This story starts in season three after losing nationals in New York. Finn understands that Rachel has chosen her career over love, he wouldn't blame her because love was overrated.
Break Through…
Walking through the halls of Mikenly High School was overwhelming. Everyone had their friends and cliques already they wouldn't want a new comer, "a random" to disrupt their lives. Teenagers disliked change, but having transferred from California to a quieter town in this time was needed.
My mom was a single parent dealing with something that any single parent would dread immensely. I looked up to my mother for being so brave and understanding through this time.
My name is Haley Fitzpatrick and I am that terrified new girl.
My first class of the day was Spanish!
Mr Shuster- introduced me to the class as "the new girl".
"What is your name?" He asked.
"Haley Fitzpatrick." I stated clearly. He nodded.
"You may go sit next to Noah PuckerMan." He pointed to the open seat and I went to sit down.
And the end of the lesson Mr. Shuster mentioned something about a Glee club and auditions which would be held at the end of the week if anyone was interested.
The boy sitting next to me, a boy two rows in front of me and a girl three rows next to me nodded and once we'd been dismissed I found them outside in the hall signing up.
"I can't believe we still have to audition even though we've been in the glee club since the beginning!" The girl was moaning while putting down her signature.
"Santana, Mr. Shuster says it's a fair way of getting other people into the club too. We know that he's going to pick us anyway." The Puckerman guy said and the other boy nodded.
"Come on Finn, we're going to be late for Algebra." Santana stated, pulling the boy off in the other direction leaving Puckerman alone, I hesistated and went over to the board.
There were a dozen other names listed too.
"You're thinking of signing up?" Noah asked me, seeing me gazing at the board.
"No, I don't think so I was just interested what is a glee club?" I asked him curiously.
"Oh clearly you new here." He started off, "a glee club is a club where we all sing and re do versions of hit songs our own way." He said proudly.
"We're actually pretty good but the state of New York wouldn't think so." He added rolling his eyes at the end.
"If you're interested, auditions take place in the auditorium on Friday after school." He informed me zipping his bag up and continuing down the hall.
On Friday I'd convinced myself to go and see what this whole Glee club thing was about.
I sat right at the back of the auditorium so I wouldn't be noticed.
A few kids were standing in the front talking animatedly to each other like they'd known each other for years.
Noah, Finn and Santana were there too.
Mr. Shuster was clearing his voice in the hope of silence and starting the auditions.
"So, no new comers this year then?" He asked looking around.
"I think there will be one." PuckerMan said hesitantly before turning back to his conversation with a kid in a wheel chair.
"Okay well let's just start with the auditions anyway. Who's up first?" He asked the crowd.
A girl with long dark hair and a bright smile put up her hand confidently and stood up.
"I've been working on this the entire summer, so I'm ready to go first!" the others moaned and she rolled her eyes before going up on the stage and belting out a song from a musical that I'd never heard in my life but I wont lie she was amazing!
Her name was Rachel.
Then the other girls performed individually. A confident black girl, a weird Japanese girl, two blonde girls, a rather large girl and lastly Santana.
There names were Mercedes, Tina, Quinn, Britney and Lauren.
The boys went next, there names were Artie, Noah but they called him Puck, Kurt, Mike, Sam and lastly Finn.
They were all incredible and I felt like I had to get out of there before I was noticed and embarrassed myself.
As Mr. Shuster said they had all made it and was starting off with the first lesson I made a dash for the door only to trip over a bucket filled with water and a mop which went flying all over the place and making such a racket and drenching me from head to toe.
The entire class looked up at the stairs, Mr. Shuster turned around too.
"Crap!" I commented quietly.
"Sorry about that, I just came to see what this club was all about!" I stated loudly and honestly.
"Were you interested in auditioning?" Rachel questioned, looking me up and down.
Mr. Shuster gave Rachel a not-now-look but waited for me to respond.
"Um I seriously can't sing to save my life." I said with a chuckle.
"Usually when people say that they have an amazing voice they're just shy, why don't you just try out since you must be interested?" Mr. Shuster suggested kindly.
"I really shouldn't…" I said, shaking my head.
"Haley, that's your name right?" He added and I nodded.
"Come on!" Mercedes and Kurt said cheer fully and I was convinced.
All eyes were on me and I was standing in the centre of the stage with the microphone in front of me and the spot light hitting my every mark and blemish on my face.
I thought for a second about what song I wanted to sing and told myself to be brave and I started to sing 'where you at?' by Jennifer Hudson, my voice hitting every high and low note perfectly with the music playing gently in the back ground.
The rest of the glee club members watched in surprise as this girl performed such a powerful song and doing it justice!
Finn was thinking that she was ranked higher than Brittney, Santana and Quinn and Tina but lower than Mercedes and Rachel but that only meant she was so good she couldn't be categorized.
Rachel seemed unharmed by me so she let me into the glee club without a fight.
The others congratulated me and welcomed me with warm smiles.
Mr. Shuster started to explain that we would be doing group activities.
2 boys and 2 girls should be in a group.
Mr. Shuster said he would be choosing the groups.
Quinn rolled her eyes and prayed she wouldn't be put with Rachel.
He eventually put Mercedes, Brittney, Puck and Mike into a group.
He put Quinn with Tina, Artie and Kurt.
Santana was placed with Finn and Sam and then my name was called out.
"Haley you will be with these three." He said, pointing to the boys and Santana.
Rachel and Lauren were left so Mr. Shu told them to pair up together and do a duet.
Rachel seemed perturbed by this and asked if she could do a solo. Mr shu chose to ignore her and continue on with the lesson.
"You will be singing any song that you choose but you must make them in a style called acapella!" He said with an excited nod.
Tina, Quinn and Kurt smiled but some others complained.
We all teamed up and started to decide what to sing.
"So Haley, what music do you like?" Sam asked, curiously.
Santana looked at me suspiciously and I looked back at Sam and Finn who were waiting for my response.
"Uh, I like any music really, I like big songs and ballads and stuff like that too." I said, unsure.
"Ok, so I'm thinking we do something RNB song since clearly Haley and I can sing that." Santana said with a nod and then looked at the boys.
"Beyonce?" She suggested.
"Are you kidding? We need Mercedes for that type of stuff." Finn said with a chuckle.
"Oh right and Beyonce dances well and like you can't dance at all so this will be a tough one." She said with a scoff.
Finn rolled his eyes but didn't retaliate.
"I actually know a pretty good Beyonce song that we could sing!" I said and all three of them looked at me.
We were in the choir room now for practice, Finn and Sam made the music with their voices, Finn sounded like a guitar and Sam sounded kind of like a piano.
I started to sing the lyrics to Beyonce – 1+1.
"If I aint got nothing, I got you
If I aint got something I don't give a damn, cause I got it with you
I don't know much about algebra, but I know one plus one equals two
And it's me and you, that's all we'll have when the world is thru
Cause baby we aint got nothing without love
Darling you got enough for the both of us
So come on baby, make love to me"
Santana joined in and I continued making the sound of the music with my voice along with the boys, the boys each had a turn to sing too.
(The scene fades and the group is doing it in the auditorium in front of the other glee club members.)