It's finally arrived! Sorry it's taken so long but I'll go into that later on when this ends so you don't have to read all of this! Without further ado, Episode 6 of Glee: The OC Project.


The student council were holding a meeting in the early hours of the morning and Elliot and CeCe were remaining attentive and listened to everything Amy had to say, Jax on the other hand was consistently nodding off and getting more and more bored. There's only so many facts and figures a man can take before he begins to count sheep and envision unicorns dancing in leotards.

"Jax!" Amy snapped as Jax woke from his slumber. "I know you're only here to provide us with some form of entertainment but could you please try and stay awake."

"I will when you stop talking figures," Jax mumbled. "We get it, 20% of the budget needs to go to the therapy costs of people who fainted whilst dissecting frogs and the other 10% goes to the water polo teams horses."

"Water polo isn't like real polo Jax," Amy sighed as she rubbed her hand down her face. "It doesn't involve horses in water."

"Then that's ruined my love of the sport," Jax replied as he stretched out his body.

"Well to stop Jax from falling asleep on this we're going to move on from the budget and onto more pressing matter," Amy announced to the room as she placed both hands on the table. "We have the pep rally coming up to raise the school's spirit before the soccer team take on the Jersey Jackals next week. We've already got the decorations sorted thanks to the art club and the AV club have set up the lighting but we need some entertainment. That's where the glee club comes in."

"You want the Keytones to perform at the pep rally?" Elliot asked with a bit of confusion in his voice. "When was this decided?"

"Last night when I got the idea," Amy maintained as she sat back down. "We need some music and since the band club is struggling after their recent accident."

"Who knew vomit could fly fifteen feet high through a tuba," Jax commented with a small smile.

Amy shook her head as she envisioned the incident again, "Yes, that incident. We need music and your club is the only one on offer so you'll be singing during the pep rally this Friday. You don't have a choice in this and if you make a mockery of this school then expect your club to be given less funding than it already has."

"Friday?" CeCe exclaimed. "You're give us three days to get a performance ready for the whole school to see?"

"Works for the cheerleaders, even if there's a blonde girl who looks like she's on drugs whilst she cheers," Amy bit back with a sly smirk as CeCe sunk into her chair. "Look, we need you to do this now. If you fail then it looks bad for the student council, which makes me look bad, which makes me angry, which makes your club get moved to the janitors closet. Understand?"

"Yes," Elliot begrudgingly replied as he rubbed the back of his head trying to figure out what he was going to need to do to get the club ready. "We'll do what we can."

The bell rang as Amy grabbed up her notes and people began to leave the room, "Meeting dismissed, be at the pep rally on Friday and make sure the event runs smoothly people!"

Elliot and CeCe walked out of the room together and both exchanged worried looks before CeCe said, "I hate her."

"It could be worse," Elliot reassured CeCe.

"She's making us perform in the auditorium in from of the whole school," CeCe bit back. "She knows what happened there with me last year and she's doing it hoping I'll screw up like last time."

"I wouldn't really know," Elliot solemnly replied. "We'll be fine."

"We might as well prepare our funerals. They haven't even sung together yet, how are they going to perform in front of the whole school in five days?" CeCe complained.

"Don't be so pessimistic," Elliot instructed CeCe as the two walked down the school hallway together. "We've got a good group of people who I'm sure will sound incredible together."

"But will they sound as good as The Crescendudes together?" CeCe questioned Elliot as she stopped next to her locker. "Remember we have to beat them to get to nationals and from what I've seen, we're nowhere near that level."

"I believe in our group," Elliot reassured CeCe. "The Crescendudes might have the arts school fund and be talented but we've got heart."

"This isn't a 90's underdog movie," CeCe firmly told Elliot as she opened her locker. "We are not as good as them which means we will lose if we don't step our game up."

"They're a glee club just like us," Elliot reasoned with CeCe. "Yes they have more trophies than us but if we work our butts off we can beat them."

"We need to do more than just work our butts off," CeCe bit back as she pulled out her books. "The Crescendudes have costume makers, they have props for their performances, they have a budget that is bigger than your college fund and we have none of that. Our budget barely covers us using the choir room."

Elliot leaned against the lockers, "We'll figure it out."

"Sure we will mister moral compass," CeCe sarcastically replied as she slammed her locker and a note fell out of her books.

"Looks like you got a note from someone," Elliot pointed it out to CeCe who bent down to pick it up. "Who's it from?"


"The Crescendudes invited us to a performance?" Milo angrily gasped as CeCe and Elliot presented the letter to the whole of the glee club in the show choir room.

"Yep," CeCe replied whilst popping the p. "Ike decided he wanted to show off to every show choir in the area. Apparently we're the grand finale for him."

"Why are we the grand finale though?" Willow asked.

"It might have something to do with Milo and Ike being in a band together and Milo saying he'd never be the man his mother is when they broke up and the fact him and CeCe went to try and spy on them and he wants to rub in their face how good he is compared to us," Artemis explained to everyone. "But that's a long shot isn't it?"

"I regret nothing," Milo chuckled at his own memories of the insult.

"Are we going to go?" Xavier asked whilst leaning forward in his seat.

"We are," Elliot replied. "CeCe told me how good these guys were and we need to see what we're up against. Even if it means having to put up with Ike Milo."

"I like how you assume I'm going," Milo mocked Elliot. "I'm not going anywhere near that High School Musical reject."

"High School Musical is one of your favourite films so don't try and act like you don't like it," Artemis teased Milo who rolled his eyes in response . "Milo, you're going, whether you like it or not. You're apart of this club, so put aside your's and Ike's boy drama and join us."

"I'm with Artemis on this," CeCe agreed as she stood directly in-front of Milo. "We need you, just like we need everyone else. So you're coming with us."

Milo groaned as he shook his head, "Fine, but if Ike says anything then I'm not holding back."

"Deal," CeCe and Artemis said in unison.

"In other news, we've booked our first ever performance!" Elliot exclaimed as Tori, Teddy and Gia all cheered too but quickly stopped when they realised no one else was. "We're going to be performing at the pep rally this Friday!"

"You've got to be kidding me," Jude snapped.

"You want us to perform in front of the whole school during an event that is specifically designed to make the sports teams and cheerleaders feel like gods," Shangela hissed at Elliot. "We're going to get laughed out of there."

"Well we don't exactly have a choice," Elliot explained to them both. "Amy is forcing us to do it, which means we need to make sure we put on a good performance for the school."

"We haven't even sung together yet," Reed rebuked. "How're we going to get something together that makes the school like us?"

"We've got a plan," Elliot replied as he pulled out a folder from behind CeCe.

CeCe grabbed the folder back and opened it up, "We've got four things we need to get done before the rally. First we need someone to design props, Josie since you're always in the art room we've decided this can be your project."

"I've got to make props for thirteen people by Friday!" Josie gasped. "Well that's my lunch gone."

"Get Sabrina to help out," Artemis suggested. "Just tell her I said it and she'll give you a hand."

"I can help as well," Willow chimed in. "I'm pretty good with a paintbrush."

"I'll help too," Rhys offered. "I kind of owe Sabrina anyway."

"So that's the props sorted. Second is the lead vocalists, does anyone want to have a solo?" Elliot asked as nobody raised their hand. "None of you want to have a solo?"

"If no one volunteers I'll be picking the soloists and they will have no choice but to do it," CeCe cautioned everyone as nobody even tried to volunteer. "Fine. Jude and Shangela."

"You sure you want to do that Davenport?" Shangela asked with a threatening gaze. "Because if you do I cannot be held responsible for my actions."

CeCe remained stone hard as she stared at Shangela, "I'll risk it."

"Why're you picking us then Davenport?" Jude asked as she kicked her feet up onto the chair in-front of her. "Your little way of putting me and Shangela in our place?"

"Hardly," CeCe bluntly replied. "You two are probably two of the toughest kids in this school. If anyone even attempts to insult or hurt you then you'll probably destroy them."

"So by picking us you're keeping everyone else safe?" Jude questioned to which CeCe nodded. "Well who knew? Davenport actually has a heart."

"Like the grinch her heart grew five sizes that day," Jax joked as CeCe glared at the pair.

"Shut up you two," CeCe snapped as she went back to her list. "Next we need a song."

"Can it be a musical song?" Gia asked to which a lot of people audibly groaned

"Sorry Gia but we need something that's going to get the school on our side," Elliot added. "Something that will make them not want to hate us."

"Then make it about rebellion," Rhys suggested from the back. "Let's face it the popular kids aren't exactly the typical law abiding students are they? I mean Bruce practically attempted to break a kids nose last week."

"Break The Rules by Charli XCX?" Gia said hoping someone would agree.

"Because nothing says rebellion like a manufactured pop hit," Milo sarcastically replied.

"This is America by Childish Gambino?" Jax added.

"Have you seen this room?" Shangela asked Jax as she gestured to everyone in the room. "The Brady Bunch are less white than this room!"

Milo shook his head before saying, "Just pick a rock song. I mean it's the genre that is all about rebelling against authority and convention."

"Oooh The 1975!" Teddy suggested from the back of the room. "They're the best rock band around right now!"

"They're rock they're pop," Milo firmly told Teddy. "They literally came out and said that about forty or fifty times by now."

"Katy Perry?" Tori suggested as Milo placed his face into his hands.

"Rock gods give me strength," Milo sighed as he moved his hands and looked up to the ceiling.

"What do you suggest then Alice Cooper two point o?" Artemis teased Milo with a sly smile. "I mean you are the rock expert here and it kills me to say that."

Milo smirked slightly as he answered, "Red Hot Chilli Peppers."

"The guys who perform in their underwear?" Willow questioned.

"I'm not singing in my underwear, no matter how much these guys would like to see it," Jude joked.

"I will," Jax chimed in. "I mean who wouldn't want to see more of the Jax man?"

"The whole female population," CeCe bluntly told Jax as she turned to Milo. "What song are we doing then Milo?"

"Let Jude and Shangela figure it out," Milo replied. "They know their voices better than I do."

"But we know about as much about the Red Hot Chilli Peppers as you do about my period cycle," Shangela bit back at Milo. "So how about you just tell us what we should sing by them instead of acting like a brat."

Artemis turned her head to face Milo, "Just do it Milo, stop trying to be difficult."

"Fine," Milo gave in. "By The Way. It's got rap, edge and it's the only song we're probably not going to destroy by them."

"Sorry guys he hasn't had his evening nap or snack yet," Artemis apologised to everyone before glaring at Milo. "Wind your neck in. Now."

Milo shrugged as he leant back in his chair, "Fine."

"Well… glad we have that sorted then," Elliot sighed whilst trying to change the subject. "The last thing on our list is costumes. All show choir teams have matching outfits for their performances so we need someone who'll be able to design and make us look good on stage."

"So we need a fashion designer, does anybody know anyone at all?" CeCe asked the room and received very little feedback until Xavier raised his hand.

"Lennox Delgado," Xavier stated. "She makes all her own clothes and is probably the most fashionable person in the school."

Artemis's eyebrows raised as she realised who Xavier was talking about, "He's right but she's difficult to work with! Lennox used to always sew in the art room until Sabrina kind of kicked her out for being too picky about her work."

"Well unless anyone else knows of a fashionista in this school then she's all we've got," CeCe countered as she looked down at her folder.

"Will she help us?" Elliot asked them both nervously.

"I doubt it," Artemis stated.

"I can talk to her," Xavier reassured Elliot as he leant forward in his chair. "Me and her are pretty close so I think I can get her to join as our fashion guru."

"Then we're all sorted for the week ahead," CeCe said as she slammed her folder shut. "You all have jobs this week and you all need to excel at them."

"This is our big moment," Elliot added with his voice filled with eagerness. "We can show this whole school what we can do and give The Crescendudes a run for their money."

"Speaking of The Crescendudes, we will be meeting outside Junction School of Arts tonight," CeCe instructed everyone. "If Ike wants to intimidate us then we have to make sure we go there as a team. No back talking. No Fighting. No anything."

"We hold our own," Elliot added. "We enter together with our head held high and we leave with our head held high."

Jude laughed under her breath, "It's like listening to a really bad sports movie."

"Yes we may not have the best voices or the best costumes or the best team or the best dancers, if we're honest at this point we probably should've ended this club the moment it started," Jax joked along with Jude. "But we have something that they don't have. A terribly low budget."

"The worst part is I can see Elliot saying that," Teddy laughed as the club chuckled along with him.

"Can we end the meeting there?" Elliot asked CeCe who just shook her head in response.


Amy stood by her locker looking down at her phone with an annoyed expression on her face. If there's one thing she hated it was people being late and it seemed like it was something Bruce thrived in doing. She told him to meet her outside her locker at the start of lunch and he was already eight minutes late.

"What's up Amy?" Bruce asked as he leaned into her locker with a sly smirk on his face.

"You're late," Amy bluntly told him.

"Sorry but I had to get the supplies for Friday to the gym," Bruce replied with a chuckle.

"So you managed to get everything into the gym then?" Amy asked as Bruce smugly nodded. "Good. Nice to know you're not completely incompetent."

"I have my moments," Bruce replied as he looked at his nails. "Perfect payback."

Amy raised an eyebrow and folded her arms, "Perfect? Let's go through the list first shall we? Did you get the remote power socket controller?"

"One of the AV club geeks had one," Bruce bragged. "I just had to promise him you'd go on a pity date with him."

"You what?" Amy angrily asked as she furrowed her brow.

"Relax, I said you'd do it on February 28th," Bruce laughed. "Stupid nerd doesn't even realise there's only twenty seven days in the month."

"I want to call you stupid, but that isn't enough," Amy sighed as she rubbed her forehead. "There's twenty eight days in February."

Bruce's eyes widened before he held out his fingers and began counting, "Okay… well at least you've got something planned for that day now."

"Moving on," Amy angrily sighed as she changed the subject. "Rotten food?"

"Jared and Pete have it above the stage ready to poor it on them," Bruce explained. "We got it this morning so it's been rotting in the trash the whole weekend."

"Nice touch," Amy complimented Bruce she pursed her lips. "Did you get the lighting crew involved too? Or did you offer me to them as well?"

"They just get to sit near us at lunch," Bruce shrugged as he stopped leaning on the lockers. "I've got everything sorted. I even bought a few little traps for the stage."

"Traps? Bruce we can't kill them, you know that right?" Amy told Bruce to make sure he really wasn't as stupid as he looked.

Bruce shook his head in response, "Don't remind me. They're not deadly. A few trips on stage, one or two paint bombs and one reserved especially for Willow. It won't kill them but they'll want to die from embarrassment."

"From the guy who puts in minimal effort into everything you certainly went above and beyond here," Amy complimented Bruce with a small nod. "Let's just hope you're able to execute it."

"Trust me," Bruce replied with a sinister smirk. "Those idiots won't know what hit 'em."


Jax happily walked through the school with Tori and Gia by his side. As per usual Tori was asking about Niko and it was Jax's duty to fill her in on what was happening. Ever since being kicked off of the soccer team Niko had been distant from the pair but recently he began talking to Jax again and, from what he was told, Niko seemed a lot happier now. However there was one thing that he knew Tori wasn't going to like.

"He started boxing!" Tori exclaimed as Jax told her the news.

"Well not started per say," Jax quickly said attempting to defend his friend. "He's been boxing since he was like ten. He just decided to do it competitively now."

"He could get hurt Jax!" Tori yelled at Jax who put his finger in his ear in response.

"You're one foot away from me, I can hear you," Jax replied as he pulled his finger out of his ear. "For a small person you sure can make a lot of noise."

"You should hear her when she's singing karaoke," Gia added cheerfully. "She can belt out any theatre song you give her!"

"Guys, can we be serious for a moment?" Tori asked the pair. "Niko could get seriously hurt."

"Not could, will get seriously hurt," Jax teased as Tori pursed her lips in response. "Tori, without soccer he has nothing to do and he's got to make his dad happy somehow. I get it, you're worried but boxing is something he's good at and can help him get a scholarship. Plus with him fighting I can now say I have a bodyguard."

"Jax is right," Gia agreed. "I mean from what you've told me Niko seems like the type of guy who'd know how get out of trouble."

Tori shook her head at the pair, "I need to talk to him."

"Well you're going to have to wait til tomorrow," Jax told Tori. "He's got the day off to work at his dad's business. So right now he's probably going through hell and would prefer having his eyelids pulled off."

"What is his dad's business anyway?" Gia asked. "All I've heard is that his dad is the CEO of it."

"Tech stuff," Jax shrugged. "Nothing that Niko likes anyway."

"Maybe Niko could join the Glee Club to make his dad happy?" Tori suggested trying to think of a way to get Niko away from boxing.

Jax shook his head and chuckled at Tori before noticing Harper down the hall, "I don't have the time to tell you why boxing and singing Katy Perry songs aren't the same thing but if you do need me to, I'll be over there."

"Huh?" Tori questioned as Jax ran over to Harper.

"Awww Jax has a crush on that girl," Gia cooed as she put her arm around. "Maybe you and Niko can go on a double date with them?"

"Double date?" Tori asked as Gia chuckled in response.

"You're way too cute for your own good sometimes," Gia laughed as pair walked away and the camera panned over to Jax talking to Harper.

"So what've you been up to since last time I saw you?" Jax asked Harper as she closed her locker.

"Well my family took me camping outside of the city so I got to see the stars again," Harper recounted with a small smile on her face. "It was like seeing an old friend. What about you, how's your life been since the game? You still bummed about being off the team?"

"Kind of, I just want to actually do something now," Jax replied. "Never really realised how much of my life soccer took up."

"If it helps I think a lot of people are upset you and Niko aren't on the team," Harper comforted Jax. "Ever since it happened Bruce and his crew have been acting like the kings of the school."

"That's because we're the kings!" Bruce bragged as he stepped in-between the pair with a sly grin across his face. "You're just gonna have to learn that when you're with me babe."

"I think she has something called standards Bruce," Jax jabbed as he smiled whilst Bruce just glared at him and Harper chuckled.

"I'd stay quiet if I were you," Bruce threatened Jax he got into his face. "You don't have your body guard around to protect you anymore."

Jax continued to smile at Bruce, "I never needed a body guard anyway. It just was more entertaining watching you get humiliated than me doing it myself."

"Well then, let's see you defend yourself," Bruce suggested as he picked Jax up by the collar of his shirt and began to carry him to the side.

"Bruce get off of him!" Harper yelled as she grabbed his other arm but was quickly pushed to the ground by Bruce and landed with a grunt.

"Hey! Don't touch her!" Jax snapped as Bruce continued to smile at him as he held him over the trashcan near the lockers.

"Maybe that will teach you to know your place in this school," Bruce told Jax as he dropped him into the trashcan below and walked off laughing away whilst highfiving multiple students.

Jax struggled in the trashcan before Harper got up and helped him out, "Are you okay?"

"I've been better but hey at least I still smell better than bruce," Jax replied with a disgruntled look on his face as he got out of the trash. "More importantly are you okay? You landed hard."

"I'm fine," Harper told Jax as she rubbed her arm, it still hurt but it could be worse. "I just feel so weak. I couldn't do anything. I just… I just wish I could've done something."

Jax smirked slightly, "Well… there is something we can do now."

"What do you mean?" Harper asked with a confused look on her face.

"Remember when I said I was a good prankster at the game?" Jax asked as he placed an arm around Harper. "How'd you like to help me humiliate Bruce in-front of the whole school?"

"I like the sound of that," Harper happily told Jax. "What's the plan?"

"Let's just say, we're gonna need a lot of toilet paper," Jax declared as the two smiled playfully at one another.

(Popular Song by Mika and Ariana Grande performed by Jax and Harper)

{Harper leans on the locker rolling her eyes at Bruce's antics}

[Harper]

La la, la la
You were the popular one, the popular chick
It is what it is, now I'm popular bitch

{Jax joins Harper as he shakes his head at what Bruce does to them as well}

[Jax]

Standing on the field with your pretty pompons
Now you're working at the movie selling popular corn
I could have been a mess but I never went wrong
'Cause I'm putting down my stories in a popular song (La la)
Said I'm putting down my story in a popular song

{The scene cuts to Jax & Harper going into the bathrooms of the school and stealing the toilet paper from them and during the final line Bruce enters the bathroom and panics at what he sees realise he has nowhere to go}

[Jax & Harper]

My problem, I never was a model
I never was a scholar,
You were always popular
You were singing, all the songs I don't know
Now you're in the front row
'Cause my song is popular

{Jax & Harper begin to laugh as Bruce runs out of the bathroom trying to find another. The pair then begin to walk through the halls doing a small dance routine with each other.}

[Jax & Harper]

Popular, I know about popular
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
You're only ever who you were
Popular, I know about popular
And all that you have to do, is be true to you
That's all you ever need to know
Catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go
Catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go

{Harper has flashback to her freshman year when Bruce put her into the dumpster in-front of the school, leaving her feeling humiliated}

[Harper]

I was on the lookout for someone to hate
Picking on me like a dinner plate
I hid during classes, and in between them
Dunk me in the toilet now its you that cleans 'em

{Jax has flashback to when Bruce and his goons carried him through the school and continuously began dumping him into different trash cans}

[Jax]

You tryin' to make me feel bad with the shit you do
It ain't so funny when the joke's on you
Ooh the joke's on you

{Jax & Harper turn to each other and give a small nod as they continue with their plan with Harper throwing toilet paper out of the girls bathroom to Jax}

[Jax & Harper]

And everyone's laughing, got everyone clapping, asking
How come you look so cool?
'Cause that's the only thing that I learned at school
Said that's the only thing I've learned at school

{The pair begin to sneak through the school, hiding behind corners from the teachers, making sure Bruce and Amy don't see them and making sure it all goes of without a hitch}

[Jax & Harper]

My problem, I never was a model
I never was a scholar,
You were always popular
You were singing, all the songs I don't know
Now you're in the front row
'Cause my song is popular

{Jax & Harper step into a store room and admire the big pile of toilet paper they've managed to amass and begin to do small dance around it whilst laughing along the way}

[Jax & Harper]

Popular, I know about popular
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
You're only ever who you were
Popular, I know about popular
And all that you have to do, is be true to you
That's all you ever need to know
Catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go
Catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go

{The pair come out of the room smiling as they see Bruce from afar shoving another student into the trash and they both just glare at him knowing they'll soon be laughing at Bruce themselves}

[Jax & Harper]

Popular, I know about popular,
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
You're only ever who you were
Popular, I know about popular
And all that you have to do, is be true to you.
That's all you ever need to know
All you ever need to know


Sabrina stood in the art room painting as she heard the sound of hammers and nails causing her hand to move and ruin the painting she was working on. She regretted the day she let Josie into this room and wished that she could go back to it being quiet again.

"Do you really have to be so loud?" Sabrina angrily asked as she glared at Josie, Willow and Rhys.

"Sorry," Josie replied holding the hammer. "There's no where else we can do this. Plus Artemis kind of said you'd help us out."

"What're you even making anyway?" Sabrina questioned as she stood up and walked away from the canvas to examine what they were making. "It looks… interesting."

"Some props for our performance this Friday," Rhys sighed as he rubbed sand paper across a wooden beam. "According to Elliot and CeCe we need to make wooden flag poles with red fabric hanging off of them and a small staircase for Shangela and Jude to perform on."

Sabrina gave them a dumbfounded look, "Are you doing a small school performance or are you performing in front of the queen of England?"

"Well they want to go all out with this considering it's during the pep rally," Rhys explained to Sabrina whilst he shook his. "Still don't get why we can't tell Amy to shove it."

"Amy's making you do it?" Sabrina asked with her eyebrows raised as they all nodded in response.

"She's forcing us because the band club can't," Willow told her as Sabrina laughed.

"You know I'd love to see things from her point of view but I don't think I can get my head that far up my butt," Sabrina joked as she sat down next to Rhys and held her hand out to him. "Pass me some wood."

Rhys handed Sabrina a plank of wood, "Turn it into a flag pole."

"I heard you earlier numb nuts," Sabrina replied as she snatched the wood and began to sand it.

"Thanks Sabrina," Josie said as she smiled at her. "We'll be gone by the end of the week."

"You better be," Sabrina scolded. "I'm getting sick of everyone from this little club trying to wriggle their way into my life."

"Maybe you were just meant to be one of us?" Willow suggested as Sabrina glared at him causing Willow to get a bit scared of her. "Or maybe you're just perfect being a scary loner and ice queen and I'm sorry I said that please don't kill me!"

"You're scared of your own shadow aren't you Willow?" Rhys chuckled as Willow turned a bit red. "What happened to that dude who took on Bruce in his English presentation?"

Willow's eyes widened, "How did you know about that?"

"Wait are you that Eli Stryker kid?" Sabrina asked to which Willow nodded. "Nice work with Bruce. Next time record it for me to watch."

"Calling him a caveman, saying you'd hate to be him and calling his music horrible," Josie recapped what she'd been told about the event. "It's the thing of dreams."

"How do you all know about this?" Willow repeated becoming more fearful.

"The whole school knows about it," Rhys explained. "I mean you're the quiet introvert who stood up to the biggest and most popular guy in the school."

"The only other way you could become more well known is if you punched the most popular girl in school like Artemis," Sabrina told Willow who was beginning to look more nervous.

"Oh god, Bruce is going to kill me!" Willow exclaimed as Rhys shook his head.

"You're best friends with Shangela and Jude," Rhys comforted Willow. "If Bruce even attempts anything they'll get payback."

"And you've got Xavier too," Josie reassured him. "He could easily take on Bruce."

"Put them together and they would shove their hand up his ass and pull out a rabbit if he went for you," Sabrina told him. "Now quit your worrying and grab a paintbrush so I can kick you all out of here sooner rather than later."


Xavier and Shangela walked down the hallway together as they made their way to Room 208, otherwise known as the storage room. It's where they kept all materials, machinery and supplies the staff would need and the only place where Lennox could get some peace and quiet.

"You sure you can get her to join?" Shangela asked Xavier as they stood outside the room.

"I'm pretty confident," Xavier reassured Shangela. "Like I said we go way back so I think I can convince her to join. Even if it may take sometime."

"Just don't take too long, I'm starving and could do with some company this lunch since Jude has detention and Reed is studying for some big math final," Shangela told him as she leaned against the wall next to the door.

"Speaking of studying, have you actually been trying with school now?" Xavier questioned Shangela, remembering the deal they made.

"That depends," Shangela said. "Have you found joy outside of football yet?"

"I wouldn't be trying to get a fashion guru to join the glee club if I hadn't," Xavier countered.

Shangela shook her head and chuckled in response, "I should've said that glee club doesn't count. If you must know though I have been studying and trying."

"Good," Xavier replied. "Now maybe you might be able to get into the college of your dreams."

"You're pushing it there," Shangela cautioned him. "But I'll allow it. Now get it in there already and get us a costume maker."

"Wish me luck," Xavier said as he pushed open the door and entered the room.

The room looked like a disaster zone with pieces of school equipment scattered everywhere, school books stacked high on one another, art supplies placed on top of tables, sports equipment on the floor and sewing machines in pristine condition placed beautifully on top of a table in the centre of the room and next to that table was Lennox Delgado sewing away.

She had pink hair that was dark at the roots and was wearing a black leather jacket with a flowing floral crop top underneath, black skinny jeans and a pair of red doc marten boots on her feet. She had her tongue sticking out as she remained focused on what she was doing until she realised the sound of footsteps approaching her.

"Whoever is there can it wait til I'm done here?" Lennox asked with an annoyed tone as she continued with her sewing.

"Is that anyway to talk to an old client and friend?" Xavier questioned Lennox with a smile as she stopped her sewing and looked up to see Xavier.

"Xavier!" Lennox cheerfully greeted him as she got up and gave him a hug. "What're you doing here? Do you need another suit made or what?"

"Not this time," Xavier replied as he hugged her back. "Although I don't think I'll ever be able to repay you for making that suit for my uncles wedding. Best looking guy there."

"Well when you spend years re-tailoring your dad's suits it becomes easy making them from scratch," Lennox bragged as she ended the hug and sat back down. "Besides making an entire suit out of red fabric and making it look good? That was a fun challenge."

"You always did like a challenge," Xavier commented as he took a seat across the table from where Lennox was sitting. "Like the time you got told you couldn't climb a tree at Central Park and then had to have the fire brigade get you down."

Lennox shook her head the memory, "Was a good way to meet some cute firemen though."

"I'm sure they thought the crying ten year old was adorable," Xavier teased Lennox who rolled her eyes at him in response.

"If we're talking embarrassing stories how about we talk about your twelfth birthday party?" Lennox laughed whilst Xavier chuckled in response. "Sitting down with a birthday badge in your pocket and piecing your left testicle. That must've been a fun trip to A&E?"

"Got to meet some cute nurses though," Xavier replied. "Never worn a birthday badge since."

"And I've never climbed a tree again either," Lennox confessed with a smile. "So, did you come in here to have a trip down memory lane or is there something else you had in mind?"

"Well I kind of wanted to ask you something," Xavier gingerly approached the subject.

"Does your mom want a dress this time or are your twin sisters finally letting me redesign their whole wardrobe?" Lennox asked excitedly. "If I didn't know them and saw them walking down the street I'd want to put money in a cup for them."

Xavier laughed and shook his head, "No and I am definitely using that one for when they come round again."

"Go for it, I've got more about their fashion sense where that came from," Lennox insisted. "What do you want to ask me then?"

"I know you like a challenge, I know you love making and designing clothes and as you may know I'm apart of the glee club," Xavier began as Lennox nodded along. "We're looking for someone who can make us look good on the stage."

"And you want me to do it because I am the queen of fashion around here?" Lennox gloated in an amusing fashion as she flipped her hair back.

"Pretty much," Xavier confirmed as Lennox thought for a second before responding.

"I don't know Xavier," Lennox replied with an unsure expression. "I'm having to do my own clothes and commissions during lunch already and I don't even know what type of stuff you're going to need or how much freedom I'm going to have with the designs."

"That's the brilliant part," Xavier reassured Lennox. "All we do is give you a theme and you can design whatever you want. If we say we want something that looks like it came straight out of a 50 Cent music video then you can do whatever you want with that. You can make us all individual outfits or you can do one for boys and one for girls. It's all up to you!"

Lennox sat in her own thoughts for a moment, "Somehow I can't see a show choir ever wanting something for a 50 Cent medley."

"Is that a yes?" Xavier her nervously.

"I don't think I can," Lennox regrettably sighed. "Sorry."

"It's fine," Xavier comforted Lennox. "Artemis already told me she doubted you'd do it."

Lennox's eyes widened as she looked up at Xavier, "Artemis?"

"Yeah, she's a member of the club," Xavier explained. "I'm guessing you know her?"

"I guess you could say that," Lennox replied as fidgeted with her fingers. "Okay, you wore me down. I'll make your glee clubs costumes, but I better get credited for my work."

"Perfect!" Xavier exclaimed with joy as he high fived Lennox. "Your first assignment is rebellion! We're doing a song by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers."

"Rebellion, I like it," Lennox said with a smirk and a slight nod. "When's the deadline?"

"Friday," Xavier told Lennox who looked at Xavier in disbelief. "Too soon I'm guessing?"

Lennox nodded, still not believe what she heard, "Just a bit. I'm going to have to work none stop."

"How about I buy you lunch today as thank you?" Xavier suggested. "I'll even keep you company during the long nights if need be."

"I suppose it will do," Lennox replied as she got up from her seat and approached the door with Xavier following. "But if I end up stitching my hand to a piece of fabric then it's on your conscience."

"I'll live," Xavier joked as Lennox opened the door to see Shangela waiting by the door still and the two looked at each other. "Oh yeah, Lennox this is Shangela, Shangela this is Lennox."

"The famous fashionista," Shangela greeted Lennox as she offered her hand for her to shake.

"The famous bad ass of the school," Lennox replied as she shook Shangela's hand. "Good to know I've got a good model wearing my clothes."

"A good model? I like you already," Shangela complimented Lennox as she realised what she said. "Wait, so that means you're making out outfits?"

"For the time being," Lennox told Shangela as she straightened her jacket. "Plus Xavier said he'd get me lunch today so that kind of sealed the deal."

"Always the gentleman aren't you?" Shangela teased Xavier who shook his head in response.

"Let's just get some food before you both begin talking about me," Xavier replied as the three of them walked off to the cafeteria.


Elliot and CeCe stood outside the Junction School of Arts together. CeCe's foot was tapping on the floor, she was getting impatient with the rest of the club not being there already, that and it was freezing outside today. Elliot already took notice of this and was beginning to figure out how much this really meant to CeCe.

"They'll be here," Elliot reassured her as CeCe puffed out her cheeks. "Don't worry we'll be ready for whatever they throw at us."

"That's not what I'm worried about," CeCe sighed as she folded her arms and let out a heavy breath. "Whatever Ike throws at us I can handle. Friday is what I'm struggling with."

"We'll be fine," Elliot continued to comfort CeCe. "Jude and Shangela are brilliant performers, Josie has been working on the props all day and we've got Lennox making our outfits for us. Everything is falling into place."

"Things can still go wrong," CeCe countered as she continued to shiver. "Lyrics can be forgotten, props can break, outfits can tear and that's just for starters. Anything can happen."

"Which also means it can all go right," Elliot persisted with CeCe as he leaned against the wall. "Don't worry, we've got this."

"Easy for you to say, you don't know what can go wrong in that gym," CeCe sighed as she stared at the floor. "It can become a disaster really quick."

"If it goes wrong then it goes wrong," Elliot commented as CeCe shook her head. "When things go wrong don't go wrong with them. You have to take the good with the bad."

CeCe sighed as she leaned against the wall too and looked over at Elliot, "How do you stay so optimistic all the time? Every time I have a negative thought or say anything bad you immediately come up with a positive side to it. How do you do it?"

"I guess I got it from my mom and dad," Elliot told CeCe who continued to look up at him. "They always taught me to see the good in people. Makes sense with my dad being a detective. He always said that there's so much bad in the world that there needs to be some good too."

"Good advice," CeCe commented. "What about your mom? What does she do?"

"She was an actress," Elliot reminisced as he thought back his mom on the stage. "She always did plays that she thought could teach me important life lessons. She did Matilda to teach me it's okay to be naughty sometimes. The Lorax for the environment. Tuck Everlasting for how important time truly is. The list goes on."

"So even your parents are moral compasses?" CeCe teased Elliot who laughed in response. "The last lesson my parents taught me was how every mistake you make follows you for life."

"Yeah they didn't seem like the caring type when I met them," Elliot told CeCe who just nodded in response. "Are they part of the reason you're so scared about Friday?"

CeCe waved her hand at Elliot whilst looking away from him, "Change the subject, let's just talk about your family instead. It's nice hearing about parents who're actually good for a change."

"Well what do you want to know?" Elliot asked.

"Your mom taught you through plays, how did you dad teach you life lessons?" CeCe followed up.

"He taught me with rock music," Elliot replied.

CeCe immediately scoffed at the answer, "Rock music? Are you sure you're not Milo?"

"Ha ha ha, very funny," Elliot sarcastically said. "My dad was a rocker back in the day before he eventually settled down with my mom. He used to take me on long drives to some police conventions outside of New York and he'd talk about rock the whole time. We'd have mixtapes of all the classics and he'd tell me what they all meant to him."

"What song was your favourite?" CeCe asked as she looked up at the sky trying to imagine her mother or father ever doing something like that for her.

"Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) by Green Day," Elliot fondly told CeCe. "He just told me how everyone thinks its this romantic affair of a song when in reality Billie Joel Armstrong wrote it about his girlfriend moving to Ecuador and his frustration with the break-up. People found the happiness in something that was actually about sadness. Finding the good in the bad."

"Now it's played at every graduation across the country," CeCe joked as Elliot chuckled along. "Kind of wish I knew more about Green Day. I only really know that one song."

"How have you only heard that one song?" Elliot asked CeCe in slight disbelief.

CeCe shrugged in response, "You know me, more of a jazz girl, but you might convince me into liking Green Day."

"Well they're coming to New York in a month or two," Elliot told her. "Maybe its time I finally got you to experience rock and roll for the first time."

"Sure I'll come," CeCe agreed. "But don't expect me to jump into a mosh pit. I'm a small white girl who'll snap like a twig."

"Fair enough," Elliot gave in raising his hands in surrender as he noticed the glee club all beginning to arrive. "Told you they'd be here eventually."

"They're still late," CeCe countered with her arms folded as the glee club approached the two of them. "You're all late you realise?"

"Subway got delayed," Rhys told her.

"We were trapped on the subway with nothing to eat or drink for over two hours!" Teddy screamed in horror as Rhys rolled his eyes.

Rhys placed his hand on Teddy's shoulder, "Calm the dramatics, you didn't have to go that far."

"Gotta make it believable somehow," Teddy replied as he looked at Rhys.

"Believable is one thing but that was like Tommy Wiseau's acting. Unbelievable," Rhys commented as he took his hand off Teddy's shoulder.

"Let's just get this over with," Jude said as she charged ahead with everyone beginning to follow her lead. "The sooner we're done, the sooner I can get food."

"Stop thinking with your stomach and slow down!" CeCe commanded as she moved towards the front of the pack as the camera panned over to Artemis and Milo straggling at the back.

"Prepare for a night of fun and joy," Milo sarcastically said to Artemis who remained unresponsive and just looked straight on. "What have I done? Ever since the meeting this morning you've been ignoring me all day."

"It's nothing Milo," Artemis bluntly replied as the pair continued to walk near the back of the pack.

"When you say it's nothing it means something," Milo rebuked whilst pointing his finger at Artemis. "You know what's going to happen? I'm going to have no clue what I did, I'm going to try and figure out what I did, you're going to tell me and I'm going to apologise. So let's just skip the middle and go right to the end."

"Fine, you were an idiot back in that meeting Milo," Artemis snapped at him. "Actually calling you an idiot is an insult to stupid people everywhere. You were an imbecile!"

"Look it's not my fault no one in there knows anything about rock," Milo defended himself.

Artemis shook her head in response, "Milo, you know more about music than anyone in that club. You can play almost every instrument that you can get your hands on. You understand how to sing a song better than anyone I know. When you're on that stage everybody cannot take their eyes off of you, no matter how hard they try."

"So you're mad at me but you're also complimenting me?" Milo questioned nervously.

"I'm mad because of how good you are and how little you're doing with it," Artemis firmly told Milo with her furrowed brow. "You could be a real leader to this club. You could help Shangela and Jude nail this song, you could help with the staging, you could even help the whole of the club with their singing but you don't. Instead you act like you're too good for them when in reality you need them. Wherever you like it or not."

"I'm not a teacher Artemis," Milo declared as he continued to march on. "I'm a rocker."

"A rocker who on the first day of school helped a freshman in a princess outfit get up the courage to go on stage. A rocker who went to beat up Bruce the second he heard he was harassing someone he knew. A rocker who spent did all he could to help a girl he knew make her own decision about meeting her birth parents. But most importantly, you're the rocker who made a seven year old girl who lost her birth parents feel like Batman," Artemis told Milo. "You're a good guy Milo. Sometimes you just need to act like it and forget your rocker image."

Milo remained silent as the pair continued to walk behind everyone before he looked over to Artemis and said, "I'll try and do better."

"Don't try, just do," Artemis advised Milo as she looked ahead and began to move quicker. "Come on let's catch up. I don't exactly want to be scorned by CeCe again."

"Fine," Milo replied calmly as he caught up to the group and the camera panned to Josie rubbing her hand with Teddy taking notice.

"Why're you rubbing you hand? Trying to give yourself an Indian burn?" Teddy naively asked Josie who shook her head in response.

"I kind of hammered my fingers into some food," Josie explained nervously as she continued to rub her hand. "It still kind of hurts."

"Why did you need a hammer? You were making flag poles right?" Teddy questioned as Josie blushed as she remembered her idiocy.

"A staircase as well, but I might've hammered some nails into the flag poles because I thought they were needed," Josie sheepishly admitted which caused Teddy to laugh out loud. "Shut up, I'm a painter not a carpenter."

"Didn't anyone tell you?" Teddy asked curiously.

Josie nodded in response, "Sabrina told me after twenty minutes of hammering and thought I was stupid too. In her words the wheel in my head is turning but the hamster is officially dead."

"She also said we were about as useful as the g in lasagna," Willow added to the conversation.

"Well she wasn't exactly wrong," Rhys commented. "None of us took shop and have no clue what we were doing in there today. Sabrina was the only one who knew what she was doing."

"I can help if you want?" Teddy offered. "I know a bit about this type of thing."

"I thought your mom was really protective of you though?" Josie asked with a slightly confused look on her face. "You're telling me she let you near power tools that could easily hurt you?"

Teddy shrugged, "What my mom doesn't know won't hurt her."

"Then come to the art room tomorrow," Rhys told Teddy. "Just don't annoy Sabrina. I've faced her wrath once and trust me, it wasn't fun."

"Yeah, what he said," Josie confirmed. "She's just starting to like me."

"Quiet!" CeCe commanded from the front of the group as they stood outside the entrance to the Junction School of Arts auditorium. "We don't know what Ike or The Crescendudes are going to be like once we enter this room. So be prepared."

"Don't let them get in your head," Elliot added on. "They may have more money than us and more national championships-"

"Building our confidence here skipper," Shangela joked from the back.

"But whatever they can do we can do even better," Elliot told everyone. "We're only here so we all know what we're up against. So, lets go."

Elliot opened the door to the auditorium and it was pitch black. As the whole club made their way in they soon realised they were all alone and that The Crescendudes were nowhere to be seen.

"What's going on?" Tori nervously asked as she edged closer to Gia. "Why is it so dark?"

"It's like CeCe's soul, dark and scary," Jax joked trying to ease the tension.

"Not funny Jax," CeCe bit back as everyone in the club continued to look nervously around.

"Where are they?" Milo whispered to himself.

Suddenly a bright spotlight hit the stage and stood their basking in the glory of the light was Ike. He stood in the centre of the stage wearing a black shirt with rolled up sleeves with black trousers and shoes to match.

"Ladies, gentleman and whatever we can class Milo as," Ike introduced himself whilst also firing off his first insult at Milo. "Welcome to the grand show!"

"Just get on with it!" CeCe yelled with her arms folded.

"Never a one for the theatrics were you CeCe, but before we allow you all to enjoy the show we have something to show you. Jake if you please!" Ike replied when suddenly the back of the stage lit up with a wide array of colours and moving lights that flickered and consistently changed colours. "This is the Junction LED screen. It fits the entirety of any stage across the country and is our ticket to winning sectionals, regionals and nationals once again. With over 20,000 LED lights whatever design or animation we want will appear on the screen. Oh and we bought it off Beyonce once she finished her world tour."

"Well that's… impressive," Gia sighed in slight awe of what she was seeing.

"How does it feel knowing your own club thinks we're better then?" Ike asked CeCe and Elliot.

"Shove it Ike," CeCe bit back.

"We're just as good as you," Elliot responded proudly.

"Just as good?" Ike questioned before howling with laughter. "They're so bad they couldn't even win a surrender vote."

"Just get on with it!" Milo yelled from the back wanting this unpleasant expire to be over with.

"Milo, the man who looks like how a guitar centre smells," Ike insulted Milo.

Milo tried to stand by Artemis quickly grabbed his arm and pulled him down slowly, "Don't rise to it. Remember what I said. Be better."

"Fine," Milo grunted as he took a deep breath

"Good boy Milo but this LED screen isn't all we have that's new!" Ike announced to the room. "The Crescendudes have been all male we were founded all the way back in the 1980's. Now we've welcomed our first ever female member, the one and only Leticia!"

A girl with long brown hair and white floral print dress walked out onto the stage and stood right next to Ike. Shangela and Artemis's eyes widened as they saw her, she looked identical to Lennox.

"Yo what happened to her being on our side?" Shangela angrily whispered into Xaviers ear.

"What're you talking about?" Xavier asked.

"That's Lennox!" Shangela snapped as she pointed to her on stage. "Can't you see that!"

Xavier focused on the stage before shaking his head, "It's not Lennox. Her hair is partly pink for starters, she wouldn't be caught dead in white and she has her ears pierced and this girl doesn't."

"Then how come she looks identical to her?" Shangela asked with a touch of annoyance.

"People can look like other people," Xavier explained. "I've been told I look like Dylan O'Brien."

"I don't see it," Shangela replied as she shook her head.

"Are you two done talking?" Leticia asked the pair. "It's incredibly rude to talk whilst others are about to perform."

"Yeah that's not her," Shangela quickly said to Xavier as she leant back in her chair. "Carry on princess! Don't let us stop you."

"Don't call me princess," Leticia told Shangela whilst furrowing her brow. "We have four minutes to perform our song, five minutes for you all to accept we're better than you and ten minutes for us to brag about it all."

"How very efficient," Jude commented under her breath.

"It's why she got in," Ike explained to Jude. "Now let's get this show underway. I'm sure you all would hate to ruin our schedule."

"This is like watching the preview before a film you don't want to see," Jude sighed.

(Find You by Zedd ft Matthew Koma & Miriam Bryant performed by The Crescendudes)

{Ike stands centre stage and a white pulsing circle goes off slowly behind him on the LED screen}

[Ike]

Silent love is calling faith
To shatter me through your hallways
Into echoes you can feel
And rehearse the way you heal

{Leticia steps out from behind Ike as the LED screen continue pulsating}

[Leticia]

Make them dance
Just like you
'Cause you make me move
Yeah you always make go

{All The Crescendudes step onto the stage to planned choreography whilst making Leticia and Ike the centre of attention as the LED Screen flashes between multiple colours, lighting up the whole room and blinding some of The Keytones members}

[The Crescendudes]

I'll run away with your foot steps
I'll build a city that dreams for two
And if you lose yourself
I will find you

{Ike walks slowly down the centre stage as the LED screen shows small dots, almost petal like, floating across the screen. The Keytones look at each other nervously as they realise what they're actually up against.}

[Ike]

High on words
We almost used
We're fireworks with a wet fuse
Flying planes with paper wheels
To the same Achilles heels

{Leticia follows Ike's lead as she walks slowly down the centre of the stage as the rest of The Crescendudes make her the main focus of attention}

[Leticia]

Make them dance
Just like you
'Cause you make me move
Yeah you always make go

{All The Crescendudes begin a highly choreographed dance routine during the drop as Ike and Leticia are covered by them as the LED Screen flashes between multiple colours, lighting up the whole room in the process}

[The Crescendudes]

I'll run away with your foot steps
I'll build a city that dreams for two
And if you lose yourself
I will find you

{The Crescendudes move to the side to reveal Aiden walking slowly through the middle of them and Reed takes notice of him with a small smile on his face as the LED screen remains pure white}

[Aiden]

Open up your skies
Turn up your night
To the speed of life
Turn up your night
Put your love in lights
Turn up your night
I will find you

{Leticia is lifted into the air by the other members as she sings her part and the LED screen begins to pulsate like at the start}

[Leticia]

Make them dance
Just like you
'Cause you make me move
Yeah you always make go
Yeah you always make go

{All The Crescendudes begin a highly choreographed dance routine during the drop as Ike and Leticia are covered by them as the LED Screen flashes between multiple colours, lighting up the whole room in the process}

[The Crescendudes]

I'll run away with your foot steps
I'll build a city that dreams for two
And if you lose yourself
I will find you
Turn up your night
(Go go go go)
Turn up your night
(Go go go go turn it up turn it up)
Turn up your night
I will find you

{The Crescendudes walk off stage leaving only Leticia centre stage as the LED screen stops completely leaving a single spotlight on her for her final notes}

[Leticia]

Make them dance
Just like you
'Cause you make me move
Yeah you always make go

"Well Elmwood glee club," Ike sighed as he walked off stage with the Crescendudes. "Have you realised what you're up against? Five other clubs have come to their senses and called it quits. Don't you think you should join them?"

"First off we're called The Keytones," Elliot firmly told Ike as he stood up to face Ike. "Secondly we're not scared of you Ike. You might have more money but we can out perform you easily."

Ike chuckled under his breath as the rest of his club did too, "Out perform us? Yeah three time national champions are going to be out performed by a club who've been together for less that three months. Keep dreaming."

"We know what we're doing," Elliot confidently said to Ike. "Just wait and see what we're capable of, then try and be as smug as you are now."

"Oooooh, freshman boys got a bit of bite to him," Ike teased Elliot. "It's good that you've got confidence kid but you're being way too optimistic about your chances. If you make it to regionals with this Addams Family of a glee club then you're over achieving."

"Don't insult them," Elliot gritted through his teeth.

"I don't insult, I say the truth," Ike sneered. "Your club has a girl who's caused more disasters at your school than anything good she's done and a guy who brightens up a room with his absence. That's just for starters. The sooner you realise you've got a mini disaster waiting to happen, the better you'll be."

"I think we'll be fine," Elliot confidently told Ike. "Now if you're done here, we're going to be leaving."

"Be free then," Ike said whilst gesturing to the door and walking back to the stage with his club. "Don't let our talent hit you on the way out."

Elliot turned to leave and walked through his glee club with CeCe following closely behind, "Well that could've gone better."

"Could've gone a lot worse though," CeCe replied as she and the glee club left the room. "Now you know what we're up against."

"And know why we need to beat him," Elliot declared. "We need to make sure we're ready for Friday. Lay a strong foundation with that performance and then we go after The Crescendudes."

"Get past sectionals and destroy them at regionals," CeCe confidently explained. "Sounds like a good plan."

The camera panned over to Reed who's eyes suddenly widened as he began to pat around his body which Willow noticed, "What's the matter?"

"I can't find my phone," Reed confessed. "I think I left it in the auditorium."

"Well run and grab it," Jude told him. "Before one of The Crescendouches spots you."

Reed nervously glanced back before he walked into the auditorium again. Nobody was in there except for one lone boy who was standing there with a phone in his hand.

"Umm is this yours?" He nervously asked as he held out the phone.

"Yeah it's mine," Reed replied as he walked over and slowly took the phone from his hand. "You were… You were really good up there."

"Thanks," the boy replied whilst rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly. "I'm Aiden. Sorry about what Ike said about your club."

"It's okay, I expected a lot worse," Reed responded. "I'm Reed."

"Yeah, Ike's got a bit of a reputation," Aiden defended Ike. "He means well, he just goes a bit far sometimes. He's still one of the best leaders we've ever had though."

"I'd still take someone being nice over someone like Ike," Reed told him.

Aiden shook his head as he leaned awkwardly on the chair in the auditorium, "I prefer the harsh realness that Ike offers. It may not be the nicest way to do it but considering what our last leader was like it certainly makes a change. What's your leader like?"

"We've actually got two," Reed explained to Aiden. "One's CeCe who's a bit harsh and the other is Elliot who's really nice."

"So you get the best of both worlds," Aiden replied. "Cue the Hannah Montana theme song."

Reed chuckled, "I guess you could say it like that… Do you ever get sick of Ike being harsh on you though? It must make you feel a bit bad about yourself."

"That comes with the territory," Aiden relented. "Everyone in our group goes through bad moments with him. Some will get angry, others stressed and people with cry too but in the end we all come to the next meeting."

"How?" Reed asked curiously.

"Because we're family," Aiden told Reed. "If one of us is down we all pick them back up. I've seen people cry and within ten minutes our club has got them laughing and having fun again and that's what our club needs. We might be in an arts school but we're still low in the pecking order around here, just like you are. Sometimes all you need is a group of people to have your back."

"Yeah, I get that," Reed replied as he looked over his shoulder to where Shangela, Jude and Willow were previously. "I don't know what I'd do without my friends."

"That's what I just said but sure," Aiden bluntly said as he stopped leaning on the chair. "You better get out of here before Ike sees you. I doubt he'd be fond of me talking to you."

"Ummm, okay," Reed awkwardly agreed as he headed towards the exit. "It was nice speaking to you, I guess."

"Just go," Aiden told him as Reed exited the room and Aiden turned round to walk back on the stage but was met with Ike and Leticia standing on the stage arms folded. "Let me guess, you've been watching off stage the whole time?"

Ike shrugged his shoulders as he approached Aiden, "You're good at guessing. Want to try and guess what I'm about to say?"

"That I shouldn't be fraternising with the enemy and I should be focusing on winning sectionals rather than talking to boys?" Aiden suggested as Ike nodded along.

"Smart boy," Ike complimented Aiden in a condescending tone.

"There's a reason I have the highest GPA in the school," Aiden told Ike in a snarky tone.

"Only by 0.1 of a point," Leticia replied as she followed Ike to stand in front of Aiden. "Yet somehow I am the one smart enough to know that you don't make friends with the enemy. Makes crushing them a lot harder to do."

"That 0.1 still makes me smarter than you Letty," Aiden jabbed. "I talked to him for a few seconds. I doubt that's going to effect my singing."

"You really don't understand this competition do you?" Ike asked Aiden with his arms folded. "You know him now, that face now has a personality attached to it for you. Do you think a lion sits down and talks to its prey?"

Aiden rolled his eyes, "A lion Ike? Really?"

"We are the predators Aiden," Ike told Aiden fiercely. "We hunt down the weak and destroy them so we become the alphas. Your enemy now has a personality and you need to forget that."

"Did you even see who I was talking to? He was wet blanket, bland as anything, I've had bran that's had more personality than him," Aiden snarled at Ike with his arms folded hardly believing what he was hearing. "I know what I need to do. As do you."

"Good," Ike snarled. "Now go back to the choir room with everyone else."

Aiden nodded and walked away as Leticia turned to face Ike, "You worried about him?"

"He's the only person on this team I can't read," Ike thought out loud as he looked back at where Aiden had left the room. "He'll be this snarky kid who acts tough but can break down at any moment. Yet he has one of the best voices here."

"Maybe it's wise to let him take a break until we actually beat them," Leticia suggests with her clipboard in hand. "We've got a club filled with talented singers and Aiden can always be our secret weapon when we get to nationals."

"We've got good singers but tell me one person who has a better voice than him?" Ike questioned Leticia. "No one. If we want to win sectionals, regionals and nationals comfortably we need him."

Leticia shrugged, "Then I guess we're going to have to take the risk of letting him perform, even if you cannot tell what's going on with him. Before you allow that though just remember in sectionals we're up against a school for the tone deaf and a homeschool for three rich kids. I doubt they're going to be a big challenge to beat."

"I'll think about it," Ike sighed as he pushed his hair back and looked out at the empt seats in the auditorium. "Come on, let's get to work."


It was early the next morning and Niko was working on his boxing in the school's gym. He was used to getting up this early to do some soccer drills and when he was kicked off the team he quickly change his routine to do boxing in the morning instead. Sure it was a lot more physically demanding than soccer but at least he was making his dad happy.

"Boxing? Really Niko?" Tori questioned him as she walked into the room.

"Good morning to you as well Tori," Niko chuckled as he stopped punching the punching bag and grabbed a towel to wipe off the sweat from his brow. "I'm guessing Jax told you about this?"

"Of course he did, I was worried about you!" Tori exclaimed. "I haven't spoken or seen you in over two weeks! I know you're upset about leaving the soccer team but that doesn't mean you just have to leave me in the dark."

"I deal with things my own way Tori," Niko sighed as he placed the towel back down. "That means people leaving me along and letting me figure out what needs to be done and this is what I needed to do this time."

"Start boxing?" Tori asked with a worried expression on her face. "Niko you could get seriously hurt. You could end up with brain damage. This could end up doing more harm than good."

"Got any other suggestions for a sport I might be good at? Because if you do I'm all ears," Niko told Tori as he began to take off his boxing gloves.

"Basketball, track, tennis, swimming, anything that won't lead to you getting hurt," Tori panicked as she listed off all the sports she could think of.

Niko shook his head in response, "I'm too short to play basketball, track has their member slots filled up, my hand coordination is to bad for tennis and I look like a drowning walrus when I swim. This is the only option for me."

"I don't want to see you get hurt Niko," Tori said as her eyes began to get teary.

"Then don't come to my fight on Thursday then," Niko told Tori as he leaned against the wall.

Tori's eyes instantly widened at what he said, "What? You've got a fight on Thursday!"

"Debut fight against some guy from up town," Niko nonchalantly replied as he walked past Tori to grab a water bottle from the floor. "Apparently he's only just started so it should be easy."

"I can't believe you're actually doing this," Tori exclaimed as she began to pace the room. "You can't get hurt, you can't fight, you just… you just can't."

"Change the record Tori," Niko scolded whilst squirting some water into his mouth. "What's happened with you and your dad anyway? You back at your place again or?"

"Don't change the subject to that," Tori nervously replied. "We're talking about you here."

"And nothing you say is going to change my mind about boxing," Niko countered. "I've been doing it for years, I'm good at it, I might be able to get a scholarship with it and my dad won't blow a gasket because of it either."

"What's the point of doing it if you're going to end up doing something you hate though?" Tori rebutted as she stopped pacing the room and faced Niko with an exasperated expression on her face. "You don't want to do what your dad does but you're literally pushing yourself to do something that will end with you and him working together. Jax said you worked at his place yesterday, did you enjoy it or did you want to get out of there as quickly as possible."

Niko solemnly shook his head, "You know the answer to that."

"Then why don't you do what you want to do for a change," Tori sighed as she began to her visibly frustrated with Niko.

"It's complicated," Niko replied with his head facing the floor.

"Isn't everything?" Tori countered as Niko remained motionless and didn't say anything which Tori didn't like. "Fine. Be quiet, I'll leave you alone with your thoughts but please listen to me. I can't see someone else I care about being hurt."

Tori walked quickly out of the room with tears in her eyes as Niko looked up as the door shut behind her.


Elliot and CeCe stood next to each other in the choir room with CeCe's fingers tapping the counter beside her repeatedly. Elliot was already taking notice and could tell she was nervous.

"If you do that any longer you're gonna leave an indentation on the counter," Elliot stated as CeCe sheepishly stopped what she was doing and moved her hands to her side.

"Sorry," CeCe apologised. "I'm just… stressed. I know we have a few days left to rehearse but anything can go wrong."

"Don't worry about it," Elliot reassured CeCe. "Stop being so pessimistic about it."

"Being a pessimist is the best way to be," CeCe countered. "I'm either right or pleasantly surprised. A win, win situation."

Elliot raised an eyebrow in response, "Well you must be optimistic about having Lennox with us? The fashion queen of the school designing all of our costumes and making us look incredible. Come on that must be a good thing?"

"Or we just look good and become a beautiful disaster," CeCe retorted as she checked the time on her phone. "Where is she anyway? I thought Xavier told her that she had to be here before the first bell."

"She'll be here," Elliot continued to reassure CeCe. "Just wait, she's probably been in the sewing room all day working on some concepts for us."

"Or she's late," CeCe replied as Lennox nonchalantly walked into the room. "What're you doing here Leticia?"

Lennox gave CeCe a puzzled look, "Who is Leticia and why're you calling me that?"

"Don't play dumb with me," CeCe bluntly responded. "Just go back to Ike and tell him that your little scheme didn't work."

"Is she high or something?" Lennox asked Elliot looking more confused now that ever.

"I don't know," Elliot honestly said. "CeCe, that's Lennox."

"What're you talking about?" CeCe snapped at Elliot. "Look at her! How can you not see it's Ike's crowning jewel in the Crescendude's big headed crown."

"Crescendudes? Leticia? Honestly this sounds like some bad fanfiction right now, just waiting for the spelling error and sentences that don't make sense," Lennox joked.

"CeCe, Leticia didn't have pink hair, Lennox does," Elliot explained to CeCe who took note. "Lennox was here yesterday and has been friends with Xavier since birth."

"Not birth but ever since he saved me from drowning in a pool," Lennox reminisced. "Although he was the one who caused it so I guess I have a bit of Stockholm syndrome there."

CeCe looked up and down at Lennox before conceding that she was wrong, "Well… you're still late, so I'm still mad."

"Sorry I over slept," Lennox told CeCe who gave a knowing look to Elliot as Lennox placed her bag down. "So why'd you both want to see me at this ungodly hour?"

"We wanted to talk to you about the club," Elliot explained as he walked over to Lennox. "Me and CeCe are over the moon you're joining us but we also want you to be a big part of the club."

"What do you mean?" Lennox asked nervously glancing over at CeCe as well.

"He means we want you to have a say in the club so we want you at the meetings," CeCe continued where Elliot left off. "Give us insight as someone who would be an audience member and not a performer."

"So basically be a judge?" Lennox questioned CeCe and Elliot who both nodded. "I like the sound of that. Are the rest of the club okay with it or is this just gonna be you two telling everyone how this is going to work?"

"Both," Elliot and CeCe replied in unison.

"So you've told people?" Lennox asked.

"I've let Xavier know and he's going to be telling everyone else," Elliot explained to Lennox.

Lennox nodded along before asking, "Does Artemis know about this yet?"

"Not yet… Is there any reason why she should?" Elliot questioned Lennox.

"No reason," Lennox shrugged as she tried to change the subject. "Is there anything else you want to tell me? What you want from the outfits perhaps?"

"We trust you," Elliot confidently told Lennox. "Whatever you think is right for the song and performance we'll go with."

"That and we're just about getting our heads around staging so doing fashion alongside that will probably kill us," CeCe added. "Just make sure everyone looks good and the outfits fit."

Lennox slyly smiled, "The perfect brief."


Milo and Artemis sat with each other at lunch. The two were surprisingly quiet, usually they'd be talking about everything they could think of but instead they were sitting their in almost silence with neither of them trying to talk to the other. Milo was getting more annoyed by this because he was beginning to understand how it was his fault but he also didn't know how to make it up to her.

"I've said I'm sorry about eight times now Art," Milo sighed. "What do I have to do to get you to talk to me again? Or hell even make fun of me again?

Artemis placed her fork down, "Like I said do better. I don't care how you do it but just do better."

"I'm eating my greens isn't that doing better already?" Milo joked as Artemis shook her head in response not really believing what he was saying.

"Good for boy!" Artemis exclaimed sarcastically. "Now if you put all your toys away and have no night time accidents I might actually forgive you."

"I deserved that one," Milo relented. "But I am going to do better I promise, but I do want my best friend back again."

"She's here, but she's also waiting for certain rocker who still takes Flinstone vitamins to prove himself for a change," Artemis explained to Milo as she put a piece of carrot in her mouth. "I never thought a carrot could taste so much like dirt."

Milo shook his head and tried to think of a way he could prove he was doing better to Artemis, then he heard faint voices singing across the lunch room and he saw Shangela and Jude working on the song at their table with Reed and Willow listening along, "I'll be right back."

Artemis turned her head as Milo headed towards their table filled with determination. He arrived as they were getting to the chorus and immediately stopped as he arrived.

"What do you want?" Jude asked Milo with a scowl on her face.

"Look I'm a dick. I was a dick in the meeting and I'm probably gonna be a dick in the next meeting but I'm trying to stop that." Milo began to explain as the table chuckled. "I want to help you with the song. I know this song like the back of my hand and can help you nail it… if you'll let me."

"How much did Artemis have to nag you before you finally got the hint that we needed your help?" Shangela questioned him with sly smirk on her face. "Two hours worth or did she have to write it out in crayons for you?"

"Do you want my help or not?" Milo insisted as he pushed his hair back.

Shangela and Jude looked at each other before nodding in unison, "Let's do it then. Oh but if you for one second suggested we need to do it in our underwear I will break your nose and make sure the whole school knows how much of perv you are."

"I don't want to see you in your underwear, don't worry about that," Milo teased them both he sat down at the table.

"So are you saying we aren't attractive?" Shangela asked Milo who immediately looked uncomfortable and tried to think of an answer.

"Calm down, we know you only have eyes for Artemis and none of us," Jude reassured Milo as she took a sip of her drink.

"Why does everyone think we have a thing for each other?" Milo questioned them. "She's my best friend. Being with her would be like Shangela being with Willow."

"There's an image I really really didn't want to have in my head," Shangela sighed. "Let's just get to the song already."

The camera panned over Artemis sitting at her table looking over at Milo with a small smile on her face, "Nice job for a change Milo."

"He always did know how to be ridiculously endearing," A voice said behind Artemis who immediately knew who it was and turned to face Lennox. "Miss me Artemis?"

"What're you doing here?" Artemis asked nervously feeling her stomach do backflips. "I thought we agreed we don't speak to each other, we don't see each other, we don't even acknowledge each others existence."

"Hey, I was okay with the plan you came up with but things change," Lennox countered as she sat down at the table. "I'm apart of the glee club now. I'm the fashion designer."

"Yeah, Xavier said," Artemis sighed as she rubbed her temples. "I was hoping you'd only drop off the costumes and that'd be that."

"You know that wasn't gonna happen," Lennox teased Artemis with sly smile on her face. "Elliot talked to me, he wants me in every meeting you guys have."

"So we're going to be seeing a lot more of each other?" Artemis sighed as she placed her head in her hands. "Just… just don't talk to me please."

"Artemis you know we need to talk about it," Lennox told her with an sincere smile. "You can't avoid this forever and you know it."

"It's worked for the past year so why can't it work now?" Artemis countered as she tried to avoid eye contact with Lennox.

Lennox rolled her eyes, "You and Milo were always the same. Both stubborn and refuse to talk about things that are important."

"There's a reason he's my best friend," Artemis whispered before going quiet hoping that Lennox would eventually leave her alone.

"I'm not leaving until we talk about this Artemis," Lennox insisted as she placed her hand on Artemis's before she quickly moved it away.

"Don't touch me," Artemis snapped before looking at how visibly upset Lennox looked. "We… we can talk about it… Not now but at some point, okay?"

"That's all I ask," Lennox reassured her. "I just want things to go back to how they were."

Artemis nodded, "Well somethings can never be fixed."


It was late in the evening now and Sabrina, Josie, Teddy, Rhys and Willow were all in the art room trying to make the props in time for the performance and, hopefully, in time for the dress rehearsal they were going to have on Thursday. Teddy was making short work of the flag poles whilst the rest of them were working on the staircase.

"So tell me again," Sabrina began. "How is it the kid who's mom wraps him in bubble wrap to make sure he doesn't get a grazed is able to use power tools the best out of all of us?"

"My dad is less protective than my mom," Teddy laughed. "He would teach me how to use them when my mom wasn't around. We only had one trip to A&E and that's because my mom found out I got a splinter."

"When is your mom just going to put you in a bubble?" Sabrina asked being genuinely serious.

"She's working on it I think," Teddy joked as he finished off another pole. "I think I'm done with the flag poles, you need any help with the staircase?"

"We're almost done actually," Josie happily stated as she looked up at Teddy and wiped the sweat from her brow.

"How are you sweating?" Rhys questioned Josie. "All you did was give me the wood and nails."

Josie blushed, "Hey those power tools make it really hot in here!"

"Sure," Rhys sarcastically responded as he glanced between the pair. "Let's leave the finishing touches for tomorrow. I've been here since six AM and would rather get some sleep."

"You staying round mine tonight or are you going back to your mom's place?" Sabrina asked as she got up from the floor and grabbed her bag.

"Mine, can't sleep at your place every night, besides I'm sure you've got a busy evening planned with all your friends," Rhys joked as Sabrina glared at him and he soon realised he made a mistake and nervously changed the subject. "You guys got plans tonight?"

"Changing the subject, smart move," Sabrina sinisterly chuckled. "Joke about me again and I'll castrate you with a rusty spoon."

Rhys stared nervously at Sabrina before nodding, "Good to know."

"You doing anything tonight Willow?" Teddy asked. "You know, besides making Bruce look like a fool as Eli Stryker."

"Don't joke about that," Willow told Teddy as they all began to leave the room. "He's already acting like he runs the school, I don't want Bruce to come after me too."

"Don't worry he won't!" Jax cheered as he jogged by them with Harper by his side. "We're making sure about that!"

"Jax, what're you doing here so late?" Josie questioned as Jax continued to jog backwards down the hallways with Harper.

"Making Bruce pay!" Harper yelled back with joy.

"You all might want to bring your own toilet paper tomorrow!" Jax laughed as they turned the corner and disappeared from their sight.

"Bring Your own toilet paper?" Rhys questioned.

"I don't want to know," Sabrina sighed as she rubbed her forehead.


The next day Bruce stood in the gym as the stage was being put into place. He looked smugly at it as he began to plan in his head where everything would be, the bags full of rotten food being thrown from the rafters, trip wires near the edge of the stage and a timed paint bomb in the middle. Man it felt good to do this.

"Bruce," Amy sighed with her clipboard in hand as she glared at him. "Stop admiring the stage like it's your own reflection and actually help set it up."

"Give me a minute, I'm figuring out if we can do anything else to the stage," Bruce told Amy. "Make them even more humiliated."

Amy rolled her eyes, "The plan is fine we don't need anything else. If we add more stuff it's going to be too complicated and a disaster will happened as a result."

"You can never have too much in a plan like this," Bruce reassured Amy as he walked to the edge of the stage. "Maybe we could add some oil to the stage, make them slide off of it."

"Or, and this is just a crazy thought, you could actually do some work for a change and not act like a four year old," Amy berated the jock. "Now get to setting up."

"Fine," Bruce groaned as he went to the rafters and grabbed a speaker. "Why do you even care so much about how it's all set up anyway? It's just a revenge plan anyway."

"Just a revenge plan? This event is still a student council event which means if it all looks bad then I look bad," Amy snapped at Bruce. "If some students decide to prank the performers then I don't look bad. It's so simple even you could understand it."

"You know you can stop insulting me now," Bruce suggested as he placed the speaker down next to the stage. "I get that you want to play hard to get but you don't have to play that hard."

Amy made a disgusted face, "Bruce… You have so many imperfections a plastic surgeon would have a field day with you. I'd rather experience a life of loneliness than be with you."

"You dig me," Bruce smiled as he nodded over at Amy who shuddered in response.

"I'd dig you grave the way you're going," Amy bluntly responded as she turned and looked around the gym trying to figure out where everything else would be placed until she focused upon a ledge near the ceiling. "Maybe I should add cameras up there to record this moment forever?"

"I'd buy that DVD!" Bruce yelled as she came over to Amy. "HD, Blu-Ray, whichever looked best."

Amy began to tap her pen on her lips as she got lost in thought, "Tell me, do you think we could get a livestream of this whole event and send the link round to other schools as well?"

"Wouldn't be hard, just get one of the AV club kids to do it," Bruce answered Amy's question.

"Perfect," Amy sinisterly chuckled. "If any of them try to transfer schools they'll have to relive the embarrassment over and over again."

"No way out for them," Bruce laughed along with Amy. "They'll never be able to escape. You're an evil genius."

"That's the first intelligent thing you've said all day," Amy replied as she turned to walk back to the stage as Bruce stared on.

"God she's hot when she's evil," Bruce admired as he followed her.


"Okay so let me get this straight," Artemis sighed as her, Tori, Gia and Milo walked through the halls together. "Niko is boxing and you don't want him to do it because he'll get hurt and because he's doing something to make his dad happy that he doesn't want to do and that'll lead to a future of him being really unhappy and living a miserable life?"

"Pretty much," Tori replied with a worried look on her face.

"This sounds like one of those Korean Dramas," Artemis joked. "Let me guess his dad is also really his brother!"

"Artemis this is serious," Tori told her. "I'm worried about him. I just… I don't want to see him get hurt, I can't see him get hurt."

"She tried to talk him out of it too," Gia added. "But he was like Donald Trump. Refused to listen to any voice of reason."

"Don't compare him to Trump," Tori quietly replied.

"I still don't get what's wrong with him fighting," Milo honestly told Tori whilst picking something in-between his teeth. "I mean the dude beat up Bruce on a regular basis. He'll probably knockout the other boxer easily."

"You don't know that," Tori countered as she rubbed her arm nervously. "He could end up being killed like Apollo Creed."

"Wait… did you watch the Rocky films when you found out Niko was boxing?" Artemis asked Tori who sheepishly looked at the floor. "Tori you do realise that they're not real right? That being said that is the cutest thing!"

Tori blushed slightly as Artemis wrapped her arms around her neck, "I watched the Floyd Mayweather fights too."

"Awww," Artemis cooed as Tori got even redder. "I'm sure he'll be fine. If you want we can actually go and watch him to put you at ease?"

Tori immediately shook her head, "I can't see that happen."

"Well if you change your mind we'll be there with you," Artemis reassured her. "Plus I'm sure Milo would love to watch something other than soccer for a change."

"And I just want to see two shirtless guys beating each other up," Gia cheekily said.

"Looks like someones hormones are kicking in," Artemis teased Gia as they turned a corner and saw Lennox in the show choir room which stopped Artemis in her tracks which Milo noticed immediately and stopped too.

"Artemis you okay?" Milo asked as he focused on where Artemis was looking and realised why she had stooped. "Ahhhh, Lennox."

"I'd… I'd rather not deal with all that today," Artemis confessed as she folded her arms. "Might just skip this one."

"You're going to have to deal with her at some point," Milo countered. "Might as well be now, I mean she is apart of the club now."

Artemis sighed before looking at the ground, "I will just… Just not today. Tell Elliot I'll be there tomorrow, I'm sure they'll manage without me."

"You need to talk, I'm here," Milo comforted Artemis as he placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Nice to know one of my rants at you has finally gotten through that thick skull of yours," Artemis chuckled. "I need to yell at you more often."

"Please don't," Milo told Artemis firmly. "I'd rather not get yelled at everyday of my life."

"I'll see you later," Artemis said whilst shaking her head and walking away from Milo.

"See ya," Milo responded as he walked into the choir room and was greeted by Lennox standing there waiting for him. "Long time no speak Lennox. How've you been?"

"I'm guessing Artemis didn't want to deal with me?" Lennox asked getting straight to the point.

"Pretty much," Milo told Lennox who looked down at the ground with her arms folded. "Look, I don't really know what happened with you two and I don't really want to, but I do know Artemis. She might be struggling now but she'll talk to you eventually, just don't push it too hard."

"I hope you're right," Lennox sighed unfolded her arms and pushed her hair back. "So what made you join this club then? Can't exactly imagine you singing show tunes."

"Circumstances meant this was the only way I could perform," Milo explained to which Lennox chuckled under her breath.

"Let me guess, you punched a guy in a chuck-e-cheese costume?" Lennox asked.

"A clown actually," Milo replied which made Lennox laugh whilst she shook her head.

"Never change Milo," Lennox told him as Milo made his way over to his seat where the rest of club had already arrived.

"Where's Artemis?" Elliot asked Milo who was now sat down next to Tori and Gia.

Milo shrugged, "She had some work to do, she'll be back tomorrow."

"Great, so we can't even have a full rehearsal," CeCe hissed under her breath. "Jude, Shangela, how're you handling the song? Do you think you'll be okay not rehearsing til tomorrow?"

"We'll be fine," Jude boasted. "The bonehead rocker actually came through and helped us out."

CeCe's eyebrow raised, "Milo helped you?"

"He spent the whole of lunch with us and even stayed late after school teaching us the song," Shangela explained to the group. "Despite looking like he's stepped out of a club a 5AM and had a rough night, he's actually a good music teacher."

"I can see an army of school kids breaking guitars in the middle of their exams right now," CeCe sarcastically joked. "Keep working, make sure you know that song like you know cheap clothing."

"And we were being civil," Jude bitterly responded.

"Speaking of clothing!" Elliot quickly intervened before a fight broke out.

"You better not be calling my clothing cheap," Lennox scolded Elliot.

"Absolutely not," Elliot said swiftly hoping Lennox wouldn't take offence. "As you all know we needed a fashion designer and Lennox has been kind enough to join us."

"Lennox? Don't you mean Leticia?" Teddy asked from the back of the room.

"No, me and CeCe already went through this with her," Elliot explained to Teddy.

"Can we just skip all of this Leticia stuff that I've already had to unfortunately deal with?" Lennox questioned the whole room whilst shaking her head. "I need to leave here ASAP so I can work on your costumes, the designs are done I just need you all to tell me your sizes."

"I still don't see why we need costumes," Rhys grunted. "I doubt anyones going to care about what we're wearing. I mean it's just clothes."

Lennox glared at Rhys, "You really don't know what you're talking about. A change in wardrobe can help redefine someone entirely. An outfit on stage and change you from a sad loner who looks like they just got out of bed to a superstar."

"Superstar?" Rhys questioned. "We're all too ordinary to be anything like that."

"Speak for yourself," Milo chimed in.

"Then you can be a ordinary superstar then," Lennox intervened. "Someone who the people look up to and relate to but you can actually approach too. That's what fashion can do."

(Ordinary Superstar by Rina Siwayama performed by Lennox Delgado)

{Lennox closes her eyes as she speaks the first few lines and when she opens her eyes again she's in a neon dream with everyone dressed in highly fashionable clothes, looking like the superstars she wants them to be}

[Lennox]

You know
It's not all it seems
Underneath it all
We're all human beings

{Lennox is sitting on a red couch as the rest of the glee club are around her posing like they're apart of a high production fashion shoot}

[Lennox]

Girl on the screen lookin' mean
I never woulda guessed that we'd be friends
Oh, but you don't want to be seen with me
I wanna see what you see
We're living in a world that's full of hate
Oh, but you don't care what they say
Do you?

{Lennox has her hands out to the side as Milo and Xavier both help her up from her seat as she struts down her imaginary runway before two large feather fans cover her as she does a quick change into another brand new outfit}

[Lennox]

Because
I'm just an ordinary superstar
So far but always hanging where you are
I'm just an ordinary superstar
I'm just like you
I'm just an ordinary superstar
So far but always hanging where you are
I'm just an ordinary superstar
I'm just like you

{The Keytones and Lennox begin to do a choreographed dance routine with each of them rocking their individual outfits within the neon setting}

[Lennox]

Don't you wanna be ordinary with me?
Don't you wanna be ordinary with me?
Don't you wanna be ordinary with me?
Don't you wanna be, don't you wanna be?

{The Keytones stand still as Lennox walks elegantly through them before going back to the centre for the chorus}

[Lennox]

Girl on the screen, you're a queen
But you're livin' in a cloud where there's no rain
Oh, what if it all went away, today?
Then what's left inside?

{Lennox gets lifted into the air by The Keyontes before leaning back and flailing her legs in the air looking as model like as she could}

[Lennox]

Because

I'm just an ordinary superstar
So far but always hanging where you are
I'm just an ordinary superstar
I'm just like you (I'm human too)
You're just an ordinary superstar
So far removed from who you really are
You're just an ordinary superstar

{Lennox gets lowered to the ground as The Keytones stand around her as they do some Rhythm Nation styled choreography with Lennox joining in too. During the final lyric they cover her and Lennox his hidden from view}

[Lennox]

So look at me, oh, I
I'm doing this for myself only
Or so I thought

{The Keytones move and Lennox is in a golden dress and launches herself into a full dance routine with everyone until the end where they form a chair for her to sit on}

[Lennox]

I'm just an ordinary superstar
So far but always hanging where you are (Where you are)
I'm just an ordinary superstar
I'm just like you (I'm human too)
Don't you wanna be ordinary with me? (Superstar)
Don't you wanna be ordinary with me? (Where you are)
Don't you wanna be ordinary with me? (Superstar)
(I'm just like you)
Don't you wanna be ordinary with me?
Don't you wanna be ordinary with me?
Don't you wanna be ordinary with me?
Don't you wanna be, don't you wanna be?

{Lennox finishes the routine and she is back in the room with Rhys looking weirdly at her}

"Understand now?" Lennox asked Rhys with a bit of sass in her voice.


Niko stood in the gym with the punching bag in-front of him. He hadn't stopped training, everyday during lunch, free period and even after school he was going to the gym to work on his fighting. He was sure he'd be ready for his fight and finally have something her loved back after losing soccer.

"Oi, Niko!" Artemis yelled at him as she entered the room.

"Artemis?" Niko asked as he stopped punching the bag and took a breather. "What're you doing here? I thought you had Glee club with Tori."

"Yeah but I fancied a break and wanted to get some anger out so here I am," Artemis explained as she held her hand out. "Give me those gloves, I need to hit something."

Niko complied as he began to take off the gloves, "What's got you like this then? Milo do something stupid again or have the girls on the soccer team told you they're having a sleepover without you again?"

"Milo's always doing something stupid and I avoid those sleepovers like the plague, not being invited would be a blessing," Artemis answered as she began to put the boxing gloves on. "Let's just say a memory from the past is invading my present."

"Sounds… mysterious but okay," Niko commented as Artemis began to throw multiple punches at the bag in a frantic fashion.

"That's not all I'm pissed at though," Artemis continued as she felt her anger slowly leaving her body. "I'm also angry at you."

"Let me guess, Tori's still annoyed with me?" Niko sighed as he sat down on a bench and continued to watch Artemis. "She's sweet, but she needs to let make my own choices."

"Even when they're not the best choices," Artemis jabbed as she slowed her punches down. "I mean you were always reckless on the soccer team but this is just insane."

"Great, now I've got you on my case too," Niko sneered. "Why can't you and Tori be like Jax? He's actually supporting me in this."

"Really? Because from what I've heard Jax just doesn't say anything because he knows there's no point in trying to change your mind," Artemis countered whilst Niko glared at her. "Me on the other hand? I don't care, I'm just here to tell you facts."

Niko shook his head in response, "Tori has already tried and failed."

"If you haven't noticed I'm not blonde or four foot tall, so I'm not Tori," Artemis sarcastically replied. "I've known you from the soccer team, I know what you can do and everything that makes you a good soccer player is what makes you a bad boxer. You're a thin guy which means you can get yourself out of tough situations on the pitch, in the ring however you're a tooth pick. Boxers a built like racehorses, you're built like a piece of jerky that someone drew fake abs on. You aren't strong enough to hold off a defender when they're shoulder barging you, how do you think you're going to handle when a guy twice your size punches you in the face?"

"I can adapt," Niko countered but Artemis was having none of it.

"No you can't," Artemis firmly told him. "You can ignore everything I'm saying and everything everyone else is saying and act like you're strong enough to take whoever you face down, but that sad reality is you can't. If it was a fight against a none trained fighter I would put my money on you. In a professional match however? I wouldn't put a cent on you."

"I know what I can do!" Niko snapped whilst getting up from the bench as Artemis stopped punching and turned to face Niko. "Any obstacle that comes in my way I can take down easily. All I want is a little bit of support from people, is that so much to ask?"

"It is when the support you want is for a stupid endeavour that's going to wind up with you down on the mat and a young girl who likes you crying her eyes out in the corner!" Artemis yelled at Niko. "I know your dad is strict with you about what you need to do but is it really worth losing Tori?"

"Don't bring my dad into this, I've done so much for Tori and you know it! For once she can do something for me!," Niko bellowed back.

Artemis threw the gloves off and stormed over to Niko, "Oh really now? Because from what I've seen she's gone out of her way to support you! You got kicked off the soccer team, all she did was talk to me about how much she wanted to be there for you but you wouldn't even talk to her. You told her about your dad and she told you she'd be there for you when you finally decide to tell him what you want in your life and not be his little lap dog. Tell me, what have you done that even compares to what she's done for you!"

"I waited outside her apartment all night when her whole family was terrified of her dad!" Niko screamed. "She ran away, absolutely terrified when she saw him. I stayed up all night to keep her safe, that's what I did."

"Wait, why is she afraid of her dad?" Artemis asked losing all that anger she was expressing earlier. "Niko, tell me now."

"I don't know," Niko told her. "All I know is she was scared and I did what I needed to do to make her feel safe. Whatever he did, I wasn't going to let him scare her again."

"Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, that he's part of the reason she's so scared of seeing you box?" Artemis questioned Niko who remained still. "Do you think her dad might've done something to someone she cared about, something that hurt them and her? So that's why she's trying so hard to get you to stop this."

Niko remained silent for a second before responding, "She doesn't have to watch me."

"No… but she does have to see the aftermath," Artemis maintained. "After the fight tomorrow you're going to swan into the school covered in bruises, a busted lip and a swollen eye."

"I need to do this," Niko insisted.

"Tomorrow, if you go into that ring you're gonna lose, even if you win the fight," Artemis explained slowly to Niko. "But if you don't fight, if you step away from that ring and take those gloves off, then you'll be the biggest winner of the night. Maybe not in your dad's eyes, but in Tori's, Jax's and mine, you'll be a champion."

Niko shook his head as he stared at the ground, "It's not that easy."

"Choices like this aren't meant to be," Artemis countered as Niko stayed silent. "Whatever. I'll leave you to brood in your own teen angst but just remember what I said and think about it."

"Kind of hard not to," Niko solemnly replied as Artemis began to leave the room.

"Then I did my job," Artemis yelled back as the door close behind her.


Xavier stood on a stool as Lennox stood next to him with a needle and thread in hand sewing into the hem of his trouser leg whilst Shangela, Jude, Reed and Willow watched on. She'd done this hundreds of times before but Xavier was proving to be a very fiddly model, meaning she pricked him with the needle more times than usual.

"Ouch!" Xavier flinched as the needle went into his thigh. "I swear you're doing this on purpose."

"Well maybe if you stayed still I wouldn't be pricking you so often," Lennox mumbled as she continued to sew the hem. "I could always send you back to A&E like that birthday badge did."

"I'll be good," Xavier nervously replied as he stiffened up and stopped moving completely.

"If you do it I'll give you 20 bucks," Shangela joked to which everyone chuckled. "The outfit looks great by the way. It even makes Xavier look good."

"You know the more I hang out with you and Lennox the more self conscious I get," Xavier stated as Lennox began to sew into his trousers. "I'm going to need some serious therapy."

"Shut up," Lennox told him firmly as she continued to sew. "You've told me some messed up stuff about your life that I still have nightmares about."

"I haven't told you that much," Xavier scoffed.

Lennox stopped what she was doing and looked up at him, "Dude, you told me the story of how your brother lost his virginity in Texas, remember. A tree caught on fire, a dog stole your brother's clothes and he got interrupted mid thrust by twenty rednecks storming in with guns in there arms yelling about protecting the young from a hurricane."

"Is your brother into recreational drugs by any chance?" Jude asked humorously.

"No, but he still says it was the most memorable night of his life," Xavier chuckled as he thought back to his brother telling him this story. "Also you missed the part where a coconut hit his butt."

"Do coconut trees even grow in Texas?" Willow asked with a confused expression.

"Apparently they do," Xavier conceded.

"That story still has me terrified of the south and what my first time is going to be like," Lennox explained. "And that's only one of the wonderfully scarring stories I've heard from him."

"Story time!" Jude cheered. "Let's hear some of these!"

Lennox thought for a second before replying, "Only one and I still wake up at night thinking about it. So Xavier went to a summer camp when he was in his freshman year and he met this girl there who he had a big crush on. They began to talk in arts and crafts and she soon got feelings for him too, they were camp boyfriend and girlfriend for the whole summer and on the final day the kids get to do a little talent show. Xavier decides this is the perfect time to express his love for her so sings her an Ed Sheeran song in front of the whole camp."

"This already feels like a really bad romcom," Shangela joked as Xavier shook his head.

"The next part is anything but a romcom," Lennox continued. "So he does this sweet and adorable thing then all of a sudden this girl decides she's going to do a performance as well. She goes up and everyone is expecting something similar, you know a cute girl singing a Taylor Swift song or something. Instead she stands up there, pulls out her period pad and begins to rub it all over her face in a performance art piece to show how beautiful it can be."

"I mean, I agree but at the same time no," Jude said with a slight element of disgust.

"Xavier broke up with her the same day and I've been scarred ever since," Lennox finished off as she went back to sewing. "I recommend you don't let him tell you these stories in the future."

"I want to sit around a campfire and hear them all personally," Shangela cheekily replied with a sly grin on her face.

"There's only one story I want to hear," Jude interrupted. "What happened with Reed when he went back into hat auditorium at The Crescendude's place?"

"What?" Reed asked with eyes widening, hoping he wouldn't have to talk about it.

Jude raised her eyebrow quizzically, "You went back to get a phone and left around ten minutes later. Now, I might be dumb but I know your phone has a neon yellow case on it and in a room like that it would stand out like an intelligent person in Trump's White House. Something happened."

"That's actually a good point," Shangela agreed. "What happened Reed?"

"Nothing," Reed insisted. "I went in got my phone and bumped into one of the Crescendudes in there and we just talked for a few minutes."

"What'd you talk about? Was he cute? Did you get his number?" Jude asked wanting to know more details about this new man.

"Just the clubs and how they're both run differently," Reed reminisced. "He was kind of cute I guess and no I didn't get his number."

"Do you at least know his name?" Willow questioned and Reed soon realised he was getting ganged up on. "Or did you organise another hangout date?"

"His name is Aiden and we didn't organise another hangout date," Reed answered Willow. "He seemed nice, really smart too."

"You should meet him again dude," Xavier encouraged Reed. "Get yourself a little Romeo and Juliet moment. Two rival glee clubs but then two lovers meet and the rivalry disappears."

"And from that you can tell he's never finished the play," Lennox commented as she continued to sew into the clothes. "Otherwise he'd know that Romeo and Juliet ends with them both dying, not everyone skipping happily into the sunset together."

Shangela laughed, "He probably watched Gnomeo and Juliet instead."

"There goes my self esteem again," Xavier sighed as he fidgeted in as Lennox continued to sew. "Are we almost done here? I'm getting sick of this right now."

"Fine, we'll call it a night, I can get the rest done in the morning," Lennox grunted as she began packing her things as Xavier took off the pieces of clothing that were placed on him. "Thanks for keeping me company tonight, it means I didn't have any of my usual mental break downs."

"Happy to provide sanity when needed," Willow happily told Lennox. "Do you think you'll get everything done for Friday?"

"If I push myself I should be fine," Lennox replied whilst picking up her bag. "It'll be a close call but I've worked with tighter deadlines and succeeded, so this should be the same."

"Just make sure mine looks good," Shangela joked. "I want all of this school to see me as the icon I am for once."

The door suddenly opened with Jax and Harper standing there with a disappointed look their face which made Jude ask, "Ummmm what're you guys doing here?"

"Looking for a leaf blower," Jax honestly answered with a cheeky smile. "Don't suppose any of you know where they're kept?"

"Jax, what're you up to and why do you have an accomplice this time?" Jude followed up with her arms folded and a disapproving look on her face.

"It's a big job, he needed a helping hand this time," Harper replied. "So does anyone know where the leaf blowers are kept?"

"Sports equipment shed near the gym," Xavier answered as he grabbed his t-shirt to put on. "Be warned, the groundskeeper doesn't like people touching his stuff."

Jax shrugged it off, "Luckily I'm on good terms with Phillip, plus he gave us permission earlier, just wasn't allowed to say where it was. Oh and Xavier, can you please put on a shirt? You're making me and my mreasts feel really uncomfortable."

"Mreasts?" Willow asked, not really understanding what Jax was on about.

"I don't like the word moobs. Mreasts is much more empowering!" Jax answered as he turned to Harper. "We need to get to the shed now! See you all tomorrow, don't get too horny without me!"

The door slammed behind them as Jax and Harper left and Lennox asked the room, "What're those two doing and is that normal?"

"I don't want to know what they're planning with a leaf blower," Shangela replied.

"And it's normal for Jax but not normal for Harper," Jude added.

"Should I be worried?" Lennox followed up.

"Of Jax? No," Jude said. "Of what he's planning? Possibly."


It was the next morning and Bruce was walking confidently through the halls, one more day and his master plan would finally happened. The whole school would see Willow as a laughing stock and he would continue to be king of the school, that's when he saw him. Willow, alone at his locker, this was just too much of a good opportunity to waste. As Willow opened his locker Bruce took the opportunity and push him in before shutting the door behind him.

"Let me out!" Willow screamed as Bruce laughed.

"Maybe next time you'll think before you speak to me again!" Bruce mocked Willow as he continued to laugh.

"Hey!" A girl yelled and as Bruce turned he saw it was Josie, Rhys and Teddy all storming over to him. "Let Willow out of his locker now!"

"Yeah the little emo girl, the loner and a guy who looks like a walking Minkus are scarring me," Bruce laughed. "I'm quaking in my Yeezy's."

"Remember who my brother is Bruce?" Josie asked him with her arms folded trying to look as intimidating as possible. "The high school football captain who I can get to beat you up."

Bruce chuckled before bending down and looking Josie directly in the eye, "In case you haven't noticed your big brother isn't here. He's 5000 miles away and you're just here by yourself."

"She's not alone," Rhys defended her.

"Might as well be, so why don't you move on and just listen to your My Chemical Romance," Bruce commanded Josie as he flicked her on the forehead.

"You can't do this," Josie complained as she looked Bruce dead in the eye.

"Oh I can't? Well, what're you going to do about it sweetheart?" Bruce rhetorically asked Josie who remained silent and shift uncomfortably. "Why don't we teach you a lesson? Flashback to your first day here and what I did to you. I hear the garbage is delightfully disgusting after tuna melt Wednesday and I know how much you loved it before."

"You wouldn't," Josie nervously replied now avoiding eye contact with Bruce.

"Oh, wouldn't I?" Bruce asked as he swiftly picked up Josie and barged through Teddy and Rhys to make his way to the garbage outside all the while Josie was struggling.

"Put me down! Don't do this!" Josie continually screamed as Bruce continued to laugh.

"Enjoy the rest of the day smelling of fish!" Bruce chuckled but was soon stopped dead in his tracks by someone standing at the school entrance.

"Bruce," Sabrina coldly said. "Put her down. Now!"

Bruce complied as he put Josie down and she immediately ran to Sabrina and hugged her, "You happy now? She's down on the ground."

"Josie, go get the school nurse," Sabrina calmly told her.

"But, I'm not hurt," Josie replied not really sure what Sabrina was talking about, but she soon saw the deadly look in Sabrina's eyes and realised what she meant.

"I know you don't, but he will," Sabrina hissed as she marched over to Bruce who was now anything but confident. "The ice queen has a boy that needs to be taken down a peg or two."

"I'm not scared of you," Bruce nervously testified as Sabrina got closer to him.

Sabrina laughed calmly under her breath, "Bruce, people always say they're not scared of me. Then they see what I am capable of. I can take your testicles out with my bare hands and turn them into meatballs, I can make that pretty little face of yours look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, I can make torture seem like a vacation for you."

"How?" Bruce gulped as fear was seen across his face.

"That's for you to find out," Sabrina sneered. "Now are you going to face your punishment face on like the hero you keep acting like, or are you going to runaway like the coward you are?"

Bruce stared at Sabrina before sprinting down the hall but Teddy and Rhys were already there waiting and as he ran by the pair tripped him up resulting in Bruce landing flat on his face, "You'll pay! All of you will!"

"You sure about that?" Sabrina asked him as Bruce continued his get away before turning to Josie. "You okay? No injuries?"

"I'm fine, thanks Sabrina," Josie solemnly replied. "Wait, we need to get Willow out his locker."

"One step ahead of you!" Rhys yelled as he opened the locker door for Willow to step out. "You okay Willow?"

"I'm fine," Willow sighed as he stretched his body out. "Thanks for saving me guys."

"Thank Sabrina!" Teddy exclaimed. "Bruce was quaking in his boots when she arrived. He looked like he'd seen a ghost!"

"Or just the legendary ice queen," Rhys added with a slight smirk. "Nice work, Sabrina."

"Don't expect me to do that everyday alright," Sabrina responded. "You're just lucky my alarm didn't go off this morning."

"We owe you," Josie told her.

"At his point your whole club owes me something," Sabrina sarcastically replied. "If I don't get a performance in my honour at some point I'm going to be pissed."

"We'll see what we can do," Willow answered with a smile and for the first time the ice queen smiled back at him.


"So you didn't come to glee club so you could talk to Niko?" Tori asked Artemis who was leaning next to Tori's locker.

"Pretty much," Artemis nonchalantly replied. "I laid down all the facts, everything why he shouldn't do it and hopefully it got through to him."

"I hope so," Tori said to herself. "I don't want to see him get hurt."

"I know," Artemis comforted her. "Look, I know you don't want to go but are you sure you don't want to go and see him box? Him seeing you in the crowd might be enough for him to make him realise he's not a boxer."

"But what if he doesn't realise?" Tori asked Artemis nervously as she continued to take books out of her locker for next period.

"Then we get out of there before anything happens," Artemis reassured Tori. "Trust me I don't want to see that happen either. I only like a fight when it's Bruce or Amy getting beat up."

"Okay," Tori quietly agreed. "So… What'd he say when you talked to him?

"Nothing really, just some stuff about his dad," Artemis shrugged before remembering something else. "Niko did say something interesting about you though. Something about your dad?"

Tori visibly stiffened up as she closed her locker, "What'd he say?"

"That when you saw your dad you were terrified and ran back to your apartment," Artemis cautiously explained, not wanting to scare or frighten Tori further. "That he had to wait outside your place all night to make sure you were okay."

"Wait, he waited outside my flat all night?" Tori asked Artemis who nodded. "I didn't know that."

"Well he does care about you, the same way you care about him," Artemis told Tori with a little smile. "You don't have to answer but what did your dad do, that made you scared of him?"

"I don't want to talk about it," Tori mumbled as she closed her eyes and shook her head gently. "It's… It's not a nice memory."

Artemis placed her hand on Tori's shoulder to comfort her, "You don't have to, but just know when you want to talk about it I'm here for you. Or if you need someone to sit outside your apartment with a pipe in one hand to make you feel safe."

"Thanks Artemis," Tori replied with a smile. "I don't know what I'd do without you."

"Probably cling to Gia and Milo instead," Artemis teased Tori. "How are you and Gia doing by the way? Friendship still going strong?"

"Let's just say you and Milo might have some competition for closest people at Elmwood," Tori giggled as Artemis chuckled in response.

"Confidence, I like it," Artemis laughed. "Well let's hope you two keep it up. Someone's gotta give me and Milo a challenge."

"We'll give you more than a challenge," Tori confidently boasted as the pair soon burst out into laughter as they made their way down the hall.


(By The Way by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers performed by The Keytones)

{The Keytones stand in the choir room together in their black and red rebel costumes that Lennox designed with members standing in two lines holding the flags. Jude & Shangela stand on the small staircase with their backs to one another. As Shangela begins to sing she begins to walk down the stairs as the flags are turned to face her}

[Shangela]

Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there, waiting for
Dani the girl
Is singing songs to me
Beneath the marquee, overload

{As the guitar kicks in Jude jumps from the staircase as she begins to do her own dance to the rap as the rest of the club begin to spin and wave the flags in unison}

[Jude]

Steak knife card shark
Con job boot cut
Skin that flick
She's such a little DJ
Get there quick
By street but not the freeway
Turn that trick
To make a little leeway
Beat that nic
But not the way that we play
Dog town blood bath
Rib cage soft tail

{Everyone holding flags throws them across to one another with Shangela and Jude artfully dodging them and dancing in unison with one another}

[The Keytones]

Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there, waiting for

{The flags stop being thrown and Jude steps forward and does a second rap whilst Shangela becomes her hype woman and pumps up everyone around her}

[Jude]

Black jack dope dick
Pawn shop quick pick
Kiss that dyke
I know you want to hold one
Not on strike
But I'm about to bowl one
Bite that mic
I know you never stole one
Girls that like
A story, so I told one
Song bird, main line
Cash back, hard top

{The flag spinners stop and place the flags on the floor as they kneel down whilst Shangela and Jude stand still with their heads up in the air}

[The Keytones]

Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there, waiting for
Dani the girl
Is singing songs to me
Beneath the marquee, overloadI'd be there waiting for

{The rolls get reversed where Shangela does her rap with Jude being her hype woman as the rest of club throw away their flags to the side}

[Shangela]

Ooh, ah, guess you never meant it
Ooh, ah, guess you never meant it
Ooh, ah, guess you never meant it
Ooh, ah, guess you never meant it
Ooh, ah, guess you never meant it
Ooh, ah, guess you never meant it
Ooh, ah, guess you never meant it

{The whole club comes together for the final chorus where they all move with one another and own the stage around them}

[The Keytones]

Standing in line to
See the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there waiting for
Dani the girl
Is singing songs to me
Beneath the marquee
Of her soul
By the way I tried to say
I know you
From before
Standing in line to
See the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there waiting for

{The Keytones end with each member having a single hand in the air panting from the exhaustion}

"Yes!" Elliot cheered as he got up from his seat in the choir room. "Everyone! You absolutely nailed it! That was amazing."

"I never thought I'd say this, but I agree," CeCe added as she stood up from her chair with a smile on her face. "The hard work has paid off, now just do that for the pep rally and it'll be perfect."

"Always the optimist Davenport," Jude sighed as she wiped the sweat from her forehead. "Just admit it. Me and Shangela killed the lead and Friday it's gonna be even better."

"Don't get cocky," CeCe cautioned Jude. "One slip up and the whole school will be after us."

"You say that like they're not," Reed commented.

"More so then," CeCe added.

"Let's just be thankful the bonehead rocker actually helped us out," Shangela joked. "Nice to know there's actually a brain in that thick skull."

"Yeah we kind of owe you one," Jude told Milo with a slight smile. "Well, actually we kind of had to force you to do it so I guess it's the least you could do for us."

"Thanks for the kind remarks," Milo sighed as he took off the jacket of the costume.

"Can we all agree on one thing though?" Lennox asked the room from her seat. "You guys are rocking those outfits. That all nighter really paid off."

Josie looked down at her outfit, "I feel like I'd wear this even if we weren't performing."

"I look like I'm in a rejected Elton John outfit," Milo sighed.

"I could've easily of made you one he wouldn't reject Milo," Lennox teased him. "Bright neon sequins with a feather boa going around your neck. I'm sure you'd rock it."

"Or he'd look like a drag queen rejected from Drag Race," Gia joked with Lennox. "Or maybe even a male Madonna, or a male Lady GaGa, or a-"

"I think she understands Gia," Artemis interrupted her before she continued her endless stream of thought. "But we all know Milo would look like Katy Perry during that awkward stage she went through. Lest we not forget the Super Bowl sharks."

Lennox cautiously smiled as she realised Artemis was actually talking to her, "Well at least it's not Miley Cyrus during her awkward stage."

"Great, the two of you are friends again," Milo muttered. "I can't wait to hear about how my hair needs cutting and I need to stop wearing so much leather."

Artemis shifted uncomfortably, "Let's just move on."

"Milo still knows how to ruin a moment," Lennox sighed as she pushed her hair back. "Do I still need to be here or can I go and get some sleep?"

"How long were you awake last night?" Elliot asked Lennox.

"I went to bed early, woke up at 3AM to finish them," Lennox confessed. "It was worth it, but I'm going to pass out by sixth period, luckily that's science so I'll probably only light the school on fire."

"3AM!?" Jax exclaimed. "I thought that was a mythical time that didn't exist?"

"The only this mythical here is the brain in your head Jax," CeCe jabbed. "You can go Lennox, thanks again for your work on this."

"Just give me more of a warning next time so I don't mess up my sleeping pattern," Lennox said as she exited the room.

"We will!" Elliot yelled as he turned to face everyone. "You've done amazing today guys but tomorrow is the day we make this school know what we can do. Take the rest of the day off and get yourself ready for the performance of your life."

"What a depressing life," Milo sighed as he and everyone began to leave the room.

"Do we change?" Reed asked the group.

"You can, but I wanna see what a packed cafeteria says when a small army of kids dressed as rebels do," Jax laughed as everyone else shook their head.

"They'd do what most people do, avoid us," Shangela replied as they all left the room leaving CeCe and Elliot alone in the choir room together.

"So, how're you feel about tomorrow now?" Elliot cautiously asked CeCe.

CeCe sighed as she stared at the floor, "The same as Monday, nervous, scared, my stomach hasn't stopped doing backflips since the day started."

"You don't need to worry," Elliot reassured CeCe. "The club came together and just gave a great rehearsal. There's nothing they will mess up on tomorrow."

"Keyword, they," CeCe countered. "I'm not nervous about them anymore. I'm nervous about what else could go wrong. The crowd could turn on them, a lighting malfunction could blind one of them, the backing track could fail, the list goes on."

"Have you planned out everything that can go wrong?" Elliot asked CeCe, not believing she was able to list all of this off without thinking about it.

CeCe nodded, "When I can't get to sleep that's what I go to, what's going to happen, will we become a laughing stock, will I go through everything that I went through last year? It's kind of hard not to think about it all."

"You'll be fine," Elliot reassured CeCe. "You're one of the most popular people in this school. If anything does go wrong you're going to bounce back again."

"Yeah, I'm popular but have you seen me actually hang out with any of them?" CeCe countered with her arms folded as she leaned on the wall. "Have you seen them talk to me? Have you seen them every look happy when I walk into a room? I might be popular but that doesn't mean that anyone likes me. They're just scared of me."

"What about your cheer team? Don't you always eat lunch with them?" Elliot questioned her.

"Have you ever tried to talk to them?" CeCe scoffed. "It's the equivalent of talking to an anti-vaxxer. No sign of intelligence anywhere."

"That's a bit harsh don't you think? I mean they still sit with you," Elliot said with confusion.

"Out of fear. If I had no power they would drop me in a second." CeCe countered. "I don't think I've actually got one true friend in this school."

"What about me?" Elliot asked.

CeCe laughed, "You're friends with me through circumstance. Get rid of the glee club and you'd be just like everyone else in this school."

"You really think that?" Elliot followed up to which CeCe nodded. "Wow."

"Don't act like it's not true," CeCe replied and Elliot just stared at her in disbelief.

"You were the first person I met here," Elliot began. "You were nothing but cold to me. You insulted me, laughed at me and treated me like I was nothing other than an assignment set by Amy. You made setting up this club hell, nobody wanted to join because you were apart of it. The only person you managed to get to join was Josie and that's because you offered her something she needed in return, yeah I know about this whole cheerleading thing. I've had to work harder because of you but what did I do when Amy attacked you? I defended you! I didn't care that you were hard work, you were still my partner and my friend. You're my friend. Whether you want to believe it or not."

CeCe stood there speechless, "Elliot, I'm-"

"I've got to go," Elliot muttered as he walked out of the room, leaving CeCe alone.


Tori, Artemis, Jax and Harper stood outside of the boxing gym. Tori was nervously fidgeting with her fingers, she wasn't looking forward to this at all but everyone was there to support her. She just hoped Niko wouldn't go through with it.

"You don't have to do this," Artemis reassured Tori. "You can go home."

Tori shook her head, "No, if me being there makes him stop then I need to do it."

"If it helps, if the fight does go on I know a great plastic surgeon who specialises in facial reconstruction," Jax joked but saw the look Tori gave him and realised he messed up. "I'm sorry. Niko's going to be fine and I'll make sure to yell at him if he goes in the ring."

"Thanks Jax," Tori replied with a smile as she took a deep breath and walked into the gym. The crowd was modest in size with enough people to make the place look busy and then Tori spotted Niko in the corner. "There he is."

"He looks kind of nervous," Harper noted. "I think he might be having second thoughts too."

"Let's hope he is," Artemis commented as Niko noticed all of them and gave a nervous wave.

"What do we do now?" Tori asked as she looked up at Artemis.

"We go to our seats and don't react," Artemis instructed everyone. "Except for Jax."

"Huh? Wait why am I different?" Jax asked with a confused look on his face.

Artemis wrapped her arm around Jax's shoulder, "Because he's heard it from me, he's heard it from Tori and now he needs to hear it from you. No running this time."

"I hate you but at the same time admire your slyness," Jax commented as he sighed and accepted his fate. "Fine. Just don't expect it to work."

"You've got this," Harper reassured Jax and gave him a smile. "We'll be waiting for you."

"Pray for me," Jax joked as the three girls walked away and he marched over to Niko. "Are you sure you want to get that pretty face of yours mashed up. I mean I don't want to be the best friend of a guy who looks like Shrek and Donkey's baby."

"Yes, I'm sure," Niko solemnly replied as he glanced over to Tori. "What's she doing here? I thought Tori didn't want to see any of this?"

"Oh she still doesn't, if the fight starts she's going to cover her eyes and run out of here as quickly as she can," Jax told Niko. "She just came because she hoped you'd of figured out this was a stupid idea. She doesn't realise how stubborn you are though."

Niko shook his head, "Why can't you all just support me?"

"Would you support me if I decided I want to become an MMA fighter?" Jax asked. "I mean I've got the muscle of a chicken and I have no fighting skills, seriously a toddler could beat me up."

"That's you though, I actually know how to fight," Niko argued.

"No, you know how to fight again Bruce and, let's be honest here, Bruce isn't exactly the most coordinated fighter around," Jax countered. "You're now going up against people who've been training for years. You can't win here."

"I've supported you through your dumb decisions, why can't you do this for me?" Niko yelled at Jax. "I've been your best friend for years and not once have I not supported you."

"Niko, you supported my decision to flush a cherry bomb down the toilet. You supported my decision to join soccer. You supported me when I couldn't come to school for weeks because of Bruce," Jax explained to Niko. "I've supported you when you wanted to be a star soccer player. I supported you when you told me about what your dad wanted. I supported you when you decided it was a good idea to prank the school by having a cow roam through the halls, I still have no clue how you managed to find a cow in New York but you still managed it. This however, I can't support. I'm willing to do a lot for you but watch you get the stuffing beat out of you isn't one of them."

Niko stood in silence, "Then maybe it's best you leave."

"I'm staying here until that bell rings," Jax told Niko. "You have until then you listen to your friends. If you don't then just know we won't be there to clean up the mess that's at the end of this fight."

"Fine then," Niko sighed as Jax walked away and made his way to Tori, Artemis and Harper.

"Did it work?" Tori swiftly asked with hope in her eyes.

"We'll have to wait and see," Jax responded he took a seat next to Harper. "Let's just hope he's sees sense before he loses it."

"He will," Harper reassured Jax as she placed a hand on his shoulder. "If he doesn't then at least you have tomorrow to look forward to."

"Oh yeah the performance," Artemis muttered.

Jax awkwardly replied, "Yeah, the performance. Definitely nothing else that I have planned."

The camera panned down to Niko sitting with his gloves on. Everything was rushing through his head, everything that Tori, Artemis and Jax had said to him were finally getting to him but he couldn't avoid this. He needed to fight. He had to do something to make his dad happy. That was when the referee asked the fighters to come into the ring.

Niko snapped out of it as he turned to enter the ring he saw his opponent. Six foot and five inches of pure muscle, he looked more like a twenty five year old man than a high school student and that's when he realised he was completely out of his depth. He couldn't do this.

The ref made an arm motion and the bell rang. The fight was beginning, Niko looked to his left and saw Tori, Artemis, Jax and Harper leaving and knew he had to stop but before he got a chance to his opponent through one punch at him and knocked him instantly to the floor.

"Niko!" Tori yelled in shock as she saw what happened, Artemis quickly grabbed her and covered her eyes so she wouldn't see anything else.

"Screw this!" Jax yelled as he ran and jumped into the ring to grab Niko. "You couldn't listen to me for this one time could you."

The referee raised his hand and announced, "Unauthorised entry into the ring. Fitzgerald forfeits! The winner is Taylor Evans!"

The crowd awkwardly cheered as Jax helped Niko up to his feet, "I know you're gonna hate me for a while. Hell you'll probably want me to be your next boxing opponent but I had to do that dude and I just hope-"

"Thank you," Niko interrupted Jax as he gave him one big hug.

"Well, nice to know there is a brain in your head after all," Jax joked as he stepped out of the ring with Niko to walk over to Artemis, Tori and Harper. "Good news everyone! He's finally admitted he's an idiot! You can't call me stupid anymore!"

"So you finally realised and all it took was one punch to the face," Artemis commented. "Someone remind me to do that to Milo next time he's being a pain."

"You're not going to fight again?" Tori asked hopefully to which Niko nodded as Tori went over and gave hugged him.

"Never again," Niko replied.


It was the next morning Sabrina was sitting in the art room painting as usual. It was the first time the room had been quiet in what felt like years, usually she was training Gia to defend herself but with the performance today she decided to give her a day off. She may be called the ice queen but she knows when too much is too much. Although she kind of missed the noise.

The door opened and Josie and Gia stepped in, "Hey Sabrina."

"What're you both doing here?" Sabrina bluntly asked the pair. "Don't you have something better to do than bother me again?"

"We'll make it quick," Josie promised Sabrina.

"We were just wondering if you wanted to watch us perform at the pep rally today?" Gia excitedly asked Sabrina.

"I have to, it's a mandatory thing you know," Sabrina told them both. "Even if I didn't want to go I'd still have to go."

"We know but we also know you'd probably skip it to go onto the roof or something," Josie replied and Sabrina had to admit they were right. "So, will you come?"

"I'll be there," Sabrina answered and the two girls give her a big smile in return. "Don't expect me be happy about being there. I'll still be miserable and want to the whole room to shut up."

Gia shrugged, "We'll take what we can get."

"If it helps me and Gia are doing this one as a dedication to you," Josie happily gave Sabrina the good news.

"You're singing By The Way right?" Sabrina asked and they both nodded back. "So you're dedicating a song to me about drug addiction, committing crimes and being a nuisance to society and an all around terrible person?"

Gia and Josie stiffened up and faces turned sour as they realised what they said before Gia tried to defend it, "We thought you'd find it funny?"

"I mean you like dark humour… right?" Josie nervously asked as she gave an awkward smile.

"You're lucky I don't hate you both," Sabrina bluntly told them as she went back to her painting. "Now get out before I decide to change my mind."

"We'll see you at the pep rally!" Gia yelled as she and Josie left the room leaving Sabrina by herself again.

"Damn it," she muttered under her breath. "I'm actually getting used to them being around."


Jax and Harper walked through the halls together with big grins on their faces. After all their handwork they'd finally sorted everything out for their little prank on Bruce that he wouldn't see coming. It felt good knowing no matter what he did to them he would soon be hit by karma.

"So when do you think we should do it?" Harper asked Jax curiously. "Before or after the pep rally, because I'm not really sure."

"We?" Jax questioned. "No, no, no. I'm gonna be doing the prank and you're going to watching in the stands with your camera on."

"So why do I get the boring job?" Harper followed up with a pout.

"Because this prank is going to be done in front of the whole school," Jax began to explain. "And that includes the teachers and principal Abraham. He'll protect his big prize possession Bruce and send me to detention for the next few weeks and I don't really want you to get that too."

"I can handle detention Jax," Harper scoffed. "Besides with me around he might actually go easier on you. I can say it was all my idea and since I haven't had a single detention in all my academic life they will go easy on me. Win, win scenario."

"Remind me to use you as my lawyer next time principal Abrahams tries to stick me in detention for harmlessly releasing 500 butterflies into the school."

Harper looked smug as she wiped her nails on her shirt, "Looks like a law career is my future. Just remember I do have a small fee."

"Just so you know I have just about enough money to buy some chicken nuggets," Jax hesitantly told Harper. "So I hope your fee is around that."

"No, it's not," Harper chuckled as she blushed and pushed her hair behind her ear. "I was actually wondering if you wanted to go on a date with me?"

"Wait… what?" Jax stammered in confusion not really understanding how this had happened.

"You don't have to say yes," Harper quickly said with a flustered expression before blushing and looking down at the ground. "It's just that, I really like you and wanted to know if you felt the same. It's okay if you don't, I completely get it and we don't have to do anything, we can just go back to being friends and forget this ever happened."

"Oh no I like you, I just didn't expect it to happen this quickly," Jax honestly replied with slight smile. "I kind of dig a girl asking me out though. It's kind of nice that I get to make the decision."

Harper nervously fiddled with her fingers, "So… is it a yes or a no?"

"Obviously a yes," Jax confirmed which made Harper's face light up. "Pick me up at eight?"

"Pick you up?" Harper asked with a confused look now on her face.

"You asked me out, you're the one who gets to plan the date, pick me up and get me home at a reasonable hour so my parents don't think you're impregnating me," Jax explained with smile across his face as Harper chuckled at his response. "Or we could just meet up for a dinner date tonight at, Breadsticks?"

"Isn't that the Lima chain that is like really expensive?" Harper questioned.

"Yes, but I think I can afford it for one night," Jax confidently replied as he winked at Harper. "Besides we could just eat breadsticks for free all night, I mean they are famous for them."

"Only if I can pretend to be a walrus with them," Harper cheered.

Jax looked Harper up and down, "Where have you been all my life?"

"Behind you," Niko joked as he and Tori walked up to the pair. "Unless you're cheating on me already Jax. I thought we had something special."

"Very funny mister black eye," Jax sarcastically replied whilst mocking Niko's now black eye. "Man, all I want to do is draw a black line on your face and make it look like an eye patch."

"Don't even go there," Niko told Jax. "What're you two so happy about anyway? You look like a more diverse Brady Bunch."

"Harper finally womanned up and asked me if I wanted to go on a date with her," Jax joked as he wrapped his arm around Harper and pulled her close. "I decided to say yes."

"That's great!" Tori exclaimed with glee.

"I know!" Harper cheered back. "Hey maybe after our first one me and Jax can double date with you guys?"

"Ummmm, we're not dating," Tori nervously told Harper as she pushed her hair behind her ear. "We're just friends."

Harper raised an eyebrow, "Really? I thought you two were definitely dating. I mean you seemed so worried at the fight?"

"It's complicated," Jax explained to Harper. "They said their vows to each other when they first made eye contact but neither of them seems to realise that yet so they're just friends for now. Give it a couple of weeks and it will definitely change but we need them both to realise their feelings first before anything actually happens."

"What?" Tori and Niko asked in unison.

"Tori sometimes you're too naive for you own good and Niko sometimes you're too dense for your own good," Jax told them both . "Now if you'll excuse us, me and Harper have somethings we have to take care of before the pep rally today."

"You're going to that," Niko asked Harper.

"Of course, wanna sit next to me?" Harper followed up. "We can be the glee club fan club."

"You guys should sit with Sabrina too," Tori told them both. "Gia and Josie said she's going so you can all be a team together."

"Sounds like a plan," Harper agreed as she grabbed Jax by the hand and dragged him off. "We've got work to do but we'll see you lovebirds later!"

"Lovebirds?" Tori asked with an even more confused look on her face.

Niko shook his head. "Jax has genuinely found someone who is exactly like him. I don't know if I should be scared or absolutely terrified."


Elliot and CeCe stood in the gym with the stage fully set up. They hadn't talked about what happened yesterday and CeCe could tell Elliot was still angry with her. She wasn't exactly used to this feeling around Elliot, that feeling that she couldn't speak to him or say anything to him. It felt weird and incredibly uncomfortable.

"Can we, talk about yesterday?" CeCe stuttered as Elliot glanced over to her. "I'm sorry about what I said, I'm just… I'm not used to this."

"Used to what?" Elliot asked with his arms folded.

"Having an actual friend," CeCe confessed. "It just feels weird to me."

"Why didn't you tell me that instead of just saying what you said?" Elliot followed up.

"I'm a Davenport," CeCe told Elliot. "You met my parents, you know what they're like. I'm meant to be harsh, cold, not show any emotion and be as cutthroat as possible, even when I don't want to be. It's how I was raised and it's hard to stop something I was raised to do."

"The stress of today hasn't exactly helped things either, has it?" Elliot questioned CeCe further. "Did you manage to sleep last night at all?

CeCe shook her head, "I stayed up all night. I now know there's two hundred and twenty eight tiles on my ceiling now though and my Squirrel Girl poster has one hundred squirrels around her."

"There's worst ways to spend a night," Elliot chuckled before he placed an arm on her shoulder. "It will be over today and you can pass out on your bed the second you get home."

"Trust me, I will," CeCe confirmed with a laugh as she glanced up at Elliot. "I'm sorry for what I said, I'll try and reel in the Davenport ways in the future but I do see you as a friend. Even if my upbringing tell me to not believe that."

"Apology accepted," Elliot replied as he moved his hand from her shoulder. "Now just have faith in our club, they're going to be incredible today."

"I hope so," CeCe said as she walked over to the stage. "It looks like they've actually put a big budget into the pep rally this year. Good stage, sound system and… what's that?"

Elliot gave CeCe a puzzled look as he moved his head to follow her eye-line, "Is that a camera?"

"Of course," Amy told the pair as she walked up behind them. "We're streaming this event to the wider public to demonstrate why our school is one of the best in New York. We've even sent a link to all schools in the surrounding area so they know how superior we are to them. I've also asked Principal Abraham to send the link to parents as well so they can watch live and that includes your parents too Davenport."

"What?" CeCe nervously asked as her whole body stiffened up.

"You know what I said," Amy sneered. "Let's just hope you club don't mess up like last year Davenport, at least last time only the school knew. Now the whole of New York will see it."

"Oh god," CeCe muttered as she stared at the floor.

"Just don't expect your parents to save your butt this time," Amy glowered.

"That's enough," Elliot snapped at Amy. "If anything goes wrong this is just as much your fault. How do you think the rest of the schools will see you and your council?"

Amy smirked at Elliot, "It's not my fault our performers messes up their routine. We organised the event, we can't help it if some people weren't up to our standards. My hands are clean and if you mess up, yours won't be."

"Luckily we won't mess up," Elliot bit back. "So how about you back off and go sort out the decorations of this place rather than consistently attacking CeCe."

"Well, looks like you have some bite after all," Amy replied with a sly smile on her face. "I'll leave you but remember what I said all those weeks ago Elliot. You'd be better off running this club by yourself and ditching the dead weight."

"Keep telling yourself that," Elliot maintained as Amy walked off and her turned to see a now nervous CeCe. "Don't listen to her. We've got this."

"My parents are going to see this," CeCe whispered as she wrapped her arms around herself. "They're going to see it. Live. If anything happens, no, no, no, don't think about it."

"It'll all be fine," Elliot reassured CeCe.

"Get the club together, get them into the choir room and make sure they're ready for this," CeCe demanded Elliot with a cold look. "Get Jude and Shangela to rehearse their lines over and over again, get everyone to go over their choreography and for the love of god make sure they know it like the back of their hands."

"CeCe," Elliot stammered.

CeCe glared at Elliot, "Do it Elliot. We can't mess this up now. I'm not having this happen again, I've lived through it once and I don't want to live through it again!"

"I'll get everyone," Elliot told her in a disappointed tone. "Do me a favour though, take some deep breaths. It'll help."

CeCe nodded as Elliot left to get the club together and she began to breathe in deep. It wasn't working and she could feel the stress get to her, all the memories of the past came flooding back and she knew that she was doomed if anything bad happened.

"CeCe," a voice said. "You okay?"

CeCe turned to see Jude standing there, "I'm… I'm fine. What're you doing here? The pep rally isn't starting for another hour."

"Checking out the venue before we get on stage," Jude told her. "What happened? You look like my mom when she found out the Backstreet Boys broke up."

"It's nothing," CeCe brushed it off.

"You sure about that?" Jude persisted. "I can see your eyes are watering, your skin is paler that usual and your fists are clenched."

"It's… it's none of your concern Judith," CeCe insisted. "Just run along back to Shangela okay?"

"Don't do that," Jude told CeCe.

"Do what?" CeCe asked trying to keep up her cold demeanour.

"What you always do when someone tries to help," Jude began with a look of determination on her face. "Push them away and act surprised when they don't come to your rescue. As much as you hate it CeCe I know you better than anyone in this school. I know that when you're stressed your dig your nails into your skin to relieve some of it, that you stare at the floor whenever you're scared… and I know what your parents are capable of."

"Don't," CeCe whispered as she looked to the floor and motioned for Jude to stop.

Jude stayed motionless, "Just tell me what's happening."

"They're live streaming the whole thing," CeCe murmured. "They've sent a link to all the parents and if anything goes wrong then…"

"Then your mom and dad are going to give you hell," Jude finished CeCe's sentence as she nodded in agreement. "We won't mess up. I promise."

"How can you be so sure?" CeCe questioned Jude who simply smiled back.

"Because I've seen what your mom and dad are capable of," Jude explained. "I'm not letting you go through that again."

"Why are you even helping me?" CeCe asked with a sniffle. "I thought you hated me."

"I don't hate you CeCe," Jude insisted. "You screwed me over in the past and I'm pissed at you, but that doesn't mean I hate you."

CeCe looked at Jude with admiration for the first time in what felt like years, "Thank you."

"No problem, just don't expect me to do this all the time. This time there's just some special circumstances," Jude explained as she turned to leave. "I'm gonna rehearse with Shangela. Don't have another mental breakdown whilst I'm gone!"

"I'll try," CeCe sighed as Jude left and CeCe continued to take in deep breaths that were now actually helping her.


"Sabrina!" Niko cheered as he and Harper stood outside the gym together waiting for Sabrina to make her way over.

"Do I even know you? You look like a reject from My Chemical Romance and your friend looks like she belongs in some children's TV show asking them about the number three," Sabrina replied with a puzzled look.

"I'm Harper and this is Niko," Harper said whilst gesturing to Niko. "We're friends of the glee club and we were told you might want to sit with us."

"Ummm," Sabrina muttered as she looked up and down at Harper. "No offence but if we sat together we'd look like the weird start of some Disney Channel show. She's a happy popular teen and she's a lonely outsider, now they're step sisters, you get the idea."

"What am I in the show?" Niko asked with a raised eyebrow.

"The best friend who ends up disappearing somewhere in season two because they couldn't find any interesting storylines for you," Sabrina continued.

Harper shifted uncomfortably, "Well do you want to come with us to wish them luck at least? I'm sure they'd really appreciate it."

"Sure," Sabrina reluctantly agreed. "I mean they're dedicating a song about addiction to me so I might as well."

"Great," Harper smiled as the three walked down the hall. "So who do you know in the club?"

"Artemis, Gia and Josie, you could include Milo if you count annoyances I know," Sabrina explained as she looked straight ahead. "You?"

"I'm kind of dating Jax, I guess," Harper answered, finding it weird saying her and Jax were dating for the first time.

"My condolences," Sabrina consoled her. "What about you MCR kid?"

"Tori and Jax, but at this point I feel like I know all of them," Niko honestly replied.

"Maybe you should join?" Sabrina joked before giving a puzzled looked to them both. "Can either of you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Harper questioned as they all halted and Sabrina gestured for them to be quiet.

"Is everything ready Bruce?" Amy asked Bruce around the corner of the hall.

Harper's eyes widened, "Is that Amy and Bruce?"

"It is," Niko confirmed.

"Stay quiet and get on the wall," Sabrina told them both as they all leaned against the wall and eavesdropped on the pair.

"It's all taken care of," Bruce reassured Amy. "Jared and Pete in the rafters with the trash, the switch to turn the sound off is in place and I've got little traps set up on stage for them."

"Will Principal Abraham walk on any of the traps?" Amy quickly asked.

"I got the AV club kids to get Abraham to give his little speech about school spirit in the centre of the gym and not the stage," Bruce bragged. "He won't know about any of it."

"Perfect," Amy remarked with a smirk. "I'm looking forward to finally getting revenge on Artemis. I'm sure you're the same with Willow?"

"The rest of their school days are going to be living hell," Bruce chuckled as the pair began to walk to where Sabrina, Niko and Harper were hiding.

Sabrina stood up first and walked round the corner to face Bruce and Amy, "Oh hey Bruce, Amy."

"Crap," Bruce muttered as he stiffened up.

"What do you want Sabrina? I'm a bit busy if you can't tell," Amy sighed as she rolled her eyes.

"Oh, I want nothing," Sabrina menacingly replied. "All I'm going to say is if anything happens to any of the glee club on that stage I will come after you both. Bruce already knows what I can do and I'm sure you don't want that either Amy, do you?"

"I'm guessing you heard what we were saying?" Amy asked Sabrina with a raised eyebrow.

"Every. Word," Sabrina hissed. "I won't hesitate if you hurt them."

Amy chuckled as she flicked her hair back, "Do it. Remember which one us has a perfect record whilst the other is known simply for being stand offish, violent and a nuisance to this school. You'll get kicked out of here so fast you'll just be a blur."

Sabrina looked up and smiled, "Who said I'd do it at school? Or that you'd have any proof it was me? You might be top dog here but trust me, out there you wouldn't last a second against me."

"Do your worst Ice Queen," Amy snakily replied and she walked past Sabrina with Bruce following. "Because whatever you can do, I can do better."

"We'll see," Sabrina hissed as the two disappeared from sight and Harper and Niko appeared from around the corner.

"What're we going to do?" Harper asked with a worried expression on her face.

"Warn them," Sabrina instructed. "If they know what's happening they can avoid some of the traps."

"What about Jared and Pete?" Niko questioned. "We can't go into the rafters, the school has it under lock and key, only people like Amy have access."

"We'll figure that out later, now we need to warn them," Sabrina instructed as the three began to run towards the show choir room.


The show choir room was packed with the whole glee club rehearsing the song, choreography and everything in-between. They were currently taking a break so they were rested for the performance, it was silent and you could tell people were feeling anxious.

"I know we're all nervous but we don't have to turn this place into a library," Artemis broke the silence. "Seriously, I'm expecting someone to tell me to shush any second now."

"It's hard Artemis," Tori told her. "I don't know about anyone else but my stomach is doing backflips right now."

"Same, I feel like I'm gonna be sick," Gia confessed.

"Add me to that list," Jude chimed in.

"That's good," Milo reassured everyone which resulted in a lot of puzzled looks.

"How is feeling like this good?" Shangela asked.

"I think feeling well would probably be better than this," Xavier added as well.

Milo stood up so everyone would look at him, "It's the pre-show nerves. It happens every time I'm about to go on stage and it's a good thing. Having those nerves means that whatever you're doing is actually important to you, it sucks and when you're just about to go on the stage your stomach will be ten times worse. It feels like your intestines are being pulled out."

"I'm feeling so much better now," Shangela sarcastically said.

"But," Milo interrupted as he continued his speech. "The minute the music kicks in and the first person begins to sing it all goes away and you just get this rush of euphoria and you feel like there's nothing you can't do. It honestly makes the nerves so worth it."

"Wait, you still get nerves?" Tori asked to which Milo nodded.

"But you're like a seasoned performer," Teddy recalled. "How do you still get nervous?"

"Because I always want to give a good show," Milo explained. "You never know what's gonna happen so I'm never sure if I will be able to do it."

Artemis was about to talk about the time he punch a clown but quickly changed her mind, "I've seen his nerves backstage when he first started out. He went into his own world, bitt the top of his bottle and wouldn't talk to anyone. Now he's chatting backstage, chilled out and really loose."

"So it gets better?" Josie asked.

"No," Milo honestly answered. "You just get better and hiding it and learn to ride off that thrill of performing. It may suck to feet that way but the second the first person sings or the first note is played, all of it disappears."

"Way to put the pressure on me Milo!" Jude joked which caused the room to laugh.

"You're the most confident person in this room Jude, you'll rock it," Milo complimented her as the whole room suddenly felt more at ease and all began chatting amongst themselves as Milo sat back down next to Artemis.

"Good work," Artemis told him with a sincere smile. "Nice to know one of my yelling sessions actually got through to you."

"First time for anything," Milo chuckled as Artemis lightly punched his arm.

The camera panned over to CeCe and Elliot leaning against the wall looking out over the club, "You feeling less nervous about this whole thing now?"

"No," CeCe explained. "But according to Milo that's a good thing, so I just need to accept that and hope everything works out for the best."

"I have the faith," Elliot reassured CeCe who then raised an eyebrow.

"So… are you feeling nervous?" CeCe asked.

"My stomach has been doing backflips since Monday," Elliot answered. "The difference is I'm very good at hiding it."

"Well you had me fooled," CeCe chuckled. "I just hope nothing goes wrong."

"What could possibly go wrong?" Elliot rhetorically asked as Sabrina, Niko and Harper barged into the room with worried expressions.

"Amy and Bruce have set traps up for you on stage, they've got a rig to turn off your sound and Bruce and Jared are in the rafters waiting to poor garbage on you all," Sabrina quickly explained to everyone whilst entering the room.

"That," CeCe told Elliot as she walked over to them. "What're you talking about?"

"We heard Amy and Bruce talking about sabotaging your performance," Niko answered. "They're going to humiliate you all. That's why this whole thing is being streamed to our parents and other schools, so everyone will know."

"They want to get Willow and Artemis mainly," Harper continued on.

"What!?" Willow panicked as he began looking around.

"That's what I get for finally punching her in the face," Artemis sighed. "Still worth it though."

"What're we going to do?" Shangela asked the room. "We can't change the song now, we don't have a backing track and if there's traps on stage we can't do any of our choreography."

"Even if we did change our song they'd stop the audio," Rhys explained. "We literally can't do anything to stop this."

"There must be something? Can't we go into the rafters and stop Jared and Pete?" Xavier asked.

Elliot shook his head, "Only staff and the president of student council get access. We wouldn't be able to get up there even if we tried."

"We could just do trash angels when they poor it onto us?" Jax suggested trying to lighten the mood. "Or maybe roll in it like the pigs they are?"

"Not a time for jokes Jax," CeCe snapped.

"I'm going to break Bruce next time I see him," Milo hissed. "Come on there must be something we can do to stop this?"

"There isn't Milo," Artemis firmly told him. "We're just going to have to let it be."

Milo widened his eyes as he had an exciting thought, "I've got an idea!"

"Let me write this down in my journal, you never have ideas," Artemis joked as Milo ran to the centre of the room.

"We're going a-cappella," Milo announced.

"We can't learn an a-cappella version of By The Way in ten minutes Milo," CeCe shot him down. "It'd be a miracle if we could."

"We can't but I know a song we can," Milo told her. "Niko, Harper, Sabrina, try and delay the assembly as long as you can!"

"We'll do our best," Niko reassured Milo as the three began to leave.

"Harper!" Jax quickly called for her. "Commence operation Gone With The Wind!"

Harper smiled wildly back at Jax as she ran out the room, "Got it!"

"Gone with the wind?" Tori asked him.

"You'll see," jax replied with a smirk as he patted her head.

"Ask him later, right now I'm gonna need you for this idea Tori" Milo informed Tori who smiled at Milo. "That goes for you too Gia and Artemis."

"Oh man, I didn't know this would involve work," Jax sighed as he wanted over to Milo

"Everyone take off anything red!" Milo announced.

"Umm, excuse me?" Lennox glowered. "I spent the whole week on these!"

"Do you want to do it for them then?" Milo asked Lennox who glared at him.

Eventually though she grabbed the closest person to her, Gia, and began editing, "Come here and don't move if you know what's good for you."

"Can you do that over here Lennox?" Milo suggested as he gestured for everyone to come to him. "Everyone come here! Okay here's what we're going to do…"


The gym was now packed with students sitting down and chatting amongst themselves and Amy was admiring her handy work whilst Bruce remained more reserved, something which Amy noticed immediately and wasn't happy.

"Can you stop worrying?" Amy snapped. "The Ice Queen can't do anything to us, Pete and Jared are in the rafters still and the traps are still in place. We're golden."

"You don't know what that girl is capable of," Bruce muttered.

"I know her permanent record though and that gives me a bit of an idea of what she can do," Amy countered. "She gets humiliated once and she'll leave this school in a heartbeat."

"Easy for you to say, you don't have nuts she can crush," Bruce bit back as Amy glared at him.

"Be quiet, Abraham is about to give his speech," Amy instructed Bruce as Principal Abraham approached the middle of the gym with a microphone in hand.

The room went silent as Principal Abraham began his speech, "Students, faculty and people steaming. Today we gather in here to show we are one of the most-"

"Stop!" Niko yelled as he stormed into the gym and ran to Principal Abraham.

"Nicholas, what in gods name are you doing?" Principal Abraham asked him.

"There's a troll in the dungeon!" Niko yelled out causing the room to laugh. "Sorry, always wanted to do that, don't give me detention."

"Is that all you wanted?" Principal Abraham questioned Niko with an annoyed tone.

"Well, I did want to do one thing," Niko mischievously replied as he grabbed the microphone. "The Ice Queen would like to make a statement."

Sabrina walked slowly into the room with her footsteps echoing throughout the gym as she grabbed the microphone from Niko, "Thanks Niko."

"Miss Calloway this is uncalled for," Principal Abraham told Sabrina who shrugged it off.

"Just give me a detention and get over it," Sabrina told him as she turned to the students. "Look, I'm not here to give a big fantastic speech about the school because this place is teenage hell ground and unfortunately we have a she-devil ruling over us. Isn't that right Amy?"

Amy raised an eyebrow, "This should be good."

"You think you're the queen of this school," Sabrina continued as she stared directly in Amy's eyes. "You think you can do things without consequence but you don't know what people say behind your back. I know what this school thinks of you, I know how they talk about the day you graduate as a day of celebration. It's like when Voldemort died but better. You can enjoy your rule whilst you can but just remember, one day the people below you will fight back and there is nothing you can do to stop us. Just remember that after this show."

"Miss Calloway-" Principal Abraham began.

"I'm done, you can give your speech about how much you love the school despite the fact you're planning on moving to that cushy job in Florida," Sabrina snapped as she dropped the microphone and walked out of the room leaving Niko and Principal Abraham together.

"I didn't know she'd do that if it helps," Niko told him with a smile as he ran after her.

"Well…" Principal Abraham muttered as he quickly put on a fake smile. "Luckily today we've got a great performance for you from our high school glee club The Keytones! They will be performing a song that shows our school is one of the most talented in the district."

Principal Abraham walked off to his seat as the lights went on the stage but no one was there leaving Amy to get annoyed, "Where are they?"

"Probably chickened out after finding out," Bruce suggested until Milo walked out on stage and stood dead in the centre.

"So above me there are two guys with trash ready to poor it over the top of me," Milo told the audience who all looked up to see Jared and Pete up in the rafters. "If they could get that over and done with now that'd be fantastic."

Jared and Pete looked down at Amy and Bruce who remained motionless, "What is he doing?"

"Come on guys, do it now like we planned," Milo instructed whilst smiling down at Amy and Bruce who's faces scrunched up.

"Damn it," Amy muttered.

"What?" Bruce asked.

"He's made it seem like whatever happens they planned. Whatever plans you had planned they've now made it apart of their performance," Amy hissed as she nodded in the direction of Pete and Jared who let the trash pour onto Milo causing the student body to laugh.

Milo smiled as he pushed his hair back, "Sometimes in life bad things happen and sometimes you've just got to let it be."

(Let It Be by The Beatles (Scattertones version) performed by The Keytones)

{Milo stands centre stage in his black outfit covered in trash all whilst smiling and with a single spotlight on him as the rest of The Keytones slowly come onto the stage creating the backing for him using on their voice.}

[Milo]

When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

{Shangela moves from the back to stand next to Milo with her head held high and with pride}

[Shangela]

And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be

{Jude comes up and stands next to Milo as well rapping her arm around his shoulder which Shangela mimics as they all smile together}

[Jude]

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

{The rest of The Keytones walk slowly behind and form a full line standing with Milo}

[Milo]

And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me
Shine until tomorrow, let it be

{Tori looks up into the spotlight as she sings her lines with a huge smile on her face and looks at the rest of club realising she finally belongs somewhere}

[Tori]

I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

{Gia confidently belts out whilst holding Tori's hand feeling so happy they got to sing together}

[Gia]

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be

{Artemis looks over at Milo proudly as she sings the final line and the whole club end in a group hug, they did it}

[Artemis]

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

The students erupted in applause as they finished their song with all of them standing on stage together in a single line. The nerves were gone and they were thriving off of that euphoria, that was until Jax stormed to the centre of the stage and made an announcement.

"We would like to invite Amy and Bruce on stage!" Jax yelled as the students cheered as the pair awkwardly got up to go onto the stage not knowing what was about to happen.

"Jax, what're you doing?" CeCe hissed as Jax continued to smile wildly.

"Just trust me," Jax instructed CeCe.

"Famous last words," CeCe muttered as Amy and Bruce stood centre stage.

"Everyone! We would like to thank Amy and Bruce for inspiring this whole number," Jax told the whole school who applauded the pair as they awkwardly stood on stage. "Sometimes bad things happen and you've just got to let it be. So, considering we've all suffered the stink of Milo bathed in trash we think it's only right you get something as well."

"What?" Amy and Bruce snapped.

"NOW!" Jax yelled as Niko and Harper busted through the doors of the gym with leaf blowers with multiple toilet rolls attached.

"Enjoy!" Niko and Harper cheered as they turned them on and covered Amy and Bruce head to toe in toilet paper with both of them becoming furious as a result.

Amy moved some of the toilet paper from her eyes with a shocked expression on her face, "Why is this paper wet?"

"My bad," Harper confessed. "I might've dropped some of them in the toilet. Don't worry they were flushed… I think."

"Oh god!" Amy screamed as the school continued to cheer.

"Wait!" Principal Abraham yelled causing everyone to go silent. "Amy this was your idea? To show us that things go wrong and it's how you handle it that makes the difference."

Amy glared at the glee club before faking a smile, "Yes sir. What better way to share our message than through this pep rally."

"Amazing!" Principal Abraham cheered as Amy stormed off the stage and out of the gym where Sabrina was waiting.

"Told you," Sabrina smirked as Amy groaned and marched quickly away from her as Sabrina looked into the gym with a sly smile. "Good job idiots, good job."


"Three showers and I still smell like a toilet," Milo huffed as dried his hair off with a towel in the choir room with all the other glee club members around him. "Seriously, how can week old food smell this bad."

"Just be happy it wasn't left over onion stew," Artemis joked. "You'd end up smelling like Shrek… actually you kind of look like him."

"How did I know that was coming?" Milo asked as he put the towel around his neck.

"Thanks for doing that Milo," Jude thanked him.

"Yeah, you might be a dick sometimes but you did good today," Shangela added with a smile.

"Hey, I'm the only one who can call him a dick thank you very much," Artemis told Shangela as everyone chuckled around them.

Milo took a seat next to Artemis, "Well someone had to do it and, lets face it, I'm the only one here who can make trash like this look good."

"I think that's more my costumes," Lennox joked which earned a laugh.

"We do owe you a thank you though Milo," Elliot told him. "You stepped up when we needed someone to lead us through a difficult time."

"It was nothing," Milo shrugged.

"No it wasn't," CeCe interrupted him. "You did good today Milo. You didn't let anyone else have that trash poured on them, you made sure it was only you and you saved us from humiliation. Thank you, for all of that. Just… thank you."

Milo looked at CeCe and gave her a little smile, "Let's just hope the trash smell goes away by Monday or I will regret doing this."

The glee club laughed as there was a knock at the door and stood there was Sabrina, Niko and Harper all smiling at them, "Well don't you all look happy."

"What're you guys doing here?" Jax asked the threesome.

"Aren't we allowed to just visit our friends?" Niko countered with a sly smirk. "I might've missed you all after the day we had."

"Cut the crap Niko," Sabrina told him as she faced the rest of the club. "Look, we all were talking and we want in."

"What?" Elliot questioned with a puzzled expression.

"A nicer way of putting it is that me, Niko and Sabrina want to join the glee club," Harper said with a smile. "We've really gotten to know you over the last few days and we want to be apart of this."

"Really?" Tori asked excitedly with her eyes on Niko.

Niko nodded, "Yep, we want to join."

"There's always room for more," Elliot happily told them all who smiled back at him.

"Good to have you here," CeCe solemnly said as well.

Tori looked over at Jax with a sly smile, "Jax… didn't you say that if Niko joined the glee club you would wear a sequin suit and sing ABBA?"

"Damn," Jax muttered.

"I'm looking forward to this!" Jude cheered as Jax shook his head.

"I'll do it, but I'm going to do it when you all least suspect it," Jax told everyone. "If I'm doing this, I'm doing it by my own terms."

"Fine," Tori sighed. "Just make sure we all get to see it," Tori chuckled.

"So?" Elliot whispered to CeCe as the club talked amongst themselves. "You still nervous."

"For the first time in a while, I'm actually not," CeCe told Elliot as they went to join their members.


Cast:

Elliot Wade Cavaliere (Peyton Meyer)

Cecilia Davenport (Lili Reinhart)

Milo Gunner (Jamie Campbell Bower)

Artemis Eileen Cole (Casey Lee Williams)

Victoria Marie Liddle (Sabrina Carpenter)

Nicholas Fitzgerald Lee (Choi Minho)

Sabrina Calloway (Billie Eilish

Josie Ann Crowder (Landry Bender)

Ajax Christian Lexington The Third (Alex Aino)

Jude Winter (Zhavia Ward)

Shangela Davis (Jude Demorest)

Willow McClay (Ross Lynch)

Reed Lievers (Ben Platt)

Gianna Rose Copeland (Alexandra Shipp)

Sabrina Calloway (Billie Eilish)

Nicholas Fitzgerald Lee (Choi Minho)

Theodore Stephens (Corey Foglemanis)

Rhys Dignam (Joe Keery)

Xavier Bradshaw (Dylan O'Brien)

Lennox Iris Delgado (Vanessa Morgan)

Amy James (Chloe Bridges)

Bruce McTames (Leo Howard)

Ike Ramirez (Zac Efron)

Leticia Electra Kane (Vanessa Morgan)

Songs:

Popular Song by Mika & Ariana Grande performed by Jax & Harper

Find You by Zedd performed by The Crescendudes

Ordinary Superstar by Rina Sawayama performed by Lennox

By The Way by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers performed by The Keytones

Let It Be by The Beatles (Scattertones version) performed by The Keytones

The sixth episode has arrived, after about five rewrites it has finally made its way onto here! That's why this took so long because, as well as my life getting a tad hectic, with so many characters I had to rewrite and edit this episode so many times it's just unreal. Apologies again for the time it took, I do try and get them out as quickly as possibly but sometimes it doesn't all go to plan. Sorry again!

The name has been given to our club! YAY! The Keytones have arrived everyone, celebrate it! There were a lot of great name suggestions but I just adored that one and had to choose it, just seemed right for the club in my eyes. Plus The Crescendudes vs The Keytones feels like a great match up, don't you think?

This was a fun chapter to write though, Milo's character development was lovely to do, the dramatic scenes between Niko and Artemis is something I adored to write about, the prop makers bonding was really sweet as well and Jude and CeCe finally getting some common ground was a highlight as well. There was a lot of good moments in this chapter that I adored to do!

I also wanted to talk a bit about the songs too because I got one or two DM's asking about the songs. So I try to vary it with well known songs, more indie music and musicals so we get a lot of interesting music that you will know and may not know. Example being Rina Sawayama working perfectly with Lennox's character and being an artist you may not of heard of before.

As always did you enjoy the chapter? Which character did you really love or hate in this chapter? Any moments that left you wanting more or surprise you? Did you enjoy Jax and Harper's relationship and prank together? What do you think is up with Lennox and Artemis? And, as always, have you got any songs or story ideas you'd like to see in the future! Thanks to all who sent DM's again, the support helps this story alive and going!

Keep the light shining!
Lux