Authors note: Thanks to anyone that read this and reviewed it. Some parts of the story are kind of lame and I just couldn't figure out how to make it flow. But coming up soon in the next couple of chapters is some of my favorite stuff that I've written so far so stick around please!

Here is chapter 2!

Note: Of course I don't own anything Glee related or any songs/bands/lyrics referenced or etc. I only own my OC's

Juliet's POV

Juliet was all smiles when she got dropped off at home. Thinking about what just happened to her in the past few hours made her heart beat faster. She didn't want to get her hopes up however because usually she was disappointed.

She opened the door to her house and immediately stepped into chaos. She looked around at the messes that were everywhere. She could hear her Dad yelling at her Mom about something and then the sound of glass hitting the floor and shattering. She hoped he hadn't been drinking, but from the sounds of their conversation, her wish seemed unlikely.

She tried to close the door as quietly as possible but she didn't go unnoticed, her Dad came storming around to the front entryway.

"You." He growled. "Do you see this?" He held a piece of paper in front of her face, but she couldn't make out what exactly it was.

"If you want to live here anymore you need to get a job and start helping pay for the bills. All you do is run the electricity bill sky high. You get a job by next week or find somewhere else to go." He told her angrily. Juliet's eyes widened.

"Next week?" She gasped at her father's declaration.

"Next week." He told her as he took a swig of his beer and stomped back towards the kitchen.

Juliet stood there stunned, like her feet were glued to the floor. One week to find a job or she'd have to find somewhere else to live? Is it even legal to kick out your 16 year old child?

She forced herself to walk the rest of the way to her room and she locked the door behind her. She sat on her bed staring out into space.

"Run the electricity bill?" she said to herself, "I'm hardly even here and when I am I either just use my laptop for a few mins or read and write songs!"

She buried her face into her hands, she was determined not to cry because she hated to cry. Her best friend had never even seen her cry, she was quite good at keeping her emotions to herself. Her family always knew how to mess up a perfect day. Somehow they just always knew how.

Juliet didn't quite know how to process such information, so she didn't talk to anyone until the next day at school.

She went over to Tatum before the bell rang for first period.

"Hey T." She said somberly. Tatum looked over and smiled at her.

"Hey girl, hows that new boy toy of yours?" She said teasingly. Juliet thought about Jeff, somehow that all seemed like a distant memory even though it was less than 24 hours ago.

"I need to talk to you." Juliet told her best friend without changing her tone. Tatum caught wind of her friends' tone and got a worried look on her face.

"What's going on, are you okay?" She turned to fully face Juliet.

"Do you know where I can find a job?" Juliet asked hopefully. Tatum worked at Breadstix, the local restaurant that a lot of the glee club liked to go too. She liked to make her own money instead of spending her parents, even though they had plenty of it, she wanted to prove she could do it on her own. Tatum raised an eyebrow.

"Well...I can check with my manager but I don't think we are hiring right now...why all the sudden interest in a job?" Juliet cast her eyes downward, she could at least tell Tatum the truth...maybe.

"Uh...well...my Dad kinda wants me to get one...to...help pay for stuff I guess." Juliet avoided eye contact. Tatum frowned.

"He wants you to get a job but he can't find one himself?" She shook her head but didn't say anymore, talking bad about your friends parents really wasn't a good thing to do, even if it was the truth.

"Well, It might take you a while to get one, I haven't heard of too many places that are hiring recently...oh wait! I do know the Lima Cinema might be hiring. I heard some customers talking about it the other day." Tatum racked her brain for ideas.

"I don't...exactly have a while. My Dad kinda told me that I only have a week to find one or he'll kick me out." Juliet twisted her mouth to the side, not liking the sounds of the words she just forced herself to say out loud. Tatum's eyes got wide.

"WHAT!" She practically shouted it throughout the entire hallway. People turned to stare.

"What!" She said a little quieter. "Can he even do that?"

Juliet shrugged. Tatum shook her head angrily. "That is messed up Juliet. He can't kick you out, what the hell?" Tatum slammed her locker shut.

"We are gonna fix this J okay?" Tatum put her hand on her friends shoulder to make sure she was listening. Juliet shook her head.

"No, Tatum. Just...just help me get a job. That will fix things." Tatum sighed at her best friend just as the bell rang.

"After school come with me, we will go job hunting." Juliet smiled gratefully at her friend. They parted their separate ways and went to class.

After school Tatum and Juliet went all around Lima collecting as many job applications as they could. There were not many places hiring, but Juliet collected a decent amount to fill out. The girls decided to head over to the Lima Bean to sit down and relax while Juliet was going to fill out her apps.

Tatum went up to order herself a coffee while Juliet sat at the table with all of her papers. A few minutes later Tatum came back with a tall blond boy in tow. Juliet looked up surprised.

"Jeff?" She had not been expecting to see him there. She'd kind of forgotten about him ever since her Dad decided to give her that ultimatum, but she was glad to see him so soon.

"Hope you don't mind...he was behind me in line." Tatum said with a sly smile.

"Mind if I join?" Jeff raised his eyebrows at me waiting for a response.

"Of course not, sit down!" Juliet gestured to him to take a seat as she moved all her applications over to one side.

Jeff's POV

Jeff hadn't exactly planned on seeing Juliet at the Lima Bean that afternoon...he merely just hoped it would happen. He didn't want to freak her out though, what if she thought he was stalking her or something? Jeff shook is head slightly to shake that thought out, she didn't think that about him - he hoped.

He sat down at the table with Juliet and Tatum and looked closer at all the papers she had, they looked like job applications.

"Looking to get a job?" He asked her, opening up the conversation.

"Yeah, and it's not too easy." She seemed a little bit frustrated at what she was writing. He thought about how he didn't have a job and felt kind of guilty, although he didn't know why.

"The movie theater...the grocery store...the pizza shack. Not bad. Why don't you apply here to the Lima Bean? I'm sure they're always taking applications." He tried suggesting to her.

Juliet thought about it for a second, she knew a bunch of people from school circulated around here all the time and wanted to avoid embarrassment. However a job was a job...

"Hmm...that's not a bad idea." Juliet looked up at the counter and saw there was a break in the line. She got up and went over there to get an application. Jeff turned to watch her go, his gaze broken by the sound of Tatum's voice.

"Soooo what did you do, jump in your car and race here the second the bell rang at Dalton or something?" Jeff raised his eyebrows at her, confused. She continued to speak.

"I'm just saying...judging from the distance it takes to drive here from there and when school gets out, you can't have wasted much time." She said it so matter-of-fact like he had an ulterior motive for being there.

"Uh...I stop here sometimes to get something to drink on my way home from school. We didn't have Warbler practice today so I didn't feel like sticking around." All of that was true, but he obviously also did come here hoping he'd somehow run into Juliet.

Tatum cast her eyes downward at him with a smirk on her face. "Mhhm...sure. All I'm going to say to you, is that Juliet could probably use a friend or two right now and you better not have been playing around just trying to get in on some New Directions regionals secrets." She raised her eyebrows at him as she took a sip of her coffee.

Jeff studied the girls face, she seemed sincere in what she was saying - like she just wanted to look out for her friend. He thought for a quick second why he really was here. Yeah sure, he does come to the Lima Bean after school occasionally on his way home, but apparently they both knew his real reason he came this particular day.

To him, the idea of Juliet being in New Directions i.e their competition, had never really quite crossed his mind until Tatum said it. Never had he for one second had the idea to hang around them, or her, to gain secrets or information. He just felt drawn to her ever since she stood in the Warbler practice room yesterday afternoon. It was weird to him that they only met yesterday, he felt like his world had changed slightly ever since then. He just wanted to get to know her better, be her friend. She fascinated him, the way she talked and presented herself. She had an that innocent - see the best in people - vibe about her, not that she had really said much of anything to him yesterday, but he could see it in her eyes. She had a good heart - he knew.

He didn't want to mess this up, he liked meeting new people and having new friends, especially adorably beautiful ones like Juliet.

"Please don't think that's why I'm here. To be honest with you, that thought never crossed even crossed my mind. I - I kinda forgot that you guys were even in our rival glee club. I don't see the benefit in cheating to win. I'm in the Warblers because I love performing and music, and most of my friends are in it too. We work really hard and I'd only want to win fair and square." He sighed, why he was about to tell this girl he barely knew his inner thoughts he did not know.

"I mean...alright maybe I did come here hoping to somehow run into Juliet. I just want to be her friend. She surprises me, she's not like many other people I've ever met. I just want to get to know her, and I mean well you too and anyone else who would want to hang out." He winced at himself trying to cover some of his tracks by including everyone else in the conversation.

Tatum narrowed her eyes at him for a second before relaxing her reaction. He wondered if that was a good thing or not.

"Okay, I believe you. Just had to ask, you never know, we've dealt with some competition secret stealers before." She took another sip of her drink before smirking at him one more time.

"Oh and just so you know, Juliet likes you too." His eyes widened at her, but at that moment Juliet came back to the table with an application in hand.

Juliet's POV

Walking back to the table, she knew that they had to be talking about her just from their facial expressions. This made her nervous. She reached the table and they each looked up at her at the same time.

"Hey, so are you going to apply to here too?" Tatum smiled looking at the application in her hand. Juliet sat back down at her seat.

"Yeah I think so, although my plan for thoroughly avoiding anyone we go to school with in this job process is seriously being compromised. Especially if I apply here." She shrugged. "But I guess a job is a job! They were really nice too, they were asking me some questions about my work experience and interest in the job."

Jeff smiled at her. "Are you planning on returning all those applications today?"

Juliet looked at Tatum - her ride - and shrugged. "Umm I'm not sure, Tatum what time do you need to be home?"

"My Mom wanted me home by 3...dentist appointment ugh." She pulled out her phone to check the time and her eyes got wide. "Oh crap, its 2:45...uhh do you think we could go return them tomorrow? Or maybe later tonight?" Tatum felt bad, she hadn't realized the late time.

Jeff piped up. "Oh well, if you wanted to get them in by today, I can always take you to drop them off and then bring you home. I mean...if you wanted. You just have them all almost filled out, seems like a waste to wait a whole day before returning them."

Juliet looked over at Jeff, his eyes seemed hopeful. She smiled at him, it was kind for him to offer. She trusted him enough to be alone with him too for some reason, not that she really knew much of anything about him, but there was just something in his eyes.

"Uh, yeah if you don't mind that would help a lot. I really should get a car I can use sometime shouldn't I?" She said a tad embarrassed. Jeff's smile got huge.

"No, it's okay it will be fun. I was just going to go home and do some history homework anyways...so anything to avoid homework." He took a sip of his coffee. Tatum looked over at Juliet with her eyebrow raised, but there was a sparkle in her eye. She was glad Juliet took his offer, he seemed like a stand up guy. Tatum spoke up.

"Well, if you want to come get your backpack out of my car, I think I'll head out." Tatum was trying to make it not obvious that she wanted to talk to Juliet alone for a second. Juliet got the hint.

"Oh yeah, uh, I'll be right back, can you watch my papers for a second?" She asked Jeff. He smiled and nodded at her. The girls got up and went outside to the parking lot. Juliet grabbed her backpack from Tatum's car.

"I am going to act like an idiot when I'm alone with him I just know it!" She looked with worried eyes at her best friend who just laughed.

"Juliet, he's a good guy. Don't worry about it. Just have fun. I wanted to let you know that I think he's nice and he's definitely not trying to steal any of our regionals secrets." Tatum rushed through her last few words. Juliet playfully smacked her friends arm.

"You did not just point blank ask him that today did you?" Tatum shrugged with a smirk on her face.

"Listen, I was trying to see his judge of character. Just looking out for you, you're new at this." She said with a wink. Juliet rolled her eyes.

"Shut up!" Juliet said half jokingly. Juliet was in fact pretty new at this. She tended to be an observer more than anything, and seeing all the relationship drama that always went down at school made her really not care to rush into anything.

They said their goodbyes and Juliet headed back into the Lima Bean. She just had to finish filling out a little bit more of the applications until they were headed on their way. She got in the front seat of his car and buckled up. He turned on his music and Juliet was met with a pleasant surprise.

"You listen to Switchfoot?" Her tone of voice was surprised. Jeff put the car in drive and started out of the parking lot.

"Yeah, they are really awesome! Great lyrics and they're awesome musicians." Jeff smiled at her. Juliet nodded.

"Yeah, I really like them! I first started listening to them when I heard them on the 'Walk to Remember' soundtrack." Juliet still often listened to that soundtrack without shame, it was one of her favorite movies.

"Oh yeah yeah, I've heard of that movie." Juliet laughed.

"Don't lie, I bet you watch that movie everyday!" She got nervous right after she said it, she needed to work on being more confident. "But uh yeah no, they did a lot of songs for it. Some great music." Juliet nervously played with the applications she held in her hand.

"I've actually never seen it...I mean, not my favorite kind of movie, ya know." He chuckled. "But I'm sure it's a good one. I know they did a lot of good songs for it."

Jeff's POV

He looked over at her sitting next to him in the car. She looked so nervous, and he wanted her not to be.

"I've been trying to suggest to the Warblers to do one of their songs forever now! But they haven't taken me up on it yet. So I have to settle for learning them on guitar and performing for my younger sister." He laughed. Juliet smiled at him.

"You have a younger sister?" She asked him. Jeff remembered that they still didn't really know much about each other.

"Yeah, her name is Becca. She's seven. She has a lot of energy." He laughed. "Do you have any siblings?" He glanced at her as she looked down.

"Uh..well an older sister who has long since moved out. Don't really keep in touch with her too often..." Her voice trailed off near the end. It seemed like a subject he didn't want to push at too hard.

"Oh, I'm sorry." He paused trying to think of what to say. Juliet waved her arm to the side.

"Oh it's okay, I've gotten used to it. We are seven years apart anyways." Jeff nodded at her.

"Yeah well but family is family." He looked over as she shrugged. "Anyways, I think we are almost at the Lima Cinema to drop off that first app!" He smiled, trying to brighten the mood a little bit. Juliet looked up out the window and got her papers ready.

They made their way around Lima to each location where Juliet and Tatum had just been not more than an hour or so before hand. As time when on, the conversations got easier. Jeff really liked spending time with her and he hoped she felt the same. They talked about music, movies, school, friends, and even a little bit more of family. Although Juliet was being pretty hush hush about hers, Jeff decided not to push it too much.

They rode in silence for a minute or two on the way to the grocery store to drop off Juliet's last application. One of Jeff's favorite Switchfoot songs came on his CD and filled the speakers the car.

Juliet's POV

She was feeling relaxed the more she was around Jeff, he was a goofy and fun guy who wasn't making any judgements about her. He just wanted to hang out. As a moment of silence happened in the car ride, one of Juliet's favorite Switchfoot songs came on his CD player, 'Dare You To Move'.

She looked over to Jeff who happened to look over at the same time and they smiled at each other. Juliet held this song close to her heart because whenever her parents were fighting, or she was scared to do something, she put it on and convinced herself to move forward.

Before she realized what she was doing, Juliet started singing the song out loud in the car. She did this many times in her bedroom, but didn't like so much doing it in front of other people. Except when she was forced too in Glee club. She really preferred being in the background and just the experience of it all and much rather let Rachel or Mercedes take the spotlight.

But music was one of those things that can transform a person, it radiates through your body and touches your soul. Before she knew it, Juliet heard Jeff joining her harmonizing with her as she kept singing along to the song. Her face turned red but she kept singing anyways, she glanced over at him and he was really getting into the song.

When she song was over Jeff had just pulled into the parking lot and parked. They both looked at each other and let out a laugh.

"Holy cow, you are an amazing singer!" Jeff's face looked ecstatic. Juliet shook her head dismissively.

"No no, I'm not even sure why I started singing out loud, that is just one of my favorite songs I couldn't help it." Juliet hadn't meant for that to happen, but she can't say she hated it.

Jeff's POV

His mouth stayed hanging half open under disbelief. She was a great singer, how come she hadn't been soloing at sectionals or anything?

"Really? That's one of my favorite songs too. Out of Switchfoot's songs at least." He sat back against the seat of his car. "You should definitely be soloing more in your glee club and at competitions too. Although I can tell you try to avoid that."

Jeff gazed at her mannerisms. She didn't seem as nervous as she did when they first met, but there was still something there in the way of her being completely herself. A wall of some kind.

"Oh no, there are much better singers in my glee club." She didn't have much self confidence it seemed.

"Well, I think you're great. You should sing that song in public sometime." He smiled at her. She looked back at him and shrugged but with a smile on her face.

Juliet decided she better return her last application since they'd been driving around for close to an hour...and Lima was not a big place. She got out of his car and headed into the store, application in hand.

The smile on Jeff's face wouldn't go away as he kept thinking about how great his afternoon turned out to be. He had met this girl only 24 hours ago and yet she has taken over his life - in a good way. She had opened up a lot to him this afternoon too, a lot more than he was expecting. He now knew that she loved all kinds of music but had a soft spot for pop/rock and broadway tunes. Her favorite movies were surprisingly action ones, although she couldn't help but love the romantic comedies. She could play the guitar, piano, and drums and really loved playing sports, although she was too shy to belong to any of the teams at her school. She admitted she was awful at cooking, but not all that bad at baking, as long as it was something simple.

Jeff laughed at the memory of her telling him how she almost burned down her kitchen once. He thought about how he loved to cook, it was something he never really told anyone. He liked seeing what he could put together to make a meal, he sometimes made entire dinners for his family.

He didn't want to have to drop her off at home, but he had to get home himself. He remembered that he made plans with a few of his friends that live in his neighborhood to play some music and video games tonight.

Juliet's POV

She handed the application in at the grocery store and hoped for the best. She needed a job, and frankly didn't care where it was at this point. She walked back out towards the parking lot and Jeff's car. She thought about the last 24 hours and how the most random things have happened to her during them. Two days ago if she told herself that she'd be handing in applications for a job while driving around with a very handsome and nice guy from Dalton Academy - she'd have committed herself into a mental institution for having such an insane idea.

She liked being around Jeff however, the more she was, the less nervous she got. She couldn't believe she actually sung in front of him, or told him so much about herself. She conveniently left out a lot of information about her family however, figuring that it was unnecessary.

She climbed back into his car. "Well, that was the last one! I hope at least one of those places calls me back soon." She sighed hopefully.

Jeff turned his car back on and put the gear into reverse to get out of the parking lot. "I hope so too, I'm sure at least one has too!" He tried to sound hopeful as well. "So...I think I have to drop you off at home now. Where do you live?"

Juliet froze in her seat. She never actually considered this possibility that him driving her around meant eventually she needed to get dropped off at home. She tried to avoid showing anywhere where she lived as much as she could, besides Tatum of course. She tried not to be embarrassed about it, but the place was tiny, and looked really run down from the outside (not that the inside was much better.) The fact that Jeff lived near Tatum wasn't helping her anxiety. Anyone living around that area had at least some kind of money - not to mention the fact that he goes to a private school.

She tried to think fast, she could tell him a different house and then walk home from there? Perfect idea, the houses a few streets over from her were a little bit nicer and more middle class looking. She told him a street name and how to get there. She hoped he wasn't someone that waited until the person got into their house to drive off - although he seemed like just the guy to do that. She tried to relax for the few minutes left she had to spend with him before she got let back into the madness that was her family.

"Thanks for driving me around to hand my applications back in, it has been really fun hanging out." She told him.

"No problem. I had a lot of fun. We should hang out soon again...if you want." He smiled at her again. The boy seemed like he never stopped smiling.

"Yeah definitely." She smiled at him. She hoped he knew how much she actually meant that. He got to the road she told him pretty quickly and she pointed to a random house for him to drop her off at. She looked at the number in order to remember it for the future. She knew she was being stupid about it all, but she didn't want him to get an image of her being some poor little girl who always needed help.

She unbuckled and turned to Jeff. "Thanks again...I'll text you soon?" She smiled at him as his eyes lit up.

"Yeah, sure! And no problem, anytime!" Juliet opened the car door and got out. She waved after she closed it and started walking towards the house, hoping he would drive away. She was halfway across the lawn when she turned back to see if he'd gone - no such luck. She tried to wave him goodbye again but he just waved back while pretending to play around with his radio.

Juliet checked the driveway of the house and there wasn't any cars there. She hoped that meant no one was home. She saw that she could go around into the backyard without having to go through any doors or gates, so she disappeared into there to wait for him to leave. Holding up this act was going to take some work. She peered around the front after a few seconds and saw that his car was gone. She proceeded to walk back out on the sidewalk and to her real house - a few streets over.