With Sam and Quinn singing time of our lives, the curtains slowly went up revealing the crowd. The lights were blinding but I could still see people or at least make out the outlook of them. I stepped side to side singing the background vocals with the rest of the club. I was still pretty I didn't get A solo I clearly deserve, NOT ken and Barbie. I smiled bigger as I thought of how none of this will matter when I'm on Broadway. I ran my eyes over the crowd; I felt my breath get stuck in my throat. I knew that silhouette all too well, the curly dark hair and the cocky grin none other than Jesse St. James always had on.
He couldn't be here. He's in California I mean honestly why would he be here? He did all of his damage to me last year so he could go to ULCA. It must have been an hallucination. I walked over to santanna and Britney, Britney and I had to help Santana get her little head piece on. I smiled as we helped her put it on. The song was coming close to the first verse so I shut the little clip on her head piece fast and Britney sent her off with a pat on her butt.
"Great Job Guys!" Mr. Shuester greeted us as we filed back into the room we came from before we went on stage; the little room erupted with claps and hollers. I smiled knowing we could have done so much better if I had a solo. "Good job Barbie" santanna said looking over at Quinn. Quinn sighed. "I guess that's a compliment coming from you, thanks" she smiled turning her attention back to Sam. I sat by myself on the couch playing with my dress. After the whole Santanna thing, Finn and I haven't exactly made up.
I held my breath and gripped my other hand tightly. "In third place we have the hipsters!" he announced as the audience clapped. I looked over at and nodded knowing now we have a better chance. I took Mercedes hand and gripped it as she gripped mine. "And now the winner of this year's West Central Sectionals is… It's a tie" he smiled "Congratulations your all going to the regionals!" he smiled as the audience clapped for us and the warblers. We clapped loudly for ourselves on stage and I hugged the first person I found. Which was Finn. "We get to go on" he smiled
We all stood huddled around the piano with the trophy resting in artie's lap. "Well I know we've had our dramas this week, but our family is back in a happy place and I think we should celebrate the best way we know how, so Rachel how would you like the solo?" I looked up caught off guard. "Thanks but I don't really feel like a solo right now I'd like to defer it this week to the un-sung hero's Mercedes and Tina"
After everyone piled out of the auditorium I sat down on the edge of the stage letting my feet dangle off the edge. As much as I wanted it to be a hallucination, I knew it wasn't. But still I had no real idea why he would be here, in Ohio, watching that sectionals, he could have gone to any other one to check on the competition if he really wanted to. Because obviously Vocal Adrenaline must still mean something in his life because there's no other reason for him to have watched and scoped out the competition. But a small voice in the back of my mind kept saying there might be another reason. A reason I refused to even consider. Me