When I woke up in the morning, Mike was still asleep. I must have fallen asleep before he came to bed last night and I felt horrible about it. Realizing he was right about why I should stay at Julliard, made me feel horrible about the stupid fight we had. I got dressed and headed out the door as quietly as possible not wanting to wake him. I was heading to school for the first class of my sophomore year.
Surprisingly I wasn't nervous at all but more excited. I knew what to expect this year and felt it was going to be the best one yet. "Hey Tina", I heard and turned around to Santana running to catch up with me. "Hey, you ready for today?" I asked her. "Forget about today. How was last night? Did you have fun being the pretty girl on your slightly famous fiancé's arm?" "Well it was going great until a rep for NYU told me I would be able to get a dancing degree as well as a real education at the same time. Well I mentioned it to Mike and he got upset because he thought I wanted to get away from the place where we fell in love. I tried to tell him that he was completely wrong but he wouldn't believe me. So we went to bed mad at each other." I told her as we were walking into the building now. "Oh well, we will see what he says in class this afternoon." She said shrugging her shoulders as we walked into our first class of the day.
I woke up sleepy and headed off to the kitchen to find some breakfast. I couldn't believe how mad I got. It wasn't fair of me to throw all of that stuff in her face; I mean if she wants to further her education then I should support her not tear her down. I hope she will be able to forgive me by the time our class starts, I thought as I started to get dressed. It would be unbearable to go another night with us fighting even though that was one of the things we weren't suppose to do. I grabbed my gym bag that Tina had given me last Christmas and headed to the school even though I was still a little early.
There was only one additional class this year for the now freshman. Even though I had met them all at the little orientation thing the school held, I knew I would never be able to remember all the students' names. I walked into the classroom and put my stuff down on the table and walked around the room. It's hard to believe it's been an entire year since I met Tina in this very room. She seems to fit so perfectly with me that it was hard to believe she had only been in my life for a year. I walked back to the table to start getting the pages I needed in order for the class when the first few students walked in. "Go ahead and have a seat on the floor. We will start when everyone gets here." I told them and waited for the last bell before I grabbed the clipboard and walked around the table. "Welcome to Advance Dancing here at Julliard. I know I met all of you at the orientation but you will have to remind me of who you are for awhile. My name is Mike Chang; I am a professional dancer and graduated from here over a year ago. By the time you graduate, I will have all of you dancing as well as I can. First off, I want each of you to take turns dancing to the radio while I take notes." I told the class before I sat back down at the table and turned the radio on.
"Alright class that was great, I will see all of you tomorrow and go over the notes I took." I told them before they all left the class. They all picked up their bags and started to shuffle out as I pulled out another notebook for the other class. How is it possible that this new class was worse than Tina's class? I mean they are all good now but it took a lot of work and I hate to think of everything I'm going to have to do to make this class as equally as good as them. I found myself stomping around the room and turning it into dancing without even realizing it. This was the best way for me to get clarity of any tough or stressful situation. I stopped when I noticed that Tina's class started in 10 minutes and figured she would be walking in at any minute. I decided to take a seat on the floor with my head down resting on my knees with my back to the door trying to collect my thoughts before she did come.
A minute later I heard the sound of soft squeaky tennis shoes walking in the room. "Hey babe, I'm so sorry about last night could you ever forgive me? It was wrong of me to not support your idea. Please forgive me sweetheart." I said with my head still down as I heard the footsteps come closer to me. I heard the steps stop right in front of me and before I could open my eyes, I felt a set of lips touch mine. Wait! This wasn't Tina, the taste was wrong and so was the feel. My eyes flew open and I saw the freshman from my class named Sugar kissing me back. "What the hell! What are you doing here Sugar and why are you kissing me? I thought I was pretty clear at the orientation when I said I had a fiancé." I yelled at her but she just sat back on her feet with a smirking smile. "Things can always change." "Sugar you need to realize that nothing will ever happen between us. I am in love with Tina. You need to leave and think about if you will be able to continue with this class while keeping yourself in line." I told her before I got up to head over to the table but was stopped dead in my tracks when I saw Tina standing in the doorway.
"Thank you so much Puck." The last two girls who were standing in the small line said after I signed their notebooks. Finn and I were trying to eat our lunch in the main commons area but it was a huge mistake. "Man, one little concert tour and now you are a big deal." Finn said as he rolled his eyes and ate a fry. "I can't help it, everybody loves the Puck." I told him as a few more fans ran over to the table for autographs.
I was about halfway through the second line when I heard Rachel come running to the table with a huge smile on her face. "Get out of my way. Oh please he is the same guy he was last year. Seriously he isn't going to sign those. Oh yeah, you want to say that to my face?" I heard her holler before she finally made it to the seat next to me. "Hey babe, what's got you so excited?" I asked her going in for a kiss when she stuck a magazine in front of my face just in time for me to kiss it instead. "What the hell?" I asked looking around to see if anyone had seen that. "Inside the magazine is our first ever paparazzi picture."She squealed again and she flipped it open to the saved spot. "Read here", she handed the magazine to Finn and I to see.
Music's newest rising star Puck and his girlfriend Rachel Berry getting some coffee. Puck was made famous by touring with Bruno Mars during the summer singing songs he wrote about Rachel. Rachel is a singer as well, she is the understudy for the role of Elphaba on Broadway.
"And this is good news?" I asked confused wondering how these people knew so much about her. "Of course that's a good thing! As long as the paparazzi want to take your picture, then you are doing something right." She said kissing my cheek and stealing a few pieces of celery from my tray. "That's the same thing Quinn says. You're hot until the creeps with cameras don't want your picture anymore." He said laughing as Rachel's phone started to ring. "Oh, it's my dad. I should take this, I will see you later babe." She said giving me a big kiss and then running out of the commons area. "You just got to love her." I mumbled as Finn just started laughing at me causing me to throw my last piece of celery at him.
I woke up the next morning to see Tina fast asleep in my arms. It was so nice to not be fighting with her anymore. Last night wasn't exactly a picnic though; we had a long talk about everything before we ended up going to bed together.
The first thing on the agenda last night was what happened in the dance room. Tina didn't stay for her class but ended up coming home instead. I sent her a message saying I would be there as soon as class was over and hated myself for making it seem like I was putting my job above her. When I finally made it home she was sitting on the couch with a content look on her face. It wasn't until I went to touch her cheek that she finally started to talk. "I'm 95% sure that she was the one the kissed you and that it only lasted the second that I saw or is there something you need to tell me?" She asked without moving her head to look at me. "That is all that happened and I didn't even want that to happen. I had my head resting on my knees and heard footsteps thinking it was you. I just so sorry Tina", I told her before she surprised me by jumping on top of me and kissing me like she hadn't seen me in weeks.
My phone dinged then pulling me out of the memory as I picked it up and opened my email. There was an email asking if I could stop by Dean Figgin's office at 9. It was currently 7:45 so I jumped up and headed to the shower. What could he possibly want? It is way too early to have an invitational and the year just started, so he can't be critiquing my teaching already. I was always a model student and try to be a model teacher as well, so it always bothers me when I have a meeting with one of my superiors.
I walked back into the bedroom to see Tina sliding her lime green track pants on to match the lime green tank top. "Good morning. What are you planning on doing this morning?" She asked me as I started to put on my own athletic gear. "I received an email from Dean Figgins, he wants me to stop by his office at 9. So I guess that means I'm walking to school with you." I told her as I gave her a kiss and headed to the living room to put our shoes on. "Why does he want to see you? Should we be worried?" "No because I haven't done anything wrong. I have been a model teacher or at least the same as I was last year." We grabbed our bags and headed out the door. "Maybe you won some award that you don't realize you did." She told me with a smile on her face as we made it to the small bagel and coffee stand we stop at every morning if we are up before 10. "That would be pretty cool. It would just mean another party we would have to go to." I told her and watched the smile spread across her face at that thought. "Yes, another reason to go shopping!" She squealed as she took her coffee and we continued to the campus.
"Ok I will meet you right here after first period, so don't move. I love you and good luck." Tina said before she gave me a kiss right in front of the administration department. Pushing the wooden door open, I walked up to the receptionist desk for her to inform me that I can go on in. I opened a second door and saw the Dean sitting behind a big desk looking over some files. "Michael, glad you could make it. Please have a seat." He told me as he shook my hand and pointed to a chair. "It really isn't a problem. I was already up and heading this way to work on some new dances." I was completely lying but he didn't have to know that. "Did I do something wrong or is there an issue I need to address?" "Well actually there is a bit of a problem. You are engaged to Ms. Tina Cohen-Chang, correct?" He asked me and my eyebrows just started to furrow. "Yes, we became engaged over the summer." "It seems as though you have a thing for students then. Last night, Sugar Moda and her father were in my office because you thought it would be ok to kiss her as well." I couldn't believe what he was saying. Was this really happening to me? "That is completely false Dean. She was the one to kiss me. I gently told her that I was engaged and this is very inappropriate." "Well, that isn't what my daughter said." I turned around to see a large but lean man in a very expensive suit walking towards me to sit the open chair next to mine.
I don't own anything Glee just love the show! How do you like the new chapter? I have some big ideas for how to shake it up a bit. Let me know if you like the way I'm starting to have it go. Thank you all for continuing to read the story and leave your comments! Thanks!