Now, two weeks before sectionals, we had glee- rehearsal every day, from Monday to Friday. We had also decided that we would come up with ideas songs and write a list the first week, I would decide which three songs we were gonna use on Monday, and then we were gonna spend Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday rehearsing and deciding what costumes we would wear. Today was Wednesday, and Maria and Liam had just done their version of a third simple plan song, this time they had done "you don't mean anything" When Mr. Schue again asked if someone else had a song to preform, Marcie slowly reached up her hand. Mr Schue showed her to get out on the floor, she took some papers and placed them at the piano, before sitting down on the piano- chair, and then she started playing.

We gave Marcie a round of applause when she took her papers, and sat down in the back row as usual. Ethan stood up too, and walked over the floor to get a guitar, then he sat down on a chair, and said.

"I thought this song might work out." And so he started singing

When he was finished, we gave Ethan too a round of applause, and he wrote the title of the song on the list, before he came and sat down in the front row.

"So, have anyone else got a song?" Mr. Schue asked. Nobody said a word. "So, then I´ll see you tomorrow."

I stood up and walked out in the corridor, where I met someone I recognized.

"Burt and Carole? What are you doing here?"

"We were going out to grab some dinner," Burt said. "Ehrm, I guess, we could just talk some memories with Mr. Schue while you get your stuff."

"Yeah," I said. "Yes of course," I walked past them, and I heard them starting to talk to Mr. Schue, while I walked towards my locker.

"So Lex," Tyler began. "Which song is the best so far?"

"Ehrm, mean I think. The other ones have been good too, but they just don´t feel right."

"Okay. So, see you tomorrow,"

"Bye." I walked into the choir room, where Burt, Carole and Mr. Schue were talking really quietly about something, like they had some secret to me. I shrugged, and when Burt told me to wait outside, I did as I was told.

Monday afternoon

I was all alone in the choir room, I sat on the piano chair, with the song- suggestions- list in front of me. The song, now looked like this.

Perfect- Simple plan
Shut Up- Simple plan
You don´t mean anything- Simple plan
For the love of a daughter- Demi Lovato
Mean- Taylor Swift
Shake it out- Florence and the machine
Skyscraper- Demi Lovato
Part of me- Taylor Swift

"You okay?" I heard Mr. Schue´s voice behind me, I turned around.

"Yeah, fine." I turned towards the paper again, Mr. Schue took a few steps, and now stood right behind me to look at the list.

"So, not Shut up, and not for the love of a daughter, but it looks like, you´re having some trouble choosing with the rest of the songs."

"Yeah a bit." I drew a line over "you don´t mean anything as well."

"I´m sure it´ll be fine whatever you choose. You need a ride home?"

"No, I think I´m gonna stay here for yet a while."

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

"See you."

Friday, sectionals

I took a deep breath, and grabbed the curtain for the door, in the back of the auditorium, where I would go through. The unitards and the warblers had already preformed their songs, and this was the last few moments before I was gonna walk through the door and sing my heart out.

I could feel my heart pounding in my chest, I´d told Mr. Schue to get a place for my dad near the stage, and the aisle, and I could now hear him as he grabbed the microphone, and started talking.

"Hi," he said. "It´s now time for the New Directions, and… earlier this year, I managed to find out that one of my students was being abused at home," I could hear the audience gasp. "She´s now living in a foster- home, but her dad and uncle, is here today to watch this, and the songs were doing have been chosen by this girl, as the songs she would like to sing to them. So, I would ask you to really listen to these lyrics… ladies and gentlemen. The new directions." I heard the audience put their hands together for him, and I knew he now sat down in the front row, on the opposite side of the aisle from my dad, but not more than less two meters away from him. I grabbed the curtain even harder, and then pulled it to the side, as I stepped through it and started singing…

Playlist
Marcie- For the love of a daughter- Demi Lovato
Ethan/ Ben- Mean- Taylor Swift