underwear in the hallway. Matteo wasn't feeling bad about his body anymore, thanks to the workouts. And Nellie was still aching to tell Matteo how she felt about him.

"I want to apologize. For putting you guys through all this—particularly, Sam, Matteo, and Finn."

"I really don't care." Matteo said. "Yeah, it's cool. I'm sure the teasing will die down by my tenth reunion rolls around."

"And I got asked to be June in the men of McKinley High calendar."

"I got asked to be November." Matteo added. "I'm happy for you both. But we still can't do the musical. Look, I was wrong. Rocky horror isn't about pushing boundaries or making an audience accept a certain rebellious point of view. Those are my reasons for doing it, and they aren't worth risking what we have here for. And when I was younger, and they started midnight shows of Rocky Horror, it wasn't for envelope pushers. It was for outcasts, people on the fringes who had no place left to go, but were searching for someplace, anyplace, where they felt like they belonged. Sound familiar? The truth is without that perspective, Rocky Horror is the perfect show for this club."

"Well then why aren't we putting it on?" Santana asks in confusion. "We're still going to preform Rocky Horror. We're just not doing it for an audience. We're doing it for ourselves." Nellie and Matteo shared a smirk as they went to go change into their costumes for one last number.

[Time Warp-Kurt Hummel, Nellie Puckerman, Finn Hudson, Artie Abrams, Tina Cohen Chang, Brittany Pierce, Plus The New Directions]

After the performance Nellie and Matteo were walking down the hall together. "I'm kinda hungry. Breadstix? You can take me for the first time." Matteo offered. Nellie grinned. She could never say no to Breadstix.

Especially to the boy she was falling in love with.

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