Chapter Twelve

Myself and Noah spent the next week at home, since we didn't want to face school, the funeral was the following Sunday, and I don't think I have ever cried more than I did that day. It was now Monday and it was time for school. We dropped Darcy off to playgroup and then made our way to school. "Well let's get this show on the road," said Noah. "You'll be fine,"
"I know," I said. "But I can't help but feel nervous," We arrived ad got out of the car, Noah held my hand and we walked into the building.

Noah had double PE, but I had to go to my next lesson and it was then that I heard the comments. "I hear they had Aids," said one girl.
"Who cares, I'm glad they dead, it's disgusting what they were," said another.
"Hey freak," said one of the cheerleaders. "You didn't think anyone would feel sorry for you did you,"
"Leave me alone," I said. "Regardless of how you feel about my parents have some dignity,"
"Your parents were disgusting fags, who deserved what happened to them," she said.
"Shut up please," I said.

"And what makes it worse is that they allowed you to keep your bastard of a child," another said.
"My child is not a bastard," I said. "She has a father, whose name is on her birth certificate,"
"She was born out of wedlock," she said. "You and your parents should have been punished long ago,"
"Is everything okay here," said a voice, Quinn appeared beside me putting an arm around my apparently shaking shoulders.
"We were just giving our condolences," said one of them.
"I heard exactly what you said, and when the rest of the club finds out you'll be praying for mercy, and don't even get me started on Puck," she said. "Now get out of our way,"

They moved and Quinn pulled me into the nearest bathroom, and hugged me as I began to cry for the umpteenth time. "Your parents were amazing Rach," she said. "Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise,"
"I know, that," I said. "I just miss them so much, we both do,"
"It will get easier," she said. "I lost my dad when I started high school,"
"I'm sorry," I said.
"Don't be, my dad was a jerk," she said and we laughed. "Now come on or we'll have missed all of English,"

I felt much better, and she was right the glee club was pissed when they heard what had happened and publically humiliated the girls. Our last lesson today was double science, which we all had together. We had to mix some powdered stuff into water and then mix it into some chemical to see the reaction, I had no idea what this process was but our experiment went horribly wrong.

Well it started off well, but then me and Noah decided to stir things up a little, we put more of the powders in than necessary and then mixed them, into the other chemical, it fizzed and began to change colour, and then the jar exploded covering us in a sort of blue-green gooey substance. "You idiots guys this is a Gucci shirt," said Kurt and that did it I burst out laughing and it was infectious we laughed until tears ran down our cheeks.

"Go and get yourselves cleaned up guys," said our teacher, who looked slightly amused it had to be said. We walked into the auditorium showers since there were enough for all of us, of course Noah came in with me. "Don't play in the shower with us here," said Kurt. We got cleaned up and then got dressed, we always brought extra clothes. I checked time, it was time to go and pick up Darcy. We were the first to arrive for glee, and sat down and Noah just played random chords on his guitar and the three of us sang.

"Sounding good guys," said Mr Schue. The rest of the club filed in a couple of minutes later, "So guys, the judges at Regionals said they liked how we are all bonded together so I think for Nationals we should do a song that reflects that, Does anyone have any ideas,"
"I do," I said. "I know it sounds really stupid, but there was a song sang at the South Korean Olympics in 1988, that's really good, I think it could be a possibility, here I'll load it up on my laptop," (go onto you tube ad type in hand in hand koreana it will come up with the one performed at the Olympics that year).

We listened to the song and agreed it sounded good. "Oh I also think we should do a number where we can just be ourselves, us girls could do one like in our pajamas or something like we're at a sleepover and are singing into our hairbrushes,"
"That sounds brilliant Rach," said Mr Schue. "What song,"
"I don't know," I said. "Something fun that everybody knows,"
"How about Dancing Queen by Abba," said Quinn. "It's a great feel good song, but one that people know,"
"That sounds good," said Mr Schue.

"Can we do a Green Day song Mr Schue," said Noah.
"What song do you have in mind," he said.
"American Idiot, we could be like rockstars and the girls can be like the fans," he said.
"That also sounds good, we also need to do a song from a Musical," said Mr Schue, "And also an emotional song of sorts,"
"Why don't we do a medley," I said. "Of the musical songs, cuz there are so many good ones,"

"Okay well today then what we can do is pick out those, is that okay with everyone," he said. "Okay so give me some musicals and we can pick some songs from those," We decided upon You're The One That I Want/We Go Together from Grease, Getting To Know You from the King and I, and finally Somewhere Over the Rainbow, of which Noah and the guys would sing (Basically what Noah and Will sang in the Journey Episode I forgot the singer who sang that version). As we drove home that night, I felt happy and at peace, my parents death would haunt me for a very long time, but I really did feel on top of the world, I couldn't be happier in this moment.