Chapter One

How in THE HELL do you fail freshman year? This was the question that Billy Matthews had to ask himself over and over again as he made his way through the halls of McKinley High School shortly before the end of the summer vacation. He was accompanied by his foster parents, Elaine and Thomas, having been told over the phone the night before that he would have to retake his freshman year as he'd tanked all of his classes. Billy had an idea why he'd failed; he'd only moved to Lima to his new foster home in April and hadn't had the chance to properly study for tests or catch up on what he'd missed as it took him so long to adjust to his new foster home and school. Billy's parents had been killed in a car crash when he was six year old, placing Billy in the care of his elderly grandmother who was his only living relative until he was eight at which point she died and Billy was taken into foster care where he'd been ever since. Billy had lived in no less than seventeen foster homes in the past seven years, none of which had turned out well and now he doubted that Elaine and Thomas would want to keep him as he was just a dumb failure of a boy. FRESHMAN YEAR for god sake, Puckerman had told him that even he managed to pass freshman year and he wasn't there half of the time, Billy was lucky the school weren't kicking him out for lowering the grade point average a lot. Then again, in the short time Billy had been at the school he'd accepted it was certainly not what you'd call progressive.

There was one thing that kept Billy going through McKinley and that was the Glee club; New Directions. Billy's remaining memories of his mother mainly revolved around her love of singing and she'd had a wonderful voice, something that Billy had inherited. Billy recalled well how he'd ended up in that group of outcast nutters who had become his best friend, well most of them anyway, and it all started on his first day when he bumped into one Kurt Hummel. Billy could tell from the second he saw him that Kurt was gay, not that Billy had a problem with that at all, but tripping over his own show lace and falling face first onto Kurt's face didn't do him wonders for starting off his new life at McKinley. The football jocks immediately assumed that Billy was gay and targeted him for the rest of his first week until Billy got fed up of it, got angry and pulled a random girl from a crowd and kissed her, hard. Little had he realized that the girl he'd kissed was pregnant, nor did he realize she was 'kind of dating' the tough kid with the Mohawk Billy had noticed pushing over random kids around the school halls all week. To cut a long story short, one slap and one punch to the head later Billy found himself having a laugh and a joke with Noah Puckerman and Quinn Fabray. Kurt then persuaded Billy to audition for the Glee club, Billy had wondered how Kurt knew if he could sing or not but went along with it anyway and, to his surprising delight, Billy was accepted into the club. They'd lost regionals at the end of the year, but Billy didn't care as he had found his niche of friends and didn't want to give them up for anything

Billy didn't think much of the staff of McKinley high school, except for Mr Schu of course who Billy regarded as the coolest teacher on the planet. There was Miss Pillsbury who, though a perfectly nice woman, was clearly mentally unwell and should've been locked away long ago in Billy's view. But she was nothing on Coach Sylvester who was just a full blown psychopath who was often both physically and mentally abusive to the students, Billy had no idea how the woman had not been put in prison let alone at least fired yet. Though it honestly wasn't that surprising when you considered how inept Principal Figgins was. Billy knew academic success would all have to come from him and not from being taught well, and it was better that he'd have to repeat Freshman year than repeat Senior year in three years' time.

Billy was dreading the meeting between Figgins and his foster parents

So, the meeting could have been a lot worse. Figgins had acted as sane as his perimeters would allow him and Billy was pleased that Elaine and Thomas didn't seem to be too displeased with Billy and seemed to understand how he'd failed. Billy agreed to repeat his Freshman year though he wasn't looking forward to people in his own grade forgetting him because they weren't in the same classes, lunch periods or homerooms together and then there was all the new kids, his future classmates, to look forward too. They'd all be a year younger than him and were bound to be horribly immature and Billy was dreading all of his classes for the year, at least there was Glee club to look forward too.

"I hope Schu doesn't have us doing anything embarrassing on the first day" Santana Lopez said to Billy as she and Brittany Pearce caught up with Billy in the corridor on the first day back. Billy gulped; this was the first time Santana had ever acknowledged his existence outside of the Glee club. Even in the Glee club the only time she ever talked to him was when she was saying something abusive or mean to him, normally about his striking similarity in looks to Justin Bieber. So why she was speaking to him now was quite the mystery "Well Biebs, you got anything to say or are you just going to stare at my chest some more". Billy hadn't even noticed that his eyes had drifted over to Santana's chest whilst he was internally panicking about why she was talking to him

Nor had he realized that her boobs were a lot bigger than they were the last time that he'd seen her. They were like full on basketballs. This of course only made Billy stare at them more, an unfortunate move as Santana made a cruel Bieber joke before rolling her eyes and walking off her little Brittany shadow not far behind. Billy raised his eyebrows and headed over towards his locker and began putting his books into it quite happily until the locker door was slammed shut nearly trapping his hand in it. Billy looked to his left and noticed an irate looking Rachel Berry staring at him with obvious distain. Santana had scared Billy but Rachel down right terrified him, she was easily his least favourite person in the Glee club

"Billy, I trust your summer was good?" she asked

"Ermm, yeah cool, thanks" Billy replied not sure what she wanted "…..How was yours"

Rachel smiled. It didn't help Billy be any less scared of her "Oh it was wonderful" she said "I don't know if you've heard but Finn and I are now Facebook official dating….. anyway, that isn't why I wanted to talk to you"

Billy couldn't care less about Rachel dating Finn. Not because he disliked Finn or anything, Finn was one of his best friends, but he just knew that Rachel would likely not shut up about it all year and Billy really hadn't the patience for it.

"Why did you want to talk to me then" Billy sighed, despite being scared of her Rachel also had a knack for annoying Billy to no end "Because I listened to the best of Barbra like you wanted me too over the summer, and frankly I don't care for her"

"I'll just pretend you didn't just say that" Rachel said with a dramatic sigh "No, anyway it has come to my attention that you are retaking your Freshman year"

"Yeah" said Billy "But I don't see how or why it affects you, but I am interested to hear your theory on how it does so"

"It doesn't really concern me, well it does and it doesn't, it affects the Glee club" Rachel replied making sure to put extra emphasis on the words Glee and Club. Afterall they did seem to be the whole reason for her being in Billy's mind "As much as it pains me to compliment a Barbara hater, you are very talented. Your voice is extraordinary for a boy your age and after Mike Chang of course you're easily the best male dancer we have. You're an asset, as much as I dislike admitting it. And I am just worried that your extra study will distract you from your duties"

"Right" said Billy knowing full well he was likely going to put in as minimal effort this year as he did last. He knew he wasn't stupid, he was a smart kid but circumstance dictated his failure last year and he saw no reason to try any harder this year. He was sure now he was settled in Lima he could do just as well "So, Rachel, how do you plan to deal with this problem"

"I'm not, it's not my fault you're stupid" Rachel replied. Billy shot her a fake smile "I just want to let you know that I expect you to be on top of your game this year, I know you don't respect my authority but I am co-captain of New Directions and it is therefore my concern"

And with that Rachel flounced off making sure to let her long brown hair fly into Billy's face as she went by, Billy watched her as she walked off and as much as he disliked the girl he couldn't deny she had a weird attractiveness about her.

Billy couldn't believe that Mr Schu had them perform Empire State of Mind in the school yard. Not that he disliked the song, it was one of his most played on iTunes over the past year, but he knew it meant the New Directions were sitting targets for abuse if they performed in public. At least in the choir room they were safe from most of the abuse. Billy also questioned Finn and Puck's rapping abilities and had found it very hard to take them seriously, especially as Finn in particular had taken his verse extremely seriously. As they danced the routine that Mike Chang had choreographed just a few minutes beforehand Billy looked around and to his relief there didn't seem to be any oncoming slushie attacks headed their way, in fact pretty much the whole courtyard appeared to be just ignoring the Glee club's performance. Billy was surprised, he expected at least abuse but never just complete ignorance. It puzzled him. The performance ended soon afterwards and Billy headed off to his first class of the year. Math.

Sitting at the back of the class on his own didn't have the desired affect that Billy hoped it would. Instead of just being left alone Billy found himself surrounded by a giggling gang of freshman girls who all looked far too old for their age and flirted outrageously with him throughout the entire class. It then happened three more times throughout the day. The whole thing was rather a traumatic experience and it left Billy thoroughly confused about women (more so than he already was), no girls would look twice at him last year. Billy didn't mind the fact that girls had begun flirting with him, he supposed that he had grown a little bit over the summer and he'd been working out with Puckerman a lot, but it did puzzle him. Luckily, this was where a friendship with Noah Puckerman came in useful for Billy; in his eyes Puck seemed to know everything there was to know about women.

However, on his way to find Puck a crowd was gathering not far infront of Billy who heard many chants and wolf whistles. Pushing his way through the crowd Billy was shocked to see Quinn and Santana having a full on cat fight in the middle of a school hallway and nobody was doing anything about it. Billy's first instinct was to stop his friend (Quinn) and Glee classmate (Santana) from getting themselves into trouble and nobody else was doing anything about it (except for Brittany who feebly muttered "Stop the violence" but it had no affect). Billy was about to step in to separate them when he was stopped by several guys, and then it hit Billy. The fight was totally arousing. Billy had always thought Santana was hot but he'd never really been able to see past Quinn's pregnancy bump but now, as he saw her fight Santana, he suddenly saw her in a whole different light. "This is so hot" he found himself saying out loud though the second he'd said it made him feel like a creepy weirdo douchebag

Quinn and Santana were eventually separated though that did not stop them screaming abuse at one another as they were carried away. Following the fight Billy found Puck hanging with some sophomore girls by a locker

"What's up little bro" Puck asked as Billy approached him. Billy didn't really know why Puck looked on him as a little brother but if truth be told Billy quite liked it "You look really hot and bothered, what's up?"

"Dude, I need girl advice" Billy said slowly. He knew what was coming, and he was right. Puck yelped with joy before putting a protective arm around Billy and walking him down the corridor

"So tell me, what's it about" Puck asked

"Basically" Billy said taking a breath "Last year no girls would look at me twice, it was like I was invisible or maybe they thought that I was gay or something but ever since we came back from summer vacation they've been all over me. Girls in my classes I mean. They were all over me today; flirting, more than flirting. One girl tried to pull me into a janitors closet, it's insane. I don't know what to do"

"Dude, you are such a pussy" Puck said with a laugh "Can't you see? These chicks are freshman; they are all over you because you're that older guy in their class. You've already done a year at high school, to them you're this mature, responsible older guy. The freshman dudes are inexperienced, they don't know what they're doing so the girls are turning to you, the older guy, for their action. It's a no lose situation bro"

"Yes, I suppose I can see that" said Billy "But, I'm not this experienced older guy. The only girl I've ever kissed is Quinn and that was only random, it wasn't because I'd charmed her or flirted with her or anything. I just grabbed her as she was passing me and shoved my tongue down her throat, something which YOU tossed me into a dumpster before. I don't know what I'm doing"

"They don't know that" said Puck with a wink, he cast his arm back around Billy's shoulder "Dude you are in a prime position for some major action; embrace it"

Hello guys, thanks for checking out this story! It's slightly AU though it does follow most of canon storyline within Glee itself. I just wanted to insert my own character, Billy, into the action. I hope you enjoyed. Each chapter will be set in an episode; so the next chapter will be set in Britney/Brittany, the next one in Grilled Cheesus exct.