No one was sure how Mr. Schuester had done it. They thought for sure that an all night slumber party for the club would have to take place at one of their houses. But when Joe had naively mentioned it as a team building exercise, their teacher had taken the idea and run with it.
As a result, the entire team piled into the choir room one Friday night, hauling pillows and blankets, pajamas bundled into backpacks, and snacks on the table. Mr. Schuester started the night by telling them they were supposed to stay in the room unless they were going to the bathroom. Of course, Santana and Brittany snuck out almost immediately. Everyone assumed they had gone to make out, but they came back tugging one of the gymnastics mats from the gym. "I'm not sleeping on cold tile," Santana bitched, and the rest of them had to concede the point. It only took a few minutes for Quinn to stare some of the boys into submission, sending Finn, Mike, and Sam to go get the other mats for the rest of them to sleep on.
(When they didn't come back in twenty minutes, they sent Mercedes to find them. She returned a few minutes later with three sheepish boys, three mats, and a story about how fast they could roll in them down the bleachers in the gym.)
They sat around for a while, telling stories and playing card games, before Rory asked if there were any ghost stories attached to the school. A few standard urban legends got thrown around, gradually getting spookier, when Blaine pointed to the door and asked if anyone else saw that shadow. Everyone told him he was seeing things and the conversation continued.
Until they heard Tina screaming.
She had she was going to the bathroom, but the noise was coming from the other end of the hall. Everyone ran out the door and approached the cafeteria, where they found a laughing Puck draped in a black blanket like a cloak, fending off irritated punches.
Being teenagers, they then decided that the best idea while being in a dark, empty school was of course to play hide and seek. Sugar was chosen to be it and everyone scattered. The rules were to stay indoors and only on the first floor. Some people were found quickly, but others, like Rachel and Kurt, had used years of hiding from bullies to their advantage and lasted quite a while before discovery. The game culminated in the search for Artie, who had apparently climbed out of his wheelchair for a special surprise. As the group approached the hallway towards the gym, he crawled out from behind a soda machine, pulling himself across the floor by his arms like something out of a horror movie. Most of them laughed, but a few screamed and turned tail to run, causing the rest of them to laugh even harder.
It didn't take long at all after that for them to fall into clusters and sleep. Mr. Schuester informed them that couples should not be sleeping together, just to keep some semblance of appropriateness. Thinking quick, Brittany grabbed Tina's leg and tugged her into her and Santana's blanket nest, claiming that it was okay as long as Tina was between them. Before the teacher could come up with a response to that, Mike crawled between Kurt and Blaine, saying that if he couldn't snuggle with his girlfriend, he was going to snuggle with his best friend. Blaine started giggling at that, while Kurt just rolled his eyes and complained that he was going to get cold. Hearing that, Sam curled up behind Kurt and threw a blanket over the four of them, telling him to hush up and spoon.
Puck for his part had laid out a pillow and blanket nearby so he could chat with them. He wasn't paying much attention when Sugar curled up with her head on his chest and by the time he noticed, she was sound asleep. He didn't have the heart to move her.
Artie had brought a camp bed to sleep in for safety's sake. Joe helped him set it up near the guys' pile as well and then unrolled his own sleeping bag nearby, just in case.
Rachel and Mercedes assumed slumber party positions near the other girls and, when they couldn't convince Kurt to leave his new space heaters, invited Quinn to take his usual spot. Finn pouted for a moment at not getting to cuddle with his fiance overnight, but eventually joined the guys, face mashed into his pillow.
If he woke up way too early the next morning to find his face closer to Rory's butt than his own pillow, that was between him and the security cameras.