Actually, there's a lot of things that I want to shot at The Rhodes Not Taken episode, but I'm just a little curious why Mike didn't show up in the shower scene with Matt and Puck. So here's chapter 4, hope you still enjoy reading it. Reviews, rants are very much appreciated, just let me know. Still, I do not own GLEE...^^
Mike knew it won't be that easy to win his friendship back. All of this is because of that stupid football club that he intended to join in his freshman year because Matt asked him with his puppy dog eyes. It's not like he didn't like to be in the football team, it gave him a lot of advantages actually. But sometimes he regrets to join that club before talk about it with Tina or Artie. What Tina said yesterday makes him feel a little unease, it seems like she didn't want Mike to be there, in Glee club or even in football club. All they need is a good quality talk time, but it seems so impossible cause Tina always avoid him.
He ended up in Glee club with the football kids, Finn, Matt, and Puck, and the cheerios, Quinn, Brittany and Santana. It seems there's a fine line between the jock, and unpopular kids in Glee. Sometimes he tried to walk across of it, but Matt always told to sit with him and the cheerios. However, inside of his heart he knows, he will never leave this club as long as Tina doesn't ask him to leave. He will stay and she will see that he really mean it, to be in Glee club.
In the invitational, Rachel left them to be the lead in Cabaret and Mr. Schue bring April Rhodes to the team. She's great in the stage, but he's never attracted with her the way Puck and Matt did. That's why when they had the shower together after football practice he left with my-mom-has-something-for-me-to-do reason. But the day after, he finds April and Marcedes walk out of the choir room and leave Tina by herself. He enters the choir room, noticing that there's no Artie, he takes a step closer to her who still gathers all her little things.
"So, what did April teach you?" Mike takes a seat beside her
Tina takes a glance on him, and by Mike surprise, she smiles at him "Nothing, just how to put things inside of our tighs, do you wanna try?" She seats beside him
"Whoaa...is that okay? What things?"
"Just cabbage and a pack of beef, she told me and Marcedes if we mastered this skill we can put everything in it without anyone notice, including birthday cake..." She left out a chuckle.
"I'm sure I don't wanna try it..." Mike said, somehow his attention pinned to the piano, he didn't expect that their conversation would flow that easily
"Yeah...but that was a good skill, I mean you can bring anything without anyone notice, even when you're in a market... Hey, I heard..." She paused, and his attention going back to her instead the piano, her expression is unreadable.
"What?" Mike asks
"I heard...she...gave all of you the football jocks a shower...sex?" She lower her voice in the last words and stare on anything instead of him.
"It's not like I don't like it or wanna know but,...just...yeah...just.., never mind...I'll go... My mom wants me in five minutes..." She said, grabs her things. And when she almost gets to the door Mike shouts and stops her track.
"With Matt and Puck..." Mike gets up form his seat and approached her. He stops and leans by the piano
"Excuse me?" She turns around and finds Mike stares at her
"Not me...I'm not comin at that time, I said my mom had something for me to do, so I left... I'm not like what you think Tina..." Mike face's full with concern, he knows where this conversation will be headed to, and he wants Tina to know that he still the same Mike that she knew before.
"Thanks God..., I'm afraid that you...you know..." she lets out a chuckle.
"Yeah, and if I change, I'll tell you..." he said, beam her with his grin "so, your mom wants you in five minutes, need a ride home? It's been so long since I've come to your house..." he said, gets back to his chair and grabs his bag
"No...no...I'm okay I'll walk, I've been used to, you don't have to bother...It's okay, bye Mike..." with her last words, she sprints out off the choir room leave Mike alone.
Though in the end it turns out like this, he feels good because Tina still want to talk to him. So with his backpack he leaves the choir room with a big grin on his face, he knew, his decision to join Glee's never be wrong.