I'll Stand By You (Finn Hudson x OC)

TWENTY THREE

Season 2, Episode 1:  Audition

Ownership of Glee:  FOX, Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk

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Angie Abrams smiled as she walked down the halls of McKinley High. She'd just parted ways with Brittany and Santana.

Jacob Ben Israel sees Angie and runs over to her. "Angie, how do you feel about the assumptions that Finn Hudson chose Rachel over you because you were Noah Puckerman's ex-girlfriend?" He asks.

"I deny those accusations. Get that camera out of my face you perv." Angie said as she brushed past him.

She was going to be stuck watching Rachel Berry shove her tongue down Finn Hudson's throat all year long.

That's something she wasn't looking forward to.

/ / /

Will sighs as he holds a piece of paper. "These are comments from Jacob Ben Israel's most recent Glee Club blog. 'Glee is a giant ball of suck.'"

"I'm pretty sure he wrote that one himself." Angie mumbles.

Kurt sighs. "We get it, Mr. Shue. Everyone still hates us. So what? So we're plankton on the high school food chain? Only difference now is that none of us really care."

Mercedes nods. "Kurt's right. We're a family. They can bring it all they want. None of it is going to break us."

"Okay, I'm really happy that you guys have all bonded. The problem is that all of this negative stuff is keeping other students from auditioning." Will says.

"Good. Why do we need new members?" Tina asks.

"Well, since Matt transferred, we only have 12 members, and if we want to go to Nationals, if we want to beat Vocal Adrenaline, we have to go from a small rebel force to a giant wall of sound." Will explains.

Angie frowns when Will reminds her that Matt transferred. That was a sad day.

Rachel gets up and stands next to Will. "Yeah, Mr. Schuester's right, you guys. You didn't see Vocal Adrenaline at Regionals. They were epic. We're going to need more voices in order to beat them."

Finn smirks. "Yeah. I'm with Rachel on this one."

"Gross." Brittany says.

Will nods. "You're going to have to trust me on this, guys. Now, here's the plan. Nationals are in New York this year, and we are going." He announces. "Now let's go out there and show the school how cool it's going to be, how cool we can be. If they're not going to come to us, let's go to them. They say we only sing show tunes and '80s pop. Let's show them how down we are. Let's give them the song of the year, New Directions! style." He says.

/ / /

The New Directions perform "Empire State of Mind" in the courtyard but the rest of the school is unimpressed except for Sunshine Corazon and Sam Evans, who taps his feet in the rhythm.

[Empire State of Mind by New Directions]

/ / /

Angie is at her locker when she's greeted by a mop of blonde hair.

"Sorry, Miss. It's my first day. I didn't mean to bump into you." He said.

Angie smiled. "No it's okay. I'm Angie Abrams." She said.

The boy smiled as he shook hands with her. "I'm Sam Evans."

Angie had a feeling that Sam Evans was a very interesting guy.