Friend to a Stranger Chapter 30: Regionals, a glee fanfic

A/N: So, I've never been good at writing performances so it will be pretty brief, however, I'm sure as time goes on I will just get better and better, but anyways, this is the regionals chapter and I won't be spending a lot of time on it (the performance part), but enough so that everyone gets the idea.

Ch. 30: Regionals

Everyone was gathered in the music room waiting to get on the bus and head towards their competition. Couples were seating next to each other except for Lucy and Jason who had a chair between them.

Quinn and Rachel were in the front of the room quietly speaking to each other waiting for the last minute stragglers to enter the room.

"Is something wrong with Lucy?" Amanda whispers.

Beth looks up from the book she was currently reading to look at her girlfriend.

"I'm not really sure. She's been kind of distant this past week. I'm not sure what's going on."

Amanda looks around the room with a small smile. Amanda could finally understand why her parents always said that Glee club changed their lives. Amanda had thought they were exaggerating, but sitting in a chair next to her girlfriend, the woman she was in love with, she finally understood. Her parents were right. Glee club changed lives. For the first time, she was actually looking forward to next year, hell, even Nationals, if they won the competition tonight.

Beth places her book in her bag and sighs.

"I asked Lucy if she was okay with me inviting Noah to the competition today. She said she was fine, but maybe she isn't."

"Babe, that shouldn't matter. Noah is your father. You have every right to invite him to anything."

Beth nods her head.

"I'm kind of nervous. These past few months we really only contacted each other over email and texts, but after the competition we are going to dinner and I'm really nervous."

Amanda grins slightly.

"I told you that I would go with you, but I think this is something that you have to do with yourself. I will be waiting for you."

"I know," Beth says with a smile before resting her head against Amanda's.

Rachel steps closer to her students with a smile.

"We are set to leave in just a few minutes. Now, I just want to tell you guys that no matter what happens tonight, you are all winners. Some of you, this is your first chance at Regionals, this maybe your first competition ever. I remember mine. We didn't win that night," Rachel smiles at her wife, "But an amazing thing happened that night. The first glee baby was born," all eyes turn towards Beth and playfully rolled her eyes. "Granted her birthday isn't for a few more days, but it was still an amazing night and I hope that it's an amazing night for all of you."

Quinn claps her hands once.

"Okay everyone, on the bus."

*Friend to a Stranger*

New Directions were set to preform last, something Rachel wasn't sure she liked very much. She sat down next to her group and on her way down she spotted Noah sitting next to Santana and Brittany, along with Mike and Tina. She smiled brightly. She was glad that Noah made it, at least for Beth's sake.

Rachel sat down next to her wife and grabbed her hand.

"Are you ready for this?" Quinn asks.

"Yes."

The announcer makes his way to the stage and announces the judges. Three of them were no names, but the one that stood out the most was Sue Sylvester.

"Do you think she's going to vote for us?" Rachel asks.

"Knowing Sue, I have no idea," Quinn responds.

*Friend to a Stranger*

Lucy and Jason were waiting in the back to begin their performance. The others were waiting back stage on the risers to wait for their song. Lucy and Jason were going to sing their way through the aisles and finish on stage.

"What's up with you?" Jason asks.

Lucy looks at Jason and shrugs her shoulders.

"I'm fine."

Jason doesn't seem convinced, but at this point he doesn't really care. School will be done in a few weeks and he's going off to college.

"Let's just make tonight great and we can go back to being who we are after, okay?"

Lucy slightly narrows her eyes, but doesn't respond.

Josh

Lucy

Josh & Lucy

Jason immediately locks eyes with Lucy in order to sell the performance. They needed people to believe they were in love, even if he wasn't.

The best thing 'bout tonight's that we're not fighting
Could it be that we have been this way before?
I know you don't think that I am trying
I know you're wearing thin down to the core

But hold your breath
Because tonight will be the night
That I will fall for you over again
Don't make me change my mind

Or I won't live to see another day
I swear it's true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find
You're impossible to find

This is not what I intended
I always swore to you I'd never fall apart
You always thought that I was stronger
I may have failed, but I have loved you from the start

Oh, but hold your breath
Because tonight will be the night
That I will fall for you over again
Don't make me change my mind

Or I won't live to see another day
I swear it's true

Because a girl like you is impossible to find
It's impossible

Lucy and Jason grab each other's hands slightly before making their way further down the aisle until they make their way on stage and face the audience.

So breathe in so deep
Breathe me in, I'm yours to keep
And hold on to your words 'cause talk is cheap
And remember me tonight when you're asleep

Because tonight will be the night
That I will fall for you over again
Don't make me change my mind!

Or I won't live to see another day
I swear it's true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find

Tonight will be the night
That I will fall for you over again
Don't make me change my mind

Lucy and Jason walk towards each other on stage and grabs a hold of each other's hands as they sing the final words while looking into each other's eyes.

Or I won't live to see another day
I swear it's true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find
You're impossible to find

The crowd applauds as the curtains rise and the rest of the glee club can now be seen. The music subtly changes into their final song.

Patrick

Patrick & Sara

Zeke

Amanda

Zeke & Amanda

Everybody

Patrick and Sara make their way to the front of the stage as everyone gets ready for the dancing in the background.

Down a back road
Long, hot summer
A couple kids runnin' loose and wild
He kissed her
She said mister,
Take an inch and I'll give you a mile

I ain't here to do anything half-way
Don't give a damn what anyone might say
I just wanna free fall for a while

Patrick and Sara make their way to the back so the glee club could be seen as a whole.

That rebel moon is shinin'
Those stars burn like diamonds
Hell bent on chasin' down that crazy spark
I'll follow you where you're leading
To the first sweet taste of freedom
You got me runnin' baby,
Wild at heart

Zeke and Amanda dance their way to the front to begin their mini solos. In the audience, Brittany grabs onto her wife's hand with a grin when it was her baby's turn to sing.

About midnight, he tells her
I ain't got no come-on lines
Well I love you, or I'll try to
We got nothing to lose but time

Stick your hand into my back pocket
Light me up like a bottle rocket
I just wanna free fall for a while

Zeke and Amanda make their way to their original spots as the rest of the club begins singing. They enter in quickly and begin to clap on beat as does the rest of the club.

That rebel moon is shinin'
Those stars burn like diamonds
Hell bent on chasin' down that crazy spark
I'll follow you where you're leadin'
To the first sweet taste of freedom
You got me runnin' baby,
Wild at heart

O-oh, alright
Tonight is tellin' us we're way too young

O-oh, that's alright
I've got forever on the tip of my tongue

O-oh, alright.

The Judges quickly went into deliberation while everyone one went into their holding rooms to wait for the judge's decisions.

Rachel and Quinn quickly wrapped their arms around each other. Watching their kids preforming was something incredible. Win or lose, the night was amazing.

"How do you think you all did?" Rachel asks.

"We killed it!" Jason says with a fist in the air.

Everyone quickly agreed. A few minutes later the announcer asked for all show choirs to stand on stage to wait for the results. Sue Sylvester will be presenting the results.

"The Midwest Regionals runner up from Fort Wayne, Indiana, the not at all stupidly named Aural Intensity."

Only two show choirs were left, the Renegades and New Directions.

"And now your Midwest Regional Show Choir champions, Renegades."

Rachel watched as all the light in her students eyes seemed to disappear as the results were read. It was a feeling that she had been familiar with. Losing sucks.

*Friend to a Stranger*

"I'm sorry you guys didn't win," Noah states before taking a bite of his burger.

Beth looks up from her plate and shrugs her shoulders.

"It's okay. I'm used to it. I just really wanted to win."

"I can understand that. You guys were really good. I miss Glee club," Noah states with a smile.

There were five minutes more of silence before Beth broke it.

"Does this feel awkward to you? I mean, we barely know each other and I've heard stories from just about everyone, except for you, when it comes to me."

Noah takes a sip of his soda.

"I cried. I cried when you were born and I cried a lot after you were gone. Nobody knew of course, but I cried."

Beth nods her head slightly. When Beth had first emailed Noah and asked if he could come to the competition she was nervous. She was more nervous when Noah asked if they could get dinner afterwards. Beth was trying to lessen the anger she had in her heart towards the people that had given her away. Noah was the last step in the equation.

"Did you consider keeping me?"

Noah nods his head.

"I did, but I knew that I couldn't do it alone and I knew it wouldn't have been fair to Quinn or Rachel if I was taken care of you and they weren't. I wasn't fit to raise you."

"Why'd you do it? Sleep with my mom?"

"Rachel was my best friend and I had always had a torch for Quinn. The one thing I never told Rachel, the one thing. I used to have a torch for Quinn since like middle school, but in the end Rachel was the one that got her. We were both drunk and I was stupid, but I don't regret it because you're here and my torch for her is now gone. I'll always lover her because of you, but I hurt a lot of people that night and I can't ever make up for it, but I've been trying ever since."

Beth nods and continues eating.

*Friend to a Stranger*

Quinn and Rachel were relaxing on the couch with a bottle of wine. Beth was still with Noah and Lucy was upstairs with Amanda. Quinn takes a sip of wine from her glass and places it on the table.

"My mom wants to have dinner with every including your dads."

"I'll call them tomorrow," Rachel responds lightly. She places her glass next to Quinn's and wraps her arms around her wife's. "I'm sad, baby. I really wanted them to win."

Quinn turns her body around so that she lying belly to belly with her wife.

"I did too, but next year will be better. I've got a feeling," Quinn says with a grin.

"Oh a feeling," Rachel says before pulling her wife's head down and kissing her.

Quinn pulls away with a grin before bringing her hand to unbutton her wife's pants.

"Yeah a feeling," Quinn says before placing her lips to her wife's again.

Quinn's hand sneaks into her wife's underwear all while still kissing. Rachel pulls away out of breath.

"Should we really be doing this with two teens upstairs and another one who should be home within the hour?"

Quinn grins as she sees her wife's eyes roll into the back of her head as Quinn's fingers travel through Rachel's wetness.

"See your mouth says one thing, but your body says something completely different. Besides, I feel like taking a few risks."

Quinn captures Rachel's lips into another kiss as she plunges two fingers into her wife.

*Friend to a Stranger*

"Are you going to tell me what has been up with you lately?" Amanda asks as she reclines in Lucy's bed. "You've been in a bad mood all week."

"I've just been distracted lately. It's no big deal."

Amanda shakes her head as she sits up.

"I don't buy that for a second. Luce, it isn't only me that's noticed that something is wrong. What's up?"

Lucy gets up from her vanity and sits down next to Amanda.

"I slept with Jason."

"I didn't see that coming," Amanda replies honestly. "You're not a virgin anymore. There's nothing wrong with that, but something tells me something else happened. What was it?"

"I thought everything was okay, but it wasn't. He said he loved me," Lucy's eyes start to water and Amanda wraps her arms around her friend. "He just broke up with me the next day. All he wanted was sex. My parents were right. I shouldn't have tried to date him. He's an ass. That's not even the worst part."

Lucy breaks down crying and couldn't get any more words out of her mouth. Amanda does all she can to console her.

*Friend to a Stranger*

Beth arrives home after her dinner with Noah, promising him that they would be doing it again soon. She sees her mothers' sleeping on the couch with a blanket over them and an empty bottle of wine. She had gotten a text about a half hour ago saying that Lucy needed her. Beth headed up to Lucy's bedroom and found her girlfriend lying in bed with her sister.

"Should I be worried?" Beth jokes.

"No," Lucy responds quickly before sitting up.

"Yeah, no worries, babe," Amanda says with a grin.

Beth sits down next to Lucy.

"So, my little sister needs me. What's wrong?"

"I slept with Jason and then he dumped me, but—"

Beth picked up on Lucy's hesitancy and she was worried. The next few words could go plenty of different ways and she wasn't sure which way she would be happy about. Probably known of them, but she wanted to know.

"I forgot to take my birth control pill that day," Lucy says with water in her eyes. She looks at her sister.

"There was no condom was there?" Beth asks gently.

Lucy shakes her head.

"I think I'm pregnant," Lucy whispers before breaking down all over again.

This time, it was Beth who wrapped her arms around Lucy. Amanda looks eyes with her girlfriend.

Everyone was worried.

Lucy was worried about her future.

Amanda was worried about her girlfriend.

And Beth was worried about what Jason's tombstone was going to say after she kills him.

A/N: The two sings used in this chapter were Fall for You by Secondhand Serenade & Wild at Heart by Gloriana.

Drama, drama, and more drama for next chapter.

The site I used to post the playlist for the songs in this story is no longer available. I'm trying to find sights that will allow me to do so and I haven't found any. So, if anybody knows where I can upload songs from my computer to make a playlist so that others can listen for FREE let me know…otherwise I may just make a youtube music playlist or something.

Also, I have posted a new story. A cross over between Glee and One Tree Hill called Brave or Glee's Brave (I posted it under Glee and One Tree Hill). You should all really check it out and review.