Chapter 7: Empire State of Mind

Finn, Artie, Kurt, Rachel and Tina make their way to the courtyard. Kurt sits on a table, off to the side and watches as Finn put one of their boomboxes on another table, while Mike puts his on a third.

Rachel and Finn hit play on the boomboxes, and the music pours out, and they begin to sing.

New Direction Boys: Bum Bum Bum

New Direction Girls (Tina and Rachel): Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba

Mike starts dancing around the tables while Tina, Rachel and Kurt shimmy while sitting on theirs.

New Direction Boys : Bum Bum Bum

New Direction Girls (Tina and Rachel): Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba

Kurt jumps of his table and runs over to Artie's chair. As Artie starts sing, Kurt pushes his chair while bobbing his head from side to side.

Artie:

Yeah, yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca

Right next to Deniro, but I'll be hood forever

I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here

I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere

Tina got of the table while Rachel stood up on it as Finn started to sing.

Finn:

I used to cop in Harlem, all of my Dominicanos

Right there up on Broadway, pull me back to that McDonald's

Took it to my stashbox, 560 State Street

Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons with them pastries

Puck and Mercedes come out into the courtyard.

Puck:

Eight million stories, out there in it naked

City is a pity, half of y'all won't make it

Me, I got a plug, Special Ed "I Got It Made"

If Jesus payin' Lebron, I'm payin' Dwayne Wade

Rachel is still dancing on the table when she sees a girl singing along with them. Rachel can't help but give the girl a smile as Puck continues singing.

Three dice cee-lo, three card molly

Labour Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley

Jigga I be Spike'd out, I could trip a referee

Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from...

Quinn, Brittany and Santana come out into the courtyard and start dancing on the steps.

New Directions Girls:

New York...

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

The trio dance and sing on the steps while the rest dance amongst the other students and tables in the courtyard.

There's nothin' you can't do

Now you're in New York

(Rachel: You're in New York)

These streets will make you feel brand new

Big lights will inspire you

The three girls make their way down the steps as the remaining team members run up the stepss to meet them.

Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York

Mercedes:

The New Direction Girls start dancing as Mercedes sings, while the boys sit on the bottom steps, looking around to see if anyone is watching.

One hand in the air for the big city

Streetlights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty

No place in the world that could compare

Put your lighters in the air

Everybody say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"

New Directions Girls:

In New York...

The New Direction Boys made their way up to join the girls.

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

The group moved into postion to sing and dance together.

(Mercedes: Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah!)

There's nothin' you can't do

Finn spots a blond shaggy haired boy with full lips tapping his foot and watching them. He couldn't hold back a small smile that escaped as he watched the boy look over the group.

Now you're in New York

Finn stopped smiling when he noticed the boys' eyes had stopped and were staring to the far right of the group.

(Mercedes: New York, New York!)

These streets will make you feel brand new

Finn watched the boy as everyone danced, trying to see who out of the group the boys' eyes were following.

(Mercedes: Brand new!)

Big lights will inspire you

(Mercedes: Inspire you!)

Finn had trouble seeing who had caught the blond's attention.

Let's hear it for New York,

(Mercedes: New York!)

New York,

(Mercedes: New York!)

New York

(Mercedes: New York!)

Ohh Ohhh Ohhhh

Everyone sat on the steps and Finn watched the boys' eyes stop to the right of him. He looked beside him to see Kurt, Mike, Brittany, Santana and Quinn. He figured the blond had to be looking at Quinn, she was the only one still to the right of him, besides Kurt, that hadn't really switched places with anyone.

New Direction Girls: Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba!

Thy group finished their song, and sat looking around. Unfortunately for them, no one came up to them, asking if they could join. Kurt even lifted his shades to look around more clearly.

Finn looked back to the blond guy he had seen watching them, but his attention was now focused on his schoolwork in front of him.

"Well, this sucks." Santana said.

"Yeah." Quinn agreed. "Totally wanky. Let's get out of here."