Disclaimer: I do not own Glee, if I did – Tina and Mike would break up :P

I also don't own the book, The Giver.

AN: Thankyou Anon-mous, your reviews always make me smile :) Psycho17 I know! I love Mike ;) Ashlee, thank you sweetie pie :D parallelauthenticity, aw, thank you! You're pretty good too! xx

I'm sorry I took so long to update this chapter! But, I had exams, and I needed to study :P I'm pretty sure I didn't do very well though… :D Well anyways, on with the story!

Chapter Four: Shut UP, MIKE!

Bella strained under the weight of her sister, but managed to push her up. The pyramid was perfect; everyone was straight, and smiling. But then something, or someone, caught Bella's eye. Christian waved to her, he looked so hot. His blonde hair looked amazing, even though she knew he had just rolled out of bed like that. Christian flexed his muscles, trying to show off. Bella laughed, and disrupted the pyramid. Everyone toppled down and started grumbling loudly.

"FABRAY!" Coach Sylvester yelled "What the hell was that?" Bella looked towards Christian guiltily.

"Delair, get off the field! You're distracting my Cheerios!" Sylvester yelled, noticing the jock. Christian walked off laughing. Bella sighed; did he have to distract her like that? She had told him many times, cheerleading practice was a no boyfriend zone. Miss Sylvester was already on the war path towards banning all boys from Cheerios completely. Haley squeezed her shoulder and mouthed 'It's okay'.

"I'm sorry for distracting you." Christian said, hugging Bella from behind.

"That's okay, it wasn't your fault." Bella smiled

"Yeah, but I know how hard Sylvester is on you." Christian said guiltily,

"I'll see you afterschool, okay?" Bella said, squirming out of Christian's arms.

"Yeah, okay" Christian said, scratching his head as he stared at his girlfriend's retreating back. Bella didn't blame him, she wasn't even upset. She was just annoyed that he had distracted her, especially when she had told him not to.

Bella gently tapped her pen on the table in frustration. She was in the library trying to study for English; her stupid teacher said her essay wasn't good enough. She wanted Bella to rewrite it and hand it in by this afternoon.

"The theme of The Giver is…" Bella thought out loud, she hardly even read this book. But from what she did read, she didn't understand, she thought it was stupid – a world with no colour and feelings? How was that possible? Bella groaned, all this thinking made her head hurt. She saw Mike from afar, and sighed, she really didn't need this right now.

"Hey Bee, what's up?" Mike asked, sitting into the chair across from her.

"Mike, I'm trying to study." Bella said, trying to drop a hint, but of course Mike didn't take it.

"Cool. So this morning at practice, this awesome thing happened. Karofsky threw the footy to Matt, and WAM it hit him in the face! It was so funny!" Mike continued to ramble on about that day's injuries and catches. Bella tried to concentrate on her essay, but he was SO distracting!

"Mike…" Bella tried again, but she was interrupted by his ongoing chatter

"Coach says I'm getting better! I might even get a Touchdown this season!" Mike said excitedly. Bella began tapping her pen again, if he didn't stop talking soon, she was going to lose it.

"This new play Coach worked up might help us win one th-"

"Shut UP MIKE!" Bella yelled at him. Mike closed his mouth, he looked hurt.

"Um, yeah. I'll see you later Bee." Mike said, he stood up and walked away from her.

"Mike, I didn't mean…Mike wait!" Bella called after him, but he didn't look back. The librarian glared at her, angry at the noise she was making. Bella slumped over in her chair.

"Great. Another person angry at me" she mumbled into her arm.

Bella was quiet in Glee, she was still guilty about how she lashed out at Mike. The rest of New Directions were complaining to Mr Shue about his song choice for their first school performance. He wanted them to perform Le Freak. That song is so lame, he was going to get the Glee Club murdered, which was why Mercedes was trying to persuade him to choose a popular song. Bella sighed, she wasn't even sure why she was here, it wasn't like she was going to perform with them. Rachel was still mad about that fact; she didn't think Bella was trying. The bell went, and Bella couldn't believe time had gone so fast. She had only been sitting in that room with them for about five minutes. Rachel blocked her as Bella tried to walk out the door.

"Look, I'm still not happy about you being here, but if you're going to be, you need to start helping us, and paying attention." Rachel snapped at her, Bella sighed

"I don't have time for this Rachel." Bella said, pushing past her.

AN: I will really try to update the next chapter quicker this time! And I'm sorry if this chapter isn't as good as my other ones, but I still had bad writers block, and I wanted to get one out to you. If I don't update soon, I give you permission to yell at me!

xxx Beth