We didn't have glee this morning, nobody, really about the morning sessions anyway. So instead of being in the choir room, I was walking around the school hand in hand with Zeke. It was nice, even though people were staring at us. Everything was normal up to lunch when all the varsity cheerios got called to principal Sue's office and were given immediate instructions. We all walked into the cafeteria and went to where the lunch ladies stand and we took away all of the tater tots.
"Where do you think you're going those?" Mercedes asks Santana, Brittany, and I.
"Principal Sue banned the tots," I tell her.
"She can't do that!" Mercedes states.
"They look liked deep-fried deer poop," Brittany comments.
"Take it up with Principal Sue," Santana tells her.
Everybody was standing in the cafeteria, not knowing what to do, like seriously there are other things to eat at this school other tater tots. Zeke was just watching from where he sat with his teammates.
The rest of lunch passed by, the tater tot loving kids were mad at us and Sue. We didn't care, in about a day, they will forget this ever happen or things will go back to normal.
I guess sometime before lunch, Miss Holliday went to talk to Rachel, and now they are rehearsing for a dance duet number for tomorrow. So nobody else had really anything else to, so while Rachel and Miss Holliday were rehearsing in the auditorium, Brad was with us, and we were messing around with the band and everybody was dancing, well anybody who wanted to dance was dancing. It was nice, just letting loose and having fun in glee club without any planning.
The rest of the day was like any other day, except no glee club but Rachel had insisted that she and Miss Holliday practice their number one more time before they perform tomorrow, so nobody else had to stay after for it. Quinn, Santana, Brittany, and I went to the gym to wait for Cheerios practice.
"So Q, how's you and Sam?" I ask.
"We're fine, just like any other couple," She states.
"Any couple that doesn't have sex," Santana comments.
"Haha, very funny, Tana," Quinn says sarcastically.
"Shorty, anything else going on between you and lover boy?" Santana asks me.
"We're taking it slow, believe it or not, this is my first relationship," I tell her.
"Virgin," Santana teases.
"Cut me some slack, last guy I liked before Zeke was gay, and besides it's probably gonna happen," I state.
Soon enough, the other Cheerios start entering the gym, Quinn goes into head bitch mode.
"Start stretching or all of you will be running and doing squats all practice!" Quinn yells at them.
At that moment, it didn't matter if you were JV or varsity, you better listen to Quinn. Everybody did as she said, and the other girls and I stood by her side, making sure orders were followed until everybody was here.
The next day, I was right, most people acted as if everything was normal, nobody really cared today that the tots were gone, or at least they didn't say anything. There was still no glee club in the morning today, so I was with Zeke. This time, we stayed at his locker and just talked about anything and everything until it was time to head to class, and when we did go to class, I got a kiss before first-period started. Even though I know most kids actually kiss in the hallways before, during, and after school I still feel weird about doing it myself. Maybe it's because this is my first relationship but maybe someday this feeling will go away and I'll be perfectly fine with kissing him in school.
When it was time for lunch, I didn't eat, at least not, the new school food, maybe I should start packing my lunch. The school food today was fish sticks that looked like foam. Nobody was really eating them. Part way through lunch, Mercedes got on her lunch table with a sign that said 'Tots' on it. Majority of the people in the cafeteria were shouting tots. The best part was that Principal Sue was standing in the middle of the cafeteria with Becky, just watching this go down.
After lunch, the glee club was instructed to go the auditorium, I believe it was for Rachel and Ms. Holliday's number. When they started, it was good, I had no idea what song or songs it was, but it was good. Halfway in they removed their robes and showed off flapper-like dresses, and they were dancing, which wasn't bad, it fit the number. The worst part was the sloppy cartwheels at the end, but the whole performance was really good.
When Rachel and Ms. Holliday were both changed back into normal clothes, we all headed to the choir room. We did nothing after that, we goofed around, had a blast, and didn't get into any sort of trouble. Turns out, shortly after fourth-period ended, Mr. Schue showed up at school ready to teach, but he was still sick. Pretty sure, Principal Sue made him go back home.
When school was over, and so was Cheerios, I was going to Zeke's house. This would be the first time, that I met his parents, I was nervous. I changed after Cheerios practice so that I would look nice, and I hope it was nice enough for his parents. I just wanted to make a good impression for his parents.
I stopped by my locker before we left the school so I could leave my Cheerios bag in there. After that, we both went to the main doors and Zeke's father was there to pick us up. His father seemed nice, and hopefully, he was. Zeke sat behind his father and I sat behind the passenger seat.
"Dad, this is Amelia," Zeke told his father,
"Amelia, I'm Jacob. It's nice to finally meet you," He tells me.
"It's nice to meet you as well,"
We arrive at Zeke's house shortly after, and my nerves spiked, meeting his father was one thing, but meeting his mother was another. With girls, you have to impress the father and with boys, you have to impress the mother. His father led us into the house and it was lovely inside. Zeke's father went somewhere and Zeke was showing me around the house. When we landed in the kitchen, his mother was at the table with a laptop, just working away.
"Mom, this is Amelia,"
"Oh my, you're prettier than Zeke stated," She announced to me.
"Thank you,"
"Pardon my manners, I'm Annie,"
"It's nice to me you,"
After that, Zeke and I went to his room, with the door open per his mother's request, and we worked on chem homework.
"How's glee going without Mr. Schue?"
"It's been more entertaining with Ms. Holliday there. We have more freedom to do whatever we want."
"That must be nice."
"It is. Don't me get wrong, Mr. Schuester is good glee club teacher but he's very controlled when it comes to what we do, we have assignments, and numbers need to fit into those assignments, and sometimes it gets boring. Ms. Holliday is literally letting us do whatever we want to do."
"What are you guys going to do when Mr. Schue gets back?"
"Probably fall back into the same routine."
Shortly after that conversation, Zeke's parents entered his room, probably to ask Zeke something.
"Amelia, Zeke told us that you dance," Mrs. Matthews explained.
"Yeah, I have been dancing since I was about two years old," I tell them.
"Wow, that's a what 13-14 years now?"
"It will be 14 years in December."
"Anything else that you do in your free time?" Mr. Matthews asked.
"I'm on the school's cheerleading squad, and I also do gymnastics."
"How long have you been into cheerleading?"
"I did middle school cheerleading at Carmel Middle School, and I started cheering for McKinley as a freshmen."
"I didn't know that you went to Carmel Middle School," Zeke stated.
"Yeah, I live with my aunt and uncle, they live on the district line between Akron and Lima, I had the choice of picking which high school I went to."
"Carmel is one the best schools in the area, so why McKinley?"
"My older brother Jesse went to Carmel, and he was big in the show choir there, everybody knew him, the same thing with the teachers in the middle school. I was always called Jesse's little sister or little St. James, it got tiring, so when it was time for high school to start, I asked my aunt and uncle if I could go to McKinley."
"Makes sense, it was kinda like that with me and my older brother, he was the star in the all sports and academics, and when it got to the point we were in the same school, everybody expected the same thing from me, I wowed them in the academics but I was no good at sports," Mrs. Matthews explained.
"If I remember correctly, Zeke said that you, Mrs. Matthews work in a family business."
"Yes, my family has run a business since my grandfather was discharged from the Army. It's been passed down, and everybody tries to make sure it stays afloat. We sell insurance in Colorado and surrounding states, I'm in charge of the budget, it's easy for me to do since we no longer live in Colorado," She explains.
"About family businesses, St. James Corporation is huge, any of your siblings going to work there?" Mr. Matthews asks.
"At the moment, I think my parents want me to stop dancing and start looking into business as a career, my older siblings Kyle and Nicole, want nothing to do with it, and Jesse has his heart set out for Broadway."
"Somethings could change at any time. I always told my parents that I was going to be done Colorado after I finished college, but things changed. I met Jacob at college, and shortly after graduation, we got engaged, we stayed in Colorado for the wedding, and then brother and his wife started having kids, and shortly after they announced the pregnancy that would give us our youngest nephew, we found out we were having Zeke. Zeke is the only child we could have if we couldn't give him siblings, we thought that it would be best if we stayed in Colorado so he could be around his cousins."
Almost as soon as Mrs. Matthews was done speaking, my phone went off, it was Aunt Vanessa, asking if I would be home soon.
"Was that your aunt or uncle?" Mr. Matthews asks.
"Yeah, it was my aunt, she's wondering when I will be home,"
"If you need to be home soon, we can take you," Mrs. Matthews stated.
"Are you sure, I live a bit away from here?" I question.
"It's no problem," Mr. Matthews tells me.
"Thank you."
Mr. Matthews and Zeke were the ones that drove me home, Mrs. Matthews stayed behind to make dinner for them. Mr. Matthews on the way to my house asked about my dance season and how I practice dance with such a busy schedule. I explained it all to him and told how my dance teacher is very accommodating when it comes to schedules.
When I arrived home, Aunt Vanessa already had dinner ready for us. Aunt Vanessa and Uncle Daniel asked me how it went at Zeke's and things about his parents. After dinner, I finished my homework, showered and then went to bed.
At school the next day, Mercedes snuck tots in, you could smell them in her locker. That was pretty daring after what she did to Principal's Sue Le Car. I'm pretty sure Mercedes will do anything to have tots, but maybe it's her comfort food.
Mr. Schue also had gotten his job back but I never knew it was gone. Everyone was in the choir room when Mr. Schue entered it, we all started cheering for him.
"Alright, alright. Thank you very much, guys. Please. Please, sit down," Mr. Schue states.
We all take a seat and then he starts talking again.
"Thank you for that and...and for all the kind words you said about me to Sue. The feelings are mutual. Now we gotta get cracking though. We lost a few days there. It's all gonna be about focus and hard work for the next couple of days," Mr. Schue states.
"I guess Miss Holliday really is gone," Puck says from his seat behind me.
"I know you guys liked her, and she was a lot of fun. But she and I both agreed that this is what was best," Mr. Schue explains.
"Don't get us wrong, Mr. Schue. We always want you as our teacher. She was just a nice break," Tina tells him.
"She did loosen us up," Quinn adds.
"She actually had some good ideas for a sub," Artie comments.
"Yeah, I get it. And maybe we can incorporate those...after sectionals. Now, when I'm sick, there is only one thing that makes me feel better," Mr. Schue goes on.
"Gin and Juice," Artie states.
"Boiling hot showers and then eating tubs of ice cream after," I say.
"No. Singin' In The Rain. I must have watched it, like ten times these past few days. It's actually what inspired me to try this out as a contender for our first song at sectionals," Mr. Schue explains.
"When is this song from?" Sam asks.
"Well, the movie opened in 1952 but...but it's really timeless." Mr. Schue tells him.
The bell rang shortly after an awkward moment of silence, things were normal all the way up until glee after lunch. Ms. Holliday and Mr. Schue were in the choir room together, this is about to be fun.
We worked on a new number all of the class, and when it came time for the glee club rehearsal after school, we were all ready for a new number. Mr. Schue and Ms. Holliday decided to do a mashup of Singin' In The Rain and Umbrella. It was amazing. We had water on the stage and were dancing with umbrellas. The guys were in matching costumes and as were the girls.
