Reverse Directions Chapter 9: Sue Sylvester Bowl Shuffle, a glee fanfic

It was early February and I was watching a football game. No it wasn't the Super Bowl. I was in the stands at school and kind of cold to be honest. The team had the ball and was up by two touchdowns in the semifinals. There were a few seconds left and the Titans only had to take a knee to win. I watched as the ball was snapped…low which resulted in a fumble recovery for a touchdown as time expired. I was a little bit shocked. I hoped that the regular center would be back for championship because Karofsky didn't seem to be very good at it. I couldn't imagine what was happening in the locker room.

On Monday, I walked into the school wearing a black cardigan with blue and white dress with black knee socks and black flats.

I was without a girlfriend yet again and I was beginning to be okay with it. I might be able to do the single mother thing because I wasn't alone. I still had my sister and my mom to help. Lucy really wasn't that involved in Beth's life anyway and I didn't need her to be. If she was going to have a stepmom, I still wanted it to be Jessa.

I knew that Sue was planning to do something crazy with the Cheerios. It made me glad that I decided not to join her again. It did make me a little bit worried for Lucy though. I then noticed that the team had ganged up on Artie and bombarded him with slushes. He was going to have a hard time cleaning that up because he couldn't just take a shower like the rest of us. Something needed to be done about this. Why was Sue so willing to help Kurt but not the rest of us?

Apparently the solution was to bring the football team into the choir room. You know this seems like as good of an idea as putting a lion in a cage with a gazelle. Apparently Will and Coach Bieste wanted them to join the club. Did everyone just forget how they locked Puck in a Port-O-Potty? Things got loud very quickly and I wished that I could be anywhere else. I wanted to know what Will and Coach Bieste were smoking when they thought this was a good idea. It looked like it could go very wrong.

"Rachel, Lucy, I heard you were working on something together." Will said. Were they back together or something?

Take all my vicious words and turn them into something good
Take all my preconceptions and let the truth be understood
Take all my prized possessions and leave only what I need
Take all my pieces of doubt and let me be what's underneath

Courage is when you're afraid, but you keep on moving anyway
Courage is when you're in pain, but you keep on living anyway

We all have excuses why we're living in fear, something in us dies
And like a bird with broken wings, it's not how high he flies but the song he sings

It's not how many times you've been knocked down
It's how many times you get back up

Courage is when you lost your way, but you find your strength anyway
Courage is when you're afraid, courage is a burning faith
Courage is when you make a change, and you keep on moving anyway
It's when you're in pain, but keeping moving away
When you keep on loving anyway

I really wasn't sure what to make of the song. The team didn't seem to like it and a fight almost broke out in the choir room.

I needed a place to release. I really couldn't believe that it was actually happening. I really needed a release.

I saw it in the news, you told me they were wrong
And I stood up for you, cause I believed you were the one
You had all the chances in the world, to let me know the truth
What the hell's wrong with you

Are you even listening when I talk to you
Do you even care what I'm going through
Your eyes stare like you're staring right through me
You're right there but it's like you never knew me
Do you even know how much it hurt
When you gave up on me to be with her
Revenge is sweeter than you ever were
Revenge is sweeter than you ever were

Nothing can save you now that it's over
I guess that you'll find out when you're no one
You say you're sorry now but I just don't care

I then began to beat on my pillow. It was at that point that Frannie came in. It was good because I needed someone to vent to.

"You know if you're any louder, you're going to wake the baby." She pointed out. "What's wrong?"

"Will had the idea to let the football team perform with us, even though most of them are misogynistic, homophobic assholes." I explained. "It's a bad idea and I don't know what the hell he is thinking."

"Well maybe it can work." She offered.

"There's no way that this is going to work." I argued. "It's basically like trying to get Batman and the Joker to work together. Nothing good is going to come from this."

"All I'm going to say is sometimes people can surprise you." She declared.

The next day, we learned that Sue was trying to shoot Brittany out of a cannon and Will went to Figgins to stop it. I bet Sue wished that she hadn't resigned as principal. She had another epic freak-out when Figgins told her no. Seriously has no one thought it might be a good idea to medicate her because there was a problem there? Apparently it continued into the locker room. One of these days, Sue was going to get sued.

Sue ended up moving the Cheerleading competition to the same night as the championship. Now we were without a halftime show and I was even happier that I had quit. Unfortunately, he wanted us to perform the halftime show, which I would be glad to do…if not for the fact that he wanted the team to help. How was it supposed to help us with Regionals? I bet the Warblers were actually rehearsing right about now. On top of that, Lucy, Santana and Brittany were being forced to choose between us and them.

"So I want to do something that everyone loves: zombies." Will explained. "We'll be performing 'Zombie' by the Pretty Reckless."

"Who is the Pretty Reckless?" Azimio asked. Only the greatest band ever and it was not a hyperbole. I actually wasn't a very big fan of zombies, even though I liked Zombieland.

"Alright, New Directions, Titans, we're going to Zombie Camp." Coach Bieste declared.

The rehearsing was not easy. The dancing was not working that well and we had too many people on the stage at once.

"Okay, it's good but let's put a little life into it." Mr. Schue declared. It was good?

"But we're dead." Karofsky pointed out. I was surprised by that. He actually said something that intelligent.

"Then put some afterlife into it." Will corrected. It was very silly, but it kind of worked.

In the end, Lucy, Brittany, and Santana decided to quit Glee club and go to the competition. I was a little bit shocked by the decision. I couldn't help but sigh. I thought that they were better than that. Why would anyone choose to side with Sue? She was evil.

I found that Sadie was alone in the choir room. She was in front of the piano playing and singing.

In the night, I hear him talk, the coldest story ever told
Somewhere far long ago he lost his soulto a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless?

How could you be so cold as a winter wind when it breeze yo
Just remember that you talking to me you
You need to watch the way you talking to me yo
I mean after all the things that we been through
I mean after all the things we got into
Yo I know there some things that you aint told me
Yo I did some things but that's the old me
Now you wanna get me back you gon' show me
So you walk around like you don't know me
You got a new friend, I got homies
In the end, it's still so lonely

In the night, I hear him talkthe coldest story ever told
Somewhere far long ago he lost his soulto a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless?

Talk and talk and talk and talk , baby let's just knock it off
They don't know what we been through, they don't know 'bout me and you
But I got something new to see, you just gon' keep hating me we just gon' be enemies
I know you can't believe you could just leave it wrong and we can't make it right
So Imma take off tonight into the night

In the night, I hear him talkthe coldest story ever told
Somewhere far long ago he lost his soulto a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless?

It was really good when she performed it that way. I couldn't help but wonder if she had talked to Jessa lately. I decided to ask.

"You're really good." I remarked.

"I didn't think that I would get any time for this with what's been going on." She stated. "I quit the Cheerios for this."

I had almost forgotten that she was on the Cheerios. Sue didn't use her that much.

"So have you talked to Jessa lately?" I questioned.

"No." She answered.

In Glee Club, we were rehearsing "She's Not There" by The Zombies, who predated the zombie craze by a long time. The song didn't even have anything to do with zombies and I was not sure why we were doing it to be honest. The good news was the team was really starting to get into it. I couldn't believe that it was working.

Unfortunately, the hockey team seemed to take over throwing slushes at people and the football guys seemed like they dish it out but not take it. It caused them to not want to be on the team anymore. I couldn't believe that they were such big babies.

After school, I decided to meet Kurt and Blaine for coffee. I couldn't help but wonder when Kurt was going to ask Blaine out on a date.

"So I don't mean to brag, but you guys better bring it at Regionals, because the number we just rehearsed was awesome." Blaine declared.

"Seriously people should wear protective headgear when they're watching it." Kurt joked. No one laughed. "Faith, we're kidding."

"I'm not really in a mood for humor with all of the drama at McKinley right now." I admitted. "We don't have a team for the championship."

"Well the good news is you only need a few more guys." Blaine explained. "You can compete with as few as nine players."

How did he know that? Dalton didn't even have a football team. The next day, I decided to bring up this crazy idea that I had.

"So I have a crazy idea." I stated. "In order to play in the championship, we only need nine players. I think you should let us girls join the team."

"That's a terrible idea." Puck replied.

"Why?" I asked. "I may be short, but I'm still athletic." I explained. "We can do this.'

"Well I guess if there aren't any other options." Coach Bieste replied.

On game night, we went onto the field. Things were not going well. A few of the girls didn't even understand how to play. The first play of the game was a Pick-Six. At halftime, we were down 17-0. Tina managed to recover a fumble, but she was stopped short of the goal line and got hit hard. We were able to get a field goal out of it, but that was it.

"Puck, when the half ends, I need you to convince Karofsky and the rest of guys to do the halftime show with us." I told him.

"Where are you going?" Rachel asked.

"We can't have a game without cheerleaders." I answered before I ran off.

I found the three of them outside of the bus.

"What are you doing here?" Lucy asked.

"I don't think that you should go with Sue." I replied. "Do you honestly think that she cares about any of you? Come back to the Glee club. You won't die there."

Puck managed to convince everyone but Karofsky to come back. I knew I needed to hug him, but that could wait until after the performance.

I'm not listening to you
I am wandering right through resistance
With no purpose and no drive
Cause in the end we're all alive, alive

Two thousand years I've been awake
Waiting for the day to shake

Dear all of you who've wronged me, I am, I am a zombie
Again, again you want me to fall on my head
I am, I am, I am a zombie, hello, hello, hello you push me
To go, to go, to go before I lie down dead

Karofsky even ended joining in at the end. I decided to stay on the team and they respected it because I actually wanted a chance to play. They seemed to be scared by the zombie makeup and I even ended up catching the game-winning touchdown pass.

After the game, I changed back into my normal clothes. I was the last one out.

"I knew that I made the right decision coming back for this." A voice said. I then right into her arms.

So Jessa's back, but did she come back for Faith? Also she got to play some football. The songs are "Courage" by Orianthi and Lacey Moseley, "Revenge is Sweeter Than You Ever Were" by The Veronicas, and "Heartless" by The Fray. Please don't forget to review.