This week was something different. It would be my parents' anniversary if they still were together. I couldn't help but look back on the fond memories I had.
I was nine years old and the four of us were going to a family dinner at TGI Fridays. Frannie was sixteen. I was giving a toast like I had seen in some of the movies. I knew that they thought it was adorable. I thought that it was adorable now. I was an adorable kid.
"To Mommy and Daddy, I hope that you always stay together." I declared as I raised my glass with soda in it before I took a drink from it before letting out a burp. "Excuse me."
That was kind of sad looking back at it now. I did miss the old days a little bit when I thought that I would end up with a prince instead of a princess. I never thought that anything would happen to make my relationship with my dad fractured for good. I never really knew that what a terrible person he was. It was like he only cared about the Old Testament when the New Testament was much more important.
I walked into school wearing a black blazer over a red dress with black tights and red flats. Once I got to school, I noticed that there was a problem. Sue had somehow become principal. I wasn't sure what happened to Principal Figgins, but they probably needed to hire a vice principal so Sue just couldn't take over whenever she wanted. I also heard that Lauren Zizes was sick, but for some reason was at school, so I needed to avoid her.
When I got to Glee club, I couldn't help but notice that Will seemed to be under the weather as well. He wrote Sectionals on the board before he looked like he started to trip out.
"I think I need to go see the nurse, but first I feel like I should get you guys a sitter." He declared. I had no idea what he meant like that unless he was hallucinating that we were children or something.
I hadn't told Lucy about what I had done. I didn't want to just break up with her. I was kind of terrible when it came to relationships. I knew why I was sabotaging my relationship. I didn't want to be in it, but I also didn't want to leave her unless Jessa came back, which I knew wasn't going to happen. There was nothing wrong with Lucy, but after Jessa, I didn't feel like anyone else could be right.
I remember when my heart caught the fever
You were standing all alone in the summer heat
I was with my girlfriend, my new girlfriend, she was sweet as she could be
But one look at you and I was through, my heart switched up on me
Like a postcard from Paris when I've seen the real thing
It's like finding out your diamond is from an old promise ring
A call back from your fortune teller, she read your cards upside down
The meanest thing you ever did is come around
And now I'm ruined I'm ruined
Just when I thought things were alright, my eyes play tricks on my mind yeah
Will I ever be satisfied cause all I ever seem to find is a
Postcard from Paris when I need the real thing
It's like finding out your diamond is from her old promise ring
A call back from your fortune teller, she read your cards upside down
The meanest thing you ever did, the cruelest thing you ever did
The meanest thing you ever did was come around
I am ruined, yeah I'm ruined yeah
I am ruined yeah, I am ruined yeah
The next morning when we got to Glee club, Rachel had appointed herself teacher, which was not hard to see that it was a bad idea. Santana looked like she wanted to kill her.
When I got to lunch, I noticed that I had a few sexts from Dani, but I didn't respond to them. In fact, I just deleted them because I knew that they would lead to nothing but trouble. I didn't expect Lucy to read my phone, but the fact that she could made me nervous about it. I also knew that my mom had been known to read my phone from time to time and it would be really embarrassing if she found something like that.
I was 13 and I had just gotten my first cellphone. My mom told me that there would be rules to keeping it. I wasn't allowed to text after 9:00 and I wasn't allowed to use it while I was doing homework. This was before cell phones had the ability to access the internet.
My hair had purple streaks in it and I was wearing a black fringe dress. I was trying to get it back.
"Mom, please, I need my phone to text Jenny." I begged.
"You don't need it for anything." Dad explained.
"Well can I text Frannie? I haven't seen her much since she went to college." I responded.
"Fine." Mom declared as she handed me the RAZR.
In Spanish, we had a substitute. It was some blonde woman named Miss Holiday. She seemed to have some sort of inexplicable grudge against Lindsay Lohan for some reason. I understood that she was a bad role model, but she had a serious problem and making fun of her just seemed mean.
Also, Kurt had the idea for her to substitute in Glee club. I wasn't sure if she could even do that. I would think that there would be rules against it, but considering that our acting principal was Sue Sylvester, I had doubt anyone would care. I hoped that the first thing that Principal Figgins did upon returning was hire a vice principal. Maybe he could give the job to Miss Pillsbury.
While we waited, Puck was rubbing something on the floor.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Kurt got us a sub, so I'm rubbing butter on the floor." He explained. I sighed loudly.
"Puck, have you learned anything?" I questioned. "You're not a good influence and I don't want you around Beth unless you can clean up your act."
"Did I hear something about a substitute…whoa." Rachel said as she entered the room before slipping on the floor.
"Yes, it works." Puck declared before he helped her up. At that point Miss Holiday did a power slide into the room.
"Let's start with some introductions." She stated. "My name is Holly Holiday."
"Is that your real name?" I asked. I didn't know how someone gets a name like that. That'd be like if someone were named Phillip Phillips.
"So I recently watched a video of you performing at Regionals where you came in last." She stated. I could that I wasn't going to like this woman very much. "The songs were like 30 years old."
"Hey, don't rip on Journey." I warned her.
"Those sounded like somebody else's favorite songs, not yours." She argued. Did she know that Vocal Adrenaline sang an even older song? "I'm not your average sub. I want you guys to do things that you want to do. I want you to have fun in our fabulous but fleeting time together. So what songs would you like to do?"
"Can you even sing?" I questioned.
"Of course I can." She replied.
I need another story, something to get off my chest
My life gets kind of boring, need something I can confess
Till all my sleeves are stained, from all the truth that I've said
Come by it honestly I swear, thought you saw me wink no
I've by on the brink so
Tell me what you to hearSomething that'll light those ears
I'm sickened by the insincereI'm gonna give all my secrets away
This time,don't need another perfect line,
Don't care if critics ever jump in lineI'm gonna give all my secrets away
Got no reasons, got no shame, got no family I can blame
Just don't let me disappearImma tell you everything
Tell me what you to hearsomething that'll light those ears
I'm sickened by the insincereI'm gonna give all my secrets away
This time,Don't need another perfect line
Don't care if critics ever jump in liveI'm gonna give all my secrets away
All my secrets awayAll my secrets away
So she had a decent voice. She wasn't really anything special. She might finish 6th on American Idol if she weren't too old to compete.
I decided to meet Dani at her house after school. I told Lucy that I was with Frannie. My sister agreed to cover for me, but I doubted that she would continue to do so. I couldn't even think of a good reason why I was doing it.
"You know I doubt think that I can keep doing this." I stated after we were done. "This is going to be our last meeting like this."
"Well you have my number if you ever want to call me." She replied.
Any way you want it, that's the way you need it
Any way you want it
She loves to laugh, she loves to sing
She loves everything
She loves to move, she loves to groove
She loves the loving things
Ooh all night, all night, oh every night
So hold tight, hold tight, ooh baby hold tight
She said any way you want it that's the way you need it
Any way you want it
She said any way you want it that's the way you need it
Any way you want it
I was alone, I never knew what good love could do
Oh then we touched and we sang about the loving things
Ooh all night, all night, oh every night
So hold tight, hold tight, ooh baby hold tight
She said any way you want it that's the way you need it
Any way you want it
She said any way you want it that's the way you need it
Any way you want it
Ooh all night, all night, oh every night
So hold tight, hold tight, ooh baby hold tight
She said any way you want it that's the way you need it
Any way you want it
She said any way you want it that's the way you need it
Any way you want it
"I might delete it." I said. "And could you please stop sexting me? It's really making it hard to keep this from my girlfriend."
"But you don't even love your girlfriend." She pointed out. That wasn't the point.
"I'm still dating her. I don't like being alone." I remarked.
"You could be with me." She offered.
"I've already done the dating the competition thing and people didn't respond to it well." I declared. "This is goodbye."
I then drove home and I went over to Beth. I wanted nothing more than to spend time with her. I felt kind of dirty after doing what I did with Dani. I knew that my daughter would judge me, probably because she wasn't capable of judging me, but she just loved me for me and that was all I wanted.
In Glee, Rachel and Ms. Holiday did a rather strange song and dance number. There was a reason that Will wouldn't let her do that because it was weird. Those outfits looked pretty strange too, even though I knew I was not someone to criticize someone's stage outfit.
Later in the day, we found that Ms. Holiday was our new permanent Spanish teacher and Glee Club instructor. It was why it was a bad idea to make Sue principal. Though, I was surprised that she did not just outright disband us. I had to say that I was not okay with it. In fact, I was pissed about it, but I don't know if there was anything that I could do. Everyone else seemed to really like Ms. Holiday, but we can't just throw out Will like he had never been there for us.
On Thursday, I woke up and decided that I was not going to school.
"Faith, you need to get up." Mom said as she came into my room.
"I'm not going to school." I stated. "I don't want to go to school if Mr. Schue isn't going to be there. There has to be some way to get him back."
"What's it going to take to get you out of bed?" She asked me.
"I want you to call the family lawyer." I declared.
I got dressed and headed straight into Sue's office.
"You're going to hire Will Schuester back." I told her.
"Sorry, but you don't have any blackmail on me anymore." She replied.
"But I do have a lawyer." I pointed out. "You had no right to fire him while he was sick and I know that you don't want to have to deal with a wrongful termination lawsuit, especially since it could result in your own dismissal."
"You know I'm surprised." She admitted. "I'm surprised that I haven't seen that fire in you for a while. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to hire Will back and I'm gonna let you back on the Cheerios."
"Thanks, but no thanks." I stated before I walked out.
So Will ended up being hired back, but some reason, he invited Miss Holiday to sing with it. At least we didn't go with the Singin' in the Rain idea.
I was at the top now it's like I'm in the basement
Number one spot now he's finding a replacement
I swear that I can't take it, knowing somebody's got my baby
And now you aint around baby I can't think
Should've put it down, should've took that ring
I can feel I through the air
See his pretty face, run my fingers through his hair
My love of my life, your shawty, your wife
He left me, I'm tied, cause I knew that just aint right
I was thinking 'bout him, thinking 'bout me
Thinking 'bout us, what we gonna be
Open my eyes, it was only just a dream
So I travelled back down that road
Will he come back, no one knows
I realize that it was only just a dream
If you ever loved somebody, put your hands up
If you ever loved somebody, put your hands up
Now they're gone and you're wishing you could give them everything
If you ever loved somebody, put your hands up
If you ever loved somebody, put your hands up
Now they're gone and you're wishing you could give them everything
I was thinking 'bout him, thinking 'bout me
Thinking 'bout us, what we gonna be
Open my eyes, it was only just a dream
So I travelled back down that road
Will he come back, no one knows
I realize that it was only just a dream
I just hoped that I wouldn't have to see Ms. Holiday for a long time.
So Faith does not Holly and she managed to get Will his job back. Also Faith and Dani are done maybe. The songs are "Postcard from Paris" by The Band Perry, "Secrets" by OneRepublic, "Any Way You Want It" by Journey and "Just A Dream" by Nelly. Please don't forget to review.