AN- Alright. This is gonna be kinda familiar, but different all the same. I am redoing this story. I am having no luck with the story so I've decided to re-evaluate. If this fails… I will be crushed and leave from fanfiction because the response I get to my original stories is far from what I'm getting here. My friends and people from the websites I post my stories on usually love them. That's why I am changing this because I have a storyline just it's apparently written to the distaste of those who read it. So here it is redone and brand new…
Disclaimer- I am a fourteen year old girl and therefore not Ryan Murphy who is one of the coolest people ever! Despair… |;( Also I do not own 'Young Forever' by The Ready Set. Jordan Witzigreuter does and he is one of the cutest people ever! I mean DANG!
Chapter One
Kurt's Pov
What is that? I look over to Blaine quizzically, nodding towards the room the sound is coming from. It sounds like singing and judging from the thumping sounds dancing too. It's not the New Directions. I know their voices and those aren't them. I take a few more steps towards the cracked door to see who is singing inside. I take the liberty to push the door the rest of the way open and tip toe in, to avoid disturbing the intriguing performance, with Blaine in tow. They should've shut it if they didn't want an audience. I stay back a little ways to quietly observe the group while they remain unaware. Blaine whispers "They're good." I turn and nod. They're really good. The sound stops and Blaine begins to clap. "That was awesome!" he compliments them as we enter their sight.
First I notice the reactions of some of their performers. A blonde that reminds me of Brittany beams at Blaine. While I watch a brunette couple slip out the other doors. I turn to one of them and I state simply "You're a band, aren't you." I nod my head at their instruments.
The blonde girl with piercing green eyes replies with a bubbly attitude. "Yeah! How'd ya guess?"
A tall boy with dark hair puts a hand on her shoulder and tells her "Hon. We've got instruments and we're practicing remember?"
"Oh yeah…" She trails off looking into his bright blue eyes admiringly. "You're soooo smart Austie!"
"Thank you Des." He responds then turns to Blaine and I. "I'm Austin. That's Desiree." He offers his hand to shake as he introduces himself and Desiree.
I take it. "I'm Kurt." I inform him. He nods and turns to Blaine to shake his hand as well.
Blaine grabs his hand and says "I'm Blaine. It's nice to meet you." He smiles politely and begins to look around the room. When they release their hands from the other's grasps I take Blaine's in mine. Loving the feeling just as much as I did the day I met him.
"Austin! Where'd you put my guitar?" A red headed girl yells from across the room. She looks frantically around the area. "I can't find it!" She tells him in a panic.
"I gave it to Desi and told her to put it on a stand! Ask her!" He says gesturing to the silly blonde that is currently drawing in a sketch pad nearby.
The girl walks over to the three of us and inquires "Who're they? And I already asked her. She told me she doesn't know! We have got to find it!"
"We're Kurt and Blaine." I say pointing to myself and Blaine in turn to make it easier for her to focus on regaining her instrument without worrying about introductions. Blaine looking for his guitar is absolutely hilarious. He looks as if the world is about to end just like she does currently. I can see him begin to scan the room a sympathetic look in his hazel eyes.
"Maybe Priscilla took it." Desi gasps covering her mouth and looking up from the book in front of her. It bobbles in her lap and an intricate floral design peeks out from its pages. I would've never pegged her as an artsy type.
I pull my eyebrows together as her statement hits me. Who is Priscilla? What have we gotten ourselves into? These are some strange people…
Austin looks at her pitifully. "Honey Priscilla couldn't have taken it. She isn't here anymore remember?" He looks cautious as if she might break if she takes the statement wrong.
"Oh no! She died! What if she got buried with the guitar?" Desi looks worried, but thankfully she doesn't begin to cry.
He sighs in relief. "She didn't get buried with it don't worry. Now try to remember where you put it. Please?" He asks sweetly.
She smiles "Okay." Desiree looks thoughtfully at her notebook and her pencils glides across her paper in soft strokes.
He whispers low to us so she can't hear. "Priscilla was her hamster. She died 3 years ago." He glances back to her and she didn't hear a thing. She is still gazing down at her sketch pad quietly.
The brunette couple I saw leave earlier runs in, the girl holding what I assume to be the missing guitar. "Why was Jordan's guitar in the janitor's closet?" The girl asks.
"The door said standing room only." Desiree says. "Isn't that what it's for?"
The red head Jordan's hazel eyes light up. "I so owe you Juliette!" She hugs the short brunette girl, who is apparently named Juliette. Then takes the guitar and spins around squealing. "Des! I got it back!" She skips to Desiree's side. I stare baffled. These people are Craaaaazzzzyyyyy.
The boy that entered with Juliette has the same eyes as Jordan. He smiles "I'm Chace! This is Juliette." He shakes my hand just like Austin. Juliette gives me a hug. She seems different than the rest of the group. There is something about her I can't put my finger on.
"Kurt. Blaine." I again introduce us. "One question how many more of you are there? I am really sick of saying my own name." I joke to lighten the mood. Although the constant introductions are a little bit frustrating.
"Just us six! Trent's in the hall." Juliette promises. "Lord knows I'd go crazy if there were more of us." Her blue eyes widen in mock fear at the thought.
I laugh at her fake fear and respond "There are thirteen of us in the New Directions, and trust me we run drama city!"
"Ahh! I can barely take six…" Austin shakes his head.
"So. What's your band name?" Blaine asks them curiously.
"Flawless." One last boy enters the room. "I'm Trent. Last one I swear. And I know your names are Kurt and Blaine! I heard from the hall. Just finished the choreography." His last statement was directed at Austin. He responds with a swift nod and they begin to look at the paper in Trent's hands. His eyes are proud as he moves his dark skinned hand to point out the dance steps to Austin.
Blaine looks contemplative and then he speaks. "You sing and dance. Why not try Glee club! New Directions would love to have you." He asks.
The six of them all group together around us. "Well I'm assuming we'd have to audition and it would be a great time to practice our new number." Trent says. His brown eyes persuasive, "In?" There are nods all around.
"Great!" I exclaim excited at the idea of some new talent in our group. "We better get going we're going to be late as is." I remind Blaine as I look to the clock. We're already five minutes past the beginning of practice.
"Everyone grab an instrument!" Austin yells. "Here Babe take the microphone." He hands it to Desiree. I assume because it's the least expensive thing there. Blaine and I lead the way to the practice room.
"You're late guys!" Mr. Schuester scolds us.
"Sorry does this make up for it?" I ask as all, but Chace and Juliette file in. I hear a gasp from the room out of surprise, followed by a bang from the hallway. I wince at the sound. It means nothing, but trouble.
"Chace! Dude! These are my favorite drums come on!" I hear Juliette scold.
"Sorry!" He pushes them through the doorway and they hit the wall where we hear another resounding crash.
"Not even gonna say anything… nothing at all." She sighs, pulls them away from the wall, and into the room. They walk to stand next to their friends. Chace with a sheepish look displayed on his face, obviously embarrassed by the whole incident. "Hi! I'm Juliette Corgan! And we're the band Flawless. All of us do a little bit of everything. We each can play guitar, drums, and keyboard. We all sing and dance as well. I'm a sophomore."
Chace is the next to speak. "I'm Chace Whitley! I'm a sophomore." He gives a shy wave and looks to Juliette, with an apologetic look on his face, who is staring straight ahead.
Then Jordan adds. "I'm Jordan Whitley. Chace's big sister. I'm a junior." At this Chace fake frowns sticking his tongue out, enjoying the quiet giggles from Juliette. It's easy to see he's happy to get a response, especially a positive one.
"I'm Trent Louvel. I'm a junior." He stands there tall and proud. He's obviously a little uncomfortable and worried of being rejected. Jordan reaches over and takes his hand with a small smile to comfort him.
Austin introduces himself next "I'm Austin Hawkins. I'm a junior as well." He pats Trent on the back an obvious chill out. Trent relaxes.
Finally Desiree speaks "I'm Desiree Brandon and I miss Priscilla." Austin sighs quietly.
He touches her shoulder and adds "She's a junior."
"And I'm a junior" Desiree parrots him grinning widely very excited.
"They want to join New Directions!" I announce to the group happily.
Mr. Schuester smiles "I guess your lateness can be allowed." He jokes to me and Blaine. "So when do you think you'll be ready for auditions?" He asks them.
"We could go now." Trent says. I grab Blaine and pull him to sit down next to me in my seat next to Mercedes. She's looking contemplative toward them. As if she isn't sure of what to think of them. I can understand that because she hasn't heard them sing yet.
"Normally we would have people on instruments, but all you guys want is dancing and singing. So we're just gonna play an mp3 of the song." Jordan explains to us as they prepare.
"Alright. New Directions I present Flawless." Mr. Schuester introduces them. He leaves the performance area and Trent starts the mp3. The song begins to play from the speakers.
They start singing (Bold is everyone) and dancing to the song and quite well at that.
We'll (we'll) be young forever
We'll (we'll) be young forever
Trent-
We could be like prisoners,
Yeah, and we could be alone
Jordan-
Or we could make a mess
Like no one knows
and risk it on our own
Austin-
Spending the money that we don't have
cause we don't care, no
Desiree-
Living like kings with broken strings
and bass down to the floor
Oooh, oooh
Living with our headphones up
Oooh, oooh
We've got sound and that's enough
Oooh, oooh
Nobody can touch us
And we run and we run and we run
Chace-
HEY (hey) we'll be young forever
We'll be young forever
Till forever stops
Juliette-
We're singing
HEY (hey) we'll be on forever
Tonight will last forever
Till our bodies drop
Desiree-
We can run through the night,
Write our name up in the sky,
Got the music on our side
Ain't nobody gonna catch us
Austin-
Singing
HEY (hey) we'll be young forever,
On the run forever
And we'll never stop
(don't stop, don't stop no)
Juliette-
Look at us (Look at us)
We'll take the whole world by surprise
Million dollar mindset in place,
You can see it in our eyes
Chace-
Everything here is ours to take
So come and take your side
Livin' like kings with broken strings
And bass so synthesized
Oooh, oooh
We can turn the speakers up
Oooh, oooh
Cause we've got sound and that's enough
Oooh, oooh
Nobody can touch us
And we run and we run and we run
Jordan-
HEY (hey) we'll be young forever
We'll be young forever
Till forever stops
Trent-
We're singing
HEY (hey) we'll be on forever
Tonight will last forever
Till our bodies drop
We can run through the night,
Write our name up in the sky,
Got the music on our side
Ain't nobody gonna catch us
Chace-
Singing
HEY (hey) we'll be young forever,
On the run forever
And we'll never stop
(don't stop, don't stop no)
Juliette-
Oooh, oooh
We're gonna rule the world tonight
Oooh, oooh
The beat of the drums keeps us alive
Trent-
Tonight will last forever
Till our bodies drop
Jordan-
HEY (hey) we'll be young forever
We'll be young forever
Till forever stops
(don't stop, don't stop no)
Austin-
We're singing
HEY (hey) we'll be on forever
Tonight will last forever
Till our bodies drop
We can run through the night,
Write our name up in the sky,
We can run, run, run away
Nobody gonna catch us
Desiree-
Singing
HEY (hey) we'll be young forever,
On the run forever
And we'll never stop
(don't stop, don't stop no)
Run, run, run away
We can run, run, run away
The song ends and they all stand still waiting for response. Juliette drops her arms from where she had stopped and says "Do we gotta leave so you can decide?" They all stand around nervously awaiting the verdict
Mr. Schue shakes his head. He glances at our expressions of amazement knowing they tell all. "Welcome to New Directions" He tells them.
The girls all run to their partners. Jordan and Trent share a quick kiss. While Austin just holds Desiree who is upset Priscilla couldn't be there to see. Out of the corner of my eye the most interesting thing happened Chace and Juliette high five and then just stand there talking about the performance. They don't even hug. What kind of a couple are they? They are a couple aren't they? I mean they bicker like one! Plus they look super cute together! I wonder if they are or not… cause if not someone is going to have to do something about that. Namely me. Blaine taps my shoulder. I face him.
"What are you thinking about?" He asks. The way he can always tell when something is on my mind amuses me.
"I'll explain later!" I reply fast. I can't talk about them while they're in the room. That would be rude. I look back to Chace and Juliette. They are absolutely puzzling. Jordan says something to Juliette I can't catch and she squeals and jumps into Chace's arms. Chace gets a grin on his face big enough to compete with the Cheshire cat. When she releases him it fades back to the smirk I've seen his face display when with her. A look into his eyes would show nothing, but pure ecstasy for her. That is until she skips to Desi to relay the apparent news. Then you would catch the look of disappointment that looks awful like he heard the world was gonna end before he graduated. He likes her! A boy would not be that disappointed about a girl unless he liked her and she wasn't dating him. I've seen too many Finn issues to not know better. I smile at the thought. The boy has finally figured it out though. He's with Rachael and they appear to be solid. Hopefully the New Directions drama vortex doesn't suck them back in because I am sick of their problems.
"Okay! We have to get prepared guys! It's a new year and we need to be ready so we can do even better at nationals this year! So I want to start off the year with a duets competition. Also so we can see how some of our new members sing in pairings!" Mr. Schuester says giving his spiel about the assignment. I look at Blaine and we just nod knowing that we're paired up with each other. He smiles at me which only makes me melt a little inside. I wonder what song we'll sing. Mr. Schue continues "However once paired up you will draw your song from some I have picked out. Some are romantic duets, others are solos that you will have to rearrange to be a duet, as well as some that are same couple duets that are sung toward the audience. You can change the arrangement of the song, but nothing else. Come on and grab your songs." I see Rachael and Finn grab their song and Rachael jumps up and down. They obviously got one of the romantic duets. Then Sam grabs one out and gives it to Mercedes who smiles and shows it to him. Jordan snatches one out of the basket and peeks at it handing it over to Trent who responds with a smile and a nod. Puck gets one out and gives it to Lauren. She looks at it and scoffs handing it back to him. He looks and frowns as well. I'm gonna guess it was a really romantic song. Although Puck might've been happy about wooing her with a romantic duet. Desiree gestures for Austin to pick and he shakes his head. Santana pushes Austin aside and pulls one out. She gives it to Brittany who smiles widely.
Santana looks amused and I hear her say "I don't think Schuester listened to all of these…"
Brittany answers "I suggested it to him."
Santana laughs muttering something like "When we sing this he's gonna flip…"
Blaine walks up and grabs one quickly with Desiree doing the same. He shows it to me. I smile. The song is great, but it's a solo by a girl. This is going to be interesting, but we can make it work. Actually it will work out quite well. I think to myself as I begin to rearrange it in my mind. I look up to see Quinn take a slip of paper to Artie. I've never heard them duet before, but of course them being the only non-attached pair in New Directions they are stuck together. That is unless Chace and Juliette aren't together…The pair approach Mr. Schue who hands them the last slip of paper. Juliette looks at it and crinkles her nose. Chace reads it over her shoulder and a shocked look creeps onto his face. I can only guess that's going to be a performance worth watching.