Artie missed having Brittany as a girl friend and he realized asking Sugar out was a mistake. He felt lonely and wanted someone to be with. He rolled into the newspaper room getting ready for the meeting.
"I have breaking news!" A voice called.
"God no. Anything but her." Artie begged. Ursula McAlister came into the room. She was like a mixture of Zooey Deschanel and Rita Skeeter from Harry potter. Physically, Her hair was black and went down to her shoulder blades. Her eyes were blue and she framed them with sixties style glasses incrusted with rhinestones, red plump lips and her wardrobe was of an eccentric nature. She was undeniably beautiful but her personality and other activates were not the most attractive. This girl was the school papers gossip columnist and had the most outrages stories. Ursula also had the knack of being abrasive and crude worse then Rachel, which was saying something.
"Breaking news Coach Beast has a tale" Everybody including Artie starred at her.
"Ursula do you have facts to back this up." Robby Vincent head of the newspaper sighed. Ursula just starred at everyone for several moments.
"Still working on that." she muttered. Jacob Israel ran into the room gasping for breath.
"Heres' your butterscotch…. soy latte with extra whip ."Jacob had always been Ursula's assistant and when he was good or wasnt in the dumpster she let him write on his blog.
"Took you long enough Jacob. What do I pay you for?" Ursula asked in an annoyed tone as she pulled the drink out of the Jew Fro's hand.
"You don't," He answered simply.
"Well now you know why" she spat.
" If you two are done with your production of Wayland and Madame can we start?" Artie was getting exasperated.
"Pushy for a three year old" Ursula interjected as she sipped her latte.
"I'm 17 Ursula," he informed.
"Cloths beg to differ." She muttered. These two always did this. Artie and Ursula had been archenemies since they got on the newspaper in sixth grade. They would throw barbs at each other whenever they got the chance. When the meeting was over Artie wheeled himself to Tina's locker.
"You have your Ursula face." She said.
"I know I'm a guy and I can't punch her but can I wheel over her?" Tina laughed at this and they walked to glee.
"Mr. Parker is it true you ware lady's…"
" For the last time no! Now leave me be or I will give you detention." Ursula had followed Mr. Parker the English teacher down the hall with her bubble gum pink tape recorder outstretched before her. Not wanting to risk detention she stopped her harassment and went to her locker where Jacob was waiting for her.
"Foiled again Jacob I can never catch a frickin brake." Ursula scowled in defeat as she opened her locker.
"Its like no one wants to here juicy story's anymore. I had the chance last year to make it big when Coach Sylvester brought back the Muckraker but she said I was to much of a loose canon."
"You also wrote a story about her being Satan's mistress." Jacob added.
"Like I'm the only one who believes that" Ursula defended. They started walking down the hall and Jacob was righting down notes for his "boss". Ursula however stopped talking suddenly when she peered into the choir room. Artie was seeing a song with Puck at the Guitar. She was impressed with his abilities and when she looked at the guy in the wheelchair a feeling overwhelmed her a feeling she had never had before.
"You okay Ms McAlister?" Jacob asked. Ursula broke out of her trance and looked at Jacob
'Yes I'm fine now where was I? Oh yes." She resumed her activates as nothing happened and walked down the hall. When Artie finished the song in the last moments of Ursula being their he felt something and turned around to look at the vacant doorway,
"Something wrong Artie?" Rachel asked.
"No everything's fine." Artie brushed the feeling aside.
To be continued.