Hello everyone, this is my first story here (: I was so inspired by the Glee project that I've decided to write about it. So please lend me your feedback and tell me what you think! Rock on fellow gleeks! :D 3 Nicole
Cameron walked into the office, breathing in the smell of Mckinley High. He had just recently transferred from Dalton Academy, and was ready for a fresh start, away from the horrible memories.
The front desk lady behind the counter in the office smiled at him and told him to wait patiently for his buddy to come. They'd assigned him someone to show him the ropes around the school, so he wouldn't feel lost.
He flashed her a tiny smile, and paced around the office. His thoughts were filled with a certain redhead's face, and he couldn't help but wonder if she was at this school too. Nah, he thought, she's probably moved on. And it's time I did too.
The bells on the front door chimed, signaling the arrival of someone else. Cameron lifted his head and noticed a pretty blonde cheerleader, who was leaning over the counter and speaking to the office lady.
They were arguing in hushed whispers, then the cheerleader frowned hard and glared, then turned towards him. She was unbelievably gorgeous, and Cameron found himself sucking in a breath.
The cheerleader extended her hand towards him. "Hey, I'm Quinn Fabray, and I'll be showing you around." She was shorter than him, not by a lot though.
Quinn smiled at him, then led him outside to the hallways. "Oh no, wait! I forgot my schedule!" In his haste, Cameron had totally neglected to take along his schedule to all the different classes.
"Relax, I've got that covered," Quinn raised up her right hand, which held a plastic folder with several sheets of paper in it. Cameron shook his head at his own carelessness.
They walked in companionable silence for a while before Quinn asked, "So where're you from Cameron? I was just asked to be your buddy today, else I would have prepared a welcome gift of sorts." Quinn frowned, then returned her gaze back to him.
The new guy's cute, Quinn thought, before returning her attention to what he was saying.
"I'm actually from Dalton Academy, your rival school. I transferred here because I needed to get away from it all." Cameron gave an extremely vague introduction to himself.
Quinn tried to picture which group he would fit in to. He wouldn't be a jock, that was for sure. He didn't seem like the type who would conform just to be popular. Geek? Definitely.
A cute geek at that, Quinn's mind added silently. Shut up, she countered back sharply.
"Oh I see." Quinn replied vacantly. She thought back to the time when she herself had wanted her world to end. The pressure was too much, especially with her, getting publicly humiliated. But that was over now. She decided that she didn't need any more men to give her problems or distractions. In her last year here, she would make the most of it.
They drifted back into silence again, before Cameron asked, "Are any things in this school worth joining?"
That had Quinn's attention. She couldn't wait to tell him all about Glee club. Maybe he could join. Now, talk about fantastic.
Marissa von Bleiken brushed her hair into that standard Cheerio stance and grabbed her gym bag, walking out of the changing room. She had been trying her best to avoid Bryce, her ex-boyfriend, who was trying desperately to get her back.
What he didn't know was that he was pissing her off in the process. His incessant phone calls, random notes in her locker and attempts to drag her off somewhere to talk alone were getting on her nerves.
The guy just didn't get the message that no meant no! After she found him cheating on her with her best friend, Emily, she decided that they were over in a split second. She'd broken off all ties with her former best friend and boyfriend.
Sadly, she asked herself why she was always the party who got dumped and not the other way around.
Sighing, she made her way to her locker to pull out the books that she needed for the day. Turning the combination, she piled her clothes into the locker and pulled out her files and books when she felt someone tapping her shoulder.
She looked up into a blue-eyed gaze, and saw none other than her best friend, Lindsay Pearce and Lindsay's boyfriend, Damian. The two were standing behind her, and Lindsay looked scary.
"Hey, L," Marissa greeted her friend, averting her gaze. Oh no, I am so dead now, she muttered in her head. "Well, see you in Spanish!"
"Hold it right there young lady! You owe me an explanation! Why didn't you turn up at my party on Saturday? You know how much that meant to me right?" she whined.
Marissa frowned. "Sorry, L, I wasn't feeling well on that day. Really sorry," she reasoned lamely. Well that wasn't entirely false. Her mother had told her just before she was about to leave the house that her first love was transferring back to her school.
Marissa hadn't taken it well. That was actually a slight understatement. She became depressed and locked herself up in the room for the rest of the night. She couldn't face him, not after all she'd done to make herself the person she was now.
She knew that one look at him – seeing the guilt and pain in his eyes, would make it crash all the way back down. She couldn't see him. Whenever she pictured his face, it was gazing lovingly at someone else.
Whenever she pictured his lips, they were kissing someone else. She hadn't reacted well to that at all.
Seeing him again after all this time would make her crumble, and be so helpless like she was before. She had everything now, she was popular, had many friends, was the cheerleading captain, and was a straight-A student.
She didn't want to lose it all because of some boy who happened to have broken her heart. Bad.
Mattheus Fernandez might not have been the tallest guy around, but even he couldn't have seen the slushie coming right at him after his exit from the school gymnasium.
The slushie hit him, hard, and the feeling he got as an aftershock was cold, and freezing. His heart started beating faster, and his face heated up as a result of the humiliation.
He licked his lips – hey, if it was all over you, at least enjoy some of it before you throw it away, right?
Mattheus was turning around to head towards the gent's, when a shrill voice caught his attention. "Matt!"
He smiled slightly. The one person who cared about him.
Quinn rushed forward and put an arm around him. She didn't believe that those air-headed jocks had dared to do this to her cousin again, even after she'd warned them numerous times.
"Those asses," she muttered under her breath, before pulling her cousin into the men's bathroom to clean him off.
Lindsay couldn't figure out what was going on with Marissa. She seemed distant, and distracted. She hadn't even been so far away from Lindsay before – even when Marissa had found out that Bryce was a big, fat cheater she didn't seem to have any reaction.
So here Lindsay sat, in the middle of physics, trying to figure out what was wrong with her best friend. She was so lost in her thoughts that she hadn't noticed someone else planting themselves on the seat next to hers.
"Hey, I'm Cameron. I'm new here." The guy spoke and introduced himself with a smile. Lindsay swung her head to face him, and smiled back when she saw his face stretched into a grin.
"I'm Lindsay Pearce." She replied earnestly.
"Wow, you're the second cheerio I've talked to today. Are there many more walking around?" Cameron asked teasingly.
Lindsay did a mental calculation. There weren't that many of them, considering that Coach Sylvester chose to kick someone off randomly each week.
She shook her head in response to Cameron's question. "So, do you know anyone from here?" she asked lightly.
Cameron shook his head this time. "Well, actually, yes. But I'm not sure if she's still here off if she's taken off because she never wants to see me again." He said wistfully.
Lindsay noticed the change of tone in his voice, and smiled slightly to herself. Whoever this boy was missing, she was lucky because he had got it bad!
"What did you do?" she asked out of genuine curiosity, but the bell rang just as he was about to answer.
"I lost the only thing that ever mattered to me." Cameron muttered. Lindsay guessed that she wasn't exactly appeared to hear it.
His voice sounded so sound, it broke her heart.