in the air for the big city, [Chorus]
Now I'm down in Tribeca,
Right next to DeNiro,
But I'll be hood forever,
I'm the new Sinatra,
And since I made it here,
I can make it anywhere,
Yeah they love me everywhere,
All of my Dominicans
Right there up on Broadway,
Brought me back to that McDonald's,
Took it to my stash spot,
5-60 State street,
Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whipping Pastry,
Off white Lexus,
Driving so slow but BK is from Texas,
Me I'm up at Bed Study,
Home of that boy Biggie,
Now I live on billboard,
And I brought my boys with me,
Sitting court side Knicks and Nets give me high fives,
N-gga I be Spiked out, I can trip a referee,
Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from
In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
There's nothing you can't do,
Now you're in New York,
These streets will make you feel brand new,
The lights will inspire you,
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York
Shit I made the Yankee hat more famous than a yankee can,
You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain't a crip tho,
But I got a gang of niggas walking with my clique though,
Corners where we selling rocks,
Afrika bambaataa,
Home of the hip hop,
Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cab, holla back,
For foreigners it aint fitted they forgot how to act,
[ Lyrics from: lyrics/g/glee_cast/empire_state_of_ ]
8 million stories out there and their naked,
Cities is a pity half of y'all won't make it,
Me I gotta plug Special Ed and I got it made,
If Jeezy's paying LeBron, I'm paying Dwayne Wade,
3 dice cee-lo 3 card Monte,
Labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley,
Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade,
Long live the king yo,
I'm from the empire state that's
In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
There's nothing you can't do,
Now you're in New York,
These streets will make you feel brand new,
The lights will inspire you,
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York
Girls need blinders
So they can step out of bounds quick,
The side lines is blind with casualties,
Who sipping life casually, then gradually become worse,
Don't bite the apple Eve,
Now your in-style,
And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out,
The city of sin is a pity on a whim,
Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them,
Everybody ride her, just like a bus route,
Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin,
And Jesus CAN save you! life starts when church starts,
Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight,
MDMA got you feeling like a champion,
The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambient
In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
There's nothing you can't do,
Now you're in New York,
These streets will make you feel brand new,
The lights will inspire you,
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York
Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty,
No place in the World that can compare,
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeaaah
In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
There's nothing you can't do,
Now you're in New York,
These streets will make you feel brand new,
The lights will inspire you,
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York
"Wow, that was cool" Sam said
"I agree, it's just weird how not many people noticed it"
"Tell me about it, in my old school this would have gotten everyone's attention"
"You're new?" Iris asked
"Yeah, just transferred, you?"
"Me too"
As they finish their lunch, they stood up and head towards inside. They walked together through the halls and stopped in front of Sam's locker with a small girl standing in front of it
"Hey Sunshine"
"Hey Sam, where were you during lunch? I couldn't find you in this jungle"
"Couldn't find you either but I met someone new just like us"
"Oh?" Sunshine looked at Iris who stood beside Sam standing there awkwardly "Hi! My name is Sunshine, what's yours?"
"Ah… emm… Iris Lee…"
"What's that? I couldn't hear you"
"Hey Iris, come on speak up, you were fine with me during lunch" Sam face towards Iris as he wanted to know the answer
"Oh um… I'm not used to talk to girl, usually they avoid me…"
"Hey." Iris turn to face Sunshine as Sunshine appeared serious "Listen, I'm not like other girls so whatever the girls in your old school did you, you can forget it cause we are in a new environment meaning some new changes, do you understand?"
Iris shyly nodded and gave a hint of a smile "Yes…"
"I can't hear you"
"Yes! I understand!"
"Good now say your name"
"I'm Iris Lee, nice to meet your acquaintance," she gave a small bow Sunshine shrugged and said "well, that's a start but we have to work on that confidence of yours"
Iris looked up from her bow "Eh?"
"C'mon, your too polite and quiet, we need to change that and what do you mean acquaintance? No one talks like that, you should just use nice to meet you"
"Eh?" 'Was there a difference?' This was confusing but Iris couldn't help but gave a bigger smile at that thought
"Really?"
"Of course, I don't say what I don't mean"
"Hey Hey, this is the first day, I'm sure we can all change that" Sam being the tallest one out of the three wrapped his arm around their shoulders "Now since we are the new kids in town, let's hang out with each other sometimes"
"I'm fine with that" Sunshine said then looked up at Iris "How about you Iris?"
"Ah… umm… Y-yes, I would like that"
Sunshine stared at Iris and signs "We need to work on your lingo"
"L-lingo?" Iris mumbled to herself as she tries to figure out the meaning 'I should probably look it up at the dictionary'
"Hahaha" Sam laughed out of the blues causing Iris (curiously) and Sunshine to stare at him (weirdly) "Hey did you know? Without realizing it ... we were already friends!"
"Hey, you're right" Sunshine tries to reach her arm around Sam 'freakin tall giant' but settled her arm around his waist "we're friends already" she then turn to face Iris "so how about it? Aren't we friends?"
Iris gave a shocked expression "F-friends? With me?"
"Why not? You're nice and I need someone close to my height" Sam said as he indicates that he has to bend down to wrap his arm around Sunshine
"Be quiet Sam!" Sunshine punched him in the arm as they got in a small argument
Iris ponders at this thought 'this would be the first time… I would have a true friend, but not one but two instead' she gave a small smile with her cheeks giving off a light pink color unknowingly that Sam and Sunshine caught a glimpse at it.
"You should smile more, it looks better than your gloomy face"
Iris snapped out of her thought "Eh..." she placed a hand on her cheek "but this is how I normally look like"
"Try smiling again, it's better to greet other with a smile, you know to show that you're nice"
"L-like this" Instead of her original smile she just gave a few moments ago, it somehow became more dark and sinister smile
An awkward silence between those three, "We need to work on that too"
Iris could feel a sweat drop coming down "ah, alright"
"So we're friends?"
Iris gave a bright smile that brighten up her face "Yes"
"Great, now let's go home I've been getting these stares from the girl who performed today and I want to rest" Sunshine said as she unwrapped her arms around Sam and headed towards the door
"Yeah, I got to go too Iris, I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Yes, of course… well see you tomorrow" Iris wave
"See you"
Iris felt the wave of relief when she heard that bell go off for the end of the day. She's been told that the first day of school was a half day so she was relieved that this day was over. She gathered her books together and left school. She refused to go back to her locker to cause further injury for herself. She had completely embarrassed herself in front of her class that was enough for one day. Although it took her a long time to get out since she has no sense of direction, Iris eventually found the exit of the school.
She hoped tomorrow may be better than today now with her two new friends.