Chapter two
First draft
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BRAD ELLIS
And so we come to the final arrangement of the club for the year.
Barbra Addison, of course, takes lead, with Matthew Hall as her male counterpoint and all others left to bask in their glowing wake.
Stephen Anthony is demoted to a background spot, as is Joanne "Beyonce-not-Kelly-Rowland" Davison. Alexander is content for the moment just to feel accepted somewhere amongst these others, as is Katie, finally given the chance to express themselves.
Then we meet the new arrivals:
First, we find Roxanne Martinez, a short-tempered young woman with a skirt length to match. With her, Clara Lindsey, devastatingly innocent and oddly tragic. To complete this trio, Lucy Jones, who was one of those girls that everyone looked up to, that every teenage girl wants to be; pretty, popular, a cheerleader and president of the celibacy club.
A number of football players have also been converted and baptised and put through the initiation ritual required to join "Homo Explosion". William Thomas, resident badass and so cool that he can only be referred to as Tom, joins his comrade Matthew, as does Jack Michaels, bedroom dancer and Mark Crawford, slow, silent and one of those people who you don't notice when they're there, but you do notice once they're gone.
Together, under the ever-growing expertise of Mr. Williams, they become our original cast. Some will fall in, others will fall out, but they form the core.
There is a picture, framed in the school hallway, of the old Lillian Adler. Next to it stands her Nationals trophy, and beneath it a single sentence:
"By its very definition, Glee is about opening yourself up to joy."
And it's with this in mind that the club begins to grow.
NOTE: REMEMBER TO GO BACK AND THINK OF NAMES FOR MINOR CHARACTERS. NOTE WHEN INSPIRATION STRIKES FOR ANY NAMES.