It's silent out on the field of McKinley High. Blake Jenner, the quarterback for the McKinley Titans, is getting ready to score a touchdown. Blake launches the football in the air, everyone staring as the object soars through the air and McKinley begin to cheer as the football lands over the line, scoring them a touchdown and winning them the game.
Blake runs over to one of the cheerleaders, more specifically his girlfriend, and pulls her into an embrace, lifting her from the ground. Nellie screams in surprise into his padded shoulder, laughing when he put her down. Blake ran off to join his team mates in celebrating, leaving Nellie stood with her team. The sun was beating down on her neck, herself being thankful her hair was short.
In the choir room, away from all the cheering, sat the New Directions, the glee club of McKinley High. They were practicing for their Sectionals. One of the members, Dani, was sat in the back of the room, strumming her guitar quietly. Lindsay was pretty much screaming her line of Price Tag, most of the members having to subtly cover their ears to protect their hearing. Dani had stopped her guitar playing to do the same.
Nellie and her two fellow cheerleaders, Shanna and Aylin, were walking back to the locker rooms to change into fresh cheerleading uniforms. Shanna and Aylin were deep in conversation, Nellie trailing slightly behind. Instead of listening to the girls in front of her, her ears pricked up at the sound of singing. When Shanna and Aylin walked past the room where the singing was originating from, Nellie hid in the doorway, only peeking her head in.
The first one Nellie sees is a girl who's rather small, has long, dark hair and crystal blue eyes. She's ordering everyone into a place on the floor of the choir room. She then backs away from the doorframe a little when the girl leading is screaming at a boy who fell backwards into the piano. He's taller than her, but looks frightened by her screaming. His thick, brown hair is swept to the side, showing his eyes, the same crystal blue as the girl shrieking in his face.
Just as Nellie edged closer to the door, a tall, caramel-skinned girl sporting a red pixie cut, stepped behind the smaller girl in front of her and wrapped her arms around the girl's waist, pulling her away from the frightened boy. Screamer started to fight against Pixie Cut, so a boy with dark skin, who was fairly muscled and had a blue beanie pulled over his dark hair, which was poking out of the hat, jumped in to help Pixie Cut. He pried the girl's hands off Screamer, trying to step in and take care of it. He picked up the small girl and carried her over to one of the red chairs in the room, placing her in it and holding her down.
Nellie's eyes averted to the flash of bright clothing. It's a dark skinned, overweight boy who stepped to the front of the room and tells the rest of them to follow his lead. He shouts at the man sitting at the piano, apparently called Brad, to start playing. The boy starts to dance out some difficult choreography, too complex for Nellie to follow. A very small, muscular, dark haired boy wearing glasses, who didn't look like he belonged in high school, tripped over his own feet and crashed into a girl next to him.
Nellie quietly chuckled as the girl, rather small with dark eyes, her hair cut into a bob and looking just as young as the boy next to her, half-glared at him. She turns fully, shoving him gently into the boy next to him. The boy is really tall, wears thick-rimmed black glasses, which Nellie is sure are fake, and is surprised when the smaller boy is pushed into him. So surprised that he trips too and falls into a larger girl, with curly red hair and wearing pink sunglasses. The large girl stumbles and falls right into a drumset, the cymbals clashing and the drumsticks clattering to the floor, which catches the attention of everybody.
Nellie suddenly hides, not wanting them to see her. When she looks back in, both the larger girl and the tall boy had gotten up and had started talking. The girl who had shoved the little one was talking to him, Nellie hearing a soft 'sorry' spoken to him. The kid seems surprised but it looks like he's accepted it. Nellie chuckles slightly, seeing Screamer had gotten back to ordering everyone around. She thought she had spotted everyone, until she saw a girl sat in the back, strumming a guitar. She was small and slightly androgynous, with short hair, spiked at the front and shaved at the sides. Nellie was completely awestruck by the girl.
Apparently she'd leaned in a little too far, because the girl had turned her head at that moment and spotted her. She also spotted the uniform. Nellie brought a finger to her mouth, miming her to keep her mouth shut about her. She gave a small smile to the girl and then turned and ran away from the choir room to the locker room.