"Now that we're done stretching let's take a leisurely run, give me two miles ladies! Brittany set the pace!" Sue yelled into her megaphone, the Cheerios groaned.
"Britt take it easy." Santana mumbled taking her place next to the slender blonde Cheerio.
Brittany simply smiled starting to run, she matched her pace with Quinn and Santana's, the girls weren't speaking again but they were still her best friends so they tolerated each other for her.
"And here come the boys." Quinn muttered. "I feel like a rabbit to a greyhound."
"What?" Brittany scrunched up her nose glancing at Quinn.
"Bait sweetie, their coach sends them on the track after us so they run without bitching." Santana explained.
"Oh." Brittany still didn't understand.
"Focus ladies!" Quinn called out hearing the Cheerios start talking behind them, the girls quieted down but when one of the football players jogged by them the Unholy Trinity understood what the noise was about.
"Yum." Brittany's eyes focused on the broad bare back that was now running in front of her.
Quinn's eyebrow arched, she wasn't going to argue, "I suddenly feel very greyhoundish." Santana agreed. Their focus now shifted to the broad shoulders and bare muscled back in front of them they forgot their pace and ran to keep up with the boy in front of them causing the Cheerios to groan at the faster pace.
Lap counting forgotten the girls ran until Sue called them off the track at the same time Coach Beiste yelled for the boys to join her on another part of the field. The Cheerios who could breathe were trying to see who the new boy on the football team was, "Double yum." Brittany bit her lower lip, Santana glanced the shirtless teen still had his back to them but he was talking to a new and familiar face.
"Nope, leave Steven Tyler alone." Santana quipped recognizing the boy as Sam Evans, Santana frowned tugging Brittany over to water station and away from the boys when Sam smiled in their direction, Quinn smirked following behind.
"He's as big as Finn." Quinn commented before turning to Sue.
"He's as tall as Finn," Santana corrected "Finnocence looks nothing like that under his sweatshirt, that boy's got shoulders and muscles, Finn's got... well not that." Santana took a quick drink, Quinn had to admit Santana was right, after all Santana had slept with the quarterback.
"Q, Sandbags run 'em through it!"
"Pyramid!" the girls groaned but stopped when Sue looked their way. "Britt, flip with me. S, you're top." Santana smirked joining the other girls, Sue's punishment of being on the bottom of the pyramid lasted two weeks and then her replacement got an ear infection so it was back to the top for Santana Lopez. But she was still mad at Quinn.
Football players off their minds the Cheerios focused on their own practice knowing if they messed up Sue would have their heads.
Holding Mike's hand and not getting slushied was still taking some getting used to for Tina, but then high school was still taking time to get used to, friends from elementary and middle school stopped being friends and it was all about being popular. Tina liked going unnoticed but that had changed since she'd joined Glee, she stopped stuttering and was slowly becoming braver by the day. But it didn't stop her from cringing at the sight of a slushie. She was trying to listen to Mike but he was talking about football "I think we have a chance, we got Sam who was quarterback at his old school, Beiste is thinking of making him quarterback and the two new guys are doing good, it sucks Matt's dad got transferred."
"That's good, I mean bad...you know what I mean." Tina sighed looking up at Mike who nodded.
Matt was a good friend to Mike, stuck with him through junior high and even joined Glee at the risk of losing popularity, Tina glanced at Santana Lopez, the perfect example of dropping friends to become popular. Leaning down Mike kissed the top of Tina's head "We'll get through, I'm sure Sam will work out." Tina nodded knowing he was talking about Glee and not football. "Dim sum? Tonight?" Mike asked as they walked into the choir room.
"Dim sum is great." Brittany chirped as she bounced by Mike and Tina, Santana followed close behind keeping her eyes on the blonde only acknowledging the couple with a slight nod.
"Hi Brittany, hi Santana." Mike smiled taking a seat next to Tina.
Brittany grinned waving at Mike and Tina, Tina gave a small smile and wave. Typical Thursday, ignored by the Cheerios, except Brittany, until Glee practice and then they were all 'buddy, buddy' and teamed up against the drama diva Rachel.
Quinn strolled in giving Tina a nod, she was nicer since the whole 'baby gate', taking a seat next to Brittany and Santana, Quinn frowned when Finn and Rachel walked in holding hands.
Rolling her eyes Tina rested her head on Mike's shoulder, it was the one thing they could all agree on Rachel was an annoying diva that didn't like to share the spotlight and she had Mr. Schue in her pocket. "It's the perfect song for me really." Rachel beamed.