METANOIA. glee.

2. "showmance"

i meet artie, mercedes, and tina in the parking lot and we start walking to the school. i've become really good friends with the glee club since i joined and thankfully i haven't been slushied yet. "honestly, i'm surprised rachel didn't grow horns and kill you after you sang. she usually gets pretty jealous if someone is good" artie says and i laugh.

"yeah, i think she was nice to me because i helped her after she got slushied. shes actually nice when shes not whining about solos." i say, and tina nudges me. "wow shes nice? i've n-never seen that b-before." and we all laugh. "i'd rather talk about riffing than rachel. i learned a new one last night." mercedes says, and we listen to her sing it and try it ourselves. besides rachel, mercedes is definitely the best singer.

mr. schue joins our group. "morning guys" i wave at him. "hey, mr. schue. we're just learning some runs." mercedes sings it to him. we sing it with mr schue and he actually sounds pretty good "with the finger, huh?" he says, mimicking mercedes. "pretty fly for a white guy." mercedes says and we all laugh. "oh, thank you, thank you. hey, don't be late for rehearsal this afternoon." we all say ok, and he continues walking ahead of us. kurt eventually joins, reeking of dumpster smell. i always feel so bad for him. the jocks can be such jerks. he always gets thrown in the dumpsters for no reason. we continue walking together until we split up to go to our separate classes.

"ivy! wait up!" i turn to see finn running towards me. "hey, how are you?" i ask as we walk together. "i'm good, how are you?" before i can answer, i see puck with a slushie in his hand. "i heard you joined the freak club." i roll my eyes. "ok, so what if i did?" i say back, and he smirks as he throws the slushie in my face. 

they do not tell you how much it stings. puck starts laughing as i wipe slush away from my eyes. "hey! that wasn't cool man." finn yells at him. "what are you going to do about it?" pucks says and finn walks closer to him, but i grab onto his arm. "come on, let's get to glee club." puck smirks and walks away.

finn turns back to me. "hey um ivy? you got something on your face." he says, trying to lighten the mood. i laugh. "you too." i say, and wipe some of the slush that got on him off his face. "he's such a jerk, none of the glee club deserves this." he says. "i'm just glad i was the only one who did get slushied today." finn looks past my head behind me. "um actually..." i turn and see that rachel also got slushied. she looks at me in shock. "you too?" i sigh. "it was bound to happen eventually." i say, and she nods. "welcome to the glee club." finn says, and the three of us walk to glee club, chatting about what the assignment will be this week.

we find out we're singing "le freak" by chic. all of us hate it. the song is not good for glee at all. we're running through the number and it's not going very well.

"energy, guys! it's disco. good with the hands. john travolta hands. all right. we're freaking out. let's go. and up and out and down. good, guys." mr. schue keeps giving us notes during the number and it's pretty distracting. and of course rachel has to be super dramatic and do a kick that's not even in the choreography, almost kicking mercedes in the face. "whoa, whoa! hell to the nah! first of all, you try to bust my face again, and i will cut you! and also, this song is terrible." mercedes says that last part to mr. schue. "no, no, no. it's not the song. you guys just need to get into it." he argues back. "no, it's the song. it's really gay." kurt blurts out and i nod.