Road To Nationals // Hunter Clarington

{Chapter 14} 5 : 10

Rose's POV

Blaine, and Sam and I perform everyone in Glee Club. "You guys, that was amazing, but, um, I'm not sure it's right for Nationals." Mr. Shue tells us. "Yes, 'cause Unique will not be standing in the back swaying while you guys go all Three-yonce in the spotlight." Unique comments. "Why does everything you say sound like that?" Kitty asks. "We know it's not right for Nationals, we just wanted to do it for fun." I state. "Yeah, we were talking and we realized that we'd never actually done a number together." Blaine adds.

"No, and as seniors we... realized we were running out of time and we wanted to feel the power of a trio." Sam walks up to Blaine and I. "Which, I learned in my senior math class, is about 25% less powerful than a quartet." Artie states. "Well, I'm really glad that you guys did that. You probably don't realize this, but these are friendships that you're gonna cherish for the rest of your lives. And you got to squeeze in as many experiences as you can because, for you seniors, you're all gonna be going your separate ways very soon." Mr. Shue looks at us three. 

I begin to whimper. "Oh, no, no, no, no." Blaine starts and I turn towards the two of them. "No, no, no, no..." Sam continues. "Rose, don't no, no, no." Blaine comes over to me. "No, no, no, no." Sam wraps an arm around me. "Stop, don't you don't have to cry, you don't have to cry." Blaine wraps an arm around me also. "No. No!" Sam yells. "Like yelling is going to make me calm down." I choke out. "Rose, it's okay. We're here. We're here for you." Blaine hugs me. "Rose. Guys." Artie wheels up to us. "You okay? Huh?" Artie hugs us, but Blaine pushes him away. "No, you had your turn last week." I feel bad but am still crying. "I'm gonna miss you guys." I tell them honestly. "That's okay." Sam comforts.

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"Hey, guys. What's..." I trail off when I see that Sam and Blaine are wearing their graduation gowns and caps. I feel my eyes begin to water. I know what you're going to say, 'Get a grip on yourself, like, seriously, stop crying.' but this is difficult. "Rose... Oh, no, no, no." Blaine's smile drops. "No, please d..." Sam begins. "No, no, Rose, Rose, no, no. I know this is hard for you, but come on, please. No don't... don't cry. Try not to cry." Blaine hugs me. A tear rolls down my cheek.

"I'm not ready to say good-bye to you guys yet." My voice cracks. "Well, it's not good-bye. They call graduation 'commencement' because it's not the end of something, it's the beginning." Blaine walks me over to Sam. "They say that so we'll go willingly. Sam, you and Mike were so close. Puck, too. When was the last time you talked to them?" I question him. "I-I don't know. I can't remember." Sam answers.

"Rachel and I haven't spoken on the phone in months. And yes, I know we all love each other, but the fact is the glue that holds high school friendships together is high school. Being around each other every day, seeing each other in the halls. Whenever something is up, we don't have to do any work to talk to our friends about it, they're right there. As soon as it takes effort, we get lazy and then we forget and then we just move on. I don't want to fade away." I rant and go sit down.

"But it doesn't have to go down like that, though. Like, my dad's best friends are still his high school buddies. And they can go, like, a year without talking to each other and they get together and they don't miss a beat." Sam explains and takes his cap off. "Yeah, and with Facebook and e-mail and blogs and stuff it's much easier to stay in touch." Blaine adds. "Look... here, I'll make you a deal. I promise that for the rest of our lives, I will send one Vine of me doing an impression every week," Sam begins. I smile and Blaine quietly says, 'Aw.'

"and then you can send me a picture of your butt." That end has be confused. "Dude. Inappropriate." Blaine groans. "Um, Sam, I have a boyfriend." I remind him. "But, three years together and he finally notices my butt? Victory!" I exclaim. Sam smiles at me. "We are all going to be friends for life. I promise. And we still have some high school left, right?" Blaine inquires and I nod my head. "You know what we need to do? We need to say good-bye to this place with some heroism and some drama. We got to do something so epic that in 30 years time, we can just call each other up and reminisce about it." Blaine gestures his hands.

"I know, let's sneak a cow into school." Sam suggests. "I was thinking more like an overnight lock-in. I'll talk to the student council, and I'll get them to approve it." Blaine states. "Sounds dangerous. I'm in." Sam agrees. "Yes! Me, too." I jumps over to them. "Three-way show circle?" Blaine and I put our hands in the middle of our triangle. "Get in there." Blaine tells Sam, and he puts his hand in. "A...mazing!" We exclaim and throw our hands in the air.

I'm really going to miss them.