Tina and Rachel were sitting on the floor with their backs against the couch using the coffee table as their dining table for supper.
"I just can't believe I'm stuck with him for a whole semester!" Rachel was still going on about her first day of school. "I mean 10 minutes after meeting the guy and I already hate him! Grrr!"
"Well I loved my first day. Out of 18 students, I'm the only one that Mike commented on." Tina said gloating just a little.
"Is he as fabulous as you thought he would be?" Rachel asked.
"Better. He literally looks like my own personal dancing Asian God! I can't wait for class tomorrow." Tina said as they finished their supper.
Rachel got to class early again on Tuesday. She sat there dreading when Noah would walk in. Rachel decided it would probably be a good idea to introduce herself to other her classmates. Sitting down to her left was another girl.
"Hi, I'm Rachel Berry. I'm from Lima, Ohio."
"Mercedes Jones. Memphis."
"Well it great to know someone other than my completely rude partner for this class. I can't believe my first day here and I was stuck with a wannabe bad boy. Although obviously he can sing or play an instrument well or he wouldn't be here…" Rachel started blabbing.
"Do you always talk this much? Mercedes cut her off.
"I think so; I personally think the less talking the better for any situation." Puck answered with a smile as he sat down. He looks at Rachel and nodded his head. "Berry"
"Noah. I assume you had a good night last night." Rachel said.
"It was ok. My roommate and I played Xbox till 1."
Rachel was shaking her head at how much he still acted like a high school boy when Mr. Shue came walking in.
"Ok today we will be listening to everyone's voice. I want to hear just how talented everyone is. We will start in the middle here with you Mr. Puckerman." Mr. Shue said looking at the seating chart. Puck smirked as he stood up. "Thanks Mr. Shue and the name is Puck. I'll be singing Only the Good Die Young by the great Billy Joel."
Rachel couldn't believe at how good Noah actually was. She figured he was one of those kids that fell backwards into this college. She was sitting with mouth hanging open as he came to sit back down.
"So I guess by the look on your face that was better than you thought it would be." Noah said to her as he was sitting down. "Mr. Shue, I think my partner should go next."
"That's fine. Ms. Berry the floor is all yours." Mr. Shue said. Rachel pushed her hair back behind her ears and stood up. She started to sing Don't Rain on my Parade. She loved seeing the look on all of her classmate's faces. Mr. Shue was even staring at her like her had never heard anyone sing before. When she finished her song, everyone stood up giving her a round of applause, including Noah.
"Now tomorrow we will discuss duets and each group will pick a duet to perform the following week. Yes that means that you will have to spend some of your weekend practicing. Have a great night." Mr. Shue said at the end of class.
Rachel grabbed her stuff and started to walk out the door. "Hey that was really good. As much as you annoy me, I can't say that you aren't talented." Noah said to her. "Thank you Noah. You weren't too bad yourself. See you tomorrow." Rachel replied as she walked through the door.
There were only a few other students in the practice room when Tina got there. She started to stretch out when she tried not to notice Mike walking in the room. He set his bag down on the table and started pulling his notes from yesterday out. Mike looked up from his notes then and saw Tina looking at him over her shoulder. Tina turned her head around quickly but saw him smiling in the mirror nailed to the wall. Once everyone was in the room and stretched everyone sat down on the floor in front of Mike's table.
"So today I'm going to go over my notes with each one of you individually. The others can work on other homework or just sit and talk quietly. On Friday we will be going over basics and make sure we are all on the same page. So girl who started first yesterday, let's go down to this end of the room." Mike said as he walked across the room.
"Hey your dancing yesterday was really great. You must have been dancing for awhile now." Tina heard a guy's voice say to her.
"Uhh thanks you weren't that bad either. My name is Tina by the way." Tina told him.
"Nice to meet you Tina, I'm Artie."
It was finally Tina's turn to practice with Mike. "So I can officially say I have no criticism and I'm pretty sure that's the first time ever."
"Thanks that means a lot to me. I had heard a lot about you and was nervous about studying under you. Then yesterday you walked in here and saw that you… I mean thanks I'm really excited to be here." Tina finished blushing like crazy. Mike just chuckled and said. "I'm glad you're here too." as he started walking towards the front of the room. "Be ready to dance and sweat on Friday. See you later." Mike announced.
Mike waved to Tina as she was walking out of the room. He couldn't explain what it was with her. The idea of seeing her and spending time with her gave him a weird gut feeling. He shook off the thought and left the class room.
Since he was a teacher now who didn't have multiple classes to attend and homework like crazy, he decided to read more for fun. Mike always liked to read but was always too busy before. So Wednesday, when he finally woke up, he went to the school's library. He was looking for some good choices when he saw familiar jet black hair with electric blue highlights. Mike decided to walk over to Tina and say hello. He stood behind her as to look over her shoulder.
"Whatcha reading?" Mike asked. Tina jumped out of her seat and her ear buds were pulled out of her ears and dangling from the edge of the table.
"Oh hi Mike. Sorry I was just doing some research and listening to some music." Tina answered once she figured who was talking to her.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't realize you were listening to music. What are you researching?"
"The History of Cheerleading. My dance history teacher believes that all dances are popular because of cheerleaders." Tina answered.
"So you must have Sue for you teacher. Yeah she is a piece of work."
"She's something. I felt like telling her that cheerleading is demeaning and only likes girls that are size 2, who would rather starve than be fat, and makes bigger girls hate themselves. Then I thought fighting with a teacher during the first class would probably be bad." Tina said causing them both to laugh.
"Wow you are not the normal college girl. I like that." Mike said causing Tina to blush like crazy. "Well I better get going. Have fun with your paper. See you on Friday." Tina couldn't stop smiling.
"That is why duets are so important to songwriters." Mr. Shue finally finished. Rachel had been taking perfect notes the whole time. Noah was trying his hardest to not fall asleep. "Now I will go group to group finding out your selections for the song you will be performing next Monday."
"I would really like to do Need You Now by Lady Antebellum." Rachel told Puck.
"Sure whichever song you want babe." Noah replied.
"Is it necessary for you to call me babe?" Rachel asked sighing.
"I think so." Puck answered as Mr. Shue came to their desk.
"Did you pick a song?"
"We sure did. We will be singing Need You Now." Rachel answered.
"Good choice" Mr. Shue replied as he moved on to the next group.
"Here is my address and cell number. I will see you at my apartment at noon on Saturday to practice. See you then." Rachel said as she put her stuff together.
"Sure see ya" Puck said.
"Great job today guys. I liked the effort you guys put in. We will start the heavy dancing stuff next week. Bring lots of water with you. Have a great weekend." Mike said to the class dismissing them on Friday afternoon. He walked over to Tina who was taking a drink from her water bottle. "Have to finish the report this weekend?"
"I have to type it up but I already have it written out. So it shouldn't take that much time. I'm more worried about the math and English homework I have." Tina admitted to him.
"I happen to be great in math. Let me know if you need any help with your homework this weekend." Mike said to her. He picked her bag up and handed it to her. She noticed something wrapped around her strap and looked down. There was a piece of paper with his number written on it. Tina smiled at the paper and then looked up to see Mike smiling over his shoulder as he walked out of the room.
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