More Than a Glee Club Script

Previously on The Music Book…someone started a fire in the conservatory, but the culprit remains a mystery…at least to the students and faculty at C.C. Calhoun. Winston and Gabrielle framed Connor for the theft of Headmaster Vincent’s Maserati, but Ian, Neal, and Danielle helped prove Connor’s innocence. Danielle and Ellie still aren’t getting along, and Ellie hasn’t apologized yet to Paige for her outburst. Phew! That’s a lot of heavy stuff! Oh, and we can’t forget Sectionals are coming up. And that’s what you missed on… The Music Book!



Ellie and Gideon are at the coffee shop, sipping from cups.

Gideon: How are things going at glee club?

Ellie: Good. We still don’t know who started the fire, and I think several people are still shaken from that.

Gideon: I understand why.

Ellie: Will you come watch us at Sectionals?

Gideon: I wouldn’t miss it for the world.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Mr. Dom and Ms. Handel are determined this week to make sure we’re a tight-knit team.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Their assignment, according to the email they sent out last night, is friendship. We have to perform duets. And I’ve been assigned to mentor Paige and get her ready for her first Sectionals, so we’re performing a duet together.

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

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gideon: Ells, you have to apologize.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: *sighs* I know.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle enters the coffee shop. She’s with Neal and laughing at something he said. Danielle makes eye contact with Ellie and stops laughing.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Now if only she’d lay off my case.

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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"">Ian walks down the hallway in Donahue Hall. He shuffles through some mail and stares at the five envelopes in his hand. He pushes open the door to his room. Connor and Neal are laughing and working on homework. Ian is frozen by the door.

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

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Oh, yeah, you’re a senior. What schools did you get applications from?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian tosses the envelopes on Connor’s bed.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, John Hopkins University: Peabody Conservatory of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and…wow, Juilliard!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: So you want to do something with music.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: Yes. Singing is my life.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: So do you want to be on the radio or something?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: No, I’d rather perform at concert halls or teach. Or even do musicals.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: Why do you seem so down?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: My parents don’t know I’m applying to these schools. They think I’m applying to prestigious schools for pre-law, then going to an Ivy League law school.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: And they think this why?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: They’re both lawyers, their dads were lawyers, and I’m expected to follow in their footsteps.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: Man, that’s not cool.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: There’s not much I can do about it. But I’m applying to the schools I want to, along with the colleges I’m expected to. Maybe they’ll realize music is my dream.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club is gathered in their usual classroom.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: I wish I was strong enough to lift not one but both of us ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Someday I will be strong enough to lift not one but both of us 

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: Uh, ever thought about losing it ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When your money’s all gone and you lose your whip ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You might lose your grip ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When the landlord tell you that you’re due for rent ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And the grass so green on the other side ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Make a man wanna run straight through the fence ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Open up the fridge ‘bout twenty times ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But still can’t find no food in it 

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And sometimes I wonder, why we care so much about the way we look ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And the way we talk and the way we act and the clothes we bought, how much that cost ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Does it even really matter? ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause if life is an uphill battle ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We all trying to climb with the same ol’ ladder ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In the same boat with the same ol’ paddle ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Why so shallow? I’m just asking ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What’s the pattern to the madness ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everybody ain’t a number one draft pick ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Most of us ain’t Hollywood actors ''

<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 if it’s all for one, and one for all ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Then maybe one day, we can all ball ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Do it one time for the underdogs ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sincerely yours, from one of y’all ''

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: I wish I was strong enough to lift not one but both of us ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Someday I will be strong enough to lift not one but both of us 

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: I can feel your pain, I can feel your struggle ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You just wanna live, but everything so low ''

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That’s why I gotta hold us up, yeah hold us up 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For all the times no one’s ever spoke for us 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To every single time that they play this song ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You can say that that’s what Bobby Ray wrote for us 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When the tides get too high ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And the sea up underneath get so deep ''

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Getting lost in the crowd, way up high in the nosebleeds ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Uh, because we’ve both been there, yeah, both of us 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But if we still stand tall with our shoulders up 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And even though we always against the odds ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">These are the things that’ve molded us 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And if life hadn’t chosen us 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sometimes I wonder where I would’ve wound up 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause if it was up to me, I’d make a new blueprint ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Than build it from the ground up, hey ''

<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 if it’s all for one, and one for all ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Then maybe one day we all can ball ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Do it one time for the underdogs ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From Bobby Ray to all of y’all ''

<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"">Ms. Handel: I wish I was strong enough to lift not one but both of us ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Someday I will be strong enough to lift not one but both of us 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oh, oh [4x] ''

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club applauds. Mr. Dominguez bows; Ms. Handel curtsies.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: That’s the type of performance we want to see from you this week and at Sectionals.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: Be a cohesive unit. That and great vocals are what will win.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie walks out of Lee Hall just as Paige is coming up the sidewalk.

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

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige keeps walking, but Ellie stops her.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: So, um, I’m supposed to be mentoring you this week. Could we meet in the Half Moon for some rehearsal?

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: We have the same study hall on Thursday. Can you get a pass?

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Good. I’ll see you then.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie continues on her way. Paige watches her, stunned.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor and Neal are in their room; Connor is doing homework, and Neal is playing video games. Connor shoves his textbook aside.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: We’ve got to do something about Ian.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: He so doesn’t want to be a lawyer. There’s gotta be something we can do about his parents.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: Well, they’re his parents, not ours, for starters. For another, they’re the Scotts. Hard to get a hold of and impossible to bargain with. There’s a reason they’re the most successful lawyers in New York.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: But don’t you want to help Ian? He’s our roommate, after all.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: But he’s never nice to us.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: With parents like his, I kind of understand why he doesn’t like to make friends. C’mon, Neal, wouldn’t you hate it if someone wouldn’t let you follow your dream?

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor grabs Ian’s laptop and types in the password.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: How did you know his password?

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

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Now I’ll just hack into Ian’s email, pretend to be him, and ask his parents if they have time to Skype tomorrow night. Hopefully they’ll hear us out.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: Oh, yeah, Ian’s got study group!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor types for a minute.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Done. Now let’s hope the Scotts reply affirmatively.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor and Neal sit in front of Ian’s laptop. They send a Skype request, and Mr. and Mrs. Scott appear onscreen.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mrs. Scott: Ian, what required a Skype—who are you?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: Uh, I’m Neal Harper.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: I’m Connor Towers. We’re Ian’s roommates.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Scott: Where’s Ian? He asked if he could chat with us tonight.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: We kind of sent that email. We wanted to speak with you about Ian.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mrs. Scott: What has he done now?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: Oh, nothing! He’s nice and a great roommate. But we’re worried about him.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Ian told us he’s sending in his college applications.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mrs. Scott: Well it’s good to hear that child has some responsibility.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: He mentioned how you want him to apply to Ivy League schools and become a lawyer. But Ian really loves music. He’s one of the glee club’s strongest singers, and he wants to study music.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Scott: That is out of the question. Music does not make certain money. Besides, law is the family business.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: With all due respect, Mr. Scott, that isn’t what Ian wants to do. Shouldn’t he be happy?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian enters. Connor and Neal freeze.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: What are you guys doing with my laptop?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mrs. Scott: Is that Ian? Let’s hear what he has to say on the matter.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: You’re talking to my parents?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: We’re staging an intervention. You weren’t going to tell them what you really want, and they need to know.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian drops his bag and joins his roommates in front of the webcam.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Scott: Yes, what is this we hear about you wanting to pursue music?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: Well, it’s my dream… I want to sing in concert halls, or teach, or even perform in musicals.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mrs. Scott: Yes, but dear, music will get you nowhere in life. You may be successful for five or ten years—if that—but then you have nothing to retire on, nothing to raise a family with.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: I think I’m talented enough to have lasting success. Besides, even if I don’t, I can teach music at a high school or college. That’ll pay the bills. I don’t need to be rich to be happy. Money doesn’t buy happiness.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Scott: It may not, son, but it makes life easier.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mrs. Scott: Pursuing music is out of the question, Ian. You will become a lawyer and join Scott & Scott. End of discussion.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Scott: We’ll see you at Thanksgiving.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">He leans forward and ends the Skype call. Connor and Neal stare at the screen in shock. Ian stands.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: I told you they wouldn’t understand. Now you’ve gone and made it worse. I’ll never hear the end of this.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: We thought we could help them understand.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: We know you don’t think of us as your friends, but we wanted to help you out. We know how much you like music.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: Just stay out of my business! My parents will never understand, and I’ve resigned myself to being a lawyer until I die!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">He storms out of the room. The room is awkwardly silent.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian enters the usual glee club classroom. Mr. Dominguez, Ms. Handel, and the other Dixie Singers are already gathered. Connor and Neal are sitting on stools in the center of the room.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: Have a seat, Ian. Connor and I have a song for you.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian slowly moves to the empty chair in the front row. He slings his backpack off his shoulder and under the chair.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: We’re sorry we interfered. We were only doing what we thought was best for you.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: We still think you should continue to press your parents to let you follow your dreams.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: But whatever you decide on…we wanted to let you know you can count on us.

<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"">Connor: Oh uh-huh ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’ll sail the world to find you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can’t see ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’ll be the light to guide 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"">Find out what we’re made of 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When we are called to help our friends in need ''

<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"">Connor and Neal: You can count on me like 1, 2, 3 ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’ll be there ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And I know when I need it 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I can count on you like 4, 3, 2 ''

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause that’s what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah ''

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

<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"">Neal: If you’re tossin’ and you’re turnin’ ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And you just can’t fall asleep ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’ll sing a song beside you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And if you ever forget how much you really mean to me 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Every day I will remind 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"">Ooh ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Find out what we’re made of 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When we are called to help our friends in need ''

<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"">Connor and Neal: You can count on me like 1, 2, 3 ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’ll be there ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And I know when I need it 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I can count on you like 4, 3, 2 ''

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause that’s what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah ''

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

<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"">Neal: You’ll always have my shoulder when you cry ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’ll never let go, never say goodbye ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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"">Connor and Neal: You can count on me like 1, 2, 3 ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’ll be there ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And I know when I need it 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I can count on you like 4, 3, 2 ''

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause that’s what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah ''

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

<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 can count on me ‘cause I can count on 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"">Neal: So even though your parents are pills, we’ve got your backs. You may totally hate us, but we don’t want you to be unhappy.

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

<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 and Paige are in the park, bundled up in coats and sipping hot chocolate.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: Well, as you know, Ellie is mentoring me this week.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: She’s meeting me at the Half Moon tomorrow to rehearse.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: Yeah. *pause* Do you think she’s planning something mean?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Ellie’s really good at holding grudges and staying angry, but she isn’t malicious. I don’t think you have anything to worry about.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige doesn’t look convinced.

<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 Cate are in their room, looking at Ellie’s iPhone.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cate: Hmm…I don’t think it fits your voices.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie throws her iPhone on her bed.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: This is hopeless! I’m trying to make an effort to be nice, Cate, but my plan isn’t working.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cate: You’ll think of the right song.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie stares at the wall. Cate chooses a song on her iPod and part of Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus, Take the Wheel” is heard.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: That’s it!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cate: You’re going to go with “Jesus, Take the Wheel”? I mean, it’s a good song, but I’m not sure it fits what you’re looking for.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: I know, but I just remembered another Carrie Underwood song that’s perfect.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige enters the Half Moon. Ellie is sitting on the edge of the stage. A band is set up at the back of the stage.

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

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">She joins Ellie at the stage.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: So, um, what do you have planned?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Well, a song, obviously. *passes some sheet music to Paige* Do you know this one?

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

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Both girls stand at center stage. The band begins playing.

<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: There’s a place out there for us 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">More than just a prayer or anything you’ve ever dreamed of 

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause you don’t fit in down here ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fear is crashing in. close your eyes and take my hand, yeah ''

<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"">Both: We can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s written in the stars that shine above ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A world where you and I belong ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Where faith and love will keep us strong ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Exactly who we are is just enough ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s a place for us, there’s a place for us 

<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: When the water meets the sky ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Where your heart is free and hope comes back to life ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When these broken hands are whole again ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We’ll find what we’ve been waiting for ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We were made for so much more ''

<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"">Both: We can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s written in the stars that shine above ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A world where you and I belong ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Where faith and love will keep us strong ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Exactly who we are is just enough ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s a place for us, there’s a place for us 

<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: So hold on, hold on 

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

<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"">Both: We can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s written in the stars that shine above ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A world where you and I belong ''

<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: Where faith and love will keep us strong ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Exactly who we are is just enough ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Exactly who we are is just enough ''

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

<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: I’m sorry I was so rude. The pressure was piling up on me from Danielle trying to take my spot as co-captain, and I took it out on you. I shouldn’t have, and I’m sorry.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: You’re forgiven.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Good, because there’s room in the Dixie Singers for both of us.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: I really don’t want to outshine you or take your spot.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: No, you need to have your moments in the spotlight, too. Don’t deny them just so you don’t outshine me. The glee club is lucky to have you.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin, Gideon, and Trista appear in the doorway and cheer. Ellie and Paige stare at them and laugh. The guys and Trista run up to the stage.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: See, I told you Ellie wasn’t planning any funny business, Paige.

<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"">Paige: Oh, nothing.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Paige was convinced this meeting would involve her death or maiming.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Oh, gosh, I would never do that. I’m more of a yell-at-people-get-my-frustrations-out-through-song girl.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gideon: *hugs Ellie and kisses her cheek* I’m proud of you. It was frustrating watching you stubbornly refuse to apologize for, what, five weeks, but I know you had to do it in your own time.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: You’d think you’d know that by now, Gideon.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: Can I treat you all to a treat at Calhoun Coffee?

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: I’m in.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gideon: Let’s go!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The five head off. As soon as they’re out the door, Danielle steps onto the stage from where she’s been hiding in the wings. She looks a bit forlorn.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In the library, Ian folds some paper and sticks it in an envelope, then seals the envelope. He carries the envelopes to the post office in the student center. Then Ian walks to his dorm. Neal and Connor look up as their roommate opens his laptop and logs into Skype. A chat request comes in immediately. Ian accepts, and his parents appear onscreen.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mrs. Scott: Ian, what was so urgent? Your father and I were both in important meetings.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: I just sent my college applications.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Scott: Splendid! I expect you’ll hear back within a few weeks. If you get a rejection from Yale or Princeton, let us know. I have connections and can pull some strings so they will reconsider—

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: I didn’t apply to any of the Ivy League schools.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Scott: Where did you apply, Ian?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: Schools I want to go to. Cleveland Institute of Music, Juilliard, Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, or John Hopkins University: Peabody Conservatory of Music.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mrs. Scott: You can’t study law at those schools, Ian.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: I know, Mom. But I plan to study music, possibly jazz, and I’m going to a school I want to attend. Both of you love law, and you’ve pursued your passions. Why can’t I do the same?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Scott: We only want what’s best for you.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mrs. Scott: And music is not what’s best for you, sweetheart.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: How do you know? You’re not me. Music makes me happy. And just like you cut off our last call, I’m cutting off this one. I will attend one of the music schools I applied to. I will pursue my dreams. And I won’t become a lawyer. End of discussion.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. and Mrs. Scott gape at Ian. He ends the Skype call.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: I’m glad you stood up to your parents. We’ve seen how glee club makes you happy.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: I just hope my parents understand that. Otherwise, they might disinherit me, and I’ll have no way of attending the school I want to.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Well, Neal and I will be here for you every step of the way.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: That’s what friends do.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: You guys want to be my friends?

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Why wouldn’t we?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: Well, I haven’t exactly been the nicest guy nor have I made it easy to become friends with me.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Well, Neal and I are willing to put up with a lot. You’ve met Danielle.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: I’m mostly kidding. But you’ve seen what a jerk she can be to Ellie.

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

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle dials a number on her cell phone. Ellie can be heard in voiceover.

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

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: What do you want now? Do you want to steal my boyfriend? Oh, I know! You want to accuse me of still being mean to Paige. Well, I’ve got news for you. Paige and I—

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Just hush and let me speak.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie cautiously enters the Half Moon. She sees the band onstage, but no one else.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle emerges from the wings.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Well, I’m here. Now what do you want?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: I saw what you did for Paige. And, well…I have a song for us to sing, too.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: I see your face in my mind as I drive away, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause none of us thought it was gonna end that way. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">People are people, and sometimes we change our minds. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But it’s killing me to see you go after all this time. ''

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

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

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

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

<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: Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s the kinda ending you don’t really wanna see. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Cause it’s tragedy and it’ll only bring you down, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now I don’t know what to be without you around. ''

<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 and Ellie: And we know it’s never simple, never easy, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Never a clean break, no one here to save me. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’re the only thing I know like the back of my hand ''

<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 I can’t breathe without you ''

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Breathe without you ''

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

<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: Never wanted this, never wanna see you hurt. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Every little bump in the road I tried to swerve. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">People are people, and sometimes it doesn’t work out, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall 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"">Danielle and Ellie: And we know it’s never simple, never easy, ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Never a clean break, no one here to save me. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’re the only thing I know like the back of my hand ''

<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 I can’t breathe without you ''

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Breathe without you ''

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

<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: It’s two a.m. 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Feeling like I just lost a friend ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hope you know it’s not easy, easy for me. ''

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Feeling like I just lost a friend ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hope you know this ain’t easy, easy for 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"">Danielle: And we know it’s never simple, never easy ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Never a clean break, no one here to save me. ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’re the only thing I know like the back of my hand ''

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

<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 and Ellie: And I can’t breathe without you ''

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Breathe without you ''

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Breathe without you ''

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

<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 (Ellie): I’m sorry (oh) ''

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

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

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

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

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

<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 smiles softly. The girls hug.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: I forgive you. But now we’re a stronger team. There’s no way the Dixie Singers won’t rock Sectionals.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: *laughs* You know it.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Most of the glee club, Mr. Dominguez, and Ms. Handel are gathered by a luxury bus. They’re bundled up in coats, but dressy attire can be seen below the jacket hems. Everyone is wearing nice shoes, and the girls’ hairdos are fancier than usual.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: Devin, Miles, Drew…We’re missing Ellie.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie runs up, holding Gideon’s hand.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Right here, Mr. Dom!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: All right, Ellie, Neal, Jessica, Danielle…

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: Gabrielle is missing, too. Let’s keep counting and hope she shows up soon.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: Okay. Trista, you’re here, and so are Paige, Ian, Connor, and Mark.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle hurries down the sidewalk. Winston is with her.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Winston: Is there room for one more on the bus?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: Winston wants to tag along and cheer for the Dixie Singers.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: Of course! Hop on, everyone. We’ve got to get going. This is going to be a busy weekend.

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

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: We’re going to dominate at Sectionals.

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