So Close, and still so far

Synopsis: The Full Version

Iain Hargreave arrives at McKinley High initially as a substitute teacher, but is moved to teach at the Night School as his good looks serve more as a distraction to the female students. He temporarily replaces Brad the pianist for the Glee Club (yes, there is actually a guy who plays the piano for New Directions). Not much is known about the young, handsome and charismatic pianist except that he unwittingly becomes the object of most of the girls' attention. Quinn Fabray is peeved because Iain is her supervised guardian/tutor for her ticket to a Yale Scholarship.

Though try as she might to do anything to push him away, their paths are inevitable. Not only does she have to see him at glee club practice she also sees Iain at home since he's also living with her. Feeling as if both need to reconcile their differences before things turn ugly, they form a temporary truce, at least for appearances sake. Throughout the course of the first few episodes of the season, it can be shown that though they claim to dislike each other, they are very much attracted to each other. Other fellow Glee members are aware of this however refuse to mention it with the exception of Rachel, who points it out to Iain when she needed his help composing a song for sectionals . Finn also is annoyed with Iain, because he notices how mean he is with Quinn, but they form a truce as Finn becomes aware of the attraction between his ex-girlfriend. He then tells Iain to promise him that he wouldn't hurt her because the last thing Quinn needs is a broken heart after what he did to her.

Little does everyone in McKinley know that Iain faces his own internal conflict. His sole purpose to arriving to McKinley was to look for his long, lost brother who was separated when their father divorced their mother. Despite his posing as a person of middle class, he is extremely wealthy, having come from a school that has Prince Charles as an alumnus and being raised in cities like London and New York. His great grandfather composed a hit Christmas song and the jingle of the Coke theme, he's been receiving the royalties and used the money to invest in computers and batteries for cellular phones which the amount has quadrupled making him one of Forbes Richest People Under 21. He also studied Business Management in Harvard with a minor in Computer Sciences but dropped out a few months before his graduation as he saw that there was no point in doing so as this was never his interest and that he made off with more money than all what his professors made combined with life interest.

My inspiration for Lilly (Iain's ex) was based on Kim Soo-hyun's (aka Fantasic Beast's Claudia Kim before she became Nagini, LOL)  character in the 2011 Korean Drama, Brain.  She had to someone classy, rich, and determined to keep the man she wants. Just like Claudia Kim's character in the Korean Drama.

Iain is also very athletic, highly intelligent and is fluent in many languages such as Korean, Mandarin, French, Gaelic, Arabic, and Spanish. He had a girlfriend, Lilly, a South Korean heiress/New York socialite who became a model/actress and left him to pursue her career. 

 He shows signs that he's also capable of destructive behavior such as nearly getting himself expelled after "mooning" the Duchess of Cambridge during his school's graduation, where he had graduated top of his class and came to school so stoned that he couldn't remember getting onstage but knew that after he showed off his bum, Kate Middleton wasn't offended and seemed to have enjoyed the show. In reality, Iain felt no remorse when his girlfriend left as he felt that he had nothing in common with her. He only did the things that at the time he thought was expected out of him. Apparently, Quinn Fabray isn't the only one person who likes to create appearances for the sake to fool other people.