Yes or no - The prequel

Journey to Regionals

A/N: okay, so I'm feeling a bit sad and lonely right now, so I'm posting the last chapter earlier because it might make me feel a little better.

Anyway, enough with the sad shit. Onto the chapter! I hope you enjoy this one! And as usual, an epilogue and a last note are coming your way right now too!

The glee club was reunited in Mr. Schue's living room, sitting around as they sulked a bit, not happy at all with their prospect of winning Regionals and knowing that, should they lose, that glee club that they all came to adore over the past few months would be gone for good.

Coming from the kitchen with the paper plates Mr. Schue had decided to grab, Quinn placed them over the unopened pizza boxes on top of the center table. Looking around at all the long faces, Mr. Schue sighed.

"No one wants any pizza?" The teacher asked, receiving nothing but silence in response. "All right, well, hum, let's get started. Thank you for coming to the first annual New Directions' Regionals' set list nominations party."

"What's the point, Mr. Shue?" Artie asked then. "Coach Sylvester's one of the judges. She's gonna crush us."

"Artie, you don't know that." Mr. Schue argued as Emily bit her lip.

"We do, actually." She said, as Santana nodded.

Yeah, she told us at Cheerios practice." She said.

"Yeah, she said I'm going to crush Glee Club." Brittany added.

"A whole freaking year." Puck scoffed. "All that hard work for nothing."

Everyone sighed then, turning to look at Tina as soon as the girl sniffled, always the emotional one.

"I'm sorry." She mumbled, aware of all the eyes on her. "I just really love you guys. You know how many Facebook friends I had before I joined Glee Club? Two. My parents. Rachel was right. Being a part of something special, it made me special. I just can't believe it's going to be over in a week."

"Wait." Finn said. "Who says it's going to be over?"

"Please." Mercedes rolled her eyes, without missing a beat. "You think Puck and Santana are going to even acknowledge my existence once we're not in Glee Club together anymore?"

"She has a point." Puck shrugged.

After a moment of silence again, Rachel was the one to break the silence.

"Mr. Schuester?" She said, as the teacher turned to look at her. "Do you think instead of nominating songs, we can just... All go around the room and talk about things that we loved about Glee Club this year?"

And noticing it would be no use arguing, Mr. Schue nodded, allowing his kids to tell their favorite memories from glee club and with each other, his chest feeling with pride at every new memory shared in that room, that night.

***

"And now, our panel of judges..."

The New Directions were reunited in the green room, getting ready to take the stage. As Emily worked on Quinn's hair, everyone else rushed around, fixing costumes and makeup as the announcer's voice sounded through the speaker.

"He's an international musical sensation, a platinum recording artist 20 times over, the inimitable Mr. Josh Groban! She's a four-time Grammy winner who starred in the highest-grossing movie musical of all time, Ms. Olivia Newton-John! He's a two-time local Emmy winner and broadcasting icon, WOHN news anchor Rod Remington! She is fresh off her fifth consecutive National Cheerleading Title and author of the soon-to-be-published memoir, I'm A Winner and You're Fat, Ohio's home-grown iconoclast, Coach Sue Sylvester! And now, our first performance of the evening, from Westvale High in scenic Fort Wayne, Indiana, Aural Intensity!"