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'What exactly are you searching for?
I just wanted something to believe in
The universe is so much more
Than the location you are seeing
If I am supposed to be alone
Then why do I dream of you daily?
I'll fake it through till I come home
As I pray

Now the show is over
The magician is gone
And the movie is due back on Sunday morning
Start us then capitalize
Cause reality's a cross when you're crossing your eyes
And it starts from wanting to believe
In the supernatural

But it's making me go crazy
Making me go crazy
Making me go crazy
Trying to figure out this illusion'

"Should we perform this at the interview?" Blaine wondered after they finished the song.

"I thought that was why we were practicing it." Finn shrugged standing up from behind the drums. He joined the others who were taking seats around the living room.

Santana shrugged, "well, Sharon said we would probably be singing at least two songs. One to open the interview and one to end it."

"So, Illusions?" Quinn asked.

"Sounds good to me." Finn agreed grabbing a chocolate chip cookie from the plate on the coffee table. "Hey, these are good."

Puck nodded, "told ya."

"Thanks." Quinn said with him. She had made them a few hours ago because Santana had some cravings, and she wouldn't shut up about them.

"Actually," Sam started, "I was kind of working on something last night." He looked around at the others as now all their attention was on him. "I couldn't sleep, I guess my mind was on the interview and I ended up writing something." He held up a finger to excuse himself for a minute as he walked toward the kitchen to grab a sheet of paper from the table. "I think it's pretty good." He continued as he came back into the living room. He handed the paper to Puck.

As Puck looked it over he nodded, "yeah." He then continued to read a little of the song. "On the first day of our champagne supernova consummation, who knows you again, I was hit by Solomon."

"Oooh," Blaine smiled, "sounds good. Got music?"

The blonde boy smiled, "I totally do."

Quinn let out a soft giggle, "you should play it."

"Yeah?" Sam wondered. He didn't really think they'd like his song.

"Yes." Puck nodded looking over the lyrics some more, "dude this sounds really awesome, do you want us to do this at the interview?"

"If we could all learn it." Sam said hopefully.

"Course we can." Blaine nodded as he munched on his own cookie.

"Yeah, we've still got three hours until the interview." Finn nodded.

Puck handed the lyrics to Quinn, "get studying." He said. "Sam," he grabbed the boys guitar, "play it through so we can pick it up."

Sam took the instrument happily before he started strumming the notes down.

Santana reached for a cookie, as she looked at it she said, "it's times like these that I wish Coach Sylvester was around us so I could point to my cookie and go 'hells yeah, I'm eating a cookie. What'cha gonna do about it?'" She shrugged at the odd look Quinn had given her, "bitch be crazy about those damn diets." She said through her mouthful of cookie.

With a roll of her eyes, Quinn walked over to the piano bench and started reading the lyrics over again.

"It just goes like that." Sam looked to his friends.

Finn nodded, taking a seat at his drums again, "go one more time?"

The blonde boy nodded before he started playing the music again, Blaine and Puck joined in when they got it down well enough, as Finn began the beat.

Two hours later and they were playing the song from beginning to end together. "Dude, Sam this song is awesome." Finn smiled as they finished their run through. The blonde boy grinned, "thanks man."

"So," Santana said snatching another cookie, "you've got Illusions and...what's it called?"

"Willing and Wonderful." Sam told her.

"Illusions and Willing and Wonderful." The Latina continued, "I think you should open with Willing and Wonderful and end the show with Illusions."

"All right." Puck nodded, "we can do that...Blaine, toss me a cookie."

As Blaine did that Santana stood up from her spot on one of the chairs, "we've got two hours before the show, but it takes an hour to get there. You should all get ready." She told them, "dress nicely." She eyed them all before she herself went to her own bedroom to change into a more professional looking outfit.

"Tuxes?" Finn asked twirling his drumsticks.

"Not necessarily." Quinn told him, "just dress nicely, no holy jeans or t-shirts."

"Polo's?" Blaine asked.

"Sure." Quinn nodded as she stood up too. "But we've only got an hour," she looked at Blaine once more, "so don't take forever with that hair gel." She warned before moving on to her room.

Finn set his drumsticks down before he stood up with the others, "I call shower." He said.

"Damn!" Puck cursed.

"You could use the other one." Sam suggested, he had taken a shower this morning after Quinn.

"Not if I get there first." Blaine said.

He and Puck shared a look before they raced up the stairs to the shower.

Finn looked at Sam, "see I thought Blaine was more mature than that."

"Guess not." Sam chuckled grabbing his own cookie before he too made his way to his room.

"Guess I got the one down here." Finn mumbled before he made his way to the bathroom that was downstairs.


"Ooh, look who's all sophisticated?" Quinn chuckled as she stepped downstairs.

"Shut up, Fabray!" Santana snapped as she stood in her slacks and matching blazer beside the counter with a cup of coffee, "it's professional."

"Like I said, sophisticated."

Santana looked her up and down before saying, "skinny jeans white shirt and black vest." She said.

"No, no." Quinn shook her hand, "it's a white button-up." She then pointed down, "don't forget my converse."

"Yeah." Santana rolled her eyes, "I see them."

"It's totally our style." Quinn said before she combed a hand through her hair, "by the way, when this stuff washes out, I'm not re-dying it."

"When that washes out won't you have to re-dye your hair blonde anyway?" Santana wondered taking a sip of her coffee, "your natural hair is...auburn?"

"Yeah." Quinn nodded, "I'm just saying, when it washes out, I'm going blonde." With that she took the coffee from the other girl and drank some for herself.

Santana scoffed, "yeah, I see how it is...I get you a record deal and an interview and you steal my coffee."

"I do." Quinn nodded, "and for the record, Sharon Goldenhart got us the interview. You only got us the record deal."

"Well, it was good enough."

"How's this?" Sam interrupted as she stepped down, he did a slow spin to show off his clothes. He was wearing a white button-up shirt with a nice dark pair of jeans and his brand new white sneakers.

"It's good." Santana nodded as she looked at the couple, "you two match."

Sam looked at Quinn, smiling at her as he rolled up his sleeves, "yeah we do."

"I went with the bowtie," Blaine said as he stepped down with his suit on, "I think suits look best on me." He shrugged as he ran a hand over his gelled hair.

Finn and Puck came down a few moments later, the taller of the two wearing dark jeans with a polo and Puck wearing dark blue jeans, a blue button-up and a sports jacket, "we're set."

Santana eyed them all before saying, "you guys don't even match."

"We all look good." Finn said, "I think that's what matters most."

"It's professional." Sam shrugged. "And totally what you get for not picking out our clothes today."

"I thought you'd know to dress accordingly."

"Come on, San," Quinn said handing the coffee back to the girl, "this is just one interview, it's like a practice run for what we'll look like together when we're more professionally cut." She shrugged, "I think we all look good, and this'll give everyone a chance to know who we are."

"Exactly." Puck nodded as he grabbed his own coffee.

The Latina nodded, "yeah, okay." She sighed, "we should go."

'On the first day of our champagne supernova consummation
Who knows you again
I was hit by Solomon
You said 'now tell me your dreams'
Suddenly it seems that

Ain't nobody gonna take away this thing we got going
Ain't no one is changing my mind cause I know we got it
Ain't nobody
All I gotta do is believe in you and
All the world becomes
Possibility
If you're willing I'll be wonderful
I'll be wonderful

Wasting away
So much weight on the shoulders of just one phone call
Don't you get lonely at the end of the year
But I will always be there
Living on a prayer cause

Ain't nobody gonna take away this thing we got going
Ain't no one is changing my mind cause I know we got it
Ain't nobody
All I gotta do is believe in you and
All the world becomes
Possibility
If you're willing I'll be wonderful

Ain't nobody gonna take away this thing we got going
Ain't no one is changing my mind cause I know we got it
Ain't nobody
All I gotta do is believe in you and
All the world becomes
Possibility
If you're willing I'll be wonderful

Ain't nobody gonna take away this thing we got going
Ain't no one is changing my mind cause I know we got it
Ain't nobody
All I gotta do is believe in you and
All the world becomes
Possibility
If you're willing I'll be wonderful
I'll be wonderful
I'll be wonderful
I'll be wonderful'

"Whoo!" Max cheered as he stepped over to the side stage My Bloody Masquerade was playing at. He looked out to his little audience of about a hundred people, "what a great way to start the show." He said, "I'm here with My Bloody Masquerade!" The audience cheered. "That was great." He smiled at the band. Each of the band members were smiling as they stood with their instruments (aside from Finn who was still sitting behind his drums). "Here," Max started, "come over here," he pointed to the couch that was on the other stage, seated beside his own desk. "Let's get to our discussion." He smiled. Grabbing Quinn's hand like a gentleman an helping her down the stage as the guys followed them over.

Sam sat down first followed by Quinn, Puck, Finn and then Blaine at the other end of the couch. Max continued to walk behind his desk. He smiled again, "it's great to have you all here." He said as he took a drink of his coffee, "Sharon Goldenhart from DarkLove records told me I had to have you all on my show. She said that you'd blow me away with your music, I can say she wasn't lying."

"Thanks." Sam laughed, "thank you so much."

Max looked out at the audience before he looked to the band, "so I guess the general question would be how you all started?"

Sam shrugged, "well, it was a joke at first." He chuckled, "I didn't really want to start a band I just wanted to talk to Quinn again," he then looked at her, "and uh, I pretended I was starting a band before I realized that I actually wanted to start a band, so that was kind of how we formed." He scratched his head, "it was originally me, Puck, Finn and Quinn. Blaine came in a year later after he graduated."

"And how did the name come along?" Max asked, "My Bloody Masquerade, I mean, it's kind of genius in a way."

"Yeah," Sam chuckled before he looked over to Puck.

The mohawked man shrugged, "well, I've kind of got an obsession with video games, you know-what guy doesn't?-And uh, I was playing some with my girlfriend at the time, I think and the idea kind of just came to me, I didn't tell her about it until we were at McDonalds...but I thought it was a good name."

"What game were you playing?"

Puck laughed, "I think it was Halo, maybe."

Max nodded, "awesome game."

"Totally." Finn smiled.

"And how long did it take you to come up with your band name?"

"I actually don't think it took that long." Sam answered, "we had a few dull names to begin with, but a few days later Puck came up with the one we kept. It stood out the most."

"Do you remember any of the others you considered using?" He took another sip of his drink.

"The Lima Beans." Finn said, "we were at the coffee shop in town called The Lima Bean, it was kind of the inspiration for that name."

"Our manager, Santana suggested The Adjacent Side Of Lima." Quinn told him, "it was to pay tribute to the 'bad side' of town, where she grew up."

"The Incredibly Sexy Sex Sharks." Puck smiled, "another awesome idea of mine.

"It's clearly not a family friendly name." Blaine laughed.

"No," Puck shook his head, "my favorite failed band name was Baby Mama and Her Crew."

"No!" Quinn laughed, shaking her head.

"Baby Mama and Her Crew?" Max questioned.

"Now that's a long story." Finn shook his head.

Max looked at him a moment before he said, "You write all of the songs you play?"

"Not all of them." Blaine shrugged. "I mean we do cover some other songs. That's how we started out, but now we're doing our own stuff to add into the mix."

"Now, is it just one of you writing the songs or do you all contribute? Is it like a group effort type of thing?"

"We all write." Finn said, "sometimes we write together and sometimes it's alone. Sam's actually the one who wrote Willing and Wonderful and Illusions which is the other song we're playing tonight was written by Puck."

"Ah, and I..." He paused as he looked into his audience, "I'm just gonna ask for all the ladies out there...and you know the guys too...are you single or dating?"

Sam smiled, "dating." He grabbed Quinn's hand, "definitely."

Quinn nodded, "yeah, we've actually been together since the band started...granted it's been on and off but it's still strong."

Max nodded, "that's good, what about the rest of you?"

"Single." Puck said.

Finn nodded, "yeah, me too."

Blaine smiled, "I'm taken, definitely dating someone."

Max nodded, "okay, but how's this work though?" He looked at Sam, "with you and her? She's very...attractive, so does that ever worry you?"

"Am I worried because she's attractive?" Sam chuckled, "are you saying I'm not attractive enough for her?"

"No!" Max shook his head with a laugh, "I'm just saying that maybe you've got some competition." He motioned toward the other guys.

Quinn shook her head.

"Oh, no." Sam said, "I'm not worried."

"Really?"

"Yeah," Sam shrugged, "they're my friends, I don't think they'd try to steal my girl."

"We're all friends." Quinn said, "and there's a history there that I'm sure we wouldn't compromise."

"History?"

Puck nodded, "long story short, we've all dated Quinn, aside from Blaine."

"You've all dated her?"

Quinn nodded, "high school."

"But you've remained friends the whole time?" Max asked, "must mean the relationships ended in a good way."

"For the most part." Finn shrugged.

Again Max looked at him with a confused expression, but he let it go. "So, let's talk instruments. What all can you play?"

"I play the guitar," Sam said, "I can also play bass, but mostly just guitar."

"And I can play the guitar also, but I stick mostly to the drums." Finn answered.

"I only know the piano." Quinn stated.

"I can really only play guitar." Blaine told him.

Puck said, "I can play the piano, the guitar and a little bit of the drums, but I play bass for the band."

"And this next song," Max started, "is what?"

"The next song is Illusions." Finn said as they stood up to perform their next song.

"Once again," Max smiled at the audience, "give it up for My Bloody Masquerade!" Causing the audience to clap for their next song.

'I seen a figurehead talking on the news today
He said he'd gone and moved a body in a positive way
Like a slight of hand that happens quick
He's gonna bust out this magic trick
It's impossible that what we're seeing is gonna come together

But it's making me go crazy
Trying to figure out this illusion

I was checking out a movie on a Saturday night
Found myself sympathizing with the character's plight
Cause he used to be good but not anymore
Now he's a star but he started a war
But there's nothing telling me that he
Can make it happen

And why should I believe
It's just some kind of illusion

|What exactly are you searching for?
I just wanted something to believe in
The universe is so much more
Than the location you are seeing
If I am supposed to be alone
Then why do I dream of you daily?
I'll fake it through till I come home
As I pray

What exactly are you searching for?
I just wanted something to believe in
The universe is so much more
Than the location you are seeing
If I am supposed to be alone
Then why do I dream of you daily?
I'll fake it through till I come home
As I pray

Now the show is over
The magician is gone
And the movie is due back on Sunday morning
Start us then capitalize
Cause reality's a cross when you're crossing your eyes
And it starts from wanting to believe
In the supernatural

But it's making me go crazy
Making me go crazy
Making me go crazy
Trying to figure out this illusion'


There we go, hope you enjoyed that chapter, please feel free to let me know what'cha think, is it getting better or worse?...

...Thanks again for reading!

Songs:

Illusions, by Mark Salling
Willing and Wonderful, by Mark Salling