A/N: Here it is! Sorry, minimal fluff here because everyone is so busy working on their challenge! But yes, the performance is in this chapter! Now PLEASE REVIEW, because I only got 5 reviews last chapter

A/N 2: I am not going to put the lyrics in the story because it influences the story length and I got some complaints about that (see I listen to what you have to say!) So when the time comes for their performance, I will put in a URL of the version of the song that you should listen to.

What Mr. Schue didn't know about the project, was that it was great bonding time for the kids. They were by no means best friends or even good friends, but they definitely got a lot closer over the course of the practices. For the girls, Santana and Brittany didn't gossip about Rachel as much (although they couldn't stop, or they would be banished from popularity), and started talking to Quinn again. Rachel had started to grow on Tina, since Rachel and Mercedes were very good friends. Although the six girls had polarized back into their popular and unpopular groups, nothing more could be expected, since they were girls. And Brittany and Santana were definitely not giving up their popularity for new friends. That's what they have each other for. Quinn still hated Rachel with a passion. Not because she thought that Rachel was trying to get her baby's father, but because she was right- Quinn would end up pushing Puck away with her clingy attitude. In all honesty, Quinn wasn't really all that into Puck. She was still heartbroken over Finn. They would have been perfect together had it not been for that one drunken night. But love didn't make her blind- Finn was as dopey as they came and wasn't serious enough to pull himself together and get a job to support the baby. Puck maybe a player, but he had the determination to succeed. And that's what Quinn needed right now.

The boys were a totally different story. Finn and Artie had always been buds, and Puck and Artie got along great since they both played guitar, and they could carry on hours of conversation about the new guitar picks they saw or the awesome riffs they learned. Matt and Mike really were fine with making new friends, and were already on good terms with the gleeks, so they didn't have any problems. The only person that was really out of place was Kurt. Kurt wanted so very badly to be in the girl's group, but this performance was in front of the entire school. The last thing he needed was to do a number with the girls and be bullied worse than he already was. The only person the he actually got along with was Artie and partially Finn. Nobody was outright mean to him, but he could tell they shied away from talking to him. One day, they were jamming on ideas for the show, and Kurt was sitting at the piano dully pressing random keys and singing them. Suddenly, he was sick of it, and went and told them so.

"What is your problem?" he asked angrily, slamming his hands on the keys.

They, startled, looked up at him in shock.

"I don't know what you're talking about bro…" Puck started.

"Yes you do. Why am I here at the piano while you all come up with the idea? Everyone knows that I am the most artistically imaginative person here. So why am I not helping?"
"Nobody said you couldn't help." Matt said defensively.

"But I know you don't want me to." Kurt told them bluntly.

"It's nothing personal. It's just that we don't want to go onstage wearing feathers." Puck said pointedly, reminding them of the time they had to do their mash up of Its My Life and Confessions.

"I have other ideas you know!" Kurt yelled angrily at him.

"Like what?" Artie asked interestedly.

"We could throw things into the audience. I know the girls are going to try and go razzle dazzle so we need something to really wow the audience." Kurt told them.

"That might work…" Finn said thoughtfully. "My mom has one of those confetti cannons and we can blow stuff out of them. But what would we throw at them? Like money or something?"

"No. We have four popular jocks that girls can't wait to get their hands on. How about your numbers?" Kurt suggested.

"And get booty calls it 2 in the morning? No thanks." Puck said firmly.

"Well maybe not." Kurt conceded. "But I do have some really good ideas!"
The boys looked around at each other. Finally Puck was the one to speak.
"Have a seat buddy."

"I don't think lust is enough." Rachel told the girls at one of their practices.

"What do you mean? Lust is the ultimate!" Brittany said cheerfully.

"Well sure lust is powerful, but with today's economy, I feel like there's something a little better." She hinted.

"Stupidity?" Tina suggested.

"I was thinking greed…" Rachel said, shooting a smile at Tina.

"Greed…" Santana said thoughtfully. Then her face lit up. "I know just the song."

Santana told them the name of the song, and they all immediately agreed. It was the perfect mixture of lust and greed.

"Guys, can I… choreograph this?" Rachel asked timidly.

"No. You'll only screw it up." Quinn said coldly. She had choreographed the old song.

"No Quinn. You screwed up the old one. We looked like cheerleaders. We need to look sexy. Not that cheerleaders aren't sexy." Rachel amended, "But when you go to a club and are trying to pick up a guy, you don't cartwheel into the splits to look sexy."

Quinn merely glared.

"Well why don't we have a dance off? You have 5 minutes to improvise. You have to do a number for this song. Whoever's is better will choreograph. Deal?"
"Deal." They said in unison, both confident that their dance would be chosen.

They spent five minutes in opposite sides of the room, as though their creativity would be hindered if they were close to each other. Unluckily for them, the boys walked in during the third minute. Seeing Rachel and Quinn facing opposite directions on different sides of the room and the rest of the girls slacking off in the middle gave all of them smirks.

"Well, boys, this is going to be easier than I thought!" Kurt said smugly.

"Oh shut up." Santana snapped. Then the idea dawned on her. "Could you guys do something?"

"What?"

"Could you judge our dance off? Quinn versus Rachel, and tell us who does better."

"Sure why not. You couldn't beat us in your sleep." Puck said offhandedly.

"But Santana, how are we gonna do it without them hearing our song?" Mercedes demanded.

"Relax, Mercedes. I have it covered. They're just gonna listen to it through ear buds and do the dance that way."

"Fine." She said dejectedly. "Quinn first."

"With pleasure." She said with a smile. She put the ear buds in and started her dance.

Mostly, her dance was rather repetitive and boring, once they all thought about it. Mostly just high kicks and striking poses, with a few cool jumps here and there. Admittedly sexy poses, but that's all it was. There was polite applause after her number and she smiled triumphantly at Rachel, who just smirked back at her.

"My turn." She confidently said, as she put the ear buds in.

Rachel's dance was amazing, and it left the boys speechless with round eyes. She started off facing the back and did her moves as interpretations of the lyrics. When it said kiss, she blew the crowd a kiss. When there were parts that would look silly as interpretations, she did pirouettes, grand jetes, almost everything you could imagine with some pretty nice hip action in between.

"So Quinn or Rachel?" Santana asked diplomatically.

A unanimous Rachel went around.

"Great. Thanks boys." Rachel said beaming at them, as they ogled at her as though wishing her clothes off. She started to feel uncomfortable and hid behind Tina, who laughed outright at her shyness after the show she just put on.

"So, still think you're going to win?" Mercedes asked loudly.

"Of course we are." Matt answered easily.

"Wanna bet?" Rachel challenged from behind Tina.

"Fine. What are the stakes?" Puck asked mischievously.

"If we win you have to… go to lunch in girl's underwear." Rachel said after thinking with a wicked glint in her eye.

"As long as it's yours…" Puck said with a wink, attempting to see down her shirt. She shoved him away with a nasty glare.

"And if you lose, you have to go on a date with a nerd of our choice." Mike said devilishly.

"Prepare to go underwear shopping boys." Mercedes said confidently.

The boys just scoffed and left. The girls threw smirks at their backs. With Rachel choreographing the dance, they were sure to win.

"So, Rachel, where do we start?" Santana asked in a businesslike way.

"Start facing the back, and turn around and blow the crowd a kiss." Rachel started as Quinn glared at her.

"Alright guys, so what are we going to do about wowing the crowd?" Kurt asked anxiously.

"I thought we were gonna throw stuff…" Finn said confusedly.

"Yes, but we still don't know what we're going to throw." Kurt said slowly.

"How about money?" Puck offered bluntly. "Easiest way to buy votes I say."

"How about our shirts?" Mike offered.

"I like it. They can each have our face on the inside, with our phone number." Kurt voiced.

"What is it with you and phone numbers?" Matt asked him.

"Well it's a song about being single. It would make sense." He reasoned.

"Touché."

The students monotonously filed into the auditorium and filled up all of the red seats, which was saying something. They quietly talked to one another, about how boring this would be, things like that. The football players merely glared at the stage as though if they glared long enough the Glee kids would just forget to show up. Mr. Schuester walked to the stage and started talking into the microphone.

"Hey everyone. Now, the Glee club is going to put on a show for you. The boys will do one and the girls will do another. Your job is to vote on which one you liked better. The boys are up first. Enjoy!"

With that, he left the stage and sat quietly at the back of the auditorium. He promised the kids as much privacy as they could get, so he buried his head in his test papers, grading slowly.

Suddenly, the lights in the auditorium turned off, and a brightly lit screen went on in the stage, making the figures of the six boys on the stage silhouettes. They started singing their song, all wearing odd sunglasses that did not have a bridge on the nose. As it turned out, Finn was singing lead.

(Play Ridin' Solo by Jason Derulo here.)

As Jason Derulo was a great dancer, the boys had to master dancing. They did turns, and Puck did an amazing moon walk. He looked as though the floor beneath him was moving. They had agreed earlier that they had to appeal to the females in the room, so they constantly pointed and winked at the various groups of girls in the auditorium, all of who cheered when the boy of their affections gave them attention. About one minute into the song, all of the girls were screaming and even Mr. Schue looked up from his test to glare at the girls.

For the finale of the song, They got the compressed air canon and blew out the t-shirts they made. They also took their shirts off to show off their abs, and the girls went wild. The guys in the auditorium merely clapped politely at the end, because they thought the guys did moderately not bad.

The six guys, who were panting at this point, bowed to the audience and strutted off. Puck blew a kiss to the crowd.

"Get ready to date your nerds." Said the shirtless Puck to the astonished girls. The other guys smirked and they walked past the girls, who were wearing red robes over their actual outfits.

The lights were already off in the auditorium, so a spotlight went on, showing Rachel at the microphone.

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A spotlight fell on each of the girls in turn as the instruments played. They were all wearing red shirts much like what they wore for the Express Yourself number during their Madonna week, only there was black lace with patterns on it, so the red showed through. The straps were also black. They were wearing black shorts and red stilettos.

After the first few verses, all of the girls threw down their microphone stands and kicked them to the side and went into their formations for the choreography.

When there was just instrumental, for every embellishment in the music, one of them popped up for a small dancing solo, to draw attention to each of the girls as individuals. As the song continued, all of the girls besides Rachel went into the audience and made contact with the audience, strutting up the stairs and flirting with the guys as they sang. Rachel stayed on stage and did moves that showed off her flexibility, like the splits and lifting her leg up, pirouettes and the sort of things that the other girls couldn't do since they didn't have training as dancers. Then, all of the girls went back up to the stage, did their grand finale and bowed to the audience. The boys in the audience (including the jocks) went crazy for the girls, while some of the girls glared at them out of jealousy. The girls walked off the stage waving to the audience. The boys, who were watching backstage gawked at the girls as they walked in- particularly Rachel, who they didn't know could act like that.

"Don't be so sure." Tina said boldly, while the other girls smiled smugly.

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If you didn't get to use the URL, the girl's song was Sparkling Diamonds by Nicole Kidman from the movie Moulin Rouge.