It's the middle of October and virulent strain of monkey flu had reached Ohio, and Principal Figgins got it. Which sucked because in Coach Sylvester's contract it states that she becomes principal when Figgins is not able to do his job. I know the first thing Coach Sylvester is gonna do is something to destroy the glee club.
There wasn't a morning session of glee club today, which I was thankful for because Sectionals are in a little over a month, and Rachel will be going on about how we need a setlist even though, everybody knows that we wing it during competitions.
Once fourth-period rolled around and lunch was over, we finally had the first glee club meeting of the day. Only one problem though, Mr. Schue looked horrible, as in sick horrible.
"Alright guys, um. It's time to start thinking about song selections," Mr. Schue states.
"Looking good, Puckerman. Someone's been eating' their Wheaties," Santana comments.
"These guns are fully loaded," Puck says.
"Mr. Schue, I, for one, think we should use our set list for sectionals to start exploring the oeuvre of one Bernadette Peters," Rachel states.
"Someday, I'm gonna go to Paris and visit the Oeuvre," Brittany explains.
"I just want to dance," Mike comments.
"Mr. Schuester, you look a little green," Mercedes tells him.
"I think I'm gonna go see the nurse, but first, I feel like I should get you guys a sitter," Mr. Schue announces.
That was weird, why would we need a sitter, a substitute yes, babysitter no. They didn't actually get Mr. Schue a sub right away, they had one of the office ladies do it, and I didn't have Spanish until sixth-period, so hopefully, they get him a sub.
By the time sixth-period did roll around, he had a sub, she was called in short notice but she was already in the area. Her name was Ms. Holliday, but I think was only covering Mr. Schue's Spanish classes though.
When it was time for glee club after school, I was not surprised when Rachel was standing in the middle of the room, not surprised at all. Once everybody was seated then she walked over the whiteboard. She was writing something down, but whatever it was, she wrote it down quickly.
"Class, in Mr. Schuester's absence, I'd like to go around and ask everyone what solos they'd like to hear me perform at sectionals," Rachel states as she turns to face.
"Alright, let me at her. Tu eres loca," Santana yells while jumping out of her seat.
It takes most of us to hold her back, but she eventually sits back down. Nobody says anything as Rachel takes her seat next to Finn. Looks like this is just gonna be a waste of time. I don't even stay in the choir room, I get up and leave, I head to the gym. I grabbed my phone and hit play on my dance music playlist. I just started dancing, nothing special just old solo routines, after I finished the second one, I looked up to see that Quinn, Santana, Brittany, and Sam followed me.
"I never knew you could dance like that," Sam comments.
"Neither did we," Santana adds.
"Guess there's a lot, you still don't know about me," I say.
I stop the music and go sit with them on the bleachers, sitting next to Brittany.
"We've known you what, almost a year now, and you're still a mystery to us, to the whole glee club, you don't often talk about your family, or any issues," Quinn states.
"My family is a mess, that's why I don't talk about them. Issues are just issues, eventually, we all get over them, some people need to talk about them and some people just move on from them,"
"I understand you about family life being a mess, but sometimes talking does make it easier to move on from it or to help them," Quinn adds.
"Yeah, whenever I need to talk to someone about something, I go to my abuela, she says it how it is," Santana explains.
"My family is something, I don't like to talk about unless it's to help somebody if a lot of people knew about my family, I looked at so much differently and treated so much differently because people would think that I'm a time bomb just waiting to happen. I'll tell you guys about them someday but just not today,"
The girls smiled at me and Sam gave a nod. Eventually, it was time for Cheerios, Sam left and we all put out bags into the locker room. Practice flew by so slowly that it was almost unbearable, but it ended.
When I got, I texted Zeke asking about his day, he said it went well, and finally told his parents that we had gotten together. The rest of the night was like any other, I followed my usual routine and by midnight I was asleep.
When I got to school the next morning, Zeke and Kurt were waiting by locker, talking about something, Kurt was smiling and Zeke looked like he was happily listening. It was pleasant to watch them interact. Ever since Zeke talked to Kurt during the mash-up, they have been talking a lot more.
"Hey Kurt, Zeke," I state as I get closer to them.
"Morning Amelia,"
"Morning beautiful,"
"Kurt, not that I don't like your company, it is just not usual for you to be by my locker in the morning,"
"Well, Mr. Schue is gonna be out for a week, and the office doesn't feel the need to book a sub for glee club, so I was thinking you and I could talk to Ms. Holliday about her taking over glee while Mr. Schue is gone,"
"I think that's a great idea, when do you want to talk to her, I already talked my first period teacher and she said that I could go talk to Ms. Holliday at the end of the beginning of first-period, and I already asked your teacher as well, it's all good to go,"
"Cool, well Kurt would like come with me and Zeke my first period to drop my stuff off?"
"Sure,"
All three of us, start making our way to my first-period class, we had a pleasant conversation until we arrived there. I set my things down at my desk and left the room to meet back up with the boys.
"So what were you guys talking about before I arrived at school?"
"Kurt was telling me about this guy he met at Dalton,"
"Really, what's his name, maybe I know him,"
"His name is Blaine Anderson, he's in your grade,"
"Hmm, I've heard of him, I've just never met him,"
It was weird that Kurt was telling Zeke about a guy especially because it was obvious that Kurt already had a crush on Blaine. Hm...who knows why.
Pretty soon it was close the start of first-period, Kurt and I started making out way towards Mr. Schue's Spanish room, it was on the opposite end of the school from the choir room. When we took our time getting there because we knew we were okay to miss a few minutes. By the time we got to the classroom and knocked on the door, she was already teaching.
"Miss Holliday, we are floundering," Kurt states.
"Won't you please take over glee club?" I ask.
"I thought you'd never ask," she says.
"Muchas gracias," I say to her."
Lunchtime was nearing closer, Kurt and I told a few of the members that we got a sub for glee so Rachel was no longer trying to control. When lunch was over, and everybody was taking their seats, I was sitting around my usual seat but the exact seat. Artie, Tina, Mike, and Brittany were all in the corner seats talking about something. Puck was buttering floor, where he got the butter, who knows.
"Dude, what are you doing?" Finn asked him.
"Kurt and Amelia, got us a substitute, so I'm buttering the floor," Puck explained.
"But sectionals is, like, two weeks from now," Finn says.
Hey, Gigantor. We're all gonna swap names, yo!" Artie states.
Rachel comes fast walking in, "Did I hear something about a subsitu-" and then she slipped on the buttered floor.
I couldn't stop myself from laughing, that was priceless, wish I had gotten it on video.
"Yes! It works!" Puck exclaims.
Rachel got up and fixed her hair, "Least I didn't fall and break my talent,"
"Only damaged your dignity," I state.
Mercedes, Tina, and Artie were giggling at her little slip, as she walked them to get a seat. Rachel was sitting down shortly after, and then Miss Holliday walked in, and slide over the buttered floor.
"What da hell?" Artie questions.
"Hola clase. Nothin' says 'Bienvenidos' quite like a buttered floor." Miss Holliday states. It was at the moment when Kurt entered and slipped on the butter.
"Let's begin with some introductions. My name is Holly Holliday. What's yours? Go," She says while turning to face Puck.
"I'm Finn Hudson. I'm the quarterback of the football team," Puck says impersonating Finn.
"I'm Rachel Berry, his loud, loud girlfriend," Santana states.
"I'm Mike Chang," Brittany says.
Mike just nodded his along with what Brittany said.
"Those aren't your names. You know why I know that?" Miss Holliday questions.
"You're psychic?" Brittany guesses.
"I know this because I recently watched a video of you guys performing at regionals where you came in last. Maybe it's because the songs were about 30 years old, but…" Miss Holliday started but was cut off.
"Those songs are classics," Finn says.
"Those songs are amazing, but they sounded like somebody else's favorite songs, not yours. Just sayin,"
"She speaks the truth" Brittany mumbles.
"I'm not your average run of the mill substitute teacher. I want you guys to do things that you want to do. I want you to have fun in our fabulous but fleeting time together. What do you say we have class outside?"
"It's raining outside" Mercedes states.
"Then let's take a field trip to Taco Bell,"
Everyone started cheering.
"Should we toke up some medical grade marijuana? I wish," She jokes.
She was making everyone laugh and smile. It was hard to not like her, she was full of fun and laughter and it was contagious. Everyone was having a good time except for Rachel.
"Okay, no, we can't just goof off all day. We have to write a set list for sectionals," Rachel says being a buzzkill.
"You're right, What songs do you like to do?" Miss Holliday asked us.
None of us knew how to respond to that, we never complete free choice of what song to do before.
"Oh. Don't get asked that question much, do we?" She stated.
"Miss Holliday's right. Mr. Schuester's set list sometimes seems like hasn't listened to the radio since the '80s," Kurt says.
"He never listens to what I have to say," Puck announces. "I asked him if we could do the new Cee-Lo song, you know Forget You, and he just brushed me off,"
"Cee Lo! That's what I'm talking about," Miss Holliday exclaims.
She got some yeahs and a few cheers, but then Santana started talking.
"Excuse me, what would you know about Cee Lo? Cause you're, like, 40."
"Top 40, sweet cheeks. Hit it!"
Miss Holliday started singing Forget You, dang was she good. She had everyone but Rachel backing her up. She had everyone moving and grooving. I was dancing with Santana, Brittany, and Quinn. Then Mercedes and Artie joined her in singing. Eventually everyone up out of their seats except for Rachel. When she was finished singing, everyone clapped for her.
"Let's go get some tacos!" Miss Holliday announces. We didn't really go get tacos but trust me, Miss Holliday tried.
Miss Holliday said that we weren't gonna have after school glee today so the unholy trinity and I went to wait for Cheerios practice in the gym. All we did was talk, and just about school gossip, who needs a makeover, and boys. Soon enough, it was Cheerios practice and it was a typical practice. Nothing really happened, just Coach Sylvester yelling at us.
