DISCLAIMER: Bla bla bla, I don't own Glee, Ryan Murphy and FOX does. It'd be cool if I did though. ;)
Here it is: the second chapter. :)
I'm gonna try to add another chapter at least two times a week, until school starts again.
Enjoy. :)
CHAPTER TWO
Somehow the bus got there at the same time that Quinn's mom's car did. She was rushed into the hospital room while the rest of the team crowded into the small waiting room.
Finn was bent over in his chair, staring at the ground. His knee bopping up and down. He didn't know why though. It wasn't his baby. Well, at least not anymore. He's moved on and accepted that all the feelings he felt for his unborn child were never real. They were real, but they didn't belong to him. They belonged to Puck. It was his burden now.
He tells himself that he's only worried for Quinn. He may not be in love with her anymore, but she was still his friend and teammate. But there's a part deep inside of him, very deep, that still cared for her. But he wouldn't admit it. Especially not to Rachel.
Finn's nearly gone insane from the obnoxious ticking clock in the waiting room when Puck walks in, timidly.
"Quinn's fine. The baby's beautiful." Puck says.
A collective sigh came from the mouths of everyone in the waiting room.
Puck looks to the ground. He starts to sob uncontrollably.
"She's so beautiful."
Finn doesn't know what to say. He's never seen Puck like this. The only feelings Finn thought Puck had was the one in his pants. He guesses that there's more than one side to him.
Suddenly everyone in the room gets up and puts there hands on Puck's shoulders. Everyone is silent.
GLEE
"It's time to try defying gravity!", screams Rachel's cell phone. Rachel reaches into her bright pink duffel bag and pulls out the phone.
"Finn? How's Quinn? Is the baby alright?"
"Yah Rach- they're both great."
Rachel sighs in relief.
"How's Noah taking it?"
"Uh Puck's doing okay, I guess."
"Good."
"Well I'll see you when we get back for awards. I love you."
"Love you too, Finn."
Rachel clicks End on her cell phone and replaces it in her bag. She's back in their dressing room. She heard Vocal Adrenaline perform earlier. She admits to herself that they were good, but they didn't have either heart of soul in them. All they did was sing and dance, like a group of robots. They weren't New Directions.
Afterward she had met up with her birth mother and the director of Vocal Adrenaline, Shelby Corcoran. Rachel proposed to her that she could teach at McKinley High, alongside Mr. Schuester. But she declined. She said she wanted a family. That her days of coaching Glee club were over.
In other words, Rachel knew, she didn't want her anymore.
Back in the room, Rachel starts to sob. She doesn't know why. Something inside of her told her that Shelby would decline her, that she would ruin her dreams and shatter any hope she had of having a mother. But she asked anyway. She loved her dads until the end of the world, of course, but she always wanted someone to talk to- about boys, and makeup, and clothes and other stuff that only a mother would know about.
Rachel tells herself to stop. She needs to be strong. She needs to move on. So she stops crying, and fixes her makeup in a mirror.
But one things makes her happy about the situation- Vocal Adrenaline wouldn't have Shelby either next year.
GLEE
Three groups of teens pile onto a stage. Every single one wants the same thing: To be a champion.
Finn Hudson isn't one for waiting, so his foot is tapping a mile a minute.
"Rachel, you know whatever happens, win or lose, I'm still gonna love you, right?" he said before they went onto the stage.
"Yes, Finn." Rachel grabs his hand and leads him past the curtains, where Vocal Adrenaline and Aural Intensity are waiting.
It seems like Ms. Sylvester can't say who won fast enough.
All he can think about is how he wants to punch that Jesse kid's face in. But he figures he'll leave that to Puck, for a later day.
He can see the back of Rachel's head, who's at the front of the group next to Mercedes and Artie. One of her hands is holding Artie's. Mr. Schue's hand is on Kurt's shoulder.
Ms. Sylvester announces Aural Intensity as the runner ups.
Finn claps, but he knows this isn't good. He believes in his team, but there's still a foreboding thought in the back of his mind: failure.
The runner ups get off the stage and New Directions closes up the gap between them and Vocal Adrenaline. It seems like electric shocks are being sent off the bodies of the opposing teams' members, from the close proximity to the "enemy".
Finn can't stand looking at the crowd anymore. It's like during a football game and everyone in the bleachers are staring at him, hoping that he can pick up the slack and win for a change. He doesn't handle pressure well. So he closes his eyes.
The anticipation builds, and then it's over. The true winners are announced: Vocal Adrenaline.
Finn hopes Rachel doesn't turn around to look at him, because if she did he might bawl like a baby at seeing her face. The disappointment. The anger. The sadness. So many emotions. And Rachel has never been good at hiding her emotions.
Artie mumbles something, but Finn has already blocked everything out. His gaze changes from the ground to the walls to the crowd, trying not to tear up.
He can almost hear the sad music playing, the violin with it's melancholy melody. The sign of defeat.
He'll be a Lima Loser forever.
GLEE
Rachel is devastated. First, her team lost, and now Glee club is over. It may be odd to say that show choir changed your life, but this certainly rang true for Rachel. Without it she would've continued to not have friends, she would hate herself inside, and she wouldn't have found Finn. And now it's all over.
But even worse than her, Mr. Schuester seemed to be taking it even harder. The couple of days after Regionals it was like he lost his will to live. They didn't even have Glee rehearsal after school. Rachel couldn't stand to see him like this. So she had an idea. And the perfect song.
Rachel brought Mr. Schue to the auditorium, where they would sing for him for the last time. Everyone in the group was sitting on bar stools, in a slight curve formation stretching across the stage. She lead him to his directors' desk, and she took her seat next to Finn, in the center of the stage.
Each member said their peace. They talked about how Glee changed their life. And how no matter whether they lost or if they hadn't, those things would never change.
It was Finn's statement that touched her the most. He said how he didn't have a father figure before Glee, and how Mr. Schue provided that. Which was very brave of him to say. She was proud of Finn.
Glee club would never end. Mr. Schue was Glee club.
The strings begin, and the group breaks into song, each teen singing a line of the song.
Those school girl days of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind I know they will still live on and on
But how do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume
It isn't easy, but I'll try
It was beautiful. It seemed like the ending to a long chapter in all of their lives. Mr. Schue was teary-eyed through the whole performance,and even the most introverted, hardest kids in the group cried. They had grown up together.
To sir, with love
GLEE
Rachel's head is leaning on Finn's shoulder, and his hand is in hers. He exchanges looks with Quinn and Kurt and Puck, silently resolving all of the problems that he had with each of them over the past year. The longest nine months of his life.
They have another year. Somehow, some way, by some force of the Greek gods he didn't bother learning about in English class, they had another year.
Mr. Schuester is strumming away on his ukelele, while Puck mans the guitar. They sing.
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
He's never felt more love in one room before. It's an odd feeling, one that he's never had before.
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why, can't I?
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