It actually came in handy

Mercedes had taken Quinn shopping the day she had moved in. "My dad's bankrolling this little venture I promise," and took her to the mall. They were only there for like half an hour where Tina showed up map in hand and a strange green football helmet on her head. "Girl, why are you wearing Artie's ping pong helmet?"

Quinn contemplated the fact that Artie had a ping pong helmet, and then contemplated it again because she couldn't have heard that right. "Shouldn't you be asking how I got it?" she raised her eyebrows mischievously; she took it off and placed it on Quinn's head. "Seriously though you're gonna need this." Mercedes rolled her eyes but Tina bobbed her black and blue hair seriously, "you've never seen us shop."

Quinn almost laughed until Tina pulled out a colour coded, brightly circled map and Mercedes pulled out a pointer, "okay strategy, we have labelled every maternity store in Lima. Then every one in the ten mile radius and then every store that might sell maternity wear." Mercedes slapped the map hard with her pointer and Tina winced. "the blue has the most affordable, green has the prettiest, yellow has the biggest range of clothing and orange for possible places to stop and eat, we'll need to be hydrated, last time Kurt fainted."

"Also I don't want to see you go near a baby doll dress this entire trip," Quinn let herself be steered towards Mercedes care; this must have been one of the nicest, craziest things anyone had done for her.

But she didn't care what either of them said; she totally rocked a baby doll dress.

Some take it harder than others

At first Artie had been flattered, than mildly annoyed, than very annoyed. "Puck, why are you here?" he sighed, he really could go for banging his chair against the wall a couple of times right about now. Puck shouldn't be in his room, this shouldn't happen, it should be impossible. There should be safe guards for this kind of thing.

"What Abrams? Embarrassed I'm seeing you Iron man sheets, yeah well you should Robert Downey Jr. is a loser," Artie judged if he could maybe get to the window fast enough to throw himself out of it before Puck could react. "For the last time Iron man is awesome, it's just an undeniable truth and Puck why are you here? Again."

Puck glared "what? You owe me, I defended your honour that one time and made you all those cupcakes so we could get your cripple bus." There had to be at least three meters from the window to where he was. "Didn't you get the student body high?" Puck smirked, "high enough that that cute goth chick made out with you."

"Fair enough, look I realise you and Finn are having troubles right now," Puck stood up sharply, but Artie couldn't resist "and I know break ups are hard-"

Turns out Puck was more than prepared to help Artie leave his room via his window.

Well Mr. Sparkles is literate

Brittney liked looking at the Rachel Berry shrine. Rachel had been embarrassed when her dads had shown her, but the little girl that looked like Rachel in the pictures wore very pretty dresses- so sparkly. "Brittney why are you here?" Rachel blushed; Brittney stared blankly and then looked away, distracted by the bright stars all over Rachel's bedroom.

"Oh" she spotted Rachel's cat "is he reading your diary too," she pointed an accusing finger and the bored feline, "Mr Sparkles would never" Rachel gasped and then caught herself feeling ridiculous. "Brittney why are you here?"

"Wasn't I always here?" she asked in a confused tone "no wait that's not right, I remember" she walked quickly bee-lining to Rachel, "it's nothing personal but I have a record to keep."

The kiss was so quick, Rachel wasn't sure it even happened. She was however sure she stood in that same spot for four hours.

Don't I know you?

Before Kurt was out of the closet (transparent as it was), he used to surf the LGBT support sites for teens, because Lima was a small hick town and there was literally no one to talk to about that kind of thing.

Carman_Santiago11 was honest, fun and surprisingly deep, and after the initial disappointment of finding out Santiago was a girl, a great friend. He had never really connected with anyone before, on this kind of level, Santiago could relate to everything he was going through. Kurt told her about Derek from next door and she told him about this girl in that sat next to her who did gymnastics, and wouldn't that be a good way to get close to her?

It wasn't until high school Carman_Santiago11 totally forgotten, that Kurt saw it in the school directory. He had just started glee, and was trying to find Mercedes' email address in the school directory, so they would never have the unfortunate clashing accident he had to suffer through today. And there it was, it had caught his eye between Terri Lina and Aaron Monty. The email address.

High school bitch, cheerleader and apparently lesbian, who knew? Kurt wasn't sure to do but in the case of a fellow Lima closet case he figured he'd better keep his mouth shut. And hope if she ever found out, she'd do the same.

I really think I do

"Oh God I think I love you" Mike wanted to slap his hand over his mouth as soon as he said it, he was lucky when the other boy just laughed "I tend to have that affect on people." Mike shifted again; nothing had ever felt this right, "besides Kurt was like this the first time too."

"Really" Mike could hear is voice tighten which was stupid and unreasonable, "do you do this often with him." He almost wished he could see his face, but couldn't at the angle. "Try only all the time, but mostly after football practice, he says it helps him relax." Then he suddenly pulled away, Mike almost whined, "there better?"

Mike turned to face him and smiled, "you have the most amazing hands," moving his shoulder, the knot from the spin he performed completely gone. "Physio teaches you a few things, and I have strong hands," Artie smiled goofily. "Though really I get it when Tina does it, but do you really have to moan when I do it?"

sparkly pink with little white flowers

Kurt and Mercedes were driving Finn crazy, and the sleepover hadn't even started. They were all giggling and stuff and he couldn't even think. He had enough trouble thinking when there was no giggling. There was a knock on the door, and then there was also Tina, who was nice but sometimes cried and Finn did not handle crying girls well- he's not sure how Artie did it. She was fortunately not crying, and had a bunch of make up and hair drier and what appeared to be a long set of tongs. "Hi Finn" she said sweetly and pushed passed heading to the living room where Kurt and Mercedes were setting up a ping pong table. God why couldn't they do this in Kurt and Finn's room so he could get some peace.

The door bell rang and this time it was Artie, "dude!" Finn said happily cause Artie most defiantly was a dude, a non giggly one at that, without scary hair tongs, just a bunch of DVDs. "hey Finn," he grinned and Finn briefly wondered how he'd gotten up the steps, before realising for the first time the Hummel's had a ramp in their garden that connected to the front of the house.

"Okay now we need to plan this because if we don't want to watch Valentine's day or dream girls we need a strategy," he wheeled in and Finn was glad, Artie knew how to deal with his girls. "Okay I have 'Iron Man 2' because Tina loves Robert Downey Jr and well who doesn't?" Finn nodded because it was so true, "I also have 'Good Luck chuck'- a disguised chick flick with lots of sex or 'Forgetting Sarah Marshal' funny if you can stand the male nudity." Finn didn't think he could.

"Artie!" Mercedes yelled rushing in and grabbing his chair pulling it forward, "we set up the table and Tina's got your helmet," Artie grinned, "oh good, PREPARE TO DIE HUMMEL" he yelled as Mercedes pushed his forward.

Finn heard a "bring it bitch" from the other room, and sighed he'd clearly lost Artie to the dark side. There was no escaping, he just hoped Artie was still enough of a man to stop them painting Finn's nails while his slept.

…

No such luck.

Of course she ships for selfish reasons

Rachel was beginning to suspect foul play; clearly Mr Shuester was trying to ruin her life. He'd given her solo away, and not even someone from the beta couple: Mercedes or Artie. She wasn't even paired with Finn for the dance, it was ridiculous.

"Are you sleeping with him," Rachel asked shrilling when they were alone, "w-w-what" Tina stuttered, "that's none of your business!" Rachel was outraged, so it was true! "I knew you couldn't be getting all those solos on your own." Tina looked shocked, "All those? Rachel I've had three while in glee and I don't think Artie has the power to give solos." Wait what? "Not Artie! Mr shuester" Artie was supposed to date Mercedes anyway, to show Finn singing partners are good together, you know set a good example.

"ew gross!" the Asian girl look mortified, "I'm going to have to ask you to seek professional help." Tina stormed off, but that's only because she knew Rachel was on to her.