𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 - 𝐬𝐚𝐦 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐬

ORIGINAL SONG

"Guys, I've got some bad news."

Everyone's heads snapped up and their conversations stopped as Mr Schue entered the room, a glum expression on his face and a piece of paper in his hands. Whatever he was about to share, it couldn't be good. "You know how we decided on Sing by My Chemical Romance for Regionals? Well, I hold in my hand a cease and desist letter from the band. We can't do it."

"Ugh, it was the perfect anthem!" Puck groaned.

"How much do you wanna bet Coach Sylvester had something to do with this?" Mercedes asked in frustration.

"I'd bet my whole house." Alicia muttered with a sigh, knowing the ways of her old coach pretty damn well.

"One step ahead of you, guys. Think of it as her revenge for what went down with the Cheerios." Mr Schue recalled his encounter with Sue in the staff room.

"So, what are we gonna do now?"

"I think...we should write original songs for Regionals." Rachel spoke up, persisting once more despite the suggestion not being received too well before.

"All those in favor of voting Rachel down a second time?" Santana said with an eye roll. As nearly everyone raised their hand without a second thought, Alicia noticed that Quinn didn't.

"No, I think Rachel's right. This team works best when we push ourselves and do something a little different." Quinn said, earning a fair few looks of confusion.

"Well, that's true but if all the other teams are doing amazing songs. We're not gonna be so good." Mercedes countered.

"You're right, we're not gonna be as good. We're gonna be better. We won't be using other peoples' words or music, it'll be our own. Our own heart, soul, not just our voices. We have a really talented songwriter in our midst. Rachel? I was thinking maybe you and I could write a song together?" Quinn smiled down to Rachel.

Alicia looked between the two, more confused than she'd ever been before. Quinn wasn't exactly Rachel's biggest fan, and now she was complimenting her and asking to work with her? Did she wake up on a different planet or something?

"I'm with Quinn and Rachel. I mean, if these two can agree on something it's probably an idea worth considering." Finn shrugged.

"Wait, wait. So suddenly you two are writing the music for Regionals? No way. I think that everyone should get a chance to write a song." Santana shook her head, adamant to prove herself.

"Santana's right, we can do this." Sam added.

"What do you think Mr Schue?"

"I think we're doing original songs for Regionals." Mr Schue smiled, glad to have found a solution.

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"All right guys, let's hear it for our first songwriting seminar." Mr Schue spoke as nearly the whole Glee Club took their seats in the Choir Room, cheering and clapping in excitement. "While Quinn and Rachel are hard at work, we are gonna try and write an anthem of our own. Now, these are rhyming dictionaries for all of you."

Passing around the dictionaries, Mr Schue was pleasantly surprised when Santana spoke up. "Uh Mr Schue, Tina and I have been already working on a song that I wrote."

"Really? That's amazing. Can we hear it?"

Santana walked confidently up to the front of the room and fixed her eyes on an unassuming Sam. "This is a song that I wrote for Sam. It's called 'Trouty Mouth.'"

"Wait, what's it called?" Sam asked, his head snapping up at the mention of his name.

"Trouty Mouth." Mike clarified in a whisper, leaning close to Sam.