"Okay guys. Today were gonna take a break from rehearsing and get to know each other a little better," Mr. Schue said when he walked into the choir room. "Mercedes, Puck, can you help me put up these chairs?"
"Sure," the two incoherently said. With that chairs were put into the corner including Artie's wheelchair.
We all sat down in pairs. Rachel was with Quinn. Brittany was with Santana. Mercedes and Tina were together. Mike was alongside my brother. Artie was in Finn's lap. Kurt was next to Puck. Jake and I sat together holding hands. Mr. Schue sat in the middle of all of us. "Alright so Mike can you start us off?" he asked.
"Sure. Not many people know Tina and I are cousins."
"Never would have guessed that one," Mr. Schue said with complete honesty. "Jake do you wanna go next?"
"Yeah, but can I do 2?"
"Go ahead."
"Well for one my name is actually Jacob-Tyler. But my bigger secert my surprise you more."
"Then tell white boy!" Mercedes almost yelled.
"Well I was a part of Vocal Adrenaline for 2 years."
My boyfriend was apart of our rival glee club? "What do you mean? I though you lived in Lima your whole life," I proclaimed.
"See I moved to Lima this year. When Abigail committed, we moved. I was in their glee club with Abigail or Abigail-Grace as my ex-teammates call her, and my brother Ryan-Joshua and my other sister Megan-Ashley."
"Damn, your parents have a thing for hyphens," Mercedes said.
"Yeah, but only our parents call us by our hyphen names."
I swear if Rachel was able to get a break from these nightmares and get some sleep, she would be begging for Carmel's secrets. Since Rachel was too tired, Tina took on the responsibility to ask about their routines. Jake responded with, "Well I don't really know much about this year except when we left they were working on "When You're Home" from In the Heights."
Everyone was really excited. Even though we only knew one number it could still help. Rachel showed her excitment even though she was sleep deprived.
"Alright guys, I know you're excited about having a former member of Vocal Adrenaline on our team, but you guys remembered what happened when Coach Slyvester cheated against us. So we don't want to be like them. Liza how about you tell us something."
"Um okay. I was adopted. When Mom had Matt they told her that there was a 10% chance of having a baby."
"Are Taylor and Nick adopted too?" Rachel asked.
"No Taylor and Nick accidents. When Taylor came Mom's birth percentage dropped to 5, and after Nick it dropped to 2."
"Kurt do you wanna go next?"
The rest of the afternoon we learned things we never thought of. Like how Finn's Dad died in Iraq or how Tina is actually from South Korea. How Rachel was on the cheerleading squad in middle school. Mercedes having lived in Alaska and Hawaii in the same year. Matt still has the pet rock Anna I gave him when I was 5. Little things I woulf have never none. In short it was the most productively unprodutive meeting ever.
I know it's short. I'm just running out of ideas.
~LP