Stronger Script

So, Miles is still trying to win Ellie back, Devin and Sarah-Leigh have gone on their first date, and hints of rivalries are popping up. Danielle and Ellie obviously don’t get along, and Ellie is jealous of Paige. And that’s what you missed on…The Music Book!



'''12 months ago… '''

  

MR. DOMINGUEZ, MS. HANDEL, and the glee club (DEVIN DONAHUE, ELLIE GRACE, DANIELLE MEYER, DREW FLEMING, NEAL HARPER, CONNOR TOWERS, MARK WINTERS, IAN SCOTT, JESSICA LARK, GABRIELLE MORGAN, TRISTA MORGAN, and a few unknown students) are gathered in a classroom.

Ms. Handel: Welcome back, Dixie Singers! It’s good to see our returning members, and I’m so happy to have our newest members with us—Drew Fleming, Jessica Lark, Connor Towers, and Mark Winters.

Mr. Dominguez: Because our male co-captain graduated last spring and needs to be replaced, we decided it is only fair to bring in a new female co-captain, as well. Danielle, you were a great co-captain last year with Andre, and I hope you’ll pass along wisdom to your successor.

Ms. Handel: After all, you were the first freshman to be a co-captain!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: *faking cheerfulness* Of course, Mr. Dom and Ms. Handel.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: Anyways, we waited until auditions had passed, but Mr. Dominguez and I have made our decision.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: The male co-captain will be…Devin Donahue!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club applauds; a couple guys slap Devin on the back and high-five him.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: Wow, thank you!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: And our new female co-captain is…Ellie Grace!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie’s eyes widen in shock. The glee club cheers.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Um, I don’t know what to say… thank you so much!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: All right, that’s pretty much it for this meeting. We’ll have glee club again tomorrow at 3:15, and that’s when we’ll have the first practice of the year. Devin and Ellie, I expect you to brainstorm some ideas of what song we can sing.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: You got it, Mr. Dominguez.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As the students grab their bags, Devin high-fives Ellie. She says something inaudible, and he smiles. Danielle watches, a frown on her face. As Ellie starts to leave, Danielle grabs her arm.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Hold on back a minute, Ellie. I want to give you some advice.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: That would be really nice.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The room clears out before Danielle speaks.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: I hope you realize Mr. Dom and Ms. Handel are only giving you this position because Andre left. You wouldn’t be good enough to earn it on your own if I wasn’t being forced out of being co-captain.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie’s smile falters.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: I can sing circles around you any day. The only reason you’re in glee club is because we had a member drop out after first semester last year, and Mr. Dom and Ms. Handel took pity on the sad new girl.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: That’s not true. They said I had one of the best auditions they’d ever seen.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Please, they were just trying to be nice.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: You know what? I’m going to prove that I’m good enough to be glee co-captain. I’m going to suggest a sing-off to Mr. Dominguez and Ms. Handel. You and I will sing a duet tomorrow. You’ll see that I’ve earned my position.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Even if you win, I’m going to challenge you every year. And I will be glee co-captain again.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie stands center stage in a spotlight in the Half Moon. She’s wearing a black bustier-style tank top, dark gray skinny jeans, and gray ankle boots.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Dry lightning cracks across the skies ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Those storm clouds gather in her eyes ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Her daddy was a mean old mister ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mama was an angel in the ground ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The weather man called for a twister ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">She prayed blow it down ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s not enough rain in Oklahoma ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To wash the sins out of that house ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s not enough wind in Oklahoma ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To rip the nails out of the past ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A second spotlight appears beside Ellie. Danielle stands at center stage in a gray flowing blouse, dark gray skinny jeans, and black knee-high boots.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie and Danielle: Shatter every window ‘til it’s all blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Til there’s nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: She heard those sirens screaming out ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Her daddy laid there passed out on the couch ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">She locked herself in the cellar ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Listened to the screaming of the wind ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Some people call it taking shelter ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">She called it sweet revenge ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie and Danielle: Shatter every window, ‘til it’s all blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Til there’s nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: There’s not enough rain in Oklahoma ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To wash the sins out of that house ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s not enough wind in Oklahoma ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To rip the nails out of the past ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Shatter every window ‘til it’s all blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: ‘Til there’s nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Blown away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Blown away, blown away, blown away, blown away, blown away ''

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: All right, you can stay co-captain…for now.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">'''<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">THE MUSIC BOOK '''

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">'''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Present day… '''

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie fills her tray with her lunch in the cafeteria. Danielle, her tray mostly empty, slides up beside Ellie.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: You didn’t think I would forget, did you?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Forget what?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Oh, so you’ve forgotten.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Please, enlighten me.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: I gave you two weeks, but it’s time for our sing-off.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Oh. That.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: This time, we’re each going to have a solo. Whatever Ms. Handel and Mr. Dom announce as the week’s theme this afternoon will be the theme for our solos.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Fine. But this year, we let the other Dixie Singers know what’s going on. But not Mr. Dominguez and Ms. Handel. After our solos, the glee club will pick who deserves to be glee co-captain.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: May the best girl win.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club enters their usual classroom in the Austen Conservatory. Mr. Dominguez and Ms. Handel are sitting at the front of the room. They smile at the students. Ms. Handel holds up the music book.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: Hurry and take your seats! Ladies, we want you front and center.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista and Jessica exchange a confused glance.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: This week’s theme is all about…

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: Girl power!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Miles: So we have to sing songs about how powerful girls are?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: No. Only the girls will be singing this week.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: And while girls are stronger in numbers, we want to hear a solo from each of you ladies.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle and Ellie exchange glances. Ellie raises her hand.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: Yes, Ellie?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: I’d like to go first, if you don’t mind.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: *surprised* Well, of course!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie stands up and grabs a guitar from the corner. Danielle watches, displeased, as Ellie settles on a stool and tunes the guitar briefly.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s the morning of your very first day ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You say hi to your friends you ain’t seen in a while ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Try and stay out of everybody’s way ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s your freshman year and you’re gonna be here ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For the next four years in this town ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hoping one of those senior boys will wink at you and say ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“You know, I haven’t seen you around before” ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’re gonna believe them ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And when you’re fifteen ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Feeling like there’s nothing to figure out ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Well count to ten, take it in 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is life before you know who you’re gonna be 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fifteen ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You sit in class next to a redhead named Abigail ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And soon enough you’re best friends ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Laughing at the other girls who think they’re so cool ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We’ll be out of here as soon as we can ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And then you’re on your very first date and he’s got a car ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you’re feeling like flying ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And your momma’s waiting up 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you’re thinking he’s the one ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you’re dancing ‘round the room when the night ends, when the night ends ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’re gonna believe them ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When you’re fifteen and your first kiss makes your head spins around ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But in your life you’ll do things greater than dating the boy of the football team ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But I didn’t know it at fifteen ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When all you wanted was to be wanted ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But I realized some bigger dreams of mine ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And we both cried ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’re gonna believe them ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And when you’re fifteen, don’t forget to look before you fall ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’ve found time can heal most anything ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you just might find who you’re supposed to be 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I didn’t know who I was supposed to be at fifteen ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Your very first day ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You take a deep breath, girl ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Take a deep breath as you walk through the doors. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club applauds, Danielle a bit reluctantly.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: That was a great choice, Ellie! Thank you for kicking this week off.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: That’s it for glee club today! We’ll see you all tomorrow.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle stands up immediately and grabs Neal’s hand. She pulls him out of the classroom before he’s barely picked up his backpack.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: Danielle, what’s going on?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Ellie is so impossible sometimes. I can’t believe she was able to get her solo in so quickly. I wanted to go first.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: Babe, you can’t always go first. Besides, if you’re second, your performance will be more memorable.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Mmm, good point.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle kisses Neal.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Thanks, babe. I love you.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: I love you, too.

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica lounges on her bed, scrolling through a playlist on her iPod. Trista enters, and Jessica jumps up.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Hey.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Hey, what’s up?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: You know how you promised to help me?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: With singing? Yeah.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: I’d like to take you up on that offer now. This is going to be my first solo at glee club since my audition, and I’m really nervous. I want to do well and impress Mr. Dom and Ms. Handel.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Of course! Do you have any ideas of what song you’d like to do?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Something that fits my voice, obviously. I’ve built a playlist.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Cool, let me take a look.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica hands over her iPod.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: These are all great options. I’d go with one of these three. Let’s practice them all, okay? You’re going to own girl power week.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle stands in front of the glee club.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: I let it fall, my heart, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And as it fell you rose to claim it 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It was dark and I was over ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Until you kissed my lips and you saved me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">My hands, they’re strong ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But my knees were far too weak, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To stand in your arms ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Without falling to your feet ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But there’s a side to you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That I never knew, never knew. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">All the things you’d say ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">They were never true, never true, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And the games you play ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You would always, always win. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But I set fire to the rain, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Watched it pour as I touched your face, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Well, it burned while I cried ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name! ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I set fire to the rain ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And I threw us into the flames ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When it fell, something died ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time! ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sometimes I wake up by the door, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That heart you caught must be waiting for you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Even now when we’re already over ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I can’t help myself from looking for you. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I set fire to the rain, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Watched it pour as I touched your face, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Well, it burned while I cried ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I set fire to the rain, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And I threw us into the flames ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When it fell, something died ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time, ohhhh! ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oh, noooo ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Let it burn, oh 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Let it burn ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Let it burn ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club applauds. A STUDENT pokes their head in the door.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Student: Mr. Dominguez, those forms you asked for are ready.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: Oh, right, of course, I’ll come take care of them right now.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As Mr. Dominguez leaves, Ms. Handel’s phone rings.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: Excuse me, I’ve got to take this.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel makes her exit.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: All right, this is the perfect opportunity. Ellie, come up here.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie steps up beside Danielle.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Now, glee club, who won this year’s sing-off? If your vote is for Ellie, step to her side of the room. If your vote is for me, step to this side.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal, Gabrielle, Connor, and Mark vote for Danielle. Devin, Miles, Drew, Ian, Paige, Trista, and Jessica vote for Ellie.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: It’s a clear victory, Danielle. Ellie is going to stay co-captain.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie smiles, not meanly. As the other students go back to their seats, Ellie holds out her hand for Danielle to shake.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: You did well. You’re an amazing singer.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Right. I can’t believe you bribed almost everyone.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: What?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Why else would they vote for you? Devin and Miles, yeah, they make sense. But the rest have to know I’m the superior vocalist.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Have you ever considered the possibility that we’re equally talented? And maybe they voted for me because I’m nicer than you. *turns away* I’m done for today. Devin, tell Mr. Dom and Ms. Handel I had an emergency back at my dorm.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie grabs her bag and turns back to Danielle.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: And don’t even think of trying to steal my position in my absence. Trista, I’m naming you as co-captain for the rest of the meeting.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie walks out.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle runs a brush down Berry’s neck. WINSTON DAVIES leads a palomino mare by. He smirks at Gabrielle. She pointedly ignores him.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: *whispers* He’s so annoying. But I don’t want to think of him. Do you want to hear my solo for glee club? I need to practice it before I perform in glee club. I need to be better than Trista.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Berry snorts.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: *giggles* Okay, okay, you don’t need to ask twice!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: New to town with a made-up name in the angel city, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chasing fortune and fame ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And the camera flashes make it look like a dream. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You had it figured out since you were in school ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everybody loves pretty, everybody loves cool ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So overnight you look like a sixties’ queen ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Another name goes up in lights, like diamonds in the sky. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And they’ll tell you now you’re the lucky one ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And they’ll tell you now you’re the lucky one ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But can you tell me now you’re the lucky one, oh, oh, oh… ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now it’s big black cars and Riviera views ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And your lover in the foyer doesn’t even know you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And your secrets end up splashed on the news front page ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And they tell you that you’re lucky ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But you’re so confused ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause you don’t feel pretty, you just feel used ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And all the young things line up to take your place ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Another name goes up in lights ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You wonder if you’ll make it out alive ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And they’ll tell you now you’re the lucky one ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And they’ll tell you now you’re the lucky one ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Can you tell me now you’re the lucky one, oh, oh, oh 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It was a few years later I showed up here ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And they still tell the legend of how you disappeared ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">How you took the money and your dignity and got the hell out ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">They say you bought a bunch of land somewhere ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chose the rose garden over Madison Square ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And it took some time but I understand it now ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause now my name is up in lights but I think you got it right. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Let me tell you now you’re the lucky one ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Let me tell you now you’re the lucky one ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Let me tell you now you’re the lucky one ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yea they’ll tell you now you’re the lucky one ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yeah they’ll tell you now you’re the lucky one ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And they’ll tell you now you’re the lucky one, oh, oh, oh 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oh, whoa, oh oh. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: *deep breath* How was that, Berry? Think I can top Trista?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie walks through the student center, carrying a coffee. Paige sits in an armchair, reading a textbook. She notices Ellie passing and jumps up.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: Hey, Ellie!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: *turns back* Oh, hey, Paige.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: Hey, so I was wondering if I could get some input on my glee club solo. I’m performing on Friday, and I’m kind of nervous. I want everyone to like it, you know?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Oh, they’ll all like it.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: Really? You think so.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: The whole glee club loves you.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: What’s wrong?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Nothing.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: No, Ellie, did I do something?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: You’re just fitting in so easily, and I don’t like it.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: What…?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Mr. Dominguez and Ms. Handel seem to think you’re perfect, and the best vocalist they’ve ever seen. I think you’re trying too hard.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: But—

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: And I know you’re trying to take my position as co-captain. I’ve already had to put up with that crap from Danielle, and I certainly don’t want to have to deal with you, too.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: Ellie, that’s not true!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Right. I’m watching you, and if you trip up, I will make sure you’re kicked out of the Dixie Singers. You may be a better singer than me, but I’ve earned being co-captain and I won’t give it up easily.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie stalks off. Paige stares after her, stunned.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige is sobbing, and Trista is trying to comfort her.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: I just don’t understand why Ellie treated me like that and thinks I’m after her spot as co-captain!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Ellie’s insecure because of Danielle. She sees you both as threats. Ellie was automatically suspicious of you. She doesn’t think she’s good enough because of things Danielle has said.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: But—

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: It doesn’t justify Ellie being mean to you, though. She’s really a sweet girl, and Danielle is honestly nice. But she feels like she isn’t good enough either, so she takes it out on Ellie, who was Danielle’s replacement. Ellie fears you’re her replacement, and she’s trying to prevent that.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: I don’t even want to be co-captain! Not this year, anyways.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: I know. But maybe…you could stop trying so hard to fit in. Pretty much everyone in glee club has accepted you. Once Ellie knows you’re not a threat, she should warm up to you. And once she cools down and the rivalry with Danielle isn’t front and center in her mind, Ellie will apologize. She really is nice, I swear.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: *sighs* That’s what I keep hearing. And I naively believed it until this afternoon.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: You seriously caught her on a bad day. Just give her a chance.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: I guess I’m just used to getting burned. The kids at my old school weren’t very nice.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Well everyone here is. Look at how welcoming glee club has been! C.C. Calhoun is going to be the best school you’ve ever attended.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club is gathered in the classroom. Mr. Dominguez and Ms. Handel stand in front of the students.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: Two of our powerful ladies will be performing their solos today. First up, Trista!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez and Ms. Handel take their seats as the music starts and Trista struts into the room.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: You know the bed feels warmer ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sleeping here alone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You know I dream in color ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And do the things I want ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You think you got the best of me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Think you’ve had the last laugh ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bet you think that everything good is gone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Think you left me broken down ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Think that I’d come running back ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Baby you don’t know me, ‘cause you’re dead wrong ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stand a little taller ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What doesn’t kill you makes a fighter ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Footsteps even lighter ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Doesn’t mean I’m over ‘cause you’re gone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, stronger ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Just me, myself, and I 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stand a little taller ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks to you I got a new thing started ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks to you I’m not the broken-hearted ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks to you I’m finally thinking about me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You know in the end the day you left was just my beginning ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In the end… ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stand a little taller ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What doesn’t kill you makes a fighter ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Footsteps even lighter ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Doesn’t mean I’m over ‘cause you’re gone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[2x] ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, stronger ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Just me, myself, and I 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stand a little taller ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(When I’m alone) ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club applauds. Trista curtsies.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: And now, Jessica, it’s your turn.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: I’ll help you get ready.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The girls hurry out of the classroom to the bathroom.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Oh, Trista, I’m so nervous! This is my first solo since my audition. What if I mess up?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: You’re not going to mess up. You’ve practiced religiously since Monday.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: But I could still forget the lyrics or hit the wrong note—

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: You’re ready. Trust me. Now come on, it’s time to get you in that snazzy outfit so you can shine, Jessica.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista scurries back to her seat in the classroom. The music starts, and Jessica enters.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: I’ve always been the kind of girl ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That hid my face ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So afraid to tell the world ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What I’ve got to say ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But I have this dream ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Right inside of me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’m gonna let it show ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s time to let you know ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To let you know ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is real ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be now ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gonna let the light shine on me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now I’ve found who I am 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s no way to hold it in 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">No more hiding who I wanna be 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Do you know what it’s like ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To feel so in the dark ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To dream about a life ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Where you’re the shining star ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Even though it seems ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Like it’s too far away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have to believe in myself ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s the only way ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is real ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be now ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gonna let the light shine on me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now I’ve found who I am 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s no way to hold it in 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">No more hiding who I wanna be 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is real ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be now ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gonna let the light shine on me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now I’ve found who I am 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s no way to hold it in 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">No more hiding who I wanna be 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now I’ve found who I am 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s no way to hold it in 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">No more hiding who I wanna be 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club erupts in cheers. Jessica smiles, relieved.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: That was great!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Wow, I had no idea you could sing like that, Jessica.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: None of us did!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: Bravo!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: You’ve all been wonderful this week, ladies. We have a strong group of voices, and our Sectionals’ win will be thanks to you.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: We have one more performance this week. Paige, you’re up tomorrow. Are you ready?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: *straightens in her seat* Of course.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The camera zooms in on the tense look Paige and Ellie share.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club settles into seats in the Half Moon. The stage is dark but as the music starts, a spotlight flicks on, silhouetting Paige.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: There’s a hero ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you look inside your heart ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You don’t have to be afraid ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Of what you are ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s an answer ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you reach into your soul ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And the sorrow that you know ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Will melt away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And then a hero comes ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With the strength to carry on 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you cast your fears aside ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you know you can survive ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So when you feel like hope is gone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Look inside you and be strong ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you’ll finally see the truth ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That a hero lies in you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s a long road ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When you face the world alone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">No one reaches out a hand ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For you to hold ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You can find love ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you search within yourself ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And the emptiness you felt ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Will disappear ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And then a hero comes ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With the strength to carry on 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you cast your fears aside ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you know you can survive ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So when you feel like hope is gone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Look inside you and be strong ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you’ll finally see the truth ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That a hero lies in you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lord knows ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dreams are hard to follow ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But don’t let anyone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tear them away ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hold on 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There will be tomorrow ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In time ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’ll find the way ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And then a hero comes ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With the strength to carry on 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you cast your fears aside ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you know you can survive ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So when you feel like hope is gone ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Look inside you and be strong ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you’ll finally see the truth ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That a hero lies in you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige looks pleased. Ellie’s expression is unreadable. Danielle is glaring at Ellie. The screen goes black.