"Okay kids, we have a new member joining glee club today. Now, I want you all to welcome her and make her feel at home, okay." Mr. Schuester told the group of students that sat in front of him in the choir room. "Okay, this is Sunny Lee." Mr. Schuster introduced the girl to the class. She gave a small wave as Kurt and Mercedes waved back. "Sunny, do you have anything you want to say?"
"Um, well, I'm happy to be here and thankful I was let into the club at all."Sunny said nervously.
"Why don't we go around the room and introduce ourselves and one thing about us?" Mr. Schuster suggested. The club nodded,
"The name's Puck and I am a stud." The mow hawked kid said flexing his muscles. Next a tall boy with brownish hair,
"I'm Finn Hudson and I like video games." Finn said not knowing what else to say about himself. He wasn't that interesting and there wasn't that much to say about him.
"I'm Kurt Hummel; I know everything about fashion. For instance your petite frame allows almost any shirt to become a dress and all of your jeans are ragged, stained, or too big, hence the reason you should let me find something for you next time or at least let me explore your closet and let me advise you." The effeminate boy said analyzing Sunny's style once again.
"I'm Mercedes Jones and anything you give me, I'll add my chocolate thunder." The proud and sassy girl said. Sunny admired her confidence.
"I'm Santana Lopez, I'm a cheerio." Was all the Latina said. She didn't seem to want to talk to anyone, but the blonde girl wearing the same outfit as her.
"I'm Brittany…I'm pretty sure my cat lit my kitchen on fire." She said distantly. Sunny had no comment on this particular cheerio.
"I'm Tina, we met at lunch, and I'm glad we have another other Asian." The Goth said gesturing to Mike who frowned, but only slightly after getting used to the nickname.
"I'm Artie, I may be in a wheelchair, but I can dance pretty well anyways." The boy said making it clear he could still be of use to the group.
"I'm Matt Rutherford, I'm just a football player." The African boy said quietly.
"HI, I'm Mike. Mike Chang, I'm number twenty-eight on the football team." Mike said secretly telling her who to watch for in the game that night.
"I'm Quinn Fabray, I'm the ex-head cheerleader of the cheerios." The blonde said. Sunny thought she was gorgeous, but she didn't seem completely sure of being in glee still.
"I'm Rachel Berry, a soon to be star, I have been doing competitive work since the age of two, dancing from three months old, singing from two months old, acting on stage at three years old, I update my myspace page everyday to keep my talent alive, I am probably one of the more likely people you'll catch on Broadway one day, my singing range is from-"
"Rachel, I said one thing- not one-thousand." Mr. Schuester said
"Mr. Schuester, I need to make sure that my fellow glee club members are familiar with my work." Rachel said. She sure liked the spot light.
"You'll have time to tell Sunny later. Now, I want to get down to business. I have here in my hands a song from the world renowned musical HAIR!" Mr. Schuster said handing out the sheet music.
"Mr. Schuster, the last time we did a song from HAIR it didn't blow over so well with those deaf kids." Artie said uncertain about the choice of music.
"This is different, a song that's softer. It looks into deeper meanings of the war and why they stood up to the government." Mr. Schuster said excited.
"What is so great about HAIR that makes it world renowned?" Santana asked. She had never heard much from HAIR aside from their mash-up.
"It was the first Broadway musical with an integrated cast; that was a big deal. It also made a huge statement about the Vietnamese war at the time. Most of the lines in the show are for shock value, yet they do carry an accurate message." Sunny said mindlessly. She loved the musical since she was very young.
"Very good, Sunny, that's exactly it! Now, there is a male and a female solo in this so I'd like-" Mr. Schuester was interrupted by Rachel standing poised and ready to sing.
"Mr. Schuster, I would be happy to contribute my voice for the female lead in this song as I often do." Rachel said walking to stand next to him. Sunny looked around the room. Mercedes rolled her eyes and Kurt did the same, but everybody else seemed to be expecting her to get the solo.
"Actually, Rachel, this song is going to be used for invitational's this year and you have plenty of songs you sing then, so I was going to give the female solo to Sunny." Mr. Schuester said. Sunny's eyes shot up from the sheet music to where Mr. Schuster was standing.
"All right," Mike whispered to her, "It's not often someone beats Rachel out for a solo."
"Mr. Schuester, is it really wise to give a strenuous solo, such as this, to a new member who hasn't even proven herself yet?" Rachel asked clearly upset she didn't get to sing the song.
"I'm sure Sunny can handle it. Sunny you want to come show us what you've got, you too Finn you've got the male solo?" Mr. Schuester gestured for them to come down and Rachel to sit down. Finn stood up and trotted down, but Sunny slowly walked to the center, praying her voice would be there when she tried to sing. The music started up and she thanked the lord that Finn sung first (an: The stuff in parenthesis is the backup, which is the rest of the kids.),
Finn sang:
We starve-look
At one another
Short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation
Of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
somewhere
Inside something there is a rush of
Greatness
Who knows what stands in front of
Our lives
I fashion my future on films in space
Silence
Tells me secretly
Everything
Everything
Manchester England England
Manchester England England
(Eyes look your last)
Across the Atlantic Sea
(Arms take your last
embrace)
And I'm a genius genius
(And lips oh you the
doors of breath)
I believe in God
(Seal with a righteous kiss)
And I believe that God believes in Claude
(Seal with a righteous kiss)
That's me, that's me, that's me
(The rest is silence,
The rest is silence,
The rest is silence)
Much to Sunny's delight her sweet voice was there when she sang:
We starve-look
At one another
Short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Mercedes and Santana joined in harmonizing, making the beauty of the song flow through the room:
Facing a dying nation
Of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
The rest of the kids joined in and the power of the song ran through all of them and moved each person:
Singing our space songs on a spider web sitar Let the sunshine
Life is around you and in you
Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine
Let the sunshine in
The sun shine in..
Their voices faded and the song ended. Mr. Schuester clapped with a huge grin on his face. "Sunny, you've got it down cold already and it was the first run."
"Thank you Mr. Schue." She said blushing a bit.
"Damn girl, you've got a set of pipes on you." Mercedes said utterly surprised.
"I didn't quite expect that kind of voice." Finn said impressed.
"Thanks, but it wasn't that great." Sunny said not wanting to take advantage of their kind words.
"Sunny, you can really sing. Be confident in your talent." Mr. Schuester said
"I knew it all along." Mike whispered to her.
"I did happen to notice a lack of breathing in the middle." Rachel said not wanting to admit Sunny had a voice.
"Lay off sugar queen, Sunny's got a voice and you're probably intimidated." Mercedes defended. She hated it when Rachel got snobby like this every day.
"Okay, okay that's enough arguing for today ladies." Mr. Schuester said keeping a fight from starting. The kids went back to their seats silently. "Before we go I also have an announcement and assignment for our invitational too. Along with 'Let the Sunshine' we need to perform a duet. So I'm going to read off the couples. They are: Rachel and Puck, Mercedes and Kurt, Finn and Quinn, Artie and Tina, Brittany and Matt, Santana and Jacob, and Mike and Sunny." Sunny looked up a bit surprised and nervous,
"Who and who?" she asked hoping she heard wrong. She knew that if she sung with Mike her voice would surely be gone when they performed.
"You and Mike." Mr. Schuester repeated not noticing her nervousness. Artie raised his hand,
"Mr. Schue do we have to do a ballad?" the boy asked.
"Good question Artie, no you do not. The song itself doesn't have to be a duet; you can make a song that is originally for one person into a duet." He answered. The clock struck five and all of the students went out of the room to the football field. Mercedes and Kurt drug Sunny with them to watch. On the way out of the choir room Mike mouth 'number twenty-eight' so she would know who to look for. Sunny almost blushed.
AN: So I added Jacob Ben Israel just so I would have an even number to pair people with, sorry. I feel really bad for Santana. The song for this chapter is obviously 'Let the Sunshine' from "HAIR" so I hope you liked it.