My first chapter about Season three :) Thank you for all of the wonderful reviews, keep them coming and I'll keep writing ;)

The Purple Piano Project

Jacob Ben-Isreal was walking down the school hallway, holding a microphone, in the midst of interviewing various students with a slight crazed look in his eyes.

"Shalom blogosphere! Jacob Ben-Isreal here at McKinley High. Sudden death - big stakes senior year. Who will succeed and who will fail?" Jacob turns to Finn who is at his locker.

"Finn Hudson. Mediocre quarterback. Mediocre Glee Club lead. What do you want to be when you grow up?" Jacob thrust the micro phone into the taller boy's face.

"Me? Uh. Yeah, I have plans. Umm." Finn looked quite uncomfortable and slightly uneasy about the question.

(Cut to next interview.)

Jacob had moved onto his next prey and begins interviewing Mike, Tina and Artie.

"My mom still hasn't decided if I'm going to Harvard or Stamford yet." Mike replied slightly deterred about the prospect of becoming a doctor or lawyer.

Jacob turned and shoved the microphone into the shorter Asians face.

"And where are you applying?"

"I'm not. I'm only a Junior. Senior, Junior, Junior." Tina replied gesturing towards Mike, herself and Artie.

The camera pans down to Artie.

"Hello." The boy waves back slightly bemused.

"Hmph. I thought you were a senior."

"Optical Illusion. The chair adds a year." Artie replies to Jacob who is already becoming disinterested and in search of a new target.

(Cut to Finn's locker.)

"Uhh." The realisation that he had no idea what he wanted to do with his life and future had finally hit him.

(Cut to the Choir Room)

Rachel is in the middle of vocal warm-ups with Kurt both looking extremely determined.

"I'm glad you asked. This year we will both be applying to a New York based performing arts school."

"Julliard." Kurt coughs sarcastically with a huge grin on his face.

"We'll get an eclectic little apartment on the lower east side." Kurt nods enthusiastically at the smaller brunettes words.

"Think Bette and Barbara Hershey in Beaches, pre-cardiomyopathy."

"I'll originate a role in the new Sondheim musical, Tony by 25…" Rachel stared down the camera with determination.

"Married by 30, legally!" Kurt couldn't control his excitement and began to slightly jump up and down.

"Broadway, Lincoln Centre, West End, a tasteful HBO miniseries. It's all right here in my planner, you see?" Rachel pulled out her diary to show the camera.

(Cut to the staircase.)

Jacob is multitasking by walking down the stairs and holding the microphone in Mercedes face.

"Twitter says you're officially dating Shane Tinsley."

Mercedes can't help but smile at the boy's name; "Yes, there's a man in Mercedes' life now. And he's my future plans."

The two walk up to Shane and he wraps his arm around her shoulder.

"I'm not only your future plans, baby. You're gonna be a star. And when you graduate and win that first Grammy, we're gonna make beautiful cocoa babies."

"Ohhh, baby, how you talk." Mercedes began to melt at his words and the two walked off to their first lesson of the new school year.

(Cut to cafeteria)

Jacob is following and trying to interview Santana.

"Senior year is all about being the Cheerios' top hoe and modelling my fierceness after my numero uno latina, Paula Abdul." She stated confidently.

"Paula Abdul is an Arab. Hey, has anyone seen Quinn Fabray?" Jacob looked around for the blonde whom he still needed to interview.

Brittany walked over to the duo and smiles at Santana.

"Hi" The Latina smiles at the blonde.

"Hey." The two begin to walk away from Jacob and out of the cafeteria.

"Oh, Brittany! What are your plans for the future?"

Brittany turns round to face Jacob with a fascinated expression; "Wait, are you working on a time machine too?"

(Cut to Finn's locker.)

"I'm really excited about this year." Finn tried to sound enthusiastic but was having trouble trying to keep up the act.

"Okay, cool." Jacob merely said as he scanned the crowds of people for more students to interview, mainly Quinn Fabray.

Suddenly someone shouts; "Hey!" rather loudly catching not only Jacobs attention but most of the people in the hallway, they all turn to see a bunch of guys throw slushies in Finn's face.

"Taste the rainbow glee-iatch!"

Jacob turns to his camera man; "We got that yeah!?" the camera moves up and down as a signal of yes.

Sam was watching the screen intently, smiling at all his old friends and waiting for Quinn to appear. However she didn't, the clip came to an end and he scrolled though Jacob's blog in search of her interview. He gave up after another twenty minutes of looking and posted a short comment underneath Jacob's latest video; "Where's Quinn!?"

Sam was sat on his bed in his new house, his dad's job was going really well and they didn't have to worry about money all the time, but that didn't mean they could splash out their cash like most of the people in this town. Puck had been the one to give him the laptop so that they could keep in touch, Sam was pretty sure that it was stolen but he did appreciate the thought.

He'd kept in touch with pretty much everyone, Finn, Puck, Mike, Artie and all the girls except Quinn. He had tried calling, texting, Facebook and he'd even sent her a couple of letters in an attempt to contact the blonde; but his efforts had been futile. She hadn't returned a single call, text or letter and it was driving him nuts. No one had seen or heard from the blonde all summer, which meant that not even his friends could keep him updated.

Quinn was strutting down the hallway by herself, flaunting her new "bad-girl" look. She now had pink hair, dark heavy make-up and was wearing a cropped top that revealed her new tattoo of Ryan Seacrest's face. Other Glee Club members look at her in shock as she passes, unable to believe their eyes at the drastic change in the former head cheerleader's attire.

(Quinn Voiceover)

"Senior year and I've finally found myself. I'm not sure what the tipping point was: dyeing my hair, the nose ring, my ironic tattoo of Ryan Seacrest. But one thing I know, I'm never going back."

Quinn was stood under the bleachers in the football stadium smoking with several other girls whom were known as the Skanks.

"Quinn."

The blonde turned to face the field and saw Brittany and Santana stood on the other side of the fence trying to get her attention. Quinn rolled her eyes but walked over to them anyway.

"What do you want?" Quinn asked bitterly as she sneered at their new cheerleading uniforms.

"Quinn, look, this is our Senior year and frankly, being on the Cheerio's isn't the same without you." Santana stated ignoring the look of disgust on her former friend's face.

"You guys are such suckers for going back to Coach Sylvester." Quinn scoffed at their pitiful attempts to remain popular.

"Come on, screw her. This is for us. We could win two nationals championships this year. We joined the Cheerio's together, we joined Glee Club together. We all slept with Puckerman the same year." Brittany nodded in agreement.

"We're like besties for life."

"Yeah, Come on, Quinn. You know, we used to be like the Three Musketeers. And now Santana and I are like Almond Joy and you are like a Jolly Rancher that fell in the ash tray." Brittany pouted.

"You guys never understood the pressure I was under. It sucked. I'm not interested in the boys or the make-up or the polyester outfits." She rolled her eyes at the two girls.

"Look, I've got a bar of soap and a bottle of peroxide with your name on it in my locker. Come on, Quinn, you can't break up the Unholy Trinity." Santana declared in a last ditch attempt to bring the former blonde around.

"People grow apart. Deal with it. I've got new friends now, and they accept me for who I am." Quinn put out her cigarette and walked back over to the other girls leaving Santana and Brittany felling rejected and crestfallen.

(Quinn Voiceover)

"We call ourselves "The Skanks.""

"I'm Sheila."

"I'm Ronnie."

"They call me "The Mac" because I like to make out with truckers at the rest stop. It's kind of a double meaning thing."

"I once ate cat poo." Sheila declared as if it's a normal thing.

Ronnie lights a cigarette for Quinn just as Rachel comes up behind them.

"Hey Quinn. Hello, Skanks." She timidly greeted the group.

"Your friend stinks of soap, Quinn." Ronnie moves forward resulting in Rachel shifting slightly behind Quinn in fear.

"We were friends once. Okay, maybe when you cut off all your hair last year and thought it would solve all your problems I should've spoken up. Maybe when you dropped out of society this summer and started dating that forty-year-old skateboarder I should've said –"

"I'm not coming back to Glee Club." Quinn cut across the brunette.

"We need you, okay? Have you seen those purple pianos around school? We're planning this big, you know, recruiting number and it's going to be a tribute to the Go-Go's. I mean, who doesn't love the Go-Go's?" Rachel smiled trying to convince Quinn.

"I prefer the Bangles." Shelia interrupted with a scowl on her face.

"Okay…" Rachel glanced nervously at the girl then turned back to Quinn; "We need your tremulous alto and your Belinda Carlisle glamour."

"I'll give you ten bucks if you let me beat her up for you, Quinn." The Mac walked up behind Quinn and glared at Rachel making her cower away. Quinn rolled her eyes and gestured for the Mac to back off.

Rachel sighed in relief.

"I'm sorry you're so sad, Quinn. And maybe you're not gonna believe me because we were never really close, but, I'm sad not seeing you in the choir room and we've all been through so much together. We're a family and this is our year to get it right. We would love to have you back in the Glee Club, whenever you're ready. Okay?" Rachel stared up at her then sighed in defeat and retreated back to the choir room.

Quinn watched her go, longing to join her and the others but she knew she couldn't, all the memories of Sam and Beth were there.

Quinn was sat on the courtyard steps with the rest of the Skanks, they were casually talking about the next store they were going to be shop lifting from, when Quinn noticed some random band member wheel a purple piano towards the bottom of the steps. She inwardly groaned as she watched the rest of the band members take their place as Blaine began to sing "It's Not Unusual" with the Cheerios. Santana joins in and dances with him; Quinn tried to not envy her and the rest of the Glee Club.

The performance comes to an end and the Cheerios pour gas from their flasks all over the purple piano. Quinn takes her opportunity and drops her lit cigarette onto the piano so that it catches fire.

Today had been his first day at 'Blue Ash High School'; it was nothing like he'd first thought. The name had given him the impression that it'd be some dreary high school with boring working class students; he couldn't have been more wrong. Blue Ash High School was more like a private school rather than a state school; luckily he didn't have to wear a uniform unless he was part of some sort of club. Blue Ash was obsessed with its clubs, the football team, the soccer team and the cheerleading squad had their own uniforms much like McKinley but what shocked Sam the most; was that the schools Glee Club 'The Blue Phoenix's' or how they we better known; 'The B.P's' were school royalty, they had their own table in the lunch room, a choir room the size of McKinley's gym and they had their own uniforms which they all wore with pride. They all looked quite menacing as they walked down the centre of the hall wearing their black blazers and pants with electric blue piping, with the words 'The Blue Phoenix's' on the back of each one.

Flashback

Sam was stood at his new blue locker and placing his new text books inside when someone shut the door to it rather abruptly. Sam looked up in confusion to see a slightly shorter boy in front of him; he had brunette hair with a slight hint of red and pale skin. He was wearing a black blazer and pants with electric blue piping and a blue band around his bicep.

"Hi. I'm Oscar Walton." The boy held out his hand for Sam to shake. The blonde hesitated for a second then firmly shook his hand.

"Hey, I'm Sam Evans…"

"Oh I know. We all do. I'm the captain of the Blue Phoenix's. I hear you were part of that twelfth place team; the New Directions." Oscar scoffed, but before Sam could reply he continued; "National's was a bit of a fiasco for your team wasn't it?" He smirked at the blonde.

Sam raised his eyebrow at the cocky brunette; "Well it wasn't exactly great for you either."

Oscar's smirk turned into a glare; "Yes, well that was last year and I wasn't the leader then. I only came over to introduce myself and the team, if you wanna actually be on a team that could and will win; come check us out."

But before Sam could turn the boy down, Oscar was already walking back over to his other club members.

Eventually lunch time arrived and Sam followed the sea of people into the cafeteria, it was slightly similar to McKinley's except two times the size and had a stage. Sam sat down at an empty table and got out his lunch from his bag, he had been texting Puck who'd been keeping him updated with their first day of school.

"We just had a massive food fight! LEGENDARY!" he also sent a picture of him and what looked like Santana covered in spaghetti.

Sam smiled at the text and was about to reply when he heard music come from the speakers that were placed around the lunch room. An instrumental version of Flo Rida's remake of 'Right Round' began to play, Sam looked around puzzled; he then spotted Oscar and his army of Phoenix's stand on the stage and begin to sing, with Oscar singing lead. Sam couldn't help but be reminded of the Warblers, the way they dressed and the air of confidence as they performed. Suddenly female voice's came up behind Sam and he turned to see several girls circling him. They were wearing the same black blazers as the boys but wearing black and blue tartan skirts and heels. They then joined the rest of their Glee Club on stage and finished the song; to his surprise the entire hall burst out in applause and cheers. Sam stared wide eyed at them all; the Glee Club here was liked!? Oscar smirked at Sam in way that said "I told you so."

Quinn was skulking down the halls after her detention for smoking on school grounds, detention was becoming a recurring thing for her nowadays and she couldn't care less.

She walked past the Auditorium and heard the muffled voice's of the Glee Club singing. She tried to steer herself away but her legs had other plans and she made her way over to one of the balcony's that over looked the Auditorium stage.

She watched as the Glee Club danced and sang "You Can't Stop the Beat." Quinn couldn't help but be jealous as she watched her friends smiling and laughing. The performance comes to an end and they all begin cheering, Quinn scoffs and hurries out before anyone see's her.

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