Stand By You Chapter 8, a glee fanfic

It's 2015! I'm also officially fifteen. My parents let eat raw cookie dough and we watched Tangled. I asked for crayons and a coloring book. Clearly I'm not ready to be an adult. Also, I'm suffering from post-vacation depression. On the bright side, every episode of Friends is now on Netflix, so that's the best birthday gift I could have ever asked for.

Mailbag:

Guest (Laryssa): Happy New Year to you too!

GleeJunkie007: I wasn't much of a fan of Nightmare Before Christmas either, but I did like What's This.

"Okay guys," Finn said, "Regionals is in three weeks and to get us ready, I've brought in a bunch of awesome people to help us. Come on in guys!" Both doors were opened and in came Rachel, Quinn, Puck, Santana, Kurt, Mercedes, Mike, Brittany, Sam, Tina, Artie, Blaine, Joe, and Sugar. The Glee Club eyed them warily, especially the juniors. The alumni stood in an awkward semi circle in front of the class, "Alright," Finn continued, "This week's theme is top 50's music. We've been spending so much time looking at older songs lately and so I just want to have a nice easy week after Christmas break and listen to you guys sing your favorite songs!"

After the hour was up, they all filtered out of the choir room. Marley caught up with Kitty.

"Hey," she said. No response followed, so she continued, "Are you okay with Artie being here?"

"Yeah," Kitty replied, keeping her eyes straight ahead of here, "It's totally fine."

"It just seemed kind of awkward."

"Just drop it," Kitty said sharply, "It's totally normal for your ex-boyfriend to show up at your school without any notice and then not even look at you. It's normal Marley!" Kitty stormed away.

Uh-uh, Kitty sang, uh-uh uh-uh

I eat my dinner in my bathtub

Then I go to sex clubs

Watching freaky people getting it on

It doesn't make me nervous

If anything I'm restless

Yeah I've been around and I've seen it all

I get home, I got the munchies

Binge on all my Twinkies

Throw up in the tub, then I go to sleep

And I drank up all my money

Tasted kind of lonely

You're gone and I got to stay high

All the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh

High all the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh

Spend my days locked in a haze

Trying to forget you babe, I fall back down

Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you

Pick up daddies at the playground

How I spend my day time

Loosen up the frown, make them feel alive

I make it fast and greasy

I know my way too easy

You're gone and I got to stay high

All the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh

High all the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh

Spend my days locked in a haze,

Tryin' to forget you babe, I fall back down

Got to stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you

Staying in my play pretend

Where the fun ain't got no end

Oh, can't go home alone again

Need someone to numb the pain

Oh, staying in my play pretend

Where the fun ain't got no end

Oh oh can't go home alone again

Need someone to numb the pain

You're gone and I got to stay high

All the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh

High all the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh

Spend my days locked in a haze

Tryin' to forget you babe, I fall back down

Got to stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you

Everyone applauded her except for Artie, who looked up at her with sad eyes.

"That was great Kitty," Finn said.

"I have to agree," a familiar voice called from the back of the auditorium. Everyone spun around to see Mr. Schuester. The alumni and juniors all jumped out of their seats and ran to their old teacher while the new kids slowly stood up, confused.

"Guys," Finn said to the new kids, "This is Mr. Schuester. He taught the glee club last year. Mr Schuester, this is Macy and Carson, they're sophomores, and Brynklie, Harlow, Mackenzie and Charlie. They're freshman."

"Wow! You have everybody you need for the competition, don't you?"

"Yep," Finn replied proudly, "Two weeks from Saturday."

"Well, we're all going to be here every step of the way."

"Oh joy," Brynklie said under her breath. Harlow snorted.

"Who's next," Finn asked enthusiastically. Jake stood up.

"I have something I can perform," he said, "And I asked Brynklie and Harlow to dance backup for me." The three stood up and went onstage

This hit, that ice cold

Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold

This one for them hood girls

Them good girls straight masterpieces

Stylin', whilen, livin' it up in the city

Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent

Got kiss myself, I'm so pretty

I'm too hot (hot damn)

Called a police and a fireman

I'm too hot (hot damn)

Make a dragon wanna retire man

I'm too hot (hot damn)

Say my name you know who I am

I'm too hot (hot damn)

Am I bad 'bout that money, break it down

Girls hit your hallelujah (whoo)

'Cause uptown funk gon' give it to you

Saturday night and we in the spot

While Jake sang, Brynklie and Harlow danced on either side of him, performing the hip hop-meets-jazz choreography in perfect unison, Jake occasionally joining in.

Don't believe me just watch (come on)

Don't believe me just watch uh

Don't believe me just watch

Hey, hey, hey, oh

Stop, wait a minute

Fill my cup, put some liquor in it

Take a sip, sign a check

Julio, get the stretch

Ride to Harlem, Hollywood

Jackson, Mississippi

If we show up, we gon' show out

Smoother than a fresh dry skippy

I'm too hot (hot damn)

Called a police and a fireman

I'm too hot (hot damn)

Make a dragon wanna retire man

I'm too hot (hot damn)

Bitch say my name you know who I am

I'm too hot (hot damn)

Am I bad 'bout that money

Break it down

Girls hit your hallelujah (whoo)

'Cause uptown funk gon' give it to you

Saturday night and we in the spot

Don't believe me just watch (come on)

Don't believe me just watch uh

Don't believe me just watch

Hey, hey, hey, oh

Before we leave

Lemme tell y'all a lil' something

Uptown funk you up

Uptown funk you up uh

I said uptown funk you up

Uptown funk you up

Come on, dance, jump on it

If you sexy then flaunt it

If you freaky then own it

Don't brag about it, come show me

Come on, dance

Jump on it

If you sexy then flaunt it

Well it's Saturday night and we in the spot

Don't believe me just watch come on!

Don't believe me just watch uh

Don't believe me just watch

Hey, hey, hey, oh

Uptown funk you up

Uptown funk you up (say what?)

Uptown funk you up

Uptown funk you up (say what?)

Uptown funk you up

Uptown funk you up (say what?)

Uptown funk you up

Uptown funk you up (say what?)

Uptown funk you up

"That was so great," Will said, "I can really tell what a great job you all are doing and I'm glad to see some more strong dancers."

"These two are the best," Finn replied proudly.

"Mike and Brittany were better," Santana said under her breath. Unfortunately, both Brynklie and Harlow heard her.

"I'm sorry, what did you say," Brynklie asked defensively.

"Oh no," Ryder whispered to Marley.

"Are you kidding me," Harlow said, her voice gradually getting louder.

"Well," Santana said, crossing her arms and sitting straight up in her seat, "Brittany is a backup dancer for the Mercedes Jones and Mike goes to Juilliard."

"Well that's nice and all," Brynklie said, not ready to give it up even though both Will and Finn looked one second away from stepping in, "However, Harlow and I dance forty five hours a week and we've been winning platinum awards in dance competitions around the country since we were five years old. Harlow was asked to be on the cover of Dance Track magazine but couldn't because she was competing in the World of Dance competition and she won. And as for Juilliard, I was accepted in early admissions when I was thirteen, but turned it down because I'd rather get in on a full scholarship for college which I was already offered." Santana blinked, hesitating.

"Or we could just have a dance off," Harlow suggested.

"Bring it on," Brittany replied, "I just have to stretch out." Harlow and Brynklie watched as Brittany began stretching out her arm and leg muscles. Harlow didn't bother to hide a snort.

"Ah, I remember when stretching was that easy," Brynklie said to Harlow, mock reminiscing, "Do you want to or should I?"

"You do it," Harlow replied, while everyone else stared at them in confusion. Facing Brittany, Brynklie kicked her leg up and caught it. She pulled it to her side and then behind her. But she wasn't finished. She leaned to the side, pulling her leg with her until it was at a ninety degree angle behind her head. Harlow followed up by pulling her own leg into a scorpion behind her, then leaning forward until her leg was at a ninety degree angle above her. Brittany (and everybody else) mouth dropped open.

"Let's do this," Brynklie said, releasing her leg. Just before Brittany could speak, the bell rang, signaling the end of the day.

"So do you want to continue this tomorrow, or are you good," Harlow said.

"Ok Harlow," Finn cut in, "That's enough. We'll be in the choir room tomorrow. Have a nice day everyone."

"You've got an interesting group," Will said as everyone filed out of the auditorium.

"Yeah, well, that wasn't exactly how I expected that going."

"Hey, they're good kids. And you can't exactly expect Santana and Brynklie to get along."

"I guess."

"You know, Emma said that it would be okay if I went back to work."

"What are you talking about?"

"If you want, I can take the Glee Club back."

"Are you freaking kidding me? Do you have any idea how much these kids mean to me?"

"Finn-"

"No way Mr. Schue. I can't just abandon them. They mean so much to me and I hope that I mean at least something to them. I've had a really tough year. This is helping me get over it and I like having it in my life."

"Kitty," Artie yelled down the hallway, "Kitty wait up."

"What do you want?"

"I just wanted to say that your performance was really good."

"Ok."

"Was it by any chance about me?"

"Of course you would ask that question."

"Look, I don't care whether you listen or not, but I have something I have to say. I'm really sorry about how I treated you after I graduated. It was wrong and I shouldn't have just let myself drop all connections to you. I got distracted and full of myself. I was an idiot and I'm sorry."

"You didn't answer my calls or my texts. I had to find out from Tina that you were dating three other people, at which point I just assumed that we had broken up."

"I know, I know, I was a douche. I was completely in the wrong and I am really sorry."

"What do you want then," Kitty asked

"I would like to take you out for dinner."

"Oh you've got to be kidding me."

"It doesn't have to mean anything if you don't want it to. I just want to catch up. I want to hear all about how the glee club is without me there." Kitty let out a reluctant laugh.

"Okay," she gave in, "I'll go out to dinner with you."

"Next up," Finn said, "Are the girls, singing Blank Space."

Macy:

Nice to meet you, where you been?

Marley:

I could show you incredible things

Macy:

Magic, madness, heaven sin

Marley:

Saw you there and I thought

Oh my God, look at that face

You look like my next mistake

Love's a game, want to play?

Kitty:

New money, suit and tie

Kitty:

I can read you like a magazine

Unique:

Ain't it funny, rumors, lie

Kitty:

And I know you heard about me

So hey, let's be friends

I'm dying to see how this one ends

Grab your passport and my hand

Kitty:

I can make the bad guys good for a weekend

All:

So it's gonna be forever

Or it's gonna go down in flames

You can tell me when it's over

If the high was worth the pain

Got a long list of ex-lovers

They'll tell you I'm insane

'Cause you know I love the players

And you love the game

'Cause we're young and we're reckless

We'll take this way too far

It'll leave you breathless

Or with a nasty scar

Got a long list of ex-lovers

They'll tell you I'm insane

But I've got a blank space baby

And I'll write your name

Unique:

Cherry lips, crystal skies

Bree:

I could show you incredible things

Unique:

Stolen kisses, pretty lies

Bree:

You're the king baby I'm your Queen

Find out what you want

Be that girl for a month

Wait the worst is yet to come, oh no

Brynklie:

Screaming, crying, perfect storm

Harlow:

I can make all the tables turn

Brynklie:

Rose gardens filled with thorns

Harlow:

Keep you second guessing like

"Oh my God, who is she?"

I get drunk on jealousy

But you'll come back each time you leave

Brynklie:

'Cause darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream

All:

So it's gonna be forever

Or it's gonna go down in flames

You can tell me when it's over

If the high was worth the pain

Got a long list of ex-lovers

They'll tell you I'm insane

'Cause you know I love the players

And you love the game

'Cause we're young and we're reckless

We'll take this way too far

It'll leave you breathless

Or with a nasty scar

Got a long list of ex-lovers

They'll tell you I'm insane (Kitty: Insane)

But I've got a blank space baby

And I'll write your name

Brynklie:

Boys only want love if it's torture

Mackenzie:

Don't say I didn't say I didn't warn ya

Brynklie, Mackenzie and Harlow:

Boys only want love if it's torture

All:

Don't say I didn't say I didn't warn ya

So it's gonna be forever

Or it's gonna go down in flames

You can tell me when it's over

If the high was worth the pain

Got a long list of ex-lovers

They'll tell you I'm insane

'Cause you know I love the players

And you love the game

'Cause we're young and we're reckless

We'll take this way too far

It'll leave you breathless

Or with a nasty scar

Got a long list of ex-lovers

They'll tell you I'm insane

But I've got a blank space baby

Bree:

And I'll write your name

After the applause died down, Finn said, "Our next performance is the boys singing Rude." The boys stood up and got ready to sing.

Jake:

Saturday morning jumped out of bed and put on my best suit

Got in my car and raced like a jet, all the way to you

Knocked on your door with heart in my hand

To ask you a question

'Cause I know that you're an old fashioned man yeah yeah

Carson:

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life? (All: Say yes, say yes)

'Cause I need to know

You say I'll never get your blessing till the day I die

Tough luck my friend but the answer is no!

All:

Why you gotta be so rude?

Don't you know I'm human too

Why you gotta be so rude

Carson:

I'm gonna marry her anyway

(Ryder: Marry that girl) Marry her anyway

(Jake: Marry that girl) Yeah no matter what you say

(Charlie: Marry that girl) And we'll be a family

Why you gotta be so rude

Charlie:

I hate to do this, you leave no choice

I can't live without her

Love me or hate me we will be boys

Standing at that alter

Or we will run away

To another galaxy you know

You know she's in love with me

She will go anywhere I go

Ryder:

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life? (All: Say yes, say yes)

'Cause I need to know

You say I'll never get your blessing till the day I die

Tough luck my friend cause the answer's still no!

Why you gotta be so rude?

Don't you know I'm human too

Why you gotta be so rude

I'm gonna marry her anyway

Ryder:

(Carson: Marry that girl) Marry her anyway

(Jake: Marry that girl) Yeah no matter what you say

(Charlie: Marry that girl) And we'll be a family

All:

Why you gotta be so rude?

Rude

Jake:

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life? (All: Say yes, say yes)

'Cause I need to know

You say I'll never get your blessing till the day I die

Tough luck my friend but no still means no!

All:

Why you gotta be so rude?

Don't you know I'm human too

Why you gotta be so rude

I'm gonna marry her anyway

Jake:

(Carson: Marry that girl) Marry her anyway

(Ryder: Marry that girl) Yeah no matter what you say

(Charlie: Marry that girl) And we'll be a family

All:

Why you gotta be so rude? (Charlie: Yeah, oh)

Why you gotta be so rude? (Ryder: Yeah)

Jake:

Why you gotta be so rude?

"So you agreed to have dinner with him," Marley asked Kitty as they stood backstage, waiting to begin the final performance of the week.

"Yeah," Kitty replied, "Is their something wrong with that?"

"No, it's just that he already left you hanging once. Who says he won't do it again."

"He did. I know what I'm doing."

"Okay," Marley skeptically.

"Ready," Bree whispered to everyone, "Finn just said we can come on."

Kitty:

We're a thousand miles from comfort, we have traveled land and sea

But as long as you are with me, there's no place I'd rather be

Macy:

I would wait forever, exalted in the scene

As long as I am with you, my heart continues to beat

Carson:

With every step we take, Kyoto to The Bay

Strolling so casually

Charlie:

We're different and the same, gave you another name

Switch up the batteries

Girls:

If you gave me a chance I would take it

It's a shot in the dark but I'll make it

Know with all of your heart, you can't shame me

When I am with you, there's no place I'd rather be

All:

N-n-n-no, no, no, no place I'd rather be

Marley:

Ooh ooh

Jake:

We staked out on a mission to find our inner peace

Make it everlasting so nothing's incomplete

Unique:

It's easy being with you, sacred simplicity

As long as we're together, there's no place I'd rather be

Ryder:

With every step we take, Kyoto to The Bay

Strolling so casually

Mackenzie:

We're different and the same, gave you another name

Switch up the batteries

Girls:

If you gave me a chance I would take it

It's a shot in the dark but I'll make it

Know with all of your heart, you can't shame me

When I am with you, there's no place I'd rather be

All:

N-n-n-no, no, no, no place I'd rather be

Brynklie:

When I am with you, there's no place I'd rather be (Bree: Yeah)

Bree:

Ooh

(Be)

Yeah-e-yeah-e-yeah-e-yeah-e-yeah, yeah, yeah

Girls:

If you gave me a chance I would take it

It's a shot in the dark but I'll make it

Know with all of your heart, you can't shame me

When I am with you, there's no place I'd rather be

All:

N-n-n-no, no, no, no place I'd rather be

Brynklie:

When I am with you, there's no place I'd rather be

Later that day, all of the past members of the Glee Club gathered in the Lima Bean.

"So what did you think of the new kids," Mercedes asked.

"That Brynklie is a piece of work," Santana said angrily.

"Hey, she's a cute kid," Quinn replied, "And clearly she's talented."

"She's Ryder's sister isn't she," Blaine asked. A few people nodded.

"What about everybody else," Kurt asked.

"Well," Tina began, "From what I heard from Kitty, Carson had a thing for Macy, but he screwed it up, which prevented, as she called it, Jarley 2.0. Charlie's a loner who Brynklie found in her science class. Harlow is a Brynklie clone. Mackenzie is a Cheerio who is there because of a punishment."

"You know what bothers me," said Rachel, who had been surprising quiet during the whole week, "Why are all of them freshman. I mean, none of them have even close to the amount of experience or talent that any of us had our first year, and do you want to know why?"

"Not particularly," Santana said, fully aware that Rachel was going to continue anyway.

"Because we were older," Rachel finished.

"Hey, Tina and I were freshman when we joined."

"But we were desperate," Rachel explained, "We only had three people at the time. Now the Glee Club has credits. We're winners. They don't need to be scrounging around for freshman who chose the first elective they saw on the list."

At the next booth, Brynklie's mouth dropped open.

I'm so sorry that this was late. I've been in the car for two days and only had wifi for ten minutes in a restaurant. I think I may change my update day to Sunday for a little while. My finals are in two weeks, so I think it would help to have that extra day during the weekend. Anyways, I'm sorry I wrote Brynklie and Harlow in such a mean way, but most of this was written at four in the morning in a cramped car on the highway, so that's where a majority of this came from.