ETHEREAL ➻SANTANA LOPEZ(1)

ACAFELLAS

"five, six, seven, eight. step and step. step and step. and turn it around. down and up. and hit hit down hit" mr schue said as he danced with the new directions following his lead. unlike the three other cheerios heaven was pretty focused.

"can we stop please?" rachel announced

the piano stopped and mr schue turned to look at her "you don't have to ask me for permission every time you have to go to the bathroom rachel, you can just go"

"it's not my bladder" she responded "it's the choreography"

mr schue seemed confused and asked "okay, what's wrong with the choreography?"

"we can't compete with vocal adrenaline with these steps. we have the cheerios now, heaven is the best dancer on the cheerios we need to use her more" rachel said with a hand pointing to the girl. everyone then looked to her which she got flustered and looked down. santana rubbed her back with a face of almost pride.

"you're a great vocal coach mr schue, but you're not a trained choreographer. that's what we need to be the best" rachel continued and looked at quinn. heavens face scrunched up having a feeling quinn was behind rachel's confrontation. rachel continued once again "we need dakota stanley"

"just because he understudied doesn't mean he performed" mr schue defended

"did you ever perform mr schuester?" quinn questioned him. heaven didn't really like confrontation so she shrunk behind santana looking towards the now very interesting wall. "after high school, did you even try?"

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sitting in between quinn and santana, heaven listened to their conversation. their conversation was cut short by rachel walking into the room holding a plate full of cookies.

"he's not coming" rachel announced

"what happened?" finn questioned her.

she then went on to explain why mr schuester wasn't returning.

"of course he doesn't want anything to do with us anymore. after you kicked him in the nads" finn announced angrily standing up.

"then why did he thank me?" rachel shot back placing her cookies on the piano

"i want a cookie" heaven muttered. santana looked to her shaking her head "uh-uh, do you want to suffer sues wrath?"

"not really" heaven replied still looking at the cookies

"well there's your answer" santana stated matter-of-factly.

heaven let out a big sigh and leaned back into her chair "you're right"

"good girl" santana said patting the fellow latinas head. santana then turned back to the group announcing "the goal is to win and now that mr schuester has agreed to let us hire dakota stanley, we can"

"but he doesn't want us to, he just doesn't have the confidence to coach us anymore" finn argued and then looked to rachel "guys are real sensitive when it comes to this stuff"

"and that's my fault?" rachel asked in disbelief.

"do you see anyone else in here with a plate of i'm sorry cookies? i don't just you" finn shot back

"oo got her" heaven said

"thank you heaven" rachel stated sarcastically causing the younger girl to raise her hands in mock surrender.