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Chapter 9

It's Regionals week this week. Sam and I haven't real talk lately. Well, we talk but not too much. I guess he is still mad at me for keep hanging him on. I don't want to hanging him on but I'm still having fear about those hurting feeling.

Now we are in choir room. Finn is telling us that Sebastian threatened Rachel to not perform on Regionals or he will post a picture of Finn n***d. Well, it's actually photoshopped because his head looks bigger than his body.

"That's it. I'm done. I'm leaving this classroom, and I'm going to beat that Sebastian kid's a*s!" Finn says angrily and about to walks away.

"Finn, chill." Dad stops him.

"No, I'm not going to chill. I I'm done chilling." Finn yells.

"The official show choir rule book states that "any real or perceived threat of violence, "vandalism or humiliation will be met with a swift "and unquestioned disqualification of the threatening party's team with extreme prejudice." It's right here. Page 72, by-law 15, section six, article 44." Artie says while reading the show choir rule book.

"Guys, I contacted the headmaster of Dalton." Dad says to us.

"Like you did when Sebastian almost blinded me What did they do then? Same thing as they're going to do now nothing." Blaine protest.

"Hold on, we got the proof of what he put in that slushie, I already guessed that since the first time and Santana got him admitted on it in a tape but guess what? None appreciated it and you guys choose to sang him a song and now you're protest because they did nothing to Sebastian? Don't regret it. You've made a choice and that's what you get." I glare at Blaine.

"She is right." Santana simply nods.

"Look, none of this matters now anyways, okay? We're not going to let him beat us like this. I'm going to perform at Regionals." Rachel says to us.

"Even if he's going to post a photo like this of me if you do?" Finn asks Rachel.

"Finn, I'm not going to negotiate with terrorists." Rachel simply said.

"If someone posted a picture like that of me online, I'd probably kill myself." Sugar says to us.

"Twice to be sure I was dead." Rory added.

"Look, you guys are just going to have to deal with things like this. The more successful you get, the more garbage people are going to make up about you. They're going to love to tear you down." Dad says to us.

"I can't believe you would do that to me." Finn frowns at Rachel.

"I'm going to be married to you. Don't you think I'm going to suffer the consequences as well? I mean, I just I don't care about stuff like that. I love you, and we'll we'll manage this together. Okay, the important thing right now is that we win." Rachel says to Finn.

"So you wouldn't care if I Photoshopped a photo of you like this and put it on the Internet?" Finn asks Rachel.

"Look, our future depends on us winning Regionals. It'll help me towards my NYADA application." Rachel says to Finn.

"Hmm. Hope you get in." Finn simply said and walks away.

This is why I don't want to be in a relationship just yet. This is suck. Like selfishness and ego. I'm a selfish person and I'm scared if I'm gonna hurt Sam.

The bell rings.

I take my bag and walk out from the choir room. I walk in the hallways to my locker until suddenly Rick the Nelson and his hockey friends throw red slushied at me and laughing at me.

"Hey, back off! First you slushied me and now you slushied her? If you want a fight, your rival is me not her!" Sam runs to Rick and pushes him against the locker.

"What's your problem huh?" Rick glares at Sam.

"You mess with my girl, you mess with me." Sam glares at him.

"She deserves that." Rick laughs and walks away.

Sam about to get him. I take his hand and shake my head. "Come here, let's get you clean." Sam holds my hand and walks lead me.

I look down and walk behind him. I turn my face and Sam brings me into an empty boys locker room. I look at him and raise my eyebrows. He opens his locker and take out a towel then start cleaning my face from the slushied.

Tears slowly fall down to my face. "Hey, hey don't cry." Sam wipes my tears away.

"I don't understand why me. I always tried to be unnoticed." I look down.

"They're not just worth it. We are in glee club. That's why." Sam says while cleaning my face and my hair. "Take off your flannel shirt and here your beloved sweater." Sam gives me his sweater that I usually wear.

"Did you hide this here?" I giggle.

"Yeah. Change it before you get cold." Sam says to me.

"Close your eyes or turn around." I said to him.

Sam turns around. I take off my flannel shirt and leave me with a tank and mini black flare skirt. I put Sam's brown sweater on then put the flannel shirt in my bag.

"I'm done." I said to him.

Sam turns around at me then shut his locker. I smile at him and stand up on the bench. Sam raises his eyebrows at me.

"What are you doing?" Sam asks me.

"I want to do this." I smile at him and kiss his cheek.

Sam chuckles and turn his face and kisses me softly. I kissed him back and then slowly pull away. I smile at him and jump off of the bench. I take Sam's hand and walk out from the boys locker room with him.

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I shut my locker and turn my face around. The school has been shocked about the news from last night. Karofsky attempted suicide. He got bullied and he can't take this so this is happening.

I hold my binder and start walking in the hallways. "Hey your dad called us for emergency meeting in auditorium." Sam suddenly takes my hand.

"Sam, can we talk first?" I raise my eyebrows at him.

"Sure." Sam nods.

I walk to the empty classroom and sit down on a table on the front. Sam looks at me and raises his eyebrows. I take his hand and let out a sigh.

"I've been thinking that keep hanging you on like this is not cool. The news about Karofsky make me realize that we're living like today is our last day. And I want to spend my last day with you. You make me happy, you make me feel back to be myself, and I don't want to miss it." I smile at him.

"So is that a yes?" Sam smiles back at me.

"Yes." I smile at him. Sam hugs me really tight. I hug him back and kisses him softly as he kisses me back. "But dad doesn't like PDA at home so.. we have to know our line." I said to Sam.

"We can be boyfriend and girlfriend at school but besties at home." Sam grins at me.

"Sure things. Come on." I take his hand and walk out from the classroom.

We then walk to the auditorium. I raise my eyebrows and see dad is holding a new peanut butter jar and a spoon.

"Can I have it?" I grin at dad.

"Not for you." Dad shakes his head. "Okay sit down everyone. And release all your stress." Dad says to us and sitting down.

I'm sitting down next to dad and let out a sigh. "Then who's the peanut butter for?" I ask dad.

"I already bought you three jars at home." Dad says to me.

"You didn't forget to do groceries shopping." I giggle.

"This time I'm not." Dad chuckles and rubs my hair.

"Mr. Schue, why do you have a jar of peanut butter with one spoon?" Mercedes asks dad.

"Yeah, there are 15 of us here, and I'm only comfortable sharing a spoon with about half of you." Sugar nods.

"Well, it's come to my attention that our good friend Rory Flanagan has never tasted peanut butter." Dad gets up and walks to Rory.

"What?!" I laugh.

"No way. It's not possible." Puck chuckles.

"Rory, if you don't mind." Dad says to Rory and gives him a spoon of peanut butter.

Rory licks the peanut butter and grins at us. "Oh, God Oh, my God That's the best thing I've ever had." Rory laughs.

"Mr. Shuester, wow, that's incredibly moving." Kurt says to dad.

"Yeah, Mr. Schue, what's the point of all this?" Finn asks.

"The point is Rory just had a brand-new experience, something as simple as peanut butter. You guys are young. I want you to promise me that, no matter how depressed you get, no matter how hopeless or alone you feel, you'll try your best to imagine all of the amazing experiences you have ahead of you." Dad says to us.

"Mr. Schue, look, I know we're a little dramatic sometimes, but I don't think anyone will ever consider taking their own life." Mercedes says to dad.

"I did." Dad suddenly said. "Junior year. That was a tough year. I, uh, I cheated on my math midterm.

Peeked at the answers of the guy next to me and the teacher saw me do it." Dad says to us.

"Just 'cause you got caught cheating? I get caught cheating all the time." Puck simply said.

"They called my dad at his office, and he was coming to pick me up. How was I supposed to look him in the eye? I just kept cturing my dad so disappointed in me. So I walked up to the roof. I went right to the edge. One step and all the pain and humiliation would be over." Dad says to us.

"Is that true?" Kurt asks him.

"Why you never tell me?" I ask him.

"That day, I promise you, it felt like it was the end of the world. But you know what? It wasn't. You know, for some of you, getting caught cheating isn't a big deal. But there's something everyone has something that might take them up to that edge. And look at all the things I would've missed out on. I would've never met you guys or have this beautiful angel." Dad says while rubbing my hair. "I would've missed out on everything. So, right now, I want you all to think of something that you're looking forward to. Big things." Dad says to us.

I smile at dad and lean my head on his sleeve. Something big that I'm looking forward to find what I'm going to have in the future.

"Someday, I want to earn enough money to buy my folks a new place, so they don't ever have to go through losing their home again." Sam says to us.

"I'm most looking forward to meeting Rachel Berry's children." Mercedes giggles.

"I want to be there to see my kid's first steps." Artie says.

"I want to be there to see s*x and the City Part III." Sugar grins at us.

"Wow." Dad laughs.

"I'm sort of embarrassed to admit it, but I really do want to graduate high school." Puck says to us.

"I'm looking forward to the day when I can live with both of my parents again in the same house." I said to them and turn my face at dad. Dad half smiled at me and rubs my hair.

"I'm gonna petition the Army to change my dad's dishonorable discharge status to an honorable one." Finn says to us.

"I'm looking forward to graduating from Yale at the top of my class." Quinn smiles.

"I'm looking forward to the day when my grandmother loves me again." Santana says.

"I want Lord Tubbington to kick his Ecstasy addiction." Brittany says to us.

"I am looking forward to marriage equality in all 50 states." Blaine says.

"I'm looking forward to the first time I dance at Carnegie Hall." Mike says to us.

"I just want a song." Tina giggles.

"I'm looking forward to watching my dad make a difference in Congress." Kurt says to us.

"I'm looking forward to being friends with all of you for the rest of my life." Rachel smiles at us.

"I know this sounds silly, and the peanut butter really is amazing, Mr. Schue, but do you know what I'm looking forward to? Winning at Regionals." Rory grins at us.

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I'm sitting down on the couch in family room with Orly is next to me and Sam is sitting down on the other couch and watching TV. I'm just sketching on my sketch book.

"Look what I found in storage room." Dad laughs and shows me my old blanket.

"That's my baby's blanket! Where do you get that?" I laugh.

"In storage room. I was looking for your broken violin so I could fix it and I found this." Dad sits down next to me and give the blanket to me. "You know every little girl always have that baby stroller toy right?" Dad says to Sam.

"Yeah my sister have one." Sam nods.

"She used to wrapped her baby doll with this blanket. And put her own diaper on that doll. Then she put the doll on the stroller walk around the house. Until she stole her mom's high heels and wore them on include the purse. Meanwhile she was only wearing a sweater with no pants on only a diaper." Dad laughs.

"Oh my God!" I laugh and shake my head.

"Then after that she would lay down on the couch with a leg up on the other, watching The Powerpuff Girls or Rugrats, with a sippy cup that filled with warm milk inside. When she watched TV, none can change the channel. She would hide the remote control." Dad laughs.

"You must be chubby." Sam laughs.

"She was until she was four years old. That's why her grandpa, my father, called her Chubbo because she was chubby, blonde and funny. She was like Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls." Dad smiles and rubs my hair.

"And she is Blossom now." Sam smiles.

"Yeah I know." Dad smiles at me. "Hey, what if you have a solo on Regionals?" Dad asks me.

"Rachel is going to flipped me out." I chuckle.

"I want you to sing opening song using music instrumental. You're the only one person in glee club who can play more than two music instrumentals. You can play piano, violin, harp, cello, classic guitar, ukulele, even harmonica." Dad says to me.

"Dad she is going to flip out." I frown at dad.

"But I want you to get out from your comfort zone." Dad half smiled at me.

I nod and pick up Orly and hug him. "But not now I guess." I shake my head.

"Okay but I'm signing you up for classical music concert audition in New York." Dad simply said.

"That's why you want to fix my violin?" I raise my eyebrows.

"I will buy you another new one. But you have to audition. Max Entertainment is looking for high school students who are talented with classic music and classic musical instruments and those who got the audition will play in Carnegie Hall for three days only. This is one time big opportunity for you." Dad says to me.

"When is the audition?" I ask dad.

"On April and the concert is on May. So you have about a half and a month preparation for the audition. I want the world to see my daughter on the concert stage." Dad smiles at me.

"I'll do it." I smile back at him.

"Yay!" Dad giggles.

I smile at him and lean my head on his shoulder. Even though I actually don't want to do this but I will do it for him. I haven't done anything that actually matters these past few years except being depressed all the time but now I will do it.

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Today is regionals day. I'm a bit nervous but now I have to focus on my audition for that classical music concert. We're living like everyday is our last day and I want to do that for my parents.

"And now, let's meet our judges for the 2012 Midwest Regionals! Deputy Zoning Commissioner, Melba Jackson-Wright! President of the Ohio Plumbers Union Local 109, Mr. Harl Beindorf! And Central Ohio's number one late-night horror movie host, Svengoobles! And now, from Westerville, Ohio, the Dalton Academy Warblers!"

I smile and applauding for them as they start performing. After that I stand up from my seat and cheering for The Warblers. Life is too short to be fight against one another. The Warblers is finally ended up their first song.

"Thank you. Just a reminder to please make a donation to one of our charity baskets. We're set up all around the auditorium. Just look for the Dalton blazer. Please give what you can." Sebastian says.

I take out some cash from my clutch and put into their charity baskets. The Warblers start singing their second song and it's even better than the first one. I heard that they dedicated this performance for Dave Karofsky. The Warblers is finally ended up their performance with full of applauding.

"And now, from Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow High School, the Golden Goblets!"

We then walk out from our seat and walk to the backstage to get ready for our performance. Suddenly a hand hold my hand. I turn my face and Sam is holding my hand and smiles at me. I smile back at him and hold his hand.

"Those Golden Goblet madrigal singers were way better than I thought they'd be." Puck says to us.

"Are you high? I couldn't hear their instruments at all." Brittany frowns.

"All right, guys, listen up. Don't let them get into your heads, okay? Stay focused on what we do best. Show circle time, come on, let's huddle up!" Dad says to us as we start making a circle together. "Okay, uh Oh, Finn, you wanted to start us off?" Dad turns his face at Finn.

"Yeah. I know it's kind of short notice, but after the competition, Rachel and I are going to get married. At the Justice of the Peace, at the Lima Municipal Center." Finn says to us.

"There will be some light refreshments afterwards, My dads and I were rolling finger sandwiches all night long." Rachel says to us.

"With everything that's happened lately, we thought a lot about what Mr. Schue said. We didn't want to wait anymore. We just want to live every day like it's our last. So we wanted to thank a lot of you guys that were supportive of our decision to get married." Finn says to us.

"And-and for those of you who maybe weren't the biggest fans of our impending nuptials, we thank you also. So after we win, we would really love it if all of you would come to our wedding." Rachel smiles at us.

"Come on, bring it in." Dad says to us.

"Aaamaaazingggggg!!"

"And now from William McKinley High, the New Directions!"

Rachel:

I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive

I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise

Rachel with New Directions Girls (Santana):

To fly

To fly (Uh, yo, yo)

Artie:

I used to think that I could not go on

Santana:

I wish today it would rain all day

Maybe that will kinda make the pain go away

Artie:

And life was nothing but an awful song

Santana (New Directions Boys):

They got their guns out aiming at me

But I become Neo when they aiming at me (If I can see it)

Blaine (New Directions Boys):

Me, me, me against them

Me against enemies, me against friends (Then I can do it)

Somehow they both seem to become one

A sea full of sharks and they all smell blood (If I just believe it)

They start coming and I start rising

Must be surprising, I'm just surmising (There's nothing to it)

Blaine and Santana:

I win, thrive, soar

Higher, higher, higher

More fire

Rachel and Santana (Rachel):

(I came to win), to fight, to conquer, to thrive

I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise

Finn with New Directions Boys (Rachel and New Directions Girls):

I believe I can fly (Fly)

I believe I can touch the sky

I believe I can fly (Fly)

I believe I can touch the sky

Artie:

See, I was on the verge of breaking down

Santana:

Paint they own pictures, then they crop me in

But I will remain where the top begins

Artie:

Sometimes silence can seem so loud

Santana (New Directions Boys):

I am not a word, I am not a line

I am not a girl that can ever be defined (If I can see it)

Blaine (New Directions Boys):

I hear the criticism loud and clear

That is how I know that the time is near (Then I can do it)

See we become alive in a time of fear

And I ain't got no motherfickle time to spare (If I just believe it)

Cry my eyes out for days upon days

Such a heavy burden placed upon me (There's nothing to it)

Blaine and Santana:

But when you go hard your nays become yays

Yankee Stadium with Jay's and Kanye's

Rachel and Santana (Rachel):

(I came to win), to fight, to conquer, to thrive

I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise

Finn with New Directions Boys (Rachel and New Directions Girls):

I believe I can fly (Fly) (Mercedes: Fly)

I believe I can touch the sky (Mercedes: Ooh-ooh, uh, yeah)

I believe I can fly (Fly)

I believe I can touch the sky (Mercedes: Fly)

Finn (Mercedes):

I believe I can fly (Fly)

Artie (Rachel with New Directions Girls):

(Get ready for it, get ready for it) Then I can be it

(Get ready for it, I came to win) If I just believe it

(Get ready for it, get ready for it) There's nothing to it

Mercedes with New Directions Girls:

Get ready for it

Artie and New Directions Boys (Rachel and New Directions Girls):

I believe I can fly (Fly) (Mercedes: Ooh-ooh)

Finn and New Directions Boys (Rachel and New Directions Girls):

I believe I can touch the sky (Mercedes: Fly)

I think about it every night and day (Fly) (Mercedes: Oh)

Spread my wings and fly away (Mercedes: Ooh, whoa)

Artie with New Directions Boys (Rachel and New Directions Girls):

(New Directions: I can fly) I believe I can soar (Fly) (Mercedes: Get ready for it)

(New Directions: I can fly) I see me runnin' through that open door (Mercedes: Get ready for it, fly)

Finn with New Directions Boys (Rachel and New Directions Girls):

(New Directions: I can fly) I believe I can fly (Fly) (Artie: Woo) (Mercedes: Get ready for it)

Artie:

(New Directions: I can fly) I believe I can fly

Artie with New Directions Boys (and Girls):

I believe I can (fly)

We ended up our first song with full of applauding. We then walk off from the stage and let the Troubletones take step on the stage.

The Troubletones:

Ah, ah, ah, ah,

Ah, ah, ah, ah,

Ah, ah, ah, ah,

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Santana with The Troubletones harmonizing:

You know the bed feels warmer 

Sleepin' here alone (Sleepin' here alone)

You know I dream in color 

And do the things I want 

Brittany:

You think you got the best of me 

Think you've had the last laugh 

Bet you think that everything good is gone 

Think you left me broken down 

Think that I'd come running back 

Baby, you don't know me, 'cause you're dead wrong 

Mercedes with The Troubletones:

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger 

Stand a little taller 

Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone 

What doesn't kill you makes a fighter 

Footsteps even lighter 

Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone 

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger 

Just me, myself and I 

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger 

Stand a little taller 

Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone 

Santana with Mercedes:

You heard that I was starting over with, 

Someone new 

They told you I was moving on, 

Over you 

Brittany with The Troubletones:

You didn't think that I'd come back

I'd come back swinging

Brittany:

You try to break me, but you see 

Mercedes with The Troubletones (The Troubletones):

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger 

(Stand a little taller) 

Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

(What doesn't kill you makes a) fighter

Footsteps even lighter 

Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

(What doesn't kill you makes you) stronger, stronger 

Just me, myself and I 

(What doesn't kill you) makes you stronger 

Stand a little taller

Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone!

Santana:

Thanks to you I've got a new thing started! 

Mercedes:

Thanks to you I'm not the broken-hearted! 

Santana:

Thanks to you I'm finally thinking about me!

Mercedes and Santana:

You know in the end,

The day you left was just my beginning 

Santana:

In the end

Santana (and Mercedes) with The Troubletones:

(What doesn't kill you makes you) stronger (Mercedes: Stronger!)

Stand a little taller 

Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone 

What doesn't kill you makes a (fighter) 

(Footsteps even lighter)

(Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone)

What doesn't kill you makes you (stronger, stronger!)

Just me, myself and I (Mercedes: Yeah!)

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Stand a little (taller!)

Santana with The Troubletones (Mercedes):

Doesn't mean I'm lonely (Brittany: What doesn't kill you) when I'm alone (No, not alone)

Stronger, stronger (Yeah)

Just me, my (Brittany: What doesn't kill you) self and I (Yeah!) 

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger (Stronger!)

Stand a little taller (Stronger!)

Doesn't mean I'm lonely (Brittany: What doesn't kill you) when I'm alone (Not alone)

The Troubletones:

Ah, ah, ah, ah,

Ah, ah, ah, ah,

Ah, ah, ah, ah,

Ah, ah, ah, ah

The Troubletones ended up their performance with full of applauding. I'm still standing on the backstage as the guys are walking away from us to go to the wings.

Rachel:

We could just go home right now

Or maybe we could stick around

For just one more drink, oh yeah

Get another bottle out

Let's shoot the breeze

Sit back down

For just one more drink, oh yeah

Here's to us

Here's to love

All the times

That we messed up

Here's to you

Fill the glass

Cause the last few days

Have gone too fast

So lets give em hell

Wish everybody well

Here's to us

Here's to us

We stuck it out this far together

Put our dreams through the shredder

Let's toast cause things got better

And everything could change like that

And all these years go by so fast

But nothing lasts forever

Rachel with New Directions Girls:

Here's to us

Here's to love

All the times

That we messed up

Here's to you

Fill the glass

Rachel:

Cause the last few nights

Have gone too fast

Rachel with New Directions Girls:

If they give you hell

Tell em to forget themselves

Here's to us

Here's to us

Rachel with New Directions Boys harmonizing:

Here's to all that we kissed

And to all that we missed

To the biggest mistakes

That we just wouldn't trade

Rachel with New Directions Girls:

To us breaking up

Without us breaking down

To whatever's comin' our way

Rachel:

Here's to us

Here's to us!

New Directions Girls:

Here's to us

Here's to love

All the times

That we messed up

Rachel with New Directions Girls:

Here's to you

Fill the glass

Rachel:

Cause the last few days

Have gone too fast

Rachel with New Directions Girls:

So let's give em hell

Wish everybody well

Rachel:

Well!

New Directions Girls:

Here's to us

Here's to love

Rachel with New Directions Girls:

All the times

That we messed up

Here's to you

Fill the glass

Cause the last few nights

Have gone too fast

If they give you hell

Tell em forget themselves

Rachel:

Here's to us

New Directions Girls:

Here's to us

Rachel:

Oh here's to us

New Directions Girls:

Here's to us

Rachel with New Directions Girls:

Here's to us

Here's to love

(New Directions: Here's to us)

Rachel:

Wish everybody well

Rachel with New Directions Girls:

Here's to us

Here's to love

Here's to us

Rachel:

Here's to us

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"I've crossed oceans of time to bring the results of this show choir competition. In third place, from Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow, the Golden Goblets! And now the moment you've all been waiting for. The 2012 Midwest Regional Champion from.......McKinley High the New Directions!"

The judges hand dad the trophy. We take the trophy and cheering together. We won! We won! And I couldn't wait for my moment to shine in Carnegie Hall in New York.