New Directions shuffled in the room, staring wide-eyed at the group of people already in the room.
"Come on in. Sit down!" The girl said in a really cheery voice that seemed so fake that it sounded like she was talking down to them.
The members of New Directions all pulled up a seat and wordlessly grabbed slices of pizza.
"Are you going to talk?" The girl demanded, biting the crust of her pizza.
"Who are you?" Finn blurted out.
The girl and the other people snickered.
"I'm Kaylee Reid" The girl said. She was average height and had light brown hair with bright red highlights in it. She had fierce dark brown eyes too that seemed to watch your every move.
"Wait...Reid as in the manager's name?" Tina asked, her voice quiet compared to Kaylee's loud one.
"Yes, yes. He's my dad" Kaylee smiled but it looked more like a smirk.
"We noticed you were watching our group practice" Rachel said.
"Yeah, just watching the competition" Kaylee said, taking another slice of pizza.
Kurt almost choked on his pizza. "Competition?"
"Yes. We are a show choir too" Kaylee said, motioning to the group of people all around her. They, like Kaylee, wore dark colours. "And when you guys take a break from singing the shows the next few days, we take over. You're kind of the opening act for us."
No one said anything.
Kaylee continued. "We usually sing the full thing, but it gets tiresome. So I convinced Daddy to hire you when that guy...what's his name? Mr. Skooster? Well, when he booked the rooms and explained about you lot, I got Daddy to give you a discount so you'd perform at the hotel. Plus, we'll see you guys at Nationals, when we inevitably win at Regionals first then, of course, at Nationals."
"Hold up" Santana said. She dropped her pizza on Brittany's plate and stood up. "You are very bold. What makes you so sure that you'll win?"
Kaylee looked unfazed by Santana's words. "I am good. We are good. I don't see how we can't win" she replied coolly.
"Pretty brave" Santana muttered to her.
"Santana, sit down" Quinn said warningly.
Santana sighed, but obeyed.
"I don't like her" Rachel leaned over and whispered quietly to Finn.
"Me neither" Finn whispered back.
"So what're your names?" Kaylee asked.
Rachel flashed a dazzling smile. "I'm Rachel."
"I'm Kurt" Kurt said, standing up. He turned to his fellow members and said their names, pointing as he went along. "This is Blaine, Mercedes, Sam, Quinn, Puck, Rory, Artie, Tina, Mike, Sugar, Santana, Brittany and Finn."
"Pleasure" Kaylee said with a smirk.
Kurt sat down.
They all ate their pizza in silence.
"Kaylee, it's 6:30" one member of Kaylee's group said.
Kaylee smiled at him. "Thanks, Cam."
"Wait, don't we have to perform at seven?" Sam asked New Directions.
"Yes we do" Blaine nodded.
"Shoot! We better go!" Kurt said, jumping up.
"Where's Mr. Schue?" Mercedes asked.
"Still talking to Mr. Reid, probably" Mike answered.
New Directions all stood up and headed for the door.
"Good luck!" Kaylee called with a smirk and a wave.
"Thanks" Puck winked at her. Sugar and Santana slapped his arm and pushed him out of the room.
Artie pulled the door shut behind them.
"I hate her" Rachel fumed when the door was shut.
"Shhh!" Tina said. "They could hear you!"
"I don't care" Rachel retorted. "I hate her too much to care!"
"Look, Rachel, we all dislike her" Blaine said, always being the voice of reason. "But we can't do anything about it."
Quinn nodded. "I say we just forget about them and do our best on stage. Not be be a pesimist or anything, but maybe they're actually good...we shouldn't hold our breath. We'll get to see them perform tonight too."
"I agree with Quinn" Rory said.
"Let's just focus on the show now" Finn nodded.
"Where's Mr. Schue?" Mike asked.
"Guys!" Kurt gasped. "What're we going to wear?"
"Oh, Kurt, always focusing on the clothes!" Mercedes joked.
"No, he's serious. We can't be all miss-matched on stage" Blaine said.
"Okay, plain and simple. Jeans and a blue shirt" Finn said.
They nodded.
"There he is!" Puck said, pointing. "Mr. Schuester!" Puck called loudly.
Will waved and hurried over.
"Hey guys!" Will said. "It's almost show time! What are you- wait. What's wrong with Rachel?" He saw Rachel with a frown and a flushed face.
"Well..." Tina began.
"We met Kaylee and her group..." Quinn said.
"And she's a real witch..." Artie said.
"Plus they're a show choir too..." Blaine added.
"So if we both win our Regionals, we could see them at Nationals..." Finn said.
"We haven't heard them sing, so the jury's still out if they're good or not..." Mike said.
"But she seemed so confident so they probably are..." Santana added with a frown.
"She's so arrogant, she makes Sebastian seem normal!" Kurt said, making New Directions stop their word chain and laugh.
Will looked bewildered as they were all finishing each other's sentences and it got really confusing.
"And that's why Rachel is mad" Finn finished.
Will paused and looked between the frowning Rachel and the rest of the group.
"Well, okay then. I was just worried that it had something to do with our accident earlier today" Will said. "You're okay, right Rachel?"
"Yes, yes, totally fine" Rachel nodded, her grim face softening.
"Good" Will said and gave a thumbs up. "So performance. What songs?"
"We're doing 'Don't Stop Believing' then the girls are doing 'Shut Up And Drive' then we're all doing 'Good Girls Go Bad' then 'Sing' and 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'" Finn said.
"Okay" Will said, thinking over the songs. "And for the next hour?"
No one spoke.
"Any ideas?" Will prompted.
"I was thinking, and don't laugh at me, an Abba medley?" Kurt asked.
"Who's Abba?" Puck asked.
Rachel sighed. "They are a Swedish group. Their music is featured in the hit musical show and movie 'Mamma Mia'.
"Oh! I've seen that!" Puck said. They all deadpanned.
"Really?" Will asked.
"Yeah, my mom and little sister wanted to see it and I was bored" Puck shrugged.
"So Abba medley for songs?" Mercedes asked.
"I'll do it. Our Abba song that we sang at junior prom was boss" Santana said and high-five Mercedes.
"I'll do it" Blaine said.
"Oh, please. You only agreed because Kurt suggested it" Sugar scoffed with a smile.
"Not true!" Blaine said. "I happen to be an Abba fan."
"I've never heard of them but okay" Artie said.
"Yay! Abba it is!" Rachel clapped her hands.
"I'll get you guys all the lyrics so you can learn them during the break" Will said.
"Guys, show time is in fifteen minutes. We gotta get changed!" Sam said.
They all gasped and ran off to the elevators and stairs, leaving Will alone in the large ballroom.
"Okay then" Will said to himself out loud, clapping his hands once together awkwardly. "I feel like my services are no longer needed for New Directions...and now I'm talking to myself...great..."
A/N
Hey there!
Now hear me out, I gots lots (teehee) to say. A long while back in a review for this story from 'ForeverLivebymusic' they suggested that I have another glee club involved. It was all thought out in this review and I can honestly say I wasn't planning to have another glee club involved at all, but I loved the idea so much I just had to do it. It was originaly suggested for them to meet on the beach on day 2 of the trip but Fort Meyers is more of an old-folks retired place so I decided to make them meet in the more popular place (Orlando) so yes, this is a bit late. I liked the character that was suggested and I used her first name. I changed the last name (sorry!) because it's easier to type 'Reid' instead of 'Valdez'...LOL :). But I kept the qualities and characteristics of her because I liked them a lot. And also, you'll see in the next chapter that I chanegd the name of their group because I wanted it to be more music-related. Vocal Adrenaline, Oral Intensity and Warblers are all connected to music/singing so I decided to change the name of their group. Also, I like the song suggested too. You'll see it sung in the next chapter. And also, it was suggested that the two groups get along, but I decided to give them some tension because who doesn't like drama? :) Thanks so much for the suggestion and even though I changed it up a bit, I hope you like what I did to it! :)
Anyhoo, keep on reading!