This chapter will be very long :) This chapter was meant to be up before Journey but because I was on GleeForum I couldn't concentrate on this :P So it look me ALOT longer than planned.
Skittles713: Yeah, I wrote that last chapter at 2am and I couldn't think of anything else to end it, it was predictable though but now I can think of quite a few other endings :P All well.
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As she was leaning her head against the doorframe, Rachel started to feel calmer now, before she was gasping for air, now she seemed more relaxed, her mind was clear to think over things thoroughly. Feeling like she had more control on things, especially after the Jesse fiasco, it definitely felt good to be on top of things again. She started to reminisce on the good old times, her first joining Glee, hearing Finn sing for the very first time, seems funny how he was completely shocked in her way of singing in You're The One That I Want but now is desperate for her to sing with him, winning sectionals, Finn asking her out, Finn dumping her, Jesse asking her out, Jesse dumping her. Was she just that un-dateable? The egg throwing, how Jesse said he loved her, how she loved(s) him, Jesse and Finn. Just thinking about it again makes Rachel shudder. She should have been able to stop it. No matter how many times she or Jesse says she couldn't have stopped it, she could of. If she tried hard enough, she would have. She would have stopped it. She wouldn't be in this mess. She wouldn't feel trapped.
"Yes?" Rachel asked eagerly.
"You should…well I want you to…be with me." he sighed. He looked at her half expecting her to get up, walk over to him and slap him right on the face then storm out of the room, Rachel Berry style. She didn't. She just started at him, for a long time. Feeling pretty awkward, Finn sighed and continued. "I know it sounds selfish of me but Rachel I want to be with you." she's still looking at him, speechless. "Again." he added. Rachel still wasn't responding to his answer. "Rachel?" he waved his hand in front of the stunned brunette as she sat in silence. "Helloooo? Anyone there?"
Rachel was still confused by what Finn answered to her simple question, that was the case until Finn physically place his hand on her shoulder and shook her, quite rapidly. "Huh? What?" she asked while leaving her carefree world. "Ermm…" she looked at Finn awkwardly as he hunched over and was looking down at the floor. Again. "…Finn. I-"
"I know. Your going to say that you cant, like you always do but I just don't learn, then I'll feel heart broken. Again."
"Actually I was going to say I just need time."
Finn instantly shot his head up at her answer. She said what? That was definitely wasn't what Finn thought she would say. There's a chance? He has a chance? "W-what?" Finn stuttered. He can believe what he's hearing.
"Finn?"
"Yeah?"
"I need to go."
"What?"
"I need to get to science and you have free period to go get a shirt." Rachel nodded at Finn's chest then looked back to his red face.
"Oh. Ermm ok." and with that Rachel got up and left.
"Hey Rachel?" Finn asked as Rachel was reaching out for the door handle.
She turned back at the sound of his voice. "Yes?"
"It's nice to have you back." he flashed her, his grin again causing Rachel to suddenly go weak at the knees.
"It's nice to be back." she returned his smile then quickly got out of there. Being in there one minute longer and Rachel would have been all over Finn right there, in the disgusting gym room. As Rachel shut the door and spun around, she was met by a very eager Quinn Fabray and Noah Puckerman.
"So?" Quinn asked grinning. "What happened?"
Rachel smiled at how Quinn was getting all excited for something she didn't even know. It was adorable. "Nothing happened, Quinn." Rachel shrugged then brushed past the two students and walked her way to her next lesson.
"W-what?" Quinn asked as she quickly joined Rachel's left side and matched her strides to her own. "But you were in there a long time. You can't say that something didn't happen. Can you?" Puck walked along side Rachel on her other side looking down at the girl as she started to blush.
"Nope."
He walked out in front of Rachel and stopped abruptly. "Something did happen."
"No it didn't Noah." Rachel reassured him as she tried to get past the jock.
"So why are you blushing?" he asked raising one eyebrow up.
"W-what? I am most certainly not blushing." Rachel protested.
"Oh you so are." Quinn joined in as she looked at Rachel from the front.
"Look Quinn, Noah, I would love to stand here all day and argue with you but unlike you two I do plan on going to my next lesson." Rachel calmly stated as she walked past them.
After Rachel had her time to herself to think things over, she spun around and headed back towards the stage wings. As she got closer and closer to reach the rest of her group, the music got clearer, the singing got clearer, Jesse's voice got clearer. Hearing them sing Bohemian Rhapsody made her feel queasy. Mr Schue was right, they were good. Really good. For the first time since they had arrived at here, Rachel started to doubt her own team. She started to wonder if VA would beat them, if VA would come out stronger, better. Thoughts swimming around her head, concerns, filling up inside her. She had come to a final decision. A decision she never made until now. VA were better, but ND were the underdogs. They won sectionals after the whole set list being leaked. They managed to find completely new songs within hours of performing them. They can do anything if they put their minds to it. They were good at improvising. They were the underdogs. They were New Directions.
So there was Rachel. Sitting alone again, trying to write down notes from the teacher. She couldn't. Her mind was worrying about things to be thinking about particles at that moment in time. Jesse. She still has to see Jesse. He's in hospital and she isn't. He may have broke her heart, stomped on it, spat on it right in front of her then buried it somewhere she couldn't find it. He may have done all that but at the end of the ay, Rachel wasn't going to stop caring for him. She had true feelings for him, they don't disappear in an instant. They take time. Time Rachel didn't want to spend by not listening to Mr Thompson droning on about something. She needs to see Jesse she needs to see him now.
"Mr Thompson?" Rachel raised her hand as she spoke.
"Yes Rachel?"
"I need to go to the lavatory."
"Well I'm sorry but you need a pass for that."
A pass. How could she forget? She needs a lavatory pass to go. "Well it's important."
"I'm sorry Rachel but no pass no going."
"But sir it's really important."
The whole class turned around looking at her, boys with a confused look, girls trying to keep themselves from letting a laugh escape their lips and filling the room with the loud noise. They had taken it the wrong way. They think that is something to do with her. Something was important to her. Rachel knew this and she didn't even care, she was to busy trying to get out of the damn classroom she didn't even correct them.
Mr Thompson thought the same as the rest of the class, thinking it was something physically important to her. "Ermm well hurry up then Rachel." he gave in. he wasn't going to just let her stay there when clearly she wanted to go. Even if he did think, she wanted to go for the wrong reason.
"Thank you." Rachel slid got out of her desk an swiftly made her way towards the door, leaving her school equipment behind her. She wasn't going to be quick. She wasn't coming back. She was going to see Jesse. She was going to do something she would have only dreamed of. Rachel felt the adrenaline pumping hard through her body, feeling more and more excited for what she was doing. This was Rachel. Rachel Berry. Rachel would never have done this. Thought that was old Rachel. The old Rachel that couldn't get a boyfriend. She's new Rachel. Rachel who dated 3 boys, two were jocks, two who when she was with them, linking arms with them down the corridor she felt girls being envious of her. Hating her but secretly wanting to be her inside. She was passing classrooms, carefully dodging all the windows, so she wouldn't be caught. She wouldn't be in trouble, all this sneaking around made Rachel feel so good. Now wonder Santana and Brittany do it everyday. The thrill of being on the edge, breaking the rules, it was almost too much for Rachel to take in. she was breaking the rules and for once in her life, she doesn't care. What has Jesse done to her? He's made her this rule-breaking, lying-to-teachers kind of girl. That wasn't Rachel and she knew it. She liked it. The new Rachel Berry. Rachel Berry mark two. Sounds good.
As Rachel was walking straight out of the gates, the gates left open because of deliveries that come during the day and if they was ever a rush to get out. Like Jesse. She realised she needs a ride there, she didn't bring any type of transport with her. She can't take the bus because the driver knows her fathers well and would definitely tell them if they saw their daughter getting bus during school hours. She needs to get there. She can't ask Finn. Finn wouldn't take her if he knew she was going for Jesse and she wasn't going to lie to him. How is she going to get there? She needs to get there now.
"Hey guys." Rachel smiled as she walked into the room seeing her fellow Glee clubbers preparing by practicing their dance moves and some doing some last minute voice exercises. No-one replied to her greeting, some would look at her but then carry on, most just carried on as if they hadn't heard anyone talking to them. She wondered over to where Mercedes was and sat beside her in the chair on her left. "Hey Mercedes." Rachel smiled sweetly at her.
"Hey Rachel." Mercedes faced Rachel and smiled back at her then turning back to her mirror. "Where the hell did you go?"
"Oh I was just… just outside." Rachel replied while looking at herself in the mirror. She placed her hands on the back of her head and pushed the back of her hair upwards to create more volume. She looked at her outfit, her gold dress with matching headband. She smiled at herself as she saw how different she looked. Definitely, Rachel Berry mark two.
"Rachel? What are you doing out here?" a voice called from behind her.
She turned round half relived that it was someone she knew, but shocked that they ha found her.
"Mr Schue." Rachel smiled at him trying to act all innocent when really she was skipping class. "I'm not dong anything. I just wanted to go ou for a bit, you know, bit a fresh air."
"Rachel you should be in class right now." he reminded her.
"Yes but…"
"But?"
"Well I need to see Jesse, Mr Schue. I need to see him." Rachel looked Mr Schue in the eyes remembering how she used to find them so sparkling and lovely they were. Her crush with him was a long time ago. She was over it. She already has two boys she needs to choose between, she didn't want to add another into the mix. She was remembering how he wanted to see her in his office and how he said Jesse cared for her. How she said he didn't. He did. Jesse cared for Rachel and yet she was too blind to see that. No. Rachel cant keep wanting Jesse, he will just break her heart again and yet she will ever learn from her mistakes. Think of Finn. Finn. Did she even want Finn? Finn broke her heart just as Jesse did, granted not in the same way but the impact was the same. They both broke her heart. They both used her. How could she not see this? The only one who didn't seem to use her was…Noah? Noah was the one who said it like it was to her. He never sugar coated anything. He was truthful and Rachel always seemed to bring out the nice side of him. Finn and Jesse didn't seem to always tell her the truth. Finn tried distracting her by changing the subject. Jesse seemed to never talk about the truth. He was living one big lie with Rachel.
"Mr Schue? Can you please take me there?" Rachel pleaded to him sticking her hands out. She had to give it a shot. Even I he said no at least she could say she tried.
Mr Schue sighed looking at the desperate Rachel who was giving Mr Schue the look again. Twice in one day to him. "Fine but you can't tell anyone ok? I'll just so that I saw you wondering the halls and I took you to my office and had a word with you about skipping class." Rachel sighed. She would still be found out she was skipping class but this way she she's Jesse. The things she does for that boy.
"Deal."
"Good. Now come on, I was on my way to see him anyway."
Rachel reached the hospital, running through the doors, she frantically ran towards any nurse or doctor that was near her and asked for Jesse St. James. They all responded the same saying that she needed to go to the reception, else she wouldn't find her required patient. "Excuse me? Rachel asked the head office as Mr Schue was entering the doors. She opened the door and leapt into the hospital as Mr Schue was parking the car. "Do you have a Jesse St. James? I was told to ask you." she informed the blonde receptionist.
"Jesse…" the receptionist repeated to herself as she was typing it into the computer. "Jesse St. James. Ah, yes! Here we are." she turned to face the very desperate Rachel Berry. "I'm sorry but you need to be family or friend to visit him."
"I am a friend." she answered, angrily.
"I'm sorry but we can't know for sure until Mr James ha-"
"It's ok she's with me." Mr Schue interrupted her as he walked up to the desk.
"I'm sorry you are?"
"I'm Mr Schuester. I'm the one who rang 911 and told them about Jesse. I'm his Spanish teacher and this is one of my students, Rachel, his girlf-" he suddenly stopped talking and closed his mouth tight while looking at Rachel quickly. His eyes suddenly going wide. "His friend." he corrected himself.
'How does he know?' Rachel thought to herself as they were walking towards Jesse's room. 'Its not like I told him.' she continued.
"Ready Rachel?" Mr Schue asked as he stopped, with his back against the front of the door, facing her.
"Yep." Rachel nodded.
Any thought she had over how Mr Schue could have known about Jesse breaking if off with herself, disappeared from her brain in an instant as she saw Jesse on the hospital bed. She ran towards him, hugging him as she cried into his unconscious body. It made her feel sick as she saw him there, completely vulnerable, completely dependant on others at the moment. Completely not Jesse.
"Mr Schue?" Rachel lifted her head up and faced her Spanish teacher with her eyes all puffy.
"Yes Rachel?"
"What did the doctors say about him regaining consciousness?" she saw Mr Schue talking to doctor when she was still crying into Jesse.
"Oh, well they said he should be fine. They said he would be drifting in and out for a short while then regaining full consciousness. "Mr Schue explained as he sat down on one of the two blue chairs which were on the left of the bed. "Rachel, come on sit." he patted his hand on the seat next to him making her slowly rise and walked over to the chair and slump into it.
"Mr Schue?"
"Yes?" he turned to face her smiling.
"How did you know? I mean how did you know about me and Jesse?"
His smiled faded as he looked away from Rachel to Jesse. "Jesse told me."
"What?"
"Yeah. I asked him why Finn did this, I mean I kinda guessed it had something to do with you Rachel, and he said that he broke up with you and that Finn heard and…well yeah."
"Oh."
Both of them sat there in complete silence, Mr Schue checking the clock to make sure that he and Rachel had plenty of time left to get back to school and get Rachel to her next lesson. Rachel was just staring at Jesse, sitting up when he was gaining conscious, only to go back after. His parents were still in Bali but when Mr Schue made a phone call to them just to inform them, they said they were coming as soon as possible. So Rachel and Mr Schue were sitting there, one was waiting while the other was timing. That was until the door opened to reveal two figures, one medium height, the other freakishly tall. Mr Schue stood up as he heard the door opened and the figures entered.
"Finn, what have you done?" a voice asked which was very similar to Finn's mother's.
"I-I…ermm…" Finn stuttered. He turned to face Jesse when he saw Mr Schue approaching them. "Mr Schue?"
"Finn? What are you doing here?"
"Well Mr Schuester. Finn told me about what he did to Jesse and I marched him over here to apologise to Jesse and his parents." Mrs Hudson answered for her son. "Where are his parents by the way?"
"Oh." Mr Schue looked behind him, then turned back to the mother and son in front of him. "They aren't here yet. They were still in Bali, but I phoned them and they said they will be here as soon as possible."
"Oh. Well we will wait her until then." Mrs Hudson said as she put her bag up on one of the pegs on the door.
Finn let out a sigh as he turned to see Jesse when he saw another person in the room with them. The brunette kneeling at Jesse's side, taking his hand in theirs and stroking his hand gently. That's when Finn clocked who it was. Who the person, who was comforting him was. Rachel.
"Rachel?" Finn squinted his eyes at the back of her head.
Rachel turned around at the sound of her voice to see a confused Finn Hudson looking at her, squinting at her more like it, she locked eyes on his as he walked a little bit closer to her and Jesse.
"R-Rachel?" he asked again still slowly coming closer towards them. "W-what are you doing here?" stupid question.
"Finn what does it look like?" his mum sighed as she turned to his Spanish teacher. "God, you think he would know wouldn't you?"
"Finn?" Rachel rose from Jesse's side and stood there as Finn was approaching her. "What?" she tried to seem happy that he was there but if anything, it was the complete opposite. Feeling suddenly queasy as Finn locked eyes on her not saying one word. Just staring deeply into her brown eyes. Rachel was feeling really uneasy as Finn stopped right in front of her, centimetres apart, she could feel the air coming out of his nose and tingling her bottom lip. His body heat radiating off him to her.
"What are you doing here?" he simply asked.
"I'm here for Jesse."
"Yes I know that but you said you had science next."
"I…well I did…but I…"
"You skipped class for him?" he asked with annoyance in his voice.
"Ermm…"
"Rachel?" Mr Schue interrupted. "We have to go now. You need to be at school."
"Oh ok." Rachel brushed past the annoyed jock, grabbed her coat and quickly fled from the room. Her heart thumping from the mental image of Finn's face as he was approaching her. The anger, guilt, confusion just oozing out of him. His lips slightly pursing and his fist clenched. Rachel could spot it from a mile off. He was so happy, kind and cheerful like an hour ago! How could he change from that? As Rachel arrived back into school, she was distant, distant for the rest of the day. She didn't speak to anyone, she didn't even raise her hand to answer the teacher or correct them when they were clearly wrong. She just stared into space. It was as if her body was there but her mind was somewhere completely different, so far away. The next day didn't help either. She walked into school as normal, got slushied, cleaned herself up and went to her lesson. As she was walking to Maths, she saw the same boy she saw at the hospital coming down opposite her. Finn. She tried dodging him by walking behind big crowds and gangs of students but they just looked at her like she was crazy and walked away from her. He was getting closer now and she had no way of stopping him noticing her. She had no disguise. No way to avoid him. So she did what she thought was best. Walk the same direction as him so he can only see the back of your head. How could he tell it's her when there are plenty of other brunettes in this school? It's highly unlikely he could ever notice her. He was looking down as he walked, hands in pockets, hunched. He wouldn't be able to notice her. Yet he still did.
As Vocal Adrenaline were taking their bows and filing off the stage, Mr Schue grew more and more nervous. The stage was empty. Ready for ND to make their appearance and dazzle the audience filling up the silence with their voices. This will be the night to remember. VA has always won but this time ND is here and they are going to show why there are. Mr Schue was sure that they had a chance, even if it was a very small one, it was still a chance. A chance to be great. No scratch that, a chance to be spectacular. As VA were walking and talking to one another, they walked passed ND giving them death stares and giving insults to them as if they were nothing but vermin under their feet.
"I don't see why you even bother. It's not like your going to win or anything. Is it?" a brunette told Kurt as she walked past him. Kurt just muttered something under his breath as he gave her dirty stares and she smiled and flounced off to their dressers.
"Yeah, Rachel I really don't know why you're here." Jesse said as he walked up to the young star. He was facing her full on, centimetres apart just like Finn was a couple of days ago. As he got closer, Rachel could start seeing his eye a lot better. How darker it looks, even with all the make-up on it. You could still see how much it hurt. How much it bruised him. His eye was still bloodshot which didn't help with the whole big purple ring around it. "You wont win Berry." he had gone from calling her Rachel to Berry like Noah did but in reverse.
"We'll see about that." Rachel replied smiling at him.
"Oh yeah? You can't beat us."
"Maybe not, but Finn can beat you." Rachel tilted her head to the left slightly, feeling proud of her comeback to Jesse's insult. Just watching him squirm because he has no comeback to hers, made Rachel feel good. Jesse looked around from ND to VA as he heard a collective of "Oooo". He saw that his own team had nothing to say to it. Therefore, Jesse leaned in close to Rachel and whispered in her ear.
"Watch it, Berry." and with that he and the rest of VA vanished behind the curtains.
"Right come on then guys. Let's get into positions on the stage. Rachel, Finn you know where to go." Rachel nodded, as Finn looked a bit confused. Rachel rolled her eyes after seeing Finn's face, took his hand, and dragged him to behind the audience. (A/N: It's the faithfully song first and I think about everyone has seen this.)
After singing their last song, ND was met by a loud cheer as the audience stood up and clapped their ands as hard as they possibly could.
"You guys were magnificent. Seriously, I think we have as good of a shot of winning this as much as VA does. Well done." Mr Schue smiled as he patted each one of them on the back. He couldn't help but smile as he saw Shelby's face drop slightly as she saw them perform. That made him go insanely happy. Yes, Mr Schue was on top of the world right now and in 2 hours, they would find out the result.
Rachel was power walking down the stairs when she felt a hand on her shoulder stopping her in her tracks. She knew who it was. It was pretty obvious. They moved in front of her and Rachel saw that it was him. Finn standing in front of her but for the first time in her life, he was smaller than she was. She was looking down at him. Usually it's the other way around.
"Rachel? We need to talk." Finn asked as he removed his hand away from her shoulder.
"Finn. Yeah what did you want to talk about?" Rachel asked.
"Why did you just try to ignore me just then?"
"I didn't Finn." Rachel lied.
"Rachel, don't lie to me."
"I'm not lying to you, Finn I'm…" Rachel saw that Finn had a I'm-Not-Buying-Any-Of-It face on. "Fine" she sighed as she gave in. "It's just all the pressure from regionals that's coming up."
"Rachel. Don't worry about Regionals. We're going to Regionals and we're going to win this thing."
Without any thinking, any resistance to her action, she placed her hands on his shoulders and leaned in closing the gap between the two. She expected him to back away saying: "What are you doing? Just because Jesse broke up with you doesn't mean that I want to be with you now. You're just wanting me now because Jesse is out of the picture. Well guess what Rachel? No more. I'm done with playing your little games." and just walk away. Except he didn't. He didn't pull away. He didn't start any speech about wanting him now. He didn't move. He didn't flinch. He didn't do anything. She kissed him, not passionately, innocently and he just stood there. As she pulled back, she saw that he was shocked. His eyes squinting as he looked up at her. Confusion painted all over his face. Rachel couldn't help but smile at his expression and how she finally wanted him when he wanted her.
Rachel and Finn, standing behind two doors, waiting to sing in front of the crowd. Rachel filled with anxiety and excitement. She faced Finn who was staring at her, not for long thought because when both of their eyes met, he came walking towards her.
"Break a leg." Rachel beamed at him when he finally reached her.
"I love you."
What? He said what?
'Ladies and Gentlemen are second competitors. Winners of Central Ohio sectionals, McKinley high, New Directions' the overhead announced with the music starting, causing Finn to walk back to his original position and for Rachel to go back to hers. Rachel feeling shocked from the news that passed from Finn's mouth.
(A/N: I wont write about them during the song because then the story will be too long and you've probably seen it but if you haven't because it hasn't aired like you live in the UK like me then its only on Monday. I've already seen it.)
"That was AWESOME you guys." Mr Schue congratulated the kids as they spilled into the waiting room. "You really did me proud." he said as he patted Finn on the back. "Really."
"Thanks Mr Schue." Mercedes smiled at her Spanish teacher. "I think we did our best. That's all that counts."
"I agree, for the first time, with Rachel. Hell were going to win this thing." Santana blurted out.
As she remembered Rachel talking about winning regionals. "Hey you guys?" Santana asked sounding concerned.
"Yes Santana?" Rachel asked as she slowly walked up to the cheerleader. "What's wrong?"
"Do you think that VA will come last?"
"I hope so." Quinn spoke from the corner of the room feeding her baby.
"Quinn? When are you giving Beth?" Puck asked as he sat beside her.
"Why? Do you want her to go away?" she asked as her eyes narrowed at the jock who sat on her right.
"No! Of course not. I was just wondering."
"Oh. Well I don't know. I haven't found anyone good enough for her."
"New Directions? McKinley high?" a brunette women asked as she peeked her head through the door.
"Yes?" Mr Schue confirmed as he approached the floating head.
"Ahh. Good. Well we need you on stage because we're going to introduce the winner now.
"Oh ok thank you." Mr Schue nodded to the head. After she had disappeared, Mr Schue turned to face the nervous teenagers. They all went white in the face as their eyes widened as big as saucers. "Ready?" he asked them while they were just standing still. Frozen.
"No." Rachel answered with a small laugh, which broke the tension that was building after the women had brought the news.
After Rachel's answer the rest of the club laughed with her, making the atmosphere a little more bearable, until they stopped. They walked, holding hands and crossing fingers, towards the stage to see Aural Intensity and, their mortal enemy that made their blood boil at just the sight of them, Vocal Adrenaline. They stood on the left of the grand stage, looking out into the crowd. Aural Intensity members next to them, looking down and taking deep breaths. Preparing themselves for the life changing new that was going to be imparted on all three teams. The news that would make or break them.
The crowd suddenly went from dead silent to cheering as the four judges came out. Including Sue, in her red tracksuit. As they walked pat New Directions, Mr Schue couldn't help but feel sorry for the kids. Sue wasn't going to vote for them to stay in. she was going to do the opposite and make the other three judges do the same. "Thank you all for coming. As you all know, Glee club is such and important… and I honestly can't even finish that sentence so lets just get to it." Sue announced over the microphone. She slowly picked up one of three white pieces of paper from the table. All three Glee clubs preparing themselves, shuffling, taking deep breaths as the piece of paper was in reading distance of Sue's eyes and brought the microphone closer to her mouth.
"The 2010 Mid-West regional runners up." Sue paused building up the suspense that was unbearable for New Directions as they held each other's hands tightly and closed their eyes. "From Fourth Wayne Indiana, the not at all stupidly named, Aural Intensity." a loud buzz was heard from the middle of the stage as Aural Intensity jumped up and down, screaming, cheering, clapping and hugging. They collected their trophy and walked off the stage still whooping. As the cheering died down, the two remaining teams shuffled together as they still awaited their ending. Jesse and Rachel quickly exchanged looks, as they knew one would succeed while the other fails. One will win. Other will lose.
"And now, your 2010, Mid-West regional show-choir champions." Sue paused yet again. Both teams could feel the pressure building up. Feel it getting bigger and bigger. It's been one whole year since they started. Look how far they have come. Look how they have matured. How they have grown. How they have become friends and at peace with one another. How Glee club brought them closer. Brought new friends. Brought a family. All of one years of hard work was either going to finally pay off, or just go down the drain. Sue slowly lifted the paper that contained the winner out of the envelope.
"Vocal Adrenaline."
R-r-review. I was going to have them win anyway. Ahh my first completed fic. I feel very proud :P.
