The rain had began to patter against the roof of the large auditorium, filled with chairs and mass of students and parents all throughout. The different academies were clearly represented with pride in each of the corners of the room. They often held these sorts of showcases to display the talent among the brother and sister schools. Friendly competition since none of them were in the same regions.

A group of young men were seated in the center of the room waiting until their own performance. The dark navy blazers with red trim set them apart from the rest of the academies there. The Dalton Warblers; everyone here knew who they were. Sitting in the middle of the group of men was their new leader. Sebastian Smythe; every girl and guy knew who he was, in one form or another.

The lights began to dim; they where about to start the first group of performances. It was an all girl's Catholic school; Sacred Heart Academy. The girls wore deep blue skirts with crisp thigh high socks, white dress shirts and deep blue blazers with white trim. There was one girl standing in the center of the rest her long wavy caramel hair glistening in the lights.

"This should be entertaining…" Sebastian jeered.

"I'd say, a group of hot girls prancing around in skirts." One of the guys joked.

The boys continued to joke about the girls in sexual manors until they had began to hear the music play lightly. Which even at that were just a light drumbeat and some string instruments with the girls making soft harmonies with their voices. Followed by the girl in the center who had begun to sing softly until she let out a powerful roar singing with a lot of emotion. Which had shocked the Warbler boys, they hadn't expected the girls... let alone the lead to be good.

"If I were a boy." She belted out; "I think I could understand, how it feels to love a girl." She continued.

"I swear I'd be a better man." The girls continued to create harmonies behind her as she sang.

"Who is she." Sebastian asked. One guy chuckled. "Switching to girls there Seb?"

"I asked a question…" He said flatly.

"That's Sadie Wilde. She's been the leader of the Sacred Hearts for the past three years." The music soon changed to some odd keyboard music; which made the boys look back up to only see five of the girls still on the stage. Sadie was the front of the pack. She began to sing again mesmerizing the Warbler boys with her intoxicating voice.

"As warms as the sun, as silly as fun. As cool as a tree, as scary as the sea. As hot as fire, cold as ice. Sweet as sugar and everything nice." She had been singing, the girls doing some cute dance to go along with it.

"As old as time, as straight as a line. As royal as a queen, as buzzed as a bee. As stealth as a tiger, smooth as a glider. Pure as a melody, pure as I wanna be." She had continued until the other girls began to chime in with her at the course.

The girls soon finished and were joined by the rest of their group to bow for the audience who hadn't stopped clapping since they'd finished their song.

"Sadie Wilde." Sebastian said. "Interesting."

The Warblers soon made their way to the back to get ready for their own turn to perform. Some of the boys had gone off to introduce themselves to the girls from the other schools. Sebastian however had only one person he wanted to find.

"I can't believe you might be leaving us for a public school."

"I doubt I will, my father would never allow me to go to the same school as my cousin… thank the lord for that." The girl with the caramel colored hair laughed softly.

"That'd be terrible. Just imagine it."

"I don't even want to imagine being apart of it."

"Oh come on Sade's… You could be a New Directioner… then you'd finally be allowed to compete against your ex… kick his butt."

"If only… finally beating Hunter at his own game would just be glorious. Apparently he's the new leader of the Warblers, curious." She laughed.

"I know that other guy… what's his name wasn't he like the perfect leader since Blaine left?"

"Sebastian?" Sadie said softly causing him to stand straight in place. Her voice seemed so angelic to him, he was never overly drawn to women. Sure he'd played on both sides of the field but he always felt with a girl… they were overly needy.

"I think that's his name." another girl said.

"I guess he stepped down. Surprised they let him stay in the Show Choir." A short Asian girl said.

"I'm not surprised. Sebastian has an amazing voice." Sadie explained; "He's a very talented guy, they'd have been stupid to let that kind of voice just walk away. They did it with Blaine so I highly doubt they would risk that again."

"Awh does little Sadie have a crush…" A tall blonde girl began to coo in a teasing voice. Causing the other girls to giggle along side her.

"No. I don't. I simply admire talent when I see it, or in his case hear. Let's go get our seats; Warblers are on after the Kings Academy."

The girls then stood up and made their way out of the back area and had began to take their seats in the audience. Sebastian stood where he'd been hiding from the girls when he was eaves dropping on them. Regardless of how different this girl had come off; he knew better all girls are the same; Catty, manipulating, lying, cheating creatures from hell. It was why he'd turned away from that gender in the first place.

"Sebastian." He heard his name from behind him.

"Trent?" He asked in a questioning manor.

"We were just curious where you went off too. I bumped into that Sadie girl, told her you were looking for her." He said cautiously.

"What?" Sebastian said sharply.

"I told her you were looking for her?" He said completely confused.

"Why on earth would you do that?"

"Warblers your on in two." A man said from a distance.

"Lets… lets just get ready." He said as the group began to assemble for their performance.

The lights began to dim again and narrowed on the boys as they began to harmonize their voices and slowly began to sing. Sebastian however was completely distracted. He kept his eyes out on the audience as he usually did however this time, it wasn't to look at the judges. He was scanning the crowed, and that's when he saw them in their white and blue uniforms standing and swaying to the music.

"Sadie, they aren't bad."

"I know eh? I'm glad we don't have to face them unless we get to Nationals." She laughed. "I hate admitting it."

Sebastian finally spotted her; she stood there swaying to his voice. Clapping and smiling, women he hated admitting it but they did have divine bodies. He paused when he realized he hadn't been singing when he realized she was just standing there looking at him.

The entire group of the warblers had lost their spot. All because he'd forgotten what he was doing. That was when he realized he no longer saw her, "No if I talk it girl, you know that I will walk it out." He heard her angelic voice come from next to him.

"Man I'll put my money" He began to sing. "Money." The boys followed in unison. "Where my mouth is, cause you the baddest little thing that I've ever seen." He said as she danced next to him with a smile. "So I'ma ask you one time if you got a man."

She smiled at him as they got back into the spot of the song they were in. She quickly turned to leave the stage when Sebastian took her arm and pulled her back towards him. He continued to sing the song with her on stage and the guys acted as though she was apart of the performance.

When the boys were done they along with Sadie walked off the stage towards the back. Followed by the roar of the audience, the guys began to cheer each other on and thank Sadie. However; Sebastian couldn't find her anywhere.

"Why would she do that?"

"I don't know man…" Nick smirked.

"Because you guys would have looked awfully silly if I hadn't rescued you." She said as she placed her hand on Sebastian's arm.

"We didn't need rescuing." Sebastian snapped.

"You didn't, however the silence from the stage told me otherwise. You're welcome Sebastian." She said as she walked away from him and towards the other girls.

Hunter wondered over to Sebastian; "How do you know her?"

"I don't." Sebastian said with a snappy tone.

"Keep it that way." Hunter said stalking off.

Sebastian kept his eyes on Sadie who was giggling and having a blast with the other girls from her school. He couldn't explain why he'd been so rude to her; she technically did him a favor by helping the guys out. She made it seem like they planned her coming on the stage. Trent and Jeff soon pulled him back and they boys left to get back to their school.

Once he had finally got back to his room, which he shared, with Trent he collapsed on his bed and pulled his laptop down onto his legs. He began to surf the net and tried to listen to new music to use for their sectionals performance.

"Sadie's pretty nice." Trent said out of the blue.

"Why do you say that?" Sebastian asked as he rolled his eyes.

"Well, she helped us out big time. She even gave us this." He said tossing a wad of paper over at Sebastian. "What's this?" he asked.

"She said to give it to you." Trent shrugged as he turned and sat at his desk.

Sebastian sat up in his bed and opened the small booklet that had been tossed to him. It was a list of every song that New Direction's had performed and all the songs they had been apparently been picking to perform at the sectionals. Sebastian sat up more in his bed more attentive. Why would she give him this.

"Did she give you her number?" Sebastian asked.

Trent laughed; "A girl like that giving me her number?"

"Not entirely impossible…" Sebastian lied.

"Hunter has her number. They used to date I think, she broke up with him when she found out he was seeing someone else I think."

Sebastian rolled his eyes; he didn't care about that kind of crap. It was just more baggage that a girl had. Another reason he hated dating girls, and only played with them when he was bored.
Sebastian quickly logged into facebook, he quickly typed in her name.

There she was, it was a picture of her in a small box dressed like Halle Berry's catwoman, next to that blonde girl she'd been talking to, she was he guessed batgirl, along with the Asian girl who was dressed up like… he wasn't entirely sure what she was supposed to be. Typical girl however to have her display picture as her dressed up like some piece of meat for men to ogle at just to complain about how men are perverts. He clicked on her name and scrolled through her profile.

Was nothing but her and her friends making plans to go out and party. Or her making a status; using some sort of song lyric. A bunch random junk of her liking things, her and Hunter's break up took up a huge portion of posts that where hidden. He smirked; typical girl thing to do. "I know I can find better… not all guys are the same." Girls always said that; how right was she? Not all guys are the same; it's girls who are all the same.

Sebastian felt like he'd scrutinized her enough and that he could message her asking about the note pad. He clicked and began to type the message to her asking about the gift she'd given him. Knowing her she'd think this meant they were dating or something. He chuckled and put his laptop back on his desk and had began to do his homework when a ping went off.

He turned to face his laptops screen.

"I figured you guys would need a heads up. I know someone who passed this information onto me. Since my show choir isn't facing them in three months… I figured you could probably do some good with this information since you sing before they do. Have a good night Sebastian."

She was very final when she wrote, like she didn't want anything further to say to him. He shut his laptop and went to bed, school was going to be long enough tomorrow he didn't need to be tired because some girl he didn't even know was getting to him.

-

Sadie closed her laptop and stood up to get ready for bed, peeling off her uniform standing in her underwear. She sighed when she heard the door get knocked on. She walked over after grabbing a towel to cover herself with. She opened it a crack to see who it was, she grunted when she saw that it was Hunter. She let him in and went back to her chair and sat there as he shut the door behind him and sat on her bed.

"Like what you've done with the place, so very you..." He said sarcastically. "I like that you got dressed up nicely for me."

"What do you want Hunter?"

"Why did you help us out tonight?" He asked.

Sadie rolled her eyes; "Because when it comes to the private schools and academies. Your school is the closest thing we have to champions sorry I didn't want you guys to look like fools in front of the sectionals judges… before sectionals."

Hunter stood up, "Those rejects are the judges."

"That they are; now go?" She asked.

"Why did you speak to Sebastian… you know he likes men."

Sadie smirked; "I didn't think speaking to a guy. One that likes your gender most of all… was such a crime. Please report me… I should be in jail… such a crime." She teased.

"Still a bitch."

Sadie smirked; "You miss it."

"I do." He said as he caressed her cheek.

"I don't." She said as she slapped his hand away. "I can talk to whom ever I want. You don't own me Hunter, now get away from me." She said. He just smirked at her before pushing her against the wall behind them.

"Keep telling yourself that Sadie… You're my girl."

Sadie just shut her eyes; nothing in her mind could take her away from the pain she was about to go through. She let herself fall into the melody of song. Thinking of nothing but the song Paradise by Coldplay, she knew when she opened her eyes again everything would be ok again.

Every tear a waterfall
In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes
In the night the stormy night away she'd fly.

She felt so numb, she felt Hunter place a kiss on her forehead and tell her he loved her before he walked away and out of the room. She quickly walked over to her laptop, documenting what had just happened to remind herself for later that she was stronger than this.

'She'd dream of Paradise…'

She sat there at her laptop and let the tears fall down her cheeks. Hunter wasn't a terrible guy, but he wasn't the greatest either. He had it in his head that no matter what terrible thing he'd done to her was just showing his dominance to her. He was trying to show her that he loved her. They weren't even dating and yet there he was every weekend. Trying to break her into some weak pet…

She heard the ping go off from her computer swiping her finger across the track pad her mac book lit up her face making her tears glisten. She clicked on the message notification; she couldn't help but giggle at the message.

"I'm curious about something. Before you write me off as that prick from Dalton. Why would Hunter tell me to stay away from him? As far as I've been told you aren't seeing him. So what's the story?"

Why was Sebastian so interested in speaking to her, she sighed softly before finishing her response and sending it back to him. She then closing her laptop and slipping into her bed. Going to bed, tomorrow was going to be a very long day. She could already tell…