It was Nellies birthday yesterday. And no one remembered. No one cared. No one stopped and thought about the fact Nellie turned the big fifteen. Except Matteo. Nellie remembered telling Matteo about her birthday a few weeks ago and he got her a birthday gift which consisted of a card and a gift card to one of her favorite stores. Now Nellie was walking down the hall with Kurt and Tina.

"Let me guess, we have a lot of sweater trains to look forward to this season?" Nellie ignored the fact her friends forgot her birthday. Because at the end of the day, glee club was more important then your birthday, right? Right? Karofsky walked over and shoved Kurt into a locker causing Nellie to drop her bag and storm over to him.

"Nel, stop. He's not worth it." Nellie cracked her knuckles. "You just say the word and I'll promise you he'll be in the hospital." She snarled picking up her bag.

"Are you ok?" Tina asks concerned about her friend. "Yeah. Fine." Kurt responded. The trio walked to glee club together and Nellie looked more pissed then ever. Matteo noticed and pulled her down to sit next to him.

"Whats your deal?"

"Assholes. That's my deal." She responded angrily. Puck tapped her shoulder. "Happy late birthday, sis. Sorry I couldn't be there." He gave her a fist bump and sent her a smile. Nellie smirked. That's two people who didn't forget.

"All right, guys. Lets get down to business. First, lets welcome back Noah Puckerman. Puck, I hope your time in juvie has taught you a lesson or two about right and wrong." Mr.Shue said. "Are you kidding me? I ruled that place. All I did was crack skulls and lift weights all day."

"Wow, what a catch. Cant believe I ever let uou go." Quinn remarked sarcastically. "And now, drum roll, Finn. Because I have in my hand our competition for sectionals next month." Everyone cheered at that.

"First, the a cappella choir from the all-boys private school in Westerville, the Dalton Academy Warblers."

"Okay, hold up. Like a million awesome gay jokes just popped into my head." Santana commented. Matteo shook his head at the remark. "The other teams will be The Hipsters, the first year club from the Warren Township continuing education program. Now they are a glee club composed entirely of elderly people getting their high schools GEDs." Mr.Shue explained.

"Wait what?" Matteo questioned.

"Is that legal?"

"How are we supposed to compete against a bunch of adorable old people?" Mercedes asked. Nellie nodded in agreement. She had only seen teenagers competing, not elderly people. How was this allowed? The thought baffled Nellie.

"Are you kidding? Brittle bones. Give one of those old ladies a good-luck pat on the rear, it'll shatter her pelvis." Puck commented. "Plus, we hit one note and it shatters their ear drums." Matteo laughed. "Moving on. Since it seemed to get you guys jazzed about sectionals last year, I want to make this week our second annual Boys Versus Girls tournament." Nellie cracked a grin and everyone cheered.

"Whats that?" Matteo questioned leaning in. "It's when the girls and boys sing songs and compete against each other. The last time we did it though, we kinda got in trouble for taking steroids." Matteo gave a confused look before Nellie turned away from him.

"So, split up into two groups, and figure out what songs you're going to sing." Mr.Shue turned around and Matteo moved to the boys side of the room as Kurt moved over to the girls.

"Kurt, gonna say it again. Boys team." Nellie and the girls started talking about what songs they were going to sing.

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Nellie sat down on the floor in school with sad look. People walked past her like a girl sitting on the floor was completely normal. Sam was the first one to notice.

"Ellie? Are you ok?" He asked sitting down next to her.

"No." She responded. "Well, what's wrong? Maybe I can help!" He beamed. Nellie sighed. "It was my birthday, and only two people remembered. I feel like a ghost, Sammy." She muttered. Sam gave her a sad look.

"Oh, I can't really relate since no one forgot my birthday, but I'm really sorry that happened to you Nel." He said pulling her in for a side hug. "By the way, happy late birthday. You turned fifteen right?" Nellie nodded and wiped her tears as she leaned into  him. They sat there talking, until the next bell rang. Sam helped her up. "You're a good person, El. Anyone would be dumb if they didn't see that." Nellie nodded.

"Thanks Sammy, you're not to bad yourself."

Nellie stood up to walk off.

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The next day Nellie sat in the choir room, early. "Hey, Nellie. Shouldn't you be taking your meds right now?" Mr.Shue asked. Nellie shook her head.

"No reason too. Not like anyone's gonna notice. Since they were too dazed out to forget my birthday." She mumbled. Once everyone was gathered in the choir room Mr.Shue began with his speech.

"I'm not tossing the baby out with the bath water here." Mr.Shue started. "I've totally done that." Brittany commented.

"We're just make an adjustment. Boys, you are now doing songs traditionally sung by girl groups. And girls, try some classic rock, uh, The Who, the stones. The more opposite your choice, the more points you get." Nellie leaned in to talk to the girls.

"I got this one girls. You can count on me," Nellie smirked. She got up to walk out of the choir room only to be shoved by the bitch herself Amira.

"What the hell?!" She questioned regaining herself. "Oops, sorry! My feet are just loosing their balance from being at the top of the pyramid!" She gave a annoying giggle and that's when Nellie lost it. She dropped her books and stormed over to Amira. Matteo grabbed her waist pulling her back.

"Let me at her! Come here you little bitch!" Nellie yelled thrashing in his grip. "Nel, Nel, listen to me. You can get suspended and kicked off the cheer team for this. And then your life is practically over. So take a moment, breathe, and think this through." Nellie took a deep breath and Matteo nodded before hugging her.

"You ok now?" Nellie nodded and grabbed her stuff. "I'm fine now. Thanks Teo." She walked off only to bump into Kurt.

"Bad day?" He questioned with his own angry look on his face. "Yep. What's your reason?"

"Your brothers an ass. Wanted me to go spy on the warblers." He explained. "The warblers? You mean that team we're competing against. Sounds just like him." She let out a dry laugh.

"Kurt, did you know what Sunday was?" Nellie questioned completely going off topic. "No." He lied. Nellie glared at him.

"But-"

"Nel, I uh, I gotta go. Talk to you tomorrow?" Nellie nodded forming her lips into a thin line as her best friend walked off as if nothing happened.

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"I'm telling you, Teo. He just brushed me off like nothing happened!" Nellie exclaimed as the pair was eating ice cream together. "There's no way he forgot. I refuse to believe it. Los amigos no mienten" Matteo said in Spanish.

"What does that mean?" Nellie questioned intrigued. Matteo had been starting to teach Nellie some Spanish, but she didn't get everything down.

"It means friends don't lie." He recited. (yes.)

"Anyways, I don't care anymore. What's done is done. My birthday passed, and I just hope he'll remember next year. Along with everyone else." She mumbled sadly. Matteo gave her a sad look and wiped her tears away.

"Hey, look at me. Screw them! They're not real friends if they can't remember something so simple." He whispered. Nellie kept on crying. "It hurts, Teo." She sobbed. Matteo shushed her and pulled her into his chest as she cried. Matteo knew one thing was clear.

He was going to yell at his friends. For breaking try girl he's in love with heart.

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"Oh my god! Nellie! I-I just remembered! I'm so so sorry!" Kurt ran up to her as she closed his locker. "Your birthday. I'm so sorry I forgot. It's just with my dads treatments, a-and everything Thats been going on so-"

"Kurt, relax. It's completely fine." Nellie reassured. "I got you something." He pulled out a box which was wrapped. Nellie unwrapped it and her jaw dropped. "Kurt, this is your favorite collection. Y—I cant take this." She gave the gift back to him.

"Nel, please. You've had such a rough time last year and this is my way of telling you how strong and powerful you are. So please, take the damn gift." Nellie took the gift and hugged her best friend.

"You are the best." She whispered in his ear.

"I know." He whispered back.

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"Rachel, did you really get me Barbra Streisand's songs from a star is born?" Nellie questioned as she stared at the gift Rachel gave her in glee club.

"Yeah, you couldn't have gotten her a gift card, like I did?" Quinn asked. "I wanted to do something special. Because the day Nellie was born, a star was born. The star was Nellie by the way." Nellie smiled.

"Woah Rachel, that's the nicest thing I've ever heard you say." She smirked fist bumping her.

"The boys beat us the last time we competed against them. We've got to bring the noise hard this time."

"Actually, no one won. We all got busted for taking Vitamin D before the vote resulting in Coach raining down on us." Nellie cut in. Ever since Matteo yelled at everyone how stupid they were for forgetting Nellies birthday they all started getting her gifts and making sure she was taken care of.

"Brit, your gift was amazing but, it can't fit in my bag." Brit had made her a sculpture of lord Tubbington, her cat. "I know. You're supposed to walk through the hall with it!" Brit beamed. Nellie nodded and placed the sculpture which looked nothing like Lord Tubbington on an extremely chair.

"Wait. Somethings definitely wrong. Why isn't Rachel talking?" Santana questioned. "She talked to Nel about her gift." Tina said.

"Yeah, she should totally be bossing us around right now." Brittany commented. "The idea of the assignment was to do the opposite of what we normally do. I'm just trying to stick to the lesson plan, which is proving nearly impossible since you're gluing those sequins on backwards. Spies!" Rachel yelled the last part and Nellie saw Puck wheeling Artie in.

"Lighten up, we're here to talk to Santana and Brittany." Puck assures. "So, how does it feel to be a free man?" Santana asked.

"All I can say is I don't want a long-term relationship with either of you. Especially Brittany, since I'm not in love with her." Artie says. "Do you guys want to go out to dinner tonight?" Brittany questioned flirtatiously.

"Oh."

"Tell you what, you two show up at Breadstix tomorrow night around 7:00. If we don't find hotter chicks to date tonight, we might show up." Santana and Brittany gave him awed looks and Nellie just rolled her eyes. This could've been talked about after all of this, but Puck being Puck just had to mention it in front of all the glee girls. Nellie was still sewing as Santana and Brittany were flirting with Puck.

"You guys are exhausting. Speaking of exhaustion, a wave of exhaustion just came over me. I'm getting out of here." Nellie sat down on arties lap as puck wheeled the both of them over to the nurses office.

"You alright there Nel?" Matteo asked nervously as he saw the pair. "She's fine. Just forgot to take her meds." Puck answered wheeling right past him without another word.

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The next day the girls were going to preform their song. Rachel had given her solo to Nellie since it was her birthday week. So the song started and Nellie walked inside the choir room with her costume on.

[Start Me Up/Livin' On A Prayer-Nellie Puckerman, Mercedes Jones, Brittany Pierce Plus the New Direction Girls]

Nellie let out a breath as she heard cheering once the performance was over. Matteo looked like he enjoyed it the most. He wrapped Nellie in a hug as they both jumped up and down together.

"You did awesome!" He said still jumping. "Thank you!" She responded. Nellie noticed Becky Jackson walking in the classroom with a note in her hand.

"Ladies, very, very impressive. What was it that made you guys choose these songs?" Mr.Shue asked. Becky walked over to hand the note over to Mr.Shue.

"Coach told me to give you this." He said. Mr.Shue read over to note before leaving the classroom. The glee kids didn't care though. They were all celebrating the girls amazing performance.

Later that day Nellie was drinking her water after taking her meds when she heard the sound of crying. She peeked inside to see Kurt crying in the choir room.

"Kurt? Oh my god are you ok?" She questioned barging in. Kurt couldn't say anything due to his crying. "Hey hey hey, it's ok. It's fine. I'm here. Can you tell me what happened?" Kurt just didn't say anything and cried more. Nellie was confused. Kurt usually didn't cry like this. He was a tough kid, and something bad must've happened for him to be crying his hard. But Nellie wasn't going to force it out of him to get the details. This obviously wasn't something he wanted to talk about right now. So Nellie being the best friend she could be, she didn't say anything. She just let him hold her and she rubbed his back whispering reassuring things into his ear.

Because that's what he needed right now.

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Coach Beiste quit. And it was because of the glee boys plus Tina. That kinda set Nellie off, since Coach bestie was actually a really sweet person and didn't deserve this.

"Well, I genuinely hope you guys are happy because Coach Beiste has quit." Nellie sighed. "Wait what? That's terrible!"

"Yeah, that's not what we want." Sam added. "That's the opposite of what we want. The football team was actually winning."

"Well, then you'd better put your heads together and find a way to get her back, fast, because I am actually ashamed of you. You really hurt someone who was a great addition to this school."

"Excuse me, Shuester, I'd appreciate it if you didn't make it seem like it was everyone who made her quit, because it wasn't." Matteo snapped. "Matteo's right. What did we do?" Rachel asked.

"No, no. It's us. The boys. Except Matteo." Matteo grinned. "Yeah. It wasn't me. Y'all are some weirdos." He remarked throwing up his hands in surrender.

"And Tina." Mike joined in on the conversation. "We sort of figured out that picturing Beiste while making our was better than a cold shower." Nellie shook her head and scoffed. "Let me guess. You threw that idea out there Hudson River?" She asked with a angry look. Finn slowly nodded.

"You see what happens when people don't put out? If everyone just put out, we would have a winning football team." Santana said.

"William! I would like to see you and Noah Puckerman in my office, please." Figgins demanded walking inside the choir room. "What the hell did you do now puck?" Nellie hissed at her big brother. Noah shrugged and threw up his hands in confusion.

Later that day Nellie was walking down the steps when she saw Kurt walking with a boy she never saw before.

"Hey, Kurt, and guy I never met before." She greeted. "Oh! This is my best friend Nellie. Nellie, this is Blaine." He was obviously a Dalton kid. Who else would wear some expensive uniform like that?

"Hi, Nellie. It's so nice to meet you." Nellie shook blaines hand as they continued walking.

"Nice to meet you too Blaine. From what Kurt tells me, you seem like a really nice guy."

"Thank you for coming, Blaine." Kurt breathed.

"What's the deal?" Nellie asked in confusion. "Some kid kissed Kurt without his permission." Blaine explained. Nellies jaw dropped.

"Who?! I'll kill them Kurt I swear!" She clenched her fist. Her eyes darted over to Karofsky. "Oh hell no!" Kurt held her back.

"Excuse me?" Blaine asked walking up to Karofsky. "Hey, lady boys. Mini Puckerman. This your boyfriend Kurt?" Nellie stepped forward.

"I swear to god I will be in jail for assault if you don't shut up!" Nellie snarled. "Kurt and I would like to talk to you about something." Blaine calmly said trying to keep his cool.

"I gotta go to class." Blaine shoved past the three teens. "Oh I know what you did. Kissing people without their consent? Is that how low you stooped?" Nellie questioned stepping down the stairs.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Karofsky looked around nervously and Nellie noticed. "It seems like you might be a little confused, and that's totally normal. This is a......a very hard thing to come to terms with, and you should know that you're not alone." Karofsky turned around to shove Blaine into the fence. Nellie reacted by shoving him off and kicking Karofsky where it hurt.

"Touch Kurt, or Blaine, or any of my friends and I will come back for you. Do you hear me?" Nellie pulled his head back. "I said do you?!" David nodded and he ran off.

"Well he's not coming out anytime soon." Blaine commented. Nellie let out a snicker. "Sorry we haven't been properly introduced. Violence is a reoccurring thing to me." Nellie said.

"Tell me about it. As you can tell, I'm from the warblers." Blaine showed off his uniform. Kurt sat down on a staircase and Nellie followed suit.

"Hey, Kurt. What's wrong? Why are you so upset?" Nellie asked. "Because until yesterday, I had never been kissed. Or at least.....one that counted." Nellie nodded in understanding. "Come on, I'll buy you guys lunch."

"I have to meet up with someone for a lunch date. You have fun guys." Nellie walked off to meet up with Matteo.

"Hey, sad Nel. What's with the face?" Matteo questioned stuffing his hands in his pockets. "A lot."

"Want me to yell at everyone again?" Matteo asked. "You can go pound Karofskys face in." Nellie answered. "Did he touch you? I swear I'll murder him!" Matteo seethed.

"H-He's messing with Kurt. And it's getting worse and I-I don't know how to help him!" Nellie took a quivering breath. "A-And I try telling him everything's ok but I'm just scared that one day David's gonna go too far and then——then-" Nellie held her head in her hands.

"Ok, ok. I'll go talk to David, ok? I'll figure this out. Ok? Hey, I hate seeing you cry. Don't cry please." Matteo begged.

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Nellie smiled at her locker as she saw a picture of Matteo in there along with pictures of her and her friends. Finn got her a gift of a bunch of words and poems telling Nellie how awesome she was so she hung it up on her locker. Amira bumped into her causing her to slam into the lockers.

"Bitch!"

"Prick!" Nellie shot back. In glee club Nellie sat down next to Santana dusting herself off. The boys were going to apologize to Coach Beiste for the whole making out scandal. Even though Matteo wasn't part of the bunch, he still got involved to give his respects. That's what