Hold On to Sixteen - Glee Rewrite / Midnight's Cut

Narrator: So here's what you missed on glee, Mike wants to grow up and become a dancer but his parent’s what him to become a Doctor instead. Shelby’s back at Mckinley with Beth, and Quinn just decided that she wanted her back even though she gave Beth up for adoption. Rachel and Kurt are applying to NYADA and went to a NYADA Mixer to try and scare their competition, but instead they’re the ones who got scared, because this new girl Harmony totally showed them off, Also there’s this guy named Sebastian who may seem nice on the front, but he’s totally out to get Kurt, so he can date Blaine. And that’s what you missed on… Glee! 
School Bell Rings - OG 25pg, Rewrite 1 - 17pg, Rewrite 2 - 21pg
Quinn walks around the school and notices Rachel in the hall, She walks up to her
Quinn: I thought you weren't allowed here
Rachel: I'm permitted on School grounds as long as I'm getting my work. Oh, I wanted to tell you I'm available for Vocal Coaching if you need any help. We need to bring our "A" Game, If we have any chance of beating the Trouble Tones.
Quinn: Oh we're not gonna have any trouble with them, Not as long as I have Shelby Corcoran fired. (whispers): "She's sleeping with Puck."
[Rachel looks shocked]
Rachel: Look, that's a really, really dangerous rumor to make up, okay? You're gonna ruin her entire reputation.
Quinn: That's the plan. And it's not a lie. I heard it from Puck.
Rachel: First of all, Puck is 18, so what he and Shelby are doing, even though it's just wrong and so gross, it's not illegal. So all you're doing is just, you're getting her fired, which is gonna take away her income, to provide food and clothes and put a roof over her child's tiny little blonde head.
Quinn: Sounds like an unfit mother, And I'll be waiting in the wings, When they take Beth away from her.
Rachel: Beth loves her Mom. Shelby is her real mom. Look, you've done a lot of really bad things, Quinn, But if you tell people about this Puck-and-Shelby thing, you'll be ruining this little girl's life, and then you'll really have hit rock bottom.
[Rachel walks away from the conversation and Quinn rethinks her whole life. Cut to the glee title screen, The bell rings as they cut to the choir room]
Finn: Sectionals is in our auditorium for the first time since 1963
Will: Too much talking, not enough looking for songs for Sectionals. We need to do something, upbeat.
Finn: Mr. Shue, maybe we need to concentrate on our performer problem before we set a setlist. I mean at least the Cheerios! can dance. We need Star Power. I know someone
Will: Is this someone willing to compete with us?
Finn: I know where to find her, it’s only around a 40 minute drive from the school, we’ll just try and convince her somehow.
[Finn walks away from the conversation and Will rethinks his whole life]
[Cut to the Lima Bean Café]
Kurt: Rachel and I might as well get used to a life of barista work and summer stock. There's no way we're getting into NYADA now. If we don't win at sectionals, I pretty much have nothing to live for.
Blaine: New Directions is a mess, and we're gonna lose, Kurt, and I can't do a thing about it. Every time I open my mouth, Finn gives me these looks like, "What does he think he's doing?" I know what I'm doing.
[Sebastian walks in their conversation holding a coffee]
Sebastian: Hey, guys! It's so crazy. I'm sitting over there checking out this guy and all of a sudden I'm like, "Wait a second I know that hair!" What's up buddy I haven't seen you online. Hi, Kurt.
Blaine: We've been really busy with glee club.
Kurt: Practicing for Sectionals... together.
[Blaine gets reminded]
Blaine: mmh! Congrats on the Warbler win at your Sectionals. We're up this week.
Sebastian: Yeah. Well, hey, if there's one guy that can whip New Directions into a legitimate threat, It's Blaine Anderson, right?
Blaine: Right, I need another coffee.
[Blaine leaves to get a coffee and Sebastian checks out Blaine's butt while he leaves.]
Kurt: I don't like you
Sebastian: Fun, I don't like you either.
Kurt: I don't like the way you talk to my boyfriend, I don't like your smirky little meerkat face, I don't like your obnoxious CW hair. I'm onto you.
Sebastian: Let's get a few things straight, Blaine's too good for you, New Directions is a joke! And one of us has a hard luck case of they gay-face and it ain't me. Odds are by the end of the school year, I'll have Blaine, and a Nationals trophy, and you'll have khakis and a Lima Bean apron and that gay face.
[Kurt laughs]
Kurt: You smell like Craigslist.
[Blaine walks back with more coffee]
Blaine: What are you guys talking about?
Sebastian: Duh, the next time we're all going drinking killer!
Blaine: Uh-oh
[Kurt shrugs]
Sebastian: Well, I gotta run. But you take care of that Warbler, Kurt (clicks tongue and winks)
[Sebastian gets up to leave]
[Cut to the New Directions walking into the NYADA Mixer]
Finn: Are you sure this isn’t closed? It’s pretty dim in here
Rachel: Well, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to help the environment, turning off lights is a fantastic way to save energy.
Puck: But there’s also nobody here...
Quinn: Maybe they went on a lunch break?
[“Buenos Aires” starts to play as the curtains open up on the stage, Harmony and her fellow NYADA Applicant’s start to sing, while the New Directions are left stunned on how amazing Harmony is.]
Rory: Woah.
[The Song Ends]
Harmony: Wooh! Thanks for helping me practice guys
[Harmony eyes on the New Directions and walks up to them]
Harmony: Hello, New Directions. I hope you enjoyed our performance. 
Rachel: Hi, Harmony. I’d like to congratulate you on your Sectionals Victory and That was a really great performance and we just wanted to ask you for, well we have a proposition for you.
Harmony: Lets go talk in the back
[Cut to the NYADA Mixer’s Backroom, Harmony sits in a singular chair and all the other New Directions are forced to stand up]
Finn: We’re in deep water Harmony, and we need you to perform at our Sectionals, The team we're up against, The Troubletones are super amazing, and to be honest, I think the chances of us winning are very slim, We need star quality, and it’s you. So, what do you say? Will you help us win?
[Rachel looks jealous, but keeps smiling.] 
Harmony: Well I wouldn’t miss out on a chance to perform for competition,  but why would I help out the enemy?
Quinn: Well think about it, Wouldn’t you love a challenge to beat us at Nationals?
Harmony: I always love a challenge…
[Harmony thinks to herself for a moment]
Harmony: Fine, tommorow. I’ll talk to my parents. 
[Cut to outside of Harmony’s house, Kurt, Finn, and Blaine walk behind Harmony. Harmony notices a specific car in the driveway]
Harmony: Great, my brother’s home.
[Cut to inside the house. Harmony is sitting down with her parents, Kurt, Finn and Blaine are standing behind Harmony, nervous.]
Katherine: Honey, You just started Thanksgiving Vacation for the week and you’re telling me you want to go back to school?
Jonathan: Your Mom has a point….
Harmony: I’m pretty sure this counts as community service. Helping these guys win all the way to the Nationals, Would probably look great on my NYADA Application.
Kurt: Mister and Ms…
[Kurt pauses, Not knowing their last names]
Jonathan: Smythe…
Kurt: Smythe. Smythe?
[A familiar character walks into the room]
Sebastian: Hi Harmony it’s been awhile. Blaine, [slightly annoyed] Kurt… and You must be Finn. Nice to meet you.
Harmony: What are you doing? Shouldn’t you be at your fancy private school. 
Sebastian: Why? I can’t visit my family every once in a while?
Harmony: Well when Mom and Dad paid for your tuition I was hoping that it would be the last time I saw you.
Kurt: I’m sorry, are you guys? Siblings?
Sebastian: [annoyed] Yeah. [Back to normal tone]  So what are you three doing here?
Blaine: We are trying to get Harmony’s- Well your parents to agree to our little arrangement.
Sebastian: Ahh, which is?
Finn: Harmony will be performing with us at Sectionals. 
Sebastian: Really? Why?
Harmony: It’ll be a fun experience, and it’ll be fantastic on College application. Winning two Sectionals? 
Jonathan: Honey, if it means that much to you.. Going to college,  You can go… 
[Finn, Kurt, and Blaine all cheer. As Harmony simply smiles, Sebastian looks confused and annoyed.]
Katherine: But uhm, How are you gonna get our daughter into your club, most importantly your school?
Finn: We’ve got that handled. 
[Cut to Principal Figgins Office]
Sue: She can not perform in the New Directions as long as she is not a part of this school.
Will: We just planned this, how did you even know?
Sue: Oh Will, I have moles everywhere
Figgins: William! My hands are tied. It’s just common sense!
Sue: And, it’s in the Show Choir rulebook. Section 12, Article 13~ Student’s that don’t attend the school the club is hosted at, are prevented from competing at competition. 
[Finn, Rachel, and Harmony walk into the office]
Finn: Wait!
Rachel: Harmony’s School Fairview Highschool, is on Thanksgiving vacation. Her parents consented to the whole ordeal, and she would just love to transfer to this school for sometime. 
Harmony: It's true. 
Sue: That can’t be allowed!?
[Harmony smiles]
[Harmony hands Figgins some transcript documents as he glosses over it and stares at the three]
Sue: Do something!
Figgins: Harmony… 
[Finn, Rachel and Harmony look nervous]
Figgins: Welcome to McKinley Highschool. 
[The bell rings as we Cut to the choir room]
Artie: Are we sure yet which band members are joining us? Because there’s no way Harmony can join now.
Puck: Well it looks like "Floppy hair bass dude", "Chapped Lips McGee", and "Johnny Tromboner"
Tina: God we're screwed
Quinn: No we're not, I know for a fact we're winning
[Puck looks concerned as Will walks in]
Will: Hey great news everybody, Sectionals is going to be a challenge, but we have a s-
[Kurt cuts Will off]
Kurt: Mr. Shue, we all appreciate your endless supply of affirmations but all the sparkling cider in the world can't deny the fact that the Titanic has hit the iceberg, and now we're all on a sinking ship.
[Harmony walks into the choir room with Rachel and Finn]
Finn: Actually, The Gerber Baby might help us.
[Tina, Puck, Artie, and Rory sigh in relief as they go up to hug Harmony. Harmony is slightly uncomfortable]
Harmony: Woah, Okay!
Will: Alright guys first off is our setlist, We need to do something cool
Harmony: Oh we don’t have to worry about that right now. Come on, We’re gonna win this thing! Hit it.
[The New Directions start to perform “Wake Me Up before you go-go” A giant group number with Harmony front and center, the rest of the New Directions singing along with her. Rachel is slightly jealous throughout the whole song. The song ends, Bell rings. Cut to the hall, where Harmony is walking down and Kurt stops her]
Kurt: Wait, Harmony
[Harmony turns around and slows down]
Kurt: I just wanted to ask you a question
[Harmony smiles, gesturing Kurt to go on.]
Kurt: I know you’re a sophomore, so why are you looking into NYADA so early?
Harmony: Well, I'm graduating early, Singing may be the best thing I'm good at. But I’m also advanced in Math, Science, and Spanish. [Says in Spanish] “Hope to see you in college!’
[Harmony walks away from the conversation]
Kurt: Yeah, I hope I see me too.
[The school bell rings, cut to Tina and Mike in the hallway]
Tina: Both Alvin Ailey and NYU are gonna want to see you dance. I thought why not send in a video of one of your routines with the applications? Deadlines are this week.
Mike: Tina, I already applied to Stanford... Pre-med.
[Mike opens his locker and Tina shortly closes it]
Tina: But you don't want to be a doctor, you want to be a dancer.
Mike: Not if it means ripping my family apart. My dad hasn't said one word to me or my Mom since West Side Story. I'll dance in my free time, Everyone's happy.
Tina: Except for you. Mike, your dad needs to understand that dancing is your passion, not some extracurricular.
Mike: I miss him, Tina.
Tina: I know, But you have one life, Mike. Once chance to get it right. Don't be a coward.
Mike: …Don't call me that
Tina: You won't make it as a dancer if you're not 100% committed. …So maybe your Dad's right. Maybe you should be a Doctor.
Mike: Or maybe he's right, and we shouldn't be together.
[Mike walks away from the conversation and Tina is left shocked. The school bell rings, cut to rehearsal in the choir room.]
Will: …Six, Seven, Eight. Bum-bum-bum, step and hit. Come on to the beat!
Puck: Okay, I know that we have this German Baby or whatever, but the girls are still going to beat us
Rory: Sir, girls smell better than ham and when they're dancing and bouncing around, you can't help but watch them.
Will: Well, that's it then. We'll take what's most appealing about us as a group, and we'll use it to our advantage.
Blaine: Yeah, how about you know, something like um, (Blaine spins around), something like that?
Kurt: Cute!
Will: I like the spin, I like the spin. Try it guys
[All the New Direction Boys try the spin]
Will: Yeah!
Harmony: God, okay stop, stop. Look Anderson, that’s awful, and lazy, and it’s not going to help us win at all. 
Blaine: Sure, it might look bad to someone who’s never been in the background before.
Harmony: What’s that supposed to mean?
Blaine: It means you’re a self centered witch, who hasn’t done any back-up dancing or vocals in there life.
Harmony: You’re one to talk, I know who you are. Captain of The Warblers, You were the only one who got a solo in that club.
Blaine: Oh really, and how many solos do your other fellow glee clubbers get?
Harmony: Like.. 3, 
Blaine: Yeah 3?
Harmony: Per, year?
Blaine: Oh yeah real good.
[Harmony pushes Blaine and they start to fight but Will shortly breaks them up]
Will: Woah-oah-oah, Hey
Blaine: Forget it.
[Blaine storms out as the bell rings, cut to the boy's locker room as Finn walks in on Blaine, boxing a punching bag.]
Finn: Is that Harmony's face?
Blaine: Yep, Yours too. (Blaine hits the punching bag a few times) Don't act so surprised. After getting bullied so much, I took up boxing. I also started the Dalton branch of Fight Club, Which I, Obviously, Can't, Talk About. What is your problem with me anyway? Ever since I got here, you've given me nothing but crap.
Finn: Honestly dude, I was kind of jealous.
[Blaine laughs]
Finn: I felt threatened. Your talent kind of freaked me out, made me question whether or not I was good enough. Look Blaine I'm sorry. Uh, I've been acting like a jackass to you. With Rachel gone, you're the most talented, well-rounded member of this team. And now more than ever, we need to be on the same page. United.
Blaine: ...Tell me what you need me to do.
Finn: We have an opportunity, an opportunity to be remembered at this school for the rest of our lives for doing the impossible. But it all starts right here with you and me. I just want to be able to look across that stage at you and know that we did everything we could. No regrets.
Blaine: ...Let's get back to work
[Blaine and Finn fistbump]
Finn: All right!
[Cut to the auditorium, Harmony, Rory, Rachel, and Kurt are there waiting for the others to come on by]
Harmony: ...And that's how I got the lead role of Elpheaba in my school play when I was 13
Rory: Woah, when I was 13 I… flunked the 7th grade
[Harmony and Rory laugh as we panel to Kurt and Rachel]
Rachel: There she is, gloating to Rory. Ugh, I can’t believe she might be going to NYADA with us next year. She’s gonna take all my solos, and the roles in the musical.
Kurt: We have to get in, We need to eliminate the competition. 
Rachel: You can’t kill Harmony?!
Kurt: No! We need her to stay in highschool for the next 2 years, We have to show her what she’ll be missing. 
Rachel: Good idea, I’ll start mapping out the plan in 4th period. You know what, follow my lead.
[Rory leaves the stage as Rachel and Kurt walk up to Harmony]
Rachel: You guys have great chemistry, you should ask him out.
Harmony: Rory? He’s nice, but I don’t think so.
Kurt: You should transfer here to Mckinely, and later you could ask him out.
Rachel: And you guys can go to Junior Prom together
Kurt: Oh wait. 
Harmony: I see what you’re doing, you’re trying to psyche me out. I’m going to college thanks, and bye!
[Harmony waves them off, as Rachel and Kurt walk away]
Rachel: Well that didn’t go well
Kurt: Maybe we should apply to DeVry University instead.
[Rachel and Kurt keep walking as Harmony thinks about what she’ll be missing and has a sad look on her face]
[Cut to Mike's dad's office. Tina walks in and puts a bootleg of West Side Story on his desk.]
Mike's Dad: What's this?
Tina: A bootleg of West Side Story. Starring your son. You missed the performance, but I thought you should see how truly incredible Mike was in it.
Mike's Dad: Go, take that with you.
Tina: Are you sure? Cause' if you saw it, then maybe you'd realize Mike's throwing everything he loves away just to please you. And if you don't make it right, he's going to spend the rest of his life doing something he hates, dying inside.
Mike's Dad: Tina... Sit, please. You want to be a performer too?
[Tina nods her head.]
Mike's Dad: And your parents support this?
Tina: They love me.
Mike's Dad: they love you, but they're not honest with you. And you children, you think you know everything, but this path you've chosen, Tina, the one you want Mike to choose too, there'll be such heartache. So few opportunities for you.
Tina: I know, I've heard the jokes. I better hope they do a musical of The Joy Luck Club or Memoirs of Geisha. I don't care. Performing is what I need to do, same as your son. And it maybe hard, But it's what we're born to do.
[Mike's dad slides the bootleg to Tina and Tina walks away with the bootleg in hand]
Tina: You know, you're always talking about honor, Mr. Chang, help your son honor his gift.
Tina leaves the room and Mike's dad seems to rethink the whole idea. Cut to the school where The New Directions are warming up]
New Directions: la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Blaine walks up to Finn and the band kids
Blaine: Okay guys, you're going to want to sing from your diaphragm as much as you can.
Finn: And if you forget the words, just keep your lips moving Hopefully nobody will notice.
Will: Let's take a few moments to gather out thoughts, Trouble Tones are on in five.
Tina walks up to Mike and holds his hand
Tina: Good luck out there
Mike quickly pulls his hand away
Tina: What?
Mike: Why would you try and talk to my Dad? You're making things worse. He almost didn't let me come today. I'm really disappointed in you Tina.
Tina: Well that makes two of us, cause I'm really disappointed in you.
Will: Does anyone know where Harmony is.
[Rachel walks into the choir room]
Rachel: Harmony’s gone.
Finn: What? Why
Blaine: This must be my fault, I shouldn’t have gone too hard on her.
Kurt: That and maybe, me and Rachel sort of told her not to?
[Will and all the other New Directions are visibly pissed]
Will: What, Do You, Mean?
Rachel: We wanted a better shot of getting into NYADA, So we tried to tell her to stay in high school for longer.
Kurt: And.. Because she was only doing this for college credit, I’m assuming she’s at her house.
Puck: Are you kidding me?
Will: Go Fix It! You’re lucky we’re going last.
[Kurt and Rachel nod as they leave the choir room. Shelby and The Trouble Tones come in the choir room]
Shelby: Hello Will
Will: Looking good, ladies!
Shelby: We just came to say, May the best glee club win.
Santana: Yes and just in case that glee club is us, I have convinced Ms. Corcoran to consider a contingency plan.
Shelby: Yes, in the event of a New Direction loss, Trouble Tones have voted any of you to join us at Regionals.
Sugar: You're Welcome.
Will: Excuse me?
Finn: That's incredibly rude Santana.
Santana: We're being nice. It would be rude if I followed you around and every time you took a step, I played a note on a tuba.
Quinn: We've got it in the bag, Puck here is gonna come through for us. He's such a shining star in every conceivable way, Don't you think?
Shelby looks worried at Quinn and ignores her
Shelby: Good luck everybody! See you on the ice.
[Cut to Harmony’s house, the lights are still on, and Rachel and Kurt ring the doorbell, as Johnaton answers]
Jonathan: Hi?
Kurt: Is uh, Harmony home?
Jonathan: Yeah one second. 
[Jonathan calls for her daughter]
Jonathan: Sweetie?
[Harmony reluctantly comes down stairs to the door]
Harmony: ...hi
Rachel: Harmony, we’re so sorry. You don’t need a Junior or Senior prom. You don’t even need a boyfriend right now. You are an amazing, talented person. Who should totally date Midnight instead, and getting into NYADA you can do so many wonderful things in your life, especially if you go next school year. 
[Harmony smiles]
Harmony: Coming from you that means a lot. I’ve seen the way you look when Finn complimented me, and again when we were singing Go-Go. 
[Harmony wipes off her tears as her and Rachel hug and laugh. Kurt simply smiles. Cut to the auditorium, Sectionals]
Announcer: And now the judges for this year's Show Choir Sectionals here at McKinley High. Department of motor vehicles, Employee of the Month, Brandy Englebert!
[Brandy Englebert stands up and waves and everyone cheers.]
Announcer: From the 11th District Court of Appeals, the Honorable Judge Dorothy Saunders!
]She stands up and waves as everyone cheers.]
Announcer: And Western Ohio's Birthday Clown of the year three years running! Tickles!
[Tickles stands up and waves everyone cheers louder than before excited, he waves as he honks his horn.]
Announcer: And now lets welcome our first performers. All the way from Dayton, Ohio. The Rosedale Mennonites!
[The Rosedale Mennonites start performing a mash-up of The Reeses Puff Rap and I Like To Be Fucked Like A Slut. The crowd is very displeased.] 
Emma: Wow, This is-
Will: Horrible
Emma: Horrible, yes that's um, exactly what I was going to say.
[After the song ends, Quinn gets up to leave and Rachel follows her.]
[Cut to Quinn and Rachel in the hallway]
Rachel: Where are you going?
Quinn: Aren't you supposed to be in the auditorium?
Rachel: I saw you leave the auditorium. I know what you're gonna go do, you're gonna go tell Figgins about Shelby and Puck.
Quinn: I'm an adult. I can do whatever I want.
Rachel: If you want to be a destructive force in the universe that's your business, okay, but you can just please at least wait until after the Trouble Tones perform?
Quinn: Why?
Rachel: Because we don't want to wreck all the hard work that our friends in that group put into that performance.
Quinn: So we win
Rachel: No, not like that. Look, just if you're going to go through with this, you owe it to Shelby to tell her first. It's the adult thing to do.
[Rachel walks away and sighs as she stops]
Rachel: I got a taste of what it's like to do the wrong thing. Okay? And it feels awful.
[Rachel walks back into the auditorium]
[Cut to Shelby in the choir room on the phone with a supposed Babysitter]
Shelby: Does she a temperature? Okay. Forget it, I'll be home in an hour.
[Shelby hangs up the phone and Quinn walks in the room.]
Shelby: Looks like I'm going to be missing my own victory party.
Quinn: Puck told me about you two, I'm going to tell Figgins and get you fired.
Shelby: I'm ending it, Not that there's that much "it" to end.
Quinn: You shouldn't have come here with her. I would have been fine. What you did was wrong. What you're doing with Puck is wrong.
Shelby: You're so young, pretty.
Quinn: Don't talk down to me.
Shelby: It goes away you know. Not the pretty you'll always be pretty. But the young, it happens really slow, and you don't even notice it, and then one day, Everything just feels different.
Quinn: I can't wait to feel different.
Shelby: Don't wish your life. You're exactly where you're supposed to be. I think I thought that being with an 18-year-old would make me feel 18 again, but mostly, it just made feel even older.
[Shelby sighs]
Shelby: All right, I'm gonna enjoy my last few hours of being a teacher. I recommend that you enjoy being up on that stage.
Announcer: Ladies and Gentlemen from McKinley High, competing for the first time ever, The Trouble Tones!
Shelby: I am sorry Quinn
[The Trouble Tones start to perform a "mash-up" of "I Will Survive" and "Survivor"]
Finn: We got this
Blaine: Yeah we do
[Finn and Blaine are then left shocked seconds later when they turn it into a mashup, The number ends as the crow goes wild.]
Announcer: Also from McKinley high, lets give it up for The New Directions.
[The New Directions perform ABC, with Harmony in lead and in the middle of the number Mike's dad walks in the performance, the number ends and then they perform Control, and then they perform Man In The Mirror. Sebastian is seen in the audience, leaving Kurt uncomfortable. They finish their performance and they all go around hugging each other as the crowd cheers. Cut to the choir room where the New Directions are very happy and confident]
Blaine: Gave it our all
Finn: Yeah, we did.
[Finn laughs as him and Blaine hug, and Harmony and Kurt hug in the background.]
Mike: I just- I can't believe he actually came. He stood and.
[Mike's dad walks into the choir room]
Mike's Dad: Michael may I speak with you? Both of you?
[Cut to outside the school]
Mike's Dad: Dancing is your talent, your dream. that's what you tried to tell me, that's what you tried to tell me (referring to Tina), and that's what I saw tonight, this is your path son, so you must follow it, and make us proud. And your mother and I, we will help you follow it however we can. Apply to dance schools- the best ones.
Mike: Dad...
[Mike and his dad hug]
Mike: Dad, I-I missed the deadlines, I think.
Tina: No, you didn't I sent in your applications just in case. I kinda had to forge your signature, though.
Mike: I love you so much
[Mike and Tina, cut to the auditorium where they're about to announce the winners.]
Tickles: As an award winning clown, I'd like to say that it's nice, for once, to be working with kids that are just sick with talent.
[Tickles opens the third place card as he announces]
Tickles: Third place, The Rosedale Mennonites, also you guys are banned from competition ever again. That was very innapropriate. 
[The performers bow as they take their trophy and leave the stage. Only one person claps for them, very slowly.]
Tickles: In second place.. We have the Trouble Tones! In first place is the New Directions!
[Everyone cheers excited that they won, they grab their trophy, and Blaine and Harmony hug as The Trouble Tones are left to stand there depressed they lost, the lights go out the room is empty they still stand there sad. Cut to Rachel leaving the Principal's office]
Rachel: Well, my suspension is officially over. It'll still be on my transcript, though (And this transcript too!) I'm just hoping that the admissions department as NYADA sees it as a sign of my artistic, rebellious attitude.
[Quinn smiles]
Quinn: Good luck with that.
Rachel: Are you going to go tell Figgins about Shelby? Cause I just- I still think that it's a really terrible idea.
Quinn: I came here to talk to you, actually. To tell you I'm not going to tell.
Rachel: Why?
Quinn: Because I love Beth, and I don't want to ruin her life. I wanted to thank you actually.
Rachel: For what?
Quinn: From keeping me from doing something stupid. Something I would have regretted my entire life.
Rachel: We're kind of friends, huh?
Quinn: Kind of.
[Quinn sits down and so does Rachel.]
Quinn: What do you think about Yale?
Rachel: Oh, No, I have my sights set on NYADA.
Quinn: No, for me. I'm not the singer that you and Kurt are, but Yale has an amazing drama program. And I really do like to perform.
Rachel: Yeah.
Quinn: Certainly would nail all the parts where the girl has to cry.
[Rachel laughs]
Rachel: No, I think it's a great idea. I mean especially since you won't have me to compete with.
[Quinn chuckles]
Rachel: You're a lot better than you know.
Quinn: Well I'll see you in glee club
[Quinn gets up to leave]
Rachel: Where are you going?
Quinn: I have a couple people I need to talk to.
Rachel: Okay, well, I don't know if you need help with your Yale application
Quinn: Not with the Yale application, but, um there is something you could do for me.
[Rachel smiles as we cut to the girl's bathroom]
Mercedes: We were better.
Brittany: I don't know, I think it could have gone either way.
Santana: It was that damn Gutter baby. I can’t even compete with those vocals.
[Quinn walks into the bathroom.]
Quinn: All right ladies, girl talk.
[Santana shakes her head]
Santana: No. uh-uh. Don't you dare try and give us a pep talk.
Mercedes: Or ask us to come back to New Directions- Not Interested.
Brittany: Wait is it even possible? Do you think they would really take us back?
Mercedes: Of course they would take us back. But I'm telling you I'm not going.
Quinn: Do you know what growing up is about? Losing things, In six months, we'll all be gone, scattered.
Mercedes: We'll keep in touch.
Quinn: Yeah, but it wont be the same when we see each other, it'll be a special occasion. We'll be different. I don't wanna grow up yet. I'm not ready to lose you girls.
Mercedes: But what are we supposed to do? Come back to glee club and sing back up for Berry and Blaine until we graduate? I'm not doing that again. We know what it feels like to be out front now.
Quinn: What if Mr. Shue let the Trouble Tones perform and sing at least one number per competition.
Santana: Well even if Mr. Shue did agree to that, Rachel never would.
Quinn: What if I told you they both already did?
Mercedes: I'm listening
Quinn: look I know I went a little crazy
Santana and the girls scoff
Quinn: But I'm here now, I'm 17th and I have the rest of my life In front of me. I love glee club, I love you girls and we're 27 or 87, I want us to be able to look back on these next couple of months and talk about how it was the best time of our lives. We can't do that if we're all not together
Santana and Brittany hold hands
Quinn: We're doing a big number in the auditorium to celebrate our victory and prepare regionals, we could use a couple more girl voices, Let me know if you hear about anybody who might want to join.
[We are young starts to play, as The New Directions sing along with Harmony, and The Trouble Tones slowly join in,  Harmony leaves in the middle of the performance as she smiles at them, knowing she did a good job.The song ends as they all cheer. The episode ends]
[Credits roll]