Wwby 5
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Rachel sat in her normal seat in the front row and waited for the rest of the glee club members to show up. She waved at Artie who had rolled in with Brittany on his lap, and smiled at Kurt and Mercedes who followed shortly after.
' Hey girl" Mercedes said.
Kurt was too busy looking at his phone to acknowledge but when his mouth dropped both girls looked at him.
" spill it" Mercedes told him while at the same time Rachel said, " what?!"
" according to JBI new blog Santana was thrown off the cheerios"
All three looked up to see Quinn walking through the door with Sam at her side. One by one the rest of the club showed up. Except Santana. Rachel had to admit though she did her best to avoid the Latina at all costs it was strange that she wasn't there for glee club.
" alright guys" Mr. Schuester said walking into the classroom, this weeks assign- where's Santana?"
Everybody shrugged, even Brittany had no idea where the other girl was at. Rachel glanced over at Quinn who seemed worried and told herself to confront her about it later. If they were going to win at regional's they would need all of their voices, and bad attitude aside Santana was one of their stronger talents. To her right Finn looked nervous.
' what's going on with him' she wondered to herself.
" we will just have to start with out her then, I know you guys generally like picking your own partners but there is something to be said about unpredictability" He pulled out a hat from his satchel. Some of the kids groaned, " we need to expand from the usual, find something new that could put us above the competition, you may not all get along outside of this room but in here we are one, we are family and pairing two people together who may not usually sing with each other we could find a voice combination that could be magical"
" or lead to charges being filed" Kurt said under his breath.. Both Rachel and Mercedes giggled.
Holding up the hat Mr. Schuester said, " Puck why don't you get things started.
Rolling his eyes he stepped up, and reached his hand into the hat pulling out a slip of paper, " Brittany" He said with a smile. Brittany gave Artie a kiss before moving to sit with her new partner.
Finn and Sam, Tina and Mercedes. Kurt and Quinn. Mike and Rory. Sugar and Artie. Which left only Santana. It was Rachels turn to groan, yes she may have been concerned about the Latina but it was altogether a different story working together.
" all right guys, pair off with your partners and get to work, Rachel with Santana gone you can join in with one of the others for now"
Rachel sighed figured that Mercedes and Tina was better then working with Quinn so she turned to the twp girls. Her jaw dropped when she saw Santana walk into the room, in a pair of jeans and a gray hoodie on, the hood up and hiding most of her face, " Sorry Im late Mr. Schu " She mumbled.
With a concerned nod he said, " That's ok, just make sure to be on time from now on, we have regionals coming up, and" He said with a wince, as if waiting for the argument, " Your working with Rachel on this weeks assignment"
" Ok" She said and with her head down walked to where the shorter girl sat.
All of glee club was watching with wide eyes. Rachel couldn't believe it, there had been no arguments or name calling, none of Santanas usual antics when paired with her. Just a simple resigned response.
Rachel looked up at the other girl, almost afraid to say anything, in case it would set Santana's temper off. Santana just looked at the floor, " can I sit.. here?"
Rachels eyebrows were almost to the top of her head. Had Santana Lopez just ask her permission to do something? Glancing at Mercedes and Tina she said, " Of course Santana, I know you missed what this weeks assignment was but I dutifuly took notes in hopes that our performance will be the exact one Mr. Schuster was looking for" and now Rachel knew something was wrong. Santana had listened to every single word of her rant without interrupting and didn't hurl an insult at her at all. She watched as Santana lowered herself into the chair, wincing a little as she did.
Something was wrong, and Rachel was going to find out what.
TBC
