So the last week really wasn't that important. The most important thing that happened was we had won both of our games. Some things that didn't happen was Rachel did not catch laryngitis and was not put on vocal rest. You know I was kind of surprised that she hadn't messed up her voice because she didn't seem like she understood the concept of vocal rest. I supposed that asking her to stop talking was a really tough thing to do. I also found out that Sean was never injured in a freak accident during a game and even went on to play college football. That was good for him.
Regionals was getting closer. I was still nervous about my relationship with Sadie. I still hadn't said it back to her. I was worried that one of us was going to screw things up and she would inevitably go back to Vocal Adrenaline. I had a feeling that some things just couldn't be helped. It was probably also something that I couldn't change because it definitely have some big repercussions. I didn't know if Chrissy was right that changing these things might cause me to die, but it was still not something that I wanted to take chances with.
When we got to Glee, we found out that Mr. Ryan was there. I never noticed before, but he had an incredibly punchable face. I felt like I wanted to hit him.
"Everyone, this is Mr. Ryan from the school board." Mr. Schue declared. "He would like to say a few words to you. I just want you guys to listen critically and know that what he is saying is just one of many opinions."
"Take out a piece of paper and one that piece of paper, I want you to write down your biggest dream." Mr. Ryan explained. I wasn't going to do it because I knew that the guy was full of crap. "I want you to then rip up that piece of paper. Your dreams are never going to happen. The majority of people from this county will never leave it. So unless you want an entry level job somewhere, you are going to be disappointed."
"What the hell is this?" Ben asked.
"I'm going to guess that a lot of your dreams involve show business." He continued. I actually wasn't sure how many of us actually wanted to be in show business. I knew that Rachel, Adonis, Katie and probably Mike wanted to work in the entertainment industry, but I would also say that Katie's biggest dream was getting to be a woman. Sadie told me that she was undecided between show business and football. "Showbiz dreams are the most unrealistic of them all."
"Why should we let you tell us what we can't do?" Adonis questioned.
"If you want proof, take Will Schuester. His dreams didn't come true. He didn't want to teach Spanish to a bunch of high school students and you need to have similar expectations." Mr. Ryan declared. "He's now trying to convince all of you that you can do this."
The good news was that I didn't take anything that he had to say to heart because I knew that he was just a bitter man who was upset that he couldn't do what he wanted to do and he just wanted to tell everyone else that their dreams were similarly pointless because it made him feel better about himself.
"Okay, I think we've heard enough." Mr. Schue told him.
"I think that you should show me some respect." Mr. Ryan countered.
"You've said your piece so get out." Mr. Schue stated.
"Well I should thank you. You've made my decision about which program to cut even easier." Mr. Ryan declared. I didn't know why everyone always wanted to get rid of the arts. Even if the majority of people wouldn't make it, we needed to leave the opportunity open for the few that did.
However, when I left the room, I couldn't help but notice that Sadie was feeling down. She looked like she had taken things to heart and I wanted to make her feel better. I just hoped that I would say the right thing.
"Hey, you don't need to pay attention to anything that he said." I pointed out. "Just because things didn't work out for him doesn't mean that they won't work out for you."
"I don't even feel as bad for myself because I know that I at least have soccer to fall back on if I don't manage to get a theatre scholarship." She admitted. At this point, I wasn't sure if I would go to college because football was a sport that you could enter into out of high school. I was also surprised since Jesse really never seemed to care about other people.
"You shouldn't let anyone tell you that things aren't going to work out for you." I declared. "The only way that things won't work if you stop believing."
"She's right." Quinn interrupted as she walked over to us. "So I've realized that the three of us have never really gotten a chance to hang out together and I was hoping that we could do something tonight and I could get to know you the way that Faith knows you. But first, it seems like you need a pick me up."
While she was singing, I couldn't help but think of her as dressed as a magician, it was a little weird considering that she was pregnant, but the song made me smile anyway
Do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart
How the music can free you whenever it starts
It's magic if the music is groovy
It makes you feel happy like an old time movie
I'll tell about the magic it'll free your soul
But it's like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll
If you believe in magic don't bother to choose
If it's jug band music or rhythm and blues
Just gotta listen it'll start with a smile
Won't wipe off your face no matter how hard you try
Your feet start tapping and you can't seem to find
How you got there so just blow your mind
If you believe in magic come along with me
We'll dance until morning till it's just you and me
Maybe if the music is right
I'll meet you tomorrow so late at night
We'll go dancing and baby then you'll see
How the magic's in the music and the music's in me
Do you believe in magic yeah
Believe in the magic of a young girl's soul
Believe in the magic of a rock and roll
Believe in the magic that can set you free
Oh I'm talking about magic
Do you believe like I believe, do you believe in magic
Do you believe like I believe, do you believe in magic
You know I never realized how much we needed some of those 60s feelgood pop songs. A lot of people liked to make jokes about them, but they were great at what they were supposed to do and that was making people feel better. I couldn't even tell you who the singer of the song was, but it didn't matter.
"So do you want to come and hang out with us tonight?" Quinn asked Sadie. I wasn't entirely sure what we would be doing, but I did really want to know what it would be like to spend a night with my best friend and my girlfriend. It probably would have worked better as a double date, but I didn't think that many people wanted to date Quinn right now. It was a real shame because she was an amazing person and it sucked that no one else could see that.
"What did you want to do?" Sadie asked with a slight smile. I was pretty sure that the song had brightened her mood.
"I'm not going to tell you." Quinn declared. "I think it would be better for you to do something that you're not prepared for so you can step outside of your comfort zone. I can tell that you're someone who always like to have control, so we're going to do something different. All that you have to do is dress nice and we'll go from there. Now I need to get to class."
I couldn't help but wonder what Quinn was planning. She seemed like she was sincere in wanting to get to know Sadie better. The only person that she really seemed to dislike was Rachel. Well there was also her father, but I was pretty sure that she wanted to try to work things out with him, even though I was pretty sure that it wasn't worth it. He didn't seem like the type of person who could change, but maybe that was just based on the fact that I had only ever seen him twice and both times were really the same thing.
I decided to talk to Quinn some more at lunch.
"So did you write anything when he asked you to?" I questioned.
"I'm not really someone who has a lot of big dreams." She admitted. "The biggest thing that I want right now is a healthy baby. If I don't get any more than that, I'll be fine. I'm really only in Glee club because I get to hang out with you."
"You can do whatever you want and your baby is not going to be a hindrance towards that." I pointed out. "You're an amazing musician and songwriter, so even if you can't succeed as a performer, I know that you have a future as that."
"You know I haven't ever really felt sad since Sam broke up with me." She admitted.
"Why's that?" I asked.
"It's because I have you. You're more important to me than any guy ever will be." She stated.
"So are you going to tell me what we're going to do tonight?" I asked.
"Nope." She declared with a smile. "I don't want you to go and tell Sadie and I think that you could use a little bit of surprise in your life."
However, before we left, I figured that we did need to do something about the situation with Mr. Ryan. Normally, I would talk to Coach Tweedy about it, but I didn't know if she had the ability to do anything, so I went to the person that was higher up than her.
"Coach Kiernan?" I requested.
"Oh hi Faith." She greeted me with a smile. I hadn't seen her smile…well ever. I then noticed a bouquet of flowers on her desk. "I was just looking over some resumes for a new football coach."
"Who got you those?" I asked. I was a bit surprised that she was going to fire Coach Tanaka, but all honesty, he probably did deserve it.
"I don't know. They're from a secret admirer." She answered. I hoped that said secret admirer was Coach Tweedy. "What can I do for you?"
"There's this guy on the school board, Mr. Ryan who says that he's trying to cut the arts of schools." I explained. "I was wondering if you had any sort of pull there to stop him."
"Faith, I'm just the athletic director." She pointed out. She had promoted after the Cheerios had won Regionals. I was pretty sure that it was because Principal Figgins actually liked her. "I don't really control the rest of the extracurriculars at the school, but I suppose that I could try to talk to him if you want me to."
"Thank you." I told her.
"Is there anything else?" She asked.
"Well I suppose this is kind of personal, but I noticed that I never saw you smile before today." I admitted. I knew that it was kind of weird to talk about it. "Do you mind if I ask why you're in such a good mood."
"Well I was over at my brother's house. He was the only member of my family that wasn't involved in the…thing." She explained. "He had an old box of stuff that belonged to my family and I even found a doll that my son made me and instead of making me feel sad, it made me feel happy. I was happy that I had gotten to know him and though I was still alive, I hadn't really been living beyond my job. I realized that I still have a family and it's all of the girls on the squad."
"I'm glad that you're feeling better." I remarked. I wasn't expecting to open up to me that much. I supposed all that I could do now was try to get her and Coach Tweedy together, but it would probably still be best to take things slow with that.
After school and after all of our practices were over, I went over to Quinn only to be surprised when someone else was there instead.
"What are you doing here?" I asked Frannie.
"Frannie's going to take to me to her apartment so I can get ready there." She declared. I was a bit surprised by that. "I'll text you and Sadie the address of the place that we're going."
I was a little surprised by how serious Quinn was being at keeping the surprise for us. I didn't know what she planned on doing, but she definitely seemed to know what she was doing. Knowing Quinn, it would also be something that both Sadie and I would enjoy. I tried to think of what it could possibly be. I went home knowing that I would have to start to get ready on my own. Well maybe I could ask Chrissy for help.
"So what are you doing tonight?" She asked.
"I'm not sure. Quinn won't tell us. All I know is that I'm supposed to dress nice." I answered. "Do you think that you can help me with that?"
"Yeah," She replied as she went to her closet and gave me a red dress with black lace on it and some tights. It was warmer, but they might have still been good for where we were going. "Put these on."
I started then started to change. I was glad that I really wasn't nervous about changing in front of other girls anymore.
"So I know that I've accepted that you are dating Sadie instead of Rachel, but do you know if she at least plans on telling Rachel that Shelby is her mother?" She asked.
"I don't know. I can try to find out." I declared.
"This is definitely something that needs to happen, Faith." She told me.
"I know and I will do my best to make it happen, but I can't even be sure that Sadie knows anything about it." I pointed out. "What am I supposed to do if she doesn't? Should I tell Rachel myself?"
"That would probably be a good idea." She remarked.
"I don't know if I want to do that." I admitted.
"Are you still afraid of Rachel?" She questioned in surprise.
"I know it's weird, but I still feel uncomfortable whenever I'm alone with her. I don't think things are going to work out between us." I declared. At that point, I got a text from Quinn with the address. I had never seen it before. "Do you know what's at this address?"
"I think it might be a comedy club." She told me. Why would Quinn be taking us to a comedy club?
I went to meet Sadie at her house and then I drove to the place. It wasn't exactly a comedy club, but it was a dinner theater. I didn't know that they still had those. We were supposed to eat and watch at the same time. Sadie was wearing a little black dress that she looked gorgeous in. I then looked outside and saw that there was a magic show tonight.
"You brought us to a magic show?" Sadie asked in surprise.
"I know it's a little bit strange, but there is a lesson here too." Quinn explained. "This guy has been performing for over 30 years and he's never had a stage outside of Ohio. He hasn't hit it big, but he still follows his dreams of being a magician. You need to know that you need to do things to make yourself happy and no dream is stupid as long as you enjoy it."
The three of us went inside for the show and I was impressed. I mean the food was kind of just average, but I was pretty sure that that wasn't the point. People were going for the entertainment and the show was entertaining. At one point, he ended up calling for a volunteer and I went up there because I was pretty sure that I wasn't going to do anything that would get me hurt. I also didn't have to change at all. It was also kind of nice to learn how some of the tricks worked, even though I knew that I wasn't supposed to tell anyone about them.
One big downside was that the place didn't have dessert, but we were able to remedy that by going to the ice cream parlor. There really weren't that many people there because it was a school night and we probably would have to get ready for bed soon.
"So did you have a good time?" Quinn asked us.
"Yeah, that was a lot of fun." Sadie answered. "And thanks for bringing us here. I'll admit that it wasn't what I expected, but I have to say that it was a great idea. I guess that guy really was full of it because he gave up. I just know that I don't ever want to give up, even though I'm not really sure what I want to do. I'll figure it out though."
At that point, I decided to sing something. I was glad that not many people were around because they would probably think that I was weird otherwise.
Seconds hours so many days
You know what you want but how can you wait
Every moment lasts forever when you feel you've lost way
And what if my chances were already gone
I started believing that I could be wrong
But you give me one good reason to fight and never walk away
So here I am still holding on
With step you climb another mountain
Every breath it's harder to believe
To make it through the pain weather hurricanes
To get to that one thing
Just when you think the road is going nowhere
Just when you almost gave up on your dreams
They take you by the hand and show you that you can
There are no boundaries
There are no boundaries
You can go higher, you can go deeper
There are no boundaries above and beneath ya
Break every rule because there's nothing between you and your dreams
With step you climb another mountain
Every breath it's harder to believe
Yeah there are no boundaries
There are no boundaries
With step you climb another mountain
Every breath it's harder to believe
To make it through the pain weather hurricanes
There are no boundaries
There are no boundaries
There are no boundaries
I did admit that my dreams were a lot different than when I first got here. The more and more that I played, the more and more I found out that I loved football. I wanted to go pro with it and I realized that I had a very real chance to do so. Not to mention, it would also help me with another dream that I always had and that was to travel the world.
The following day, when we went to Glee, we found out that Mr. Ryan had changed his position. I wasn't sure what had changed his mind, but I was grateful for it. Then later in the day, he surprisingly changed it back, only to change it for a third time when Mr. Schue gave up the lead part in a play that both of them had tried out for. It seemed lot a lot of whiplash, but I was glad that the situation had been resolved at the very least.
"Mr. Schue, we're sorry that you had to give up on your dream in order to keep the Glee club around." Mike told him.
"I'm not." Mr. Schue declared. "I don't see how giving up on my dreams so all 13 of you can get a chance to have yours is a bad deal."
He then started to sing and to my surprise, he had changed the song to major. I was pretty sure what he meant was that he was glad to walk alone as long as he was the only one who had to. It was an interesting take on the song.
I walk a lonely road the only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes but it's only me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street on the boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps and I'm the only one and I walk alone
I walk alone I walk alone
I walk alone I
My shadow's the only one who walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish that someone out there will me
Till then I walk alone
I'm walking down the line that divides me somewhere in my mind
On the borderline of the edge and where I walk alone
Read between the lines what's messed up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive and I walk alone
I walk alone I walk alone
I walk alone I
My shadow's the only one who walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish that someone out there will me
Till then I walk alone
From there, we headed out and I went to see Sadie to see if she wanted to do anything to do.
"I can't really do anything today. I need to talk to Rachel." She explained.
"About what?" I asked. I was pretending to be nervous even though I knew what she was going to do.
"I have something that I need to give her." She explained. Yup, she was going to give the recording from Shelby to say that she was her mom. I smiled a little. "When can hang out tomorrow."
"Okay." I agreed with a kiss.
From there, I went home to see Quinn, who had to skip because she was exhausted. She was still doing all of her homework and the school also had to accommodate the fact that she couldn't be there every day.
"So do you really think that I can make it as a songwriter?" She asked.
"Absolutely. You have a lot of talent. I bet you could give your songs to some artists right now and they would be glad to sing them." I proposed.
"So I talked to Frannie and when she goes back to school in the fall, she's going to change her major to Songwriting." She explained.
"Will that mess with her scholarship at all?" I asked.
"Faith, there aren't any classes that you need to take for a field hockey scholarship." She remarked with a giggle. "You know every day that I get to spend with you is another dream come true. That's another reason why I don't need to dream of a perfect life because I already have one."
From there, the two of us did something that I was pretty sure neither of us expected to do. We kissed.
So Faith and Quinn kissed each other. How will that affect things between her and Sadie? Will Sadie find out about it? Plus Coach Kiernan made a major breakthrough in her life. The songs are "Do You Believe in Magic?" by the Lovin' Spoonful, "No Boundaries" by Kris Allen and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day. Please don't forget to review.