Daisy Butter: Wheels, Chains, and pure Glee
Prologue
I remember the day that Quinn Fabray left.
It was a Wednesday, it was cloudy with thin shafts of light shining through. I knew she was leaving because everyone was talking about it, the pregnant girl, gone to find parents for her 'sea-monkey.' The football players were calling her horrendous names behind her back; Noah Puckerman would stare at them darkly and return to his lunch.
Artie was the one who told me the entire story, in Lab. He had been my lab partner since the beginning of the semester, and he probably will be until we graduate. He looked me straight in the eye in that unafraid, truthful way that he does with everyone, and said that Finn Hudson (Quinn's long term boyfriend) wasn't the father of her baby, that Puck was. That explained the dark looks. Anyway, Artie said that I couldn't tell anyone, because it was supposed to be a secret. I loved how he trusted me with the information, despite the fact that we only sat next to each other, at our special lowered desk, for two hours a week and would only talk as we worked.
He was solemn and quiet for the rest of the class, and when I asked why he replied,
"Glee is short one number now that Quinn's gone. We can't compete in Regionals."
"Oh."
He had grinned shyly and wheeled himself away.
But the reason that I remember that day wasn't for Artie, it was what he said.
Glee was one man down.
They couldn't compete in Regionals.
It was social suicide, it was a sure-fire ticket to getting a slushie in the face every day, but I could do it. I had wanted to join Glee ever since they performed 'Somebody To Love' in front of the school at Invitationals, but for reasons of my own ignorance I hadn't. I decided then that I had to.
There was one more thing that made my decision.
I saw Quinn leave myself. Rachel Berry was standing on the school steps, her brown hair softly moving with the wind, watching her drive away. She turned, to find Finn Hudson, leaning up against the wall, crying. They hugged, before disappearing into the auditorium. That solidified my decision to join glee club.
And I wondered if I knew what I was getting myself into.
