Santana Lopez was surprised to find that she was the first one in the choir room. She would have thought that a certain annoying midget (and, consequently, their annoying giant of a boyfriend) would have been the first to show up, considering it was the first day of their senior year. What annoyed Santana even more was that Mr. Schue was not even in the room, and he was the one who wanted to have an early meeting with the returning members before school to discuss how they were going to run auditions this year. He apparently wanted to avoid any incidents like the one that had occurred the year before and almost resulted in their supposed captain getting slushied so bad that she'd get a brain freeze just thinking about it. Sighing, she sat down. Throughout the summer, she hadn't been forced to watch Brittany and Artie together. Yea, she'd had to share Brittany with the boy, but she hadn't had to see the two of them together. She almost threw up when she saw them enter, Brittany sitting on Artie's lap as he wheeled into the room. The other members started filing in (still no sign of Mr. Schue), and the last ones to arrive were a certain Hobbit and Frankenteen, otherwise known as their team captains.
Rachel Berry had never been the last one to arrive to Glee and she said as much to her boyfriend. Smiling his goofy smile that she loved so much, he calmed her fears. "Ah, but see Rach, you aren't the last one to enter, because I came in after you." Finn said, as he allowed Rachel to enter the choir room first. She smiled her thanks and leaned up to kiss him, ignoring the stares of their fellow Glee Clubbers. The two had been together since they'd returned from Nationals and Rachel was still high off of the energy from the kiss that they'd shared on stage after their duet, Pretending. For weeks, she'd recieved texts from her Glee teammates saying various versions of how "they were happy for her and every thing, but couldn't the two of them have expressed their feelings for one another off the stage?" and she'd also recieved texts from a certain show choir consultant who was berating her for "kissing that untalented, worthless giant, and especially on stage at Nationals." The most infuriating were the texts she'd recieved from a certain angry Latina who'd never cared for her in the first place. These messages were in Spanish and after awhile they got so insulting that Rachel deleted them without translating them on the internet. Most of them had to do with the bad things that happened in her neighborhood and how she was "going to go all Lima Heights on her ass," but with a few other things inserted in there. Rachel turned around a saw said girl looking at her with the same fury that'd been in her eyes when they were in the hotel room in New York and she'd been screaming at her in Spanish. Rachel quickly walked to her seat, away from the Latina.
Artie Abrams smiled at his girlfriend as she sat in his lap. He loved Brittany, he really did. And he knew that Santana did too, but Brittany refused to cut the Latina out of her life, no matter what. Over the summer, Artie had come to accept that and had even tried to initiate times when the three could hang out together, but Santana had refused. Brittany couldn't say that Artie was the one who wasn't trying.
Tina Cohen-Chang and Mike Chang instantly felt the tension when they walked in and it had only grown thicker when Rachel and Finn had entered the room. Like the rest of their fellow Glee Clubbers, the two did not want to interfere with any drama that involved Santana Lopez, so they stayed true to their personalities and remained quiet.
Brittany S. Pierce couldn't understand why Santana wouldn't hang out with her when she was with Artie. Brittany knew how Santana felt about her, but she wanted Santana to get along with Artie as well. Looking over to give Santana a smile, Brittany saw her best friend glaring at Rachel and Finn. One had to look close enough to see who Santana was really glaring at. Brittany's eyes widened, but she kept her mouth shut, finally understand that there are appropriate times to say certain things, and this was not one of those times.
Quinn Fabray, had her own reasons for glaring at Rachel. She was still a little bit upset that, once again, Rachel had managed to break her and Finn up, only this time it wasn't even on purpose. It was kind of weird. Quinn hadn't been mad at Rachel when she'd told Finn about Puck being the father of Quinn's baby. It was something that Quinn realized she should have told Finn when she found out that she was pregnant. But when Rachel had done nothing to pull Finn back (you know, after Quinn and Finn had announced their relationship) and she still ended up getting him, Quinn was furious. She looked around and saw Santana glaring at the pair. The two made eye contact, shared a small smile, and resumed glaring at Rachel.
Kurt Hummel and Mercedes Jones walked into the choir room to see the two meaner of the three ex-Cheerios glaring at Rachel Berry. Over the course of the previous year, Kurt and Mercedes had grown close with their fellow diva, but they didn't even want to get involved in whatever drama was cooking up between the three of them. Though from the looks of it, it seemed as if Rachel was unaware of her new enemies (well, semi-new enemies). Mercedes smiled when another blonde walked into the room, but she quickly covered it up.
Sam Evans walked into the choir room with Puck Puckerman and Puck's girlfriend, Lauren Zizes. Sam fully expected a mouth joke out of Santana's mouth the moment he walked in, but was shocked when he was met with silence from his ex-girlfriend. He winked at Mercedes as he walked by. Puck saw two of his ex-girlfriends, Quinn and Santana, glaring at his other ex-girlfriend, Rachel. He had no idea why, but he knew that he didn't want to get in the middle of that drama, especially if it involved Quinn and Santana. Lauren saw her (kinda) friend Quinn and Santana (they weren't really friends, more like acquaintances) glaring at Rachel. If she cared enough about high school drama, Lauren would probably be interested in what was going on, but she really didn't give a damn, as long as Santana was staying away from Puck.
Finn Hudson was growing uneasy with all the eyes he could feel on him and Rachel. He turned around to see Quinn staring at him intently. He knew that Quinn was still a little upset about their break up, but when she shot him a small smile, he figured she was over it. Hey, they'd been able to remain friends after the whole pregnancy scandal, they could remain friends after this. He didn't understand why Santana was glaring at them, however. Hadn't she gotten her revenge when she told Rachel about Finn and Santana sleeping together, causing the initial tear in their relationship? Narrowing his eyes, Finn turned his attention to his girlfriend, not giving the Latina a second thought as their teacher walked in.
Will Schuester walked into the choir room and every single member of New Directions was thinking the exact same thing: 'Once again, Mr. Schue is late. And once again, not surprised.' Everyone just waited for him to say something, but all he could concentrate on was the tension and the fact that Santana and Quinn were glaring at Rachel. He sighed, thinking about how to fix his broken group.
"Okay, guys. Let's talk about auditions. Anyone," Mr. Schuester paused, staring pointedly at Rachel Berry, "who wants to join will have an audition. That's pretty much all I can think of right now." he said. Santana Lopez broke her glare at Rachel to stare at the man in the front of the room. "Yes Santana?" Mr. Schue asked, getting tired of the look the Latina was giving him.
"Are you telling me that you forced us to get here at 7:30 on the first day of school to tell us that anyone who wants to join will get a fair shot at an audition?" Santana asked. The teacher nodded. "Why the hell could you not have told us that at Glee this afternoon? I could have slept for another hour!" Santana exclaimed. Mr. Schue sighed.
"Anyone who wishes to add anything may do so at this time." Mr. Schue said.
"Don't mess with the audition list, Rachel." the entire Glee Club said in unison. Rachel looked down and Finn grabbed her hand. Santana rolled her eyes at it. The two were disgustingly cute and it made her sick. Really, any relationship made her sick lately, because it made her think of Brittany, but there was just something about Finnocence and Man Hands that made her want to throw up. And she didn't even know what it was. Rachel stood up and went to the front of the room.
"Since no one else has anything to say... although I do find myself agreeing with Santana's previous statement, even though I would have been here early, this short meeting could have waited until this afternoon's meeting and-" Rachel found herself being cut off by Santana.
"Get on with it Berry!" Santana said. Rachel nodded.
"Right. Anyway, I think we should take this opportunity to figure out some solos for Finn and I to sing at Sectionals. As you all know, Finn and I are back together, so there should be no problems with us singing a duet at Sectionals and-" This time it was Mr. Schue cutting Rachel off, mostly to save her from some of her Glee teammates killing her.
"There's plenty of time for that, Rachel. Why don't you go sit back down?" Mr. Schue said.
"Oh... okay..." Rachel said, sitting down. Santana rolled her eyes as Finn immediately hugged Rachel when she sat down. Something had to be done about those two. Santana needed to break them up so she didn't have to look at them all freaking day long. But how? There was no way Finn would go for her again, not after what she'd done last year, when she told Rachel that Santana and Finn had slept together. That really only left one option, but... hell no. The only other option was to go for Rachel freaking Berry. She gagged as she heard a giggle come out of Rachel's mouth and frowned at the slight feeling that was in her stomach, but quickly pushed that away. Santana couldn't spend another year listening to that. Something had to be done. 'Suck it up Lopez. You only have to seduce her long enough to break them up, then you can dump her. It really shouldn't take that long. Who would want Finnocence when they could have me?' Santana thought to herself. Santana stared at Rachel for a moment. 'Well Berry its your lucky day. You get to experience a nice Santana Lopez, even if it is fake and temporary...' Santana thought.