𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 • Sam Evans

𝟐𝒙𝟏𝟕: 𝑨 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑵𝒆𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕

We were all in the choir room watching Mr Schue write some kind of math equation on the whiteboard. I had spent five whole minutes arguing with Mike to see if it was correct or not, but, however, we both came to the conclusion that, even though we loved our glee club coach, he'd be a horrible math teacher.

"All right" our teacher said, interrumpting our conversation. "We need five thousand dollars to pay for our trip to Nationals in New York".

"What happened with the money that we got from the cheerios?" Quinn asked.

"I guess Sue was hiding it in offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands and we're having some trouble accesing some of it. Any of it" Mr Schue admitted, leaving us thinking how wild the whole situation was and how a person like Sue could exist. "This is salt water taffy" he said, holding something that looked like a piece of gum while Britt declared her love for salt water. "When I was a student here we paid our entire trip to National selling this. Classroom to classroom, door to door, we pushed this stuff like crack. And so will we".

"I wish I had mr Schue's optimism" I whispered.

"So," he continued, "to make five thousand at twenty-five cents a piece, we need to sell twenty thousand peices of taffy"

"Wait, do you honestly think that we can sell twenty thousand anythings?" Santana asked, perplexed. "I mean, we won Regionals for the first time since dinosaurs roamed the planet and I still got a freaking cherry icee facial".

"Santana is right. Nobody cares about us" Quinn uttered. Suddenly, Mike got up really upset and began to walk to the door.

"Mike, are you okay?"

"No" he complained. "You guys complain all the time about being mistreated but you have no idea what it's like to work your butt off for something and have everyone, even your friends ignore you".

"I'm trying so hard to remember his name right now" Lauren said, gaining herself an angry glance from me. 

"Artie, Tina, Brittany and I are on the Braniacs" Mike continued.

"Isn't that the Academic Decathlon team?" Rachel asked.

"Wait, we have one of those?" Finn asked while chewing a piece of tuffy.

"And I thought I was lost" I muttered.

"Yes we do, Finn. And the four of us went on The Smartypants Show and beat Carmel High to go to the Academic Decathlon Finals" Artie stated.

"What, you guys were on TV?" Sam asked. "Well, why didn't you tell us about it?"

"We did!" the four of them shouted.

"Wait, I... I get the three of you being on the team" Mr Schue started.

"Because two of them are Asian and Artie wears glasses?" Puck asked. I quickly looked at him a mouthed a what the hell. How could someone say something so stereotypical?

"No" he said, exhausted. "But Brittany?"

"Liz Schneider was our fourth but she got Rubella. Her parents are hippies who don't believe in vaccinations. We asked Roxy but she was busy and Brittany was the only one available".

"And she was amazing. I didn't know anyone could know so much about cat diseases" I said.

"You watched them?" Mercedes asked me. 

"Of course?"

"Sadly we can't afford to go to the Finals, so we're gonna have to forfeit" Artie uttered, sadly.

"Why don't you just have your parents pay for it?" Rachel asked.

"Because we shouldn't have to" Tina exclaimed. "We're a school club, the school should pay for it. It's a matter of pride".