Chapter 1

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Barry Allen stepped into the coffee shop he went straight to the cashier, her blue eyes met his and she batted them at him, but he payed her no notice and ordered a cappuccino before letting his eyes roam around around the cafe for an empty table. Seeing an empty spot Barry sat at a secluded table in the corner of the shop just as his phone rang.

"Hey baby." he smiled as he heard his girlfriend on the other end of the call.

"Hey Barr, I was just calling to check if we're still on for this Friday?" she said.

"Should be alright," Barry replied, "I can't wait to see you, I'm missing you like crazy."

"So am I babe," she told him and they talked for a little while longer as he sipped on his coffee and as she moaned about how unfair it was that he could miss school before telling him hurriedly, "Ugh, hun I have to go. Who knew a takeout place would actually get customers. Love you, baby."

"Love you too, babe." Hanging up, he chuckled slightly, reaching for his coffee, but not before it was spilt all over his jeans as a hand tossed it off the table angrily. He stood up as the heat soaked through his jeans, "Hey! What was that for?"

He looked up to see two boys glaring at him, it didn't take long for Barry to notice they were wearing what looked like a uniform, "'BABE'?" one of them yelled using quote marks, "You're cheating on me?"

"Sorry-" Barry started.

"I think it's a little late for that." The second guy interceded

"How could you do this to me?"

"Look man-" Barry tried again but the first guy beat him to it.

"I think I've seen enough." He said before turning around and marching out of the coffee shop. His friend followed but not before shooting Barry a murderous glare.

Barry furrowed his brows in pure confusion before shrugging and sitting back down, trying his hardest to get rid of the stains on his jeans and to sooth the scorching pain with they ice one of the baristas gave him as he ordered another cappuccino.

Sebastian Smythe whistled to himself as he walked into Glee Club only to arrive to the whole team staring at him furiously, he stopped whistling and grinned only to receive further hatred from every one of them.

"What's up, guys?" he asked with a cocked brow.

Nick stepped out from near the back but instead of the usual smile that lit his face when he saw Sebastian, a pained expression crossed his face, "'What's up' is that they know what you did."

"What do you mean?"

"We know you cheated on Nick, asshole." Sebastian turned to the Warblers to see every one of them with hatred in their eyes.

"What? No I didn't!"

Thad scoffed, "Oh come on Sebastian, we heard your phone call at Lima Bean. You were even pathetic enough to say 'sorry'."

"What phone call? I didn't go to Lima Bean today, I had Lacrosse practice at lunch."

Nick growled, "Stop lying. That's just low even for you, Bas." Sebastian groaned, "Come on Thad, for some reason I don't feel like rehearsing today. Oh and in case it wasn't clear, we're over."

"Wait!" Sebastian called out but Nick just kept walking to door with Thad and few other boys trailing behind him, leaving Sebastian to wallow in his clueless misery. The club shunned him and ignored his attempts to start working on choreography.

That night, Sebastian tossed and turned eventually rising without any sleep early the next morning. Jeff, his roommate, wouldn't speak to him or even acknowledge his presence and the silence was killing him. He spent the rest of the morning until lunch either moping during his lessons or sulking whilst playing the piano in the glee club room. When lunch finally came by he went straight to Lima Bean and waited in the queue behind a guy who was about the same height as him. The man turned around and locked eyes with Sebastian who, despite recent events, had a huge grin on his face.

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