"Mr. Darwal, please send Jeff Sterling to the office, he has a call."

All eyes were on Jeff as he slowly stood up.

"Dude, you gonna be good?" Thad asked as Jeff just nodded.

"Well, you heard him, Mr. Sterling. You're dismissed."

While Jeff walked towards the office, his head was running a mile a minute as he tried to figure out what was going on. He still hadn't processed any of the situation he had found himself in.

As he walked down the corridors, he could feel eyes peering at him from classroom doors. Still, it was better than the alternative which would result in screaming fans.

When he opened the doors to the office, all eyes turned to him. He was wordlessly handed the phone from Lily, the quiet receptionist.

"Hello?"

"Riker, honey, I have some bad news." Stormie's voice filled Riker's ears.

"Is it about you-know-what getting out?"

"How did you know?"

"Cause there are girls surrounding my school with posters and such."

"Oh, honey, I'm sooo sorry. I wish that was all, but there's more."

"What?"

"News outlets have already picked up the story and are begging for interviews. There's no getting out of this one."

Both Riker and his mom sighed.

"I've set up an interview with Clever. I thought it would be best to start with a company you trust and have worked with before."

"Yeah. When are they coming?"

"They'll be coming by tonight and back tomorrow. Just give it a shot, we can always make them cut things out if need be."

"Okay mom, I got to get back to class."

"Kay, love you! Try to enjoy the rest of the day."

"Love you too."

Riker hung up the phone and sighed. Ignoring the office workers glances, he made his way back to his Psychology room. Upon entering, he noticed that the room was empty spare his teacher.

"Class ended five minutes ago. I believe one of your friends took your things to whatever class you have next."

"Thanks." Riker nodded and begrudgingly began his trip to his next class. It can't be an easy day, can it…

As he entered his English class, once again everyone's eyes were on him. He took his set next to Nick, giving him a quick kiss, and started to get his stuff out from his bag.

"What was the call about?" Nick whispered.

"People are knocking down our door for interviews."

"Are you going to do any?"

"Yeah, the Clever people will be coming later today."

"And you're okay with that?"

Before Jeff could respond to Nick, their teacher walked up.

"What are we discussing, boys?"

"Oh, Nick was just catching me up on what I missed, miss." Jeff flashed his red carpet smile, making her roll her eyes but nevertheless move on.

The boys kept quiet but shared small smiles for the rest of class. The moment the bell rang, Nick turned to talk to Jeff.

"Babe, talk to me. Are you really okay with this?"

"It's not like I have a choice. It's already out there."

"What are you guys talking about?" David and Wes entered the conversation.

"Clever is coming by to do an interview later," Jeff said as they continued walking to class.

"And he wouldn't say if he's fine or not." Nick elaborated before giving Jeff another kiss, "Bye babe, I'll see you after class."

After saying their goodbyes Wes and David turned on Jeff.

"Look, guys, I'm not perfectly fine but I'm not about to have a breakdown. It's just a lot to take in."

"Fine bro. We'll leave it for now but know that we're here for you." Wes said.

"Yeah, we can't have our resident dancing star and half of the power couple being all mopey." David slung an arm over Jeff's shoulder as the group chuckled.

Jeff managed to suffer through his last two periods of the day and was so happy when the bell signaling the end of classes finally rang. He grabbed Nick's hand as they waited for Blaine to finish grabbing his stuff.

"Ready for practice?" Blaine asked once he caught up to the two lovebirds.

"Yeah, I could use the singing at the moment." Nick looked at his Jeff sadly at those words.

"Well, you might have to wait a bit. I heard Wes has got some big speech planned."

"Really?" Jeff groaned, " I really don't want this to become a thing."

"It became a thing when there were girls lined up outside." Blaine pointed out as Nick ran his hand over Jeff's back.

"I'm sure it won't be so bad."

"Yeah, yeah."

The trio met up with the rest of the group before making their way to the Warbler Hall for practice.

Wes went with David to start the meeting while Blaine, Trent, Nick, and Jeff all found seats near the front together.

"Attention!" Wes rapped his gavel against the desk once everyone was seated.

"Thank you all for coming. Before we start practice I would like to call attention to something I'm sure all of you have noticed by now from the screaming girls when a certain member walks by."

Jeff blushed and looked to the ground as most of the Warblers chuckled at the wording.

"Now we obviously have had someone or someone's leak Warbler Jeff's secret against his wishes. I'm not going to call anyone out, but you know who you are, but I'm suggesting that you apologize to Jeff on your own time and work on your secret keeping." By the end of Wes's little speech, a few people were doing all they could to not look in Jeff's vicinity and were wearing guilty expressions.

After the speech, Wes told the group which numbers they would be practicing. They were halfway through the choreography run through for "Misery" when the doors opened up and in walked a small huddle of people with cameras, lights, and many more things.

"Riker! It's so good to see you again, though I wish it was under better circumstances."

"Joslyn, nice to see you again. How have you been?"

Jeff took note that practice seemed to stop for the moment being as he headed over to meet with the Clever host.

"I'm good. So here's the plan. We're gonna do a little interview with you and then follow you around for the rest of today and some of tomorrow. By tomorrow evening a video will be up and hopefully get people off your back for a bit."

Jeff nodded along as his friends walked over.

"As always, you have the means to keep anything you want out. Now, who's in charge of this?"

"I am, miss," Wes spoke up.

"Do you mind if we set up some cameras and record to use for the video? You boys will have the same rights as Riker does and get to veto anything that goes in the video."

"I think it would be alright, so long as all new performances are muted."

"Great! Now, for the interview part… would it be better to do it now or later?"

"Ummm, he can go now if he wants. Practice will last a while anyway."

Jeff shared a smile with his friends and gave Nick a quick kiss before showing Joslyn where they could go.

"I'm assuming that is something you want us to cut out?" They both chuckled.

"As always," he responded when they entered the room. Once the cameras and lights were set up and the hair/ makeup team was done, it was time to start the interview.