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A/N: This is a bit different that what I usually write but, it has been in my head. So…this fic is AU all cannon couples for the most part. I hope you enjoy.

Can one second, one minute or, even one hour change your life? Find out as we embark on a journey filled with love, hate, betrayal, and most of all friendship. Mr. Shue has given his class one final project before they graduate. Will former friends finally burry the hatchet? Can two old flames still burn white hot for each other? Find out here….

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Mr. Shue is sitting at his desk with his feet propped up watching as his students file in one by one. "So, how was everyone's weekend? Anyone wake up in a bush with out their clothes on?" This receives a few chuckles from the students. "Wait that was me…" He says standing up. "But, we did have a pretty intense game of uno last night." He says walking over towards the chalk board and begins writing on the chalkboard. "Ok, today we are going to play a little game of how well do you guys know each other. I know some of you in here have been friends for years and well others not so long. I have five categories up here Jock, Prom queen, loner, geek, and friendly. Artie, what do you think your classmates think of you?"

Artie looks around the room. "Awesome." which gets him a few high fives.

"Ok, Britney what do you think of Artie?"

Britney looks at Mr. Shue and then over at Artie not really sure what to say. "Nice I guess."

"Ok, that is not one of the words on the board and since friendly is not what it means for this, you have four other words."

"Geek I guess." She gives Artie an apologetic look.

"It's ok Artie I was a Geek too. " Mr. Shue says as he walks around the classroom. "Ok, how about Finn?"

"Jock." everyone responds.

"Quinn?"

"Prom Queen."

"Santana?"

"Friendly." everyone starts to laugh.

"Ok, Puck?"

"Jock."

"Dude I am so a loner."

A girl in front of him turns around. "Yeah, loner who is dating a prom queen. No offense I am a loner."

"Ok, seems like your classmates view you differently. See the good thing is that in a few months none of this is going to matter. No one is going to care about what you were in high school." Mr. Shue walks over and erases the names off the board. "Mike what is Tina's last name?"

Mike looks over at Tina they had a lot of classes together but for the life of him he had no idea what her last name was. "I don't know." Turning towards Tina. "I'm sorry." Tina just gives him a look.

"Ok, everyone on this side of the room write you names on a piece of paper and put them in Finn's hat." Mr. Shue motions to the other side of the room. Ok, everyone on this side of the room will draw a name and that is the person you will spend the rest of the class with." Everyone starts drawing names.

"Finn, who do you have?" Finn looks down at the name and his heart jumps a bit.

"Uh…Rachel." Rachel gives him a slight smile.

"Uh…Artie." Britney sinks into her chair.

"See…that is what we call Karma." Mr. Shue points out.

Tina looks over at Mike and rolls her eyes. "Gotta love Karma…Mike."

"Sam." Quinn says.

"Really…Puckerman." Santana gives Puck a death stare.

"Ok, here is what I want you to do over there is a box with cameras in it. Each camera has a series of questions I want you to ask each other. At the end of the hour you will take a picture of each other that will be in the year book. You can go anywhere you want on campus. Good luck and see you in an hour." Mr. Shue says as the students get up and grab the cameras.

Brittney grabs a camera from the box and looks at it. "I don't get it."

"Of course not." Artie rolls past her.

"So…want to make out of something." Puck says walking up behind Santana.

Santana rolls her eyes wondering what she did to get stuck with Puck of all people. "Not even in your dreams."

"Hey it was worth a shot." Puck raises his arms in the air.

"Let's just go do this stupid assignment." Santana tells him as she grabs him by the arm.

Finn and Rachel reach for the camera at the same time. "Go ahead." Rachel says softly.

"No, you." Finn says as they stand there and look at each other.

"Oh, sweet Jesus just grab the camera and go." Quinn who is getting annoyed says. Finn takes the camera and gives Quinn a smile and turns to Rachel who is already out of the classroom.

"Bet she kills him first." Sam says as he notices the tension between the two.

"You know I think that we are the only ones in this class that won't kill each other." Quinn says with a smile.

Sam places his hand on her shoulder. "Kind of nice isn't it?" he says as they walk down the hall.

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In the choir room….Finn is sitting in one of the chairs messing around with one of the guitars. Rachel is sitting at the piano trying to figure out what is going through his head.

"So…are we going to do this project or not?" She says breaking the silence.

Finn looks up from his guitar. "What's the point?"

Rachel looks at the card and reads the first question. "Ok, I'll go first. Tell your partner something personal." Rachel thinks this over for a minute. "I can't whistle."

Finn puts the guitar down. "Way to get personal there." Rachel looks at him in shock she knew this was going to be a bad idea.

"What it's not like you are going to open up to me." She says placing the card and camera on the piano. Finn gets up from where he is sitting and takes a seat next to Rachel.

"I miss you. Is that personal enough for you?" Rachel's mouth drops.

"You can't miss something you never had." She simply states not wanting to look him in the eye.

"Oh." Not the answer he was expecting. He knew that things were rocky between them.

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Mike and Tina are walking down the hall Tina is not happy at all about getting stuck with Mike for this assignment but…she figured she'd make the best of it.

"So it says here we are supposed to share something personal with each other." Mike says looking down at the card.

"Choen-Chang." she says closing her locker door.

"Huh?" Mike is confused by her answer.

"My last name that works for personal right?" She adjusts the strap on her back pack and walks off. Mike shakes his head and chases after her.

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Puck and Santana are sitting outside in the quad. Neither one of them wanting to do this assignment.

"This is crap. Does he really think that anyone is going to take this serious?" Puck says sitting on top of the table lighting up a cigarette.

"Want to go make out?" As much as she couldn't stand Puck she hated this assignment more.

Puck thinks about this for a minute. "Nah."

"Are you high? Come on a hot girl just asked you to make out and you say no." Santana scoffs and sits next to him.

"Some of us need this class to pass…not all of us have a daddy that will pay for everything." Puck spats at her but instantly regrets what he said when he sees the look on Santana's face. "Look I didn't mean it."

Santana shakes her head mostly from keeping the tears from falling. "No, you're right. Face it I am a selfish bitch and that is what I will always be. You know why my dad buys me everything I want?" Puck looks at her and gives her a nod. "It's because he feels guilty for walking out on us. So he thinks that if he buys us what ever we want that we will love him. Truth be told is that it only makes me hate him more. It doesn't matter though because in less than four months I am going to be in LA far far away from him and this shithole of a town." Puck is taken aback by what she has just told him. He wasn't sure what to do so he places his arm around her.

"Wow, and I thought I had a shitty father at least my dad left us the fuck alone."

"You know what the sad part is? I found out the other day that he is dying and there was a part of me that was relieved about it. What kind of kid wishes their parents dead? Kind of shitty isn't it?" Puck watches as Santana wipes a tear away.

Puck sits there for a minute trying to figure out what to say. "No…not shitty at all. I'd say that is pretty damn honest if you ask me."

"Really?" She asks looking up at him.

Puck hops off the table and grabs Santana by the arm. "Come with me."

"Puck I already said I am not going to make out with you." She tells him.

"Get over yourself San…there is something I want to show you." He tells her as he gives her a look.

"Fine, let's go." She says finally giving in.

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Meanwhile….on the roof top.

"Ok, so we're supposed to tell each other our biggest fear." Sam says looking down at the card.

Quinn takes a seat next to Sam. "I guess not being good enough…and clowns….yea…clowns are scary." This causes Sam to laugh.

"Clowns really? What do you mean you're not good enough? You've got a full ride to Yale. You have the chance to get the hell out of this place. I…on the other hand I will be stuck working with my dad." Sam is shocked by what Quinn told him.

"Yea, well tell that to my parents. You know that in the last six months they have only called twice?" Once was to make sure that the cat was being taken care of and the other…was to tell me that I was cut off."

"Oh, wow that's pretty shitty." While Sam may not have had the best home life he could not ever imagine his parents being that callus.

"You, know I told my mom that I got into Yale. You know what she said?" Sam looks at her. "She said well…I guess you aren't as dumb as I thought you were."

"Quinn, you are smart, funny, and one of the most beautiful women that I have ever met. Don't listen to your parents." Sam places his hand on her leg.

"You really think that?" she says not really wanting to believe it.

"Of course I do." He gives her a big smile. "Ok…so I am going to kill two birds with one stone here." He hands her an envelope.

"What's this?" she asks taking the envelope.

"That there determines whether I work for my dad or not. See I kind of applied to Ohio State and I have been waiting to see if I got in…it came in the mail yesterday and I have been afraid of what's in it."

"Oh…wow Sam I am honored." She opens the envelope and reads it. "Well…it looks like you are going to march into your dad's shop and tell him that you have a full ride to Ohio State." Sam's heart begins to sink when he hears Quinn.

"Oh, that's cold. Man you know I was about to throw myself off this roof." Sam playfully hits Quinn on the shoulder.

"I had to mess with you I am sorry." Quinn and Sam just sit there and laugh.

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Meanwhile…back in the choir room.

Finn and Rachel have now moved to opposite sides of the room. Finn finally having had enough of the silence walks over to the piano and looks at the card and reads it.

"Rejection." Finn blurts out breaking Rachel out of her daze.

"Huh?"

"My biggest fear is rejection. All my life everyone that I ever gave a damn about abandoned me. My dad left me when I was young, Quinn lied to me and then left me, and well…there's you." Finn's voice trails off at the last part. He wasn't really sure where they stood at this point.

Rachel gets up and sits next to him at the piano. "Just because we are not together does not mean that I don't care. I told you before that I will always be here for you no matter what."

"Even when you are in New York?" Finn asks knowing that New York is the reason that they are not together.

Rachel places her small hand on his shoulder. "Of course…besides you will be at Ohio State in the fall."

Finn's face falls when she mentions Ohio State. "They didn't want me."

"What do you mean they didn't want you?" she asks confused by what he is saying.

"The recruiter said I had reached my ceiling." Finn explains to Rachel as she just looks at him trying to find the right words.

"What does that mean?"

Finn runs his hands through his hair in frustration. "It means I suck and that I will forever be stuck here in Lima." Rachel hated it that Finn was so hard on himself. If only he could see himself through her eyes.

"Finn…you don't suck. So what if he thought you reached your ceiling or whatever it doesn't mean you should give up. What about PACE?" She asks remembering that he had mentioned going to PACE when they were dating.

"Ya…apparently PACE is for people who have graduated acting school." Finn says feeling like a dumbass thinking he could get into PACE.

"Oh…well there is always NYADA or even NYU I know they have a great music program." Rachel tries to give him some ideas but…she knows that he has his mind made up.

"Rachel the deadlines have all passed for any kind of financial help and let's face it. What I make at the shop is no where near what I would need to even get my foot in the door." Finn says lightly brushing the keys on the piano.

"Ok…so…come to New York with Kurt and me. We can find you something in New York." Rachel offers.

"I can't…I need to figure this out on my own." He gives her a crooked smile.

"I understand. What about just for the summer? Just to get out of Lima?"

"Look, Rach…I know what you are trying to do and while I appreciated it. I can't go to New York with you and watch you move on with some dope that you met at the coffee shop."

Rachel reaches for Finn's hand and takes it in her's. "Finn look at me…there is no one on this earth that I would rather be with than you. Just because I can't be with you right now does not mean that I am going to jump into bed with the first guy I meet in New York."

Finn places a soft kiss on her hand and places it against his cheek. Rachel closes her eyes as she takes in the feel of his skin. It had been so long since they had been so close. She can feel his breath on her lips she quickly opens her eyes and pulls away as reality sinks in. "What? Does my breath stink or something?" Finn asks holding his hand to his mouth.

Rachel gets up. "No…your breath is fine."

Finn starts to get up but Rachel stops him. "Then what is it?"

"Well…the obvious is we are not together." Rachel tucks a strand of hair behind her ear.

"So…lots of people make out who are not together." Finn tries to rationalize the fact that he almost kissed her but it is no use. He knows she is right.

Rachel lets out a sigh trying to put this into words that he will understand. "You and I are not most people."

"Right." Finn simply states.

"I've got the perfect picture for us." Rachel says as she grabs the camera. "Follow me." she tells him as she grabs his arm.

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Sam VO…

"Today I got to spend the class with Quinn Fabray. I forgot how much fun I had with her. I know that she may not believe it but…she is more than good enough and is going to do awesome."

Puck VO…

"So…I spent the day with Santana Lopez and who knew under that bitch exterior there is this amazing woman. Kind of wish I would've gotten to know her more."

Tina VO….

"Today I spent the hour with Mike Chang and I realized that we really are not that different after all. Oh and we are not related.

Britney VO…

"Earlier I called Artie a geek but after today he's not a geek he is actually quite awesome and he asked me out."

Finn VO…

"So…I spent the day with Rachel while…things still seem shaky I think we have a real shot at something great. She may not know it now but…the year is not over."

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Rachel VO….

"Do you ever wonder how long it takes to change your life? What measure of time is enough to be life altering? Is it four years like high school? One year? Can your life change in a month, or a week, or a single day? We're always in a hurry to grow up, to go places, and to get ahead. And when you're young, one hour can change everything."

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So…like I said before I am trying something a little different I hope that everyone liked it.

Question….should I keep doing the voice over's or not?

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