Hello :D The songs I used for this chapter are Give You Back by Vertical Horizon and Jealousy by Darren Criss (who is supermegafoxyawesomehot :3) Enjoy!
The football team entered the locker room. They were covered in sweat and tired as hell from practice. When the boys removed their shoes, Sam covered her nose, sighing. That was one of the things that made her regret joining the football team. That, and having to wait until all of the boys finished using the showers to take a shower herself.
"Hey, Sam, I need some advice." James asked, sitting next to her.
"What?" she asked in a nasal voice.
"Anna has been acting weird lately. She's been so… distant and cold."
"Why are you asking me for advice?"
"Because you're a girl, you must understand what's happening to her."
"Well, most likely she's mad at you. When a girl is distant and cold, you should start thinking about what you've done to upset her."
"But I haven't done anything…"
"James, just go and take a shower, for God's sake." Sam said, exasperated "I have enough romantic problems myself!"
"Are you talking about Natasha?" Spencer asked, coming out of the shower, only with a towel wrapped around his waist.
"I swear I'm going to kill that bitch." Sam said.
"You shouldn't worry about that." James said "I mean, it's not like Lizzie is going to dump you for her."
Sam sighed and looked at the ceiling. She knew that, but still, it was terrifying to think that her girlfriend might leave her. Because, what would she do without Elizabeth?
"Take a break!" Sue yelled into her megaphone.
The Cheerios did as their coach said. Elizabeth sat on the floor and started stretching her legs. Natasha sat next to her to do the same, and the girls exchanged smiles.
"Have you thought about what I told you the other day?" Natasha said "You know, about needing a break."
"Yes."
"And?"
"I don't want a break from the person I love." Elizabeth stated.
"How can you know she's the one you love if you've never loved someone else?"
Elizabeth looked up at Natasha. The other girl held her gaze, question in her green eyes.
"I… I just know it."
"That's a lame answer."
"It was the only answer I could think of."
Natasha smirked, but she didn't say anything else. Elizabeth was the one who talked next.
"Why don't you just give up? We can still be friends."
"I don't want to be just friends, Lizzie." Natasha looked straight into her eyes, with an intensity that made Elizabeth forget how to breathe for an instant.
"Get up your lazy asses from the floor, the break is over!" Sue yelled.
The girls got up. Elizabeth looked at Natasha one last time before turning to look at Sue, who was shouting instructions at them.
"Okay, guys, let's get to work." Alma said, once all her students were seated "Regionals are next week, and we haven't made our set list yet. Any ideas?"
Barbra and Elizabeth raised their hands, smiling.
"We have an idea, Miss Schue." Barbra said.
"Let's hear it, then."
"Well, last night I was talking with my mother on Skype…"
"Barbra, honey, have you guys made your set list?"
"No, not yet."
Rachel made an horrified expression, and Barbra rolled her eyes and sighed, waiting for the big reprimand she was going to receive.
"What do you mean with 'not yet'? That's so irresponsible and…!"
"Rachel, just tell her what you told me yesterday." Finn chimed in, appearing on the screen behind his wife. He smiled and waved his hand "Hi, Barbra!"
"Hi, dad!" the girl said, thankful that her father had interrupted her mother.
"Is Lizzie there?" Rachel asked.
"Yeah."
"Call her, would you?"
Once Elizabeth was seated in front of the computer with Barbra, Rachel smiled.
"Yesterday I was thinking about you kids, and I wondered if you had your set list ready. I imagined that, just like our generation, you wouldn't even think about it until a week before the competition. So, I had an idea that might be helpful..."
"Original songs." Elizabeth said, surprising everyone.
"That's a great idea, girls, but we don't have time to write songs." Alma said.
"We know. That's why my mom sent me some songs she and her friends wrote when they were in Glee Club." Barbra said, taking some sheets from her backpack and handing them to the teacher.
"And I have a song we could use for the group number." Elizabeth said.
The teacher looked at them, surprised. Then she smiled.
"Well, it seems like our set list is ready!"
"Hey, baby." James said, approaching his girlfriend with a big grin on his face.
"Hey." Anna said, without even looking at him.
"Do you want to do something after school?"
"Um, actually, I've got a lot of homework to do." Anna said, closing her locker and walking away. James followed her.
"Okay. What about tomorrow?"
"Um…"
"Okay, tell me what's wrong." James said, taking her shoulder and forcing her to look at him.
"Nothing's wrong, what are you talking about?"
"You've been avoiding me lately. You don't even answer my texts!"
Anna sighed and looked at her feet. James put a finger under her chin and made her look up.
"You can tell me."
"James, I… I think we should break up."
Those words hit him like a bullet. His heart stopped for a moment, while he tried to remember how to breathe. He looked her, standing in front of him. She had to be joking, she couldn't be talking seriously…
"James, I'm sorry, I…" her voice snapped him back to reality. James blinked a couple times, like he was waking up from a dream.
"Why?" he asked.
"We've been together for so long and…" Anna wasn't looking at him. Her eyes remained fixed on the floor "It's just… It's not the same anymore."
"You don't love me anymore."
"No, it's not like that!"
"Then what are you talking about?" James exclaimed, refusing to believe that she was breaking up with him just like that.
"I do love you but… not in the same way I did before." Anna said in a whisper.
"I don't understand. Was it something I did or said?"
"No, you didn't do anything wrong. It's…"
"It's not me, it's you?" James said. Anna didn't say anything. "I get it."
"James…"
"Please don't say anything. You'll only make it harder."
James turned around and left. Anna bit her lip and closed her eyes, feeling terrible.
James sat on his bed and hid his face in his hands. His cell phone rang inside his pocket. It was Steven. The boy pressed the end button. He didn't feel like talking with anyone. He felt sad and empty, and the only thing he wanted to do was to cry.
James picked up his guitar from a corner of his room and sat on his bed again. He began to play, fighting back the tears. Softly, he began to sing.
I need to know if you were real
'Cause I've been known to get it wrong
When the memory comes
I'll say I'm always in the dark
You got me now
James closed his eyes, belting out the chorus.
I want to give you back
I want to give you back
Somewhere out of here
I want to give you
I want to give you
I want to give you back
As he sang the next verse, James realized that he hadn't turn on the lights. It was better that way. No one would see him crying.
I can't remember how it went
You looked like everything I wanted
And as you came along
Slowly everything began to change
I got you now
He wished she was there with him, and he could smell her perfume and hear her laugh again. Look into her eyes and gaze at a future that was never going to happen.
I want to give you back
I want to give you back
Somewhere out of here
I want to give you
I want to give you
I want to give you back
The boy wished the song would take away his pain, so he sang as loud as he could.
That's enough
Just talking about it
I don't mind
I don't mind no I
Laugh enough
Just dreaming about it
A sad smirk crossed his face. It was ridiculous. Nothing could take his pain away.
I need to know if you were real
I'd hate to think that I'd been fooled again
And as the vision fades
I'll say I was blinded by your eyes
I felt them burn
James kept singing and playing, pouring all his feelings into the song.
I want to give you back
I want to give you back
Somewhere out of here
I want to give you
I want to give you
I want to give you back
Somewhere out of here
He sang the final lines, alone in the dark room.
You gotta get on out of here
get on out of here
get on out of here
get on out of…
The final notes lingered in the air for a while, before leaving him in complete silence.
James entered the choir room. Steven frowned when he saw his friend. He had dark circles around his eyes, and he looked like he had been crying. It also looked like he was wearing the first thing he found in his closet. James sat next to him and not next to Anna, like he always did.
"Dude, what's wrong?" Steven asked.
James didn't answer. Steven looked at Anna. The girl was unusually quiet, and her eyes were fixed on the floor. Amanda leaned towards Steven and whispered into his ear.
"Anna broke up with him."
"What?" Steven whispered back, surprised.
"He didn't tell you?"
"No, he didn't." Steven said, looking at his friend.
Steven grabbed James' arm, as everyone left the choir room. James turned around.
"Why didn't you tell me about Anna and you?"
"I didn't feel like talking with anyone, Steve."
"Why did she break up with you?"
"She said it's not the same anymore."
"Man, that sucks…" Steven said, and James nodded.
"I have an idea." Spencer said, putting his arm around James' shoulders "We're going to have a sleepover at my place."
"A sleepover?"
"Yeah! We're going to paint our nails, eat ice cream and watch romantic movies. And we're going to have a pillow fight!"
This managed to bring a smile to James' face.
"No, seriously, we should have a sleepover." Spencer said "I haven't had one since I was ten years old! What do you guys think?"
The boys nodded and looked at James. The boy smiled weakly.
"Okay."
While the rest of boys cheered and planned everything excitedly, Steven patted his friend on the back. James smiled at him.
"DIE, MOTHERFUCKER, DIE!"
"Damn it!" Kevin exclaimed, letting go of game controller.
"YEAH! TAKE THAT!" James shouted, jumping in the air with his arms raised "I WON!"
Steven rolled his eyes, smiling. If killing his friends in a Play Station game would make his best friend feel better, he wasn't going to complain.
"Wanna play again?" James asked, sitting down and grabbing the controller.
"Are you crazy?" Kevin said, grabbing a slice of pizza from the box that was resting on the floor next to him "I've had enough of you kicking my ass."
"David?" James asked.
"Uh, no, thanks." David, who was reading comics on the floor, said.
James looked out of the open door and saw Spencer's little sister playing in her room.
"Mandy!" he called her "Wanna play with me?"
"Okay." Mandy said, entering her brother's room.
As James explained Mandy how to play, Jonathan sat next to Steven.
"He looks like he's feeling better."
"All you need to make James feel better is videogames and pizza."
Jonathan laughed and kept watching James and Mandy while they played.
"I won!" Mandy exclaimed, grinning broadly.
"She won…" James said, surprised. He looked at Spencer with wide eyes "Dude, your little sister beat the crap out of me…"
"Mandy is an expert." Spencer said, ruffling her sister's hair.
"You told me you didn't know how to play!" James said.
"I lied." she said, smiling brightly.
The boy stared at her, shocked, and everyone laughed.
"Hey, Spencer." Kevin said "Can I marry your sister when she grows up?"
Spencer responded by throwing the game controller at him, provoking more laughter.
"Why am I the only boy here?" Jake asked, looking around.
"Because you had to meet the girls!" Barbra said cheerfully.
"And there isn't a better way to meet us that a sleepover." Elizabeth stated, looking up from the fashion magazine she was reading. Jake smiled.
"That's right."
"How's everything at Dalton?" Barbra asked.
"Everything's great. Everybody is so nice…" Jake's smile grew bigger "It's good to be in a place where you don't get nasty looks for holding your boyfriend's hand." Barbra nodded, encouraging him to keep talking "And I joined the Warblers!"
"Really?" Elizabeth asked, putting her magazine down.
"Yeah."
"Lizzie's parents were Warblers." Lucy chimed in "Right, Lizzie?"
Elizabeth nodded. Right then, Kurt opened the door.
"Hey, girls, do you need anything?"
Jake's eyes widened and his face turned pale.
"Oh, my God…" he said.
"No, papa, we're okay." Elizabeth said.
"Hi, Mr. Hummel!" the twins said with identical smiles.
"I've told you a thousand times to call me Kurt." the man said, smiling at them.
"You're Kurt Hummel's daughter?" Jake asked Elizabeth.
"Yeah." the girl answered with a smile "Papa, this is Jake."
"Oh, hi!"Kurt said, flashing a smile "You're Barbra's friend who transferred to Dalton, aren't you?"
"Yes!" Jake stood up and offered him his hand "Mr. Hummel, I'm a big fan of you!"
"Call me Kurt." he said, shaking his hand "Barbra was right, you're adorable."
The boy's face turned crimson in a second, and Kurt laughed.
"If you need anything, just tell me, okay?" he said to the girls and Jake.
"Okay!" everyone answered.
Once Kurt was left, Jake looked at Elizabeth with wide eyes.
"I think I'm going to faint…"
The girl laughed and stood up. She opened her closet and showed it to Jake.
"Oh, my God, it's like paradise…" the boy said.
"Do you like scarves?" Elizabeth asked.
"Yeah, why?"
The girl took a wonderful blue scarf from her closet and handed it to Jake.
"Here you go."
"What? No, I can't take it!"
"Yes, you can, I'm giving it to you!" Jake still looked undecided, so Elizabeth said: "It's from his new collection."
"But his new collection hasn't been released yet."
"Exactly." the girl said, smiling.
Jake took it hesitantly with both hands.
"Get used to it." Lucy said, smiling "Lizzie will give you clothes for every birthday and Christmas present."
"That's the only reason we're friends with her." the twins joked, earning a glare from Elizabeth.
"Thank you." Jake said.
"You're welcome." Elizabeth said with a wink.
"I can't do it!" Sam exclaimed, exasperated.
"It's not that hard! You just have to put your foot in front of…" Hannah tried to explain, but she was interrupted by Elizabeth.
"Give up, Hannah." she said, putting her arms around her girlfriend's waist "Sam will never dance like you."
Sam stuck out her tongue at Elizabeth, who laughed and kissed her on the cheek.
"Hey, Anna." Amanda said, sitting on a pillow next to her "Why did you break up with James?"
"Well… the love died I guess."
"How?"
"I don't know. I mean, I still love him, but it's not the same as before." Anna explained.
"I see." Amanda nodded.
"I never thought that could happen." Hannah said, still trying to teach Sam how to dance "You were so in love with each other…"
Elizabeth looked at Sam. If it happened to Anna and James, could it possibly happen to them? The girl shook her head. That wasn't going to happen. She was in love with Sam, and that would never change.
"I hope we can still be friends…" Anna said.
"That's easier said than done." Barbra said, playing with her cousin's hats.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I'm still trying to be friends with Jonathan, but it seems impossible."
"When a relationship ends, all those beautiful memories you had become something painful." Jake said "Besides, being friends with someone you still love must be difficult. I mean, being that close to someone you can't have has to kill you inside."
The girls looked at him, surprised.
"Seriously, if you didn't have a boyfriend, I would be hitting on you." Hannah said, making the girls laugh and the boy blush.
"I thought you were dating our neighbor Daniel." Anna said, raising her eyebrows.
"What makes you think that?"
"Uh… you two making out in his backyard?"
"How do you know that?"
"I saw you through the window."
Everyone burst out laughing, including Hannah, who only shrugged at her sister's comment.
"That doesn't mean we're dating."
"What happened to my innocent and shy sister?" Anna said.
Steven opened one eye and looked around. Everyone was soundly asleep, excepting for James, who was lying on his sleeping bag next to him and looking at the ceiling.
"Hey." Steven whispered, and the other boy turned his head "Can't sleep?"
"Nope. Spencer snores too loudly."
"And Kevin is kicking me."
The boys laughed quietly and went silent again until Steve spoke again.
"If you need a shoulder to cry on, I'm here, you know."
"I've cried enough already." James smiled "But thanks."
"Hey, that's what friends are for, right?" Steven punched his shoulder lightly.
"Why don't you two just admit that you're in love with each other?" Kevin, who apparently wasn't as soundly asleep as he seemed, said.
The other boys laughed, and Steven and James looked around.
"I thought you were asleep." Steven said.
"You woke us up with your lovers chat." Jonathan said, and everyone laughed.
"You guys are jealous because your girlfriends aren't as hot as my boyfriend." James joked, making his friends to laugh even louder.
Steven smiled and rolled his eyes.
Sam entered the classroom to find her girlfriend sitting next to Natasha, talking cheerfully with her. She breathed slowly and closed her eyes in order to avoid a rage attack before she sat next to Elizabeth.
"Hi, Lizzie!"
"Hi, Sam!"
"Hello, Natasha." Sam said, with venom in her voice.
"Hello, Sam." Natasha said just as venomously as her.
"What were you talking about?" Sam asked.
"We were talking about that time when Coach Sylvester yelled at a girl who failed doing a cartwheel, and she peed herself." Elizabeth said, obviously not noticing the struggle her girlfriend was making to smile.
"How funny!" Sam said with an obviously fake laugh.
Elizabeth wondered what was happening to her. She looked like she had gas pains.
"Hey, Lizzie." Natasha said "Remember when I fell off the pyramid and landed on top of Johan?"
"And he caught you in his arms?" Natasha nodded "Yeah, that was amazing!" Elizabeth exclaimed, sharing a high-five with Natasha.
Sam felt the jealousy burning inside her, watching as they talked and laughed together like she wasn't there. When she was about to explode, the teacher asked for silence. Natasha and Elizabeth stopped talking, and Sam sighed loudly.
Sam opened the door of her bedroom and flopped on the bed. She grabbed her iPod from her bedside and played random songs. Sam wanted to kill something. Or kill something, tear it into pieces and eat its entrails. Or, more specifically, kill Natasha, tear her into pieces and eat her entrails.
The girl groaned. She searched for a song and played it when she found it. Sam sang out loud, facing her pillow.
I hate where I'm at
Acting crazy like that
I know that I've been wrong
It's something I've been working on
She rolled over so she was looking at the ceiling.
And I don't know what to do
It's changing me it's killing you
I'd tear out my insides if I could
But I don't know if it'd do me good
Sam was singing with anger in her voice. Not even the song eased her desire to kill. Damn.
I'm sorry friends I'm sorry lovers
To put us all in this mess
I know we still got each other
But I'm in distress
She sat straight on her bed and closed her eyes while she sang.
Cause every time that I feel like I've figured it out
I can't seem to figure it in
It's got nothing to do with me
It's not even you, you see
It's part of my chemistry
It's this jealousy
Sam stood up and began to walk around her room, singing with clenched teeth.
In absolutely no position
To be so needlessly unkind
When I'm the one writing this fiction
Make it real in my mind
She ran her hands through her already messy hair, making it look like a mop.
It drives me crazy in the morning
Who is this monster in the mirror
I try to get the steam to fog it out
But I just can't get it clear
Sam sang even louder, clenching her fists and closing her eyes.
Oh and I can't stand what I'm feeling
It's just like poison in my veins
I know that I'm speaking
But I don't know what I'm saying
Downstairs in the living room, Sam's mom could hear her daughter singing. She wondered what had happened. She sounded really angry.
Cause every time that I feel like the world just got lighter
It seems like my muscles give out
It's got nothing to do with me
It's not even you, you see
It's part of my chemistry
It's this jealousy
Sam looked at the picture of her and Elizabeth that was hanging on the wall, and she felt like tearing it down.
And I'm hearing your voice
That you know it's your choice
Maybe so
And I know it's no use
But it's the only excuse
That I know, no, no
She flopped on her bed again, singing at the top of her lungs.
Let me go
Let me go
Oh, let me go
Oh, let me go
Sam rubbed her face and kept messing with her hair, not knowing what to do to get rid of the horrible feelings she had.
Now let's be real I feel just like a child
Someone could be taking all my toys
So call me dumb, call me wild
See that's the thing with little boys
Sam was singing so loud she was basically shouting.
Oh, now I can't get it out in the shower
Or drink it off at the bar
This sugar's gone sour
And it's gone way too far
Sam had never felt like that. She wasn't someone who got anger easily, but now, she was so furious…
Cause every time that I feel like I'm riding so high,
Feel on top of the world
The bitch just keeps telling me no
But she was also scared. Scared that Elizabeth broke her heart, that she stopped loving her and left her for someone else. If that happened… what would she do? She didn't think she could handle it.
It's got nothing to do with me
It's not even you, you see
It's part of my chemistry
This demon is killing me
And, oh Christ, it's filling me
It's this jealousy
Sam sang the last lines as loud as she could, still hoping her anger faded with the song. But it didn't happen.
Oh, and I just can't believe
In this jealousy,
This jealousy for you
Oh, this jealousy,
This jealousy for you
The girl growled and covered her face with her pillow, feeling miserable.
Thanks for reading, I hope you liked this chapter :) Next chapter: Regionals!