TEXT: Here's what missed last week: Quinn's pregnant, and Puck's the father, but everybody thinks it's Finn. Puck: "You're a punk who doesn't deserve to have Quinn as his girlfriend". Except for Quinn's parents, who don't know anything... at all. Thy just know she's in the Celibacy Club. Puck: "Well, call the Vatican! We got ourselves another immaculate conception." And that's what you missed on... CHOIR ROOM - HIGH SCHOOL Will wrote on the board the word "ballad". Will: "Ballad. From Middle English, balade. Who knows what this word means? Brittany: It's a male duck. Will: Kurt. Kurt: A ballad is a love song. Will: Sometimes, but they don't always express love. Ballads are stories set to music which is why they're the perfect storm of self-expression. Stories and music are the way we express feelings that we can't get out any other way. Okay, now, sectionals are in few weeks and there's a new rule this year, we have to perform a ballad. Rachel: Looks like my weekly letter to the Ohio Show Choir Committee finally paid off! Will: Okay. So here's our assignment for the week: I'm going to pair you off, and I want you to pick a ballad to sing to your partner. Look then right in the eye, find the emotion you want to express, and make them feel it. Finn: I pick up Quinn. Will: No, no, no. Too easy. Your partners will be chosen by fate. Will goes to the piano where the hat is. All: Ooh! Will: Ooh, yeah. I put all your names in this hat. Whoever you choose is your partner. Brittany: I bet the duck's in the hat. Santana: But Matt's out sick today. He had to go to the hospital, because they found a spider in his ear. Will put his name into the hat. Will: Um... I guess I'll just have to put my name in the hat for
SUMMARY:
The glee club members are split into pairs to sing ballads to one another. Rachel is paired with Will and develops a crush on him. Will struggles to let Rachel down gently, recalling that the last student he turned down almost died after eating the world's hottest pepper in her grief. Finn and Quinn's parents learn that Quinn is pregnant, and she moves in with Finn and his mother when her own parents throw her out. Puck reveals to Mercedes that he is the father of Quinn's baby.