Synchronized Melodies

Prologue: Modulation

"I think I'm going to have to switch schools," Rachel announced as she flopped onto her twin brother's bed. Said brother was rummaging through his CD, cassette, and record collection, which was quite extensive. (Seriously, who buys CDs any more? Let alone cassettes and records?)

"Oh really?" he asked, his back turned to her. "It can't be because of a break up unless you've switched teams without telling me." He turned to look at his sister and cock an eyebrow at her. She sighed and rolled her eyes before he chuckled and turned back around. "Okay, so if it's not because of that... Is Mona being more of a bitch than normal- trying to take your Captain spot in cheer and Glee?"

"She's always a bitch. And it will be a cold day in hell before I will allow that twat to take my spot as captain," she ground out, angry at the mere mention of the bitchy red head that constantly tried to outdo Rachel at every turn. Last year at Sectionals for glee, she had suggested doing a more popular song, complaining that their songs were all too old-fashioned (classics, Rachel fumed after she had heard). Rachel had been gone from school one day and all hell had broken loose. Mona had convinced everyone in their glee club to do a Chris Brown song- despite the fact that it didn't fit in with the rest of their set list! But majority ruled in their all-girls singing group, the Sparrows at Country Crawford Day. Crawford was an all girls' school that was located across the town from Dalton where Blaine goes.

The Sparrows had lost spectacularly to Vocal Adrenaline and Rachel had to be physically held back from ripping Mona's hair out of her head in the green room after the show. Rachel's best friend had come to console her friend on the loss when she heard Mona make some comment about Rachel's songs being what brought them down and Santana had to be held down as well as she lunged at the redhead screaming at the top of her lungs in Spanish.

"Well then, why do you want to change schools?" Blaine asked as he finally found the record he was looking for and placed it on his turntable. The Beatles' sweet music filled the air as Blaine turned to his sister.

"The Headmistress cut the Sparrows."

"She what!"

"Because of us losing our sectionals last year-"

"She can't-" he protested, but Rachel cut him off.

"But she has. Something about sports bringing in far more money and showing more promise," Rachel murmured dejectedly.

"But it was only your first year, you have three years to whip those girls into shape and take Nationals!" Blaine protested. "Did you-"

"I tried everything, and she wouldn't budge."

"Did you tell-"

"Yep, and Daddy said that there's no case because schools across the country are having to make cuts anywhere they can."

Blaine was silent has he tried to think of a solution. Rachel waited, knowing that he'd reach the same conclusion she had. He did and let out a heavy sigh.

"I'm sorry, Rae-Rae," he stated quietly knowing how much glee meant to his sister. She was Broadway-bound and had joined nearly every extracurricular activity as well as keeping a 4.0, unweighted, GPA, so she could get into any prestigious school she wanted. And he now understood why she wanted to switch schools. Blaine brought her in for a hug and kissed the top of her head.

"Where are you wanting to transfer too?" Blaine knew she wouldn't want to go to Westerville High because they didn't even have a Glee Club.

Columbus was out of the question because of their past there. Blaine had be mercilessly teased after he came out of the closet in 7th grade. Rachel had suggested that the two take kickboxing and karate as a way to deal with his frustrations. Their dads had readily agreed, wanting to do whatever they could to make their son's life easier. The teasing had quickly turned into bullying and soon Rachel got suspended for hitting a boy who had been spray-painting an awful word on Blaine's locker. Blaine was suspended minutes after his sister when he caught the same boy calling his sister a bitch and punching him.

LeRoy and Hiram had tried arguing their suspension and even threatened to bring down the ACLU on the school, but the School Board had ignored them. The Andersons had immediately pulled their kids out of the school and had searched for a school that had a zero tolerance policy towards bullying and found Dalton and CCD. They were homeschooled 8th grade year and had started at their respective prep schools this past year as Freshmen.

"Santana goes to this school in Lima, called William McKinley High. She said that their cheer squad is a force to be reckoned with. And they have a glee club and they're doing Cabaret as their musical next year."

"If this is what you really want then I'll support you. Do you want me there when you tell dad and daddy?"

"I... I actually already told them. They said if it was okay with you, we would move to Lima and into McKinley's district so I could go there. And you'd still be able to visit on some weekends. Lima is only 40 minutes away!" Rachel bit her lip waiting for Blaine to speak.

"Guess we should start packing, baby girl!" Rachel grinned her show smile at him and gave Blaine a big squeeze before running downstairs to tell their dads.

To say that Rachel was nervous was an understatement. She looked down at the outfit her daddies and brother had helped her pick out. It was jeans with a cute preppy shirt. But, she felt uncomfortable in the jeans. She changed into a skirt and knee socks feeling much more like the confident girl who had been the cheer and glee captain at Crawford. She grabbed her backpack and headed downstairs.

Blaine had already moved into his dorm room at Dalton earlier that week, so it was just Rachel and her daddies, who had already gone to work this morning with their long commute, but had left vegan waffles sitting out for her with a note telling her to have an amazing first day at school. Rachel happily ate her waffles before heading out to her dad (LeRoy)'s car.

As Rachel drove up to the school and parked. She took a deep breath. There were students milling about and the buses were letting off more. She could do this. She was Rachel Barbara Anderson, future Broadway ingénue.

As she exited the car her phone blipped. She opened her phone and saw a text from her brother.

Good luck, baby girl, not that you need it. Knock 'em dead! Love you, sis!

A smile bloomed again on Rachel's face, and after responding she headed into the school office. After exiting the office she headed down the hallway to her locker. All the while she looked intently for a certain Latina. After two hours she still hadn't seen her. After she had signed up for every extracurricular she could, including glee club. She would have signed up for cheer squad as well, but there was a ridiculous waiting list and since cheering wouldn't help her on Broadway, Rachel decided she could wait until the sign up list opened up a bit. Rachel was walking towards her next hour when it happened. Something icy cold was thrown in her face. A slushie?

"Loser!" she heard laughter follow the statement, and she wiped the corn syrup and ice out of her eyes. She looked around and saw the whole student body in eyesight was laughing at her. There was a trio in cheerleading uniforms beside a very tall boy in a letterman jacket that was holding a slushee cup. But he's not what caught her attention, it was the Latina in the cheer uniform who was looking at her and Rachel saw recognition flit across her face but she made no move to help her so-called 'best friend'.

"Come on, honey," she heard a voice say as a very well dressed boy led her to the girls bathroom and helped her clean up. Thus began her quasi-friendship with Kurt Hummel.

How was your first day? Already the most popular girl there? I bet I'm going to have to beat those boys off with a stick! Lol, call me when you get a chance!

Rachel smiled at Blaine's text, but felt like crying at the day she had. She was stopped from replying when she heard her name being called across the deserted parking lot. It was her recently estranged friend. She tried to hurry and get in her car, but Santana's hand on her car door prevented her from getting in.

"Don't, San- tana," Rachel stammered out the last part. Santana visibly flinched at the use of her full name from the small brunette.

"No, I'm sorry I didn't do anything I-"

"Care more for your reputation than me."

"No, I-"

"Look, Santana, maybe it's better if we just pretend we were never friends. It would be easier for your reputation. Now, if you'll excuse me-"

"Not until I explain what happened!"

"I need some time, San. Can you give me that?" Rachel asked the other girl quietly. Santana looked brokenly at her best friend, but nodded before letting go of the car and taking a few steps back. Rachel backed out of her parking space and zoomed off to her house. As soon as the car was parked she broke into tears. First she was slushied and then she had lost her best friend, the only person she knew in the entire school. Her sobs eventually abated into small hiccups. She needed to talk to someone, no: her brother.

"Hey, Princess, how was your day?" she smiled merely at his voice. And made a split-second decision not to tell him about the god-awful day she had at McKinley.

"It was great, I already made a new friend and joined a bunch of clubs!"

"What's wrong?" Blaine immediately demanded. He had been trying to send her a positive vibe, but he had a bad feeling in his stomach all day, and his day had gone perfectly fine. When Rachel called he felt more dread, but had greeted her warmly. Once he heard her voice he knew there was something wrong.

"N-nothing's wrong," she said quietly.

"Rae,"

"It was just a bit harder than I thought it'd be, okay, B? It's just weird after the safe haven of Crawford-"

"Did anyone-" Blaine demanded angrily.

"No!" she quickly cut him off before he could finish that thought out loud. She could hear his silent suspicions over the phone.

"Do you really think that San would let anyone bully me?" She gave a watery laugh for effect, "And you forget that I took those kickboxing and karate classes with you- I don't need you to protect me!" Rachel was trying to sound outraged, but he still could hear the underlying sadness; he let it go for now.

Rachel went on to talk about the different clubs she had joined and about how awful Sandy Ryerson was, and how she was going to get rid of him. She avoided talking about Santana and anything having to do with the other students before asking Blaine about his day.

After Rachel was done talking to Blaine she felt infinitely better (as she always does with him). She finally went inside and got to work on a vegan meal that her dads could have after they got home around 9 from their commute to work. She figured it was the least she could do after she made her fathers move just for her dream.

As Rachel started to whip up her famous cookies for dessert, she calmed her mind. She had to refocus all of her being on her dream. She was already dubbed a 'loser' of the school. She had to set her priorities straight. Broadway was all she needed and nothing was going to stand in her way.

A/n: As you can tell, this story is completely AU in the fact that Rachel and Blaine are siblings, twins to be exact. I don't know if this storyline has been done… I've not seen a story with this particular twist, though I'm sure it's out there. Hopefully this storyline isn't boring or overdone. Though I'm keeping just about everything else pretty much canon. I do plan on this being Smytheberry, and we'll get there, I promise.

I also apologize if there are mistakes. There was only a certain amount of times I could look over the chapter before I couldn't look at it any more. I had planned on putting this story under "Blaine & Rachel" for characters before switching it to "Sebastian & Rachel" under the character categories on ff. But... there has been slow progress in the Smytheberry stories, so I just had to post it under those two. Be forewarned that the characters might change back and forth, making my story a bit hard to find. You've been warned!

And here is where you lovely people get a bit of input, and you have two choices. I have a little something written for all the episodes in Seasons 1 and 2. I could post all of Season 1 in one chapter and then post all of Season 2 as another chapter. The other option is that I could post each episode, as it's own chapter, and some episode snippets are longer than others. With option one, updates would be farther apart and with option two I would update every day (maybe multiple times a day) for a while. I'll ultimately choose whatever I think best for the story, but I'd love some input about it.

Also, let me know what you think about the story's concept and this prologue/first chapter via review or PM, por favor!