Turn Up The Music Chapter 10: Turning Tide, a glee fanfic

Sectionals was just days away and I think we were ready. I saw that Mom was writing out the set list, but she wouldn't let me see it. I didn't know if I was going to have a solo or not. I would be okay if I didn't since Glee Club was not all about me. There was just one problem. We weren't sure if we were going to have enough members. Kayleigh wasn't being charged with anything, but it was looking like she was going to be suspended. Apparently she had punched a cheerleader who wasn't Lexi or something.

When Jordan and I got to school, we couldn't help but notice that Kayleigh was there.

"So it looks like you're not suspended." I replied.

"No, I'm suspended, but I am allowed to appeal the suspension, which means that I can go to school until the board makes a decision." She explained. "It's like what ARod did."

ARod, also known as Alex Rodriguez was a former baseball that had been caught doing steroids in the 2013 season. He appealed his suspension and got to play for the rest of the season, but was suspended the following year and then his arm exploded, causing it to be amputated.

"Well I guess that's good news." I declared. "How long are you suspended?"

"Two weeks if I see a social worker." Kayleigh answered. "I gotta go."

We walked into the choir room. Everyone had gathered as mom was preparing to announce the set list for Sectionals. Before she could say anything, Lexi stood up on her chair.

"So as you may know, one of members is pregnant." Lexi declared as Jordan blushed. I held her hand tightly. "I know that you all may be interested in who the father of said baby is. You see it happened the night of my party. It took me a while to piece it together, but the father is Mr. Edmund Sawyer."

I then felt a rage building up inside of me.

"WHAT?" I asked my best friend after I stood up and let go of her hand. "You slept with my boyfriend? How could you do this to me?"

"I was drunk. I didn't mean to." Jordan responded as she also stood up. That didn't help me out at all. "You went home."

"That doesn't mean that you had the right to sleep with him." I responded.

"Girls, you need to calm down." Edmund replied as he stood between us like we were about to get physical. Did people really think that I would hit a pregnant girl?

"I'm surprised that you even care since you've been sleeping with Marissa for the past few weeks." Jordan remarked. I blushed and I saw Marissa do the same.

"Is this true?" Edmund asked me as he looked me in the eye.

"I don't know what to say." I remarked.

"QUIET!" My mom interrupted. "Okay, so there may be a lot of tension in this room from kept secrets, but no one is leaving here. We are going to Sectionals tomorrow and all of you are going to be competing. I have our set list. So, everyone sit down and listen!"

So she really knew how to take control of a situation. We all put our butts in our chairs. I knew that this would continue when we got out of here, or it wouldn't. I knew that my friendship with Jordan was over and now I was only in one relationship.

"Now, the set list will consist of Christina Aguilera's 'Fighter', 'Clarity' by Zedd and 'Sing' by My Chemical Romance." Mom explained. "Beth, I need to talk to you and Marissa. Everyone else is free to go."

I blushed nervously as the room cleared out. I couldn't help but wonder if I was in trouble. Has any parent ever punished their child for cheating on someone?

"I have to say that I'm disappointed that I had to hear about this from someone else." She said to me. "So are you a lesbian or bisexual?"

"Bisexual." I answered. "Marissa's a lesbian."

"Look, I'm sorry, but I think I love your daughter, Ms. Corcoran." Marissa explained to me. "It just happened."

"This actually isn't the reason that I called you here." Mom declared. "Marissa, do you know 'Fighter'?"

"Yes, I love that song." Marissa answered.

"Well loving a song isn't going to be good enough." Mom explained. "You have to be able to connect to it. Christina Aguilera had a tough life growing up and if you can feel the passion of the song, you'll be singing it at Sectionals."

"Did you want me to sing something too?" I questioned.

"Yes, I wanted you to sing 'Clarity'." She replied. "I think that what you're doing right now is a perfect preparation for it. It's about how the person you love is the only thing that makes sense in the world. Neither of these songs is easy to sing, but I think that you two can handle these."

"We won't let you down." I told her.

Marissa and I walked out of the room and I reached to grab her hand.

"Just because everyone in Glee Club knows doesn't mean that I want the whole school to know." She told me.

After school, I went to see Jordan. I needed to talk to her because we didn't get a chance to finish. I didn't even want to talk to Edmund

"Seriously, how could you do this?" I asked.

"I told you that I didn't mean to." She explained. "I don't know what was going through my mind then. I don't even remember doing it. I woke up and I was naked beside him."

"I think I'd appreciate it if you just left me alone." I said to her.

Loving you isn't the right thing to do
How can I ever change things that I feel
If I could, maybe I'd give you my world
How can I when you won't take it from me

You can go your own way (go your own way)
You can call it another lonely day
You can go your own way (go your own way)

Tell me why everything turned around
Packing up shacking up's all you wanna do
If I could baby I'd give you my world
Open up everything's waiting for you

You can go your own way (go your own way)
You can call it another lonely day (another lonely day)
You can go your own way (go your own way)
You can call it another lonely day (another lonely day)
You can go your own way

"Can you still give me a ride home?" She asked me. I guess I could do that.

"You'll have to get someone else to do it after this." I explained.

That night, I had Marissa over because she wanted to practice her song with me. Mom told me that I had to leave the door open.

"Are you ready?" I asked her.

"Yes." She stated before she began to sing. Okay, she began to speak first.

After all you put me through, you'd think I'd despise you
But in the end, I wanted to thank you, cause you made me that much stronger

Well I thought I knew you, thinking that you were true
Guess I couldn't trust called your bluff time is up because I've had enough
You were there by my side, always down for the ride
But your joyride just came down in flames cause your greed sold me out of shame

After all of the stealing and cheating,
You'd probably think that I hold resentment for you But uh-uh, oh no, you're wrong
Cause if it wasn't for all that you tried to do
I wouldn't know just how capable I am to pull through so I wanna say thank you

Cause it makes me that much stronger, makes work a little bit harder
Makes me that much wiser, so thanks for making me a fighter
Made me learn a little bit faster, made my skin a little bit thicker
Makes me that much smarter, so thanks for making me a fighter

How could this man I knew turn out to be just so cruel
Could only see the good in you, pretended not to see the truth
You tried to hide your lies disguise yourself by living in denial
But in the end you will see you won't stop me

I am a fighter and I aint gonna stop
There is no turning back, I've had enough

Makes me that much stronger, makes work a little bit harder
Makes me that much wiser, so thanks for making me a fighter
Made me learn a little bit faster, made my skin a little bit thicker
Makes me that much smarter, so thanks for making me a fighter

Thought I would forget, but I remember, Yes I remember, I remember
Thought I would forget, but I remember, Yes I remember, I remember

"You need to stand up to him." I told her. "Tell him that you're not gonna take it or anymore, or tell your mom to divorce him."

"I don't know if I can do that." Marissa replied.

"If you want to believe that you're a fighter, then you need to act like one." I told her as she took out her phone.

"Mom, I know that you probably can't talk, but there's something that I need to say to you." She replied. "Dad has been abusing me ever since I told him that I was gay. I don't think he's gonna change and I want you to know that I don't want to go home to him."

I then realized that I needed to explain to my mom that Marissa was going to be staying with us for a little while possibly. She was basically demanding that her father left her mom. She was a fighter.

On the day of the competition, I found out that Thomas had dumped Lexi for her stunt in the choir room. I guess that wasn't much of a surprise because it was a bitch move, even if it was the truth. Yes, I could be just as mad at Lexi as I was at Edmund and Jordan. We were in the audience, watching as Lima Catholic School and their singer Tyler Kim began to sing.

Do you know the enemy, do you know your enemy
Well gotta know the enemy wa-hey
Do you know the enemy, do you know your enemy
Well gotta know the enemy wa-hey
Do you know the enemy, do you know your enemy
Well gotta know the enemy wa-hey

Violence is an energy, against the enemy
Well violence is an energy, wa-hey
Bringing on the fury, the choir infantry
Revolt against the honor to obey
Overthrow the effigy, the vast majority
Well burning down the foreman of control
Silence is an enemy, against your urgency
So rally up the demons of your soul

Insurgency will arise, when the blood's been sacrificed
Don't be blinded by the lies in your eyes

I was pretty sure that I knew our enemy now. They were kind of punkish, I don't if our judges: Sports agent Dave Karofsky, Marijuana activist Brett Buttowski, or dentist Dr. Sebastian Smythe would like it.

After the Unitards performed, we were up. All of the girls were wearing purple dresses with sequined bodices, spaghetti straps, blue underskirts and matching sashes and the guys were wearing blue shirts with purple ties and black slacks. Marissa performed first and the crowd cheered for her. She really sold that performance as I noticed that her mom was in the audience. I then took the stage for my solo.

I dive into frozen waves where the past comes back to life
Fight fear for the selfish pain it was worth it every time
Hold still right before we crash cause we both know how this ends
A clock ticks till it breaks your glass and I drown in you again

Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn't need
Chasing relentlessly, still fine and I don't know why

If all love is tragedy why are you my remedy
If all love's insanity why are you my clarity
If all love is tragedy why are you my remedy
If all love is tragedy why are you my clarity

Why are you my clarity
Why are you my remedy
Why are you my clarity
Why are you my remedy

If all love is tragedy why are you my remedy
If all love's insanity why are you my clarity

We then all took the stage. Lexi and Liam were going to be singing the leads on this song.

Sing it out, boy you got to see what tomorrow brings
Sing it out girl you got be what tomorrow needs
For every time that they want to count you out
And use your voice every single time you open up your mouth

Sing it for the boys, sing it for the girls
Every time that you're losing sing it for the world
Sing it from the heart, sing it till you're nuts
Sing it out for the ones that'll hate your guts
Sing it for the deaf, sing it for the blind
Sing about everyone that you left behind
Sing it for the world, sing it for the world

Cleaned up corporation progress, dying in the process
Children that can talk about living on the railways, people moving sideways
Sell it to your last days, buy yourself the motivation, generation nothing
Nothing but a dead scene, product of a white dream I am not the singer that you wanted
But a dancer I refuse to answer, talk about the process and the ones who wanna get away
Keep running

That really brought the house the down. Now all we had to do was wait for the judge to come to a decision. I think that we did well enough to win.

"Okay, we've come to a decision." Mr. Karofsky declared. "The winner is the Silver Stars from McKinley High."

So now we had accomplished our first goal and won Sectionals. We still had a lot of problems to deal with and we might need to resolve them if we were going to go farther, but for now things were good.

So there was a lot of drama in this chapter, from Jordan's baby's paternity to Beth and Edmund's breakup to Marissa ditching her abusive father. There's also a cameo by Tyler Kim, made by Hell Devil 13, singing "Know Your Enemy" by Green Day. Also more character cameos. Please don't forget to review.