We walk into the living area and see Erik. Samuel sits on the back ledge with Matheus, Damian and Cameron. I sit with Lindsay in front of the boys and Marissa sits at the other side of Lindsay. "Hey guys." He says and half smiles. "For the 'born this way' performance on glee, they had to have words and sayings on their t-shirts which were connected to the characters and their biggest vulnerabilities. We are going to do it slightly different." We look at each other and back at him. "So, for this weeks video shoot, you will all be wearing a sign which has a word or phrase, outlining your biggest vulnerability." He looks at all of us and I think over it all in my head; You're going to tell them about your mum and dad. Calm down, don't cry, just breathe, it's ok.

"Matheus?" He looks up and nods "small, I mean, it's pretty obvious but it wasn't always fun; growing up and never changing in height."

"Hannah?" She nods. "Fat, it's just a mean word." Erik nods and looks at Alex.

"Alex?" He half smiles. "My biggest vulnerability, is that I am gay. I mean- I only came out to my mom last year and no-one at my school knows, so i'm taking a pretty big risk here."

"Lindsay." He says and I see tears sitting on the edge of her eye lids. "Uhm," She starts and we look at her. "I guess, my word would, be fake." She says and I rub her shoulder. "Why fake, Lindsay?" Erik asks him and she shrugs. "I've always had to try and be perfect, I was adopted, and I love my adopted parents but it's not the same. My ex boyfriend, abused me." I look at her in horror and look straight at Marissa and she shakes her head at me, as if to say; I didn't know either. "He took advantage of me, beat me up." She continues and I feel tears in my eyes, they drip down hers and my own cheeks and Marissa tries to wipe her own away, I don't even turn around to the boys, but I hear sniffles coming from at least one of them. "I try and slap a happy smile on my face everyday and I push myself to do things to the best of my ability because I never feel like i'm good enough." She finishes and rests her head on my shoulder.

"You are good enough Lindsay, and you didn't deserve to be treated that way." Erik says and she half smiles and rubs away the tears from her cheeks. I rub my eyes and she sits back up.

"Cameron?" He says and I turn around to look at the boys. "Ehm, Misunderstood." He says with a half smile. "Where I'm from, I don't exactly dress like anyone else and I'm not as athletic and people just, don't get me." He says and shrugs it off.

"Marissa?" She looks up. "I'd say, flawed, I have flaws and things that bug people, so I usually push everyone away." She says and we nod.

"Damian?" He nods while looking at the ground before pulling his head up. "I'd say numb, y'know I find it hard to fall in love, I never seem to care about someone for long enough to actually fall in love, I usually give up because, I feel nothing." Erik nods and looks at the three of us.

"Nicola?" He asks and I pull my knees to my chest and look up while fidgeting with the sleeves of my cardigan. "My word, would be unwanted or broken." I say and feel eyes staring from different directions. "Why?" I nod and keep my eyes on the floor. "My, uhm, my mum was 16 when she was pregnant with me. He, didn't want to know." I say and nod. "He, being your dad?" I shrug. "My biological one? yeah. Him." I say while looking up at Erik. "He was like the jock, he didn't want a kid with a nobody girl to effect his cred." I say and look up with a tear forming in my eye. "He asked her to go to England, and have an abortion." I say with an angry smile on my face and hear gasps. "But she didn't." I add in and the tear falls down my cheek. "She had me, and raised me and when I was 8, he wanted to know me." I say and shake my head. "You ok?" Erik asks and I nod and look up. "He became this amazing dad overnight. He bought me stuff, brought me places and told me that he wanted me to live with him." I say with a smile. "I Believed him, so, even though my mum told me not to, I packed my bags and got ready to go and live with him. I went to sleep that night and thought of the amazing new life I was going to have with my dad." I say and look at the roof. "I woke up the next morning and went downstairs and his car was gone. I shouted at my mum and she gave me a note. I opened it. It only had two words on the page." I say and look back at Erik. "I Lied." I say while nodding my head. "I haven't been the same kid since." He nods and seems speechless for a moment.

"Your mom loves you. Your dad doesn't deserve you. He isn't worth it. He didn't change you Nicola, he made you the amazing person you are, with your crazy taste in music." I smile and nod. I feel a hand on my shoulder and turn round to look at Sam. He pulls me slightly closer before dropping his hand, so that I am resting my back against his knees.

"Samuel?" Erik asks and I turn to face him, like the others. He clears his throat and starts playing with the bracelets he is wearing. "Rejected." He says without moving his eyes from the bracelets. "I had a girl for a lil while. We talked about getting married, and she dumped me." He says while looking up at Erik, and keeping his gaze away from me. "I don't understand how you can go from being so close to someone and caring about them so much, to someday, not caring at all." He says and I rub his knee. "I jus-just want to have a chance to prove myself. I want to be able to blow someone's mind, if you know what I mean." He says and rubs his eyes which have gone red and puffy. I look up at him and he looks at me and looks away. I put my other hand on the back of his neck to meet his own and we hold hands. "You will get the chance Samuel."

Erik says before moving on to Emily, who almost immediately breaks down in tears. "It's ok, take your time." She nods and puts her hands to her face before pulling her hair back and looking up at him. "I was used. Sexually." She starts off and we look at her. "Music producers and people who said they would help me out, it just makes me feel disgusting and useless." He shakes his head. "You're not pathetic or useless. Emily." He says and when she calms down he looks at us all and nods. "We have made some really good progress today guys. I want you all to take what has been said into consideration for this weeks video shoot." He says and walks out. We say goodbye as he leaves and we all hug and end up being blubbering messes, even Samuel and Cameron shed tears.

"Ok guys, back to the competition, I don't like any of you guys." Hannah says in an attempt to lighten the mood. They all start walking out but I just sit back up on the bed and Lindsay lies beside me. "I can't believe how much we didn't know about each other." She says and I nod. "But the past doesn't change who we are." Samuel says and half smiles and I get up and hug him. "You'll start me again." He says and I half smile. "Hey, your allowed to cry, remember?" He smiles and the rest of them start walking out and he hugs me again. He smiles and goes to walk out with me and I shrug. "I'm going to stay here for a while." He nods and I smile. I sit down and face away from the camera's and bury my head in my cardigan and just sit in silence- which is the loudest thing that you could ever hear.