Part 2
Rachel had a lot to achieve this junior year. Nationals were going to be in New York City and she aimed to be there, well, with all the Glee Club members of course, but she's not sure if anyone else had that same motivation as her. That would be one of the things she needed to do then, she needed to inspire them to work as hard as her. She's also in a serious relationship and she needed to be attentive to that. There were a lot of things to juggle: being an A student, Glee Club, Finn, and not to mention all other clubs that she's still active in. But she's Rachel Berry, she can achieve greatness in all of them.
One of the things she wanted to get back into was posting her singing video in MySpace. She had not been that active ever since she was pursuing Finn, but now that she had secured him, it's time to put more effort into this. She needed to be recognized. Sure she didn't get that many hits yet, but someday the right person would see it and show it to another right person and before she knew it, she would get a call from Broadway. Okay, maybe it won't be as simple as that, but one can dream. Still, she needed to explore all possible ways to get out of this small town.
She intended to post at least one video every week. Some of her videos have been getting good comments. Of course there were always not-so-nice ones; some were from strangers and some from other students in school. She endured all that. She knew this was just the beginning. One day she will be famous and it would be even worse than this. So she took all this as personality building.
Finn just dropped her off from school. The first thing she did when she walk into her room was turning on her laptop and logging in to her MySpace page. She just posted a new video last night, so she's quite eager to read what people have to say. She saw there's a comment from Sky Splits. It amused her greatly that Quinn would take the time to watch her videos and leave nasty comments. In the beginning, it made her sad reading those remarks. Then from sad, it became an annoyance because she had to delete the comments. But then from annoyance it became amusement. That's why she never said anything to Quinn. Sometimes her videos only had one hit and one comment from none other than Quinn. She simply can't understand what Quinn motive was. She figured Quinn was one of those cyber bullies. Well, in her case, Quinn's also her school bully. She hardly saw Quinn bullying other kids except for her. Maybe Quinn was the kind who liked to pick their victims and torture them until they went mad, and only then she would move to the next one. Whatever was Quinn's intention, she's determined not to fall for it. Rachel was going to prove just how strong she was. Besides Quinn's comments had never been as vicious as other comments that she had gotten.
She read the next comment. It's from a user called 'Arnstein'. She thought it must be someone that loved Funny Girl too. She was singing a song from that movie in the video. It looked like someone had taken a liking to her singing, it made her smile. Hmm, maybe I don't have to wait till next week to post a new song. She loved when someone actually paid attention to her singing. Finn had never bothered to view her videos even though she had mentioned it a few times. She's given up on telling him again. But it's okay, he's not interested in her videos and she's not interested in his video games, so they're even.
She read that comment over and over. In her head, she can hear Omar Sharif's voice telling her, "You're very talented." She shook her head back to reality. She moved the mouse pointer to hover over the reply button, and she tapped her finger on the mouse, contemplating on whether to reply or not. She finally clicked the button. She figured there's no harm in saying thank you to someone who actually appreciated her talent.
She wrote, 'Thank you for your kind words. I love your username :-) I haven't decided what song I should do next. Any suggestion?'
She read that a few times. It seemed harmless enough. She really didn't know what song to sing next and it's so much easier if someone gave a suggestion. This wasn't the first time that she replied to the commenter. Sometimes they would reply but disappeared after a few weeks and some wrote back with something vulgar, thinking that she wanted something else. She really hoped Arnstein wasn't the latter. No, with that name, Arnstein must be a perfect gentleman. She smiled and started fantasizing how Arnstein looked like. She imagined him … then she stopped herself, it could be a girl, it's the Internet, could be anything. She submitted her reply and it took her back to her video page. Her smile faltered when she saw Quinn's comment again. She quickly deleted it. Some would wonder why she hasn't blocked Quinn yet. She wondered too, but deep down she knew why. It's because she liked the attention, even if it's the wrong kind of attention.
Her phone rang and it was Finn. She closed her laptop and answered the phone with a smile, Arnstein temporarily forgotten from her mind.