Hey, I'm the author of this fic. This is an idea that had been in my mind forever and I needed to get it out so that I could get rid of my writers block. I'm super excited to write it and hope I can get others into it too!

I love Rent and that's where a lot of this idea come from. I just want any excuse I can to use La vie boheme in a fanfic ;)

So some things you should know before reading: Kurt and Blaine are not together but Blaine is at New Directions, Rachel and Finn are together, Tina and Mike are together, Santana and Brittany are not together but are best friends and Santana is still in the closet, Quinn is single, Mercedes and Sam are secretly together, Puck and Kurt are best friends, and Rory and Sugar are together.

The story will be in eight different points of view. I hope it isn't confusing to follow.

I don't have a beta at this point but if you would like the job just let me know. I appoligise of any mistakes in advance, btw.

I hope you enjoy and thanks for reading! :)


Chapter 1

"All right guys I just got the word that Figgins approved my request for this year's fall musical. We're doing Rent."

Sounds of approval came from the group of students.

"So this means we have to choose parts-"

Rachel raised her hand and cut off Mr. Schue. "I was born to play Maureen! The part was simply made for me!"

This started a frenzy of people trying to claim their parts in the play.

"Okay guys, okay! Let's get this straight; there are only eight main parts. Everyone else will have to be an understudy and an extra. We are going to hold auditions to be fair to everyone. Tomorrow we are going to meet in the auditorium for club and you can all audition then."


Kurt wasn't nervous for his audition. He was the only guy here who could play Angel and he knew he would get the part whether he auditioned or not. The only other gay guy in new directions was Blaine and there was no way that he would get the part over Kurt. He probably didn't even want the part. Blaine had only been at their school for a month, it would be social suicide for him to make such a spectacle of himself in front of the school by dressing up as a drag queen. Kurt, on the other hand was already considered socially dead so he had nothing to lose.

That brought up a whole new topic of interest, Blaine. Blaine had been here a month and the two hadn't said a word to each other. The only reason Kurt knew that he was gay was his wardrobe and the fact that this kid had the hugest crush on Sam. Kurt had misjudged in the past, but this time he was sure. Blaine spent most of his time ogling over the blonde. This is why he had never had the courage to strike up a conversation with the boy, he obviously wasn't his type.

Kurt was the last to audition and through all the ones he had seen so far he already knew that Blaine would get some kind of lead role. Blaine had one of the sexiest and most fantastic voices that Kurt had ever heard and this made it easy for him to develop a small crush on him. Oh well, unrequited love was nothing unusual for Kurt Hummel.

Rachel did fantastic, as always and would without a doubt be cast as Maureen. Finn also did really well in his audition and had clearly been coached by his girlfriend all night. Finn had probably never heard of the show until Mr. Schue had mentioned it but his audition was probably good enough to get him a main part in the show. Almost everyone had auditioned at this point, excluding Artie who was in charge of directing the production.

When it was his turn to go he killed the song, just like he had predicted and soon they were all sitting in a group together in the front rows of the auditorium. Mr. Schue had announced that he would let them all know what parts they got the next day.

He was heading out of the auditorium when Rachel and Finn caught up to him. He had been driving the couple home for the last couple weeks. The two had been inseparable but he knew that in about a week they would be fighting again. It was just their natural relationship cycle.

"Kurt! You were fantastic! You'll be cast as Angel for sure!" Rachel really was one of his best friends, despite the rough patches she continued to have with his brother.

"Yeah dude, you were awesome!"

"Thanks Rachel, you were both phenomenal as well, as always. You will both get a great part!" Kurt replied.

"Hey, Puck are you still coming over tonight?" Finn was screaming a conversation across the auditorium with Puck when Rachel took her chance.

Rachel got a sly look on her face and linked arms with Kurt as they both walked out to the car. "So what did you think about Blaine, maybe he will get Collins…"

Rachel had been able to tell that Kurt had a crush on Blaine and took advantage of the observation. Kurt couldn't lie and say that the thought had passed through his mind at least once but it was irrelevant because Blaine didn't know he existed.

"He was very good, but I don't think he will get Collins. He doesn't fit the part. But he will defiantly get a part." He replied.

"But what if he does-"

"New topic Rachel, new topic." Finn came back up behind them talking about how Puck would show up for dinner, which meant that Kurt would have to make extra food if everyone wanted to eat.

The ride home wasn't anything new. The three of them, mainly Rachel talked about who they thought would get what part in the play. Kurt had zoned out of the conversation about two minutes in and began thinking about Blaine, again.

He really needed to get a new hobby because thinking about the amazingly sexy new kid was not doing him any good.


Rachel knew many things. She knew her potential. She knew that she had Maureen's part after her audition. She also knew that Kurt had a thing for Blaine. It was starting to get so obvious that it was painful to watch the way he would admire the curly haired new kid. What was worse was that it was equally as obvious that Blaine had a thing for Sam. Sam however, was completely oblivious to the entire situation.

Rachel had tried talking to Blaine about Kurt a couple times and every time their conversation had somehow turned towards talking about Sam. She really was trying. She knew that these two were destine to be together, like in one of those Disney princess movies and she was determined to be the one to get them to see the light. This is what was on her mind as she was finishing up her nightly cleaning ritual.

She heard her phone ring and picked it up immediately on the first ring, not bothering to check the caller id. "Hello?"

She was caught completely off guard by the voice on the other line belonging to Quinn. She was fairly certain that Quinn hated her for stealing Finn away. "Hi Rachel, I just wanted to call and tell you that you were really good today and that I hope you get to play Maureen."

"Um… Quinn, are you high?"

"No I'm not high, why?"

"It's just that up until thirty seconds ago I was sure you hated me because of the whole Finn thing-"

"I'm over that. It's in the past now so let's just forget about it. I was actually hoping that we could try being friends."

Rachel was very confused but decided that Quinn waving the white flag was a good thing… unless she had an ulterior motive, that is. "Um, yeah okay. That sounds great."

"Cool. So I'll see you tomorrow then." Rachel could hear the smile in the blonde's voice and it made her feel like this was actually a real offer. For some reason this made her happier than she would have thought it would. Maybe now all the fighting would finally be over.

"Yeah. Goodnight Quinn."

"Goodnight Rachel."

With that peculiar phone call still lingering on her mind Rachel eventually fell into a deep and peaceful sleep.


Santana was gay. Something she was just recently discovering about herself. She still hadn't told anyone and for her it was a terrifying secret. Being a lesbian was not something that she ever really considered before. She had always found girls attractive but she would pretty much have sex with anything so she had never thought too much into it, until recently.

It was Brittany. Brittany was the entire reason she had ever considered the possibility of being gay in the first place. Whenever she was with her best friend she felt something different than when she was with anyone else. She felt truly happy. She felt happy other times, but never to the same extent as when she was with Brit.

She had sex with Brittany often. Before she hadn't thought much about it, until she realized that Brittany was the only one she really ever enjoyed being close to. When she was with everyone else it was just empty feeling.

Brittany never seemed to take notice to how Santana felt. They would always just have sex and in her mind, that was normal because they were best friends and that's what best friends do. Of course that's not normally the case but Brittany wasn't hard to convince.

As Santana strutted down the hall to her locker she thought about how she would bring up the conversation with Brittany that would hopefully establish where they were, relationship wise. She was honestly terrified that Brittany didn't love her on the same level that Santana did.

She turned the corner only to find the very girl that consumed her thoughts daily standing by her locker waiting for her. She instantly smiled at the girl. She really was the most beautiful person Santana had ever laid eyes on.

"Hey Brit Brit." She approached her locker and opened it, switching out her books for her morning classes.

"I was waiting for you so that we could walk to class together. I didn't want to get lost again."

Santana laughed at the girl's innocence. "That sounds awesome. Did I ever tell you that you were amazing in your audition yesterday?"

"It wasn't as good as I thought it would be. I forgot most of the words. There's just so many…"

Santana shut her locker and rubbed comforting circles on the other girl's back. "It's okay Brit Brit, you were so good that they probably didn't even notice." Santana knew they had noticed Brittany's blunder and she knew that it probably cost the girl a lead part, but if she was being honest it was the most adorable thing she had ever seen.

"I guess I was pretty good." Brittany was now smiling again, which put Santana completely at ease.

The two girls linked pinkies as they walked to their first class for the day.


Finn was not a super smart guy. It wasn't that he was stupid. He got relatively good grades and stuff. It was just the choices he made that seemed to characterize him as dumb to everyone. Finn didn't consider himself dumb, he just considered himself a very bad decision maker. He realized that he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed but that wasn't his ultimate downfall. He just couldn't figure out what he really wanted. Yes, he was referring to the Quinn/Rachel situation. He had been switching between the two for a couple years now and never really found what he was looking for.

Right now he was with Rachel and he was happy. But he knew that his happiness was only temporary. It always was. He didn't know what he really wanted and throughout his classes all day that was the only question on his mind, "What did he want?"

He was sitting in his second class he tried his hardest but still couldn't figure out the answer to that damn question. For now he would just have to deal with what he had at the moment.


Quinn was sitting in history, staring at her from across the room. Yes, she was in love with Rachel Berry. Don't ask her why because she honestly had no idea. Well maybe she did have some idea… It could be the way that her eyes lit up when she talked about something she was excited about, or the way her laugh never failed to make her feel like everything in the world was aligned.

Regardless of the reason, she loved the girl. How did she figure this out? She was sitting in her room one night pissed about Finn leaving her for Rachel. That's when she realized that she was never truly happy with Finn. They loved each other, but even she could admit that the spark they had had at one point was gone. So why was she so upset? That's when it dawned on her that maybe it was because it was Rachel.

The more she thought about the small brown eyed girl the more she felt like she wanted nothing more than to curl up beside her every night and be able to say that she belonged to the girl. That had happened a few months ago. She had been staring at the girl during classes they shared and during glee practice but last night she had finally gotten the courage to do something about it.

She decided that being in the friend zone was better than nothing so she could that a try. Hopefully that would bring her one step closer to the girl she desired with all her heart.

The phone call had been a little awkward, but Quinn was sure that it wasn't a disaster and that was a good thing.

That's when Rachel turned her head to the left catching Quinn's gaze for a few seconds before the blonde dropped the gaze in embarrassment from being caught admiring.

Her friend plan was going well so far, now all she could hope for was a part in Rent that gave her easy access to spending time with her. She knew Rachel would be cast as Maureen and she knew that if that happened there was only one part that she could get that would be perfect, Joanne.

She may or may not have bribed Mercedes to not audition yesterday with some awesome concert tickets. That point is irrelevant, but what is relevant is that Quinn needed to do whatever it took to get her the part of Joanne. If she didn't get it she could always figure out a plan B but for now she was just hoping that plan A would go according to plan and make things easy on her for once.


Science was not Puck's strong suit, specifically Biology. He needed something to do and decided that messing with Hummel would fill his time in this class. He wasn't doing anything to be cruel. He had bullied Hummel in the past but that was before glee, and before Finn (his best friend) had become his brother. Puck and Kurt had spent an increasingly amount of time together ever since the two families had merged. He actually found out that Kurt was a pretty cool dude.

That's why him throwing little pieces into his hair wasn't him being mean, just him messing around with a friend for fun.

He could tell that Kurt was getting increasingly annoyed when he turned around and whispered, "Puckerman, if you don't stop throwing pieces of paper into my perfectly styled hair I am going to personally strangle you after class." He brushed his hair off as he turned back around and continued taking notes.

Puck laughed because he saw that Kurt was beginning to smile as he turned back around. He was the type of person to test the water so he decided one more small piece of paper wouldn't hurt.

He was wrong. Kurt whipped right around again and began to wrestle with Puck for his notebook, clearly planning on cutting off the boy's paper supply completely. What had started as an almost unnoticeable confrontation had become very noticeable when everyone decided to get quiet at the exact same time, everyone except the two boys.

With the sound of their teacher clearing her throat the two boys froze and looked up to see her standing over them. The two had gotten off with a simple warning and she went back to teaching as Puck continued to throw paper at Kurt the rest of the class period.

After class he was snickering to himself as he admired the little balls of paper all around his friend's desk.

"I hate you." He could tell that Kurt was a little annoyed but that he wasn't totally mad at him.

Puck laughed, "Nah, you can't hate me." He got up and put his arm around the smaller boy as the two walked out into the hallway together.

"You ruined my hair, of course I can." Kurt was still trying to get all the paper out.

Puck sighed and took over the job for him. "It's only paper. It comes right out." He smiled and brushed off a stay piece from Kurt's shoulder once he was done. "There. All better."

Kurt rolled his eyes, shaking his head as he began to walk to his last class. "I honestly don't know why I tolerate you."

Puck grinned proudly. "It's cuz you can't help but love me. Don't worry, I have that affect on people."

Kurt only continued to walk, shaking his head and laughing at his friend's overconfidence.


Sam liked this new kid. He was pretty cool. Like a lot of the same things he did and not only put up with all his dorky impressions but he actually laughed at them. This kid was awesome.

The two were partners in English for a project they were working on. That was another plus of being this guy's friend, he was really freaking smart.

Once the two finished the work assigned to them for that day they began to talk about nothing truly important.

"So, you did really well in your audition yesterday."

"Thanks man, you weren't too bad yourself."

Blaine looked a little awkward as he placed his hand on his shoulder. He wasn't sure if he was making him uncomfortable so he slowly removed it. "But I wasn't the best. I mean did you see Kurt? He was crazy good! I'm just happy that he is going after Angel's part and not a part I actually stood a shot at."

"Hmm, I didn't really notice…"

"What part do you think you want?"

Blaine looked awkward, once again. Sam wasn't sure why this always happened, he just figured it was his personality type. "Well, umm… what part do you want?"

"I don't know, maybe Mark… or Benny. Both of those guys have pretty interesting parts."

"Oh, yeah me too. I think If I had to pick I would want one of those."

Same wasn't sure why but Blaine just seemed to understand him. The two never disagreed on anything. It was pretty awesome that he could get along with someone so well so fast.


Blaine was in love. He absolutely knew it. Sam was everything he had dreamed of. He was blonde and strong and the sexiest thing he had ever seen, like ever! He wasn't completely sure if Sam was gay but even if he wasn't Blaine felt that he could change that. The two were meant to be, he just knew it. They had so much in common! Well, they didn't have that much in common. Most of the time Blaine would just pretend to know what Sam was referencing and then look it up once he got home. But he knew that eventually the two would have so much in common that Sam would have no choice but to just accept that they were meant to be.

He took his usual seat in the choir room next to Sam, listening to one of his ridiculous impressions that were always so adorable that he couldn't help but laugh. When Mr. Schue walked in the room went quiet, everyone wanting to know what part they had gotten.

"Okay guys, this is how it's going to go. I'll tell you who got a part and what part they got and there will be no arguing because my decisions are final. Got it?"

Everyone nodded in approval as he began to read the names he had written down on a piece of paper. "Blaine, you will play Mark."

People in the class applauded. This was cool. He got the part he wanted. Well, the part he said he wanted. Honestly, he didn't really have a preference. He just wanted a part that would put him and Sam in the same scene together as much as possible. Maybe Sam would play Roger?

Sam congratulated him with a high five and he could feel himself blushing from this small interaction, wow he had it bad.

Mr. Schue continued down the list, "Roger will be played by Finn."

Well, damn. That possibility is out.

"Mimi will be played by Santana."

At this news Santana stood from her chair and embraced the applause she got from the group, obviously proud of the leading role she had obtained.

"Puck, you get to play Collins."

Puck seemed proud of this, but the boy with a mohawk playing the boyfriend of a drag queen was not something that Blaine easily picture. Oh well, at least Puck seemed pleased with himself.

"Angel will be played by Kurt."

Kurt. That was the guy that Sam said he was impressed with. He really hoped that if Sam was gay that he didn't have a crush on that guy. At the announcement of his part Kurt had merely smiled and nodded as if he knew that was coming. He is the only guy in the club that could truly pull off dressing like a drag queen. Puck seemed excited for him and gave the quiet boy a high five.

"Rachel you have the part of Maureen."

At Rachel let out a successful "YES!" Everyone knew she would get the part she wanted. Even Blaine knew and he had only been here a month.

"Joanne will be played by Quinn."

Everyone seemed shocked but impressed by this announcement and Quinn seemed genuinely happy. That's when Blaine began to panic. What if Sam didn't even get a part? That would make this plan a complete bust.

"And last but not least, Benny will be played by Sam."

Never mind. Benny wasn't so bad. That meant that Blaine had at least a couple of songs to sing with him. Granted, not as many as he wanted at first but he could work with it.

"Okay guys, the rest of you will be extras in the play and you can also assist Artie on anything backstage, sound good?"

Everyone else seemed okay with being extras and helpers. Brittany did look slightly disappointed but she was being comforted by Santana. Tina and Mike looked completely content with not getting a part, as did Mercedes. Rory and Sugar didn't look too happy but they weren't upset either.

Sam turned to Blaine and smiled, "This is going to be awesome."

Blaine smiled back, maybe a little too big and replied, "Totally."


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