A/N: Dare I Say It? … Upload Mania ;) Nami x

We walk out and I walk towards the lunch hall, to be quickly joined by the three 'Cheerios' "Eat lunch with us?" I nod at them and we walk in together. We all lift salads and sit down. "So, tell us about yourself." They say to me. I nod at them. "I used to go to Carmel high School, I was a lead in Vocal Adrenaline, after a few family things, I ended up moving in with Noah and starting here." they nod at me, but Brittany looks confused. "You moved on to an animal filled boat?" Santana shakes her head. "That's Puck's real name, Noah." She nods and I look at Quinn. "Tell me about yourselves." I say back to them; they nod. "I'm Quinn, I'm leader of the Cheerios, I had a baby last year, but the bastard child went up for adoption, and I am dating one of the guys from the football team." I nod at her. "I am Santana, im vice head cheerleader, and I am dating Puck." I nod at her, she winks in Puck's direction [At the table with the footballers] and I feel a shiver creep up my spin. "I am Brittany, I'm in glee, I'm in Cheerio's and I like the colour orange." I nod at her and smile.

"You should try out for the Cheerio's, the next set of try outs are next week." I nod. "It would be a nice change from show choir." They smile at me. "You are still trying out for glee though, right?" I nod at Santana.

"So where are you from?" "Chicago." They nod at me. Santana looks up and we all do. Finn gets up and walks over to me. "Hey, Nicola, I-" Santana shakes her head. "It's Nikki." She says to him, he nods. "About last night." I nod at him. "Forget it." He nods at me. "Bye then." I nod at him. "Bye Hudson." He smiles and walks away, back to the guys table. They stare at me. "What happened last night?" I roll my eyes and smile. "I walked into Puck's room, and puck made me lift something and Finn took a picture of my bottom." They smile at me. "Just another teenage boy." Santana says as she lifts the crimson red apple off her tray and towards her mouth.

"Tomorrow, we should sit with the guys." Quinn says to us, I shrug my shoulders, not really going to make much difference to me. "Sure." I say and finish my salad. We walk out and down the corridor, Kurt is thrown into a locker and nobody notices, we walk over to him and help him up, he looks terrified. "Are you ok?" he nods at me and we turn round to see Mr. Schuester. "Come with me Kurt." He nods and they walk to Figgins. We keep walking down the hall and stand outside our lockers.

The bell goes and we walk on to class. "See you later." I nod at them and walk the corridor towards Spanish.

~~The Bell Goes And I Walk Down To The Choir Room~~

I knock the door and walk in. "Ah, Nicola, take a seat." I nod and sit beside Quinn. "Now, as you have noticed there is a new girl that started today, called Nicola Brown and she is here to try out for our glee club." He points to me and I stand up. Quinn smiles at me and I walk to stand in front of all of them. "Noah." He nods and stands up with his guitar. "I am going t do an acoustic version of Toxic, by Britney Spears." They nod and Puck starts playing the guitar…

Baby, can't you see
I'm calling
A guy like you
Should wear a warning
It's dangerous
I'm fallin'

There's no escape
I can't wait
I need a hit
Baby, give me it
You're dangerous
I'm lovin' it

I hold my diaphragm and take a breath:

Too high
Can't come down
Losing my head
Spinning 'round and 'round
Do you feel me now

With a taste of your lips
I'm on a ride
You're toxic I'm slipping under
With a taste of a poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic
And I love what you do
Don't you know that you're toxic

I smile at Noah and he nods

It's getting late
To give you up
I took a sip
From my devil's cup
Slowly
It's taking over me

I nod at him and continue

Too high
Can't come down
It's in the air
And it's all around
Can you feel me now

With a taste of your lips
I'm on a ride
You're toxic I'm slipping under
With a taste of a poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic
And I love what you do
Don't you know that you're toxic
Don't you know that you're toxic

With a taste of your lips
I'm on a ride
You're toxic I'm slipping under
With a taste of a poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic

Intoxicate me now
With your lovin' now
I think I'm ready now
I think I'm ready now
Intoxicate me now
With your lovin' now
I think I'm ready now

I open my eyes and they smile at me and clap. "Ok then. We will have a vote." I high five Noah and sit back down beside Quinn. "That was really good." I smile at her. "Thanks." Mr. Schuester nods. "Ok then. All those who want Nicola to join us here at new Directions, put up your hand." They all put up there hands except Rachel. "Thank you" I mouth to Kurt. He nods and winks at me. "All those apposed." Only Rachel puts up her hand. She looks round and puts her hand back down again.

"I feel she may be just using us so that she can feed information to Vocal Adrenaline, a traitor." I laugh to myself. "I have nothing to do with Carmel now Rachel." I say to her. "Well Majority rules. Welcome to the team Nicola." I nod at Mr. Schuester. "Now, then why don't you take this time to get to know everyone?" Awkward. I turn round to them. Rachel stands up.

"I'm Rachel, this is Finn, this is Brittany, and this is Santana, that girl beside you is Quinn, this is Artie, this is Sam, this is Tina, this is Mike, this is Mercedes, this is Geoff, this is Kurt, and you know Puck." I nod at her. "Hi. I'm Nikki." They nod.

"Now then, this week's song selection is Journey." I snigger to myself. "Something wrong Nikki?" I shake my head. "no sir, I just thought you guys would be doing something more out there." He nods and smiles. "What do you mean?" everybody looks at me. "You guys are called new directions, right? Well at Regionals last year you performed a Journey song, I just thought you would do something like that, and then move on." He nods. "what would you prefer to do?" I shrug my shoulders. "Maybe something more easy, like Travie Mccoy, Billionaire? You know, something more acoustic, more modern, I mean don't get me wrong I'm into 80's music, you know, Rock N Roll, I'm into that, but once in a while we have to break out of Show Choir, and do something different. I'm not going to talk about Vocal Adrenaline all the time, but they did more modern music at times, or else they would simply just you know, change things up."

Mr. Schuester nods. "thank you for your input Nikki." I nod at him. "Ok, would anybody else like to try something different?" they all nod. "Acoustic week it is then, everybody get a partner by tomorrow and next week you will all perform an acoustic number." He walks out. "Nice work new girl!" Mike says, they all clap and woo. I nod at them and they start getting into pairs, some of them go home and Noah sits talking with Santana. "Tomorrow, we are bringing my car." I say to Noah and he smiles. I walk out into the hallway and go towards my locker