Disclaimer; I don't own glee, just this stories plot. If I owned glee then there would be no hiatus for the winter.

Rachel Berry knew who she was. She was a confident young lady who was trapped in a school with Neanderthals and monkey brained cheerleaders who followed the pack so closely every action was like a domino effect. She however knew she was above all of them; but was still hurt each time one of them called her man hands or threw a slushy in her face. But as she got up in the morning of this particular Monday morning; she was hoping this was going to change. Today was the auditions for the new school glee club and today she was not only going to wow the new teacher with her voice, she was going to make some friends.

Rachel

I had always had trouble making friends, people found it hard to deal with me. I knew I talked way too much and I had way too many opinions on things that no one in this school seemed to care about. But today, today was going to be different. I walked down the hallway and down the stairs after getting dressed. I picked a short checked skirt and a pink top with an elephant on it. I finished it off with a blazer and a pair of heels and I put a headband in my hair. I thought I looked smart and sophisticated, but I knew the kids at school probably wouldn't; they seemed to think bare mid drifts and football pads were appropriate attire for an education.

I saw my two dads in the kitchen. Yes, I have two gay dads; James and Leroy. I was adopted at birth by them and I love them a lot. People at school don't really know about my dad's; I chose not to tell them about my dad's because it would just give them another excuse to mock me. There were only three gay people at our school and I had already seen what had happened to them. Two of them got away with it; Brittany and Santana. They were two cheerio's, the cheerleaders at our school; and they were the most powerful and popular group in the school, up there with the football players. No one would dare to make fun of them; particularly not Santana who was the bitchiest cheerio, everyone knew not to mess with her. Not messing with Santana meant not messing with Brittany, so those two were free to do whatever they wanted with no consequences.

The other gay kid at the school didn't have it so easy. I had never actually spoken to him, I hardly spoke to anyone at school anymore, but he seemed to be a pretty confident kid, even if he was thrown in the dumpster on a daily basis. He was called a girl on a constant basis and I knew that if people knew about my dad's that I would get the mocking too. My dad's knew the situation and although they said they were ok with me keeping them a secret; I think they only agreed to it because they knew what I went through at that school every day.

This morning they greeted me with blueberry pancakes with no dairy in them. They knew the auditions for the glee club were today, I had done nothing but talk about it and practice all weekend. I had even had my vocal coach help me practice the song I was going to sing. My dad Leroy knew how important it was to keep up your vocal strength before an audition and dairy was terrible for your vocal cords, hence the non dairy pancakes.

After the pancakes they sent me off to school. They used to drive me but the last year I had insisted on walking. It was only a twenty minute walk and it allowed me some fresh air, some exercise aside from the elliptical and some time to think or even practice my singing. Today the air was quite brisk and I loved it. Most people hated the cold, the rain, the mucky, but I find it peaceful, like the heavens were opening up and trying to say something. To me, the sunlight was so bland, so warm and stuffy; so not me. Lima Ohio was a funny town with a particularly odd type of scenery. It was nice and green, tree's everywhere and parks on almost every corner; a particularly garden of Eden looking place; but that did not reflect the people that lived here.

The people in Lima were particularly different to the way the town looked. The people here were mostly narrow minded losers who gave up all of their potential at birth. They were all deemed to get stuck in this town working at some dead end job; and the problem wasn't even that. I wasn't a judgemental person, not really; I of all people understand that you cannot help your situation or the way you live, but no one here wants more. I don't understand being happy with that kind of life and not aspire for something more. In my mind, you always have to aspire something more otherwise what is the point?

As I arrived at school I headed down the corridor to my locker; thankful when I didn't see any other students in the hallway. It was still quite early, about an hour till classes were actually going to start so after grabbing my books from my locker and checking my makeup in my mirror and heading off again. I went straight up to the sign up board and wrote my name on the Glee club signup sheet. I heard footsteps behind me and I turned around, a hit of emotion running through me. I was relieved when I realised it wasn't a student but another emotion hit me, I wasn't sure what it was. It was definitely a positive emotion and I found myself staring at the man walking towards me. I hadn't seen him before and he walked almost right up to me, seeing my name with a gold star next to it on the sheet.

"Signing up for the Glee club?" he asked and I nodded, not actually sure what to say. I smiled at him and I couldn't help but notice how good looking he was. I still had no clue who he, but I was taken with him straight away.

"Yes, I heard there was going to be a new teacher so thought it was worth a try," I said catching myself smiling at him and he grinned back.

"Yes, there is a new teacher..." he turned to look at my name on the signup sheet, "Rachel. I'm Mr Shue, the new Spanish teacher and Glee club director."

That was it; he was the new Glee club teacher. He put out his hand for me to shake it and I grabbed it, shaking it nervously. I can't say I had felt this emotion before, but I had listened to enough songs to know what it was, it was a crush. I had a crush on the new Glee club teacher and this was going to be an interesting endeavour.

"It is very nice to meet you Mr. Shue, I am very much looking forward to the auditions and to in fact being part of the Glee club," I said quickly. This however wasn't due to my crush. I always talked this quickly and spoke this much, it was kind of my thing; just like the gold stars.

"Well I'm glad someone has signed up, I was quite worried that this school didn't have anyone with the guts to show off their talent. But judging by you we will have lots of sign ups."

"Well I'm not so sure about that, the kids here are very different to me but good luck Mr Shue," I said and he raised his eyebrows before smiling and excusing himself. As he walked past me I got a rush of wind towards me and I got a quick smell of his cologne. He smelled wonderful and he was very good looking too. I was quite happy with the new glee club teacher and rushed off to the auditorium to get ready for the second period auditions. If he was the teacher, I was going to need a lot more practice.

So this is my first Glee fiction and of course it is going to be a Rachel/Will fiction. Reviews are much appreciated and I will try and update again in the next couple of days. Although this chapter was only 1500 words as it was the first chapter, the following chapters will be about double that, usually around 3000.