Find Yourself 3
“So, Alexis Davis spoke that evening as she sat around the kitchen table with who two daughters playing the roll of mother for once instead of her old roll of lawyer and for a while Port Charles’s DA.
“Kristina, Molly,” she continued, “how was your first day at your new schools.”
It was eleven-year-old Molly who spoke up first.
“It was horrible mom,” she said as her mother flashed her a look of concern.
“I mean,” she continued, “its only day one and I’m already bored out of my mind. Can’t you put a call into the Ohio State Board of Education and see if they can’t skip me to sixth grade already.”
“I’ll see what I can do sweetheart,” Alexis spoke as she ruffled her daughters hair.
From the look on her mother’s face Kristina was sure hearing that her sister was bored in her classes was the lesser of all the evils creeping up in her moms mind.
“That’s all I ask,” her sister spoke before her mother’s attention turned to her.
“What about you Kristina, how was your first day at McKinley High, was it better then you expected.”
Fidgeting nervously with her hair Kristina didn’t know what to tell her mother about first. Should she talk about the friends she made, the fact that she was thinking about joining New Directions, or perhaps she should mention the fact that she had been daydreaming about her lab partner for the better part of the day. Mentally crossing off the part about Noah for now she finally decided where to begin.
“I was definitely pleasantly surprised.”
Alexis smiled.
“That’s good, care to elaborate.”
Kristina nodded.
“It was, I guess eventful would be a good word… Let’s see, I made some new friends and I’m kind of thinking about joining New Directions.”
Her mother and sister watched her, as she spoke not having a clue what she was talking about.
“Excuse me,” Alexis asked thinking that her daughter never did anything that wasn’t academic and she was curious as to what this whole New Directions thing was, a mentoring program perhaps.”
“The school’s show choir,” Kristina continued as her mother nodded.
It was obviously that Alexis didn’t see that one coming.
“You know Kristina, by being at McKinley High now you are loosing academic edge.”
Kristina couldn’t help but laugh as that very morning she was arguing this to her mother and yet after her first day at a public school there was definitely a part of her who didn’t give a damn, a part of her that wanted to just live. She wanted to be a reel high school junior with real friends, having real fun.
“I know,” she spoke smiling to her mother.
And this was the last they spoke of McKinley and Glee the rest of the evening.
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The Following day arose and Kristina was gearing up for day two of McKinley with a much greater enthusiasm then she had the day before. In fact her biggest regret was that her mother didn’t keep the second car and insisted to give it to Viola as a gift. Public Transit was now her new friend.
As she stepped off of the bus she entered the building and dropped off the coat, hat, and gloves, which were slightly damp from a late January snow flurry before heading into the science lab where it seemed that her partner was eagerly waiting her arrival.
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He watched as the young girl entered the classroom wondering how much Hummel and those other Glee kids had told her about him. He assumed that she already thought that he was kind of a jerk for not holding a decent conversation with her the previous morning but if she knew all about the baby-daddy drama between himself, Quinn Fabray and Finn Hudson then she was sure as hell going to think that he was a major ass.
“Kristina,” he spoke.
Watching her jump a bit he realized he took her off guard and waited for to gain composure and pull her book, notebook, and pen from her bag and take a seat on the stool beside him.
‘Hummel so told her,” he thought to himself before she finally spoke up.
“Good morning,” she finally replied back in a tone that obviously said that no, she didn’t know about the drama, yet anyway.
“Listen, about yesterday.”
He watched her flash him a vacant look before smiling.
“What about yesterday.
“The way I acted, not really talking to you and stuff well that was rude of me.”
He watched for her reaction. The way she cracked a sweet half smile made him note that she had accepted his apology and yet there was a wicked glint in her eye.
“Let me guess,” she spoke in a tone lased with sweetness and sarcasm, “your really a vampire and the smell of my pheromones is driving you crazy.”
As she tauntingly waved her long dark brown hair in his face he couldn’t help but think that though he was all human the strawberries and cream sent of her shampoo was truly breathtaking.
“Nope,” he spoke holding out one of his arms for her to feel a pulse, “I’m all human. Actually the reason I was distant is because well science isn’t really my strong point.”
Watching a look of surprise cross Kristina’s face Puck continued.
“You see Miss Pillsbury the guidance counselor, she had this idea to sign the entire football team up for at least one advanced class to break the whole dumb jock stereotype or something.”
“And you drew advanced chemistry.”
He nodded.
“I drew advanced chemistry which was why I was glued to the lecture. If I don’t get a C- then I’m screwed.”
“Well what grad do you have now if you don’t mind me prying.”
Flashing her a grin he clasped his hands together.
“Solid C baby,” he spoke with delight before looking once more to Kristina. There was just something about his new lab partner that was different from Santana, Quinn, Rachel and all the other girls he’d been with. A good kind of different where had his life been slightly less complicated at the moment he would totally be using this moment to ask her out on a date or maybe to hang out and help him make flash cards of the periodic table or something to help him shock everyone by getting his grade up to a B. Instead however he decided to change to subject. To see if perhaps she knew more about him then she was letting on.
“So,” he finally spoke up again, “I saw you hanging out with Hummel and some of the other glee kids the yesterday.”
He was gearing up to face the music that would be coming next.
“Kurt’s great,” he listened to her say, “and the others, well let’s just say it’s kind of refreshing to have real friends for once.”
He wondered what she had meant by this, as Kristina Davis seemed like a fun, outgoing person to be around.
“You know there is an open spot in glee,” he said.
He wasn’t going to tell her the reason why as he watched her look at him with an air of curiosity.
He bet she wondered why he had known so much about the club and couldn’t wait to see the look on her face when she walked into the music room the next day and saw him sitting there.
“Rachel told me.”
He shook his head.
‘Typical Rachel’ he thought to himself kind of wishing that things had worked out better between them during their brief relationship.
“I’m kind of thinking of auditioning.”
“You should.”
And then the bell rang before the conversation ended due to the bell ringing signaling the actual start of class.
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Kristina looked from her notes to Puck during class that day and the decision was crystal clear. Where she had only been 85% sure of joining New Directions before she was now 100% and couldn’t wait to break the news to Kurt and the gang during lunch.
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TBC