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Here's another chapter of G.L.E.E for y'all!
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The next few days had passed in tense anticipation for Harry and Marley. Harry had made a few new acquaintances, but after the incident in the cafeteria, no one wanted to be seen as friends with him in fear of being 'slushied'. Harry himself had been subjected to a 'slushie' on audition day. Apparently the cheerleaders and jocks had gone back to 'slushie'ing the Glee kids and, as an auditionee, it was as if Harry had put a sign on his back saying: SLUSHIE ME! He hadn't expected the cold, sticky drink, neither had Marley, and hadn't had the chance to respond before the perpetrators walked out of sight. Thursday, however, was a different story entirely. Harry had heard the jocks coming, they hadn't attempted to be particularly sneaky, and Harry had dropped to the floor, spinning and taking the feet out from underneath the group of jocks. The icy drinks flew out of their hands, spilling the contents thereof across the bullies.
"I am not someone you want to mess with." Harry said, his tone as cold as the 'slushies' that covered the jocks, "I have gone easy on you, not wanting to draw attention to myself. But here I draw the line. You will stop this juvenile behaviour of I will make you."
There was a moment of silence and the jocks scrambled away from Harry like the rats they were. Marley had just stood there in shock until Harry shook her shoulder.
"What was that?" She asked. Harry looked around at all the other people in the corridor, who weren't even trying to hide the fact that they were listening in.
"Not here." He replied, and walked away from her, knowing Marley well enough to know that she would follow him to have their conversation in private. If Harry was going to tell her anything at all then he would not be telling her with the rest of the world listening. The two ended up in a classroom that was not being used that period. Marley sat next to him atop one of the tables.
"Harry?" She asked cautiously. Harry took a deep breath in before answering her.
"So I guess I can't just brush that off as good luck, can I?" He said with a sigh. Marley just gave Harry a look. He sighed again.
"I learnt a lot of self-defence at my previous school. I heard those bozos coming and took them out. End of story." Harry said looking at his swinging feet. This time it was Marley who sighed.
"Look, Harry, I know that we haven't known each other that long, but I am your friend. Friends look out for one another. I can't just let this go. You flinch when someone touches you unexpectedly; or if there's a loud, unexpected noise; or someone moves too quickly."
Harry opened his mouth to deny her accusations, but was interrupted before he could even get a word out.
"Harry, I don't want to hear your reasons. I just need you to know that if you need somewhere to stay, somewhere to escape to, or even just someone to listen, I'll be here. I only need to ask you this. Is someone at home hurting you?"
Harry was taken aback by the question and his head snapped up, meeting Marley's eyes.
"No." He answered truthfully, "I live alone so it's a bit hard for someone to hurt me there."
Marley's eyes softened and she let out what seemed to be a sigh of relief before suddenly sucking the air back in again.
"You live all on your own?" She asked. Harry panicked slightly, he had to come up with a plausible reason why he was on his own, and not completely lie to his friend.
"My parents left me a lot of money when they died. I'm emancipated, because I have the means to live on my own, and so I chose to move out here to America, rather than stay in England."
Harry looked up to see a small smile on Marley's face. The school bell rang and Marley hopped off of the desk and quickly towards the door. Before she exited the room she turned around.
"If you ever want to tell me the whole truth I'll be listening. You contradicted yourself, that wasn't what you told Unique. And don't think you got away with that answer for taking down those jocks Evans. I'll let it slide for now. But Harry, I can only be there for you if you'll let me."
Marley left, leaving Harry frozen to his seat. Harry wasn't aware of any time passing and it was only because of a teacher walking into the classroom and basically telling him to get lost that he made it to the last class of the day on time.
English itself passed in a blur for Harry. They had to compile a glossary of terms that they might need when analysing the poetry. This was completely mindless task that left Harry's brain free to roam, pondering the question that plagued him into the night
Why was what Marley said affecting him so much?
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Friday.
Each day previous Harry had checked the extracurricular board for the audition results and each day previous the results had yet to be published.
But it was Friday, the deadline for the results for Glee Club. Harry got into school that morning, walked up to the extracurricular board and took a deep breath in. Looking up, he read down the list. There were only three people who had gotten into Glee Club. He let the breath out. He had gotten in! Looking further down the list Harry saw that Marley had also gotten in.
He hadn't seen Marley at all yet that day. Friday was one of the few days that their schedules were completely different. He hadn't been able to find Marley at break, but if Harry was honest with himself he didn't really look for her very hard in the first place. It was almost the end of lunch, and he still hadn't found her yet.
He didn't want to lie to Marley, but telling her the truth just wasn't an option. How on earth would he explain it? There wasn't a way to bring up that kind of subject and thus Harry was reluctant to. Marley had said that she wasn't going to pressure him into telling her anything, which Harry was grateful for, but it didn't make not telling someone who was fast becoming a good friend any easier.
But then again, Harry had been keeping things a secret his whole life. Ron and Hermione, his two best friends, had died without knowing about the cupboard under the stairs. It had been hard not to tell them, but he had done it. Now they were dead. Why was it so hard not to tell Marley about The War then?
"Excuse me?" a small voice to Harry's left said, jolting Harry from his downward-spiralling thoughts, "Could you move?"
Harry turned towards the voice to see that the small voice had not come from someone small in stature. To his left was a tall strawberry blonde girl, who was much taller than Harry was. He would estimate her height to be somewhere in the region of six foot, dwarfing Harry's hard earned five foot six. Despite the height advantage that could have made the girl imposing, the girl looked as if she wanted the ground to swallow her whole.
"Sorry." He said, and moved out of her way. The girl walked up to the glee list and stroked her finger down the list of people who had gotten into Glee Club until she stopped at a name. Harry didn't remember the girl auditioning at all, but judging by the mini victory dance the girl was now doing, she had gotten in.
The girl seemed to remember that she was not alone and stopped dancing suddenly, arms still in the air. She blushed enough to put a Weasley to shame, lowered her arms, and looked down to her shoes. Harry smiled at the girl who reminded him of a young Neville Longbottom and made the decision to try and befriend her.
"Hi," he said, sticking his hand for a handshake in greeting, "I'm Harry."
Being so much shorter than the girl meant that his hand was directly in her line of sight, despite the girl's bowed head. She looked up at Harry, seemingly startled. Harry moved his hand away.
"What's your name?" Harry asked. The girl mumbled a quiet answer that Harry didn't quite catch. "Sorry, I didn't quite catch that."
The girl mumbled again, this time just audible enough for Harry to hear a small "I'm Charlie Emery."
"It's nice to meet you Charlie. I see you made it into Glee club, that's great! I just got in as well." Harry said with a smile. Before Harry could say anything else to the girl the bell for the end of lunch sounded and Charlie rushed off, a soft "Bye" reaching Harry's ears.
Harry realised that he had an hour to burn before his first Glee Club meeting that afternoon after school and so headed to the library to do some of his homework. However, when he got to the library, Harry was distracted by the computers that lined one side of the room. Apparently they were for students to use whenever they liked. Harry had never been on a computer before, although he had seen many in Dudley's room.
'Logging on' was Harry's first challenge, and although it was a challenge, being a Gryffindor, Harry didn't back down. However, eventually Harry went and asked the librarian for some help after ten minutes of failing to work the computer. Once successfully on the computer Harry managed to find this website called 'YouTube' and decided to look up some music to listen through using the headphones that came with the computer.
The plethora of music that there was online astounded Harry. There was such a variety in the world and Harry loved it. Harry soon decided that he would go out shopping and get one of these 'iPod' things that kept being advertised before the videos. Just listening to music sent excitement running through Harry's veins. He couldn't wait for Glee Club now.
Before he knew it the hour was over and the bell was ringing, signifying the end of the school day for most people. Harry shot up out of his seat and was halfway out the door before he realised he had forgotten his bag. He quickly grabbed it and was almost running to get to the choir room on time. The flow of people trying to escape school for the day was inhibiting his progress though.
By the time that Harry finally got to the choir room, Glee Club had already started, the teacher being stood at the front, talking to the group. Harry knocked on the door as he entered, apologised for his lateness, and sat down in between Marley and Charlie. Charlie had blushed madly when Harry sat down, but he ignored that in favour of listening to Mr Schuester.
The man in question was welcoming everyone to Glee Club, and asked if anyone had anything that they wanted to sing to the group. Immediately many of the older Glee kids started vying for Mr Schuester's attention to let them perform, and soon a full out argument had erupted over who would have the chance to perform. Only the newcomers were not a part of this chaos.
Suddenly Harry was hit by an idea. He turned to Marley and Charlie and asked if they knew the song 'Hiding My Heart' that he had come across on 'YouTube'.
"That's the one that Adele put on her album isn't it?" Charlie asked softly. Harry nodded, smirking at the confused look that Marley was giving him.
"How do you know the song?" She questioned. Harry's smirk widened.
"There's this thing called YouTube." He replied and stuck out his tongue at her, "I had a free last. Anywho, what do you two say to showing these Glee kids how it's done?"
"I'm in." Marley said immediately. The two of them looked to Charlie, who blushed at the attention. The girl seemed to ponder it over quickly and then nodded her consent.
Harry stood up and walked over to Mr Schuester and asked if the three of them could be the ones to perform. Mr Schuester seemed to think that this was a great idea, judging by the smile that lit up his face, and yelled for everyone to shut up.
"The three new additions to Glee Club have requested that they do a song, and so I have decided that they are going to." He explained and then sat down.
Marley, Harry and Charlie stood up and stood in a line next to the piano, facing inwards towards each other slightly. The guy in the corner of the room started playing the opening bars to the song, and Harry decided that he didn't want to know how he knew what they were going to sing before they had even said anything.
(Harry)
(Marley)
(Charlie)
This is how the story went
I met someone by accident
Who blew me away
Blew me away
And it was in the darkest of my days
When you took my sorrow and you took my pain
And buried them away, buried them away
I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away
Dropped you off at the train station
Put a kiss on top of your head
Watched you wave
And watched you wave
Then I went on home to my skyscrapers
And neon lights and waiting papers
That I call home
I call that home
I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away
Away, yeah
Woke up feeling heavy hearted
I'm going back to where I started
The morning rain
The morning rain
And though I wish that you were here
On that same old road that brought me here
It's calling me home
It's calling me home (calling me home)
I wish I could lay down beside you (I wish I could lay down)
When the day is done (when the day is done)
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away
I can spend my whole life hiding my heart away
The Glee club burst into applause and Harry couldn't help but grin. Harry held his hands up and received simultaneous hi-fives from both Charlie and Marley. All three of them sat down, grinning at Mr Schuester. A few of the Glee kids that hadn't been at the auditions looked
impressed at the performance. Harry had quickly come to the conclusion that he was going to like it there.
"That's how you do it guys! Welcome to the Glee Club!"
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