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Chapter 3

Emily was in the bathroom getting changed after Cheerios practice. Emily took out of her phone and put on ABBA, her favorite band and started singing along with "Lay All of Your Love on Me." She changed out of her uniform and and fixed her make-up. She put everything back into her bag and walked out and saw Mr. Schuester standing there looking stunned. "Mr. Schuester, are you alright?"

"Huh, oh yeah, Emily, I'm fine. Is there anyone else in there?"

"Umm, not that I'm aware of. It was just me in there."

"Just you?"

"Yup, see you around, Mr. Schuester." she said.

The next day, Emily was called into Mr. Schuester's office and she saw Finn sitting there with a scared expression on his face. "Ummm, what's going on?"

"Take a seat, Emily. Now do you know why you're here?"

"No, what's this all about?"

"I found this in your locker. Does this mean anything to you?" Mr. Schuester slid something across his desk and Emily picked it up. When she saw that it was a little envelope filled with marijuana, her eyes widened.

"Mr. Schuester, I've never done drugs in my whole life." Emily said.

"Neither have I. We'll pee in a cup. We'll pee in a cup. We'll pee." Finn said.

"It doesn't matter. Possession is eight tenths of the law. I'm pretty sure that much pot is a felony. Yeah. You two are going to get kicked out of school and you'll lose your scholarships."

"Wait we got scholarships? Where?"

"This is a serious problem son. Look I see so much of myself in the two of you. I expect more out of the two of you."

"What? I can't go to jail!" Emily said getting out of her seat.

"Sit down, Emily. I don't want to turn you two in. Now, the way I see it you two have two choices. I am running afternoon detentions and you two can have detention for the next six weeks and it goes on your permanent records."

"O.k. what is option two?" Finn asked.

"Option two, definitely." If this went on her permanent record, colleges would never accept her, not to mention Coach Sylvester would probably kill her.

"You two can join Glee Club."

"Glee Club?"

Later that day, Finn and Emily were up on stage with the rest of the Glee club singing "You're the One That I Want."

During Rachel's part, she walked across the stage and had this crazy look in her eyes. She grabbed Finn's hand and started pulling him back and forth. Finn looked at Emily for help but she just shrugged her shoulders and looked at Kurt. All of a sudden Mercedes screamed, "Oh hell no. I'm not down with this whole background singing nonsense. I'm Beyonce. I ain't no Kelly Roland."

"O.k. Mercedes, it's just one song." Mr. Schuester said.

"And it's the first time we've been kinda good." Kurt added.

"O.k. You're good white boy. I'll give you that. But you better bring it. Let's run it again."

"Alright. From the top."

In Glee practice, Mr. Schuester informed them that that Saturday, they would be going to Carmel High to watch Vocal Adrenaline. Emily was lucky that her Cheerios practice was early in the morning so she didn't have to ask Coach for the afternoon off but Finn wasn't as lucky.

At Carmel High, Emily sat next to Kurt for the performance. She really liked all of the people in the club, except Rachel. They weren't able to find common ground, since Rachel thought she was better than everyone else and tried to always belittle all of their contributions. Still, despite all of that, Emily couldn't deny that Rachel had one of the most amazing voices she's ever heard.

When the performance was over, all of their faces were ones of fear and shock. Tina stuttered out, "We're daaaadoommed."

Afterwards, Emily approached their coach and said, "Mr. Schuester, there's no way we can beat them. They were like a singing dancing army."

"Hey, don't worry about that. We'll get better and we'll find our army song." But he was unconvincing.

"If you say so."

"Hey, what happened to you." Emily asked her brother when she saw him covered in paint.

"Puck and the guys found out why I ditched practice. They had paintball guns."

"Puck is a jerk."

That monday, Mr. Schuester called them into the auditorium and announced his departure from the school.

"You're leaving us. When?" Artie asked.

"I've given my two weeks notice. But I promise, I'm going to find you guys a great replacement before I go."

"Is this because those Carmel kids were so good? Because we can work harder." Mercedes asked.

"This isn't fair, Mr. Schuester. We can't do this without you." Rachel said.

"So does that mean that Em and I don't have to be in Glee club anymore?" Emily slapped her brother for being so insensitive.

"This isn't about you guys. Being an adult is about making difficult choices. It's not like high school. Sometimes you have to give up the things that you love. One day you guys are going to grow up and understand that. I have loved being your teacher." And with that Mr. Schuester walked away.

The next day, Emily was called into Coach Sylvester's office. "You wanted to see me, Coach?"

"Yes. Take a seat, Em." Emily sat down uncomfortably in front of her. "So what is this I hear about one of my star cheerleaders and my Co-captain about joining the Glee club?" She said with utter disdain.

"Oh well it was between that and detention."

"Detention? For what?"

"Something stupid. But it doesn't matter, it's over now. Mr. Schuester is leaving so I'm not in Glee club anymore."

"Well good. I'll see you at practice."

Emily walked into practice that afternoon and was immediately confronted by all of the other Cheerios about being in Glee club. "Seriously, Em, what would possess you to join the Glee club?" Quinn asked after fifteen minutes of berating her along with Santana and Brittany.

"Maybe I like singing, did you ever think of that?" Emily said starting to get really annoyed that they wouldn't drop the topic.

"What so you're going to be one of those losers now?"

"Santana, anyone that lives in this town is a loser. Most of the people that are born here are because they can't get out of here. I've accepted that I'm a Lima loser." Emily said walking out of the lockerroom.

"So what you're quitting the Cheerios for Glee?"

"No, I'm doing both." She said walking to the auditorium where she ran into Finn and Artie.

"Hey, Em, where are you headed?"

"Glee club."

"Us too. Let's go." Artie said.

They walked onto the stage only to hear Rachel arguing with everyone else about the dance moves.

"This is a closed rehearsal." Kurt said.

"Look, Em and I owe you guys an apology. We never should have quit. I don't want to be the guy that drives around and throws eggs at people."

"That was you?" Rachel asked.

Kurt started listing all of the things the jocks had done to torture him.

"Look that isn't who I am. And I'm tired of it. This is what I want to be doing. With you guys. I used to think this was the lamest thing on earth and maybe it is, but we're all here for the same reason. Cause we want to be good at something."

Finn started giving everyone assignments. Rachel and Emily were going to be doing choreography together. They got everything ready and set up a performance for just themselves but Mr. Schuester came to watch them. Puck and some of the Cheerios came to watch them sing "Don't Stop Believing."

"Good guys. It's a nine. We need a ten."

"Does this mean you're staying?"

"It would kill me to see you win Nationals without me. From the top."