I haven't posted a Glee story on here before, and I really love the idea I came up for this one, so here's one! So the three stories I will without a doubt be updating are this one, Have Faith in Me, and A Personal Vendetta. I'm debating whether or not to start writing Beautiful Nightmare again.
Anyway...This story is named after Better Luck Next Time by We Are the In Crowd.
Any songs that are sung in this story will be mentioned at the very end of the chapter. :)
Disclaimer: I own no one but my OCs, Alyssa and Avery.
Enjoy! :D
Alyssa stood in the doorway of her now empty room, giving it one last look. Her bags stood against the wall to her right.
Sighing, she mumbles, "Guess this is it…"
"Lyssa!" Her mom yells from downstairs. "Bring your bags downstairs! We're all ready!"
"Coming!" She yelled. Grabbing a few of her bags, she runs downstairs, handing them to her dad to put in the trunk of the car, then running back to her room and grabbing the rest of her bags.
"Is that it?" Her dad asks, jokingly.
She rolls her eyes. "Yes, Dad, that's all. Can we go now? We might as well get it over with."
"Aly," He says, sighing. "I've told you; we don't have a choice. I got a new job-"
"Yeah, I know," She says. "The new job gives you more money than your current one, and it was an 'offer you couldn't refuse'."
Her mom walks out of the house, smiling.
"Well, I'm all set," She says. "You guys ready to go?"
Alyssa mumbles a "Yes" and then they're on their way.
"Avery, get your ass downstairs!"
"Hold your damn horses!" She yells to her older brother, Eli.
After tying her shoes, she grabs her backpack off her bed and heads to the living room, where Eli and Jack, her younger brother, were waiting.
"Took you long enough," Eli says.
"Well, I'm sorry I'm not a guy and I can't just wake up and be ready," She says, sarcastically.
"Guys, can we hurry up?" Jack says, becoming impatient.
"Fine. Geez," Avery says. She looks at Eli. "Come on, our limousine awaits!"
"Don't make fun of my car," Eli says, as he, Avery, and Jack all walk to his car.
"I'm obviously not making fun of it if I called it a limousine," She points out.
Eli rolls his eyes as he opens the door to the driver's side. "Just get in."
Avery sits in the passenger seat, while Jack sits in the back. Eli turns the car on, and they back out of the driveway. Once they're on the street, Avery grabs a random CD and puts it in the CD player. When the first song plays, she finds out it was The Black Parade, an album by My Chemical Romance.
She looks through the songs until she finds Teenagers and turns up the music. She opens the window, her red hair blowing into her face.
Moving her hair out of her face, she asks, "Do you have your cigarettes with you?"
Eli raises an eyebrow. "I thought you were going to stop smoking."
She shrugs. "I say that everyday. It's not going to change anything."
"Well, no, I don't have them with me," He says. "I left them in my other jacket. I'll try to bring them with me tomorrow."
"Shh!" Jack says. "This is my favorite part of the song!"
They all yell along to the song as they pull into the school parking lot. Avery rolls up her window.
"THEY SAY ALL TEENAGERS SCARE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME!" They yell. "THEY COULD CARE LESS, AS LONG AS SOMEONE WILL BLEED!"
When the song ends, Eli turns the car off, so they get out of the car. Eli and Jack walk into their school, heading to their separate classes (Eli's a senior, and Jack's a freshman), but Avery stops. Pulling into a parking spot a few yards away is a red Mercedes-Benz convertible. A girl steps out of the car; she has medium length straightened brown hair and is fairly tall, wearing a short-sleeved Hollister shirt and some random jeans that Avery thinks she could see the Miss Me logo on.
"Probably some snooty bitch…" Avery mutters, and hurries to class.
Once inside the building, Avery searches for her best friend. She sees him, facing away from her, talking to Sam Evans.
"Yo, Puckerman!"
He turns around, smirking. "Where have you been, Callahan?"
"Sorry! People seem to forget I'm a girl and it takes time to look remotely normal," She says. She looks at Sam. "Hey, Sam."
"Hey, Avery," He says, nodding to her. He looks at Puck. "Well, I gotta go. See you guys later."
"Later, dude."
People always seem to believe that Avery and Puck are going out, but they're not. Puck's goal in high school is to fuck every female student, which is actually how he and Avery met, but she doesn't roll that way. She prefers relationships, not being someone's fuck buddy. Plus, they're both pretty similar; sarcastic, outspoken, and they don't care what anyone thinks of them.
"Dude, I think he likes you," Noah (he doesn't allow anyone to call him this, which is why Avery is the only one who calls him it) says, smirking.
She laughs. "Yeah, right. No one likes me; I'm a bitch."
"Hey, I'm sure someone likes you," He says, shrugging. "I don't know who, but someone has to!"
"Screw you!" She says, and they head to their class.
"Excuse me!"
Avery stops, but Noah keeps going until he realizes she's not next to him. He stops and turns around, walking up to Avery, who has turned around.
"Yeah?" She says, confused. It was the girl from the parking lot.
"Do you know where…Mr. Schuester is?" She asks, looking at her schedule.
Avery looks from Noah to the girl. "Yeah, we're headed there now. We can take you there if you want."
She smiles. "That'd be great. Thanks."
"No problem," Avery says, shrugging.
They walk toward the classroom.
"By the way, if you plan to cheat on a test, don't sit next to Avery here," Noah says.
"Hey!" Avery says. "You're one to talk, Mr. F in Every Class!"
The girl laughs softly, as they enter the classroom.
"Hey, Mr. Schue," Avery says, walking up to his desk. He looks up from his papers, and when he sees Noah and Avery, smiles. "I think she's a new student." She points to the girl. "So…yeah. You should do…whatever you do with new students."
"Right…" Mr. Schue says. "Why don't you and Puck go sit down? I'll take care of her."
"Alright," She shrugs. Noah follows her as they go to sit down. Once they're seated, she turns to him. "She's a new student, right?"
"I've never seen her before," He says, shrugging.
The girl talking to Mr. Schue smiles, then takes a seat at an empty desk close to the front of the room. A minute later, the bell rings, signaling the start of class.
When class is over, everyone walks out.
"Do you remember any of that?" Avery asks Noah.
"Not one bit," He says, and she laughs.
"Well, I've got to go," She says. "I'll see you at glee club."
"See you later, Callahan."
The rest of the day goes by fairly quickly. Avery had two other classes with the new girl, but she never pays attention in those classes (or any class for that matter, except for art and creative writing), so she still doesn't know her name.
The last bell of the day rings, so Avery grabs her stuff and walks out the door, finding Noah waiting for her.
After school, Eli has band practice (not a band that practices in the garage, but the school band), and Jack has football practice, so Noah always drives Avery home.
They walk to the choir room, where Rachel, Finn, and Artie are already waiting. Noah and Avery take a seat, while the rest of the group slowly makes their way into the room. When everyone is there, Mr. Schue starts, by walking up to the marker board and writing "DUETS" on it.
"Alright, this week we are doing duets," He says. "But, here's the twist, you get to choose your partners. But you have to have never sung a duet with them before. So, Puck, Avery, you guys can't sing together, and neither can Kurt and Blaine. Alright, you-"
"Mr. Schue, someone's at the door," Rachel says. Everyone looks to the doorway, where the new girl is standing.
"Alyssa, right?" Mr. Schue says, and she nods.
"Yeah, that's me," She says. "I was wondering if I could audition for glee club? I have a song prepared and everything."
Mr. Schue smiles. "Yeah, sure, come on in. Guys, this is Alyssa Carson. She's new, and it seems she's going to audition for glee club."
Alyssa leans over and tells the guy the song she's going to sing. She begins to sing.
"So glad you made time to see me.
How's life? Tell me, how's your family?
I haven't seen them in while.
You've been good, busier than ever.
Small talk, work in the weather."
"Whoa, if you're going to sing country," Avery interrupts, causing everyone to look at her incredulously, except for Noah, who was trying not to laugh. "At least sing a song by a real female country singer."
"Avery-" Mr. Schue begins.
"No, it's okay," Alyssa says, looking at Avery, raising an eyebrow. "Why don't you sing something if you're so good?"
She smirks, standing up to walk over to her. "I'd be glad to."
"Right now, he's probably slow dancing
With a bleach blond tramp
And she's probably getting frisky.
Right now, he's probably buying her some fruity drink
'Cause she can't shoot whiskey.
Right now, he's probably up behind her with a pool stick
Showing her how to shoot a combo
And he don't know.
I dug my key into the side
Of his pretty little souped-up four wheel drive,
Carved my name into his leather seats!
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights
Slashed a hole in all four tires.
And maybe next time he'll think before he cheats."
Avery smirks, as Alyssa begins to sing.
"Right now, she's probably up singing some
White-trash version of Shania karaoke.
Right now, she's probably saying 'I'm drunk'
And he's a thinking that he's a gonna get lucky.
Right now, he's probably dabbing on three dollars
Worth of that bathroom Polo,
Oh, and he don't know."
Then, they both sing.
"That I dug my key into the side
Of his pretty little souped-up four wheel drive,
Carved my name into his leather seat!
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
Slashed a hole in all four tires.
Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats!
I might've saved a little trouble for the next girl,
'Cause the next time that he cheats,
Oh, you know it won't be on me!
No, not on me!
'Cause I dug my key into the side
Of his pretty little souped-up four wheel drive,
Carved my name into his leather seat!
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
Slashed a hole in all four tires.
Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats!
Oh, maybe next time he'll think before he cheats!
Oh, before he cheats."
When they're done singing, both girls are looking at each, standing at opposite sides of the room.
"Well," Mr. Schue says. "Avery, what do you think? Is Alyssa good enough?"
Avery looks her over. "Eh, you're pretty good, Hollister. I say you're in."
"Anyone object to this?" Mr. Schue asks. No one says anything. "Welcome to the glee club, Alyssa."
She smiles. "Thanks."
Once, she's seated, Mr. Schue continues what he was saying earlier.
"As I had been saying," He says. "We're doing duets this week. Choose someone you've never sung with before, and find a duet to sing. You'll sing it next week."
"I think I'm gonna sing with the new girl." Noah says.
"Too late for that," Avery says, watching Alyssa. "She's already talking to Finn."
"Hey, Avery."
She turns her head to find Sam in front of her. "Hey, Sam."
"Still need a partner?" He asks, smiling.
Looking next to her, she finds Noah left, but it's not like they could've sung together anyway.
"Yeah, I do," She says. "Would you like to be my partner?"
"No, actually, I wanted to sing with that lovely chair you're sitting in."
She raises an eyebrow. "Were you looking at my ass?"
"The real question here is was your ass looking at me?" He asks.
She laughs. "Do you want to be my partner or not?"
He looks around. "Well, it seems to me that everyone else already has a partner, so I guess I'm stuck with you."
"Aw, too bad," She says. "I'm not really all that awesome anyway, so you'll get over it."
"Hey, come on, you can't be that bad."
She glares at him. "Because of that, I get to choose the song we're singing."
"Fine," He says, shrugging. "But it's not my fault if I screw it up…"
"You suck," Avery says, laughing.
"Um…Hi."
Finn looks away from Rachel to find the new girl (was it Alyssa?) standing in front of him, twirling some of her brown hair between her fingers.
He smiles. "Hey, I'm Finn. Alyssa, right?" He sure hoped he was right. It'd be too awkward if he wasn't.
She smiles back. "Yeah. I was wondering if you wanted to be my duet partner?"
Out of the corners of his eyes, he could see Quinn and Rachel glaring at each other, but he'd already sung duets with them anyway.
"Sure," He says. "That'd be great."
"Great!" She says, and she stops twirling her hair. "You can come over to my house if you want."
"Yeah, how about next week?"
"Sure."
Behind Alyssa, he could see Rachel glaring at the back of her head.
"Uh, I think I need to take my girlfriend home," Finn says, awkwardly.
"Oh, yeah," She says. "I'll see you later, then."
Finn walks over to Rachel, draping his arm over her shoulders.
"Is everything okay?" He asks, confused.
"Why were you talking to that girl?" She asks, annoyed.
He shrugs. "She's my duet partner."
"You're singing with her?!" She asks, incredulously.
"Yeah. What's so wrong with that?" He asks.
"Why couldn't you sing with someone I know?" She asks. "Someone like Mercedes or Avery or something."
"Because Mercedes and Avery didn't ask me," He says. "Alyssa did."
She sighs. "Fine, whatever. Can you just take me home?"
Avery stands outside the band room, along with Jack, as they wait for Eli to finish. Jack sits on the ground, leaning against the wall, as he reads his Biology book. Avery paces, going from one wall to another, listening to her iPod (more specifically, I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic! At the Disco).
"How does football practice end before band practice?" Jack asks, annoyed.
"He needs to hurry up or Mom's going to be pissed," Avery says, sighing.
"It's not like she'd notice if we weren't there anyway," Jack says, shrugging.
"True…" She says, as Eli finally exits the band room.
"Took you long enough," Jack says, putting his book in his backpack and standing up.
"Sorry, someone dropped all their music, so I helped her," Eli says, shrugging. "Now, come on, before Mom realizes we're not home."
"I don't think she realized we left…" Avery mutters.
"ALYSSA RAE CARSON, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!"
This is what Alyssa was greeted to as soon as she opened the front door. Her mom was standing in front of her, which made the yelling much louder.
"I'm sorry…" She says. "I stayed after school to audition for the glee club."
"Oh!" Her mom says, suddenly brightening up. "Did you make it?"
Alyssa smiles. "Yeah. I did, actually. That's the only good thing about moving from New York to Lima; there's a glee club at this school."
"Are the people here nice?" Her mom asks, as Alyssa set her backpack down and sat on the couch.
She shrugs. "Some, I guess. I don't know everyone. Most of the people I met seemed nice enough."
"That's great!" Her mom says.
"Yeah…" She says. "Oh, I invited someone over next week."
"Ooh, who is it?"
"His name is Finn." She says. "He's in glee club and-"
"It's a…boy?" Her mom asks.
"Yeah…" Alyssa says, frowning. "I promise we're not going to do anything like what you're thinking; we're just going to practice a song together."
"Okay…" She says, lips pursed. Finally, she gives a small smile, and says, "I won't tell your dad if you won't."
Alyssa smiles. "Deal."
The song Alyssa started singing was Back to December by Taylor Swift. The song Alyssa and Avery both sang was Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood.