Just to clarify things that I am sure will be a bit confusing. My story takes place in a world where "The Glee Project" doesn't exist. This is because I was going to have my story in a season three universe, and obviously, we all know that Samuel and Damian are going to be around for that so….. Having said that, this chapter might seem a bit odd. It is a flashback chapter. This is the first week of school Lilly is at, and will showcase her audition for 'The New Directions', as well as the first time she meets Kurt.

Hey family;

So, this is the first of a long line of e-mail I promised to write. I am well. Actually, I'm loving it here. School in the states was not what I was expecting. What was I expecting? I guess that I was expecting the news of my friendship with the glee club kids, to mean a slushee on my first day. Having said that, we all got the shock of a lifetime today. But before I tell you about it, I should give you the news from the rest of the week…. I have found myself in a bit of a 'soap'. I mean I love the glee kids…. They are great! But they have more romantic baggage that all the members of 'Gossip Girl' and 'Smallville' put together. It's like everyone here has been in a relationship with someone else in the club. Except Kurt.

Let me explain. Tina and Mike are together, but Tina was with Artie. Who was with Brittany. Brittany and Santana have this weird thing going that nobody but me sees. Puck was with Lauren last year, and Rachel and Quinn the year before. Rachel, Quinn and Finn have this weird love triangle thing going. Sam had a thing with Quinn, but when she cheated with Finn, he broke it off and was going with Santana. Like I said "soap". And then I found out that there is a weird tradition where the couple(s) that sings a duet together, ends up dating! So now everyone (because of my impromptu performance at Rachel's house, everyone now thinks that Sam and I are gonna' be the "next big thing". Really? Why? I mean, Sam is a great guy and all, I'm just not interested in dating right now. I mean realistically, What's the point? I mean I am only going to be here for a year. I just don't think it would be a good idea.

Anyway. My classes are great. I have been really noticing the differences between Canadian schooling and American. English is pretty much the same. So is Chemistry. They don't have French here, so I'm taking Spanish. They only bad thing about that is that I'm going to be behind in my French, so I've taken a bunch of French books out from the public library, that way I won't lose it all! History is interesting. I guess they go into so much detail about American History that they kind of just skim over the history of other places. The teacher, Mr. Rose, has asked me if I would like to do a presentation on Canada when it comes time to "skim over" that section of the class. I said yes of course. I mean what better way for my class-mates to learn about Canada then from a Canadian? The math curriculum is interesting. It is completely different than what we do in Canada. On top of those courses, I have a study period. Then only other 'course' I'm taking is glee.

Which brings me to my news. Sort of. On the first day of school, I was the first on in the choir room. I guess the study period is at a different time of the day for everyone. And as it turns out mine is right before glee. Anyway. I was sitting at the piano playing 'Red Sails In The Sunset' when I heard a voice singing along with me. I looked up from the piano to see a guy I had never seen before. He was dressed very fashionably. Like he had just stepped off the run-way, and I knew it was Kurt. I smiled at him and we finished singing the song together. When we were done, he came over and offered me is hand. Shaking it I introduced myself.

"Hi. I'm Lilly. You must be Kurt. Rachel and Mercedes have told me all about you."

He laughed and asked me how my first day had gone. I smiled and told him that if someone asked me again if I lived in an igloo, I was going to need to hit something. He laughed and said that it was normal. Then he asked me if I was trying out for the 'New Directions'. I laughed and told him that Rachel and the others would skin me alive if I didn't. That was when the bell rang and the rest of the kids started to file into the room. I had only seen Rachel since the day I sang for them. I guess they were all busy with it being the last week of summer and all. They were all happy to see me and couldn't wait to hear what I had picked out for an audition. Santana "begged" me to sing something other than a country song. I smiled at that, and reassured her that the song I had picked out was not a country song. Mr. Schue welcomed everyone and asked me when I wanted to do my audition. Rachel spoke up then and said that I was ready to do it right then. I glared at her when she said that. I mean it's not like I was uncomfortable singing in front of them, but I would have liked to practice a bit more.

I said that I could sing right then, so we all headed off the auditorium. Don't ask me why. I guess in order to do a proper audition it had to be done in the auditorium, on the stage. Once everyone was sitting, Rachel turned off the main lights so the only light came from the back lights on the stage. I sat on a tall bar stool in the middle of the stage, with the mike in front of me. Between the mike and I was a keyboard. I counted to three and then started to play. The music coming from the keyboard was soon joined by my voice.

What do you do when you're stuck,
Cause' the one that you love,
Has pushed you away,
And you can't deal with the pain,
And now you're trying to fix me,
Mend what he did,
I'll find the piece that I'm missing,
But I still miss him,
I miss him, I'm missing him,
Oh I miss him, I miss him, I'm missing him

And you're sitting in the front row,
Wanna' be first in line,
Waiting by my window,
Giving me all your time,
You could be my hero,
If only I could let go,
But his love is still in me,
Like a broken arrow.
Like a broken arrow.

He's the thorn in my flesh
That I can't take out
He's stealing my breath
When you're around,
And now you're trying to convince me,
He wasn't worth it,
But you can't complete me,
he's the thought that is missing,

I miss him, I'm missing him,
Oh I miss him, I miss him, I'm missing him,

And you're sitting in the front row,
Wanna' be first in line,
Waiting by my window,
Giving me all your time,
You could be my hero,
If only I could let go,
But his love is still in me,
Live a broken arrow,
Like a broken arrow.

What do you do
When your hearts in two places?
You feel great but you're torn inside.
You feel love but you just can't embrace it,
When you found the right one at the wrong time.

And you're
Sitting in the front row,
Wanna' be first in line,
Waiting by my window,
Giving me all your time,
You could be my hero,
If only I could let go,
But his love is still in me,
Like a broken arrow.
Like a broken arrow...

I think everyone was a bit shocked at my performance. When I was done they just sat there with these blank looks on their faces. I mean they had heard me sing before, and I didn't think I did a bad job of the song. Trying to lighten the somber mood, I smiled and laughed into the mike.

"Come on now guys, I didn't do that bad did I?"

I guess that shook them out of their stupor because they all started to clap and cheer. I quite quickly got embarrassed and stepped down off of the stage. By that point, it was time for us to all go home. And so we did. Mr. Schue mentioned as we all left, that he was happy to welcome me as our newest member.

When Rachel and I got out to the parking lot, Mercedes and Kurt were waiting for us. They told us that they were going to go out for coffee and wanted to know if we would come with. When we got to the coffee shop, I saw that almost everybody from glee club was there. Rachel and I laughed at the irony of the situation and soon found ourselves sitting at a table with the rest of the group. Minus Puck and Finn that is. I guess they both had to work. I spent the next hour telling them what it was like living in Canada.

"Well, for starters, the city that I live in has about 50 thousand people. It's actually more than that, but…. It's mostly a farming/oil field community. When I left, there was a statistic going around that said when you take into account the surrounding area that we give service to, it's closer to a million people."

"That seems like a lot."

I smiled at Santana's comment.

"For the amount of people, it is. It's not really something that you think about though."

"Are there lots of wild animals?"

There were a few groans with Brittany's question.

"Not really. I mean I guess there would be out in the country, but not in the city. Every once in a while we get deer and moose, but the bears and cougars tend to stay away from the city. And no, there aren't polar bears!" I added as Brittany started to ask. "That's the one thing I keep getting asked. Do I live in an igloo? What is it like to have snow all year round? How many dogs are do I have on my dog sled team? AAHHH! Seriously, I live in a house with a basement and everything. We do get summer. And by that I mean there are approximately five months of the year that we don't have snow. I have two dogs, neither of which are a part of a dog sled team!"

By then end of my rant everyone was laughing. It was then that I realized just how far behind in the conversation Brittany was.

"What do moose look like?"

Silence fell over the table. I guess nobody knew except me. I pulled out my iPhone and opened up my Canada file. Scrolling down the list I soon found the one I was looking for and clicked it open. Handing my phone to Brittany, I smiled at the look on her face. Slowly my phone was passed around the table until everyone had seen the moose.

"Why is it in the pen with the horses?"

"Thanks for asking Sam. It's kind of a funny story actually. A friend of mine lives on the farm where that picture was taken. She went out to do chores one morning and found this baby moose lying down beside her mare Lizzy. About a week previously, Lizzy had birthed a still-born foal, and ever since was really 'down'. She wasn't eating or anything. Hannah (my friend) was really getting worried. But then that moose showed up, and it was like the foal hadn't died. Lizzy started to treat the baby moose like her baby. We figured that a hunter must have got it's mom, and so it went looking for some way to keep warm and found Lizzy out in the field. Since there wasn't really anything Hannah could do, she just let it be. Now he is a full-fledged member of her 'family'. His name is Darcy."

After that, the group started to file out. It was almost six by the tine Rachel and I got back to her house. We didn't really do much that night. We did sit down to watch 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. The rest of the week was rather slow. Basically school, and hanging with the 'glee kids'. I did find out that McKinley does have a work experience program. I was able to get a 'job' at the library. I will be spending an hour before school every other day in the library doing odd jobs. Some days I have glee club after school so it didn't work to do after school. I really like it. Apart from the having to be as school so early.

The weekend after the first week was really nice. I only mention it because I thought you would like to know that I was kidnapped that weekend. I woke up on Saturday morning and Rachel and I decided to go for a run. When we got back, Mercedes and Tina were waiting for us. We were given five minutes to change and grab our swim suits. When I came don't the stairs, Rachel was already there, and she had an 'evil smile' on her face. I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into, but I thought I'd just go along with it. About a half an hour later we were at this place called Blackhawk Park. When we got there I realized that everybody else from the group was there as well. We spent the day and part of the night playing beach volleyball, and water games. When the sun started to go down a bonfire was started and we sat around it jamming. It was so much fun that I didn't want the day to end. But end it did. Rachel and her dads went to temple the next day, and I went to church with Mercedes. I'll admit, it was a bit weird considering I was the only "white girl" (as Mercedes put it) there. Her family is awesome though. I got to have real home cooked fried chicken. Which I must say…it's amazing!

Remember at the start of this e-mail, when I said I we got the shock of a lifetime today. Well, we did. Today started like any regular Monday. School wasn't anything spectacular. But glee club on the other hand. We had just started for the day, and Mr. Schue was about to give us our assignment for the week when there was a knock on the choir room door. Being the closest to the door, Kurt slowly walked up to it and opened the door an inch at a time. I think everyone was expecting a slushee to come flying once the door was opened all the way, but instead we heard a squeak from Kurt. (Think of Lilly from Hannah Montana. The little 'eeeep' things that she does. That was the sound that came from the door.) We all started to stand up and that was when Kurt turned around and we were able to see who it was that was in the doorway. Standing there (not in uniform) was Blaine Anderson. He is Kurt`s boyfriend. And I guess Kurt was not expecting him. As it turns out Blaine had decided over the summer to transfer from Dalton Academy to McKinley High. Don`t ask me why, because I don`t have a clue, but there he was. Asking if the auditions for `The New Directions`, were over yet.

Sorry that this chapter is so much longer than the others. I just couldn`t stop writing once I started. And I figured that it would be odd to split the e-mail up, so here we are. And you all know the rules. If you read, review. It`s really easy! So please do. Review that is!