It had been a few weeks. The school had still not hired a new cheerleading coach which meant that Coach Tweedy was still pulling double duty. On the plus side, Sue wasn't around anymore. She still wasn't dead but I was pretty sure that the school moved on and they wouldn't be holding her job in case she didn't die. That may have not been legal, but I really wasn't an expert when it came to things like that. I didn't think anyone at the school would mind if Sue didn't come back because no one really liked her that much.

In other news, the football team still hadn't won a game. It was a least nice to know that it wasn't my fault that they were terrible. I was pretty sure that it was Coach Tanaka's fault. Coach Beiste really had changed things. I still wasn't sure how we had lost to the school for the deaf, which probably shouldn't have even had a football team in the first place. At least the girls' football team was undefeated, yet somehow the boys' football players were more popular. Did people really hate girls' sports that much that they would rather support a terrible team than a successful girls' team?

"So I kind of want to keep Coach Tweedy even though she really doesn't know anything about cheerleading." Chrissy told me as we arrived at school. "She's really good at motivating us."

"Sorry, you're going to have to get your own coach." I remarked. I did find it weird that I was feeling a little possessive of her. It wasn't like I had a crush on her at all. Okay, maybe I did a little. I just really liked her accent, but I wasn't going to try to date her or anything. "So I think I'm starting to get used to being a girl. It really isn't that bad."

"You're probably not going to feel that way pretty soon." She remarked.

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"Think about it. You've been a girl for a few weeks. You're probably going to have your period soon. I had mine last week." She stated.

"Was that why you were so moody? You didn't tell me about it." I pointed out.

"Because I didn't want to talk about it." She stated. "It makes you feel like crap and it's also kind of embarrassing to talk about. Didn't you think it was odd that I wasn't wearing pants at all?"

"Why weren't you wearing pants?" I questioned.

"It was because of the bloating. It causes you to gain a little bit of weight right around your waist." She explained. "I don't want to keep talking about this. Just be thankful that Mom keeps track of this kind of stuff for us and has everything that we need when we need it."

"Did you just call her Mom?" I asked her.

"That's what she is to me here." Chrissy pointed out. "I know she was my wife where we're from, but here she's my mother just as much as she is yours. I think it would be weirder for me to not call her that."

The two of us then headed to Glee club. It was at least good that we could do something together since we weren't in any of the same classes. Mr. Schue started to hand out sheet music. I actually knew how to read it now.

"This must be a mistake because this is the alto part." Rachel remarked.

"There's no mistake. Jasmine is doing the solo." Mr. Schue replied.

"I am?" Jasmine asked in surprise.

"We're going to feature different voices as part of this." Mr. Schue explained. "No one is going to get every solo."

Rachel did not take it well. You know I couldn't believe I never noticed it before, but she was kind of a bitch when she didn't get her way. Maybe that was why Mr. Schue would always feature her so much.

"Rachel, please stop." I told her.

"What?" Rachel replied.

"You don't have to sing every song." I stated. "Besides, Jasmine deserves to sing something too. We're a team and you need to let other people share the spotlight."

I kind of wondered if I could help Rachel be less of a diva. I was pretty sure that I either directly or indirectly encouraged it before.

"I'm the best singer here." Rachel argued.

"Actually, Faith's better than you." Ben commented.

"Yeah, I think I agree." Sam added. With that Rachel stormed out of the room. We did need to get to class, so it was probably a good idea.

"Hey Faith, I needed to ask you something." Kurt replied. Quinn looked like she wanted to say something, but I gave her a look. "I need a favor. I need you to help me get onto the football team."

"I can talk to Coach Tweedy but we don't let boys play." I remarked. I figured it would be how I was supposed to react. I also understood the irony of what I was saying.

"I'm pretty sure that he doesn't mean soccer." Quinn remarked.

"Oh. Sorry, Coach wants me to call it football and I got confused." I stated. I then figured that I would try to do something different. I wanted to help Kurt out. "But you should tell me why you want to play in the first place. Is this because of your dad?"

"How did you know about that?" Kurt asked in surprise.

"Brittany told me that you did the 'Single Ladies' dance with her." Quinn remarked. You know I still hadn't seen Brittany. It was possible that she also looked different since she clearly was still here.

"You don't have to play football for your dad to be proud of you." I stated. There probably wasn't a point to him playing football since it didn't do it for very long. "I know I don't really have experience with a father, but I think he won't have a problem with you being gay."

"I'm not gay." He argued.

"Kurt, we can all see it." Quinn remarked. I wanted to make sure that she didn't say something mean here.

"I'm really not gay." Kurt replied. It actually didn't sound like denial for some reason. There was no way that he was really straight, was he? "Please don't tell anyone this, but I'm not gay…because I don't identify as a boy."

"Oh." I declared. Things just got really awkward. "I think we should probably get to class and we can talk more about this later."

"I can't say that I saw that coming." Quinn remarked.

"Well we can't tell anyone. She asked us not to." I pointed out. I kind of felt like I shouldn't even talk to Chrissy about it to be honest.

"She?" Quinn remarked.

"Can we not talk about it right now?" I requested. It was a little hard to process. I mean I knew Unique was transgender, but I didn't think Kurt would ever be.

"So I have something that I need to talk to you about, but I guess we can wait until class is over." She said. "No queremos llegar tarde."

Because Mr. Schue was actually good at teaching Spanish, I knew she meant that we didn't want to be late. I wondered if that was the only lateness that she was concerned about. I would think that she was still going to get pregnant because she told me about how she had sex. There were some things that I didn't know about what happened the first time and I realized that I shouldn't have been angry at her for what happened. If I had known the truth back then, I might have legitimately killed him for he did.

As soon as class was over, she took me in front of the trophy case. Yes, she was about to tell me. This moment was forever ingrained in my mind. I even remembered what I was wearing when he told me. I obviously was wearing something different. I was wearing my football jacket with a white tee shirt and jeans.

"So what's going on?" I asked.

"I'm pregnant." She replied with tears in her eyes. I gave her a tight hug.

"Oh my god." I told her. Even though I knew it was coming, I had to do my best to act surprised. "Have you so told Sam?"

"I don't know if I can. It's not his." She pointed out.

"Well I'll do whatever I can to help." I offered. I regretted leaving her even though I knew that the baby wasn't mine. She had betrayed me by agreeing to hang out with him, but I wasn't exactly innocent either. Now I wasn't even in that position. I was her best friend and I needed to support her no matter what. If I could change something else, I would want to make sure that she kept the baby. I was pretty sure that she could be a good mother because she was the strongest person that I knew.

At lunch, I took her to the auditorium because I had something that I wanted to sing to her. It was a song that I had sung before, but in a different context. This time I was singing it to her. I realized that I never really serenaded her…not that I was doing it now.

Oh, why you look so sad, tears are in your eyes
Come on and come to me now
Don't be ashamed to cry, let me see you through
Cause I've seen the dark side too

When the night falls on you and you don't know what to do
Nothing you confess, could make me love you less

I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you
Won't let nobody hurt you
I'll stand by youtake me into your darkest hour
And I'll never desert youI'll stand by you

I'll stand by you
I'll stand by you
Won't let nobody hurt you
I'll stand by you

"Quinn however you want to do this, I'll do whatever you want." I told her. "But I think you need to tell Sam and you need to tell him the truth. You won't gain anything from lying to him."

"I don't know how I'm supposed to tell him." She admitted.

"Were the two of you together when you had sex with this other guy?" I questioned.

"Well no. I mean he was at the church camp but we weren't together yet." She explained.

"Then you didn't do anything wrong." I pointed out. "So can you tell me about how it went?"

She gave me a quick recap of the event and it did sound like it was completely consensual, which was good.

"What about him?" She asked. "Should I tell him?"

"I don't think you should go out of your way to find this guy." I replied. "If Sam doesn't want to help you raise this baby, I will."

"Can we talk about something else?" She requested. Well, there was one thing that was on my mind. It was an issue and I wasn't sure what to do about it.

"So I want to do something for Kurt." I replied. It was then that I got an idea. "Do you think that she would want to be on the cheerleading squad?"

"Well even if she did, I can't make that happen." She remarked.

"But you're the head cheerleader." I pointed out.

"This isn't a movie, Faith. I don't get to decide who gets to be on the cheerleading squad. We can't have any new members until we get a new coach." She stated. "And I can't guarantee that the new coach will go for it."

"Well aren't guys allowed on the cheerleading squad?" I challenged.

"Yes." She answered. "We can't do anything about it right now."

At that point, a cheerleader who was Asian with blonde hair came into the auditorium. I assumed that she was looking for Quinn.

"What are you doing in here? Were you making out?" The girl asked. She seemed familiar.

"No, Britt, we weren't making out." Quinn told her. This was Brittany? Why was she Asian? "Faith and I were just talking. It's something that best friends do."

"Santana and I do that but we make out too." Brittany replied. I hadn't seen Santana at all, but it was possible that she looked different as well. It was kind of awkward not knowing what everyone looked like when I was supposed to know them. It sounded like I had hung out with Brittany and Santana before.

"We should probably get something to eat." I suggested. I was no longer comfortable discussing what we were discussing with Brittany around.

Later, at football practice, I decided to talk to Jasmine while I was on the bench getting some water. She didn't seem like she was playing as much, but it was probably because she was just okay at the sport. She was good and still did get two assists in the game last week.

"So how do you feel about getting a solo?" I asked her as I took a sip.

"I don't know if I should if it's going to make Rachel mad." Jasmine replied.

"You're a great singer. You should be happy that Mr. Schue sees that." I told her.

"I don't want to cause division. I should let Rachel sing the song." She remarked.

"I think Rachel needs to learn that not everything is always going to go her way." I pointed out. It was then that I realized that Coach was calling for me.

After school was over, Chrissy and I were going home together. I was going to be taking my driver's test pretty soon. I probably wouldn't have my own car, but I would at least be able to drive. It took me a lot longer to pass it, but the reason that I finally decided to take it was for Quinn to doctor's appointments.

"So Quinn is still pregnant." I stated. "Just don't tell her that I told you."

"I won't." She agreed. "You know she seems like she's a lot nicer here."

"It's probably because I'm a good influence on her or something." I replied.

"Well I can see what you saw in her. I can't see what you saw in Rachel though." She admitted.

"I mean Rachel is a bit of a diva, but I'm pretty sure that she's going to get better…eventually." I told her.

"Well I can't say that I like her that much right now." Chrissy stated. "I'm sorry. I know you love her."

Did I still love her? I wasn't sure. I hadn't really thought about romance very much. I knew that I had kissed Rachel, but it felt really awkward. It might have been because I wasn't completely okay with my new body yet. It was still better than the first time that I kissed Rachel. I was glad that was a problem that I didn't seem to have as a girl, even though I didn't think girls could even have that problem.

"So what were you talking to Kurt about?" She questioned. Now, this was really awkward.

"I can't tell you that." I stated. "Kurt asked us not to tell anyone."

"I'm not going to tell anyone else." She responded.

"Chrissy, please, I don't want to break my promise here." I declared. "It's nothing bad, but this isn't my secret to tell."

"Okay." She relented. "I'm impressed. That requires a lot of integrity."

From there we got home and I decided to do something. Mom was home and I wanted to talk to her about something?

"Hey, mom, can I talk to you about something?" I asked.

"Sure. What's up?" She asked.

"I wanted to ask when I first knew that I wanted to play football." I remarked. "Soccer, I mean."

"I'm a little surprised that you don't remember, but I guess you were pretty young. You were watching the World Cup Final in 1999 and the US had just won. You saw Brandi Chastain take off her jersey while celebrating and you said that you wanted to do that. I had to tell you not to take your shirt off after scoring a goal." She replied with a smile. It seemed like it was a particularly happy memory for her. "But I know you're going to play in the World Cup someday and if you win it, you can take it off."

I couldn't help but laugh. As much as I didn't want to be a girl, I couldn't help but think about how much I could make my mom proud. I knew that she was still proud of me just for getting into college, but I kind of did want to play professional soccer for her. I may not have a way to go back and if that was true, I wanted to be the best version of myself that I could be.

"So how has school been for you?" She asked.

"I think it's going very well. I feel like I'm doing really well." I stated. Part of it was because I did remember learning a lot of it. It wasn't cheating because it wasn't something that I could help. I still didn't think that I was as smart as Quinn, even though I had already learned this stuff.

In the morning, when we went to Glee club. I couldn't help but notice that Brittany was in the choir room.

"Brittany, what are you doing here?" Chrissy asked her.

"I don't know." Brittany replied.

"Are you okay? Are you lost?" I questioned. Part of me wondered if Brittany needs to be in Special Ed. It would probably help her graduate. I wasn't sure if she had a disability, but there had to be something that we could do to help her graduate on time.

"No wait. I remembered why I'm supposed to audition for the Glee club." Brittany declared. She was also with Santana. It was kind of weird since she hadn't sung at all during our sophomore year.

I couldn't help but watch wondering what song Brittany had chosen to sing. It seemed like she mostly liked pop songs, which made a bit more confused about her song choice. She may have gotten some of the words wrong, but I wasn't entirely sure.

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine
Gotta, gotta be down because I want it all
I started out with a kiss how did it end up like this
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss

Now I'm falling asleep and she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke and she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed and my stomach is sick
And it's all my in head

But she's touching his chest now
He takes off her dress now let me go
And I just can't look it's killing me
And taking control

Jealousy, turning things into deceit
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Desting is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
Cause I'm Mr. Brightside

"Okay, that was different." Mr. Schue commented. "Welcome to the Glee club, Brittany."

The following day, I decided to talk to Quinn to see if she had told Sam about the baby yet.

"Hi." I greeted her. I didn't want to go straight into it. I needed to break the ice first. "So did you go to the doctor or did you just take a pregnancy test?"

"I went to the doctor and they confirmed that I was pregnant." She answered. "I'm sure of this. I'm having a baby."

"Have you told Sam about it yet?" I asked.

"I have." She said.

"What did he say?" I questioned.

"He needed some time to think about it." She answered. I wasn't sure if it would be fair for him to hold something that happened before they got together against him.

"Well I heard that there was a new cheerleading coach. Have you met her up?" I asked. I knew that she wouldn't be able to cheer for very much longer, but hopefully the new coach wouldn't be as bad as Sue. I didn't know how anyone could be worse than Sue, but I didn't want to know to be honest.

"I haven't. We were going to be meeting her after school." She stated. "I hope she's nice."

"Well maybe you can talk to her about Kurt." I offered.

"I don't know if I want to make a bad first impression." She declared. "I'll do it, but it's going to be a little while."

"Okay." I agreed. I knew a thing or two about making bad first impressions when I suggested that Artie should be on the football team. He didn't actually do very much on the team. I probably shouldn't have entertained his idea in the first place. "Just promise me."

"I promise." She agreed.

While I was practicing, I couldn't help but notice the coach. She was kind of short and also really hot.

"Faith, what are you looking at?" Coach Tweedy asked me.

"I'm sorry. I just noticed that the new cheerleading coach was here and got a little distracted." I apologized.

"Hmm take five, girls." She remarked as she went over to the new coach. She then brought the coach, Quinn, Chrissy and all of the cheerleaders over to us. "Girls, this is the new cheerleading coach, Magdalena Kiernan. This is my football team. We won the state championship last year."

"Oh the state championship." The new coach replied. "That's cute. My squad finished third in the country last year."

"Those are different rules. We don't have national football championships." Coach Tweedy argued. I was pretty sure that there was some sort of high school soccer championship, but I didn't know how you were supposed to qualify for it.

"Well I suppose it's good that someone else knows how to coach a winner. Why haven't they fired that loser that coaches the football team yet?" She asked.

"You don't need to be so mean." Jasmine replied.

"Are we done here? Can we go back to practicing?" Coach Kiernan asked. Well it seemed like she was still a bitch, but hopefully she wasn't just like Sue.

Of course, I only got to see her from one point of view. I would have to ask what Chrissy and Quinn thought of her. After I was out of the showers, Quinn and I started to walk to the choir room together.

"I love this new coach." She stated. That was not the reaction that I was expecting from her. "Before we started practicing, she asked all to introduce ourselves. She seems like she actually cares about us."

"So would you say that she's better than Sue?" I asked.

"Definitely." She told me.

"Well are you sure that you should keep doing this? I don't think cheering is good for the baby." I pointed out.

"I don't need to limit physical activity for a few more weeks at least. Plus, cheerleading is kind of all that I have at this school. I don't really know how to be anybody else." She explained. I wanted to say that she was more than just a cheerleader, but I didn't know the best way to express it. "You haven't told anyone, have you?"

"No." I stammered. "Would you have a problem with me telling my sister though?"

"I suppose not, but don't tell anybody else." She requested. I was pretty sure that she realized that I had already told her. "I will make sure to talk to her about Kurt soon."

I ended up going to the football game with Mom because we were going to watch Chrissy cheer. I hadn't actually seen her cheer because I wasn't focused on it. I wondered if she was any good. It was also weird watching the game from the stands instead of the sidelines. Chrissy and Quinn, who were the ones who were being thrown in the air, which made me a little nervous, but I also felt confident that nothing would happen to Quinn or the baby.

One thing that I noticed was that Kurt wasn't on the team. Maybe she talked to her dad about being transgender or something.

The other thing that surprised was that the team actually won. It was on a fumble recovery returned for a touchdown but they still won.

On Monday, Mr. Schue walked into the room with Mike.

"Everyone, this is Mike Chang, He wants to be part of the Glee club." Mr. Schue declared.

"Hey, everyone, I've never really done anything like this before. I've danced a little bit in my room. I've never really sang before." Mike introduced.

"You don't have to sing if you don't to." Mr. Schue assured him.

"No, I have something from High School Musical." Mike replied. I never knew that he liked high school musical. I mean it made sense, but I didn't know it. This version of Mike was also apparently less afraid to sing.

Everybody's always talking at me
Everybody's trying to get in my head
I wanna listen to my own heart talking
I need to count on myself instead

Did you ever lose yourself to get what you want
Did you ever get on a ride and wanna get off
Did you ever push away the ones you should've held close
Did you ever let go did you ever not know

I'm not gonna stop, that's who I am
I'll give it all I got, that is my plan
Will I find what I lost, you know you can
Bet on it, bet on it, bet on it, bet on it
I'm gonna make it right, that is the way
To turn my life around today is the day
Am I the type of guy who means what I say
Bet on it, bet on it, bet on it, bet on it

As soon as he finished, Kurt walked into the room, except she was wearing a little bit of makeup and some hair extension.

"Kurt, what's going on?" Mr. Schue asked.

"Everyone, I have an announcement to make." Kurt replied. "I'm transgender. I want all of you to call me Katie for now."

So Quinn is pregnant and Kurt is transgender. There's also a new cheerleading coach played by Rachel Bilson. Brittany is played by Hayley Kiyoko. The songs are "Mr. Brightside" by the Killers and "Bet on It" by Zac Efron. Please don't forget to review.