Here are extended story lines for 5x02, "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds." Enjoy! Also, the reason why I have a Grease song in here is because it is the only song I didn't write into the Grease episodes of the first edition of Fifteen More Minutes. Plus I felt that Marley was really underused in these couple of episodes and I like to see some sisterly stuff! I also included the full Bree audition script with Dottie, and a modified Penny dialogue from the initial audition script. All credit to Glee.
Finn walked into the school. Ryder shut his locker and hurried over to Finn.
"Hey, dude, can I talk to you about something?" Ryder asked.
"Dude, don't tell me you quit Glee Club again?" Finn asked.
Ryder chuckled. "No, it's just that the all-school prom is happening this weekend and I'm kind of at a dilemma."
"Oh," Finn said with understanding. "If it's about not having a date, you're totally a catch dude; any girl will say yes!"
"No, it's not about any girl," Ryder continued. "Wade, or Unique, or whoever, came up to me and asked if I would go with him, or her, as friends. And, I don't know, I just feel like he, or she, has no right hopping back into my life after that catfish incident and asking me to go to prom, you know?"
Finn nodded. "Well, all I got to say is that the mature thing to do would be to forgive Unique. She's obviously trying to take the high road and correct her wrong, and I think her way of doing that is to try and get you to see that she is the same girl as the Marissa you thought you were in love with."
Ryder shuddered at the thought.
"Are you still angry about it?" Finn asked.
"People are going to make fun of me," Ryder said.
"Dude, I had to put up with a ton of that stuff when Kurt and I started living together as soon-to-be stepbrothers, and everything worked out. Taking the high road and being the better man is what it's all about," Finn said.
Ryder nodded. "I guess so..."
"And I'll be there chaperoning, and if anyone gives either you or Unique any crap, I'll deal with it," Finn promised.
Ryder grinned, and walked with Finn into the choir room just in time for Will to come in and continue on with the next generation of Beatles music.
Sugar and Joe walked down the hall. They were going to prom together.
"For the record, Joe, you look so much sexier with the hair cut off," Sugar said admirably.
"Well, Principal Sue chopped them off herself in the hallway. She gave the dreadlocks back to me the next day. It's just such a shame. Those dreads were connections to each book of the Bible! The Dreadlock of Ephesians was always the lock I played around with when I had to think hard about the answer to a history question. Now I have to tug on whatever's left of it."
"Well, still," Sugar giggled as the pair walked past Bree's locker. "Anyway, who do you think is going to win prom queen?"
"Hopefully Tina," Joe said. "She really deserves it. It's so nice of Kitty to cast her support to Tina."
"Yeah, she is a sophomore; she has a lot more chances," Sugar added.
Bree, on the other hand, turned around in a flaming rage. It would be a miracle if at this prom someone won without a mass of write-in votes or a rigged ballot count. The problem with three Cheerios getting nominated for prom queen was that the high school voting demographic was split three ways among the popular vote. Tina already had a leg up with the loser vote, and with Kitty no longer in the race for the popular vote, that would probably recruit more populars to the losers' demographic. This would not stand.
Penny was getting her materials ready to practice her injections, singing odd phrases about unwrapping sausages, filling up syringes, and sticking in the needles. Sam observed this, and at the immediate glance of Penny injecting the sausage, he ran and knocked over the supplies.
"Hello?" Penny asked.
"Uh, hey, hi," Sam muttered, fixing the things he knocked over. "Do you always sing songs about what you're doing?"
"Was I doing that again?" Penny asked. "I'm sorry. Are you here for your Polio-Meningitis cocktail? Of course you are, why else would you be here? I wasn't sure if I should call it 'Polingitis' or 'Meningilio.'"
"I like the second one, it sounds like Italian food," Sam said, sitting down. "But, um, yes, I'm here for my shots, but I have to be honest, I'm kind of freaked out by needles, and if I wasn't, I'd kind of be freaked out by you with the needle. I saw you kill that sausage."
"Oh, yeah, that... I know, I kind of had an extended panic attack during the two weeks we studied injections last semester. I started out by hiding underneath my bed for a day but then I switched to locking myself in the bathroom because there was water, and you know, well, oh god, I've already told you to much."
"No, it's cool; and the bathroom's a smart move. But, wait, are you not a real nurse?"
"I'm a sophomore in college!" Penny exclaimed as if it was ordinary for untrained students to administer shots. "This is just kind of an internship to help me get into nursing school."
"Okay, ready for our shot?" Penny asked, getting ready to poke the sausage needle into Sam's arm.
"Is that the same needle you put in that sausage?" Sam asked fearfully.
"Good eye!" Penny exclaimed with a grin.
"You know, it's cool; I"m gonna come back later, okay? To tell you the truth, I probably won't come back. It was cool meeting you," he said, dashing out the door.
"Penny Owen!" she hollered.
"Sam Evans!" he replied.
"You doing okay, Dottie?" Ruby asked snidely as she approached Dottie campaigning for Tina.
"Oh, hey, Bree!" Dottie greeted. "Hey, how do you know my name?"
"Come on, everyone knows Dottie Kazatori! Your name is written all over the bathroom stalls. You're Tina Cohen-Chang's personal slave," Bree taunted.
"What?" Dottie asked defensively. "No, that's not true!"
"Listen, I totally get it!" Bree said consolingly. "You're a naive freshman who first looked up to Tina because she seemed boring, and nice, then you quickly realized that she's moody and pushy and wears weird Hannah Montana dresses; not, like, 'I'm hot' Hannah Montana... Disney Montana. Break it down; you hate Tina, don't you? You hate this love-hate relationship you have. You wish you were dead."
"No, of course not! I do wish she'd hurry up and graduate," Dottie admitted.
"How would you like to join the Cheerios?" Bree asked.
Dottie beamed. "Have you been reading my Tumblr? That's like my life's dream!"
"We need a girl just like you in our group: an invisible nobody who could be buried in someone's basement and no one would care!"
"Wait, I thought you said everyone knew me?" Dottie asked.
"Please, no one gives a rat's ass about you. That's why you're perfect for our little plan."
"Okay, girls, it's our turn to take on our four-piece interpretation of The Beatles," Unique said, dragging Kitty, Marley, and Tina onto the stage. Jake, Ryder, and Artie went to hang out with Tina's gang of dateless girls.
"Hey everyone!" Tina spoke into the microphone. "We want to kick off our first slow dance of the evening; so grab your partners and hit the dance floor!"
Penny and Sam grinned as they entered the dance floor together, as did Will and Emma, and Joe and Sugar.
Song: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Marley: Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
Marley & Unique: A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Tina: Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone
Kitty: Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Kitty & Tina: Lucy in the sky with diamonds
All: Aaaaahhhhh...
Unique: Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high
Tina: Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone
Kitty & Tina: Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
All: Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Marley: Picture yourself on a train in a station
With Plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Tina: Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes
Tina and Kitty: Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Marley and Unique: Lucy in the sky with diamonds
All: Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
[REPEAT]
"Alright, that's enough," Sue said, shooing the girls away from the stage. "You just took my least favorite Beatles song and made it even more unbearable. Now, can I get all you prom court nominees up on the stage so we can get this pointless distribution of a crown and scepter over with?"
The prom had finished for the evening and Figgins was still mopping the slushy off the stage. Almost everyone else had headed home for the evening, but Tina sat in the dressing room, alone, getting the pins out of her sticky hair.
Marley knocked on the door. "Can I come in?"
"Please," Tina said kindly with a grin. Marley stood behind Tina and extracted the last couple of pins, letting Tina's matted hair fall to her shoulders.
"You looked so beautiful tonight," Marley complimented. "I'm so sorry you got, well, 'Carrie'd.'"
Tina chuckled. "Never in my wildest dreams would I imagine that it would happen to me."
"Thankfully it wasn't pig's blood," Marley laughed.
Tina looked down sadly. "It's sad to think that time is running out for me here. I know I spent all year resenting everyone, and I'm so sorry if I ever made you feel like how I felt tonight."
Marley shook her head. "I understand. And for the record, I'm glad that things are finally looking your way. I mean, you won Diva week, you got prom queen. Perhaps Mr. Schue and Finn have a solo in mind for you at Nationals?"
Tina shook her head politely. "With talents like you, Blaine, and Unique? I think my chances are slimmed down to sharing leads in a group number like 'I Love It' again."
Marley sighed. "I'm really going to miss you when you graduate. Artie told me all about how you came into this school as a freshman with a stutter, and now look at you; you're so much more confident than you ever probably would have guessed!"
"I guess I did come a long way," Tina said with a smile. "But you, you had such a great transition here. You got the lead role in Grease, you got a duet for Sectionals, which, you know, you didn't get a chance to perform, but you got the duet at Regionals!"
"Speaking of Grease," Marley hesitated. "You know when I saw you run off the stage, I had, like, this flashback into my Sandy shoes, remembering one of the songs from the musical, 'It's Raining on Prom Night.'"
Tina grinned. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Marley grinned and the two girls stood up, beginning to pack away what was left of the New Directions' prom dressing room.
Song: "It's Raining on Prom Night" from Grease
{As Marley packs things away, Tina keeps her crown on her head, but frowns at the slushy residue in her hair.}
Tina: I was deprived of a young girl's dream
By the cruel force of nature from the blue
Both: Instead of a night full of romance supreme
All I got was a running nose and Asiatic flu
{The two girls sling their garment bags over their shoulders and walk through the hallway.}
Tina (Marley): It's raining (raining) on prom night (prom night)
My hair is a mess (Oh, my hair is a mess)
It's running all over (It's running over)
My taffeta dress (Oh, my taffeta dress)
{Tina assesses the damage to her silver dress.}
It's wilting (it's wilting) the quilting (the quilting)
On my maiden form (oh, on my maiden form)
And mascara flows right down my nose (mascara flows right down my nose)
Because of the storm (because it's raining)
{The girls walk outside in the pouring rain, dashing over to Millie's waiting car.}
Both: I don't even have
My corsage, oh gee
It fell down a sewer
With my sister's I.D.
{Tina: Yes it's raining on prom night
Oh my darling what can I do? I miss you
It's raining rain from the skies
And it's raining real tears from my eyes over you}
{Marley: Oh dear God make him feel the same way I'm feeling right now
Make him want to see me again
And let him know that I'm the only girl in the whole wide world for him
And that someday we'll make that special vow that'll bring us together
For ever and ever}
Marley: Oh what can I do
Both: It's raining rain from the skies
It's raining tears from my eyes over you
Raining, ooh raining on prom night
Ooh raining
"Do you need a ride home, sweetie?" Millie asked from the driver's seat.
"If it's not too much trouble," Tina said politely, allowing Marley to stash their things into the trunk, before getting into the car and driving home.