The Quarterback's Bestfriend

Pot O' Gold

Going into Glee today, Tina sits in the front row sobbing over God knows what and Mike comforts her. Tana walks in behind me, scoffing, "You know what, girl Chang? If you cry every time someone gets a hangnail, it kind of starts to lose its effect."

Tina looks up, makeup running, "It's not a hangnail. Mercedes was one of Glee's original members. I feel naked in here without her."

"Yeah, well, get used to it, 'cause without her singing for us, we're going to have to perform naked for the judges to vote for us at Sectionals," Puck whines, sitting behind me.

Mr. Schue walks into the room, not liking the negativity he's hearing, "No. I will not let this setback crush our spirits. I mean, we have handled worse."

"Than losing one of our best singers? Kind of hard not to blame you, Mr. Schue. Think you were too hard on her at Booty Camp," Finn places the blame on our director and I can't help but agree. His heart was in the right place but how he delivered his motivation wasn't necessary and on top of that Artie took Maria right out from under her.

Once again, Santana reads my mind with her crazy "Mexican Third Eye", "I blame Artie. Why couldn't you have just given Maria to Mercedes?"

Artie looks shocked that he was pulled into his messy situation, "Because that would have damaged my integrity as an artist."

I snort, getting all eyes on me, "No it wouldn't have. You just did what everyone else does, give Rachel Berry what she wants. I, for one, am sick of it so yeah it's both you and Schue's fault."

They all look at me with wide eyes and mouths agape. Rachel comes into the room, smoothing out her skirt, "Sorry I am late. I was putting up posters for my for my campaign."

"Did you airbrush out your jowls?" Kurt pettily asks, making me snicker at this jab at his so called friend.

She looks defeatedly down at her Mary Janes, clearly still feeling guilty about running for President against Kurt, "No."

"Look, let's stop it, everybody. So we lost a singer. So they canceled the musical," Mr. Schue starts his pep talk but is cut off by Drama Queen Berry,

"Wait, what? No, no, no, no. You can't cancel my musical."

I roll my eyes as Finn explains to her the situation, "Sue cut the funding. The point is, right now, we shouldn't -be turning on each other. "

"I agree. I can only speak from my experience with the Warblers, but no show choir is just one person; it's a team. When we lost a Warbler, we just replaced him with another one," Blaine suggests as if that's an option for us.

We're hated by everyone, in Hinduism we would be the Untouchables.

"Which is easy when your waiting list has a waiting list," Again, Santana verbalizes my thoughts.

Finn sets his jaw, annoyed by Blaine, "Dude, I know you're a big deal at Dalton or whatever, but we don't wear blazers here, so have a seat I'm trying to give a pep talk."

"Didn't you just say something about us not turning on each other?" Blaine snidely adds, taking note of how easily he gets under Finn's skin.

Rachel is still stuck on the fact that her musical is in danger, "No, you can't cancel my musical. Okay? I was considering changing my name to Maria."

Mr. Schue rolls his eyes at our resident Drama Queen, "The musical is not canceled. As for Mercedes, yes, that is a huge loss for us, but we will deal with replacing her later. Right now, we need to focus on putting on this musical. We sell ads in the program. I figure we can get ten, maybe 20 bucks apiece for them. So we'll only have to sell about 200."