Jess weaves her way through the halls, doing her best to dodge large groups of classmates who always seemed to congregate and crowd the walk ways. 'Why on earth would you have a social meeting in the middle of a busy corridor?' Caught up in her thoughts, Jess nearly missed the football player that was barreling straight towards her. 'Jesus Christ!' Were Jess' thoughts as she barely managed to lay straight up against the wall, the large boy just barely misses her. 'Always rushing to places with no time to take notice of others.' She rolls her eyes only for a flyer to catch her attention.

The piece of paper easily comes off the cork board with a small tug. She reads the flyer with curiosity written all over her face. "COME AND JOIN THE GLEE CLUB!" The words are written in bright blue ink, stars and smiley faces lined the empty space on the paper. She lets out a light scoff. 'Why on earth would the school waste their money on such a trivial club?' Most of the school's funding went straight to athletics, it's a wonder how any of the others clubs could even run. The other question was who on earth was the moderator? Did a glee club need a moderator or a coach? Regardless, there's no way Mr. Moritz was running it. The old band teacher could play concertos with no problem, but the former smoker's voice sounded too much like a foghorn to produce a good tune. Jess gives the paper one last look before letting out a soft scoff. She crumples the flyer and tosses it over her shoulder.

And while the crumpled ball of paper sails in the air, a small part of her mind latches onto the idea of a glee club.

Kelser High School was much like any public school. If you were a jock or a cheerleader, congratulations you're part of the social elite. Into band and prancing around on stage singing show tunes? Such a shame, see as you'd be getting a ice cold slushy to the face on the regular. Where they pulled that from is a mystery to Jess, must've been from some stupid sitcom.

The school was located in the small town of Jordans, Washington. It's so small that you've been going to school with the same kids since preschool. It was safe to say that you really weren't going up the social ladder if you had been rock bottom since you were a kid.

Jess was one of the many kids who were desperately trying to make her way out of the town. Not to say it was a bad place to be, it's just that once you've spent all of your life in a tiny town you really do want to get out. Not a lot of kids did leave though. Most went to the local college a couple ours in the city and after that, they'd return and start either a family or continue the family business. Lots of fun.

Jess continued to walk through the hallway, musing over the idea of a glee club until something broke her train of thoughts. Or rather someone. "Jessica, my friend, how are you this wondrous day? I brought you a cup of coffee and you're favorite muffin just because I love you." If this had been an anime, you'd see a vein or one of those angry symbols pop up right on her temple. She slowly turns to see a blonde with a dazzling smile. Or at least that's what he'd like to think.

"What do you want Josh?" Her deadpan tone caused his smile to falter, but only just a tad.

"Moi? I don't want anything but to celebrate out lovely, amazing friendship." Josh cranked up the watts on his smile hoping to fool (or perhaps blind) the Asian girl.

"Okay, cut the crap Hutcherson." Jess' face had switched to a pointed look, almost making Josh flinch. He would have if the two hadn't been childhood friends.

"You know that's more of a compliment than it is an insult, although he is incredibly short." A light smack on the arm immediately gets him to stop. "Ow! Okay! I can never fool you, let alone fool around with you. No, wait. That sounds wrong. I meant joke."

The pout on Josh's face elicits a snort from his friend. "Oh gosh don't go there. And stop pouting. You're a teenage boy, not a pre-pubescent girl complaining about the woes of being a Justin Bieber and One Direction fan."

He responds with an overly dramatic gasp. "I am appalled by that analogy." He crosses his arms and lets out an indignant huff. "Give me some credit; my music taste is much better than that."

"Your Spotify playlist says otherwise." Jess let's out a chuckle at how easy it was to rile up her friend. "Anyways, you only use that smile combined with your so called 'sweet talk' when you really want something. You even brought bribes this time, so out with it."

"Well," He drags out the last part of the word for some unneeded emphasis. "I found this one of these lovely flyers posted right next to our lockers." A copy of the glee flyer is held right up to her eyes and the smile is back on his face.

"That's great and all but, uh you sound like a dying whale when you try to sing. And the last time you went to a school dance, you somehow managed to nearly break your date's toe."

He rolls his eyes, not even bothering to argue with her as those statements were very much true (In his defense, the toe thing was entirely accidental and the running back was to blame. Not his fault he asked his crush first). "Not for me, you dunce!" She shoots him a glare and actually gets him to flinch this time around. "For you! You're always complaining about how you lack of a musical outlet, outside of band at least, and here's one."

She stares him down before rolling her eyes. "Josh please, we're barely hanging onto our social rung as is. We're currently at 'slushies when we make popular people angry.' I'd rather not drop to 'daily slushies' thank you very much."

He visibly deflates at her words. "I thought we said that popularity would never matter."

She looks down at her feet, unable to meet his eyes. "Well yea, but I'd like to make my life as easy as I can while I'm stuck here. And self-preservation says doing something as suicidal as joining a singing club is a no go."

His eyes flash with understanding. "I get it; I just thought you'd be excited." He is right though. If the situation were a bit different, Jess would maybe jump at the chance to sing. Josh pats her on the back. "I won't bring this up again, promise."

"Thanks." Her lips form a small smile before she smacks him on the shoulder again.

"Ow! What the heck?!" He's rubbing his arm again, looking at her incredulously.

"That's for getting all mushy on me. First week of school hasn't even ended yet and look at how sentimental we got. Gross." Jess feigns disgust with a rather broad smile plastered on her face.

It's Josh's turn to roll his eyes as he speaks. "Well then, how about I make it up to you by letting you film and edit today." He makes a grand gesture before holding out his camera, adding a smile at the end of his flourish

"I feel so incredibly honored." Her words drip with sarcasm, but she takes the camera anyways. "You be happy that I can't just hand this off to Jane."

Jane had been Josh's former senior AV personnel for the school news blog, Kelser Social. He wrote and recorded almost weekly on the different happenings in the school. The gossip corner was by far the most popular page but, the website was generally well received by the school.

The blog was the main reason the two (and anyone associated with Kelser Social) were on mid-way of the social ladder. The pair was somewhat notorious for having eyes and ears everywhere, so ruining anyone socially wasn't too difficult of a task. However, it wasn't something either did on the regular. In fact, it only happened once. But gossip easily twisted the truth ('I heard they ran them out of town.', 'Rumor is that they got him shipped to boot camp.') and neither bothered to correct the stories.

"Ah yes, what a shame. Too bad all of the new recruits don't even know how to hold a camera steady. On the bright side, I found some new writers!" He beamed at his ever growing staff. "You're stuck on camera duty until we find some new AV kids to help with the video segment."

She sighs in defeat. "Well come one then, I'm sure there's plenty of material waiting for us."

The two walked off, chatting as they planned for this week's video content.

Unbeknownst to Jess, the flyer was still in Josh's hand.

Remember that one time I tried to write an syoc and then I dropped it before I even accepted characters… and then I did that again. Ahahahahaha. Good times.

Ok but yea I'm back from the grave! And yes this first chapter is basically a rehash of Bring Out the Sound's intro chapter. But! I feel like I've grown as a writer and the quality of my writing has increased! So the plan is to try and update this a frequently as I can manage. I can't give you an exact schedule, but my current goal is one every other week. This may change and there's no guarantee I'll post on time.

I plan on being extremely picky about who I choose in terms of characters so make them good! If you recall from my previous story, I needed a rich donor type character. I still need that for this story! Their parents basically donated a rather large sum to get the club going, other than that I have no other specifications.

Please send me a large variety of characters! I'll need some minor antagonist and some rival members so send them in too!

With that, here are the rules.

1) Be original as possible. Don't copy from other tv shows, but feel free to use them as inspiration!

2) NO MARY OR GARY SUES. I don't want perfect characters. What's the point? Each character has a journey throughout the story and perfect characters have the blandest ones.

3) That said, don't overdo it with backgrounds. Yes, parents die and stuff happens but try to be realistic. No 'my family was murdered by my brother and now revenge is what fuels my life force and I sing on the side' stuff.

4) Be realistic in terms of skill. Not everyone is a genius and keep in mind that these are high schoolers.

5) Please no posting them in the reviews! I'd like for your character to remain private between us.

6) You are allowed to send in as many characters as you like, but I will only be accepting a maximum of two. Make sure not intertwine any of them to the point where I would NEED to accept both. Minor characters are an exception to this rule (e.g.: 2 main characters and a rival glee club member).

7) Be detailed in the application. The more detail, the more better built your character is.

8) To be sure you've read all or most of this, list your characters favorite color in the anything else section of the application and title you pm as "Life's Soundtrack-(Character name here)"

9) NO SIBLING OR ANY RELATION TO GLEE CHARACTERS.

10) Please to abide by these rules as not doing so will severely limit your chances of getting in, so please read and listen.

11) THIS IS NOT FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE.

Have fun!

The form is on my profile as well as the link to the tumblr for this story.

A follow up chapter will be up soon (hopefully). If a donor character is submitted soon and they are accepted, they will be in the next chapter. If not, the next chapter will be the introduction of the glee moderator and coach.

I look forward to seeing your characters!