Monday the ninth, the school started again, I walked into the school- building, I had to find Tyler, I had forgotten to tell him about the cruise at new year, so I was gonna do it now, when I spotted Tyler in the end of the hallway, along with Hayley and Connor. I waved, and half ran over to them. I gave them each hug, and then turned to Tyler.
"Tyler can I talk to you alone, just for a minute?"
"Yeah sure!" I tried to push myself through the crowds to the choir room, but when I opened the door, I just took one step in, when I saw who was in there, I stopped in the middle of a step, I held out my hand to stop Tyler, and showed him to be quiet.
The boy who stood there, I recognized right away. It was the boy who had been following me until that first date I´d had with Tyler, Teeghan stood there too, they were talking, and none of them had seen me.
"So this is really her number then?" The boy asked. Teeghan nodded.
"Yeah, that´s her number, I´m a hundred percent sure about that. Hope you can have some use for it."
"Who´s number." I took another step into the room, Tyler came too behind me, and the door closed behind us. The boy, who as usual wore his hood up over his head, and big sunglasses. He walked past me and Tyler, and out the door, I turned to Teeghan again.
"Teeghan," I asked calmly, but my anger and fear made my heart pound so hard I could feel the blood streaming in my ears. "What number did you give him, did you give him my number… Teeghan answer me. Did you give him my number?"
"Yes." I opened, my mouth to say something, but Tyler was faster.
"Teeg, seriously, I know you don´t like Lex, but I never thought you´d do something like this."
"You could just have given my number to a murderer, or a rapist or something." I spat. "None of us have any idea who he is."
"I do know who he is, he said his name was Patrick Leslie, and he said he knew you very well."
"Teeghan… I don´t know any Patrick Leslie."
"Whatever." Teeghan walked out of the room, when she was out, I kicked in a chair, and sat down on it. Tyler squatted down in front of me, took my hands.
"Hey, look at me!" he said, I looked him in the eyes. He continued.
"We´re gonna make this through, we´ll figure out who he is, and somehow we´ll make it work. Trust me." He laid his hand on my cheek, then raised a little and kissed me, just fast.
"Was it something you wanted to tell or ask me by the way?" Tyler continued.
"Yes, yeah, one of the Christmas presents I got from Burt and Carole was two tickets for a cruise, Burt and Carole are coming of course, they gave me, Kurt, and Finn two tickets each, Kurt´s bringing Blaine, Finn´s bringing Rebeccah. So, I was wondering, if you would like to come with me. Tyler´s chin dropped.
"R-re- really?" he stuttered. "Me." He pointed at himself.
"Yeah silly, you."
"W- when?"
"July the first, so not long after school have ended."
"I´d… I would be honored. Thank you… thank you Lex." He lifted me up, spun around with me, and then put me down on the floor again.
"But wait…" Tyler said when we were on our way through the crowds in the corridors again. "You said one of the presents from Burt and Carole, what is the other one?"
"Ehrm, I´ll rather tell all of my friends at the same time. So, you´ll know tomorrow at glee- club all right?" At the same time I´d said that, both mine and Tyler´s phone beeped, we checked it.
Extra glee- club- meeting today at three P.M.
Mr. Schue
"So," we stopped, and put our phone back in our pockets. "I guess we´ll know at glee- practice today then…. Why have we stopped by the way?"
"this is the classroom I´m gonna have my first lesson for today in. See you later."
"Yeah, if I survive without you until lunch." Tyler said dramatic. I laughed and blew him a kiss, before I opened the door to my classroom and stepped in.
Glee- club
"Mr. Schue, I would like to make an announcement, before we start."
"The floor´s yours." I stood up, more jumped than what I did walk down to the floor.
"So… ehrm, I´m not sure why I wanted to tell you guys this, but you guys are my friends so… well. Burt and Carole´s Christmas present to me, it was… a kinda big thing… gosh… well, it was… that they… they are gonna adopt me."
"Really?" Mr. Schue asked.
"No, I´m lying to you… " I said ironic. "Yes, really." The next thing I knew, was my feet being like, half a meter over the floor when Tyler lifted me up, he spun around with me for the second time today. Soon, Liam, Mariah, Connor, Hayley, Ben, Ethan, Marcie, Johnny, and Mr. Schue was out on the floor, they lifted me up, all at once, threw me in the air, and caught me again. I laughed. Four times they threw me in the air, before they let me stand on my own two feet again. Just as they let me down, Alice came walking into the room, her eyes were red, as her cheeks, that were swollen, as if she just had been crying.
"Any news?" Mr. Schue asked her, and we all knew what he was asking about. Alice shook her head.
"Nothing!" she sighed. "Doesn´t matter really… I guess Josh´s dead now anyway."
"NO." Liam almost shouted. "Alice, it does matter and you know it, and don´t you lose hope. Don´t let that happen to you." Alice nodded, Mr. Schue patted her shoulder, then we all went to sit down again.
"By the way Ethan?" Liam asked. "How long are you gonna have those moonboots on?"
"Hopefully, I´ll get them off when I go to the doctors tomorrow."
"So… glee clubbers… you guys that have been in the New Directions earlier years, you know that the first two weeks of the spring term, we put together a concert, that we hold in the audiotourium, for some sort of charity, and I just had an idea… just talk to each other for a minute, and I´ll just think about it for a while.
"So," Ethan leaned towards the twins. "Have you guys started thinking about colleges yet?"
"Yes," Mariah said. "Liam wanna be a doctor, I wanna go to some place where I can study music more. We´re trying to find some way we can live together or at least close to each other."
"How´s that going then?" Ethan asked.
"Not too well." Liam answered him. "I mean, how hard could it be to have a doctor´s college, and a music- college in the freaking same place."
Soon, I, Tyler, the twins, Ethan, Ben and Marcie was in a discussion about what we want to do when we grow up. I wanted to find some way to help children stuck with alcoholic parents, Tyler wanted to do something with music, Ethan wanted to be a doctor, as well as Liam. Ben wanted to be a care- worker, or at least help children who had been dumped by their real parents, like himself. I guessed Marcie was the most unexpected, she wanted to be a professional horse- rider, or at least have some work where she could spend all her time with horses.
"Didn´t know you´re one of those horse- girls Marcie." Ethan said, she shrugged.
"I guess you didn´t." She said. "I… well… it´s kind of a long story."
"Well, if you start telling the story now, you could finish it later."
"It´s not really a long story… it´s just that, in Junior high, the boys in my class used to bully me for being a horse- girl. I switched schools when I moved here to Lima before seventh grade, and I never told anybody, because I was afraid that I would start getting bullied again. It´s not that hard though. I get up early in the morning, my mum helps me to take my horse into the stable, I feed him, groom him just fast, put him in the stables. Give him hay, fresh water, get inside change my clothes, come home, change my clothes, go to the stables, groom, do some riding, put him in his pasture. Then feed him in the evening… and then it starts again. I usually go competing in the weekends, but never tell anyone about it."
"What is his name then?" Ben asked.
"His full name is Hughton´s Herrey, he´s a Swedish warmblood, There is some old Swedish boy- band that used to call themselves like the Herrey brothers or something like that. But we just call him Hugo. To keep him company, we´ve also got a donkey named Donnie. But he is in the pasture twenty four seven. Sorry, when I start talking about these things I just can´t stop"
"Donnie the donkey" Ethan chuckled.
"Are you competing this weekend?" Ben asked.
"Yeah."
"Can I come?"
"I... sure… but then you gotta get up pretty early in the morning, we´ll leave about seven."
"I can do that!" Ethan snorted with laughter.
"Well, my house, six thirty, then you can come with us."
"I think your brother´s falling in love!" I whispered in Ethan´s ear, he smiled and put his mouth to my ear to whisper something.
"This will be fun, " he whispered back. "Ben´s as tomorrow tired as can be. On the weekends, he never gets up before noon. He must really be into Marcie." I smiled, and suppressed a laughter.
"So, I´ve written down my ideas," Mr. Schue jumped up on the piano, with a notebook in his hands. "These are my ideas. This year, next Friday more likely. We´ll hold a concert. We´ll sing songs that´s about missing children and such, And the incomes we get for it, can we give to the fund for the police´ work with missing children. In the background on the screen, we can have different pictures of Josh, and in the end, we´ll put up a number on the screen, tell people they call that number if they know anything about Josh. What do you think?" he gazed over the group, we could hear sobbing and sniveling from Alice.
"I… Mr. Schue… oh… I mean… the chance is actually really tiny that someone there will know something, but thank you for giving me a chance to try… I really think that it´s a good idea, I´ll bring some photos…. Thank you." She stood up, rushed across the floor and embraced Mr. Schue. He showed us others to come to, and at last, it was just a big group hug.
So, Ben/Marcie are so cute don´t you think? I know I wrote that both Ethan and Liam wanna be doctors, and that both Lex and Ben wanna help children, but in fact… it´s what I can see them doing… especially Liam, he´s just supposed to be a doctor. Well whatever, please review.
