Thank you for the reviews! I hope that you enjoy this first flashback which is set in what would have been the episodes Audition and Brittany/Britney.

September 2010

Sam Evans was not looking forward to starting a new school, it had been hard enough fitting in Tennessee, what with his stupid blonde hair and his oversized mouth (in the most literal of senses), and the transition from middle school to high school hadn't exactly been smooth. But things would be worse here in Lima, Ohio, he'd never been to a mixed school before and no idea how to talk to girls, let alone date them. His impressions may have won over friends at his old school but he doubted they would here.

He stepped off the big yellow school bus, his backpack slung over one shoulder as he kept his head down and walked in through the school doors. Already the entire corridor was buzzing with people. His fellow class mates, Sam tried to detract attention from himself by keeping his eyes glued to the floor, it was working until he walked smack bang into someone, that someone was about to change his life.

Rachel Berry, how could you describe Rachel Berry? In a word, crazy, not that it was a bad thing; she just might not have been the first person you wanted to meet on your first day at a new school. Rachel made a shrieking noise as if Sam was a bulldozer crashing into her, an overreaction by any means.

Sam stared at her apologetically "I'm so sorry, I didn't see you" he told her helping her to pick up whatever it was that she dropped on the floor. That was the other thing about an all boys school, pretty much everyone was the same height as you so you didn't need to worry about bumping straight into them.

Rachel smiled at him, the smile that she had been practising since she could lift her own head up. "That's okay" she said brightly, "I am quite small" she added as she put her hand out to shake his. "I'm Rachel Berry" she said her name in a way that made Sam believe that she wanted him to remember meeting Rachel Berry because one day, everyone would know that name.

Sam shook her head "I'm Sam" he replied, nervously, as he handed her back the papers she had dropped.

Rachel gave him a thoughtful look "You should take one of these" she informed him taking one of the sheets of paper and handing it him. Her eyes lingered on his mouth for a second longer that it should have done, he was certainly very handsome in that surfer sort of way that a lot of girls like. Rachel smiled "See you around Sam!" she said happily as she walked past him and started to fix her bits of yellow paper to any available bit of wall space.

Sam stared at what she had just handed him "Glee club" he said under his breath. Sam wasn't exactly sure what a glee club was, but he had a feeling it wasn't going to help his non existent reputation at school. In spite of that feeling, he also had the vaguest hope that maybe he'd see Rachel again, although perhaps a little over enthused about life, she was cute.

It wasn't long before Sam forgot about the whole glee club thing anyway. He had a load of work to catch up from summer just gone. He had about ten books to read, which would have been fine if he didn't have dyslexia which made reading a far so slower process for him. He sighed as placed his books into his practically empty beige coloured locker.

Sam headed out into the courtyard for lunch and sat a table with a bunch of strangers, it was beyond awkward but it wasn't as if he had much of a choice. He was thankful he'd brought his lunch from home because the schools selection of meals did not look appetizing. He flipped open one of the books he was meant to have read during summer break and was surprised to hear the opening bars of Empire State of Mind blaring into the courtyard.

Was this normal here? Were there often impromptu musical performances during the lunch break? Sam wrinkled his face in confusion, but as Rachel Berry came down the stairs, he realised that this must be the glee club. The other kids were all looking disinterested but Sam couldn't stop his foot tapping along to the beat and a grin spreading over his face as he listened to them sing. They were pretty awesome and there appeared to be some pretty hot girls in the group. Sam had always been a singer, but usually just at home while he played his guitar, maybe he could get on board with this whole glee club idea.

Sam had noticed that glee club may not be as cool as it seemed, none of the other kids paid any attention to them even though they were obviously working extremely hard. But Sam did know that one definite way to become popular at school was to join the football team. Tryouts had been pretty hard work and the coach fittingly called Bieste was definitely a hard ass. Sam was sweating profusely as he made his way off the field and into the locker room. He stripped down and headed for the block of showers. He let the tepid water run over his body for a few seconds before starting to actually wash himself. Before he even realised it his was singing – Every Rose Has It's Thorn. Little did Sam know that Finn Hudson who was not only quarterback but lead male of the New Directions had been listening on the other side of the shower door.

Finn knew that he needed Sam to audition for glee; he had seen him tapping his foot to the music and smiling. If they didn't get back to the required number of tweleve students before sectionals this years competition season would be dead before it even got started. He also knew that Sam was unfamiliar to the way people in glee club were viewed at McKinley high. This could only be a good thing.

He approached Sam at his locker with his wing man Artie in tow "Hey Sam" he said wheeling Artie over so that he was standing besides Sam's locker.

Sam gave him a quizzical look, he was a little surprised that Finn Hudson was even speaking to him, he was after all one of the most popular guys in school.

"My names Finn" he said putting his hand out and shaking Sam's. "And this here's Artie" Artie waved obtusely from where he was.

Sam felt a little nervous "I know who you are. You're the quarterback" he replied bobbing his head anxiously.

Finn nodded "Exactly" he said "Which makes me very cool" he added pointing at Sam. Finn smiled at him "And we'd like to talk to you about glee club."

Sam smiled a little confused but didn't say anything.

Sam wasn't sure he should be doing this, but it wasn't like it was an official audition or anything he was just singing with the guys from the glee club. There was Noah Puckerman, the obvious bad boy, with a Mohawk and a criminal record. Artie Abram a surprisingly ghetto guy, that wore glasses and was in a wheelchair, Mike Chang, who appeared to have no bones when he danced, something that Sam couldn't help but feel envious of. Then there was Finn, Sam knew that he was the quarterback and he'd also just learned that he was Rachel's boyfriend. Finn was the type of guy that thought he was a lot cooler than he actually was. He was kind of dumb and a little bit self serving. Still Sam wasn't going to judge him on one conversation; well he was going to try not to at least.

The four of them were sitting in front of Sam "So Sam tell us about yourself" Finn commanded casually, as they stared at him.

Sam felt a little awkward "My name's Sam Evans, I like comic books and sports. I'm dyslexic so my grades aren't that good but I'm working on it" he told them, his hands in his pockets.

Puck was staring at him still "Dude your mouth is huge… how many tennis balls can you fit in there?" Puckerman asked starting at Sam's mouth.

Sam looked at him trying not to get embarrassed "I don't know, I've never had any balls in my mouth, have you?" he asked.

Puck smiled, this Sam guy seemed pretty cool if he wasn't honest, so what if his mouth was huge and his hair was kind of gay. He seemed like a pretty cool dude by all respects.

Sam saw Finn whisper something to Artie who whispered something back. Sam wondered if they were talking about him. Obviously they were.

They got to their feet "So you can sing with that big mouth of yours?" Puck asked.

Sam frowned "I've never really sang in front of anybody before" he admitted.

Puck nodded "Dude let me tell you chick's dig singers" he told him cockily, which led Sam to believe that girls really did dig singers.

Rachel knew that in order to be a good leader of New Directions that she was going to need to pull her weight in the recruiting part of things. Finn already had the Sam guy lined up as his new recruit, so she was going to have find someone too. Rachel had noticed a young Filipino girl looking pretty interested in their performance earlier; this is what led Rachel to seek her out after lunch, she found her in the bathroom.

Rachel smoothed down her immaculately styled hair and approached the girl who appeared to be a few inches shorter than her and Rachel wasn't exactly known for being tall. "Hi. I'm Rachel. Rachel Berry" Rachel said her voice as whiny as it usually was when she was trying to be friendly.

The girl didn't respond and Rachel noticed that she was listening to her I-pod and singing along. Rachel Berry was the only person that should be able to start impromptu performances in the girl's bathroom. This led to an irrational sing off between the pair.

Once they had finished their insane sing off Rachel knew that she couldn't let this girl join glee club, she was too good. The only thing other than dating the quarterback that made Rachel special was the fact that she was the best singer in the entire glee club. She wasn't going to let a girl with a name like 'Sunshine' take that away from her. Rachel knew what she had to do, she needed to get rid of her and stop her from audition – no matter what the consequences.

Later that afternoon Rachel found herself sitting in the principal's office, Mr Figgin's was sitting opposite her looking disinterested in what was clearly a misdemeanour if anything. Mr Schue on the other hand was giving her that look, the look that was loaded with sadness and disillusionment as if you'd kicked a puppy in the face. Rachel wanted to roll her eyes; people were always doing stuff worse than this and getting away with it.

"Rachel" Mr Schuester "How could you do that to an impressionable new student?" he asked, his voice a mixture of surprise and disappointment as he berated her.

Rachel looked down sadly "It was an accident" she told him, trying to seem as innocent as possible. Rachel had 'accidently' given Sunshine the address to a known crack house as opposed to the address of the schools auditorium.

Mr Schuester shook his head "Rachel you sent that poor girl to crack house! You could have gotten her hurt, or killed" he told her. "I'm afraid that this could lead to a suspension" he warned her.

Rachel opened her mouth in surprise "I can't get suspended I have a perfect school record. This could be incredibly damaging to my future" she ranted folding her arms and taking a shaky breath.

Mr Figgin's finally spoke "Well since no damage was done. I don't see the point in punishing Rachel. I'm sure she feels bad enough about the whole incident" he told them both in his usual lack lustre manner.

Rachel nodded furiously "I do. I really do" she told them both, her signature grin coming back to her face.

Sam was jubilant verging on ecstatic about the news he had just been given. Coach Beiste had just informed him that he was going to be quarterback; apparently she'd dropped Finn because he was trying put her in a awkward position. But honestly Sam didn't care why she had dropped Finn, he only cared that he was going to be the quarterback. Being the quarterback meant instantly popularity and that people would really like him. Reassurance he had needed since he had found out he was moving schools.

He did feel kind of bad though because he'd told Finn that he couldn't join New Directions, it wasn't that he didn't want to join he just knew that if he did he would already have people making fun out of him and he really didn't want that to happen.

Sam was about to feel even worse because Rachel Berry was storming towards him looking particularly angry "Are you the reason that Finn isn't quarter back anymore?" she asked him forcefully pointing a perfectly manicured finger at him.

Sam gave her a look of confusion "No. He was dropped from the team. I didn't do anything" he explained to her, he didn't really even know Rachel but didn't want her to be angry at him.

Rachel narrowed her eyes "But you are quarterback now right?" she asked him.

Sam nodded "Well yeh. But only because the coach dropped Finn" he told her.

She considered that for a second "Fine. But why aren't you joining glee club?" she asked him, her hands were now resting on her hips. She was surprisingly passive aggressive for someone who seemed so cheerful.

Sam gulped "I just don't think that I'm right for glee club. I mean I'm nowhere near as talent as you. Or Finn, or anyone else in the club, besides I really need to focus on school work" Sam ran his fingers through his hair feeling oddly agitated. He kind of wanted her to leave him alone now.

Rachel looked as if she believed the explanation; he obviously couldn't be as talented as her no one was. Even though some people obviously thought they were. Rachel gave him a curt nod "Well if you reconsider just let me know" she told him, her setting back to happy!

Sam stared at her as she walked down the corridor away from him. That girl was crazy. Like beyond crazy. Cute though.

Okay so that was me trying to stick to what happened in the actual episodes (with added Samchel of course)

As the flashbacks continue they will become more and more au.

Let me know what you think :)