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Hello i'm so sorry for not updating in months. From the middle of November on I've been working on oneshots, and several of them I'd started in 2012/2013. Anyway. Now those are finished. And now, as we're in 2021 I'm getting back to working on my stories as I usually do.
If there'll be a long A/N for this chapter? I just wanted to say that since the last chapter I finished a story and started some. And I'm not going to list them, if you're interested in them you can just go on my profile. But I just want to brag some about aaaaaaallllllllll the oneshots I've written.
-If only I could find the answer- Cobra Kai
-Words I could say, feelings I couldn't- Cobra Kai (Written for Epilepsy/ seizure/ SUDEP awareness and in memory of Pat Morita)
-Could this really be the truth- Cobra Kai (AU right after the end of season 2)
-Different son, different dad- Cobra Kai
-The forgotten kitchen towel- O. C.
-Give my heart a break- The dumping ground
-Crazy famous wolfmoon- Harry Potter
-Second chances I never thought I'd have- Julie and the phantoms
-Secrets kept- Harry Potter
-Without you I'm in pain- Twilight
-A wealth bigger than all- Ghost whisperer
-All I want for Christmas- Annie (In memory of Ann Reinking and Albert Finney)
-Some things change, some do not- Julie and the phantoms
-Parents and children- Julie and the phantoms
Can you see I was a bit obsessed with Cobra Kai for a while? As I'm starting to write this chapter I'm binge-watching season 3.
This starts where the last chapter ended and Marcie's about to visit Sean.
Just as I was wondering what I would say when the door opened I actually heard footsteps towards the door and someone opened.
"Can I help you?"
I recognized Sean's grandfather from the wedding that didn't happen in between Mrs. Moraiety and her ex-fiancé. But I had never spoken to him and was pretty sure he wouldn't recognize me- there came another problem.
"Hang on… I think I remember you. You're a friend of my grandson's are you?"
You could say that…
"Yeah. I guess… I really have to talk to him. Is he okay?"
"I'm not sure. He wasn't feeling great earlier… But he didn't think it was anything contagious so I'll go ask him. Come in." He stepped away from the door so I could come in. "I'm Paul."
"Ehrm… I'm Marcie."
Paul just smiled at me, and I waited right inside the door while he went up the stairs, this place really was a whole lot bigger than where they had lived before. I could hear footsteps up another set of stairs and through a door that opened and closed but then I didn't hear more from them until I heard footsteps- but only one pair coming back.
"You can go up to him yourself. His room is the only one on the third floor. My old legs can only take so many stairs…"
Paul smirked but he was right still and I both wanted to hurry and make the time last forever before I came to Sean's room that was in fact the only one after two sets of stairs.
"Hey?" I knocked the door even though it was open. "How you're feeling?"
"Hey…"
Sean didn't answer my question but a box of "Ritalin" that was on the bedside table spoken enough. Sean was sitting up in bed but leaned back against the wall looking tired and almost like he was sick.
"It's okay. It's not contagious."
"I know." I hesitated, then sat down by the foot of Sean's bed. "Look. Sean… maybe we should take this some other day when you're feeling better."
"It's okay." I wasn't so sure I liked that answer. "We've probably waited for too long anyway. Go on."
"I just suddenly thought about when you weren't in glee club. Sean… I miss you. And I miss having you as my friend…" I silent, I just didn't know what to say next.
I hoped that Sean would say something next, and after a few seconds he did.
"I would give anything to go back in time and change what I did. Just a few seconds and we wouldn't have to be… here."
"Sean. I never wanted to lose you…" I stroke it away with my sleeve when a tear rolled down my cheek. "…You're my best friend. And you've been my best friend since… ever."
Sean smiled, and I knew he had run out of words just as much as I had.
"I'm going to go home now. I hope you'll feel better soon… Is there a song about having fought with your best friend and then making up and everything is cool again?"
I didn't have to think for a second. The song had already crossed my mind.
"I have an idea…" I got up and went towards the door when I suddenly remembered something. "My cousin has ADHD and takes Ritalin. He told me once that while one of the side effects is nausea the side effects only gets worse the hungrier you are."
"Sounds like a bad circle."
I just shrugged- I had only shared with him what I'd been told anyway.
I knew he was trying to hide it- that was the way Sean just was. But I saw it when he didn't feel well and leaned his head backwards.
"I'll go now." I got up. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow then… If you want to. I could go right now to your stables today and take Teddy if you want. You don't exactly look like getting up from there right now"
"Thank you, Marcie. That's nice."
"You're welcome…" I left his room and closed the door before I went downstairs. Mrs. Moraiety startled me when I came downstairs. "Hello…" I panted. "How you're doing?"
"I'm doing okay… I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you… It's been a while."
"It has!"
The tension in between us went awkward for just a few seconds, I didn't know what to say. Not meeting Sean, the only time I'd met her for months was at her crashed wedding.
"Sean has told me about what it was that you did when I was about to get married and how you helped him. And I just wanted to say… thank you. Had it been someone else they might just ignore it and let me go on with that… rat. But you didn't and you couldn't even have known how Sean would react or how Curtis would react or anything."
"I guess I didn't… I just knew that after everything you've done for me… I just didn't want to let you get hurt. And I thought that it might hurt you more if you got married to that… what did you call him? Rat? Than what it would when you found out first."
"Marcie…" Mrs. Moraiety held her arms out. "I'm having a bit of trouble hugging anyone right now since I'm as big as an elephant. But I can try, right?"
"You can try… we can try…"
I didn't want to say it but Mrs. Moraiety really was so big it felt strange hugging her. Or maybe the strange part was meeting her again after everything that had happened.
"I have to go now." I looked to the clock on my mobile. "I have to catch a bus…"
At first I'd have to keep my promise to Sean and go to the stables and take care of Teddy.
Then I'd have to go home and take care of Donnie the donkey and my own horse, Hugo.
And some time tomorrow morning I'd have to explain to my boyfriend that I and Sean were friends again…
"Ben! Look. I love you. You're the best boyfriend I could have ever asked for. And I know it hurt you when Sean… kissed me. But Sean's my friend. He has been my best friend since we were little. And I don't want that to change. I don't want us to change neither…"
Ben's eyes changed, at first he'd looked angry, then sad and then some sort of understanding.
"I know you're not great happy about it and it's going to take some time to get used to. But Sean and I are…"
"Best friends since long. I know." Ben sighed. "I have to get to class or Miss Frog will throw a fit."
Ben turned away for me when I tried to kiss him. I couldn't blame him but it felt like I had to choose in between him and Sean and I did not like it.
"See you in glee club later?"
Ben didn't turn around and he didn't answer. I'd been smiling only slightly but now it faded…
Glee club…
Weeks for friendship it was…
Leah POV
There should be a billion different songs to do at friendship weeks. And maybe there would be too. But I couldn't think of one and I didn't feel like singing or doing anything.
Maybe, if there'd just be a tiny chance then I and Lex could do something together.
"I wish Jonah was here…"
"What?" We were in glee club and I had barely whispered to myself. Lex who sat closest to me was the only one who had heard. "Did you say something?"
"Nothing."
I just wanted Jonah to be here. He would have loved having this and would have a new song to sing at every meeting.
"Hello fellow students." I didn't look up until Mr. Schue came into the choir room after everybody else just like he usually did. "So this is still friendship week. Does anyone have a song to preform to show everyone else?" I didn't raise my hand, I just didn't feel like it. But several others did. "Who'd like to go fast? Should we go- eenie, miny, moe…"
"Can I go first?" Marcie suddenly asked. "I don't know why. It just feels like before anything else there's an important lesson that everyone should know about…" Mr. Schue gestured towards the piano. "Awesome." Marcie got up and in front of the rest of us. "You see guys… I learnt something… I have a friend- a best friend that I've had ever since I was little… Sean! But… Gosh. I don't want to go into details- again… and yesterday I suddenly realized what I was doing and that we had been friends forever to then not to talk for months and… it was just not fair… So I suddenly remembered this song. And I think it's actually about romance and having a family but it could also be about friends and I… well. Brad. If you would…"
Just like he always did, without a word he started playing and Marcie started singing.
Sometimes I hate every- single stupid word you say…
I knew this song.
There really wasn't any like it.
And how true, and not perfect a love or friendship could actually be.
Marcie wasn't usually like this. But where she stood and where she sang in front of us during friendship week she had an attitude that I'd never seen her have before. All of her was shining with confidence and even if I would have disagreed with her, which I didn't. I wouldn't have taken a second for it.
It was like the singer herself who made this song had taken over every little piece of her.
"That's actually right though." Lex continued when Marcie had finished. "There's no one we love more than our friends. But there's no one we hate more than them either. And there's no one that can hurt us as much neither."
"Then there's not anyone that can forgive us neither." Marcie continued. "Hmmm… We really should have done this while Jonah was still here, shouldn't we? These are stuff he would have come up with."
Hadn't Jonah always been my best friend I had never been able to forgive him for hurting me so much as he did…
"Anyone else?" Mr. Schue questioned. "I don't think anyone could top that though. Marcie, that was amazing… Tyler?" I heard the name- but Tyler had already done a song for this theme. Hadn't he? "The floor's yours." Tyler went to borrow a guitar from the band and hung it around his shoulders before he smiled foolishly stopping at his best friend.
"I found there's another song of the same title that I sung yesterday. So I was going to sing the other song. And Connor…" Tyler looked up on his best friend who sat with his arm around his boyfriend's shoulders. "I always wanted to sing this to you and express my true feelings…"
I smirked quietly and raised an eyebrow, seeing the way Tyler acted and the way both Lex and Rafaél watched them leaned back with the rest of us. Meanwhile Connor got up and continued the act.
"Oh TyTy." We all saw Tyler cringing at the nickname while Connor took a few steps forward, from the rest of us and towards Tyler. "I'm so happy you were the one to bring it up. I've always had feelings for you."
Lex rolled her eyes and looked towards Rafaél.
"I know this song could be about friendship just as well." Tyler carefully led Connor to sit down again and then went to borrow a guitar from the band. "But I love it. And I love you and I just need to show it to you and to everyone else here."
Tyler started playing his guitar and sang and played as if he was actually madly in love with Connor. But when he was laughing too much to keep playing and laughter spread amongst the rest of us. At last, he took a step back, took a deep breath and then started over. Playing more successfully this time."
"That's what I'm talking about…" Just as Tyler finished the song Mr. Schue got up. "That is what friendship is about. When you can just play a joke like that and everyone knows it's a joke. Seeing it- I haven't laughed so much since I can remember. And hopefully neither of your partners feel offended by now when you and Connor expressed your… true feelings for each other…. Wait for a bit." Tyler had given the guitar back to the band but Mr. Schue stopped him.
"Well. There's something you can only do when you're old, good friends. And Lex, Rafaél. We love the both of you… But we just thought after everything this place needed some laughing and there it was and there we were…" He took a pause and laughed. "I really don't have any more feelings for Connor than I had yesterday or last year or for my whole life before that. But I just wanted to do this song and I just… this is the kind of friend I want to be."
"And you are Ty." Mr. Schue said and patted his shoulder. "That's the kind of friend you are. To Connor and to Lex and to everybody else."
Tyler laughed shortly as if he suddenly turned shy before he sat back down next to Lex who reached up and kissed his cheek.
"I'm lucky to have the best friends- and girlfriend too."
I looked towards Teeghan on upper corner where she usually sat.
To be a part of this definitely didn't mean you weren't friends with everyone.
But, except for Teeghan then I would guess Tyler was friends with everyone and most of us were still laughing while Tyler went to sit back down and Mr. Schue took the word again.
"Friday there's a group song I want to do with all of you. And then next Friday and for the last day of this theme there's one last song I want to do. But until then. Maybe there's someone else who has a song to do today?"
"Now. Since you're finally asking and waiting for an answer. I have one."
Teeghan was the first one to raise her hand. And for a moment I couldn't help but wonder… I knew Teeghan was very disagreeable sometimes and everything. That she and Alice had been best friends, well I knew everything about what it was like fighting with your best friend and Teeghan wouldn't be the one to say she was sorry.
"I guess in a glee club, we all have one friend in the music that we do. Because at last. It's the music that's always there for us and will never leave and that's why I wanted to do this song."
She showed the band to start playing, we all knew she was right about what she said and it could have been poetic and beautiful it wasn't for the rude tone that Teeghan seemed to always have in her voice.
In difference from Marcie Teeghan really did have an attitude. And maybe that was why her songs maybe never seemed just as good.
"I know she's talented in her own way." I told Lex while we were walking home. "But it still makes me kind of sad. I mean. I know Teeghan's got her friend and her boyf… that Walden- guy. But he's been in prison before for abuse and even though I do not like Teeghan I don't want her to be in a relationship like that."
"We care for each other." I said at last. "It's like Mr. Schue says. Whether we like each other or not the glee club's a family. And there's no one that can hurt us as much as our family…" We stopped at the point where we could go even towards her home or to mine. "Do you want to come over today?"
I had most days lately.
"I… I should go home today." I sighed deeply. "I don't want to but… maybe I could come over tomorrow after school if that's alright."
"You know it!"
We turned away from each other and only seconds later we couldn't see each other anymore.
Cars drove by a couple of times before I was home. But now I and Lex weren't walking together anymore it just felt like I was all alone in the whole world.
It wasn't that I was all alone. I had more friends than Jonah, my parents, the glee club and everyone. I wouldn't have to do a song about music being my only friend…
And it was just that without Jonah none of those others meant anything at all.
Playlist
Marcie- True love- Pink feat. Lily Allen
Tyler- count on me- Bruno Mars (I like the cover by Connie Talbot)
Teeghan- headphones- Britt Nicole
Random fact
The scene where Marcie and Sean talks about being friends forever, at the beginning is a scene I came up with and have been planning for like four, five, six years or something.
