Christmas had passed and now the glee club was back to how things used to be. Jay became an honorary member, and he was starting to get used to the chaos that could occur in one day. Nellie had been going strong with preforming more things with the Cheerios since she had been so consumed with glee club and Matteo. Speaking of Matteo, something bad happened with him. He had been having these nightmares, that it would be impossible to put him back to sleep. They still hadn't told anyone about the terrors Matteo had to face in his home so it's not like Nellie could go and have a meeting asking for advice. Currently Nellie was in the gym with the other Cheerios as they preformed their number for Coach.

[California Girls-The Cheerios]

"I'm bored. Ladies, I am at a loss. Brittany please remind me of how I single handedly put cheerleading on the map." Sue instructed. "In 1979 you directed a made-for-TV movie about the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders called The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders."

"That is correct. And in the meantime, what's changed?"

"Personal grooming habits?" Nellie suggested. She wanted to take this wig off since it was getting very uncomfortable. "Whats changed is I have completely lost interest. And ladies, I completely blame you. Becky, more silicone falsies," Becky walked off to do what Sue asked her. "You will each enhance your bust with an additional pair of chicken cutlets in an attempt to add some jiggle to what is the most boring routine I have ever witnessed."

"But coach, this is the most elaborate routine the Cheerios have ever done." Nellie says hoping to get her coach to change her mind. "We're shoo-ins at Regionals next week, and we're on the favorite to win at Nationals."Quinn added.

"And yet I am still very bored. Even things I used to think were hilarious. Case in point. Sandbags, slap yourself with a chicken cutlet." Santana did as she was told and slapped herself with the cutlet. "Now slap Brittany." Santana slapped Brittany and Nellie was confused as to why Coach told her to do that in the first place.

"See? Not even a chuckle."

"The problem is you keep trying to make a bigger and bigger spectacle. No matter how hard we try, we can't make a routine unless you find a way to make it interesting for you. You have to find a way to top yourself." Nellie rants. "Mini Puckerman you may just have a point. But to be sure slap yourself with a chicken cutlet."

"No thanks." Nellie and the other Cheerios walked out of the gym and she held her head in her hands. She just knew she was going to be stressed out and exhausted these next couple of days.

"Hey babe, you ok?" Matteo asked walking beside her. Just the person she wanted to see. Nellie stood on her tippy toes and slung her arms around his neck. "Just tired." She mumbled against his chest. Matteo smiled before hugging her back.

"I'm sorry. Do you wanna take a break?" Nellie nodded and Matteo guided her to the nurses office for a nap.

He was too good for this world.

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Karofsky was being a petty player. Which resulted in Matteo getting in injured. He had a couple bruised ribs which made Nellie have a heart attack at first. She watched as she cheered on Matteo how because Karofsky and Finn were having a disagreement he allowed Matteo to be tackled and injured. The couple sat in the choir room when Nellie turned to see Artie covered in slushees. Multiple slushees.

"Oh my god Artie." Tina gasped sympathetically. Matteo's jaw dropped. "What happened to you?" Jay gasped. "It was awful."

"That's it. Screw rehearsal! This ends here and now!" The glee boys stood up and made their way to the door. "We're gonna go all thunder dome on those guys." Puck added. Nellie was about to go and follow them before Jay, Matteo and Puck pushed her back. But what she wasn't expecting to see was all the football jocks walking inside. Jay clenched his fists in anger.

"Get the hell out. You've done enough." He growled angrily. "So this is what the ladies lounge looks like from the inside." A football kid said completely ignoring Jay. The Parker boy was about to throw hands before Matteo and Mike pulled him back.

"This is the choir room. Now put up your fists because you and I are going to do some dancing." Sam threatened and Nellie smirked at him. "No, I got this sam." Finn placed a hand in front of Sam to keep him back to which Sam shrugged off.

"No, I got this." Jay took a step forward. "Stay out of this traitor. Coach Beiste told us to come. Where is she?" Right then Coach Beiste walked inside and pushed the football players out of the way.

"Watch it. Everyone have a seat." She demanded. "You too guys." The boys took a seat and Nellie furrowed her brows.

What the hell was going on here?

"All right, New Directions, let's give a warm welcome to the newest members of glee club."

All hell broke loose.

"WHAT THE HELL?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Matteo yelled.

"OH HELL TO THE NO MR.SHUE!"

"LETTING A BUNCH OF HOMOPHOBIC ASSHOLES INTO GLEE CLUB? REAL NICE MR.SHUE!" Nellie yelled after Mercedes. "Mr.Shue are you serious? These are the guys that made Kurt transfer?" Finn exclaimed furious by the decision Mr.Shue made.

"Yeah, the same guys who basically turned Artie into a human slushee." Jay added. "And there is no way that I'm sharing the choir room with a known homophobe."

"You tell them Rachel! Mr.Shue, I refuse to share a room with people who make us feel unsafe. Why are you letting people who tormented us since the beginning join? Are you kidding?" Nellie asked. "Go get back on you meds, slut." Nellies eyes widened and she had to keep Finn, Puck, And Matteo from killing Karofsky. Tina also held back Mike.

"I don't disagree with you guys. But I talked to Coach Beiste about it, and she and I both agreed the kind of bullying that Dave does is born out of ignorance. Having him in here, as difficult as it may be for us, is an opportunity to show him and the rest of the guys that being in the glee club is kinda cool, find some common ground."

"Or this is just gonna make us get slusheed even more. Thanks Mr.Shue." Matteo dryly commented. "All of you are gonna be in his glee club for one week, no exceptions."

"She's bluffing—Next week is the Championsho game. Without us she has no team." Karofsky spoke up causing Nellie to roll her eyes.

"With you I have no team!" Beiste retaliated. "You guys have got to find a way to come together or we're going to get out asses kicked from here until Tuesday finds a saddlebag full of buckwheat." Everyone looked a little confused as to what kind of comparison that was, but Azimo spoke up instantly making Nellie upset again.

"If I have to stay, I'm not singing no show tunes. That is the music of my oppressors."

"You're a real idiot." Nellie scoffed. "Do you even have any idea what we do in here?" Finn asked in disbelief.

"Why would they care? All they care about is tormenting you guys." Jay responded. "No. None of them do. We have to show them. Rachel, Puck, haven't you guys been working on something?" So after this whole cheating scandal Rachel is still interacting with Puck? Jesus.

"Fine. As offended as I am by their presence here, I won't let anything get in the way of a performance." Rachel and Puck stood up glaring around the football players.

"Hey, weren't we supposed to do that song for duet week?" Nellie asked holding in a laugh. "Yup. I liked what we went with though." Matteo answered.

[Need You Now-Rachel Berry And Noah Puckerman]

The glee club applauded for their performance and Nellie just knew something was about to happen. "The girl with the Mohawk had a really nice voice." Azimi commented. Puck took off his guitar. "Funny. Yeah man, that's good." He then tried to swing it at Azimo.

All hell broke loose again.

Puck tried attacking Azimo, Matteo tried attacking Karofsky for the comment he made about Nellie, and Nellie and Jay was trying to pull him back. Once Matteo got out of the way, Jay punched him straight in the face and Karofsky retailed by making sure to hurt Nellie to anger everyone in the room. He shoved her back, until she fell back and hit her arm harshly.

"Nellie!" The two boys yelled before the fight was over. Matteo helped her up while Jay was glaring daggers at the boy.

Later that day Nellie was out on the field along with the other Cheerios as Sue wanted to show them something. It was a cannon.

"Ladies, my "Sue-Clear" Weapon. Becky," Becky walked over and slammed a bottle against the cannon making it shatter everywhere. "Brittany....Climb on up. Congratulations. You're doing the stunt for the big competition." Wait. Was she being serious? Nellie didn't think this was the best idea. This could severely injure Brittany or worse, kill her.

"I don't wanna die yet. At least not until One Tree Hill gets cancelled." Brittany says and Nellie pats her shoulder. "Fine. To put your toddler, fist-sized mind at ease, we'll do one final test run." Some Cheerios walked over and placed a mannequin inside the cannon and Nellies jaw dropped as she watched this situation unfold.

"Any of you take German? I may have to read the owners manual."

"You're telling me you bought this thing and don't even know how to work it, and you wanna put Brittany in it?" Coach simply nodded and Brittany picked up the head that was yanked off the mannequin.

"Don't worry, I'll talk to Mr.Shue and take care of this." Quinn said and they parted ways.

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The next day the glee club plus the stupid football team sat in the choir room as they watched Mr.Shue give his speech. He had informed them how they had to preform for the halftime time show. Matteo was hardly paying attention since he was fast asleep on Nellies lap.

He didn't get much sleep the night before.

"No frickin' way!" Karofsky exclaimed. "We don't have a choice. Sue pulled the Cheerios from the game, so if we don't do it, there's no halftime show. "

"And this is a problem because?" Lauren pretty much asked what everyone in the room was thinking. Nellie really didn't care about the hall time show, the only reason she really cared was to cheer on Matteo, who was drooling on her leg.

"It's not a problem. It's an opportunity."

"Opportunity to humiliate ourselves." A football idiot commented. "Oh yay, maybe then you can see how we feel." Nellie sarcastically smiled before she turned her attention back to her sleeping boyfriend.

"Hey, the whole point of this week was to bring you guys together, to bring the school together." Bestie said. "Wait, so you want us to play the first have, change into some sequeen ball gowns, and then go out and do the halftime show at our own championship game?" Azimo asks.

"Yes!"

"It's a championship game. This is crazy town. Crazy! This is crazy."

"What about the Cheerios in glee club?" Finn asks calming down all the commotion. "They have a choice. Us, or the Cheerios competition."

"Well, obviously Quinn is gonna choose the Cheerios I mean...."

"Shut up Rachel." Nellie spat. "Yeah, that's not fair. You don't know what she's gonna do." Finally Finn is standing up to Rachel. What Nellie liked to see. "I think the cheerleading competition is gonna be a lot of fun, but if you go, you're gonna miss out on us doing the most iconic song of all time. The super bowl of pop anthems:Thriller." The glee club cheered at that.

"Yeah, remember a few years ago when that Philippine prison did that mega performance of Thriller and put it on YouTube? Now in the four months it took to rehearse that number, prisoner on prisoner crime dropped 80%. Doing that, together, as a team, created a unity within that prison. Abs Thats what I'm looking to do here."

"I mean don't get me wrong. I'm big on Micheal and everything but isn't that kind of whey they're expecting us to do?" Mercedes questions. "Which is why we're gonna mash it together with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs equally spooky single "Heads Will Roll."" Nellie agreed with that statement. She wouldn't mind doing another mashup.

"Who's Yeah Yeah Yeah?" Azimo mutters. "All right, New Directions, Titans, we're going to zombie camp." Coach blew her whistle making Matteo shook awake falling out his chair.

"I'm awake! Just a.......Just a power nap. I swear." Nellie grabbed his hand. "Come on, we can nap together." Matteo yawned and nodded before they walked off together.

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The next day Matteo's sleep problem was not getting any better. To the point he looked like a literal zombie. Nellie tried everything. Giving him warm milk, trying to talk him into sleep, it didn't work. But the first day of zombie boot camp was today and Nellie was excited. They were all lined up as Mr.Shue was counting them off.

"Uh, five, six, seven, eight." They had all started to move around like zombies. Some were doing good, some weren't. Jay almost poked Nellie in the eye with the way he was moving his hand, and Nellie almost collapsed into puck after a football player stepped on her foot resulting in her loosing balance.

"Time out. Time out." Someone shoved Karofsky and Karofsky shoved them back causing a mini fight to break out.

"Hey! Knock it off!"

"Okay, guys. It's good, but let's.....put a little life into it."

"But we're dead." Karofsky mentioned. "Then put some afterlife into it. Look at Matteo! He's doing perfect." Everyone looked over to Matteo who was sleeping on Nellies shoulder while standing.

"Uh.....Anyways. Get out of your heads and get into your characters all right? Five, six, seven eight." They started their zombie dancing once again and some of them were starting to get the hang of it.

"All right! Nice progress guys. Now let's take a breather, and I'll see you in the choir room in five minutes, for a lesson in zombie makeup." As the glee club started to walk off Azimo just had to get his comment in. "Makeup? No, no, no, no, no."

"Yes, yes, yes, yes." Beiste mocks. They then walked off to get their makeup done. Nellie was doing Matteo's makeup while Santana was doing Jays makeup.

"Babe, you have to keep your eyes open." Nellie laughed as Matteo's eyelids were dropping. "Huh? Oh yeah, sorry."

"So, how does this look?" Nellie turned Matteo's head to face the mirror and he smirked. "You're so good at makeup babe. It looks so real." Nellie nodded. "I took a makeup class over the summer. Don't ask, I was bored."

Later the Cheerios were cleaning off their zombie makeup and Nellie was torn with which Club she was going to choose. The Cheerios, or glee. All of her best friends were in glee club, while she barely talked to anyone on the Cheerios except the unholy trinity. Plus she couldn't betray Mr.Shue like that.

Nellie made her choice.

"Zombie camp was funnier than I expected. And the glee club together with the football team—it's like a double rainbow. A zombie double rainbow." Brittany commented. "What the hell are we gonna do? If we go to our cheerleading competition, then we miss the halftime show, and we're out of glee club. I'm torn."

"Well I'm not."

"Agreed. I love glee, and I'm not going to just throw it away like that." Nellie added. "I'm Brittany."

"Couldn't help but overhear your conversation." Sue walked out of a bathroom stall and Nellie was confused as to why she was in there in the first place.

"What were  you doing in there?"

"Enjoying the eavesdropping afforded me by the Swiss-timepiece regularity and utter silence of my 2:00 p.m. ninja poops. Well I typed these up for you ladies, requiring your signature, rendering your resignation from the glee club. Oh and Brittany here's a note handwritten and in crayon from the human cannon saying how much it misses you." Sue was pretty much manipulating Brittany to get in the cannon which could kill her.

"Coach, that cannon is gonna get Brittany killed. You said it yourself you don't even know how to work the damn thing. Is it really worth it, putting your students life at risk just to win a stupid championship?" Nellie questioned. "Seventh consecutive stupid national championship."

"This is ridiculous." Quinn says. "You had quite a year last year, Q. And as I recall you didn't have such a good time out of that Cheerios uniform. Ladies I am giving you the chance right now, to house once and for all where your true loyalties lie." Nellie glanced down at her paper.

"I know where my loyalties lie," Nellie ripped up her paper and turned on the sink, throwing the bits of paper in. "And they're not with you. Oh don't look sad, Coach, you're probably just gonna use that bitch Amora."

"Amira."

"Whatever. Quinn, Brittany, Santana, make the right choice." And with that Nellie walked out of the bathroom and to her locker to grab some clothes, (Image above) and walked back to the bathroom to change. Once she was fully dressed she walked back out of the bathroom and everyone was staring at her in confusion.

"Nel, what happened to your uniform?" Jay questioned. "I quit the Cheerios so that I could be in the halftime show. Where's Matteo?"

"He's rinsing himself off. He fell asleep and we have glee club in a couple minutes." Nellie nodded. "He asked me to walk you to glee club." Nellie once again nodded and the duo walked inside glee club together.

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The next day the football team plus the glee guys wanted to put on a performance so the girls sat in the auditorium as they watched.

[Shes Not There-Finn Hudson Plus The Football Boys]

Later that afternoon Rachel, Nellie, and Mercedes were meeting Blaine and Kurt at the Lima bean.

"Medium drip."

"Me? Oh, thank you very much." Blaine took the drink from Kurt and Nellie took her coffee as well, sitting down. "Now I don't wanna sound cocky or anything, but you guys better be pulling out all the stops for Regionals, because the nuke he we just rehearsed is so off the hook, it's dangerous."

"Seriously, people should wear protective headgear when they're watching it." Nellie didn't laugh since she was so pissed off about the football guys.

"Guys we're kidding."

"Well it's hard to laugh right now with everything going on at McKinley." Rachel explains. "I mean look at us, the stars of two rival show choirs sitting down to coffee—our school is so messed up we cant even keep our own football team together." Mercedes added.

"It's so sad you guys Coach Beiste and Mr.Shue were so close to getting everyone at the school together." Nellie sadly said.

"Why hasn't finn told me anything about this? I mean, we live together. I mean, I bring him a glass of warm milk every night, just in hopes that we'll have a little lady chat." Kurt said. "Warm milk? Really?"

"It's delicious."

"I second that." Nellie commented. "Finns to proud to complain. He feels like he has to be strong for