SEASON ONE,

EPISODE FIVE.

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WITH Rachel out of the club but still with enough members, the New Directions were getting ready for the Invitationals that week.

Now they were rehearsing 'Don't stop believing" by Journey, with Finn and Quinn in the lead, but as they spinned around each other, the blonde suddenly stopped with her hand in her mouth and then ran out of the choir room. Everyone watched her with concerned.

"Quinn you okay?" Will tried to asked her, but she was already gone.

"I think she just had a bad burrito." Finn said in an attempt to convince his teammates.

"Can we please talk about the giant elephant in the room?" Kurt asked.

"Your sexuality?" Santana sarcastically replied, earning a smack on both shoulders from Amy and Teo, to which she just rolled her eyes.

"Rachel. We can't do it without her." Kurt continued, deciding to ignore the comment.

"That's not true. We may have to layer Amelia or Mercedes over Quinn's solo, but...we'll be fine." Mr. Schuester tried to convince the kids, but he was also trying to convince himself.

"Maybe for the invitationals, but not for sectionals and certainly not the regionals." Artie said, with no hope in their future.

"The wheelchair kid's right. That Rachel chick makes me wanna light myself on fire, but she can sing." Puck agreed with Artie like almost everyone else in that room. On the other hand, the latinas were tired of how dramatic everyone was being about not having the annoying girl in the club.

"Rachel left, guys. She's gone. Now, if we're gonna make this thing work, we can't look back. Take five, guys." Will dismissed them.

Amelia turns around to talk with Mike and Matt. Since they joined the club she started to interact with them, and realized that they were actually funny and that they had a few things in common. Now the three of them were talking about what kind of dance routines they would like to do with the group, and soon they were joined by Brittany and Mateo.

•••••

ANOTHER day had begum and, at glee club time, the teenagers were confused, wondering who the petite blonde next to Mr. Schuester was.

"Guys, I'd like to introduce you to someone very special. This is April Rhodes. She's our newest member." The teacher introduced her, confusing them even more.

"Wait, so old people can join glee club now?" Finn asked what everyone else was thinking.

"I hope the news doesn't reach dad, he will definitely try to join." Teo whispered to Amelia, making her laugh.

"Old, huh? You guys look like the world's worst Bennenton ad." April defended herself.

"Mr. Schuester this seems like a terrible idea." Artie said after raising his hand.

"April is a great singer, and she never graduted." Will explained.

"What about the singers we have here?" Amelia asked, she couldn't believe that their own teacher didn't trust his students could win a competition and brings an old woman instead.

"We appreciate what you're trying to do but, she's not Rachel." Mercedes pointed out. It seemed that no one else thought as Amelia, since her question was completely ignored.

"Who's Rachel?" April asked, getting interested in the mentioned girl.

"Sh-she's kind of our star." Tina answered.

"Your star, eh?" The woman smirked, "Well, where is she?"

"She left. To be the lead in Cabaret." Kurt informed her.

"Hey, Tinkles, give me 'Maybe this time' in B flat. And don't let me catch you snoozing." April looked at Brad, the pianist, and then at the kids in front of her. She took her coat off and throw it to Mr. Schue to start singing.

Maybe this time.
Sung by April.

Once she finished, she saw the impressed looks on the teenagers faces, and pleased with herself said,

"Stick that in your pipe and smoke it."

•••••

AFTER Will told her that the glee kids weren't very convinced to have her in the club, April started try to gain their acceptance. The only ones who she couldn't gain were the cheerios. Amelia didn't like the woman since the begining, and after seeing her flirt with minors and Mr. Schuester doing nothing about it, her dislike for April increase even more. The other three didn't really care about her but decided to support their friend. Lucky for them, Coach Sue wasn't asking them to destroy the club lately.

However, April was accepted in the club by the half of the team, and now they were waiting for the glee meeting to start. Amelia was playing with Teo, Mike and Matt with a paper ball. Since neither Finn or Quinn were there, the kids gathered around the piano started to talk about the blonde's behaviour.

"Maybe Quinn is lactose intolerant." Kurt suggested.

"That doesn't explained all the crying." Artie said.

"Maybe she just doesn't like the group." Tina suggested too.

"Are you all that stupid? Seriously? I bet you thought Bert and Ernie were just roomates." Noah said, gaining the attention of them all. He was tired of hearing them talk about it.

"Shut it Puckerman." Amelia quickly tried to stop him, sensing where he was going.

"Maybe Quinn's got one in the oven." He continued, ignoring the stare the girl was giving him.

They were all shocked by his suggestion, and Mercedes was the one to try get him out all the information. "Who's the baby's daddy?"

"Who do you think? Finn." He replied as Rachel entered the room.

"Yes, you've heard right. I am returning to glee club. In lieu of flowers, please send all the donations to a socially conscious charity of your choice." She said, as if she really were a star, but no one gave her attention since they're still shocked.

Amelia stop paying attention when she saw Noah leave the room and she quickly followed him.

"What the hell Noah?" She asked him after smacking his head.

"Ouch, what was that for?"

"Don't play dumb with me. Why the hell you told them about the pregnancy? You had no right." When he didn't replied, she rolled her eyes and started to walk away of him, "You are a major ass Noah." Giving him one last glare, she leaves to start looking for her best friends to try and advert them about their secret being exposed.

•••••

IT WAS the day of the invitational and the New Directionws were getting ready to perform. They were in the choir room around the piano doing some warm ups as Brad played some notes for them.

"The house is packed... you guys are going to kick butt tonight. Your first performance in front of a real audience. I can't wait. You guys are going to love it." Will Schuester said entering the room with a big smile on his face. "Where...Where's April?" Just as he finished the question, the woman entered the room...clearly drunk.

"Yee-haw! Right on cue, as usual. Hey, roller-boy. Handsome. Oh, I like that color." She saluted Artie, Finn and Quinn. "Have you been working on the, uh, moves we talked... You've got something right there, on your..." The blonde starts making out with Puck until Will pulled her away from him. "Uh, oh... Honk!." She said taking Mateo by his nose, not really caring about the looks she got from the students after that kiss. "There's my boy." She tried to play with Mr. Schuester tie but he stopped her.

"Are you drunk? You promise me you'd sober up for this." Does he not get that she has a serious problem with alcohol? Amelia thought.

"When? Last night?" April forrowed her eyebrows, "Well, I was drunk. You can't hold me to that. Hit it, knuckles." And with that she started to warm up, Mr. Schue left to talk with Ms. Pillsbury in the hallway. Minutes later they went to the stage and took their places for the first song.

"Now ladies ans gentlemen, please welcome McKinley High School's New Directions." Principal Figgins introduced them.

Last name.
Sung by April and
The New Directions.

••

Back in the choir room, they started to get change for the next song completely excited about the whole performing thing. When their teacher entered the room, they made sure to let him know that.

"They loved us! We are a hit." Artie high-five him.

"Wh-wh-where's April?" Amelia heard Tina ask as Mike was helping her tie her tie.

"You were right, Mr. Schue. She'd massacre Mariah in a diva-off." Kurt added, applying Santana's lip gloss.

"April is amazing. But she's not in the glee club anymore." Will informed, surprising them. "Uh...I screwed up bringing her here. It was about me and glee club is supposed to be about you guys. You don't need her to be great."

"Until he finally admitted it." Amelia said under her breath, causing Mike shove her a little.

"But we need her for the second act." Mercedes complained.

"I'll just have to go out there and tell them we had to cut the show short." He said, disappointing his students. "Hey, guys. You were great. Don't worry. There will be other perfomances." He assured them.

There was a knock on the door. When they turned around, Rachel was there. "Excuse me. I think I might have a solution. In show business, when a star can't perform her understudy steps in. I'd be happy to go on for April, if you'd let me."

"Since when are you willing to be an understudy?" Amelia asked, angry that the girl could have the spotlight again.

"Since I quitt the play." Rachel walked fully in the room.

"Really? Why?" Kurt asked her, apparently they were all considering to let her join back. And that made the cheerios even more angry, they really hated that girl.

"I realized being a star didn't make me feel as special as being your friend. If I'd let you down when you needed me the most, I'd never forgive myself.I know all the words to the song."

"You don't know the choreography." Quinn tried to stop her, Santana and Amelia nodding their heads in agreement.

"Then we're gonna have to give her a lot of help out there." Finn said, happy to have the girl again with them.

"Go get in your costume." Mr. Schuester said, also happy to have his, clearly favorite, student back.

Somebody to love.
Sung by Rachel and Finn,
with The New Directions.

HELLO AGAIN!

I know that it has been a few days without and update, and i'm really sorry about it. I was kinda blocked, and even this chapters aren't that good.

Anyway, i was supposed to update only on fridays, but i'm not that punctual, so i'll update whenever i have a chapter.

Hope you like it, and if there is something misspelled, please feel free to tell me.

Until next chapter🥰