Twice the Trouble
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Chapter 8
As they got off their bikes and waved at Santana Royal turned to Rachel. "Ok Tink, I need to throw my stuff in my locker then head to the locker room to meet with Sam and the guys. Coach wants us to help hand stuff out this morning."
Rachel nodded as they fell into step together. "Yea, I need to do the same. I'm supposed to meet Santana at her locker then go to the locker room to see coach. If I don't see you in the hall before I'll probably see you in homeroom or first hour."
They hugged and went their own ways. After unloading at his locker he headed to the football team's locker room. Standing outside the door was Sam, Puck, and Mike just talking. He smiled as he came up beside them. "Hey guys, what are you doing waiting out here?"
They all gave him a one armed hug and Sam shrugged. "I thought we should go in together and the guys didn't want to go in before us since technically they aren't official until the list is up."
Royal rolled his eyes. "Like they won't make it and coach said for them to come in with us." He turned and waved them to follow. "Come on let's see what coach has in store for us this morning."
They all followed him in and found Coach Beiste in a similar position as Sue was with the girls. She was putting things in lockers but stopped when she heard them approach turning to wave them forward. "Good morning boys." She handed Royal a list. "Here is the roster, letterman sizes, jersey numbers and locker assignments. Start making sure the right stuff is in the right lockers."
Royal took the list and gave each boy a job. They all worked together quickly distributed everything to its proper place. Once it was all done they followed coach to her office. Motioning for them to sit she sat behind her desk then handed Royal another set of rosters. "These are the official rosters for both first and second string. Pin it up outside the locker room door then you and Sam can give out locker assignments."
He looked them over and then back to her. "Can I have them all wear their jersey and jackets today?"
She nodded and sat back. "Of course and after you have them all change gather them in the locker room for a quick meeting then we have our first official practice tomorrow after school. I have a schedule to give out of morning and afternoon practice. I worked it around Glee and the other major clubs with afternoon meetings."
Royal looked at the roster again and pointed out something to Sam before looking to her again. "What do I do when one of the players has a problem with the position assigned to him?"
She just shrugged. "If he don't like it he can walk. I have plenty of boys willing to take his place. I don't care who it is either, if anyone causes too big of a stink kick him off and let me know."
Royal nodded and turned to leave all three boys following behind. Once they were all changed he turned to the guys. "Ok, Sam and I will hang up the roster and deal with any issues. Puck, can you and Mike sit at the table out there and give out locker assignments so the guys can change?"
They both nodded and he continued. "I need to talk to coach for a minute about something before the meeting. Can you guys get set up without me really quick? It won't take me a few minutes then I will come out to help."
Puck clapped him on his back. "Sure thing cap just hurry up before the guys start coming."
The boys headed out to the hall and Royal stuck his head in Coach Beiste's office. "Coach, can I talk to you for a moment?"
She looked up and smile. "Sure Berry, what's up?"
He came fully into the room and stood before her. "I wanted to talk about a problem I heard about."
She sat back and motioned for him to sit.
In the hall Puck was cutting out locker slips as Mike arranged them on the table. Sam had hung the roster and was now studying who was in what positions. "We are going to have a fight on our hands with some of the guys."
Mike shrugged. "It don't matter, you heard coach. Royal will just kick them off."
Sam looked over apprehensively. "But…"
With a sigh Puck set down his scissors and sat back. "Look, coach said she didn't care who and for him just to give them the boot. Now I have no love loss for any of these guys one way or the other except for one but he needs to get a grip if he wants to stay on the team. He'll be ok."
Sam looked back to the list and frowned slightly. "If you say so but he was fuming last night and didn't answer for any of us when we called."
Royal came out and pat his shoulder. "I'm not going to kick anyone off without giving them a chance to calm down unless things get out of hand. No worries."
Sam smiled reassured and they all turned as a group of guys came toward them. Royal gave Sam's shoulder a reassuring squeeze then moved over to stand in front of the guys. "Check the list and if your name is on it see Puck and Chang for your locker assignment. Change into your jersey and letterman then wait in the locker room for coach. She wants to have a meeting when we are all ready."
They all acknowledged him and moved to the list. As they started to see their names they were high fiving and heading to Puck and Mike. A few guys were pissed when they didn't make the team but just left in a huff with no real fuss and more guys came.
They all turned as Finn, Karofsky and Azimio came walking up to the roster. Karofsky was the first to find his name on the first string and just smirked moving over to Puck for his locker assignment.
Azimio checked the list again then moved to the other and punched the wall. "What the hell is this?"
Royal stepped up to him. "Calm down dude. If you don't like it work harder and maybe coach will bring you back on to the 1st string. Otherwise the door is right there."
He growled but said no more as he ripped his locker assignment out of Mikes hand and stormed off into the locker room.
Finn just stood there with a dumbfounded look on his face. The boys watched as it slowly morphed into a look of sheer rage that caused Puck and Mike to stand and move over next to Sam and Royal. He just stared at the papers and shook his head before turning and rushing Royal "THIS IS BULLSHIT!"
Puck and Sam quickly grabbed him and pushed him back. "Dude what the hell calm down. He didn't make to roster." Puck tried to reason with him but it was not use.
"It's all his fault, coming here with his fancy California practice plays and shit. This isn't right. I'm a senior I should be on first string. I'm a first string quarterback not a second string tailback damn it." Finn screamed trying to get to Royal.
Royal just crossed his arms and stood his ground. "It's not my fault that coach put you in that position. Like I said to Azimio, work harder and show coach you deserve a better spot. Otherwise the door is right there. Now, you can calm down and go change or you can walk out right now and lose your spot on the team. The choice is yours."
Mike held out his locker slip and he quickly snatched it away from him. "This isn't over." He turned and slammed his way through the locker room doors.
Royal shook his head and looked to Puck. "Was he the last one?"
Puck sighed. "Yes, they're all in there now."
"Ok then let's fold up this table and get in there ourselves. When they're all changed I'll grab coach for the meeting."
They all agreed and moved to do as they were asked then moved into the locker room to check on the guys. Seeing them all dressed and waiting Royal stuck his head in coach's office to let her know they were ready for her. When she came out she stood in front of the group with Royal and Sam flanking her.
"Ok boys you know what your positions are and we will start practice tomorrow after school." She handed Sam and Royal a stack of papers asking them to hand them out. "These are your practice and game schedules. Make sure you are on time to all practices and games. If you aren't on time and do not have my permission to be late you will be demoted. If you are first string you will be dropped to second and if you are second you are off the team."
She paused waiting for them to finish passing out the schedules. When they were standing back next to her she continues. "I also wanted to say that we will be continuing as we did last year with trying to get along with the glee club and all others in this school. If I find out that any of you are taking advantage of your position on this team to bully someone else you will be instantly off the team. I will not tolerate any of you being bullies. The bully whips were started last year and I expect you all to continue this. You don't have to be a bully whip but I expect you to support them."
She stopped speaking as they all groaned starting to complain and she couldn't get a word in edgewise. Royal rolled his eye and put two fingers in his mouth and whistled loudly silencing them all. "Shut up and give coach some respect."
She nodded her thanks and turned back to the group. "I don't care whether you like it or not this is how it's going to be or you can walk right out that door. From this moment I have a no tolerance policy for bullying. Your captains and other teammates will all help keep an eye on each other so don't think that you will be able to get away with anything. Now get out of here and get to class. You only have 30 minutes until the bell rings so get going."
They all grumbled but headed out. Royal was talking to coach when Finn came up to them. "Coach can we talk for a minute?"
She looked up. "Is it about your position?" He nodded and she sighed. "Look Hudson I'm sorry but that is where I see you this year. You're head just wasn't in it. Work hard and prove to me you want it and I may move you to first string later."
He perked up smiling. "Does that mean I can earn Captain back?"
She just shook her head sadly. "No son, Berry and Evans are in those position but you can earn your first string position if you work hard."
He just stared angrily for a moment then spun on his heal and quickly left the locker room. Royal shook his head. "I don't think that's the last we will hear about this from him."
Coach Beiste shook her head and shrugged. "Probably not but he shouldn't push too hard or I will kick him off the team. I won't have the kind of infighting we had last year. I'll start throwing guys off left and right." She sighed and clapped him on his back. "You guys better head on to class."
The boys all said their goodbyes and headed to their lockers.
Outside Rachel was standing next to Santana waiting to head inside. She was half listening to her and Quinn talk as she mentally prepared herself for what was about to happen. She had honestly never seen one of these power walks. Usually when they are about to happen, a mass text goes out to the student population and most of the lower rung of the totem pole finds somewhere else to be. Her phone had just gone off and she was fighting the instinct to run to the choir room until it was over.
Santana looked over to her as she squared up to head in and frowned at her demeanor. "What's wrong Rachel?"
Rachel startled at her voice so close and shook her head. "N-nothing."
She looked around at the other around them and grabbed Rachel's arm pulling her to the side of the school for a little bit of privacy. "No seriously? You look like you're about to pass out or puke. What's wrong?"
Rachel sighed. "I didn't think about this part of it when Coach made me captain. Usually right now I'm hiding in the choir room waiting for it to be over."
Santana looked confused for a moment then smiled softly. "It'll be fine. We just have to walk to my locker."
She shook her head wildly then looked down. "Everyone will be staring at me and questioning yours and coach's sanity and whether or not this is all a joke."
Santana grabbed her shoulder with one hand and lifted her face with the other. "It doesn't matter what everyone thinks. You are now half the power at this school and they just have to deal. All you need to do is get over there and put on your show face, the one that says no one is better than me and I am going to rock this shit, and walk into that school right beside me."
She smiled and dropped her hand from Rachel's face. "Now, take a deep breath and let's go before we are late. You gots this."
Rachel took a breath and squared her shoulders allowing Santana to lead her back to the team. With a nod of Santana's head two of the baby Cheerios opened the doors and let the Volleyball team enter. Santana and Rachel went first with Brittany and Quinn flanking them and slightly behind.
Rachel was right though. Most of the population looked on in fear and confusion. There were a few snickers and disbelieving looks but Santana just glared at them and they moved back into the crowd. As Santana suggested she put on her most determined show face and showed absolutely no fear. Santana smirked beside her with her own HBIC stare and they made their way through the school.
All of the boy's lockers were close together so they finished getting what they needed and were talking by Royal's locker when they Volleyball team came marching by parting the seas. Royal watched on with a smirk on his face as Rachel and Santana, flanked by Quinn all in their volleyball wear and Brittany in her Cheerios uniform, moved past.
He looked to Puck and smiled. "I thought they only did the power walk for the Cheerios?"
Puck shrugged, "and the Volleyball team. Coach Sylvester runs both and all of those girls from both teams pretty much run things. Thank god Santana is in charge of both or we would be having problems. The football team was the enforcers for the Cheerios and we were supposed to slushy anyone that they told us to. Santana started and is in charge of the bully whips so we won't have a problem with the no bullying rule."
Royal just nodded watching them go. "We'll have to make sure we talk to her at lunch or glee about coaches rules."
They all agreed and headed off to class. Royal gave a last look making eye contact with Rachel and winked as he headed to class. 'Well' he thought, 'looks like things just got more interesting.'
A/N: Up next the volleyball meeting and more.