"You are seriously not a morning person are you?" Jason laughed as they headed to class together.
Santana growled, the football players didn't have as many practices as the Cheerios did and rarely in the morning before school, they were usually after, for a 6 AM practice Santana had to get up at 4 to get ready. "Why does school have to start so fricken early?"
"Santana!"
Santana growled again recognizing Tina's voice "It's too early."
"Shut up." Mike teased earning a slight eyebrow raise from Santana "Britt texted you might need a 'pick her up', her words not mine." Mike held out a cafe mocha.
"Oh my God, yes." Santana held out her hands wiggling her fingers. Taking the cup in both hands Santana sipped the coffee, humming she murmured "I love you." causing Tina to giggle and Jason to laugh. "Shut up, I need this so I don't choke Berry." Schuester's extra practices were going to be the death of her.
Pinkies linked Santana followed Brittany to the back row, Quinn trudged along behind them muttering "I need coffee."
"I'd send Puck but his ass is still in juvie." Santana grumbled.
Brittany squealed seeing Mike and Tina come in followed by Jason and a nervous looking Shane, Shane smiled as the blonde bounced down the steps throwing herself in his arms, he chuckled giving her a hug before setting her down. Like Jason he was soft spoken "Hey Brittany."
"Can I?" Brittany asked excitedly.
"You sure she likes me?" Shane asked.
"You're tall and handsome and really sweet, I think you should ask her out." Brittany chirped "I'd date you if Santana said I could, but she said I shouldn't date people who like other people." Shane nodded looking at Santana who simply smirked.
"Oh!" Rachel clapped at the sight in front of her "Are you here to join Glee?" Finn stood behind her confused, he knew Jason was following Tina around but Shane in the choir room wasn't something he thought he'd see.
Jason shook his head, "Tina said I should come and listen to you guys sing, she said you were good."
"Oh thank you Tina." Rachel beamed, Tina rolled her eyes, Jason gave a quick grin gesturing Rachel over to the piano.
"See the thing is I'm trying to set my buddy Shane up with Mercedes, he has a crush and I thought it would be nice if he could hear her sing."
Bouncing and clapping excitedly Rachel nodded "Yes, absolutely! Anything for love."
Santana snorted at how easily Jason had played Rachel, as much as she was a diva the tiny powerhouse was a romantic so the thought of helping with a love connection excited her. "Thank you." turning around Jason gave Tina a double thumbs up.
"You thought she sounded good at church, just wait." Mike promised.
"Oh my hell..." Kurt froze at the sight of the large football players in the room.
"No, no." Mercedes took Kurt's bicep and hand giving his hand a squeeze she promised, "It's okay."
"He's nice," Artie nodded towards Jason "and he stopped someone from putting my head in the toilet last year." Artie pointed at Shane.
Jason smiled stepping towards the nervous boy "Jason Emmett, I'm a friend of Tina and Santana's from back in the day."
"K...Kurt." he slowly extended his hand "Wait did you say Tina and Santana?" Jason nodded.
"He's not an asshole Hummel, I do have a few nice friends." Santana snarked seeing Kurt hesitate when he realized Jason had said he was a friend of Santana's.
"Two is not a few." Quinn quipped.
"I got you and Britt, the Asians and Jason so that brings it up to like five." Santana glared at Quinn making the smaller of the blondes chuckle, Quinn was happy to be back on the friends list.
Jason smirked back at Santana before returning his attention back to Kurt "I'm new here so the girls are introducing me around."
"Are you joining Glee?" Kurt asked glancing at Shane.
"No but we wanted to hear you guys sing. Mike's constantly talking about how talented you guys are." Jason smiled.
Brittany beamed tugging Shane over to Mercedes "Shane this is Mercedes Jones, she has like the best voice ever, except for San." Mercedes smiled, of course Brittany would say Santana had a better voice. "Mercedes this is Shane Tinsley, he's on the football team, his job is to protect the quarterback." patting his shoulder Brittany bounced away from them and back up to Santana.
"Hi." Shane smiled.
"Hi." Mercedes smiled up at him brushing her hair away from her face.
Artie hummed happily rolling himself over to Tina "I approve."
Kurt quietly took a spot in the back row watching the football players, Santana and Quinn laughed at the completely confused look on Mr. Schuester's face when he saw the football players in the room, he was even more confused as Rachel tugged him to the side and explained she wanted to give her voice a rest so the other girls should sing instead of her. "I..." Mr. Schuester rubbed his forehead "Yea... that's fine. Um... Mercedes, do you have anything you can sing?"
"Always." Mercedes nodded just as confused.
As confused as Mr. Schuester was by the football players appearance in the classroom he didn't say anything, they were behaving. It was strange for him to see Rachel smiling when someone else was singing, and she was absolutely beaming as the other girls performed. He was pretty sure hell froze over.