I apologize I had a few things to take care of

They kept saying not much longer but that was a total lie. Santana stretched as much as she could, first day of school was going to suck but with the football players and Cheerios under control that was one less worry. Quinn was driving them to school, she had already picked up Brittany, Mercedes was grabbing Tina and they were all wearing their Cheerios uniforms, except Kurt, like the other boys he was wearing his football jersey, much to his dismay.

"Hey Ducky." Quinn waved.

"Hey Q, ready to strike fear into the freshmen?" Santana took the front seat next to Quinn, Brittany was in the back.

"Hi baby."

"Hi sweetie," Santana smiled into the rearview mirror at Brittany "did you remember everything?"

"I did." Brittany held up her backpack.

"We're going to meet up with the others in the parking lot before school." Quinn told Santana as she belted in. "I'm sure JBI will be waiting." Santana rolled her eyes.

"He's mean." Brittany frowned.

"I'll be fine, Wheezy said she'd beat his ass." Santana smirked, Quinn chuckled.

The boys, Kurt included, were gathered by Puck's van waiting for the girls "Good morning ladies." Puck straightened up seeing the trio.

"Ladies?" Santana laughed "Who are you and what have you done with Puck?"

"Don't bust my balls Lopez, Coach wants us to start talking proper to you girls." Puck rolled his eyes.

"Now there's the Puck I'm used to." Santana laughed patting his chest.

"Hey guys." Mercedes waved "We ready for whatever fresh hell today brings?"

"We'll be fine." Quinn promised.

"The uniforms will keep you safe." Matt promised.

"Just not warm and right now I feel cold and naked." Tina shook her head covering her bare shoulders with her hands.

Reaching in his van Puck grabbed his letterman jacket holding it out to her. "Until you get yours you can wear mine."

"Thanks Puck." taking off the back pack she pulled the oversized letterman jacket on. "Some of the teachers keep their classes really cold."

"I think it's so we stay awake." Puck said honestly "Doesn't work when the class is boring, I fall asleep anyway. Hey Big Man." Puck held his hand up for a high five from Shane, giving Puck a high five Shane sidled up to Mercedes who smiled at him. "Let's get this over with so we can at least get to my favorite part of the school day."

"Cheerios practice?" Santana teased.

"You'd think that." Puck chuckled "But it's lunch, I can scope out all the h.. beautiful girls at lunch." Puck corrected himself, Coach had pointed out that he should talk about and to women like he wanted boys to talk to his daughter when she was old enough to date. "Ready?"

"Yea." Artie nodded letting Puck push him towards the school.

"Good morning." Rachel chirped.

"Good morning." Sam waved at the little diva holding onto Finn's hand.

"Ah hell, it's JBI." Santana muttered as they walked closer to the school.

"Go in the side door, we'll run interference." Mercedes shooed the Unholy Trinity away, Quinn unhappily separated from Mike knowing JBI would keep his eyes on the tall Asian boy since he was easier to spot. Quinn knew JBI wanted to question her either about her daughter Beth or about Mike, Quinn knew JBI wanted to confirm Mike and Quinn were dating, all their friends, football players and Cheerios knew they were.

JBI and his camera man were set perfectly on the front steps of the school pouncing on those he deemed newsworthy, his eyes lit up seeing the Glee members sporting Cheerios uniforms and a football jerseys. "Well this is a change." holding his microphone up he asked "Have we entered an alternate universe or has the Glee Club infiltrated the popular sports, you decide as we have known Glee Club members Mercedes Jones and Tina Cohen Chang in Cheerio uniforms as well as Kurt Hummel and Artie Abrams in football jerseys. Or is this simply a ploy to keep them from getting slushied their first day of school?"

"Slushies are banned." Finn said walking by the boy.

"So that's one rumor confirmed, slushies are banned from campus." JBI said watching the group walk by him, he was looking for Santana and Quinn, seeing Mike by himself he frowned. "Let's go." gesturing towards the school he knew he would have to roam the halls looking for them.

Santana was thankful the school had tables and not desks in some of the classes because she was having trouble fitting in a desk, Spanish with Mr. Schuester was the first class and it was with Mike and Brittany. "Good morning Santana, Brittany." Will smiled at the duo.

"Hi Mr. Schue." Brittany smiled following Santana to their table.

"Good morning Mike."

"Good morning Mr. Schue."

"Mike, ya got a little something." Santana touched her cheek, Mike chuckled taking the tissue Brittany offered to wipe off the lip gloss Quinn had left on his cheek.

"JBI's on the hunt for you Santana."

"I know, little freak," she shook her head pulling out her Spanish book "he's not going to give up until he catches me."

With the bell ringing and the rest of the students filing in Will wrote his name on the board with the class and room number, it always happened freshman in the wrong classes the first week of school "Good morning take your seats this is Spanish 3, and I am Mr. Schuester." Santana chuckled as a few kids grabbed their bags and left the room, it was strictly a juniors/seniors class. They were supposed to be speaking strictly Spanish but Mr. Schuester still struggled with certain phrases. "As many of you know I am also in charge of the Glee Club, we have our first meeting Thursday before school, I hope to see you there."

Lunch was when they all met up to talk about their first classes, Santana and Brittany were already at the table with JBI skidding to a stop breathlessly asking. "So Santana is it true that despite your situation you are not only on the Cheerios but you are it's co-captain."

Glaring at the microphone in her face Santana refused to answer, but smirked at the large shadow that appeared and the soft yet firm "Excuse me, we are trying to eat lunch." from Shane that caused a squeak from JBI. Swallowing JBI nodded shoving his cameraman away, Santana knew it was just for the moment but that was fine, she could eat her lunch in peace.

"Thanks."

"Any time." he smiled sitting down next to Mercedes.

"So aside from him how has your day been?" Mercedes asked Santana.

"I'm tired and my back aches but so far the classes aren't bad." Santana admitted.

"I have English with Finn and Puck." Brittany waved at the boys as they walked towards the table.

"Aside from JBI it's been uneventful, so perfect." Quinn said slipping into place next to Santana with Mike right next to her.

"Made a bet with the hockey players that our grades would beat theirs." Puck said sitting down next to Finn.

"You guys bet on anything." Santana laughed poking at the food on her plate.

"You have to eat it San." Brittany chided.

"Rabbit food." Santana muttered poking at the salad again before addressing Puck "With Artie helping out I can see the teams grades being way better than before."

"Yea."

"Anybody seen Artie or Tina?"

"They're good." Mercedes promised pointing at the duo followed by Rachel who was already chatting with them, the rest of the Glee kids were coming in from other directions.

"Isn't it so exciting, meeting all the new teachers and my theatre class is great! Well mostly, some people just don't understand how it works..." Rachel continued talking as they joined the table.

"Hey party people." Artie greeted the table putting his tray down at the end "So was it just my class or did Mr. Schue try to recruit from all the Spanish classes?" Santana snorted, "I'll take that as all." the other kids with Spanish mumbled yes as they began to eat lunch.

"And what's with that cheesy grin?" Mercedes asked Matt who was practically dancing in his seat when he sat down.

"New lunch lady gave me extra tots."

"We have a new lunch lady?" Tina glanced over to the serving line.

"Miss Millie, she's nice." Matt waved at her, smiling she waved back.

"You're just saying that because she gave you more tots." Puck chuckled.

"Naw she asked how my first day was, and listened when I said it was going good." Matt promised. "Then she gave me extra tots."

"Which line?" Mercedes looked around Shane.

"No Cedes, you don't need anymore tots." Kurt shook his head sitting next to Matt. "You need more vegetables."

"Tots are potatoes and that's a vegetable, hardest working vegetable there is." Mercedes pointed her fork at him.

"I've seen sign up sheets for Glee but no one has signed up yet." Rachel sighed disappointed.

"Face it they still think we're losers, and until we win Nationals no other win is going to matter." Santana shook her head.

"There's one in the locker room too, nobody's signed up there either." Sam said joining them.

"We'll see Thursday morning." Rachel said "It's our first Glee meeting."

"Yay." Santana muttered, she hated clubs that met in the morning.

"Ready for first official practice?" Quinn asked Tina.

"Still recovering from the other day." Tina admitted.

"We all are except maybe Brittany." Quinn chuckled "Just remember to use the stuff I gave you and stretch, stretching is important."

"Your muscles will get use to it." Santana promised.

"Is it that same stuff we use?" Puck asked, digging in her purse Quinn handed the container to Puck "It's not."

"See if it's better."

"Here." digging through his back pack Puck handed Quinn his container of 'muscle ice', "Maybe you like this one better."

"It's official, we've turned into our parents." Santana shook her head "What's next we talk about our favorite burner on the stove?" the table laughed when Finn said.

"It's the right front one." chuckling Finn shrugged.