I'm really sorry for taking a while to post, school's restarted so the shit storm has begun! Feel free to hate spam me in the reviews haha, enjoy this chapter, new poll is up on my profile about who you think the kindest contender is, so go answer it, please, if you don't it'll ruin my glee-ality week plan. I have big plans.

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Penny wakes up to the sound... of silence.

"Okay, who died?" She groans, sitting up, rubbing her eyes. She hears quiet chuckles and shuffling of feet, but apart from that, the house sounds dead. She yawns, stretching out her arms before her sticky, tiired eyes flicker open.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAA-"

"- I think she gets it Jack."

"Oh, right." Jack replies flatly, and Penny chuckles.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!" Everyone choruses (with harmonies). Penny claps along with them.

"You look like a monkey" Chesney sings with a grin.

"Aaaaannd, you smell like one to!" Cindy finishes.

"With love from your freakishly awesome friends. A.K.A, moi." Emily summarises, and Penny scurries out of bed, throwing her arms around everyone.

"Thank you so much guys!" She squeaks, beaming. Ace has a lightbulb moment and puts his hand on Penny's shoulder.

"Hey... Now you can finally get pissed here!" Facepalm.

"Great!" Penny sighs, biting her lip. "Just... great."

"Robert's here!" Pierce shouts in his deep voice and West and Ace bound into the living room, jumping over the back of the couch and landing on it's cushions. Jack and Ollie watch in awe and then look at one another and nod. They run up to it and Ollie copies the duo, but when Jack tries he rolls over the sofa and lands with a thump! on the floor. Ollie bites his tongue, trying to hold back his laughter. Pierce smugly stands up and holds out a hand to help him up. Jack takes his hand and pulls him down to the floor with him.

"If you guys could stop making out over there, I'd like to know what the theme is a-thank you!" Jaia rolls her eyes, breezing past them. They both apologise quickly and clamber onto the couch, watching Jaia as she sits down in her short, skin-tight strapless black dress, mouths open slightly. Ollie, who sits between them, clunks their heads together to bring them back to earth.

"Okay guys, so this theme is very important in this industry, no matter what path you choose. If you haven't guessed, your theme is... Believability."

"Believability, yes!" Cindy exclaims, punching the air. She couldn't stop smiling. If there was any week she could make a comeback, show Ryan why she had deserved to be saved, this was it. Whereas in most peoples cases they'd only been on commercials if they'd been on TV at all, they'd only done school productions or community theatre, she'd been in a real TV show, even if it was only a six episode arc. It filled her with confidence, confidence she'd never REALLY felt before.

Robert had left a few minutes prior, and now Ollie was giving everyone a lyric sheet for the song 'The Scientist' by Coldplay. Jaia stared down at the lyrics, a slight smile creeping onto her face.

"So, who wants line one?" Pierce asked the group, sounding overly bored and disinterested. West feebly raises his hand and Pierce nods, scribbling West's name down. "Next?" He asks, and the rooms silent. Pierce lets out a loud sigh. "I'll take it."

"Wow man, someone's on their period. Chill!" Jack breathes, and Pierce just shows him the finger.

"Where's Ollie, he usually does this bit, right?" Chesney asks, trying to sound casual. Honestly, she hadn't stopped thinking about him since that night at the premier. She knew that she was hard to manage, and had commitment 'issues' but, when she was with Ollie, that all went away. Everything seemed... right. Things were different than before, Chesney felt herself edging out of her shell, forgetting how much she hated her body or how much she didn't want to fall for someone. She felt herself again. But it was probably just pity. Yeah, that's what it was.

"Uh... I dunno, I'll go find him." Jack says, getting to his feet, followed quickly by a thankful Pierce. Chesney just sits there, staring down at her hands.

How could I ever deceive myself enough to believe someone could ever love someone like me?

"Hey, dude! Why you here all by your lonesome? We're choosing solos" Ollie doesn't turn round, he just continues looking down at the photo of Aaron, his girlfriend and him on Aaron's first birthday just a few months ago, when everything seemed a lot simpler, before everything changed for the worse and it all got complicated.

"Uh... nothing, just not feeling well, that's all." He mumbles, shoving the picture into his pocket and turning round to face them.

"Well, what solo do you want?" Pierce asks, frustrated.

"Don't worry, I'll come through now before you rip someone's head off" Ollie answers, hauling himself to his feet.

"Yeah, probably mine." Jack adds, and Ollie forces a smile, hoping that if he can fake it, the aching feeling would go away and he'd be able to focus without wanting to cry.

Once the solos are decided, the group start brainstorming how they'll actually perform the song.

"We could freezeframe it and when it's our solo, we could move?" Penny suggest, imagining how hauntingly beautiful it would look.

"No way, that'd suck. I think we should..." Penny zoned out, trying to contain her anger. She HATED Pierce. He was rude, stuck-up, obnoxious and self-centred. What Jaia saw in him, she'd never know. She crossed her arms over her chest, trying to hide the disgust from her face. She rolls her eyes and ignores the confused glances she gets from Chesney as she tries to puzzle the pieces together.

"...So, we clear?" Ace asks, and everyone nods. They begin to disperse, sticking the kettle on to make coffee or just chatting. Penny gets up and makes for the dorm rooms, and Ace falls into step with her.

"By the way," He whispers into Penny's ear. "I think your idea was much better than his". Penny whispers 'thanks' in reply and smiles.