Chapter Three
The Assignment

"Hello guys!"
Mr Schuester strolled into the classroom cheerfully. Kelly was sat at the back of the classroom and ducked when Mr Schuester walked in. He began to explain something about verbs in Spanish. Ever since the glee club meeting Kelly attended to yesterday, she decided to take a few days to make her decision about whether or not to join the New Directions, so she thought the best way to do that was to avoid people nagging her about joining. The one thing that kept Kelly wondering, was how they trusted that Kelly could sing? They surely didn't know anything about her, where she came from, what her background story was, and she hadn't told Kurt or anyone else about her life before Ohio. Spanish class was Kelly's worst class. She wasn't very good at Spanish, and she never had been and probably never will be. The hour of Spanish droned on… then the bell rang.
Kelly packed all her things up and legged it to the door when Mr Schuester called out her name.
"Kelly!"
She wanted to keep on running but there were no other Kelly's in her class and because he yelled out her name again.
"Kelly!"
She froze. Then slowly turned around.
"Yes?"
She mumbled avoiding his eyes.
"Can you hang back for a minute; I'd like to talk to you."
She gave a slight nod and dragged herself to his desk, where he was shuffling pieces of paper together trying to organise his desk, but Kelly could tell her was having lots of trouble trying to do that. His entire desk was full of folders, empty staple boxes, pieces of spare paper and pens everywhere.
Once everyone had left for lunch, he turned to Kelly and crossed his arms.
"So, I wanted to talk to you about glee club."
The very thing Kelly was dreading this would be about.
"I just know how much everyone in glee club really wants you to join, and thought I would try to convince you."
He continued.
"Glee club will help you to settle in to McKinley, and as soon as you try glee club out, you'll love it, I just know you will."
"Mr Schue, I told Kurt I would think about it. I'm just not sure if glee club is really what I need at the moment with everything going on in my life. I really appreciate the offer and I will think about it, but I guess I just need everyone to let me make this decision by myself."
"I understand, but how about you join in in this week's assignment and try it out for a week and then if you don't like it or it's too much, you can quit. How does that sound?"
Kelly knew there was no way of escaping this. The more Kelly thought about the offer the more she liked it. Mr Schuester held his hand out to her. I guess joining the New Directions will mean more time at school, which means more time to avoid Dad. Perfect! She thought to herself. She took his hand and said to him,
"Deal!"
And with that she grabbed her bag and rummaged through looking for her phone and once she had found it, she texted Nathan:
Dad,
Gonna be home a bit later, got a glee club meeting.
Kelly.
And then she strode off to lunch.

When she arrived at the choir room, Rachel Berry was the first to notice her return.
"What are you doing here? I thought you didn't like our glee club?"
She said quickly and rudely.
"I'm here for this week."
"Wait what?"
She turned away from Kelly and went straight to Mr Schuester's office, leaving Kelly standing alone.
Rachel Berry was the typical schoolgirl. Her clothes were schoolgirl-like, her attitude reminded Kelly of what she was like at a younger age, she was nothing but annoying and Kelly noticed that she was rather dwarfish.
Kurt, shocked to see me there (I didn't meet up with him at lunch because him and Blaine went to the Lima Bean, café), came right over to me as soon as he arrived.
"You changed your mind?"
He asked me hoping I had.
"I never made my mind up to change it in the first place. Anyway, Mr Schue asked me to join in this week's assignment and glee club meetings and then said I had the weekend to decide whether I wanted to join or not. So I am doing just that and am joining the glee club for this week, if that's ok with you guys?"
He gave her a 'don't be silly' look. Just as they started talking about the assignment, this time Kelly was able to join in the conversation, Mr Schuester walked in with a very infuriated Rachel Berry.
She could hear Rachel saying something to Mr Schue. Something like I told you!
"Right guys, let's get started. Before we do I would like to make an announcement."
He hushed everyone down.
"This week we are going to have a guest member, Kelly Clark!"
He pointed at Kelly. When Mr Schuester earlier told Kelly that everyone wanted her to join, she could tell he wasn't being completely honest or clear. Everyone but Rachel Berry wanted Kelly to join because she was fully aware that Rachel was completely against the idea and Kelly couldn't understand why, or what she had done to make her hate her so much.
A part from a few evil looks from Rachel the glee club meeting went well. They discussed Taylor Swift songs and what some of them meant and things like that. By the end of the lesson, Kelly knew exactly what song she was going to sing for the assignment and she was hoping no-one else would do it.
Change. This is the perfect song for me. It explains everything perfectly.
Kelly didn't hang out with Kurt and the others after today's glee club meeting, she wanted to get home and work on the assignment.