Chasing Lights

chapter 9

Thursday, December 8th 2010

Most of New Directions walked into the Choir room that morning. They woke up that morning to see it was snowing really heavy. It was freezing cold outside.

Santana walked in with her hands in her pockets. "It's so cold. I can't feel my hands."

The group took their coats off and sat down. They waited for Mr Schue.

"I have something to tell you guys." Puck said. He walked to the front of the room. "Yesterday, I saw Shelby Corcoran at the police station."

"What?" Mercedes said. "Was she being questioned?"

Puck nodded.

"I bet Vocal Adrenaline have something to do with this!" Mike said.

"You can't say stuff like that, Mike." Quinn said. "There's no proof to say Vocal Adrenaline did it."

"Think about it." Mike said as he stood up. "Vocal Adrenaline hate us. All they want is to beat us a Regionals. Rachel has the strongest voice here."

"You think they took Rachel to get us out of the way?" Santana asked.

"I understand where he's coming from." Puck said. "They know we wouldn't go to Regionals without Rachel."

"Rachel was murdered." Tina said. "Would they really go that far?"

"I never trusted them." Finn said.

"Listen guys." Mercedes said. "I know where your all coming from. This is a serious crime. We can't just point the finger at Vocal Adrenaline. The police know what there doing."

The group nodded and sat down.

Meanwhile Jesse St James was sitting in the interview room with Officer Sheridan and Officer Ryan.

"Why am I here?" Jesse said.

"We have questions about the disappearance of Rachel Berry." Officer Ryan said.

"Why are you asking me?" Jesse said. "I haven't seen or spoken to Rachel in months."

"You dated Rachel. Didn't you?" Officer Ryan said. Jesse nodded.

"Jesse, we know that New Directions and Vocal Adrenaline didn't get along." Officer Sheridan said. "We know about the incident where you threw eggs at Rachel. Have you ever thought about hurting her?"

Jesse shook his head. "I wouldn't hurt her."

"What about the other members of Vocal Adrenaline?" Officer Ryan asked.

"I wouldn't know." Jesse said. "I quit Vocal Adrenaline."

"You did?" Officer Ryan asked. "Why?"

"After everything that happened last year I wanted to stop singing for a while." Jesse said.

The Officers nodded and started writing things down.

The Glee Club spent lunch in the choir room. They sat together talking about Rachel.

"Remember last year Rachel would threaten to press charges if she thought we were planning something against her?" Artie said.

Mercedes laughed. "That was always Rachel's comeback."

"I'm going to miss that." Tina said with a sigh.

Brittany turned to Artie.

"I wrote my letter to Santa last night."

After everything that happened with Rachel, Artie forgot that Brittany still believed in Santa.

He looked at her and smiled. "Did you?"