thanks to those of you who took the time to review.
this chapter is starting with them finally getting to florida to start the glee tournament that mr schu entered them into. look forward to seeing Quinn unravel the mystery that is Brittany and Santana's relationship.
"Mr. Schu, as designated captain of the Glee club for the past 3 years I have taken it upon myself to construct an outline of possible numbers we could do for the tournament." Rachel announces as she stands up and begins handing out papers to the rest of the members. "The ones in bold are the ones I feel will most guarantee us a win giving as they were all crowd pleasers at home." She took a seat and beams at the rest of the group.
Santana rolls her eyes and nudges Brittany who is sitting closely next to her and starts to fold the paper in her lap. Brittany watches intently as her friend perfectly creases each fold.
"That's great Rachel but I thought we'd all go around and pick it, as a group." Mr. Schu interrupts her thoughts which most likely consisted of her reciting her acceptance speech for her Tony award.
"Well these were just ideas Mr. Schu, and I am certain that the rest of the group will agree with me that with these songs we have a great chance to get first place." She continues.
"Here." Santana whispers to the blonde next to her and hands her the folded paper gently placing it into her open hand. Brittany's mouth opens in amazement and quickly smiles at the paper then up to her friend.
"Wow San." She says in the same quiet voice as Santana had. "It's a duck." She states a little louder which gains Quinn's attention who was sitting on the other side of her, and she watches the interaction between the two Cheerio's.
Santana smiles softly to Brittany who, with the hand that isn't holding the paper duck lets her other hand fall down and softly grazes her friends leg just where her Cheerio's skirt ended. Brushing against her skin in a not so friend way. Quinn's eyes shoot right back up to Santana's who still has her gaze on Brittany with that same stupid smile on as she looks at the ditzy blonde stare at the duck. Quinn's eyebrows knit together as she takes in the way the two are with one another in that single moment, and she realizes that all of her suspicions have been true this whole time. Santana does have a heart.
"Mr. Schu." Quinn finally speaks up raising her hand interrupting Rachel who was actually still talking.
"Yes Quinn?" He asks pointing to her and she puts her hand back onto her lap and folds her hands together.
"Not to sound like a goody two shoes."
"Too late." Santana snickers and Quinn rolls her eyes at the girl.
"But being in Glee for me isn't about winning trophies and getting first place all the time. That's what being on Cheerio's is for me." She began and now everyone was looking at her waiting for her to continue, while Rachel sat down and her jaw practically was on the floor. She couldn't comprehend not wanting to win first all of the time.
"Interesting Quinn." Mr. Schu smiles and takes a seat across from the girl resting his chin in his hand obviously eager for her to continue. Quinn looks around before she goes on.
"I'm pretty positive it's not just me, but being in Glee is the chance for me to be myself, express myself in a way that school, social status and Sue Sylvester prevent me. I feel free when I'm singing. I enjoy it. So for me it's not about being recognized as the best. I know we are the best. This competition holds no bearings on our season at home, so why don't we just have fun with it?" She finally says and everyone turns their attention to Mr. Schu with slight smiles on their faces.
"Quinn I couldn't have said it better myself." He smiles back at her and gets up from his chair.
"But Mr. Schu." Rachel all but jumps on top of him. "This is a competition, it's not practice. We are not just singing in the choir room in between classes."
"I know Rachel, but Quinn is right. Being in Glee is about expression, and being who you are regardless if it's the norm. So what if we lose? Are we not supposed to because it is not what is expected of us?" He points out and Quinn sits back in her seat reveling in her obvious victory and Rachel sighs in frustration.
"So then what songs are we going to do?" Finn interrupts the moment as he tosses the sheet of paper Rachel had given him to the side.
"We should totally do a Heart song." Tina exclaims and Mercede's gives her a nod and a high-five.
"I think the crowd loves it when the guys duel the girls so maybe we could pick a song that has something like that." Artie chimes in and Schu nods at the ideas.
"These are great ideas guys. What else have you got?" He asks looking around the group and his eyes fall onto Brittany who is not paying attention at all noticing her eyes locked onto the little piece of paper in her hand. "Brittany." He calls out but the girl is still focused on her duck.
"Britt." Santana nudges her friend as she had before stirring her from her play time and she looks up to Mr. Schu who is just staring at her.
"Whatever it was I didn't do it." She says her voice unsure and then she looks up to the ceiling as if in thought. "Actually, I probably did." She sighs out crossing her arms. "But Santana made me do it." Mr. Schu laughs and Santana crosses her arms.
"Brittany, what songs do you think we should do for this tournament?" Rachel hesitantly asks, figuring the blonde will request to do a song from Sesame Street or suggest a song from a Hot Dog commercial.
"I don't know." She shrugs her shoulders and tears her eyes away from everyone staring at her.
"Come on B, what's that song you were singing the other day?" Santana asks her glancing at her from the side.
"Oh the one when we were in the…"
"Yea that one." Santana quickly interrupts before Brittany finishes that sentence, which garners strange looks from everyone except Quinn who only smiles to herself.
"Oh okay, umm, it's called 'Missing You'." Brittany tells everyone nodding her head enthusiastically. "It's really good. I like the version that girl sings, she played the guitar for Michael Jackson. Did you know he died?" She turns to her friend with a questioning look and in all seriousness.
After a few moments of confusion, which subsides quickly because this was Brittany after all? Mr. Schu interrupts every ones thoughts.
"Great that's a good song Brittany. I can definitely see that being a 10." He smiles at the once in a lifetime good idea from the blonde who smiles to herself and begins to play with her paper duck again. "What about you Puck, I couldn't help but take notice to what you were listening to on your iPod on the plane."
"Hey I only have those musicals on there because of Glee." He defends himself waving his hands in the air and Mr. Schu laughs along with a couple of the other guys and Quinn and Santana.
"No I wasn't talking about that. I saw you had 'Your Love' by The Outfield. I think that would be a really great number to do." Every one nods in agreement. "And, to take in to account Artie's idea, I suggest a mash-up of the songs and have the guys focus more on 'Your Love' and the girls 'Missing You', what do you think?"
"I think it's brilliant." Quinn says with a smile.
"Un-beatable." Artie agrees nodding his head.
The rest of the day the group was able to practice and toss more ideas on choreography and how exactly to mash-up these two songs to make it sound genuine. Artie practiced with the band perfecting his guitar skills along with Puck who donned a guitar as well sitting in the corner.
Brittany stood center stage counting out '5, 6, 7, 8' going over routines that they could use for the tournament. Will Schuster sat in the audience and watched his kids put together their very own Glee number without his help. It wasn't like they hadn't done it before, and then they had won the whole competition and this made him smile. Winning wasn't everything, it was how you felt with what you did at the end of the day. And hope beyond hope that you truly gave it all you could.
"I am so sore." Tina grumbles as the girls make their way out of the van and Santana laughs.
"I don't get sore anymore." Brittany sighs out like she is sad at that fact and then she brightens up a little bit. "Except when Santana wants to try new positions." She states as a matter of fact and Tina gives her a strange look, Quinn chuckles to herself, Rachel scrunches her eyebrows together and Santana turns beat red trying to think of way to make it not sound sexual, although that was the intended meaning from the blonde. But her mind fails, and now it's too late to even say anything because then it would clearly appear that she was covering something up.
She would be surprised to know that nobody took a second thought to what Brittany said. Just as the blonde listens to people, it was in one ear and out the other. But to Santana everyone was thinking about it and staring at her.
"It's really awesome that Mr. Schu rented out these houses for us to stay in." Santana finally broke the awkward silence as they step up to the door.
"Actually Santana, Mr. Schu's parents rent these houses as time shares usually out to families on vacation. I'd say it is a great way to make some extra money. When I get older I plan on owning at least one home in every state and rent it out." Rachel explains to her even though she stopped listening once the girl opened her mouth.
"At least we don't have to room with the boys." Quinn interjects pushing her way past Santana and through the door, but not without giving the Latina a knowing look. "Just us girls." She smiles and then turns her head to check out the house.
"Yay Sany it's like a giant sleepover all week." Brittany exclaims jumping up and down pulling on her friend's hand dragging her down the hallway to look at the rooms.
"There are two rooms and a pull out couch." Rachel tells the girls once they all meet up in the kitchen.
"Oh that's awesome so we all like, get our own beds." Tina cheers on clapping her hands in a way normally Brittany would.
"Not necessarily T, Ms. Pillsbury is staying with us remember." Quinn says and they all look at one another.
"Well that's not fair." Santana crosses her arms tossing her bag onto the table in the process. "I've put more time in Glee than she put into Schu, I am not sleeping on the couch."
"Excuse me, but I for one refuse to share a room with you." Quinn announces, Santana quirks and eyebrow and Brittany tilts her head to the side.
"Why, I love sleeping with Santana." The blonde professes with a smile and throws an arm around her buddy.
"Exactly." Quinn brushes past them grabbing her bag from the floor. "I spent years with the two of you in cheer camp, I don't think I ever slept because you two were up all night whispering and jumping on the bed." She turns around and heads into the room with the two twin beds.
Brittany and Santana look at one another and then burst out laughing. It was true; the three of them were always bunkmates at cheer camp. By the end of every summer Quinn swore that she was going to request to change the next year, which she never did.
The two Cheerio's step into the master bedroom and shut the door behind them, throwing their bags on the floor beside the bed. They look over at the other and sneaky smirks form on both girls face right before they jump onto the bed and start dancing.
okay, so there was chapter 4 and i hope it was worth the read. i also hope that i am doing the characters justice. it really is hard to take characters that are developed in their own world and fit them into your own without taking anything away from them. with that said, clearly we all know that Brittany may not be the smartest person, but what she lacks school wise and maybe common sense wise i'd like to think that she makes up for in the way she is with the people she cares about. well that's how i would like to portray her. so enough with my rambling and please review if you like what you've read thus far and i plan to get another one up for you soon:)