Your Turn
DISCLAIMER: GLEE AND THEIR CHARACTERS DO NOT BELONG TO ME.
A/N: Yes, I do imagine that Rachel has freakish strength when she wants to.
Band Hero
Everyone enters in orderly fashion as Rachel expects and sits themselves around the large tv and game system now set up in the living room.
"Was this here before?" asks Mike as he stares in awe at the flatscreen tv. He only dreamed of something so big.
"Rachel is stronger than you'd think," Quinn states, her eyes looking hungry at the jewish girl. Rachel didn't notice though because she was busy going up the stairs to make sure Mercedes was okay.
"You helped her, right Q?" Santana asks in disbelief, trying to imagine Rachel moving the thing on her own.
"No, she didn't take my offer."
"Damn, she is a freak," the latina spits out, sitting down next to Brittany who had just placed Mr. Quacky on the top of the tv. It somehow kept its balance.
"Matt, go get something from her fridge, I'm starving!"
"Mike, is it just me or are you always eating?" asks Kurt from his place in the kitchen. Finn accidentally knocked his head into the counter so he was placing ice on the soft lump on his head.
"Maybe, it could just be you," the asian boy teases, grabbing one of the plastic guitars, "Anyway! I call guitar first!"
And that initiates the war for the plastic toys. Matt completely disregards Mike's request for food, well that and the only food left in the fridge were uncooked vegetables and what looked to be a holy sanctuary of fruit. Santana yanks the drum sticks for Brittany and Puck and Finn both reach for the other plastic guitar. Timidly but surely, Tina reaches for the mic and it turns out that Finn would go first then Puck for bass.
Now they all stare at each other.
"Rachel!" the room yells out. And as if on cue, Rachel marches down the stairs and creeps over to turn the machine on. Mercedes follows after, already in her pajamas with her hair in a towel. She looks pleased and refreshed.
"How's Kurt?" she asks right away, worried about her BFF. He was standing in the kitchen and drinking some water, the ice patch balancing perfectly on his head.
"I'm good, thank you," he replies, walking over to Mercedes and quickly giving her a kiss on her cheek. "Now I'll be taking a shower."
Before Rachel was able to instruct Kurt on where to go, Mercedes insisted on doing the deed instead. The young diva didn't mind of course, but she was clearly upset when the mic was already taken. She tries her best not to show any bitterness, but hey, it was Rachel Berry. She was practically oozing out the distaste for not going first.
"R-Rachel, you can go first if you want."
"No, no it's only fair if you go first Tina," Rachel manages to say with a straight face. "Here, pick your song and I'll just wait until afterwards."
"But I wanted to go next," Matt says, but when the room starts pressing down on him by the force of Rachel's eyes, he decided that maybe he didn't want to go. Like, at all. "Nevermind."
The smile that graces Rachel's face in that instant causes the smile on Quinn's face to grow as well. Rachel's eyes were focused on the screen, wondering how perfectly Tina could hit all the notes while the blonde's eyes were focused on how one of the buttons on Rachel's shirt was unfastened.
The song began smoothly and Santana cheers on the sidelines for her girlfriend. Brittany's difficulty was only on medium so it wasn't so bad. Turns out that she was pretty okay with it too.
"Look, San!" she says eagerly, turning to Santana and stopping the movement of her hands.
"Brittany!" Finn, Mike and Tina yell as the bar on Britt's drums was going down to red.
"Whoopsies."
Tina had picked Evanescence's Bring Me to Life and did amazingly on it. Rachel did her best though to not point out the fact that Tina was only on the difficulty of medium. Finn rocked out, hardcore, moving awkwardly to the bass of the song. Mike was on expert and nailing every singing note. It was obvious now what the boy did in his spare time.
"Okay everyone, time to switch!" Rachel shouts excitedly, nearly ripping the microphone out of Tina's hands. Artie takes the guitar from Mike and Puck takes the bass from Finn. Matt tried helplessly to reach for the drum sticks in Brittany's hands, but one look from Santana and the boy backed down.
When the next round of people were ready, Rachel decided that an introduction was necessary.
"This next song is Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. You may remember the song from the drug powered mash-up me and my fellow Glee gals did earlier in the school year. Anyway, we have me, Rachel Barbara Berry on the mic-
"Your middle name is Barbara?" Finn asks quickly.
"You didn't know that?" asks Puck, turning to his friend. "Dude, no wonder why she broke up with you."
"What? Shut up! You don't know anything!"
-Noah on the bass, Artie on the guitar and Brittany on the drums." Rachel was very good at ignoring, and ignore she did.
"Yay!" the blonde girl shouts from her position, hitting the buttons on her drum in excitement.
"Wait, Brittany!" shouts Rachel, nearly leaping towards the blonde in an attempt to stop her. Instead she lands on another blonde and the song choice changes to Mr. Roboto by Styx.
Trying her best to regain her composure and apologizing to Quinn for her hand being on her breasts, which in all honesty, neither girls minded, she stands up and attempts to pause the game in order to go back to her song choice.
"Guys! Can't we be mature?" she asks desperately as soon as she notices Santana and Matt holding the ps3 controller triumphantly.
"No, Berry, sing this song," Santana declares and Matt snickers, it was the closest thing to revenge he could accomplish. Both clearly knew what song Rachel was about to sing. It would prove to make the game even more interesting.
"But, but," she tries to formulate a perfectly reasonable reason as to why this is a bad song choice, but no words could come out. The song was already starting and-
"Rachel, if you don't sing, you'll lose to Tina," Puck points out right away, knowing exactly what spots to hit.
And those were the perfect words of encouragement.
"Besides, shouldn't Broadway stars and stuff be uh, versatile and ready for anything?" the other jew continues, readying his rock star pose for the rest of the song.
The young Diva didn't even need that statement, she already got her mojo running. Of course she knew this song, it was one of her dad's favourites.
"Domo arigato, Mistah Roboto. Mata o hima de. Domo arigato, Mistah Roboto. Himitsu wo shiri tai."
As she begins to sing, fits of laughter burst throughout the room.
"Oh. My. God," calls the fab duo from the staircase as Rachel finishes the intro. Quinn turns to her curvaceous friend, tears in her eyes from the laughter. The jewish girl was waaaay too into it.
"I've got a secret I've been hiding, under my skin."
Each note was hit perfectly and the diva even added her own little dance moves to the mix. Her eyes were so focused on the screen that anyone could bet that lazers were just waiting to come out.
"Go Rachel!" Finn calls from the sidelines, admiring his ex-girlfriend. A strange coldness sweeps through his brow and down his shirt and the tall boy peers to his fellow Glee clubbers to see what was going on. It was only when hazel eyes pierce his own when he felt like he was swallowing his tongue. He decides that he wouldn't say anything for the rest of the night.
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As the song came to an end, the much anticipated "I'm Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy! ...Kilroy..." came out perfectly and oh so dramatically. As was expected of Rachel Berry. When she finishes, her face is flushed and embarrassment was quick to her features. However, when the whole room started clapping for her, all those bad feelings went away.
"Thank you, thank you," she begins to say, bowing before her audience, "Of course, someone like myself could-"
"Shut up, Berry, my turn to sing," Santana interrupts, grabbing the mic from her hands. Poor Matt would have to wait a bit longer.
Rachel was about to complain when a certain blonde called for her to sit next to her. Not to be rude, of course, the brunette listens and sits herself beside Quinn. She wants to move away as soon as a hand snakes around her waist, but something else made her too scared. And another part of her wanted it. Like, really badly.
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10 songs later and everyone's had their chance to do whatever. Well, no one else besides Brittany got the drums since Santana rules with an iron fist and all, but they were all content with the results.
Finally releasing herself from Quinn's grip- to her and the blonde's dismay, Rachel stands up to move away the plastic objects with the help of Puck and Finn and makes space for the dance pads for their next game.
The second Mike sees the dance pads, he jumps up and down and yells, "Hell yes! Dance dance revolution!"
A/N: Thanks for the continued support guys! Another chapter should be out either later tonight or tomorrow.