Chapter Four

By the time last period finally ended and it was time for my first Glee club meeting, I couldn't get out of my classroom fast enough. I practically ran to my locker to drop off my books before throwing my backpack over my shoulder and racing down the hall yet again. It was around that time that I realized I had no idea where I was racing to. No one had mentioned to me what room the Glee club meetings were held in.

Just when I was about to start trying every room in the school to determine the location of the Glee club meeting, someone grabbed my shoulder and made me jump.

I turned around to see Mercedes smiling at me. "I guess you didn't notice that we had English together," Mercedes exclaimed, looking somewhat annoyed (that had been my last class of the day). "You ran outta there before I could go over to you and tell you where the Glee club meeting is."

"Oh fuck, I'm sorry Mercedes, I've been in a bit of a daze since lunch I guess, my bad!" I expressed sincerely, giving her an apologetic look.

Mercedes mumbled something along the lines of "I bet" but I didn't quite catch it. "What was that, sorry?" I asked nicely.

"I said that it's fine, I just thought I'd let you know that the Glee club meeting is at the opposite end of the hall," she replied, chuckling slightly as she pointed in the opposite direction of where I had been heading. That wasn't what she had said, but I let it slide.

Well this was embarrassing. "Oh, whoops, my bad," I chuckled as Mercedes and I walked towards what appeared to be a choir room. That really should've tipped me off.

We walked in to find most of the Glee club already gathered in their seats. I caught Finn's eye in the first row and smiled at him before I could stop myself. He smiled back a little and my heart sped up again. Fuck, not again.

Mercedes and I quickly found two seats in the back row and sat beside one another. Sam sat on the other side of me, and Quinn sat beside him. I waved at the two and they smiled and said hello before starting up their own conversation. Mercedes and I chatted about classes and Kurt some more until a man walked in the room and announced that Glee club was now in session.

"Hey everyone, I hope you're all getting excited for Christmas!" The man exclaimed excitedly, a huge grin on his face as he scanned the room. Everyone cheered at that and then waited for what appeared to be further instructions. He must be their advisor or something.

As if reading my mind, Mercedes turned to me then and whispered in my ear. "That's Mr. Schue, he's our Spanish teacher but he is also our Glee club advisor. He runs everything for the Glee club. He's awesome, you'll love him," Mercedes finished with a smile across her face. I was embarrassed, I had clearly not paid any attention today during Spanish because I didn't recognize him at all.

I tuned back into what Mr. Schue was saying long enough to catch my introduction, "So, I hear that we have a new member, that's fantastic!" He said enthusiastically as he looked in my direction. "I was informed from the Warblers advisor that you would be transferring here Reece, and I just want to say that we are all so happy to have you," He finished, looking at me as he spoke.

I smiled warmly and thanked him for the kind introduction and said that I was happy to be a part of the team, which I surprisingly was true. I then let him get back to his instructions for the Glee club members.

"Okay, so since we have a few newer members now, I think it is important that we all get to know each other a little better. Now I know we already did a duets competition not too long ago to help introduce Sam to the Glee club, so maybe we could do something similar to help Reece and Lauren get to know everyone better," Mr. Schue said authoritatively while looking happily amongst us "new" Glee club members. "Does anyone have any ideas?"

Rachel immediately shot up her hand. "Perhaps we could work in teams, guys versus girls, or something of the sort. Seeing as how we have one new boy and one new girl, it just makes perfect sense to divvy us up like that," Rachel exclaimed in that mile-a-minute way she had of talking.

"That's actually not a bad idea Rachel, thank you," Mr, Schue said sweetly, and Rachel smiled to herself before relaxing confidently in her seat. "Guys versus girls. We did it before last year, but this time I want you guys to be better than ever. And with all of our new talent, that shouldn't be a problem. Each group will perform two songs, one that's more than ten years old and one from the last decade, and perform them both on Friday. Good luck everyone, and may the best team win!" Mr. Schue instructed with an excited look on his face.

"Excuse me, Mr. Schue, but the winning team better be scoring some wicked-ass prize," Santana exclaimed rather rudely, but I had to admit, she was kind of funny and she had a point.

"Alright, fine then, the winning team will get to perform one of their songs at Nationals with the whole group, taking the lead on the vocals for the song," Mr. Schue decided, a smirk spreading across his face as he finished.

Everyone began to chatter excitedly, and without having to be told, we all gathered into our respective groups. I said goodbye to Mercedes and she asked if I wanted to chat after the meeting was over. I quickly agreed before heading over to the guys.

"Okay everyone, so we need to come up with some really awesome songs if we're gonna be Ra-I mean the girls," Finn said confidently, almost slipping up and saying "Rachel" instead of the girls.

"It's so weird that you guys are broken up, it seemed like everything was going so well," Mike said somewhat confusedly. It's no wonder he's surprised,, he's in a relationship and can't fathom how others can function without one, I thought rather bitterly.

"Yeah, well, I don't date cheaters, especially not ones who try and cheat with my best friend," Finn retorted, looking over at Puck with a slight glare on his face.

"Hey man, I've apologized like a thousand times, how many more times can I say I'm sorry? I stopped her didn't I?" Puck said exasperatedly, looking genuinely sympathetic.

Well this was news. So Finn didn't like cheaters huh? I'd have to keep that in my mind. What? What are you thinking, he is NEVER going to be interested in you dummy! Doesn't matter what your views on cheating are!

"Whatever, that's not important anymore, I just need a break from girls and dating and need to just focus on singing and winning this competition for starts, so let's get to work," Finn enthusiastically instructed the group.

It took a long time to come up with a good song to sing, let alone two. We were all guys, and since most of the songs I liked were by women, I wasn't really much help in choosing a good one. Everyone seemed to have lots of ideas about the older song, but all the songs I knew really well were all Top 40, so I was able to contribute more with the newer song suggestions. This who working with straight guys thing was definitely gonna take some getting used to.

During the brainstorming, I kept noticing Finn glancing over at me across the circle we had formed. They were quick glances, and as soon as I would glance back, he would turn away, looking embarrassed. His actions confused me. What did this mean? Did it mean anything? Am I reading too much into this? Does it have something to do with what happened at lunch today?

Eventually, after much brainstorming and arguing (we were guys after all), we decided upon two songs. The older song would be "Come Together" by The Beatles, which seemed appropriate, and the newer song would be "Let It Rock" by Kevin Rudolph and Lil Wayne. As it turned out, I actually knew and loved both songs, so this might turn out to not be as bad as I thought.

Just after we reached a decision about the songs, the Glee club meeting ended. Everyone began to gather their things and head out the door. Yet again, Finn, Mercedes and I were the last three people to leave the choir room. Were we really all that slow? I wondered to myself.

I followed behind Mercedes as we headed towards the door. She had just walked through it when I tripped on something and sent my backpack and its contents sliding across the floor.

"Shiiit!" I yelled, not realizing Finn was still in the room. I dropped down to the floor and started scooping up all my books and loose papers that had gone everywhere, as Finn rushed over to help.

"Oh hey, that's okay, you don't have to help me, I'm just a klutz," I said kindly, smiling at him as he gotten down on his knees as well to help me pick up my things. He's so sweet...noooo, you're not allowed to think that Reece, stop it, just stop!

"Hey, it's no problem, I don't mind. I'm a bit of a klutz too, in case you hadn't noticed already. But I guess that's kind of a stupid thing to say, I mean, You've only known me for like a day, well you knew me kind of before that, but not really, so how could you possibly know?" Finn stated rather rapidly as he began to blush and continued picking up loose papers and handing them to me.

Oh my god, is he rambling? That's so cute! He's so cute...this isn't fair, why couldn't a guy like that ever be interested in me?

"You're a funny guy Finn, I like you," I told him with a smile on my face as I finally gathered the last of my things. "And yeah, I did notice by the way," I added as I blushed a little. I thought I saw him blush again as well, but I couldn't tell as he picked up the last of my loose papers and handed them to me.

And that's when it happened. When he handed me back my papers, our hands touched slightly. We stayed like that for a minute, neither one of us moving our hand away, and our eyes locked. What was that look I saw in his eyes? Was that...attraction? No, it couldn't be, you're going crazy Reece.

Just then, the door opened and Mercedes burst in, causing Finn and I to tear our gaze away from each other and quickly jerk our hands apart.

"I got halfway down the hall when I realized you weren't behind me," Mercedes said with a laugh, looking at me with a smile on her face. "You coming or not slow poke?" She joked.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," I told her as I walked away from Finn and towards her and the door, "sorry, I dropped my bag and Finn had to help my pick all my stuff back up," I added.

I turned back to him then and smiled a friendly smile. "Thanks for all your help Finn, I really appreciate it," I said. And then, before I could stop myself, "let me know if you wanna get together to work on this competition together, maybe we could come up with some good ideas for the group or something."

Oh my god...Had I really just said that? Reece, you are such an idiot! He is never going to agree to that, not in a millio-

"Yeah...yeah sure, that would be awesome actually," Finn said as a huge grin spread across his face. He really does have the best smile...oh my god, make it stop!

"Okay, awesome. Get Kurt to give you my cell number or something and text me," I said as nonchalantly as I could, but on the inside I was bursting with joy.

"Yeah, sure thing," Finn said, still smiling at me with that amazing smile of his.

"Let's gooooo," Mercedes urged me impatiently, grabbing onto my arm and dragging me out the door and into the hall, but not before I got one final glance at a smiling Finn and smiled to myself. Maybe this school won't be so bad after all.