Happiness [Book 2]

Chapter 26 - The Assignment

When I walked into Glee club the next morning, Brittany was running around the room after a bug - possibly a mosquito - as the others, including the graduates, sat around the room, watching her. "What's Brittany doing?" I asked, taking a seat next to Angie. Jake was on the other side of her, staring mindlessly around and his eyes landing on Angie every couple of seconds.

"It's undieable!" Brittany screamed, smashing her hand against a wall.

"Undieable?" I said, looking over at her in confusion.

"Yeah." She said, running after the bug again.

"Don't you mean invincible?" Mercedes asked with a smile.

"No, undieable. Something that's unable to die." Brittany said, before she looked down at her hand. "Got it... and I need to wash my hand." She muttered, walking out of the door. 

"Well, today's the last day we're going be here in Lima." Mercedes said.

"Aw, why do you have to go?"  I whined, looking over at them.

"We have jobs, Marley." Artie smiled. 

Finn suddenly barged into the room, talking about how awesome we were at the musical. "Well, Mr. Schue is busy with Ms. Pillsbury-"

"What with?" Tina asked, clapping excitedly.

"Their wedding." Finn smiled.

"About time." Mercedes laughed. "We'll be back." Mercedes smiled, saluting Finn. 

"Good, everyone will." Finn smiled, before picking up a marker. "This afternoon," He said, turning around a writing messily on the board. "We are having a Sectionals talk." He underlined the word and turned around. "We're going to discuss songs for Sectionals," Finn said. 

"Oh, well, I have ideas already." Fat Amy said, sticking up her hand.

"Save 'em for this afternoon, when Mr. Schue is here." Finn smiled before turning around. He spun back around quickly, pointing at me. "Anything new on that show choir website?"

"Not that I've checked..." I said slowly.

"Check!" Finn shouted as I frantically pulled out my laptop and went to the website, only to see it in black and red... with the Dalton academy logo spread across the screen.

"It's been hacked by the Warblers, I think." I told them before they all came and gathered around my computer.

"I'm guessing they're not giving us any more cheats now." Angie laughed, sitting back down.

"Well, we're just going to have to try without the site." Finn smiled, walking to the centre of the room. I was about to shut my computer, but I realised I had a message:

Ryder: Can't talk this afternoon - Mom's planned ahead. Sorry x

I didn't bother replying, so I just closed the lid and stuffed it into my bag sadly. I crossed my arms over my chest and slid down my chair. 

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The rest of the day went by in a slow blur. The thought of not being able to chat to Ryder that afternoon put me off my entire day. The only good thing about today was Glee club, but even that sounded drab now. 

I walked in with my head down, twirling my hair around my fingers. I sat down glumly and fiddled with different things; my hair, my top, my fringe jacket (which was awesome.). "Marls, are you okay?" Angie asked, leaning over to me.

"Yeah," I shrugged. 

Finn walked into the room, directing all our eyes to him by waving his hands around. "We need songs for Sectionals!" Finn declared, pulling a seat to the middle as Mr. Schue came in with a pink folder in his arms. "Any ideas?" He asked, before Kitty's hand shot up.