When two worlds drift apart

by knowitallsquib

Jesse broke up with Rachel to go back to Carmel. However, what if the funkification happened after he had already explained that he had to go. He had to prove his loyalty to the team and tried to prove that he no longer needed her. With 9 months until he finishes school how will they cope and will they ever get back together?

1. Chapter 1

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Rachel held onto him tightly as she had her last hug. Jesse was leaving and she knew that no matter what she wanted this was it. For now at least he was unattainable regardless of what she did. Without allowing any emotion to play across her face she let go and this time, unlike every other, her hand did not reach for his and fill the gaps between his fingers perfectly. They were no longer together and the nine months before there was a chance for them seemed like such a long time.

She had known for four years that someday she was going to date him. Dancing around their feelings for each other, they had remained friends questioning each other's relationships and always seeming to be taken when the other was not. She remembered their first kiss like it was yesterday:

'Alright let's play spin the bottle then,' she had suggested as a joke when no one really wanted to watch movies anymore.

Everyone had agreed and a bottle had been produced, and as was normal she had started the game since it was her suggestion. To her surprise it had landed on Jesse but as they were playing with everyone, kisses on the cheek had been agreed upon and so she lightly pecked his cheek. They kept with their game and to their amusement it kept coming back to them. To her disgust fate also seemed determined to match Quinn and him up and they were definitely into the whole kissing as if they were dating. Upset she continued the game hesitantly and then when he kissed her on the lips everything became worth it suddenly. Her whole world lit up and her lips tingled even as she regretfully only kissed his cheek on her next turn. To her it wouldn't be appropriate to kiss him back like that because he had obvious feelings for Quinn. After all Quinn was everything she was not; she was pretty, popular and didn't have problems like she did with past relationships.

Wistfully she remembered this moment and felt the familiar tingling of her lips as she remembered the sincerity that she overlooked at the time in his simple kiss. It wasn't like when he kissed Quinn, instead it was their perfect little moment that no one could take away.

Returning to the present she participated in the conversations happening around her without much enthusiasm, but she couldn't let anyone know what had happened yet. She had let him in so far and she knew telling people would break her; that she would cry in front of them and Rachel Berry didn't cry over men. She had hardened her heart against men when it had been broken before and this was no exception. She would keep a calm face when she told them and that would be that.