Reverse Directions Chapter 1: Audition, a glee fanfic

It was time for a new school year and I was ready to go back. I spent the last month of my sophomore year homeschooled because it made it easier with the baby, but I was going to return to McKinley. I got dressed in a pink camisole that stopped above my midriff and a blue mullet skirt with a blue bracelet and pink heels and my hair in a braid. I had worked hard to lose all of my baby weight. I went to see that Beth was sleeping soundly. I gave her a kiss on the forehead before I went to the kitchen. I was living with my mom because it made it easier for Frannie with her job.

"What are you wearing?" Mom asked me.

"Mom, I worked hard to lose this weight." I pointed out. "I want to show it off even if it's just for one day. Today is my first day back."

"Okay, I'll let you do this once." She agreed. "Just know that you don't have to show off to anyone. So were you going to talk to Coach Sylvester about letting you rejoin the cheerleading squad? You know that you'd be great at it."

"No." I responded. "I don't need to be a cheerleader and I really don't want to spend a lot of time away from Beth. I'm just going to do Glee club."

I headed out to my car and drove to school. When I got there, I was a little surprised to see Lucy happened to be wearing a Cheerios uniform.

"You didn't tell me that you were trying out." I declared before I kissed her. I wasn't going to lie. I missed Jessa.

"Well I figured that I needed some extracurriculars." She declared. "We don't know if Glee club is going to last past this year. So how do I look in this skirt?"

"You look good." I answered. 'So, I think that we need to do something to need to do something to raise awareness of the Glee club."

"Maybe we could do a carwash?" She suggested. "Girls in bikinis is a good way to attract people."

"We can run it by Mr. Schue." I stated. I was kind of excited about the idea. I wanted to people to really see all that I had to show off. The idea was a little bit sexist, but sex sells. At that point, Jacob Ben Israel came up to us.

"I'm hear with Glee club captain and former pregnant teenager Faith Fabray." He declared. I didn't know I was a captain. "So you're back in school, how do you respond to rumors that you're still pining for Jessa St. James."

"They're false." I answered.

"So do you breastfeed?" He asked. I did some of the time, but I wasn't going to tell him that.

"Go away." I stated before I started to walk to Glee. We did need at least one new member considering that Matt had disappeared off the face of the Earth. I was pretty sure that he went to Canada or something.

We also had a new football coach. It was a woman, but not the woman from The Blind Side. Ken Tanaka had a nervous breakdown or something. This woman had apparently won five state titles in Missouri, so maybe we could put forth a winning team for once.

Will then started off by reading supposed comments from Jacob Ben Israel's blog. I was pretty sure that such commenters didn't actually exist.

"So everyone hates us, but none of us really care." Kurt pointed out.

"Kurt's right. We're a family." Mercedes added.

"I'm really happy that you've all bonded, but all of this other stuff is keeping other students from wanting to join." Mr. Schue pointed out. "We need at least one more member to qualify. We need to go to a giant wall of sound."

"Can we not mention the producer who is a murderer?" I requested as Rachel got up to talk to the Club.

"Vocal Adrenaline was epic at Regionals." She stated. "We're going to need more voices in order to beat them."

"Well how about me?" A girl interrupted. She had blonde curly hair and bushy eyebrows and was wearing a Cheerios uniform. I couldn't help but realize that I had seen her before. It was then I remembered that I definitely knew who she was.

"Who are you?" Will asked.

"I'm Sadie St. James. I'm a freshman." She stated.

"You're Jessa's little sister?" Will questioned.

"Yes, but I'm more than just that." She argued. "I'm here to audition."

I've never gone with the wind, just let it flow
Let it take me where it wants to go
Till you open the door and there's so much more
I've never seen it before

I've been trying to fly, but I couldn't find wings
Then you came along and you changed everything

You lift my feet off the ground, you spin me around
You make me crazier, crazier
Feels like I'm falling and I, I'm lost in your eyes
You make me crazier, crazier, crazier

"Okay, welcome to New Directions, Sadie." He remarked.

"I have an idea for a way to make money." I suggested. "We could have a carwash."

"I don't think that objectifying women is a good image for us." Rachel argued. I hadn't brought up the other part yet.

"I wasn't suggesting just the girls. The guys would participate away. We could attract males and females that and we could use the money since our funding is being cut." I explained.

"Let's do it." Will suggested. "Though, I will say that swimsuits are optional in case anyone is not comfortable in them."

We had to do it on Tuesday afternoon because there were other carwashes already booked. We got a few people to come and a few people just watched us sing. Puck and Mike took their shirts off while the girls wore red bikinis except for Rachel, Tina, and Mercedes.

I like to bite my nails and play the air guitar
I like to keep my suitcase packed because I'm going far
I think you're nice, but I don't wanna waste my time
I may seem crazy but don't worry, I'm just fine

All the way up, all the way down never look back it's time to break out
Want it my way, I do what I do, I know what I like and maybe it's you
That's right, it's a temporary life, it's a ride that takes you
All the way up, all the way down, never look back it's time to break out

It's my life and it's a riot
Come on baby you can't deny it

All the way up, all the way down holding my breath, letting it all
Want it my way, I do what I do, I know what I like baby

It's time to break out, it's time to break out right now

I wasn't really sure if anyone was that interested in our music. I didn't know if anyone would be interested in joining. We had enough members, but we needed to do something about the gender ratio. I did notice one guy tapping his feet when we sang.

After school, I went home. I noticed that Beth was awake and picked her up and carried her to the kitchen. She really liked it when I held her.

"You got a postcard from Jessa." Mom stated. I decided to read it while feeding the baby.

Dear Faith,

Greetings from UCLA. I'm starting my freshman year and I just wanted to say that Los Angeles is beautiful. I hope you and Annabeth are doing okay. I wish you were here right now. Maybe you can come visit sometime

Love Jessa

P.S. you probably already know, but my sister is going to McKinley.

I couldn't help but cry a little from reading it. I loved her. I missed her. I knew I needed to go over her, but I was such a hard time doing it.

A hundred days have made me older since the last time that I saw your pretty face
A thousand laughs have made me colder and I don't think I can look at this the same
But all the miles that separate disappear now when I'm dreaming of your face

I'm here without you baby but you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby and I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you baby, but you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight, girl, it's only time you and me

Everything I know and anywhere I go, it gets hard but it won't take away my love
When the last one falls, when it's all said and done it gets hard but it won't take away my love

I just had to accept that Jessa wasn't coming back. Lucy loved me and forgave me for lying to her and I should have been happy with her.

The next day, I decided to find that guy at school. He was blonde and he was also on the football team.

"Hi, I'm Faith." I declared.

"Are you that girl that got pregnant last year?" He questioned.

"Yes, but I need to talk to you about something." I stated. "I saw you at the tapping your foot at the carwash yesterday. I know that you weren't just admiring our bodies. I think you were enjoying the music and you should audition for the Glee club. You can probably get in."

"I don't know if singing is really for me." He stated.

"Well maybe you should let me take to meet some of the guys." I suggested as I took him to the choir room where all the guys but Kurt were. "This is Puck, Mike, and Artie."

"Hi, everyone, I'm Sam Evan. Sam I am." He declared.

"Your mouth is so huge. How many tennis balls can you fit in it?" Puck asked.

"I don't know. I don't have experience with balls in my mouth. Do you?" Sam retorted. It seemed like I would like the guy.

"Why don't you sing something that's on your iPod right now?" I suggested.

"Okay, this song is called 'The Good Life'." He stated.

The good life is what I need
Too many people stepping over me
The only thing that's been on my mind
Is the one thing I need before I die

All I want is a little of the good life
All I need is to have a good time,oh the good life
All I want is a little of the good life
All I need is to have a good time, oh the good life

Hold up, hold up I always wanted it this way (I never wanted it this way)
Hold up, hold up I always wanted it this way (I didn't ask for it this way)
I always wanted it this way, the good life

All I want is a little of the good life
All I need is to have a good time,oh the good life
All I want is a little of the good life
All I need is to have a good time,oh the good life

The good life

I could tell that he had really enjoyed himself during the song. It looked like everyone had fun while he was singing.

"So do you think that you can do that during auditions?" I asked.

"Yeah." Sam agreed.

In addition, Rachel ended up finding this girl named Sunshine. Apparently that was her real name. I wasn't sure why anyone would name their kid after sunshine.

That afternoon at auditions, neither of them showed. I wasn't sure why. I thought that Sam would want to be there.

"I hate to break it to you, but it doesn't look like anyone is going to be joining us." Rachel remarked. "We should probably head home."

"I really thought that Sam was going to be here." I told Lucy.

We later learned that this Sunshine girl didn't show up because Rachel had sent her to a crack house. What the fuck? How did Rachel even know where that was? Rachel did say that she would give her another chance. She was even shorter than Rachel, though that seems to be a common theme among Filipino women. The following morning, she came to audition for us.

"Hi, I'm Sunshine Corazon and I will be singing 'Walk Away' by Kelly Clarkson." She stated.

You've got your mother, and your brother every other undercover telling you what to say
You think I'm stupid but the truth is that it's Cupid baby, loving you has made this way
So before you point your finger, get your hand off of my trigger oh yeah
You need to know this situation's getting old and the more you talk the less I can take

I'm looking attention, not another question should you stay or should you go
Well if you don't have the answer why you still standing here
Hey, hey, hey, hey just walk away just walk away just walk away

Later in the day, I went to talk to Sam to see why he bailed on the auditions.

"I wanted to but after Puck got thrown off the team, I didn't want to be an outcast." Sam explained. "I mean they basically say that all the guys in Glee are gay. I don't think I could anyway. I have a lot more work to do. I'm the new quarterback."

We also found out that Sunshine had been scooped up by Vocal Adrenaline after it was revealed that Rachel had purposely sent her to the crack house. Everyone basically chewed her out for it. I decided not to say anything. All I knew was that we were in no better shape than when we started.

I decided to just go home to see Beth.

So even after several months, Faith still loves Jessa. Will Lucy be able to win her over? Also Sadie's at McKinley. I know I had her played by Sabrina Carpenter in the last story, but I felt Maddie Hasson would be better for her. The songs are "Crazier" by Taylor, "All the Way Up" by Emily Osment, and "The Good Life" by Three Days Grace. Please don't forget to review.