A/N: This is a mash up of Burlesque and Glee. Hope you all like it! Unsure what to use as a title for this Glesque? But she isn't in Glee any more is she? I'll keep the title till I figure something out! Cheers X Rose.

This first chapter is set in auditorium, where Rachel and her classmates are graduating from their college. Then the after party at Rachel's house that she shares with five of the other graduates in her class.

Chapter One: The Road to Succession

I watched on as each one of my class mates filed into the auditorium, where we would all be receiving our graduation and award certificates. I had made and met so many interesting people who I know I could call upon and call my friends for life. Actual friends that I had been lacking all my life, especially when I had been in high school, who accepted me just the way I was.

Driven, focused, beautiful, smart and talented people just like me. Headed in the same direction I was, who had as much dedication that I never wavier. It was definitely something special.

"OMG Rach!" my best friend Alesson Jason chirped in next to me. She had made Junior Alexander change seats with her so she could sit right next to me, even though it would upset the whole flow of things when it was finally time to stand and accept the awards.

"I know!" I squealed back, equally excited for the things to come, grasping her hand and squeezing it tightly.

"Hello my name is Denise Alpha; I am honoured to have been elected by the student body to speak on their behalf today." I watched on as she spoke with such pride, the corners of her mouth being unable to keep from smiling so wide.

I had already heard this speech four or five times already, having been the one to have edited her speech after several rewrites by both of us, and being the person she had to for reason, have the approval of. Deni had equal talent as me, and yet she always was so unsure of things at times, which I more than helped her get her confidence. Even helping her win the guys of her dreams, and one of my good friends Jordan LuckerBee.

"We have the rest of our lives to live and do everything that we have learnt in the last four years. We have made such fantastic friends for life, who will be just a phone call away…" her friend continued. I was so proud that she had made Dux. She deserved every bit of it.

"So we set forth for the rest of our lives!" she finished with a standing ovation, as the entire class clapped and threw their caps up in the air. She looked at me, with such thanks on her face, I was so proud to have been friends with her from the word go.

The after party had been organised to be at our house, who I share with six other people: Denise Alpha, Alesson Jason, Gabriel Donahue, Cynthia Lee Lewis and her fiancé Lance Overate.

It was to be our last week before we all disbanded and a new set of owners would be due to move in. It was going to be a sad day for us all, having lived together for over three years together.

Deni had accepted the role of Georgina Landers in a new Broadway production called Lander's Call, where she would be playing the main lead for the next three months.

Alex would temporarily be moving back home to marry her high school sweet heart, Chase O'Connors, before moving back officially to New York as a married woman. And start the processes of auditioning for parts.

Gabe was going on to attend a couple more years so he could get his teaching degree so he could become a teacher in music.

Cynthia and Lance were to hold off on their wedding until they could give Cynthia the wedding of her dreams. They were going to find an apartment together and start auditioning for roles that they can work in.

As for me, I had no plans. The shock of finishing four years of college had really spun a web in my head. For the first time since I could remember, I had no idea what to do. My fathers had invited me back to live with them till I had figured out what I wanted to do with my life. Everything I had been building my life for and I felt like I wanted to have a break for a little while.

"Well here here!" Lance yelled as he held his plastic cup to everyone, having started the party earlier on with some mates at a local pub before coming back to 'help' out with the chow for the after party. Totally useless sometimes, but hey, he could excuse himself for being a guy right? She laughed at the thought.

"Here here Matie!" Paul Karlssonn yelled back at him, having been one of the people to have just arrived with him, knocking his cup against the person's cup next to him.

"We've done it!" Michael Day put in as well, another one having started the 'party' early as well.

"Rachel" Jenifer Island put an arm around her shoulders, tears running down her face. "This is my last day here before I head of half way across the country back to lame-ass home" she wiped the tears that escaped her chin and trickled down her neck with the sleeve of her jumper. "I'm going to miss you the most" she slurred at me, bringing me in for a tight hug.

"It's not going to be forever Fer. We'll see each other again" I reassured my friend, knowing farewell that she had been talking about college.

"I know that! But all this" she waved her hands in the air. "All this will feel like it never happened, like a distant memory" tears now spilling like an ocean down her face.

"It's going to be alright! Now it's going to be like a new adventure all over again" I said to her in one of my excited voices that I had used when I need to overcome the emotions I was really feeling.

"Let's dance!" Genie MacGrill grabbed my arm and pulled me to the living room, being so glad to have been pulled away from the tears of Fer Island.

We dance for what felt like hours, being moshed like a sardine because everyone in their class, plus freshmen's, juniors that seemed to pile in and making the place seem to small.