Turn Up The Music Chapter 14: Formal Introduction, a glee fanfic

I knew that I needed to get ready for the winter formal. Coincidentally, it was a little after Valentine's Day, so it was going to be a late Valentine's dance. I still needed to figure out the dress I was going to wear.

"So as you know, the Winter Formal is this week." Mom stated. "Principal Anderson has asked us to provide the music for the night. I think because it is so close to Valentine's, we should sing some love songs."

"Are we still going to get to dance?" Marissa asked. I know she really wanted to dance with me.

"Yes, we won't all be performing at once which will with give you guys plenty of time to dance with your dates or friends." Mom explained.

I decided that I would go dress shopping with Jordan and Lexi after school. I couldn't go with Marissa because it would ruin the surprise factor. I didn't want to see what her dress looked like before the dance and I would imagine she felt the same.

"So are you sure that I should go this dance?" Jordan asked, looking at her stomach. It was beginning to get large. She wouldn't have her baby until after Regionals,

"Yes, you need to go to the dance because it shows people that you're not afraid to go in public." Lexi answered. "Look at Beth. She's not afraid to go with a girl. So you're up first. We can find one that will fit your belly in it."

She picked out a red gown and put it on and it looked really nice on her.

"My turn." Lexi declared as she picked out a short pale pink dress with a line strap and sequins. "I look hot. Now you gotta pick something, Beth. Choose something that will make Marissa be all over you."

"I don't know if my mom would like that." I replied as I began to browse the machine. I picked a strapless mid-thigh dress that was the same shade of blue as my eyes. At that point, we stepped out to model our dresses.

"Well don't you three look gorgeous?" Shiloh asked us. She was wearing a purple floor-length gown.

"What are you doing here?" Lexi asked suspiciously.

"The same thing that you are, obviously. I'm trying on dresses." Shiloh answered.

"What game are you playing?" I asked her as I looked her over.

"Do you wanna play with me?" She asked flirtatiously. I blushed. "You know I think this crowd would love a performance. Do any of you want to join me?"

I woke up and saw the sun today, you came by without a warning
You put a smile on my face, I want that for every morning
What is it I'm feeling cause I can't let it show
If seeing is believing, then I already know

I'm falling fast, I hope this lasts
I'm falling hard for you
I say let's take a chance, take it while we can
I know you feel it too, I'm falling fast
I'm falling fast

I hope you know, I hope it lasts, I'm falling hard, I'm falling fast now we can go no holding back
I hope you know, I hope it lasts, I'm falling hard, I'm falling fast now we can go no holding back

I'm falling fast, I hope this lasts
I'm falling hard for you
I say let's take a chance, take it while we can
I know you feel it too, I'm falling fast
I'm falling fast

The few people that were in the store clapped once she was done.

"Thank you everyone, please come and see me perform at the Regional Show Choir Competition in two weeks." She responded. Well she knew what she was doing. I just wished that I did.

She then walked off and I was hit with a question suddenly.

"Is she going to be at the dance?" I asked them.

"I don't know." Jordan replied. I guess it was more of a rhetorical question because I don't know how they would answer.

After I was done shopping, I met up with Marissa. I really needed to talk to her about some things in my life.

"So now I'm pretty much positive that my mom is dating my dad." I explained.

"Well your mom deserves to be happy." Marissa pointed out. "She spent most of the last 16 years raising you and hasn't had any time for herself."

"I guess you do have a point there." I agreed. "It's just so weird that the guy that she's with is my dad."

"Well your dad is a nice guy and you should be happy that she's happy." She suggested. I supposed that it was possible that I could do that. I still didn't like it. "You know I'm really excited about the dance. I had this song that I wanted to sing to you."

"I wanted to sing to you too, but I don't think that I can wait for the dance." I responded. "This was the first song that I sang when I came to school."

I carry the weight of you in my heavy heart
And the wind is so icy I am numb
I carry the weight of you heading back to start
With a thousand eyes on me, I stumble in

I am tired, I'm growing older, I'm getting weaker every day
I carry the weight of you, I carry the weight of you

Lay down here beside me in the shallow water
Beside me where the sun is shining on us still
Lay down here beside me in the hallowed water
Beside me where the silver linings stay until
The sirens calling, the sirens calling

Yeah, I'm tired, I'm growing older, I'm getting weaker every day
I am drowning and you're stealing every breath, take me away and just

"You know that's really beautiful and it sounds like a good song for us." Marissa declared before she kissed me yet again. Her mom wasn't here so we climbed on top of me and began to undress me. "I'm interested in what you like in your dress, but right now I'm more interested in seeing you without it or anything."

"You've already seen that." I pointed out before she silenced me with her lips yet again and I began to undress her as well.

Once we were finished, we laid on her bed together in our underwear. I stroked her hair. We didn't really have a dominator in our relationship. She was slightly less feminine, but that didn't mean anything. Suddenly, they were a knock on the door. It seemed that her mom was home. I assumed that she knew by my car in the driveway that I was here. We rushed to get dressed.

"Are you girls hungry?" She asked us.

"Yeah, we'll be out in a minute." Marissa said through the door. I was just glad that she had knocked and not opened the door because that would have been extremely embarrassing. Once we were dressed, we were each wearing black miniskirts, with her wearing a long-sleeved white tee and me wearing a blue long-sleeved blouse.

"So did you know that we have a portmanteau?" I asked as we walked to the kitchen. "People are calling us Barissa."

"I guess that sounds better than Meth." She agreed.

Elizabeth had brought in some chicken from KFC. I'm glad that she was much better with her daughter's sexuality than her father was and she also seemed to like me.

The night of the dance, I waited at my house for Marissa to pick me up. My hair was curled and I was happy about this. The doorbell rang and I opened it to see her in a black gown with a cutout above her midriff with her hair up and red lipstick and a gold wing necklace. She looked absolutely gorgeous.

My mom was actually already at the dance because she and Noah were chaperones. It would be ironic if he was trying to prevent people from spiking the punch since that was exactly what he did when he was in high school.

"Wow." I replied in awe.

"You don't look so bad yourself." She responded. "Your carriage awaits m'lady."

My carriage was a 2015 Ford Focus. I guess it was understandable that she wasn't able to get a new car like I did. It was one of the last cars that didn't run exclusively on hydrogen.

We arrived at the dance together and we decided that it would be best to meet in the choir room to determine the order of the performances. From what I understood, Thomas and Jaque were going to be going first…even though she had brought Shiloh as her date. I still had no idea what that girl was up to.

There's a boy lost his way looking for someone to blame
There's a girl in the window, tears running down her face
We're only lost children trying to find a friend
Try to find our way back home

We don't know where to go so I'll just get lost with you
We'll never fall apart cause we fit together right, we fit together right
These darks clouds over me rain down and roll away
We'll never fall apart cause we fit like two pieces of a broken heart

Now I can lay my head down and fall asleep
Oh but I don't have to fall asleep to see my dreams
Cause they're right there in front of me, right there in front of me
There's a boy lost his way looking for someone to blame

There's a boy lost his way looking for someone to blame

I decided that I needed to talk to Shiloh to see just what she was doing here.

"You know it's not very common for people from other schools to come as dates." I declared.

"It's not as uncommon as you think." She argued.

"Okay, well it's definitely not common for people from rival show choir teams to appear." I declared.

"Are we jealous?" She asked me with a coy smile.

"I know this is some kind of plan to undermine us and I want you to stop." I explained to her.

"Not everything is about you, Darling." She told me. "But if you're looking for someone to dance with, let me know."

I blushed as she walked away. That girl just wants to get under my skin and it's working. I can't help but wonder if that's her plan. If it is, the fact that she based it solely on me being angered by her is sketchy. Realistically, I don't think that there was anything that I could do about it. I also couldn't help but wonder if she had blackmail on Jaque.

I then noticed that Liam had taken the stage.

"Alright, everyone grab a partner because this is one that you're gonna wanna dance to." He declared as I went over to Marissa and we began to move to the music as he began to sing.

The shadows fill an empty heart as long is fading
We're all the things that we are saying
Can we see beyond the scars and make it to the dawn
Change the colors of the sky and open to
The ways you made me feel alive, the ways I loved you
From all the things that never die to make it through the night

Love will find you

What about now, what about today
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be
What if our love never went away,
What it's lost behind words we could never find
Baby before it's too late
What about now

Now that we're here, now that we've come this far just hold on
There is nothing to fear for I am right beside you for all my life I am yours

What about now, what about today
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be
What if our love had never went away,
What it's lost behind words we could never find
Baby before it's too late, baby before it's too late
Baby before it's too late what about now

I had to say that dancing with Marissa literally felt like the best thing ever. She was taller than me, so she did take the male, but that was the only reason why. The only downside was that she was going to be leaving me before the last dance because she was going to be singing the song. I decided to talk to Noah.

"So you're dating my mom now." I stated. "Don't you find it weird dating the woman who adopted your child?"

"The only reason that I wasn't there when you were growing up is because it was wrong back then." He told me. "The age difference doesn't matter to me because I was with plenty of older women before her."

"Ew." I commented.

"The point is I know that this is hard for you to understand, but I love your mom." He answered.

I then noticed that Marissa had taken the stage to prepare to sing. Puck looked at her too.

"You know I would have thought my kid would be more like me, but I'm glad you're monogamous." He declared. I guess that was him saying that he approved of us.

I'm wearing thin I couldn't tell you the city I'm in
The streets and the buildings and the places I've been
Or where the stars go when it's daylight again
Or where the time went Oh who can save me now?

My life in the rearview I'm running from Jesus
Don't know where I'm going to I got nothing to lose
I'm fighting my demons Been lookin for someone like you
I've been lookin for someone like you

When the stars explode And I'm all alone
When they start to see the smoke When I finally burn out
I'll need someone to carry home safe and sound

My life in the rearview I'm running from Jesus
Don't know where I'm going to I got nothing to lose
I'm fighting my demons been lookin for someone like you
I've been lookin for someone like you
My life in the rearview I'm running from Jesus
Don't know where I'm going to I got nothing to lose
I'm fighting my demons been lookin for someone like you
I've been lookin for someone like you

As soon as she was done singing, I walked onto the stage and gave her a kiss.

So I'm going to start this by saying that I need another character. I need a girl that has to be bisexual and probably white. She will be debut around Nationals, and probably won't get a storyline unless I do season 2. I also don't want any of the portrayers to be someone from my other story Can't Stop Singing. I will accept from anyone currently has a character or someone who does not.

So Regionals is almost here and Beth has no idea what Shiloh is planning. The songs in this chapter are "Falling Fast" by Avril, a reprise of "Sirens" by Cher Lloyd, "Two Pieces" by Demi, "What About Now" by Daughtry, and "Someone Like You" by Boys Like Girls