RACHEL's POV
I heard everyone say that they were going to follow me. That's problem #1. I can't let them follow me. If they find out ahead of schedule then it's all ruined. Okay Ray, calm yourself. I coached myself down from the worry that was bubbling up in my chest.
I pulled up to the IDA and saw big trouble. Sue Sylvester's Le Car was parked in front of the building. I gathered up my courage, and became the HBIC I really was. I wasn't going to let Sue Sylvester of all people stop me from my true dream of dance.
Just my luck, I walked in to check in as Sue was checking out.
"Streisand, what are you doing here?"
I was about to answer when Gwen, the original captain came up to us.
"B! Hey, Spirit needs you! They are messing up the Sectionals routine for Monday. You know how important this competition is. With you at the top, the Cheerios won't stand a chance."
My eyes widened when I realized that Sue just heard what I was doing here. I turned slowly to look at her, and she practically has a vein popping out of her forehead.
"What is the meaning of her words, Streisand?"
"What did it sound like Sylvester?" I bit back, raising one eyebrow.
"Meet me in my office tomorrow morning."
"Why should I?"
"I'll tell all your little geeky friends."
"Fine, but only because I have a better way to break it to them."
"Fine." She then stormed out of the building.
I rolled my eyes and turned to Gwen. "Drama queen." I muttered.
"Says you."
"Oh, hush!" I wink and we both headed to the cheer gym.
As soon as I walked in everyone swarmed me. Saying hello and such. Like I said, I'm practically a legend.
"Okay girls, that's enough, let's run through the routine okay?" I asked.
They nodded, practically falling over themselves to get in formation. Gwen is the coach now, but she passed captain on to me.
As we ran through it, I could feel something wrong. I asked my sub to go through it so I could watch it.
"It feels off." I said, so I had the girls run through it again. I saw that one of the bases was limping. Sarah, I remembered.
"Sarah, come here for a minute." She ran over and looked a little worried.
"Yeah cap?" I could tell she was trying not to grimace because of her pain.
"Are you okay, you were limping."
"Fine! I just hurt my knee." I nodded.
"Understandable, but I want you to be okay for Monday. I care for all of you, and if this competition is bad for your health, I want you to back out."
Sarah nodded thoughtfully.
"Look Sarah, you girls are some of my best friends, so let my substitute take over your spot Monday, you can have it back after competition, but I want you safe and healthy over everything."
She reluctantly nodded. "Thanks B. You really are amazing."
I smiled. We ran through the routine again, and it was much better.
"Okay girls, before we go, I want to applaud Sarah, on the fact she's brave enough to step down from Monday to keep her knee intact."
All the girls started cheering for Sarah, who almost started crying.
Next Day
The second I walked into school I could feel the glee clubs eyes on me. I realized that it would be harder to sneak out then I thought.
"Hey B!" I look to my left where Em is walking.
"Hey Em."
"She wants to see you."
"Right, I forgot! See you at lunch?"
She nodded and flounder off.
I chuckled under my breath and headed towards Sue's office. She was lounging in her chair.
"Alright Sue, what do you want?" I asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"I want to know why you would turn your back on your school to be a part of Spirit, the one team this school despises."
"Why? Oh I don't know. Maybe the fact that not only have I been with the IDA longer but Spirit accepts me. You can't say the same for this school. The people here, including you, treat me like shit, and I'm done taking it!" I exclaimed, starting to pace.
"You may think that, but what would your little glee club think? That you've been ditching glee to go to that godforsaken building and train as a Spirit cheerleader, the captain no less, and dance as well?" It was her turn to raise an eyebrow.
Something inside of me snapped.
"I honestly don't care what the gleeks think because singing is my #3 passion. Yeah, that's right. My #1 is dance, and 2 is cheer. Nothing will ever top that. It can sure as hell try but it won't. And the IDA is not a godforsaken building. If anything is, it's McKinley! And as for being the captain. I worked hard to get my spot. I have been enrolled at the IDA for as long as I can remember so I earned that spot. You can hate me or whatever you want, but that won't change the fact that I'm a Spirit. I'm the Spirit captain, and you can try to phase us all you want. Fair warning to you Sue Sylvester," I sneered. "You won't break me. You have pushed me to far for the last time. Spirit normally let's you guys win at Nationals. Not this year. This year, our all will be given. You will not win a single competition if I have anything to say about it." I then executed the perfect diva moment by storming out.
As I stormed out of Sue's office, Noah caught up with me.
"Are you okay? Why were you in Sylvester's office?"
"Fine, Sue was just being a bitch."
"So where are you going after school?"
"I told you yesterday Noah, practice."
"Why won't you tell me what your practice is?"
"Why don't I show you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Meet me by my car after school and you can see what my practice is."
"Okay."
"Also, could you call off the gleeks so they don't follow us?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"How-" He stopped himself. "Okay. Deal."
"Good. See you then."
