It had been a couple of days since the assembly. I had seen Tina here or there in the hallways and in art class. She always had a smile on her face no matter how many slushies she took. Every time I turned around a corner and saw her covered I internally kicked myself for being just a little too late. Matt seemed suspicious that I was having more feelings than friendship for her but I still think he is imagining things. "Mike", I heard Brittney yelling at me as I turned to see her running towards me. "Hey Brittney, how are you doing?" I asked her pulling my books in my bag for my morning classes. "The glee club is planning on having a car wash tonight. I think you should bring your new jeep for us to wash." Smiling back to her, "I would love to bring my jeep up here to be washed." "Great! Thanks Mike, I bet Tina will be happy." She muttered before she started bouncing away to where Santana was waiting at the end of the hall for her. What did she mean by that?
I walked into art class then and saw Tina already sitting down. She was looking up and started to smile when I looked at her. "Hey, you are in a rather good mood this morning." I told her as I sat down. "Well we are getting this new choreographer for glee and we are having a car wash tonight to pay for it." "That sounds like fun." "Yeah, Quinn and Santana seem to think we will be able to raise enough money this way." She was so excited about this that I noticed she didn't even stutter when she was telling me. It was almost painful to see her so excited about this but know at the same time that this was just another game they were playing to bring the glee club down. "Y-you will come to get your jeep washed, right?" She asked blushing and dipping her head a little. I couldn't help but smile at her, "I wouldn't miss it!" "Thank you", Tina squealed and gave me a small hug. I noticed she smelled like coconuts and vanilla. It was hard to not breathe in her smell while holding onto her. What the hell was I doing? I was turning into a creep. Letting go of her then, I sat back straight in my chair as the teacher came walking in.
"So who are we going to support by getting your car washed? Brittney or Tina?" Matt asked jokingly as we were driving back to the school parking lot once the car wash started. "We are going to support the glee club. They deserve our help." I said but he gave me a very skeptical look as we pulled into the parking lot. There were a lot of cars in line and I thought that maybe people were getting over their issues about glee being for gay people but then I saw that all of the cheerleaders were helping and they were in their bikinis. "This is the best idea ever. Thank you so much for having two friends that are girls." Matt said before he jumped out of the jeep. I laughed as I watched him running over to talk to Santana before I spotted Tina. She was pushing Artie so he could brush down the side of one car. Seeing her look happy brought a smile to my face but I could tell that she was looking at Artie in a way that made it seem like they weren't just friends. Why should that bother me? We are just friends. She saw me then and came running over with Artie wheeling behind her.
"You m-made it!" She shouted giving me a small hug. "W-would you like f-for me to wash your c-car?" "Yeah that would be great." I told her as she backed up and saw that Artie was next to her now. "M-Mike this is A-Artie." She introduced before they got working on my jeep. Artie was in charge of the wheels while Tina was taking care of everything else. I saw her having to jump to reach the top of the doors and decided to help her out. "Need some help?" "Y-yeah that w-would be g-great." She told me with a huge smile and handed me a sponge to help. It was the best afternoon, not only did I get a clean jeep and help out the glee club but I also got to spend some time with Tina. "T-thanks again for the help, the club really appreciates it." She told me as we were sitting on the sidewalk taking a break. "I'm happy to help." "E-everything is just working out s-so great. The cheerleaders are s-so great to the rest of us." I looked at her smiling face but unfortunately had a frown on mine. "Tina, do me a favor, just be cautious with them. They aren't as great as you might seem. Well Brittney is cool but the other two have something else planned and I won't want to see you get hurt from them." I told her and her smile faded a little as well. "Why are you warning me about them? I thought the football players stuck to the cheerleaders above everyone else." She asked me and I had to laugh a little. "I believe I have told you before that we football players aren't the same." I told her and nudged her shoulder at the same time. "Hey Tina you ready to help with the next car?" Artie shouted over to her from across the parking lot. "I better get b-back to w-work. See you later." She said to me before she ran off to the next car in line.
I was getting ready to go play tennis with my dad Sunday afternoon when Brittney sent a video to my phone. A message was attached to it saying Thought you would want to see this I hit the play button and it was a video of Tina dancing around in a leotard with high heels. She looked so happy that it caused me to laugh out loud. I watched it like three times in a row before my dad knocked on the door telling me to hurry up. I sent her a message back saying thank you. Most people didn't understand why I was just platonic friends with Brittney but they just didn't realize how great she is when they aren't making her have sex with them.
Monday afternoon was an interesting one. We were at football practice when Finn walked out on the field with Kurt and his stereo. "What the hell is Hudson doing now?" Puck asked walking over to Matt and me. "Maybe he is just helping a friend out." I replied and just got a eye roll in return. That was all Puck and Matt had said about the subject until after Kurt had kicked the field goal. "I can't believe the gleeks are invading the team now." Azimio said for the 10th time since we entered the locker room. "People need to just get over the whole gleek issue. Singing for chicks is a major turn on for them." Puck said causing Matt and I to just stare at him. "Did you really just say that?" Matt asked while he was putting his shirt back on. "Hey, I got 10 numbers from cougars during the whole Acefellas thing. Singing for chicks is never a bad thing." He said grabbing his bag and headed out of the locker room. "I think he got tackled too hard today", Matt said putting his shoes on. "It wouldn't be that bad to be in glee. I mean you do get to do some bad ass dancing." I said grabbing my own bag causing Matt to now look at me like I had gone crazy as well. "Just think if you were in glee, you could spend even more time with Santana." He got a smile on his face then. "No that is a good point", he said laughing.
I beat Tina to art the next morning, so I decided to doodle in my notebook. Trying to draw an old fashion stereo was proving to be harder than I thought. "That actually isn't too bad." Tina said looking over my shoulder as she was trying to get settled down in her seat. "We have been friends for awhile now; you don't have to lie to me." I replied trying to quickly put my drawing away. "It wasn't a lie and you shouldn't hide your drawings. I have my own notebook." She told me and then reached in to her bag pulling out a small journal with doodles all over the front of it. I took it from her and started to flip through the first few pages and saw many little characters and drawings of some of her friends in there too. "These are great! You are really good." I told her and she just started blushing. "Thanks Mike", I started looking at the next few pages but had to stop when I saw a drawing on a black haired figure with a football jersey on. It took me a minute before I figured out that it was me. Tina had drawn a picture of me in her journal. The journal was pulled out of my hands then and I noticed that the teacher was trying to start class but I couldn't get over the fact that she had drawn me. We were as good of friends as I thought we were. Between the drawing and the non-stuttering, things were looking up for us.
We had just finished our first glee/football practice and were heading to the parking lot after changing out of our gear, when I saw Puck heading to the bleachers. I had a gut feeling he was doing something stupid so I followed after him. Walking up the steps, I saw Puck staring up to the sky looking ghost white. "Puck, what is up?" I asked walking to sit next to him. "Chang, is it possible to get someone pregnant by not actually being inside of them?" What? Was this really coming out of Puck's mouth? "Uh no man, you can't get someone pregnant like that. Why do you ask?" He just kept staring for a minute before he answered. "Quinn is pregnant with Finn's baby but it's really mine." I couldn't believe what was actually being said. "A-Are you sure?" "Yeah, what the hell am I suppose to do?" He asked finally looking at me. "You need to talk to her about it and see what she wants to do about it." I told him and he finally smiled a little. "Thanks man, you really are a great friend." He said before we both stood up and started to head back to parking lot.
We actually won a game! I couldn't believe it, thanks to Kurt and the crazy Beyonce dancing we actually won a game. There was a celebration party going on afterwards that I was heading to until I saw Tina standing at the bus stop by the street. "Tina", I hollered running over to her. "You came to the game?" I asked her once I reached her. "Of course, I wouldn't have missed it. You guys were really good." She said smiling back at me. "It was all Kurt." I told her but she started to shake her head right away. "It took all of you guys to win that game." The bus started coming down the street then. "Well I guess I will see you on Friday. Have fun at the after party." She said turning around to face the bus. My heart sunk a little realizing I wouldn't be able to see her anymore tonight. "Let me give you a ride home." I blurted out causing her to turn around slowly. "What?" "Let me give you a ride home. I wasn't going to go to the party anyway and you live real close." "Uh sure, I guess that would work." She replied and followed me back to my jeep. I helped her in and we were on our way home. "Do you mind if I ask you a question?" I asked cautiously. "Sure" "Are you adopted?" She took a deep breath before she answered. "Yeah I am. My birth parents didn't want me and my actual parents did. So when I was 3 months old, the adoption agency told my actual parents that I was looking for a family and they flew to Korea to get me." I gave her a smile trying to show her that I wasn't judging and was happy that everything had worked out for her. "Sounds like everything turned out ok." "Yeah, everything is great now. Can I ask you a question?" "Shoot" "Why are you so nice to me?" I thought about how I should answer this question the best way. "As a football player, everyone assumes we are all shallow guys who only care about hooking up with cheerleaders. I'm not like that though. I believe in relationships and being around people that actually want to be your true friends and I think you are like that." I admitted hoping not to sound too much like a pussy. "We are true friends, in fact I consider you one of my best friends." "Can I as you one last question?" "Yes" "Why am I the only one you don't stutter around?" Her eyes got real big as if this question was worse than the other. "I made the stutter up. It was the only way I could stay in my bubble when I was younger and wouldn't have to talk in front of other kids in my class. I kept with it all these years but I'm finding I don't need to do it around you." She said looking down at her feet as I pulled up to her house. "I will see you on Monday and yes we are great friends." I told her and then gently kissed her cheek. "Bye Mike", she said as she climbed out.
Monday afternoon, I got to watch Tina's jaw drop to the ground as Mr. Shue announced that Matt, Puck, and I were joining glee. It's going to be a great year.
I don't own anything Glee just love the show! I hope you like this new chapter. I went ahead and combined two since there really wasn't a whole lot I could write about during the Acefellas episode. Please leave your comments and suggestions, I love all of them! Thanks
