BREAK FREE → GLEE [ON HOLD]

15| HEAD CHEERIOS, ROMANCES, AND OTHER PROBLEMS

15| HEAD CHEERIOS, ROMANCES AND OTHER PROBLEMS

[ Chapter Fifteen ]

❝I want it to make my parents proud that I overcame everything that happened to me at my old school ❞

[Hello-O]

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Despite the fact that the glee club won Sectionals, the student population still treated the majority of them as losers. Even Raven who was head cheerleader had gotten a slushie facial since then. Raven never thought that she'd ache to be untouchable and back on top with Quinn again, but she did. She had the popularity but people didn't take her seriously enough if they were willing to buy slushies just to throw them in her face.

So, when Mr. Schuester started a new lesson that week, titled "Hello", she really hoped she could change her life, "Hello!"

The glee club was dead and everyone basically just weakly repeated the word back to him.

Mr. Schuester shook his head and then asked, "What do you guys say when you answer the phone?"

"What up?" Mercedes grinned.

"Who this be?" Artie answered.

"No, she's dead. This is her son." Kurt said boredly.

"Okay..." Mr. Schuester sighed, "Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, liked to say 'Ahoy, ahoy,' when he answered the phone. It was Edison who decided that 'hello' was a more appropriate greeting. Look, I'm really proud of what you guys did at Sectionals, but as most of you have realized by now, it hasn't made a bit of difference in your day-to-day at school."

"I have a slushie stained training bra to prove it." Rachel said.

"I feel like she didn't mean to say that aloud." Raven muttered to herself.

"The fact is, we're going to have to better, even more spectacular at Regionals. It's time for some new reinvention. Some new New Directions." Mr. Schuster said, "We need a new hello. Here's your assignment for the week. Come up with a fresh number, but it has to have hello in the song title. Okay?"

Everyone nodded but continued to not say anything.

Raven linked arms with Quinn as they left the room, "Do you know what you're going to sing?"

"No idea. You?" Quinn answered.

"Me either."

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When Coach Sylvester summoned Raven, Santana and Brittany to her office, Raven debated not going. She was tired of being on Coach Sylvester's side but she knew that she wanted to keep her head cheerio spot so she went.

"You three should be wetting yourselves with shame." Coach Sylvester told the three girls who were sitting in front of her desk, "Glee club won Sectionals, and you did nothing to stop it. If you were samurai, and my letter opener was sharp enough, I would ask you both right now to commit seppuku. In Japanese it means ritualistic belly slitting."