This is a stand- alone sequel to my finished story "secrets revealed" YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ SECRETS REVEALED TO READ THIS. Anyways…. Enjoy.
"But Jonah." I moaned.
"Don´t do that." Jonah answered me. "I´m not joining New Directions, you know why so stop nagging me about it."
"But you won´t have to join. Please Jonah just come and help me out with my audition, pretty, pretty please… pretty... pretty…" I gave Jonah my cutest puppy- face, knowing that he could never tell me no when I did that. Jonah sighed and bit his lip.
"Your song?" Jonah asked.
"Oh thanks Jonah, you´re the best." I hugged my brother.
"But I´m still not joining New Directions."
"Okay, okay." I complained. "But I should be behind the stage in the audiotourium in two minutes so we better get a move on." I turned the wheelchair around and wheeled towards the audiotourium. I hated this stupid chair, but I guess I had come away quite easily thinking about I was hit by a car. I had already gained a bit of strength and feeling in my legs, and it was getting better, thought it would yet be a while before I could walk on my own again.
Jonah walked next to me, I looked up to him and smiled, he smiled back. We didn´t have no time to rehearse the song, but it wasn´t needed, we had been singing this song together since we were little. I pulled up in the curtains behind the stage to watch the ones that were auditioning before us, none of them were up yet, and I recognized the girl- that had a special name I could never remember what, and a dark- skinned boy with a big afro I didn´t know at all, except for them I and Jonah were there. I sighed nervously as we heard Mr. Schuester´s voice from in front of the stage.
"Can… Mo…. Mo- ah…." The blonde girl walked out on the stage
"It´s Moa Dallvin. (Moo- ah Dah- ll- Vee- n.) I´m a freshman and I´ll be auditioning with…" the title of the song I didn´t catch as it was in some foreign language. Moa came back after singing the song beautifully- even though I couldn´t understand the lyrics.
"I should have auditioned with an English song. I screwed up my chance to be in New Directions." Moa sat down and put her head in her hands.
"No you didn´t. You did great." Jonah told her and I nodded agreeing. Next thing that happened Mr. Schuester´s voice was heard again.
"Sean Moraiety?"
"Wish me luck." Sean- the boy with the afro walked out on stage.
"My name´s Sean Moraiety…"
"Can you tell me how it should be pronounced?" Mr. Schuester´s voice was hear.
"More- ay- ety." Sean said. "I´m a freshman, and I´ll be auditioning with lighters, by Eminem feat. Bruno Mars." The music started and Sean lifted the microphone to his mouth. His singing voice was all right- not bad, not really good, all right. But it was when he started rapping all of our chins dropped.
"Dang he´s good." I whispered to Jonah, Jonah just nodded. Right before Sean had finished the song, Moa whispered something to us.
"I gotta go, I´ll have to catch a bus. Lycka till."
"What?" I asked her.
"It means good luck in Swedish."
"See you." Jonah looked longingly at the spot where Moa had disappeared around the corner for a few seconds.
"Jonah." I whispered to him. "What´s the matter? You in love?"
"Ehrm… no… no... No!" I couldn´t help but start to giggle hysterical, just as Sean came walking off the stage.
"Break a leg," he told us, and then he sat down to look at our performance, as I wheeled out on the stage with Jonah right behind me.
"Hi." I turned to Mr. Schuester. "My name´s Leah Carmichael, I´m a sophomore, and I´ll be auditioning for New Directions."
"Hey, my name´s Jonah Carmichael, I´m a senior, and I´m just helping my sister. Is there any chair or something I could have to sit on?" Jonah turned towards the band. One of them came running with a stool that Jonah sat down on.
"We´re doing our version of your song by Elton John, covered by Ellie Goulding." We said at the exact same time, Mr. Schuester smiled.
"Give it a shot."
Jonah started off the song and through the song we switched off a bit with he singing, me singing and us singing together. This song had always been one of our favorites and we had been singing it together for a really long time. At last we ended together, the whole glee club who sat among the chairs in the audience clapped their hands and then Mr. Schue spoke up again.
"That was really good guys. John are you sure you don´t want to join New Directions?"
"Oh, it´s Jonah. You know from the bible, the one with the whale."
"Oh, Jonah. Are you sure you don´t want to be in New Directions?"
"Yep, a hundred percent sure."
"Well… if you change your mind…. The list of New Directions will be up in the beginning of next week." I thanked, Jonah gave the stool back to the band, and then I wheeled out to the hallway with Jonah walking slowly after me. Our parents were waiting in the parking lot.
"Hey tiger." Dad greeted me as usual, and lifted me up to get me in the back- seat of the car. Mum and dad got into the front- seat and drove towards the rehab, well in there, dad lifted me up on the bunk and started stretching and bending my legs, I turned my head and looked to the place where you could hold on to two rails and walk.
"Dad?" I began, he knew what I wanted, I had asked every time for weeks.
"No tiger, not today."
"Bu…"
"No buts Leah," mum interrupted.
"Why not?"
"Because!" Mum said in a strict voice. "Maybe next time."
"That´s what you two said the last time…"
"Don´t."
"…And the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before that…"
"If you keep on acting like this we´ll go home right now."
"What is the reason of being here at all? If we´re gonna keep on doing this of all time, then nothing will get better anyway. " Dad helped me to sit up and gave me my jacket. Then he lifted me up to put me in the wheelchair again.
When we got home I wheeled into my room and threw the door closed after me- just because I knew it would make my parents angry. I wanted to make them feel like they made me feel like when they wouldn´t let me get past the state where I just laid on a bunk with dad bending and stretching my legs. I rolled over to the bed . I could stand up enough so that when I let go off the wheelchair I fell down on the bed, and crawl my way in the right position and that is what I did.
I had been collecting dogs since I was little. I had loads of porcelain- statues, glass- figures and stuffed dogs, from the smallest, a glass- figure that was so tiny I could have fit ten, fifteen of those in my hands without dropping one- two Buddy- a big stuffed dog that laid in the space on the floor between my bed and the wardrobe. I also had pencil cases, pencils, erasers, covers for the bed and loads of other things with prints of dogs- actually- the only thing missing in my collection was a real- life dog. Every year on my birthday and for Christmas, I wished to have one- but I never got one- and I knew I never would.
When I laid on the bed I picked up a stuffed- dog. This one I had named Millie, "she" was light brown, and really soft. Usually, when I had problems I´d pick her up and tell her what was being hard, and this is what I did now.
"They won´t let me try it." I began. "I mean… how am I supposed to be getting better if I´m going to just lay there on a bunk with dad bending and stretching my legs for me?" There was a knock on the door.
"Come in." I sighed and Jonah opened the door.
"Don´t tell me you´re still talking to that stuffed dog." He said with a smile.
"So what if I do?" I joked.
"I know you do." Jonah sighed and sat down in my chair.
"I know she´s not real, that she can´t hear me. But just talking feels good. Where´s mum and dad by the way?"
"They went out to shop for groceries… I know you´re mad about that they won´t let you try new things at the rehab, I am too… but you can´t blame them for caring."
"I know…. I just want to try."
"I know Leah…. I know."
The next day I was wheeling down the corridor in the afternoon when I heard someone talking inside the choir room- and I couldn´t help to wheel a little closer.
"So, Moa have got a part in New Directions, what about that afro- boy…" A black- haired boy I didn´t know who he was said.
"His name´s Sean." A golden- blonde girl said.
"Well… Sean´s definitely a good rapper." Anna said, she I actually knew who she was- as we had several classes together.
"Good? GOOD?" Ben said. "Good isn´t enough, he has got so much talent it´s just…." Several others nodded agreeing.
"So, Sean´s in?" A red- haired girl said and almost everyone nodded.
"Sean and Moa´s in then." Mr. Schue wrote something on his paper. "What about those siblings… Leah and Jonah Carmichael?"
"Come on Mr. S." A blonde girl said. "We can´t have a cripple in the glee- club."
"Yeah and what´s up with that boy?" A dark- haired boy said. "He´s much better than his sister, why can´t he just be a part of New Directions?" I lowered my head, looked into the floor and then decided to not just leave them be. I grabbed the wheels and wheeled into the room.
"A cripple?" I spat. "Is that everything I am to you? Really." I wheeled further into the room, and braked in front of the people in there.
"Well it´s my legs I´ve got problems with, not my voice. And about Jonah, he´s got his reasons not to join New Directions. And now… I understand him. I thought you were different…. I´m quitting new directions" I turned the wheelchair, and wheeled a couple of meters. I was on my way out when a blonde girl spoke up.
"You can´t quit anything you were never a part of." I turned around, and pulled my backpack of the back of the chair. I pulled out a bottle of Cola of my backpack, and put the backpack beside me, then I opened the bottle and turned it upside down over the girl´s head and completely soaked her.
"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" She shouted.
"Well…" I answered. "I thought I was going to wash of that ugly dirt of your face. Turned out it was your personality showing." I turned around and wheeled out of the room.
Mr. Schue POV
"I hope you´re happy now." I gazed over my glee- club. "I hope you´re happy, because we just lost a good singer, and not least, someone who loved singing."
"Mr. Schue, it doesn´t matter," Teeghan told me, Alice handing her a towel. "We can´t have a cripple in the glee cl…"
"Shut up." Tyler interrupted. "Teeghan, don´t you get what the New Directions are about. It´s not about who´s the best singer, or who can dance or not. It´s about that we´re a family, and in a family… you make it work… one way or another."
"Tyler´s right." I jumped down from the piano. "And I´ve had members of New Directions in wheelchairs before, actually one of the original members were. It took some of the other members a while to get used to that, but we made it work… We made it work because he was our friend. And yes, Aiden, I know Jonah was better than his sister. But Leah is also good…"
"I never said she wasn´t."
"…and with a bit of training. There´s no doubt that she could help us get through to Nationals…. But thanks to you, we just lost not just one, but two possible members for New Directions, so I really am disappointed in you guys." I gazed over the group again. "Thursday, I want you all to have a number by lunch, you´re singing for Leah and everyone else there in the lunch- hall…"
"Bu…" Teeghan began moaning. I held up a hand and gave her a meaning look. ¨
"You made this yourself… now… Glee- club dismissed for today." I looked down to the floor and jumped up on the piano while hearing the students go out of the room, and I couldn´t describe in words how disappointed I was now.
"Mr. Schue?" I heard a voice, when I thought everyone had left the room. I stroke my face and looked up to see Lex standing there with a backpack in her hand.
"Leah forgot her bag here…"
"Can you take it to her?"
"… Mr. Schue, do you remember when I forgot my bag?" I nodded and remembered the scene I´d met when I brought Lex her backpack. Lex jumped up on the piano next to me.
"I keep on thinking maybe it was meant to be… and maybe it´s meant to be this time as well. Maybe Leah was meant to forget her bag today, and maybe it´s meant that you go home to her and leave it… I think you should do so and talk to Leah… Maybe it´s meant to be this time too." Lex reached me the backpack. I smiled to her and nodded.
"Yeah… maybe you´re right. Do you know where she lives?" Lex nodded.
"Sun rose road, number thirty two." I thought and tried to locate it, then I realized I would have to pass the Hudmel House on the way there.
"So… did you tell me this because you wanted me to bring Leah her bag, or because you wanted a ride home?" I joked, I knew the answer was what Lex had told me earlier.
"A-a bit of both." Lex joked back. I chuckled.
"Get your things, I´ll go find my car- keys." I threw Leah´s backpack over one shoulder and walked towards the car.
When I came over to the Carmichael´s, a man I hadn´t met before opened.
"Hello sir." I greeted politely. "Is this where Leah Carmichael lives?" The man nodded and took a step back so I could step over the threshold.
"She´s not home from school yet, but she´ll be home any minute. So…. Would you like to wait for her?"
"Yes, yes. Will by the way." I reached out my hand, Mr. Carmichael took it. "William Schuester."
"Abram Carmichael, I´m Leah´s father. Would you like some coffee?"
"No thanks, I just came here to talk to your daughter and return her bag… she forgot it in my class." I sat down on a kitchen chair, and just as I sat down I heard the door open and close and the sound of teenager´s voices filled the house.
"You should give them another chance."
"Look who´s talk… ing." Leah made a pause when she came into the kitchen and saw me. "What are you doing here?"
"I came here to talk to you, and you forgot your bag in the choir room." I reached her the backpack.
"What if I don´t want to talk to you then?"
"Leah." Her father said strictly.
"Well fine then… c´mon." Leah turned around and wheeled out in a hallway, I followed. We came into a room, it was small, almost like a closet, and it had dogs, of all kinds, sizes and breeds everywhere. Leah turned around and nodded towards the door behind me.
"Can you close the door?" I turned around and pulled the door closed, when I turned around again Leah sat with her arms crossed over her chest, glaring at me.
"So, you like dogs I can see." I said mostly to break the ice between us.
"What do you want Mr. Schuester?"
"I came to talk to you. May I sit down?"
"Sure." I pulled out the desk- chair and sat down on it.
"Leah, I´m very sorry you had to hear the students, and that´s why I came to talk to you. Whatever the students say about it, it´s up to me. And I would be very happy if you… and your brother would like to be parts of the New Directions."
So, that´s it. First chapter of Riding on the wings of a dove.
Playlist
Moa's audition song- Att älska dig (to love you)- Shirley Clamp
Sean's audition song- lighters- Eminem feat. Bruno Mars
Leah's and Jonah's audtion song- Your song- Elton John
