Tyler woke up at exactly 6 am to the sound of his I pod alarm clock which as usual blared Don't Rain On My Parade by Barbara Streisand. He woke up and smiled it was the first day of his freshman year and he was ready to take it head on. He was older than most students in his grade mostly because his mother insisted on waiting a year before putting him in kindergarten. His room was pristine and he kept everything in its proper place. He stood up out of his beautiful four poster bed with a memory foam mattress and shut his alarm off and walked into the bathroom and brushed his teeth and picked out his clothes for the day. A pair of jeans and a t-shirt nothing too bold for the first day. He walked down stairs into the gigantic kitchen that combined into the dining room. There as usual was his breakfast Eggs and Lean Turkey bacon. Not too fattening and would keep him energized for the day. He smiled as his mom put the dishes in the dish washer. "good morning sunshine" Rachel said as she watched her only child sit down and begin eating. She heard the tea pot scream a loud whistle and rushed over to it pouring hot water into a large thermos with a few teabags and then poured a little bit of honey and lemon in and mixed it and sat it right next to him. The tea would help his vocal cords and help him out shine everyone else. "morning mom" Tyler said. He was definitely a momma's boy he fell in love with broadway much like his mother and now dreamed of following in her footsteps and going to NYADA. "Don't forget honey that this weekend is a weekend with your father okay and also your going to your uncle Kurt's after school I have to go to new york for the night and I'll pick you up tommorrow afternoon" She said as she heard the school bus approach. He nodded and quickly finished eating and then hugged his mother good bye and walked out the door and caught the school bus and arrived at school and quickly got his new student packet and walked to his locker

I woke up to the ringing of my alarm clock. I was exhausted. Staying up all night and texting my friend wasn't the best idea. Oh well. I picked out my old tye-dye shirt, a pair of jeans, and my favorite hoodie. It was blue with a London flag on the front and on the sleeve it said 2012 Olympics. I didn't go, I just got the hoodie. I got in the shower and used my favorite body wash. Sweet pea and violet Suave. I used my Tresemme shampoo. I ran out of my conditioner yesterday though. I dried my hair with a towel and put my clothes on. I brushed all the knots out of my hair and put it in a braid. I loved it when at the end of the day I took my braid out and it got all wavy. Mom and Dad already left. They got to school earlier than the kids. Normally, I would go with them, but I was tired and didn't feel like getting up that early today. My mom left a note on the fridge saying she made my lunch and it's in the fridge. I looked in there. My mom liked to separate all the grapes by color and knowing my mom she probably disinfected all of the food. There was the grapes, a Nutella sandwich, water bottle, and an oatmeal cookie. I decided to walk to school. I didn't really like buses. They were to loud and crowded. While I was walking I listened to my Plain White T's station on my Pandora app. When I got to school, I turned my phone on silent and put it in my hoodie pocket. I went to my locker and grabbed what I would need for my first hour.

Her name was Lola, she was a show girl.." The music boomed through Darci's iHome. It was on full blast, cranked all the way up at 72. The vibrations of the music seemed to shake her perfect 3 story house. Truthfully, her house looked like a mini mansion with its' glass double doors and brick exterior.

Darci brushed her teeth while she hummed the words of the song. By the time the song ended, she was sliding across the wooden floors of the upstairs hallway, belting out the lyrics to the next song that played, Beside You by Five Seconds of Summer. Darci had quite vast range of music. She slid into her her large room and stumbled on the violet carpeting. Catching herself right before she fell, she straightened herself and walked into her closet. She looked at the variety of clothing, and bit her lip. Her outfit needed to be just right for the first day of school. Settling on a pair of white short shorts and a black, lace crop top, she smiled and set the clothes on her bed. She changed and looked herself over in the mirror. A smile krept onto her clear, tanned face. Then, going to her shoes, she picked out a pair of black and tan gladiator sandals. Once she was all dressed, she went back to the bathroom and unplugged her speakers and stuffed her phone in her back pocket. Her makeup was already done, but lightly . Her dark brown hair was curled loosely. When she walked, it bounced around her shoulders and then she found herself in the kitchen with her dad, Kurt.

"Why, don't you look sharp," he remarked after looking her over. "Are you trying to impress anyone special?" A smirk had landed upon his face when Darci looked at him. Clearing her throat, she response bed. "If you mean Tyler, no. For the last time, we're just friends
" Grabbing an apple, she wiped it off on a towel and bit into it. Just then, Blaine, her other father came down. "Morning everyone!" he called. "Morning, dad." she responded. She then watched as her parents greeted each other with a kiss and she finished her apple. Every morning she had an apple, but then she stuffed her face at lunch. "I better go. Don't want to be late!" she declared as she grabbed her shoulder bag and put it on. Kurt called after her as she headed for the door, "Don't forget Tyler's coming home with you today," and he winked at her. "DAAAD.." she groaned and e opened the door and started walking to school . She lived close enough that the walk was 10 minutes tops.

Finally, she arrived after the short walk. She pushed open the doors and went to her locker. Then, she got her books once her opened jher locker. Her locker was a few removed from her best friend, Tyler's . Approaching him, she hip bumped him, smiling. "Hey there."

Smashing my hand down, hard, on the annoying alarm Puck insisted I put on every night (so I can't say I woke up late when bunking school) I run a hand through my soft hair and slide out of my single bed that I demanded Puck paint black and I stuck rhinestones all over - My room was similar in keeping with the black theme and large posters of 'Paramore' & 'The Killers' block out the pink my room was painted when I was around five; Puck refuses to do anything (Like repaint my walls) unless it really needs work.
Biting my painted red, stumpy nails I walked down our thin corridor to the tiny bathroom, showering quickly and getting dressed into one of my favourite outfits, yes, it was most probably too much for school but did I care? No.
I then turned to face the mirror and applied my make-up, backcombing my hair ever so slightly.
I then set about running downstairs, singing at the top of my lungs to wake up all the other flats - That'll teach them for banging on her door at 3am, asking her to turn down her music! How dare they?
Kissing Puck on the cheek, whom just managed to drag himself from the mess he calls a room, and rushes out to the school bus, arriving to many stares and whispers - Grinning she sits at the back and listens to her music the rest of the journey.

Once at school I walk down the center of the hallway, causing all the bodies to split apart as I approach, again more whispers erupt from their mouths and I grin, walking over to her locker which was between a boy (Tyler Berry) wearing clothes too bland for mt taste but I didn't mind too much - He wasn't bad looking - and a girl wearing an Olympic jumper.
Flicking my chocolate hair out of my face, I lick my gleaming red lips and unlock my locker.

Tyler hip bumped Darci back with a laugh "hey bestie" He said with a smile on his face "so Mom said I'm going to stay with you and uncle kurt tonight she doesn't want me throwing some wild party while she's in New York not that I would anyways" Tyler said with a smile. "so what after school clubs are you going to sign up for?" Tyler asked as he pulled her to the board across the hall. He scanned the posters "where's the glee club poster?" He asked "I was gonna sign up my parents say that it was amazing" He said with a smile/

I smiled at the girl who opened the locker next to me. "Hi, I'm Hayley." I said. I thought she was wearing a lot of makeup. Then again I don't wear makeup so to me everyone has a lot of makeup.

Darci laughed when he bumped her back. She always loved the fact that they didn't care what they did in public together; they did whatever they wanted to or felt like doing. He went on about talking how he was to stay at her place tonight. She laughed as she responded, "Yeah, 'cause we both know you're the type that will throw craaaaaaaazy parties while his mom is in another state." Rolling her eyes as the sarcasm dripped off her words, she looked back at him, just in time to see him grab her arm and yank her towards the club signup board. He asked about glee club, and she furrowed her brow. Glee club? She hadn't ever heard about the school having that, besides about 10 years ago when the kids lost nationals and everyone dropped out. Scanning the posters, she realized that indeed, there was no glee club poster.

Turning to him, she cleared her head. "Why don't we ask my dad? He probably has some memories about it and we could talk to him," then she answered his earlier question with a smile on her face. "I'll probably sign up for soccer, volleyball, and-" she stopped before she could finish. She hadn't brought up cheerleading, for that was a distant memory. Cheerleading was her life in grade school. She lived, breathed, and ate it- literally. However, it was high school now and she was looking forward really looking forward to going through all of that for another 4 years? She followed up her sentence. "Probably just volleyball and soccer," she nearly mumbled. She picked up the pen dangling from the board and wrote her name clearly on the sign up sheet of each. Darci Anderson, in its big, loopy printing. She had always liked her writing, how the penmanship seemed to be computer generated somewhat.

Darci smiled and looked at Tyler, "What about you?" She asked, poking her side with her finger. "What clubs are youuu signing up for?"

Tyler looked at the clubs "I'm not sure there's so many we need to do at least one club together" he said with a smile "what if we auditioned for the school musical and for drama club, I might also join super heroes club" he said with a small laugh. "yeah lets ask your dads they'll know for sure" he said with a smile.

Her best friend mentioned the possibility of drama club or the school musical and she smiled, "That's a good idea! Maybe we should just do that, but yeah. Let's still talk to them." Her smile still remained, but she looked at Tyler like he was crazy, trying not to laugh. "Super heroes club? Really Ty? Really?" Shaking her head, she looked at the sigh up boards.

Checking her phone, she realized she had about 6 minutes until her first class. Groaning to herself, she mentally prepared herself for Geometry. She wondered what the teachers would be liked, and she wondered who was in her classes. Just then, she realized she hadn't asked Tyler about his classes yet. How stupid! "Hey Ty, what classes do you have?" Pulling out her roster, she unfolded the paper and started to scan the classes beyond Geometry.

"why not superheroes club I could be the super hero Treble cleff my superpower is a using my singing voice to control people's minds" he said striking a heroic pose. Tyler pulled out his schedule and looked at it "well first I have Geometry Basics mom talked to the school about putting me in a special math class because it's so hard for me. then English 9, Gym, Drama 3 mom told the drama teacher about the theatrical productions I've been in so I skipped 2 other years of drama, social studies, and finally spanish 1 what do you have?" he asked

The recently turned 15 year old watched her best friend strike a pose and explain his character. She did what she would normally do when he did stuff like this: laugh. Her abdomen soon started to hurt and she coughed a little bit, trying to catch her breath. She placed her left hand on her stomach and continued to giggle, trying to cease it. As soon as she stopped laughing, a smile took place on her face. Tyler started to read off his schedule and she listened, going down her list as he spoke. When he finished, she realized they had only 3 of the 6 classes together.

Sighing a little, she started to list her classes. "My classes are:
1st- Advanced Geometry
2nd- Creative Writing
3rd- Gym
4th- Lunch
5th- History/Social Studies
6th- Spanish 1."

Realizing she hadn't heard lunch on his schedule, she paused. "When do you have lunch?" Her stomach seemed to ball up. Would her first year of high school consist of having lunch by herself and trying to find and make new friends, or would she stay with Tyler? She wondered and listened eagerly.

"Tyler smiled as he made his best friend hurt from laughing "well that's fine maybe you can tutor me for geometry again my parents wil probably pay you" he said with a smile. "I have lunch after 3rd during 4th period" he said so we have lunch together at least hey maybe we can get the glee club up and runing again" he said with a smile "we just need to talk to figgins"

Natalia looked at the girl next to her as she introduced herself.
Slightly raising of her perfectly shaped eyebrows at the girl she said "Natalia." before remembering what Puck had said - Many of the old 'Glee Club' members parents had enrolled their children this year.
Narrowing her eyes, Tally asked the girl - "Who are your parents? I mean, were they part of the Glee Club?"

"Maybe I can. If your parents are paying, count me in. I need money desperately," she responded with a chuckle. Tyler then told her they had the same lunch. "Thank you sweet baby Jesus in Heaven," she said as the blessed herself. "That would be terrifying if we didn't. Hey, that's a good idea. When should we go talk to him?" She asked in response to the Glee Club idea.

Darci heard two girls talking a little distance away, the one asking about her parents and if they were part of the Glee Club. Turning her attention back to Ty, she smiled. "We definitely need to do this. It will be so much fun!" The thought of bringing back what their parents had once been a part of, and loved so much made her giddy. Maybe they could will Sectionals, or Regionals. What about Nationals?

Whoa, don't get ahead of yourself, Darci. You haven't even recreated the club., she thought to herself. Her giddiness vanished, but she kept a smile on her face.

"Sweet your in? I'll go talk to figgins after school today" Tyler said "and yeah mom will pay you she has more money now that she's on Broadway than she knows what to do with my dad on the other hand is just making ends meet" he said "hey can uncle Kurt and Uncle blaine take me clothes shopping this weekend?" he asked

"Since you're coming home with me today, guess that means I'm coming with you!" She smiled a little and played with the strap of her bag while he kept talking. "Aw, but I love your dad! He's so nice.." she let her sentence hang in the air. Darci had remembered going over Tyler's house and seeing his parents. Every time she saw them they seemed so in love with each other. The thought made her frown. Darci had never known what happened. Her parents wouldn't tell her because it-as they put it- "their place to tell", or "her business". Tyler hadn't really mentioned it either, but if he wanted to tell her, he would have. Pushing him to tell her wasn't the best idea, so the topic was left alone. One thing she did know, was that Tyler came over more often than usual, which was fine with her.

"Hey, can Uncle Kurt and Uncle Blaine take me clothes shopping this weekend?" Tyler had asked. Darci laughed. When it came to clothing, movies, shows, and music, her parents were always frank and opinionated-Kurt more than Blaine. "You know they'd love to go with you, but we'll have to see if they can. Hey, if you want a girl's opinion on what you'll wear in the distant future..." Her sentence trailed off as she pretended to be thoroughly interested in the walls of the school.

RIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGGGG

The first period bell signaled, and Darci sighed. Time for Advanced Geometry, she thought to herself. Turning to Tyler, she punched his arm lightly. "Guess I'll seen you in Gym then," she said. Starting to walk down the hallway, Darci called over her shoulder her final words to him before they saw each other next in Gym. "Try not to miss me too much, and have fun in Geometry!" Turning herself back around, she continued walking until she was out of sight.

Tyler heard her mention his dad and he hoped she wouldn't bring up the divorce. He hated thinking about it he had always wanted his parnets back together but his mom assured him it wouldn't happen. He often found himself going to stay with his uncles while his mom left to go do something in new york or somewhere. When his mom was home they spent every second together but not very much with his dad.

"well you have to go to" he said with a small glad she didn't push the divorce subject as the bell rang "see you later darcie" he said watching her walk away towards her next class


Alex woke up to the sound of her mother Santana shouting in spanish. "despertar ahora o vas a llegar tarde a la escuela" The hispanic woman shouted her hands on her hips. Alex groaned "si mama me levanto" she said crawling out of her bed. She stepped into the shower and washed her hair throughly then pulled it back into a neat pony tail then grabbed her cheerio uniform and put it on and walked downstairs. "good morning mija" Santana said kissing her daughter on the head as she left for work. "alex I packed your lunch I went to pack you breakfast but the syrup got everywhere" brittany said from the sink "bye mama" She said "mom you dont pack breakfast I gotta go though" she said grabbing the keys to her car she was 16 and still a freshman due to the fact she got held back once in middle school she learned the hardway NEVER LET BRITTANY DO YOUR HOMEWORK. She left her house and drove to the school just in time to make it to advanced geometry where she sat down where next to where Darcie was asssigned to sit

I smiled at Natalia. "Actually my dad was the teacher of it." I told her. I heard the bell ring. "See ya later Natalia." I said and started sprinting to class. A teacher yelled at me for running in the halls. So, I started walking. Good thing it was the first day. They normally don't give tardies on the first day because the kids don't know where the classes are and you know. I got to my first hour, Adv. Algebra 2. I hated math. I thought it was my worst subject, but apparently the school thinks I'm good at it and put me in a advanced class. All my core subjects were advanced except science, which I liked a lot better than math. I picked a seat in the second row second to the front.

Darci felt some eyes on her as people started clearing the halls. She figured it was because she was a freshman, but most of the stares happened to come from males. Mumbling very unkind things to herself, she continued to her class. When there, the teacher immediately assigned her a seat. Darci had always preferred assigned seats for classes when she didn't know someone, but sometimes it was awful. Once in seventh grade she was stuck to sit next to a scrawny, unsanitary boy who always picked his nose, cleaned his ears, and ate whatever came out of them. Talk about downright disgusting. Tyler was always there to hear her complain about seats, even though it was so frivolous.

When she took her seat near the middle of the class room, she saw a girl in a cheerleading uniform sit next to her. Darci started mentally screaming at herself for being foolish not to sign up. Reassuring herself to not go down that path again, she pushed the thoughts of jumping, tumbling, stunting, flying away. Would cheerleading ever leave her the hell alone? She guessed not.

Taking a quick glance at the girl, Darci scanned her features. The girl had dark, silky hair and tanned skin. Her Cheerio uniform seemed either too short or too small, but Darci couldn't tell on account of the girl sitting, not standing. The female was obviously pretty, but there was a look to her that made her seem...frightening. If not frightening, then possibly full of herself? Whatever it was, she had a certain look to her that made Darci want to move away from her, but she couldn't. All she could do was simply turn her attention back to the teacher and learn.

Alex pulled out her phone and began looking at her twitter over 100 followers "just the way it should be" she thought to herself she logged off her account and pulled up her text and quickly sent out a text to her girls as the teacher droned on and on, explaining the importance of the Pythagorean Theorem. She hit send and rested her head on her hands as she had heard all this last year before she got held back and she didn't care then either. She looked at the girl next to her and frowned she was incredibly well dressed and good looking. There was no way she could allow this girl a freshman even be a threat she decided to start by getting to know the girl. "hey there you're new right?" she asked

Darci listened as the teacher explained Pythagorean Theorem to the class. Being in honors math in 8th grade, she had touched on it briefly, but never quite got it. Why did anyone have to know Pythagorean Theorem? it was just like slope and polynomials in her opinion: pointless. When was she ever going to use any of them except for in school? Probably never.

The teacher pointed out a few problems and told the students to look them over. When Darci started to look them over and take some notes, the cheerleader next to her spoke. "Hey there, you're new right?" Finding this to be extremely random, Darci didn't say anything. All she did was nod in her head in response. Maybe this girl wasn't mean like Darci thought, or maybe she was and wanted to play with her like a puppet. Whatever it was, Darci chose to play it safe and take precaution in what she were to do now and in the near future. She couldn't say anything crazy or personal to someone she had just met, especially a cheerleader. In her past experience, she learned never to trust them unless she knew them earlier in life. It was challenging to know who she could trust, but she learned to adapt to no one on the team. Then again, that was last year.

"I thought so" ALex said with a small smirk " You want to survive at this school stick with me I'll make sure you know all the right people and you won't get teased if people know I'm your friend I'm Alex by the way Alex Lopez-Peers" she said offering her hand kindly. This was all a facade Alex had no intentions of making her super popular maybe just medium she wanted this girl close just to make sure that she couldn't be sent down to the bottom of the unpopular list.

Darci had been trying to focus somewhat on the lesson, but the girl's words were preventing that from happening. "You want to survive at this school, stick with me. I'll make sure you know all the right people. You won't get teased if people know I'm your friend. I'm Alex by the way, Alex-Lopez-Peers." Then, she offered her hand. Darci glanced at the girl's hand, debating whether to take it or not. Why not?she thought. With that, she shook the Alex's hand kindly.

While she shook her hand, Darci started contemplating whether or not to accept Alex's offer-more like command- of sticking with her at the school. What about Tyler? She couldn't possible leave him, but the thought of making new friends-especially a girl- was nice. However, this girl, she wasn't sure of. Alex reminded her of a girl she went to grade school with, not in a good way. Alex seemed to have plans for Darci, she could read it in her eyes, but she didn't know what. One glimpse convinced her of her answer. She'd have to pass.

A smile formed on Darci's clear, small face and she pulled her hand back. "Thanks for the offer, but-" she started. Say no. Tell her you can't. Tell her you'll pass. Say no. Say no. SAY. NO. Say NO. SAY NO. SAAAY NOOOOO. Her mind screamed at her. "I'd love to." As soon as the words escaped her mouth, she felt her stomach knot. Shit. That was the last thing she wanted to say. The complete opposite of what she wanted. Despite the dread the mistake carried, she never stopped smiling. She couldn't let this girl see her sweat; she refused to. Since she had just accidently accepted and knew there was no way out, she decided to make the best of what was to come.

Alex smiled as she accepted her offer "first things first you'll want to come audition for the cheerios we're the most popular around the school" She said "everything is going perfect can keep her close and make sure she doesn't rise to high on the school popularity level and I have a new lackey at the same time" she thought "auditons are after school today just do your best" Alex said

She saw Alex smile and then she brought up cheerleading tryouts. Darci's face dropped. Okay, so maybe I should tryout... she thought to herself. Sighing, she shook her head. "Uh, I'll think about it," she said. "Cheerleading's not really my thing. I don't really like the idea of skirts that fly up when you spin around.." Her eyes found their way to Alex's Cheerio skirt disapprovingly. Smiling sweetly then, she finished her thoughts. "Thanks for the offer though."

It was quite funny to Darci, in all honestly. How she said made her sound as if she had never done it. All of a sudden, a question formed in her mind. Turning back to Alex, she tapped her fingers on the desk soundlessly. "Are there other tryouts during the week, or just today?" Darci knew that other high schools had tryouts that ran from 3 days at least, to a week at most. Then again, this was the Cheerio squad. Number one in the nation for God knows how many years. Even if she didn't go today, she could just go to the tryouts tomorrow--if there were any. She'd have to wait to talk to Tyler and her dads about it tonight. They would help her out.