the girl with the guitar [glee/sam evans]

chapter 5: The Rocky Horror Glee Show

The dining room was uncomfortably silent. The tension was palpable. Violet was having dinner with her father, who wanted to say something to her, but he didn't really know how to make conversation with his daughter. They were sat at opposite ends of the table, and it felt like they were a mile apart from one another

"So how's school?" Violet's father said nervously. He wanted to make a connection with his daughter, but he also feared that it was too late to.

Violet's eyes were pretty much glued to her plate. She didn't like family dinners if that's what you can even call this. This was a new concept that her father wanted to implement so they could seem more like a "normal" family even though her family would never be like that.

"It's fine."

"Any extracurriculars? I know you don't come home from school right away..."

"I'm in the jazz band." Violet just wanted to be excused and work in the dance studio they had in their new basement.

"Oh. Is that the only musical activity you're doing?" She knew exactly what he was insinuating.

"Yes." She took a bite of food, so she wouldn't be forced into talking anymore.

"Well, you know, maybe if there's a musical... You could audition. Don't you miss the stage?"

Violet stayed silent. She didn't know what her father wanted from her.

"You know, I'm really trying to connect here, Violet. You wanted a normal life, so we moved to Ohio. I'm trying to have family dinners. I'm trying to make your life as normal as possible, just like you wanted. You should make an effort." Violet got up from her seat and took her plate to the kitchen sink.

"Well, maybe you should've tried sooner." And with that remark, she left her father alone at the long dining room table and she went downstairs to the dance studio.

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Violet was at her locker switching out some of her books for her next block of classes when Santana came up to her and started complaining.

"Berry is so annoying. I swear everything in Glee always has to about that little dwarf or her head explodes. She goes in and pretty much claims the lead, and Mr. Schue just accepts it? Why can't we audition?"

Violet's head was spinning, "Hold on. Rewind. Lead for what?" Violet and Santana started walking down the hall together.

"We're putting on a production of Rocky Horror in Glee. Rachel pretty much called Janet and Brad for her and Frankenteen, so the rest of us Glee girls are just left scraps. Not to mention there aren't enough female roles, so we have to double up on them."

Violet furrowed her eyebrow. The musical seemed really rushed, and Schue's not even properly executing it. "That's such bullshit. She shouldn't automatically get the role just because she called it."

"Exactly! I don't know how we're going to pull this off in a week. Mr. Schue's so busy doing rewrites and working out every single part of the show by himself. It seems nearly impossible." Then a lightbulb went off in Santana's head.

Santana then suddenly started dragging Violet down the hall which had her extremely confused, "What are you doing! This is the opposite direction of our class!"

Next thing Violet knows, she and Santana are in Mr. Schue's office. Violet was completely clueless to what's going on.

"Can I help you girls?" Mr. Schue asked confusedly.

"Let Violet help choreograph the musical. She already helped choreograph so many numbers during duets week, not to mention this is her dance resume." Santana pulled out Violet's dance resume from her bag.