𝚃𝙰𝚂𝚃𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚅𝙴𝙽 ➭ 𝖿𝗂𝗇𝗇 𝗁𝗎𝖽𝗌𝗈𝗇

twenty-three; audition

Winona's summer was relatively uneventful. She went to breadstix with Artie a few times, hung out with Matt a lot, played videogames with Eric, had occasional conversations with Quinn and even managed to rebuild her friendship with Jesse. Much to her dismay, she didn't talk to Finn. She missed him a lot, along with Kurt and Mercedes, who she didn't get around to chatting with the whole time.

As Winona walked into school, she felt different than last year. While she entered the school with Eric the same, she didn't feel as overwhelmingly alone. Quinn waved hello to her, and Kurt rushed to give her a hug before leaving to go find Mercedes.

As Eric left to go to his locker, and Jacob Ben Isreal scurried over go Winona for an interview.

"How do you feel knowing you've slept with the two gayest dudes ever?" He shoved the mic in her face, she gently pushed it away from her and looked to the camera with wide eyes.

"What?"

"You slept with Matt Rutherford, who newly transferred because he was getting bullied for his homo ways."

"That's not why—" Winona began, Jacob cutting her off.

"Going on, Jesse St. James as well," He accused. Winona shook her head vigorously.

"Jesse and I didn't sleep together, and neither of them are gay. Get the camera outta here," Winona answered calmly, batting the camera away. Jacob reluctantly complied, only because he was scared of her.

Winona started walking down the hall, looking over her shoulder and sending him a dirty look at Jacob as they walked in opposite directions. She wasn't a fan of his, probably because he was so creepy.

Lost in her thoughts, the blonde accidentally ran right into someone.

"You okay?" The stranger asked. Winona looked up, frantically sputtering an apology. Looking up at the boy, she concluded he must have been new, because she didn't recognize him.

"Yeah, yeah— Sorry," She said. He beamed a charismatic smile and held his hand out to shake.

"Sam Evans," The blond boy introduced himself. Winona happily shook his hand.

"Winona Watts. You new?"

"Yeah, it's kinda scary," He confessed, his hands retreating to his pockets. They chatted for a bit, finding out they both had a lot in common, before Artie showed up to cut it short.

"Win!" The boy exclaimed as he wheeled down the hall. Sam cocked his head as Winona looked past him to see her best friend approaching.

"Artie!" She leaned down to hug him, before gesturing between the two dudes, "meet Sam. Sam, meet Artie."

Sam waved at him, before looking down at his wristwatch.

"Uh, nice to meet you guys, I should head to class."

"See you around," Winona called as he headed in the other direction with a smile. 

"New boy toy now that Finn and Rachel are together?" Artie asked, Winona ruffling his hair with an eye roll.

"No, don't be silly, now c'mon! Let's go to our first glee club meeting of the year!"

Artie woop-wooped, making Winona laugh as she wheeled him towards the choir room. Winona greeted her glee friends with hugs and high fives as she went to go sit by Artie.

"Glee is a giant ball of suck," Mr. Schue read online comments aloud with a frown.

"We get it, Mr. Shue. Everyone still hates us. So what? So we're plankton on the high school food chain; Only difference now is that none of us really care," Kurt told him with a sigh, Mercedes nodded.