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Chapter 7.- Let´s Get it Started
Finally the day arrived. Sectionals were today. The New Directions got to the bus and arrived at Carmel High; the home of the once powerful and unstoppable Vocal Adrenaline. Miss Pillsbury had gone to support them with Coach Beiste and Mike Chang too. Their costume was:
Boys: A blue shirt a pink bowtie and black pants. It looked very vibrant.
Girls: pink dresses with blue ribbons on their heads and black ribbons on their waist. It matched the boys costume perfectly. They had chosen those colors because they were joyful and very noticeable.
The school was full. Surprisingly show choir had become popular amongst the Ohio community. People were buying food, talking or simply taking pictures. The seniors were trying to calm down the younger members, also Miss Pillsbury. Meanwhile Mike was trying to calm Finn down.
"We´ll do fine, trust them Finn" Mike said giving him pads on his back.
"Thanks man, I hope so. It´s just that I´m a little worried that´s all" Mike shook his head.
"Well, don´t let them see you worried. Otherwise you´ll just make them more nervous"
"Yeah, at least we´re the second ones to compete" Finn added before he took a zip of his water.
"I think I´m going to puke" Lisa said. Robert caressed her back trying to calm her down.
"Relax! It´s just a competition, it´s not the end of the world. We´ll be just fine" Danielle responded carelessly, but inside she was a little nervous.
Everybody was running scales and warming up their voices. Cameron certainly was excited, when he got nervous he began jumping and talking a lot. He approached to Ruby who was looking at herself in the mirror.
"Nervous?" He asked. She shook her head.
"Terrified, but I can handle it" She said turning around and fixing his tie. Cameron smiled and hugged her. Ruby smiled.
Karen was nervous, she had seen him. The Warblers had already arrived and unluckily for her he had already seen her. He was walking towards her, thus she didn´t go away. It was time to talk and clear things out.
"So here you are" She said. He looked arrogant, but still uncertain of what to say to her. It had been a long time since they had last spoken.
"And here you are" He smiled a little, but his gesture caused nothing on her. "You look lovely"
"Thanks" she said sharply. He noticed that she wasn´t going to make an effort on talking to him more than she already was doing.
"I wanted to wish you luck tonight" he said smiling trying to pull out a conversation out of her
"Thanks, but you´re gonna need it" Her comment only made the boy laugh. Karen always loved when he smiled, it made her feel so little and like she lived on a castle in the clouds
"Why so sure?" He said getting close to her, looking at her trying to bring out all of his charm. She looked down and suddenly they were face to face. He was getting cocky, yet his eyes looked sweet. Their eyes met and she knew he was broken hearted, but that wasn´t going to work on her anymore.
"Because I just know" The boy looked away laughing. He felt a little hurt. He wanted to kiss her, but apparently he wasn´t going to do it tonight.
"Well, just be sure of one thing Karen" He looked at her serious. His faces were so changing, like a tornado of emotions. "I´m gonna get you back" She laughed, he was more of a drama queen than she sometimes could be.
"Yeah, we´ll see about that Thomas" She walked away from him and he did nothing but stare. "I mean it!" he shouted, and then he walked away.
Patrick had been trying to avoid Sebastian all week long. He didn´t know why he was so persistent, Patrick thought he had made it clear that he was no longer interested on him. He wasn´t concerned about the competition, but about someone finding out his secret.
"Everyone likes Unique on the glee club, but outside the choir room… it´s different. He´s leaving and nobody will care anymore, but if they know about me… I´m gonna be treated just the same". He went to look for Danielle.
"Hey, can I talk to you for a second" He asked her. Danielle nodded
"What´s up?" Patrick took a deep breath.
"It´s about… *whisper* the thing you found out"
"You´re finally admitting you´re out of the closet" An amused guy said from a short distance. It was Sebastian. He smiled sarcastically to both of them. "Can I have a word with him alone Joann Jett drag?"
"Sure Ritchie Bitch" She said leaving.
"Why have you been ignoring my calls, and my texts?" Sebastian asked ironically
"What are you doing here? I think I made it very clear when I stopped answering that I didn´t want anything to do with you anymore" Patrick said protesting.
"Please, I just… I want to talk. I don´t understand why would you run away that night. Everything was going fine"
"Because I realized I´m not interested Sebastian. Can´t you understand that?" Both remained quiet when the bell rang. The competition was about to begin.
"At least, let´s talk like adults. Please. After this" Sebastian begged. Patrick sighed.
"Alright… But no funny business! Ok?" Sebastian smiled; Patrick left him to gather with his team.
"Ok guys" Finn began his inspirational speech "It´s our first competition, I´ve seen all of you these past few weeks, You´re wonderfully talented. Each and every one of you and no matter what happens today I´m sure you´ll kick butt up there" His kids laughed. "I feel very proud of you" He said looking at all his students faces. Something felt very right deep inside. "You´re all stars, now let´s go and shine" They hugged after his inspirational words and went to their green room awaiting their performance.
The teachers were sitting on the auditorium at the middle. They had perfect vision. The judges were: Rod Remington Ohio´s oldest T.V face, some Show Choir council member and Doctor Wu the town's gynecologist.
The first ones to perform were Vocal Adrenaline with the Shania Twain hit "Man I feel like a woman" They looked pathetic. Finn remembered them as a once feared and glorious sound machine and now they were just lame. Afterwards they sung a Missy Elliot song and massacred version of 1973 from James Blunt. They had lost their touch and it was depressing to watch them.
Their costumes were good though, they were dressing in white and red.
Now it was the New Directions turn. The curtain opened once again and the show began.
Ryder: I Turn the music up, I got my records on
I shut the world outside until the lights come on
Jake: Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone
I feel my heart start beating to my favorite song
Patrick and Cameron: And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night
Until Monday morning feels another life
Robert: I turn the music up
I'm on a roll this time
And heaven is in sight
The boys danced and turned with pivot spins smiling at the judges and the audience
Ryder and Cameron: I turn the music up, I got my records on
From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song
Jake and Patrick: Don't want to see another generation drop
I'd rather be a comma than a full stop
All: Maybe I'm in the black, maybe I'm on my knees
Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes
But my heart is beating and my pulses start
Cathedrals in my heart
The girls appeared and began dancing with the guys as they made the choruses.
Robert: And we saw oh this light I swear you, emerge blinking into
To tell me it's alright
Patrick and Robert: As we soar walls, every siren is a symphony
And every tear's a waterfall
ALL: Is a waterfall
Oh
Is a waterfall
Oh oh oh
Is a is a waterfall
Every tear
Is a waterfall
Oh oh oh
Finn was smiling; it was just as he had imagined it would be. The audience was clapping and singing with them
Cameron: So you can hurt, hurt me bad
But still I'll raise the flag
They repeated the chorus one more time as they danced as if there was no tomorrow, they seemed confident and really happy. All the nerves they had disappeared. Robert sung the last part solo and the others made the chorus.
All: Oh
It was a wa wa wa wa wa-a-terfall
A wa wa wa wa wa-aterfall
The crowd greeted them with cheer and the next number began.
Karen and Kitty: Ice Ice baby (x4)
Ryder: Yo VIP
Jake: Let's kick it!
Cameron: Pressure, pushing down on me
Pressing down on you, no man ask for
Unique: Under pressure, that burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
Robert: It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about,
Watching some good friends
Marley and Jake: Screaming `Let me out'
Danielle: Pray tomorrow takes me higher
Ryder and Kitty: Pressure on people, people on streets
Karen: Ice Ice Baby [x2]
Patrick: All right stop
Lisa and Kitty: Collaborate and listen
Ice's back with a brand new invention
Lisa: Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Kitty and Ryder: Will it ever stop?
Yo - I don't know
Ryder: Turn off the lights and I'll go
Danielle and Ryder: To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
Lisa: Dance - Bum rush the speaker that booms
I'm killin' your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly - when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it
You better gain way
You better hit bull's eye
The kid dont play
If there was a problem
Yo I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
Robert: Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Marley:Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Unique Marley and Robert: Why can't we give love?
Give love give love give love give love give
love give love give love give love
All: 'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And loves dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
People stood up and shouted positive things, their performance was doing great, all they had to do was sing the next song
Marley: Days like this I want to drive away
Pack my bags and watch your shadow fade
The boys were now their chorus
You chewed me up and spit me out
Like I was poison in your mouth
You took my light, you drained me out
But that was then and this is now
Now look at me
Kitty and Marley: This is the part of me
That you never gonna ever take away from me no
Karen and Danielle: This is the part of me
That you never gonna ever take away from me no
Marley and Lisa: Throw your sticks and stones
Throw your bombs and blows
Unique and Marley: But you´re not gonna break my soul
This is the part of me
That you´re never gonna ever take away from me
Unique: I just wanna throw my phone away
Find out who is really there for me
Danielle and Lisa: 'Cause you rip me off
Your love was cheap
Kitty: It was always tearing at the seams
I fell deep you let me down
Unique and Kitty: But that was then, and this is now
Now look at me
ALL: This is the part of me
That you never gonna ever take away from me
This is the part of me
That you never gonna ever take away from me
Throw your sticks and the stones
Throw your bombs and blows
But you´re not gonna break my soul
This is the part of me
That you´re never gonna ever take away from me
Karen: Now look at me I'm sparkling
A fire work a dancing flame
Danielle and Marley: You won´t ever put me out again
I'm glowing oh, oh
So you can keep the diamond ring
Unique: It don´t mean nothing anyway
In fact you can keep everything yeah yeah
Except for me
ALL: This is the part of me
That you never gonna ever take away from me
This is the part of me
That you never gonna ever take away from me
Unique and Danielle: Throw your sticks and the stones
Throw your bombs and blows
LISA AND KITTY: But you´re not gonna break my soul
ALL: This is the part of me
That you´re never gonna ever take away from me
This is the part of me
That you never gonna ever take away from me
This is the part of me
That you never gonna ever take away from me
Throw your sticks and stones
Throw your bombs and blows
But you´re not gonna break my soul
This is the part of me
That you'll never gonna ever take away from me
They were amazing, Mike was excited to see them dancing and singing their hearts out. The New Directions were filled with energy. All the McKinley teachers were proud. Now came the most thrilling part: The Warblers Performance.
Thomas stood center stage and said "Good Afternoon, My Name is Thomas Sheridan and we are The Dalton Academy Warblers.
They began singing a three way part harmony and Sebastian began singing.
If you ever leave me, baby,
Leave some morphine at my door
'Cause it would take a whole lot of medication
To realize what we used to have,
We don't have it anymore.
His face seemed full of heartbreak, Karen knew this song was for her, and she also knew that Thomas´ sentimentalism always won the judges; she always hated that about him.
There's no religion that could save me
No matter how long my knees are on the floor
So keep in mind all the sacrifices I'm makin'
To keep you by my side
Or keep you from walkin' out the door.
Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies
If I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds
My eyes will do the same if you walk away
Every day, it will rain rain rain rain
The boys made the choruses
I'll never be your mother's favorite
Your daddy can't even look me in the eye
Oooh if I was in their shoes, I'd be doing the same thing
Sayin there goes my little girl
Walkin' with that troublesome guy
But they're just afraid of something they can't understand
Oooh well but little darlin' watch me change their minds
Yea for you I'll try I'll try I'll try I'll try
I'll pick up these broken pieces 'til I'm bleeding
If That'll make you mine
Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies
If I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds
My eyes will do the same if you walk away
Every day, it will rain rain rain raain
Don't you say, Goodbye,(x2)
Don't you say, goodbye(x2)
I'll pick up these broken pieces 'til I'm bleeding
That'll make it right
Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies
If I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds
My eyes will do the same if you walk away
Every day, it will rain rain rain raain
The audience applauded the soulful song and there was a more upbeat one now. It was Kayne West´s stronger. The people began dancing; they were really good, the warblers sounded like machines. Finally their last song :
You're a troublemaker
You're a troublemaker
There was the dancing part Finn was so worried about.
You ain´t nothing but a troublemaker girl
You had me hooked again from the minute you sat down
The way you bite your lip
Got my head spinnin' around
After a drink or two
I was putty in your hands
I don't know if I have the strength to stand
Oh oh oh
Trouble troublemaker yeah
That's your middle name
Oh oh oh
I know you're no good but you're stuck in my brain
And I wanna know
Why does it feel so good but hurt so bad
Oh oh oh
My mind keeps saying
Run as fast as you can
I say I'm done but then you pull me back
Oh oh oh
I swear you're giving me a heart attack
Troublemaker
It's like you're always there in the corners of my mind
I see a silhouette every time I close my eyes
There must be poison in those finger tips of yours
Cause I keep comin' back again for more
Oh oh oh
Trouble troublemaker yeah
That's your middle name
Oh oh oh
I know you're no good but you're stuck in my brain
And I wanna know
Why does it feel so good but hurt so bad
Oh oh oh
My mind keeps saying
Run as fast as you can
I say I'm done but then you pull me back
Oh oh oh
I swear you're giving me a heart attack
Troublemaker
Why does it feel so good but hurt so bad
Oh oh oh
My mind keeps saying
Run as fast as you can
Troublemaker
I say I'm done but then pull me back
Oh oh oh
I swear you're giving me a heart attack
Troublemaker
Maybe I'm insane
Cos I keep doing the same damn thing
Thinking one day we gonna change
But you know just how to work that back
And make me forget my name
What the hell you do I won't remember
The warblers began doing super human jumps and back flips, engaging the audience and making them go crazy. They were doing pretty well, yet Finn didn´t lose hope. He couldn´t let his kids see him like that.
Why does it feel so good but hurt so bad
Oh oh oh
My mind keeps saying
Run as fast as you can
Troublemaker
I say I'm done but then pull me back
Oh oh oh
I swear you're giving me a heart attack
Troublemaker
Why does it feel so good but hurt so bad
Oh oh oh
My mind keeps saying
Run as fast as you can
Troublemaker
I say I'm done but then pull me back
Oh oh oh
I swear you're giving me a heart attack
That was it. That had been their performance, they were excellent. Nobody said anything, but they expected the best and the worst. After ten minutes all the teams were on stage. They could feel the rivalry. Finn held hands with his kids awaiting for the judges to reveal the results.
"Third Place" Doctor Wu said "Vocal Adrenaline" The audience clapped, they knew they didn´t aspire for more. They quickly accepted their price and left stage. "And now for the first place…" Nobody made a sound. It was now or never, the moment that would define The New Direction´s future "We have declared it a tie. Congratulations, you´re all moving on to the next stage" Both teams rejoiced.
They had done it this time, but they had to get much better if they wanted to beat the warblers next time.