e“Okay class we have two weeks left till Regionals” David announced as he entered Monday’s glee club meeting “Now next week we’ll be doing some intensive rehearsing.”
“Then what exactly are we going to do this week?” Caleb asked him
“Whilst our setlist team is working hard deciding and writing the mash-ups for Regionals this week, we will be recruiting more members” David smiled as the club groaned
“You do know that glee club still isn’t popular right?” Nick sighed
“Yes I realise this” David started
“Oh my goodness Lucas! What happened to you?” Lea exclaimed as he walked in covered in cherry slushie
“Oh gosh!” Sugar cried out “Slushieing has made it here!”
“What?” Lucas asked her
“Slushieing is where a jock or bully throws a slushie in a quote ‘glee-atch’s’ unquote face” She explained
“Look. All I know is that I just got an icy cherry facial,” Lucas snapped
“Come on I’ll help you clean it off” Johnny said rising from his seat.
-
“So what happened?” Johnny asked as he wiped Lucas’s face
“Well… You know Alastair Cook right?”
“Yeah what about him?”
“Well he walked right up to me and threw a cherry slushie in my face”
“Hmm… That seems… Pathetic”
“Please don’t do anything Johnny!”
“And let him get away with it Lucas? Fat chance!”
“Johnny” Lucas pleaded, “Please, Mr F and I will handle it.”
“If you’re sure Lucas”
-
“Okay Mr Fletcher what am I doing here? Last time I check I was getting an A in history” Alastair asked
“You are Mr Cook. I was very impressed by your report on the French Revolution.”
“Why thank you”
“But Mr Cook you’re here because you abused one of my glee club members”
“What? I haven’t touched any of them!”
“Then who exactly threw the slushie at Mr Kingsley?”
“Kingsley?” Alastair paused “Oh Lucas! That was me. But that isn’t abuse”
“It’s classed as abuse here Mr Cook. So why’d you do it?”
“Cause he’s gay.”
“As are you.”
“How did you?”
“That isn’t important. Now honestly. Why did you throw the slushie at Lucas?”
“Honestly? I’m jealous of him.”
“Why?”
“He’s so confident in himself and performing.”
“Do you want to join glee club Alastair?”
“I’d love to Mr F!”
-
“What the hell is HE doing here?” Lucas screamed
“A. To apologise… Lucas I’m SO sorry for what I did to you, I was only jealous and I was being petty…” Alastair looked at Lucas, who lowered his eyes to the floor, and then he looked at David, who nodded. “And B. To join…” he smiled awkwardly
“Join the ‘glee-atchs’” Jasmine questioned him using air-quotations
“I want to be a glee-atch” He grinned
ALASTAIR
"I am done, smoking gun
We've lost it all, the love is gone
He has won, now it's no fun
We've lost it all, the love is gone
And we had magic, and this is tragic
You couldn't keep your hands to yourself
I feel like our world's been infected
And somehow you left me neglected
We've found our lives been changed
Babe, you lost me
Now I know you're sorry and we were sweet
But you chose lust when you deceived me
And you'll regret it, but it's too late
How can I ever trust you again?
I feel like our world's been infected
And somehow you left me neglected
We've found our lives been changed, yeah
Babe, you lost me"
-
“Does anyone know how we’re gonna do this? Adam asked the glee club sat in the cafeteria.
“Do what?” Jennifer asked nonchalantly
“Recruit more members” Adam sighed
“Simple” Alastair smirked “Follow my lead”
ALASTAIR
“Don't like waiting
Don't like waiting, let's go right now
Gotta hit the ground
Dancing 'fore the music slows down”
CALEB
“What I'm saying, what I'm saying
If there's something to fix
Take it to another level
This is the remix”
JUDE
“Everybody
Everybody get out on the floor
It can get a little crazy
And when the kick hits the floor”
LUCAS
“Make a scene
Make a scene nobody can ignore
Don't knock it till you rock it
We can't take it no more”
ALL (LEA)
“Bring the lights up
Bust the doors down
Dust yourself off
Shake it up shake it up
DJ, set it up
Take it up a notch
All together now
Shake it up shake it up
(Shake it off)
Shake it up, shake it up
Shake it up, shake it up
Shake it up, shake it up”
-
"Well... That could've gone better..." Jude looked down
"Excuse me?" A young girl's voice came from the door to the choir room
"Take that Mr Brightside!" Lea smirked
"Hi I'm Mr Fletcher, the glee club director, can I help you?"
"Hello" The girl smiled "I'm Aquamarine but everyone calls me Aqua, I saw your performance at lunch and wanted to join up."
"Wonderful" David smiled "Got an audition song"
"No I came to join a glee club but didn't plan on auditioning" Aqua rolled her eyes
"Well... I think you should take a few mo” David started
"I was being sarcastic"
AQUA
“Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
In between 'what I find is pleasing' and 'I'm feeling fine'
Love is so confusing
There's no peace of mind if I fear I'm losing you
It's just no good, you teasing like you do
Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass
Seemed like the real thing only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind”
“Great job Aqua! You’re in”
-
“Why did you really join glee club?” Lucas asked Alastair
“I told you, I was jealous and I like to sing”
“Liar.”
“Honestly?”
“Honestly!”
“I wanted to get closer to you…”
“You’re such a jerk!” Lucas yelled and started to walk off
“Lucas wait.” Alastair grabbed Lucas’s arm, wrapped his own arm around Lucas’s waist and kissed him. “I like you Lucas… a lot” He let go and Lucas ran off in tears.
-
“Aright ladies and gents that’s already two new members you guys have recruited” David grinned
“Technically one…” Lea sighed, “YOU recruited Al”
“His plan worked though!” Jude exclaimed
“Yeah, without him we’d have no clue what to do…” Marcus said
“There you go. All you guys have to do is perform more numbers amongst the students. Class dismissed”
-
“Alright then it’s settled” Jude smiled at Nick and Lucas as they sat in the library “You two ready?” the other two smiled and nodded at Jude “Okay then let’s do this”
JUDE, LUCAS & NICK
“Da-Da-Da-Da-Dum-Dum-Da-Da-Dum
Da-Da-Da-Da-Dum-Dum-Da-Da-Dum
Da-Da-Da-Da-Dum-Dum-Da-Da-Dum
Da-Da-Da-Da-Dum-Dum-Da-Da-Dum”
NICK
“Baby you're the best cause you worked me out
I keep building walls up but you tear them down
I'm fighting I don't wanna like it but you know I like it
But you know I like it like it like it
Used to always think I was bullet proof
But you got an AK and your blowing through
Explosive, you don't even know it I want you to know it
I want you to know it know it know it”
LUCAS (NICK)
“All of them other kids can walk away
They ain't even in the game (Cause they know that you own it)
You got this swag you got this attitude
Wanna hear you say my name
Cause you got me”
ALL
“Flying with your love, shining with your love, riding with your love
I feel like I'm on top of the world with your love
One hit with your love can't quit with your love so sick but so what?
I feel like I'm on top of the world with your love”
JUDE
You got it yea yea you got it
I could slow it down speed it up how you want it girl all night long
And I don't even care if you sing my songs wrong
1st date, 1st base, 2nd date, 2nd base
3rd date, your looking at me funny, you got a hard shell but the middle's so yummy
JUDE & NICK (LUCAS)
(Cause you got me)
Flying baby I'm shining baby I'm riding with your love (Hey, Hey)
One hit baby I can't quit baby I'm so sick but so what (Hey, Hey)
Flying baby I'm shining baby I'm riding with your love (I’m shining I’m shining yeah)
One hit baby I can't quit baby I'm so sick but so what? (I'm on top of the world...)
Flying with your love, shining with your love, riding with your love
I feel like I'm on top of the world with your love (I’m on top of the world)
One hit with your love can't quit with your love so sick but so what?
I feel like I'm on top of the world with your love
ALL
Da-Da-Da-Da-Dum-Dum-Da-Da-Dum
Da-Da-Da-Da-Dum-Dum-Da-Da-Dum
Da-Da-Da-Da-Dum-Dum-Da-Da-Dum
Da-Da-Da-Da-Dum-Dum-Da-Da-Dow
-
“Umm Mr Fletcher?” Bethany said knocking on his open office door
“Ah, Bethany! Come on in!” David grinned “How can I help you today?”
“Well… I just wanted to say to you personally that I’m leaving Fusion”
“That’s a shame. Why?”
“Just some of the other girls, they’re just so mean to me” She started to sob “And you no longer need a placeholder. You have plenty to perform at competitions”
“Oh Bethany, I’m so sad to see you go” He handed her a box of tissues “But if you feel that’s what you have to do then you may leave Fusion”
“Thanks Mr F.” Bethany smiled through her tears “I wish every teacher was as cool as you”
-
“Okay is everyone here?” Heather asked as the group congregated outside of the cafeteria
“Nearly” Adele looked round “Ah, here Angel comes now. But where’s Bethany?”
“She was told to be here” Jasmine sighed “But she didn’t turn up in time so we’ll just have to continue without her”
“Right, everyone remember the plan?” Marcus asked
“Split up, start the song, dance on tables and create mayhem” Eric listed
“Exactly!” Adam grinned, “Ready? Here we go” They all manoeuvred their way around the cafeteria in their small groups
FUSION
Do
Do, do, do
Do, do, do
HEATHER (LEA & SUGAR)
“Everybody’s got their thing,
Something different we all bring (We got it, we got it)”
AQUA (JASMINE & MARCUS)
“We’re on fire and we blaze,
In extraordinary ways,
365 days (We got it, we got it)”
DYLAN
“If you can see it,
You can be it,
You can achieve it”
ALL
“Cause I am, you are, we are exceptional, exceptional
Do, do do, do do
Ooh, ooh” They finished and chaos broke out as food went flying everywhere
-
“This seems all too familiar” Sugar sighed as she sat in the choir room pulling lettuce out of her hair”
“Just be thankful it wasn’t Sloppy Joe day” Lea shuddered
“Wait, you mean, this has happened to you before Sugar?” Adam questioned her
“No, my friends, the New Directions. They performed a number at lunch and got pelted with food” She paused “Oh my gosh! I’ve got it!”
“Got what?” Jasmine asked cautiously “If it’s contagious stay away from me!”
“No nothing like that, a solution to our recruitment problem, when the New Directions were disbanded many, like myself, transferred. I could ask some of my friends if they can join us!”
“That’s a perfect idea Sugar!” David exclaimed, “Now all of you go clean yourselves off. You’re starting to decompose…”
-
“So Lukey…” Marcus started
“Don’t” Lucas cut him off sharply
“What’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong? What’s right? Marcus you’re using me for sex!”
“Your point is what exactly?”
“Sex is NOT dating! I thought you wanted a relationship!”
“I do!”
“An emotional relationship.”
“Oh…”
“Yes.”
“I’m sorry Lucas, I can’t commit to that…”
“Don’t be sorry Marcus” Lucas looked at him and scowled “We’re done!”
“What?”
“You heard me Marcus! We’re through! Over! Finitio! I’m breaking up with you!”
-
“Hi, I’m Shayne Wilson and I’ll be singing ‘Zombie’ by The Cranberries”
SHAYNE
“Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
When the violence causes silence
Who are we mistaken?
It's the same old theme
Since 1916 in your head
In your head they’re still fighting
With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns
In your head, in your head they are dying
In your head, in your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie, eh, eh, eh, eh,
What's in your head, in your head?
Zombie, zombie, zombie, eh, eh, eh, eh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh ya, ya”
“That was wonderful Mr Wilson” David grinned “You’re in”
-
“Oh bro I’m so sorry” Johnny said as he patted Lucas on the back
“Whoa! What happened?” Alastair asked as he, Jude and Shayne ran over to the sobbing young boy and his best friend
“Messy break up” Lucas said through sobs
“Awh man, who was she?” Jude asked sympathetically
“Marcus…” Lucas trailed off awkwardly
“As in Marcus… Knight?” Alastair asked
“That’s the one”
“Wait… So you’re gay?” Jude asked
“Have you got a problem with that?” Johnny rose defensively
“No. I was just checking”
“Obviously it was neither the time nor place” Shayne tossed a compassionate smile at Lucas. He smiled back.
“Come on guys. We have glee club.” Lucas said rising to his feet
-
“Who’s the newbie?” Dylan asked as he arrived last to glee club
“This is my ex-boyfriend Rory Flanagan” Sugar smiled
“Hello. Sugar said that I could join you guys.” Rory smiled “Do I have to audition?”
“It would be best” David smiled
RORY
“I'm staring out into the night, trying to hide the pain
I'm going to the place where love
And feeling good don't ever cost a thing
And the pain you feel's a different kind of pain
Well, I'm going home, back to the place where I belong
And where your love has always been enough for me
I'm not running from, no, I think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me
But these places and these faces are getting old
Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might get it all
You just might get it all and then some you don't want
Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might get it all
You just might get it all, yeah
Oh, well I'm going home, back to the place where I belong
And where your love has always been enough for me
I'm not running from, no, I think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me
But these places and these faces are getting old
I said these places and these faces are getting old
So I'm going home, I'm going home” He finished and the club all cheered and clapped.
“I’ll take that as a yes?” Rory smiled
“Definitely” Lucas smiled
-
“Well class I think you should do one more number before this week ends” David told Fusion as he handed out lyric sheets
“Are you trying to get us killed?” Shayne stared at David in shock
“Come on kids you can do this”
“Watch Me?” Rory read the name of the song sceptically
“Yes. Watch Me, it’s an upbeat fun number from Shake It Up and you’ve already performed the theme song from it. Now I want you to perform it in front of the student body BEFORE 3pm Friday. Class dismissed”
-
“Well this could go better than last time” Aqua giggled
“At least there’s no food this time.” Heather sighed
“Oh come on Miss Negative” Shayne said trying to pep up the group “Come on guys we need to pull ourselves together” He smiled “Let’s do this!” they all smiled and laughed as they walked out into the courtyard positioning themselves around the area, then the music started.
RORY
"I don't need no one to tell me
How to feel the beat
And I don't need no beat to tell me
How to move my feet"
SUGAR
"Just go and do what you do
'Cause there's nothing to prove
I'm just being me
W-watch me, do me"
LUCAS
"I don't need no magazine to tell me
Who to be
And I don't need to pose
For p-p-paparazzi"
SHAYNE (LEA)
"Just keep the cameras flashing
To try to catch this action
I'm just being me
W-watch me, do me (me, me, me!)"
ALL
"Light up the floor!
Play me one more
Let me hear that
Click clack on the high high let the base vibrate
Feel the room rock
Light up the floor!
Just like before
Let me hear that
Base-drop from the boombox, make your heart stop!
Feel the room rock
I'm doing all I wanna do
And I won't stop until I can't move
I'm just being me
Watch me, do me, me, me
Watch me, do me, me, me
Watch me, watch"
AQUA (ALASTAIR)
"I'm ready
I'm, I'm ready to go, (Let's go!)
Let, let it
Let, let, let it explode, yeah!
I'm ready
I'm, I'm ready to go
(Go, go, go, go!)
To go, to go!"
ALL (ALASTAIR)
"Light up the floor!
Play me one more
Let me hear that
Click clack on the high high let the base vibrate
Feel the room rock
Light up the floor!
Just like before
Let me hear that
Base-drop from the boombox, make your heart stop!
Feel the room rock
I'm doing all I wanna do (All I wanna do)
And I won't stop until I can't move
I'm just being me
Watch me, do me, me, me
Watch me, do me, me, me!
Watch me, watch me!" They finished and majority of the crowd clapped and cheered “Finally” Heather thought ecstatically. Her happiness was soon squashed as a grape slushie froze her face.