Prompt: Colonel Potter - "It's too big a world to be in competition with everyone. The only person who I have to be better than is myself."- 'M*A*S*H'
I wasn't going to let Finn get to me. I wasn't sure what the other teen's issue was with me but it wasn't important. I hadn't come to McKinley to be the lead singer. If I had wanted that then I would have stayed at Dalton. I had chosen McKinley to be closer to Kurt. He wold be going off to New York next year and I would be stuck here in Ohio. I wanted to make the most of the time that I did have with him and being at the same school would allow me to do that. More importantly, it had made Kurt happy and if Kurt was happy then so what if Finn wasn't.
I had learned long ago that I didn't need anyone else's approval. My father had taught me that. It was flattering when I had it but it wasn't the most important thing. The most important thing was that I liked who I was. That I was happy with myself and with the job that I did. I approached everything with the attitude that if I did my best than it was a job well done. I didn't want to climb into bed at night knowing that I had beaten myself.
So, why shouldn't I back Finn's idea of giving Rory the solo. The guy was from another country and I knew how hard it was to be the new guy at school when there wasn't that difference. If giving him the solo made him feel like part of the group, I was all for it.