I blame this one on my lack of focus.


Chapter One

Bullies.

McKinley High was full of them. Shane Tinsley was fourteen years old when he first transferred to McKinley high school as a freshman, he was the short black pudgy kid with the black-rimmed glasses and the oversize backpack with the unpopular parents that cared a little more about his life outside of the house. Even with the third highest GPA the school had ever seen in the history of McKinley High, title of president of the chess club and vice president of the book club since he lost the presidential debate to Bossy Berry, Shane was nevertheless the kid who was the second most picked on at school with Kurt Hummel; the gay kid; having won first prize to that category.

And now he was a junior and still being slammed harshly against the lockers, his glasses bouncing back from his face hitting the ground with a loud but boring click! and then there was laughter, lots and lots of laughter before he could scatter his fingers on the shiny linoleum and rummage for his vision back.

"What a loser!"

"Ya, fat idiot!"

"Why don't you roll back to Idaho potato head!"

Shane ignored them as usual no matter how impossible it seemed to and he grabbed his glasses firmly placing them on his face. He felt the small weight lifted off his shoulders as he looked up to meet the brown eyes and warm innocent smile of his friend, Finn Hudson; his six-foot-three friend with the skinny arms and long legs who had free lunch and intensive classes. He was not the average nerd based on his lack of affection towards academics more so because of his terrible taste in fashion and awkward stances, his inability to grasp things quickly and his bossy girlfriend Rachel Berry. But then when he met Shane it was as if the empty space in the field of friendship was filling up quickly and he started doing so much better than before.

Those two have been friends ever since he transferred, Shane was tricked into going to the wrong building for second period on his very first day of school, the back door to the girls' locker room where he was humiliated and yelled at, and Finn was there to save his ass by shoving a white lie gently down their throat. They quickly bonded as friends and from then on have been pretty much inseparable, each other's back up when they needed it even if futile.

Today's bully like every other day was Noah Puckerman, he had a mohawk which he believed gave him charms for the ladies and ultimate power over everybody else. He was bad-ass and he didn't take shit from anyone. The tan guy with the red Letterman pushed past the two with his buddies slamming lockers behind him, he huffed as his hands dropped in his pockets and his smirk flashed and caught the eyes of the ladies as he stepped over the two with his heavy boot pressing hard over Shane's books and homework, he grabbed the fallen sheets of paper and muttered; thanks ladies.

"You ok there?" Finn asked his friend solemnly as his eyes glared at the strong muscular teen's back.

"I'll be fine bro. At least they didn't take my money this time." Shane replied as he wiped the dust off his shirt and cleaned his glasses. "I don't understand how a group of filthy rich kids steal others' money! It's implausible."

"Who cares? They just want a motive to continue what they're doing."

"I'll never get those kids, neither do I want to." Shane said as he watched them leave with big grins on their faces.

"Ya, I don't want to be them either." Finn replied, he saw Karoftsky who was a friend of Puck's slam the gay kid into an open locker and shoved his purple scarf into his mouth. "Especially him, if I knew any better I'd say Karoftsky had a crush on Kurt."

"Shit, the guy is in into him, Puck probably has a crush on me too." Shane said sarcastically.

"Seriously? I feel a little bad for Kurt... he should at least mask his sexual orientation with less fashion and less girl-friends." Finn scratched his head as he helped his friend pick up the rest of the torn papers.

"Oh man, just 45 minutes to rewrite my history report again."Shane said as he examined the state of his work. "Anyways, he should be able to express himself Finn it's his lifestyle."

They both saw the porcelain brunette managing to pick up his large shoulder bag and smiling through painful eyes as a boy with curly hair from the wrestling team secretly helped him up and pulling on his shoulder.

"A second thought Shane, I think this guy already called dibs on Hummel."

The two laughed quietly and stopped just as fast as a beautiful curvy black girl with a cheerio uniform brushed past them.

"Sorry guys! Bell's gonna ring in less than a minute."

They didn't know what she said nor did they care, all they saw was the glorious ass swaying away from they and the magnificent curvaceous form of the most beautiful girl in school, she was enough to cause fireworks and orgasms by just her voice. She was also unattainable, a sexy cheerio out of their league.

Damn! Shane thought as he adjusted his thick-rimmed glasses.

That ass! Finn admitted forgetting about feeling guilty since he already had a girlfriend.

The sound of the late bell brought both guys out of their trance, although the cheerio was already in her class and her admirers failed to notice, they scattered around and bumped their shoulders together accidently.

Sue Sylvester slapped a detention on both their foreheads and smacked Shane's back with a note; I'm fat, kick me.

"See you two for lunch detention nuggets."

"Wanna go for a round of Black Ops II after school? I finally got my membership renewed." Shane sighed at his friend.

Finn looked at his friend and bumped their knuckles together, he flicked his nose; a habit he grew fond of, and they both went about their way.


Third period bell rung fast and loud and students clustered up in the halls to get to their next class, Shane fell face first against the higher water fountain and felt the pressure of his front and bottom teeth impacted and his chin running numb in a matter of seconds. He thought he'd blacked out when the bright lights smashed against his eyes and the blurred image of the dark-skinned girl invaded his sights. He didn't have time to grasp her beauty when she was out of his sight when his vision returned. Then it was all clear, he knew her, he had seen her before and his chest constricted when her beaming smile rose the dead back to life. It was Mercedes Jones and she was smiling at him, Shane Tinsley, of all people. And she was hotter up close!

"Oh, Shane you're awake. You feelin' ok?" Oh God, her voice was sweet and beautiful, he thought as he stared at her with small squints.

"Shane?" She turned away from him with an awkward glance and called for the school nurse.

"He did hit his head pretty hard, it's normal for him to be staring into space like that." The nurse said quickly as she wrote down on her notepad and waved her hand in front of his face.

"Yep, either that or he's enticed by your beauty Ms. Jones." The Hispanic nurse winked at the teenager who gave her a friendly frown in return.

Shane wondered why the school's most beautiful girl was in this room with him and smiling at him, the girl who no one hated, the only cheerio with a brain that functions properly, the girl he admired from afar for two years, the girl he and Finn fantasized about when they hung out.

"Mercedes, You... what are you doing here?" It wasn't what he wanted to say but it got out anways.

"Well, you did slip and smashed your face against the water fountain. When you're in a sea of students hurrying to class these things happen, you stumbled in my path and then bam blood stains my Jordans and here you were and then now you're here."

Shane looked at her like she had grown another head, he did not reply to her statement because if he did he wouldn't be able to stop himself. Plus, it was not true. Shane knew he was pushed, she must not have known it but he knew what happened, he was not stupid.

"I must be leaving now, school is already almost over and your friend drooling over there is not a good look for any of us."

They both chuckled and she waved goodbye to him.

"FUCK!" He screamed as the pain from his jawline and cheeks pounded for the first time, the pain medication must have worn off, and his screamed awoke his friend.

"Where's the invasion?" The tall teen rose from his seat, straight towards his friend and smacked him across the head accidentally.

"Damn bro, my face has gotten enough for today."

"Oh my God Shane, you are alive. Dude, your blood formed a puddle on that floor, and don't get me started on how they got you big buff self on this bed."

"I'm sure it was a disaster." He said, thinking about brown-eyed girl with the black hair and straight bangs, the curvy hips and thick thighs, the soft brown skin and tempting smile.

And as wrong as it was for a someone of low status to be thinking of getting with someone of high status like her, it was only normal in the end to do so like in the movies when the guy who gets picked on always gets the popular girl. Maybe he could-

"I would never understand how she's dating McKinley's number one big time bully Noah Puckerman."

Shane sighed in defeat, why would she ever like him anyways? Puck was handsome, built, quarterback, prom King twice in a row even as a sophomore, and a bad-boy image. He was the total package.

He had negatives; such as being a complete homophobic jerk who picks on those who do not seem normal, even the handicapped kids with his favorite; Arthur Abrams, aka, Artie but Shane was forever his favorite loser to pick on. Puck was also terrible at anything that had to do with holding a pencil and working his brain out, Shane wondered if the guy would ever change.

"This year has to be different, man. I'm getting tired of all this shit, being picked on constantly and never getting the girl on top of that. I'm sick of it! I say we start fighting back."

"Hey, hey, this isn't revenge of the nerds, I'm not doing any fighting or pranks or anything like that." Finn said innocently. "We've only got senior year to go after this so we can do this. We can continue to be different and succeed academically."

"Finn, listen to yourself man, it ain't even about that no more. I want the parties, the popularity, the girls, I want to be respected."

"And you think being popular means you'll be respected?" Finn said flabbergasted. "What happened to earlier when we agreed that we'd never want to be them?"

"Since when did you ever talk like this?" Shane retorted, he really hoped Finn was going to be apart of this but he was wrong.

"You mean, since when did I not sound stupid?"

"W- ya, I mean no! No, not-"

"Wow, dude I thought you were the only one who did not think I was too slow to function."

Shane expected him to storm out but the tall teen did not move, his gaze fixed down to his sweating hands and his longer unruly brown hair shook as he moved his head back and forth.

"If we fight back, we will totally get beaten up and then get suspended."

"It's cool, I've got a plan and I can't believe I waited almost two years for this."

Finn listened closely and narrowed his eyes.


This one is different so the characters will be introduced in later chapters. AU

Ya... the note Sue placed on his back almost caused him his face.

So Finn looks like he hasn't gotten a haircut in like a year and half.

And Shane is not a bulldozer... yet.

And Mercedes looks the same... Amazing. haha.