The Show Goes On
After Finn passed, Mr. Schue gave Glee club a break, and heads to NYC. A few years later, new Literature teacher, Josh Ford wanders the hallway of McKinley High, and hears a student playing and singing. An idea pops in head to bring a Glee Club back to McKinley. Will he be able to do it or will it be bigger than what he thought?
Josh Ford's POV
I admit it. Ohio was cold, but New York could be so much colder. I pull my old Varsity Letterman jacket closer so I could at least pretend it would make me warmer. Then I continue inside the school building where I would be teaching this year. Honestly, I hadn't thought of teaching, but it was a job at Ohio State Minimum Wage, and I needed money for rent.
"Excuse me, sir, where I would I find the Literature department?" I ask, as I approach a man, that stands taller than I had and who had obviously been a teacher. I he looks at me, as though, it had been some kind of joke, or a dare. I just wanted to know before a half an hour, and the students would show up with no teacher. Not that, that would bother them any. What teenager wanted to pay attention in high school anyways. I know I didn't when I was in their position.
"Down the hall, and take a left. Since you're new good luck," he finally mumbles, and walks away. I turn and walk down the hallway to where he directed me to, and when I approach the room, it looked like it hadn't been used for a few years. Then again, to the students, it would just be another classroom.
I head up the whiteboard, and write on it, and underneath it, I wrote something else.
Welcome. Blah, blah, blah, reading. By definition, in high school it's what you're expected to read. Tests, etc. In this classroom, the first assignment is to pick a book that you think describes you. You can relate to a book more than you think.
Then the first bell of the day rings, and the students make their way into the classroom. A few classes pass, and then lunch time finally shows up. Instead of heading to the staff lounge, I walk around the school, and unexpectedly find the performing arts wing. I walk by, and hear a student playing the piano, and singing a cover of a song that I wasn't familiar with. I step inside the door frame, and see a plaque of young man, and had a phrase that stated that The show must go all over the place...or something like that. Suddenly, an idea popped in my head. I was going to bring Glee club into this school, even if it was there before.
"You sound good. I think Scotty McCreery would be jealous," I interrupt the student playing, as he was about to get to the chorus, and he stops, as though I had offended him.
"Thanks. I guess," he tells me, as then looks as though, he wanted to get back to playing. I wanted to keep him singing, if only I could convince him.
"You're in one of my morning classes, so what's your name?" I finally ask him.
"Tyler Williams," he tells me, as he looks up into my blue eyes, and then brushes some of his brown hair out of his face, and weekly smiles. Then I wonder if he would know anything about the picture, but I don't ask.
"I think you would do great in glee club I tell him," I take out the piece of paper I had in my jeans pocket, and take a seat in one of the empty chairs.
"We don't have a glee club, though, this school used to," he tells me, as he finally goes back to keying a few of the keys, and then stops.
"I think it's time to bring it back then," I tell him, as I finish writing, and then place the piece of paper on top of the piano, and then head out.
"Yeah, I guess so," I hear him say as I step outside of the door frame. The kid had talent, and I was going to make sure that he knew it.
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Josh Ford, CLA, Scott Michael Foster
Tyler Williams, 16 / Sophomore / Chandler Riggs