Thad lay on his bed, staring at the ceiling and silently stewing over what had happened the week previous. He was studiously ignoring all of Rachel's calls and messages, knowing full well that he wasn't being totally fair to her but at the same time, really not giving a damn.

Trent looked over at his roommate and sighed, he hated seeing him so miserable (which Trent knew Thad was, even if he did choose to portray his sadness as anger). He had heard both sides of the story from Thad and Kurt, and felt that Thad and Rachel were both to blame. He had phrased his opinion carefully around Thad however, not wanting his friend to blow up in his face. Nick had told him, in Nick's direct way, that he needed to talk to Rachel and received a French textbook to the knee for his troubles. Yeah, Trent really was treading carefully around Thad at the moment. He compared sharing with Thad as living with a live volcano; you never knew when they were about to erupt. Trent had been woken up twice this week thanks to Thad's bad mood, something that he was extremely unimpressed about.

Nick hobbled towards their open door, and motioned for Trent to come outside. Shooting one last worried glance at his friend, Trent got up and exited the room, following Nick as he limped down the hallway and into the common room area. Most of the other Warblers were gathered there, Trent noticed, including Wes and his gavel.

"Good, you're here Warbler Trent," Wes nodded, before looking around the room at the group in front of him, "Intervention of Warbler Thad has commenced!" Trent was sure he'd never seen Wes tap his gavel so lightly, but he assumed it was so that Thad didn't hear him.

"This is getting ridiculous!" Kurt announced, barely able to contain his frustration. He stood up from his seat next to Blaine and began pacing around the room. "Rachel has been desperately trying to get a hold of Thad, yet he refuses to answer any of her calls. Mercedes has told me that Rachel is beside herself, she doesn't talk to anyone, and she doesn't participate in anything. Not even Glee. And we can all see for ourselves that Thad isn't exactly a bright ray of sunshine either!" Kurt paused, his face flushed, and he straightened out his jacket before taking his seat again.

"I have the injury to prove it too!" Nick piped up, causing everyone to roll their eyes.

"That was probably more to do with your lack of tact than anything else," Blaine commented, "especially as he chose his French book to throw. You know he has a vendetta against you because of your obsession."

"It is not an obsession!" Nick cried, before pouting when he realised no-one was going to back him up.

"I just don't see what we can do," Trent announced, "Thad is the most stubborn person I've ever met, if he's decided he's not going to answer any of Rachel's calls, and believe me when I say there's hundreds, then he won't. We can't force him to answer the phone. We can't force him to listen to what Rachel has to say. And we most certainly can't force him to accept her apologies."

"The only thing I have to suggest, and this is possibly going out on a limb, as I'm not even sure what it fully entails. But Tina told Mercedes who told me that Rachel has found a unique way to apologise to Thad during Regionals. We just need to keep him there long enough," Kurt replied, hoping to goodness that his friend really did have an apology planned at Regionals.

"Regionals is still a week away!" Trent pointed out, "is there nothing she could do sooner?"

"She has been trying," Kurt replied, "or have you just managed to tune out the sound of Thad's ringtone?"

"Well, Kurt may be onto something. Our only problem is the fact that Thad has requested permission to leave the Regionals performance directly after we finish our set. He hasn't yet been granted that permission, we were waiting to hold our next practice before we all took a vote. But we need to make this realistic. We're going to deny him, but it must be convincing!" Wes announced, before going over the plan he had spent the better part of his evening putting together.

Trent felt positively sick during the Warblers practice the next day. He knew that what they were doing was for the better, especially if it meant giving Rachel a chance to apologise. But he also knew that Thad was going to be in a foul mood after his request was denied, and Trent would be the one to try and defuse that mood, a task he really was not looking forward to.

"And now, we go through the requests from the Warblers," Wes announced. If he was nervous about what was going to happen next, his voice certainly didn't portray it. "Warbler Thad has requested early leave from our Regionals performance. Warbler Thad, what is the reason for this leave?"

"My parents want to take my sisters and I out for a meal afterwards, especially as Crawford just won their choir championship, and as my father is going away to New York for two weeks in the late evening, the only time they can do so is straight after my performance," Trent could smell the lie a mile away, yet had to pretend to believe in what Thad was saying.

"Are your parents going to be watching the performance?" he questioned.

"They're not sure. You know how they are," Thad smiled, and Trent's heart sank as he realised just how easily his friend was lying to him.

"Well, all in favour of granting Warbler Thad's request?" Wes cut in, before Trent could say anything else. Hands rose in the air, Trent's included, as had been arranged the previous night. Thad's smile began to falter as he counted the hands in the air, realising his wish hadn't been granted.

"I'm sorry Warbler Thad, but your request has not been granted," Wes barely had time to bang his gavel before Thad was out of the door, Trent hurrying to follow him.

Thad flew into their room, sending a few kicks at his desk before pummelling the wall. He paused when he noticed Trent stood in the doorway, his eyes narrowed into a glare.

"You know, I would have fully supported you if your parents really wanted to take you out for a celebratory dinner. I know that your dad doesn't support the musical side of your family, and it would be amazing to see him change and start to do that. But to use that as a poor excuse to lie over not wanting to see Rachel perform is pathetic! And the worse thing about this Thad is the fact that you lied to your friends about this too, and we all knew it. If you wanted to leave early because of that, then maybe you should have just said that in the first place, instead of lying to all of us! Because that sure as hell is not going to win you any favours. Maybe if you just sucked it up and listened to what Rachel had to say to you, we wouldn't be going through all of this!" after his speech, Trent turned and stormed down towards the common room, leaving a stunned Thad in his wake. Thad shook himself out of his stupor and hurried out of the room after his friend, determined to apologise to Trent. He had already lost Rachel, one good part of his life; he couldn't afford to lose another by hurting his best friend.