Rory walked into the lunchroom the next day with his head low. After hours of walking nowhere he finally returned to his "temporarily" American home. In there he was bombarded by tons of questions from Brittany and her parents. He had lied about everything. Why he hadn´t return home after school? He went out with friends. Why where his eyes so puffy? He felt homesick and cried. Why he looked so sad?

"I´m just tired. But I promise I will never do that again." He had told them as he walked over his room. He felt bad for lying to them but, it was kind of lame his reason of crying. He had been quick out of the losers club. How much loser could you even be?

The exchange student was trying to pass under the radar as he looked after a table. In one table all the Glee members were sitting chatting and smiling. He turned around and kept looking. He found Brittany sitting with her cheerleader uniform but he stepped back the moment he saw the Latina girl giving him a killer. Yes he remembered, he wasn´t allowed being with Brittany. After some minutes he finally found to possible options; the empty table of the corner or the table of the invisibles.

Rory looked over the "invisible" table and inspection everyone, there were 4 teenagers sitting there not talking to each other. There were two red haired girls, one really thin while the other one was a little bit fat. The other girl had brown hair and dark skin; Damian found her kind of cute. The last person on the table was an older guy with glasses and a kind of nerdy outfit. Not that he liked putting labels to people but it was just the way he looked. After some more minutes of deliberating he decided it was better to at least be sitting with anyone than alone.

He walked slowly and when he finally got he waited few more minutes to start talking.

"May I sit here?" his voice was so low he was surprised when four pairs of eyes landed on him.

"Yeah, sure." said the guy as he returned to his book. Rory hadn´t noticed he was reading before and he wondered what he might be reading.

"My name is Rory by the way." he said as he sat next to the only guy.

"Yeah, I heard about you last week. Exchange student from North Derry, sophomore, living on the Pierce house and the girl you are living with thought you were a Leprechaun. You are also the newest member of the Glee club." Recite the black haired girl.

"How do you know so much about me?"

"Mickey has a kind of super memory and she remembers everything; literally. By the way my name is Marissa. Nice to meet you." said the thin red haired girl as she offered Damian her hand. The irish guy nodded shocked. Mickey also offered her hand in a polite way. "And here is my best friend Hanna and the guy is sitting next to you is Cameron. He is kind of a loner." The third girl smiled at him and offered her hand as well; the guy just raised his eyes few seconds before returning to the lecture.

"It is also a pleasure to meet you. But Mickey, about the Glee club, not anymore." He said as he looked over his food, he wasn´t hungry anymore. Thinking about the glee club made him dizzy and sick.

"Why is that sweetheart?" asked Hanna worried.

"I was kicked off yesterday."

"So that´s guy you are sitting here with the second kind of losers. I thought it was kind of a hazing." mocked Cameron.

"We are not losers, you moron." said Marissa as she punched Cameron on his arm.

"Of course we are. We are just like the Glee club but only with no talent."

Rory looked at Cameron puzzled, that guy besides not being really talkative he had a very bad attitude about his status, not like his female friends that seemed really comfortable with her situation. But that was the problem, they seemed comfortable not happy.

"And why did they kick you out. You are talentless like the new girl sugar?" Cameron couldn´t stop with his sarcastic jokes but that wasn´t what bothered Damian.

He looked at the "glee" table and remembered the two days he had spent with them. Everyone was really cool or at least that was what he had thought. Suddenly he felt how new tears were about to appear. Rory didn´t want to see weak in front of those new "people" so to hide his tears he made an awkward choice. He stamped his face against his plate. Well the idea wasn´t to hit his face with his food, but he had miscalculated and now his face was full with potatoes and rice.

"As long as I know you eat food with your mouth, not with your forehead."

"Cameron stop being rude. Don´t you see Rory is heartbroken?" said Hanna as she rubbed Rory´s back in a comforting way. Well at least the girls in that group were nice. Seconds later he heard how a chair was moved and the footsteps. He wondered if anyone was arriving or leaving.

"No matter who they are or what they think they are; none has the right to make you feel this way." whispered Cameron on his ear. Damian looked up and found Cameron´s plain face near his. Rory wondered if this kid was really a jerk or he was just trying to act like one. "And you better clean that off. You look like a clown." Cameron passed his fingers across Damian´s forehead and cleaned some of the potatoes. Damian blushed instantly and took a napkin to clean him up. Meanwhile the older guy stepped out of the overcrowded cafeteria.

"He is not a bad kid once you know him." Suddenly Hanna´s voice sounded making Rory return to reality.

"I know."

.-.-.-.-.

Rory walked through the corridor thinking about everything that had happened at lunch time. He had just made 3 new friends, four if you counted Cameron but Rory wasn´t sure about him. He had acted rude with him the entire time they spent at the table but at the end, before he left, he had told him a really nice thing. Maybe the blonde guy tried to appear like someone cold and rude but his eyes told a different story.

"Maybe he is just sad." He said out loud unconsciously. Rory hit his forehead with his pal as he let a laugh escape from his lips. People would think he was crazy if he kept talking to himself out loud.

Suddenly a scream made Rory stop laughing and walking.

"Leave them alone!" screamed another person, this time it was a girl´s voice.

The school was almost empty and the only people left in the school were the football team and the Glee club. Rory imagined two, maybe four bullies mocking around with some freshmen. Now he had two options; he could keep walking and forget about it or…

"God, I must be crazy." He screamed at himself before turning to the corridor where he thought he had heard the voices.

.-.-.-

"Let me go you morons." screamed Emily as she tried to kick the football player that was holding her by her arms. In total there were 5 football players (alias bullies) and 3 regular students.

The girl was fitting like a fierce for his best friends´ security; Matheus and Samuel. Samuel was being pushed around the hall by tree of the bullies while the taller one kept Matheus of the ground by lifting him like a toy. Rory appeared at the exact moment when two of the guys pushed Samuel against the lockers. His lip was now bleeding and he seemed to have a pre-black eye. The younger guy pressed himself against the wall and took a big breath. For now on everything he did was going to be crucial. He needed to act wisely because if he went straight to a fight he would be screwed.

'Okay Rory, you are smart. You have to be smart' He told himself as he closed his eyes and tried to think about a plan.

'Smart? You are about to be the next top target of the bullies just because of some guys you don´t even know?' His other part of his mind warned him. It was half right but then; if he was on that kind of situation he would be please to be saved. Abruptly the idea hit him.

"Hey!" he screamed as he entered to the scene. He needed to act cool and not scared. "Do you know anyone that owns a black Cameo?"

One of the bullies looked up; it was the one that was holding the Latina.

"I do. Why are you asking Mexican?" Rory swallowed everything he was thinking. Mexican? With his accent? Really?

"Some junior high guys are painting their names on it." He lied. Of course none would ever mess up with those gorillas but he needed to distract them.

"I´m going to kill them!" the guys screamed as he let go Emily that was looking at Rory puzzled. She hadn´t believed what the new kid had just said. It was impossible for someone to be that stupid to mess with them. When the first one left the hallway the others one followed him ignoring the guys they were previously hitting. Rory waited until their steps were mute and then he helped Samuel stand up.

"Thanks man."

"No problem but we need to get out of here." Rory now had his normal scared look aware those jerks were going to found out about his lie and then kick his ass.

"It was a lie right?" guessed Emily as she helped Matheus to get out of the trash can. The bully unluckily had the precaution to throw the smaller boy in it before leaving.

"And a very bad one." Accepted Rory, suddenly the screams of rage made the guy remember their position. "We have to go now!" saying that the four guys ran out of the schools praying those guys wouldn´t get them before.

.-.-.-.-.

"You guys; I think you don´t want to win regional!" screamed Mr. Shue as he entered to the choirs room. The rest fo the Glee club looked at him confused; mostly the girls.

"When you say guys, do you mean boys or in general?" asked Rachel confused. Finn hid his face between his hands ashamed. They were so in trouble.

"In this case I´m referring to the boys." Mr. Shue looked over the boys with and angry face. He wasn't sure what they had done to Rory but it had been pretty bad if he had left crying and he hadn´t come back. "What did you do to Rory yesterday?"

"Why are you saying that Mr. Shue?" asked Puck in a cynic way.

"I saw Rory leaving the school crying and heartbroken. Before rehearsals I talked to him and he told me he was excited about the club and 5 minutes before rehearsal he passes next to me with tears in his eyes. Now tell me what happened?"

"What makes you think it was us? Maybe he ran out with some of the football team and THEY made him cry." lied Artie trying to sound natural.

"Then why Rory isn´t here?" Rachel was furious. Not only by the fact that they might lose regional; it was because she really liked the boy.

"He made us lose Brittany. He had to pay." Puck looked over Rachel and Quinn with an angry grin.

"Well now you all made us lose Rory." speak for the first time Tina before going to the piano for some songs sheets. "And that is even worst."

"It is his first and only year here. We didn´t need him that much." exclaimed Puck now angry. Why could anybody see that they did what was best for the club?

"But he is charming and the girls are curious about him." Artie turn around shock to see Rachel that was looking pretty annoyed. "Yes dump head, Rory could have help us to get more members but now when he goes around with his sad puppy face everyone will think we are just like Star Adrenalin."

"On other words, asses." ended Quinn. "Which you guys totally are."

"I´m sorry Rachel but we did what was needed." ended as stood up with his head low. He felt awful and guilty.

"What was needed? Not even you guys can buy yourselves that crap." added Quinn angrily. The boys now understood they had really messed up this time.

.-.-.-.-.

"Thank you really much kid I still don´t know his name." said Samuel as the other three tried to catch their breath. They had run almost 5 blocks without stopping and luckily the football players hadn´t catch them.

"Rory…My name is Rory." He couldn´t remember the last time he had run so much. In his other schools he had never been persecuted by a bunch of enormous gorillas.

"Rory…that´s a…a cool name." said Matheus trying to sound nice. Rory smiled at him and then leaned over the wall of a business.

"Are you friend with Cameron and the others?" asked suddenly Emily trying to make a conversation. Rory nodded and closed his eyes. He had never been a sporty guy and now he wanted to throw up.

"And who is the cute red haired girl? I mean the thin one." Asked Samuel trying not to sound too excited about the theme but Rory immediately noticed the why the interest of the boy.

"Marissa, and the other one is Hanna and the brown haired is Mickey."

Samuel nodded and then before Emily or Matheus could ask anything else he spoke up.

"Would you let us have lunch with you tomorrow?"