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"Hi, I'm Jacob Ben Israel with Glee's big gay summer with all the glee club dish you're dying to know!" Venus looks away from her locker towards JBI. She shivers in disgust as he walks over toward Finn and Rachel. She turns back towards her locker quickly to finish getting her stuff while glancing at them.
As soon as she's finished getting her books and looks back at them for the last time, JBI catches her eye and gets ready to come her way. She turns around and starts to speed walk away when she crashes into someone. She quickly looks up and sees green eyes and bright blonde hair.
She's quick to apologize. " I-I'm so sorry." He looks down at her, "It's okay-'' He's cut off by a scream down the hall, "VENUS!" The blonde cutie looks around confused until he's grabbed by the hand and pulled down the hall. He looks at the girl dragging him and lets himself be pulled. As soon as she's around the corner, she lets go of his hands and looks around the corner for JBI, and spots him walking into the choir room.
"Should... I go?" A hesitant voice says behind her. She jumps and turns around. "Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't even realize I took you with me." She says sheepishly. He shrugs and laughs, "It's okay!" He says with a smile. Venus raises her hand for him to shake, and he takes it, "I'm Venus, Venus Smith." He drops her hand and looks at her curiously, "Like the planet?" He says with his head tilted. 'Cute.' She gives him a deadpan look but couldn't keep it and she breaks out into a smile, "Exactly!" She says while pointing finger guns at him. He breaks out in a goofy grin, "I'm Sam, Sam Evans," He says, copying how she said her name, "Like Sam-I-Am?" She says. She copies his earlier move and tilts her head. He looks at her and does finger guns as well, "Exactly!" They both break out into laughs.
"You wanna know something interesting Sam-I-Am?" Venus says to him. He nods his head. "Venus is the planet of love. It's named after Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. It's also the only planet named after a female god." She looks up at him and he stares at her with awe, surprised she knew something like that. She takes his silence as him uninterested in her. "S-sorry, it's not that interesting I guess," She says with a blush on her cheeks. "I liked it, I thought it was interesting." She looks at him in shock, thinking he would think she was weird. "Cool," she said whispering.
The bell ringing knocks them out of their trances. "What's your next class?" Venus asks. Sam looks down at his schedule, "Math with... Mr. Logan?" She takes the paper and looks down at it, "Mrs. Logan," She corrects, "Me too, walk with me to class?" She asks. "Sure!"
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The whole choir room was buzzing with excitement, happy to be in the presence of each other again. Venus was sitting beside Mike in the back with her head on his shoulder, his arm wrapped around the back of her chair. She sat there, tired from waking up early that morning, not getting that much sleep, too nervous and excited at the same time for school.
Mr. Schue walked into the room and everyone began to cheer a little bit. Instead of doing an introduction as everyone thought, he jumps right into class. "These are comments from Jacob Ben Israel's most recent Glee Club blog." He says as he holds a paper and reads. Venus shivers just hearing his name. "Glee is a giant ball of suck" He continues. "We get it, Mr. Schue," Kurt says from beside Mercedes. "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." Mercedes nods in agreement. "Kurt's right. We're a family. They can bring it all they want. None of it is going to break us."
While Mr. Schue explains that while they have 12 members, he wants more voices to make a larger and stronger sound, Venus traces shapes on Mike's thigh, bored. Mike realizes this and tries to figure out which shapes she's making. "Circle," Mike whispers. Shocked that he said something, she looks up and smiles at him. "This is why you're my best friend," She whispers back to him.
The sound of Rachel's voice ruins their peace, "Mr. Schuester's right, you guys. You didn't see Vocal Adrenaline at Regionals. They were epic. We're going to need a lot more voices to beat them." Finn, taking his girlfriend's side, says "Yeah" He stands up and goes to Rachel's side. "I'm with Rachel on this one."
"Gross," Venus chuckles at Brittany's remark but turns her head into Mike's shoulder when Rachel glares at her. Brittany turns around and mouths a 'thanks' in her direction and Venus blows a kiss at her and mouths a 'love you.' "You're going to have to trust me on this, guys," Mr. Schue says, "Nationals is in New York this year and we are going!" Venus sees Mercedes play fanning Kurt from the corner of her eye. "Now, let's go out there and show the school how cool it's going to be. How cool we can be. If they're not going to come to us, let's go to them. They say we only sing show tunes and 80s pop. Let's give them the song of the year, New Directions style!"
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They were in the court yard, and the New Directions were just a minute or so away from the beginning of their performance. Venus looks at Mike as he was carrying the boombox to Rachel. She looks around and sees Sam, and waits until he spots her and waves at him enthusiastically. He waves back with the same energy, a big smile on his face. Mike comes up beside her and nudges her with a grin.
Empire State Of Mind - Glee Club
When they struck their ending pose, nobody clapped for them. She looks toward Sam and he was silently golf clapping, trying to make her smile. She chuckles a little and he smiles and gives her a thumbs up. She smiles back at him, and Mike nudges her again, making her blush.
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Mike had texted Venus telling her to come to the choir room. She walked into the room while holding her hands in front of her, twisting them anxiously. When Mike spotted her, he waved her over, and when she got close enough to him, he pulled her into his lap. This was a normal occurrence, so when the boys saw this, they didn't comment on it and only looked at her with soft smiles. They looked back up to the front of the room at Sam. "Sam-I-Am!" Venus says excitedly. He looked at her with a smile, "Hey V." She blushes at the nickname. The boys look curiously between the two.
"So Sam, tell us about yourself," Finn starts. Sam, intimidated by the eyes on him, fidgets a little bit. "My name's Sam Evans, I like comic books, sports. I'm dyslexic so my grades aren't that good but... I'm working on it." Sam tells them. "Dude, your mouth is huge. How many tennis balls can you fit in there?" Puck blurts out, staring at Sam's mouth in awe. "I dunno, I've never had any balls in my mouth, have you?" Sam asks, feeling taken aback. Venus laughs from her place on Mike's lap. "I like this kid," Finn says leaning over to Artie. "I like his confidence, but the Bieber cuts got to go."
"I like it, it's cute," Venus says. Sam smiles at her in appreciation, and she nods to him. "So, can you sing with that big mouth?" Puck says, while Finn goes to stand beside Sam. "I've never really sung in front of anyone else before." The rest of the boys stand up and go to the front, leaving Venus in the chair. "Dude, let me tell you, chicks dig singers. Ain't that right V," Puck asks while Venus nods "Yep!”
"We'll back you up dude, don't worry. What song you got in your back pocket?" Finn asks, giving Sam a guitar. "Um... Billionaire?" Sam suggests. Finn snaps his fingers and goes to the drums.
Billionaire - Sam Evans - Glee Boys
While singing, Mike comes over and pulls Venus up, and starts dancing with her, laughing and smiling the whole time. The boys watch her with smiles as she dances carefree.
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Waiting in the choir room, Venus is a little disappointed that Sam didn't show up for auditions. Rubbing her back, sensing her disappointment, Brittany looks at her with a smile. Venus walks with Finn to his locker with their arms hooked together. He looks down at her with a frown, "I know you're just as disappointed that Sam didn't show up as me."
"Maybe just a little bit," She says with a small shy smile. "I know how he feels though. He's the new kid, he doesn't want to draw attention to himself." She states with a frown. "But he's trying out for football." He says, with furrowed brows. "Bad attention,” She corrects, ”It's okay though, we'll just be losers together," She says with a smile back on her face. He looks at her with a smile, going to say something, when he's cut off by Karofsky and Azimio throwing a slushy in their face. "Yeah you are," Karofsky says, strolling away.