Chapter Two

I woke up feeling more confident than I had the night before and immediately hopped out of bed to begin getting ready for my first day at McKinley High.

Once I had gotten ready and eaten breakfast, I hopped into my car and began driving the short distance to McKinley, nervously clutching the steering wheel the entire way there, hoping that, at least for today, I wouldn't encounter too much bullying from my fellow classmates about being gay.

The minute I walked into the halls of McKinley High I knew I wasn't going to fit in very well here. Everywhere I looked, it seemed, I saw a jock wearing the school's football jacket or a cheerleading wearing a cheerleading outfit that said "Cheerios" on it, whatever that meant.

I went to all of my morning classes without anything exciting happening really. Well, I mean, in second period the teacher mispronounced my name and I had to correct her, but other than that nothing worth mentioning happened. Then lunch time rolled around.

The cafeteria here was like a zoo. There was food everywhere and it seemed like people just didn't care about sanitation or recycling or anything here. I had no idea where to sit, being the new kid and all. Everyone already seemed to know exactly where they were sitting and it seemed that they all already belonged to their own clique. I stood staring at the rows of tables in the cafeteria, trying to find an empty spot anywhere that didn't look scary, when someone accidentally bumped into me from behind and sent my tray of food flying forward.

"Hey, watch where you're going jack-," but before I could finish the insult I turned around to notice that the guy who had bumped into me from behind was none other than Kurt's step-brother, Finn Hudson.

"Oh shit, sorry dude, I didn't even see you there," Finn said as I turned to face him. Just then, a look of slight recognition crossed his face as he finally tore his gaze from my destroyed lucnh and set it on my face. "Hey, don't I know you from somewhere? You look familiar...Oh my god, is this that de-ja view thing that people always talk about?" Finn asked stupidly.

"It's called de-ja vu, not de-ja view you moron," some guy with a mohawk whom I hadn't noticed was with Finn uttered from just behind him.

I laughed at that and said "Actually, we've kind of met before, I'm a friend of Kurt's, I went to Dalton Academy with Blaine, my name's Reece. I just transferred here today," I smiled as I reached out my left hand to shake his.

"Oh yeah, I remember you now! You're gay right? And you can sing like, really well! I'm Finn," Finn exclaimed with a smile as he grasped my hand and shook it.

I rolled my eyes in response (figures that's what he would know about me). "That would be me, yup," I replied, a little embarrassed by the fact that he had just outed me in front of his friend whom I didn't know. "I'm sorry, I don't know you're name, Kurt never mentioned you, you are...?" I asked the boy with the mohawk as politely as I could.

"Pfft, figures he wouldn't mention me, the loser, I'm Puck. Star of the football team and star of the glee club, thank you very much," the mohawk boy (Puck, I guess his name was) arrogantly exclaimed as he firmly took my hand and shook it.

Finn only laughed at his bold statement and exclaimed, "As if! I'm just as much a star of the football team as you are, and the glee club for that matter!"

"Whatever dude, you just wish you were as awesome as the Puckmater"," Puck uttered with a bemused smirk on his face.

"You guys are funny together, I'm guessing you're best friends? Known each other for years?" I asked, looking between the two of them with a smile on my face. I could be perceptive at times, what could I say?

"Yeah, how did you know that? Are you like psychic or something? Cause Kurt definitely should've mentioned that," Finn said rather seriously. Normally I didn't like obviously...less intelligent individuals, but something about Finn's stupidity was almost...dare I say it...cute. It made me like him more.

I chuckled before replying with, "No, not at all, you guys just seem to have that back and forth banter that only best friends can have, that's all," I said smiling and looking at Finn. Damn he was cute...no Reece, he's off limits, do NOT like him!

"Of course he's not psychic you fucktard, nobody is cause shit like that isn't real," Puck told him exasperatedly, but he still managed to keep a slight smile on his face to let Finn know he wasn't serious about the fucktard comment.

Finn chose to ignore his statement and instead just rolled his eyes at him and turned to look at me again. "Well, we really have to go join our friends for lunch, they're probably wondering where we are...Hey, why don't you join us? I mean, unless you already had somewhere else to sit or something...," Finn said apprehensively, looking at me with...was that hope I saw in his eyes?

"Well, I don't have much of a lunch to eat anymore, but I wouldn't mind sitting with you guys. Kurt told me all you guys from the Glee club usually sit together? That sounds nice," I said somewhat awkwardly while glancing at my fallen tray of food, only glancing up at Finn to smile after I finished my sentence.

"Yeah, we usually all sit together, it's really cool. Puck and I will introduce you to the Glee club, they're are the greatest, you'll love them. They'll probably share their lunch with you too. I hope you'll come to the meeting after school with all of us!" Finn said excitedly as he and Puck lead me to a table near the centre of the cafeteria where a strange array of teenagers all sat around a large table.

As we neared the table, Puck went and sat beside a larger girl and gave her a seductive wink that I must say certainly would've been enough to win me over. Shit, now I think this guy Puck, who is clearly straight, is attractive too...what is wrong with me? Finn stayed standing beside me, while I glanced around awkwardly art the group in front of me.

"Hey guys," Finn greeted them with a smile on his face, "I don't know if a lot of you have been talking to Kurt since he left a month ago, but this is his friend Reece who just transferred here from Dalton. He's gonna be joining Glee club so we should all make him feel welcome," Finn smiled at me before taking a seat on the other side of Puck.

"Hey everyone," I started awkwardly while waving at the group, "Umm you all seem like a really awesome group of people and I've heard a lot about you all from Kurt. I'm excited to get to know all of you and I hope we can be friends," I said with a smile. Here it was...the moment of truth. Would they accept me into their group? Or deny me access? To say I was nervous would have been an understatement.