Glee

Feelings Grow, as well as Friendships

I am back! I was SO EXCITED to write another chapter of the story! I am happy I finally started writing a Glee story. ^-^

I lost the internet for like an hour, so I had to write a rough draft for the second chapter, which was pretty easy since I had the whole chapter in my head already since chapter 1! I like writing the dialog for the characters since everyone pretty much knows how they act in the show. Writing the dialogue for Rachel and Kurt was fun, since Kurt is very 'dressy' and Rachel tends to want the spotlight. (or at least stay in it).

This chapter is going to take place in Rachel's house and in different places of the school. There aren't a lot of hints of Kurtchel yet, but there will be... or will there? There will! Sorry, there won't be any Wemma in this chapter because as it said in the last chapter that Emma was going to be Carl for the weekend, so she and Will won't be in this chapter or the next. They will be in the fourth though.

Reviews are appreciated as well!

Saturday- The Mash-Up and The Plan

So this is what happened in the last chapter.

Will told the members of New Directions that they have to make a mash up of two romantic songs they already sang. Emma told Will that she was going to go on a date with Carl, and he and Will get into an argument. Emma doesn't seem to happy about it and is even nervous to tell Will about the date. It turns out the date is just a dental convention, but that doesn't even seem to ease Will's nerves, and that even makes him cry since he lost Emma to Carl because of everything that had happened in the past. Meanwhile, Rachel and the others make a plan for the weekend to make Will and Emma a couple without either of the adults knowing.

"I think we should try to get the two together!"- Rachel

Everyone agrees on the plan that Quinn creates, and she tells them everything. Emma overhears Rachel and almost finds out, but thanks to Kurt, the plan's not exposed.

"We were just planning on who we were all going to work with for the mash-up."- Kurt

Artie, Brittany, Finn, Mercedes, Quinn, and Santana all pair up. Will makes Rachel and Kurt work together since they're the only two people left. Both of them don't see eye-to-eye though, just like Will and Carl.

And that's what happened so far, in this story about-

GLEE!

6:00 was the time Rachel Berry woke up. It was Saturday, the first day of the no-school weekend. Tons of people would sleep in, but not Rachel. She turned off her small, pink alarm clock and climbed out of bed. As she did every morning, she exercised, but for today, she exercised for 15 minutes. Rachel brushed her hair and teeth in the bathroom and headed downstairs to the kitchen. Both of her dads were gone, so the TV wasn't on like it normally would be in the morning. She opened the fridge and grabbed a ripe banana and the gallon of milk. She sat on her couch, turned on the TV and channel switched while eating her banana. There weren't a lot of good shows at this early in the morning, so she just returned to the news. Apparently there had been a bank robbery, and disappearance in the woods. Not much good news today. Then, Sue's Corner appeared. Rachel groaned. She would have changed the channel but there weren't any other shows she could watch, so she had to stay on Sue's show.

"The Cheerios have yet again won another competition. They won another cheerleading trophy for McKinley High School. However, I think they did not do their best. You have to try and motivate the young people to try their best, but I don't think the Cheerios were. They performed their worst at this competition, and it saddened me to see the cheers they did. At practices for this, they seemed too lazy. They weren't good. Not good at all. Then they brought all of it to the competition. I'm surprised the Cheerios even won. I'm not saying I regret it of course, but that performance was absolutely horrible. If you want the younger people of our generation to do the best they can, you have to do what ever you can. Don't be too soft on them, though. Because that will just cause them to be far too lazy. And that's how Sue... sees it."

Another time Sue thinks badly of the Cheerios. Why doesn't she try to be nicer to all of them? Oh well. Rachel had finished her banana by the time Sue was done talking. She picked up her glass of milk and gulped all of it down, and she washed the glass in the kitchen sink. After throwing out the banana peel, Rachel looked up at the clock above the sink. It read 7:00. She still had 3 whole hours until she could have Kurt help her with the mash-up. It was only Saturday, but she wanted to have the other song and sing the whole mash-up. Rachel went back upstairs and entered her room. She walked to her closet and opened it, looking at the clothes she had. For the first time, she wanted to dress to impress Kurt. Kurt Hummel was the one. So, she looked through the clothes she hadn't worn yet. After rummaging through the closet for a while, Rachel reached the clothes close to the end of the closet. There was a yellow shirt with a few pink flowers on the hips. No, that wouldn't be good. I'll save that for another day. The clothing after that was a gray sweater with NO color. Why in the world did I buy that?... Oh, wait, I didn't. One of my dads did, since I needed a new sweater besides the one I had already wore. Then, there was a long sleeved, white shirt with a while rose near her shoulder. In the center of the rose was a fake pearl. Rachel wasn't sure what to wear yet, and she checked her alarm clock for the time. 8:00. She had been looking for good clothes for an hour! It was hard to believe she wanted to impress Kurt with her clothes so much... Rachel looked at the skirt that was hanging on the same hanger as the white shirt. The skirt was also white, and had a thin, black waist line. There were three ruffled layers of the skirt (that were not thin), and the bottom of the ruffles had black lines. Mini white roses like the one on the matching shirt were on the lines. Rachel thought the white outfit would impress Kurt this time. She took out her cell phone and sent a text message to him, asking what he would be wearing today.

Hey, Kurt. What are you going to be wearing to my house today? It was only 8:10. When she finally received a reply, it was 8:20.

I will be wearing a white outfit, but I am not going to give you every detail of it. You will see it when I come over to your house. Why do you ask?

Rachel smiled. Oh, no reason. I just felt like knowing.

Kurt's House

It was 8:10 when Kurt received a text. He was eating a bowl of cereal at the kitchen table with his father. His phone beeped with the guitar playing the chorus of BlackBird, which meant it received a text message. Kurt picked the phone up and unlocked it.

"Oh, why now?" Kurt said. His father looked up at him, wondering what was wrong."

"What's up?"

"I just got a text message this early in the morning."

"From?"

"Rachel Berry."

"Rachel, huh?" His father was a bit surprised and curious to know why she would text his son this early on a Saturday.

"She's from the Glee Club, dad. We're not really close. Well, we are if it relates to Finn, but that's it. Anyway she asked me what I'm wearing today." Kurt sent a message saying he was wearing a white outfit, but he wouldn't tell her anything else about it.

"Why?"

"I don't know. So, are you still okay? I thought I saw you struggle with walking down the stairs," Kurt asked, a look of worry on his face.

"I'm fine. I'm just still tired. Normally I would still be asleep at this point, but I would rather eat breakfast with you when you woke up. I heard you walk past my room, so I decided to eat with you today early. Why are you up earlier on the weekend?"

"I have to work with Rachel on two songs for Glee Club. I am going to her house today at 10 to pick the second song and then sing the both of the songs."

"Alright, then. I hope you two have a good time. Also, have her tell Finn I said hi. We haven't talked much since you had redecorated your bedroom because of the boy."

Kurt nodded. "Will do, dad." He and his father finished their breakfast, and his father said he would be going back upstairs to sleep again. Kurt went back to his room and grabbed the white tuxedo-like shirt with his light brown almost tuxedo-like pants. He closed his door and was about to take his shirt off when his phone once again beeped BlackBird. Kurt checked it and read another message from Rachel. She said she had no reason to ask. Like Rachel would ever have no intention as to ask a question, even if it was something silly such as 'what outfit you would be wearing for the day?'. He set the phone down on his bedside table and started changing. By the time he was done, it was 8:40. He walked into the bathroom and checked his hair. It looked the same as it normally did. the hair to the right of his head as it always had been. Knowing that he had nothing else to do for 1 hour and 20 minutes, Kurt walked back downstairs and laid on the couch, making sure his hair didn't make any hard contact with the pillows. He laid his head back and looked up at the ceiling, and then remembered to set his alarm on his phone to 9:40. His house was 20 minutes from Rachel's, so he could be at her house at exactly 10 o'clock. After staring up at the ceiling for about 5 minutes, Kurt finally fell asleep.

10 o'clock

Rachel slowly woke up from her nap. She had fallen asleep on her living room couch at 9. At least she had an extra hour of sleep on a Saturday. She stretched for a few seconds and opened the front door. Kurt was standing in front of her in his usual pose with a bored expression.

"Hey, Kurt," Rachel said with a smile. He didn't return it. "You look nice today."

"Of course I do. I always do," Kurt replied. He looked at what she was wearing, and looked at his clothes. "Is this why you asked me what I was wearing?"

"What?" Rachel asked, acting clueless.

"Don't play stupid with me. You just wanted to know what I was wearing to match. What other reason is there?" Rachel was about to blurt out 'To impress you for once' but decided not to.

"Yeah. That's the reason. Do you want to come in now?" Rachel asked, wanting to get off of the subject.

"Sure." Before her went into the house, he said, "Oh, and by the way, we don't match. It doesn't impress me."

With that, Kurt walked inside. While his back was turned, Rachel looked down as she shut the door. She was a bit disappointed that she didn't impress Kurt. She had spent an hour of her Saturday morning looking for good clothes to show him she had some kind of good taste like him. Kurt sat on the living room couch and held a paper in his hand. Rachel sat next to him and asked, "What's that?"

"The song I chose. I thought it was romantic... Well, sort of. I think you remember it," Kurt said, a smirk on his face. Rachel took the paper and looked at the title. The name of the song was 'Endless Love'. She thought for a moment, since she knew she had heard it before. Then, she remembered. Rachel had sang the song with Mr. Schue, and after that, she had developed a crush on him.

"Yes, Kurt. I do remember. Was there any other reason why you picked this?" Rachel asked.

"No. It was romantic so I picked it. Now we need the other song for this mash-up. Do you have at least one idea?"

"I surprisingly do not. We could try 'Defying Gravity'," Rachel suggested. She remembered when she had won the competition against Kurt as the main singer after reaching the high F at the end of the song. Kurt only rolled his eyes at the idea. The truth was that he purposely threw the competition. He knew Rachel would think it was a lie if he told her though.

"Why would we do that song? It doesn't even involve romance," Kurt pointed out.

"Well what other song can we do? That was the only idea I came up with!" Rachel exasperated, pushing a pillow into her face.

Kurt only sighed. "If only I could just do something all by myself. I would be better off doing this alone." Moments after he said this, Rachel's eyes widened.

"That's it, Kurt!" Rachel shouted happily, grabbing his shoulders and shaking him. "We could do a mash-up of those two songs!" Kurt brushed her hands off of him quickly.

"Rachel, we never even did those songs before."

"So? They both involve romance! We might as well take the chance! Maybe Mr. Schue will like it enough to not count the fact that no one performed it in the club!" Rachel was quite happy that she had found the two songs they could use for the mash-up assignment. Sure, they weren't performed by New Directions, but they were about romance!

Kurt was a bit glad that they had the songs now. "Alright. We'll do these two. However, 'All By Myself' is a sad song. By the way, there's a long note."

"I'll sing it!" Rachel said quickly.

"Can't I just do it? You managed a long and high F in 'Defying Gravity' already, and you had the lead, so I can have the lead in this mash-up," Kurt told her, crossing his arms.

"Why? You couldn't get the F in that song! I can easily get this note-"

"Come on Rachel! Just give me a chance already to be in the spotlight! You've been in it already the first time we had a duet! Sure we had fun the second time, but you offered just because I was sad! I want the chance to do something like this for once because I want to! Not because your just trying to be nice!" Kurt yelled, his face red in anger. Rachel was quite surprised. He had never yelled at her in such a way before, and this was the only time he had yelled at her so much. Kurt covered his face with his hands. The two sat in silence for a few minutes, Kurt still in the same position, and Rachel only sitting there staring at him while rarely switching her gaze to the floor. Finally, Kurt looked up, his face returning to its normal color. The girl next to him sat up straight.

"... You're right Kurt. I'm sorry. You're really right about that. I was in the spotlight when we sang 'Defying Gravity' together as a duet. At that time, I wanted to be in the spotlight, and I didn't want you to take it. Like how I felt about that Philippe girl when I heard her audition in the auditorium. You should have the lead..." Rachel trailed off when she saw he was looking down. "Kurt, look at me." When he didn't, Rachel placed her hand under his chin, and lifted his head so they were at the same eye level. "You have an amazing voice. None of the boys, even Finn, have a voice as amazing as you. You really surprised me when I heard you sing alone for the first time. I could even see the sad emotion in your eyes when you sang 'I want to Hold Your Hand'. It was so sweet, especially when you sang it. You should- No... You have to have the lead" Kurt didn't say anything, and he stopped looking at her by closing his eyes. She continued looking at him anyway. Their faces had never been this close before, and she never complimented him like this. Rachel wasn't even sure what made her compliment like that at all... Kurt opened his eyes, and met Rachel's again.

"Alright, Rachel. If you're absolutely sure about this, then I accept," Kurt said, and he remembered that their faces were still close. "I will be right back." He stood up and started walking to the stairs. Rachel stared at the spot where he was sitting and looked down to the ground. She whipped her head around to see him.

"Where are you going?"

"Well, for one thing, I am going to be washing my face after you touched it, and checking my clothes after you shook me for emphasis of your happiness. While I'm in there, you should try and think of how the song will go and which lyrics will be the chorus," Kurt said to her before he walked up the stairs out of her sight. Rachel looked at the kitchen clock. 10:30. It had only been 30 minutes since Kurt arrived. She thought for a moment. How are we supposed to make a mash-up of 'Alone' and 'All By Myself'? Both songs had something to do with being alone... Maybe that's how Kurt feels sometimes... Rachel sat there for a moment and rehearsed the songs in her head. Maybe everything else in 'Alone' besides the chorus could be slower. Then that would match the tempo of the chorus in 'All By Myself'. After about 10 minutes, Kurt came back downstairs.

"Did you think of anything?" Kurt asked with a bored look on his face. To Rachel, it seemed like none of the things that happened before 10:30 had happened.

"Yeah. I think we could use the chorus in 'All By Myself' as the chorus for the mash-up, and the other lines in 'Alone' for the rest of the mash-up. Oh, and we should slow down the lines from 'Alone' to match the speed of 'All By Myself'," Rachel told to her partner. Kurt stood and thought of everything she said, and then did his usual pose.

"That actually sounds like a good idea. Let's try to sing this," Kurt said.

"Wait, you do know the lines to both songs, right?" Rachel asked him.

"Yes, I do. I don't forget things easily, Rachel." Kurt sat next to Rachel on the couch again, and he started tapping the tempo of 'All By Myself' on the ground with his foot loud enough for both of them to hear.

(Kurt)

(Rachel)

I hear the ticking of the clock

I'm lying here, the room's pitch dark

I wonder where you are tonight

No answer on the telephone

And the night goes by so very slow

Oh I hope it won't end though

The two teenagers continued practicing, stopping occasionally to help each other. Rachel would sometimes stare at Kurt as he sang, and would accidentally miss the spot where she was supposed to sing. Kurt wouldn't ask her why though, and he didn't know any reasons as to why she would miss her lines. Anyway, they both sang parts of the song one-by one, and they sang the entire mash-up a number of times. Kurt felt a bit emotional from singing the whole mash-up. The two songs had something to do with loneliness, and that was what he felt most of the time because he was the only openly gay boy in McKinley High School. Loneliness was his apparent weakness. I shouldn't be thinking about that right now, Kurt thought, I have to finish this mash-up with Rachel. BY the time, they felt too 'tired' (somehow) to continue singing, it was 1:45 p.m. Rachel sat in the new, ocean blue recliner her dads had bought 3 days ago, and she wanted to try sitting in it for the first time since her dads never bothered to even sit in the recliner at all since then. She also did this to allow Kurt the entire couch. Kurt laid on the living room couch and sighed.

"I can't believe we're tired from singing. It's hard to believe that is even possible," Kurt said to Rachel, pushing his face into a cushion.

Rachel laughed at what he said and did. "Well, Kurt, it's our voices that are tired, not our bodies." She left the recliner and sat on her knees near the couch, so her head was facing Kurt's, who's face was still in a cushion. "You want something to eat?"

"I guess," Kurt said, his voice muffled by the cushion.

"What?" Rachel asked, pretending that she didn't hear him.

"I said 'I guess'", Kurt repeated, only louder, Rachel smiled.

"Alright," she said. She walked away into the kitchen, and she opened the fridge to look for food. "Care for any fruits? Maybe soda and two leftover slices of chocolate cake?"

Kurt sat up and told her, "Second choice." Then, he plopped back down onto the sofa. Rachel chuckled as she took two cans of Sprite and a big plate with the two slices of cake out of the fridge. She brought them into the living room and set them down onto the low table in front of the couch.

"Here's the food," Rachel said to Kurt, poking him in the arm a few times to get him up. He sat up and fixed his hair, causing Rachel to laugh again.

"You must like your hair a lot, don't you?" Rachel asked as she walked back into the kitchen to get forks.

"Why do you think I like to fix it and keep it in the position it's in now?" Kurt said, folding his hands together as he crossed his legs. Rachel placed one fork on his plate, and the other fork on hers. They both simultaneously took their first bite of the chocolate cake slices. The cakes were absolutely delicious, as well as cold from being refridgerated for a while. They were also incredoubly soft. Rachel savoured the taste by chewing slowly, since she knew she wouldn't be getting more cake like this in while. Kurt also ate his slice of cake slowly, since he didn't remember the last time he had cake. By the time they were both done eating, it was 2:15. Time felt like it was going faster to Rachel when she and Kurt got along. When Rachel put the plates in the kitchen sink to wash later, her cell phone that was on the table in front of the couch rang. Kurt looked at the caller's picture, and it was Finn.

"Rachel, Finn's calling," Kurt told her as she sat back on the couch next to him. Rachel answered the call.

"Hello?" Rachel put the phone on speaker.

"Hey Rach. It's Finn-"

"-and Quinn. We're in my room right now, and so are Mercedes, Artie, Santana, and Brittany," Quinn said into Finn's cell phone.

"How did you get Artie in your room? Your house is the farthest away from everyone," Rachel pointed out.

Brittany held the cell phone to her mouth. "I had to give him a ride."

"Then I had to help Quinn and Mercedes get Artie up the stairs. The easy part was getting him into the room," Finn said.

"Now that that's cleared up, why did you call?" Kurt asked.

"Wow. First Finn's at Quinn's house, and now Kurt's at Rachel's. Can't wait to see what other gross thinks happen," Santana whispered to Brittany.

Quinn held the phone back to her mouth. "We called so we could discuss the plan to get Mr. Schue and Ms. Pillsbury together. Remember that we said this yesterday?"

"First we need 'Carl' out of the picture," Mercedes said. "That way, Mr. Schue can take his place."

"How will we do that if we don't even see him?" Artie asked. "The only times we actually saw him were for a dentist's appointment during that Brittney Spears day and for the Rocky Horror Show."

"We should all ask Ms. Pillsbury if she could bring him in on Tuesday!" Rachel suggested. "We'll have to ask her on Monday."

"Oh, please. Ms. Pillsbury's not that stupid to bring her 'boyfriend' to a crazy school for a group of Glee Clubbers," Santana rudely said.

"We should only ask her one by one. Then she won't suspect we have a motive for asking her at all... as fast as she probably would," Finn added to Rachel's idea.

She smiled, and it was meant for Finn. "So does everyone agree with what we have so far?" She and Kurt heard the others talk on the other end of the phone. After a few seconds, they all agreed. "Okay. If this works, what will we do?"

"We just try to convince Carl that Ms. Pillsbury doesn't want to be with him anymore. Some things we could tell him is that she is okay and doesn't need him, she's seeing Mr. Schue secretly, or that she would rather pick Mr. Schue over him," Quinn said to everyone.

"I think we should all think of different things to say. If we repeat the same reasons, Ms. Pillsbury will question that. We have to make it look like we just want to see Carl, not for a specific or clear reason," Kurt told Rachel and the others.

"Then that's everything we need to do for right now," Mercedes concluded the conversation. Kurt and Rachel heard a faint car horn on the other end of the phone.

Brittany could be heard saying, "Artie, I think that's your mom out there. Want some help getting downstairs?"

"Sure. Thanks."

"What are we going to do about Mr. Schue and Ms. Pillsbury?" Brittany asked Artie as she pushed him out of the room in his wheelchair. Her voice became quieter until Rachel and her partner couldn't hear her.

"Okay. Thanks for helping us with the plan, Rach. You too, Kurt," Finn thanked them.

"Your very welcome, Finn," Rachel said into the phone.

Kurt moved closer to the phone. "Yeah. What Berry said."

"See you two at school," Quinn said. The phone call ended seconds later. Rachel looked at the time on her phone. 3:05. The whole conversation on the phone was almost an hour long! Oh well. It wasn't as if she was going to do anything else important other than sing the mash-up with Kurt.

"Alright, Kurt. Care to sing the mash-up again?" Rachel asked. "I know we're finished, but we could do it for fun-" Suddenly, the song Black Bird started to play. Rachel looked around them for the source of the song, and Kurt reached into his pocket. He looked at the name that had appeared, and it was his father calling.

"Hold on," Kurt told her. He answered the call. "Hi, dad. Yeah. We just stopped singing for a while since we were talking to our other friends... Now?... Oh. Okay... So you just want the four of us? ... Alright. I'll see you there. Bye." He ended the call, and Rachel looked at him with curious eyes.

"What did your dad want?" Rachel asked.

"He said he and Finn's mom wanted to have lunch together at my house, and they wanted me and Finn to be with them. I should go right now," Kurt said, putting his cell phone back in his pocket. He stood up and smoothed his shirt out. Then he fixed his hair again, even though it looked the same as it did before. "Be ready to sing the mash-up again tomorrow. That's the last day we can rehearse it before performing it on Monday." Rachel followed him, and opened the door for him. When he was about to walk out, Kurt turned and faced her. "I will be here at 10 again. That's not early. Oh, and don't try to match my outfit again," Kurt said, smirking. He then walked to his car, and started the vehicle. Rachel watched him drive off, and just stood there with the door open. She wondered whether the plan that the members of New Directions (besides Tina and Mike) created would work or not. She also wondered why she had complimented Kurt so much when they chose the songs 'All By Myself' and 'Alone' for the mash-up.

Rachel smiled to herself and chuckled. "Strange." She slowly closed the door and went back to her room. In her room, she would practice her lines in the mash-up and then fall asleep later on for the rest of this Saturday.

Wow! This is the longest chapter I have written in any of my stories!

I'm not sure if I liked this chapter. During the conversation that talked about the plan with Will and Emma, I wasn't sure if everything that I said made a lot of sense. But that's just my opinion. :) Also, the next chapter will still have Rachel and Kurt as the main characters since the setting takes place at Rachel's house in this chapter and the third chapter. However, Will and Emma will (most likely) have a MAJOR part from the fourth chapter to sixth chapter, so expect a lot of WEMMA tension in it when the teens act out their plan!

What will happen? You have to find out in the next chapter of this story about-

GLEE!