The glee club sat in the choir room as Nellie and Matteo were giggling with each other. "Will you two just get a room?" Santana snapped causing Nellie to kick her chair. She let out a laugh and Nellie rolled her eyes. Matteo laughed as well. Once Mr.Shue arrived, Rachel stood up and rolled her eyes. Nellie knew she was going to say something that was going to get her angry.

"Mr.Schuester, I have an announcement. I've selected the perfect moving ballad for Finn and I to sing.....to launch our performance at sectionals!" See, Rachel said something that was going to get Nellie upset.

"Me first. Two things. First, our competition at sectionals are your classic stool choirs. Great voices, but they don't move. Now we're going to beat them, we need to do what they can't:dance. Which is why I've decided to feature.....Brittany, Nellie, and Mike Changs sweet moves in our performance." Nellie was a little disappointed, she felt like she could dance perfectly fine and it kinda wasn't right how she didn't get the chance. But Nellie just laughed and congratulated her best friends.

"Mr.Shue, is it ok if we add Matteo and Nellie in our performance? Nellies a really good dancer, and she can teach Matteo!" Nellie smirked and looked at Mr.Shue for his answer.

"Uh, yeah. I don't see why not. Nel is a really good dancer." Nellie squealed and hugged Matteo who stared at Mr.Shue in shock.

"Wait they're gonna dance in front of me while I sing my solo?" Rachel questioned causing Nellie to roll her eyes. "You're not getting a solo for this competition Rachel." Mr.Shue answered and Nellies jaw dropped.

"Finally. So what song do I get to sing?" Mercedes smirked. Nellie nodded. She would also like a solo for a competition. Usually she just got one or two lines while Finn and Rachel took the lead. It was annoying.

"I was thinking the winners of our duet competitions would take the lead." Nellie clapped for Quinn and Sam. Nellie was going to get her chance to shine, so it was nice other people were getting the opportunity to do the same. "Ken and Barbie? Wait, a-are you trying to throw this." Matteo furrowed his brows.

"You know I didn't know why people didn't like you nor wanted to coexist with you, but I'm starting to see why now." He snarled. "Yeah, you used to be just sort of unlikable, but now I pretty much feel like punching you every time you open your mouth." Summed up Nellies feelings for Rachel right up.

"Okay, listen. I have talked the talk about everyone in here feeling special for over a year now, but frankly, I haven't walked the walk. I mean, we have a lot of talent here, and I'm going to highlight it."

"Do something." Rachel whispers to Finn and Nellie scoffs in response. "Look, I'm all for pumping up the team, making everyone feel special, but that's for practice. You don't take the star quarterback out before the big game." Nellie really felt like slapping Finn and Rachel right now. And that's saying something since Finn was her best friend. But he was being so annoying.

"Easy to say when you're the star quarterback." Tina comments and Matteo nods. "Face it, Hudson River. You just want the spotlight to yourself." Nellie hissed.

"This isn't just about me it's about the team."

"No, I still think it's just about you." Nellie shrugged. "You are such a hypocrite." Nellie turned around to face Santana and her jaw dropped. "Like you even know what that means." Rachel scoffs. "It means that your boyfriend is full of crap, hobbit." Nellie really doesn't know what to say at this point.

"You know what? Ever since the wedding, you've been up my butt she in sick of it." Rachel yelled. "Come on Rachel, she's not worth it." Finn said trying to calm her down.

"Oh really? 'Cause that's not what you thought last year in that motel room. That's right Yentil. Your sweetheart has been lying to you. 'Cause he and I totally got it on last year." Nellies jaw dropped and Matteo just had his eyebrows raised.

"Ok enough already! No more conversations about this, or-or anything. This is our plan for sectionals, and that is that. Nellie, Matteo, Mike, Brittany come on up. Lets start choreographing."

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Finn was Nellies best friend. Which means she was the first person who knew about him ans Santana sleeping together. Nellie was shocked at first, since Finn said he was taking a break from girls. So when Santana completely exposed Finn she didn't know how to tell Rachel he already knew. But Nellie was being tasked with finding a replacement for sectionals so she walked inside the girls locker room and banged her hand on a locker.

"Attention people! As you know, I'd like to discuss with you people about glee club!" Amira let out a loud laugh. "Glee club? You mean that pathetic pack of losers that sing stupid show tunes!"

"Don't test me Amira. You took my top spot as Cheerio and I will pull a Mr.Miyagi and beat your ass. Anyways, glee club. Its totally cool. And if you wanna go to some arts college, glee club is the way to go! College scouts show up and you can totally go places!" Amira slammed her locker shut.

"Glee club? I see why you're not top anymore. You care more about some sappy showtunes! And about that gay kid transferring, so what? Just another kid lost!" Nellie slammed Amira's head into the locker and the fight was on. Nellie of course was winning, until Amira was a coward and got other girls involved.

"Hey! I have a boyfriend and my face needs to look good! Oh my god Jessica get off me!" Nellie screamed.

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Matteo was looking around the choir room for Nellie. She was supposed to be here. Was she taking a nap still?

"Where are the Puckerman siblings? I haven't seen them since yesterday,  and I need Puck to get me a churro."

"My guess is he'd rather quit glee club than lose Sectionals, and I can't blame him." Matteo groaned. "I'm telling you if the Warblers win sectionals, it's only because we gave them Kurt. We should not clap." Rachel walked in the choir room with tape on her mouth and Matteo stared at her confused.

"What the hell are you doing?" He questioned and Rachel simply ignored him.

"I'm not doing anything. You've silence my talents. I'm merely protesting. My talents are wasted in this glee club. My star shines too bright,  and I think you're threatened by it." Mr.Shue slammed his papers down on the piano and Matteo flinched back.

"Take that off! I'm tired of this, Rachel. You have a terrible attitude, you're a lousy sport, and it's not on anymore." God Matteo wished Nellie was here to see this. She would probably be jumping with joy right now.

"Well, I'm upset. Im furious about this. About a couple of things actually." She looked at Finn for the last part. "I'm sorry you're disappointed. But you know, you could also make the choice to be happy that we're a part of a glee club bursting at the seams with talent. There's an awful lot of "me" talk going around. "What's in it for me?" "What solo am I going to sing?" Now when we go to sectionals, we're gonna be good sports. We'll cheer on the hipsters. We'll cheer on Kurt and the Warblers. And if they win, we will congratulate them because that's who we are." Puck and some girl Matteo has never seen before walked inside the choir room.

"Dude where have you been?" Artie asked. "I found him in a Port-Potty."

"I was trying to find Kurts replacement for sectionals. I was trapped in that Porta-Potty for 24 hours."

"Nel went to go look for a replacement too. Did you see her?" Matteo asked the girl. "Nel's missing? Again? Jeez I just got out a porta-potty and now I need to kick some ass." Nellie stormed inside the choir room, her hair disheveled and covered in leaves and trash. Her Cheerios skirt was ripped up, showing a bit of cleavage. Her shoulder was bleeding.

"I'm fine! Perfectly fine!" She yelled despite the fact no one asked if she was fine. Matteo examined her, and noticed bags under her eyes. She probably hasn't be sleeping. "Thanks a lot Mr.Shue." Matteo snapped pulling his girlfriend close.

"I—Ok then, looks like we're back in business. Let's all welcome our newest member, Miss Lauren Zizes." Nellie smiled at the girl and then let out a hiss of pain holding her arm in pain.

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Nellie was sleeping peacefully on Matteo's chest when suddenly she was pushed off. She woke up with a confused look to see Matteo holding his head in his hands. Nellie sighed, crawling over to sit next to him.

"Teo, what's wrong? Why'd you push me off like that?" She whispered knowing that her brother was sleeping as well. Matteo shook his head and started crying. "Matteo, hey, hey. Talk to me babe. What's going on?"

"I just had a nightmare. I usually just move around a lot in my nightmare, that's why. Did I hurt you? Oh my god I'm so-" Nellie cut Matteo off by kissing him. "Matteo, you could never hurt me. Look. I'm fine. It's ok. It's just a dream. Look at me." Matteo turned to face his girlfriend. "You could never hear me. Ok? It'a gonna be ok. Do you wanna watch a movie until you calm down?" Matteo sniffled and nodded and they walked to the living room to watch tv.

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Matteo and Nellie had stood up pretty much all night watching movies. Well, Nellie had fell asleep during Mean Girls so Matteo had decided to go back to sleep as well once he carried Nellie back to her bed.

But sectionals was here today. The couple had both taken a power nap on the bus so they were ready to go once it was their time to preform. But first they sat down to watch the other choirs compete.

[Living Years-The Hipsters]

"And now for our second performance of the program, from Dalton Academy in Westerville, The Warblers."

[Hey Soul Sister-The Warblers]

Nellie smiled once she saw Kurt on stage. He looked so much happier with them and Nellie couldn't help but feel upset he transferred. As long as he was happy, she was happy. So she stood up to clap for Kurt and soon everyone else joined in.

By this time they were now in the back preparing for the performance and Nellie was trying to calm down a very anxious Matteo. "What if I step on your foot totally messing it up? Or what if I forget a move? Or what if I pull your arm to hard causing you to pull a muscle?" Nellie chuckled and kissed his cheek.

"Come on Matteo, you always look at the bad side in situations. Look at the good side. It's your first competition! Yay you!" Nellie beamed. Matteo laughed.

"Right. Yay me."

"These costumes are causing some unmentionable chafing." Lauren commented.

"Are you ok?" Sam asks Quinn. Matteo rested his head on the wall and Nellie hugged him. "No, I'm totally freaking out. Last time I preformed in front of an audience, I went into labor. I think I'm having post traumatic stress disorder."

"FYI I'm totally able to fill in." Mercedes said while looking at a magazine. "Nowhere to run from me or your lies. I hope they judge us on dancing and and adultery, because you're aces at both of them." Artie told Brittany. Nellie furrowed her brows in confusion and just looked away. Typical day in glee club. "I don't understand how you found out. I am so stupid. I can't believe I did it. I've never felt awful about anything in my life." Now Nellie was confused on what the hell was going on. Brittney and Artie are fighting?

"Hey, what's Artie all worked up about?" Mike asks Tina. "You are such a jerk." She exclaimed. Rachel stormed in the choir room not looking happy.

"You told Kurt?"

"I don't know, maybe."

"About Finn and Santana? No, I think I told him." Mercedes said. "Who told you?" Rachel asks Quinn. "Me. I think Brittany told me. Or maybe it was Puck."

"Yeah it was me." Rachel turned towards nellie and Matteo. "Don't look at me." He scoffed. "I was the first one to find out about this. But I told Matteo when we started dating." Nellie explained. "Everyone know about this but me?" Rachel asked in disbelief.

"Pretty much."

"Nobody tells you a Irving because A:You're a blabber mouth, and B:We all just pretend to like you." Nellie chuckled a bit at the comment. "That's not true: I kinda like her." Puck shrugged. "Meh. She's ok I guess." Nellie mumbled.

"Look, Rachel, when this all happened you were dating another guy. So you don't have a right to be pissed at me about it, okay? And fine, I shouldn't have lied about it. But to be honest, that isn't what you care about. You care about the Santana of it all." Rachel and Finn had started arguing and Matteo rolled his eyes.

"Does this happen very often?" He whispers to nellie. "Every competition we've been to something happens. Sectionals last year, Quinn got exposed for carrying Pucks baby when she told Finn it was his. Then our set list got leaked and we had to come up with completely different songs and choreography. Regionals Quinn went into labor." Nellie explained. Matteo's jaw dropped.

"I just love being in a drama infested club, don't you?" Matteo smirked sarcastically and they both smirked. When Nellie started listening Rachel and Artie had refused to go on stage.

"Enough! Listen to yourselves! I am ashamed of you. Think back to where you were this time last year, no set list, no choreography, no chance in hell of winning, but you did win, because you did it together. Look, I don't care if you guys hate each other. All I want is for you guys to go out there and sing together. Get up there, and for six monetizes remind yourselves that you are not alone. All right! Showtime!" Matteo took a deep deep breath and Nellie smiled at him.

"Let's go rock this babe." They shared a kiss before they went backstage. "And now for our final performance, from McKinley High, the New Directions!"

[I've Had The Time Of My Life- Sam Evans, Quinn Fabray Plus The New Directions]

[Valerie-Santana Lopez Plus The Directions (Danced by Brittany Pierce, Mike Chang, Matteo Gomez, Nellie Puckerman]

The New Directions stood next to the other group's as they listened to who the winner of sectionals was. "And now, this years head judge, associate director of the Ohio department of Motor Vehicles, Mr.Pete Sosnowski."

"Thank you. And thank you to all the groups who preformed here today. We all had a serious good time. You know what else is a serious good time? Taking two minutes to save a life by filling out an organ doner card, because it's never too late to donate. Drumroll please. In third place, the Hipsters," An old lady walked over to take their trophy and everyone clapped for her. "And now, the winners of this years West Central Sectionals, is it's a tie. Congratulations you're all going to the regionals." They have never been tied before. But at least they were going to regionals. Nellie had hugged Matteo and he spun her around smirking.

"You did so good!" They blurted out at the same time. They laughed and then Nellie walked over to Kurt. "Long time." She smirked. Kurt hugged her and she hugged him back.

"Listen I don't care we're on different teams. You're still my friend and I'm still going to clap for you." Kurt nodded. "Same." He agreed. Blaine had walked over.

"You better be taking care of Kurt over there." Blaine nodded. "I'm working on it Nel." They all hugged before parting ways.

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Finn had been acting a bit weird and Nellie wanted to know why. After glee club of course. Mr.Shue had walked inside the choir room carrying their trophy and Nellie started clapping.

"Congratulations guys. It wasn't pretty, but we're moving on. And I for one, are gonna be happy to have regionals and nationals to focus on."

"Mr.Shue we heard the news of Miss Pillsbury marrying the finest dentist alive." Santana comments. "It's all right. We don't need to talk about it. Now, I know we've had our dramas this week, but our family's back in a happy place, and I think we should celebrate the best way we know how. Rachel, so how would you like to solo?"

"Wait a-" Matteo placed a hand over Nellies mouth to stop her from talking. So he goes on about making everyone feel special yet he runs back to Rachel asking her to sing a solo? Are you freaking kidding me? Nellie was furious. "Thank but um, I don't really feel like a solo right now. I'd like to defer to this weeks two unsung heroes, Mercedes and Tina."

"Well, don't have to ask me twice."

[Dog Days Are Over-Tina Cohen Chang, Mercedes Jones Plus The New Directions]

Nellie had pulled Finn aside after glee and noticed he was crying. "Finn? You doing ok bubs?" She asked. Finn broke down crying and Nellie stood on her tippy toes to wrap her arms around his neck.

"What happened? Hey, talk to me. What's going on?"

"Rachel cheated on me with your brother. It's just—I didn't think this would happen to me. Again. Can you come over to my place tonight? I really need you." Nellie nodded. "Yeah, I'll come over. Don't even have to ask me twice."

Nellie knew she was going to slap the talent out of Rachel when she gets the chance.

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