It was a new week in the glee club and Santana had decided to pledge her loyalty to the club which caused Mr.Shue to let her back in. Booty Camp was also off to a great start, which made Nellie more happy. What also made her happy was that Matteo's dancing skills were starting to become better and better.

Currently the glee club were all in the auditorium as they were practicing their dancing. It was going good as soon as Mr.Shues attention was taken away from the group.

"You're late." Mr.Shue mentioned as he watched Mercedes walk in. Nellie watched as she looked slightly more exhausted and out of it as usual, causing her to furrow her brows.

"I know. I overslept." Mercedes replied.

"It's 4:30 in the afternoon." Quinn interjected. Nellie rolled her eyes at the comment and turned her attention back to Mercedes.

"My alarm clock went off 30 minutes late this morning. Kind of shifted my whole schedule. Anyway, what's Santana doing here?" Mercedes questioned.

"I've re-sworn my allegiance to the Glee Club, without telling Coach Sue." Santana  explained.

"Come on Cedes, I'll catch you up on the moves. Five six seven. Five six....." Nellie and Mercedes started to dance when Mercedes stumbled over to the trash can.

"Mercedes!" Jay exclaimed running over to her side.

"Mercedes you ok?" Mr.Shue questioned concerned for his student.

"My stomach hurts. I think I'm gonna be sick."

"Why are you babying her? I mean, she can't do three steps without puking cause she ate at Quiznos before she showed up at this joint." Santana commented.

"Why don't you shut up Santana?" Jay snapped growing defensive.

"How about you make me Jay?" Santana retorted causing Jay to step forward. Matteo held him back so a fight wouldn't break out.

"Mr.Shue, you have us scheduled to the second right now. With school, glee club, and booty camp, when else am I supposed to eat?" Mercedes mentioned.

"When the rest of us do." Santana snapped.

"Santana." Nellie warned starting to grow angry by what was going on. It wasn't fair Mercedes was being picked on like this and no one was bothering to help except for Nellie and Jay.

"It's not about eating. It's about attitude. Sectionals are coming up, and if we don't give it our all-"

"I'm doing my best." Mercedes said cutting Mr.Shue off.

"It's not about doing your best anymore. It's about doing better." Mr.Shue corrected causing Nellie to scoff.

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The next day Jay and Nellie were walking through the cafeteria looking for Mercedes.

"I can't believe Mr.Shue. He just took Santanas side like it was nothing."

"He's always been known to show favoritism. You get used to it." She replied. Both Nellie and Jay stopped in their tracks when they saw Mercedes and Rachel hugging. Nellie couldn't believe it. They were hugging before an audition? She's never seen anyone do that before.

"Cedes what was that?" Nellie questioned confused. She sat down at the table which Jay also did a few seconds later.

"What?" Mercedes questioned.

"You just hugged your arch-nemesis right before the audition. You think I hug Matteo right before I crush him in Mario cart? You think Superman hugs Lex Luther right before the epic fight?" Jay responded.

"It's not like that. Rachel and I are friends."

"Alright let me break it down in a language you can hopefully understand. There's a possibility Rachel can snatch your part away from you in a second. And you still wanna hug her? This is winner takes all. Maria's your part." Nellie stated slamming her hand down onto the desk.

"Don't go crazy on me now you too." Mercedes said.

"People are saying that Rachel berry's the one to beat. Why don't you show her that you're the real winner? You're amazing, Mercedes." Jay complimented. Nellie let out a grin at the cute interaction between the two.

"I know."

"Nah, you don't. You always make me watch dream girls. You say you're Beyoncé, but on the inside you feel like Effie White. You're no better than Rachel Berry, Cedes." Jay added on to his statement.

"I've been here for three years, and no one except Nel has ever said that to me." Mercedes mentioned causing Nellie to softly smile.

"It's cause you are. Now come on now, you have an audition to kill." Nellie pulled Mercedes up out of her chair and Jay wrapped his arms around Mercedes as the trio walked over to the auditorium.

Mercedes was gonna be singing Spotlight with Tina and Brittany as her backups.

[Spotlight-Mercedes Jones, Brittany Pierce, Tina Cohen Chang]

Once the song was over Nellie cheered loudly and gave her a standing ovation along with Jay.

"Wow! Yeah!" Artie cheered.

"Whoo! Beautiful. Whoo! Mercedes, I've never seen you like this before. Really. You're so....."

"Glamorous."

"Glamorous."

"Well, I just wanted you guys to see me as the way I see myself now;as a leading lady." Mercedes stated.

"Well, it was wonderful. Beautiful."

"So good! You killed it!"

Mercedes walked back over and hugged Jay and Nellie, creating one big group hug.

"We're so proud of you." Jay commented and Nellie nodded in agreement.

"Thank you guys."

Later that day Nellie soon found out Matteo the dumbass he was lost his voice because he was dared to chug hot sauce by Puck. After yelling at Puck for ten straight minutes Nellie sat outside on the bleachers next to Matteo who was drowning milk.

"I still don't understand why you agreed to that." She sighed as he just just finished drinking his milk.

"It was a dare. And......and Matteo Gomez doesn't back out of dares." Matteo's voice was barely audible due to the fact it was so scratchy and hoarse. He chugged another carton of milk causing Nellie to frown and look away.

"Hey, mi amor, what's wrong?" Matteo questioned pulling Nellie onto his lap. Nellie just sighed and looked into his eyes.

"I don't like seeing you hurt."

"I'm not hurt."

"You can barley talk."

"Nothing a few painkillers and milk can't fix."

"Matteo." Nellie said sternly causing him to look down. He knew he shouldn't have did what he did, since it was true. Nellie hated seeing Matteo hurt or in any kind of pain. The same thing went towards him.

"Look, I'll be fine. You know what you should be worried about? Getting that part in the school musical. I know you'll get in."

"I still think you should've auditioned with me." She mentioned sadly. Matteo just chuckled and kissed both of her cheeks.

"I'll be cheering you on and giving you a standing ovation everytime you open your mouth. Wanna know why?" Nellie smirked, already knowing the answer to the question.

"Cause you love me."

"Bingo! Come on, let's go to Breadstix. I'm hungry." Nellie was caught off guard by being carried bridal style to Matteo's car, causing her to giggle loudly and bury her head into his chest.

It's moments like these that Nellie was going to remember forever.

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The next day Nellie and Santana were helping Brittany campaign for class President. She was shocked to say the least when she found out Brittany was running in the first place, but still decided to support her friend out in any way she could.

"Nice blouse, Hummel. Really compliments the color of your pink eye." Santana commented as the trio walked over to Rachel and Kurt who were also campaigning.

"So, I assume I can rely on your vote Rachel?" Brittany asked.

"I'm sorry Brittany, but I've already pledged my fidelity to Kurt. Someone can't say the same."

Nellie was about to say something snarky when Brittany came in with another question.

"Oh, so you're cool with flushing McKinley Highs future down the magical poop stealing waters chair?"

"Did you know that in six years at this school, we've only exclusively had male student council presidents? And yeah, Kurt look like Jimmy Fallons butch daughter, but a vote for hun would only empower yet another Frank and beans." Santana informed.

"Yes. Where has that patriarchy gotten us? Double digit inflation, economic free fall, oil spills, war in Afghanistan." Brittany added.

"I think you meant the President of the country, Brit. Not the school. But anywho, Santana and I tweeted about Britts flash mob pep really in the gym, 248 and we're all showing up to support her with girl power." Nellie mentioned smirking proudly. She had been meaning to get her performing on all week but never really had time too cause she was too busy helping out Brittany with her campaign.

"Yes, boys have made one helluva mess in this school, and there's only one way to clean it up."

[Run The World-Brittany S.Pierce]

Nellie joined in the performance only towards the end along with Santana. She felt much better after performing, since it felt like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. From the stands she could see Rachel and Kurt glaring at her, but she didn't care. All she cared about was that she was gonna so crush the election with Brittany.

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A couple of days later Nellie was back in the auditorium stretching along with Jay and Matteo.

"Dude, Nel's right. You are a dumbass for doing that." Jay mentioned once Nellie explained why Matteo wasn't talking as much.

"Don't need to repeat it." He mumbled, his voice slowly coming back to life.

"Okay, so, before we dive into todays Booty camp, I just want to say how impressed, Mike, Nellie, and I have been with everyone's progress. Uh, Brittany why are you here?" Mr.Shue questioned noticing how Brittany was now in the room.

"'Cause I intend on, you know, dancing my way into the voters hearts." She replied.

"Okay. All right everyone up! Now, your homework assignment was "The Widow Maker" perhaps the hardest show choir dance move ever. Now, when you get it right, one of us is gonna tap you out, then you can have a seat. Uh, five, six, seven eight!"

The music begun and Mike and Nellie watched everyone do the move. Nellie walked over and tapped Quinn and Matteo out once she noticed they were doing the move correctly. 

"Come on Finn, you can do it!" Mr.Shue encouraged. Soon Finn did the move right and he was tapped out.

Nellie now stood in front of Mercedes as she was trying to encourage her to get the move down.

"My ankle hurts." Mercedes mentioned.

"Push through it." Mr.Shue replied.

"I don't feel good."

"You're fine."

"What the hell?" Nellie asked.

"No I'm not!" Mercedes exclaimed.

"Look, Mercedes, I want you to be the best you can be okay? Did you even practice this?"

"Hell yeah she did. We did it together Shuester." Jay sneered walking forward.

"Stay out of this Jay." Finn whispered to him.

"Stop picking on me! You're always singling me out, making me look bad!" Mercedes yelled.

"That's crazy."

"No, you're crazy. For not letting me shine! Where's Rachel, huh? I don't see her here, being apart of the team." Mercedes commented.

"Rachel practices every night." Finn argued.

"Shut up Finn." Jay snapped growing irritated by this entire situation.

"Everyone knows Rachel is your favorite." Nellie added walking forward.

"That's not true." Mr.Shue said.

"Kinda is." Matteo muttered moving to stand beside Jay and Mercedes.

"You give that skinny, Garanimal—wearing ass-kisser everything! And, you know, for two years, you know, I took it. But not anymore. I'm done! You know, I've outgrown you. I've outgrown all of you." Mercedes added and moves to leave the auditorium. Nellie watched with wide eyes, hoping she wasn't being serious about this.

"Mercedes! You walk out that door, you're out of glee club." Mr.Shue states.

"No!" Jay yelled out of fear and anger.

[Its All Over (imagined by)-Mercedes Jones, Mr.Shue, Santana Lopez, Jay Parker, Finn Hudson, Kurt Hummel, Nellie Puckerman, Matteo Gomez]

"It's gonna be ok Jay." Was all Mercedes said before leaving the choir room. Jay watched her leave, looking like he wanted to cry. Matteo placed a hand on his shoulder but he shoved her off, turning to leave the auditorium. This time no one bothered to stop him, since they knew how much that decision hurt him.

Instead they carried on as if nothing ever happened, pretending as if they didn't loose a valuable member of the glee club.

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