Tamara walked the halls with a mission in her mind. Her sneakers slapping the floor making loud clicks. She was late for cheer practice but she didn't give a damn. She needed to see Dylan. The memory of Gordy still flooded her mind and tickled her heart. He smelled nice. Like he used good soap. That might be a stupid thing to turn someone on, but his scent was all she could think about.

"This is so stupid." Tamara sighed. "I don't even like white boys."

On that note she did think Chris Evans was a yummy snack, but that was besides the point.

Dylan was in the hallway by the boys locker room. He looked up and smiled when he saw Tamara walking towards him. "Hey babe-"

Tamara cut him off by pulling him in and kissing him, he stopped surprised by the sudden surprise in affection, but he went with it and wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in close. Dylan was a good kisser, and his lips were soft.

Tamara smiled in the kiss. She liked this. That little moment with Gordy meant nothing. She was just singing a song for crying out loud. It's not like she found her soulmate.

She pulled away and smiled. "Thank you."

Dylan was still amazed by the kiss. "You've never kissed me like that before."

Tamara bit her lip. She was an awful girlfriend; she was only doing this just to prove to herself she still loved Dylan.

"You know I love you right." She said quietly.

Dylan smiled. "Of course, I know that babe. I love you too."

She smiled and took his hand. Gordy was just a distant memory. She was with Dylan and everything was fine.

"I have to go to cheer practice." Tamara sighed.

"But we were having so much fun," Dylan whined.

Tamara laughed. "I'll call you."

"You better." He smirked.

She gave him one last quick peck on the cheek before walking to the girls' locker room. On her way there she passed a flyer. Curiously she stopped and looked at it. It read in big bold letter: JOIN NORTH LAKE HIGHSCHOOL'S GLEE CLUB. WE HAVE CUPCAKES

Tamara stopped when she thought about that moment in detention. Despite the whole getting close to Gordy thing she did enjoy herself when she was singing. Would it be the worst thing ever if she joined the Glee club?


"Please Maria!" Gordy begged.

He was following his best friend to her car, a very nice car that her loving parents bought her.

"Please Gordy, I have better things to be doing than to waste my talents on show choir." Maria sighed.

Gordy crossed his arms. "What are you talking about? You love singing!"

"I sing for the stage to bring me closer to Broadway, how is show choir with an unexperienced hippie going to help me in my goal? Besides he's not even a real performer." She said.

Gordy grabbed Maria's arm and pulled her towards him. Maria was surprised by the action and how close they were. She blushed under his gaze.

"Please Maria, I really want to do this, and I need you," Gordy said.

Maria coughed awkwardly. She secretly loved that he said that. That he needed her. It meant she was important to him. It meant that maybe he cared about her in the way she cared about him.

"Fine, Gordy I'll do it." She sighed.

Gordy pulled her in for a big hug and smiled. "Thank you so much, Maria!"

Maria wanted to melt in his arms. She shook the thought out of her head and pushed away.

"You and your wannabee performers better keep up, my back up singers need to be perfect," Maria said.

Gordy paused. He probably should have taken into account how big of a diva Maria was but he could cross that road when they got there.

"So what song are you going to sing?" He asked.


"Why are we in the auditorium?" Sam asked Gordy.

Sam, Gordy, and Jeremy sat in the front row of the auditorium waiting patiently for Maria to come on stage.

"She said that her talents would be wasted in the choir room and demanded we get to see her on stage." Gordy sighed.

Jeremy yawned. "What a drama queen."

As he said this a soft melody was played from the piano. Sam raised an eyebrow. "What the hell?"

Maria:

In this album, there's a picture

Of the ladies at Daniela's

You can tell it's from the 80s by the volume of their hair

There's Usnavi, just a baby

'87, Halloween

If it happened on this block

Abuela was there

Every afternoon I came

She'd make sure I did my homework

She could barely write her name

But even so

She would stare at the paper and tell me,

"Bueno,

Let's review.

Why don't you tell me everything you know?"

In this album there's a picture

Of Abuela in Havana

She is holding a rag doll

Unsmililng, black and white

I wonder what she's thinking

Does she know that she'll be leaving

For the city on a cold dark night?

And on the day they ran

Did she dream of endless summer?

Did her mother have a plan?

Or did they just go?

Did somebody sit her down and say,

"Claudia, get ready,

To leave behind everything you know."

Everything I know

What do I know?

In this folder there's a picture

Of my high school graduation

With a program, mint condition

And a star beside my name

Here's a picture of my parents

As I left for California

She saved everything we gave her

Every little scrap of paper

And our lives are in these boxes

While the woman who held us is gone

But we go on, we grow

So

Hold tight, Abuela, if you're up there

I'll make you proud of everything I know

Thank you, for everything I know

Once she hit the last 'I Know' she belted a powerful high note. A note she held for almost a solid two minutes before dramatically doing a curtsey. She looked up at the three boys.

"So, what did you think?" She asked.

Gordy and Sam wiped some tears from their eyes, while Jeremy blew into a tissue.

"That song was beautiful." Sam sobbed.

"I think I need to go call my family." Jeremy cried.

Maria smirked. "I'm glad you liked the performance."

She turned to look at Sam. "Mr. Evans you can expect my contract on your desk first thing tomorrow morning."

"A contract?" He asked.

"Do you think I would just give you all of these high-quality performances? Not in a million years, I'll have my lawyers draft up a list of my demands." She said.

Sam sighed. For some reason she reminded him of somebody, but he couldn't quite tell who.

"Well at least now we have three members." Gordy said optimistically.

"Make that four." A voice said.

They turned to see Marty standing in the doorway.

"Marty?" Gordy said surprised.

"How did you get here you can't see." Maria accused.

"The same way you were able to fit your massive ego through the door." He hissed.

"Touché." Maria said.

Marty looked down awkwardly, even though he couldn't make eye contact with them he could sense their gaze upon him.

"I changed my mind…I want to audition." He said.

Sam smiled. "Well go ahead and for it, do you need me to walk you to the stage?"

"No, I can manage." He said.

Gordy made his way to the stage and climbed on. He turned towards the musicians.

"I'll be singing Teenage Frankenstein by Alice Cooper." He announced.

Marty:

I'm the kid on the block

With my head made of rock

And I ain't got nobody

I'm the state of the art

Got a brain a la carte

I make the babies cry

I ain't one of the crowd

I ain't one of the guys

They just avoid me

They run and they hide

Are my colors too bright

Are my eyes set too wide?

I spent my whole life

Burning, turning

I'm a teenage Frankenstein

The local freak with the twisted mind

I'm a teenage Frankenstein

These ain't my hands

And these legs ain't mine

Got a synthetic face

Got some scars and a brace

My hands are rough and bloody

I walk into the night

Women faint at the sight

I ain't no cutie-pie

I can't walk in the day

I must walk in the night

Stay in the shadows

Stay out of the light

Are my shoulders too wide

Is my head screwed on tight?

I spent my whole life burning

Burning, turning

I'm a teenage Frankenstein

The local freak with the twisted mind

I'm a teenage Frankenstein

These ain't my hands

And these legs ain't mine

By the time he finished they all were out of their seats clapping. Sam smiled he was getting a diverse group of voices. With Gordy came pop, with Maria and Jeremy was Broadway, and Marty brought the rock and roll.

"Well Teenage Frankenstein, you're in."


"And can you believe this bitch has the audacity to say that I slept with her boyfriend?" Harper ranted.

The girls were currently in the gymnasium, practicing splits for cheer.

"Harper you did sleep with her boyfriend." Claire sighed.

Harper crossed her arms. "Okay, but she had no right to assume that."

Tamara chuckled while Claire rolled her eyes. Tamara turned to look at Claire, she was envious of the girl's beauty. Everyone claimed that Claire was the prettiest girl in school, which probably meant that she would win Homecoming Queen, although the girls never talked about the fact that they were both running it did definitely ruin the atmosphere.

"What do you guys think about Glee Club?" Tamara asked curiously.

Claire shrugged. "Nothing much about it, it doesn't seem like it's a cool place to be though."

"That's an understatement, sweetie Glee Club? That's for outcasts and drug addicts. Their teacher was arrested for doing horse tranquilizers." Harper said.

"It was cocaine," Tamara muttered under breath.

"Drugs are drugs, honey!" Harper laughed.

"I don't know, I mean at coemptions we perform right? We dance, we do flips, splits, cartwheel, would it be that much different if we sung while we did it?" Tamara asked.

"You're joking right? Please tell me you aren't considering ruining our social status for Glee Club!" Harper said in a panicky voice.

Tamara forced a laugh. "Of course not, I was just joking."

Tamara winced internally. How could she be so stupid to think she could talk to the girls about Glee Club.

"I guess it's not that bad entirely." Claire said.

A small sparkle of hope flared inside of Tamara until Claire said, "But let's face it, is giving up our crowns worth singing in a moldy choir room?"

"Amen sister!" Harper laughed.

Tamara laughed along with her, although the laugh was empty and hollow.


Maria was in the bathroom applying her eye liner when she heard a small sniffle. Maria stopped. She turned to look at the stall and called out.

"Are you okay in there?" Maria called.

"I'm fine!" A female voice said.

Maria crossed her arms. "You obviously aren't okay if you're crying in the girl's bathroom."

"It's stupid." She said.

Maria frowned. She wondered if she was the one crying in the stall if she would want anyone to help her, proably not because that would have been a sign of weakness and aspiring Broadway stars couldn't afford weaknesses.

Still it was proably the right thing to do to check on the girl. It had to be girl code or something, Maria wouldn't know she didn't have any friends. Well there was Gordy, but once she convinced him that they were meant to be together he wouldn't be just a friend for much longer. A female acquaintance could be nice.

"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked.

The door opened slowly revealing a pretty blond hair girl with striking green eyes. Her features were soft and delicate.

"Hi." She said awkwardly.

"Really I'm fine." The girl said as she walked to the mirror.

Maria rolled her eyes. "Okay, Miss Delusional."

The blond girl pouted and crossed her arms. "Nosy."

"Some might say it's endearing." Maria laughed.

"Is that so?" The blond girl said raising an eyebrow.

Maria reached out her hand. "I'm Maria Santiago."

The girl took the hand and shook it. "Callie Danvers."

"So why were you crying in the bathroom stall, like some cliché?" Maria asked.

Callie sighed. "All the girls on my soccer team, my former friends…they all went out to celebrate our win without me."

"Normally I don't name call other women, but they sound like bitches." Maria said.

"It's fine really, it's my own fault for being…different." Callie sighed.

"What do you mean different?" Maria asked.

She suddenly worried her possible new friend had something awful like web toes or maybe a tail.

"I'm bisexual." She sighed.

Maria huffed in relief. "Thank god you don't have webbed toes."

"Excuse me?" Callie asked.

"Never mind, did your teammates not like that?" She asked.

"Well the captain doesn't necessarily like LGBT people all that much, so soon enough she got all the other girls to ice me out." She sighed.

Maria frowned. "That's awful."

"I guess, it's their loss anyway, I'm a riot at parties." Callie chuckled weakly.

Maria smiled. "I'm sure you are. May I ask you a question? If the girls on the soccer team are being mean to you why don't you just leave."

"Well I love soccer, and I always will. I'm not going to let some mean girls change that." She said.

"That's very brave of you. But I couldn't help but wonder, if maybe Glee Club could be a better fit for you." Maria suggested.

They needed members desperately, especially girls. As good as she was she couldn't carry all of the female vocals by herself.

"I'm not really a good singer." Callie admitted.

"Oh honey, I'll do most of the singing you just have to sway in the background." Maria said.

Callie chuckled. "I don't know if Glee Club is my thing."

"Come on it could be fun." Maria said.

Callie laughed. "I'm telling you, I can't sing."

"Well show me, I'm sure you aren't that bad. Sing a song, any song, I'm sure I know it." Maria said.

Callie rolled her eyes before clearing her throat.

Callie:

The city sky's feeling dark tonight

We're back to back with our heads down

Just look at me, give me more tonight

Just give me more of your love now

Let's set fire to the lonely night

You're beautiful when you look at me

Let's give love another life

Cause you'll be safe in these arms of mine

Just call my name on the edge of the night

And I'll run to you, I'll run to you

Maria was surprised when she listened to the girl. Her voice was soft like honey, but also raw. It had emotion.

Maria smiled. "And you said you couldn't sing."

Callie laughed.

"Go on, don't let me stop you." She said.

Callie:

I would run to you, if you want me to

Just give me some kind of reason

I'll take the pain, take it all away

Just give it some kind of meaning

Let's let go, let it be the start

You know I'm feeling the same thing

Let's let go of our broken hearts

Cause you'll be safe in these arms of mine

Just call my name on the edge of the night

And I'll run to you, I'll run to you

Even if it's gonna break me, love

Gonna make my way to you

Anyway it's gonna take me, love

I run to you

I run to you

Run, run

Cause you'll be safe in these arms of mine

Just call my name on the edge of the night

And I'll run to you

I'll run to you

Even if it's gonna break me, love

I run to you

"So how was I?" Callie asked.

"If you sing in your audition how you sung just now, trust me, you'll be in." She said.


"Congratulations our newly formed North Lake High School Glee Club, I'm sure you all are excited that you were excepted."

"What do you mean excepted? We were the only five who tried out." Marty said.

"A star is a star, no matter the circumstances." Maria smiled.

"What does that even mean?" Marty asked.

Jeremy frowned. "I think it's an American thing, or maybe it's a Maria thing."

"Guys focus, Sectionals are in a month. All though there's only five of you guys now, I need you guys to have a tight routine by at least the end of next week." Sam said.

Gordy frowned. "How are we going to do that with only five members?"

"Make that six." A voice said.

They all turned to look at the door to see Tamara standing there awkwardly.

"Um…hi. I would like to join Glee Club." She said.

"Is this a joke? If it isn't a funny one." Maria hissed.

She didn't need Gordy's crush around here, making a fool out of the arts.

"Sorry I didn't make auditions yesterday, there were…complications. But I really want to join, if you'll have me." Tamara pleaded.

"So, we're just letting anyone on?" Maria complained.

"Maria shut up." Marty groaned.

Gordy stood up and walked to Sam and Tamara. "I can vouch for her, she's a really good singer and she's a cheerleader so she proably knows great cherography."

"Someone's got a crush." Jeremy giggled which earned him an elbow from Callie.

"Ow." He mumbled.

Sam smiled. "I trust Gordy, if he says your good, then I believe him. Go ahead and take a seat, I have a new number I want to fill you guys in on."

"Our fist musical number as an official club? This is so exciting!" Jeremy said.

Maria stood up confidently. "I believe I should pick the song, since I have the most experience."

"Again, shut up Maria!" Marty yelled.

Tamara rolled her eyes. "I'm starting to second guess my decision."

"Guys!" Sam yelled.

His voice caught the six teens attention, causing him to smirk. "I already have the song."


"Why did Sam call us here?" Mercedes asked Blaine.

The two were currently sitting in the North Lake High School auditorium, waiting for Sam to show up.

"I don't know he said it was important or something." Blaine shrugged.

"So has Sam said anything about…me?" Mercedes asked.

Blaine gulped. His guy code instincts kicked in. "Is there anything he should be saying?"

Before Mercedes could answer a low rumble was heard. Mercedes frowned.

"What the hell was that?" She asked.

The curtains slowly parted revealing six teens standing on stage and a band.

"Oh my god is this what I think it is?" She gasped in a mixture of shock and excitement.

A guitar started to play as the six teens made their way forward. Marching in perfect unison.

Callie, Maria, Marty, Jermey:

Da da da da da da da da da da da da

Gordy took a step forward beaming at Mercedes and Blaine.

Gordy:

Just a small town girl

Living in a lonely world

She took the midnight train going anywhere

Tamara:

Just a city boy

Born and raised in South Detroit

He took the midnight train going anywhere

Gordy grabbed Tamara and spun her around, causing the girl to laugh. They made their way to the other side of the stage, while Maria and Jeremy stepped forward.

Maria:

A singer in a smoky room

Jeremy:

A smell of wine and cheap perfume

Maria and Jeremy:

For a smile they can share the night

It goes on and on and on and on

The six teens lined up, and turned sideways and slowly raised their arms facing the audience.

ALL:

Strangers waiting

Up and down the boulevard

Their shadows

Searching in the night

Streetlight

People

Living just to find emotion

Hiding somewhere in the night

Callie gently grabbed Marty's arm and made her way to the top of the stage.

Callie:

Workin' hard to get my fill

Everybody wants a thrill

Marty:

Payin' anything to roll the dice

Just one more time

Tamara:

Some will win

Gordy:

Some will lose

Gordy and Tamara:

Some are born to sing the blues

Oh, the movie never ends

It goes on and on and on and on

All:

Strangers waiting

Up and down the boulevard

Their shadows

Searching in the night

Streetlight

People

Living just to find emotion

Hiding somewhere in the night

Maria:

Don't stop!

Mercedes widened her eyes, impressed. The girl was belting high notes that could have rivaled a young Mercedes.

Tamara and Gordy With The Others:

Don't stop believin'

Hold on to that feelin'

Streetlights

People

Oh oh

Don't stop believin'

Hold on to that feeling

Streetlights

People

Gordy, Tamara, and Maria with the others:

Don't stop!

Mercedes and Blaine rose from their seats, clapping, bright smiles on their face. Sam emerged from the curtain, beaming at his students.

"Well done guys, now let's take it from the top."


Next: The gang performs at the next pep rally to gain the attention of optional new members, however, with the addition of a new member everything goes haywire.

Playlist of the Chapter:

· Everything I Know From In The Heights

· Teenage Frankenstein by Alice Cooper

· Run to You by Lea Michele

· Don't Stop Believing by Journey

New Characters

· Claire- LittleMissBrit

· Callie- Maya-Hathaway

I'm really excited for the next set of chapters, now that we have the majority of the setup out of the way, that's when things are really going to start to kick off.