Hey Guys!

How are you all doing, I've been on my summer holidays and have been busy with my new job I have several ideas for new stories and will be updating my current ones as soon as possible so just bare with me.

This is a story that I actually wrote quite a while ago, I just never got round to uploading it I hope you like it. As I'm sure you're all aware I don't anything.

It's set during and after 'Dream On', where Bryan Ryan asks them about their dreams, (I changed it to heros for the story).

Again I hope you enjoy this,

Love Hannah xxx

Chapter One

I heard a scream followed by sobbing; I sighed and got out of bed knowing where it was coming from. "What's wrong Ellie," I said,
"My hair," she sobbed. I looked at her hand and there was a thick lock of hair in its grasp.
"Oh sweetheart," I said pulling her close to me, letting her cry, and my own tears escape. This was what made it all real, my sister who wasn't even eight yet, was sick, a very aggressive form of leukaemia they had said.

"Why is it falling out," she said. "Is because of our parents, am I a bad girl," Our parents, two dads, my mom had left after discovering my dad's sexuality, if you must know had died just over two years ago, and even though she was young Ellie was very perceptive and knew that not everyone understood that all you needed in a parent was someone who loved you.
"It's nothing to do with our parents Ellie, they loved us, it's just that this medicine can cause hair to fall out," I said, how do you explain that to a seven year old.
"I'm tired now," she said. "Can I sleep with you tonight,"

"Of course you can," I said. "Come on," I took her hand and we went back to bed, it was only four o'clock. I held her close to me as she slept, as if I could at least shield her from some of the pain she had coming. We didn't wake up until my alarm went off three hours later, and when she woke up more of her hair had fallen out she had a bald patch that I knew we couldn't hide unless she wore a hat. Luckily I had several.

"But I'm not allowed to wear hats at school," she said, as I drove to her school, she was very pale, and she hadn't been able to keep her breakfast down. "I'm going to have a word with your principal and he will hopefully agree to it," I said, I pulled into a parking space and held her hand as we walked into her school. Thankfully her principal agreed and promised to inform the rest of her teachers. Now it was time for me to get to school, and I wasn't looking forward to it.

I arrived making sure I had my spare set of clothes in my bag. I knew I was likely to get slushied it happened almost everyday, but I didn't let it bother me, Ellie was going through a much worse ordeal, and she wasn't complaining she was battling her way through so bravely. I put on my perfect pokerface and walked into the building heading to my locker to get the things I'd need for my first two lessons, English and then Calculus.

The morning went by quickly and it was time for our lunchtime glee meeting, we were having them because it was getting closer to Regionals. "Hey guys," I said, they looked up but did say anything, they were all still angry at me for telling Finn that he wasn't the father of his girlfriend's child, they still thought I loved him, proves how much attention they paid to me.

"Okay guys this is an old friend of mine," said Mr Schue. The man introduced himself as Bryan Ryan, that couldn't be his real name and I immediately disliked him.
"So guys, I'm going to give you a piece of paper and I want you to write down your hero," he said. I wrote on my paper My sister, she was my hero. "So now I'm going to go round and ask you what you wrote," he did and seemed to agree with almost everyone, I thought that maybe I had been wrong about him, but then he read mine out.

"Someone always has to be different," he sneered.
"It's probably some Broadway person no one's heard of," whispered Kurt to his crowd, i.e. the other girls.
"Actually she's put her sister," he said. "What makes you think that she's heroic,"
"That is not your business," I said.
"Rachel," said Mr Schue, "Don't speak that way to an adult,"

It was then that my phone rang, "Rachel you know you're not supposed to have them in class," said Mr Schue. I looked quickly at the number, it was Ellie.
"I apologise but I have to take this," I said. "It's important," Mr Schue sighed in frustration,
"Fine," he said. I walked to the corner of the room and answered the call.
"Rachel," she said sobbing. "They took off my hat,"
"Who did," I said feeling tears in my own eyes she sounded so upset.
"The popular girls and they started calling me baldy," she said. "And then I got sick again, but there was blood this time, and now my stomach hurts," she sobbed again into the phone.

"Ellie," I said. "It's okay, everything is going to be okay,"
"Can you come and get me," she said.
"I'm already on my way," I said. "Give me fifteen minutes,"

I hung up and wiped at my eyes, "I'm sorry Mr Schue," I said. "I have to go,"
"Rachel you can't we discussing Regionals now," he said.
"My sister is sick I need to get to the doctors," I said.
"Fine but don't have a diva fit if you don't get a solo," he said.
"I won't," I said. "I might not be coming to Regionals,"
"WHAT!" everyone said at once.

"I need to go," I said and with that I ran out of the room and to the office to sign out, and then to my car, Ellie was my priority everything else was really unimportant in the grand scheme of things.