"At worst I feel bad for a while, but then I just SMILE."

-Lily Allen, Smile


Did you think Fabina would be together that quickly? Ha. Then there would be no story would there? Fabian still has a lot to learn about glee club…


Nina was wrong.

She thought that after winning Sectionals, glee would become cool and she'd be the popular girl with the boyfriend.

She was wrong.

What was the first thing that happened when she got to school?

She was slushied.

Fabian was right next to her.

He cleaned her off.

"I was stupid." Nina said.

"Why?" Fabian asked, brushing some of the red dye from her eyes.

"Because I thought we'd actually be cool since we won." Nina admitted, "But it didn't work out that way."


"Okay, guys," Jason said, "I've arranged for the glee club to get a picture in the yearbook!"

"Uh… Mr. Wink…" Fabian said, "As much as we love glee, I think that we shouldn't have a picture."

"Yeah," Mara agreed, "It'll get defaced. People hate us."

"Since when do we care about that?" Nina asked, glaring at Fabian.

"Since I don't want my face to have a giant L on it." Mick said.

"You didn't let me finish guys," Jason sighed, "We only have enough space to fit two members."

"I nominate myself!" Nina shouted, "Since clearly I'm the only one who cares about this club."

"It's not that we don't care…" Jerome said, "We just don't want to be defaced."

"Yeah," Patricia said, "Nodding in agreement."

"We do need someone else in the picture." Jason told them.

"Fabian?" Nina said, turning to her boyfriend expectantly.

"Fine," Fabian sighed.


"Hey Mara!" Jerome shouted, catching up to Mara as she walked to class.

"Yeah, Jerome?"

"I just wanted to say that you would have been great at Sectionals." He told her, panting from running all the way down the hallway.

"Thanks Jerome, that's very kind of you." Mara smiled.

"I don't anyone had ever called me kind before." Jerome said, stopping in the middle of the hall. Someone ran into him from behind and cursed at him, but Jerome shrugged it off.

"Really?" Mara asked, grabbing Jerome's arm and pulling him through the hall.

"Yeah," he sighed.

"But you are kind. I don't feel great now about what happened in glee yesterday. Nina was the only one ready to stand up for the club." Mara sighed, "And me? I agreed with Fabian about not wanting the picture in the first place. I feel terrible about it all."

"I was the same, but really can we blame ourselves?" Jerome said, "Nina's fine with being defaced, fantastic. If she's willing to take the heat for all of us than so be it."


Nina sat, alone on a stool while an empty one sat next to her. Fifteen minutes late wasn't bad right? Any minute he's gonna burst through that door and apologize. Say he was lost or trapped in his bathroom! Or something.

A half hour late.

An hour.

He's not coming is he?

"Can we get on with this?" the photographer asked from behind his camera.

Nina nodded, taking the picture and running out.


"FABIAN!" Nina shouted, seeing her boyfriend in glee club the next day. Everyone else –Even Mr. Winkler- looked toward them.

"Look Nina, I'm sorry-"

"Save it." Nina said, "I had to take that picture by myself!"

"Nina, come on it was just a picture." Fabian sighed.

Nina heard a few people gasp behind her. Fabian realized that was the wrong thing to say.

"And last night," Nina said, "That was just a date right? When you don't want to do those anymore, then what?"

"Nina I-"

"And what about this?" Nina said, gesturing between the two of them, "This is just a relationship."

Fabian remained silent.

"I thought you changed. I was wrong. And if you haven't changed then that's that. And this was just a relationship." Nina repeated, "But it's over now. So take a bow Fabian, because you put on quite a show for me." She turned to the glee club, "I think that you should start looking for recruits Mr. Winkler. I had the photographer set up another shoot. If no one shows up, I'm quitting the club. Because we'd have no club if no one cared. The shoot is tomorrow at three."

And with those last words Nina was gone.

"Good one Fabian!" Patricia shouted, "If we don't show up, she's leaving the club and we'll have no shot at Regionals!"

"Fabian." Mr. Winkler said, "Why did you do it?"

"Because I was stupid and cared more about not getting defaced than I did about her. And now I've lost her."

"I'll do it."

Everyone turned to the source of the voice.

"You heard me, I'll be there tomorrow at three. I don't care about my reputation anymore."


Nina, again, sat in a room with one empty stool. Then someone came in, he gave her a smile and sat down.

"Someone actually came." Nina smiled, wrapping her arms around him.

"Yeah, if Fabian can't be the leader of this club, I should be me. I need to know what it means to be a real leader."

"Well, I'm glad you came." Nina smiled.

"I liked you performance in glee, of Take a Bow by Rihanna. You've done it before but, there was a lot of emotion this time."

"I had a lot to be emotional about." Nina sighed.

"Well, let's take this."


Jason was going through the pictured. There were a few, but one stuck out.

It was the two of them, kissing. Nina and _ kissing.


Can you guys guess who the person who took the picture with Nina was?