Author's notes:
I have decided to rewrite this story since it was originally written a while ago and I'm a /lot/ better at writing then when I first wrote this.
This story is basically set after Kurt's new student examination and does not follow the usual plot of Dalton. I do not own any of the characters apart from my OC Lilly-Rose, the rest belong to Ryan Murphy and CP coulter.
It was just a normal morning for the residents of Windsor house. At least that's what they thought when the boys woke up. Then again when is anything normal in a house like Windsor?
Reed and Kurt woke as usual to a room full of coffee cups, curtesy of the twins. The two fashionable boys looked over the room at each other and Kurt rolled his eyes "You can stop doing this every morning boys" He called out towards the half open door, hearing sniggers outside in response. "Just keeping you from having another meltdown Alice!" an identical pair of voices chorused before footsteps were heard running down the corridor on their way to their next victim.
Reed stepped out of his bed and onto his plush white rug, making sure he got a steady footing before he stood up fully. He started walking towards the bathroom when his foot caught on one of the coffee cups and he tumbled to the floor. Used to the daily accidents happening to his curly haired roommate, Kurt helped Reed back to his feet and into the bathroom without falling over again.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the school, a blonde haired girl with ocean blue eyes was wandering the main Dalton corridors looking for the Dean's office. She walked through the halls with practised ease as she approached the door with a metal plaque reading 'Dean Ramsey'. She looked through the frosted glass and took a deep breath. The girl then knocked cautiously on the door and waited for a response.
"Come in" called the calm voice of the woman sitting at her desk inside the room. The girl opened the door and quickly closed it behind herself before walking over to one of the chairs opposite the ancient wood desk. "Hello Dean Ramsey" she said politely making eye contact with the older woman. "Good morning Lilly-Rose" Ramsey replied warmly, shaking her hand before talking again. "So you are here to offer us your assistance?" the woman asked curiously. Lilly nodded and lent back in the chair "you see Ms Ramsey I am here because even though I graduated from Groves-dale high school early, I have been told that I have to stay in a school environment until the time when I would normally have graduated. So my Father asked the principle if I could come here and help by tutoring the boys in Windsor house. It will only be until the current juniors graduate." She explained to the Dean.
After a long while of questions about where Lilly-Rose would stay during her time in Dalton they finally got around to filling out the mountain of paperwork that came with admitting a girl to live on the campus of an all-boys school.
It was nearly lunch by the time Lilly had been released from the office to return to her car and unpack her belongings. Ramsey had her runner go and collect Charlie, the house prefect for Windsor, to come and help Lilly bring all of the suitcases and the few boxes over to her new dorm room.
The room was situated on the second floor where most the 'Warblerland' boys' room were and just happened to be right next to the room belonging to none other than Evan and Ethan Brightman. Lilly looked around the halls at the ancient architecture of the grand building. She had been in this building many times before; her and Blaine were best friends since they were small and were literally siblings ever since her parents accepted him into their family. They took him under their wing so to speak after he came out to his not-so-accepting father, same with Shane. She also had a slightly shorter history with the Brightman twins ever since Blaine introduced them when he first started Dalton. Since that day she had always had a sort of crush on the two overexcited boys who were nothing but polite and courteous of her whenever she was in the dorm building.
Later that day, after Warbler rehearsal, Charlie sent all the Windsor's a text calling a mandatory house meeting in the main common room.
The boys filed into the room soon after and Lilly waited patiently outside the door and out of sight. "Is there any reason you need me here too? I have a game to finish" a crackly voice said through the microphone on one of the coffee tables. "Yes there is Han; I have an announcement for all you boys, including you." Charlie replied impatiently, as the last few boys came in and sat down on the scattered seating. "Sorry Red queen" Evan and Ethan said, as they were the last ones to arrive, and quickly sat at Kurt and Blaine's feet on the floor.
The prefect rolled his eyes at the twins "now that everyone is here I would like to tell you boys about a new person who will be joining us here in Windsor, she has been hired by the school to act as a private tutor for are dorm house." Murmurs started up through the boys at the mention of a girl joining their house, which were soon silenced with one look in the few boys' directions. "She will officially be starting sessions for any subject next week" he finished.
"Wait, the school is actually letting a flower other then Merril board in the school?" Evan asked from his position on the floor. Charlie smiled at the question "She has a very persuasive father, plus she has her trust in you boys" he said in reply, grinning by the end.
"And on that note I would like to introduce you to your new house tutor Lilly-Rose" Charlie announced. Right on cue Lilly open the door and walked into the common room, "Hello there boys" Lilly said with a grin. After getting over the initial shock of seeing his best friend again, Blaine jumped to his feet to greet her "Welcome back sis" he smiled, giving her a big hug. On her way past she glared at Dwight who was holding up the amulet around his neck as if to protect himself from the girl. She knew from experience not to go near the boy, since last time she met him he sprayed holy water in her eye trying to 'purify' her. She went round the boys exchanging hugs and hellos, introducing herself to Kurt, then she finally came to the twins who were literally bouncing in excitement at the return of one of their favourite talking flowers.
Lilly grinned, feeling the butterflies that always came to her whenever she was with those two boys. "Glad you're back" they said with Cheshire cat grins as she hugged the two twins. As she pulled away she looked at Charlie, "have these two been behaving themselves?" she asked, remembering the deal that she had made with the troublesome twins the last time she was in their presence.
"To be quite honest I'm not the one to ask, I've currently just got out of hospital from a little accident involving the boys in question" Charlie replied, knowing full when the conditions of the three blonde's deal. Lilly nodded and turned to Blaine, the acting prefect during Charlie's absence, and raised an eyebrow silently asking the same question. Blaine cleared his throat, "Well Lilly, they haven't done that much. They only had a paintball battle in the halls resulting in Chaz being hospitalised, succeeded in kidnapping Kurt on his first day and forcing him into a nerf battle; along with all the usual antics" he said listing them on his fingers. Lilly nodded with a smile before turning back to the twins "Boys would you like to plead innocent to those acts or should I go ahead with our original deal?" she asked, an authoritative air to the way she spoke to the pair. Evan and Ethan both started speaking at once trying to cover up there participation in the events that their Acting prefect mentioned. Unconvinced, Lilly held up her hand to silence the twins and looked them in the eye. They sighed in defeat and the other boys watch wide eyed at the sight of Evan and Ethan handing their prize nerf guns into the perfectly manicured hands of the blonde girl. Lilly smiled at the twins "If you help me unpack then I'll think of only keeping them for one week instead of two" she said with a playful air to her words. The boys nodded enthusiastically and followed her to the door "remember I will start next week, the sign-up sheet will be on the house noticeboard by the end of the day." She added before leaving the room Blaine and the twins in toe with Kurt walking slightly behind them with Reed.
"What is the Windsor's history with Lilly then?" Kurt asked Reed. The curly haired painter smiled "she's like a big sister to most of us, we first met her when Blaine transferred here, they're best friends from way back." Reed explained as they followed. "She is special to us Windsors, particularly to Blaine and the Tweedles. Her parents are extremely rich, even more so than the twins and their parents run an aircraft company," the smaller boy added before tripping over his own feet and falling face first on the burgundy coloured rug.
The commotion behind them caused the twins to look around, watching Reed pick himself off the floor and brushing down his uniform "I'm fine" he said quickly, inspecting himself for any cuts or grazes.
They reached Lilly's room and the twins started their identical Cheshire cat style grins at the sight of their rooms being in such close proximity to each other. They were already hatching plans in their mind of what pranks to play on their new housemate, and also how they were going to use their secret doors between the rooms to their advantage.
They walked into the room, which looked much the same as any usual room in Windsor with the same antique character and style. The only different in this room was that it only had one four poster bed as appose to two. At the front of the room was a normal sized flat screen which she would get Han to help her with later once everything else was set up. In front the television was a rather grand looking sofa with dark red fabric and a smaller chair made of the same style and fabric.
The boys looked around the room at the boxes and started unpacking them into the room, making it look a lot more like the British bedroom she was used to when living back in London with her parents and twin sister. What the boys were currently unaware of was the pair of huge emerald eyes watching them from their place on the bed. It was only when Reed turned around to place a photo frame on the bedside table that he saw the owner of the eyes, he was currently face to face with the massive furry creature and he let out a little scream, backing up and tripping over a box, tumbling into Evan's arm who fell too on top of his twin.
Lilly looked over at her furry friend and giggled "are you okay boys?" she asked, helping them each to their feet. She took one look at their surprised, slightly scared faces before dissolving into a fit of giggles and sitting on the bed leaning on the back of her friend. Once calm enough to talk she sat up "you should have seen your faces" she said to the not so amused boys. "This is Leon" she introduced "my father thought I needed a body guard while here, even after I explained to him that the twins were probably enough protection."
After another half hour of unpacking Blaine set up an IPod dock he found and put his songs on shuffle. The time after consisted of the boys singing along to whatever came on while Lilly stayed silent as she helped Kurt and Reed set out her impressive amount of clothes into the closet. The girl hummed along but made no real attempt at singing the words much to her best friend's confusion. Unfortunately for her nothing went unnoticed in a place like Windsor where its residents were around each other all the time that they could tell when there was something wrong. Just when one of the songs had ended Blaine decided to ask Lilly the question that she was slightly dreading, but knew she would have to answer eventually "Lilly why aren't you singing along?" he asked softly. Lilly cast her eyes to the floor not looking her best friend in the eye. She didn't have to answer as Blaine did so for her "you haven't sung since the incident have you?" she shook her head sadly remembering what had happened that day a few years ago.
She had ten minutes before her and her glee club, twilight star, were due on stage. If they did well they would have won their 3rd Nationals show choir competition trophy in a row. She was nervous of course because the whole win would depend on her and how well of a performance she presented to the judges. She was also nervous because she still hadn't seen Blaine yet, he usually came back stage to encourage her and help her overcome her stage fright, but he hadn't showed up. No one had seen him. Then five minutes before she left the green room she got a phone call from Blaine saying that his dad had come home to find Micah on the couch, Blaine had covered for Shane by coming out to his dad himself. He said he was so sorry but his Father refused to let him drive over to watch the performance. Lilly was in a stage of panic, she had only just calmed down by the time they walked out behind the curtain of the stage. But as soon as it rose up the blonde froze in the spotlight. She forgot the words, the dance, everything. Their group was a laughing stock and ever since she had never sang properly again. At least not in front of other people outside her bedroom.
She was shaken out of her trance by Blaine's voice "Lilly come on you can sing you are amazing at it." He encouraged, taking her hand in his own. "No I'm not" she all but snapped back keeping her defences up. Before she could stop him Blaine reached for his IPod and started flipping through the music looking for one in particular. When he had found it and he played the opening few cords and started singing along to the instrumental (but slower than the original).
You can't stop an avalanche
As it races down the hill
You can try to stop the seasons, girl
But ya know you never will
And you can try to stop my dancin' feet
But I just cannot stand still
Cause the world keeps spinnin'
Round and round
And my heart's keeping time
To the speed of sound
I was lost til I heard the drums
Then I found my way
Cause you can't stop the beat
Blaine glanced expectantly at Lilly. She started off weakly, not trusting or believing in her own singing ability.
Ever since this old world began
A woman found out if she shook it
She could shake up a man
And so I'm gonna shake and shimmy it
The best that I can today
By this time the others were backing them up and Lilly was starting to gain slight confidence, her voice rising from the quiet volume it was at the beginning.
'Cause you can't stop
The motion of the ocean
Or the sun in the sky
You can wonder if you wanna
But I never ask why
And if you try to hold me down
I'm gonna spit in your eye and say
That you can't stop the beat!
You can't stop a river
As it rushes to the sea
You can try and stop the hands of time
But ya know it just can't be
And if they try to stop us, Seaweed,
I'll call the N Double A C P
Cause the world keeps spinning
Round and 'round
And my heart's keeping time
To the speed of sound
I was lost til I heard the drums
Then I found my way
Cause you can't stop the beat
ou can't stop the beat
Ever since we first saw the sun
It seems van tussle girls are always tryin
Please someone
But now we're gonna shake and shimmy
And just have some fun today
And you can't stop
The motion of the ocean
Or the rain from above
You can try to stop the paradise
We're dreaming of
But you cannot stop the rhythm
Of two hearts in love to stay
'Cause you can't stop the beat
You can't stop the beat!
You can't stop the beat!
You can't stop the beat!
You can't stop the beat!
By the end Lilly was singing to her full potential again and she was even dancing along with the twins, who even if they weren't fully aware of what particular musical the song was from they still had fun with the rest of them.
By the open door were the rest of the boys from their floor, watching the impromptu performance, a few of the Windsor warblers joining in on the last parts of the song.
They were so busy dancing and singing by the end they were really out of breath. Lilly looked back towards the door, seeing all the Windsor Warblers standing there with grins on their faces some videoing the performance on their phones and some just watching. When the six of them had caught their breath back all the boys started clapping and putting their phones away.
That's it for today; I will be working hard to finish the editing and will post them up as they're finished.
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