Hi my lovely readers! I'm sorry for the no update for a couple of days, I had some things to take care of. But here's chapter twelve! I hope you'll enjoy it!

CHAPTER TWELVE

"Girl, this needs to stop."

Gina enters the choir room that day to find the entire Glee clubbers standing right in front of the door, blocking her way and glaring at her. Most of the girls, like Unique, Tina, and Kitty, have their arms crossed in front of their chests. One thing is for sure: they look unhappy.

"Um…" Gina shifts her weight from one foot to another, uncomfortable. "Okay, this looks like one of those teenage angst movies where you're all going to jump at me and assault me. So before anyone gets hurt… what's up?"

"We know you're dating Tweety bird," Kitty exclaims.

Gina looks pissed off immediately. "Oh, so that is what it's all about? Nick?" she asks.

"Dude, what the hell?" Sam blurts out, stepping forward from the group. "Gina, you can't be with a Warbler! Those guys are bad news! Bad news, you hear me? They're evil! It's like sleeping with the enemy!"

"Fraternizing," Ryder shoots him a warning look. "I'd rather you say fraternizing."

"It's the same thing," Sam says. "Look, whatever, you can't be with a Warbler, man!"

"Why? Has dating someone from the Warblers suddenly gone illegal?" Gina retorts.

"Look, the Warblers are nice, but they have tried to sabotage us several times already," Tina explains. "Who knows what other tricks they have up their sleeves?"

"Remember that time they stole our Nationals trophy just to get Blaine back into Dalton?" Sam points out. "Not to mention when they threw this rock salt slushie that almost blinded Blaine, and they ran away without even saying anything! I told you, they're evil!"

"Oh, come on," Gina sighs. "You've got to stop with the rivalry obsession already. Yeah, they tried to sabotage you, but that was when you were competing against each other. We are going to Regionals. The Warblers are not. They're not even your competitors anymore, so stop with all the fuss! Get over it, people!"

"Gina, you're not listening to us," Artie joins in. "We've had more than our fair share of bad experiences with the Warblers, and we know that they're not someone to trust."

"So far, Nick has proven otherwise," Gina says challengingly, glaring at everyone.

Tina looks around the choir room and spots the person she's looking for, leaning against the piano, quietly listening to the commotion.

"Blaine!" Tina calls him so suddenly he nearly jumps out of his skin. "Come here and tell Gina that dating Nick is a bad idea."

"Um…" Blaine gives everyone a tentative look. "Um… I don't want to start anything, but… Nick's kind of one of the nicest guys in the Warblers." When Sam, Tina, Unique, and Kitty glare at him, he says hurriedly, "I'm just saying, Nick and I were pretty close, and I don't think he's a bad guy. He's friendly, and I think he's… okay."

"Thank you, Blaine," Gina says, relieved that at least someone is on her side. "Coming from a former Warbler, I'd say he's right."

Gina watches in silent rage as all her friends start complaining again about Nick. She knows they are just trying to protect her, and that she should be grateful to have such caring friends, but she can't help but feel annoyed at them. They have not met Nick; they have not gone on a date with him, or spent the entire weekend talking to him on the phone. They don't know him at all. The more they try to tell her that Nick is bad for her, the more she wants to prove them otherwise.

I'll show them, she promises to herself, growing even more defensive of her feelings for Nick. I'll show them that they're all wrong about him.

"Girl, I'm telling you again, that boy is bad news." Unique says.

"Why?" Gina whips her head so sharply that Unique takes a step back. Her eyes glow with anger. Bits of the old, mean Gina is back. "Why do you hate him so much? He's done nothing wrong to any of you. He hasn't done anything wrong to me. He's not Hunter, he's not Sebastian. Blaine knows him, and you heard him yourselves. He's not the bad guy, and he hasn't proven otherwise. Why do you hate him so much?" Gina feels like kicking one of the chairs around her, but she urges herself to calm down.

Count to ten whenever you want to explode, she hears Ryder's words in her head. She locks eyes with Ryder, who grimaces at her, not knowing what to say. Or sing a song. Something you like –

Ryder. Screw him. He hates Nick too.

Gina glares at all of them, hands clenched into fists, face flushed with rage.

"What do you all care, anyway?" she asks, trying hard to keep her voice under control. "It's my personal life. My choice. It doesn't have anything to do with you." She nudges her chin at Unique and Kitty. "You two don't even like me. Why bother?"

Before she explodes and before any of the kids can react, Gina storms out of the choir room. She'll skip Glee club today. She's just not in the mood.

Gina is almost at the front doors of the school when someone calls her name. She whirls around to find Kitty running up to her. Gina clenches her jaw tight; she readies herself for another verbal war.

But to her surprise, before she even opens her mouth, Kitty raises her hands in defeat. "I'm not here to insult you this time."

"Wow, shocker." Gina murmurs.

"Look, I know you're probably going to burst like a horrible zit on the face with rage right now, but the guys were right," she says. "That Warbler guy? He's bad news for you."

Gina searches Kitty's face for any sign for mockery, and is confused when she can't find any. The blonde cheerleader is not even smiling. For once, Kitty is actually serious.

"Aren't you supposed to be the one all smiley about this?" Gina asks, still bewildered at Kitty's drastic change of attitude. "You know, aren't you going to clap your hands and go, 'oh, you got yourself a Warbler for a boyfriend! That's great! Now you can go die out of crack overload with your ears bleeding cheesy boy band hits from the 90s!'?"

Kitty gives her a "you're-so-stupid-I-can't-believe-you're-real" look. "Look, midget Panda, I know you and I got off on the wrong foot, but this time, I'm actually trying to do something nice for you. Me doing something nice is like Christmas, you wait for it for a long time and it's over in a blink of an eye. So you better be grateful about it."

"I don't see how insulting my date could be considered a nice deed." Gina mumbles.

"Panda, listen to me. I know people. I can see past all those hair gel and dusty blazers that he's not someone to trust."

Gina doesn't say anything for a moment. She scrutinizes Kitty, focusing on her face, trying to look into her soul. "Why do you care, Kitty?" she asks then, out of pure curiosity. "Why do you care about what happens to me? Why did you even try to catch up with me in the first place? Wouldn't you be happier if I was miserable?"

Kitty shrugs. "You're a part of Glee club," she says. "As much as I want to bite the heads off those bimbos and Beyonce-wannabes, I have love for them. Those gleeks are my family. You're one of them now, and my family doesn't get hurt. Only I get to torture you."

Gina stares at Kitty, totally flabbergasted now. She just said what? Did Kitty Wilde just admit openly to her that she loves her?

"So," Kitty says, snapping back into her bitchy self. The angelic side of Kitty is gone in one quick moment. "Ditch the Tweety bird. Find somebody else. I don't know, go date Bieberhair or Joe or something."

Gina purses her lips. "I appreciate what you're doing here for me, Kitty, I really do, but I'm sorry," she says, backing off her. "Nick is kind of the only one who makes me feel good about myself right now. I'm not going to cut him off just because you have a gut feeling that he might be evil." She grimaces. "You should go back, Kitty. I think Glee club's about to start. Tell Mr. Schue I'll come tomorrow."

She rushes out the front doors before Kitty can say another word to her.

What's this? Kitty's being all nice to Gina! Do you think Gitty can ever be friends?